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·Oil Trusts Plotted to Create .· . Fuel 'Shortage' · APRIL 12, 1974 25 CENTS VOLUME 38/NUMBER l4 . - A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY /PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE . Secrets uncovered ·oil trusts plotted to create .. · .fuel 'shortage' · -See page 10 The battle for union .. democracy: dialogue with a steelworker -See page 19 Which road for Black struggle: Black party or Democratic Party? . -See page 24 In Brief THIS FBI BURGLARY AGAINST ANTIWAR GROUP EX­ to meet you on Saturday, March 30, 1974, at 5:00 POSED: In October 1970, the FBI broke into offices at pm.... in front of the whole community." WEEK'S Brandeis University in Massachusetts, stealing hundreds The consul was "unable" to attend. of documents belonging to the National Student Strike MILITANT Information Center, an antiwar group that grew out of MACEO DIXON INTERVIEWED BY BLACK NEWS­ 3 Nixon's Vets Day de­ the May 1970 student upsurge. PAPER: ·Maceo Dixon, cochairman of the Socialist Work­ nounced as mockery of According to George Kennedy, a Brandeis security cop ers Party 1974 National Campaign Committee, was in­ social justice who aided the burglars, the FBI stole lists of individuals terviewed in the March 26 issue of the Philadelphia Tri­ and organizations, bank statements, and telephonerecords. bune, Philadelphia's largest Black newspaper. Rally launches Colo. so­ 4 Kennedy's account of the raid was reported in the Bos­ The front-page intervieW focused on how the Black com­ cialist campaign ton Phoenix, an alternative newspaper. munity should respond to the recent disclosures of the 5 Texas SWP, Panthers de­ The G-men had the cooperation of the university, said FBI plot to disrupt the Black liberation movement. These mand: Open police files Kennedy, who is himself a former FBI agent. While the new revelations came as the result of the FBI being forced, 6 Supreme Court ducks agents went through the files, school security guards stood to release documents that further corroborate claims that watch to make sure no one saw what was going on. Calif. election case the FBI and other federal agencies were involved in the This particular burglary has added significance because assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. 7 Hospital bosses fire it occurred after Nixon supposedly rejected the Huston Dixon, who is a plaintiff in the suit the Socialist Work­ socialist candidate spy plan in July 1970. That plan specifically recommended ers Party and Young Socialist Alliance have filed against 8 Socialist campaign· hits covert br.eak-ins like the Brandeis operation, noting: " Use the FBI and the Nixon administration, told the Tribune streets of New York of this technique is clearly illegal: it amounts to burglary. that the FBI qocuments "point up the necessity for the · 9 SWP blasts Penna. death It is also highly risky and could result in great embar­ entire lnack movement to pursue its own investigation of rassment if exposed." these murders." penalty To aid this investigation, Dixon called for the release 15 Riverside police assault BOSTON UFW SUPPORTERS HOLD RALLY: Two thou­ of all secret files on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. frame-up victim sand chanting, singing United Farm Workers/ supporters - He also demanded the publication of the full text of the 16 How Teamsters orga­ converged on Government Center Plaza on March 23 FBI disruption programs. nized independent in Boston to kick off the spring boycott of non-UFW truckers in 1930s grapes, lettuce, and Gallo wine. The central focus of the NEW PALTZ STUDENTS PROTEST CUTBACKS: 18 Discussion on miners' boycott in New England, A&P supermarkets, was the Nearly 1,000 students occupied the admin1stration build­ target of many picket signs and chants. contract opens ing at the State University College at New Paltz on March The featured speaker at the rally, Richard Chavez, an­ 26. 20 Kissinger's Moscow trip: nounced the launching of preharvest strikes in Arvin and Students had held a series of large rallies beforehand behind secret talks Coachella, Calif. Noting the success of the grape boycott to protest cutbacks in an experimental studies program, 21 Washington examines to date, Chavez pointed to the fact that grapes aren't the firing of three women professors and one Black pro­ prospects in Vietnam usually available this time of year. Yet, there are plenty fessor, and administration attempts to abolish a Third 22 Rebellion rocks Ethiopi­ World dormitory. an regime When the administrd.tion refused to even discuss these questions, students decided on the occupation. There are 23 Interest in FBI docu­ 8,000 students on the campus. · ments spurs sales The student government supports the demands and has made facilities available for organizing the struggle. Stu­ 2 In Brief dents have formed a broad ongoing organization to con­ 9 Campaigning for So­ tinue their fight for student control and are contacting cialism other campuses in the state university system in the hopes of planning coordinated actions. 