APRIL 16, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME 40/NUMBER 15

A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

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® Stanley BOSTON-Antibusing lynch mob attacks Black attorney Theodore Landsmark outside city hall. Black leaders have responded with renewed calls for antiracist action. See page 4.

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socialists move to Cite FBI ch· tor contempt -PAGE 7 Burglar's License THIS In Brief WEEK'S J.B. JOHNSON TRIAL DATE SET: Monday, April26, eyewitness, who could have testified against Banks's frame­ will be the opening day of J.B. Johnson's new trial. Police up, is dead. MILITANT framed this Black youth as an accomplice to the shooting Both Banks and Means are victims of intense government 3 S.F. strikers battle death of a white cop in 1970. After Johnson served three harassment. Means is currently free while appealing a years of his ninety-nine-years-and-a-day prison sentence, South Dakota rioting conviction. He still faces six more wage-cut plan the Missouri Supreme Court threw out his conviction, citing trials and could receive prison sentences totaling 175 years, 4 Blacks demand action to police misconduct at the trial. Driving toward a speedy plus life. halt racist attacks second conviction, St. Louis County Circuit Judge William Corrigan tried to set the new trial for February-a time 'MILITANT' GETS AROUND: The Workers Voice, 5 April 24 coalition when Johnson's chief attorney, William Kunstler, could not newspaper of the Bermuda Industrial Union, recently intensifies activities attend. But the Missouri high court ruled against this reprinted an article by Jose Perez that appeared in the flagrant violation of Johnson's rights. February 27 Militant. The article was an interview with 7 Move to cite FBI The National Committee to Free J.B. Johnson has focused Dominican union leader Jose Martinez Vargas, who de­ for contempt public attention on the consistently racist and arbitrary scribed government arrests of labor leaders, union-hall 13 CLUW helps mobilize behavior of the police, prosecutors, and courts in the case. occupations, and fixing of union elections. "The Workers the editors wrote in remarks accompanying the unionists for May 16 Now, St. Louis County Prosecutor Courtney Goodman, riled Voice," up and on an all"out campaign to put Johnson behind bars reprint, "abhors this blatant infringement on the rights of 14 Wash. SWP launches again, has assigned two prosecutors and a special investiga­ the workers in the Dominican Republic and joins with other '76 state campaign tor to the case. international unions and federations in denouncing this Urgently needed contributions to Johnson's defense behaviour." 1fl Palestinian freedom Another article from that issue of the Militant-"Where is protests rock Israel should be sent to: National Committee to Free J.B. Johnson, P.O. Box 4713, St. Louis, Missouri 62108. Telephone (314) the Nation of Islam going?" by Malik Miah-was reprinted 17 Argentine right-wing squads 725-0319 .. in the March 12 Viewpoint, a widely· circulated English­ step up terror language Pakistani journal. 'END ARGENTINE REPRESSION': In Los Angeles, 18 Plyushch answers Jackson seventy people picketed against repression in Argentina on IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE BLACK: DeWayne "Waheeb" at N.Y. meeting April 3. Picketers, lined up in front of the federal building, Willi_ams, a California State Northridge student, had a surprise run-in with the "law" last summer. One day a 23 Udall: peddling the demanded: "End U.S. aid to Argentina," "End the state of police helicopter and cop car began following Williams and 'painful truth' siege in Argentina," and "Free all political prisoners." The protest, sponsored by the United States Committee for a ·friend as they were driving home. When they pulled into 25 City seeks to block Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners, Solidarity the parking lot of their apartment building, the two men cost-of-living pay for found themselves surrounded by pistol-wielding cops. N.Y. transit workers The police claimed to be responding to the call of a woman who said that two gunmen were standing outside 28 San Jose Chicanos her door. The cops thought they'd spotted likely suspects protest cop terror when they saw two Black men driving along in the area. One cop grabbed Williams and shoved him into the back 2 In Brief of a car. Four more piled in and beat him viciously. Williams had to stand trial on charges of "interfering with In Our Opinion 10 an officer" and trying to take his weapon from him. Letters Testimony from several eyewitnesses to the police assault 11 National Picket Line were ignored, while other defense evidence wasn't even allowed into court. The student was found guilty by a jury of 12 Great Society eleven whites and one Black, sentenced, and thrown in jail. By Any Means Necessary Williams, now out on appeal, and his supporters are Capitalism in Crisis organizing a campaign to "Free Waheeb." To aid the defense, write protest letters to: Criminal Complaints, U.S. 24 In Review: How working Attorney's Office, 1200 U.S. Courthouse, 312 N. Spring St., people can fight fascism Lo" Angeles, California 90012. WORLD OUTLOOK -Ginny Hildebrand 19 Wage controls protested in Canada 20 French 'cousins' embarrass CPUSA 22 First 'Daily Rouge' rolls off presses

