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

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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