12 In Our Opinion Letters 13 National Picket Line MAGAZINE REPORTS ON CHILE DEFENSE ACTIV­ . ITIES: The latest issue of the USLA Reporter, publica­ Women in Revolt tion of the United States Committee for Justice to Latin 14 The Great Society American Political Prisoners (USLA}, is now available. By Any Means Neces­ This issue contains a roundup of Chilean defense ac­ sary tivities around the world. The magazine also carries an La Raza en Accion article reviewing the present situation in Chile, especially 24 In Review dealing with the condition of Luis Vitale, a noted Marxist Militont-Citff Antunnes scholar and historian, who is in prison. March 23 rally in Boston to support UFW boycott. The Reporter also lias articles on Colombia, Brazil, WORLD OUTLOOK Peru, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, and other coun­ 1 Argentine revolutionists tries. call for united front on the shelves and tons in cold storage. "The growers To obtain single issues or bundles of the USLA Re­ are in trouble," he said, "and they know it." against right porter, write: USLA, 156 Fifth Ave., Room 702, New The rally had broad endorsement from labor unions, York, N.Y. 10010. Telephone: (212) 691-2880. 3 Chilean junta: type of political organizations, and religious groups. Among the -NORMAN OLIVER regime businessmen like marchers were representatives from two United Electrical 4 Iraqi gov't threatens of­ Workers locals, International Pressmen and Assistants fensive against Kurds Union, Teachers Union Local 66, LeominsterJointCouncil of the AFL-CIO, Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local- P-575, Drug and Hospital Union Local 1199, International Elec­ THE MILITANT trical Workers, and three locals of the Teamsters. YOUR FIRST .. VOLUME 38/NUMBER 14 APRIL 12, 1974 HAITIAN RALLY PROTESTS REPRESSION: Two hun­ ISSUE? QOSING NEWS DATE-APR. 3, 1974 dred and fifty people, nearly all Haitians, assembled March 30 in the auditorium of Saint Theresa school in Brooklyn, Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS N.Y., to hear dramatic testimony about political repres­ Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS sion in Haiti. This included the testimony of one of the Southwest Bureou: HARRY RING SUBSCRIBE several hundred refugees now in Florida fighting deporta­ Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass' n., tion back to Haiti. 14 Charles Lane, New York. N.Y. 10014. Telephone: The people who attended the meeting came in response TO THE Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) to an open letter released by several Haitian organizations. 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 710 S. Westlake Ave., The letter was addressed to Wilson Florestal, who is the Los Angeles, Calif. 90057. Telephone: {213) 483-2798. MILITIIT Correspondence concerning subscriptions or changes consul general of Haiti in New York. Last November, of address should be addressed to The Militant Business Florestal had sent a letter to Le Patriote Haitien and The 197 4 Socialist Werkers Party election campaigns are Office, 14 Charles Lone, New York, N. V. 10014. Realites Haitiennes, two groups that publish newspapers fighting for the interests of all working people. For weekly Second-class postage paid at New York. N.Y. Sub­ of the same names. In the letter Florestal expressed his coverage of the socialist campaigns, subscribe now. scriptions: domestic, SS a year; foreign, S8.50. By first­ class mail: domestic, Canada, and Mexico, S30; all willingness to meet with members of the groups "at the other countries, sst. By airmail: domestic, Canada, date, place and time of their choosing." Introductory ottar-S1/3months and Mexico, S40. By air printed matter: Central The open letter, signed by Le Patriote Haitien, Realites ( ) $I for three months of The Militant. America and Caribbean, S38; Mediterranean Africa, Haitiennes, and five other Haitian groups, was a stinging Europe, and South America, $50; USSR, Asia, Pacific, ( ) $2 for three months of The Militant and three months and Africa, $60. Write ··for foreign sealed air postage· indictment of the regime of "Baby Doc" Duvalier, premier of the International Socialist Review. rates. of Haiti. The groups are demanding freedom of speech, ( ) $5 for one year of The Militant For subscriptions airmailed from New York and then press, assembly, and association; the right of workers to ( ) New ( ) Renewal posted from London directly: Britain and Ireland, L1.20 form unions; the right to strike; the immediate dissolving for 10 issues, L4.50 for one year;-Continental Europe, of police terror squads; an end to economic concessions NAME----------------------------------- Ll.SO for 10 issues, L5.50 lor one year. Send banker's ADDRESS _________________________________ draft directly to Pathfinder Press, 47 The Cut, London, given American, Canadian, and French companies; the SE I BLL, England. 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