Militant/Betsy McDonald

Committee with the Argentine People, and Los Angeles THE MILITANT Group for Latin American Solidarity, was one of many defense actions scheduled in a dozen cities. VOLUME 40/NUMBER 15 Since the March 24 coup, concern in this country is . APRIL 16, 1976 CLOSING NEWS DATE-APRIL 7 growing for the safety of labor and political activists and the refugees from the Chilean junta now living in Argenti­ Ed1tor MARY-ALICE WATERS na. The Latin American Studies Association, representing ManHgmg Ed1tor LARRY SEIGLE university academic departments, discussed this issue at its Busmess Manager ROSE OGDEN Southwest Bureau HARRY RING recent convention in Atlanta. It adopted a resolution Washington Bureau· NANCY COLE demanding that the Argentine government respect the Special Offer democratic rights of its citizens and the refugees. Published weekly by The Mll1tant Publishing Ass'n , 14 Charles Lane. New York. NY 10014 Telephone. Editonal Office (212) 243-6392; Busmess Office DID FBI MURDER INDIAN WOMAN? Russell Means, For NeW Readers (212) 929-3486. Southwest Bureau 1237 S. AtlantiC the Indian rights leader, charged in Los Angeles that the Will the ERA be ratified in 1976? Thousands of women's Blvd .. Los Angeles. Cal1f. 90022 Telephone: (213) FBI is responsible for the murder of Anna Mae Aquash on rights supporters are preparing to march on Springfield, 269-1456. Washington Bureau: 1345 E St. NW. Illinois, on May to demand their rights now. The Fourth Floor. Washington. D.C. 20004. Telephone; the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Aquash was 16 (202) 638-4081 found in a ravine in early March. She was dead from Militant will keep you informed of May 16 plans and other Correspondence concerning subscriptions or "exposure," according to a Bureau of Indian Affairs doctor. activitie$ and discussions in the women's movement changes of address should be addressed to The However, Native American activists demanded a second Militant Business Office, 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. autopsy. It revealed that Aquash had been shot through the The Militant-10 Weeks/$1 Second-class postage paid at New York. N.Y head. Currently a grand jur~ in South Dakota is trying to Subscriptions U.S. $7 50 a year; outs1de U.S., pin indictments on several American Indian Movement ( ) $1 for ten issues (new readers only) $13.00. By first-class mail U S . Canada, and Mexico. members for the murder. $35.00. Write for surface and airmail rates to all other ( ) $4 for six months ( ) $7.50 for one year AIM leaders suspect that Aquash's murder was not countries. ( ) New ( ) Renewal For subscriptions airmailed from New York and merely a random killing. Last December Aquash was then posted from London directly to Britain. arrested by Oregon police when they stopped the camper in Name ------·------Ireland. and Continental Europe: £1.50 for eight which she was traveling. They claimed that AIM leader issues. £3.50 for six months. £6.50 for one year. Address Send banker's draft or international postal order Dennis Banks had fired on them from the camper. However, (pay&ble to Pathfinder Press) to Pathfinder Press. they couldn't find Banks. and he has denied ever being City ______State ___ Zip ______47 The Cut. London, SE1 8LL. England. Inquire for there. Despite these facts, federal firearms charges have air rates from London at the same address. 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014 been brought against Banks in Oregon. Now, a defense Signed articll'!s !>Y contributors do not necessarily represent the Militant's views These are expressed in editorials

