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MARCH 3, 1972 25 CENTS A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE WhY activists excl lrom versailles conterence - page4 By NORTON SANDLER SAN JOSE, Feb. 23-After 16 months in jail, Angela Davis was re leased tonight on $102,500 bail Davis, a member of the Communist Party, faces murder charges stemming from a courtroom kidnapping Angela Davis. attempt in San Rafael, Calif., in August 1970. San Jose Superior Court Judge Richard E. Arnason had previously refused to set bail on the grounds that California law prohibits 'bail in .. capital cases." free on bail . · Today' s decision followed a State Supreme Court decision last Friday abolishing the death penalty in California. Conditions of bail are rather harsh-she cannot leave the six Bay Area counties, she is not allowed to speak about her case at public meetings or in interviews, she cannot possess or have a firearm, and she has to report to a probation officer every week. Davis' trial begins here Monday, Feb. 28. VOLUME 36/NUMBER 8 RIGGED HEARINGS ON PUERTO RICANS: The U.S. In Brief, Jan. 28) cost the school about $180,000, ac Commission on Civil Rights tried to hold "public hear cording to a Feb. 19 dispatch from Palo Alto, Calif. ings" on the problems of Puerto Ricans in New York Franklin was fired for his antiwar and radical views. Feb. 14 and Feb. 15 but without letting the "public" THIS speak. The esteemed commission, headed by University STRIKE AT U.S. PEN IN MARION, ILL.: Militant of Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburg, was slated correspondent Stuart Vyse from Carbondale reports: WEEK'S to hear from such experts as Albert Shanker, the racist "On the morning of Jan. 31, 40 to 60 inmates of the president of the United Federation of Teachers, and var Marion penitentiary sat down in a hallway and refused MILITANT ious federal, state, and city officials, themselves accom to move. They were successful in getting a handful of plices to the systematic oppression of Puerto Ricans. prisoners released from the segregation-cell house and 3 1-year subs are goal The hearings, held in the Brotherhood in Action Build returned to the normal prison population. of renewal campaign ing in Manhattan, were called off in the face of demands "A few days later, three prisoners were put in segre 4 Why antiwar group. by Puerto Rican activists that they be allowed to speak. gation after testifying against the government in U.S. excluded f~om Versailles Among groups demanding that the hearings be open District Court in a case involving an alleged escape at conference were the Puerto Rican Socialist Party and the Congress tempt. This caused all 500 men to stop work of Puerto Rican Hometowns. in the prison's furniture factory and printing plant. Fifteen Canadian actions called 5 demands were presented, including the right to testify for April 22 FREE SPEECH VICTORY IN DENVER: The Commit in court without fear of being punished, an end to mail 8 Chicano, Black students tee for Democratic Rights at the University of Colorado, censorship, improved medical treatment, and the right launch struggle Denver Center, has won a free speech victory- the right to be politically active. 9 British mine strikers to leaflet, sell literature, and set up tables. The committee's .. After a six day lockup, the strike was ended efforts were supported by the campus Student Mobiliza with Warden George W. Pickett's acceptance of a watered defeat Tories tion Committee, Chicano s~dent groups, Women's Lib down version of some of the demands. No concessions 1 0 Right of Blacks to eration, the Black Student Alliance, and the Young So were made on the demands to exercise the right to political non-ghetto housing cialist Alliance. The Colorado American Civil Liberties activity and to testify in court without fear of 11 Militant forum hears Union lent active support. being punished." leader of Attica revolt Lynn Rashkind of the Denver YSA predicts that "Height 12 Radical publisher ex ened political activity on campus this spring will be the THE MILITANT GETS AROUND 1: The February direct result of this important victory." Radical Therapist, now published in Somerville, Mass., pands reprinted Arthur Mag1in's "American Way of Life" from 13 Harrisburg frame-up de FOREIGN STUDENTS SPARK TUITION FIGHT: .A the Jan. 14 Militant. Credit was given to Liberation News pends on gov't agent broad coalition spearheaded by the Foreign Student Coun Service and The Militant. 