THE Freedom Party Wins MILITANT Published in the Interest of the Working People Legal Ballot Status in Vol. 31 - No. 42 Monday, Novem ber 21, 1966 Price 100 Officials Demand Lowndes County Vote By John Benson LOWNDES COUNTY, Ala. — On Nov. 8, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) Death for Blanco became a recognized political party by polling 41 percent of the Hugo Blanco has once again now even graver than at the open­ vote for county offices. Twenty been placed under threat of exe­ ing of the Tacna trial. Under percent is needed to achieve rec­ cution. The sudden turn in the Peru’s former military code, an ognition as a political party. The case of the Peruvian peasant lead­ unjust decision by the Supreme LCFO is widely-known as the er, who was sentenced Sept. 8 to Council of Military Justice could Black Panther Party because of its 25 years in prison, to be served be appealed to the Supreme symbol. in the grim island fortress of El Court. Last year, however, during Over 1,600 Negro voters cast Frontón, came Nov. 4 when the a rabid McCarthy-type witchhunt, their ballots for the Black Pan­ Lima papers announced the new the parliament enacted a new ther. This compares with the 900 move by the prosecution. code. This bars any appeal from who attended a mass meeting in The defense had appealed the the decisions handed down by the May to nominate the new inde­ savage sentence passed by a m ili­ Supreme Council. pendent black party. tary tribunal in Tacna. The ap­ To save Hugo Blanco, an im­ Although about 500 Negroes peal is now before the Supreme mediate mobilization of interna­ failed to vote as a result of in­ Council of Military Justice. This tional support is required. Student timidation and fear of economic body of military officers was to organizations and sectors of the reprisals, at least 80 percent of review the Tacna court record be­ Negroes who did vote pulled the iiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiitiiiitiiiiiuiiiiiiihiiiiiiiiiiiiu tween Nov. 7 and 12 and then lever for the Black Panther in render its verdict. The date for NEW YORK PROTEST DEMONSTRA­ spite of the fact that many of them this was not announced. TION demanding amnesty for Huge were being watched by White The prosecution answered the Blanco has been called by the U.S. plantation owners. READY TO VOTE. Lowndes County residents wait in front of Committee for Justice to Latin legal moves of the defense by de­ The vote for the Black Panther Freedom Organization headquarters to be driven to polls. American Political Prisoners. The ( manding that the appeals body demonstration will be held at the candidates, according to the in­ sentence Hugo Blanco to death, UN building, at 42nd and 43rd Sts. formation available in Lowndes on few minutes, a carload w ould pass (dead white people have had their alleging that he was guilty of on First Ave., from 4 to £ p.m. »■ NoV. 11, was as follow s: fo r she­ by on their way to the polls. ballots counted in the past) and “premeditated murder.” In the TUESDAY. NOV. 22. riff, Sidney Logan, Jr., (Pan­ While people were Waiting for catch the people who have moved trial at Tacna, where the military Iimirtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiftiiiiiifiiiiiii th e r), 1,643 to 2,320 fo r F rank rides at the headquarters, SNCC out of the county. Each watcher police acted as both prosecution Ryals (Democrat); for coroner, and Black Panther workers would was thoroughly briefed on the labor movement in Peru w ill do tod judge, the prosecuting attor­ Emery Ross (Panther), 1,610 to make sure that everyone knew procedure for challenging voters. what they can on a national scale; ney did not ask for death but for 2.265 fo r the Democrat; fo r ta x how to use the voting machines. A challenged voter could not vote but they face a big obstacle in 25 years in prison, A consulting assessor, A lice Moore, 1,604 to Model machines were used to show on the machine, but had to use a the witchhunt atmosphere still judge at the Tacna trial, Fernán­ 2.265 fo r the Democrat; fo r tax people how to vote. Many people paper ballot, and had to sign an prevailing in the country. In ad­ dez Hen ani, recommended the collector, Frank Miles, Jr., 1,603 waited for over an hour either at a ffid a vit. dition, the defense is seriously death penalty, but the court did to 2,268 fo r the Democrat; fo r the headquarters or at pick-up A bout 11 a.m., I w ent to the hot follow his advice in view of hampered by lack of funds. board of education, Robert Logan, points. polling place in Benton, an area The National Executive Com­ the Widespread support Hugo 1,664 to 1,937 for the Republican; At the polls themselves, the where the Black Panther is strong. Blánco was receiving on an inter­ mittee of the Frente de Izquierda for board of education, John Hin­ Freedom Organization had organ­ A t that time, over 200 Negroes Revolucionario [Left Revolution­ national scale. son, 1,66ft to 1,966 fo r the Repub­ ized to help voters. Each poll had were gathered at the polls and ary Front], the organization The prosecution hinged its ar­ lican; for board of education, Mrs. a watcher whose main task was only a handful of whites were guments on the fact that three headed by Hugo Blanco, has ap­ Willie Mae Strickland, 1,600 to to make sure that every Negro there. The slogan of the new par* policemen Were killed during ef­ pealed for demonstrations of soli­ 2,170 fo r the Democrat. W here the knew how to vote, or to arrange ty was “Pull the lever for the Pan­ forts Of the Peruvian military to darity. Declarations protesting the two Republicans ran, the Demo­ help for those who needed it. Any ther, and then go on home.” (This repress the peasant movement new threat to Hugo Blanco’s life crats offered no opposition. voter in the county can help one meant vote a straight Black Pan­ and asking that he be granted an headed by Hugo Blanco. Actually, Second Victory other voter. If no such person is ther ticket.) But here, the slogan Hugo Blanco is the main political immediate amnesty should be Leaders and supporters of the around, the election officials can became in fact: “Pull the lever for prisoner in the hands of the cabled to the Consejo Supremo de party I talked to viewed the re­ help, but that would always mean the Panther and stay around to Belaúnde government. He and Justicia, Lima, Peru. Similar sults as another step forward. Be­ at least one white in the voting help.” The vote for sheriff in this 28 others Were held in prison at cables should be sent to Presidente coming an officially recognized booth with the Negro voter. In precinct was approximately 635 Arequipa without charges for Fernando Belaunde Terry, Lima, party was the second major vic­ order to prevent this, a member for Black Panther candidate, Sid­ more than three years until the Peru. Copies of these should be tory for the party this year — the of the party asked each Negro, as ney Logan, to 265 for the incum­ authorities felt that the political air-mailed to Hugo Blanco’s at­ first was getting on the ballot in he or she came to vote, if they bent Democratic sheriff, Ryals. atmosphere in Peru made it pos­ torney, Dr. Alfredo Battilana, Av, the May primary. Mr. Charles needed help. If they did, the next The attitude at this one polling sible to dispose of this courageous Nicola de Pierola, 96d; Oficina Smith, president of the Lowndes Negro in line who was able be­ place illustrates the purpose and political opponent without touch­ 215, Lim a, Peru. County Christian Movement for came the helper. aims of the Freedom Organiza­ in g o ff a m ajor upheaval. Similar protests and appeals for Human Rights, said: “I think the The poll-watchers also had the tion. Negroes in Lowndes have not The danger for Hugo Blanco is (Continued on Pace 3) cat did well for the first time out. difficult job of checking the white voted for nearly 100 years — they It’s still a young cat. Wait to see voters. The main task here was were not going to make voting it can do when it's full-grown.” to eliminate the “graveyard vote” (Continued on PAge 3) (The residents of Lowndes fre­ Move to Kill Blanco Protested quently refer to the Black Pan­ [The following is the text of a cable sent Nov. 11 to the ther as the “ cat” ). president of Peru by the U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin Because so few Negroes in Lowndes have cars, a mass trans­ American Political Prisoners.] portation network was organized To: Presideht Fernando Belaunde Terry to bring Negroes to the polls. A Racist Decision L ima, Peru Throughout the county, there Dear Mr. President: were perhaps 50 pick-up points. ------AN EDITORIAL ------We Would like to remind you of the recent petition sent Cars, trucks — anything that by 400 scholars from New York City asking clemency for Hugo could be used to help — drove An observer of the American political scene once said that Blanco. In addition, we know that other messages were sent back and forth between the polls the Supreme Court follows the election returns. This would &P“ from Europe, Canada and Asia, all concerned about Hugo Blanco and these pick-up points. pear to apply to the Supreme Court’s Nov. 14 action upholding I began the day at the party’s and his companions. the “trespass” convictions of 32 civil-rights demonstrators. Fol* campaign headquarters, and every Therefore, when we hear that the Supreme Council of lowing on the heels of the Nov. 8 elections, where racism scored M ilitary Justice is being asked to re-instate the death penalty significant gains at the polls, the utterly reactionary Supreme we are shocked. Blanco was not a military man and should Court decision strikes a legal blow at the black freedom move­ have been tried before a civil court. That is how things are New York SWP Vote ment and is a curb on the constitutional right of free assembly. done in most civilized nations. In addition, it is plain that the NEW YORK — As we went Motivating his dissent in the five-four decision, Justice W il­ death of Blanco w ill not stop social change in Peru. His death to press the New York Board liam Douglas declared: “It is a great and wonderful police-state however, would brand his executioners as bereft of humanity of Elections was slated to doctrine.” and sanity. Only fear would drive anyone to the insane con­ make available the elections The decision ran squarely in the face of a whole series of clusion that Blanco’s death w ill halt social movement in Peru. returns for New York City, legal precedents established over the past five years in which t)o not allow Peru to be disgraced by the wanton murder of a including the gubernatorial the high court upheld the rights of Southern demonstrators. man who has desired only that justice be done the people of vote of the Socialist Workers The present ruling upheld the conviction of 32 black students from Florida A & M University in Tallahassee who gathered in Peru. Party. If the canvass is made Free Hugo Blanco and his companions. as scheduled, we w ill report the driveway of the local jail to protest the brutal treatment of Felix J. McGowan the vote in our next issue. fellow students who had been arrested for opposing Jim Crow at a local theater. Executive Secretary Complete state returns will U.S. Committee for Justice to not be available for several The Supreme Court has provided one more confirmation that Latin American Political Prisoners more weeks. ■ black people must build their own independent political power if they are to strike off the chains that bind them. Page Tw o THE MILITANT Monday, November 21, 1966