2 Wider shutdown discussed S.F. strikers battle wage-cut plan By Nat Weinstein committee of top labor officials was SAN FRANCISCO, April 6-The announced a week and a half before week-old strike here by city-employed the strike began, no systematic organi­ building trades workers has ,reached a zation was evident until the third day stalemate at a stage that can be of the walkout. characterized as a war of nerves. The contrast between the imposing In an attempt to break the stalemate, prestrike announcements and the strike leaders are making strenuous stumbling deployment of labor's forces eiforts to bring new forces to bear. was evidenced by the sloppy and Unfortunately, these efforts have been sluggish organization and dispatch of largely confined to verbal fireworks strikers to the different picket sites. intended to bluff the city administra­ In this context, the capitalist rulers tion into an acceptable compromise have correctly interpreted talk of a agreement. general strike as an idle threat. The 1,900 crafts workers-plumbers, Democratic Mayor George Moscone, laborers, electricians, carpenters, and elected last year with support from the others-struck March 31 against an labor officials, disparagingly re­ attempt by the San Francisco Board of marked today that he didn't think Supervisors to cut their wages. "rank-and-file working people will go The strike started off with a bang by on strike in support of some 1,700 city completely shutting down the Muni employees, most of whom make twice (the city-owned surface transportation as much as the average office worker system). But it has not progressed downtown." much further since then. Most other major city facilities, A taste of blood including the airport and hospitals, are The antilabor city administration, operating on a nearly normal basis. from the mayor to the board of Nonstrategic sites-such as the zoo, supervisors, has thus been emboldened Hall of Flowers, conservatory, swim­ to maintain its demand for complete ming pools, and the opera house-are labor capitulation. Having tasted closed. Yesterday strikers picketing at blood, the capitalists seem to be school bus yards stranded 13,000 driving for a rout of the unions in this elementary school students. city. Meanwhile, in a separate labor There is still time for the rearming dispute, Yell ow Cab Company shut and reorganization of labor's forces. A down its 500 cabs yesterday, further good first step would be to call emerg­ knocking the transit system out of ency membership meetings, beginning whack. This lockout came in response with the affected unions and eventual­ to the attachment of the firm's assets Militant/Howard Petrick ly involving all labor in the city, to by the pension fund of the Westem Muni drivers in 197 4 protest against proposed antilabor amendments to city charter. discuss and plan what to do. Conference of Teamsters. Union attor­ Similar measures, adopted in 1975, cut wages and forced current strike. Such a move was initiated today neys say more than one million dollars with the announcement by Larry in delinquent payments are involved. Martin, spokesperson for Transport passed, its decision to cut the pay of sands of potential pickets-idle Muni Workers Union Local 250-A, represent­ Wage cut 'nonnegotiable' crafts workers by $5.7 million is nonne­ drivers, office workers, and unem· ing Muni drivers, of a mass meeting to The board of supervisors refuses to gotiable. ployed building trades workers in consider further action in support of engage in serious negotiations. Their The resulting farcical "negotia­ private industry-who could close the strike. hired negotiator, Patrick Mahler, is tions" are made even more ludicrous down more and more sites. But only a Second, an educational campaign is prohibited from discussing "economic by the refusal of the supervisors to small minority of these are being urgently needed to counter the two items" with the striking unions. meet face-to-face with labor. mobilized and used. years of media smears against The city administration -eontends The building trades unions, frustrat­ The top union officials have thrown "$17,000 street sweepers" and "$20,000 that since its arbitrary April1 deadline ed by this impasse, recently sent around talk about a general strike crafts workers," who are allegedly to for resolving union agreements has Mailgrams to all San Francisco unions without taking the most basic steps to blame for sky-high taxes. This propa­ urging them to consider a general prepare for an effective-even if more ganda barrage has been effective in strike in support of the beleaguered limited-,-city walkout. isolating the craft unions and dividing crafts unions. An April 5 meeting to Although an overall strike strategy Continued on page 26 discuss this proposal ended without Strike issues any action being taken. This moming, April 6, the San The strike by building trades workers employed by the city of San Francisco Labor Council met in emer­ Soci~list urges broad support gency session. Secretary-treasurer Francisco was provoked by the John Crowley announced afterwards "The strike by San Francisco city fight effectively for our needs, not Democratic city