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A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE I free Angela Davis is free! A massive the fight for a more protest movement that reached into America. every corner of the globe freed Capitalist newspapers, politi­ her. cians, and judges are hailing this Millions saw her fate as their decision as proof that the Ameri­ own. To Blacks, women, prison­ can legal system is just. A New ers, and radicals she was a victim York Times editorial defending of the same racist oppression, sex­ this view states that Davis, "tried · ist discrimination, and illegal as any other citizen would be, was harassment they face daily._ To acquitted simply because the Gov­ many she was the symbol of the ernment failed to prove its case struggle 'against capitalist injustice. before a jury of her peers." They knew she was beingframed What nonsense! Nearly two before the jury delivered its ver­ years ago, following the Marin dict. They also recognized that County shoot-out, Davis was put what was involved was not simply on the FBrs list of 10 mostwanted a political frame-up against one criminals and hunted down like person but an attack on all those an animal. She was thrown into fighting against oppression. jail and kept in maximum security The capitalist government from without bail. When she was finally President Nixon to Governor granted bail .a few months ago, Reagan tried to make an example it was set at the exorbitant amount of Angela Davis. They framed her of $102,500. There were no Blacks because of her affiliation to the on her jury. Thus, contrary to the Communist Party and her polit- · Times, she did not have a jury of her peers. ical activities. They red-baited her, And they call this justice! H the they accused her of terrorism, and legal system is so fair and all they tried to put her away for a we have to do is depend on the long time. In effect, they told all coUrts, why did thousands of peo.. those struggling for social change ple feel the need to raise tens of that this is what would happen thousands of dollars, publish thou­ to them if they got out of line, sands of leaflets and hold hun­ especially if they were Black. dreds of meetings to fight for rors to the political movements Drumgo, and John Cluchette, a Davis's freedom? As Davis herself of the day, is worrying the gov­ couple of months ago; and the See page 11 for articles on An­ stated, " • • • a fair trial would ernment. This concern is behind Harrisburg Seven defendants. gela Davis victory. have been no trial at all." the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Cluchette and Drumgo, however, The fact is that there is no jus­ ruling to permit conviction in state are still in jail on previous tice for the oppressed in America courts by a majority of jurors charges. Ruchell Magee and the H the capitalist rulers had suc­ except what they win by fighting rather than unanimous agreement. San Quentin Six ·still face trial, ceeded in this effort, they would for it. Thus, while the governing officials and many other prisoners are have · dealt a demoralizing blow To recognize this is not to deny brag about the "justice" of Ameri­ being unjustly held. to all movements for social change. that the jury was obviously af­ can democracy, they are trying The victories that have been The hand of reaction would have fected by the extent of support for to curtail the rights of Americans scored should encourage us to re.­ been strengthened and further gov­ Angela Davis as well as by the even more. double o~ efforts to free these ernment ·attacks encouraged. But radicalization in the country. The The Davis victory comes on top men and women. A broad defense they were defeated, and the victory jurors unanimously agreed tha:t of the those won by Black Panther that unites people of diverse views is ours. Davis was innocent. They em­ leaders Bobby Seale and Ericka is necessary to carry out this inde.­ . This victory shows the inspiring braced her following the trial and Huggins in New Haven and 13 pendent struggle. The Davis case power of -mass protest. It will most of them attended her victory Panther leaders in New York last has ended in a historic victory, renew our confidence to continue celebration. This sensitivity of ju- year; the Soledad Brothers, Fleeta but the struggle must continue~ Humphrey-McOovern debates ·in California= No basic ferences -page 3

VOLUME 36/NUM8ER 23 HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH! Clarence Christian Hayes, · Auto Workers Local 5 headquarters at 1426 S. Main a retired house painter, was recently charged with bank St., South Bend, Ind. The conference, originally projected robbery in what Washington, D. C., police said was an by women at the Mi Raza Primero Conference held in THIS attempt to get money needed for the treatment of a blood Muskegon, Mich., Jan. 19, will deal with feminism and disease. the struggles of La Raza. A conference call states, "Al­ According to the police, the 70-year-old man had been though ... geared for 'Mujeres de la Raza,' other in­ WEEK'S refused admission to George Washington University hos­ terested women are welcome to attend." For further in~ pital ·for lack of money. He was arrested 45 minutes formation, contact· Olga Villa, 404 S. Walnut St., South MILITANT later during a holdup of a nearby bank. Bend, Ind. 46619. Telephone: (219) 287-5929. 3 Debates show candidates' THE SPREAD OF CULTURE: We apologize for not HUMBERTO PAGAN FACES DEPORTATION: Humber- hypocrisy reporting this event in time for our· readers to attend, . to Pagan, a 21-year-old activist in the Puerto Rican in­ 4 Nat'l abortion confer­ but a collection of 29 paintings by George Meany was dependence movement, faces deportation from Canada ence set for July on exhibition in New Yor.k until June 2. The May 20 to· the U.S. He is charged with killing the head of the Jenness reports on latin 'New York Times reports that the president of the AFL­ San Juan riot police during a police attack on a dem­ American tour CIO took up painting in 1957 when his daughter bought onstration at the University of Puerto Rico in March 1971. him a paint-by-the-numbers kit. 5 laird vows more bomb- The Canadian government, which claims that it is de­ porting him because he entered Canada under an as­ ing . sumed name, insists that Pagan must be returned to his 8 Hugo Blanco on Vietnam "country of origin"- the United States- despite the fact & struggle in latin America that he has been offered asylum in several countries. 9 Steinem, others, blast Pagan's lawyers have produced witnesses to prove that Argentine repression he would face unusual punishment in Puerto Rico and 10 Hotel workers rally for would not receive a fair trial due to his association with the independence movement. Canadian courts have not better pay yet ruled oil Pagan's extradition, although the Immigra­ 11 Angela Davis acquittal tion Appeal Board has ordered him deported. 12 Teamster rebellion, story Meany says that painting "is a wono,ert,ul IRANIAN STUDENTS PROTEST: About 100 people of a revolutionary union forget- even about the economy." 14 Socialist debates Julian participated in a demonstration organized by the Iran­ ian Students Association in San Francisco on May 30. Bond DEMONSTRATION AT GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE: They were protesting Nixon's visit to Iran and the wave 15 Mass. paces ballot drive One hundred antiwar demonstrators picketed the Demo­ of terror being carried out there against opponents of 16 SWP campaign gears for cratic Governors' Conference on June 6 in Houston. The the Shah's regime. summer activity action was organized by the Houston Peace Action Co­ In the last three months, 23 political prisoners have alition when it learned that Nixon had been invited to been executed in Iran, five of them less than a week be­ 17 Roots of Soviet betrayal speak at the conference. Nixon decided not to show up. of Vietnam revolution fore Nixon's arrival. Twelve other,s have been sentenced to death and await execution. The April 24 Newsweek 18 ApriL Coalition: 'Work­ TRADE UNIONISTS OPPOSE THE WAR: A meeting reported that "At least a dozen suspects have committed ing within the system' of about 400 northern California trade unionists on May suicide rather than submit to interrogation by the po­ 19 Noise pollution: health 23 heard David Livingston, president of the Distributive lice," who regularly torture political prisoners. Workers of America, District 65, and Clifton Caldwell, hazard vice-president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters union, 21 Calif. death-row prison­ 'UPREME COURT UPHOLDS ATTACK ON CIVIL report on their trip to North Vietnam. Designed to build LIBERTIES: Two decisions handed down by the U.S. ers s·pared the Labor for Peace conference to be held in St. Louis Supreme Court May 22 make it easier for public pros­ 24 What's wrong with Mc­ on June 23-24, the meeting attracted a large section of ecutors to disregard the rights supposedly guaranteed Govern's Raze program the official leadership of the trade-union movement in to the American people. Raze Unida parties plan the San Francisco area. The court upheld by a 5-to-2 vote the practice of com­ In a related development, the June 1 San Francisco campaigns in l. A.; Colo. pelling witnesses to testify before grand juries and other Chronicle reports that "Teamsters president Frank Fitz­ government panels, even though they may later be pros­ simmons was met with a strong chorus of boos and only ecuted on the events they are forced to talk about. scattered applause ... when he supported President Nix­ In recent years it has become common for grand juries 2 In Brief on's war policies before a gathering here of 1~200 mem­ "investigating" one or another demonstration or incident 6 In Our Opinion bers of the Service Employees Union." to be used by the government as vehicles for fishing ex­ peditions into the lives and affairs of political dissenters Letters MORALE ON THE BATTLEFRONT: Visits by Saigon 7 The Great Society in the hope of turning up something that could be used businessmen and South Vietnamese officials have been against them. Witnesses subpoenaed in such cases are Women: The Insurgent successful recently in striking a new chord of responsive­ faced with the choice of testifying or going to jail for Majority ness in South Vietnamese troops, reports Sydney H. Schan­ contempt. 10 The National Picket Line berg in the May 24 New York Times. 14 '72 Socialist Campaign Explaining the success of his new program, Saigon's economics minister, a former banker, says, "The South 16 By Any Means Neces- . Vietnamese are a practical people. When you come to sary visit them, you must come with a gift, not just with nice 20 In Review words." In view of this, the Saigon business community, "which has made great sums out of the war," has donated more than $300,000 so far, and the economics minister "has been busy giving it away in army camps as a morale builder."

MORALE ON THE HOMEFRONT: Reiterating the mes­ sage of a front-page editorial run the week before,. the May 19 Christian Science Monitor reported that the Chris­ tian Science· Board of Directors had called upon its fol­ THE MILITANT lowers to do something about the war. VOLUME 36/NUMBER 23 "It is our conviction," the board explained, "that prayer The Court also ruled, in a 5-to-4 decision, that unan­ JUNE 16, 1972 is deeply needed and of vital importance at this time." imous jury verdicts are not required for criminal con­ CLOSING NEWS DATE-JUNE 7, 1972 victions in state courts. This ruling will make it much PUERTO RlCAN DAY PARADE: Several hundred thou­ easier for prosecutors to obtain convictions. In effect, Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS sand people turned out for the June 4 Puerto Rican Day it removes the necessity to prove guilt beyond a reason­ Monoging Editor: DOUG JENNESS Parade in New York. Several thousand marched in a able doubt. Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS contingent that combined supporters of the Puerto Rican Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING Socialist Party, El Comite, the Young Lords Organiza­ FORMER SDS LEADER "CONFUSED": Carl Oglesby, a former national_ president of SDS (Students for a Demo­ tion, the Socialist Workers Party, and other groups. SWP Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., supporters carried a banner saying "Fuera Yanqui de cratic Society), addressed an antiwar rally of about 500 14 Charles lane, New York, N.Y. I 0014. Phone: Edi­ on May 19 in Boulder, Colo. Militant reporter Jon Hill­ torial Office (212) 243-6392; Business· Office (212) Puerto Rico y Vietnam, Vote Partido Obrero Socialista" son tells us that at the end of his speech, Oglesby ex­ 929-3486. (Yankees get out of Puerto Rico and Vietnam, Vote So­ plained that he was opposed to revolution. At a later Southwest Bureau: II 07 I /2 N. Western Ave., los cialist Workers Party). Three thousand Spanish-language Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone: (213)463-1917. teach-iJJ. Oglesby told of his support for George McGovern, leaflets were distributed on the campaign of James Men­ Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Sub­ whom he had worked for in Ohio. When asked about scription: domestic, $6 a year; foreign, $7.50. By first­ dieta, who is running for Congress on the SWP ticket the need to develop a program and organization inde­ class mail: domestic and Canada, $22; all other coun­ in the 14th C. D. in Brooklyn. tries, $24. Air printed matter: domestic and Canada, pendent of the capitalist parties, Oglesby replied that the $26; latin America and Europe, $40; Africa, Australia, concept is "too linear." , Asia (including USSR), $50. Write far sealed air post­ RAZA WOMEN TO HOLD MIDWEST CONFERENCE: A former local SDS leader and friend of Oglesby's com- age rates. A Raza women's conference entitled, "Adelante Mujer" mented, "Carl is confused like all of us~'DA VE FRANKEL Signed ·articles by contributors do ·not necessarily Forward Women is scheduled for June 17 at the United represent The Militant's views. These are expressed in editorials.

2 Debates· reveal candidates' hypocrisy By CAROLINE LUND cutting the "defense" budget to $55- Both candidates hid the truth that for those presently unemployed. The JUNE 7-Yesterday California Demo­ billion, asserting that such a cut would the U. S. "defense" budget is not a small number of people still unable crats presented Senator George Mc­ "make America into a second-class defense budget at all but a war bud­ to work should be automatically Govern with 271 delegate votes to the power." McGovern replied that this get. The U. S. has no need for a de­ granted regular income at the average Democratic Party convention in this figure "would provide for defense of fense budget because no country is level of union wages. winner-take-all presidential primary. our country" and would not reduce out to attack it; instead, it is the U.S. In addition, quality, 24-hour, com­ McGovern won with 45 percent of the it to second-rate status. "We have all that is the main force of brutal ag­ munity-controlled c.:hild.Care centers vote, and Humphrey followed with the military power we need," McGov­ gression in the world today. Neither are needed to free women who wish 39 percent. ern said, "to destroy every city in candidate believes this. H they had to work or go to school. But neither· After the California primary, it can the Soviet Union 20 times over. That they would have proposed the only candidate mentioned this crucial need be predicted that the McGovern camp is just about enough." safe step for all the ·peoples of the for child. care as central to the prob­ will be in a state of euphoria, since McGovern noted "that Humphrey world: total, unilateral U.S. disarma­ lems of welfare recipients. the victory in that state greatly in­ himself had in 1971 proposed cutting ment. • On taxes. Both have proposals creases their candidate's chance to win the "defense" budget to only (!) $50- • On welfare. Both presented pro- for supposedly cutting out tax loop­ the Democratic presidential nomina­ holes used by the rich. McGovern's · tion. However, the rightward course proposals seem to be the most radi- · of the McGovern campaign, expressed cal and far-reaching. As Humphrey in the McGovern-Humphrey debates pointed out during the debates, how­ preceding the primary, should /give ever, McGovern is talking out of both pause to McGovern supporters who sides of his mouth. He has been giv­ think he will bring radical changes. ing his campaign audiences the idea The main conclusion to be drawn that he .wants such things as an in­ from the three debates May 28, May come cealing of $50,000, a 100 per­ 30, and June 4 was that McGovern cent tax on .inheritances over $500,- and Humphrey are much more alike 000, and elimination or tightening of than they are different. Humphrey at­ investiment tax credits and depletion tempted to convince people that he allowances. was just as radical as McGovern .on But then ne published an ad in the the question of the Vietnam war. Mc­ May 22 Wall Street Journal explain­ Govern, on. the. other hand, attempted ing to big capitalists what he really to convince people that he was just stands for. In this ad, Mc.:Governdenies as conservative as Humphrey on such he has proposed each of the above issues as U. S. support to Israeli ag­ steps, and softens up each of them gression and on the need for the U. S. to the advantage of the rich. He re­ to maintain enough arms to be a minds them that "only the Congress_ "ltrst-rate power." · initiates tax measures"· anyway-with Both of these Democrats scored tell­ the implication that capitalists needn't ing points against each other, expos­ worry too much about his tax-reform ing their hypocrisy and their lack of proposals-they are only to fool the fundamental solutions to the deep voters. problems facing this country. Here is The most revealing section of Mc­ a brief summary. Govern's letter to Wall Street says: e On the war. Under pressure from "In traveling about the country, I the inass antiwar sentiment in this have found the vast majority of Amer­ country, both McGovern and Hum­ icans in a rage against the injustices phrey claim they would end the war "WE A~£ INTER.EGTEIJ IN W!NNIN6, NOT IN of our present tax system. I believe that their anger is justified and, if three months after their election. Each I !JEOL061CAl. PtJIUFICATI~N. "-"-G£()~6£ JICGtJViRN pointed out the hypocrisy of the other ' not soon rectified, represents a threat for previously supporting the Vietnam to the free-enterprise system in which war. billion. Sp they squabbled over a few posals for "welfa:re reform"-McGov­ you and I so strongly believe." Humphrey insisted that "We were billion more or less, while agreeing ern for an automatic allotment of $1,- Thus, he appeals to capitalists to 000 per person, or $4,000 for a fam­ both wrong"-pointing out that he and on the same goal of remaining a support him because he will be best "first-rate power." ily of four.· Humphrey proposed a able to preserve the capitalist system McGovern voted the same way on war­ minimum income of $3,000 for a fam­ related measures throughout their Sen­ Translated into ordinary language, and the. prerogatives of the capitalist this means Humphrey and McGovern ily of four. These are pitif:ul, poverty­ exploiters by coopting the growing ate careers. He also pointed to Mc­ level amounts that would not basically Govern's vote as late as 1969 for bqth want the U. S. to have enough popular dissatisfaction with the evils change the conditions of desperation of capitalism. Vietnam war appropriations. military might to function as a world cop-able to invade other countries and degradation faced by most wel­ The Qalifornia primary campaign McGovern, on the other hand, noted or otherwise lend aid to reactionary fare recipients. brought out even more clearly that that there was no appreciable differ­ forces seeking to crush popular re­ Neither candidate supported or even the choice between McGovern and ence between the Johnson-Humphrey bellions, suc.:h as in Vietnam or the raised the type of fundamental Humphrey is really no choice at all. policy on Vietnam and the Nixon war Dominican Republic. It also means changes needed to solve the problems It illustrated how the two main de­ policy. He quoted Humphrey's callous maintaining the U.S. arllls buildup of welfare recipients. These would in­ clared Democratic contenders -agree statement in 1967 that Vietnam is "our against the Soviet Union and China clude a national shortening of the completely on the fundamental goal greatest adventure, and .a wonderful workweek at no reduction in weekly of presennng the capitalist system of one it is." in hopes of some day overturning. their nationalized economies and re­ pay, together with job-training pro­ war, exploitation, racism, and sexism, • On the "defense" budget. Humph­ opening the11e vast areas to capital­ grams in each enterprise. 'fhis would and will subordinate all issues to that rey attacked McGovern's proposal for ist exploitation. open up thousands of well-paying jobs ,goal. Calif. shows how the 'little men' get elected By NORTON SANDLER- lar bills as McGovern falsely claimed programmed. H the volunteers porters of Linda Jenness and Andrew and MARK SCHNEIDER that this is how his campaign is fi- brought back critical comments on Pulley, the Socialist Workers Party SAN FRANCISCO, June 6- Televi- nanced. the senator, the information was fed presidential ticket, were present with sion.viewers in the state of California Besides the commercials-which at- into the computer, and a letter out- their own campaign literature, which have recently been treated to the spec- tempted to create a McGovern myth lining the senator's position on that was well received by the youthful Mc- tacle of the Democratic· presidential by substituting his Air Force fighter- issue was immediately mailed out. Govern audiences. During the weeks aspirants masquerading as "populists" bomber for John Kennedy's PT-109 In May a new CaliforJ!ia law went preceding the primary, 350 of the and "little men" bucking the greatparty -McGovern totally swamped Hum- into effect requiring two months ad- Young Socialists fo!" Jenness and f..:l- machine. · phrey in the billboard derby. At last vance "security deposits" ·on all polit- ley truth kit, "Everything You Alway~:> Radical young people were never cou.nt, the barnstorming .South Dako- ical campaign telephones. The San Wanted to Know about George Me- fooled by Hubert Humphrey's claims, tan had 15 campaign offices in San Francisco Chronicle reported that Me- Govern," were sold by YSJP support- but in recent weeks many have seen Francisco alone. Govern was required to cough up ers. George McGovern's populist cover McGovern's fund-raising operation $100,000 by the May 26 deadline. At one outdoor rally in San Jose, shrink substantially. was graced by all the gifts of modern · Later, however, the newspaper re- 120 of the McGovern truth kits and Not that McGovern didn't go to ex- technology. Computerized cards were ported that McGovern had made a 125 Militants were sold. Five thou- traordinary lengths to give people the placed in automatic-dialing telephones "settlement" with Pacific Telephone (or sand copies of Linda Jenness's "Open impression that he was a "grass roots" to make calls. When someone· an- $30,000. While the phone company Letter to George McGovern Support- candidate. He even mass distributed swered the phone, the fund-raiser hastily ·attempted to assure other polit- ers" were also distributed at this and campaign buttons that read "I am pulled a switch so that a tape of Me- ical accounts that the reports were other rallies. a grass root." Govern ·himself making a plea for inaccurate and that McGovern had Young people at McGovern rallies Such claims were also made during funds could be aired. Following the paid in full, it appeared that this "en- repeatedly, thanked Jenness and Pulley half-hour television commercials for pitch the volunteer would return to .the emy of big business" had friends in supporters for clarifying the senator's the senator. The expensively produced phone and then electronically tally the high places after all. real record on the war in Vietnam shows . depicted campaign workers results. Everywhere that McGovern spoke and on the right o( women to abor- opening envelopes containing one-dol- Precinct canvassing was similarly during the California campaign, sup- tion.