Answer to Supermarkets Don't Blame the Farmers! By Ed Smith The general uptrend of prices petitively drive down the whole­ Food prices are going to keep caused by the war is hitting farm­ sale food prices of the small in­ going up in 1967 and the take- ers from another direction, re­ dependent farmers. Federal mediators announced Mich. GE claims that the griev­ home pay of farmers is going to vealed by a Nov. 10 Wall Street Clearly, there are many impor­ on Nov. 11 that the international ances constitute “an attempt to go down. These two predictions Journal report from Washington. tant facts about food production Brotherhood of Electrical Workers re-open the national wage agree­ were made at the annual outlook This showed that the retail prices hidden behind the final prices of had reached tentative agreement ment.” conference of the U.S. Dept, of of agricultural machinery had food items on the supermarket w ith Westinghouse on a new three- The local union has replied that Agriculture in Washington, Nov. taken a whopping 3.9 percent jump counters. This is why the demand year contract. The terms appear — since a local contract hasn’t 13. They are extremely significant between August 1965 and August of “opening the books” is so vital­ similar to those accepted by other been signed at the Holland plant not only because of their warning 1966, and that a further 4 percent ly important to the struggle of the unions with members at West­ — the workers are free to strike to housewives about further price jump in farm equipment prices housewives’ committees. It is good inghouse. They are said to include over the issues, if the grievances rises that can be expected in the could be anticipated in 1967. These news to see it coming out loud three annual wage increases of are not satisfactorily resolved. future, but because they totally costs w ill also have to be absorbed and strong in the three demands five percent; a limited cost-of-liv­ » * * demolish one of the supermarkets’ by farmers and they w ill be re­ of the massive Seattle housewives’ ing escalator clause; and improved Both GE and Westinghouse have favorite arguments. flected in higher food prices. campaign reported below. This pension, insurance and vacation filed charges with the National example can benefit other similar This is the claim that farmers provisions. Labor Relations Board, accusing M onopoly campaigns across the nation. are “equally to blame” for high There are contradictory reports the AFLCIO of “unfair labor But there is a big difference as to whether the proposed con­ practices.” The charges are based food costs with the food chains themselves. It reveals that unlike between the small farmers and the tra c t w ill cover a ll 14,000 IBEW on a claim that it is “illegal” to supermarkets as far as raising members involved. Up to now, establish a bargaining coalition the supermarkets, the small farm­ Seattle Housewives ers are trapped between inflation­ prices is concerned. The super­ only a small portion of the mem­ among union involved in contract markets have a virtual monopoly bership at repair plants has been negotiations w ith the corporations. ary forces, and do not profit from the general rising of prices. “Total on food retailing. They are not Hit Price Gougers covered by a single national agree­ At an NLRB hearing on the trapped by inflationary price pres­ m ent. As a result, the IB E W says, charges, George Meany testified farm production expenses will probably reach a new record,” the sures — they profit from them. If average hourly wages for its mem­ that he had not personally directed th e ir costs go up, there is nothing With Picket Lines bers are 59 cents below those of 1 the union strategy and had not Agriculture Department noted. to prevent them from raising By Nora Dupire Westinghouse workers belonging known anything about the course Interest Up prices more than enough to com­ to other unions. Whatever the of negotiations. Meany is the man pensate for increased cost. The Seattle area Women For scope of the proposed contract, it who,, upon his election to the pres­ Moreover, “prices paid by farm­ Lower Food Prices, like similar The small farmer — like the does nDemocratic Party. Negro who voted. Tension was Panther candidates went to the “Tomorrow, ” he continued, plan classes on the recent elec­ In stark contrast was the mood high. One Negro man, Mr. Andrew Jones, was attacked and beaten. community meetings to explain “when we pull that lever, we are tions, what happened and why the of the whites. While Negroes lived the duties of the offices they were A group of about 50 whites be­ proving we can stay together. We Black P anther lost. Classes w ill in such poverty that transporta­ running for. Sample ballots were gan to gather outside the polling are talking to people all over the be held on poll-watching. The tion had to be organized to bring prepared to show people how to place shortly before dark. The at­ country. Come to Lowndes County evaluation of the elections has them to the polls, the whites drove vote, and posters were put up all tack occurred as the polls were and we will show you how. We already begun. With the experi­ up in one’s and two’s. The effect over the county. closing, and the Negroes were are talking to all Negroes in ence, the Lowndes County Free­ of driving into a sea of several The preparations culminated in getting ready to leave in order to Alabama. We can do things for dom Party, as it is now called, hundred determined black voters a meeting Monday night of over avoid any violence. But Mr. Jones ourselves. Black people can build w ill be in a stronger position to was clearly evident on the faces 400 people. Attorney for the Free­ was temporarily isolated, and at their own political party. They challenge the Democratic Party in of whites. No smiles, no jokes, no dom Organization, Morton Stavis, this point, the local police turned own it, control it and run it — tw o years. discussion, even. There were never outlined the procedures for chal­ out all the outside lights, and lock, stock and barrel. ” more than a handful of whites lenging, poll-watching and how to Supermarket Project Mr. Jones was jumped. The real victory of the Black present* help others vote. He asked that Panther Party lies in just that. No one knows for sure what Other activities w ill continue. the poll-watchers keep accurate Coalition politics dominates in the Many Obstacles Mr. Jones was hit with, but there One of the most important is the records on the number of voters, rest of the country. The labor was a large cut on his head, and defense and aid of victims of racist The Black Panther had many whether they were white or black, bureaucrats and most of the Negro one racist was seen getting a chain intimidation. A „ cooperative has obstacles to overcome in achiev­ the approximate time they voted, leadership supports coalitionism out of a pick-up truck. He spent been established. Two of its first ing what it did the first time out. whether they were challenged or within the Democratic Party. Mar­ two days in the hospital. projects w ill be to build a super­ A ll of the opposition did not come not and any unusual events. Such tin Luther King and other Negro The hospital bill w ill run over market and buy land for people from the whites, either. A semi­ records w ill be necessary to de­ coalitionists /campaigned in Ala­ $200 and if there is no insurance, who have been evicted because of privileged layer of Negroes, pri­ termine the extent of vote fraud bama against the example of the Freedom Organization w ill pay their support to the Freedom marily the teachers, has opposed and to prepare for a challenge to Lowndes and urged Negroes to the bill. John Hulett said, “He Party. They w ill be raising money the Freedom Organization from its the election, if necessary. work within the Democratic was the strongest person in the to pay Mr. Jones’ medical ex­ inception. They opposed the break Absentee Votes Party. community. If we let him down, penses. V oter registration w ill con­ from the Democratic Party and The meeting broke into precinct But Lowndes has shown that other people w ill get shaken. ” tinue. Attempts w ill be made to have continued to support coali­ meetings for a short time. People it is possible to build a party based Mr. Jones has been a leading teach people who do not know, tion within the Democratic Party went over the registration lists to on and responsible to the black activist for the Freedom Organi­ how to read and write. Already, against the Freedom Organiza­ see if any of the white people masses. The m agnitude of the vic­ zation from its inception. During the Freedom Party is working tion. had moved or died. All of the tory can only be understood in the election, he had been at the with people in other counties to During the past year, as Negro absentee voters had been checked this light. spread the new party. registration rose, whites in and some were challenged. Mime­ As Frank Miles, Jr., Black Pan­ While difficult struggles lie Lowndes began to see the danger ographed sheets were distributed, ther candidate for tax collector ahead for the new party, an im­ that they could lose the elections. indicating where the car pool pick­ said, “You don’t have a chance in pressive beginning has been made. Then, some of the biggest planta­ up points w ould be. the Democratic Party, unless The Lowndes County Freedom tion owners, who had tried to pre­ The atmosphere became one of you’re a powerful man. If you are Party deserves the support of vent their tenants from registering a victory meeting, partially be­ going to stand up for what is right everyone who stands on the side up to then, began to help them cause of confidence of a large and what is in the interests of the of the Negro struggle for equality. register. On election day, the plan­ turnout, but mostly because big people, you w ill be kicked out of Funds are urgently needed, and tation owners had friends bring gains had been made during the the party. ” should be sent to Mr. John Hulett, the Negro tenants to the polls, year, regardless of the results of The Black Panther leaders now Rt. 1, Box 125, Hayneville, Ala. take them to the white election the elections. Mr. Hulett empha­ officials who went into the booth sized th is point: “ You can’t lose. and watched them vote. In some If you don’t get anybody elected, areas, almost every Negro who we’ve already won. It’s a victory London Exhibit Publicizes voted had a white next to or in­ just to have the Black Panther on side the booth, watching the vote. the ballot. ” Poll watchers and Black Panther Stokely Carmichael, who had Slated War Crimes Tribunal voters were threatened with evic­ worked in Lowndes for over a By Antonio Farien tion. As John Hulett, president of year before he became chairman the Freedom Organization, ex­ of SNCC, received an enthusiastic LONDON — An exhibition of dhist monks as a means of pro­ plained, many “realize they don’t response when he spoke to the some 200 photographs, maps and test. have a place to go, ” and stayed meeting. “We have worked so diagrams dealing with the war The Effects of Napalm, Life in away from the polls. hard for this moment, ” he said. in Vietnam is being toured through Liberated Areas, On the Battlefield The racists kept up enough “This is an example of black peo­ England. and The Occupied City — Saigon pressure on the inexperienced ple coming together and organiz­ Prepared by the Bertrand Rus­ are the titles of the following sec­ black poll-watchers that many ing the way we want to. Tonight sell Peace Foundation, it portrays tions. something of the history and na­ fraudulent votes were not caught. we have been proven right; we Probably the most horrifying is ture of the struggle instead of A white couple that had moved Sidney Logan, Jr. have proven we can stick together. the next section, The Arrogance of being a mere catalogue of hor­ Power. Here the photographs dis­ rors, as one might have imagined play NLF captives as well as wom­ it would be. The result is an in­ en and children being tortured by dictment of the U. S. role in Viet­ Saigon and U. S. troops. The dif­ Move to Execute Blanco nam and a tribute to the National ferent methods of torture consti­ Liberation Front. At the annual (Continued from Page 1) for these victims of political reac­ tute an educational series. ican political writer, and some of trade union conference in Black­ an immediate amnesty should be his friends were also arrested. tion. pool, where it was sponsored by Towards a Third World War lodged with consulates and em­ Almost, simultaneously in Peru, The committee has already had 20 unions, it received a very good deals with the escalation of the bassies of the Peruvian govern­ speakers at a teach-in at Trinity Hugo Blanco and 27 peasant lead­ response. war. It shows the ruins of hospi­ ment in every possible area. Maxi­ College in Connecticut, and at the ers went on trial. Geoff Coggan, who put the ex­ tals and schools in north Viet­ mum publicity should be sought recent conference of Latin Amer­ Convinced that these incidents hibition together, explained that nam, the result of U. S. bombings. for these protests through accom­ icanists in Chicago. At a meeting indicated the steady deterioration its purpose is to help publicize Then comes a series showing panying demonstrations. in New York sponsored by the of