Chrysler workers strike . . . . 3 THE Draft opponents speak out . 7 Women & budget cuts . . . . 12

A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 46/NO. 36 OCTOBER 1, 1982 75CENTS U.S. shares Israeli guilt for massacre in Beirut Unarmed civilians gunned down in their homes, women and children rounded up and driven away in cattle trucks, wounded patients murdered in their hospital beds - the entire world has reacted with shock and anger at the appalling images of the massacre in West Beirut. Denying "any blame whatsoever" for the massacre, the Israeli government said that those charging it with compli­ city in the deed were leveling "a blood libel." But the Israeli cabinet formally ap­ proved the entry of the rightist forces into the Palestinian refugee camps. Is­ raeli troops escorted the killers to the place of their crime, backed them up with tanks, and lighted their way with EDITORIAL

flares. Israeli cabinet ministers knew of the murderous rampage at least 24 hours before it ended. President Reagan said he was "hor­ rified" by the massacre. But the Israeli invasion of Lebanon was fully supported by Washington from the very beginning. The Israeli phosphorous bombs, clust­ er bombs, and high explosive shells that had caused nearly 50,000 casualties in Lebanon even before the latest massacre were all made in the USA. Palestinian woman and child flee refugee camp after word spread that Phalangist terrorists were returning. Again and again, in votes at the United Nations, the U.S. and Israeli del­ egates stood alone in defense of the inva­ sion. Reagan officially welcomed the election of Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayel as president of Lebanon- the Rail engineers confront bosses terrorist president who was responsible for planning the massacre before his as­ sassination. and gov't over right to strike The massacre in West Beirut has stripped away the covering of lies that obscures the real role of U.S. im­ BY STEVE WATTENMAKER Rail traffic across the United States overcome ail these legal obstacles and perialism and its .Israeli junior partner AND TOM PONTOLILLO ground to a virtual standstill. was supposedly free to strike. in the Middle East. "You know, Reagan gives Israel the Locomotive engineers' union Presi­ At the bargaining table, rail industry right to go into Beirut, but he won't let dent John Systma explained that the en­ representatives continued to demand The slaughter of Palestinian refugees us strike," said an angry Denver rail gineers were forced out on strike by the substantial givebacks, especially in in Lebanon stems from the same funda­ worker as 26,000 members of the rail industry's demand for a no-strike wage rates and work rules. mental source as U.S.-backed death Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers pledge on issues that remained unresol­ After voting by a margin of95 percent squads in El Salvador and-Guatemala; (BLE) walked off their jobs September ved in the contract negotiations. to strike, the BLE announced June 30 U.S.-backed dictatorships in Chile, the 19. "We are striking for the right to that the engineers would begin a nation­ Philippines, South Korea, and other In all, the BLE struck 117 railroad strike," he said. wide walkout July 11. countries. It is of the same cloth as the lines, halting all major rail freight and The White House and Congress im­ The Reagan administration quickly massacres carried out by racist South passenger service across the country. mediately rushed through strike-break­ rode to the rescue of the railroad mag­ African forces in Angola, Namibia, and Only the Conrail system in the East ing legislation ordering the engineers nates. On July 10 Reagan signed an against the Black population of South and Midwest escaped the walkout. The back to work after five days on the picket Executive Order, invoking Section 10 of Africa itself. It is one in a series of sav­ BLE and Conrail are negotiating a sepa­ line. the Railway Labor Act. This provision age colonial wars, such as the U.S. inter­ rate agreement. Jumping in on the side of the rail com­ allows tlie White House to declare a vention in Indochina. At 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning, en­ panies, Democrats and Republicans final60-day "cooling-off' period before a Atrocities like these are the real face gineers began setting up picket lines at forced the BLE to accept the industry strike can begin. of imperialism. the gates of the sprawling Southern proposals - including the no-strike pro­ The measure also instructs the presi­ Pacific and Santa Fe rail yards in Los vision. dent to appoint an "impartial" A handful of the most powerful Angeles. · Emergency Board to hear both sides and capitalist ruling classes, headed by the As the midnight deadline passed, two Reagan to the rescue make a nonbinding recommendation. one headquartered on Wall Street, domi­ nate the world economy. Their corpora­ Amtrak trains bound for the West Coast BLE members had been working discharged their passengers in Ogden, 'Reasonable' and 'adequate' tions own the gold and diamonds of without a contract since the old one ex­ southern Africa, Bolivian tin, Chilean Utah. pired April 1, 1981. Engineers hadn't Not unexpectedly, the Emergency In Denver, 72 coal trains from Wyom­ copper, Jamaican bauxite- and Middle had a raise or a cost-of-living increase Board's proposals for ending the impasse Eastern oil. ing's Powder River Basin bound for since Jan. 1, 1981. were hardly impartial. Texas sat idle on rail sidings. Continued on Page 18 Under the federal Railway Labor Act Issued in· August, the board recom­ Stalled grain shipments filled rail -passed in the 1920s to limit the power mended that the BLE and United Trans­ MORE LEBANON COVERAGE yards in Kansas City, Des Moines, and of rail workers- rail unions are barred portation Union (UTU) accept a similar Minneapolis. wage and working condition package INSIDE: from striking until they satisfy compli­ See pages 8-11 for reports on By Monday morning more than cated conditions that force them to work that the railroad industry had earlier 200,000 rail commuters had to find without a contract for up to a year-and­ forced the rail clerks and shop craft protests in U.S. and Israel, plus another way to get to work in Chicago, a-half. unions to accept. The UTU finally ag- background articles on roots of Boston, and San Francisco. By June of this year, the BLE had Continued on Page 2 Mideast war. Socialist declares engineers will inspire others to fight

The following statement was re­ Their sudden concern for working political party and not the so-called leased by Joe Swanson, Socialist people is touching. friends of labor in the Democratic and Workers Party candidate for gover­ Republican parties. But millions of workers are already nor of Nebraska. Swanson is a laid off and thousal)ds of farmers are member of United Transportation My campaign supports the formation going bankrupt. Not as a result of the Union Local305. of a labor party that would fight for the BLE strike, but as a consequence of the abolition of the Railway Labor Act, I fully support the Brotherhood of offensive by the bosses and their two which severely limits the right of rail Locomotive Engineers (BLE) in their parties -the Democrats and Republi­ workers to strike. fight for a just and equitable contract, cans - to squeeze even more profits The Brotherhood of Locomotive En­ from our labor. and their refusal to sign a no-strike gineers is the target of a union-busting pledge. They're the ones who are closing attack which is ultimately directed Their courage in standing up to the plants and laying off workers to boost against all working people. their corporate earnings. 'l:hey're the rail bosses, the Reagan administration, It's only by workers standing up and ones who broke the air traffic control­ and Congress is an inspiration to all saying no to concessions, no to attacks lers' strike and who called out the Na­ working people. on the rights of Blacks and women, no to tional Guard to help Iowa Beef Proces­ I believe that the right to withhold union-busting, that we can begin to de­ sors attack striking meat workers in one's labor is an inalienable one and fend our lives and livelihoods. Dakota City, Nebraska. that forcing people to work is no less That is why other rail workers hon­ than slavery. And it's a bipartisan Congress that ored the engineers picket lines. Such The government and the big-business has passed emergency legislation, under acts of solidarity by the entire labor media claim that the strike hurts other the provisions of the reactionary Rail­ movement can both help the engineers workers, and farmers. Plants will have way Labor Act, to force the engineers and inspire others to stand up and fight. M "'"~"'" :n~r'"" Ostrofsky to shut down, they tell us, farmers won't back to work. I pledge to use my campaign to build Joe Swanson, Socialist Workers can­ be able to ship their grain. Commuters These steps prove more clearly than support for the engineers in their strug­ didate for Governor of Nebraska. will be stranded. ever that organized labor needs its own gle for a decent contract. Rail engineers wage battle over right to strike

Continued from Page 1 year pressed for an increase in line with explained, "The BN had better not fire crafts who joined the BLE on the picket reed to the proposals in mid-September. increases won in recent years by conduc­ anybody or we'll walk again. lines knew that the greed of the rail bos­ That settlement saddled these tors and brakemen who are also forced "This is the only power we have over ses lay behind the strike. nonoperating crafts with a wage in­ to work with smaller crews. the company and we'll use it. You know, Unemployment in auto, steel, and rail crease held to 11 percent over 39 months The rail industry, backed up by the this is the first time the BLE has called itself is at record highs because ~f the and a cost-of-living clause inferior to the government's Emergency Board, re­ a country-wide strike since 1946," he economic crisis of the capitalist system one in their old contract. fused any increase and demanded the said. - not the reasonable demands of the Although admitting that such a wage BLE give up their right to strike over From the first day, the strikers knew small engineers union. package was inferior to what the en­ this issue if it couldn't be resolved. The get-tough attitude of the rail in­ gineers had won in the past, the board they would come up against Congress, The BLE gave the industry their an­ and the bitter defeat of the Professional dustry and their friends in Congress fol­ waved aside the BLE's objections by de­ swer to these union-busting demands by Air Traffic Controllers Organization lows the pattern already set in auto, creeing the wage pattern they proposed steel, and other industries. was "reasonable" and "adequate." walking out at midnight on September (PATCO) strike was a big topic of discus­ 19 - their one legal right under the sion. It is a pattern to squeeze the unions for every nickel to prop up the corpora­ Right to Strike Railway Labor Act. "We've seen what the government did to PATCO," said a striker at Southern tions' sagging profits. By the end of the 60-day cooling-off 'Here to Timbuktu' Pacific's Taylor Yard in Los Angeles. "I It is a pattern to attack progress in period September 18, the negotiations hope Congress doesn't take away our affirmative-action hiring of Blacks, Rail workers from all crafts closed were stalled on the issue of compensa­ right to strike." Latinos, and women. ranks behind the BLE. Engineers' pic­ tion for tngineers working with short The White House immediately swung It is a pattern to escalate health and ket lines were respected. crews. into action to end the strike on the prin­ safety dangers on the job. In most cities, members of the UTU In the 1960s the rail industry began ciple that if a law doesn't help big busi­ It is a pattern to undermine work helped to picket. Locally, offers of sup­ eliminating firemen - assistant en­ ness, just pass a new law that does. rules won by unions over decades of port came in from clerks, carmen, and gineers - on some trains. On September 20 Reagan sent Trans­ struggle. other rail unions. Called "crew consist" this practice in­ poration Secretary Drew Lewis and A young engineer in Lincoln, Neb­ creasingly created unsafe conditions "It's the right to strike," said an older Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan to raska, explained the no-strike condition and eliminated thousands of jobs. Un­ engineer on the picket line in Chicago. propose to Congress that they pass legis­ for what it is - a step in breaking the able to stop the crew consist the BLE "Pretty soon they'll have us taking lation ordering the engineers back to power of the rail unions. won a $4-a-day differential to compen­ trains from here to Timbuktu, throwing work and to force them to sign the con­ "Laws to make us go to work are no sate engineers who have to work with­ our own switches, and having us do any­ tract recommended by the Emegency good. We should stay out until we get out firemen. thing else they want us to do." Board. what we want." The rail owners have never raised A BLE local chairman on the Bur­ The administration and the news that differential payment. The BLE this lington Northern in Lincoln, Nebraska, media accompanied this proposal with a loud campaign to accuse the BLE of The Militant being greedy "aristocrats of labor" who are strangling the nation's economy · Closing news date: over what Lewis repeatedly referred to September 22, 1982 as an "extremely narrow" and unimpor­ Editors: CINDY JAQUITH tant issue in the contract. DOUG JENNESS Business Manager: The White House first estimated that LEE MARTINDALE $50 million would be lost each day of the Editorial Staff: Connie Allen, Nelson strike. The figure quickly rose to $80 Gonzalez, William Gottlieb, Suzanne million and then soared over $1 billion Haig, Arthur Hughes, Margaret Jayko, as their pressure campaign against the George Johnson, Frank Lovell, Harry BLE picked up speed. Ring, Larry Seigle. Lewis cynically claimed that working Published weekly except two weeks in people would be the victims of the en­ August, the last week of December, and gineer's greed. He maintained that the first week of January by the Militant 450,000 workers in other industries (ISSN 0026-3885), 14 Charles Lane, could be idled by the rail strike. The auto New York, N.Y. 10014. Telephone: Edi­ industry would be crippled and within torial Office, (212) 243-6392; Business four weeks a million would be un­ Office, (212) 929-3486. Correspondence concerning sub­ employed if the strike were allowed to scriptions or changes of address continue, he said. should be addressed to The Militant Business Office, 14 Charles Lane, Greedy rail barons New York, N.Y. 10014. As expected, Congress acted swiftly Second-class postage paid at New and in true bipartisan fashion to outlaw York, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send ad­ dress changes to The Militant, 14 the strike. Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy Subscriptions: U.S. $24.00 a year, out­ joined Senate labor committee chairman side U.S. $30.00. By first-class mail: Rep. Orrin Hatch to .tell the full Senate U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $60.00. Write that their committee had recommended for airmail rates to all other countries. the resolution with "great reluctance," Signed articles by contributors do not mindful that Congress would, in effect, necessarily represent the Militant's Boston's North Station. Rail yards across country were shut down tight as be breaking a strike. views. These are expressed in editorials. other rail workers honored engineers' picket line. Engineers and rail workers from other

2 The Militant October 1, 1982 The last night for second shift at N.Y. GM plant

BY ELLEN KRATKA our unions, not wipe them out, to better TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -It's the last fight the bosses. Let's not turn our guns night before the big layoff at the General on our own army just because we've got Motors auto assembly plant. As the problems with our generals." night's worn on, more cars have been coming down the line defective - big * * * scratches on the paint job, cracked Everyone's speaking out in one way windshields, slashed seat cushions. or another. A few wear T-shirts that say Ever since GM announced second shift "Unemployed Auto Worker." would be laid off on September 10, Some send down signs on the cars, re­ there's been a lot more political discus­ ferring to the promises made to us sion in the plant. We've always known around the last contract. One sign says . we're just victims of GM's drive for prof­ "Vote yes -No jobs." Another: "Thanks its; tonight we all understand it in a new for the security." They mean, don't way. forget what's happened. We're not just victims, although that's There's a growing number of workers truer than ever. The capitalists and the trying to think through our situation to workers are two contending forces that find an answer. inevitably collide. That's why on the last Many workers ask my opinion, since night, the company eventually stopped I'm known as a socialist. We talk about Militant/Stu Singer General Motors plant in Tarrytown, New York. the line a few minutes early. They were whether the capitalists have a right to afraid of what we might do. their wealth and whether we have a right to a job. One man who has been * * * quietly reading socialist campaign The younger workers look forward to handouts for some time approaches me Workers strike Chrysler being freed from a job that slowly steals for a copy ofthe Militant. "I'll read this," your life away. They believe they still he says. "Ifl like it I'll get more." have a chance on the outside; they'll find A Cuban buys his first copy ofPerspec­ something. tiua Mundial, the Militant's Spanish­ to protest new contract The older ones fear for their liveli­ language sister publication. He asks hoods. What job can they get? Even the first if it supports Fidel Castro. He says BY ELIZABETH ZIERS "They didn't wait when they took it ones who are not being laid off are afraid he's not political but thinks each coun­ DETROIT - Chrysler workers are away from us," said another Dodge it's going to happen to them soon. The try should be allowed to pursue its own saying "No more" to the company that truck worker. major part of their lives, body and spirit, destiny. has been blackmailing them for the last Workers at the Ford Dearborn assem­ has already been stolen by the line. three years. bly plant sized the contract up as the One thing we all - young and old - * * * The new proposed contract that was t,erms became known. supposed to put Chrysler workers on the have in common. We're all angry. Under the blows of the ruling class, long road back to parity with the Ford "Fraser sold 'em out again," said one. the various pieces of the American and GM workers offers only $.16 an Another said, "Who's going to know * * * working class are being hammered to­ hour and $88 in December - maybe. when Chrysler makes $20 million in gether, tempered for the battles to come. We're· members of the United Auto Workers expressed their bitterness by profit? They could make $50 million and Workers (UA W), and our union commit­ Still, just as some chips fly off when shutting down stamping and assembly they'll still say they lost money." teemen have been around with a peti­ you hammer a brittle piece of metal, plants all over Detroit and the Midwest. tion begging GM to keep the second shift many workers are still looking for an Absenteeism remained high at several The 150 UAW bargaining council del­ egates voted on the agreement Friday. at Tarrytown. Many workers sign - out, some individual way to escape the plants as of September 20, as United they think it won't work, but there's no devastation. Auto Workers (U A W) Vice-president It squeaked by, 51 percent to 49 percent. In the roll call vote, delegates' votes harm in hedging your bets. Some say we Some drink to dowse their anger. Marc Stepp warned workers their Some resent women who work in the should stand behind our leaders even strikes were unauthorized and they were weighted, based on the number of when they may not be right. plants, saying we take jobs men should would have to face discipline. Stepp is members in their local. The vote approv­ have. Others blame the Japanese. A few "Let's give them a chance to see what the union's chief negotiator with ing the contract was 262 to 249. hang on to illusive hopes- they'll start Many of these local presidents, who they can do," one workerBays. Another: Chrysler. . a small business, live off the land, wait "At least later on we can say we tried The old contract expired at 12:01 a.m., have production and maintenance it out ("We'll be back by Christmas"). everything to save our jobs." Wednesday, September 15, but was ex­ workers in their locals, stated they But at the same time many are begin­ won't even try to sell the contract to A minority, furious at the union tended 24 hours by UAW President bureaucracy, wouldn't sign. They have ning to take a longer view. They know Douglas Fraser when negotiators their members. Most of them were elect­ it's no longer just a question of tem­ reason to be furious. Last spring, GM­ couldn't settle. Workers at several ed after their predecessors - avid con­ with the help of the union officialdom­ porarily losing a job. plants opposed the extension. They cessions endorsers-were thrown out of Most understand that the crisis and shoved a new corttract down our throats. walked out at the Newark, Delaware office. instability they sense here is happening The concessions in the contract cost us plant early Wednesday. worldwide. The United States no longer billions of dollars in wages and benefits. Lines shut down at the Detroit Jeffer­ Black armbands rules this planet unchallenged. Our bos­ We were told the concessions would save son Avenue and the Belvidere, Illinois, Larry Leach, president of U A W Local ses and their government are taking jobs. assembly plants when afternoon shift 1264 at the Sterling Stamping plant, their losses out on us in wars, both at Most people are convinced that the workers went out for lunch and didn't told a radio station, "My local is going home and abroad. Many know there's a vote on the contract at Tarrytown come back Wednesday evening. Lines into the council meeting wearing black struggle going on in the world between where it passed - was rigged. didn't roll at all on Wednesday at the St. armbands. That's what we think of this two economic systems, capitalism and Louis assembly plant. contract. Auto workers from GM and socialism. And they can see very clearly * * * A small group of pickets was suffi­ Ford have been calling my local all day that in the fight to resolve this conflict cient to shut down the Warren Stamp­ asking us to turn this thing down. Questions fly back and forth all night. they're threatened with the possibility ing and Truck plant and McGraw "This is where the whole concession Why didn't the older workers fight to of nuclear war. Avenue glass plant in Detroit on Thurs­ thing started, with Chrysler. This con­ defend the gains they had fought for and Big questions are being raised and day. tract was supposed to be a step toward struck to win in previous years? (from a tackled: What system, what power will The terms of the tentative contract­ parity with GM and Ford workers. If it woman in her f_ifties who hasn't been in dominate the world by the end of our reached at 6:00 a.m. Thursday - con­ the plant long enough to keep her job) lifetimes? And what role will each of us is, it's a step that's too small to meas- vinced workers at the Jefferson assem­ ure." Why won't the union defend us now? play in all of this? bly plant to stay out on Thursday and According to the Detroit Free Press, on (from a young Polish woman) An older Black worker looks back. Friday as well. Sunday, September 19, some 600 of the One young man calls to me, "Hey, why "Black folks have always been militant. 3,000 members of Local 1264 showed up don't you petition to eliminate union We know what GM is doing and why. What's in contract at a union meeting and voted unani­ dues?" I answer: "We should transform But there's no solution." mously to send a letter to Fraser and We talk about the idea of working The new contract offers the 40,000 Stepp asking for the resignation of the people taking political power. I explain Chrysler employees who still have jobs a union bargaining committee that nego­ that our union, right now, could begin wage increase tied to profits. They will Labor News tiated the contract. the process ofbreakingfrom the Democ­ be paid a lump sum of $88 at the end of Chrysler workers' wages have lagged in the Militant rats and Republicans. We could initiate each quarter in which Chrysler admits about $2.68 an hour behind Ford and a labor party that would fight for us, not to over $20 million in profits. The COLA GM auto workers for three years. Each The Militant stays on top of the the employers. (cost-of-living adjustment) offers them a most important developments in the He starts to smile, nods, and adds, $.16 hourly raise in December or $6.40 a Chrysler worker has lost over $3,000 since 1979. They have been promised labor movement. It has correspon­ "We need some unity in the working week. dents who work in the mines, mills, class all over the world." "We want 'now' money," said Shirley continuously by Fraser that they will and shops where the events are Daniels, who has 14 years seniority at regain parity with Ford and GM when Chrysler is "on its feet again." breaking. You won't miss any of it if Ellen Kratka worked second shift at Gen­ the Dodge Truck plant. "What we're Workers' expectations rose after you subscribe. See the ad on page eral Motors in Tarrytown, New York, talking about is money up front. We Chrysler posted $107 and $150 million 4 of this issue for subscription rates. and is a member of United Auto Workers want to see something in our checks Local664. right away." Continued on Page 14