THE MIUTANT/JUNE 16, 1972 3 WONAAC debates mass-action stral!gy_ . . ,National abortion conference set for July By CINDY JAQUITH in New York on April 16, while WO- in state legislatures, court actions, and counterposed abortion counseling and NEW YORK, June 7- The Women's NAAC's demonstration in New York relating to women "on a persoriallev- referral work to mobilizing women National Abortion Action Coalition three weeks later had 1,500 partie- el." in action to demand the right to abor- (WONAAC) held a national coordi- ipants. One of the national coordinators tion. nating committee meeting here June 4, It was in this context that the fol- who signed this proposal, Judy Sy- Those groups that disagree with the which projected a series of activities lowing questions were raised at the fers from San FranCisco WONAAC, strategy of mass action have used ·.·to. ·carry on the fight for women's June 4 meeting: Why have WONAAC' s c~?-arged in a letter read to the meet- red-baiting to try to discredit WO- right to abortion. Nearly 80 women demonstrations not been larger? Why ing that WONAAC has "stirred up NAAC and have zeroed in on the from local coalitions around the coun- has WONAAC not been able to unite a hornet's nest by mass demonstra- SWP as their prime target. This is try attended. women in demonstrations as power- tions"; that it has "created" the ""mon- because the SWP has been the single Motions ~o call a national abortion ful as those of the right wing, par-- ster" of the right wing's reaction; and most important organization to de- conference on July 15-16 in New ticularly when the majority of women that therefore, WONAAC's ,pro-abor- fend WONAAC's perspective of mass York, tp hold an international tri- in this couptry are strongly in favor tion demonstrations have simply hurt struggle. bunal in the fall, and to intensify WO- of repealing the anti-abortion laws? women. The implication of her letter Rather than change the orientation NAAC's .support to the Abortion was that WONAAC should give up . of WONAAC-the one force in the Rights Act now in Congress were trying to mobilize women on the abor-- women's movement that has stood up passed after a lengthy and heated de- \11{4'lMANS RIGHT TO ( tion issue. to the attacks by the right wing- bate. BOAT I Q After introducing their proposal for what is needed now is to unite women This debate reflected sharp disagree- discussion, however, these women then in action, regardless of their differ- ments within WONAAC over perspec- THE RIGHT TO withdrew it from the floor. They an- ences on other questions. tives for continuing the struggle to nounced that the "real problem" was Particularly now, when it is crystal repeal anti-abortion laws in _the face "domination" of WONAAC by the So- clear to everyone in the women's of the growing mobilization of anti- cialist Workers Party. One sigoer of movement that the abortion issue has abortion forces. this proposal even put forth a red- reached crisis proportions; such united In just the past few months the wom- baiting motion that all non-SWP mem- action is imperative. . en's movement has been confronted' bers in the room_ stand up and iden- In assessing the different strategies with the near adoption of a law over- tify them.selves. The body rejected this before the movement it is important turning the liberalized abortion ~tatute motion. . to remember that the limited gains in NeW York. Also, a new, more re- · A second proposal, submitted to the women have made have not been won strictive abortion law was passed in meeting by WONAAC national coor- by depending on the "good intentions" Connecticut. This came after women Photos by Lora Eckert dinator Matilde Zimmermann, stressed of state legislators. . The liberalize«l had won a significant victory in the WONAAC responded to attacks the continued importance of mass abortion law in New York was passed courts against Connecticut's old law. by anti-abortion forces with dem- struggle, including demonstrations, two years ago when women began to These setbacks, plus President Nix- onstrations in New York and and a nationally-coordinated cam- demand their rights and to organize on's intervention on the side of the paign to win abortion. Carol Lipman, around their right to abortion. Catholic archdiocese in the ,New York around the country on May 6. a former national project director of . For years before that, women had fight and the retreat on the part of WONAAC and an SWP leader, spoke tried to lobby and pressure legisla- politicians like George McGovern on A group of women in WONAAC, in s1Ipport of this proposal. She point- tors to reform the laws. But only when the abortion issue in the presidential including five national coordinators ed out that "the right wing has been women began to' mobilize in a visible el ec tion campaigns,· are m· d"1cahons · and several members of the coalition's able to out-mobilize and out-organize s trugg 1 e an d ·lt b ecame c1 ear tha t I arge· · that a major national debate has national staff, presented a proposal precisely because of the divisions and numbers of women favored the right arisen on the abortion issue. The im- to the June 4 meeting that reflected lack of perspective within the women's to abortion did the legislature act. portance of the struggle for the right frustration over the recent right-wing movement today." Only through the. power of women to abortion is more sharply posed victories and the relatively small size united in a visible, mass struggle can now than at any previous time in of WONAAC's actions. Their proposal Lipman noted that _the two largest an effective force be organized on a WONAAC's brief history, or for that concluded: "demonstrations the size of women's organizations in the country national scale to wipe all restrictions matter in the history of the women's May 6 and November 20 [1971] can -the National Organization for Wom- against abortion off the books. liberation movement as a whole. hurt our movement." In future m:onths, eri (NOW)· and the Women's National WONAAC has done more than. any they continued, WONAAC should con- Political Caucus (NWPC) -havemade The upcoming July conference of­ other group to rally women to de- centrate on "education" and strength- little real effort to organize women fers WONAAC and the women's move­ fend their right to abortion. At the ening and "decentralizing" local WO- around the abortion issue. NOW and ment as a whole the opportunity to height of the crisis around the New NAAC :coalitions. "Any demonstra- NWPC have concentrated their efforts have a full, serious, and democratic York law, WONAAC sponsored and tions on a· national scale ... would on· convincing .wo~en 'that electing discussion and to build th-e most ef­ carried out a series of national dem- only hinder efforts to effect this ab- Democrats and Republicans to office fective and united force to combat the onstrations on May 6. Nevertheless,· solutely. necessary decentralization," is the way to win their demands. In attacks on the right to abortion by the anti-abortion forces were able to they argued. Instead, they said, more addition, she pointed out, other sec- the government and the Catholic turn out 10,000 people for a march attention should be paid to lobbying tions of the-women's movement have Church hferarchy. Jenness reports on Latin Amer,ican visit By BEN ATWOOD America, particularly in Argentina." publications and best wishes. The Ate­ "Yankees Out of Vietnam Now" and NEW YORK, June 6-Linda Jenness Jenness returned here this week after neo Popular de Cultura (a cultural "Linda Jenness has arrived." The cen­ reported on her three-week tour of a three-day stop" in Santiago, Chile. organization) sent greetings to'the an­ terfold of the weekly carried an ex­ Latin America today at a news con­ While in Chile she spoke to a campus - tiwar movement, the feminist move­ planation·- of th-e SWP -platform, an ference at the Overseas Press Club meeting at the University of Santiago ment, and in particul~r to Angela Da­ interview with Jenness on her arrival, here. Immediately afterward she par­ attenaed by more than 100 people; vis: These are ,only a sample of the and lists of the persons and organi­ ticipated in a demonstration at the visited the barrio of La Nueva Ha­ greetings and expressions of solidar­ zations in the official welcoming com­ Argentine Consulate demanding the vana; and spoke to a meeting of exiled ity that Jenness received. mittee. release of all Argentine political pris­ Bra,zilians. Her arrival in Chile was Avanzada Socialista, the weekly The news coverage of the tour is oners. The picket line was organized announced in the news media and a newspaper of the PartidG Socialista still coming in. The clippings to date by the U. "S. Committee .for Justice to news conference on June 1 resulted Argentino, which was responsible for show that most of the major TV and Latin American Political Prisoners to in a long article in 3ra de La Hora, organizing Jenness's tour in Argen­ radio stations, newspapers, and mag-" protest the repression and torture car­ one of the largest Santiago .papers. tina, featured the tour in its May 24 azines in Argentina covered the tour. ried out by the Argentine regime. issue. The front page carried a pic­ Significant coverage was also reeeived At the news conference, th~ Socialist While in Latin America, Jenness re­ ture of with the headlines iil Peru and Chile. Workers Party candidate for president ceived many telegrams and letters of summarized her tour to Mexico, Peru, solidarity from a variety of organi­ Argentina, and Chile: "I was greeted · zations and individuals. Alberto Bruz­ by thousands of young people deeply zone, well-known Argentine painter, bpposed to 'the role of U. S. imperial­ sent an inscribed picture with the mes­ ism in Southeast Asia and in their sage: "Through Linda Jenness I send ·own countries." my heartiest greetings to the Amer­ Jenness said she would continue to ican workers,_ the real people of the "expose and demand an end to U. S. U. S. A., with whom we expect to cel­ intervention in Latin America-Wash­ ebrate our freedom, in peace and jus­ ington's politicgl maneuvers, Wall tice." Street's economic exploitation, and the The Asociaci6n Argentina de Actores CIA's military intrigues." (Actors Association) sent a telegram 'Jenness also told the press, "I kl10w r.~ading: "Our .warmest welcome to that the news of the acquittal of An­ Linda Jenness, tirst feminist candidate gela Davis will bring joy through­ for the Presidency of the U.S. and out Latin America because she is seeri vigorous fighter for the rights of wom­ as a heroic figure throughout the con­ en." The Encuentro Nacional de los tinent, and her name is a household Argentinas (an antiwar organization) word." - sent greetings to the antiwar foJ;ces Photo by Ben Atwood Jenness also reported on a "new and in the United States. The Printers A crowd of 3,000 in Buenos Aires, Argent~na, saluted Jenness's speech dynamic feminist movement in Latin Union of Argentina sent copies of their on May 26 with cheers and showers of confetti.

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/ NPAC Laird vows more bombing raids By DICK ROBERT~ . . War secretary Laird also told Con- "... without the enormous resolu- JUNE 7- The Nixon administra- gress that the Pentagon's support of tion and courage of the Vietnamese, tion's hope of indef'mitely maintain­ the Moscow summit "arms control" what would Moscow and Peking have meeting ing the bombing of Vietnam at the pact was contingent on proceeding to offer Nixon, what would they have present escalated levels was revealed with the buildup of U. S. armaments. to sell? Peking bought its admission to Congress June 5. Defense Secretary In a news conference after elpsed-door to the United Nations, bought its way maps Melvin Laird asked the Senate and sessions with the House Armed Ser­ out of containment, with the blood House Appropriations Committees for vices Committee, June 6, Laird stated of the Vietn~mese people. The same an additional $3-billion to $5-billion that Congress would jeoparmze na­ commodity-in such plentiful supply summer to finance the stepped-up air warfare. tional security as well as the chances -has brought Nixon to Moscow." In day-long testimony, according-to for future arms-control agreements if George McArthur of the Los Ange­ the June 6 New York Times, Laird it did not provide funds for develop- les Times wrote from Saigon in the projects beginning of June that "A cozy photo., By ALEX HARTE graph of President Nixon and Rus­ A June 3 meeting of the National sia's Communist Party boss Leonid Peace Action Coaiition steering com­ I. Brezhnev is being .. airdropped by . mittee, hcl.d in Chicago, discussed the the million over North Vietnam." Two current stage of the Indochina war months earlier U. S. planes dJ.""opped and the antiwar movement, and laid millions of photos of Nixon shaking the basis for an extensive program hands with Mao Tsetung. of summer activity. The meeting discussed plans for the Swiss, British actions upcoming National Antiwar Conven­ Five thousand people demon­ tion in Los Angeles, July 21-23. The strated in London June 4 against convention; to be held at the campus the U.S. aggression in Indochina. of the University of California at Los Angeles, will be open to all groups Among the groups involved were and individuals opposed to the war. the British Campaign for Peace In a report on prospects for the in Vietnam, the Vietnam Solidar­ antiwar movement, NPAC co-coordi­ ity Committee, the Campaign for nator Katherine Sojourner stressed the disclosed that the air and naval bom~ ment of missile-launching submarines Nuclear Disarmament, the British need to build the Los Angeles con­ bardment of. the last two-and-a-half and the new B-1 strategic bomber. Peace Committee, Group 68, the vention and the Aug. 5-9 summer ac­ months has increased the cost of the Thus the Moscow summit agree­ tions against the war that had been war by an estimated $1.5-billion a ments failed to restrain Nixon's es­ International Marxist Group, the called by the previous NPAC steering quarter. If this figure is correct, an calated bombing of Vietnam in any International Socialists, the Com­ committee meeting. additional $5-billion would cover way, and the "arms control" pact gave munist Party, and the Young . Sojourner evaluated the May 21 enough munitions to carry out the Washington the green light to con­ Communist League. Emergency March on Washington heavy bombing for almost a year. tinue to pile up its arsenal of nuclear Two thousand people joined an built by NPAC, the People's Coali­ The Times also reported on June 6 weapons. tion for Peace and Justice, as well that in Vietnam "American planes con­ antiwar demonstration in Bern, I as other antiwar organizations. tinued the heaviest bombing of the The cowardly subservience of the Switzerland, on June 3. NPAC war. In South Vietnam . . . there were Imptediately following Nixon's May Kremlin bureaucrats to Nixon's war co-coordinator Stephanie Coontz 22 bombing raids Sunday [June 4] 8 speech, Sojourner said, many forces demands is making a deep impres­ by B-52's, which most often attack is now on a speaking tour of Swit­ in the antiwar movement believed the sion on the antiwa-r movement. I. F. in flights of three planes,· and 269 zerland. May 21 action could be of unprec­ Stone, longtime ·opponent of the war, edented size. However, she said, it single-plane sorties by jet fighter­ wrote a blistering attack on both Mos­ "As might be expected," McArthur became apparent before the action that bombers. cow and Peking in the June 15 New Nixon's · trip to Moscow had the ef­ "In North Vietnam, more than 260 wrote, "American psychological war­ York Review of Books. "To speak fare operatives are overjoyed. The ex­ fect of diverting attention from . his fighter-bombers reportedly struck at plainly," said Stone, "the chief run­ perts admit that leaflets are frequently new escalation of the war. She pointed bridges, roads, rail-lines, trucks, boats ning dogs of US imperialism now out that a serious and steady escala­ and supply dumps. One of flle,most seem to be Brezhnev and Chou En­ of questionable value but in this in­ tion of the murderous air war over noteworthy achievements of the Amer­ lai. This is how it must look from stance the message is so obvious that Vietnam has been taking place. ican pilots over North Vietnam on Hanoi. Ignominious as Hitler's ap­ the leaflets cannot fail to considerably This point was reinforced in a re­ Sunday, a United States military peasers were in the Thirties, he was discomfort Hanoi's leadership." _ port by Fred Branfman, director of spokesman said; was the destruction never dined as an honored guest in ·The Washington, D. C., Evening Project Air War, who presented ex­ of the 150-foot-long railroad bridge Paris, London, or Washington while Star, which generally supports the tensive documentation of the increased over the Namlam River, 85 miles he bombed Guernica and destroyed war, carried an account from Saigon, bombing over both South and North northwest of Hanoi." the Spanish Republic. Continued on page 22 Vietnam. Ruth Gage-Colby .]'eported on prep­ arations for the August 5-9 actions, which are timed to take place on the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bomb­ Stockholm Conference, others, ing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The actions will take place in cities across the U.S. assail Nixon trip to Moscow An extensive report of NPAC's work By DAVE FRANKEL is treated as a honourable statesman risk to escalate the conflict into an to build the worldwide antiwar move­ Many in the peace movement have and is received as a guest by other ment was given by Dan Rosenshine, international crisis, and then attempt been troubled by, or openly hostile who recently returned from a six-week nations. Rumors that Nixon will to effect a political settlement in Mos­ to, the warm welcome given Nixon tour of Europe. Rosenshine reported come to Stockholm ... are not true. cow and Peking favorable to U. S. that NP AC representatives addressed by his Moscow hosts. It's hatd The whole Swedish people would rise interests. antiwar rallies and met with antiwar for these people to imagine how the in revolt against such a visit. . . . " "But Nixon will not be able to settle groups in 10 countries this spring. Nixon-Brezhnev toasts to "peace" will Svahnstrom continued: "This morn­ the war in Moscow or Peking," Peck He noted that the antiwar move­ stop the slaughter in Southeast Asia. ing I heard . . . that the circles round continued. "The Vietnamese will not ment is on an upswing throughout The recent escalation by Nixon­ Nixon regard the reaction of the other allow any foreign power to dictate Europe. · the mining of North Vietnamese ports world powers to his latest actions rath­ the terms of settlement. The Ameri­ NP AC co-coordinator Jerry Gordon and rivers- seemed a particularly er as an 'encouragement', as the gov­ can people should not be fooled by gave a report outlining ways to build good opportunity for the Soviet of­ ernments restrict themselves to protests Nixon. He cannot end the war in and reinforce local peace action coali­ ficials to respond, to at ·least call off without indicating any counter mea­ Moscow, just as he was not able to tions throughout the country, A deci­ Nixon's trip. The fact that the "sum­ sures, and as Nixon's visit to Mos­ end it in Peking." sion was made to intensify national mit" took place-that champagne cow is not even cancelled." Peck went on to say that "In reality contact with G I antiwar groups, and flowed while bombs fell on Vietnam Perhaps the clearest statement came these side trips are meant to detour a committee was formed to work in -has led to criticism even from those from the May 20 issue of Nhan Dhan, Americans from the real road to this area. who are usually uncritical of the So­ the leading Hanoi daily. Comment­ peace. . . . " The detour Peck speaks The next meeting of the NPAC na­ viet Union's actions. ing on the escalation, the paper said: of depended on the cooperation of tional steering committee will be held An example· of such dissatisfaction "To the acts of escalation the effective the Soviet bureaucracy headed by on July 1 in Philadelphia. with the Soviet invitation to Nixon answer is to smash these adventurous Brezhnev and Kosygin. was a May 12 letter of the Stockholm steps. At the same demonstration in Wash­ Conference on Vietnam. This group "To the intrigues, the effective answer ington May 21 at which Peck made initiated the World Assembly for the is to lay bare their objectives. the above statements, Gus Hall,_ the Peace and Independence of Indochi­ "To Nixon's threats, the best answer presidential candidate of the Commu­ nese Peopl_es that took place last Feb­ is to show a firm attitude and ex­ nist Party, called anyone who ex­ ruary in Versailles. pose his weak and losing posture. pressed doubts that Moscow's support The Stockholm· Conference letter, "A few signs of weakness will en­ for the Vietnamese struggle is less than signed by conference chairman Bertil courage the truculence of the pirates." "all out" an "unmitigated liar." As the Svahnstrom, said: "It must not be pos­ Sidney Peck, when he spoke for the sampling of opinion above illustrates, sJble that one of the makefS of_ the People's Coalition for Peace and Jus­ however, many peace activists, includ­ destiny of the world who tries to an­ tice (PCPJ) at the May 21 emergency ing some who have worked closely nihilate a_ whole people which does march on Washington, said: "The with the CP in the past, are not con­ not want anything but to live peace­ blockade of Haiphong and the bomb­ vinced by Hall's name-calling asser­ fully on its own little part of the globe, ing of Hanoi is part of a desperate tion.

THE MILITANT/JUNE 16, 1972 5- In Our Opinion Letters The CP runs for president Dr. George Bach y Rita was re­ Israeli threats ·cently in San Francisco to speak at When the U.S. threw Eugene V. Following the killing of 25 persons in Israel's Lydda airport May 30 a conference at the University of by three Japanese guerrillas acting for the Popular Front for the Lib­ Debs in jail, the then-radical Social­ ist Party ran him for president. But California Medical Center. He is an eration of Palestine, the Israeli government threatened to take reprisals advocate of the use of implanted against the Arab people. The day after the shooting, Israeli Prime when Communist Party member Angela Davis was framed, the CP electrodes in brain surgery to de­ stroy with electrical shocks the por­ Minister Golda Meir issued a strongly worded statement condemning instead chose Gus Hall and Jarvis tions of the brain controlling sexual Lebanon. Tyner for its presidential slate. drives. Another. technique he favors An official policy statement issued by the Israeli embassy in Wash­ Davis would have drawn too· much ington on June 1 states: .. Arab governments carry a grave responsi­ is lobotomy, the severing of the publicity to the_ CP campaign. Her frontal brain lobes. This not only bility for the foul record of murder and maiming of men, women and · case made her possibly the best­ "removes" sexual drives but leaves known American CPer ever, and children. • • • Two governments share a particular blame-the Egyptian the ~ictim _(patient) closely resem­ and the Lebanese.'' millions of people might have voted bling a walking vegatable. The for her. The threat here is to hold Arabs collectively responsible for actions drug antitestosterone, which causes This would have disrupted the such as this shooting. In 1968, when the Popular Front for the Lib­ chemical castration by irreversible CP' s smoke-filled-room strategy of eration of Palestine attacked an airliner in Athens, helicopter-borne atrophy of the testicles, is also used. work within the Democratic Party Israeli commandos immediately retaliated with a terrorist raid against The state of California has paid by spurring so many people to thousands of dollars for several the Beirut, Lebanon, airport. This concept of collective guilt was made break with capitalist politics. Con­ infamous by the Nazis. lobotomies ·performed by Dr. Bach ceivably, a sizable vote for the CP y Rita and other doctors at Vaca­ The present threats of violent reprisal against the Arab people, who might even weaken the Democrats vJlle state prison. Federal funds are not responsible for this shooting, must be strongly condemned. who might have gotten those votes from the Safe Street Act are being The Israeli rulers and the capitalist news media in this country are and cause the defeat of the lesser­ sought to defray expenses and ex­ evil capitalist. shedding hypocritical tears over the deaths of the 25. Israel is- a reac­ pand the program. What campaigning the CP does do tionary settler-state that was established by violently driving the Palestin­ These medical practices are being in its own name is only to give a ians from their homeland. The Zionists forced tens of thousands of protested more and more by the gay left cover to its actual main activity. Palestinians to live in refugee camps. They used terror and torture liberation movement, the women's and massacred hundl'eds of civilians. In 1967 they took over parts New England radicals know Joe liberation movement, and prisoners' of Egypt, Jordan, ·and Syria by force of arms. In this campaign they Kugelmass as perhaps the top CP organizations. Protests from several leader here. He will be a CP elec­ gay organizations forced the can­ used napalm provided by tlie U. S. government. In the occupied areas tor if the Hall-Tyner ticket gets on they have employed the most savage methods to supress the Pales­ cellation of a conference session at the ballot in Massachusetts. More in­ which Dr. Bach y Rita was to have tinian people, who are struggling to return to their homeland and to terestingly though, in a recent pri­ presented a paper on his latest lo­ determine their own affairs. mary here he served as a delegate botomy techniques. ·Publicity the gay This struggle against the imperialist-backed rulers in Israel is the on the Shirley Chisholm slate and movement has given to such prac­ · struggle of an oppressed people. To be successful it must mobilize the as an alternate delegate on the tices has forced the state hospitals power of the Palestinian masses-the workers, peasants, and students. George McGovern slate! Since Mc­ to forego some surgical experimenta­ . Individual .acts of terrorism, such as kidnappings and assassinations, Govern swept this state, it's possible . tion and to improve the conditions do not help this struggle. In fact, they are an obstacle to building a that Kugelmass will be a delegate at of at least some hospital inmates. mass movement to win a democratic, secular Palestine for both the the Democratic convention .in Miami. But as long as gay people can be Arab and Jewish people. Would he take the floor there and considered sick, criminal, and there­ explain why he, as Communist, fore subhuman, these and other bar­ The killing of 25 people, including 14 Puerto Ricans, in the Lydda air­ supports Ms.Govern? Not much port-an action for which the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pales­ baric practices will continue. It's up chance of that. It might cost Mc­ to an uncompromising, militant gay tine takes responsibility-did not aid the Palestinian struggle. Govern some votes! liberation movement to change the The goals of the action were not clear. By killing in~ocent people Bob Geb whole of society's attitude toward who have nothing to do with the oppression of Palestinians, the real Boston, Mass. homosexuals and all society's insti­ enemies of Palestinian self-determination were not defined. tutions. Only then will it be safe for . The assassination of any individuals, including Zionist officials, does Danish antiwar action people to be gay and proud. not help teach the Palestinian masses to have confidence in their own I read your paper once a week in Michael Maggi independent power. a library here in Copenhagen that San Francisco, Calif The task of revolutionists is to isolate the ruling class politically by has left-wing literature from all over helping the masses of people to understand and to fight more effectively the world. I think it's a very good Women's library paper. You write many interesting We need your help if the Women's the injustice and criminality of U.S. imperialism and Zionism. things about the USA that I cannot History Library is to continue its find in other papers. But when you work as the only international ar­ write about Denmark I can estimate chive of the present women's move­ it, and you have wrong information ment. It contains the most complete in the May 5 Militant. collection of publications by and You wrote that there were more New--- deal in Ireland? by and about women, including The New York Times recently stepped up its campaign of slander and than 10,000 in the April 15 demon­ ·newsletters, jounrttls, tapes, books, vilification against those fighting for SQcial change in Northern Ireland. stration here that concluded Indo­ and other media. A May 28 Times editorial attempts to equate the Northern Ireland Civil china Week. But there were not so For the past year now, the library Rights Association's (NICRA) condemnation of the .. advisory com­ :many people (sor:-y to say). The has been closed to visitors due to a mission" set up by British Minister William Whitelaw with the opposition newspapers in Copenhagen wrote lack of funds for staff, supplies and that there were 3,000 to 4,000. I of the right-wing Ulster Vanguard. The Times neglects to mention the equipment. We need financial sup­ myself, who joined the demonstra­ port. If we can raise $15,000 for fact that NICRA is struggling to end the oppression of the Catholic tion, would say that there were 20 percent of 50 work-study student masses, while the Ulster Vanguard is fighting to uphold this injustice. about 4,000 people, but not more salaries, the government will provide In its June 1 editorial, the Times implies that the refusal of NICRA than that. the remaining 80 percent through to give up its demands will help to bring on civil war in Northern Ire­ Jytte Jensen various colleges and universities. land. Copenhagen, Denmark The demand on our resources in­ As usual, the Times attempts to place the blame for violence upon creases continu.ally as the activities these struggling for social justice rather than upon the reactionary In reply- The ~ilitant' s figure .of of women expand and new wom­ defenders of the status quo. 10,000 for the demonstration was en's programs begin. Please send a The Times editors are upset because NICRA refuses to collaborate based on a report in the April 17 donation to: with the Whitelaw commission as long as men convicted of no crimes issue of Vietnam Solidarite~ a news­ Women's History Research Center, letter published by the Danish Viet­ Inc. are still interned and British troops continue their occupation of the nam Committees, the organizers of Catholic communities. They condemn the .. negative stance" of NICRA, 2325 Oak St. the action. Subsequent reports from Berkeley, Calif. 94708 accusing it of passing up a .. moment of rare opportunity to work for other observers indicate that 4,000 a new deal for Ulster's Catholic minority. • -• • " would be a more accurate estimate. But Tory Minister Whitelaw is not interested in providing a .. new 'Candid Camera' I enjoy your column "The Great deal". for the Catholic population of Northern Ireland. He is simply Calif. 'cures' gays Society" and thought you might find interested in restoring stability. The noises about reforms currently In a recent issue of your paper, interesting the ridiculous bit of dia­ being made have been prompted solely by the massive struggle of the reader David Thorstad described the logue I heard recently on the CBS last few years. Each vague promise· is balanced by the insistence that California Penal Code and its me­ "Face the Nation" program. the government can't go too far- L e., can't make any fundamental dieval penalties for gay persons. Two representatives who had been changes -lest the Protestant right wing get out of hand. The actual practice is even worse . FBI agents before their political ca­ The continued pressure of the mass movement of the oppressed in than formal law would indicate. Gay reers in Congress were being inter­ Northern Ireland is the only force that can turn the talk of reforms pei"sons may be sent to mental hos­ viewed. They were asked about their feelings on the recent history of the into real concessions. Demobilization of that movement in return for pitals for life if convicted of sodomy or oral copulation. Jn a number of FBI and the new directions it would will a seat on Whitelaw's advisory commission only make easier the mental hospitals, gay persons are take after the death of Hoover. One victimization of the most militant fighters .and the restoration of th~ now being "cured" of their sexuality was Representative Don Edwards of status quo that led to the current problems in the first place. Such a by lobotomy and chemical castra­ California, and the other, and more policy would not bring Ireland one step closer to peace. tion. reactionary, was Lawrence Hogan,

