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Vol. 32- No. 30 Friday, July 26, 1968 Price 1Oc JCR leader Krivine held by Paris police Alain Krivine and his wife, Michele, Charonne. Forty-one persons present were were seized by the police in Paris July questioned by the police and eight of them 16. They are being held incommunicado were then held incommunicado. and it is not known what charges, if any, The press claimed that the gathering have been lodged against them. constituted a meeting of the JCR, since Alain Krivine became known interna­ alleged members of the JCR were present. tionally as one of the main leaders of the This was vigorously denied by those Jeunesse Communiste Revolutionnaire, the questioned by the police. The meeting was Trotskyist youth organization that played actually an assembly of members of a a key role in the student demonstrations "student-workers Committee of Action." Ac­ that touched off the giant social crisis in tion committees formed during the May­ France in May and June. June upsurge have continued to meet. The JCR, together with a number of Arrests have been made in other cities, "FREE HUEY!" Kathleen Cleaver addresses demonstration protesting frame-up other revolutionary organizations, was bringing the total number of people held of Black Panther leader Huey Newton July 15 in Oakland. (Seep. 8.) "dissolved" by a government decree signed incommunicado by the police to 21. The by de Gaulle himself. Under the decree press has not reported their names; but it is illegal to either continue the organi­ all of them are said to have been herded zation or to reconstitute it. into a police camp outside of Paris. The JCR had announced its intention On July 16, a mass meeting to protest to challenge the decree in the courts, since the ban and the arrests was held at the it was issued on false grounds, alleging Palais-Royal under the auspices of the Kremlin steps up that the JCR had organized combat squads Comite d'Action Ecrivains-Etudiants (Writ­ and a militia. ers-Students Action Committee) and the The arrest of Alain and Michele Krivine Comite pour la Liberte et contre la Re­ followed a police raid on a meeting held pression (Committee for Freedom and A­ July 10 in a parish hall at 177 Rue de gainst the Repression). Police and special riot detachments, in­ cluding Compagnies Republicains de Se­ attack on Czechs curite (CRS), were mobilized in force By Dick Roberts diate purge from the Communist Party throughout the entire area. At 7 p.m. JULY 19- The Soviet bureaucracy has of the followers of the ousted regime of they began attacking youths on the side­ greatly stepped up its pressure to halt Antonin Novotny. walks. As has become customary, they did and, if possible, reverse the liberalization Marking a new high point in the tendency not draw any distinction between those of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party toward liberalization in East Europe, "Two associated with the protest meeting and and administration. Its heightened attacks Thousand Words" appeals for action that passers-by. on the regime of Alexander Dubcek since goes beyond the channels of the Dubcek They used their clubs with unusual free­ July 9 threaten to create a major East government for reforming the Czechoslo­ dom, beating victims even after they were European crisis. vakian Communist Party. It calls for down. Witnesses who made comments, In coordination with the governments "public criticism, demonstrations, resolu­ showing how shocked they were at the of Poland, East Germany, Hungary and tions, strikes and boycotts to bring down brutality, were arrested by plainclothes­ Bulgaria, the Kremlin smeared the Czecho­ people who have misused power and caused men. slovakian government in a series of dip­ public harm." While Dubcek has followed Two prominent backers of the committee, lomatic notes and official articles. On a path of grad.ual reform of the Commu­ Claude Roy and Olivier de Magny, were July 11, the SovietCommunistPartyorgan nist Pary and bureaucracy, this manifesto arrested this way. Pravda denounced "counterrevolutionary appeals to the masses for direct action An appeal has been issued for interna­ forces in Czechoslovakia ... linked with to oust the Novotny gang. tional solidarity, particularly for material imperialist reaction," comparing Czecho­ According to the July 16 note of the aid in the defense efforts. Contributions slovak liberals to "counterrevolutionary five governments the "Two Thousand can be sent to Emil Van Ceulen, Secretary, elements in Hungary." Words" document is "an outright call for Fonds de Solidarite contre la Repression A note from Moscow and the four East struggle against the Communist Party and en France, 111 Seghers, Brussels 8, Alain Krivine European governments siding with the constitutional authority, for strikes and Belgium. Kremlin bureaucrats delivered to Prague disorders. This call represents a serious July 16 stated, "A situation has thus arisen danger to the party, the national front [in Czechoslovakia] absolutely unaccept­ and the socialist state, and is an attempt able for a socialist country." The implicit to introduce anarchy ... [the document's threat of intervention was all the more purpose] is to legalize the platform of 2,000 Blade workers galling since the Kremlin has kept a force counterrevolution and hoodwink the vi­ variously estimated to number as many gilance of the party, the working class and as 27,000 troops on "maneuvers" within all the working folk." Czech territory for several weeks after But the real targets of "hoodwinking" the originally announced time of departure. are not the Czechoslovak people at all, strike at Detroit plant On July 17, Yugoslav President Tito who have been enthusiastic supporters of and Rumanian Communist Party head government reform, steadily pushing it By Derrick Morrison grievances against the corporation; that Nicolae Ceausescu came out in support to go further and faster. By claiming that DETROIT- This city, which was the black workers who have been fired on of the Czechoslovaki,angovernment. Wash­ there is a big danger of counterrevolution scene of the biggest black uprising in the trumped up racist charges be brought ington issued a warning against armed in Czechoslovakia, the Kremlin bureau­ 20th century last year, has now become back with all lost pay; that black bro­ intervention in Czechoslovakia the same crats are above all attempting to hood­ the scene of the most advanced actions thers in South Africa working for Chrys­ day, but official circles tended to dismiss wink the Soviet peoples themselves. This yet undertaken by black workers. ler Corp. and its subsidiaries be paid it. For example, a July 17 New York point was drawn sharply in an April 18 This was the case when black workers at an equal scale as their white co-work­ Times dispatch from Warsaw reported: statement by the United Secretariat of the under the leadership of DRUM, the Dodge ers; that a black brother be appointed as "Diplomatic sources here say the current Fourth International, giving early warn­ Revolutionary Union Movement, struck head of the board of directors of Chrys­ relaxation oftensions between Washington ing against Soviet intervention in Czech­ the Chrysler Hamtramck Assembly plant ler Corp. and Moscow may have persuaded the oslovakia: on Friday, July 12. About 2,000 black An indication of the strikers' disgust Soviet Union and some of its East Euro­ "The Czechoslovak counterrevolution is workers struck and picketed the plant over with the union organization was the in­ pean allies that they can intervene mili­ extremely weak, and the international situ­ the racist treatment handed out by the clusion in the list of a demand that all tarily without fear of Western repercus­ ation is hardly favorable to reinforcing Chrysler management. According to union dues be stopped and the dues money sions ... Some Western and Communist it ... The Soviet bureaucracy's direct DRUM, over 70 percent of the 10,000 go to the black community to aid in the sources have been struck by the timing representatives in Czechoslovakia, the men workers at Hamtramck Assembly are struggle for self-determination. of the new understanding between the two of Novotny and the Kremlin, understand black, yet 90 percent of the plant manage­ The present struggle has been building superpowers which has grown steadily this perfectly. Their aim is to arouse skep­ ment is lily white. The strike was a wild­ up since September, 1967. At that time since the Czechoslovak crisis began earlier ticism and distrust for socialist democracy cat because it was not sanctioned by the Willie Brookins, a black worker, was fired this year." in the popular sectors, to seek a justifica­ United Auto Workers local leadership. by Chrysler when he defended himself tion, even in entirely isolated phenomena, Among the demands listed in the DRUM against an attack by two white guards at The "Two Thousand Words'' for an intervention and the crushing of newsletter were: installment of 50 black the plant. The guards claimed they at­ The focal point of the Kremlin's charges the mass movement . . . foremen, 10 black general foremen, 3 black tacked Brookins because they thought a against the Dubcek government has been "The Soviet bureaucracy fears the con­ superintendents, and a black plant man­ package he was carrying into the plant a document entitled the "Two Thousand tagion which could result for the toiling ager; that all doctors and 50 percent of after lunch contained a bomb. As it turn­ Words." This manifesto was drafted by masses of the other workers states, above the nurses at the plant medical center be ed out, the package contained two sausage Ludvik Vaculik, was signed by 70 Czecho­ all Poland, East Germany and the USSR black; that a committee of black rank-and­ sandwiches. slovak intellectuals, and published in news­ itself, from an avowal or a triumph of file workers be set up to investigate all (Continued on page 8) papers June 27. It demanded the imme- (Continued on page 8) Page 2 THE MILITANT Friday, July 26, 1968