October 1, 1982 The Militant 3 Socialists open 'Militant' sales drive

BY CINDY JAQUITH viewed in this week's Militant explains, checks. The same workers sold each the articles it carries. With this issue of the Militant, we are "Reagan gives Israel the right to go into week. The key to the success of Hoboken opening a major circulation drive with a Beirut, but he won't let us strike." Regular customers for the Militant socialists is the regular participation of goal of selling 45,000 single copies and How to answer the strike-breakers in and Perspectiva Mundial developed. the same salespeople and the establish­ subscriptions to this paper and our Washington - and the employing class They came to the sales spot each week to ment of regular sales locations. Spanish-language sister publication, they represent - is a question confront­ pick up their paper. Socialists found The opportunities for organizing this Perspectiva Mundial. The drive lasts ing all working people in this country. when they also set up a literature table, kind of sales effort at plant gates and in through November 19. The strike by rail engineers has been an their sales doubled. working-class communities in every city We are launching this campaign at a inspiring example for unionists every­ These street sales were combined with this fall are clear. It is the most effective time when world attention is riveted on where. In this issue we explain what the circulating and discussing the press on way socialists can help advance the the slaughter of the Palestinians in engineers are up against, and what they the job. One socialist garment worker struggle of U.S. workers against the Lebanon. How this massacre occurred have to say on the picket line. now has a group of six to seven co-work­ criminal war policy of the capitalist rul­ and what responsibility the U.S. govern­ ers who regularly purchase Perspectiva ers abroad and their attacks on labor We point to the role of the Democrats ment bears for it are at the center of dis­ Mundial and join in discussions about here at home. and Republicans who rushed through cussion among U.S. workers. legislation to force the engineers back to Our front-page editorial explains how work, and how that shows the need for this terror is the inevitable product of labor to have its own independent poli­ Washington's determination to main­ tical party. tain its domination and exploitation of Circulating this report on the rail Subscribe to 'Militant' the Middle East. We outline the only strike far and wide-at rail yards, plant road to peace in the region - through gates, garment shops, and working-class granting the Palestinian people their communities ~ is an important way to full rights and getting U.S. imperialism deepen the discussion among workers off the backs of the workers and peas­ over what course the labor movement ants of the Middle East. must take to defend itself. This issue also contains eyewitness re­ Our goal in this circulation dtive is to ports from socialists in Israel on the ex­ make distribution of the press the center plosion of antiwar protest there; reports of socialist activity; to involve every sup­ on demonstrations in this country; and porter of the Socialist Workers Party background articles on the roots of the and Young Socialist Alliance in selling Lebanon war. regularly. We want to establish sales at We want to take this issue to plant the same plant gates and in working­ gates,· mine portals, rail yards, and class neighborhoods each week, building working-class neighborhoods all across up a readership that looks for each new the country. Bringing the truth to U.S. issue of the Militant. workers is the most important thing · socialists can do to deepen the" fight The experience in Hoboken, New Jer­ against the U.S.-Israeli aggression in sey, is a good example. Last spring, Lebanon. socialists who work in the garment More and more workers are linking shops in Hoboken organized a regular . events like the war on the Palestinians pattern of sales to co-workers in that to the war bearing down on them here in city. Every Friday after work, they this country. As a rail worker inter- would sell outside the bank that cashes Union activist in St. Louis fights co01pany victi01ization

BY JOE ALLOR Her department "had not had a layoff in 10 years," she said. AND TONY DUTROW D Enclosed is $3 for 12 weeks D Enclosed is $15 for 6 months ST. LOUIS - Machjnist Ann Riley "Suddenly five higher-seniority work­ D Enclosed is $24 for 1 year D Enclosed is a contribution Owens charges that she lost her job as a ers were transferred in, creating a de­ lab technician at the McDonnell Doug­ partment workforce one larger than it Name ______las aircraft plant here because of her had ever been." Address ______union activities and her political views. Then, said Owens, whose 14 months' Owens is a member of International seniority was the lowest in the depart­ City/State/Zip------Association of Machinists Local Lodge ment, "I was told that the workforce had Telephone Union/Organization ______B of District 837 and is a well known to be cut by one- me." Send to Militant, 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014 union activist in the plant. She rep­ Usual McDonnell practice for laid-off resented her local president at a news workers, she said, was to transfer them conference supporting last spring's June to other departments. 6 and June 12 antiwar, antibomb pro­ Support for Owens' fight to regain her tests. job was expressed at the news confer­ Owens is on the executive board of the ence by, among others, Marilyn Martin, We need your contributions local Coalition of Labor Union Women president of the St. Louis Metro chapter (CLUW) and belongs to the National Or­ of NOW; Walle Amusa, a leader of the We are making an urgent appeal to But the cost of producing a workers' ganization for Women (NOW). She is National Alliance Against Racist and our readers to contribute to the most am­ newspaper has skyrocketed in the face also a member of the Socialist Workers Political Repression; Eldora Speigel­ bitious fundraising effort in the history of rapidly increasing printing and ship­ Party and is regularly seen at her plant berg, president of the St. Louis branch of of the Militant. Between now and De­ ping costs. Many newspapers have selling the Militant. the Women's International League for cember 31 we are trying to raise folded under the impact of the economic Owens told the Militant she was let go Peace and Freedom; and Chuck $250,000 to aid in the continued publica­ crisis. by the company in a manner that "Guenther, a leader of the St. Louis tion of the Militant and its Spanish-lan­ The Socialist Publications Fund is off threatens the union's seniority system Economic Conversion Project. guage sister publication, Perspectiva to a good start. Our readers have re­ at McDonnell Douglas. She said: "This Harris Freeman chaired the news con­ Mundial. sponded by sending in $4 7, 700 to date. is part of a nationally coordinated effort ference for the Political Rights Defense The Militant is a powerful tool in the But we have a long way to go. Please by military contractors and the Penta­ Fund, which is defending the victimized hands of workers in the midst of rapidly clip the coupon below and make a gener­ gon to create a submissive, union-(ree, unionists. He listed labor supporters of breaking world events. In recent days, ous contribution to the Socialist Publica­ obedient workforce that is forced to re­ the fired workers: officials from United workers have been outraged by the mass tions Fund. main silent while the government prom­ Auto Workers Region 5; UAW Local murders of Palestinians by forces under otes wars that are the lifeblood of these 282; Coalition of Labor Union Women; the direction of the U.S.-backed Israeli r -, corporations." Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; government. Two other workers at the plant, Har­ Postal Workers Union; Hatters; and Socialist I This issue of the Militant also features ris Freeman and Barry David, have hundreds of rank-and-file unionists. coverage of the national rail strike and Publications Fund been fired by McDonnell, and a third, Also supporting the case, he said, was the response of the rail workers to the Jim Garrison, was laid off one day before the St. Louis branch of the National As­ strike-breaking legislation rushed Enclosed is my contribution of: he would have joined the union. Garri­ sociation for the Advancement of Col- through Congress by the Democrats and D $250 ·o $100 D $50 son, Freeman, and David all belong to ored People. _ the Republicans at the urging of the D $25 D other the SWP. Owens has filed a complaint against Reagan administration. The company has also submitted McDonnell with the National Labor Re­ Name another employee who is a socialist, lations Board and is doing the same We also have articles on events buried Jody Curran, to an investigation by the through the Equal Employment Oppor­ by the capitalist media, like the police Address ___ _ Pentagon's gumshoes, the Defense In­ tunity Commission. rampage in the Pimlico section of Balti­ City State Zip vestigative Service. The Political Rights Defense Fund is more's Black community. The corporation and the Pentagon asking that letters to protest this dis­ Every week the Militant provides Union/Organization used company informers to spy on these criminatory layoff and other witch-hunt news and analysis of events likt:> these victims and on the union. tactics by McDonnell against its employ­ and presents the socialist program for Make checks payable to: At a well-attended news conference ees and their union be sent to: Sanford resisting the attacks by the ruling class. Socialist Publications Fund, 14 here, Owens explained the extraordi­ McDonnell, chairman and chief execu­ The Militant is an essential part of ad­ Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. nary lengths the corporations used to tive officer, McDonnell Douglas Corp., vancing the day-to-day struggles of the 10014. get rid of her. · P.O. Box 516, St. Louis, Mo. 63166. working class. L ______

4 The Militant October 1, 1982 Philippine strongman Marcos wined and dined by Reagan

BYIKENAHEM tion to Marcos's dictatorship, which acts Lafayette Park across from the White WASHINGTON,D.C.-Amidofficial as Washington's agent in maintaining House. fanfare from the Reagan administration the Philippines as a source of super­ One display, entitled "Foreign Domi­ and protests by Filipinos in the United profits for U.S. corporations and as a nation of the Philippine Economy," States, Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of strategic base for U.S. military inter­ pointed out that for every dollar invest­ the Philippines, arrived here September vention. ed in the Philippines by U.S. corpora­ 15 on an official state visit. Washington But while Marcos was meeting with tions, four dollars are removed in prof­ was the first stop in a two-week tour by administration officials on September its. Another display, "Increasing Gap Marcos that is to include New York, Los 16, a spirited, all-day picket line was un­ Between Rich and Poor," stated that Angeles, San Francisco, and Honolulu. derway outside the White House. The "wages in the Philippines are the second Marcos and his wife, Imelda, a power­ protest by anti-Marcos activists-most­ lowest in capitalist Asia (after Indone­ ful figure notorious for her ostentatious ly Filipinos - grew to nearly 400 as sia)." The Marcos regime's massacres of lifestyle, are meeting with top officials Marcos arrived for a formal state din­ Filipino Moslems was also documented. of the Reagan administration as well as ner, with full military honors. A particularly chilling display en­ leading bankers and business execu­ titled "Pollution and Destruction of the tives. Colorful educational displays, filled Philippine Environment" pointed out Their discussions undoubtedly center with facts, figures, and photographs de­ that the Westinghouse Corp., with Mar­ Ferdinand Marcos on how to contain the growing opposi- picting life under Marcos, were put up in cos's blessing, is building the Philip­ pines' first nuclear power plant. The plant will generate electricity mainly for two huge U.S. mili-tary bases. The Protests flare against Marcos visit reactor site is just six miles from an ac­ tive volcano! The display also quoted a Filipino fish­ BY FRED MURPHY erman: "We may be uneducated, but NEW YORK- Nearly 300 people, in­ we know that every time the U.S. nuclear cluding many Filipinos, joined a picket submarines sail our water, our fish die." line outside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Reagan informed Marcos during their here September 20 as protests continued discussions that the U.S. Export-Import against the presence of Philippine dicta­ Bank will provide $204.5 million to fi­ tor Ferdinand Marcos in the United nance the nuclear plant. States. The Marcos entourage had arrived at During the morning picket line, the luxury hotel earlier in the day with groups of tourists regularly got off their 800 suitcases and checked into both the buses and stopped to read the displays. Presidential Suite and the Royal Suite. Several also talked and listened to Fil­ As the picketers chanted "No draft, no ipino activists. war, from the Philippines to El Salva­ At the White House dinner, Reagan dor," Marcos was being toasted at a din­ praised Marcos warmly and asserted that he and the dictator share a commit­ ner sponsored by th~ Philippine-Amer­ ican Chamber of Commerce. ment to "independence, liberty, demo­ The PACC is made up ofU.S. corpora­ cracy, justice, equality." But what the tions doing business in the Philippines. two rulers actually share is a commit­ Shortly after he declared martial law in ment to preserve imperialist interests in 1972, Marcos told a chamber delegation, Asia. "You tell me what you want and I will A news release distributed by the Na­ write the laws you need." tional Committee to Oppose the Marcos U.S. investment in the Philippines State Visit pointed out that the Penta­ grew rapidly under martial law and now gon's Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark stands at some $2.5 billion. Air Force Base in the Philippines "form The Waldorf picket line was part of a the axis of the American military strat­ series of actions held in New York City egy in Southeast Asia and the logistical to draw attention to repression in the hub of military deployment to the Indi­ New York demonstration against Marcos Philippines and to U.S. complicity with an Ocean and the Middle East. The U.S. it. On September 18, some 125 people at­ considers Marcos a reliabl~ security tended a teach-in highlighted by the guard for these strategic U.S. bases, and showing of a new film on the Philip­ Marcos, in exchange for $500 million in pines, produced by the British Broad­ North Carolina Teall1sters military aid, plays host par excellence to casting Corp., entitled To Sing Our Own the U.S, military." Song. Narrated by the leading Philip­ Walden Bello, a spokesperson for the pine human-rights activist ex-Sen. Jose hear socialist candidate National Committee, told the Militant Diokno, the film so effectively exposes that the U.S.-Marcos link also involves Marcos's tyranny that the dictator is WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - On La­ done to solve the crisis for working peo­ threats and harassment against Filipi­ threatening to sue the BBC for libel. bor Day, members of Teamsters Local ple. no oppositionists living in the United Protests were also held on the West 391 and their families attended the an­ "The Socialist Workers campaign for States. Marcos has been linked to the Coast. On September 16, approximately nual Teamsters Family Day picnic at Congress says not one cent, not one per­ June 1981 murder of two Filipino trade 200 people picketed the Federal Build­ the union hall in Greensboro. son for Washington's wars," she ex­ unionists in Seattle, Gene Viernes and ing in San Francisco, and 150 people, Traditionally, various candidates plained. "Use the war budget to finance Silme Domingo. mostly Filipinos, demonstrated at the running for public office are invited to a massive public works program to pro­ In November 1981, Washington Philippines Consulate in Los Angeles. speak at the picnic. This year, in addi­ vide millions of jobs at union scale signed an extradition treaty with the In Seattle, nearly 400 people turned tion to the usual Democratic Party can­ wages, constructing the things we des­ Philippines, which would allow Marcos out for a march and rally on September didates, a young Teamster running for perately need." to secure the arrest and deportation of 18. The crowd included 25 members of office addressed her union brothers and Farber said that the present govern­ Filipinos in the United States whoop­ Local 37 of the International Longshore sisters about her campaign. ment is incapable of carrying out a pro­ pose his rule. The treaty is now before and Warehousemen's Union. Two young Meryl Lynn Farber, an a~sembler at gram to solve workers' problems be­ the U.S. Senate for ratification. Filipino activists in ILWU Local 37, Gilbarco Inc. in Greensboro, is the So­ cause it is the tool of big business and The picketing at the White House Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo, were cialist Workers Party candidate in the the banks. continued throughout the evening. murdered in June 1981, an act now 5th Congressional District. Over 700 "We cannot rely on the Democrats Many picketers wore death masks, held thought to have been the work of agents members of Teamster Local 391 heard and Republicans," she said. "Working candles, or carried signs with the names of the Marcos regime. her present a working-class alternative people need our own political party, ala­ of trade unionists, fishermen, students, Cindy Domingo, sister of one of the to the deadend solutions presented by bor party based on the strength of a farmers, or church activists murdered or slain ILWU members, spoke at the rally the Democratic Party candidates. fighting trade union movement." Such a imprisoned by Marcos. concerning a lawsuit filed four days ear­ Farber's opponents in the race pre­ party would advance the struggle for a Other signs and banners read: "U.S. lier in Federal District Court in Seattle. sented the dismal picture faced by mil­ government of workers and farmers. Bases Out of the Philippines," and "U.S. The suit seeks to expose the ties be; lions of American working people, but Socialist Workers campaign support­ Taxes+ World Bank Loans= Imelda's tween the Marcos regime, the U.S. State their only answer was to elect more De­ ers also circulated a petition demanding Fifth Ave. Apartments." Department and FBI, and the killers of mocrats in 1982. that frame-up charges against two So­ As Marcos dined in the White House Domingo and Viernes. · Steve Neal, the incumbent Democrat­ cialist Workers campaigners be with the board chairmen of U.S. Steel, "The decisive strength of our suit," ic congressman, appealed for the Team­ dropped. The two were arrested for pur­ Standard Oil of Indiana, Prudential In­ Cindy Domingo said, "does not lie in the sters not only to elect Democrats in suing their right to petition for signa­ surance, and other big corporations, one courtroom, but here in demonstrations 1982, but to make sure they were "real tures to place Farber and the Socialist chant stuck in this reporter's mind: like this." Democrats." Workers Party on the ballot in North "Hey, Marcos- Smile while you can. Farber said, "This economic crisis is Carolina. Remember what happened to the shah not just the result of Reagan in office. New supporters of the call for the of Iran!" It's the policy of the Republicans and charges to be dropped include R. V. Dur­ Subscribe to Perspectiva Mundial, biweekly, Spanish-language sister publication of the Democrats that places private profits ham, president of Teamsters Local 391; Militant. $2.50 for 6 issues, $8 for 6 months, ahead of human needs. These profits are J. H. Church, Local391 business agent; Subscribe to or $16 for one year. Write to 408 West St., made off the backs of the vast majority B. D. Blevins, secretary-treasurerofLo­ New York, New York 10014. -working people and farmers." cal 391; and Harold Milton, a Teamsters the 'Militant' Farber offered ideas on what could be Local 391 shop steward at Gilbarco Inc.