6 The· Great ... SoCiety ._:·.- It figures- ,Burglars backed a truck many of the city officials who had a along corporate lines, plans are un- up to a supermarket in St. Joseph, hand in cutting back funds for mu- der way to convert local post offices Republican from I don't know Mo., and ignoring several safes, pro­ nicipal bus service enjoy the use of into "postiques" selling a variety of .< .. ' where. ceeded to haul out the meat. chauffeured city cars. Some of them products. Meanwhile a study disclosed A news reporter asked about the are now changing their drivers' titles that unzipped mail frequently arrives construction of the new FBI build­ Pollution priority- It was nice to get to sergeant-at-arms. "It's a critical dis- as fast as zipped, airmail often doesn't ing, which when finished will be the back to Fun City for a bit .and en­ tinction," explained one semantic- make it any quicker than regular, second or third largest· building in joy that down home watering of the minded official. "A chauffeur implies and, inexplicably, mail gets from Washington. · eyes, constriction of the throat, and luxury." D. C. to Los Angeles faster than vice "Well," said Hogan, "they need one reactivation of the sinuses. We were versa. building just to house the billions of also pleased to learn that city council Year of the flea- The Miller-Morto"n fingerprints they have." President Sanford Garelik has called company cheerily reports that be­ Thought for the week-"Years ago, "Billions of files?" queried the as­ on the citizenry to unite in a mas­ cause of "an extraorqinary balance to be in debt showed you were a bad tonished reporter. "There aren't that sive antigraffiti drive. "Graffiti," he ex­ of temperature to humidity" 1972 manager. Today it means you're a many Americans!" plained, "pollutes the eyes and mind will see the greatest proliferation of good citizen."- Sociologist David "Many of them are from people ·and may be one of the worst forms fleas in a decade. M-M markets pet­ Caplovitz commenting on the rise of who are dead," Hogan replied. of pollution we have to combat." care products. installment debts to an average of Other gems from the interview in­ $2,000 per American family, not cluded a response to a question He can't take a choke- The dean of Desocializing the post office- With counting mortgages or charge ac­ about the scrutiny of the personal counts. -HARRY RING lives of civil rights leaders, as was Scottsdale Community College in Ari­ the postal service being revamped found in the case of Martin Luther zona was put off beeause students King. "Just because a person is voted to select the artichoke as the prominent," Hogan said, "is no rea­ school mascot. The student body why his personal life shouldn't be president said students "resent seeing the subject of scrutiny just like all $1.5-million lavished on a gymna­ other Americans." sium equipped with a private sauna And so it goes. These "quotes" are bath ... while academic areas such really a paraphrase of the actual as the library and psychology lab dialogue. Maybe you can get a are starved for funds." The dean said printed copy of the interview. the election was staged by "pf?ople C.F.L. who want to disparage, demean and Philadelphia, Pa. ridicule athletics at the college." He declared the elections "null and void." Prisoner subscribes Plain-talk dep't- "We're in the enter­ I am enclosing one dollar for a tainment business. We're not here to subscription to your newsweekly. I teach children that two and two make sincerely wish there was a way that four."- George Heinemann, NBC di­ I could enclose more since I am a rector of children's programs. confirmed believer in the media that expresses the realities of this regime Home, sgt.!- A survey by the San ' •• , HOWEVER, WHILE REMAINING TRULY THANKFUL, I HAV.I BIEN ASKED TO DRAW_ in Amerika to the people. It is too Francisco Bay Guardian showed that YOUR AnENnON TO THI RIDICULOUS PRICE HEREOF!' . bad that the massive organizations with more funds, like Ebony, do not become, as you have, one of the true voices of the people instead of the crier for the "10 best dressed men and women" or the richest Black bachelors in the country. Women: I am a Canadian Black by birth, and for years I have been, and al­ ways will be, a socialist. It is my belief that all of the riches of the na­ The Insurgent Majority tion belong to all of the population PUERTO RICANS PROTEST MISS USA CONTEST­ greater access to job opportunities, better child care, and on an equal basis. There should be Recently U. S. businessmen had the audacity to subject free abortions. none of this vast rich few and mas­ the people of Puerto Rico' to the degrading spectacle of But at the same time, women in the Soviet Union are sive poor. the annual Miss USA contest. The Puerto Rican Socialist expected to perform the duties of housewife c.nd mother I am going to share my issues Party (PSP) responded to this insult by organizing a in addition to the jobs that many hold outside the home. with the rest of the brothers here. demonstration at the Cerromar Beach Hotel in Dorado, To justify this dual role, the Soviet bureaucracy. eJfalts When I say "here," I am speaking the site of the event. the role of "motherhood" and the family to absurd "ex­ of the Washington State Peniten­ According to the May 28 issue of Claridad, the news­ tremes. The bureaucrats' efforts to maintain outmoded tiary. I have been here for the past paper reflecting the views of the PSP, hundreds of Puerto norms of "feminine" behavior even go to the extent of 12 years, having spent eight of that Rican militants joined the demonstration. This protest forbidding women to wear pants on some jobs~ on death row. So for good revolu­ had a dual character. It expressed the demonstrators' According to the May 20 Christian Science Monitor, tionary material, this is the basic disgust with the sexist exploitation of women's bodies three women who work at a Mosc0w computer center school ground that material such as were recently sent home from work by a ministry offi­ yours should be most popular in. cial because they wore pants. "This isn't a cafe or a This is where we are going to have theater," the official informed them after taking away to reach the young Black warriors, their identification cards. "One should come to work since so many of them are doing properly dressed. That is a ministry order." time all over the nation. Ai1d I note The three women- an engineer, a laboratory assistant, that some of the Eastern "joints" are and a technician- protested to the trade-union newspaper 80 and 90 percent Black, so I am Trud. "Good taste cannot be inculcated with an admin­ justified in reasoning that most of istrative bludgeon," they argued. "In our opinion, if a the fertile young minds for the rev­ pantsuit is becoming to a woman and is not wild or olution are either in the penitentiary of too flashy a color, there is no crime in wearing it on or are dying in Vietnam. the job, particularly since it is even more comfortable Since I am from one of the coun­ to work in such clothing." try's solutions to the minority prob­ lems, I ask if you have some other by Came SPANISH-SPEAKING WOMEN PRESS FOR ACTION materials, such as posters with Black Puerto Ricans march against Miss USA contest INSIDE HEW- The Women's Action Program of the leaders on them or slogans of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) revolution. I would see to it that the and the outrage of pro-independence Puerto Ricans with is not meeting the needs of Chicanas, Latinas, and Puerto brothers who are seeking "freedom a Miss USA contest taking place on their soil. Rican women, according to HEW employees who belong . . . uhuru ... dignity, and both at At a rally following the demonstration, Flavia Rivera, to the Spanish-Speaking Women's Concerns Group. The any and all costs" are given these a member of the Central Committee of the PSP Political May 1 Spokeswoman reports that the group has asked materials. We sincerely need all of HEW to hire Spanish-speaking women recruiters for all the help we can get, and more. Bureau, told the crowd: "Women are used as a sexual and commercial object and the benefits go to the .big HEW agencies and to research the specific problems faced Your brother in the struggle by Chicanas, Latinas, and Puerto Rican women in this Washington State Penitentiary corporations that sponsor the event. In the meantime, society. While 7 percent of the nation's population is Walla Walla, Wash. our ·people remain immersed in poverty. We can't allow . them to continue to use our country for this type of Spanish-speaking, the group points out, only 1.8 pe~cent The letters column is an open forum carnival." Juan Mari Bras, secretary general of the PSP, of female employees at HEW are Chicanas, Latinas, or for an· viewpoints on subjects of gen­ also spoke at the rally. Puerto Ricans. eral interest to our readers. Please keep your letters brief. Where neces­ 'PROPERLY DRESSED' SOVIET WOMEN- In the past THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT was passed by sary they will be abridged. Please in­ few months items have appeared in the Soviet press that the Michigan state legislature last week. Eighteen states dicate if your name may be used or give a ·glimpse of Soviet women's rising consciousness have now ratified the ERA. Twenty more must do· so if you prefer that your initials be used of their inferior status. Contrasted to women in the United before the amendment becomes law. instead. States, Soviet women enjoy more formal, legal equality, -CINDY JAQUITH

THE MILITANT/JUNE 16, 1972 7 Hugo Blanco on Vi & struggle in Latin America customary lamenting and issuing of fact that they are united for this action That is precisely what motivated the serious warnings and now think they is very positive, and I would even struggle that we conducted in La have fulfilled their obligations to the say it is a model for all of Latin Convencion. And that struggle shows Vietnamese. The imperialist aggres­ America. that we are not against guerrilla sors realize from this behavior of the warfare as a tactic that the masses USSR and China that they have a Jenness: For the past couple of years can adopt in their struggle. We are green light in Vietnam. there has been a dispute in Latin Amer­ not against the guerrilla actions used Fortunately the attitude of the peo­ ica over the best road toward social­ in Vietnam, for example. But when ple of many countries stands in con­ ism. On one side are those who call we used armed struggle, the begin­ trast to this attitude of the Chinese for guerrilla struggle, and on the other nings of armed struggle, it was as and Russian governments. Already side are those who are for mobilizing the result of an elevation of the mas­ the masses have openly demonstrated the masses. Recently the kidnapping ses, the maturing of the masses. against this aggression-in Spain, of Oberdan Sallustro in Argentina East Germany, in other European made headlines. around the world. I believe that what shows this best countries, and also in Latin America. What is your opinion of this event, is the fact our guerrilla group was In my country, Peru, there have been within the context of the dispute over made up of union leaders, and all antiwar demonstrations against the "which road to socialism," attd do the actions taken were approved by North American blockade, and more you think the kidnapping helped the an assembly. The group was an are planned. Argentine working class? armed commission that was simply Even in countries experiencing Blanco: Actually this discussion goes carrying out the orders of the peas­ heavy repression, like Spain, we have back much further than two or three ant assembly- an assembly of many seen mass mobilizati?ns ,against the years. It has been debated in a general Hugo Blanco Photo by Ben Atwood unions that unanimously ordered us North American aggression. way since the triumph of the Cuban to take that action. This is a sign The following interview with Peruvian All of which demonstrates that we revolution, which is wrongly in­ that we did not act in isolation from Trotskyist leader Hugo Blanco was are living in an epoch of revolution­ terpreted by many on the left. the masses. obtained May 16 in Mexico City by ary ascendency throughout the world I have described the positive im­ I am not saying that at every op­ Linda Jenness, the Socialist Workers during which the internationalist con­ pact of the Cuban revolution on sev­ portunity we waited for the mechan­ Party candidate for president. Jenness sciousness of the people is increasing. eral occasions. It destroyed the mono­ ical approval of an assembly before was on a speaking and fact-finding The biggest proof of this repudiation lithic strength of the reformist Com­ taking certain actions. But rather tour of Latin America. of North American aggression has munist parties, which in various ways that it was necessary and inescapable Hugo Blanco gained international been seen, fortunately, in the very denied the need for armed struggle that the masses consciously see these fame in the early 1960s as a peasant­ heart of the United States. IUs unnec­ by our people and denied the possi­ acts as their own, as a part of them­ union organizer in the Valley of La essary to recount all that has ta~en bility of socialist revolution. In this selves, as their deeds. Convencion in the Cuzco region of place there because you have lived sense the Cuban revolution had a Peru. The peasants were peacefully through it. But it is necessary to note very positive influence in Latin Amer­ It seems .to me that the kidnapping occupying lands that had been taken the importance of these events in Latin ica. of Sallustro could be cited as a typi- from them by the landlords. Between America.- the importance of both 1961 and 1963, more than 300 such fronts of struggle: the attitude of the \ occupations took place. Vietnamese, as well as the attitude of The landowners used police, troops the people of North America against and private armed goons against the this war. peasants. The unions responded by I think this helps inspire and build creating self-defense units. In 1963, the struggles in Latin America for after an extensive manhunt, Blanco our liberation. Because all of us are was captured and jailed. At his trial watching and we clearly see that the -! in 1966 he was sentenced to 25 years North American people will not again ~ "r permit the type of aggression that was i :~ In prison. After serving seven and one­ half years in jail, Hugo Blanco was carried out in Santo Domingo. I think -released as part of a general amnesty the North American people have for political prisoners in Peru on Dec. awakened enough to vigorously op­ 22, 1970. pose- this type of aggression, which Blanco WtUI exiled to Mexico on imperialism has carried out with rela­ Sept. 14, 1971, by the Velasco regime, tive ease in- the past. because of his political views and his Aggression in Mexico, Guatemala, mass support. etc., used to be considered a normal, The Mexican antiwar demonstration everyday thing. But the imperialists that is mentioned took place May 17 can no longer do this with such ease and had more than 20,000 partici­ because they see the domestic trouble Photo by Ben Atwood pants. it means for them. . Linda Jenness addressing students at Engineering School in Lima, Peru. The kidnapping of Oberdan For that reason I want to say that Banner reads: 'Hugo Blanco should return- We demand his repatria­ Sallustro, discussed in the 'interview, the Latin American peoples are watch­ tion,' and 'Freedom for the miners.' The FIR, Hugo Blanco's organi­ took place March 21. Sallustro was ing very closely the actions of the zation, stands for Front of the Revolutionary Left (Frente de Izquierdo head of the Argentiue branch of the North American masses, and watching Revolucionario). Fiat company. with respect. Previously there was a tendency for the popular masses in Jenness: What do you think of Nixon's the U. S. to identify with their govern­ But unfortunately it also fostered cal example of an act isolated from latest actions against the Vietnamese ment, but now the masses are notic­ adventurist and ultraleft conceptions. the masses, in contrast to the strug­ people? What effect do they have in ing that they and their government Conceptions that tried to substitute gles that have developed, for example, Latin America? are two opposed camps. the action of small groups of heroes­ in Cordoba, recently in Mendoza, and Wanco: It seems to me that Nixon's who were well in_tentioned, I don't earlier in Rosario and Tucaman. In latest actions are a sign of his des­ Jenness: Do you think there is a pos­ deny that- for the action of the mas­ these cases the masses saw through peration. The failure of his Vietnami­ sibility of large protests in Latin Amer­ ses. experience that they had to fight even zation policy has been demonstrated ica against Nixon's latest escalations? These groups cannot substitute them­ with arms in hand. But it was the - especially in the recent act of min­ Blanco: I think that is possible. There selves for the action of the masses. masses who came to that conclusion. ing the ports of North Vietnam. Nix­ have ·already been some demonstra­ Marx's statement that the liberation The case of Sallustro was exactly on has taken the gravest and most tions in Venezuela, in Peru, and some of the workers must be the t~sk of the opposite. It was the case of a desperate measures that he could. small ones in Mexico. The various the workers themselves continues to group that decided to take that ac­ These recent actions also demon­ groups that are against this aggres­ be valid. We understand this state­ tion and carry it out on their own, strate the strength of the revolution­ sion, the various anti-imperialist ment in all its magnitude, and we independently of the level of conscious­ ary will of the Vietnamese people. The groups, are capable of building huge believe that the function of revolution­ ness of the masses. mas!l desertions from the Saigon pup­ demonstrations in Latin America if aries is precisely to build and lead In some cases the masses may ev~n this action of the masses of workers, pet army show that Saigon cannot th~y do not behave in a sectarian praise such actions. But that is not count .on any help from the people fashion but form a united front in­ peasants, students, and the other sec­ what we are looking for-that the and that if it were not for the brutal stead. tors of the population. masses should find a savior, a de­ U. S. war effort, they could not hope Beginning with the immediate needs fender of the poor, who fights the to resist the revolutionary forces even Jenness: There is going to be one and struggles of the masses, we must enemy for them. Because this is bad for a week. here in Mexico tomorrow•••• raise demands in such a way that, education for the masses. Even if the It should be pointed out in connec­ Blanco: Yes, there is one planned, through their own practical experience demands that Sallustro's kidnappers tion with this that the Chinese and and according to what I have read the masses understand that they cannot made- such as that the fired work­ Soviet bureaucracies are capitulating in several dispatches, more than 30 fulfill their needs within the capitalist ers be rehired and that school sup­ more than ever in face of the Yankee organizations have endorsed this dem­ system. They must destroy this sys­ plies be given free to poor children­ aggression. Even a bourgeois col­ onstration. These organizations and tem to achieve what they want-that even if the demands had been accept­ umnist here in Mexico commented that individuals have many programmatic is, to carry out the solution to their ed, I believe that the balance would Moscow and Peking have done their differences among themselves, but the basic needs. have been negative. This is because

