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Gov't Covers Ug Crisis San • ' Recession Ens· See Pages 3-5 NOVEMBER 8, 1974 25 CENTS VOLUME 38/NUMBER... 42 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Gov't covers ug crisis san • ' recesSion ens· See pages 3-5 ·20,000 demand: Fi Puerto .· . .... // / . Proindependence rally at New York's Madison Square Gar- Rico • den. See pages 11, 12. YSA suit demands halt to FBI spy plan/a Strategy for Black liberation strugglel1s Japan: 2 million say no to Ford visit/24 THIS WEEK'S In Brief MILITANT WOUNDED KNEE DEFENSE TO MEET WITH JU~ trade-union affairs; Carlos Arango, education director; 4 Auto workers speak out TICE DEPARTMENT: Mark Lane, a defense attorney · Enrique Flores, publicity director; Pepe Medina, liaison against massive layoffs in the Wounded Knee trial, told The Militant that he and with other organizations; and Antonio Rodriguez, legal 5 Unemployment: product some of the trial jurors will go to the U. S. attorney gen­ director. of profit system eral's office Nov. 12 to demand that the charges be Several of the new board members are leaders of the 6 YSA sues to stop FBI dropped against the remaining defendants. National Committee to Free Los Tres. Lane said that also present at the meeting and sup­ One of the new officers, Jacobo Rodriguez, told The spying porting dismissal will be representatives of the American Militant that CASA will continue to struggle against de­ 8 Colo. referendum to Civil Liberties Union, the American Lutheran Church, portations. A greater emphasis will be placed on seeking curb nuclear blasts the United Church of Christ, and the American Friends to involve Chicanos, mexicanos, and other Latinos in their 9 Dist. 1 militants back Service Committee. The chiefs of the Iroquois Confederacy places of work. And there is an effort under way to bring about a greater organizational cohesion among the Sojourner in New York State will also attend, Lane said. Eleven jurors and alternates signed a letter in Septem­ various CASA chapters around the country. Raza Unida wins union 10 ber urging that Attorney General William Saxbe meet support with them so that they could present their arguments U.S. PROTESTS SUPPORT IRISH FREEDOM FIGHT: 11 20,000 demand: Free for dismissal. Charges against American Indian Move­ Protests against internment and intolerable conditions in Puerto Rico! ment leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks were dis­ British prison camps recently stirred massive protests across Ireland in sympathy with the prisoners. Protesters 15 Labor support boosts missed Sept. 16 because of government misconduct during also mobilized in New York City calling for an immediate Macmillan strike the trial. About 100 cases still remain, including some 70 per­ end to internment. 16 Strategy for Black sons charged during the Wounded Knee seizure and others One hundred people from the Irish Northern Aid Com­ struggle charged in related cases arising from arrests in Custer, mittee demonstrated Oct. 17 at British Airways, as did 17 S. F. labor mobilizqtion S.D.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Scotts Bluff, Nebr. 50 from the Joint Action Committee for Irish Political needed to stop 'Prop L' Supporters of the Wounded Knee defendants and those Prisoners two days la.ter. In another action against British repression in Ireland, 18 How miners strike broke in the other cases are urged to send telegrams demanding that the charges be dropped to U.S. Attorney General 80 people picketed the St. Paul Civic Center Oct. 14 to World War II wage William Saxbe. Copies should be sent to Jurors and Others protest the appearance of the Royal Welsh Guards. The freeze for Reconciliation, Commodore Hotel, 79 Western Ave., action, which demanded "British troops out of Ireland," 20 Boston: a history of St. Paul, Minn. 55102. was called by Irish Northern Aid and was also endorsed by the American Indian Movement, Socialist Workers segregation CINCINNATI BLACK ACTIVIST CONVICTED: James Party, Young Socialist Alliance, and the Selby-Dale­ 23 Kissinger-Brezhnev Hardy, a Black activist in Cincinnati who had been Powderhorn Freedom Brigade. plot counterrevolution charged with sending a threatening letter to Police Chief 24 Millions protest Ford Carl Goodin, was found guilty of the trumped-up charge ACLU SUES SOLEDAD: The American Civil Liberties visit in Japan and sentenced to 3 to 10 years in jail. Union Foundation has filed a lawsuit against Raymond The decision was handed down by Judge William Mat­ Procunier, director of the California Department of Cor­ 28 Vote to abolish Boston thews. Hardy had waived his right to trial by jury. rections, and W. T. Stone, superintendent of Soledad pris­ school committee! Acting as cocounsel in his own defense, Hardy showed on, for censoring a prisoner publication, On the Line. during his cross-examination of witnesses that the police The bimonthly publication is put out by the