October 1, 1982 The Militant 5 Honduran guerrillas challenge dictatorship U.S. proxy in Central America faces crisis at home

BY MICHAEL BAUMANN cratic rights is clearly one of the Cin­ MANAGUA, Nicaragua - The Hon­ choneros' aims. duran regime of President Roberto Many of the Honduran political pri­ Suazo Cordova has been pushed into a soners whose release is being demanded key role in the Reagan administration's are in fact believed to have been mur­ counterrevolutionary war in Central dered during their detention by security America. forces. Honduran troops have been operating What they want to do, one of the Cin­ against the rebel forces in El Salvador. chonero commanders told reporters, is They have also been backing up the to "force the army to admit they have 4,000 to 5,000 exiled soldiers of the late murdered them." Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. These rightist forces are based in camps Volatile political situation along the Nicaraguan border and con­ The Cinchoneros take their name duct constant terror-raids into from a legendary 19th century peasant Nicaragua. Some 100 U.S. military ad­ leader, Serapio "Cinchonero" Romero. visers are officially operating inside Romero, executed in 1869 following an Honduras, and estimates of the total armed campaign to stop the seizure of number of U.S. servicemen there are as peasants' land, is viewed as a national high as 900. hero by the poor and exploited of Hondu­ But by pushing Honduras into the ras. forefront of the military confrontation The combination of a deteriorating in the region, Washington has also sped economy, an increasingly repressive up the evolution of an already tense so­ government, and highly unpopular Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova and army chief Gen. Gustavo cial conflict within Honduras. This was military campaigns against the Sal­ Alvarez Martinez. Selling their services to the U.S. in war against Nicaragua highlighted September 17 when more vadoran and Nicaraguan revolutions and El Salvador rebels. than 80 of Honduras's leading have produced a volatile political situa­ businessmen and 3 government officials tion in Honduras. were taken hostage in San Pedro Sula, As U.S. arms ($60 million in 1982- the country's second-largest city and 83), advisers (already twice as many as main industrial center. in El Salvador), and "diplomatic" per­ Guatemala: regime executes 4 rebels A commando unit of the Cinchonero sonnel (largest U.S. embassy staff north guerrilla organization carried out the of Brazil) pour in, even sectors of the BY JANE HARRIS even though failure to vote is illegal and daring seizure of San Pedro Sula's Honduran ruling class and Catholic MANAGUA, Nicaragua - After one can result in losing one's job. An addi­ Chamber of Commerce headquarters as church hierarchy have warned against month's detention and torture, four op­ tional 30,000 cast blank ballots as a a top-level meeting was being held to · the growing social tension this militari­ ponents of the Guatemalan military dic­ means of avoiding victimization while discuss the country's economic crisis. zation has produced. tatorship were gunned down by a 20- registering their protest. Among the government officials cap~ Following the purge of 75 of the man firing squad at dawn September 17 The URNG has attracted increasing tured were the minister of housing, the army's more liberal officers, and open support, particularly among the coun­ in Guatemala City. minister of finance, and the president of calls by high military officials for U.S. The four- Jaime de Ia Rosa Rodri­ try's large Indian population. This has the central bank. military intervention, the editors of the guez, Julio Hernandez Perdomo, Marce­ been a source of concern for the Reagan Although smaller in scope, the action Honduran daily El Tiempo have ex­ lino Marroquin, and Julio Cesar Vas­ administration, which is currently seek­ is reminiscent of the Sandinistas' 1978 pressed concern over the government's quez Juarez- ranged in age fr-om 18 to ing to restore open military aid to the takeover of the National Palace in course. In mid-August they criticized 27. They were charged with being dictatorship. Nicaragua, which won the release of 58 the establishment of an "army whose members of the Guerrilla Army of the political prisoners. weapons cost the Honduran people hun­ Poor, one of the four guerrilla groups dreds of millions of dollars, and unend­ which form the Guatemalan National Cinchonero demands ing political and economic sacrifice." Revolutionary Union (URNG). Catholic bishops have also blasted in­ While these are the first "legal" exe­ The Cinchoneros have issued eight de­ mands in return for the release of the creasing expenditures on arms in a time cutions to be held since 1936 in Guate­ of social crisis. The vice-president of the mala, the dictatorship of General Rios hostages. The main ones are: • Freedom for 60-70 political prison­ Honduran parliament has called for the Montt has carried out over 100 massa­ expulsion of the Somozaist National cres throughout the country since tak­ ers, about half of whom are Salvadoran freedom fighters imprisoned by the Hon­ Guards. And even the former head of in­ ing power in a coup March 23. The Gen­ ternal security has publicly charged the eva-based Catholic organization Pax duran government. • A halt to Honduran military inter­ government with trying to start a "crim­ Christi reported at the end of August inal and bloody" war against Nicaragua. that more than 1,500 people are killed vention in El Salvador. • Immediate expulsion of U.S., Chi­ each month in Guatemala. Economic crisis The executions, which were held in­ lean, Israeli, and Argentine military ad­ side the general cemetery of Guatemala visers. Meanwhile, workers' purchasing City, were clearly intended as a stroke • Expulsion of the Somozaist forces power has dropped by more than 35 per­ of terror. The death sentences were based along the Nicaraguan border. cent, production has declined by 50 per­ handed down by a secret military tribu­ • Use of the millions of dollars in im­ cent, and imports by more than 60 per­ nal, from which there is no appeal. perialist military aid to resolve the cent. Unemployment tops 150,000, and The Rios Montt dictatorship at first crushing problems of Honduran workers another 120,000 may lose their jobs if said it would allow the national and in­ and peasants. two big U.S., corporations- the Stan­ ternational press to observe the execu­ The initial response of the Suazo Cor­ dard Fruit banana company and the tions. In the end, however, only half a dova regime was to try to retake the Rosario Resources mining company - dozen journalists - all identified with Chamber of Commerce headquarters by carry through threats to shut down oper­ the government- were permitted to at­ force. Surrounding the area with ations. tend. No photographs were permitted. members of the elite "Cobra" military Only vast infusions of U.S. dollars are In the March elections, 60 percent of unit, they riddled the building with bul­ keeping the economy afloat. Following Guatemala's voters responded to the Guatemalan dictator and mass mur­ lets, gravely threatening the lives of all his visit to Washington in July, Presi­ URNG's call to boycott the elections, derer Rios Montt the hostages. dent Suazo Cordova boasted that he had One of the hostages, Mario Belot, secured agreement for more than a half president of the Chamber of Commerce, a billion in loans ($150 million from the· complained bitterly about the govern­ International Monetary Fund, $110 mil­ VISIT GRENADA NOVEMBER 8-15 ment's lack of concern for their lives. lion from the World Bank, $134 million "They were shooting at us from all direc­ from the Inter-American Development tions," he told reporters by telephone. Celebrate the fourth year of the revolution in Grenada, a Black, English­ Bank, and $116 million from the U.S. speaking island in the Caribbean. A negotiating committee was subse­ Agency for International Development). quently set up to discuss the guerrillas' The total of these loans is nearly two­ thirds of the country's annual export in­ The Fall Trade Union Economy Tour will include special meetings with demands. It is made up of the bishop of San Pedro Sula, the Vatican's diplomat­ come. Grenadian trade unionists. Learn about the development of agriculture ic envoy in Central America, and an offi­ Whatever the outcome of the hostage and agro-industry, and the social gains of the revolution. Meet with activists cial from the Venezuelan embassy. seizure in San Pedro Sula, none of these from the New Jewel Movement, youth, and women's organizations .. social and economic problems will Among the Salvadorans whose re­ quickly go away. lease is being demanded is Commander $800 includes: eight days, round trip airfare from New York, two meals Alejandro Montenegro ofthe Farabundo As the president of the Honduran Socialist Party, Marco Virgilio Carias, daily, all transportation and guide service within Grenada, and accommo­ Marti National Liberation Front dations in cottages on Grand Anse beach (double occupancy, 3 bedrooms (FMLN). Montenegro was the leader of warned at the end of August, "making war on Nicaragua and intervening in El per cottage). Full payment due by October 15. Airfare portion may be an operation earlier this year that re­ charged to credit card. sulted in the destruction of three-quar­ Salvador can only accelerate conditions for a revolution in Honduras." ters of the Salvadoran dictatorship's air­ To apply send $150 deposit with your name, address, and phone number force. He was arrested in Honduras on to: Militant/Perspectiva Mundia!Noung Socialist Tours, 410 West Street, August 22. Subscribe to New York, N.Y. 10014. Telephone (212) 929-3486. Worldwide exposure of the Honduran government's brutal repression of demo- the 'Militant'

6 The Militant October 1, 1982 L.A. draft resister blasts war ·machine BY ROHIMA MIAH The meeting was cosponsored by the MONTEREY, Calif. - Twenty-one­ Associated Students of Monterey Penin­ year-old David Wayte, who has been in­ sula College and Youth for Mel Mason dicted for refusing to register for the (YMM). YMM members and others on draft, spoke to a standing-room-only the student council waged a week-long crowd of 125 people at Monterey Penin­ fight to gain the student government's sula College September 15. sponsorship and funding for the meet­ "Draft registration has nothing to do ing, including successfully overriding with national defense," Wayte said. "Its the student government president's only purpose is to send troops to distant veto. places like El Salvador or Lebanon . . . During Wayte's visit to this area, he to fight for interventionist and self-in­ was also interviewed by radio, TV, and terested policies by this government in newspaper reporters and talked with the interest and greed of a few." · students at Seaside High School. Sever­ Wayte went on to explain that he and al students expressed their -support, and the handful of others that have been in­ one young student said he had already dicted are only being used to pressure decided not to register. thousands of other young men to sign­ up for the draft. Wayte's trial is set for October 12 in "Those of us who have been indicted Los Angeles. A picket line and candle­ are those of us who wrote to Selective light vigil at the federal courthouse is Service and have been active all along. planned October 11, from 7 p.m. to 9 I'm not being prosecuted for simply re­ p.m. fusing to sign a post card, but because I Donations for W ayte's defense and used my First Amendment right offree­ messages of support can be sent to L.A. dom of speech." Draft Resistance Committee, P.O. Box Wayte attended the recent trial of 4372 Terminal Annex, Los Angeles, Mel Mason, socialist candidate for California governor, with David Wayte Ben Sasway, the first person indicted for Calif. 90051. , (right). refusing to register for the draft. Like Sasway, Wayte faces the real possibility of going to jail. "I am terrified of the idea of going to Wisconsin draft opponents indicted prison," Wayte explained. "It frightens me that Ben Sasway is now in prison: A BY PETER SEIDMAN "We hope that by building enough tion in Third World countries, and its lot of people have registered for fear of MADISON, Wise. -"I'm willing to community support for our case, we'll violence in this country. going to prison. But I know one thing, I face the risk of five years in prison be­ make the government fear it has more "The Justice Department says these would rather be in prison than in the cause I think the risk of the govern­ to lose by not giving us a fair trial." issues are irrelevant in our cases. But I military system." ment's resuming the draft is even great­ Kerley hopes that he will be able to say they're very relevant. People need Following Wayte's talk, a lively ques­ er,'' Michael McMillan told a news con­ use his trial to discuss the real issues at to think what part they're taking" in op­ tion and answer period opened up where ference here September 9. stake. posing the war machine. both proponents and opponents of draft The day before, McMillan and Gillam These include, he said, "the arms race, A Legal Defense and Bail Fund has registration exchanged views on the Kerley became the seventh and eighth U.S. military intervention abroad, and been established for Kerley and McMil­ U.S. military and U.S. involvement in young men to be indicted for refusing to rising militarism at home that shifts lan. The address is P. 0. Box 606, Madi­ other countries. register with the Selective Service. funding from human needs programs to son, Wjs. 53701. Telephone: (608) 238- Mel Mason, independent candidate Kerley had been an observer at the the Pentagon.,. 9962. for governor of California, pledged his San Diego trial of draft opponent Ben Another key issue, Kerley says, is support to W ayte and to the thousands Sasway that ended August 26. Sasway that the Justice Department is violating Connecticut students of young men who have refused to regis­ was found guilty and jailed without bail. their right to freedom of speech. ter. Mason is the only candidate for gov­ He is awaiting sentencing. Michael McMillan also blasted the hold peace rally ernor who has spoken out in support of "Sasway was not given anything like government's hypocrisy at the Sasway these draft objectors. a fair trial,'' Kerley complained, noting trial. BY MAUREEN COLETTA "The U.S. government is already in­ how Federal District Court Judge Gor­ "I notice the government uses innocu­ volved in shooting wars in Central STORRS, Conn. New York don Thompson refused to let Sasway ex­ ous language about Selective Service Socialist Workers campaign supporters America, in places like El Salvador and plain at the trial his reasons for not re­ registration. 'Just sign your name at the Guatemala. It spends millions of dollars recently swung through the University gistering. Post Office,' they say. 'It's no big deal.' to fund counterrevolutionaries going in­ of Connecticut (U.-Conn) here to partici­ "Obviously it would be very embarras­ "But at the Sasway trial, the pro­ to Nicaragua and to aid the Israeli inva­ pate in an all day peace festival, which sing for the government to lose one of secutor referred to Ben as being the sion of Lebanon," Mason explained. drew 100 people. these first draft cases,'' Kerley equivalent of a high-level criminal." "It's important for people to support Organizers from the U.-Conn. Stu­ explained. "So to avoid this, they're de­ McMillan said it's very apparent to David Wayte and others like him. This dents for Peace invited Socialist Work­ nying the rights of the defendants to a him that Washington "is very serious is not 'national defense' - these are of­ ers candidate for U.S. Senate Steven full defense. about its military policy, its interven- fensive wars being waged by the U.S. Wattenmaker, a laid-off rail worker, to government against oppressed people . speak about his recent fact-finding trip around the world." to Nicaragua. Most of the audience was sympathetic Other speakers included Barbara to W ayte's stance. But several people Rosen from Amnesty International; raised questions concerning a possible Diana Woolis from Feminists in the invasion by another country, particular­ Fight for Peace; Curtis Day, director of ly the Soviet Union. the Afro-American Cultural Center; and One young Black man answered it Ismael Rios, director of the Puerto Rican this way, "Equating war with protecting Center. · America is not in fact logical. A war Rev. F. Nadolny, who stirred up con­ does not mean protecting us. It means troversy when he refused to bless aN avy protecting the interests of a few like warship during July 4 ceremonies in Exxon. I won't fight for Texaco in the Hartford, also spoke. Middle East," he said. Especially well received was John One woman, a supporter of the draft Ely, who came with a groupofWesleyan and a former MP (military police), told College students representing 19-year­ W ayte, "Regardless of your position on old draft resister Russell Ford. Ely read this question you are in violation of the a statement by Ford directed to govern­ law and should have expected to be pun­ ment officials. "Although legally re­ ished to the full extent of that law." quired to do so, I have failed to register A young Black woman from the au­ with the Selective Service System.... dience quickly replied, "Years ago, I shall continue to urge resistance to all Black people were not allowed to drink preparation for war,'' the statement out of certain faucets or to go certain said. places. If they would have just said, The threat of nuclear war was the 'Well, that's the law and we have to major theme dealt with at the rally. abide by it,' we would not be where we Socialist candidate W attenmaker took are today." the opportunity to talk about the secret Her remarks were greeted by loud ap­ war being waged by U.S. imperialism plause. Join the Fight Against the Draft and War against Nicaragua. Wattenmaker, who was in Nicaragua Come to Young Socialist Alliance at the end of July, also described the Subscribe to the gains made by the workers and farmers Young Socialist National Convention of Nicaragua as a result of their revolu­ Bimonthly revolutionary youth pa­ tion. He recounted the attacks against per covers the fight against Washing­ December 30-January 2 Nicaragua in coordination with the U.S. ton's wars and racism. government's prelude to an all-out war $1 for half -year Chicago, Illinois against the Nicaraguan revolution. $3 for one year Such a war, he warned, raises the danger that U.S. imperialism would use 14 Charles Lane For more information: YSA, 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014 nuclear weapons against the Nicara­ New York, New York 10014 guan people.