THE MILITANT London march against racism to harder work, a bigger welfare Editor: BARRY SHEPPARD Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOTT 3,000 protest racist check or a fair hustle. Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass 'n., 873 Broadway, New York, Many of the people in the north­ :: .• N.Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. -::.~~; -~_:_le__:.•_~~.ftir.·_,_•_:_,s Subscription: domestic, $3 a year; Canada and Latin America, $3.50; other immigration bill ern part of the county had rent foreign, $4.50. By first class mail: domestic and Canada $9.00; all other coun­ free houses on the edge of plan­ tries, $14.00. Air printed matter: domestic and Canada, $12.50; Latin America, London, England $23.00; Europe, $27.00; Africa, Australia, Asia (including USSR), $32.00. tations. Now they must pay rent. '·;fr:ot'n'·,.our Write for sealed air postage rates. Signed articles by contributors do not nec­ Over 3, 000 people marched here essarily represent The Militant's views. These are expressed in editorials. For the run-down houses that July 7 in a demonstration coun­ give you a view of the outdoors tering a fascist demonstration. Vol. 32- No. 30 0128 Friday, July 26, 1968 through the walls, and of the -~,·-re~bd,ers The fascist demonstration was ground if you look through the called in support of the racist floor, rent is $10 a month. The Free Huey Newton! immigration bill which is pending houses that have been fixed up This column is an open forum in the House of Commons. The a little bit cost $35 to $40 a month. for all viewpoints on subjects of bill is, in essence, an attempt to Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton is on trial for his life At the same time the owner of general interest to our readers. keep black people out of England in Oakland, Calif. He is charged with the murder of an Oakland the houses is giving the people Please keep your letters brief. Where by putting a quota on immigra­ necessary they will be abridged. policeman last October-but this is not what the trial is really less and less work to do. We tion from the West Indies and Writers' initials will be used, names about ask those of you who are able, other countries with a majority to send us canned goods so that being withheld unless authorization Newton is the founder of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, of black people. we might help someofthoseneedy is given for use. an independent black political party fighting for black control The antifascist demonstration young and old people. coupons. When we have received of the black community and the liberation of black people. was originally called by the Move­ This month we did some work One of tlie first activities of the party was to organize patrols ment for Colonial Freedom but 15,000 books we will cash them in Tunica and Tallahatchie coun­ in and get a Volkswagen bus. to check on the activities of the Oakland police in the black was later joined by a wide vari­ ties, but things are getting tougher It will help us in many ways, community. The police resented black people exercizing even ety of organizations, such as the on us because there are only a very Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, such as we would be able to get this limited form of control over the police and launched a few who are willing to work on. more people down from the north­ campaign of continuous, brutal and illegal harassment of the the International Marxist Group But we keep on running in an (British section of the Fourth In­ end of the county, which is forty Black Panthers, which included the outright murder of one old, rundown car. Guns have been ternational), the International So­ to fifty miles away. It also will placed before us and we were told young Panther member. cialists, the Young Communist help in less expenses and would if we came again they would shoot The Oakland cops are clearly out to "get" the Panthers, League, the Communist Party and help us get a good start on run­ us. and especially their leaders such as Huey P. Newton. the Militants. ning if we have to run for our The charges against Newton stem from just such an instance It was a militant demonstration. You can help us by sending us life. of harassment Early one morning the cops, who have a general The "Internationale" was sung different kinds of gift stamps such Help us, that we may be able as Green Savings, Blue Chip policy of keeping watch on the movements of the Panthers, heartily throughout the march to help others. Stamps, Top Value, Stop and Otis Brown, Jr., President swooped down on the car Newton was driving on a deserted and slogans such as "Black power" and ''Enoch, we want you­ Save Stamps, Plaid Stamps and Sunflower County Improve­ street. The cops shot Newton in the stomach, wounding him all other kinds of stamps and ment Association seriously. In the struggle, one of the cops was killed. DEAD!" were shouted. (Enoch Po­ The Black Panther Party has pointed out that Newton cannot well is a Conservative MP who is be given a fair trial in the courts of Oakland. They have raised behind the racist movement.) For the most part, it was a the slogan, "Free Huey." Contained in this slogan is the idea peaceful demonstration. At one that Huey is a political prisoner, a member of a colonized point, however, there was a clash black nation in rebellion against the white mother country. between the fascists and the coun­ As such, Newton can no more expect a fair trial at the hands terdemonstration. Several people of the Oakland establishment than an accused person in India from the antifascist demonstration could expect a fair trial under the rule of the British. were dragged by the hair along Newton has demanded a jury and judge composed of his the ground by the police and peers- black working people. Point number nine of the 10 arrested. No one was seriously point Black Panther Party program points out that a trial injured. by one's peers is guaranteed by the U.S. constitution. But Terri Lynne the white judge seems to be incapable of understanding this basic constitutional right. From evolution Huey P. Newton is on trial for his life because he is a political leader of black people. It is a political trial being conducted to revolution by a court which is in reality an instrument of those who are Napa, Calif. responsible for the oppression of black people. Hundreds of thousands of The purpose of the trial is to "get" Newton. This trial cannot Americans are trapped within the dispense justice; it can only result in another injustice against confines of the electoral process. black people. Huey Newton must be freed. In other words, through no choice we are becoming revolutionaries, Photo by Terri Lynne and it is only through enlighten­ IN ENG LAND. Anti-fascist demonstration. ment and education that we can change. We speak of learning in terms of the traditional three Rs. It is a really satisfying thing to see so many of our young people (If you ore interested in the ideas of 3737Woadward Ave., Detroit48201.(313) adding the all- important fourth socialism. you can meet socialists in your TE 1-6135. R, the one that liberates us from city ot the following addresses.) East Lansing: YSA, Mike Moniskalco, 614 the frustrating evolutionary thing Michigan, Apt. 2. 351-0970. and makes us revolutionaries. CAUFORNIA: Atascadero: YSA, Bill Blau, MINNESOTA: Minneapolis-St. Paul: SWP, I voted for Roosevelt, Truman P.O. Box 1061, Atascadero. YSA and Labor Bookstore, 704 Hennepin and, the first time, for Kennedy. Berkeley-Oakland: Socialist Workers Ave., Hall 240, Mpls. 55403. (612) After voting for Kennedy it be­ Party (SWP) and Young Socialist Alliance FE 2-7781. came obvious to me that I should (YSA), 2519A Telegraph Ave., Berkeley MISSOURI: St. Louis: Phone EV 9-2895, have written Mickey Mouse. I 94704. (415) B49-1032. ask for Dick Clarke. voted for Santa Claus instead of Colusa: YSA, John Montgomery, 1107 NEW JERSEY: Newark: Newark Labor Johnson or Goldwater. Since then, Jay St., Colusa 95932. Forum, Box 361, Newark 07101. right here in San Francisco I Los Angeles: SWP and YSA, 1 702 East NEW YORK: Albany: YSA, Irving Sherman, have had the privilege and plea­ Fourth St., L.A. 90033. (213) AN 9-4953. 26 Willett St., Albany 12210. sure of meeting Fred [Halstead] 5_an Diego: San Diego Labor Forum, New York City: Militant Labor Forum, and Paul [Boutelle). How can we P. 0. Box 2221, San Diego 92112. 873 Broadway (near 18th St.), N.Y. 10003. lose? San Francisco: Militant Labor Forum and (212) 982-6051. A.J.A. Pioneer Books, 2338MarketSt., S. F. 94114. OHIO: Cleveland: Eugene V. Debs Hall, (415) 552-1266. 2nd floor west, 9801 Euclid Ave., Cleveland Poverty and guns Santa Roso: Young Socialist Alliance, 44106.(216) 791-1669. Stefan Bosworth, 808 Spencer. Kent: YSA, Roy S. lng lee, 12 3 Water St. in Sunflower, Miss. GEORGIA: YSA, P. 0. Box 6262, Atlanta, N., Kent 44240. 673-7032. Ga. 30308. (404) 872-1612. Yellow Springs: Antioch YSA, Michael Sunflower, Miss. ILUNOIS: Carbondale: YSA, Bill Moffet, 406 Schreiber, Antioch Union, Yellow Springs In our work this month we S. Washington. 45387. 767-5511. worked in the northern part of Chompoig.... Urbona: YSA, P. 0. Box2099, PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia: SWP and the county. In the northern part, Station A, Champaign, Ill. 61820. YSA, 686 N. Brood St., Philo. 19130. (215) in Rome, Drew, Ruleville, Dodds­ Chicago: SWP, YSA and bookstore, 302 CE 6-6998. ville, there are more poor people S. Canal St., Rm. 204, Chicago 60606. TEXAS: Austin: YSA, Charles Cairns, 1803 than in the southern part. The (312) 939-5044. Enfield Ave., Austin. southern part of the county has INDIANA: Bloomington: YSA, Russel Block, Houston: YSA, David Shroyer, 1116 more factories, and the northern 207 East 2nd St., Bloomington 47401. 339- Columbus St., Houston 78703. (713) JA 9- part has more towns. Rome is 4640. 2236. the poorest. It is near Parchman, Evansville: YSA, Ronald Hicks, c/o Lyles, UTAH: Salt Loke City: Shem Richards, 957 where the state penitentiary is lo­ 638 E. Missouri, Evansville. E. First Ave., Salt Lake 84103. (801) 355- cated. In the past, former inmates Indianapolis: Halsteod-Boutelle Cam­ 3537. of Parchman have settled in Rome. paign, P. 0. Box 654, Indianapolis, Indiana, WASHINGTON, D. C.: YSA, 3 Thomas Cir­ Since there are not enough jobs 46206. cle, N. W., 2nd floor, Washington, D. C., to keep the young people in the MARYLAND: Baltimore: YSA, Toby Rice, 20005. (202) 332-4635. state, every June Greyhound adds 2402 Calvert St., Baltimore. WASHINGTON: Seattle: SWP and YSA, a few more buses because many, MASSACHUSETTS: Boston: Militant Labor 52 57 University Way N. E., Seattle 98105 many young and old leave the Forum, 295 Huntington Ave., Rm. 307. (206) 523-2555. state to try and make a better (617) 876-5930. WISCONSIN: Madison: YSA, 202 Morion Huey Must Be Set Free! life for themselves. They arrive MICHIGAN: Detroit: Eugene V. Debs Hall, St. (608) 256-0857. Friday, July 26, 1968 THE MILITANT Page 3 YSA sets plans for continued big growth