14 Banquet climaxes tour of cil is waging a campaign to cut tuition for all students N. Calif. by Jenness at the University of Washington in Seattle. Tuition has THE MILITANT GETS AROUND II: The American doubled over the last several years, with no end in sight. Civil Liberties Union newspaper Civil Liberties featured 15 Socialist Gl runs for The demands of the Council of Student Delegates to Roll in its January issue an article on racism in the U.S. Army, Congress Back Tuition were approved "in a landslide victory" by Thomas Culver. Entitled "Darmstadt 53: Race Jen_ness attacks com in a campus referendum on Feb. 10, according to Mil at German Bases," the article was illustrated by a picture promise on rights bill itant reporter Lucy Roedder. A successful petition cam of Socialist Workers P'iuty vice-presidential candidate 16 Communist Party con- paign (3,000 signatures in three days) and campus rallies Andrew Pulley and a group of Black G Is. The Militant are also part of this effort. vention: 'defeat Nixon; was given credit for the photo. Those attending coalition meetings have included the build CP' student government, the Black Student Union, the vet 17 Student movement erans association, the Young Democrats, the Young So today cialist Alliance, Young Socialists for Jenness and Pulley, 18 Transit union vote and the Chinese, Arab, and Iranian student associations; smells fishy U.S. immigration authorities have intervened by initiat ing deportation proceedings against Babak Zahraie, an Con Ed claims N.Y. air Iranian student who is a coordinator of the tuition co isn't so bad alition. (See The Militant, Feb. 25.) 19 NDP and lhe trade unions STRIKE LEADER AT SEATTLE FORUM:. John Bar 21 Why the U.S. is in Indo ton, president of the Seattle Community College Federa tion of Teachers and leader of Washington's first public china employee strike, spoke at a Feb. 11 Militant Forum at 24 Peking talks threaten tended by more than 40 people. Also speaking were Wil Indochinese revolution liam Jungers, student-strike-support picket captain and Longshoremen go back leader of Young Socialists for Jenness and Pulley, and to work Gary Johnson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for state superintendent of public instruction. Barton outlined the issues in the strike (see The Mil 2 In Brief itant, Feb. 25). The teachers have been forced back to 6 In Our Opinion work under a court injunction on the grounds that strikes Letters by public employees are illegal under Washington law. 7 The Great Society Jungers detailed how student support was won for the Women: The Insurgent strike through a series of mass meetings involving hun dreds of students. Johnson discussed the strike in the con Majority text of the wage controls and the Nixon administration's 14 '72 Socialist Campaign attack on the right to strike. 18 The National Picket Line RACISM DURING 'WAR FOR DEMOCRACY': Three 20 In Review hundred fifty volumes of the British War Cabinet's papers covering the years 1941-45 are being published in London. It turns out that the war minister, Sir James Grigg, wrote a memo on how to educate British armed forces, especially women, "to conform with American attitudes toward Negro TV WRITERS BLAST CENSORSHIP: Members of the soldiers arriving in Britain with the United States Army," Writers Guild of America recently told a Senate subcom THE MILITANT as Anthony Lewis delicately put it in the Jan. 3 New York mittee hearing about censorship by television executives. VOLUME 36/NUMBER 8 Times. The Feb. 9 Los Angeles Times quoted some of the testi MARCH 3, 1972 "'The people of this country should avoid becoming too mony. CLOSING NEWS DATE-FEB. 23, 1972 friendly with colored American troops,' Sir James wrote." The guild's chairman, David W. Rintels, told of his Editor: MARY-AliCE WATERS A cabinet committee wrote a secret paper for senior of experiences with "The FBI" series. "If you want to do• Managing Editor: DOUG JENNESS ficers. "It provided this convenient (racist-J. B.) analysis a kidnapping, great; Communist espionage, wonderful; Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS of American racial attitudes for the uninformed: 'The South organized crime, marvelous." But "civil rights, never Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING is semitropical, where labor is more fitted to the colored . .. " The broadcast executives, Rintels said, "allow Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., man ... the white population still tend to regard Negroes laughter but not tears, fantasy but not reality, escapism 14 Charles lone, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: Ed as children for whom they have a moral responsibility; but not truth. 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