October 1, 1982 The Militant 7 Angry protests sweep Israel Jews and Arabs condemn terrorist Begin As news of the Israeli-backed massa­ general strike, paralyzing Hebron, Nab­ ments issued a call for a general strike cre of Palestinian refugees in West Bei­ lus, Ramallah, East Jerusalem, and oth­ throughout Israel on September 22, ap­ rut became known in Israel, a wave of er cities. - pealing to Arab and Jewish workers to shock and outrage swept the country. In Israeli troops failed to crush the observe it as a day of mourning for the both Israel and the occupied territories strike, despite attempts to force victims of the massacre. of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, thou­ Palestinian merchants to open their In Nazareth, hundreds of women sands of Jews and Arabs poured into the shops. wearing black as a sign of mourning streets to condemn the murders and to In defiance of a curfew imposed t~o marched in a symbolic funeral for the protest the Israeli government's role in days earlier, many demonstrated in the Palestinians of Shatila and Sabra. them. Balata refugee camp near Nablus. The Protests were held in Musmus, Arab­ Details of some of these demonstra­ protesters hoisted the Palestinian flag eh, Sakhnin, Deir Hal).na, and else­ tions were provided to the Militant by and were attacked by the police. where. Some 3,000 youths demonstrated revolutionary socialists in Jerusalem Military patrols were reinforced in in Taibeh, and another 3,000 blocked and .Tel Aviv, members of the many towns. In an attempt to prevent the road between Sakhnin and Arabeh, Revolutionary Communist League, the further protests, the occupation authori­ shouting, "We shall liberate Palestine Israeli section of the Fourth Interna­ ties ordered the closure of all schools in and Ga:Iilee with blood and fire." tional. the West Bank from September 21 to In Kafr Yassis, an Arab Christian vil­ On the morning of September 19, October 3. lage in Israel, hundreds of youths shortly after the news of the massacre Within Israel itself, many Arab pro­ marched September 20. At the head of became known, up to 1,000 people test demonstrations were also held. A their procession they held high a por­ Demonstrators outside Prime Minis­ turned out for a demonstration in Jerus­ committee of Arab municipal govern- trait of Y assir Arafat. ter Menachem Begin's home. alem outside the home of Prime Minis­ ter Menachem Begin. "Begin murderer!" "Begin terrorist!" and " Begin, Sharon, war criminals!" the protesters chanted. Socialists in U.S., France, and Italy The action was called by both the Peace Now movement and the Commit­ tee Against the War in Lebanon and denounce role of imperialist troops was backed by six members of parlia­ ment belonging to the opposition Labor The following joint statement was out, together with the plan ofU.S. envoy What good was the disengagement Party. issued September 21 by the U.S. So­ Philip Habib, they have decided to send force sent to Lebanon in late August un­ Many of the demonstrators called for cialist Workers Party, the Revolu­ their contingents to Lebanon as part of a der the Habib plan? It organized the de­ the resignation of Begin, Defense Minis­ tionary Communist . League of so-called disengagement force. parture of the units of Palestinian fight­ :er Ariel Sharon, and Army Command­ France, and the Revolutionary Com­ We internationalist militants in the ers, legitimizing the Zionist military •r in Chief Rafael Eytan. "Out of Leb­ munist Groups of Italy. United States, France, and Italy de­ presence in Lebanon. By its presence it non now!" they also chanted. nounce this new dispatch of imperialist guaranteed the election of the Phalan­ Police attacked the peaceful demon­ It would appear that the massacre in gist murderer Bashir Gemayel to the the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refu­ troops to the Middle East under the pre­ stration with tear gas and clubs. A text of guaranteeing the security of the Lebanese presidency by a rump parlia­ number of demonstrators had brought gee camps in West Beirut had to take ment that met in a barracks under the place before U.S. President Reagan, Palestinian refugees and the Lebanese their babies with them, and the babies population. guard of Israeli bayonets. It dismantled were sprayed with tear gas as well, one French President Mitterrand, and Ital­ the Palestinian defense lines in West requiring hospitalization. ian President Pertini "discovered" that What good was the United Nations Beirut. The protesters were forced to move to the Palestinians were threatened with force that was stationed for months in In early September, the U.S., French, another site, but were chased by"the po­ real genocide by Begin and his Lebaoese southern Lebanon? When the Israeli in­ and Italian disengagement force with­ lice and again tear gassed. Seven were fascist friends. vasion took place on June 6, it was con­ drew from the area, leaving behind a arrested, including Raya Roten, a spo­ · In the name of a hypocritical peace tent to let the Zionist armored vehicles Palestinian population that was de­ kesperson of the Committee Against the undertaking that they jointly worked go past on their way to Beirut. fenseless against the Zionist army, the War in Lebanon. Phalangist militias, and the butcher That same day, 300 protesters Maj. Saad Haddad's mercenaries. marched down Dizzengoff Street in the Whatever the exact identity of the center of Tel Aviv, chanting "Begin is a Castro· indicts U.S., Israeli murderers in Sabra and Shatila, they murderer!" and "No more Deir Yassins," could not have carried out their horrible referring to the Zionists' 1948 massacre task without the de facto agreement of of hundreds of Palestinians at the vil­ governments for Inassacre the Israeli high command. The Amer­ lage of Deir Y assin. ican, French, and Italian governments This demonstration, called by the knew perfectly well that by withdraw­ Committee Against the War in Leb­ ing their troops, this tragedy was proba­ anon, was also attacked by the police. ble. Forty-eight protesters were arrested, The new mission of the disengage­ including an elderly couple. Inside the ment force will not serve the interests of police van, they chanted, "Begin is a the Palestinian and Lebanese people murderer!" while those outside shouted any better. "Police state!" Who would believe that the U.S. Also on September 19, some 400 troops - the instrument of imperialist Peace Now supporters demonstrated at massacres yesterday in Vietnam and to­ Rosh Hanikra, on the northern border day in Central America - could defend with Israel; and some 500 members of the oppressed in Lebanon? Who could the Ga'ash and Yakun kibbutzim believe that the French paratroopers - blocked the main road between Tel Aviv French imperialism's favorite gen­ and Haifa. darmes in Africa and in the colonies of The following day, members of the BY MARGARET JAYKO The statement indicted the govern­ the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and Mashdan, a religious party that is part Cuban President Fidel Castro, chair­ ment in Washington, saying, "This new the Pacific - could act in Lebanon of the ruling Likud coalition, de­ man of the Movement of Non-aligned cascade of Palestinian blood is falling on against the interests of that imperial­ monstrated outside the chief rabbi's of­ Countries, sent a message to United Na­ Reagan's hands and conscience. Reagan ism and its Zionist beachhead? fice, demanding that the minister of the tions Secretary General Javier Perez de has to be accused before all the peoples Their presence will only serve to re-. interior, who is a party member, leave Cuellar on September 22 denouncing of the world of this monstrous crime. build a Lebanese state around the Pha­ the government. the United States and Israel for their The weapons used by the Zionists are langist militias of Amin Gemayel, the On September 21, a picket line by role in the bloody massacre of Palestini­ Yankee. It is the permanent U.S. protec­ ally of Zionism, building up new Peace Now was organized outside the of­ ans in West Beirut. tion and constant vetos in the [UN] Se­ dangers and new perils for the Palestin­ fices of the Security Ministry in Tel T}le message condemned "The co­ curity Council which have encouraged ian refugees and the Lebanese National Aviv, and a demonstration called by the wardly genocidal murderers who have Israel not to halt at any political or mor­ Movement. Committee Against the War in Lebanon just slaughtered in cold blood more than al limit." The real demands of the hour are: was held in Haifa. 1,000 men, women, children, and elder­ The message stressed that "The time • Immediate and unconditional with­ The Peace Now movement and all the ly people in the Palestinian camps" and for action has arrived for the United Na­ drawal of the Zionist occupation army Zionist opposition parties have called went on to praise the actions of the Pal­ tions." It demanded "exemplary politi­ from Lebanon; for a massive demonstration in Tel Aviv estinian combatants and leaders. It ac­ cal and moral sanctions against all • Break diplomatic relations with the on Saturday, September 25. This prom­ cused Israeli Prime Minister Menachem those guilty of the crime in Beirut. criminal regime of Begin and Sharon; ises to be the biggest antiwar demon­ Begin of giv~:rig the green light to "his "The Nuremberg war criminals were • International recognition of the stration in Israel since the invasion of armed gangs to go ahead with the exter­ brought to trial and executed for crimes Palestine Liberation Organization as Lebanon began. mination of the unarmed Palestinian against humanity like this, for a mur­ the legitimate representative of the Pal­ Angered by the cold-blooded murder population. derous, racist philosophy like the one estinian people; of their brothers and sisters in West Bei­ "It is an absolutely clear expression of behind these deeds," recalled Castro. • Total support to the Palestinian rut, Palestinians throughout Israel and the terrorist, murderous, immoral phil­ The message ended, "Now, more movement for the recovery of their legit­ the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip osophy of Mr. Begin, head of a regime strongly than ever, world solidarity imate national rights; also took to the streets. which acts in this way because it knows with the heroic Palestinian people - • Active solidarity with the Palestin­ Demonstrations were held in virtual­ it is protected, armed, supported, and the demand that they may have their ian mass movement in the occupied ter­ ly every town in the occupied territories. encouraged in its .criminal deeds by the own independent, respected state - ritories of the West Bank and Gaza Workers stayed away from their jobs government of the United States," said must be raised like a formidable shield Strip, and with the antiwar movement and merchants closed their shops in a Castro. against Yankee-Zionist barbarism." in the state oflsrael.

8 The Militant October 1, 1982 Nationwide protests hit Israeli massacre

BY NELSON GONZALEZ picket ranged from curiosity to sym­ As news of the brutal massacre of an pathy. One young truck driver elicited estimated 1,800 Palestinian men, cheers from the marchers when he women, and children hit the media, flashed a peace sign. \ thousands of demonstrators came out in Despite a steady rain, the picket con­ emergency protests in cities across the tinued for nearly two and a half hours. United States. Then those present marched to Dag In New York, thousands of workers in Hammarskjold Plaza near the United -midtown Manhattan, on their way home Nations for a brief rally. after work, paused to watch some 800 Sheila Ryan, from the Emergency people picketing at 850 Third Ave. The Committee on Lebanon, addressed the demonstrators were demanding "Stop crowd, pointing out that the demonstra­ U.S. aid to Israel now," "Israel out of tion was organized "to express grief for Lebanon now," and "Stop the massacres the victims"; "to express outrage against in Beirut." those who are responsible for the grisly The picket and march was called on carnage" - the governments of Israel two days notice by the Emergency Com­ and the United States; and lastly, "to mittee on Lebanon. The site chosen for express our determination to work to­ the picket was the building which gether for a withdrawal oflsraeli troops houses the Israeli Military Purchasing from Lebanon and to stop all U.S. aid to Mission, where the Zionist regime puts Israel." in its orders for U.S. weapons to use Ryan was followed by Elias Kouri, a against the Arab masses. Lebanese speaking on behalf of the vic­ The hundreds of demonstrators that tims. turned out for the picket surrounded the In other actions, a march and rally '" \ building on . three sides and placed was organized in Dearborn, Michigan, , numerous placards and posters all along on September 20. It was made up mostly the street facing the traffic. Some of the of Palestinians, some of them auto work­ signs read, "Jews against the Israeli ers. ,~ massacre in Lebanon," "Reagan, Begin In Detroit, a motorcade and a picket of are the terrorists," and "Peace can't be 100 was organized in front of the Federal Militant/Fred Murphy built on the bodies of the Palestinians." Building. A rally and teach-in is being Protester at September 20 New York demonstration The mood of those walking by the planned for September 25. In Boston on September 19, some 300 people turned out for a candlelight vigil sponsored by the Palestine-Lebanon Socialist councilman demands action Crisis Coalition. On the next day, 400 people demonstrated in front of the Is­ raeli Consulate. Right-wingers carrying Israeli flags attempted to provoke the against Calif. cross-burning -demonstrators. Eventually mounted police charged the crowd and one Pales­ BY JANICE LYNN ment's inaction and called for a com­ munity rally September 12 to oppose tinian was hospitalized. SEASIDE, Calif. - Socialist city plete and public investigation. Bismil­ this type of incident. In Los Angeles, 500 to 800 people councilman Mel Mason introduced an lah is a campaign worker in the Henry The only candidates in the Seaside came out for a march and rally at the emergency resolution into the council Fryson for City Council campaign. elections who attended or sent messages Federal Building on September 20. The September 16 condemning a cross-burn­ Sam Manuel, co-coordinator of the of support were mayoral candidate Shir­ demonstration was organized by the ing that had taken place in Seaside al­ Seaside chapter of the National Black ley Rainer and city council candidates Palestine Arab Fund, the General most two weeks earlier. Independent Political Party, impressed Henry Fryson and Henry Burney. Union of Palestinian Students, and the In a direct slap in the face to Seaside's upon the council the seriousness of this Manuel also blasted the police chiefs November 29 Coalition, among others. working people, the other members of incident. statement printed in the Salinas Cali­ Hundreds more demonstrated in San the council refused to even vote to place "A burning cross has been a symbol fornian that "a cross burning is not a Francisco on September 21. Mason's resolution on the agenda for for many years in this country of the Ku crime in itself." In Dallas, Texas, 250 people turned discussion. Klux Klan and racial oppression," Man­ Seaside resident Larry Lukecart pro­ out in pouring rain on September 20 in At the public comment session of the uel stated. "Blacks have suffered brutal tested the police department spending front of the Federal Building. Similar meeting, however, the outrage of com­ violence, and hangings and death, in more time photographing participants activities were held in San Antonio and munity residents Wf!S expressed. many cases, at the hands of the Klan." in the community rally than in investi­ in Houston. Baqi Bismillah, who witnessed a Manuel blasted the mayor and the gating the cross-burning. He demanded cross-burning in neighboring Marina other city council members for their re­ to know if files were being kept of politi­ last spring, denounced the police depart- fusal to endorse or participate in a com- cal activists in Seaside. Forum hosts Mason told the council that after the cross-burning he had been "inundated Middle East panel Mason files suit in federal court with telephone calls from citizens of Seaside and the moods ranged from out­ BY JIM KENDRICK BY DAVID PRINCE The suit seeks to overturn the un­ rage to sheer terror." He strongly urged DALLAS, Tex. -On September On September 23 the Mel Mason cam­ democratic provisions of the law, includ­ the council to pass the resolution to put 20, following a picket at the Fed­ paign filed suit in federal district court ing the signature requirement. the city of Seaside on record against eral building here, 45 people at­ such acts of racist provocation and in­ tended a panel discussion spon­ in Los Angeles, calling for an immediate Currently independent candidates timidation and for using its full resour­ sored by the Militant Labor Forum injunction to place Mason, independent must collect 113,610 signatures to ces to prevent these types of actions in to discuss how to_ build an effective candidate for governor of California, on achieve ballot status. The Democratic the future. movement to stop the U.S.-backed the November ballot. and Republican candidates need only One candidate for mayor, backed by war being waged by Israel against Mason, a city councilman in Seaside, 60. Also the state can invalidate signa­ California, is a leader of the Socialist the Black business community and tra­ the Arab masses. tures of registered voters who have re­ ditional ~Black leadership, publicly op­ Speakers included Osman Workers Party. Campaign supporters cently moved but not yet reported their gathered 214,699 signatures to place posed- Mason's resolution. In a letter to Sadek, a Palestinian who spent new address. This election law was used the local papers, mayoral candidate four years in Cuba, and Fred Stan­ him on the ballot- 100,000 more than to disqualify thousands of signers of Ma­ the required number. But Secretary of Lance McClair, a public investigator, ton representing the Socialist son's petitions, including a GI at Fort wrote, "the suggested resolution may Workers Party, who is also a State March Fong Eu ruled Mason off Ord who recently had been moved· to a tend to give the impression that a rele­ member of the International As­ the ballot, claiming 125,000 signatures, new barracks on the same base. nearly 60 percent, were invalid. vant number of our citizens are racially sociation of Machinists Local1015. Mason pointed out, "It is not because The suit also documents evidence of biased, an impression that would be In closing his talk, Sadek we have too little support, but because large-scale, outright fraud. For exam­ misleading." pointed out that the Palestinian we have too much support that March ple, registered voters were disqualified Mason blasted McClair and those on people "are not alone in our strug­ Fong Eu is attempting to rule workers because the registration lists weren't the council for their refusal to take a gle. We are linked to others fight­ off the ballot. If the idea of signature re­ checked. stand against racial hatred, represented ing imperialism such as those in quirements is to show support, then we At the heart of the fight for ballot sta­ by the cross-burning. Nicaragua. We have friends who have more than complied with the law." tus is the right of workers to run for of­ "By not passing this resolution, the are far away geographically, but The California Supreme Court re­ fice against the antilabor, racist policies city council is condoning such actions close to us politically, such as the fused to hear Mason's challenge to Eu's of the two capitalist parties. Mason ex­ and in effect is giving a green light to ra­ revolutionary forces here in the ruling. And a California Superior Court plains: "Denying me a place on the bal­ cist scum to commit other acts of provo­ United States." judge rejected a motion for a stay in the lot, is an attack on the right of any cation or violence to the minority citi­ Following the panel, members of printing of ballots until Mason's suit unionist, any Black, to runa campaign zens in this community. , the audience from the General could be heard. The judge said a stay that is independent of the Democrats "As a leader of the National Black In­ Union of Palestinian Students and would disrupt the election process, even and Republicans. It's another move to dependent Political Party and as a can­ the Bahrain Students Association, though Mason has a case which should keep working people subjugated to the didate for governor of California," Ma­ along with American supporters of be heard. two-party system." son continued, "I will be continuing to the Palestinian people discussed The federal suit, prepared by Mason's Support in the ballot fight is needed. speak out and organize against racism future activities to oppose im­ attorney, Robin Maisel, charges that Send messages of protest to: Secretary of wherever it appears. perialist aggression in the Middle California's election laws violate First State March Fong Eu, 1230 "J" St., Sa­ "Here in Seaside I will be campaign­ East. and Fourteenth Amendment rights, and cramento, Calif. 95814. Send copies to: ing for those candidates who will be re­ Over $60 worth of socialist liter­ that the law allows state officials to use Mel Mason for Governor Committee, sponsive to this community and who ature was sold and many copies of any means, fair or foul, to keep Mason 2864 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, Calif. will actively fight against such racist the Militant. off the ballot. 94609. provocations."

October 1, 1982 The Militant 9 Slaughter in Lebanon: the U.S.

langists to go into west Beirut and the camps against the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO]. The calculation was that the Phalangists, with old scores to settle and detailed information on the Palestinian fighters, would be more ruthless than the Israelis and probably more effective." Despite U.S. and Israeli guarantees to the PLO that Israeli forces would not en­ ter West Beirut, as early as September 3 a group of Israeli troops pushed into West Beirut, into the neighborhood of Bir Hassan, to clear mines from the route leading to the Shatila and Sabra camps. Seizing on the assassination of Ge­ mayel as a justification, thousands ofls­ raeli troops, tanks, and armored cars poured into West Beirut September 15. The Israeli government claimed that this was to maintain "law and order" in the wake of Gemayel's assassination. But Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Rafael Eytan spelled out the real goal. He told the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariu Sep­ tember 17, "Now what has to be de­ stroyed will be destroyed. And who has to be arrested will be arrested." Scores were killed in the fighting in West Beirut, as the Israeli units overran Martyrs of Sabra and Shatila camps -the checkpoints and headquarters held by the various Muslim and leftist mil­ itia groups that were defending the city. Hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians How Israeli forces orchestrated the massacre were arrested by the Israeli forces. The Shatila and Sabra camps were sur­ BY ERNEST HARSCH The two rightist Lebanese militia for­ Since then, the Phalangists have re­ rounded by Israeli troops, as was the "Nobody dreamed this would hap­ ces that actually conducted the massa­ ceived some $100 million in aid from the Bm:j al Brajneh camp. pen," one Israeli official told United cre are both closely allied to the Israeli Israeli regime and have backed the Is­ Once the Israeli troops had occupied Press International, referring to the regime. They are the Phalangist forces raeli invasion of Lebanon since it began the city and disarmed the Muslim and September 16-18 massacre of hundreds of the late Bashir Gemayel, who was as­ on June 6. leftist militia groups, the population of civilians in the Palestinian refugee sassinated on September 14, and the Haddad's militia in the south operates was left defenseless. camps ofShatila and Sabra in West Bei­ militia of Maj. Saad Haddad, based in as an adjunct of the Israeli army. Had­ According to an Israeli army radio re­ rut. southern Lebanon. dad's troops are armed, paid, and port - which was later confirmed by a But in reality, not only did the Zion­ The Phalangists became particularly clothed by Israel. They follow Israeli government spokesman - the Israeli ists imagine it, they planned it, organ­ notorious during the Lebanese civil war orders. cabinet was presented with a plan Sep­ ized it, and brought in the rightist Leba­ of 1975-76 for their massacres of Pales­ The September 19 New York Times tember 6 to allow the Phalangists to en­ nese militia forces who carried it out. tinians and Lebanese Muslims. Ge­ reported from Jerusalem that "as early ter Shatila and Sabra. It adopted a reso­ The butchery in the refugee camps was mayel himself directed a massacre of as the second week of the war last June, lution approving the action. an integral part of the massive Israeli thousands of Palestinians at the Tel Israeli officials were speaking privately According to various news accounts, invasion of West Beirut, which began Zaatar refugee camp in East Beirut in of a plan, being considered by Defense the Lebanese rightists gathered that September 15. 1976. Minister Ariel Sharon, to allow the Pha- same day at the Beirut International Israel's history blood -stained aggression