By Kipp Dawson the young socialist movement was em­ The revolutionary upsurge of the French phasized by many speakers. workers and students and the rapid growth The political report concluded with a of the international revolutionary socialist call to bring together as many young youth movement provided the background socialists as possible for the Thanksgiving for the July meeting of the national com­ national convention of the YSA. mittee of the Young Socialist Alliance. YSA Derrick Morrison, YSA national exec­ leaders from around the country met in utive committee member who recently re­ New York to review a period of unpre­ turned from a national tour, gave the cedented growth and to plan for continued report on the Afro-American struggle. He rapid expansion of the young socialist pointed to the spread of Afro-American movement in the United States. student groups to both black and pre­ Mary-Alice Waters began the meeting dominantly white high-school and college with a report on "France and the Inter­ campuses across the country, and the con­ national Youth Movement." She had been tinuing struggles of Afro-Americans in the in France during the height of the revo­ cities, as indicators of the increasing con­ lutionary events as a reporter for the sciousness among Afro-Americans and as Young Socialist and The Militant. signs of continuing crisis for American photo by Dave Warren The discussion on her report focused capitalism. He stressed the importance of YSA TABLE. At Berkeley July 4 rally celebrating victory in recent free speech on the impact of the French events and black youth as the most sensitive and fight the international youth radicalization on radical section of the Afro-American com­ the development of the young socialist munity. lization Committee national Labor Day and to the Huey Newton Defense Com­ movement throughout the world, and par­ Revolutionary Nationalism conference as being especially important. mittee. ticularly in the United States. Reviewing the various trends of thought The national committee predicted grow­ Lew Jones, outgoing national chairman Mary-Alice Waters described how the ra­ among black nationalist youth, Derrick ing disillusionment with the Paris "nego­ of the YSA, left the youth group at the dicalizing youth from Paris to Belgrade Morrison reported a growth of revolu­ tiations" and with the outcome of the 1968 national committee meeting. He is pres­ to Berkeley are linked by three revolu­ tionary nationalism, a trend characterized elections, leading to new antiwar actions. ently New York organizer of the Socialist tionary characteristics: their anti-authori­ by an understanding of the need for a The meeting sent telegrams of solidarity Workers Party. tarianism, which tends to lead them to basic change in the social system and iden­ to the Jeunesse Communiste Revolution­ Mary-Alice Waters was elected national reject capitalism and bureaucracy; their tification with international liberation naire (Revolutionary Communist Youth, chairman by the national committee, and bypassing of Social Democracy and Stali­ struggles. French sister organization of the YSA) Charles Boulduc, national secretary. nism as reformist tendencies; and their National committee members from strong spirit of internationalism. various areas reported growing support She concluded by sayii1g: "The French for the concept of independent black poli­ events show the power of the working tical action and for the formation of an James Russell wins case­ class in motion. If in France today-with independent black political party. Several the degree of prosperity that existed there; speakers also reported an increase in the where the country was not involved in any number of black youth who are becoming costly colonial war of the proportions of socialists, pointing to the growth of both last Debs Hall Defendant Vietnam; where they didn't have additional the Afro-Americans for Halstead and Bou­ contradictions injected into the society, such telle and black membership in the YSA. CLEVELAND-James Russell, last of With Russell's discharge, the last of the as the liberation struggle of the Afro-Amer­ Lew Jones gave the antiwar report. Point­ the defendants in the cases arising out of four defendants in the frame-up charge of icans- if basic social contradictions could ing to the fact that more G Is had died the police raid on Eugene V. Debs Hall assault and battery on a police officer shoot to the surface so rapidly and with in Vietnam during the first half of 1968 here in November, 1965, was finally ab­ has been dismissed. so much force, very few can continue to than in all of 1967, he demonstrated that solved June 27. His previous conviction Reversal of Russell's earlier conviction convincingly argue that no such event the war is being escalated in spite of the was vacated and he was discharged in the was anticipated by his attorneys, Jerry can ever erupt in the United States . . . Paris "negotiations" and the "peace" pro­ Court of Common Pleas. Gordon and Stanley E. Tolliver, when We can be thankful that we may have a testations of the various capitalist pres­ Russell, former president of the Freedom the Eighth District Court of Appeals of few more years to prepare for an event idential candidates. Fighers of Ohio and one of the six black Ohio in a unanimous decision last Feb. 15 of such magnitude." Explaining the ruling class' use of the defendants among the 30 persons origi­ reversed the "disorderly assembly" convic­ Firsthand reports from YSAers from "negotiations" and the "peace" candidacies nally arrested, told The Militant: tions of Russell and the other Debs Hall Berkeley were part of the discussion on to attempt to get the antiwar movement "I want to thank all of those who helped defendants stemming from the same 1965 the international report. The meeting dis­ off the streets, Lew Jones pointed out that in this case, who contributed physically, mass arrest. cussed the big demonstrations there in opposition to the war is deeper and more mentally or financially. This has been In a precedent-making decision, the ap­ support of the French workers and stu­ widespread now than ever before. The a long and costly fight, and I am deeply peals court ruled that the disorderly as­ dents and for the right of assembly. report called for continued work to unite appreciative of those who gave me spiri­ sembly ordinance "represents an unconsti­ Tasks and Perspectives antiwar forces in action against the war, tual food in time ofstarvation. Our sticking tutional exercise of police power of the Charles Bolduc gave the political report. emphasizing the Aug. 3-10demonstrations together was responsible for this final vic­ City of Cleveland, and is therefore void." He focused on the opportunities and tasks and the work to build the Student Mobi- tory." The Committee to Aid the Debs Hall of the YSA in light of the rapid growth Defendants, which was formed by the 30 of the young socialist movement. arrested, won wide support in the Cleveland He emphasized the importance of the area as well as in other parts of the coun­ Socialist Workers election campaign, point­ Two-year term for Dr. Spock try. The American Civil Liberties Union ing to the elections as "the center around of Ohio supported the appeal in the dis­ which all the important political issues orderly assembly cases. are being discussed." The spread of Young All 30 defendants- a heterogeneous Socialists for Halstead and Boutelle to draws large protest in Boston group among the 7 5 persons attending a campuses across the country was seen buffet dinner for the benefit of The Militant as a measure of the widespread radicali­ the night of the raid-consistently main­ BOSTON- Hundreds of demonstrators author and teacher. zation. The importance of the YSHB's tained their innocence of the frame-up picketed outside the Federal Building in Michael Ferber, a Harvard graduate as evidence of the continued growth of charges. Boston July 10 as Federal Judge Francis student was sentenced to two years in J. W. Ford sentenced Dr. Benjamin Spock, prison and fined $1,000. The four de­ the noted pediatrician, to two years in fendants had been found guilty of con­ Cleveland holds prison and a $5,000 fme for statements spiring to counsel young men to evade Student rebellion and activities against the war and the the draft. draft. Similar sentences were given to Rev. Marcus Raskin, a disarmament expert spreads in Turkey Spock protest William Sloane Coffm, Jr., Chaplain of and one of the "Boston Five," had been Yale University, and Mitchell Goodman, acquitted of the charges but appeared in According to reports in the Istanbul By Roger Rudensteln court at the sentencing of his former co­ daily Cumhuriyet, striking Turkish stu­ CLEVELAND-Over 2,000 came out defendants. dents began to return to classes the first July 13 to show their support for Dr. The demonstration was organized by a week in July after winning major con­ Benjamin Spock after he was sentenced coalition of antiwar and antidraft groups. cessions. Student strike committees had to two years in prison for his antidraft After the sentencing, the demonstrators sprung up spontaneously at universities activities. An outdoor rally was held pre­ marched through downtown Boston to in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, and Eskisehir, ceding the march, which included a con­ join 1,000 people who had gathered on and students had taken over the buildings. tingent of 300 high school youth orga­ the Boston Commons for a noon rally The movement started June 10 when a nized by Movement for a Democratic So­ called the "Common Conspiracy." professor at the University of Ankara ciety. The rally was chaired by Paul Lauter, announced cancellation of the Latin exams The demonstration was one of the largest national chairman of Resist, who first in­ without explanation. To protest this bu­ ever held in Cleveland. During the march troduced the Resistance Guerrilla Theater reaucratic procedure the students left the to the Pick-Carter Hotel, responses ofthose to enact a series of antiwar plays. Other building. Other students stopped their ex­ on the sidewalks were very friendly and speakers included Prof. Howard Zinn, Rev. aminations and joined them in sympathy. sympathetic; people in cars honked their James Bevel and David Dellinger. The movement rapidly spread to other horns for peace, and many onlookers The sentences were stayed pending an universities. On June 18 students from joined the ranks of the marchers. appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals. It the university marched through downtown Inside the Pick-Carter there was standing is likely that the appeals will be heard Ankara with signs reading: "Nationalize room only to hear a number of antiwar in October, when Leonard Boudin, Spock's private schools so the poor can go to speakers, including Dr. Spock. The march counsel, will again try to introduce the school" and "No more cultural imperial­ and rally were sponsored by the Cleveland question of the legality of the war, which ism." The latter slogan was shouted with Area Peace Action Council, a broad anti­ had been ruled out of consideration in special vigor as the students passed the war coalition. Dr. Spock the trial. United States Information Service. Page 4 THE MILITANT Friday, July 26, 1968 French action committees continuing