civil liberties in the so-called the investigation projected by the the worldwide reaction in the form Militant Labor Forum, close to democratic regimes of Latin Amer­ International War Crimes Tribu­ of huge demonstrations that have $200 was raised to help thp com­ The U. S. Committee for Justice ican countries, some of the par­ nal initiated by Bertrand Russell. taken place in many different to Latin American Political Pris­ ticipants at the conference and mittee get established. countries against the U. S. and the oners was organized after 400 others interested in Latin America In addition, the Committee to Geneva Conference war in Vietnam. scholars at a Socialist Scholars concluded that North Americans Free Adolfo G illy voted to dissolve The exhibition is made up of The closing section has no title. Conference signed a petition of must do something about ensur­ into the broader committee and several sections, each dealing with It merely starts with a photograph amnesty for Hugo Blanco, Peru’s ing justice for Latin American placed its resources at the disposal a particular aspect of the war. of Johnson delivering a speech. peasant-union organizer. political prisoners. of the USLA Justice Committee. The first section deals with the The caption quotes him: “Unless When Adolfo Gilly, the Latin Members of the organization be­ The officers elected were Dave Geneva conference and how the the United States has unchal­ American political writer, along lieve that U. S. citizens have a spe­ Dellinger and Paul Sweezy, co­ U. S. became involved in Vietnam. lengeable air power, we shall be with some professors at the Uni­ cial responsibility to demonstrate chairmen; John Gerassi, vice­ The next deals with the growth hostage to every yellow dwarf with versity of Mexico, were arrested their distastes and disapproval of chairman; Felix McGowan, ex­ of the resistance of the Vietna­ a pocket knife. ” in April, 1966, concern rose among violations of elementary justice ecutive secretary; Richard Garza, mese people and shows some of Then come photographs of the Latin Americans and civil liber­ and law. They feel that cases like assistant executive secretary; and their ingenious methods of struggle most moving kind — a child be­ tarians in the U. S. that a witch­ those of Gilly, Blanco, Galán and Nell Salm, treasurer. against an overwhelmingly su­ hind barbed wire, a woman with hunt was being unleashed by Joáo Firmino, the inspirer of the The USLA Justice Committee perior technological power. her naked child, two refugee chil­ Latin America’s “constitutional” Brazilian Peasant Leagues, must deserves widespread backing. Cor­ The character of the national dren and an old man blindfolded, regimes against all critics of the be brought before the people of respondence can be addressed as resistance is next displayed with bound and labelled. horrible conditions of the majority the U. S. Once acquainted w ith the follows: USLA Justice Committee photographs of student and Bud­ The final photograph shows a of people south of the Rio Grande. facts about these cases and the —Attention: Felix McGowan, c/o dhist demonstrations, the execu­ weeping GI. The caption reads: A short time later, Victor Rico many others like them, Americans Catholic Worker, 175 Chrystie St., tion of Nguyen Van Troi and self­ “An American soldier in Vietnam Galán, another well-known Mex­ can be decisive in securing justice New York, New York 10002. immolation committed by Bud­ has cause to despair. ” Page Four THE MILITANT Monday, November 21, 1966

THE MILITANT A ttacks on SNCC and CORE Editor: JOSEPH HANSEN Managing Editor: BARRY SHEPPARD Business Manager: KAROLYN KERRY

Published weekly, except during July and August when published bi-weekly, by The M ilitant Publishing Ass’n., 873 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage p aid a t N e w Y o rk , N . Y . S u b s c rip tio n : $3 a ye a r; Canadian, $3.60; foreign, $4.50. Signed article« by contributors do not necessarily Condemned by SCEF Board represent The M ilitant’s views. These are expressed In editorials. Those who attack advocates of The policy statement then de­ ability of the Negro people to take V ol. 31 - No. 42 »345 Monday, Novem ber 21, 1966 black power are injuring the fined SCEF’s understanding of the this successful step toward de­ cause of democracy in the United term, black power. It said: termining their own future will States, the board of directors of “In terms of American democra­ provide us all with an opportunity the Southern Conference Educa­ cy today, there is nothing im­ to make American democracy The 1966 Elections tional Fund (SCEF) declared in a proper about Negro people de­ work as it has never worked be­ major policy statement issued in manding that they should be able fore. “First, as a good American, I think we are all glad to see Louisville, Ky., on Oct. 29, SCEF to elect representatives of their a healthy and competent existence of the two-party system.” “The cry of black power has also indicated its own view of own choosing to key political of­ arisen because many black peo­ This initial comment by Lyndon Johnson on the outcome of black power. fices, especially in those areas of ple decided that it was now time the elections, unlike most of his declarations, contained a basic The board charged that ideas of the South and in the North where to stop relying solely on petition­ truth — that is, for the capitalist minority whose rule is ensured white supremacy, and not black they are concentrated and in a ing the government for redress by the two-party system. power, are the root of the prob­ clear numerical majority. of grievances, and instead, to lem facing America today. The two-party swindle is not designed to express the w ill “This demand carries with it organize themselves politically to The statement was drafted and of the majority. This fact of life is recognized by a surprising the idea that they would exercise elect persons who w ill represent adopted at the semi-annual meet­ responsibly and in the public in­ number of Americans. For example, in this election, only 46.5 them in government. There is ing of the board, which includes terest and the powers associated much to support the argument of those eligible to vote actually troubled to do so. And this was white and Negro leaders from all with such public offices. This that recent civil-rights bills were not an unusual figure. In the 1964 elections, which set an all­ the Southern states and the Dis­ would mean majority rule with passed, not because of appeals to time record, only 62 percent of the eligible voters went to the trict of Columbia. The board met concern and safeguards for the the moral conscience of white peo­ polls. . at Calvary Baptist Church. rights of minorities. ple, but because nonviolent dem­ The policy stand was announced Yet certain political facts can be discerned in this terribly “The board of SCEF is sym­ onstrations by Negroes and white by the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, distorted expression of “the people’s w ill.” For one thing, the pathetic to this essential and people developed and disclosed of Birmingham and Cincinnati, original meaning of the phrase, election confirmed that the Vietnam war is extremely unpopular. political power.” who is president of SCEF. He is black power. For black people to This was attested to by George Gallup, head of the Gallup Poll. also secretary of the Southern elect their own representatives in Need Allies A Nov. 10 AP dispatch reported: Christian Leadership Conference, areas where they are a majority The SCEF directors added, how­ “George Gallup, the national pollster, today credited the Re­ headed by Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. w ill represent a meaningful break­ ever, “ that p o litica l success w ill publican Party’s success in Tuesday’s election to the Vietnam King himself has attacked black through and a step toward achiev­ have only limited significance for power, which indicates a division war . . . Dr. Gallup . . . said that other issues had been involved ing a more effective representa­ black people unless they have al­ within SCLC on the question. ‘but the great underlying issue and probably the prime reason tive democracy for all Americans. lies in the larger white com­ The board adopted a separate “The simple truth Is that the m unity. why the GOP did so well was the public’s distress and concern resolution saying it is “outraged rank and file of Americans have over V ietnam .’ ” at the current attacks on the Stu­ “SCEF believes that the needs never really controlled their gov­ and interests o f the poorer and less It is reported that not a single “hawk,” that is, one who dent Nonviolent Coordinating Com­ ernment. We believe that the mittee (SNCC), the Congress of privileged whites of the South campaigned openly as an aggressive supporter of the war, was are similar to those of the poor elected. In such key states as New York and California, the major Racial Equality (CORE) and other m ilitant civil-rights organizations.” black people. Since 1938, SCEF’s party nominees ducked the issue. objective has been to develop Personal Persecution among these groups common allies The big Republican victory undoubtedly also expressed voter “ We view these attacks as an in a joint struggle for a more anger with the Johnson administration over steadily escalating effort to undermine and finally democratic America. The board prices. destroy the whole civil-rights feels that this present challenge movement," the resolution said. However, the re-stabilization of the two-party game, which increases our obligation to do even “We especially deplore the singl­ was thrown off-kilter by the Goldwater defeat, was accomplished more effectively what has always ing out of individual leaders within the framework of the continuing drift to the right of the been our declared function.” for personal persecution. We be­ capitalist parties. This rightward trend has been the hallmark lieve that Stokely Carmichael In this connection, the board of the era of cold war. should not be made a scapegoat voted to expand SCEF’s work of Racism, which is so deeply rooted in American capitalist for America’s social problems.” organizing poor people in the society, was given significant expression at the polls. Perhaps The SCEF board pointed to a Southern mountains and other the clearest expression of racism was the overwhelming victory part of its policy statement which parts of the South. The stated aim said: “Those who attack civil- is to bring together poor white in New York of the proposition to bar civilian control of the and Negro people for joint action police. Only a minority of radical and liberal-minded whites rights leaders and organizations that are raising the questions to solve political and economic sided with the black people in this fight which was squarely which white America must face problems. posed on a racist basis by the reactionaries who rammed through are denying our society the op­ SCEF also made plans to help the proposition. portunity to examine what is organize Southwide opposition to The outcome of the New York referendum was also one destroying us.” plans of the House Un-American more lesson in the fallacy of looking to professional liberal The board declared that “the Activities Committee (HUAC) to politicians for meaningful aid in such a fight. Those who cham­ idea of black power has a long “investigate the civil-rights move­ pioned the proposition to bar civilian control of the cops spent and honorable history, but it is ment on the pretext of looking for currently being misrepresented in ‘subversive’ influences in out­ an estimated m illion dollars. The committee organized by Mayor the news media in the United breaks which occurred in various Lindsay to oppose them spent $100,000. These figures are a good States.” Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth cities.” measure of the contrasting vigor of the two campaigns. Even more scandalous was the role of the New York labor officialdom which, with a few secondary exceptions, remained silent. If anything proved the need for black power, the New York referendum did. It was an object lesson that black people must World Events rely on their own strength and not on the liberal white “con­ State of Siege Armed Forces. This is the group Minister, people described you as science.” formerly headed by Turcios, who a tough, ruthless, unrelenting in­ The Guatemalan government The election pointed up once more the ruinous nature of was recently killed in an auto­ dividual. Do you think that is an headed by President Julio César mobile accident that was not with­ accurate description?" the policy of the union bureaucracy in relying on Democratic Mendez Montenegro, declared a out its suspicious circumstances. Vorster replied, “All I can say “friends.” The number of open partisans of anti-labor legislation state of siege Nov. 3. According to is that I’m perfectly prepared to in Congress was increased, and Johnson w ill have an even easier bulletins on radio and television, It Worked Before be judged by my opponents in time in pushing his projected anti-strike and other union-curbing the move was taken to cope with The Belaunde government in this country. Perhaps the reason violence being waged by extrem­ legislation. Peru opened its anti-guerrilla cam­ why the tough image was built up ists of “both left and right.” The lesson for working people, Negroes and antiwar fighters paign last year with similar mea­ in the outside world was because The state o f siege, w hich was in'the 1966 election, is the need to break with the parties of sures to those of Guatemala’s Men­ it was my job to eradicate Com­ set for 30 days, bars meetings of capitalism — the parties of war, racism and anti-unionism. dez. These proved to be of suffi­ munism — and that is, in fact, more than four persons and legal­ cient merit in Washington to war­ what I did.” izes arrests without warrants. Ma­ rant the bequest of counter-guer­ Sound Advice from ACLU jor blows seemed to be directed rilla weapons similar to those used Japanese Politics against the left. The student week­ in the early period of the Vietnam The Japanese Communist Party The American Civil Liberties Union is to be commended ly El Estudiante was closed down war — napalm bombs included. unanimously agreed to follow an for its Nov. 13 appeal to the nation’s colleges and universities to by police. An unrevealed number Although the Mendez regime independent policy from Moscow block future efforts by HUAC to obtain the membership lists of leftists were said to have been has sought to represent itself as and Peking, according to an Oct. arrested. of campus organizations critical of the U.S. role in Vietnam. liberal, it recently mounted a m ili­ 29 Reuters dispatch from Tokyo. tary campaign in the northeast The move was said to follow the The ACLU acted on the basis of the House committee sub­ Yankee Involvement? mountain region against the guer­ purging of more than 50 pro-Pe­ poenaing such lists from the University of California at Berkeley A U. S. company may have in­ rilla forces who have long been king party members. and from the University of Michigan last August. In Michigan, spired the Guatemalan govern­ entrenched there. Mendez may be university authorities provided the Congressional witchhunters ment’s sudden move. The day be­ hoping to match Belaunde’s suc­ Antiwar Paper with the names of members of an affiliate of SDS, a campus fore the state of siege was an­ cess in utilizing U.S. arms and To be welcomed is the publica­ antiwar committee, and a W.E.B. DuBois Club chapter. nounced, eight men armed with, dollars against the struggle for na­ tion of an English edition of the Pointing to the strong legal precedents for resisting the de­ machine guns attacked the Em­ tional liberation and socialism. Swedish “Viet/Nam Bulletin.” presa Eléctrica de Guatemala, a This is a hard-hitting, fact-filled mands for such lists, the ACLU warned that the action at UCLA subsidiary of American and For­ Line of Duty magazine expressing the view­ and Michigan constituted “one of the most serious breaches of eign Power. They bombed the In a noticeably friendly inter­ point of the Swedish antiwar academic freedom of students in recent decades, not excluding electric plant and set fire to two view with South Africa’s new movement. Copies may be ob­ the McCarthy era.” tanks containing 90,000 gallons of prime minister John Vorster, U.S. tained from VIET/NAM-bulletin, Student organizations would do well to mobilize campus diesel oil. • News and World Report asked postal account 400 632, Stockholm sentiment sufficient to help campus authorities see the wisdom The guerrillas identified them­ him, “What about your own K , Sweden. of accepting the ACLU’s very sound advice. selves as members of the Rebel image? When you became Prime Ed S m ith Monday, Novem ber 21, 1966 THE MILITANT Page Five National Antiwar Protest Iowa Professor Fired [Last week we reported on the Namara’s house on the previous one of the ushers. They were im­ rally of 20.000 in New York and Thursday and Friday. The dem­ mediately surrounded by members For His Marxist Views the Cleveland participation in the onstration and rally on Saturday of the audience unwilling to let November 5-8 Mobilization against was larger and had broader sup­ them achieve their goal of disrup­ Dr. Donald Barnett, an anthropologist at the University of Iowa the war in Vietnam. Following are port of D.C. area antiwar groups tion, and were immediately ejected in Iowa City, w ill not have his contract renewed in June, 1968, accord­ reports of activities from other than any previous local march, from the auditorium. ing to the university administration. cities.] and was organized by the Wash­ Three people were arrested, two While only vague official reasons were given, Dr. Barnett said, ington CEWV. members of Breakthrough, and one “The main reason my contract was not renewed was because they B A Y A R E A Speakers at the rally included member of the Detroit CEWV, Jim don’t care to have dissenting views publicly expressed in their [an­ SAN FRANCISCO — Although Professor Howard Zinn; Julius Griffin. They are all being charged thropology] department. There were no inquiries made in to m y classes, it was a cold, damp day, 700 anti­ Hobson of ACT; Stanley Faulk­ with disturbing the peace by the my research, my book, or my students; it was clearly a matter of my war activists distributed thousands ner, attorney for the Ft. Hood University. Griffin is also filing political activity and my being a Marxist-oriented anthropologist. ” of leaflets in the Bay Area against Three; and Barbara Pashoff, who charges against one of the mem­ Dr. Barnett has been active in the Iowa Socialist League, and has the war, Nov. 5. The leafleting was represented the newly - formed bers of Breakthrough, who threw spoken at several teach-in and antiwar demonstrations. a karate punch across the chest at organized by the Bay Area Peace Washington Area High School Stu­ At a protest rally against the war, on Nov. 5, Dr. Barnett had Organizing Committee, a coordin­ dents Committee to End the War Griffin, while Griffin was being stated that he would not submit grades of his students to the univer­ held by the University security ating body of many groups. in Vietnam. Bill Frederick from sity as long as the university turned them over to the draft board. The Vietnam Day Committee at Philadelphia sang topical folk police. Other members of the au­ “As an anthropologist, ” he said, “I find this situation particularly the University of California in songs at the rally. dience are also filing charges ironic and bizarre. In teaching about tribal societies and peasant Berkeley held a rally Nov. 4 which against members of Breakthrough. peoples in the under developed world, the grades which anthropologists attracted 4,000 students. P rof. PITTSBURGH A jury trial is set for Nov. 15. give are being used to decide who among our students should go and be Crews of the English Department, The highlight of the weekend sent to k ill our informants and the subjects of our studies. ” CHICAGO Carl Frank and Rick Fineberg of activities in Pittsburgh was a The dismissal notification was sent prior to this statement, however, the VDC, and Pete Camejo of the teach-in attended by 1,500 people, CHICAGO — Several events and apparently had nothing to do with it. United Committee Against the the largest antiwar action in Pitts­ were held here as part of the The Nov. 5 rally and march in Iowa City against the war drew W ar, spoke on Vietnam . The sec­ burgh to date. The teach-in was Nov. 5-8 Peace Mobilization. On between 400 and 500 participants, and was sponsored by Friends o< ond part of the rally was devoted organized by an ad hoc group of Sunday, Nov. 6, a “ town hall meet­ SNCC, the Iowa Vietnam Day Committee, SDS and the Iowa So­ cialist League. 1 to free speech and opposition to individuals, and held in the Car­ ing” was held, sponsored by the campus administration moves to negie Music Hall. Chicago Peace Council. About 500 curb it. Other activities included a show­ attended the meeting at which Lynch, CORE; Edward Keating, Mario Savio, the leader of the ing at the University of Pittsburgh senatorial candidates or their rep­ On Monday night, a crowd of editor of Ramparts; Clark Kissing­ 1964-65 Free Speech Movement, of slides on Vietnam taken by resentatives presented their views 150 to 200 heard the noted Negxo er, Chicago CIPA; Douglas Camp­ spoke along with conservative Felix Greene. This was organized on the war. They answered ques­ correspondent W illiam Worthy at­ student leader Dan Rosenthal, by the campus Students fo r Peace. tions put to them by a panel of bell, director Guthrie Theatre; tack manipulation of the news by James Malcolm Williams, former Bettina Aptheker of the Commu­ Charles E. Osgood, University of the government and the press. D E T R O IT Republican Senatorial candidate; nist Party, Karen Lieberman, and 7 Illinois professor, Gordon C. Zahn, Following Worthy’s speech, work­ and Joe Johnson, SWP candidate others. Savio received a prolonged, DETROIT — The November professor of sociology at Loyola shops on black power, programs for the U. S. Senate. standing ovation. Days of Protest Against the War University, and Sidney Lens. for ending the war, and electoral The main program of speakers On the evening of Nov. 5, the in Vietnam here were marked by The representative of Demo­ politics were held. VDC held a very successful fund­ a fear campaign mounted by mem­ cratic senator Douglas defended was followed by a number of sem­ The Mobilization concluded on. raising dance. A bout 1,000 people bers of a local ultra-right wing the war. Republican candidate inars on various aspects of the Tuesday evening with a speech paid $2.25 to attend, after the group, Breakthrough. Prior to the Charles Percy’s representative war that continued through most delivered by Lincoln Lynch, as­ campus administration banned all march and rally on Saturday, trie d to sell Percy as a “ peace of the night. The high point of sociate national director of CORE, the seminar series was a panel dis­ film showings at the dance. Donald Lobsinger, one of the candidate.” Two write-in candi­ to an audience of 125. There were several rallies at more prominent members of dates, Maxwell Primack, an inde­ cussion conducted by the Inter­ national Students Council. A south San Francisco State College be­ Breakthrough, sent a message to pendent antiwar activist, and SEATTLE fore Nov. 5, and a teach-in Nov. the Detroit Common Council Claude Lightfoot of the Commu­ Vietnamese student presented the SEATTLE — Nov. 5 a “Drive 7 at Stanford University. The threatening “bloodshed” if “in­ nist Party, spoke against the war. case fo r Am erican intervention Against the War” motorcade criss­ Stanford administration refused flammatory” signs and banners Darwin Johnson, brother of one while students from Iran, Argen­ crossed Seattle for several hours. facilities for the teach-in, and it were displayed. of the Fort Hood Three, spoke tina, West Germany and Iraq de­ The motorcade, sponsored by the nounced American aggression, ex­ had to be held outside. The reaction of the antiwar b rie fly about the case of the three Seattle CEWV, was made up of On Nov. 10, representatives of movement was to close ranks soldiers who refused to go to plained the crucial relevence of about 40 cars. Each car had a Dow Chemical, one of the man­ against these terrorists: approx­ Vietnam and questioned the can­ the war to the rest of the colonial large three dimensional banner ufacturers of napalm, attempted to imately 1,000 antiwar demonstra­ didates about their stand on the revolution and described the anti­ mounted on the roof with antiwar interview University of California tors massed before Central Meth­ case. Johnson also spoke at a war movement in their own coun­ slogans. A t the head of the motor­ students at Berkeley for future odist Church in downtown De­ church that morning and at a tries. cade was a car equipped with a- jobs. They were met by a spirited troit, in face of a pre-winter’s gathering to raise funds to defend The bulk of the audience at the loudspeaker which could be heard picket line, led by the VDC. The snowstorm, and marched down the the Fort Hood Three that night. teach-in were students and fac­ in a several blocks radius. VDC expected no more than 30 main street in Detroit to event­ On Monday, Nov. 7, a teach-in ulty from the University of Min­ On Monday, Nov. 7 the Univer­ pickets because of short notice, ually rally behind the Veterans was held at the University of Il­ nesota, though there was greater sity of Washington CEWV spon­ but 750 were on hand to greet the Memorial building. Setting the linois, sponsored by the Circle participation from off-campus peo­ sored a march to protest the war Dow representatives. Keer Jones, pace of the march were over 40 Campus Committee to End the ple than previous meetings. Carle- in Vietnam. The march began on a VDC member and chemistry Afro-Americans organized by the War in Vietnam, the Faculty Com­ ton College in Northfield sent two the campus at 12: 30 P. M., wound major, made a batch of napalm Afro-American Unity Movement, mittee on Vietnam, SNCC and busloads of students for the event. through the University shopping at the rally. one of the sponsors of the dem­ SDS. Students for a Democratic On Nov. 5, the MCEWV held district, and ended about an hour onstration, amd behind them a Society sponsored a teach-in at two street rallies in downtown later behind the University li­ Minneapolis and downtown St. WASHINGTON good size contingent of Veterans Roosevelt University on the same brary. About 60 students partic­ Against the War in Vietnam, Paul. ipated. WASHINGTON, D.C. — In re­ day. Each of the meetings was at­ marching to a steady roll of Immediately following the sponse to the November 5-8 Mobil­ tended by about 60 people. MADISON drums. Members of Breakthrough march, a teach-in was held on the ization, 550 people picketed the picketed along the route of the MADISON — Because the No­ University of Washington campus, White House, marched to Dupont BUFFALO march, but made no attempt to v e m b e r Mobilization coincided co-sponsored by the UWCEWV and Circle for a rally, and proceeded BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lafayette carry out their previous threats with the University of Wisconsin’s Faculty Committee on War and to Secretary of Defense Robert Sq. in downtown Buffalo was the against the well-organized dem­ Homecoming, the Madison CEWV Peace. McNamara’s house where they scene of an outdoor m eeting of onstration. adopted as the main theme of its picketed for an hour. This was 60 people against the war in Viet­ On Sunday evening, 150 people activities the slogan “Homecoming RIVERSIDE on Nov. 5. The demonstration was nam on Nov. 5. The rally was attended a fund-raising “Hoot for for the Troops — End the War RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A num­ preceded by picketing of General sponsored by SDS, YAWF and the Peace” held at the Wayne State in Vietnam. ” It was felt that this ber of activities were held here Hershey’s house, Secretary of University of Buffalo Socialist University campus. There were no slogan would point out to the com­ in conjunction with the national State Dean Rusk’s house, and Sec­ Club. Robin Maisel of the Phila­ disruptions. Well known artists, munity the fact that it is the anti­ mobilization. Preceeding the week­ retary of Defense Robert Mac- delphia CEWV, on tour for the Ron Colder, Jan and Lorraine, Pit war movement which best rep­ end activities, the SDS chapter of Nov. 5-8 Mobilization Committee, Pinell, Bob Miller, among many resents the interests of American the University of California here spoke along with several members others, donated their talents for the soldiers. held several well-attended rallies of YAW F. “ Hoot.” On Saturday night a fund-rais­ on campus. On Monday, the Wayne Commit­ ing party succeeded in raising On Nov. 5, 150 people marched ST. L O U IS tee to End the War in Vietnam more than $100 to replenish the through the downtown district to held a teach-in against the war on ST. LOUIS — One hundred and CEWV’s depleted treasury. the county courthouse where they campus. National speakers in­ fifty people, mostly college stu­ The following afternoon was the heard speakers. Following the cluded M.S. Arnoni, editor of the dents, marched into downtown St. high point of the mobilization. A demonstration, 35 students con­ Minority of One; James Aronson, Louis on Nov. 5 and distributed rally on the mall of the Univer­ tinued an all-night vigil on the editor of the National Guardian, antiwar leaflets. After the distribu­ sity library attracted a crowd of county courthouse steps. Groups Barry Sheppard, managing editor tion, the leafleters gathered at the approxim ately 800. One of the of people were sent out to dis­ o f The Militant, Joe Mora, brother Old Post Office in the center of featured speakers, Edward Keat­ tribute literature to shoppers in of Dennis Mora, one of the Fort the business district and sang spir­ ing o f Ramparts magazine, was the downtown district. Hood Three; and Floyd McKissick, ited antiw ar songs. unable to appear, but the crowd One indication of the growing National Director of CORE. The singing was followed by an responded enthusiastically to the antiwar sentiment in this commu­ Local speakers included the address by John Moore, former speech of the Reverend James nity has been the dissolving of the Reverend Albert Cleage; James president of SDS at Washington Bevel of the Southern Christian Young Democratic Clubs as a pro­ Lafferty of ACLU; and Professor University here, and now a leader Leadership Conference, who at­ test against this district’s pro­ Arnold Kaufman from the U. of of the St. Louis Ethical Society. tacked- the tendency of Western Johnson Democratic' congressman. Michigan. McKissick, the last The mobilization was called by civilization to regard as “uncivil­ speaker of the teach-in, drew re­ the St. Louis Citizens for Peace in ized” any society which does not BOSTON sounding applause and a standing Vietnam. engage in mass murder. Other BOSTON — A planned march ovation. speakers at the rally were Fred of antiwar activists was rained out One highlight of the teach-in, TWIN CITIES Bassett Blair, Communist Party on Nov. 5, but a rally which was although unscheduled, was antic­ MINNEAPOLIS — The Min­ candidate for governor, and James to have followed the march was nesota Committee to End the War Boulton, Socialist Workers Party ANTIWAR FIGHTER. Lincoln ipated. Several known Break­ held, with about 200 people brav­ through members were allowed in Vietnam conducted its most candidate for Congress in Milwau­ ing the storm to hear speakers and Lynch, associate national direc­ entry into the teach-in by the successful mass meeting to date, kee’s fifth district. see the Bread and Puppet Theater. tor of CORE, spoke at a number University officials. Upon enter­ drawing over 1,200 persons to a The rally was followed by a pot- The meeting was sponsored by the of antiwar rallies. Both CORE ing the teach-in for the second or protest teach-in Nov. 7. Addressing luck supper which further con­ Greater Boston Coordinating Com­ and SNCC gave support to na­ third time, members of Break­ the main rally were Sid Lens, of tributed to making the mobiliza­ mittee Against the War in Viet­ tional protest. through shoved and intimidated Liberation magazine; Lincoln tion a financial success. nam. Page & ix THE MILITANT Monday, November 21, 1966 A MAJOR SPEECH Cuban-Korean Declaration on Vietnam The following are excerpts from a joint statement issued by the governments of Cuba and the Democratic People’s Re­ Castro on Moral Incentives public of Korea following conversations held in Korea Oct. In an important speech last house or a small apartment. Every­ reason for the attitude of the 26-29. Sept. 28, Fidel Castro announced one remembers the common people in all parts of the country # * * that all rents would be abolished dream: to one day have a home — in the cities and in the rural in Cuba in 1970 (except for those of one’s own. We all remember areas, in the loneliest mountain — The struggle of the Vietnamese people against U. S. im­ who are not paying the govern­ those commercial firms that, in the reason for their firmness in perialist aggression is the focus of the anti-imperialist strug­ ment the rent they are supposed order to sell soap or newspapers, support of the revolution, it is be­ gle for the present. . . Both sides [to the communiqué] con­ to today. ) raffled off a small house each cause the revolution has created sider that the socialist countries, all the anti-im perialist forces month; and how many in the Castro indicated there had been confidence and a sense of security in the world should unite and actively assist the Vietnamese country and in the cities saved spine opposition to the idea of among the people. It has created people. . . abolishing rents by those who, he those soap coupons or newspaper the conviction that everything said, had too narrow and conser­ coupons in the hope that, as one may be accomplished by work and Both delegations express full, m ilitant solidarity with the vative an approach to the revolu­ out of every thousand, or one out struggle. fraternal north and south Vietnamese people. . . and once tion. He argued that the manpower of every million, he would be lucky It is not because the revolution again declare their firm determination to send volunteers any expended in the collection of rents enough to win a house. has filled all the material needs time the Vietnamese people request it. . . coold be more effectively em­ A “financier, ” a pure economist, of the people. No. But a great part The two delegations consider that under the conditions ployed elsewhere. a metaphysician of revolutions of the moral needs of this people which the U. S. imperialists are escalating the war of aggres­ He went on to discuss the issue would have said, “Careful! Rents have been filled by the revolution. of moral versus material Incen­ sion in Vietnam stage by stage, the struggle against U. S. im ­ shouldn’t be lowered one cent. Many people wonder why tives in rallying popular support perialism and for assisting the Vietnamese people should like­ Think of it from a financial stand­ there’s such enthusiasm among the for increased production and other wise be waged in a more organized way and escalated on a point, from an economic stand­ masses; w h y such reactions arise world scale. necessary tasks of the revolution. point. T h in k of the pesos in ­ in individuals everywhere. And This issue has been debated in volved. ” there’s something that can’t be The two delegations unanimously hold that for this it is Cuba and Che Guevara had been Such persons have peso signs calculated mathematically simply necessary, first of all, to achieve international anti-imperialist reported the principal champion in their heads and hearts. by multiplying and dividing, by joint action and form an anti-imperialist united front. of moral incentives, with leaders But, if we want a people who adding and subtracting, and that’s of the old Cuban Popular Socialist remove the peso sign from the moral benefits that the revolu­ (Communist) Party arguing for their minds, who remove the tion has meant for the people, without the need for a peso sign the people were prepared to die m aterial incentives. peso sign from their hearts, we what feeling for the first time like in the head and bills in the pocket rather than surrender. To die be­ . Castro also assailed those “tired must have men who have gotten human beings, like men and wom­ — tend to gradually create a more fore giving up. And willingness to revolutionaries” who resist deep­ rid of their own mental peso signs. en in the fullest sense of the advanced social consciousness in die rather than surrender signifies ening the* revolution and embrac­ Those persons would have said, word, has meant for every man the people, tend to create dif­ that a human being is motivated ing ever wider goals for it. De­ “No. ” And they would have added and woman in this country, what ferent property values in the by much more than mere biolo­ claring. such. people.m u st.step up accounts. it has meant for millions