BY DAVID FRANKEL tance by the Palestinians against being Three more persons accompanying a Why did the grisly massacre of Pales­ forced off of their land and out of their mule cart were next to be shot, then a tinian civilians in West Beirut happen? country. shepherd and his twelve-year-old son, The explanations in the big-business Begin himself achieved an interna­ and later the occupants of a truck carry­ media do not give an honest answer to tional reputation in this regard through ing four men and 14 women between the this question. the activities of his Irgun Zvai Leumi ages of 12 and 66. In the New York Times, for example, (National Military Organization), one of So it went until a total of 49 persons right-wing columnist William Satire the most prominent Zionist terrorist or­ had been butchered. Eventually, eight chalked the whole thing up to "a blun­ ganizations active in Palestine during of the 'participants in the massacre were der," arguing that "this episode no more the 1940s. The Irgun slaughtered more found guilty. The last of these were reflects Israeli policy than Mylai re­ than 250 Arabs in the village of Deir freed by the beginning of 1960 - about flected American policy [in Vietnam}." Yassin on April 9; 1948. three-and-a-half years after the kill­ Satire picks a telling comparison. The But _Begin had no monopoly on such ings. And in September 1960 the city of U.S. army massacre ofhundreds ofViet­ actions. Under Israeli Prime Minister Ramie engaged Gabriel Dahan, convict­ namese in the village of Mylai in 1968 David Ben-Gurion, for instance, regular ed of killing 43 Arabs in a single hour, had a profound effect on Americans - Israeli soldiers murdered 53 men, wom­ as officer for Arab affairs. precisely because of what it said about en, and children in the Jordanian border The reason for such massacres is not U.S. policy during that war. village ofQibya in October 1953 in reta­ hard to understand. When the state of In the case ofWest Beirut, the rightist liation for a guerrilla raid in which In wake of June 1967 Israeli war agair Israel was established in 1948, Pales­ ian refugees were uprooted, like thes• forces that are armed and encouraged three Israelis died. tine was an Arab country. There were by the Israeli regime carried out on the Another massacre was carried out by more than twice as many Arabs as Jews ground what Israeli bombers have been the Israeli army in the village of Kafr living in the_ country, and about half of doing for years from the air. Kassem, about 15 miles from Tel Aviv, the entire Jewish population was con­ tories taken over by Israel. The Zionist Unlike Satire, many liberals have on the eve oflsrael's October 1956 inva- - centrated just in the Tel Aviv area. The regime has been rapidly expropriating been willing to concede the criminal sion of Egypt. The villagers were establishment of a Jewish state in Pal­ the land of the remaining Palestinians character of the Israeli invasion of Leba­ gunned down in cold blood as they re­ estine could only come about through who remained in these occupied territo­ non. But as defenders of the Zionist turned home from the fields and from the expulsion ofthe Palestinian majori­ ries. state, these liberals try to pin the blame their jobs, unaware that a curfew had ty, and that is what was done. Atrocities such as those in Deir Y as­ solely on the policies of Israeli Prime been imposed. sin, Qibya, Kafr Kassem, and West Bei­ Minister Menachem Begin and Israeli An Israeli military court that later in­ More than 700,000 Palestinians were rut have taken place because the Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. vestigated the events at Kafr Kassem­ driven from their homes during the pe­ rulers are attempting to suppress the Nobody can deny the reactionary after a cover-up failed - reported: "The riod between April and December 1948. struggle of an entire people for its character of the policies followed by first to be shot at the western entrance Their land was taken over by Zionist rights. Begin and Sharon. But the fact is that to the village were four quarrymen re­ settlers, and these Palestinian refugees And this leads us to the second factor the establishment of the Israeli state in turning on bicycles from the places have never been allowed to return to the behind the massacre in West Beirut­ 1948 and its history since then have where they worked near Petah Tiqva country of their birth. the actions of U.S. imperialism in at­ been studded with such massacres and Ras al Ayin." These, the court re­ Following the 1967 Mideast war, tempting to maintain its domination against the Palestinian people. That has ported, "were shot from behind at close hundreds of thousands of new Palestini­ and exploitation of the Middle East. been the Zionist response to the resis- range or from the left." an refugees were driven out of the terri- Israel has been able to carry out its re-

10 The Militant October 1, 1982 responsibility

Airport, which is controlled by Israeli troops. From there, they followed a ser­ ies of roads marked out with the Phalan­ gist symbol and signs in Hebrew leading to the two refugee camps. They went through Israeli lines to get into Shatila and Sabra. Israeli tanks stationed on a hilltop provided cover in case the right­ ists ran into resistance in the camps. The Israeli-backed butchers then went systematically about their work. Entire families were gunned down in .:;heir homes. Hundreds of people were rounded up and driven away in cattle trucks, past the watchful eyes of Israeli troops just outside the camp gates. Several thousand Palestinians ga­ thered at the Gaza Hospital for refuge, but had to fle~ from there when the Pha­ langists and Haddad's men entered and dragged away the hospital staff. The for­ eign doctors were handed over to the Is­ raeli army, while the Palestinians were taken away or shot on the spot. Some pa­ tients were killed as well. Witnesses described seeing bulldozers driving by, their scoops filled with bo­ dies. Palestinian officials put the With each new world outcry against Israeli crimes, Reagan hastens to assure that he's told Begin 'Enough.' But the ac­ number killed as high as 1,800. tual complicity between the two governments is becoming increasingly apparent. While this massacre was underway, the Israeli troops did nothing to try to stop it-despite the Israeli regime's lat­ er claim that it had. During the night, the Israelis pro­ Reagan tries to conceal complicity with Begin vided light by firing flares over the ref­ ugee camps, so that the rightist killers BY HARRY RING did nothing to stop it. After the invasion -and the U.S. Marines- to Bashir's could see what they were doing. In announcing September 20 that was on, the U.S. delegation -in the brother and successor, Phalangist lead­ On September 17, according to a re­ U.S. Marines were again being dis­ United Nations repeatedly voted er Amin Gemayel. port in the Washington Post, some of the patched to Beirut, Reagan declared the against condemning the Israeli aggres­ Palestinian refugees and the masses rightists left the Shatila camp for a "bit purpose was to help bring peace and to sion. of mainly Moslem Lebanese workers of rest," in the words of a militia officer. "end the agony of Lebanon." For nearly four months, Israeli bomb­ and peasants surely have no reason to "Israeli soldiers were lounging all about He also tried to take a bit of distance ers rained death on the Lebanese and breathe easy. They now have a govem­ them," the Post reported, "some reading from the Israeli regime, which is now Palestinian people, while U.S. "medi­ ment of ultraright mass murderers, calmly despite the rattle of gunfire in seen by the world as a gang of butchers. ator" Habib negotiated to achieve Is­ backed by both Israeli and U.S.-French­ the camp. The gunfire was in short Yet the blood of the victims of the Bei­ rael's immediate objective, the expul­ Italian forces. _,ursts, in roughly one place, and did not rut massacre is as much on Washing­ sion of the PLO from Beirut. And this time the marines apparently indicate that there was any retum fire. ton's hands as on those who rule in Tel With that accomplished, the way was will be in no hurry to leave. According to The Christian militiamen were being Aviv. cleared to install the ultraright Phalan­ Reagan the stay is indeterminate. fed and given water by the Israeli In the wake of that slaughter, U.S.-Is- . gist regime subservient to Israel and de­ Army." raeli complicity was charged by Y assir termined to restore the discredited sys­ Increasing U.S. intervention An unnamed Israeli colonel told a Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liber­ tem of Christian minority rule that led Reuters correspondent that the area ation Organization (PLO). This too is part of the broader Wash­ to the civil war of 1975-76. ington-Wall Street plan for a more di­ was being "purified." He declared: "The terrible massacre The horrifying events in the West rect U.S. military intervention in the was planned and organized by Israel, Beirut camps were the grim declaration Middle East. the Israeli army, and - I'm sorry to say of that resolve. It's in keeping with the creation of the - covered completely by the American Reagan now expresses mock outrage Rapid Deployment Force, organized im­ administration." at the butchery. But when Bashir Ge­ mediately after the victory of the Iran­ Amplifying on the charge, PLO offi­ mayel, the Hitler-loving Phalangist, ian revolution. It's a possible foothold cials said the PLO had agreed to evacu­ was selected as president of Lebanon, ate Beirut only after receiving written for adding to the new U.S. military Reagan was quick to send congratula­ bases that have sprung up in Oman, guarantees from Washington that Israe­ tions. Egypt, Somalia, Morocco, Kenya, and li forces would not enter West Beirut It was this same Bashir Gemayel, be­ elsewhere in the region. and that the civilian population of the fore his assassination, who planned the All of these bases, along with the ma­ camps would be protected. massacre at the Beirut camps. rines, are there for a single purpose-to They said the guarantees had come This was confirmed in a report from protect the superprofits of the U.S. oil directly from U.S. negotiator Philip Jerusalem in the September 20 New barons. Their presence has nothing to do Habib and had been transmitted to York Times. It said: them by the prime minister of Lebanon. with the welfare of the people of the Mi­ "According to well-placed Israeli offi­ deast. The guarantees proved worthless. The cials, the military operation in the This is underlined by the horror of the marines went to Beirut for a single pur­ camps was planned by President-elect Sabra and Sha~ila camps. pose, to ensure the departure of the Bashir Gemayel, leader of the Phalan­ PLO. That accomplished, they were gists, before his assassination last Tues­ abruptly pulled out. The Israeli forces day." and their Phalangist killers . entered The Phalange forces are armed and fi­ For further reading West Beirut. Now, after the slaughter, nanced by the Israelis. They entered the marines are ordered back. West Beirut as a follow-up contingent to Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? ; Arab nations, thousands of Palestin­ the Israeli forces. By Maxine Rodinson, 128 p., $3. 95. !rossing into Jordan. It sums up Washington's complicity And the way was cleared for the Israe­ with Israel, not to speak of its duplicity. Socialists and the Fight li forces by the sudden departure of the Against Anti-Semitism U.S. Marines 14 days ahead of schedule. Washington's purpose By Peter Seidman, 31 p., $.60. peated attacks on its Arab neighbors on­ Washington's intervention in the Leb­ Killer gangs around world War in the Middle East ly because of the constantly increasing The Socialist View military and economic aid provided by anon events, from the outset, has been Did Reagan know .what the Phalan­ designed to advance its all-important By Dave Frankel, Dick Roberts, and Washington. The U.S. ruling class pro­ gists were capable of! Tony Thomas; 31 p., $.60. vides this massive aid to the Zionist re­ aim of maintaining its domination of There's no reason why he shouldn;t. gime for the same reason that it sup­ the strategic, oil-rich Middle East. In They're exactly the same kind as the How Can the Jews Survive? ports the racist regime in South Africa driving forward to accomplish this, it killer gangs that Washington finances A Socialist Answer to Zionism - if the oppressed peoples are not peri­ has employed the Zionist state of Israel in El Salvador and in Guatemala. By George Novack, 22 p., $.25. as its junior partner in crime. None of odically beaten down, they will advance They're basically no different than Leon Trotsky on the in their struggle to throw off the yoke of the bickering between Reagan and Be­ the dictatorial Philippine gang headed gin can change that. Jewish Question imperialist domination. by Marcos, who Reagan welcomed to By Leon Trotsky, 31 p., $.95. In the final analysis, the system ofim­ Washington was not simply guilty of Washington on the eve of the massacre. perialist exploitation rests on naked complicity in the Beirut events. It Nor are the Phalangist killers that Order from Pathfinder Press, 410 force, and Israel plays a key role in e~­ backed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon much different from the murderous West Street, New York, N.Y. 10014. erting that force in the Middle East. We from the day it began, last June 6. The South African apartheid forces· support­ Please include $. 75 for postage and have just seen one more example ofthat Reagan administration knew in ad­ ed by Washington and Israel. handling. fact in West Beirut. vance of the plans for the invasion and Now Reagan has offered his blessings

October 1, 1982 The Militant 11 How federal budget cuts affect women

In addition, about 2.6 million reci­ Funds for Women's Educational pients of Supplemental Security Income Equity Act, authorized to promote edu­ (for the aged, blind, and disabled) will cational equality between men and be affected. women, were drastically cut in 1982 and now will be eliminated with the new As in the case of the 1982 budget cuts, budget. many working women who also receive welfare will, because of the new stan­ Food stamps dards for eligibility, be forced to choose between working - and thus losing all Like the 1982 budget, the new one Medicaid and child-care benefits - or cuts some $2 billion from food stamps. going on welfare. Of the 22 million poor who receive them, 78 percent are children, elderly persons, 'Workfare' disabled, or members of single parent households. In place of training programs and job search programs, AFDC applicants will With the cuts 3 million people will have to participate in non-training lose their food stamps entirely and 18 "workfare" programs in order to receive million more will have them reduced their AFDC payments-working off the under the new eligibility program. benefits they receive with part-time, The Supplemental Food Program for minimum-wage labor. Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) The workfare program does not pro­ provides nutrition counseling and pre­ vide transportation expenses or child scription food supplements to some 2 care. Those who cannot find work can million mothers with low income. WIC lose their AFDC benefits. will also be cut. Workfare, in fact, appears to be a way Cuts will also take place for battered to fill public service jobs terminated by women. crisis shelters, rape crisis pro­ the cuts i.ll the Comprehensive Employ­ jects, emergency hot lines, women's law ment and Training Act (CETA) program centers, women's health clinics, and with cheaper labor. many other such programs that are Workfare is a serious assault, not only heavily dependent on federal funding on AFDC recipients, but on all workers. and whose staff are paid by federal prog­ It can be used to weaken unions and to rams such as CETA. lower the standard ofliving of all work­ ing people. Child care Working-class women and their families are among those who most need social service programs that are being slashed. Job training cuts At the same time that more and more women are entering the workforce, the The current budget will significantly Reagan administration is cutting back cation, and all aspects of social life BY SUZANNE HAIG reduce funds for job training, job coun­ on already scarce child care. The Reagan administration's budget means that women make up a dispropor­ seling, and job placement. CETA's train­ The 1983 budget continues to reduce for fiscal year 1983 is another step in tionate number of those working people ing and public service programs will federally-funded child care, which has the relentless bipartisan war against who are impoverished. have 429,000 training slots eliminated already been drastically cut. the rights and living standards of work­ According to the Census Bureau, 30 and 51 percent of its funds cut. Seventy Title XX of the Social Security Act, ing people. percent of all female-headed households percent of the CETA program particip­ which now provides child care for about It comes in the context of the worst in 1979 lived below the poverty level. ants are women. 750,000 low-income families, was cut economic crisis since the 1930s and is an The comparable figure for all families Women's enrollment in pre-appren­ last year and is slated for an additional important front in the combined govern­ with an adult male present was 5 per­ ticeship training has dropped already as 18 percent reduction, meaning that up ment-employer efforts to push back the cent. federally funded programs are cut. to 100,000 families would lose this ser­ unions, women's rights and the rights of Women who live alone or who are About 150 programs existed nationwide vice. Blacks and Latinos. heads of households are by and large at in 1978, but now there are less than 30. The government has also discon­ This is a war with real casualties. the bottom of the barrel. This is part of Washington's attacks tinued federal regulation of the quality Those hit the hardest, as always, are the In virtually every one of these statis­ on affirmative action. of child care services. most oppressed sectors of the working tics on women, it should be kept in mind In addition, the school breakfast and class. This is true with the massive cuts that for Black and Hispanic women the Education cuts child care food programs would get in social services in the proposed budget. numbers soar many percentage points fewer funds. Examiping the effects on women of higher because of combined race and sex Cuts will also occur in educational programs and in governmental agencies just some of the budget cuts shows how discrimination. Thus, almost half of all Abortion and birth control these reductions in social services are families headed by Black and Hispanic that prosecute employers for discrimina­ designed, in part, to push women back, women live below the the poverty line. tion, thus further lessening the chances One of the largest items slashed is as well as to lower the quality oflife and And this trend is increasing as the of women who need jobs getting them. health care. Medicare, which provides expectations of all workers. female sector of the working class con­ There will be restrictions on a services for the aged and disabled, will tinues to be pushed down. mother's ability to attend college under be cut $3.16 billion. Medicaid will be cut Bottom of the barrel the AFDC program. Continued on next page In order to understand the devastat­ Older women ing impact of cuts in social services on A Louis Harris poll on the income of Mass. women office workers sponsor women in particular, it's necessary to the elderly found that while the median see where women start from economi­ household income for all Americans was cally. $20,000, for the elderly, it was only gubernatorial candidates debate Inequalities in hiring, pay rates, edu- $8,600. Of the elderly, women represent BY DAVID WILDER Defending in a back-handed way the 78 percent of those with incomes below BOSTON-Virtually all of the candi­ enormous tax cuts for big business, $5,000 a year. dates in the Massachusetts governor's Dukakis said the state had all the Women are thus more dependent on race were present or represented at a de­ money necessary to maintain social ser­ social service programs - the very ones Beagan•s bate here on August 26. that are being cut by the Democrats and vices, and the problem was mismanage­ A The meeting was sponsored by 9-to-5, ment by his opponents. He said he was W'aroa Strategy · Republicans in Washington. an organization of women office work­ looking into buying a computer to solve to The 1983 budget includes cuts in vir­ Womea•s ers. Speaking to an audience of mainly the problems. Fight tually all non-military pro~ams, in­ Back young women workers, the Democratic ·Rigbts cluding education, housing, health, job Don Gurewitz, Socialist Workers and Republican candidates had little to training, legal services, and Aid to Party candidate, spoke last. He pointed say on the many issues raised from the Families with Dependent Children out that the real problems facing work­ floor. Questions about daycare, abortion (AFDC) - totaling more than $45 bill­ ing people hadn't even been touched on. rights, affirmative action; and social ser­ ion. He said. that the military budget, which vices were met by these candidates with The budget, moreover, not only cuts finances U.S. interventions abroad, is the standard promises to "form execu­ back on the absolute level of funds for eating up money which should be used tive committees"; "take a good close these programs, but reduces their rate for social services at home, including look"; and "adapt coherent policies." of growth for the next few years. Thus, programs which advance the status of John Sears, a Republican, said he as more and more working women and women. Gurewitz explained that both wanted to see more women in govern­ men become victims of the recession, Democrats and Republicans support ment because "government needs a good they will be less and less likely to receive Reagan's war policies. by Marguet Jayko housecleaning." • the social benefits needed for survival. Lucy Flynn, an aide to Democratic "Michael Dukakis says he wants to Reagan's War on Women's Governor Edward King, defended his AFDC cuts fight Reagonomics with Kennedy and Rights tax cuts for the rich and slashing of so­ Tsongas. He can't say what The Reagan budget includes an ap­ cial services, saying this creates more Reaganomics is, because if he did, By Margaret Jayko proximate $1.2 billion cut for AFDC in jobs for women. everyone would realize that Kennedy 38 pp., $.95 1983 and for every year thereafter. This Next was former Governor Michael and Tsongas have essentially voted for is about a 12 percent cut for 1983. Dukakis, also a Democrat. Dukakis said Reaganomics every step of the way," de­ Order from Pathfinder Press, Women constitute 93 percent of the 10.7 that Massachusetts needed a governor clared Gurewitz. 410 West St., N.Y., N.Y. 10014. million recipients of AFDC. "who could work with our team in In response to a question, Gurewitz Please include $. 75 for postage The cuts mean that about 2. 7 million Washington - Senator Ted Kennedy expressed his support for daycare as a and handling. people will have their welfare benefits and Senator Paul Tsongas - and really basic right, one that should be financed reduced or eliminated. fight Reagonomics." by the government.