8 the masses were given the false no­ thering the deception that the Allende tion that they do not need· to strug­ government is socialist and the lie gle; that the ERP can do many things that the masses will be able to achieve Steinem, others, blast for the masses in this way; and that what they need through peaceful if the workers were mistreated, okay, means. all that was necessary was to wait The peasants are taking tlie land, Argentine repression for the ERP to kidnap some function­ de facto. In view of the fact that the By FRANK GRINNON mada would be subjected to special ary and that would secure victory­ Allende government refuses to give NEW YORK, June 1- The Argentine sexist treatment while a political pris­ for the workers. them the land, the expropriation of military regime was sharply criticized oner. In La Convencion we always took some properties does not mean, that here today for its threatened sentencing These fears were shared by Quigley. pains to show the masses that if they the Allende government is fully meet- of Casiana Ahumada, editor of the He described the methods of torture Buenos Aires monthly Cristianismo used on Norma Morello, the Argen­ y Revolucion. Ahumada faces four tine Catholic Action organizer who years on the prison ship Granadero was recently released after five months on frame-up charges Of cons-piring to of detention without charges. Morello incite to violence1 The changes stem was subjected to threats of rape and from articles that appeared in her the repeated use of electric shocks on magazine. her genitals. ~ The criticism came from feminist Documentation of the torture of writer and editor Gloria Steinem; women prisoners in Argentina is be­ Thomas Quigley, assistant director of ginning to. be published. The case of the Latin American Division of the Elena Codan, who was picked up for U.S. Catliolic Conference; the Rever­ questioning in connection with the Sal­ end William L. Wipfler, executive di­ lustro kidnapping, is one example. rector of the Latin American section Codan has stated that she was beaten of the National Council of Churches; and given electric shocks all over her and representatives of the U. S. Com­ naked body. mittee for Justice to Latin American "I began to lose a large quantity Political Prisoners (USLA). of fluid and they explained to me. Wipfler, who has recently returned that 'I was about to burst,' that I had from a fact-finding trip to Argentina, 'half my womb hanging out.' One of stated that the case of Ahumada was them panted at my side and stroked not an isolated incident. He asserted my chest gently. Photo by Ben Atwood that the case, clearly a flagrant at­ "I lost consciousness; they revived 25,000 to 30,000 Peruvians marched against Vietnam war Ma-y 19, tack· on civil liberties, is one of an in­ me with the electric prod. while Jenness was in Peru. creasing number of attacks against "I had lost all sensation in my arms opponents of the Lanusse regime. and legs. I was raped by one of them. didn't act, if they didn't take the solu­ ing the needs of the masses. Judy White, editor of the USLA Re­ I felt , like vomiting and I couldn't tion to their problems into their own The response of the Chilean author­ hands, then nobody could do it for ities to the peasant · land-takeovers porter, expressed indignation at the breathe. I hardly remember what hap­ them. · demonstrates their bourgeois attitude. frame-up of Ahumada and outlined pel}ed after that. Only some voices, For example, people came and said: Peasants have been imprisoned for USLA's plans for a protest picket line blows and threats, between which they "Comrades of yours are depending these actions. The leaders of the peas­ to be held at the Argentine consulate promised to place an apparatus in my on you to get them out of prison." ants are being arrested. This shows in New York on June 6. The Argen­ genitals through which they could And even we who were in the lead­ that the Chilean government does not tine Embassy in Washington will be reach up to my uterus with the electric ership of the union, we told the work­ exactly represent the peasants. the site of another demonstration on prod. ers that we could not do anything­ On the other hand, the Chilean right the same day. Ahumada is scheduled it was the masses, in their numbers, wing is adopting increasingly aggres­ to be sentenced on June 7. "When I recovered consciousness I who could mobilize themselves to free sive positions. If the masses do not Gloria Steinem expressed solidarity was on a couch and was shaking with the imprisoned comrades. We said take power in their hands and de­ with the Argentine editor as a jour­ chills and fever. I wa,s delirious and they should appeal to the other peas­ stroy the entire capitalist state appa­ nalist and as a woman. She stated I couldn't see out of my right eye." ratus, the right wing will destroy ant unions as well to get their full­ that she had covered New York Gov­ Codan's testimony is reported in the Allende. seale aid and organize joint demon­ ernor Nelson Rockefeller's trip to Ar­ May-June issue of the USLA Reporter, The army cannot stop being":y.rhat strations of great masses of peasants. gentina and had observed Argentine available for 25 cents from USLA, it is: a capitalist army. We cannot We knew that only the action of press censorship first-hand. 150 Fifth Ave., Room 737, New York, deceive ourselves by thinking ·that Steinem said she feared that Ahu- N.Y. 10011. our unions could suffice. with the election of Allende this cap­ And not only did the peasants col­ italist army, which is an instrument lect money- although they had so of. capitalist repression, would be con­ little-for the purposes of publicity verted· at one stroke into an instni­ to extend the movement en masse, ment of the masses. but they convinced the other unions, If the army has not yet undertaken extending the mobilization and their a coup, it is precisely because the methodology. capitalist sectors live in' fear of pro­ Only thus did we succeed in pro­ voking an insurrection of the mass­ ducing large~scale mobilizations of the es that would establish a workers gov­ masses and in freeing the prisoners ernment. It would be an illusion to and doing other things as well. We think that the capitalist Chilean army did not prepare an assault on the could be an exception in the history _prison to liberate the imprisoned com­ of the class .struggle throughout the rades, for example. We did not even world. say to our union that they should That the Chilean soldiers can be take this action. But we showed that on the side of the people is another all the people had to be mobilized to matter. We see U.S. soldiers in Viet­ · spread this method to the other sec­ nam refusing to go into combat. We tors. saw that the soldiers in Russia were one of the main forces of the 1917 Jenness: In Chile a government came Russian revolution. But they were sol­ to office via the electoral road and diers destroying the capitalist mili­ they now have a president, Allende, tary apparatus, who united with the Photo by Mark Satinaff who says he is a Marxist and will workers and peasants in an uprising Press conference denounces persecution of Casiano Ahumada, · lead the masses to a socialist society. against their exploiters. Argentine editor. The Chilean Communist Party says Therefore in Chile it is possible that this can be done and that a gradual the masses of the army will actually transformation to socialism and in­ be with the workers, since they come dependence will take place through from the heart of the people, but that the gradual assumption of power by unity of action must be against the Lee Otis Johnson is the workers and peasants. Is this road capitalist military apparatus. a better one than armed struggle? As for the courts and judicial power, Blanco: Naturally it would be a very we see them jailing the student and free on bail in Texas nice way to take power, but unfor­ peasant leaders in Chile. This dem­ By DEBBY LEONARD pealed that ruling. Previous motions tunately it is impossible. The ·mass­ onstrates once again that judicial HOUSTON, June 2- U.S. District for bail for Johnson were denied and es never like violence for the sake power is an instrument of the ex­ Judge Carl 0. Bue Jr. today ordered he remained behind bars despite the of violence; they prefer peaceful mea­ ploiting classes against the exploited. Black activist Lee Otis Johnson re­ order for a new trial~ sures and peaceful actions. It is nec­ The' fact that the courts and the army leased from prison on $10,000 bail. However, State Prosecutor Joe Moss essary that the masses learn from their are being maintained intact and de­ Johnson, a former leader of the Stu­ was forced to admit today that he experience what Marx taught: that the fended by the Allende government and dent Nonviolent Coordinating Com­ could not present any evidence to sub­ bourgeois class is going to defend the CP shows that the Chilean state mittee (SNCC), has already served stantiate the claim that Johnson is its power by any means necessary, is ·still a bourgeois state. To destroy four years of a 30-year sentence. He a danger to the community. There­ and that the exploited classes must the capitalist state and achieve social­ ·was framed up on the charge of giv­ fore, Judge Bue set bail, and John­ meet its violence not with the violence ism will require actions by the masses, ing one marijuana cigarette to an un­ son, whose case has become a land­ of a small group but with the action similar to those the peasants are dercover police agent. mark in the long history of racist of the exploited masses. taking. justice in Texas, is a free man- at In its current acts, the Chilean CP That will be the only way to stop On Jan. 20 Judge Bue ruled that least temporarily. is defending the Agrarian Reform Law · the ultraright: the masses seizing Johnson must be retried within 90 The state can appeal this ruling and of the Christian Democrats and fur- power themselves. days or set free. The state has ap- is still planning to prosecute Johnson.

THE MILITANT/JUNE 16, 1972 Cops arrest union heads in Berkeley sit-in By RUSSELL BLOCK with you before your attorneys have BERKELEY, Calif., June 1-The 45- us put in jail on June 1." day-old work stoppage of 2,000 cam­ The union leaders arrived at Hitch's pus workers at the University of Cal­ office at 11:30 a.m. and were informed ifornia took a new turn last night that Hitch was in Sacramento, but with the arrest of 16 union leaders would return by 3 p.m. They decided after an eight-hour sit-in at the of­ to wait. While 100 to 300 pickets fice of U C President Charles Hitch. ringed the building, university police Those arrested included Richard locked all entrances and refused to Groulx, executive secretary of the Ala­ allow reporters inside. meda County Labor Council, and La­ At 6:30 p.m., after the building was mar Childers, secretary of the Ala­ officially closed, police read the tres­ meda County Building Trades Coun­ pass act to the union representatives cil. ' in Hitch's office. An hour later police Labor representatives broke off ne- returned and arrested the union of­ gotiations in the work stoppage two ficials on charges of trespass and fail­ weeks ago when university lawyers ure to disperse. Eight were released obtained contempt of court citations on their own recognizance. Eight against Groulx and Childers. The two others, including Childers and Groulx, were cited for allegedly violating an were taken to the city jail. Their ar­ injuction issued by Alameda County rests followed the arrest of four pick­ Superior Court Judge JohnS. Cooper. ets by campus cops earlier in the The injunction outlawed picketing in week. support of a strike but permitted em­ In a statement to the East Bay La­ ployees to withdraw their labor and bor Journal, Groulx and Childers em­ express their views via picket signs. phasized that j ailings will not end the On May 19 the UC regents refused dispute. The issues-denial of prevail­ Richard Groulx, executive secretary of the Alameda County Labor to grant 15 minutes to hear the ing wages and signed contracts, wage Council, is arrested after taking part in eight-hour sit-in. union's side in the dispute, declaring cutting, and speedup- must be settled, that the matter was properly in the tion," they said, "follows weeks of ha­ they said. [of the public]." hands of UC president Hitch. Two Victor Reuther was in the area cam­ Socialist Workers Party candidates rassment of campus pickets by UC days before the sit-in, Groulx and paigning for G'eorge McGovern. He Ken Miliner, running for U. S. rep­ cops, the utilization of scabs, a con­ Childers sent a telegram to Hitch stat­ read a statement from McGovern sup- resentative in the 7th C. D., and Bren­ sistent refusal to negotiate seriously, ing i~ part: - porting the right of public employees da Brdar, running for state assembly and weeks of inconvenience to the "Since the regents have said that to bargain collectively and to strike. in the 16th district, "strongly con­ campus community resulting from the you have all the necessary power to McGovern called for arbitration in demned" the arrests and demanded refusal to meet the just demands of the settle all the outstanding disputes, we "those areas where the state is con­ that charges be dropped. campus unions. We can only conclude think it might be beneficial to meet cerned about the health and safety "This action by the UC administra- that the wrong people were arrested." 15,000 hotel workers rally for better pay By RACHEL TOWNE to Rican, and at least half of the work­ According to Jay Rubin, · president average take-home - pay contrasts NEW YORK, June 1-More than 15,- ers were women. Most seemed to be of the Hotel and Motel Trades Coun­ sharply with the elegance of hotel ap­ 000 hotel workers attended a rally in their 30s or older. cil and the main speaker a.,t the rally, pointments." at Madison Square Garden today de­ The rally was very spirited and in­ the union is asking for $125 a week It has been years since these unions manding higher pay and better pen­ cluded an enthusiastic singing of "Sol­ minimum pay for all members, with­ have won any kind ·of real raise for sions. Delegations of maids, porters, idarity Forever." Picket signs includ­ raises-.for everyone earning more than their members. The last general strike waiters, and cocktail waitresses from ed "Fare is up! Taxes are up! Raise that, and a $100-a-month pension. of New York hotel workers was in 140 hotels streamed into the Garden, our pr.y!" and "We want to live on Negotiations have been stalled on 1934. Now, with the skyrocketing in­ beginning a four-hour work stop­ our wages, not welfare." these points · for months. The hotels flation caused by the war in South­ page. Management was left to do some claim "business is down" apd say they east Asia, these poorly paid work­ honest work for once-carry bag­ Many hotel workers are _forced to can't pay more. ers can no longer manage on their gage, wipe tables, and check guests get financial 'assistance from the Wel­ The bosses involved include some meager wages. in and out. fare Department since their pay is so of the biggest corporations in the The rally set up a committee to low. Many have two or more jobs. country- ITT Sheraton, Hilton, Holi­ · organize a strike referendum. The in­ The rally was called by the New The average hotel worker earns $95 day, Loews, and Howard Johnson. formal strike vote taken at the rally York Hotel and Motel Trades Coun­ a week before taxes and takes home Also involved are big luxury hotels was overwhelmingly for a strike if cil, AFL-CIO, which is composed of $60 to $70 a week. Men are paid frequented by the rich, such as the a satisfactory agreement is not ten unions in the hotel-service area. substantially more than women, al­ Pierre, the Plaza, and the Waldorf­ reached soon. The meeting ended with It was predominately Black and Puer- though their pay is still very low. Astoria. As a union leaflet put it, "Our chants of "Strike! Strike! " The National Picket Line 'LESSER EVILISM' AND THE PATRONAGE $34,000. Neither postmaster is allowed to pick age system this government rests on. They get the SYSTEM:- The next time a worker tells a cam­ his own employees. That is a patronage plum for plums and pay their sponsors back with special paigner for Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley senior legislators and a five-member Democratic services. The postmasters in both the Senate and that a vote for a socialist candidate is wasted, patronage committee. the House, for instance, make sure there is no that all capitalist politicians are crooked but none­ Besides mail carriers and clerks, patronage dis­ count of free mail sent out by representatives or theless he or she is going to vote for the "lesser pensers select doormen, elevator operators, mes­ senators during election periods. Some of these of two evils," here are a few facts for rebuttal. sengers, telephone pages, folding-room clerks, and patronage artists do nothing at all except collect They come from no less a source than the Wall sundry other payrollers who work for the clerk their paychecks and keep their mouths shut about Street Journal and help to show that there is no of the post office or the doorman-who gets possible scandals. such thing as a "lesser evil" when it comes to $40,000 a year. The doorkeeper's payroll includes The June 2 Wall Street Journal says about this Democrats and Republicans. the clerk's mother, who ekes by on $18,000. The situation: Representative William L. Springer (R-Ill.), House post office payroll includes the sister of "Capitol Hill is indeed a complicated' place, a ranking member of the House Commerce Com­ Representative Carl Perkins (D-Ky. ). little world of its own operating under rules that mittee, has an invaluable receptionist whose salary sometimes seem to have little relationship to the is paid by the committee- all $30,800 of it. House Democratic leader Hale Boggs "employs" ' larger world outside . . . and Rep. Springer not­ Helen Dubino's duties include screening people his wife as his secretary. Chet Holifield, chair­ withstanding (and his $30,800receptionist-M. S.), into three categories: "Those I must see, those man of the Government Operations Committee, a case in point would seem to be the Capitol Hill who should be seen by someone else, and those hired his wife as his clerk-receptionist. Wilbur Mills, salary system-inflated, shot through with patron­ she's got to keep off my back," says Springer. chairman of the House Ways and Means Commit­ age and special considerations, and getting more Besides these arduous tasks, Dubino "knows Wash­ tee, employs a pair of $15,000-a-year mail clerks baffling by the day." ington backwards, forwards, and inside out." -one of whom doubles as his chauffeur. This short summary of facts about Washington's Pages appointed by legislators, some of them The staff director of the Sel)ate Labor Subcom­ special people must make General Post Office em­ as young as 14, run errands for the solons. They mittee also doubles as a chauffeur for his boss's ployees and all other federal civil servants f~el get $7,660 a year for this service. This is more wife and serves as a bartender at the senator's really good when they try to get a piddling raise than is earned by one-third of all American factory parties. He makes only $33,000 for all this service. or exercise their right to strike-which is denied workers. These pages are supervised by a Demo­ There are now so many committees, subcom­ to all government workers at any level. cratic supervisor of pages whose annual salary mittees, and special bodies that the huge Rayburn It should also te~r the scales from the eyes of is $24,900, and a Republican supervisor who gets office building is too small to hold all the staff com­ voters who think they are exercising their ;right $21,000. mittee offices. of franchise by choosing the "lesser evii." There The House and the Senate each have their own None of these special employees are under civil is no such thing in capitalist politics. post offices, headed by postmasters who. draw service. They are a part of the whole rotten patron- -MARVEL SCHOLL

10 ' . , / "\ -f Davis verdict History of Davis case: Shouts of joy rang 'Chains of slavery' By MICHAEL SCHREIBER on Davis's work in defense of the - e court SAN JOSE, Calif.-Threedaysbefore Soledad Brothers were used to des­ th roug h th the jury brought a verdict of acquit- ignate the former UCLA professor as tal for Angela Davis, they were ad- a mastermind behind a "simple but dressed by the defense attorneys, Leo ingenious plot that almost worked." By MICHAEL SCHREIBER Mary Timothy, spokeswoman for Branton and Howard Moore. However, when the Soledad Broth- SAN JOSE, Calif., June 4- Several the jurors, remarked that their ver­ Branton called the jurors by name ers went on trial in the fall of 1971 hundred persons who were denied a dict was unanimous after less than and told them, "You are going to for allegedly murdering ·a prison seat in the courtroom strained their 13 hours of deliberations. Timothy be part of history." To understand guard, it began to appear likely that _ faces against the chain-link security signed her notes to Judge Richard the role of thisjury, Branton remarked, they would be judged innocent. That fence, awaiting the verdict Inside the Arnason "Ms. Timothy, foreperson." "You have to understand what it is is what happened. courtroom the jury filed to their seats She explained that the jury believed about the history of this country that The prosecution then revised its case. in tense silence. Sallye and Frank it would be appropriate for a woman has made an Angela Davis." Davis was no longer characterized as Davis, Angela's parents, entwined to head the jury since the defendant He recounted the assassinations of the political mastermind of the Aug. their hands tightly as the court clerk also was a woman. Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Martin 7, 1970, events but simply as a know- read the verdict on the first count Luther King, and "three little girls ing accomplice who had participated of murder: "We the jury ... find the Davis warmly embraced each of the in a church in Birmingham." He men- because of her "passion" for George defendant Angela Y. Davis ... not jurors in turn. Later, at the victory guilty!" celebration sponsored by the defense tioned the police raids on homes of Jackson. A sob shattered the courtroom, and committee, Juror Robert Seidel ac­ Black Panthers, the Scottsboro trial The trial of Angela Davis opened Franklin Alexander, the national co­ knowledged that "from the start we of the 1930s, the Dred Scott decision, on March 27 in San Jose. Prosecu- ordinator of the National United Com­ more or less considered it a very and the Fugitive Slave Law. tor Albert Harris presented 95 wit- mittee to Free Angela Davis, buried doubtful case." The jurors, however, "The chains of slavery are still nesses and 201 pieces of evidence in his face in his hands. Angela Davis refused to disclose more details to there," said Branton. "But Angela seven weeks of testimony. The defense and defense investigator Kendra Alex­ avoid prejudicing the trial of Ruchell Davis is not only Black and militant. case lasted three days. ander tearfully embraced while the Magee, whose case was severed· from She is a Communist.- I don't have The issue attracting the most sup- clerk intoned the verdict of acquittal Angela Davis's last July 19. ]'dagee to remind you of the anti-Commun- port was Davis's right to bail. This on the final counts of kidnapping and will go on trial this summer in San ism that is rampant in this country; demand was supported by the Con­ that many Communists have been gressional Black Caucus, more than conspiracy. Francisco. Then shouts of joy rang through Branton, who did most of the cross­ put on trial for advocating their first 150 trade-union locals, and several the courtroom. Immediately afterward examination for the Davis defense, amendment rights." Continued on page 22 Branton read the jurors excerpts from several volumes of hate letters that threatened Davis's life because she is a member of the Communist Socialist Party. The letters date from the fall of 1969 when the regents of the Uni­ candidates versity of California at Los Angeles, headed by Governor Ronald Reagan, hail victory voted to terminate her assistant pro­ The following telegram was sent to fessorship in accord with a university Angela Davis from Kenneth Millner~ rule barring the employment of Com­ '# the Socialist Workers Party candidate munists. for Congress in California's 7th C. D, This red-baiting incident in 1969 was the beginning of the sham murder­ Dear Sister Angela, kidnapping-conspiracy indictment of I speak on behalf of all the caq­ which Davis has just been acquitted. didates of the Socialist Workers Party. Although a California Superior Court in Northern California in hailing your ruled that the firing was unconstitu­ momentous victory. The attempt by tional and ordered Davis reinstated, the federal, local, and state govern­ the regents refused to rehire her. In­ ments to set an example to the rest stead they whipped up a new scare of our brothers and sisters in the Black campaign in the summer of 1970 community through your arrest and against Davis's activities on behalf trial has backfired miserably. Photo by Michoel Schreiber of the Soledad Brothers and the Los As you stated upon your acquittal, Angela Davis with supporters at news conference shortly after the Angeles Panther 18. it was indeed the support of millions jury announced its verdict. The state began to store up "evi­ of people around the world that won dence" to use against Davis at some defense attorneys Leo Branton and your freedom and defeated the attempt stated that he had favored presenting future time. to isolate you behind prison walls. Howard Moore marched through the no defense witnesses to rebut the state's During the last week of Jupe 1970, security gates surrounding the court­ The winning of your freedom will case. He said that he was outvoted San Quentin officials confiscated an spur on the fight of Black people in house into the arms of a cheering in consultation with Angela Davis, the "unauthorized" letter from Davis to crowd. Many of the persons who were this country against the racist oppres­ other attorneys, and the defense com­ Soledad Brother George Jackson. On sion we face. It will spur on the strug­ present had kept" a quiet vigil on the mittee. July 30, 1970, at the Mexican bor­ courthouse lawn during the jury's de­ gle to build a massive movement of During the trial Branton had sur­ der, U. S. customs agents seized sev­ African-Americans in solidarity with liberations. mised that defense activities forced the : About 40 National Guardsmen took eral political books and newspapers our brothers and sisters on the Afri­ prosecution "to keep holding some­ time off from- their Sunday exercises from Davis's automobile. The agents can continent, as begun on May 27. thing back.... there was- too much across the street to join Davis's well­ observed that Davis was accompanied And it will sp}lr on the struggle to wishers. "It is your victory," Branton left to speculation. The case had to at the time by Jonathan Jackson end the genocidal war of aggression told the crowd. fall." Attorney Howard Moore later (who wa"s helping to serve as a body-~ being waged in Vietnam by the same Angela Davis was more shy as her agreed that he shared Branton's "ex­ guard against numerous threats on government That wished to confine supporters pressed forward to em­ ultation," but added ruefully, "Justice Davis's life). you to prison. brace her. "I am just like everybody in America is expensive." On Aug. 7, 1970, Jonathan Jack­ We welcome you back to the struggle else today," Davis said. "I am com­ - Moore pointed out that the ·average son attempted to aid the escape of and look forward to working with pletely speechless. This is not only political defendant cannot afford to three San Quentin prisoners at the you. the happiest day of my life, but I raise a mass defense movement like Marin County courthouse. Prison In solidarity, am sure that all of the people around the one built for Davis. The drive that guards opene~ fire on the escape ve­ Ken Miliner the world who have struggled to free helped force the decision to free Davis hicle. The shoot-out resulted in the me see this as an example of all the from jail on bail, Moore said, not death of Jackson, prisoners William victories that are to come. Starting only enabled her to participate fully Christmas and James McClain, and today we have got to work to free in her defense but removed psycholog­ Judge Harold Haley. every political prisoner and every op­ ical pressure on the.jury to view Davis Four days later a warrant was is­ pressed person in the world." as a confined criminal. sued for the arrest of Angela Davis, The crowd took up the cry of "Free Moore emphasized that it was neces­ stating that she had bought the weap­ Ruchell." One supporter shouted, "If sary to "take the movement [for Angela ons used by Jackson. After the FBI Albert Harris comes through this Davis] and broaden its base and give failed to locate Davis in an illegal crowd, we're going to make a citi­ it a precise course of direction so that search of her Los Angeles apartment, zen's arrest," but prosecutor Harris it can free other political prisoners, they placed her on their 10-most­ had already stolen away from the such as Ruchell Magee. I am certain wanted list. courtroom with a swift "no commenf' that Ruch~ll can tte free. There is no She was arrested in New York Oct. to onlookers. doubt in· my mind that Ruchell is 13, 1970. The California state attor­ Several of the jury members joined innocent." ney general's office claimed thatJona­ Davis and her attorneys among the Davis later told reporters that she than Jackson would not have risked defense supporters outside the gate. was tried solely because of her polit­ his life for three relatively unknown Juror Ralph DeLange gave a clenched­ ical beliefs and activities. She admitted San Quentin prisoners, but must have fist salute to the crowd in order to, that she has received death threats been attempting to negotiate some­ as he explained, "show unanimity of during the past week but emphasized thing bigger-freedom for his brother opinion of all oppressed people; to that "Because of the corresponding George Jackson and the nationally show I felt a sympathy for the people growth of the movement, I am not known Soledad Brothers. The obser­ in the crowd." going to allow that to shut me in." vations the state officials had made