Fredy Perlman, formerly professor of nomic power, and thus the source of the political economy at Michigan State Uni­ political and military power, of the so­ versity in Kalamazoo, recently returned ciety is in the hands of the workers. to the United States after an extended "And since the students," he continued, visit to France. During the May-June revo­ "were committed to the destruction of capi­ lutionary upsurge, Professor Perlman talist society, they realized that this could made a special study of the revolutionary only be carried out through an alliance action committees that appeared during with the workers; or rather, through the those days. dissolution of the student movement and In a July 15 interview with The Militant, the workers' movement into one, single Professor Perlman reported that while some revolutionary movement." of the committees became inactive in the The revolutionary students formed a face of the outlawing of the revolutionary committee for each major factory. Every­ groups and the relative loss of momentum day representatives of each committee went of the mass movement, many others have to the plant for which it was responsible not lost their dynamism.Thisdynamism,he to discuss with the workers there. They said, "consisted in the fact that workers explained the goals of the student move­ came to the weekly meetings from an in­ ment and informed the workers that "the creasing number of factories and they re­ students were allies of the workers or ported a continuing growth of rank-and­ were working together with the workers file committees inside the factories. In other for a better society." They stressed that, words, the process of a growing conscious­ for the first time, the universities-both ness among workers, which had begun at Censier and at the Sorbonne-were during the genral strike, had not been open to the workers. slowed down or stopped by the fact that the First Responses left-wing groups were made illegal." MAY 13. One million French workers, students and teachers marched in protest Professor Perlman explained the origin The first response to this student ini­ of police attack on students. of the committees in Paris. "Just before tiative varied from plant to plant. In some the beginning of the general strike, about cases, Professor Perlman reported, "the Paris Inter-Enterprise Committee. During ly concerned the action to be taken during May 16, student groups which had oc­ committee militants managed very effective­ the last days of the general strike, the Inter­ the next crisis. The participants were cer­ cupied the university center in Censier ly to communicate with workers right away. Enterprise Committee became especially tain that the capitalist state would vio­ [a Paris suburb where an annex of the At other factories, the action committee important as a forum for the exchange lently intervene as soon as the bourgeoisie Sorbonne is located] constituted what they people were simply thrown back by the of information. Since only the bourgeois saw its wealth and power slipping away. called worker-student action committees. CGT [General Federation of Labor, the press and the CP paper l'Humanite­ The worker militants saw the action com­ The philosophy behind them was that Stalinist-led trade-union federation] people w hich was doing it best to break the strike - mittees as the basic organizations of self­ the students as a social group could not as provocateurs and left-wing agitators were being published daily, it was ex­ defense. by themselves carry out a social revo­ and outside elements." When they were tremely difficult for workers in one factory Goal is Socialilm lution. It was clear to many revolutionary repulsed by CGT squads, the student mili­ to find out what was actually happening The worker militants are consciously students, and became increasingly clear tants passed out leaflets and discussed in the others. striving to build a socialist society, one to the majority of them, that it was the with the workers at subways stops. In in which production is planned to satisfy StaUnist DecepUon worker:J in an industrial society who virtu­ some cases, "the committees had favorable human needs. They see a primitive form ally have power over the essential means experience with the CFDT [French Dem­ Professor Perlman reported that the CGT of this as having been achieved at cer­ of production; and in that sense the eco- ocratic Federation of Labor, the Catholic­ delegates at each depot of the Paris transit tain moments during the general strike. led trade-union federation] and contacted system had been instructed to tell the tran­ In Nantes, for example, according to Pro­ it directly so as to have some members sit workers assigned to that depot that fessor Perlman, peasants delivered food Arizona socialists of the factory itself protect their presence "all the other depots were going back to free of charge and distributed it in accord­ in front of the factory." work and that the workers at this parti­ ance to the needs of the recipients. Workers were quickly drawn into the cular depot were adventurists and far out In the meantime- until the outbreak of in ballot drive action committees. "At first," Professor Per1- with respect to the rest of the movement." the next crisis-the action committees are man stated, "the workers were shy, they Through the regular meetings of the Inter­ carrying on certain militant trade-union TEMPE, Ariz. -Arizona young so­ felt themselves to be inferior to the stu­ Enterprise Committee, militants from each functions. Professor Perlman reports that cialists have been gathering petitions to dents and to the intellectuals talking in depot were able to learn of this Stalinist there have been many stoppages since get the Socialist Workers presidential and highly abstract terms and expressing ideas deception. the end of the general strike, usually a­ vice-presidential candidates, Fred Halstead with which, at first contact, the workers When Professor Perlman left France both gainst the speed-up the bosses have tried and Paul Boutelle, on the ballot here. were not even familiar." But after a few the rank-and-file action committees and to institute. The action committees have That has meant going to many counties days of discussion, "the workers express­ the Inter-Enterprise Committee were grow­ taken the initiative in most of these cases. throughout the state, mainly to farming ed themselves on the most abstract poli­ ing. Further, they are forcing the CGT to and mining areas. Our teams are bilingual, tical analyses just as aptly, with just as They are strongly internationalist. be more responsive to the needs of the and it has been a real pleasure to speak much rhetoric, just as much logic, and Professor Perlman mentioned as an ex­ workers. In one government department, to Spanish-Americans in their own lan­ just as much knowledge as the students. ample the workers of the big Rhone-Pou­ the action committee forced the CGT to guage, however halting our Spanish. As "And numerous people observed,"hecon­ lenc chemical factory, who "were very much institute a "free tribune" where all the work­ one Spanish-American woman said, 'Why tinued, "at a more developed stage of the aware that true workers' power couldn't ers, and not only CGT members, could should we be the only ones to learn the process, that in the worker-student action be achieved unless workers from other freely discuss their problems and griev­ language of our neighbors?' committees one could not tell workers from countries were also encouraged to organize ances. The workers at once used the "free :we found growing interest in the de­ students, either in terms of their appear­ rank-and-file committees and to extend tribune" to present critical analyses of the mands that the troops be brought home ance or in terms of the intellectual level the movement abroad." Theywereresolved CGT's role during the general strike. from Vietnam immediately and that min­ of the discussion." "not to waituntil[the revolution triumphed] The factory committees are also ority peoples should control their own The individual action committees joined in France, not to wait at all, but to start strengthening the solidarity of the workers. communities, the two main slogans of together in the Censier General Assembly right away extending the movement across At the Citroen auto plant, Professor Perl­ the SWP campaign. of Action Committees. Every evening, the frontiers." man reported as an example, the bosses Many of the homes we visited were made General Assembly met to discuss the day's There is a widespread conviction among have long played off the French workers of old adobe, and had rough planks for experiences, to plan future tactics and to these worker militants that if there had against the foreign-born workers, who flooring. Most of these homes have beauti­ interpret the political meaningoftheevents. been 1 0 militants in each major plant make up about one-half the work force. ful, well-tended gardens and a tradition The General Assembly, like the individual at the beginning of the general strike, The CGT unit there is composed almost of friendliness and generosity. action committees, was completely open they could have broken the reactionary, exclusively of French workers and has The teams also went up to the copper­ to all revolutionary tendencies. "Commu­ bureaucratic hold of the. CGT. They could done little to protect the foreign-born ones. mining area. One town, Merenci, is com­ nist Party members," Professor Perlman have presented a clear alternative to there­ After the general strike, foreign-born work­ pany owned, from the houses right on reported, "were simply excluded-and they formist policies of the Stalinists and made ers did not receive as much back pay as up to the hospital. Phelps Dodge has an also excluded themselves-from the it possible for the masses of workers to French workers, and the CGT did nothing. open pit mine there. Censier General Assembly, because it choose. They could have compelled the The Citroen action committee publicized The miners were on strike for 249 days was very clear that the Communist Party formation of genuine, elected strike com­ this fact throughout the plant, and forced but everything they won has been wiped did not represent a force for changing or mittees, to replace the bureaucratically ap­ the CG T to act. out by inflation. Also, their checks are for transcending capitalist society, but pointed committees of the CGT. But the action committees do not exist eaten up by back rent and grocery bills­ rather for maintaining it." The worker militants are determined that primarily to carry out these kinds oftrade­ the company deducts about $80 per pay­ After May 29, when the Gaullist regime the next time the crisis breaks out, all union tasks. They are organizing and they check for credit extended during the strike. took the offensive, both the action com­ these things will happen. are waiting, "so that next time," Professor Many of the miners earn only $2.89 mittees and the General Assembly suffered Professor Perlman reported that after Perlman says, "the workers will become an hour. One miner said, "You don't read a certain demobilization. But they were the end of the general strike, discussion aware of their power when they occupy this in the Arizona Record, but we work quickly reestablished on a different basis. in the Inter-Enterprise Committee frequent- the factories." 26 days straight, followed by two days "The action committees, "Professor Perlman off." We explained that Halstead and Bou­ remarked, "continued to lead, and what NEW YORK NEW YORK telle are the only presidential candidates was now leading were literally no longer who support the miners. student-worker committees, they were work­ Another miner we spoke with said so­ er-student committees. Factually, the ma­ cialism sounded okay to him, but "I jority of people in them were workers, and wouldn't want it to turn out like it did their function was no longer to inform in Russia." We talked with him about workers about the nature of the student workers' democracy, and he invited us movement-the workers who went to the to come back and visit him when we committees were fully aware of that al­ were in the county again. ready; the function now was a liaison The radicalization of the American function among workers who were in the Soc\' )e.:ave- «<" 1!30 MJ ".