12 The Militant October 1, 1982 Anti-abortion bill defeated in Senate BY MARGARET JAYKO having abortions covered in their health By a vote of 47 to 46, the U.S. Senate insurance policies, and would cut off fed­ rejected a bill September 15 t~at would eral funds for research and training of have permanently cut off Medicaid medical students in federally-funded funds for abortions. Had it passed, it medical schools. would have dealt a devastating blow to In an editorial echoing Congress' posi­ women's right to legal abortion. tion the Wall Street Journal declared on The bill was introduced by Sen. Jesse September 13, "If we emerged from the Helms (R.-N.C.). current legislative struggles with abor­ Originally, Helms was expected to in­ tion legal under the limits imposed in troduce his anti-abortion "Human Life 1973 but unfunded, that would not be Bill (HLB)." This bill defines human life such a bad outcome." beginning at conception, thereby out­ President Ronald Reagan chimed in, lawing abortion. It also prohibits federal making his efforts in support of the funding for abortions. Helms bill a centerpiece of his cam­ Helms, however, introduced a new paigning for GOP candidates in the No­ version of his HLB. The new one was vember elections. supposed to be less "controversial." In Nonetheless, the Helms measure was all essentials, however, it mirrored the defeated, albeit by a slim margin of one original. vote. As Sen. Robert Packwood (R-Ore.) The new bill included a declaration pointed out, "By any measure of public Sen. Jesse Helms, author of defeated bill that would have cut off federal that the Supreme Court had "erred" in opinion, people are 2-to-1 in favor of a funding for abortions as well as opening door to outlawing them. ruling abortion legal in 1973, and th(;lt pro-choice position on abortion." "scientific evidence demonstrates" that It should be noted that during the en­ life begins at conception. It provided for tire two weeks of this discussion, not a direct review by the Supreme Court of word was said on the Senate floor in de­ INS judge orders Iranian state anti-abortion laws, with the aim of fense of the right of women to choose making it easier to overturn the 1973 whether and when to have children. decision. The liberals, like Packwood, insured The provision of the bill which Helms that any debate that did occur revolved socialist to leave U.S. most emphasized, in a bid to rally fellow around abstract issues of "constitution­ BY BETSY McDONALD courtroom were outraged by Nail's deci­ Senators to his side, was its permanent ality" and the "proper role of the courts" PHOENIX, Ariz. - An Immigration sion. prohibition of the use of federal funds for as opposed to the question of the right of and Naturalization Service (INS) judge The September 15 hearing was just abortions. This would prevent women women to control their own bodies. The has ordered Hamid Sodeifi, an 18-year­ the latest in a series of recent INS moves on Medicaid from having their abortions repeated attacks on abortion rights by old Iranian socialist, to "voluntarily" to drive Sodeifi out of the country. paid for. Reagan during the course of the debate leave the United States within 60 days. The INS first scheduled a deportation In a bipartisan attack on women, the went unanswered. The September 15 ruling is the latest hearing for July 14. But, although the Senate and the House have voted six The next arena of struggle over this step in a 16-month-long INS effort to de­ law requires a minimum of seven days years in a row to cut off such federal issue will be the U.S. Supreme Court, port Sodeifi because of his political notice for such hearings, Sodeifi was not funding. which is slated to rule this fall on the views. Sodeifi, a member of the Young informed until July 9. An outcry from The revised Helms bill would also constitutionality of several state and lo­ Socialist Alliance and Socialist Workers Sodeifi's supporters forced the INS to have prevented federal workers from cal anti-abortion ordinances. Party, is appealing the decision to the cancel the hearing. Board of Immigration Appeals. The ap­ The deportation hearing was eventu­ peal automatically postpones his depor­ ally set for September 15. On September tation. 9, Sodeifi received a notice that his hear­ Righti~ts threaten clinics The deportation hearing, before Im­ ing had been moved to Nogales, Arizona, migration Judge William Nail, lasted more than 200 miles from Phoenix. St. Louis, Missouri, is right across the and other attacks on abortion clinics. just 15 minutes. Nail refused to allow This move would have prevented river from Granite City, Illinois, where Supporters of women's rights called a Sodeifi's attorney, Antonio Bustamante, many of Sodeifi's supporters from at­ Dr. Hector Zevallos and his wife, Rosalie picket line in front of the Ladies Clinic to present even part of the massive evi­ tending the hearing, and made it impos­ Jean, were kidnapped by anti-abortion to respond to the right-wing threat. dence proving that Sodeifi is being sin­ sible for at least one of Sodeifi's witnes­ terrorists on August 12. Built on a couple of days notice, about gled out for political reasons. That evi­ ses to be present. Dr. Zevallos operates an abortion 45 people showed up. They chanted pro­ dence includes: A spate of protests convinced the INS clinic in Granite City. He and his wife abortion rights slogans like: "Back al­ • Two witnesses who had heard INS to reschedule the hearing for Phoenix. were both later released, unharmed. leys no more, abortion rights for rich and officials tell Sodeifi that he was being INS District Director Ernest Gustafson This incident, however, highlighted poor!" and "A woman's life is a human deported because of his political views explained that it was all a "misun­ the increase in violence by right-wing life, keep abortion legal!" opponents of women's rights. Following and activities. derstanding." The protest Was organized by the on the heels of this kidnapping, anti­ • Testimony and documents estab­ Public support for Sodeifi's case has Women's Rights Action Group. Other lishing that it has been INS policy for grown. A September 12 rally, attended abortion groups threatened to close participants included the National Or­ down abortion clinics all across the over 30 years to single out foreign-born by more than 40 people, raised over $500 ganization for Women and the Socialist country on September 18. SWP and YSA members for deportation. to aid Sodeifi's defense. The September Workers Party. This evidence exposes specific INS ef­ 15 hearing was widely reported in the The Ladies Clinic, an abortion clinic forts to deport Hector Marroquin, and Arizona newspapers and on TV. in St. Louis, took this threat seriously. A smaller number of abortion oppo­ other members of the SWP and YSA, be­ The Political Rights Defense Fund St. Louis, like many other cities in the nents turned out to oppose women's cause of their political beliefs. (PRDF), which is organizing support for last several years, has had firebombings right to control their own bodies. • Documents from Sodeifi's INS file, Sodeifi and other victims ofiNS political obtained under the Freedom oflnforma­ witch-hunting, is urging that messages tion Act, which demonstrate unques­ of protest against the deportation of tionably the political motivation behind Sodeifi be sent to: Ernest Gustafson, How federal cutbacks affect women the INS deportation effort. District Director, INS, 230 N. 1st A;.e., Continued from previous page vices to "promote self-discipline and These documents show that the INS Phoenix, Ariz. 85025. by $1.6 billion over the next three years. chastity" among teenagers. investigation of Sodeifi began when he Copies of protests, and contributions The cutting off of Medicaid funds for took part in a demonstration against ra­ to Sodeifi's defense, should be sent to: Currently more than two-thirds of abortions by congressional votes in the those living "in subsidized housing are cist violence in May 1981. At that dem­ PRDF, Box 649 Cooper Station, New last several years has left very few onstration, a Phoenix cop spotted York, NY 10003. either elderly or one-parent families. Of Sodeifi carrying copies of the Young states remaining that still pay for abor­ the 3.3million households living in pub­ tions for poor women who want them. Socialist newspaper and distributing a lic housing in 1979, a big majority were But even this handful could be a victim statement by the YSA denouncing the headed by women. of the threatened Medicaid cuts. murders of Black children in Atlanta. The 1983 budget is the first one that The Title X program of the Public The cop stopped Sodeifi, questioned does not include any additional funds for Health Service Act has enabled him, confiscated some literature, and low-cost housing. Instead, funds for passed the information along to the INS. thousands of women and teenagers to housing assistance for low and moderate receive family planning services and has This set the INS deportation effort in income families will be cut 64 percent. subsidized contraceptive research and motion. Tenants of subsidized housing will development. have to pay higher rent and all their Then, when Sodeifi dropped two Now Title X services will be combined utility bills. courses at Arizona State University, the with other programs into an under­ Many of the programs that are being INS used this as a pretext to take away funded block grant which, like many of slashed or eliminated were begun dur­ his student visa. Reagan's other items, will leave Title X ing the administration of President Lyn­ All this is documented in Sodeifi's INS at the mercy of states which will be free don Baines Johnson under the pressure file. But the INS's judge refused to con­ to cut it further. of the massive civil rights.movement. sider any of the evidence. Sodeifi was There is one program with a budget Inspired by that struggle, the women's not even allowed to testify in his own increase however (in addition to the rights movement fought for affirmative defense. mammoth jump in the military budget). action, government-funded abortion and This is the Adolescent Family Life birth control, and child care. "This is a routine case," said Judge Program, otherwise known as the "teen­ These programs have benefited all Nail. "There is nothing to distinguish Hamid Sodeifi is appealing the Im­ age chastity act." It has been slated for working people. They should be de­ this case from any other case." migration and Naturalization Ser­ a $16 million increase. It provides "edu­ fended now by the entire labor move­ The twenty-five spectators in the vice deportation order. cational," health, and supportive ser- ment.

October 1, 1982 The Militant 1~ -NATIONAL PICKET LINE------

America Local 13000 Vice-pres­ so we all can see the real facts workers in the New York-New Steve Beren is a member of Socialist rips ident Ronnie Hebert, quoted in on Kaiser's profits. If Kaiser Jersey area. American Federation of Govern­ layoffs at the New Orleans Times­ cannot provide employment, the ment Employees Local3369. · Picayune States-Item puts the Chalmette Works should be Since mid-June, SSA authori­ ties have sought to interfere Kaiser Aluminum blame for layoffs on the govern­ nationalized and run by an ment. "It's the economy. It's elected public board." · with union officials, deny union Budd workers BY JANE VANDEUSEN Reaganomics. There's nothing representation to employees, rebuff demand CHALMETTE, La.- Kaiser we can do about it." "Finally," she said, "the mul­ and intimidate employees who Aluminum Works, until re­ tibillion-dollar war budget are active in the union. Local for concessions cently one of the largest indus­ Suzanne Weiss, Socialist should be cut to zero. That President John Riordan has trial employers in this state, has Workers Party candidate for money should be used to launch been declared absent without BY PHIL DUZINSKI announced it will lay off 680 Louisiana's 1st Congressional a crash program of public works leave (AWOL), depriving him of PHILADELPHIA- Workers workers. Almost 1,200 workers District - in which Kaiser's to provide millions of jobs con­ his normal salary as a federal at the Budd Red Lion plant here have already been laid off in the Chalmette plant is located - structing badly needed housing, employee. have turned down company de­ past year. These new reductions agrees that the economy and the schools, hospitals, mass trans­ mands for local concessions by a will bring the total workforce government are at fault, but portation, and other vital neces­ Riordan was declared AWOL on June 18, the day he led pick­ 3-1 margin. down from a high of2,740 to 880. there are things that can be sities." This means the former con­ done, she says. Weiss is a eters outside the South Bronx These layoffs, coupled with tract remains in effect until maintenance worker at the Ten­ Social Security office. The pick­ the drive for higher productivity Jane Van Deusen is a laid-off 1985. Red Lion workers also neco oil refinery in Chalmette. Kaiser Aluminum worker. eters were opposing SSA's inter­ -- speedup - have hit the ference with the South Bronx voted against the concessions plant's workers hard. The ear­ Weiss said, "These layoffs are union representative arid the contract proposed earlier by th(: lier layoffs eliminated all a direct result of an economic failure of SSA to develop an af­ United Auto Workers (UAW) women production employees system that does not work for us Federal workers firmative action plan for Blacks national Budd Council, al­ and virtually wiped out the - the working people. These and Puerto Ricans. though it was approved by a younger workers. Those now workers have produced the harassed nationwide margin of 62 per­ being laid off have up to 20 wealth that keeps Kaiser's cor­ Four other union officials cent. years' seniority and have no porate fat cats in air-conditioned in New York have either been suspended or The company had demanded threatened with suspension. of the Red Lion workers, who are prospects for finding jobs m offices, automobiles, and man­ BY STEVE BEREN Louisiana. sions, while the workers sweat members of UAW Local 92, NEW YORK - Local 3369 of On August 24, delegates to changes in working hours and What do state and city offi­ in , 180 degree heat producing the American Federation _of the AFGE national convention aluminum. Kaiser, like every job classifications. cials propose for this human Government Employees interrupted their proceedings in other big business, puts profits Local 92 members build com­ tragedy? Governor David Treen (AFGE) is in the midst of a fight response to an appeal for soli­ above the real human needs of muter rail cars. Budd is also a calls for opening a state un­ against the union-busting tac­ darity by Local3369. More than its workers and their families. major supplier of auto parts. employment office on the plant tics of the Social Security Ad­ 1,000 federal employees demon­ site- and that's all. "Kaiser should open its finan­ ministration (SSA). Local 3369 strated at the Times Square So­ Phil Duzinski is a member of United Steelworkers of cial books to public inspection represents 3,000 Social Security cial Security office. United Auto Workers Local92. Tenosynovitis: hidden crippler on assembly line

BY MARGARET JAYKO up with a visit to her own doctor, who Yet another work-related disease has told her that it would take at least six been silently crippling assembly-line weeks for her arm to heal, and she might workers. not be able to work again. The July 28 issue of Direct Action, a The Direct Action editorial explains newsweekly which reflects the views of that teno is "caused by employers' greed the Australian Socialist Workers Party, for profits. And so there is no govern­ ran a news story and an editorial on ment-funded research, no media cam­ tenosynovitis, called "teno" for short. paign to prevent it. Rather, there is a What is teno? conspiracy of silence, an attempt to con­ According to Direct Action correspon­ ceal the very existence of this crippling dent Kate Jauncey, it is "a disease that disease." has only quite recently been widely The editorial goes on to explain, acknowledged. This painful and crip­ "There are no thorough and reliable pling inflammation of the tendons is statistics on the extent of tenosynovitis caused by 'overuse'- rapid, repetitive in Australia today, largely because com­ movement of the hand, fingers, or panies and their insurers have a finan­ wrist." cial interest in denying the existence of The editorial explains further, "Vic­ the problem. Workers who begin to con­ tims suffer pain and weakness in the af­ tract teno are more often than not, fected limb, to the point that normal mo­ treated as 'bludgers' or hypochondriacs. Earl Dotter tion may become impossible. If the in­ If they persist in seeking relief, they are Tem~synovitis is an inflammation of the tendons widespread among assem­ jury is severe enough, the condition can more likely to be sacked than to be bly-line workers. There is a conspiracy of silence by the bosses to hide the be permanent. Even after apparent re­ helped." existence of this crippling disease. covery, the condition will quickly return Many of the industries where teno has with renewed strain." reached epidemic proportions "are Teno is very similar to tendonitis. among those worst hit by the recession. Tendonitis is an inflammation of the As the bosses try to preserve their prof­ tendons; whereas teno is an inflamma­ its by speeding up the line, reducing rest Workers strike at Chrysler tion of the sheath surrounding the ten­ periods, and similar measures, the inci­ dons. dence of teno is increasing. Often as Continued from Page 3 teemen met Saturday for briefings on Jauncey explains that in Australia, well, these are industries in which un­ profits in the first two quarters of this how to sell the contract. They acknowl­ teno is reaching "epidemic proportions, ionism is weak or which employ large year and when Chrysler received mil­ edged that workers hate th~ agreement. particularly among women process numbers of recent migrants, who may lions from the sale of its tank plants to Fraser, however, vows that he will workers in the electronics and electrical lack sufficient English to become aware General Dynamics. personally travel to meetings of goods industries, as well as among of the danger or to understand their Many Chrysler workers see this con­ Chrysler workers to convince them to white-collar workers such as key-punch rights." tract as a slap in the face by both the vote yes. He says they could get nothing operators." The editorial points out that company and their union president, who better without a strike. His unspoken teno is widespread "in almost any job Tenosynovitis and the suffering sits on the board of Chrysler. message is that since he is against a caused by it are not inevitable. Direct involving assembly-line work, as well as strike, he wouldn't lead a serious one. typing, mail-sorting, etc." The same is Action points out several measures that The bargaining council's strongest ob­ Union negotiator Marc Stepp says a could be taken to eliminate teno. These jections were to the contract's absentee true, of course, for the United States. strike now will make the company go include: provisions. Under it, a worker who In this country, the United Auto under. Workers Union (UAW) publishes a leaf­ • frequent job rotation; misses more than five days in six Chrysler's vice-president for industri­ let entitled "Losing Your Grip." It de­ • frequent and adequate rest breaks; months would be given time off without al relations, Thomas Miner, says that scribes the permanent damage that teno • union control of the speed of the as­ pay and could be ultimately fired if the Fraser's promise to Chrysler workers to can cause in hands and arms. sembly line; doctor's note is ruled unacceptable or if start on the "long road back" to parity Direct Action interviewed Rahma, a • redesigning jobs to eliminate there­ their doctor is on Chrysler's "blacklist." with GM and Ford auto workers is "un­ petitive motions that cause teno. Turkish woman who has worked for realistic." nine years in an auto plant in Mel­ In addition, "Only compensation at Upcoming vote "Whether the union likes it or not," the full wage, for as long as necessary bourne, Australia. The ratification period for a proposed Miner told the Detroit Free Press, A typical case, Rahma and other co­ and paid for by the bosses, can give some contract normally lasts 10 days. With "Chrysler will never pay General Mo­ workers recently developed teno after a justice to injured workers and under­ the bitter opposition that prevails now, tors- and Ford-type wages and benefits," year of intense speed-up on the assembly mine the bosses' financial interest in Fraser has instructed the locals to wait because Chrysler is "too small." line. One Arab woman who developed crippling their employees," says Direct three weeks before beginning the vot­ A Jefferson assembly worker said, sore arms got fired when she couldn't Action. ing. "They have been spending millions on keep up the pace. Two women had oper­ Millions of workers in the United "I didn't like Fraser's statement on robots and automation. That's money ations on their hands. States suffer from teno, tendonitis, and TV Friday," said one picket in front of that should be going into my pocket." Rahma's hands got so sore that she other workplace-related diseases. The Jefferson assembly on Monday morning. reluctantly went to see the company doc­ labor movement here needs to take up "He said this is all you're going to get, so Elizabeth Ziers works on the line at tor. He told her she had teno and gave the fight against the bosses' murderous take it and like it." Ford's River Rouge plant near Detroit. her one week off. Rahma followed this disregard for workers' health. Eight hundred stewards and commit- She is a member of UA W Loca' 600.