THE MILITANT/JUNE-16, 1972 11 The battle was reported over the radio throughout Minnesota Teamster Rebellion by Farrell coming American socialist revolution. gle against the union officials in order by leaders who had won rank-and- Dobbs. A Monad Press book dis- This account of the historic strug- to put new people in their posts. Ob- file support during the strike. · tributed by Pathfinder Press. New gles led by Local 574 was not written viously a struggle would develop As Dobbs put it, all this was "ac­ by a sideline observer. As a central against those leaders who equivocated complished with the same ease that York. 1972. 192 PP· Paper $2.25. leader of the strikes, Dobbs !was right in the fight against the employers. a withered husk can be stripped from Cloth $6. 95. in the thick of the battle. During the a ripened ear of corn." strikes he joined the revolutionary­ The League's plan was especially Although the exact pattern isn't By DOUG JENNESS socialist movement and has been part difficult to implement because the likely to be repeated, it clearly illus­ On their speaking tours this spring of it ever since: From this vantage union's conservative, craft-oriented trates how the question of winning Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley, the point, he is particularly well quali­ character made it hard to join. The union posts was subordinated to build­ Socialist Workers Party candidates for fied to relate accurately what hap­ League, however, was able to get one ing a leadership on the basis of a member into the local. This member program and action. president and vice-president, were re­ pened, why it happened the way it peatedly confronted with skepticism played a central . role in helping to · The leadership was democratically did, and what can be learned from selected by the rank and file, and the about the labor movement. "I agree it. / win the support of several key union with you that Nixon's wage-control leaders who were sincerely interested members were involved in each major decision during the strikes. Union schemes are a major attack on work­ in the organizing drive. Other League Period of radicalization negotiators could not agree to terms ers," some would state, "but I don't members, who worked together in the The Minneapolis Teamsters strikes coal yards, organized nonunion work- with the employers without the ap- see the unions doing anything about occurred before the rise of the CIO it." {Congress of Industrial Organiza­ rf~Jfo;~y .. ~J)·t ntitttttttll!l~5 ~rfbuut _ Others, including both students and tions) and during a period of rad­ _::-:: ~,. _____ ::=_::_,,_:,;::~:~ -,--~=-- __ _.:=--=·:~:,::::.~-=---- -~~;:!:~i;~0J~::~E:f~i-=_~i'£E.::,.. ~.::::.~-~:-:=,.w~ ____, __ ;;~~::!i~ _____ ------·"'"""\'...... ,.,.., young workers, pointed to most icalization that had begun with the unions' lack of involvement in major 1929 economic crash. social struggles of the day -the fight against the Vietnam war, racism, and The climate in the country was one STRIKE HEADQUARTERS SEIZEII the oppression of women. "How can of protests and dem·onstrations. Thou­ ~-=i·:::-cJ..:-;'~}.:·):·f.:-·i;":(:.t ~-.<,--$;_-kJ..AJtltl:)t.• l:_* you expect these conservative, undem­ sands of farmers engaged in militant ocratic institutions of the establishment actions to fight foreclosure of their Guardsme11A Raid Labor~ to ever support a social revolution farms and for better prices for their in this country," one Black woman produce. Unemployed workers, led by asked. radicals, held demonstrations. In The socialist candidates agreed that 1932, veterans organized a bonus with their present leadership, the march on Washington. Students and unions will never be part of the strug­ intellecjuals rejectep old ideas for new, gle against capitalist rule. But the im­ more radical ones. In the 1932 elec­ pact of the current radicalization and tion, the Communist Party and the the government attack on the living Socialist Party' had a combined vote conditions of workers, they pointed of about one million. Minnesota had a Farmer-Labor Party government. The year 1934 marked the first large-scale participation of workers in this process. A longshore strike in San Francisco, which developed into a city-wide general strike, and the To­ ledo Autolite strike were both led by radicals. Along with these strikes, the Minneapolis Teamsters struggle in­ spired workers throughout the coun­ try and helped set the stage for the formation of the CIO. In January 1934, the union move­ ment in Minneapolis was small and weak, and the employers were well organized to break strikes. In fact, no union had won a strike in the city in more than 10 years. Unem- · Farrell Dobbs ployment was high, wages were mis­ erably low, and working conditions · Front page of the Aug. 1, 1934, Minneapolis Tribune reporting the out, can lead to the emergence of were oppressive. occupation of Local 574's headquarters. Photo shows V. R. Dunne being struggle-oriented left wings that will The Communist League of America, taken into custody by National Guardsmen. forerunner of the Socialist Workers create new leaderships in the unions. ers in a volunteer organizing com­ proval of the membership. Local574 This sounded abstract to most of Party, decided to do something about mittee. was probably the most democratic the situation. As early as the winter their audiences because they could not By late 1933, the organizing com­ union this country has ever seen, be­ point to any examples of such a lead­ of 1930-31 the League had developed mittee was strong enough}o pressure fore or since. ership in any union today. It's hard a plan of action centered around the majority of Local 574's executive for sincere but skeptical radicals to Teamsters Local 574. board to call a strike. Following the More than a strike Dobbs explains that the Communist conceive of how such a transforma­ victory of this strike in February It is clear from Dobbs' account that tion can occur. League's strategy was based on pro­ 1934, the organizing committee was jecting a program to f'ight the em­ this struggle was far more than a This fall, when the candidates make elevated to formal status within the ployers and recruiting workers to that series of thrt!e strikes led by a local their final campaign tours, their an­ program. Their program for Local union. Although a subsidiary body, Teamsters union. As the book's title swers will very likely be the same. 57 4 was quite simple-organize all it became the real leadership of the indicates, it was a rebellion; and this However, now they will be able to workers in the trucking industry, in­ union and of the May and July-Au­ rebellion drew many social forces into include the suggestion to read Far­ cluding inside workers, and fight for gust strikes. actioh. rell. Dobbs' new book, Teamster Re­ union recognition. This was esseqtial During the strikes, authority for bellion. to an effective fight for higher wages, leading the union rested with the strike A women's auxilliary was estab­ This is the dramatic story of how job security, and better working con­ committee. In August this body dis­ lished, and it mobilized hundreds of a small job-trust in Minneapolis in ditions. solve.d and formal authority was re­ women to participate in the strike. 1934 was transformed into a revolu­ This approach put the Local 57 4 stored to the executive board. Many previous strikes had been weak­ tionary union in a matter of a few officials on the spot. If they opposed A narrow majority on that body ened when strikers' wives became de­ months. General Drivers Local 574 the program, it compromised them was hostile to the class-struggle lead­ moralized wondering where their next of the International Brotherhood of in the eyes of the ranks and under­ ers. Elections were held and the mili­ meal was going to come from. Local Teamsters was the prototype of what mined their authority. The Commu­ tants put up an opposition slate. The 574 organized a potentially hostile today's unions must become if they nist League's strategy, therefore, was incompetents on the old executive force into a source of strength for are to play a pro&ressive role in the not based on launching a power strug- board were thus removed and replaced the union.

12 Another group that had often been they proceeded in a manner accept­ party branch had grown to 100 mem­ kept by Marvel Scholl during the used to break strikes was the unem­ able to Local 574 and its allies. bers and active sympathizers. struggle. One of the main organizers ployed. In Minneapolis there were "If a comparable situation had ex­ Nationally, the Communist League of the women's auxiliary, Scholl was about 30,000 jobless workers in 1934, isted nationally," Dobbs explains, at that time was dismissed by many Dobbs' companion through these ex­ and between the first and second "what began as a simple trade-union as too small and isolated to be of periences and his foremost- collabora~ strikes, a demonstration of 10,000 un­ action could have broadened into a much _value. Dobbs relates how the tor in preparing this book. employed workers was held at the sweeph;_lg social conflict leading to a party's role in the strike was utilized Material is also included from mem­ state capitol. revolutionary confrontation for state to project the organization to work­ orandums by other participants in the Local 574 "drew unemployed work­ power." ers throughout the country as a ca­ struggle,· including Vincent Raymond _ers into the struggle by forming a Naturally there was no possibility pable leader of mass struggles. The Dunne and Carl Skoglund. Dunne and special unemployed section of the of the workers taking over and hold­ party held a nation&) fund drive to Skoglund were both founding leaders . union. Arrangements were made to ing power in on~ city in isolation help finance its stepped-up activity, of the Communist League in Minne­ fight for public relief for its members. from the rest of the country. Cor­ and a campaign was launched to ex­ apolis and had long experience in Leaders of the unemployed move­ rectly recognizing this limitation, they • pand The Militant, the organ of the the radical and union movements. ment were consulted about strike strat­ were able to successfully win the mod­ Communist League. They were the principal architects of egy. est but very significant goal of mak­ Conscious attempts were made to the League's union str~tegy in Min­ An -alliance was also established ing Minneapolis a union town. r~ruit new members during the strug- neapolis. with farmers in the Minneapolis area. The Communist Party, which was In the July-August strike an agree­ then following an ultraleftist course ment was reached with the Farmers' laid down by Stalin, criticized the Holiday Association, an organization union leaders for not calling a gen­ fighting for farmers' rights; the Na­ eral strike to defeat Olson. Although tional Farm Bureau; and the Mar­ they w~e isolated from the struggle, ket Gardeners Association. the CP didn't hesitate to shout "be­ trayal." The agreement, Dobbs writes, "pro­ By clearly projecting the issue . of vided that union pickets would not union recognition, however, Local interfere with farm · trucks during the 57 4 was able to win broad support strike if they carried permits from and sympathy throughout the city. Local 574 and the farm organization The military and police attacks and , to which each operator belonged. To a red-baiting campaign against the prevent chiseling on this arragement, union's revolutionary leadership farmers' committees undertook to pick­ could not dent this support. Thousands jammed Minneapolis streets to attend funeral of Henry et roads leading into Minneapolis." Role of revolutionary party Ness, one of two strikers killed by police. The union also undertook a success­ ful drive to win broad support from What is underlined by this experi­ gle. After the February strike, for ence is the decisive role played· by ex­ Dobbs explains that he learned other unions. "Virtually every member ample, the League held a huge pub­ the revolutionary Marxist party. In many important -things from these two of Local 574 participated in the effort, lic meeting for this purpose. fact, there was no other place that worker revolutionists. It is these les­ pressing our case among other rank­ One of the key recruits during this ·such qualified leaders could have sons, enriched with hi~ own experi­ and-file unionists and thereby helping come from. struggle was Farrell Dobbs. He not ence, that Dobbs transmits to the new to bring pressure on the AF L [Amer­ only became a prominent organizer Dobbs states that "the revolution­ generation of revolutionists. This ican Federation of Labor) officialdom." of the Teamsters union in the Mid­ book thus represents part of the ac­ This pressure led to an official AFL ary party constitutes a bridge in his­ toric consciousness for the workers. west following the strikes but later cumulated lessons of decades of class­ call for a joint conference of all unions became national secr~tary of the So­ It absorbs the lessons of the class struggle experience embodied in the in town. The conference scheduled a cialist WQrkers Party. members of the revolutionary party. united labor march and protest rally struggle, victories as well as defeats, Some of the flavor of the strike is It is part of what Dobbs refers to against the trucking employers. In ad­ preservin~ them as part of its rev­ expressed in selections from the diary as the "class memory." dition, .members of many unions vol­ olutionary heritage." The lessons of unteered to help picket and to use their many previous struggles, absorbed skills in variqus otherways. by . the cadres of the Communist Students also participated, and doc­ League, were consciously applied to tors, .:Q.urses, and lawyers volunteered the Teamsters strikes. Without this, their skills. there would have been no victory. These measures to . inspire and in­ The fact that the party was a na­ Banquet ... volve other social forces (which stands tional organization also meant that in sharp contrast to the practices of it was able to draw on the experience Join the New York Socialist Workers Party campaign in celebrating most unions* today) not only gave and talents of party members through­ the publication of Teamster Rebellion. Farrell Dobbs, SWP presidential the Minneapolis strikes added strength out the country. National leaders of candidate Linda Jenness, and Marvel Scholl, organizer of Local 574 but served to turn the struggle into the party, including James Cannon, women's auxiliary in the 1934 Teamster strikes, will be featured guests. a social crusade. What was involved theJ;J. national secretary of the party, was a direct confrontation between the came to Minneapolis to help out. 6 p.m. Social Hour/7 p.m. Dinner/8 p.m. Program. Banquet capitalists in Minneapolis and all One of the key contributions in this and Program: $5. their organs of repression on one regard was the aid given by party 1 hand, and the labor movement and members in the publication of a news­ Cooperative Auditorium, 551 Grand St. (near Grand Street its allies on the other. paper. Beginning as a weekly, The Station of Sixth Avenue IND 0-train), Manhattan. In this situation the strikers were Organizer became a daily during the able to use to their advantage the July-August strike. For further information and tickets, contact Socialist Workers Campaign, 706 predicament of Governor Floyd B. The first strike daily in American Broadway, Eighth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003. Telephone: (212) 260-0976. Olson, a capitalist politician who de­ history, it played a crucial role in pended on labor support. When Ol­ keeping union members and support­ son mobilized the National Guard, ers posted on the latest developments. Local 574 was so resolute and had It alerted them to the dangers of trust­ won such widespread support from ing the Farmer-Labor Party gover­ 'Tnm1tc1 the city's labor movement that it was nor· and was used skillfully as a weap­ The story of one of the most dramatic organ1z1ng drives in able to force him to back down. on against red-baiting. Dobbs indicates that "Due to a re­ The other side of the relationship · American labor history. In describing the tactics of the strikers, iional peculiarity within a nation un­ between the strike and the party was the author highlights many important principles of labor or­ der firm capitalist rule, a local con­ that the strike helped to build the par­ ganization. by Farrell Dobbs/$2.25 paper; $6.95 cloth. dition approximating dual power had ty. When the struggle began, the Com­ temporarily arisen. The authorities munist League branch in Minneapolis A Monad Press book. Distributed by Pathfinder Press, 410 West could exercise control over the class had about 40 members and close sym­ St., New York, N.Y. 10014 struggle then raging only insofar as pathizers. By the fall of 1934 the

THE MILITANT/JUNE 16, 1972 13 Socialist candidate debates Julian Bond ByJOELABER masses of Chicano people." ATLANTA-Democratic state legis­ In contrast, Jones said, Black Dem­ lator Julian Bond and socialist con­ ocrats, such as Gary, Ind., Mayor •71 Socialist gressional candidate Keith Jones took Richard Hatcher cannot take actions opposite sides in a debate on the 1972 of real benefit to Black people because elections here May 25. The two con­ their election depends on capitalist fronted each other before a largely support. If Hatcher moved to better student audience at Georgia State Uni­ the situation of Blacks in Gary, Jones versity. The meeting was sponsored by said, "he would endanger his privi­ the Georgia State Black Student Union leged position with U.S. Steel, General and the Young Socialists for Jenness Motors, and other corporations that and Pulley. made his election as a Democrat pos­ L·inda Jenness and Andrew Pulley will "I now realize that supportfug a Bond, 'Yho has endorsed Senator sible." definitely be on the ballot in New bourgeois candidate that talks nice George McGovern as his choice for Bond, on the other hand, contended Jersey and Idaho. According to New but whose actions don't suppert his the Democratic presidential nomina­ that "The race of the people in Gary Jersey officials, the SWP petitions were words will not stop the war or change tion, said he would vote Democratic has nothing to~do with tl}e fact that not c~allenged and will be automati­ our society. Dr. Spock, the candidate in 1972 even tf McGovern is not nom­ a big corporation like U.S. Steel can cally certified in September. of the People's Party, might be a good inated. "I'm not a big Humphrey fan," dominate Gary. It has to do with the In Idaho, Secretary of State Pete alternative if you aren't into socialism. Bond said, "but I want to see Nixon tax laws.... " Cenarrusa told reporters that the SWP Linda Jenness might be the best can­ out of office." "If the vast majority of Black people has qualified for the ballot by gather­ didate to support if you would like to in this country moved out of the Dem­ ing almost twice the number of sig­ see a democratic socialist society. Jones, who is the Socialist Work­ ocratic Party," Jones answerej}, "and natures required. Although the SWP ''These candidates ARE serious ers Party candidate for congress from refused to vote for people until they must still hold a state convention (set about stopping the ·war and building Georgia's 5th C. D., vehemently dis­ had shown themselves to be in our for June 29 in Boise), Cenarrusa was a clean environment. Their chances sented from Bond's perspective of sup­ interest, then the Democratic Party quoted by UPI as saying, "It looks of winning are slim but I would· rather port to the Democratic Party. "It's could not win another election in this to me like they made it." vote for somebody I really can trust time," Jones said, "to break with two­ country." to make the changes I would like to party politics ... to point out that There is only one political organi- Last week the SWP campaign broke see made if they were elected. It's time the 11,000 mark in its drive to sign for 'lesser-of-two-evils' politics to come up endorsements for the Jenness-Pul­ to an end." ley ticket. One new endorser is Shirley Johnson (Wheeler), who was convicted The editorial board q_f Gemini, a stu­ of manslaughter last July for having dent newspaper at Columbia-Greene an illegal abortion in Florida. Women Community College in Athens, N.Y., around the country have rallied in voted to "heartily" endorse Linda Jen­ support of her case, which is now on ness, and said so in an editorial in appeal. the May 26 Gemini. Their decision Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley was made after hearing Jenness speak. believe that abortion is a fundamental "Ms. Jenness," they wrote, "ex­ right of every woman. The SWP calls plained what is wrong with this society for the repeal of all anti-abortion laws. and presented an honest, intelligent, and cohesive program for changing Linda Jenness has edited an anthology it. She said more in 40 minutes than of women's liberation writings entitled the capitalist candidates say in two Feminism and Socialism. The articles hours, and she reinforced our con­ are by socialist women active in the viction, with her honesty, frankness feminist movement. The book will be and intelligence, that she is the only published by Pathfinder Press in Au­ candidate running for President of the. Photo by John Hawkins gust, and will sell for $5.95 in cloth, United States who is actually worthy Julian Bond (left) agreed to debate Keith Jones during Great Speckled $1.95 in paper. of the office." ··Bird interview in March. In case you are keeping a list of all Young socialists around the country it's the Democrats who sent over 12,- zation in the country, Jones said, that the once-prominent "New Leftists" have been entering student government 000 brothers to theii- death in South­ "actively supports the concept of build­ who are putting radicalism aside to election campaigns on the Young So­ east ~sia and who murdered over. a ing an independent Black political par­ work for McGovern, there's a new cialists for Jennes~ and Pulley ticket. million Vietnamese, that it's the Dem­ ty.... It is also one of the few or­ entry to make. Carl Oglesby, former Carole Newcomb, YSJP candidate for ocrats and Republicans jointly who ganizations running an independent national leader of SDS, has joined vice-president of the student body at are responsible for Attica, Jackson campaign in 1972 -proving that it Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Rennie Los Angeles City · College, was en­ State, and Kent State." is possible to do so," Jones said. He Davis, and many others in urging dorsed by the Los Angeles Collegian. Bond said, "The choice in 1972 is said that organization is the Social­ radicals to work for "one more In her campaign, along with David going to be between two Anglo-Saxon ist Workers Party, whose campaign chance" for the capitalist system. If Marstaller, YSJP candidate for trea­ men. One will be Richard Nixon and is "based on the concept of masses McGovern is elected, "Life could turn surer, Newcomb emphasized student­ the other, I hope, will be George Mc­ of people making social change-that around. We could actually make the faculty control and the use of cam­ Govern.... I don't think George independent mass movements make fucking bus," writes Oglesby in the pus facilities "not to serve the mo­ McGovern is a saint, but I think he's social change." · May 23 Boston After Dark. "He is nopolies but (the) students and the the best of the bunch." The debate received extensive cov­ important for all Movement people, vast mass of people by attacking our Jones put forth the alternative of erage in the Atlanta Journal. It was who should regard his victory as de­ social problems." independent electoral action. As an also reported in the Atlanta Voice, sirable verging on necessary•.•. " In its endorsement, the Collegian example, he pointed to La Raza Unida Georgia's largest-circulation Black McGovern's campaign manager ex­ noted that her platform is "not one Party in Crystal City, Texas, where newspaper. The Voice has given plained very well what's happened to of idle, vague promises but of situa­ the Chicano community elected its own prominent coverage to Jones's cam­ people like Oglesby when he told The tions of real concern to all students." candidates. The independently elected paign, making it widely known that New York Times Magazine: "Our In addition, the paper noted, "her Chicano officials in Crystal City, for the first time Atlanta is being strategy all along was to coopt the experience in the Young Socialist Al­ Jones said, are "using the tools of presented with a socialist alternative left." liance and its activities is evidence government to better the lives of the in the race for Congress. that Ms. Newcomb can not only carry A good answer to Oglesby & Co. out her own initiatives, but can super­ comes from a recent letter from a vise the activities of others." high school volunteer for Jenness and Pulley: "Although I realize the chances Young Socialists for Jenness and Pul­ of our winning in November are prac­ ley will be in Miami during the Demo­ tically nonexistent, being shut off from cratic Party convention, . distributing either of the major political parties, thousands of pieces of_ campaign lit­ both of which seem to me to be totally erature and talking to people about irresponsive to the needs of the young, the socialist alternative. If you want I feel that committing myself to a to join them, or if. you can help in party that I believe in is far more . any way to provide housing or trans­ moral than working for a party that portation in the Miami area, ge.t in might very well win but in which I touch with us right away. could never feel wholly comfortable." Address all inquiries and requests for And an article by a former McGovern campaign materials to: Socialist Work­ supporter in the May 10 New Paper, ers Campaign, 706 Broadway, Eighth published in Carrolton, Ga., makes Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003. the same point: -LARRY SEIGLE Photo by Jon Flanders Peter Camejo, chairman of the Socialist Workers Party National Cam­ paign Committee, speaks to May 27 rally to kick off massive petition campaign.