-"~ people isn't occurring in the big cities process of creating rank-and-file commit­ T>ay Lu1c.. ~ t I W. '41 tt. J.fo ~' i-n) only. In Nogales, Eagar, Safford, St. tees inside the factories." Johns and Kingman, people we met are The reestablished action committees, in­ 8•y -+l.IC t.+ 5WP e;.f-y '*iiu. W! lfW.y- (/82.·605/ opposed to the war in Vietnam and much creasingly based on rank-and-file commit­ more open to the ideas of socialism. tees inside the plants, met together in the Friday, July 26, 1968 THE MILITANT Page 5 Issue of SMC iniected into Parade CommiHee By Harry Ring change these policies had left the orga­ The exclusionary group which tried un­ nization. Their efforts to change SMC successfully to capture or wreck the Stu­ policy, she noted, had evoked wide pro­ dent Mobilization Committee to End the test from individuals and groups in the War in Vietnam has extended its efforts movement. into the New York Fifth Avenue Vietnam "If there is now a divergence," she Peace Parade Committee. As in the SMC asked, "which group is changing?" fight, it had the support of a group of Irving Beinin of the National Guardian, pacifists and the Communist Party. With a hyperenthusiastic supporter of the ex­ the aid of a large number of individuals clusionists, vigorously favored excluding attending a Parade Committee meeting the student group from the Parade Com­ for the first time, they pushed through mittee office. a motion that the SMC discontinue its "Kipp is right," he bellowed, "the SMC tenancy at the Parade Committee head­ has not changed. The Parade Committee quarters. has." The Parade Committee, he asserted, The group also used the New York along with the departees from SMC are Times for a red-baiting smear attack on changing "in tune with the thinking of the SMC. radical students." He seemed to feel this The exclusionists had originally tried change is exemplified by radical rhetoric to grab control of SMC to divert it from about "fighting racism." Such talk within its course of organizing mass actions a­ the antiwar coalition has in the past in­ gainst the Vietnam war. To carry through variably been a cover for a retreat from its retreat from the fight against the war, the struggle against the war and resulted the group fired from the SMC staff two in doing nothing about the war or about members of the Young Socialist Alliance, racism. Kipp Dawson and Syd Stapleton. Dawson Paul Friedman, representing the Com­ and Stapleton had insisted on defending munist Party, took the floor to say that NLF GUERRILLAS. The war continues under cover of the Paris "peace" talks. established SMC policy. he had been one of those who walked Having failed in a crude attempt to rig out of SMC and that they had always an SMC Continuations Committee meet­ been opposed to the Student Mobilization debt and cancel a couple of thousand that "meaningful negotiations" can begin. ing, the exclusionists bolted the organi­ sharing space with the Parade Committee. more owed to the Parade Committee The signers deal with the withdrawal zation. He didn't say why. and National Mobilization. issue this way: "The primary objective Meanwhile, immediately after the ex­ Dr. Otto Nathan, noted economist and Linda Morse, former executive secretary of the negotiations must be the complete clusionists staged their walkout from SMC, longtime peace activist, spoke in support of SMC, said that "all of us" had helped and rapidly phased removal of the U.S. the move was made to oust the student of the SMC. The young people, he said, roll up the debt and should help liquidate military presence in Vietnam according group from the Parade Committee loft have been the center of the opposition it. She offered to serve on a committee to a clearly stated timetable." where it had leased space since its in­ to the war, and from the outset SMC had to raise funds to cope with the debt. Retreat ception a year-and-a-half ago. been regarded as vital to the future of But the next day she gave a story This is a clear retreat from the with­ The ouster move was initiated by Norma the antiwar movement. "We have an obli­ datelined July 14 to the New York Times, drawal position. To begin with, the demand Becker, a pacifist and coordinator of the gation," he declared, "to see to it that which was headlined, "Student Peace for unilateral withdrawal is based on the Parade Committee. Parade Committee SMC is built up again." Group Leaders Charge Trotskyite Take­ principle that there is nothing the U.S. office administrator Eric Weinberger, also Over." A rehash of the charges by the has the right to negotiate in Vietnam. Financial Problem splitters, the story made excellent grist a pacifist, aggressively supported the (The Vietnamese may be compelled to The Parade Committee also discussed for the red-baiting mill of the capitalist move to exclude the SMC from the office. negotiate with the U. S. as part of the press. Linda Morse, perhaps, considered In urging the Parade Committee to pass its relation to the financial situation of process of getting them off their backs. the ouster motion, Norma Becker argued the SMC, which incurred a debt of some it a means of fund raising for SMC. But for Americans to use this as a justi­ that she had favored the student group $18,000 while building the Oct. 21 Mobi­ The attack on the Student Mobilization fication for supporting any kind of a U.S. leaving the Parade Committee office long lization at the Pentagon, the April 26 Committee coincides with a movement negotiating role is a betrayal of the right before the political dispute erupted in International Student Strike, and the April toward the right among various forces of self-determination for the Vietnamese.) the student organization. She said the 27 peace parade in New York. Until the comprising the antiwar coalition. Some, A demand for negotiations leading to SMC presence had meant "a tremendous fight in the SMC, this had been regarded like the Communist Party, want to get withdrawal, like the one just cited, contains amount of traffic" in the office and that as a joint obligation. This was considered the movement off the streets and into within it the implicit presumption that it had become "a teen-age hangout." so particularly since both the Parade election activity behind capitalist "peace" something should be given by the Viet­ The SMC had involved large numbers Committee and National Mobilization candidates like McCarthy and O'Dwyer. namese in return for such withdrawal. of young people in Parade Committee Committee had benefited financially from Others are in retreat from the hard­ If not, what is there to negotiate? All it demonstrations and had provided the SMC activity. won movement position of demanding takes for the U. & to get out is the neces­ bulk of the manpower in organizing most SMC activists sold the bulk of National immediate, unilateral withdrawal of U. S. sary transportation. activities. Mobilization buttons in Washington, re­ forces from Vietnam. Further, talk of a "rapidly phased" with­ Eric Weinberger argued the student sulting in the National Mobilization con­ Bombing Demand drawal is so much bull. Everyone from group should be ousted because it and cluding the action with a financial surplus Instead they are now focusing on calling LBJ down is for getting out of Vietnam the Parade Committee were now oper­ while SMC had a deficit. The same thing for a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam. "as rapidly as possible." ating "at cross purposes." He asserted that happened in relation to the April 27 Those, like Dave Dellinger, who are Most of the signers of this negotiations there was now "only one tendency" in parade in New York, where SMC button­ focusing on the bombing demand rather declaration are associated with the Parade SMC, the YSA, and that therefore the sellers made it possible for the Parade than withdrawal, insist they are as firmly Committee and National Mobilization. two organizations "no longer have a basic Committee to wind up the day with a committed as ever to the withdrawal po­ Among them are Robert Greenblatt, approach in common." surplus and the SMC, again, with greater sition. national coordinator of the National Mo­ Kipp Dawson, who was restored to the debts. (Last summer SMC got a $5,000 That may be. But this is not evident bilization, and Norma Becker, co-coor­ SMC staff by the June 29 Continuations contribution and gave $3,000 of it to the in the recent public record. It is the public dinator of the Parade Committee. Committee meeting, pointed out that the Parade Committee.) stance of the antiwar movement, not the Another signer is Linda Morse, who SMC continues to function on the basis At the Parade Committee meeting it private commitment of antiwar figures, proclaims herself one of the original par­ of policies adopted by membership con­ was proposed that the committee assume which affects the American people. tisans of the withdrawal demand. ferences and that those who wanted to responsibility for some $3,500 of the SMC Both Dellinger and Robert Greenblatt, She has the brass to sign this nego­ coordinator of the National Mobilization, tiations statement as "Former Executive were interviewed in the June 27 New Secretary, Student Mobilization Commit­ York Times about their visits to Hanoi tee." and Paris. Both offered a great deal Maybe she felt she had to become of what they said was the North Viet­ the former executive secretary in order namese view of negotiations, but the to free herself to sign such a negotiations word "withdrawal" wasn't mentioned. statement. It certainly says far more about An undated press release issued shortly the real reasons why she and her asso­ afterward by Greenblatt announced a ciates walked out of the SMC than all national campaign "to expose the United the scandal items in the New York Times. States blocking of serious discussions." A statement by Dellinger in the release read: JCR buttons 25( "The peace talks have been used by the U. S. government as a sedative for Amer­ ican public opinion, rather than as an opportunity to bring an end to the bomb­ ing, the killing, the destruction." Again, nowhere in the release is with­ drawal of U.S. troops even mentioned. Another indication of the retreat on this question was seen in a declaration on the Paris talks issued by an ad hoc group of "Signers of Peace Crisis Declaration." Again, regardless of intent, the state­ ment can only serve to obscure the fact that the U. S. is using the Paris talks as a cover for further escalation. The statement says in part: "As now On orders of 20 or more, 17c each. conducted by the administration, the Paris Order from: Young Socialist Alliance, PHUC VIHN, South Vietnam. Gls trying to sleep. American soldiers are still talks may be a cruel and dangerous hoax." P. 0. Box 471, Cooper Station, New dying. We owe it to them to continue the fight to bring them back home now. (Emphasis added.) York, N.Y. 10003 It demands a halt to the bombing so Page 6 THE MILITANT Friday, July 26, 1968 Seattle retail clerks