14 The Militant October 1, 1982 Virginia railroad worker wins job back in victory for union

BY GEORGE KONTANIS time. She has worked little since falling At the board of inquiry, which was NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Nancy off a caboose last October. The company held August 18, C&O's trumped-up Schwalb, a trustee of International has since refused her light-duty work, charges were torn to pieces. The com­ Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers Lo­ which a doctor cleared her for, despite pany failed to prove any of the falsifica­ cal 485, has been called to take a physi­ the availability of light-duty work to tions it charged Schwalb had made. cal in preparation for her return to other laborers who requested it. Schwalb was represented at the hear­ work. Six days after she announced she was ing by Junious Banks, her local's chair­ This is a victory for the trade union running for Congress, the company ad­ man. Other co-workers also testified for movement. The Chesapeake and Ohio mits, C&O began its investigation of her at the hearing: Morris Martin, a pier Railroad (C&O) had subjected Schwalb her. laborer; David Feaster, a laborer for to a board of inquiry in which the com­ Schwalb helped bring union co­ seven years; and James Askew, a line pany tried to fire her from her laborer's workers to the Solidarity Day labor catcher. job on grounds of alleged falsification of march in Washington, D.C., last Sep­ her employment application. tember 19. She has also helped defend The mostly Black union local repre­ Schwalb, who is the Socialist Workers co-workers in her local, many of whom sents the lowest paid of the rail crafts in Party candidate for Congress in Virgin­ are Black, against the company's racist the Newport News yard. Following the ia's 1st District, told the Militant that practices. Solidarity Day march last year, a new the charges were "fabricated by C&O be­ She explained that the company's at­ group of younger, militant laborers be­ cause of my union activity and socialist tempt to fire her was "an attack on the came active in the union, and in a recent ideas." union and on the right of every worker election many of them won positions in the union's leadership. Nancy Schwalb C&O has harassed Schwalb for some to be active and have their own ideas." Schwalb points out that the C&O's at­ tempts to fire her were motivated by the fact that the union is standing up to the company's age-old racist practices. Richard Frankel: socialist fighter Morris Martin, after the hearing, de­ scribed the discriminatory conditions in BY JERRY FREIWIRTH discovered that he had contracted Hodg­ Even in his last months, when his dis­ the yard: "The Newport News coal pier LOS ANGELES - Richard Frankel, kin's disease. But throughout his ill­ ease finally began to get the upper hand, is a family and friend operation. Crony­ a member of the Socialist Workers Par­ ness, Richard remained as politically ac­ Richard continued to pitch in to build ism and nepotism thrive. At the Virgi­ ty for more than 10 years, died here this tive as his health allowed. the party he had devoted his life to. Last nia Employment Commission, they tell summer after a long bout with cancer. In 1980 he petitioned full-time in the February, he participated in another you they're only hiring veterans. But if He was 32 years old. effort to place SWP presidential candi­ party construction crew, this time to you're lucky enough to get a job at the date Andrew Pulley on the California construct a Los Angeles office for the coal pier, you find foreman's sons who Richard first joined the Young Social­ ballot. And in 1981, Richard was able to Mel Mason for Governor Committee, aren't vets, and some of them who ha­ ist Alliance in Los Angeles in 1971. Like fulfill a dream by participating in a Mil­ heading up the painting of the interior ven't even finished high school." many of his generation he was angered itant!Perspectiua Mundial tour to Cuba. of the headquarters. Prior to the inquiry, co-workers and by the U.S. government's murderous in­ He attended the massive May Day cele­ Although cut short by cancer, Richard other supporters of Schwalb held a tervention in Vietnam, and inspired by bration there that year. To the day of his Frankel's life was nevertheless a full picket line in front of the C&O offices the Vietnamese struggle against that death, Richard maintained a great love one in the most complete sense of the here. They also held a news conference intervention. Richard joined the YSA in for revolutionary Cuba. He was an avid term, one that was filled with a purpose which received wide coverage. large part because of its role in helping reader of Granma, the Cuban newspa­ broader than the concerns of self, the life A victory rally for Schwalb was held lead the antiwar movement in the per. of a revolutionary fighter. September 12. United States. Soon after joining the YSA, Richard joined the Socialist Workers Party and then traveled toN ew York to help in the Tribute to veteran socialist Howard Rosen construction of the party's national headquarters. He was part of the crew of BY VIVIAN SAHNER musical instrument and played chamber revolutionary-minded young people LOS ANGELES - On August 30, music each week," Tybie Martin told the with few skills, who were transformed friends and comrades paid tribute to meeting. "He became a terrific gardener into a top-flight construction team. To­ Howard Rosen, a founding member of and studied science, anthropology, and gether, they helped transform a littered the Socialist Workers Party and life­ archeology .... He had a full and won­ and dirty warehouse into modern office long working class fighter. Rosen died derful life." on August 21 after a long illness. He was and workspace for the revolutionary Rosen continued to contribute to the 69. movement. SWP after his retirement. Jerry "Howard became a revolutionary Upon returning to Los Angeles, Ri­ Freiwirth, the Los Angeles SWP or­ socialist at a very young age," Asher chard became immersed in the building ganizer, said, "Howard took the party Harer, a long-time leader of the party in of the YSA on local college campuses. very seriously. He always maintained a San Francisco, told the audience. "I first He was active in the antiwar and antira­ regular financial contribution and as­ met him in 1937 in San Francisco . . . cist activities at University of Califor­ signment. he was already a veteran. He had joined nia at Los Angeles, which he attended the Young Peoples Socialist League "Like clockwork every Monday How­ for some years. Richard also served as [YPSL] in 1932 and was in San Fran­ ard would staff the Los Angeles Pathfin­ the regional organizer for the YSA, tra­ cisco as the Young Peoples Socialist der Bookstore - to lend an element of veling around the Southwest in a bat­ League's state secretary." revolutionary professionalism to an im­ tered car, going from campus to campus, Many young workers like Rosen portant part of the party's efforts to talk bringing new people to the YSA and joined YPSL, the youth organization of to young people and workers." helping them organize new chapters. the Socialist Party, during the 1930s People attending the meeting pledged Richard took a break from these activ­ under the impact of Hitler's rise to over $700 to the Howard Rosen Memo­ ities when he traveled to Europe in power in 1933, the Spanish revolution, Militant/Della Rossa rial Fund to help expand the Pathfinder 1976. He lived mainly in Sweden, where and the depression here in the United Howard Rosen Bookstore and continue this important he worked closely with the Swedish co­ States. In 1936, Harer explained, mem­ work. Those wishing to support the fund thinkers of the SWP. bers of the Workers Party, a forerunner can make checks payable to the Pathfin­ It was around this time that Richard members working at Ford and those who of the Socialist Workers Party, voted to were in UAW Local 246 at General der Bookstore and send them to 2546 W. join the Socialist Party and win these Motors, Southgate. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90006. young fighters over to revolutionary "In 1949," Harer recalled, "socialists politics. worked with the union leadership of New "Howard was already won over to sci­ U A W Local. 9 and U A W Local 246 to or­ from Pathfinder entific socialism . . . he was already a ganize a massive demonstration against regular reader of the Militant," Harer the fascist Gerald L.K. Smith, and drove Reading on said, "and he helped educate and build him out of Los Angeles." The Founding of the cadre that left the Socialist Party to During the cold war period of the the Socialist found the Socialist Workers Party in 1950s Rosen was a party stalwart. He 1938." gave forums and educational· classes, UAW history Workers Party Rosen remained a consistent party­ preparing party members for future builder from then on. political activity. A Political Biography of Walter Minutes and Resolutions 1938-39 When World War Two broke out When the Cuban revolution broke out Reuther: The Record of an Rosen found work at the Todd shipyard in 1959, Rosen jumped into and helped Opportunist by Beatrice Hansen. Documents from the early period of in San Pedro, California. He was elected organize defense work. He was an active 23 pp. 40 cents. the SWP. Edited by George Breit­ as the night shift shop steward because builder of the Fair Play for Cuba Com­ Labor's Giant Step: Twenty man. A Monad Press Book. 398 of his role as a staunch union militant. mittee. Years of the CIO by Art Preis. pages, $8.95. And Rosen was the organizer of the San And Rosen was one of the early build­ 538 pp. $8.95 paper. Pedro branch of the SWP, a branch of ers of the protest movement against the Add $. 75 for postage and handling seamen, cannery and shipyard workers. war in Vietnam. Order from Pathfinder Press, 410 Pathfinder Press From 1945 to 1973 Rosen worked for During all of these years as a political West Street, New York, New 41 0 West Street Ford and was an active member of activist, Rosen found the time to pursue York 10014. Please include$.75for New York. N.Y. 10014 United Auto Workers Local 9. He was a many different interests. "He loved the postage. leader of the Socialist Workers Party theater and music. He learned to play a

October 1, 1982 The Militant 15 -THE GREAT SOCIETY------

Led down the cow path - rant for U.S. Senator, he had to , gage for the Marcos entourage be­ How concerned can you get? University.... The men class­ Mayor Pete Wilson of San Diego explain how come he made gan arriving at 9:30 a.m. About - Distraught by a $33 traffic ified as neurotic earned about 23 was apparently one of those who $75,000 in 1980, but paid no in­ 800 pieces of luggage were deliv­ fine, an unemployed, handi­ percent more than those diag­ come tax. An aide said he lost on ered by five moving trucks and capped Jamaican immigrant nosed as 'well.' ... They had a business deal. He had "invested three vans.... Normally Mrs. tried to jump from a courthouse mild depressive symptoms . . . a in a cow dung methane manufac­ Marcos travels with 200 pieces of ledge in Wheaton, Ill. The judge lot of anxiety problems . . . they turing company and it didn't luggage for her shorter stays."­ persuaded him to come back in, were excessively compulsive."­ work out as well as he had News item on U.S. visit of Philip­ held a session durillg the recess, News item. hoped." pine dictator and spouse. and rescinded the fine. "I think a Harry human life is worth 30 minutes," Shopping tip - If you're into They're going to abolish Beats praying - Ministers, the judge said, "even if it's my blond-toned fur coats, a mixture Ring them?- "Mrs. Reagan assumes priests, and rabbis employed by lunch hour." of martin, lynx, and sable will set honorary post to aid arts and hu­ New York City voted to join the Our sane society-"Neurotic you back a hundred grand. But manities" -News headline. American Federation of State, businessmen have a better you can get the same effect with really believed there was an County & Municipal Employees chance of striking it rich, accord­ assorted squirrel bellies for a fast energy shortage. Now an aspi- Just. wash 'n wear - "Lug- in the hope of raising their pay. ing to a study at Washington $7,000.

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16 The Militant October 1, 1982 Baltimore cops unleash occupation army Continued from Page 20 Another told the Militant, "I'm ar­ Police spokesman Hill said that Ras­ while he has been arrested 10 times the night. Police approached him. One cop rested because I opened my mouth every tafarians were kicked out of Wash­ police have never been able to produce said: "I'm going to count to three, and if night about justice for Rupert ington, kicked out of Prince Georges any evidence to get a conviction. · you are not off the phone I'm going to Campbell." County, and kicked out of New York One response to the problems in Pim­ lock you up." He counted to two and took Another form of harassment has gone City. "We're in the process of doing the lico has been the formation ofthe Rupert the phone out of the man's hand. unreported in the·local press. Jamaicans same," he added. Campbell Alliance. The Alliance ex­ Many residents have reported that report that police have threatened many Intense police harassment of Ja­ plains that it is "a formation of con­ police have talked to them with racist of them with deportation One told the maicans began long before the recent cerned citizens, from both the Jamaican slurs and other threatening remarks. Militant that when he was arrested for events. Hill admits that police have and Afro-American communities en­ According to one Jamaican, "the loitering, police told him "the next time made at least 213 arrests on one Pimlico raged by the death of the young Black people who are demonstrating out here, they lock me up they will give me seven street corner since January 1. One man, the circumstances around his they're the ones getting hassled most." days in jail and then try to deport me." Jamaican explained to the Militant that death, and the subsequentmilitary-like invasion by the Baltimore police depart­ ment." The Rupert Campbell Alliance and Councilman Reeves each held separate news conferences. They put forward op­ posing views of the problem and solu­ tions. The Alliance presented a statement read by spokesperson Sanifu Mwanan­ chi. "The Jamaican and Afro-American communities are united in our efforts to achieve justice for Rupert Campbell. The efforts to deport Jamaicans is a dis­ guise to cover up the real problem, which is police brutality and harass­ ment of the Pimlico community."

People's tribunal set The Alliance announced "in order to get out the facts we are announcing a 'people's tribunal' to be held on Satur­ day, October 2. At the tribunal, witnes­ ses will give testimony on the death of Rupert ·campbell and the numerous vio­ SWAT team stalks Baltimore Black community lations of the civil and constitutional rights of residents of Pimlico during the military siege conducted during the fol­ lowing week." Duluth Blacks fight racist terror The struggle for justice in Pimlico con­ tinues. Mwanan~hi explained, "Rupert Campbell was murdered simply because BY WARREN SIMONS the gains of the civil rights movement of Williams intends to press ·charges he was a Black man and because the DULUTH, Minn. - On the night of the 1960s. even though he doesn't expect much jus­ Black community is daily presented as a June 15, 1920, a mob of thousands He doesn't believe that cross-burnings tice from the court system. "America's community of criminals by the media, stormed the jail here and lynched three and other racist violence reflect the sen­ controlled by a certain group of people and gives the police the license to come Blacks held prisoner. The three were timent of most working people. Williams -the wealthy," he said, "and what they in here and kill." falsely charged with the rape of a 19- reported that many of his neighbors do to the rest of us - that's organized "They're just trying to split Black year-old white woman. have offered their support and have con­ crime." people," George Lee told the Militant. Some people in this city were re­ demned the attack. He said, "Today When asked how community groups "By attempting to split people, they are minded of that night recently. On Au­ more and more people are saying 'We have responded to this attack, Williams bringing them together." gust 31, a group of eight racists burned don't need prejudice."' said he was disappointed in the tradi­ Annie Chambers, leader of the Rupert a cross outside the home ofWilbert Will­ During the interview with the Milit­ tional civil rights organizations. "There Campbell Alliance, expressed the feel­ iams and John French, two Black city ant, the two discussed some of the issues was no real response," he said. "Some ing of many when she said, "We need to workers in Duluth. in the Minnesota gubernatorial cam­ Blacks are willing to accept anything, govern our own destiny." ' Williams and French had been sub­ paign with Kathy Wheeler, Socialist even a mediocre position. Not me. I've The Pimlico residents are fighting for jected to verbal abuse and threats on Workers candidate for governor. been called a Black militant but I'm not justice. They demand that those respon­ their lives since they moved into a pre­ Williams has a definite opinion on one a political person. I never joined any or­ sible for Rupert Campbell's death be dominantly white neighborhood. such issue-gun control. "If they passed ganization." brought to justice; that the siege of their On August 31, when racists came to a gun control law, who'd have the guns? Williams is confident in the future. community be ended. their home, Williams called the cops The cops. And nine times out of ten, "We're not struggling hard enough yet But the most common sentiment of twice. According to John French, "The Blacks get popped whether they have a but we're struggling," he said. "Look at the people is one that was painted on a cops took their time" responding to the gun or not. what they've done to Blacks in this coun­ . wall the night Rupert Campbell died: call. They arrived after the rightwingers "Black men have a higher mortality try. They hit you on the head, lock you "Tell the People the Truth." had already smashed the window of the rate. Forty-five percent of the men on up in chains, throw you in the bottom of car French and Williams were sitting in death row are Black." a boat and drag you to another country. This story was compiled by a Militant and had set fire to the cross. Williams noted that the cross-burning "It may take a little while to spring reporting team of Joe Wiley, Cynthia This incident is not an isolated one. was a criminal act, but none of the back. But when we do, we're going to Mason, Marilyn Rice, Tom Headley, Williams told the Militant that several attackers were arrested. spring back with all we've got." Marie Anderson, and Steven Fuchs. years ago a Black couple in the same neighborhood was constantly harassed and "finally they just moved away." Williams and French have no inten­ Socialist denounces Baltimore cop raids tion of leaving. "I'm going to stand up for my rights, "Williams said. "I'm stay­ The following is a statement by This lie is deliberately reported by the ing here. Don't expect me not to fight Yvonne Hayes, Socialist candidate newspapers and other media in order to back." for U.S. Senate in Maryland. divide the community - in the same Williams has witnessed burnings of way that the wealthy rulers of this coun­ Black churches and houses in his native The Socialist Workers Party con­ try have always tried to divide working Kentucky. He noted the step-up in Klan demns the murder of Rupert Campbell people. and Nazi activity around the country and the police occupation of the Pimlico This lie is also put forward by the De­ and the government's attempts to steal community. These attacks on the Black mocratic and Republican politicians. community of Baltimore are attacks on They also aim to take our eyes off the the rights of all working people. real problem and the real criminals. Meetings to protest Only a week after the death of Broth­ The real criminals are the police who er Campbell, 140 cops led by a SWAT are responsible for the death of Rupert Baltimore cop attack team invaded Pimlico. The scene was re­ Campbell. The real criminals are the po­ miniscent of the Israeli occupation in lice and other city officials who are re­ The Militant Forum is sponsoring two Lebanon, the British in Northern Ire­ sponsible for the invasion and occupa­ MilitanUK.C. Ellis meetings to protest the police attack on land, or the United States in Vietnam. tion of the community and the many at­ Socialist Yvonne Hayes Baltimore Blacks. Annie Chambers of Only the tanks and armored personnel tacks on the residents there. the Rupert Campbell Alliance will carriers were missing. In the final analysis, the real criminal demanding justice for Rupert Campbell. speak at the Baltimore Militant Forum Six weeks ago we saw a similar scene is the capitalist system and the Demo­ The police occupation of the Black com­ on Friday, October 1, 7:30p.m., at 2913 in Dakota City, Nebraska, where the crats and Republicans who defend it. munity in Pimlico must end. The cops Greenmount. Donation is $2. state police used tear gas, mace, and To maintain its profits, the capitalist responsible for Brother Campbell's A protest forum will be . held in clubs against strikers who are members system requires the crimes of police bru­ death-must be brought to justice and Washington, D.C., Sunday, October 3, of the United Food and Commercial tality, wars abroad, strikebreaking at tried for their crime. 7:30p.m., at 3106 Mt. Pleasant St. N.W. Workers Union. home, kickback contracts, and high The police have proved they are not a Donation is $2. Baltimore city officials claim the po­ prices and rents. force for public safety. They should be For more information call (301) 235- lice are protecting Pimlico residents. All working people have a stake in the withdrawn entirely and replaced with 0013 in Baltimore and (202) 797-7699 in They clai.m that Brother Campbell and events in Pimlico. The Socialist community patrols that would respect Washington. other Jamaicans are criminals. Workers campaign joins with others in the rights of working people.