14 Mass. paces ballot drive ~~~~ess with 38,000 signatures ohio By SANDRA MAXFIELD Massachusetts for Powers and Lafferty have already "o· court ;ahe S?cialist Wor.kers P~rty nati?ual been collected. ~ mp~Ign c?mm~ttee . has P.redict~d By JEFF POWERS The average number of signatures By DAVE PAPARELLO that Its pres1~enhal ticket will gam BOSTON, June 4 -"After a full week a petitioner obtains in a day is be- CLEVELAND, June 2- Socialist . ballot status m more than 30 states tween 80 and 90. This is a remark- in 1972. Over the June 3 weekend of petitioning to put Linda Jenness ably high figure because Massachu- Workers Party presidential and vice­ two more states-North Dakota and and Andrew Pulley on the ballot in setts requires that signatures from presidential candidates Linda Jenness Texas-met the petitioning require- Massachusetts, we have collected 38·- each town be kept on a separate sheet. and Andrew Pulley filed suit today ments for b status. 000 signatures and two petitioners Response in the big shopping centers in Columbus, Ohio, along with 25 have joined the Young Socialist Alli- in the Boston suburbs has been the candidates for presidential elector ance," reports Jeannie Reynolds. Rey- best. pledged to their slate in the state of nolds is a coordinator of the drive On Saturday, June 3, in New Bed­ Ohio. The suit seeks to prevent the to put the Socialist Workers Party on ford, a grocery store owner bought Ohio secretary of state from barring the Massachusetts ballot for the first soft drinks for an SWP petitioner out­ the socialist candidates from the bal­ time. side his store, apologized to her for lot on the grounds that they are "too Every camapign endors-er in the not being able to provide a lunch, young." The Committee for Demo­ state is being called to see if he or and asked all of his clerks to sign cratic Election Laws (CoDEL) is spon­ she will help in petitioning; so far her petition! soring the suit, which is the focus 40 people have volunteered. "Phone "Our big problem now," said office of a growing fight for the right of calling and endorser work is contin­ coordinator Anne Marie Capuzzi, "is SWP candidates to be on the ballot uing," said Young Socialists for·J en­ finding new places to petition. So in Ohio. ness and Pulley coordinator Yipper many people are petitioning for us Attorneys for CoDEL are Benjamin Fitzgerald. "Thirty-four campaign en­ that we have saturated the area. Last Scheerer of Cleveland and Ron Reosti dorsers have been obtained in the first Saturday we had over 150 campaign of Detroit. ef- Ted W. Brown, Ohio's secretary of week of petitioning without much supporters on the streets collecting sig­ · state, has threatened to rule Linda fort." natures for Jenness and Pulley. But Jenness off the ballot on the grounds we'll find room for twice that many Some of the petitioners are also that she doesn't meet the minimum if they want to help out." age of 35 required to serve as gathering signatures for John Powers Volunteers should contact the SWP president. Jenness and the other plain­ and Jeanne Lafferty, SWP candidates petitioning headquarters at 655 At­ tiffs are asking for a temporary re­ for U.S. Congress in Massachusetts' lantic Ave., Third Floor, Boston, straining order to force Brown to 8th and 9th Congressional Districts. Mass. 02111. Telephone: (617) 482- transmit the nominating petitions to Almost half of the required signatures 8050. local election boards for validation. Jeannie Reynolds, one of the co­ According to Ohio law, this must be ordinators of the Massachusetts done on June 15 . . In their suit the candidates point petitioning campaign. out that almost 10,000 signatures, Ten campaign supporters working nearly twice the requirement, were in Fargo and Grand Forks, N.D., filed to place Jenness and Pulley on collected 689 signatures on June 3, the ballot. They further argue that more than twice the number required even though Jenness and Pulley do by North Dakota law. In Texas, cam­ not meet the restrictive age limit set paign supporters reached their goal in the U. S. Constitution, all of the of 45,000 signatures. candidates for elector are fully quali­ Washington, D. C., and Illinois re­ fied. Under the U. S. Constitution it port progress toward completing their is the electors who are actually se­ requirements. More than 7,500 signa­ lected by voters. These. electors, in tures were obtained in D. C. on June turn, cast ballots for the president 3, bringing the total collected to 19,- and vice-president. 000. Campaign supporters in D. C. The suit cites the precedent of a plan to collect 26,000, nearly double 1948 attempt to rule Progressive Par­ the requirement ef 5 percent of the ty candidate Henry Wall ace off the registered voters. ballot because he was not a "prop­ er" candidate. The Ohio Supreme In lllinois, canvassers concentrated Court ruled then that the secretary their efforts on the areas outside Chi­ of state could only inquire as to cago's Cook County. lllinois law stip­ whether the candidates for presiden­ ulates that no more than 12,000 of tial elector were qualified. • 'the required 25,000 signatures may The Ohio Committee for Democratic be obtained in any one county in Election Laws is appealing to all de­ Debbie Clifford, one of the Young Socialists working full time on peti­ the state. Six lllinois teams of four fenders of civil liberties ·· to immedi­ petitioners each added another 1,600 tioning in MasJ»achusetts, signs up a woman in Boston to help place ately write to Brown protesting his signatures to their state's total. SWP candidates on the ballot. announced intention to bar Jenness and Pulley from the ballot. Letters of protest may be sent to him c/o Secretary of State's Office, Columbus, Ohio 43216. · Among those who have stated their SWP ballot-drive scoreboard support for the right of Jenness and SIGNATURES SIGNATURES Volunteers and money are needed Pulley to be on the Ohio ballot are: STATE REQUIRED COLLECTED to help complete the petitioning Richard Niebuhr, general vice-presi­ Florida 27,960 51,600 (completed) in these states. If you would like dent, United Electrical, Radio and Ma­ Idaho 1,500 3,000 (completed) to help, clip the coupon below and chine Workers of America; William Illinois 25,000 20,000 send it to: SWP Campaign, 706 Franklin, councilman of Cleveland's · Iowa 1,000 begins in June Broadway, Eighth Floor, New Ward 10; Jean Capers, chairwoman, Indiana 8,466 16,500 (completed) York, N.Y. 10003. Northern Ohio Regional Women's Po­ Kentucky 1,000 2,007 (completed) litical Caucus; Dr. Paul Olynyck, Louisiana 1,000 3,000 (completed) 0 I would like to help petition to SANE; Katie Baird, coordinator, Massachusetts 56,038 38,000 put the SWP on the ballot. Send Cleveland Area Peace Action Coali­ tion; Lewis Robinson, chairman, ~ichigan 14,256 28,732 (completed) me information. Cuyahoga County New Democratic Mississippi 1,000 begins in June 0 Enclosed is $ _ to help pay. Coalition; Dr. Carl Ubellohde, New Hampshire 1,500 petitioning costs. 500 ACL U Executive Board; and the New Jersey 0 I endorse the SWP campaign 800 2,350 (completed) Cleveland State University student North Dakota as a positive alternative to the 300 , 689 (completed) government. Ohio 5,000 9,767 (completed) Democrats and Republicans, al­ South Dakota 4,799 6,619 though I do not necessarily agree Tennessee 225 begins in June with all the planks of the SWP Texas 22,253 45,200 (completed) platform. Utah 500 942 (completed) Name ______Vermont 1,535 3,000 Washington, D. C. 13,000 19,500 Address Phone __ City State __ Zip_ Plans for petitioning in additional states will be announced in the future. SchooIf organization ______. /

THE MILITANT/JUNE 16, 1972 15 SWP campaign gears for summer activity . By ALEX HARTE leges will be in summer session, we mer to get an introduction to social­ Govern represents the only 'realistic' "The final five months will be the will be taking the sociaiist campaign ist ideas by participating in the so­ choice, Jenness and Pulley have ar­ most exciting and the most important wherever young people are- rock cialist summer schools organized by gued that it is the belief that mean­ phase of the SWP 1972 election cam­ concerts, parks, beaches, and univer­ the SWP and Y SA. These classes will ingful progress can come about paign." This was the main point na­ sity communities. be held in 18 cities and are open through the Democratic Pa:t;ty that is tional campaign manager Larry "Our goal this summer is to involve to supporters of the Jenness-Pulley totally unrealistic and utopian. Seigle stressed in an interview with thousands of young people in active campaign. "McGovern's recent statements on the The Militant this week. "In a sense," support for our campaign, to solicit The cornerstone of the summer cam­ issues are proving the socialist can­ he said, "everything we have done their help in distributing our platform, paign program will be a drive to didates correct. so far is preparation for the big push building campaign meetings, getting sign up new ·endorsers of the cam­ "McGovern is on a hard right that is beginning now and will run on the ballot, and raising enough paign. Eleven thousand people have course, and many students, Blacks, right up to November." already signed cards endorsing the Chicanos, and others will be more socialist campaign as a positive al­ Even with campuses not in regular open to our perspective. · ternative to the Democrats and Re­ session, Seigle foresees intensive ac­ "But if you think McGovern has publicans. "Many of these people do moved to the right against Humph­ tivity by Young Socialists for Jenness not agree with everything in the SWP and Pulley during the summer. "If rey, wait till he starts' running against platform," Seigle said. "But they agree anybody is expecting us to scale down Nixon! As Linda Jenness says, 'If with the need for a socialist alterna­ McGovern thinks he's gotten rough our campaign during the summer, tive, and they see support to Jenness they're underestimating the energy and treatment from us in the past, he and Pulley as the most effective course hasn't seen anything yet.'" enthusiasm of thousands of socialist in 1972. · campaign workers," he said. But if McGovern doesn't get the "As a result of working in the cam­ Both Linda Jenness and Andrew nomination? "Then," said Seigle, "the Pulley will be conducting national paign, many of them have become same thing will happen, only in a campaign tours in June and July. Jeh­ convinced that they should belong to different way. The race between Nix­ ness will stump the East Coast and a socialist youth organization and on and the Democratic nominee will Midwest cities, and Pulley will cover have joined the Young Socialist Al­ be more like a rerun of 1968 but the South, Southwest, and West Coast. liance. We anticipate that many new in the context of a deeper radicaliza­ Major campaign rallies arebeingplan­ YSA chapters will be formed between ton and a much bigger socialist cam­ ned in 20 cities. These rallies, which now and November." paign than we had in 1968. Disen­ will often follow fund-raising banquets, The signed endorser cards are sent chantment with the Democratic Party will give thousands of new campaign in to the national campaign office, will be even greater than· in 1968, and endorsers receive news about the supporters a chance to hear and talk especially, of course, among the tens campaign from the national campaign to Jenness and Pulley. of thousands of young activists who commitee and from the local campaign have worked for McGovern. We'll be "Although there will be fewer op­ in their area. campaigning against Nixon and portunities for big campus meetings But what about George McGovern? whomever the Democrats pick be­ during the summer," Seigle explained, Hasn't the growing chance that Mc­ cause neither of them will have the "we are .going to try to set up meetings Govern will get the nomination answers to the problems confronting for Jenness and Pulley before com­ strengthened illusions in the two-party this country." munity groups, churches, women's or­ system? "To a limited extent that's Regardless of what happens in Mi­ ganizations, and Black, Chicano, and true," said Seigle. "YSJPers through­ ami, Seigle anticipates unprecedented Puerto Rican groups." Efforts will be out the country have reported that support for the SWP campaign this made to have the socialist candidates a frequent answer from McGovern fall. "We're already making plans to speak to workers at trade-union meet­ supporters is 'If McGovern loses at put dozens of traveling socialist cam­ ings and· at open-air rallies at plant the convention, I'll be supporting Jen­ paign-teams on the road in Septem­ gates. ness· and Pulley/ These people, who At the same time as the Jenness and ber and October." still believe in 'lesser-evil politics,' Pulley tours, Laura Miller, a national In addition, the ~ampaign commit­ have renewed faith that the Democratic coordinator of the Young Socialists tee is organizing a committee of prom­ for Jenness and Pulley, will make a Photo by Party t!ari' be transformed into an in­ inent speakers and socialist leaders national organizational tour. A Socialist Workers Party cam­ strument of social change. who can represent Jenness and Pul­ In addition to the SWP national tick­ paign literature table in Los An­ "But much more significant is the ley on hundreds of campuses in the fact that McGovern's recent success fall because the two candidates will et, more than 100 socialist candidates geles. Staffing such tables is only around the country are running for inside the Democratic Party has forced be able to fill only a fraction of the office. These local candidates, as well one of many activities that will him to expose his basic approach, and expected invitations. as being activists around local issues ooccupy campaign supporters as thousands of young activists are in But to do all of this, Seigle einpha­ and problems, are also representatives the SWP election drive moves tQe process of learning some lessons , sized, the socialist campaign desper­ in their districts of the Jenness and into high gear this summer. about capitalist politics. Every step ately needs more money. Pulley ticket. Seigle anticipates that to the right that McGovern takes­ "The opportunities are there. Our many of these local campaigns will whether it's on the war, busing, abor­ candidates are extremely effective, our step up their activity as more student money so that our campaign can con­ tion, amnesty, marijuana, or his fail­ program is one that makes sense to volunteers have time to work on the tinue to grow and expand right up ure to challenge such repugnant party growing numbers of people, and we campaigns and as opportunities for to November." pros as Mayor Daley-helps prove have lots of dedicated campaign work­ equal broadcast time are made avail­ Distribution of campaign literature the point that we have been making ers. The only thiQg that can stand able after the Democratic and Repub­ and sales of The Miiitan~ which pro­ about McGovern all along. in our way now is the lack of money. lican nominees are chosen. vides week-to-week coverage of cam­ "Jenness and Pulley have been say­ We need literally tens of thousands "Our main base of support will re­ paign activities, will be the means to ing that McGovern isn't interested in of dollars . to be able to carry out main students and other young peo­ accomplish this. a fundamental change and that sup­ our plans. And we can only raise ple," Seigle explained. "Even though In addition to campaign activities, porting him is a dead-end road. In it if a lot of campaign supporters high schools will be closed and col- YSJPers will have a chance this sum- response to those who claim that Me- continue to pitch in and help." By Any Means Necessary MISSISSIPPI JUDGE GIVES REPUBLIC OF it is being carried. ) Ana was the first of the RNA 11 to be tried ana NEW AFRICA ACTIVIST LIFE IMPRISON­ "Another FBI witness from Washington, a bal­ sentenced. Further trials are slated soon. For more MENT. On May 3, Hekima Ana (Thomas Nor- listics expert, testified that the bullet which killed information on the frame-up of the RNA 11, write: .man), Midwest regional .vice-president of the ~Re­ Detective Lieutenant William Louis Skinner 'could New Mrican Prisoner of War Committee, 128 1/2 public of New Africa, was found guilty of mur­ have been fired from the rifle' but admitted that it Gallatin St., Jackson, Miss. 39201. dering a white policeman by a Jackson, Miss., was impossible to be certain." -DERRICK MORRISON jury composed of 11 whites and one Black. A later SCEF release announced that Ana's de­ The -case grew out of an assault last Aug. 18 fense attorneys, John Brittain and Fred Banks, by Jackson police and FBI agents on the RNA are expected to appeal the conviction. The grounds headquarters. Just prior to that the RNA had will be that there were too feW Blacks on the jury; purchased a' piece of land on which to set up that involuntary statements made by defendants their government. Threats by state officials against when they were being beaten by officers were ad­ RNA activities culminated in the predawn assault mitted as evidence; and that c~!tain procedural on Aug. 18; Besides the policeman, who died, an­ errors by the judge necessitate a new trial. other cop and an FBI agent were wounded. In a significant development, the New African Ten other RNA members, including Brother Prisoner of War .Committee reports that Tamu Imari, the president, were arrested along with Ana. Ana, Hekima's wife, was released May 31 on According to a news release from the Southern $10,000 bond. Imprisoned for two-and-a-half Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), "The pro­ months in Parchman State Prison and eight months secution's case against Ana is purely circumstan­ in the Hinds County Jail, she is the fifth member tial. An FBI fmgerprint expert from Washington, of the RNA 11, as they have become known, to be Photo by Aisha lshtar Salim D. C., testified that a palm print taken from the released. Although the charges of killing Skinner Left to right: lmari Abubakari Obadele, Mus­ cartridge receiver of a rifle matches Ana's. (The and waging "war against the state of Mississippi" receiver is not held when a rifle is being fired, were dropped against her, she is to stand trial on taf Olu, and Steve Turnage of the Republic but a rifle is often gripped by its receiver when the charge of assaulting a federal officer. of New Africa.

16 the proimperialist and the prosocialist League of Nations wil! save mankind Party began to lose its revolutionary, forces in Vietnam. / from new imperialist wars." internationalist spirit. It was taken The leadership of the Soviet Union According to these revolutionary over by narrow-minded, self-seeking By CAROLINE LUND did not always consist of such hypo­ principles, the Communist party of bureaucrats headed by Joseph Stalin. The Daily World, reflecting the views crites and betrayers of revolutionary the Soviet Union and all its followers The original leaders of the revolution of the Communist Party, hailed the struggles. In ijle early days of the around the world, including the were murdered, exiled, framed-up as Nixon-Brezhnev summit as an "un­ Soviet Republic, under the leadership CPUSA, would be barred from mem­ "counterrevolutionaries," or otherwise precedented" achievement and a "tri­ of Lenin and Trotsky, an internation­ bership in the Third International of purged by Stalin's henchmen and se­ umph" for the cause of world peace. alist foreign policy reflecting the inter­ Lenin. They would be barred because cret police. The declaration signed in Moscow was ests of the oppressed and exploited of their lies to the working people of Once a democratic organization with said to be "historic" in its importance; people of the world was carried out. the world that the United States im­ a lively internal life, the Soviet Com­ Nixon's "acceptance of the principle Any agreements they made with perialists are capable of being "peace­ munist Party became a shell of its of peaceful coexistence" was welcomed. imperialist countries were concluded ful." old self~ a group of hand-raisers, a place where no dissenting word was tolerated. This in turn led to the de­ generation of the Communist Inter­ national, which was formally dis­ solved in 1943. The CPs in other countries became subservient to the Roots of soviet betrayal Soviet bureaucracy. The social gap grew between the Soviet bureaucrats and rank-and-file Soviet workers and peasants. The bu­ of Vietnamese revolution reaucrats made sure they were pro­ vided with expensive cars, vacation spots, homes, and fancy foods. Al­ How can the CP make such state­ without the Soviet leadership's How did this degeneration of the though their power was still based on ments when everyone knows Nixon softening their public opposition to the Soviet leadership come about? a system of social .ownership of the is continuing and escalating the war imperialists' policies of aggression and The 1917 Russian revolution took means of production, their interests against Vietnam? In fact, the harbors subjugation of working' people place in a very backward country. grew further and further apart from of North Vietnam were mined and throughout the world. Thus one of the prerequisites for full the interests of the Soviet people and U.S. bombing reached new heights development into socialism- an a bun· th~ oppressed people of the rest of on the very eve of the summit. This position was codified by the dance of material goods-was absent. the world. The Soviet bureaucrats now The CP's reasoning is spelled out (Third) Communist International, the Russia was further drained of re­ feel more akin to the rulers of cap­ in a May 31 World editorial. It begins: organization initiated by the new So­ sources during the long civil war of italist countries than to the Soviet "The most important/actor in the inter­ viet government to functiop as the 191 8-20. In addition, the Russian rev- worker or Vietnamese peasant, as was national political scene today is the well illustrated during Nix<)ll'S trip relationship between the United States to Moscow. (As we can see, U. S. and the Soviet Union. The most im­ trade-union bureaucrats have much portant goal in that relationship is in common with their Soviet counter­ agreement on peaceful coexistence." parts.) (Emphasis added.) The bureaucratic caste that rules the These statements show how far the Soviet Union is set up to protect priv­ U.S. Communist Party and its men­ ileges and to preserve inequality. Any­ tors in the Soviet government have one whose concern is to protect his degenerated from the positions of rev­ or her own privileges cannot be a olutionary Marxism. The "most impor­ revolutionary at heart. The Soviet bu­ tant factor in the international political reaucrats are no exception. Their pre­ scene today" is not U. S.-Soviet rela­ occupation with maintaining their tions but the Vietnam war. privileged position in the Sovi~t Union In Vietnam the. U.S. imperialists are transfers into the international arena, attempting to crush the deepest and where their concern is also not to "rock most intense anvcapitalist struggle in the boat." the world today. Vietnam is now the They do not support international battleground between the forces sup­ revolutionary movements. Their state­ porting imperialism and the forces ments of "support" to such movements fighting for national independence and Brezhnev, Kosygin toast Nixon while U.S. bombers pound Vietnam.: are empty rhetoric. The material aid socialism. The outcome of the Vietnam they dispen&e- as, for example, to the war will have a profound impact on general staff of the world revolution­ ·olution was isolated for many years Vietnamese- is woefully inadequate. every other struggle for social justice ary-socialist movement. At its Second and received no aid from victorious Under Stalin this outlook was ex­ around the world. Its outcome will Congress in 1920, the International revolutions in other countries. pressed beginning in 1924 in the slo­ affect the preservation of the gains adopted a series of 19 points as con­ The poverty in the Soviet Union­ gan of "socialism in one country." This of the Russian revolution itself. ditions for affiliation. Point number the fact that there wasn't enough food, anti-Marxist conception replaced pro­ The government of the USSR claims six reads: "Every party that wishes clothing, housing, etc., to go around­ letarian internationalism with a nar­ to speak for socialism and for the to affiliate with the Third International helped lead to the rise of a privileged row, conservative, nationalist outlook. goals for which the Vietnamese are must not only expose avowed social­ bureaucratic layer. This bureaucracy, Stalin's heirs- from Brezhnev to Gus fighting. They claim to support anti­ patriotism, but must also expose the in turn, built up a repressive appara­ Hall- use the phrase "peaceful coex­ capitalist struggles around the world. falsehood and hypocrisy of social pac­ tus designed to protect its privileged istence" to mean the same thing. The But- as they made clear by inviting ifism; it must systematically point out position. Soviet bureaucrats abandoned the or­ Nixon to Moscow- these are merely to the workers that without the rev­ With many of the best communists iginal Marxist goal of world socialism words. Their real concern is to achieve olutionary overthrow of capitalism, killed during the civil war and many expressed in the Communist Manifesto "peaceful coexistence" with the United no international courts of arbitration, workers exhausted. from the civil war by the phrase "Workers of the world, States. This means ignoring or trying no talk about reducing armaments, and demoralized by the isolation of unite!" to subdue the actual conflict between no 'democratic' reorganizing of the ·the revolution, the Soviet Communist Continued on page 22 76,500 Canadians demand abortion right The following is excerpted from the the first coordinated activities on such --- .May 22 Labor Challenge, a revolu­ a scale that the abortion law repeal .-tionary socialist biweekly published movement has yet undertaken. In the in Canada. final week of the campaign, the repeal petition went out into the streets, the By KATE ALDERICE schools, and the shopping plazas. OTTAWA, May 15-Women from The week's activities included coordi­ across Canada presented a brief to nated marches and rallies on May 6 the federal government today, de­ in seven provincial centers across Can­ .. Oll.· . tlWV AI manding repeal of all the sections of ada- Vancouver, Edmonton, Saska­ the Criminal Code that deal with abor­ toon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, tion in order to make abortion a per­ and Halifax. sonal decision for the woman involved. In a press conference following the The women, representing the six pro­ presentation to the federal government vincial chapters of the Canadian on May 15, Lorna Grant pointed out Women's Coalition to Repeal theAbor­ the siginificance of the petition cam­ tion Laws and the Quebec repeal move­ paign: "At our founding last March," ment, brought with them signatures she said, "we decided to aim to collect of 76,500 Canadians in support of 75,000 signatures by May 15. Re­ their dem~nds. sponse to our petition has been so The presentation of the petition and tremendous that we have surpassed brief in Ottawa culminated a week our goal. And this is only the begin­ of activities May 1-6 across Canada. ning. We are now launching the second The Canadian actions were part of stage of the petition campaign with the Photo by Moclnnis/labor Challenge a worldwide Abortion Action Week. aim of winning hundreds of thousands Supporters· of right to abortion march on Ontario provincial legisla­ In Canada, the week of actions were more signatures over the summer." ture in Toronto, May 6.

