SEPTEMBER 10, 1971 25 CENTS
A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE
ar··n a ••I:DU5!5 • I When President Nixon delivered in intensifying inflation, helping to his Aug. 15 edict freezing wages, produce rising unemployment, and he attempted to create the impres forcing budget cutbacks on social WAR INFLATION sion that the Vietnam war is over welfare expenditures- that Nixon, WAR INFlATION ERODES OUR WAGI and now is the time to move to McGovern and other capitalist pol :RODES OURWAGES l {• • ward a new peacetime prosperity. iticians want to shove the war is I Unfonsl's real inca t Un ionists' real income This is a blatant lie. The war in sue under the rug. In order to lower than (asf yet.~r lower thon 1 IORKERS Indochina continues. It not only justify the attack on the wages and , TP£ACE OU RWO RI OUR WORKERS AMALGAMATED ClOTHII continues but the bombing and living standards of America's work "D aol!l!Ni WAN! PE WANT PEACE WORKERS Of AMER IC~ shelling of the demilitarized zone ing people, they are attempting .lh\ffii Protests against killing of Jackson grow/24 Ernest Mandel on downfall of the dollar/12 Socialist Workers election campaigns/a VOLUME 35/NUMBER 32 FRE~ CHARLES KOEN! Supporters of the Cairo, Ill., GREAT JESUS! According to a recent item in the Wash Black United Front are holding weekly rallies in St. Louis ington Post, the Mexican government is planning, as a gift demanding the release of the United Front's national to the U.S. on the 200th anniversary of the first Amer chairman, Rev. Charles Koen, who has been in jail there ican revolution in 1976, to erect on the Texas coast, sh1ce July 19 on trumped-up charges of assault stemming overlooking Corpus Christi Bay, a gigantic steel and from his organizing activity in St. Louis in 1968. He marble statue of Christ. Similar to the statue of liberty, THIS has been on a water fast since before going to jail, and the structure would be hollow inside and contain a stair his doctor reports he is in a seriously weakened condition. way leading to an observation tower in the crown of WEEK'S Among the speakers at an Aug. 21 rally were Dick Greg thorns. ory and the Rev. C. T. Vivian. Speakers at an Aug. 28 MILITANT rally included Ossie Davis; Rev. Irv Jones of the Commis GAY PROTEST: Three busloads of demonstrators picket sion for Racial Justice; Nat Mosley, chairman of a St. ed in a drenching ra