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SEATTLE-Members of Retail Clerks Union Local 1105 in Seattle voted 367- 246 July 10 against a contract proposal recommended by the union leadership. ;,f;;R."·..... ··.t····.•·.··.;···.·.· ....•...... •... ·.. ·.· ..... ·...•..•..•..•. ·.·.·...•.•.•.•. ·.:·;·NJ.:.·.· ...•.·.•.•.••···· .. ~.··········.····.· ..·.·.·.• ..•.· ... ·.·.·.•· ...•.• ..·.·.·.·.•.•.·.• ..a·:··.·.:.•.·.·.· ...•.•.•.•.• ..•·.•.. •.·.·.•.·.~.·.·.·.·•.•.•.l.·.•.·.· ....·.·.· ..·.··.·······.···.•.•.•.".· ..·.... ·.•. ·.·.·•.·.·•···.·.· ..·.·· .•. ·... ··.·.·· ...• ···. The rejected contract would have given the workers an increase of 50 cents per hour over three years, 17-1/2 cents of Pic·K~t.fid~ it the first year. Rank-and-file members at the meeting pointed out that the high the very, very poor, leaving the rich and cost of living and the surtax would wipe the very rich untouched." out this measly raise. He further contends that, based on The meeting also demanded that the Department of Labor statistics, a worker's secretary-treasurer act upon the May strike family of four persons in New York needed vote, which had better than a 90 percent a weekly take-home pay of $167 a week, majority. or $8,682 a year, to"maintainanadequate Some comments, shouted at the union but modest standard of living." No in­ leadership, were: "You'd better start learn­ dustry in the survey reached this average. :ng how to work in a grocery store again The survey was based on two govern­ real quick," and, "Don't waste our time ment statistical reports covering the two years from 1965 to '67-the Bureau of Soldier looking forward ·~ailing a contract-proposal meeting until you have a real good offer to bring back Labor Statistics' series on earnings and to us." the BLS Consumer Price Index. Both of The rank-and-file committee, a militant these reports, although loaded to make caucus, leafleted the meeting urging a "no" everything seem better than it is, are as to Halstead Saigon trip near as you can get to the actual facts. vote on the contract. By Doug Jenness the 23rd Atomic Bomb Disaster Anniver­ Supreme Court backs state When Fred Halstead, Socialist Workers sary World Conference Against A and Strike man-days up Party candidate for President, goes to Sai­ H Bombs, sponsored by the Japan Con­ During the first four months of 1968 employees' minimum wage gon next month, it will not be to have gress Against A and H Bombs ( Gensuiken ); there were 14.8 million man-days lost lunch with generals but to talk with ordi­ and the Two Nations Conference for Peace In an important decision, the U. S. through strikes, more than double for nary Gis. in Vietnam, sponsored by the Japanese Supreme Court ruled on June 3 that state the same period in 1967 and the highest In a recent letter received by former Peace for Vietnam Committee (Beheiren). in the past 18 years. employees below the executive level are Pfc. Howard Petrick, an American soldier From Saigon, Halstead and Sheppard entitled to the minimum-wage and over­ The lost man-days, according to the stationed in Saigon wrote: "If Halstead will fly to Bombay, Jordan, Yugoslavia time provisions of the federal law. Bureau of Labor Statistics, involved 1,010, can really make it to Vietnam I think and Western Europe, where they will meet This decision directly affects nearly 1. 7 000 strikers. the idea is a great one . . . All the people and discuss with the revolutionary ·youth million state school- and hospital-employ­ who've preceded him to Nam have com­ of these countries. New York workers ees. After the 1966 amendment to the Fair pletely ignored the troops. They [the troops] About $7,500 is needed to cover the Labor Standards Act (1939), Maryland hope that the visitors will maybe help total costs of this trip, and funds are still just holding their ground brought suit to enjoin enforcement of the them in straightening out the mess re­ badly needed. One dollar will send Hal­ $1.15 minimum wage level for 1968, as stead and Sheppard three miles on their In a survey recently conducted and fi­ sulting from the constant harassment in­ trip. Contribute now to help bring the nanced by the New York Teamsters, it well as provisions for payment of over­ flicted by the command. . . . So you see Socialist Workers Campaign to American was shown that a New York City factory time after 42 hours of work. Twenty­ if Mr. Halstead can manage to talk alone worker with three dependents has improved seven other states joined with Maryland with some guys, or just get to where they Gis. his purchasing power by only 12 cents in suing U. S. Secretary of Labor Willard are. ;He'll see another picture of the Amer­ a week between 1965 and 1967. Wirtz on the grounds that the amendment ican GI in Vietnam -yes, Mr .• Halstead's While this worker has actually improved was unconstitutional. coming to Nam is. a great idea." Ind. ballot drive his gross income by $8.72 a week in Still not covered by the amendment are Halstead and Barry Sheppard, editor that period, the survey shows that $3.24 such groups as sanitation workers, park of The Militant, are scheduled to leave went to pay federal, state and city income employees and food-service employees. Tokyo for Saigon on August 14 and Maryland's chief gripe against the new off to good start taxes, higher social security levies, and spend six days there. law was the 50 percent penalty for over­ of the balance, $5.36 went to cover in­ Halstead has been invited to participate GARY, Indiana- In the first week of time work, claiming that it would cost creased costs of consumer goods and in three antiwar conferences in Japan efforts to put the Socialist Workers Party services. the state $4.4 million the first year. during the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day on the ballot in Indiana, some 4,500 While construction workers bettered their period. people, more than half the legal require­ income and purchasing power by $3.81 The first conference, the International ment of 8,320, signed petitions nominating a week, 12 other groups actually lost Indiana antiwar Conference to End the War in Vietnam, the SWP candidates. ground. These include workers in elec­ sponsored by an ad hoc committee of In collecting signatures, the socialist cam­ trical, gas and sanitary-services groups. a number of youth organizations-the paigners emphasjzed the antiwar character Nicholas Kisburg, the Teamsters Council activists picket Japanese Committee for International Con­ of the SWP election effort. They were very legislative director, said the study shows ference on Aug. 3-will meet from July well received- many even expressed that a substantial number of workers in 27 until Aug. 3. The militant Zengakuren thanks for the opportunity to add their the largest city in the country are losing Hershey speech (Sampa Rengo faction) is a prominent voices to the fight against the war. Anti­ ground in the race with rising taxes and group in organizing this conference. war sentiment was especially strong in prices, and the rest are barely holding By Russell Block Other organizations that are planning Gary, where over half the population is their own. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -About 50 dem­ to send people are SNCC, Students for black. Kisburg went on to say that the city's onstrators from the Indiana University a Democratic Society, Organization of Many of the black people who signed income "is so structured as to require Committee to End the War in Vietnam Latin American Solidarity, the German mentioned they were doing so because the poor and the very poor to finance picketed a speech on "law and order" de­ Socialist Student Union (SDS ), and the they had a friend or relative in Vietnam libered by selective service chief Gen. Lewis French Revolutionary Communist Youth and wanted him brought back. Some Gis B. Hershey at the 50th annual convention (JCR). Invitations have also been extended home on leave added their names to the of the American Legion. to the French National Student Union as petitions. The demonstrators formed a moving well as to many other student groups, In addition to the presidential ticket of picket line on the sidewalk in front of the and to the governments of China, North Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle, the Indi­ Indiana Roof where Hershey delivered Korea, and North Vietnam. The conference ana Socialist Workers Party is petitioning DETROIT his speech. They carried signs and dis­ will conclude with a mass rally in Tokyo to place Ralph Levitt, candidate for U. S. SOCIAUST SUMMER SCHOOL Sat., July 27: The tributed leaflets that pointed out that Gen. on Aug. 3. Senate, on the ballot. Cuban Revolution; Sat., Aug. 10: Fascism; Sat., Aug. Hershey's call for "law and order" was The organizers of the conference are Levitt's candidacy has a special interest 24: Black Nationalism. II :30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Debs really an appeal for a mandate to suppress suggesting that an International Strike for Indiana. In 1963 he was one of the Holl, 3737 Woodward. For more imfarmation, call those people both in Vietnam and at home Against the War in Vietnam be called three students at Indiana University in 831-6135. who dare assert their right of self-deter­ on Oct. 21. They are also promoting Bloomington who were the targets of a mination. a struggle against the renewaloftheJapan­ witchhunt prosecution for their socialist CUBA. Last of a series of lectures and discussions. A contingent from Indianapolis, in­ U. S. Security Treaty in 1970. ideas. The three eventually won their case The development of the Cuban Revolution: Its Defiance cluding Ralph Levitt, Socialist Workers Halstead and Sheppard will also attend after a long political and legal fight. of Aggression and its Socialism. Fri., July 26, 8:00 p.m. Party candidate for U.S. Senator, joined ______clip and rna i I ______BLACK NATIONAUSM. A series of lectures and dis­ the demonstration. cussions. Fri., A~g. 2: The Kidnapping of the Slaves; Levitt marched several times around The Destrudion of their African Culture and their the picket line while plainclothesmen from Socialist Workers National Campaign Committee Resistance to it. 8:00 p.m. Debs Hall, 3737 Woodward. the Indianapolis police nervously eyed 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003 For more information, call 831-6135. Ausp. Friday a cardboard box he carried under his Night Socialist Forum. arm. Enclosed is$ .... to send Fred Halstead and Barry Sheppard .... miles LOS ANGELES• Finally the cops called him out of line and asked to see the box. Levitt opened IMPRESSIONS OF CUBA. Commemorating the 15th the box to reveal a stack of ballot peti­ Anniversary of the assault an the Moncada Garrison. on their trip around the world. A report, with slides, of a recent visit to Cuba by Tim tions, some copies of The Militant, pam­ Harding, professor of history, Calif. State College, phlets by Malcolm X and antiwar liter­ Los Angeles. Fri., July 26, 8:30 p.m. 1702 E. 4th