THE MILITANT/JUNE 16, 1972 17 Berkeler April Coalition: 'Working within the SJStem' This is the third of four articles as­ such a political approach actually Writing in the Dec. 17-23, 1971, fused to support Widener because he sessing the April Coalition's first year goes counter to their efforts to "work Berkeley Barb, Goldberg wailed: would not support the Community in office. The coalition, a bloc of within the system." "In a backroom deal that would Control of Police charter amend­ movement activists and Democrats, Their total alienation from such an have made Richard Daley, Joe Alioto ment." elected three members to the Berkeley approach was most clearly expressed and Lyndon Johnson extremely proud, After pointing to various aspects of City Council in April 1971. during the 11-month conflict over fill­ Mayor Warren Widener last Tuesday Widener's sorry record in office, Gold­ By HARRY RING ing the vacant ninth seat on the coun­ evening once again betrayed the stu­ berg states, "What makes this doubly While many differences have devel­ cil. dent and radical communities that in­ aggravating is that Widener would oped between the three members of To begin with, Hancock, Bailey, sured his election as mayor last never have been elected had he not the Berkeley City Council elected by and Simmons made no effort to agree April.... received over 85 percent of the votes the April Coalition, there is one im­ on a candidate they could jointly sup­ "He wouldn't even discuss the ninth in the south campus area and had portant political attribute they do port. And they certainly made no seat with representatives of the stu­ not won by a considerable margin ha've in common. During their' year move to take the issue to their con­ dent and radical communities that in the 'Grove St. strip,' the area . . . in office, none of them have shown stituencies to find out who they elected him. Instead he went into the where many young, radical people the slightest interest in mobilizing wanted on the council and how they backroom and made a deal to put live." their constituencies to carry through proposed to get her or him there. a white woman from the wealthiest One might ask how effective the a serious public fight for their par­ Instead they confined themselves to section of Berkeley on the coun­ April Coa1ition's nonendorsement of ticular programs. maneuvers within the council, with cil ..... Widener was if the bulk of its sup­ The styles of D' Army Bailey and Hancock, at least, apparently hoping porters voted for him. In reality the Ira Simmons on the one side, and an agreement could be reached with "As they do so often in establish­ nonendorsement was more formal Loni Hancock on the other, may dif­ the majority of the council members. ment politics, the Democrats made a than real. fer .. But all three concentrate almost When the forces on the council led deal with the Republicans." And this was not accidental. The glue that held the April Coalition to­ gether was the alliance between the "radicals" and those long committed to the Democratic Party. Sections of the April Coalition, like their mentor, Congressman Ron Dellums, actively and openly supported Widener. The others in the Coalition simply ducked the issue. None of the leaders of the April Coalition utilized the campaign to teach the student and radical com­ munity why it was a mistake to sup­ port any Democrat. Their failure to do s_o is the key expression of how superficial their radicalism really is. The initiators of the April Coalition presented their project not simply as a chance to win municipal office but as a ~ignificant new ingredient in the process of educating and radicalizing masses of people and thereby advanc­ ing the cause of fundamental social change. Yet they failed to come to grips with any of the basic issues. They were simply against the evils of the present society and suggested a neb­ ulous path to an undefined · future. They did not examine or attempt to Joy of some radicals after election of April Coalition has now turned to bitterness. explain the basic social forces re­ sponsible for these evils. exclusively on ·trying to achieve their by Mayor Warren Widener moved to Goldberg bemoans Widener's re­ While many in the April Coalition aims by maneuvers within the city hold a secret session of the body to fusal to discuss with "representatives would agree that capitalism is the council. They really are trying to see if they could work out a deal, of the student and radical communi­ root of war, class exploitation, racism, work "within the system." Bailey and Simmons objected but ties." But who did these "representa­ and sexism, they offered nothing in The importance of this point can­ Hancock joined the council majority tives" consult with? the way of a political program that not be overestimated. If the April in voting for the closed session. Bailey The April Coalition council mem­ addressed itself to these basic prob­ Coalition were serious about using and Simmons walked out in protest. bers did· nothing to mobilize the com­ lems. its "base of power" within the council But the clearest demonstration that munity on the issue, and they refused The main reason they didn't and as a lever for educating and organi­ none of the three favored a genuinely to lend their support to the SWP pro­ couldn't do this is because such an zing masses of people to press for democratic solution to the problem posal for a special election. analysis would have necessarily basic social change, they would cer­ came when they joined the rest of the Goldberg also advises that "it will posed the question-what kind of po­ tainly utilize the_ political issues de­ council in rejecting a proposal for come as no surprise to Barb readers" litical formation do we need to effec­ veloping out of the council to do so. the ninth seat made by Marilyn that Hone and those who joined in tively combat the social system respon­ And the sensitivity to the public Winch, the candidate of the Socialist putting her on the council "are all sible for these evils? mood other council members display Workers Party. active in Democratic politics, where To put the question that way would on such issues as the war indicates Winch's proposal was simple: hold backroom deals are a way of life." have immediately posed another ques­ that significant public pressure would a special election and let the voters tion: What is the real role of the have a lot more effect on them than fill the vacant seat. It should cer­ If Goldberg agrees that such behav­ Democratic party? the council-meeting maneuvers of the tainly have had the support of three ior on the part of Democrats· is a And any serious examination of three. people elected to the council on the fact of life, then how does he explain that question must conclude that the Conflicts have arisen between Han­ program of "returning government to the fact that the "radical" April Co­ Democratic Party, like its Republican cock's proposals addressed to the the people." alition ran an avowed Democrat­ counterpart, is a political agency for needs of women and Bailey and Sim­ Yet neither Hancock, Bailey, or Loni Hancock -for the council? How maintaining the status quo. It repre­ mons's addressed to the Black com­ Simmons would give a ·single word does he explain the fact that the April sents and. defends the interests of the munity. Wouldn't it be of enormous of support for the proposal. The out­ Coalition, whose declared aim is to ruling capitalist class. political value, both practically and in come, of course, was that the other organize the community to win con­ That kind of an analysis of the terms of basic education, to thrash five council members simply got to­ trol of its own destiny, glo~;;ses over Democratic Party would have made these matters out in the constituencies gether behind their backs and agreed the fact that the function of the Demo­ Jt impossible to justify building the oncerned and then determine what on a choice for the ninth seat. cratic and Republican parties is pre­ April Coalition as a bloc with the he . people actually involved think They selected, by a 5-to-0 vote, cisely to thwart such developments? Democrats. It would have exposed about these issues? Susan Hone, whose politics is sum­ Even in the limited terms of Berk­ the reformist illusions that fundamen­ Such public discussion could pro­ med up in her self-description: "A eley politics, the issue is not irrele­ tal social change can be accomplished vide the means for developing a lifelong Democrat."· vant. In the previously cited article, by working within a capitalist polit­ united approach and for building sig­ Bailey, Simmons, and Hancock Goldberg also complains about ical party. nificant public mobilizations in sup­ agreed the choice was scandalous. So Mayor Widener. The April Coalition radicals never port of it. did people who campaigned for them. "Those who took part in the cam­ presented such an analysis. That's But Bailey-Simmons and Hancock One pained cry came from April paign last April," he wrote, "will re­ why it's only after the fact that they seem to instinctively recognize that coalition activist Art Goldberg. member that the April Coalition re- can howl about "betrayals." ·

18 Ioise ooiiUiion= health· hazard Artists By LEE SMITH to deal with the problem, they stage "America," Oscar Wilde wrote in 1882, point to the need for more sweeping "is the noisiest country that ever ex­ measures. isted." Ninety years later, it's still Branch mentions some of the prob­ dramatic noisier- and getting worse. Many lems standing in the way of effec­ people are alarmed by the increas­ tively controlling noise, such as the ir­ ing noise. If what some experts say rational political division of urban is true, more of. us should share antiwar areas into separate municipalities that their alarin. often "operate at cross purposes, ·a..o Doctors say noise harms our physi­ not coordinate their efforts or donot cal health. It depresses our pulse and actiOn join in the metropolitan regional ap­ ByRON WOLIN can cause high blood pressure, ul­ proach required to solve some prob­ cers, or even loss of hearing. Psy­ NEW YORK-On May 20 an un­ lems.... " usual antiwar demonstration was held chologists say noise harms our men­ He also mentions the enacting of tal· health. It makes us more tense here as a build-up to the May 21 laws "without determining how they Emergency March on Washington, and less efficient. will be enforced, whether there will Noise, in the sense it is used here, D. C. The action, sponsored by the be enough voluntary compliance to National Peace Action Coalition-New is sound that is unwanted, unpleas­ make them work, or whether enforce­ ant, or harmful. Sound is pressure York, was endorsed by 70 leading ment is too costly or otherwise im­ figures in New York's community of waves in the air. We hear when these practical." waves make vibrations in our ears. the arts. These included John Lennon, Branch puts his finger on what he Yoko Ono, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Arthur Sound j.s commonly measured accord­ means by "costly" and "impractical" ing to its intensity in logarithmic Miller, Anais Nin, William Styron, when he says that "most city plan­ T~nnessee Williams, Jules Feiffer, units called decibels. ning commissions will not advocate According to medical experts, con­ Joseph Papp, Harold Prince, Robert noise controls which would be op­ sistent exposure to sounds ranging Ryan, Ben Gazzara, ·Phil Silvers, posed vigorously by almost all com­ above 90 decibels can cause hearing Brock Peters, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, loss. Traffic noise on crowded city mercial interests." Tammy Grimes, Julie Newmar, Anne streets and busy turnpikes is over Because it would cost "commercial Jackson, and Eli Wallach. It also in­ the level we can safely listen to. interests" more money to produce volved the casts of more than 20 Those of us who ride aged and de­ commodities quietly -and therefore re­ Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. caying transit such as the New York· duce their margin of profit-they are The demonstration, called a "Can­ City subways know that the noise of "opposed . vigorously" to measures dle-light Vigil and Procession for· metal wheels on, metal tracks can ap­ necessary for the physical and men­ Peace," was held in Duffy Square on proach the point of causing pain. In­ tal health of the community. Broadway, the center of New York's adequately muffled power equipment In attempting to argue that such theatrical district, from 8 p.m. to mid­ and industrial machinery expose "discouraging realities" can be over­ night. More than 1,000 P.eople at­ many workers to harmful noise for come, Branch cites an example .that tended in an on-again, off-again rain. most of the working day. There are must not even convince him. Last The casts of a number of shows an­ many other examples. · year, some residents of Beverly Hills nounced the event at the end of their As with air and water pollution, managed to pressure federal officials performances. Cast members also the main culprits responsible for into requiring jet airliners taking off helped NPAC and Student Mobiliza­ noise pollution are profit-hungry cap­ from Los Angeles International Air­ tion _ Committee staff members and italist enterprises. And the main vic­ port and flying over Beverly Hills volunteers lead theater-goers to the tims are working people. to climb at a higher rate. action. The capitalists' responsibility for Such aspirin-for-cancer measures do Speakers at the rally included car­ noise pollution is spelled out between not match up to Branch's prescrip­ toonist-satirist Jules Feiffer; Viveca the lines of an article that appeared tion of more effective planning. It is Lindfors; Muriel Rukeyser; TV news­ in the Los Angeles Times April 30. true that the pressure of noise pol­ caster and author Geraldo Rivera; Written by Melville C. Branch, the lution victims organized around a Jules Irving, director of the Lincoln article ·deals with the need for plan­ particular problem can win conces­ Center Repertory Theater, making his ning to control noise. Branch is a sions, but ultimately planning is the first public antiwar speech; Raoul Jul­ professor of planning at the Univer" answer. And such planning ·must be liard, one of the stars of Two Gen­ sity of Southern California. The kind carried out, not by business-oriented tlemen of Verona; Alexandra Borrie of planning Branch proposes is se­ planning commissions, but by demo­ of Follies; Barbara Tarbuck of The verely limited compared to the plan­ cratically elected bodies that truly rep­ Crucible; actor Christopher Tabori; _ ning· socialists advocate. But because resent the mass of working people Ron Maxton of New York High his own proposals are not adequate who suffer most from noise polution. School SMC; and Anita Bennett for NPAC-New York. The event was co­ chaired by Harold Taylor and Ron Wolin. Entertainment was provided by the casts of Jesus Christ Superstar and African Liberation Day in Canada Hair, as well as by composer-musi­ cian David Amram, actress Barbara By NORMAN FARIA the downtown area, short rallies were Pitts Park, renamed Henson-Garvey TORONTO, Ontario, May 27-"What held outside the Portugese, French, Park by the demonstrators. Many of Harris, and folk-singers Goldberg time is it? Nation time! What are we? B:ritish, and United States consulates. the speakers- including Fania Jor- and Baron Stewart. Africans! NATO out!" These were the Support actions occurred in Cana- don, Angela Davis's sister-spoke of The bulk of the demonstrators were non-students, many attending their . major slogans of a spirited demon-· da's other provinces and in Quebec's Canadian business interests abroad first antiwar action of any kind. A stration of more than 1,000 Blacks largest city, Montreal, where a large . and Canada's membership in NATO tremendous feeling of rapport devel­ here, part of the continent-wide show number of this country's quarter ofa (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). oped between speakers, entertainers, of solidarity with the liberation strug- million Blacks live. The Toronto ac- Through NATO, Canada helps supply and the crowd, with chants of "Out gles in Africa. · tion was sponsored by a number of the dictatorship in Portugal with the Now!" frequently heard throughout Black organizations, ranging from the military equipment that is used the four-hour action. Hundreds more Black men, women, long-established Universal Negro Im- against the liberation forces in Angola, and children, unable to join the dem­ provement Assbciation to the radical Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau. onstration, raised their fists in support Cote des Neiges Project in Montreal. The action_ was by far the largest from their homes on the route of the References to Canada came up fre- political demonstration yet on the part march. As the march went through quently at the windup rally at Christie- of Black people in Canada. .Daniel Ellsberg trial to open soon By HARRY RING beginning June 6. Initial government moves would LOS ANGELES-Preliminary court One defense committee staff worker have the court rule out any evidence moves are now underway here in the estimated that jury selection would be­ by the defense relating to the legal­ case of Daniel Ellsberg and his "co­ gin around June 19. He expected the ity or the morality of the U.S. role conspirator" in the Pentagon pap~rs trial to start June 26. He said the in Vietnam. case, Anthony Russo. prosecution's case might take three or Ellsberg and Russo were indicted four weeks, and the defense's case At the same time, the government for theft of "secret'' government docu­ perhaps well over a month. is seeking a ruling permitting the ex­ ments after publication of the Penta­ Leonard Boudin, the noted consti­ clusion of jurors who have partici­ gon papers in the New York Times tutional lawyer, will head the legal pated in antiwar demonstrations or and elsewhere created a political team for the defense. who are critical of the war. It would bombshell with revelations that shed The Pentagon Papers Fund has es­ also permit exclusion of former mem­ light on the true character of U. S. tablished an office to rally support bers of the military whose experience aggression in Vietnam. for the defense. It has also set up a in the service might lead them to Jules Feiffer Photo by Eli Finer Pretrial motions were slated to be special press office headed by veter­ take a dim view of the government's argued in the federal courthouse here an publicist Marc Stone. activity.

THE MILITANT/JUNE 16, 1972 19 . In Review Books Pamphlets The Morris Starsky case The March to the Right: A Case He seryed as chairman of the Faculty­ prominent professors across the Study in Political Repression by Community Committee to Defend Aca­ country. demic Freedom at ASU. ;The Committee on Academic Free­ Thomas Ford Hoult. Schenkman Hoult' s work is well written and dom and Tenure voted unanimously Publishing Company. Cambridge, highly readable. It contains a preface that Starsky not be dismissed. They Mass. 1972. 287 pp. $5.95, cloth. written by Aryeh Neier, the executive did find him guilty of cancelling a director of the American Civil Liber­ class and deemed his judgment "in­ Morris Starsky, a socialist professor ties Union. accurate and misleading" for having and antiwar activist, has lost two Star sky's poli~cal activity became called the board of regents "arrogant, teaching positions-one in Arizona widely known in the six years he spent cynical and hypocritical." But they and one in California-as a result in Arizona. He 1helped organize the found him innocent of all other of his political activities and ideas. state's firs! anti.War demonstration in charges. Recently a broad defense committee 1965. In 1968, · when Chicano and was formed ·on his behalf. It num­ Black laundry workers (whose boss Hoult does a particularly good job bers among its sponsors such figures had an excl~ive contract with the in excerpting some 100 pages of Star­ as Herbert Marcuse, Benjamin Spock, university) waged a struggle for union sky's testimony from the trial tran­ Eqbal Ahmad, George Novack; and recognition, Starsky joined with stu­ script. Star sky's thoughtful answers Herbert Aptheker. dent groups to document charges of to a wide range of questions concern­ The March to the Right is an ac­ discrimination, qnion busting, and in­ ing academic freedom and democratic count of the battle Starsky fought to tolerable working conditions. This la­ rights provide an example of how retain his position as assistant pro­ ter led to charges that he had "under­ socialists defend themselves. fessor of philosophy at Arizona State mined the peace and concord" between AS U President Harry Newburn very University in Tempe. It deserves to the university and the community. reluctantly concurred with the com­ be read by all supporters of academ­ He served as faculty adviser to the mittee's decision that Star sky be re­ ic freedom. Young Socialist Alliance, the Students tained. Then the regents, joined by the for a Democratic Society, and other governor of the state, met to announce student groups, including some he dis­ their decision. It is the judgment of the board, they intoned, "that the interests agreed wi~h. At ~?-is "trial," Starsky of education in the State of Arizona explained that a student group without require that Dr. Starsky no longer a faculty adviser was denied official be permitted to teach on the campuses The Pollution Crisis: Who is Re­ recognition and could not function. under the jurisdiction of the Board." sponsible? by Ronald Reosti. Path­ He was for full and open debate, he Although Starsky was not rehired, finder Press. New York. 1971. 14 said, and had become faculty adviser a suit for his reinstatement is still pp. Thirty-five cents. to .secure a number of student groups pending in the courts. Starsky left Ari­ the right to exist. zona and spent one year teaching at The Pollution Crisis originally ap" Starsky began the 1968 election San Diego State College. He was then peared as an article in the Decem­ period as a supporter of Democratic appointed to a new job as chairman ber issue of the International Soci­ Senator Eugene McCarthy. In the of the philosophy department at Cali­ alist Review. By bringing it out as spring of that year he was won over fornia State College, Dominguez Hills. an inexpensive pamphlet, Pathfinder to support ~f the Socialist Workers But Starsky encountered yet another Press has done a real favor to those Party presidential campaign of Fred difficulty. His new appointment was who hear and read so much about Halstead and Paul Boutelle. withdrawn on the charge that he had pollution that it seems to defy <;>rderly He spoke out against the racist pol­ falsified his employment application arrangement and undE;_rstanding, let icies of Brigham Young University, when he stated that he had never been alone solution. a school run by the Mormons. In fired from an academic position. Marshaling some basic data fr-om January 1970, he cancelled a class to Starsky had not been fired from government and academic sources, speak at a rally held at the Univer­ ASU; he had not been rehired. From Reosti presents a concisely argued sity of Arizona at Tucson to defend a legal point of view this ·is an im­ case that describes the magnitude of eight student~ arrested foi protesting portant distinction- and Starsky had the danger humanity faces from pol­ their school's athletic ties with Brig­ completed his Dominguez Hills appli­ lution. He makes clear that the very ham Young. cation form under advice of attorney. survival of our species has been This incident proved to be the final He is now suing Dominguez Hills for placed in question. straw. Starsky's detractors zeroed in breach of contract. The author then takes up and re­ Starsky was an effective political ac- · on his cancellation of a class, a tech­ futes the commonly heard argument tivist on the 30,000-student ASU cam­ nical breach of contract but a com­ that pollution is an inseparable con­ pus. At the insistence of the univer­ mon practice, to step up the campaign sequence of population growth and sity board of regents, he was not re­ for his ouster. technologlcal development. hired for the 1970-71 school year. The campaign'was demagogic. "Why_ He lays bare the inadequacy of ex­ Victimizing Starsky was no easy should taxpayers be forced to pay isting and proposed government pro­ task. His -publishing record was satis­ the salary of someone pledged to sub­ grams and documents the opposition factory. He had organized three na­ vert our democratic system?" de­ of big business to even these sorry, tional philosophy conferences at the manded the media throughout the empty measures. university. Moreover, he was a ten­ state. The state board of regents shared Reosti points to "two key obstacles" ured professor. the same mentality. that stand in the way of the drastic Nevertheless, Starsky lost his job. The Committee on Academic Free­ reorganization needed to halt and re­ As one conservative Arizona state sen­ dom and Tenure, a body of five pro­ verse the destruction of our environ­ ator bluntly admitted, it was because fessors, sat to try Starsky. He was ment's life-sustaining balance. These of "his political opinions." The board charged with distributing a leaflet that are the "unavailability of funds" on of regents, acting under extreme pres~ contained a profanity, dismissing a the scale required and the "unplan­ sure from the legislature, traded his class to make a political speech, show­ 'ned character of capitalist production." job for legislative funding of the ing lack of respect for colleagues and Pointing out that mass actions are ' school. - regents, inciting occupation of the ad­ capable of altering the relationship This was done in spite of recom­ ministration building, and misleading of class forces and wresting some mendations from the chairman of the the public about the nature of the concessions from the polluters, Reosti philosophy department, the dean of university and the role of the pro­ writes, "The ultimate solution to the the liberal arts school, two faculty fessor, hence eroding economic sup­ The Phoenix Gazette took right­ ecology crisis, however, is evident committees convened to investigate port of the university. wing view of Starsky dismissal. now.... The industrial plant that charges against him, and the presi­ The Faculty-Community Committee has been created by the labor of the dent of ASU. initiated a statement, signed by 27 5 To fight this new case as well as the March to the Right was written by faculty members, calling for full aca­ American working people must be continuing struggle in Arizona, the taken over by the wo,rkers themselves a colleague of Starsky's, Thomas demic freedom at ASU and condemn­ Committee of 1,000 to Defend the Aca­ in the framework of a revolutionary Ford Hoult. Chairman of the sociol­ ing the political persecution of Star­ demic Freedom and the Democratic transformation of society." , ogy department, Hoult carefully re­ sky. Rallies were held and a number Rights of Professor Starsky has been -LEE SMITH cords the process of hunting a witch of press conferences were called to formed. Contributions and letters of in Goldwater country. Although Hoult counter slanders in the media. Three support should be addressed to the had political disagreements with Star­ thousand ASU students signed a pro­ committee at P. 0. Box 85425, Los sky on many issues, he became a test petition in Star sky's defense. Let­ Angeles, Calif. 90072. staunch supporter of his right to·teach. ters and· telegrams came in from -MICHAEL SMITH