of men people, a different regard for ma­ gical instincts; that a human being aside, he declared: “It is better and women in this country — te ria l possessions, a d iffe re n t re­ is motivated by something higher to have a retired revolutionary Against Privilege w hat it has meant to cease being gard for man’s work. than simple “ animal appetites. ”... tjiban a tire d m an try in g to act lik e We could have asked them then, nothing in order to become some­ Consider those who fought in A revolutionary. ” We do not believe in utopia. We “For what reason do you ask the thing. For in that old society the difficult days of our own rev­ Because of space limitation, we do not believe that this can be people to make a revolution? By where just a handful were every­ olutionary struggle (the times we ai*e able to present only sections done overnight. We do not believe chance for purely metaphysical thing, millions of human beings know best, since we experienced of the speech dealing with the that this consciousness can be dev­ reasons? For what reason are you were nothing, millions of human them); those in the cities who issue of moral incentives. eloped in just a few years, but going to ask the people to struggle beings didn’t count for any­ we do believe that it w ill never risked their lives daily during * * * and even die in defense of the th in g . . . be created if we do not struggle those difficult days, ruthlessly I was saying that it is man’s revolution? ” There’s not one family, one far­ unceasingly, if we do not advance persecuted; those in the moun­ attitude before obstacles and dif­ Could we expect the people to mer, one single worker, one com­ incessantly on this path... tains, sweaty and hungry, their ficulties, his attitude toward ef­ believe, to be simple a priori be­ mon man, in our country that Of course, it is far easier to ap­ clothing tattered, weighed down fort, that serves as a yardstick to lievers in all of that? Or was it doesn’t feel that security in the peal to the selfish interests of by heavy packs, who marched day gauge the mettle of a revolution­ necessary, in the first place, to face of death, accidents, illness, in men than to appeal to their feel­ after day, month after month, and ary. The optimistic, revolutionary demonstrate that the revolution the face of anything. And all this ings of solidarity, to their feelings year after year to fight and to die. Ideas that we defend w ill no doubt was on the side of the people, that has been creating in our citizens of generosity; and, clearly, many What were their motivations? be challenged by calculating cri­ the revolution was against the in­ a sense of th e ir own w orth. This things can still be solved with Were “animal appetites” by tics, by those whose attitude to­ terests of the rich, that the revolu­ has been creating in them a sense money. Clearly, even now, a fac­ chance behind their struggles? ward life is entirely metaphysical, tion was against the interests of of their own dignity. tory can “hijack” workers from Were they motivated by selfish who add and subtract, but come the exploiters, that the revolution, another factory, by offering instincts? O r did an idea, a cause, Armed Populace out wrong on the total — which with no hesitation whatsoever, sa­ money. With higher wages, any a moral factor lie behind that is the sum of willpower, courage crificed and hurt the interests of Today in the rural areas of our work center can lure workers strength, that capacity for finding and determination. It is the sum the privileged minorities for the country, you no longer see pairs from another center in what is followers, that quality which was total of the moral factors with sake of the interests of the people? of rural guards with their ma­ truly a piratical action. able to arouse a whole people which the peoples have always There wouldn’t have been even chetes, with their big horses. No, In the reality of matters as when the day arrived?. . . undertaken — and accomplished one law in the name of those prin­ you no longer see a single man they stand, many men and wom­ And these factors are the ones — the great tasks in the history ciples. They would have proposed or woman in the countryside who en — for a series of reasons — which mobilize our people today of mankind. . . to go on charging the farmers sees power as a thing apart, au­ economic, social, or from lack of throughout the entire nation. They There are often some who va­ rent. In the name of the same thority as a thing apart, the state conscience — still cannot bring will enable us to win today’s cillate when faced by great tasks, principles, they would have con­ as a thing apart. For today these themselves to turn down the op­ battles and to reach tomorrow’s but among the vacillators we w ill tinued to charge the farmers in­ men and women are the authori­ portunity to receive something goals. find the first opportunists. terest on loans. They would have ty. They are the ones who have more for themselves. But those Revolutionary Mobilization We have not the slightest doubt charged for medical and hospital the weapons in their hands — who wish to solve problems by that with the effort made by the care. They would have charged more and better weapons than appealing to personal selfishness, The number reckoners w ill find people, with the effort we have school fees. They would have those rural guards had. Today by appealing to individual effort, that such factors, which they have been making and are making to­ charged for the boarding schools they are the power. But not just forgetful of society, are acting in never taken into account, have day, with the ever greater effort that are now completely free — in words or in theory, but in fact, a reactionary manner, conspiring, more force than all their calcula­ that we must make in the coming all in the name of a metaphysical in reality. There’s no farmer, re­ although inspired by the best in­ tions, more force than all their year, the people, with its strength approach to life. gardless of age, who doesn’t have tentions in the world, against the figures. The number reckoners — and w ith its sweat, w ill be capable his weapon there in his company possibilities of creating a truly so­ and there are those who act in of creating riches incomparably Mass Enthusiasm or in his battalion. There’s no far­ cialist spirit, a truly communist good faith and those who do not superior to whatever financial im­ They would never have had the mer who doesn’t have there the spirit in the people. He will be — must also one day recognize plications may be involved in the people’s enthusiasm, the masses’ means for defending his rights, conspiring against the effort to this reality; for our people are on fact that the people stop paying enthusiasm, which is the prime for defending his revolution. And create an awareness in the people the march, our people are advan­ rent in 1970. With the other cri­ factor, the basic factor for a people this has created a moral fortitude of the possibility of a way of life cing. terion we would never have ar­ to advance, for a people to build, in the men and women of this in which men, acting and work­ We may not reach every goal rived at any rent cut, and one for a people to be able to develop. country, a moral fortitude that ing in unison, w ill be able to give now, nor tomorrow, but we are of the first things the revolution And that enthusiasm on the part cannot be measured in terms of each individual member of society getting nearer and nearer to the did was to reduce rents — in of the people, that support for the numerals. For those are the things much more than he could ever time when the facts will show m any cases as much as 50 per­ revolution is something that can that have made the people mo­ attain on a solitary path, left to exactly what our people are ca­ cent. be measured in terms incomparab­ bilize to carry out every task, to his own resources. pable of producing even though Everyone is familiar with the ly superior to the adding and sub­ answer every appeal of the revolu­ faced with difficulties which the anguish, the bitterness and the tracting of the metaphysicians. tion, of any kind whatsoever. . . Encourage Generosity imperialist enemy forces upon us; feeling of insecurity that existed Of course the revolution was Difficult struggles have to be There are always those who even though faced with difficul­ under the former system, the suf­ unable to give the people all that waged against reactionary ideas. pander to the selfishness of others. ties which underdevelopment be­ fering of having to pay rent — they needed. The people could not And we’ve been moving forward But those of us who call ourselves queathed us, such as the wide­ in m any cases as much as h a lf be given what the revolution did from th a t stage. revolutionaries should never relax spread illiteracy and great ignor­ the salary earned — for a small not have to give. But the revolu­ But we have new stages before the fight against such individual­ ance that existed in our country; tion did give the people all that us. And once more, we w ill find ist tendencies. We must always even though faced with any num­ it could. The revolution has sought reactionary ideas in our way, ideas encourage the generosity and soli­ ber of adverse conditions, any to give the people all that it had that might have been revolution­ darity of the men and and women number of reverses stemming from MALCOLM X to give. It has sought, above all, ary 10 years ago, yet can be per­ of our nation. . . our enemy or from nature itself. to create confidence among the fectly reactionary today. The ide­ And as for those who never be­ people and a sense of security in ological positions of yesterday may lieved in the people, who had no TALKS TO their own future. not be sufficiently advanced when faith in them in the past, how We have spoken in the name of confronted with the ideological can we expect them to believe in The Origins socialism, we have spoken in the positions of today. Today we see the people today, or to begin be­ YOUNG PEOPLE name of communism, but we w ill beyond them; we are not satisfied lieving in the future? Those who never create socialist conscious­ with drops in the bucket; we are have no faith in the moral virtues Of Materialism ness and m uch less communist not satisfied with a revolution by of the peoples of the world can 35c. consciousness with a storekeeper halves. We believe in the people. never be leaders, can never lead By George Novack m entality. We believe in man. a people forward. For man does The Young Socialist We w ill never create socialist And these things that the rev­ not live by bread alone. 300 pp. $6. 95 P.O. Box 471 consciousness and communist con­ olution does, these ideas in rela­ And if we recall those moments sciousness with a peso sign in the tion to housing, medical services, in the past that were difficult MERIT PUBLISHERS Cooper Station mindfe and hearts of the men and education, in relation to every­ and perilous for us, we must also 5 East Third Street New York, N. Y. 10003 women of the people. thing that is given the people — recall the people’s attitudes. It New York, N. Y. 10003 And if we ask ourselves the without the need for payment, was clear on those occasions that Monday, November 21, 1966 THE MILITANT Page Seven 3 ottoha J ’Aom Owi HsuadsM