administration's the council's decision to escalate the workers deserves the support of the profits of the wealthy. unrelenting drive to cut the wages of working people throughout Califor­ "A labor party would fight to take these workers. strike by stepping up participation by all unions. No date was set for the nia and the nation," says Omari the billions of dollars now squan­ Last fall city politicians commencement of the proposed gener­ Musa, Socialist Workers party cand­ dered on the Pentagon and use that engineered passage of several anti­ al strike. idate for U.S. Senate from Califor­ money to improve social services, labor amendments to the city char­ Rank-and-file strikers are naturally ma. provide jobs for the unemployed, ter. In a statement to the Militant, and pay union wages to public One of these repealed a longstand­ receptive to the idea of the entire labor movement coming into the fray on Musa blasted the San Francisco employees. ing provision that city building their behalf. In the meantime, how­ Board of Supervisors and Mayor "This is the program I and the trades workers would be paid the ever, pickets and picket captains are George Moscone for "openly setting other Socialist Workers party candi­ same wages as their counterparts in intent on carrying through the more out to cut wages, while prices dates are campaigning for in these private industry. Instead, wages elementary task of shutting down the continue to rise. elections," Musa concluded. were now to be renegotiated each many functioning city agencies. "They aim to change the relation­ year. An April 1 deadline was set. ship 'Of forces sharply against the In negotiations this year, the city Forces not yet mobilized unions," Musa said, "to pave the not only refused to honor wage As of this writing, not nearly suffi­ way for even greater attacks on our increases coming up in private cient forces have been mobilized to standard of living. industry for laborers, plumbers, shut down the airport-a step that "The spectacle of New York­ electricians, and others-it insisted could go a long way toward winning a where thousands have been laid off; that these 1,900 workers take an settlement. schools, hospitals, and day-care actual wage cut. In the first week of the 1974 city centers closed; union contracts At the same time, the city settled workers' strike, the subway system ripped up; and wages cut-stands as with other public employee unions, a warning of what can happen if some of which got tiny wage in­ (Bay Area Rapid Transit) and the intercity bus system (Golden Gate and this antilabor assault is not met creases, in a maneuver to isolate the AC Transit) were crippled or halted. head-on. building trades unions. Then, on They are currently unaffected. "Democratic party politicians, March 29, the board of supervisors The docks, many serving city-owned _elected with labor's support, are adopted a pay ordinance unilateral­ or -financed agencies, have hardly leading the antilabor drive," the ly cutting wages for the building socialist candidate asserted. trades. been touched, although longshore union President Harry Bridges had "To fight back effectively, workers The only alternatives were to pledged complete support by dock need our own powerful political strike or capitulate. workers just before the strike began. instrument, an independent labor The workers hit the bricks March Rank-and-file pickets are at a loss to party based on the strength of the 31. explain the situation. There are thou- trade unions. Such a party could

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 3 Mob insP-ired bY- citY. council Bla~ks demand action to halt racist attacks By Jon Hillson. . " · . .. ······ . ·. , . . .. .· b ecause th ey k new fr om expenence· . BOSTO~-~~? shneks .of Get the ··· ·· ·· · : .. · . . that the police and the elected officials mgger, kill him! a frenzied mob of would turn their heads the other way." racist white high school students came "Who's going to be next?" Dixon close to beating the life out of a Black asked. He called for a "massive public man at the doorstep of Boston's city outcry to put these racists in their hall April 5. place. The April 24 March on Boston is The attack came moments after 200 a national legal and peaceful demon­ white students left the city council stration to support ·school desegrega­ chambers, where they had staged an tion and busing and to oppose racist antibusing demonstration as part of a attacks on Blacks in the schools and sweeping racist school boycott. on the streets. This demonstration can Having received the blessing of be the start of a new, powerful, united antibusing city council members, in­ movement to counter the antibusers cluding Louise Day Hicks, president of whose voices have been heard so loud ROAR, Boston's main antibusing and strong these past two years." · group, the mob left the building. They A statement by National Student then began taunting passing Blacks Coalition Against Racism leader Hattie and throwing apples at them. McCutcheon, read by NSCAR staff Leaders of the march spotted a group member Nan Bailey, also backed April of four Black men and began shouting Vicious racist thugs chase Blacks outside Boston city hall. Right photo shows beating of Theodore Landsmark. 