St. ature. One of the cops seemed interested, Donation. Ausp. Militant Labar Forum. so Levitt sold him a copy of The Militant Name ...... • and two pamphlets. NEW YORK For their part, the aging Legionnaires CUBAN FESTIVAL Banquet. Speaker Ross Dawson, stood around making what they deemed executive secretary, Cal)adian League far Socialist to be appropriate remarks about the dem­ Address ...... Action. Cuban film: Life and Work of Che Guevara. onstrators in loud, boisterous language, Fri., July 26, 6:30 p.m. 873 B'way, near 18th St. which was sure to be overheard. At times Contrib. $2.50. For further information, call982-6051. the atmosphere was tense, but no incidents Ausp. Militant lobar Forum. occurred. City ...... State ...... Zip ...... Friday, July 26, 1968 THE MILITANT Page 7 INlfRVIEW WITH PAUL BOUTELLE Racism in Britain By Barry Sheppard "black" means more in Britain than people Paul Boutelle, Socialist Workers Party of African descent. It includes people from canidate for Vice President, spent the last India and Pakistan, for example. Gener­ week in May and the first week in June ally, it covers the darker skinned people on a speaking tour of Britain. He met from the former British colonies who have some of the leaders of the black move­ immigrated to Britain. They come from ment there, who discussed with him the the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and from situation of black people in Britain. the Middle East. Two areas of discrimination Boutelle Boutelle said that there are various move­ observed are in housing and jobs. "Non­ ments and organizations that have devel­ whites are in the lowest paying jobs," oped among nonwhites in Britain to fight Boutelle told me in an interview after he against racial discrimination. got back to the U. S. "I met many non­ The West Indian Standing Conference whites who worked in luncheonettes or and the Indian Workers Association have in transportation who had college degrees," existed for some time. "The Indian Workers he said. Association staged two strikes last sum­ "In London the transportation system mer against companies that discriminate," is basically run by nonwhites, because Boutelle related. it is low paying. One example I came New Groups across was of a bus driver who has an In addition, there are newer formations, M.A. degree, but was rejected from a one of which was formed during Boutelle's teaching position because, it was claimed, visit. Boutelle had spoken with some mil­ he speaks Victorian English." itants about the struggle in the United The nonwhites live in the worst housing States and mentioned that he had been (along with some poor whites). Discrim­ active in a Harlem organization called ination is blatantly evident in the adver­ the Black United Action Front. tisements for housing- many of which Gideon Job, originally from the Fiji say "whites only" or "nonwhites need not Islands, decided to organize a Black United apply." Action Front in Britain, which later spon­ "But," Boutelle added, "the housing dis­ sored a meeting for Boutelle. AT HYDE PARK. Paul Boutelle, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Vice crimination is seen most clearly just by Gideon Job told Boutelle that he had President at the famous Speakers Corner in London's Hyde Park. Boutelle looking at where black people are forced been an officer for the British in a counter­ spent two weeks in Britain to take news of the black struggle in America there to live. The slums are as bad as in Har­ revolutionary force used to put down and to obtain firsthand information from British black people about their lem. Malaysian insurgents. "But he has since conditions. At the rally, with over 1,000 in attendance, Boutelle solidarized "According to the British government's awakened," Boutelle said, "and is trying himself with British black nationalist Michael X, presently in jail for supposedly political and economic planning survey," to organize nonwhites against all forms violating the new race relations act Boutelle said, ''two-thirds of pcivately of imperialism and colonialism." owned rental property is closed to Another organization is the Committee coloreds, who must also' put down more Against Racial Discrimination, "which, tionalist and a socialist. He is from Biafra come. The vast majority of the mass of money and pay higher interest than a generally, is something like our NAACP," and has written an excellent pamphlet nonwhite people in Britain look to Britain white man when buying a house. Boutelle explained. "But there is a more on the situation in Nigeria. He calls for as their home, and they want to fight to "In one test situation, an Englishman militant wing developing in this organiza­ a socialist federation as the solution to make a better place." his homeland's problems." and a Hungarian of approximately equal tion. I met Oscar Abrams, chairman of Boutelle spoke at many college campuses UCPA stands for black control of the qualifications, and a West Indian better the Islington branch of the CARD, who and found "that while a majority of stu­ qualified than either, applied for jobs at was from Guyana in South America. black communities in Britain and attempts dents passively goes along with racism, 40 companies. Of the 30 companies with The Islington branch belongs to the mil­ to link the struggle in Britain to the fight there is a minority of politically active job openings, all would have hired the itant wing." of nonwhites throughout the world. A­ students opposed to racism. The same Englishman, 17 the Hungarian and only Boutelle also met Obi Egbuna, president nother UCPA spokesman Boutelle met is is true of the white workers, except maybe three the West Indian." of the Universal Colored Peoples Asso­ Roy Sawh, orginally from Guyana. there is even more racism among them. Boutelle explained that "nonwhite" or ciation. Egbuna "considers himself a na- The UCPA attempts to unite all non­ "Last spring the white dock workers, whites in Britain regardless of their na­ who have been victims of legislation spon­ tional origin. sored by such right-wing Conservatives The Racial Action Adjustment Society as Enoch Powell, came out in support is also based on the program of uniting of him when he made a racist speech all black people in Britain. The RAAS against nonwhites." is headed by Michael X de Fritas, who Boutelle spoke to a meeting of the Trade is presently in jail under England's new Union Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland. CRISIS OF OVERPRODUCTION­ with four deep Vs cut out below the waist­ race-relations act. It sellms Michael X had "They seemed to have some comprehen­ "WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI)-A House line, with one in back providing rear­ said some uncomplimentary things about sion of the problem however," Boutelle subcommittee reported today that spies end cleavage. But the high point of the white people in a speech, and the British said. for the United States were collecting in­ exhibit came when a bare-bellied model government, which has just passed new Boutelle met Tariq Ali, a leader of the formation so fast that their chiefs did not skillfully popped from her navel an ersatz racist legislation, could not countenance Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and a lead­ have time to read it. The backlog, the emerald, which was successfully retrieved Michael X's "racism" and put him in jail ing nonwhite spokesman. Ali is a Pakis­ panel said, may have contributed to recent by Charles Revson, board chairman of for his remarks. tani and recently joined the International intelligence failures such as capture of the Revlon. Apparently quite a card, Mr. Rev­ Boutelle also met Frankie Dymon, from Marxist Group, which has close relations intelligence ship Pueblo off North Korea." son pretended to implant it in his own Jamaica, who is heading the organiza­ with the Fourth International. navel. This came as a bit of a surprise tion while Michael X is in jail. Boutelle said he found blacks in Britain MEDIA PROBLEM- The Association of to us, since we had never envisioned upper­ Need for Unity interested in and concerned with the black National Advertisers suggested to its mem­ class people as having them. "One of the problems of the movement struggle in the U. S. "They were very in­ bers that they not associate themselves in Britain," Boutelle said, "is that some terested in what I knew about SNCC, with TV programs that emphasize "ex­ IMPARTIAL SURVEY -"Advertisingin of the activists think in terms of going the Black Panther Party and black na­ cessive or unnecessary violence." Respond­ America: The Consumer View" is the result back to their homelands. Also, their iden­ tionalist groups here; they wanted my ed one adman: "What do you do about of a four-year study made at a cost of tification with their homelands often leads opinion on the ghetto insurrections, and the news programs?" more than $130,000. It finds that most to a lack of unity among nonwhites. Some what I thought was going to happen this Americans think advertising is beneficial organizations are dominated by or cater summer. People like Malcolm X, Rap CLEAR ENOUGH?-Alexander's de­ to the country. Sponsor? The American mainly to people from one area or former Brown, Stokeley Carmichael and Le Roi partment store in New York now boasts Association of Advertising Agencies. British colony only. This has to be over- Jones are admired. n a genuine blue-blood as manager of its JUST A SLIGHT ONE-"Romney Sees plush men's boutique. 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Oh. of bourgeois jounalism are subjected to. you're already sold on the paper, you can help out by sending a reg­ Example: In the July 9 New York Times NOTHING SACRED?- Radio station a feature writer turned out a bit of tripe ular one-year subscription for $3.) WNEW in New York threw a luncheon that began like this: "WAVERLY, Minn.­ at the swank Four Seasons so that sponsors At 56, Mrs. Hubert Horatio Humphrey of the New York Football Giants could is still a small-town girl who clings to D Enclosed is $1 for a 4 month introductory subscription. meet the players. They had to be satisfied home-town ways despite 20 years in Wash­ D Enclosed is $3 for a 1 year regular subscription. with meeting some of the team manage­ ington ... where she has dinedwithkings ment and seeing films of the players. The and presidents . . . One way she holds team was on strike along with the rest on is to return to this rural, 22-acre lake­ NAME . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 •• 0 0 •• 0 0 ••••••••••••••• 0 • 0 •• 0 • of the National Football League's Players side retreat . . . " Association. THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK-"One STREET. BETTER THAN THEBURLESQUE­ of the most dangerous and insidious wea­ Norell, the fashion designer whose dresses pons of the Vietcong is their announced CITY STATE . ZIP run from $400 to $4,000, put on a show policy to· fight indefinitely."-Dr. Howard for some of his distinguished patrons. One Rusk in the New York Times. conversation piece was a new hostess-gown -Harry Ring Send to: The Militant, 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003 Page 8 THE MILITANT Friday, July 26, 1968 ••• Czech events