[T h is column is an open forum Ray of Hope step towards the abolition of all ------Thought for the Week ------for all viewpoints on subjects of Washington, D. C. “isms, ” and the beginning of a general interest to our readers. new world where human beings WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 ( UPI) — The United States may have Into this reactionary hell-hole Please keep your letters brief. will for the first time in their to send up to two million troops to Vietnam if it wants to win the called a “university” where I am Where necessary they will be long savage history begin to be war there in as little as five years, according to the Defense De­ comes The Militant, a b rig h t ray abridged. Writers’ initials will be human. partment's new guerrilla warfare director. of hope renewing confidence in used, names being withheld unless the future. Its clear voice of sanity The United States advertises authorization is given for use. ] is much prized in a world gone itself as the country which has the most political freedom in the oppressors in the forthcoming mad in its decay. jtried for murder. Impressed P . R. world, and to a certain extent this days, months and years. Millions for “Cuban refugees" B rooklyn, N. Y. is true, but over the years, the Carl Moskowitz ($10 million in loans since Feb­ opposition to the oligarchy has ruary, 1961), loans that w ill never On Sunday, last, at about 12: 15 From a Veteran Socialist been allowed to dissent only as Cuban Refugees be paid back. Yet Congress has not p. m., over WABC, a young woman Vashon, Wash. long as it was not too excessive, San Diego, Calif. appropriated one cent to purchase speaker for the Socialist Workers I see my subscription is out and and as long as Nthe ru lin g class ground for burial of our heroes Party was interviewed with refer­ There are a number of United I don’t want the paper stopped, deemed it “healthy” (for their who come home from Vietnam In ence to this administration’s con­ States neutrality violations by so I’ll send you $3 for another own health no doubt) for the na­ coffins. They have seen fit to ap* duct of the war in Vietnam. I was year. I’m gambling with old Fa­ Cuban refugees. The Register tional interest. propriate money to escalate thé greatly impressed with her cour­ (America national Catholic news­ ther Time since I’m 96 years old. war in Vietnam. But the surviving ageous and forthright criticisms But as more people are awak­ paper) stated on Oct. 9 that in I have been reading socialist widows are now being exploited and, if possible, should like a copy ened from their apathy and be­ August, 80 small boats arrived papers since 1897. Victor L. Ber­ to buy burial plots for their herd of this interview. come socially, morally and politi­ here from Cuba. Immigration and ger’s Social Democratic Herald cally aroused, the more severe customs officials turn their atten­ husbands. A lthough having no close rela­ was the first I read. tive or friend involved, I have w ill be the measures taken by the tion away from these violations Some of these widows w ill lose Actually, I’ve been a socialist been very much opposed to what oligarchy to terrorize them men­ until there is a tragedy. their homes for lack of funds. since my old grandfather told me I consider the most ferocious and tally and physically. These mea­ A strict surveillance of small Some w ill probably have to go on brutal war in this 20th century, in 1879 that I was lucky I was sures are intensified when capi­ boats on the east coast of Florida relief to survive, as many survive born in the hills because if I’d with the accompanying slaughter talism enters another phase in its should be in effect. Sea tragedies ing widows of World War II have been born close to Manchester I’d of American youth, upon the most usual periodic crisis. The Vietnam such as the recent drowning of to do. Johnson’s Great Society is be working ten hours a day for hypocritical, fantastic and unbe­ war is the current one. Cuban refugees should not hap­ not for war heroes and their six pence (12 cents). He told me lievable premise, and have so w rit­ It will be interesting to see pen. The skipper, who was getting widows. Cuban refugees come this when I objected to packing ten to men like Senator Fulbright which methods the oppressed w ill paid a thousand dollars a head for first. Why???? peat out of the bog during holiday and others of his persuasion. use to effectually counter their the voyage from Cuba, should be Pauline V. Zeller M . H . in the summer. Karl Marx got the foundation Pro-SWP of his book, Capital, fro m w hat Glen Oaks, N. Y. happened in Manchester. I have The tragic defeat of the civilian his book and he writes what my It Was Reported in the Press complaint review board for the grandfather described to me. police department of New York I’m in a rest home now, for a What Price Nationalization — modem equivalent of the the move after studying the code City is the newest victory for ra­ while, and reading about John­ Tiffany’s catalogue contains this jungle... And it’s about time that for treatment of animals and cism, the ultra-right and illogical son’s dirty war in Vietnam. I’ll somber news: “ Eleven years ago, advertising (and business, too, for found it far superior in protecting emotion over all logic and reason. quit this letter before I tire you the waters of the Gulf of Marta­ that matter) stopped striking well-being. out. ban started to yield the largest, phony attitudes like school chil­ The fact that the voters of New Suddenly They’re Color Blind — most beautiful and now the rarest dren in a charade pretending that York City would not approve even Yours for a better system which The Boston School Committee fig * of cultured pearls. These Burmese they are Faith, Hope and Charity. ” so infinitesimal a step toward the is socialism. ured out a shrewd way to reduce opportunity for understanding be­ B ill Scales cultured pearls. . . are the result For Contrast — Chauffeurs Un­ racial imbalance in the public tween minority groups and their of an unusual environment found limited does a brisk business in school system. The committee oppressors, shows the extent to only in this area. In the spring Capitalism and Slaughter providing temporary, uniformed classified 671 Chinese students as which people under capitalism are of 1963, Burma nationalized these B rooklyn, N. Y. drivers. Many specify the type of “white. ” This removed t w o subject to fear, hatred, prejudice pearl fisheries. It is our belief It is certainly possible, if not chauffeur they want. The requests schools in the Chinese section o f and propaganda. that Burmese cultured pearls of probable, that the massacre of are varied, a company spokesman the city, from the “racially im­ The Socialist Workers Party of­ this quality w ill be almost unob­ half a million Indonesians since said. Some want a tall, imposing balanced” category. However, thé fers a refreshingly different idea tainable in the future. ” But if you last year w ill ultimately benefit man. Others, he said, “ask for a state board of education reversed — a socialism in which everyone act quickly, you can order a Bur­ one or more titanic American cor­ skinny man. ” the decision. is equal, in practice rather than mese matched pearl necklace for porations. And there is no doubt Touché — Reviewing The New merely in theory, and in which $93, 000. A rt of Communication — “ This that the presidents of the above Bohemia in the New York Times, the emotions which retard under­ you could call the Age of Informa­ corporations will hand down a The War for Freedom — The critic Elenore Lester concluded standing are dealt with by de­ tion. , . The age of the specialist few surplus crumbs to their em­ United States Information Agen­ that the author, John G ruen, stroying their immoral base. And is over, but that’s all we talk about ployes to permit them to become cy library in Saigon has several “notes that one of the basic tenets the Socialist Workers, who sup­ because we see it in the rear-view a “two-car family. ” In other books critical of the U. S. role of the New Bohemia is th a t’ in ­ ported the retention of the board window. The man of total aware­ words, a tiny share in the pro­ there, but they’re kept in a special sanity offers a path toward healing' more unequivocally than any other ness is here, b u t invisible, because fits, or a kernel of the “Pirate’s section and not listed in the library the world’s sickness. If this is a ll party in New York, have also led it is environmental. . . The globe booty” w hich seems to be more catalogue. Journalists and other they’ve got for us we’re sunk. Th£ the struggle against aggression by w ill be a little round schoolhouse, appropriate. “responsible citizens” can apply to Establishment has been m aking our own blessed nation and for a thinking machine, a programmed complete withdrawal of the only And the workers of these mam­ the director to read these books, th a t scene fo r a long tim e .” provided they can demonstrate “ a environment. ” — Extract from a foreign troops on Vietnamese soil moth companies w ill no doubt ra­ Reverse Procedure — Roy serious interest. ” Sounds like the speech to the Public Relations So­ — the troops of the United States tionalize the slaughter of 500, 000 O’Nan, who describes himself as pornography section in some libra­ ciety of America by Dr. Marshall of America. people (to open up “new mar­ McLuhan, head of the Center for former “bagman” for Miami-area kets”) as in America’s interest. ries. L. G. Culture and Technology at the racketeers paying for police pror For they have been brainwashed Not Color Blind — W illia m University of Toronto. tection, is thinking about running Red Guards since childhood in the pseudo-phi­ Wade, a blind Negro resident of for mayor of Miami Springs on Detroit, Mich. losophy of the “my country right Newark, has filed a bias com­ Shrewd Move — A Toronto resi­ a reform ticket. He says the place While you have reviewed Isaac or wrong” crap. plaint against the New Jersey dent who is existing on a welfare has become a “sin city” and he’s Deutscher*s “Mao at Bay, ” you Such is the poison of capitalism Blind Men’s Association and the allotm ent of $69 a m onth is seek­ the man to clean it up because should have also mentioned Franz that can cause some American officers of its Camp Happiness. ing to have his status changed he knows the set-up from the in­ Schurman’s article, “What Is Hap­ workers to justify the killing of He charged his application to from human to animal. He made side. — H arry Ring- pening in China? ” in the Oct. 20 hundreds of thousands of their spend a weekend at the camp had New York Review of Books. I t was own class, in such obscene terms. been turned down on racial qualitatively much superior to Isaac Deutscher in a 1965 speech grounds. both Deutscher’s and George No- said, “Socialism w ill not eliminate FOR vack’s attempts to illuminate the all of our problems, but it will A Real American Boy — In case Red Guard phenomenon. Attempts solve the most basic ones. ” There, you’re looking for a nice New York that were wanting in scholarship no doubt, are people who would bar to relax in, you might con­ -I and often shrill in conception. I not be content in any system, no sider a place called Churchill’s. NEW READERS believe you w ill do your readers matter how beneficial it may be. The financial section of the Nov. a service by recommending the But socialism does not necessarily 12 New York Times featured a I aforesaid article. have to be an end onto itself, in­ glowing account of how an enter­ If you are a new reader and would like to get better Elias Boukhara stead it could be a preliminary prising 27-year-old fellow made a acquainted, you may obtain a special four-month Intro« I big success of it. The article opened: “When Charles Potyala ductory subscription by sending this blank and $1 to If you enjoy reading The M ilitant and are interested in talks to the miniskirted waitresses I what the young socialist movement is thinking and doing, at Churchill’s. . . he usually talks you w ill want to subscribe to America’s leading young so­ tough. He’s a proprietor and if the I cialist magazine girls don’t keep moving, he loses business. 