October 1, 1982 The Militant 17 -EDITORIALS------Fidel Castro speaks to U.S. shares Israeli guilt in ·Beirut trade unionists The following are excerpts from a speech by Fidel Castro to the Tenth World Trade Union Continued from Page 1 Palestinians has led Israel int~ an escalating conflict Congress, held in Havana on Feb. 10, 1982. Cas­ The scramble by the imperialists for control of the with the entire Arab world. tro discusses issues facing trade unionists from oil-rich and militarily strategic Middle East has been Already Israel has annexed Syrian territory and the United States, to Cuba, to the rest of the going on for more than a century. Britain added bombed a nuclear research center in Iraq, and now world. Egypt to its colonial possessions in the 1880s, and as the Zionist rulers are determined to dictate political a result of World War I the British grabbed control of events in Lebanon. The huge capitalist propaganda machine continu­ Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine, while the French took Even further afield, Israeli agents collaborated ously stresses the alleged virtues of its system. It ref­ over Lebanon and Syria. with the CIA in training the shah of Iran's secret ers to wealth and influence, to its economic indica­ Using the traditional method of divide-and-rule, police, and are currently helping to arm and train the tors, its technology, and its consumer goods. Further­ the French played off the Christians against the Mus­ soldiers of the Guatemalan dictatorship. more, it extols its sociai model, seeking to oppose it to lims in Lebanon, while the British promoted Jewish Israel's alliance with the most reactionary forces in the socialist society. It speaks of democracy, rights, immigration to Palestine to build a counterforce to the world- including the apartheid regime in South and equal opportunities. the bitterly oppressed Arab majority. Africa- is the course that is dictated by the needs of In the United States, a country seeking to present the Zionist state. It is becoming clearer and clearer itself as a model, unemployment - which in 1981 Wall Street moves in that the maintenance of such a state is in complete reached 8.9 percent representing 9.5 million jobless contradiction with the interests of the Israeli working Since the end of World War II, U.S. corporations people - was recorded as follows: white population, class, and of Jews throughout the world. have replaced British and French big business as the 7.8 percent; Black population, 17.4 percent; white The Palestine Liberation Organization, which is dominant force in the Middle East. Direct colonial youth, 19 percent; Black and Hispanic youth, 42.9 slandered by the Zionists as terrorist, has been fight­ rule over the Arab world as a whole is no. longer feas­ percent. ing since its birth for a democratic, secular Palestine ible, so Washington exercises its control by indirect From the start, Mr. Reagan's government has been ·-a country where both Arabs and Jews could live in means. But the result is the same. Billions in profits marked by a deeply antipopular and antilabor atti- peace and equality. for the oil barons, a few crumbs from the table for The Palestinians demand the right of the dispersed cooperative Arab regimes, misery for the peoples of the region. refugees to return to their homeland, compensation for a people whose land and homes were stolen, and LEARNI-NG ABOUT In order to maintain their monopoly on the riches of the earth, the imperialists must be constantly the right to build a united Palestinian state that is ready to crush movements for progressive social again a part ofthe Arab world. In short, they demand SOCIALISM the reversal of 34 years of Zionist oppression. change among the peoples of the countries they In keeping with this perspective, the Palestinians exploit. Such movements inevitably demand that the tude. He flung air traffic controllers out of their jobs also demand the immediate withdrawal oflsraeli for­ wealth of these countries be used to better the lot of with unheardof harshness. And he has revived the ces from Lebanon; Israeli withdrawal from the terri­ the people at home, not to line the pockets of huge most turbulent periods of trade union repression, re­ tories occupied in 1967; and the establishment of a corporations in London, New York, and Paris. sorting to the entire arsenal of legal measures, the­ Palestinian state in any part of Palestine that the That is why Washington supports reactionary re­ use of the ·army, the banning of trade union activities, Zionists are forced to give up. gimes such as the monarchies in Saudi Arabia, fines, the imprisonment of workers, and police bru­ Oman, Jordan, and- until the overthrow of the shah tality. His economic program is the living expression A program for peace three years ago - Iran. That is why Reagan hailed of the reactionary monopolistic policy, and, as many the establishment of an ultrarightist Phalangist gov­ Such a program for national liberation is anti-Zion­ of his own countrymen have declared, it is aimed at ernment in Lebanon. ist, but it's not aimed against the Jewish people. As making the poor poorer and the rich richer. But as the experience of Iran showed so vividly, PLO leader Y assir Arafat said September 20, "The The world's labor movement is growing, not only in foreign domination and superexploitation by im­ real Jews are those who refuse to be associated with numbers, but also in scope and depth. The interrela­ perialism undermines the stability of even the most the attempt to annihilate the Palestinian people. To tion between economic problems and the most vital brutal and dictatorial semicolonial regime. The op­ all of them, to all of the Israeli or Jewish pacifists and aspirations of a political nature becomes ever more pression they are subjected to constantly provokes democrats, I address the esteem and gratitude of the manifest. If a few years ago wage demands were the new struggles among the workers and peasants. Palestinian people who will never forget their soli­ basic motivation oflabor strikers, today, on the other Where they can, the imperialist powers respond to darity at the time of trial." hand, they evince the struggle for employment, such liberation battles with military force, and that Peace in the Middle East and an end to atrocities against layoffs, in favor of trade union rights, for the is where Israel fits in. The Israeli military, armed to such as the Beirut massacre will be won through a sovereignty and independence of their respective the teeth with the most modern U.S. weapons, plays victorious struggle against the imperialist oppression countries, against imperialist intervention, for de­ a key role in maintaining the imperialist domination of the Arab world - a struggle that must include as nouncing the arms race, for transforming the war in­ of the Middle East. one of its goals the dismantling of the Zionist settler dustry into a peace industry, for detente, disarma­ state and the creation of a democratic, secular Pales­ ment, and peaceful understanding in international Foot soldiers for imperialism tine. life. Here in the United States, a rapidly growing [On September 19, 1981,] half a million U.S. work­ When the Jews of Europe tried to flee after Hitler number of working people have begun to understand ers came together to protest against the domestic and took over in Germany, they found the doors of the something of the real character of the Israeli state as foreign policy of the Reagan administration, and mil­ United States and Britain barred. Even after the ex­ a result of the grim events in Lebanon. There is a lions more have thundered down the streets of the termination of the Jews and the end of World War II, growing realization among working people that they major European capitals, demanding jobs, security, Washington and London refused to accept the sur­ have been the victims of a stupendous big-lie cam­ and peace. vivors. But the imperialists were perfectly willing to paign. In our socialist society as well,' trade unions occupy dump the survivors of Hitler's concentration camps This changing consciousness means that there is a a major position. In our opinion, they too are called in Palestine and to use them as foot soldiers against greater need and opportunity for protest actions, upon .to be ever more active and efficient in carrying the Arab masses. teach-ins, public meetings, and other educational ac­ out their tasks. Almost one-quarter of all U.S. foreign aid goes to tivities about the true role of U.S. imperialism and Socialism, as a burgeoning political system, is not Israel every year - an indication of how useful the Zionism, and about the profoundly progressive role of devoid of difficulties, inefficiencies, quests, and mis­ U.S. rulers find the Zionist state. Israel provides the liberation struggle being carried out by the Pales­ takes. But we have worked in all honesty and loyalty Washington with a counterrevolutionary army of tinian people. Such actions must demand that U.S. to foster a revolutionary and democratic trade union 400,000 troops in the heart of the Middle East. In aid to Israel be stopped and that U.S. troops get out of movement, with a strong class awareness, capable of fact, Israel has been subsidized to the point where it the Middle East. aiming at and attaining great objectives on its own. has been able to build up a sophisticated industrial Equally· important, we think, is to utilize the pres­ Our trade unions defend the revolution and defend base and develop into an imperialist power in its own ent circulation drive of the Militant to bring the truth and represent the interests and the rights of all work­ right. about the Mideast to the greatest number of working ers and of all workers' collectives. The purest practice In the wake of the Beirut bloodbath, liberal supor­ people. That is the best way those of us here in the of proletarian democracy sustains them. Our trade ters of Israel here and elsewhere are trying to limit United States can pay meaningful tribute to the mar­ union leaders are workers promoted by their fellow responsibility to Begin and his military chiefs. But tyrs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. workers from the grass roots to the highest respon­ Israel's current colonial war in Lebanon is no aberra­ sibilities. tion. It fits into a pattern going back to its 1956 inva­ Over and above any philosophical, religious, or sion of Egypt, an attack carried out in conjunction political differences, that which unites the workers is with Britain and France following the Egyptian far greater than that which separates them. nationalization of the Suez Canal. We are united by humanity's vital interest in In June 1967, the Zionist regime launched a savage peace; the determined struggle against the insane sneak attack on neighboring Arab countries. Backed arms race; the aspiration of all the workers of the by Washington, it hoped to bring down the govern­ world to a better, worthier, more equitable, reliable, ments in Egypt and Syria and replace them with ones and just life; the right of the peoples to economic and that would be more responsive to imperialist de­ political independence; the struggle against col­ mands. onialism, racism, and fascism; the combat against the Over the years there have been repeated bloody exploitation of the oligarchies and neocolonial plun­ commando attacks and air bombardments against der; the universal struggle for a new and more just Palestinian refugee communities and Arab cities. international economic order; the feeling of solidarity for the peoples still struggling for their liberation! Most of these imperialist adventures were underta­ History unites us, our destiny unites us, our future ken before Menachem Begin ever came to power. unites us! Let us struggle with all our might for mankind's Alliance with world reaction survival and for a future truly worthy of being called The establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine human! could only come about through the denial of the rights For this reason, allow me to repeat here the noble of the Palestinian majority. But the expulsion of some slogan of those who were the immortal and unforgett­ 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 able champions of the workers: Workers of the world, did not end the matter. Continued resistance by the MilitanULou Howort unite!

JS The Militant October 1, 1982 --LETTERS------Babies for profit ple in Oakfield, New York. The with you, your loved ones, and Capitalism truly knows no baby, sick when he left India, the rest of our comrades limits. Recently it was disclosed died in a Buffalo hospital of throughout the world. that a U.S. "adoption" agency ,is acute dehydration. In struggle we remain. secretly shipping Indian babies R.S. A prisoner from Calcutta to sell here in the Newark, New Jersey Boydton, Virginia United States. The agency's The letters column is an concern is neither for the well­ Thrilled open forum for all viewpoints being of Indian children, nor for I am presently in prison and I on subjects of general in­ families wishing to adopt. am interested in receiving the terest to our readers. Please The story was reported in the Militant newspaper. However, keep your letters brief. Where London Mail, which said that I'm without funds at the present necessary they will be ab­ the babies were carried on time to pay for a subscription. I ridged. Please indicate if you scheduled British Airways became interested in the Milit­ prefer that your initials be flights by off-duty flight attend­ ant newspaper through a friend. used rather than your full DON'T St. STIIPIO, "AP.OL.O. ants in an operation run by the 1 have read the Militant a few name. vwvL eLtN RE.TIIttD roR. U.S. adoption agency, Amer­ times, and I was thrilled after SLVE.N m.R~ AND The 'Militant' special pri­ icans for International Aid of reading it. I ·would like to re­ I.IVINC? ON SOc.lt>.L $1.(URitV. Atlanta. ceive it for one year, and as soon soner fund makes it possi­ ble to send reduced-rate The British airline had just as I get funds for it, I will be subscriptions to prisoners found out about the operation more than glad to send it to the and banned the flights pending Militant. who can't pay for them. To a full investigation. The infants, help out, send your contri­ some just a few weeks old, cost Your cooperation and in­ bution to: Militant Prisoner $3,480 each. One baby, Nathan, dulgence is greatly appreciated. Subscription Fund, 14 died when he was eight-weeks­ Thank you and may the peace, Charles Lane, New York, By Tole1 for the BuUa.loCour ..r~ExprtS! old after being bought by a cou- love, and joy of Almighty God be New York 10014. Football players on strike: 'We are the game!' BY WILL REISSNER Playing professional football is a tough way to In return for the physical punishment of playing Professional football is not just a sport. It is also an make a living. After serving an unpaid apprentice­ pro football, players are paid an average of about enormously profitable subsidiary of the advertising ship in high school and college ball, the average play­ $85,000 per season. But that average is deceptive. industry. And the 1,532 players in the National Foot­ er's career in the National Football League lasts just Two-thirds of the 1,532 NFL players are paid be­ ball League (NFL) are the sole reason for its profita­ 4.2 years. tween $40,000 and $70,000, according to the players bility. Moreover, "there is a 100 percent injury rate in pro association. The players are extremely successful in drawing football," points out Dave Meggyesy, former St. Louis Are the players paid too much? After all, even millions of potential consumers to watch loads of com­ Cardinal who now works for the NFLPA. $40,000 is a lot of money. mercials on television. That's why the television net- Take the case of Eugene "Mercury" Morris, the su­ But it is important to note that at present, of the perfast running back for the Miami Dolphins and San more than $640 million that the league takes in, the Diego Chargers until his retirement after the 1976 28 team owners keep 70 percent, while the 1,532 AS I SEE IT season. players get only 30 percent. Morris began his career with the Dolphins in 1969. The rallying cry of the NFL Players Association In 1973 he suffered a neck injury that was diagnosed (NFLPA) is "We are the game." And that's the truth. works pay megabucks to broadcast football games. as a sprain. With that injury he played through the The most recent multiyear NFL broadcasting con­ How much revenue would be generated if the 28 team playoffs and the Super Bowl. But when he reported owners took the field instead of the players? tract comes to $2 billion! for the Pro Bowl, his neck was reexamined and found Why don't the sports columnists ever ask if the· In this regard, pro football players are performers to be broken. owners are overpaid? Just what do the owners do for as well as athletes, performers with blockbuster rat­ In 1974 a knee injury was added to the neck prob-· their 70 percent of the revenues anyway? ings. More Americans watch the Super Bowl every lems. Morris says that that is when he started having year than any other TV program. second thoughts about a system "where you're sup­ While money issues have generated the most pub­ The 28 NFL teams take in so much from their posed to be well enough to play, but not necessarily licity in the present strike, safety is also an important broadcast contracts that they would make profits well." concern of the players association. The NFLPA wants even if they did not sell a single ticket. And down the In 1976 the neck injury was aggravated by an auto­ players to have access to their medical records. It line they are looking to even bigger profits from cable mobile accident. Morris began suffering severe head­ wants a voice in determining the rules, in order tore­ television. aches, and he decided to retire before the 1977 season duce injuries. It wants to get away from playing on Today the players association and the team owners began. He had reached the point, he recalls, "where the hard surfaces that underlie artificial turf. are locked in a bitter strike over dividing the NFL's no drugs, no prescription drugs, alleviated the pain." The players association recently affiliated with the gross revenues, expected to top $640 million in 198~ or about $23 million per team. By 1980 his pain was so severe that he was making AFL-CIO labor federation, and all 28 team "locals" When the talks between the players association midnight visits to doctors for injections ofXylocaine, are part of their state and local AFL-CIO bodi~s. and the team owners began, the players were asking the anesthetic he had used so often to numb his knees The players are anxious for the support of the for 55 percent of the NFL's gross revenues. Later they during his football career. union movement. Players' union leader Gene Up­ lowered their demand to 50 percent of the league's Eventually Morris needed a spinal fusion opera­ shaw told the AFL-CIO News, "we don't expect an un­ television revenues. tion. employed auto worker to have sympathy for our level The owners, on the other hand, are squealing like Today, at 35, Mercury Morris- now just plain Eu­ of income, but to understand the common struggle. stuck pigs. 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October 1, 1982 The Militant 19 THE MILITANT • Cops unleash occupation army against Baltimore Blacks

"The military invasion, which the police spokesperson described as a 'surgi­ cal precise sweep' to release Pimlico neighborhood from a hostage situation, should instead be characterized as an all-out assault in which the Baltimore Police Department held the Pimlico com­ munity hostage."-Statement of Rubert Campbell Alliance

". . . a well executed operation - one of the best we have ever done."- Dennis Hill, Baltimore Police Department

"It looks like Lebanon." - Michael Brown, Bethlehem Steel worker

BALTIMORE -Just before dawn on September 15, some 140 police launched a coordinated invasion of the Black com­ munity of Pimlico · here. They were equipped with flak jackets, rifles, and shotguns. They used battering rams to break down doors of houses. They ran­ sacked homes and a neighborhood store and arrested 29 people. The raid climaxed a week of police harassment and community protest which began when Rupert Campbell, a 25-year-old Jamaican resident, died while handcuffed in the custody of city Invasion force of cops was sent into community after protests over police murder of Rupert Campbell police. On the evening of September 8, police drug suspect. They say he appeared to the Pimlico Multi-purpose Center and criminal, and the criminal into the vic­ chased Campbell through streets and al­ draw a gun. No drugs were found on held a sprited rally. tim. leys. They shot at him at least once. him. No gun was ever produced. City Councilman Reeves had sched­ The following events of that W ednes­ Campbell ran into the home of a friend, That night spontaneous protests uled a community meeting at the same day morning were reported to the Mili­ cutting his leg when he went through a erupted. Police, armed with shotguns center with Maj. Joseph Bolesta of the tant: glass door. and rifles, barricaded the area through Baltimore police. Reeves wanted to A 74-year-old man stepped onto his Elaine Nelson, who was in the house, the night. allow only 15 to 20 people to attend, but porch to see what was happening. Police told how she and h«;!r eight-year-old The news media and police deliber­ the crowd forced him to allow 150 people forced him at gunpoint to lay face-down daughter were threatened by a cop who ately blamed the events in Pimlico on into the room while others waited out­ while they searched his home. said, "Is the man down there? Bitch, if Jamaican residents, some of.whom be­ side. Police broke through the glass doors you don't tell me I will shoot you." long to the Rastafarian religion. They of the Ace of Spades grocery. They con­ CamRbell was caught and handcuffed accused the Jamaicans of being respon­ Reeves opened the meeting by saying fiscated $8,500 and smashed holes in the in the house. sible for drugs in the community, for vio­ he wanted to discuss the problem of"di­ ceiling and door. lence, and for vandalism. Norman visions" in the community. 'So many police' Reeves, a Black Democratic city coun­ The people explained that the commu­ 'Like Nazi Germany' cilman, claimed there is "one big One witness told the local newspaper, nity was united and that drugs were not Police entered a house with an un­ problem: Blacks and Jamaicans are at the issue. They wanted to talk about the signed warrant. They put a gun to the "they picked him up, threw him on the odds.... " problem of police brutality and the neck of a Jamaican man. They forced floor and stomped. There were so many But the very next day, Piinlico resi­ of them . . . so many police beating on death of Rupert Campbell. him to walk around the house while they dents, U.S.-born and Jamaican together, goaded him to reach for a gun. The man one man." protested the killing of Rupert Campbell Reeves adjourned the p1eeting early, told the Militant "It was like Nazi Ger­ Rupert Campbell was dead on arrival at the local police station. saying he would no longer hold open at a nearby hospital. No cause of death community discussions. many." He was arrested on a drug charge although no drugs were found. has been officially disclosed and the Community meeting police involved have been instructed not Hundreds of community residents continued meeting outside. Many people The morning raid was directed to talk to the press. On Friday, September 10, some 300 against the whole Black community. Of The police claim that Campbell was a residents gathered around the steps of saw the issue of drugs and "community tension" as just a way to divert attention the 29 people arrested, 7 were from the real problem of police brutality. Jamaicans, 22 U.S.-born Blacks. Ken Morgan, a member of the National Police broke into the home of Willie Black Independent Political Party, said, Brown. Their warrant cited a person "it should be noted that all the people who did not even live at that address, here tonight are Mro-Americans, there but they arrested Brown's son. Brown is no split." said, "I don't blame the Jamaicans for the police coming into my home. The Protests continued through the weekend. Rupert Campbell was buried police disturbed my house, not the on Tuesday, September 14. Before the Jamaicans." , next sunrise, the police invaded Pimlieo. George Lee, a Jamaican arrested that morning, said police carried out the raid They arrived in a fleet of rented U­ to crush the developing community Haul vans. At 6:14 a.m., 140 police movement. "Every day a few more moved simultaneously into position. At people were marching," he told the 6:15 they moved into action. Militant. "The police were hoping that Undercover police had been in Pimlico people would stop marching." for a week. The stage was set for the Since Wednesday morning's invasion, police by the flood of reports that tried to intense police harassment has con­ blame Jamaicans and other Pimlico ·re­ tinued. Many other arrests have been sidents for the problems of drugs and made. They have gone unreported by the violence. local news. One Jamaican told the Mili­ In an effort to justify the raid, police tant he was arrested Wednesday night spokesman Dennis Hill claimed, "Some after he had walked into the Ace of of their people were told outright 'this is Spades. "They took me out of the store Militattt!Stev••n Fuchs what we're going to do, we're going to and arrested me for loitering." Annie Chambers of Rupert Campbell Alliance speaks out at news conference set up an ambush to kill police.'" A young Black man told the Militant protesting cop rampage; along with Jaqueline Frazier, community resident; It was a classic example of what Mal­ he was using an outdoor pay phone at and Sanifu Mwananchi of Alliance. colm X called turning the victim into the Continued on Page 17

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