ACL U 2 In Brief and courts had conspired to frame him. and the Greater Watts Justice Center. It is sent free to 12 In Our Opinion Among those pledging their continued support to California prisoners who request it. It carries articles Hardy's defense effort was Charles Mitts, the Socialist about the state of the law concerning prison conditions Letters Workers Party candidate for Congress in Ohio's 1st C. D. and rights of prisoners. Articles and poetry about prison 13 National Picket Line life written by and for prisoners are also included. It By Any Means Neces­ was one such article that caused Soledad officials to for­ ITT HIDES CRIME BEHIND ART: Two hundred stu­ sary bid the 50 subscribers there to receive the spring 1974 dents opposed to the Chile~n junta picketed an ITT-spon­ edition. 14 The Great Society sored art show being held at Emory University in Atlanta. Women in Revolt The opening night of the show, Oct. 26, attracted many The article, "Soledad Inmate Hits Lock-down," was well-heeled Atlanta politicians and businessmen, who written by an anonymous Soledad prisoner. It dealt with The American Way of the conditions in the prison during a recent lockdown. Life dined inside while protesters demonstrated outside. Mem­ bers of the Atlanta Latin America Solidarity Group and Several state prisons were under tight security for several the Emory Lawyers Guild organized the picket line. months as an outgrowth of unrest in the prisons. Prisoners WORLD OUTLOOK were kept in their cells without rights or recreation. The 1 Operation 'Tar Baby': LAWTON, GARDNER DEFENSE WINS IMPORTANT last line read, "Power to those who seize it!" It was this sentence that the prison officials claim violated U.S. support to S. Africa VICTORY: Authorities in Riverside, Calif., have been forced to drop the frame-up charges against Zurebu Gard­ Penal Code Section 2600 in that it tended to "in- 2 How workers defeated cite violence." ner, one of two Black activists charged with the murder -NORMAN OLIVER Spinola coup of two white cops. Charges are still being pressed against 3 India: revolt of un­ Gary Lawton. touchables The charges against Gardner were dropped on the eve 4 World News Notes of an unprecedented third trial. The prosecution's case is so flimsy and full of contradictions that the first two YOUR FIRST' trials ended in hung juries. Meanwhile, Lawton's trial was postponed for the ISSUE? THE MILITANT eleventh time this year. VOLUME 38/NUMBER 42 NOVEMBER 8, 1974 BORAX WORKERS END STRIKE: Militant correspon­ CLOSING NEWS DATE- OCT. 30, 1974 dent George Johnson reports that workers at the Borax SUBSCRIBE Company mine and plant in Boron, Calif., voted 332 Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS to 86 on Oct. 24 to return to work after a four-month Business Manager: ROSE OGDEN TO THE Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING strike. The strikers, members of International Longshore­ men's and Warehousemen's Union Local 30, were forced Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., to accept the company's offer of a three-year contract, MILITAIT 14 Charles Lone, New York. N.Y. 10014. Telephone: with wage increases of 11.7, 7, and 7 percent in the three Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) Layoffs. Skyrocketing prices. Phony shortages. The Militant years. 929-34B6. Southwest Bureau: 710 S. Westlake Ave., tells the truth about what is behind the economic crisis Scabs are to have what Gene Pope, Local 30 secretary­ Los Angeles, Calif. 90057. Telephone: (213) 483-2798. and how the labor movement can fight back. It provides Correspondence concerning subscriptions or chonges treasurer, described as "superseniority." They are to re­ weekly coverage of strikes, protests against job discrimina­ of oddress should be addressed to The Militant Business tain their current jobs, while strikers who had previously tion, and other struggles by working people. Subscrib-e Office, 14 Charles lane, New Yorlc, N.Y. 10014. held them are to be returned to a labor pool for reclas­ Second-doss postage paid at New York, N.Y. Sub­ today. scriptions: .domestic, $7.50 a year; foreign, $11.00. sification. By first-class mail: domestic, Canada, and Mexico, The company can discipline workers for in-plant conduct $32; all other countries, >53. By airmail: domestic, without arbitration. It even has the right, under the new IntrOductory otlar-81/2 months Canada, and Mexico, $42. By air printed matter: Cen­ contract, to discipline workers for what they do off the ( ) $I for two months of The Militant. tral America and Caribbean, $40; Mediterranean Af­ job. ( ) $2 for two months of The Militant and three months rica, Europe, and South America, $52; USSR, Asia, Pacific, and Africa, $62. Write far foreign sealed air However, the workers did manage through the four­ of the International Socialist Review. postage rates. month strike to keep a union shop.
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