(Continued from page 1) Words" manifesto, declaring that the docu­ socialist democracy in Czechoslovakia. ment "urges people to engage in anarchist The veritable panic in face of the Soviet acts, and to violate the constitutional char­ nonconformist intellectuals ... canhard­ acter of our political reform." ly be explained by the extent or strength But the Dubcek government insisted that yet obtained by the movement for soviet "these negative positions . . . did not democracy in the USSR . . . Such a reac­ threaten the party, the National Front tion, however, can be explained perfectly and the socialist state." The central target by the Kremlin's fear of a full-scale snow­ of Prague's reply was the Novotny group: balling movement ... in the rest of what "The leading role of our party gravely only yesterday was still its 'camp.'" suffered in the past by the distortions of And these fears of repercussions against the fifties and the policy of their inconsis­ the bureaucracy in the Soviet Union can tent removal by the leadership headed by only have been heightened by the recent A. Novotny. He is even more responsible revolutionary upsurge in France with its for the deepening social conflicts between vivid display of the mighty power of the the Czechs and Slovaks, between the in­ masses in action-in street demonstrations telligentsia and workers, between the young and the factories. generation and the older generations. n The Kremlin's main concern in this new It remains for the Czechoslovak people slander of the Czechoslovak reforms has themselves to deal with the pace and depth not escaped the attention of commentators of socialist reform in the long overdue in the bourgeois press. Offering an ex­ process of democratizing the Communist planation of the fact that the July 16 Party and government. Students on the n'Jte from the five powers took a harder streets of Prague last spring, as well as line than subsequent interchanges between the intellectuals of the "Two Thousand Moscow and Prague, New York Times Words" vanguard, have demonstrated that correspondent Henry Kamm suggested they have no confidence in the Dubcek "the firm letter from Warsaw was intended regime to carry out a complete liquidation mainly for internal Soviet use. The Soviet of the bureaucracy. leadership has engaged in a campaign to It is up to the peoples of Czechoslovakia tighten the ideological reins in all fields." and no one else to carry out the needed PANTHERS AT NEWI'ON TRIAL. More than 3,500 demonstrators demand, In responding to the July 16 Warsaw political revolution against the bureau­ "Free Huey!" in front of Oakland courthouse July 15, as frame-up murder letter, the Dubcek regime also took care cracy. The right of self-determination ap­ trial of Black Panther Party minister of defense Huey P. Newton opens. A cop to separate itself from the "Two Thousand plies in Czechoslovakia just as it does in was killed during a police attack on Newton last October. Panthers have been South Vietnam, and no outside force, the constantly harassed by cops, and 22-year-old Panther leader Bobby Hutton Soviet Union or anyone else, has the right was killed during police attack last April. Panthers are demanding that Newton to interfere in this process . be tried by a jury of his peers -composed of working-class Afro-Americans. ... Black strike •1n Detroit (Continued from page 1) adjourn to a larger room. workers went over to Chrysler Corp. head­ In response to a threatened wildcat strike The white president of the local had the quarters to set up a picket line. As it turned by black workers, Chrysler fired Brookins. gall to tell the workers that, after the ex­ out, the local leadership never did discuss They even tried to charge him with assault ecutive board had heard their grievances, the issues with Chrysler. After picketing and battery on a guard. But the courts it would send them its conclusions in the for two hours, they returned to the plant. threw the case out. mail. In reference to calling a strike, he Even though one of the assembly lines Then, in the first part of May, 1968, said the plant was for those who wanted was running very slowly that day, the a wildcat strike broke out over speed­ to make an honest living, as though it plant was for all practical purposes shut up; the assembly line was running just wasn't being used for Chrysler to accumu­ down. The next day, when 500 black too fast. This wildcat strike was led by late profits. These insults only served to workers stayed out, the plant was forced black and white workers. It lasted for inflame the workers. to shut down again. There was no picket­ three days. The UAW Local 3 did not Spokesmen for the workers then ran ing because of a court injunction obtained support the strike, under the pretext that down their grievances, declaring the UAW by Chrysler. The police were stationed such action would violate the contract. was irrelevant to the needs of black workers. outside the plant, armed with tear gas After this strike was over, the manage­ In the discussion, the workers told how and mace. ment of Chrysler fired several black work­ white boys were being hired right off the In a discussion I had with the editorial ers and suspended other workers involved street to become foremen and skilled trades­ in the strike. These workers were identi­ staff of DRUM on Monday, July 15, they men. Some of these boys didn't even know fied in pictures the corporation took during said the UAW local had put out a leaflet Alexander Dubcek what a screw driver looks like or what the strike. Saturday, denouncing the strike. This was the assembly plant was about. One brother It was during this strike that several done upon orders from George Merrelli, pointed out that management and the union young black workers got together and Region 1 Director of the UAW. One of the Detroit enacts new started publishing DRUM. It was this pub­ claimed the black workers did not have staffers explained, "About 30 of us went lication that organized the black workers any mechanical ability to get into the down today to picket Solidarity House, for the strike action July 12. skilled trades, yet, it is black hands that UAW headquarters. When wemetwithMer­ stop-and-frisk law DRUM documented and described the put together every car that comes off the relli, he said, 'Racism does not exist at racist treatment of black workers at the assembly line. Hamtramck Assemblynorinthe UAW ... By Robert Fink Chrysler plant, which is better known as An Uncle Tom executive board member DRUM is the one creating racism at the DETROIT-Mayor Cavanagh signed a production plantation. DRUM reported got up and tried to bring the situation plant.'" Detroit's stop-and-frisk law July 9. The several cases of black workers who were under control. He told the workers that Thus, the victim becomes the criminal, new ordinance allows police to detain and fired because the white suburbanite fore­ the local leadership would discuss their and the criminal becomes the victim. The search anyone they suspect has committed men did not like their Afro hair style grievances with Chrysler the next day. DRUM editors said that they plan now or "is about to commit" a crime. It fails or the wearing of African symbols around A spokesman for the workers told the to organize and consolidate their strength to define what is considered "suspicious," the neck. Tom that while the union was negotiating, in the plant. The editorial staff sees DRUM giving the cops carte blanche on this matter. Not only did management come under the plant would be shut down. Immediately as the representative organization of black As Cavanagh signed the law, he assured the fire of DRUM, but the UAW local after this statement, the workers got up and auto workers. The editorial staff pointed everyone that it would be enforced "fairly," leadership as well. Time after time, white walked out. out that the UAW membership is 37 per­ saying that "police brutality is a thing of and Uncle Tom committeemen would sell I was out there the next morning when cent black, with a leadership structure the past." out black workers in disputes between the the strike began at 5 a.m. A couple of that is 10 percent black. Most of this But, while the Mayor gave his glowing workers and the corporation. No justice brothers stationed themselves in front of talented tenth fall into the category of Toms. assurances, police activities marched on. could be gotten from the union grievance the entrance gate with a sign that read: Among white workers at the plant, there A University of Michigan police and crime procedure. "No Work Today." It was the young black is no understanding of the motion among report just released estimates that 10 per­ The day before the strike, DRUM had workers who took the lead in the action. black workers. At the Huber Foundry at cent of cops in three cities tested used a couple of rallies in the parking lot As the crowd of black workers across Hamtramck Assembly, onestafferexplain­ excessive force- and this even while the across the street from the plant. Before the street grew larger and larger, it be­ ed, the white skilled workers went on strike cops knew there were sociologist observers and after the rallies, several brothers came easier to convince other blacks to a week ago when two brothers were up­ on the scene. thumped out beats on an assortment of stay out. Within an hour, there were over graded into the skilled trades. For this In Detroit, charges have been sought congas and other type drums. One of the a thousand black workers lined up across and other reasons, DRUM sees no possi­ against police brutality by Mrs. Lois Smith, signs at the rally read: "This is the Real the street. It was at this time that several bility of collaboration with white workers. who says 16 cops stormed her home, Dodge Rebellion." Hamtramck Assembly brothers began thumping on the congas There are up to 50 auto plants in and conducted an illegal search, arrested her is where the Dodge and Dart model cars and drums. around the Detroit black community. son, threatened to shoot the family dogs are assembled. About a hundred white workers stayed DRUM intends to reach out and organize and confiscated a BB gun. The rallies were attended by about 300 out because they were afraid of the black the black workers at these plants. It is And, at police headquarters, a police workers. After the second rally, 200 black workers in front of the gate. After the this potential that the bureaucrats that trial board has just exonerated one of workers marched down to UAW Local 3 plant management had called out the po­ run the UAW and the plantation bosses their own accused of manhandling several headquarters. There, they packed into a lice, who stationed themselves at the gate, that run the auto plants are most fearful members of the Poor People's march ga­ room where the local executive board was the white workers went on in. about. This is the significance of the Dodge thering here several weeks ago. meeting. The executive board decided to At around 11 a.m., several hundred Rebellion.