20 Richard Alatorre in Los Angeles last fall because of the votes taken from him by LRUP candidate ... McGovern Raul Ruiz are examples of what McGovern -and California Continued from page 24 - other Democrats fear. · population." (Emphasis added.) The recent National Chicano Political Caucus What is a "reasonable" relationship to our num­ meeting in San Jose, Calif., reflected the depth of ber in the population? Obviously not proportional dissatisfaction with the two capitalist parties when death-row representation, or McGovern would have said so. it overwhelmingly passed a resolution to endorse - . To the capitalist ruling class it is extremely un­ the building of Raza Unida parties wherever Chi­ reasonable that Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Latinos, canos live and to urge La Raza to not support prisoners. Blacks, and women should be hired by the gov­ either Democrats or Republicans. ernment as wep as by private industry, at every In his speech, McGovern carefully sk4"ted the level, in direct proportion to their numbers in most important issues facing La Raza. He stated spared-cops' the population. That would destroy the whole pur­ that "Within the next few .months [conveniently pose of racist and sexist hiring practices whereby after the California primary] I intend to present Chicanos and other oppressed nationalities, for my views on immigration, health, education, pri­ petition lags example, are hired for only the most undesirable vate employment opportunities and farm labor as and difficult jobs, such as farm work, and at it affects the Mexican and Latin American com­ By HARRY RING the lowest wages. The savings to the bosses from munities." LOS ANGELES- The lives of 113 inmates on this amount to billions of dollars in superprofits What about the pressing question of the harass­ California's death row were spared May 30 when every year. What is needed to make up for the ment and deportation of undocumented Raza work­ the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a Cali­ years and years of discrimination against La ers, many of whom have lived here for years? fornia Supreme Court decision _banning capital Raza, Blacks, other oppressed nationalities, and Does McGovern favor legislation such as the Dixon punishment. The sentences of the condemned men women is preferential hiring of these groups. Arnett Law passed in California (later ruled un­ were reduced to life in prison. constitutional), and House Resolution 2328-laws The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule 25¢ per ChicQno that would make it illegal to "knowingly" hire soon on the constitutionality of capital punish­ But what about the number of jobs that would "illegal aliens"? Where does he stand on this im­ ment. But ~ven if the court upholds it, the 113 be created even by McGovern's inadequate pro­ portant issue? McGovern conveniently declined to would not be affected since the California decision gram, you may ask? McGovern claims that some comment. was based on the state, not federal, constitution. 105,000 jobs could be opened up for La Raza McGovern concluded his kick-off speech in Cali­ The California court ru~ed Feb. 18 that the death nationwide, with about 29,000 in California alone. fornia by explaining that "my commitment to the penalty violated the state constitution's ban against He states that this would amount to $250-million Mexican-American and Spanish-speaking commu­ "cruel and unusual punishment." in federal salaries to California Chicanos (or ap­ Having lost in the courts, the Reagan adminis­ nities, as well as to other minorities, is as strong proximately $900-million for all the jobs that tration and police agencies throughout the state and deeply felt as my commitment to end the war." would be created for Chicanos). renewed their drive to obtain the half million sig­ If that is to be the criterion for judging McGovern's That impressive-sounding figure, calculated to natures necessary to place an initiative on the sincerity, we must conclude that he certainly cannot produce votes, amounts to about $90 per Chicano be trusted. per year, if we accept the moderate figure of 10- McGovern had previously endorsed mass anti­ million Chicanos in the United States. That's $8 a war demonstrations, but when it became clear month or about 25 cents a day. That's if the jobs that he had a chance to win the Democratic Party were provided all at once and not over several nomination, he began a quick turn to the right. years as is more likely to be the case. A pretty He refused, for example, to endorse the April 22 cheap price for the votes of La Raza! And since antiwar actions because he had better things to such· jobs would only benefit a few, the masses do- namely, curry favor with Democratic bosses would continue as always. like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. McGovern goes on. He proposes to sponsor a "Mexican-American and Latin-American [cultural] "Everything you always wanted to know renaissance" to develop what he considers .one of about George McGovern ... "-a truth kit_ the nations "most precious resources"- the "gra­ with McGovern's voting record. Twenty-five cious and magnificent Spanish culture, heritage cents. Young Socialists for Jenness & Pulley, and language." (Emphasis added.) What about the Indian half of La Raza? Well, what do you 706 Broadway, Eighth Floor, New York, N.Y. expect from an Anglo-sponsored ~aza renaissance? 10003. And point eight: "I intend to appoint, within two The meaning, of course, is that antiwar activists' months after I take office, a prestigious [even more should follow suit and get off the streets and onto vendido than "outstanding"- A. C.] Presidential the sidewalks to work precincts for McGovern. In Commission to recommend specific programs by fact, this is the central meaning of the McGovern which the executive, legislative and judicial campaign. He is asking La Raza to put faith in branches of our government, both local and federal, him as an individual, and in tbe Democratic Party can ensure that the Spanish-speaking community as an institution. We are asked to drop everything shares fairly in the abundance of American life:" we are doing to guarantee McGovern's victory. Although McGovern's program does not begin Accepting this course would lead to a serious to offer solutions to the basic problems confronting weakening of the Chicano struggle. Only the in­ the masses of La Raza, it is significant that the dependent mobilizations of our people, such as promises he makes for La Raza go much farther . during the National Chicano Moratorium in Los than those made by any previous presidential Aitgeles, and the development of the independent candidate, including John F. Kennedy. Raza Unida parties have forced McGovern and Why all of this sudden attention?. The May 26 the Democrats to take notice. " I 5Je:.;;./ 1h'/S.1 /T:~r -4 lJ"Ei-r£R:i<.l!lv")~· New York Times qu9ted a "prominent" Democratic It .is the masses of our people, independently A GA/,V's T C/:li14E. Party official as stating about the California pri­ organized, who will bring about the changes we mary, "If anybody could get the Chicano he would want- not any individual, whether it be Nixon, win the election." In addition, the growing popu­ Humphrey, or McGovern. All of them are basically ballot to restore the death penalty. Launched by larity of the Raza Unida parties thre_atens the committed to the capitalist system that ls respon­ the state prison guards' association, the petition Democratic Party. The Raza Unida Party victories sible for the oppression of La Raza and all work­ drive has the support of the police department in southern Tj;!xas and the defeat of Democrat ing people. in Los Angeles and other major cities, as well as the various sheriffs' offices. Despite this sup­ port, petitioning lagged seriously, and it was not Chicago police brutality protested certain that the necessary number would be filed by the June 9 deadline. By NORMAN OLIVER and ANTONIO DELEON captain, and district police chief; and more Blacks Ten days before the deadline, the cops claimed CHICAGO-More than' 2,000 Blacks, Puerto Ri­ in policy-making positions. to have in the neighborhood of 500,000 signa­ cans, and Chicanos came to a South Side rally Most of the city's Black chuFches and commu­ tures. But even by their own projections, they / at Mount Pisath ChurCh here May 31. The rally, nity organizations supported Metcalfe. Since he lacked the extra 300,000 regarded as a necessary sponsored by the Concerned Citizens for Police had been -one of the administration's faithfuls, margin to assure getting the required number of Reforms ( CCPR), rparked the deadline given May­ this represented a blow to Daley's Democratic Par­ valid signatures of registered voters. or Richard Daley's administration to agree to ty machine. It is not clear whether petitioning bogged down CCPR demands against police brutality. · This was indicated by a couple of large meetings because of opposition to the move to restore the At the rally a chair was set up front with Daley's Superintendent Conlisk organized in the Black and death penalty or because of normal police inef­ name on it, but Daley didn't show. However, Rep­ Latino communities. His aim was to defuse com­ ficiency and laziness. resentative_ Ralph Metcalfe (D-lll.), a member of munity support to the CCPR by pretending to the Congressional Black Caucus and head of the hear the "grievances of the people." But his re­ CCPR, said that steps would be taken to organize marks were so glaringly at odds with the tem­ -civilian review boards in_ the 27 police districts per of his audiences that the meetings only . aided located in the Black, Chicano, and Puerto Rican the CCPR's cause. communities. By organizing the CCPR, Metcalfe has also split Black and Latino Democrats down the middle. This division was spotlighted when Tyrone Ken­ The demands of the" CCPR, a Black and La­ ner, a Black alderman, read a roll call of Black tino coalition recently formed to protest police ~ and Latino elected officials at the May 31 meeting. brutality, were presented by Metcalfe to Police Su­ As the names of those supporting CCPR were perintendent James Conlisk on April 24. read, the crowd applauded. But for those known The demands called for the hiring of 500 Black to be opposed, whom Kenner called the "dark policemen; the end of special task-force units; pro­ disciples of downtown," the crowd responded with motion of more Blacks to the rank of sergeant, jeers and boos.

THE MILITANT/JUN~ 16, 1972 21 ' SEA mE "and the joint communique on Nixon's Ion, Bangladesh, Spain, and Greece. THE FARM WORKERS STRUGGLE. Speaker: Sarah visit downgraded Vietnam to the sta­ The largest rally in the United Welch, representative of the United Farm Workers. tus of just another world problem be­ States gathered 20,bOO persons in Fri., June 16, B p.m. 5257 University Way N. E. Do­ nation: $1, h. s. students 50c. Ausp. The Militant Forum. ing viewed from Moscow along with New York's Madison Square Garden For more information, call (206) LA3-2555. the Middle East and others," Star Sai­ in January 1971. Later this month gon correspondent Bradsher pointed NUCF AD is planning a series of vic­ SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA out. tory celebrations in a number of cities MARXIST RADIO COMMENTARY. Listen to Theodore around the country, including an­ Edwards, spokesman for the Socialist Workers Party, The same point was hammered. on his weekly 15-minute radio program, 11:15 a.m. home by the editors of the New York other in Madison Square Garden on Calendar every Wednesday, KPFK-FM, 90.7. Times. "Implicit in all this has been June 29. BOSTON the recognition by all involved that SOCIALISTS IN THE '72 ELECTIONS. A series of classes. TWIN CITIES even Vietnam and the Middle East 7:30 p.m. at 655 A~ antic Ave. (opposite South Station). Admission: $1 per class. Ausp. Young Socialists for SOCIALIST SUMMER SCHOOL. Studies in Revolution. are side issues when compared to the Jenness and Pulley and the Socialist Workers Cam­ June 8-Aug. 6. Classes on Monday and Thursday eve­ imperatives of the new global equi­ paign Committee. For more information, call (617) nings at 7:30 p.m. 1 University Ave. N. E. Minnea­ librium," the Times stated June 3. ... Soviet 482-8050. polis. Opening series of classes on The Soviet Union Continued from page 17 and World Revolution- An Assessment of Stalinism. "Chairman Mao received President Mon., June 12: Block Political Power. Speaker: Der­ Nixon shortly after heavy bombing Deep down, these bureaucrats have rick Morrison, staff writer for The Militant. Thurs., June 15: The Betrayal of the Chinese Revolu­ , Wed., June 14:. Black Liberation. Speaker: Derrick tion. Teacher: Dean Hull. of North -Vietnam had resumed; Sec­ a real fear of revolution. They know Morrison. Thurs., June 22. The Rise of Fascism in Germany. retary General Brezhnev received the that the victory of revolutions in other Teacher: Bill Onash. President shortly after North Viet­ comitries, like Vietnam, will evoke a Classes to follow: A Marxist Approach to the Labor CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE MEETINGS. Every Sunday nam's harbors were mined. No words tremendous response in the Soviet night at 7 p.m. All campaign supporters are welcome. 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Davis a revolt brewing- in Hungary in that it can no longer expect effective Continued from page ll 195 6, in Czechoslovakia in 196 8, in support from the Soviet Union," Star city councils. Broader resolutions de­ HOUSTON Poland in 1970, and in the Soviet SOCIALIST SUMMER SCHOOL. Classes held every staff writer Henry S. Bradsher manding freedom for Davis were pas­ Tuesday a~d Thursday, 7:30-9:30 p.m. June 6-July 27. claimed. According to Bradsher, "Mos­ Union itself. sed by the American Federation of While the Soviet Union has still All sessions in the University Center at the University - cow radio broadcasts in Vietnamese Teachers, the Amalgamated Meatcut­ of Houston. Information and class schedules at Path­ to Vietnam for the past week have maintained· the great advance of so­ finder' Bookstore, 6405 Lyons Ave. Classes include: ters, and the International Longshore­ been emphasizing the need to nego­ cialized production and a planned The Materialist Conception of History, The Role of men's and Warehousemen's Union. economy, a political revolution is the Individual in History, Marxian Economics, The Com­ tiate an end to the war rather than About $150,000 was raised to fi­ needed to throw out the parasitic bu­ munist Manifesto, The Transitional Program, and The keep fighting." nance the printing of at least a mil­ Popular Front vs. the United Front. For more infor­ reaucracy and replace it with a new One such broadcast, according to lion pamphlets and newsletters, and mation, call (713) 673-9445. revolutionary leadership. 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THE MILITANT/JUNE 16, 1972 23 THE MILITANT What's wrong Raza Unida parties plan with Senator· McGovern's campaigns in L.A.; Colo. "But by running in an election, we have a chance Los Angeles to reach the masses of people and to educate them program for By STEVE MAXWELL to organize themselves. We want them to under­ LOS ANGELES- The City Terrace branch of the stand their own potential power and to create Raza Unida Party (RUP) has announced that it change. Never do we have the opportunity to will field a slate of three candidates in the fall reach as many people with this message as dur­ La Raza elections. ing an election campaign." By ANTONIO CAMEJO Two of the candidates, Daniel Zapata and Pedro Along with the party, Ruiz sees the need for a Senator George McGovern, now a leading con­ Arias, will be vying for seats in the 40th and 48th "Mexican labor confederation" in Los Angeles to tender for the Democratic nomination in July, be­ assembly districts. Both areas are plagued with combat what he terms the "racist policies" of cur­ gan his California primary campaign with a ma­ an unemployment rate of more than 18 percent rent union leadership. He also feels it is necessary jor speech designed to win the Chicano vote in among the predominately Chicano population. for Chicanos to participate in other struggles that state. A third candidate of the Chicano party, Raul against oppression, such as the antiwar move­ In hot pursuit of .Hubert H. Humphrey, who Ruiz, is running in the 27th senatorial district. ment: "Because of our high casualty rate, Mexicans announced his intention to appoint a Mexican­ This encompasses most of the same areas rep­ have a particular interest in ending this war. But American to a cabinet position, McGovern out­ resented by the 40th and 48th assembly districts. even if not one of our people were dying, that war lined an eight-point program. Already he has won Ruiz ran on the R UP ticket in a special electiol}. should end because the Vietnamese people are the endorsement of ·cesar Chavez and the United last fall to f'Ill the vacant 48th district seat. In dying." Farm Workers Union (UFW), as well as other that contest he polled more tl1an 3,000votes, rough­ Chicanos. But does McGovern's program provide ly 8 percent of the total votes cast. That was enough a solution to the problems faced by La Raza? to defeat Democratic candidate Richard Alatorre. "First," McGovern starts out, "I will do what Almost half of the registered Chicano voters in the no other American President has ever done." En­ district cast their ballot for Ruiz. force the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo perl}ap's? · The 48th district has since been reapportioned, Pay reparations for more than 164 years of op­ and the winner of last year's election, Republican pression in Aztlan? No, McGovern will appoint James Brophy, is now in another district. "at least one outstanding Spanish-speaking Amer- . · Ruiz's opponent in the upcoming senate race lean to head a Cabinet." (Emphasis added.) For is State Senator David Roberti, an Anglo Democrat. the word "outstanding" we can substitute "vendido" In an interview with The Militant, Ruiz called (sellout). That's what Democratic and Republican special attention to the 40th district assembly con­ politicians mean by "outstanding." test, where Zapata will face incumbent Alex Garcia, For his second point, McGovern states that the a Democrat, and ·Art Torres, also a Democrat. "first judicial vacancy that becomes available," will Torres is backed by the United Farmworkers be fllled by a Mexican-American. He will also Union ( UFW), having been what Ruiz termed appoint the first Chicano federal judge in the his­ "a broker for the union in Sacramento." Garcia tory of California- which doesn't speak well for is not popular among UFW leaders because he John F. Kennedy and previous Democratic pres­ voted to repeal the Dixon Arnett deportation law idents, all supported by La Raza and in posi­ and because he voted to outlaw secondary boy­ tions to have done the same thing. cotts of farm products. As his third point, McGovern promises to ap­ According to Ruiz, the biggest obstacle facing point "Spanish-speaking Americans, as well as LR UP in the next few months will be securing women and other minorities, to a substantial num­ ballot status. Because the Raza Unida Party is ber of Under and Assistant Secretary positions," not legally recognized in California, all three candi­ in the Cabinet. (Emphasis added.) You can inter­ dates must run as independents. As such, they are pret "substantial numbers" any way you want to. required by state law to obtain the signatures Point four states that he "intends" to appoint of five percenl of all registered voters in each Raul Ruiz "at least one Mexican-American as a special White district. Only signatures of persons who did not Ruiz is quick to admit that many problems face House advisor." What advice such a Mexican­ vote in the primaries are valid. According to Ruiz, LRUP in this campaign, only its second in Los American will give and whether it will be taken this means approximately 8,000 signatures must Angeles. Nevertheless, he is optimistic. We are is another question. be secured in three weeks beginning Aug. 15. organizing our own party, he concluded, "because To show that McGovern trusts La Raza with Despite this, Ruiz asserts, the campaign will press we feel this is the most effective way to mobilize representing capitalist interests abroad, he intends on. "The most obvious reason for this," he said, our people. I believe the future will prove we are "to appoint as Latin American Ambassadors per­ "is that the Mexican has no representation. The right." sons capable of speaking Spanish [to better com­ Democrats in the state legislature have gerryman­ The campaign will be organized out of the R UP municate with the natives-A. C.], including a sub­ dered and divided Mexican voters into districts office at 3573 City Terrace, Los Angeles, Calif. stantial number of Mexican-Americans." where they can have no significant impact. With 90063. Just in case you are not much impressed with 15 percent of the population in the state, we have one "outstanding" cabinet member, one federal only two representatives in the assembly. Colorado judge, "substantial" numbers of lower cabinet po­ "Furthermore," he continued, "even those Mexicans By AL BALD/VIA sitions, one special "advisor," and a "substantial" who are elected are controlled from top to bottom The Colorado Raza Unida Party has taken the number of ambassadors, wait. There is more. by the Democratic Party. first steps to organize its 1972 election campaign, To solve the unemployment problem, which in "Look at Boyle Heights [part of Garcia's dis­ the most ambitious in its two-year history. On some communities runs over 18 percent among trict]. It has one of the highest unemployment El Cinco de Mayo (May 5), the traditional day' La Raza, McGovern "will issue an executive order of celebration of the .victory of Mexican indepen­ rates and poorest educational systems in th~nation, requiring that Mexican-Americans and other mi­ · yet Garcia has done nothing. dence, the party sponsored a major drive to reg­ norities, at all federal civilian job levels, includ­ "People sometimes criticize us for 'splitting the ister Chicanos as independents. (Colorado law per­ ing top Civil Service positions, be represented in Mexican vote' and giving the election to a Repub­ mits registration only as a Democrat, Republican, or independent) · reasonable relationship to their proportion of the lican. To me, Garcia is a perfect example of how The party has also opened five storefront cam­ Continued on page 2 J it doesn't matter which of the two major parties Paign offices in the Denver harrios. These off'Ices, wins. They both do nothing for us." which will be the main organizing centers of the When asked about the Democratic primary race campaign, are staffed by young party activists in California, Ruiz said, "Whether it's McGovern who are directly involved in the day-to-day strug­ or Humphrey in the overall perspective, they don't gles of the barrio. serve the needs of the people. We are totally un­ El GaUo, the most widely read Chicano news­ illvolved in the primary. We see it as an extension paper in Denver, will be the campaign newspaper. of the old traditional politics.~ · The paper, which is published by the Crusade Citing the example of Crystal City, Texas, where for Justice, has recently undergone major changes LR UP now controls the school board and city in format to include more news about the Chicano council, Ruiz said that "significant change" can antiwar movement and the Raza Unida Party. result from the party's efforts in certain areas. To encourage mass participation in the selec­ "This doesn't mean all their problems are solved, tion of a large slate of candidates and the for­ I_W but it does mean the people have taken a measure mulation of a platform, a mass meeting will be of power and have a sense of their own potential." held here June 16 and a statewide assembly on "We do not view electoral office as a pancea June 17. These meetings will take place at the The National Chicano Political Caucus (San for the· ills of the poor," lie said, "and we do not Crusade for Justice building. Jose, Calif., April 22-23) voted to build La tell the people our candidates will get things done For further information on the campaign, write Raza Unida Party in opposition to the Dem­ for them. They have heard that before from the La Raza Unida Party, P. 0. Box 18347, Denver, ocrats and Republicans. Democrats. Colo. 80218.

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