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While there, That is what is most significant­ to participate in discussions on Mo., trial of Robert B. DePugh, she represented the American ly absent, particularly from the how to improve coordination of the “national coordinator” of the reported testimony in the Mis­ Young Socialist Alliance at an the fight against the war in Viet­ right-wing organization, and two antiwar youth demonstration in souri trial. In New York, we nam, and explore the possibilities others. For one thing, the Minute­ Liege, Belgium, on Oct. IS. Misi learned that the Minutemen had of setting up — as a beginning — men considered putting cyanide in plans to attack four left-wing Waters is the editor of the Young a Western European committee to the air-conditioning system of the camps or headquarters and that . Socialist. ] coordinate this work. United Nations building in New they planned to kill if necessary, I : joined the demonstration in Unfortunately, there were also Y o rk C ity. (see The Militant, Nov. 14). a big, open square in Liege, one or two sour notes struck dur­ They also discussed the idea of It is nothing short of police and where thousands of socialist youth ing the course of the weekend. assassinating Senator J. W. Ful- court complicity to let the Minute­ from various European countries The British Young Socialists car­ bright, chairman of the Senate men off on charges that don’t go were congregating before they ried a banner proclaiming “Long foreign relations committee. These beyond possession of guns or “ con­ marched through the city. Re­ Live the 1956 Hungarian Revolu­ two barbaric plans among others spiracy. ” These men are danger­ sponding to the call of the Belgian tion. ” A contingent of about 150 came out in the six-day trial which ous. We would like to know how Young Socialist Guards, the dele­ Belgian Communist Youth seized ended Nov. 14 with the convic­ they get their weapons, what they gations from many countries made upon this banner as a convenient tion of DePugh, Walter Patrick intend to do with them, and w hat this the first European-wide dem­ pretext for walking off the line. Peyson and Troy Houghton for they already have done. I t w ould onstration against the war in Viet­ The leaders of the British Young conspiracy. be a grave mistake to look to the nam and the North Atlantic Socialists, instead of recognizing capitalist government for protec­ Treaty Organization (NATO). The maximum sentences could that the banner was an unneces­ be 15 years for DePugh and Pey­ tion from attacks by rightists. It Large delegations of several sary obstacle to building a united- w ill be necessary at all times and hundred were sent by the English ton and five years for Houghton. front demonstration in defense of The defendants were given 30 days circumstances for the movement to Young Socialists, the French Rev­ the Vietnam revolution, and in­ look to its own resources for de­ olutionary Communist Youth in which to file for a new trial stead of seeing the walkout of and were continued free on bond. fense from such attacks. (JCR), the French youth around Mary-Alice Waters the Communist Youth as a defeat thè magazine “ Revoltes, ” the Ger­ for such a united front, saw the As in the case of the sensa­ man Socialist Students (SDS), fire to an American flag they had whole episode as a victory for tional arrests of the Minutemen in Mid Of course the Belgian organ­ been dragging though the streets themselves. New Y o rk Oct. 30, emphasis in Women’s Rights izers of the demonstration. In ad­ the press has centered on the note­ to symbolize their hatred for the A second sectarian episode dition, there were almost 100 from worthy gun collections of these policies of the U. S. government. marred the end of the rally when Denmark, and representatives “patriotic but misguided” citizens. Everyone congregated in a large the Revoltes group shouted down Group Formed from Italy, Spain, Holland, Canada (The epithet is Nelson Rockefel­ hall in the heart of Liege where several resolutions of support to and the United States. The organ­ le r’s. ) By Della Rossa representatives of all the delega­ the American antiwar movement, izers o f the m arch estimate 4, 000 As women across the country tions spoke for a few minutes, to the American GIs who refuse Three Arsenals youth participated. fight inflation, which is one of the bringing greetings and messages to fight in Vietnam and to the The time and place of the dem­ Mentioned in the Missouri trial effects of the growing war in Viet-1- of solidarity. Among the organiza­ fighters of the National Liberation onstration were particularly signi­ were arsenals in Independence and nam, and fighting it with working* tions represented — in addition to Front, and attempted to break up ficant, as NATO has just been ex­ in Triplett, in the north central class methods of picket lines and those already mentioned — were the ra lly. pelled from France and is in the part of the state, and one some­ supermarket boycotts, a nation­ the Italian magazine “Falcemar- process of setting up headquarters Aside from these occurances, where in or near San Diego, Calif. wide organization to fight fòt tello, ” the Italian Socialist Party in Belgium. The youth in Liege however, the Liege weekend rep­ Inevitably, the sources of these women’s rights has been formed in of Proletarian Unity, the Danish were not only demanding that the resented a step forward for the guns remained somewhat vague. Washington D. C. Socialist Action League and the U. S. get out of Vietnam; they were unity of European revolutionary One witness had possessed a.22 Called the National Organization Spanish Communist Action. also demanding that the Western socialist youth, and for building caliber semi-automatic pistol, the for Women (NOW), the group, European countries get out of I spoke for the American Young an effective opposition to U. S. ag­ silencer for which was stolen from w ith 300 charter members, an* NATO and stop supporting U. S. Socialist Alliance, and also read gression in Vietnam. the “United States Government. ” nounced it will work for “true imperialism’s world-wide military special greetings which had been During the course of the two An A ir Force cook was supposed equality for all women in Amer­ netw ork. sent by the Berkeley Vietnam Day days of activity, speakers referred to have helped to bury the arsenal ica. ” The long march through the Committee. Other telegrams came frequently to the importance of at Triplett. The organization said it would city, which began in the late after­ from the “Bring the Troops Home the American antiwar movement However the actual details on work for “a fully equal partner­ noon, was colorful and spirited. It Now Newsletter, ” the University and the inspiration provided by how the Minutemen end up with ship of the sexes, as p a rt of thè was particularly impressive to me, of Toronto Committee to End the the existence of an opposition to numerous. 45 caliber M3 subma­ world-wide revolution of human Coming from the United States, War in Vietnam and the Canadian the war within the United States chine guns (the “grease gun”), rights. ” where such a congregation of so­ “Young Socialist Forum. ” itself. As one of the Belgian stu­ 80-mm. mortars; hand-grenades; Top officials of the organization cialist youth has not been seen in The Belgian Young Guards had dents told me, “For the first time rocket launchers; bazookas, and are Dr. Kathryn Clarènbach of the many years. There were flags and arranged for cots, blankets, food in many years, we feel there is the like, remains totally obscure. University of Wisconsin and Betty posters and dozens of huge ban­ and refreshments for all the dele­ a movement in the United States Even more important is the ques­ Freidan, author of The Feminine ners which stretched across the gations except the British who had that we can identify with. ” tion of what the Minutemen in- Mystique. streets. In French, Flemish, Ger­ man; Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish and English, the banners called for solidarity with the Vietnamese revolution, demanded Phila. Cops Again Harass Rights Fighters that thè U. S. get out of Vietnam, demanded an end to NATO, and By Joel Aber Young Militants, had also been ar­ aiding a prisoner to escape, inter­ careful frame-up that Would result called for unity in the world-wide PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12 — rested and later released in thè fering with an officer and con­ in convictions and long prison struggle against U. S. aggression. O ver the past three days, the policé “dynamite” case. spiracy. All three were ieleased terms for the militant Afro- In addition to chants such as here have pursued with renewed In the latest series of arrests, the on $500 bond apiece. American leaders. For the mo­ “U. S. Assassins — Liberty for vigor their attempts to intimidate police admit that the Young M ili­ The present police action is even ment, thè city government is try­ Vietnam, ” “U. S. Get Out of Viet­ leaders of the black freedom strug­ tants asked thè arresting officer brasher and more transparent ing to break the movement apart nam” and “Kick NATO Out of gle. The present wave of harass­ whether they could offer assistance than the yet-to-be-tiled “illegal by resorting to petty arrests, bru­ Belgium, ” the traditional songs of ment culminated with the arrest to Dawson and were told that they possession of dynam ite” case. It tal beatings, and a multitude of ex­ the World w o rkin g class and so­ and assault upon two members of Could accompany Dawson to the is apparent that the police ahd pensive court battles for the de­ cialist movement were sung, in­ the Young Militants and a SNCC station if they desired. the D. A. ’s office did not plan a fendants. cluding the “Internationale” and worker by police in North Phila­ Two of the Young Militants, “ Bandiera Rossa. ” delphia Friday night. including Freedom George and a As we reached the end of the girl who gave her name as Jane march, one group of students set These arrests followed the police beating of Robert Broswell, a third Doe, were placed under arrest Montreal Police Stage Raid member of the Young Militants, after they voluntarily arrived at as he returned home late Thurs­ the station. 40% in Dearborn Vote day night. Freedom George was struck in On Socialist Headquarters First arrested was Barry Daw­ the face with a nightstick so hard Favor Viet Withdrawal son of SNCC, on charges of dis­ that he lost two teeth and required MONTREAL, Canada — A t 6: 30 through publication of literature, One impressive result of orderly conduct, breach of the nine stitches in his lip. p. m., Nov. 10, four plainclothes the holding of forums and joining A patrolman testified at the cops with a search warrant in­ the recent elections was that peace and resisting arrest, after with other groups in demonstra­ a white woman had allegedly preliminary hearing that ’Barry vaded the headquarters of the tions against the war in Vietnam. 40 percent of voters of Dear­ complained to police that he had Dawson suddenly broke away from Ligue Socialiste Ouvrière [Social­ The president of the League, born, Mich., voted in favor blocked her way and used obscene police and ran in to the station. ist Workers League], The warrant Patricia Mitchell, stated on Nov. of withdrawing U. S. forces language. The woman declined, According to police, Freedom states that the police were look­ 11: “The raid follows a pattern of from Vietnam. however, to sign a complaint. George and the- girl, surrounded ing for guns, explosives, electrical harassment established in August The ballot question asked: Police Signed the complaint in­ by at least 12 cops with revolvers devices, dynamite, detonators, when two members of the League “Are you in favor of an im­ stead. and nightsticks, blocked the en­ clocks, documents and rubber were arrested and held incom­ mediate cease-fire and with­ Members of the Young Militants, trance to the station and began to stamps. The found the last three municado for 14 hours for dis­ kick one patrolman. d raw al of U .S. forces from who were with Dawson at the items only. tributing leaflets advertising a As they allegedly kicked the They took away several card­ Vietnam so Vietnamese peo­ time of this arrest, accompanied demonstration against the Ameri­ him to the police station because patrolman, police testimony has it board boxes containing one clock, can actions in Vietnam. The raid ple can settle their own prob­ they were concerned about his that Freedom George received his the contents of a garbage can, some yesterday occurs as the League lems? ” health. Dawson had been arrest­ mouth injury by an unusual con­ correspondence, some socialist lit­ prepared for participation in the The final vote was 20, 667 ed in August in connection with tortion: “He fell on his own foot, ” erature, files, and a list of sub­ Student Days of Protest on Nov. against withdrawal and 14, ­ the SNCC “ dynam ite case” frame- thereby kicking himself in the scribers to La Lutte Ouvrière, 11 and 12. It is an obvious attempt 124 in favor of it. The mayor up of SNCC workers here. While mouth. [The Worker’s Struggle], a social­ to intimidate those who oppose said those against withdraw­ being held in prison under $50, 000 Freedom George was charged ist publication available in book­ both the presence of American al should volunteer for duty bond, Dawson had become sick and with aggravated assault and bat­ stores throughout Montreal. troops in Vietnam and the role of tery On an officei, and both he in Vietnam. been denied medical treatment. The League is engaged in pro­ the Canadian government in sup­ Freedom George, leader of the and the girl were charged with moting socialist ideas and actions porting American actions. ”