24. racist epithets and imitating apes. "There is only one way that these Upwards of fifty of the whites broke attacks will be stopped," Bailey told away and chased the Blacks, seizing he said, was "the cause of racist "They have blown up buses, stoned reporters. "And that is when the Black attorney Theodore Landsmark. Lands­ attacks by white youth on Black houses, attacked our children, and community and its supporters do mark, executive director of the Boston adults, youth, and young children." harassed Black mothers. The streets of something about it. We have to stand Contractors Association, was on his The racist students the day before Boston are not safe for people of color. up for our rights and fight for them." way to a city hall meeting. "were truant from school to attend a War has been declared on us." Campaign supporters of Socialist Landsmark was beaten to the gathering in the city council chambers, Wayne Budd, president of the Massa­ Workers congressional candidate ground. He was kicked in the face. His where they were given inspiration for chusetts Association of Black Lawyers, James "Mac" Warren distributed a this vicious behavior," Owens told nose was smashed by a steel pole pledged the organization's full support statement in which the Black commu­ reporters. bearing an American flag. for Landsmark, a member of the group, nity activist called for all-out participa­ Police broke up the mob, rescuing He indicted Boston Mayor Kevin in fighting to "bring these mad hood­ tion in the April 24 march. Warren Landsmark. One assailant was arrest­ White for his refusal to provide ade­ lum punks to justice." condemned the "criminal negligence of ed; cops have issued warrents for two quate safety for Blacks. "We must city officials, whose inaction allowed others. come to the realization that if city and The shock of the beating forced a such attacks to take place on the state officials will not protect us, we response from the Massachusetts doorstep of city government." Blacks respond will ask for federal protection, and governor's mansion. Le~ Murray, a Outraged leaders of the Black com­ short of that we must protect our­ Black aide to Gov. Michael Dukakis, munity responded swiftly to the attack. selves," he said. told the gathering the governor consid- Other violence More than 200 Blacks, encompassing a Owens read a Black caucus demand ered the a~sault "appalling." . wide range of community leaders and that state Attorney General Francis "It is indicative of racism and will The city hall assault was not the organizations, turned out for a Massa­ Bellotti and U.S. Attorney General not be tolerated," Murray stated. "Acts only racist violence seen by Boston's chusetts Legislative Black Caucus Edward Levi "conduct immediate in­ like these will be stopped." He said Blacks during the past week. The day news conference on the city hall steps vestigations into the roles of those Dukakis pledged "all efforts necessary before, a predawn explosion gutted a the next morning. Boston city councilors, school commit­ to bring to justice those who carried parked school bus in Dorchester. The The spontaneous turnout was like a tee persons, and state legislators who out the attack." powerful bomb scattered debris as far rally, as people cheered and applauded are inciting young people to mob Maceo Dixon, the project coordinator as fifty yards. the angry speakers. violence." for the April 24 national march on Later on the same day as Lands­ State Sen. William- Owens blasted Rev. Rafe Taylor, speaking for the Boston for school desegregation, told mark's beating, two Black brothers city officials. Their leadership and Black Ecumenical Council, described the media, "These criminals tried to were sitting in a car in Charlestown support of antibusing organizations, the rise of incidents of racist violence. kill the first Black citizen they saw talking to their sister, who was stand­ ing outside. A sniper's bullet hit one of the men. As his brother ran for help, he was clubbed, beaten, and robbed by thugs. The following day, fifty white stu­ ~we will not let these -threats intimidate us!' dents refused to enter the Gavin BOSTON-"We look forward to neighborhood bigots to "commu­ Middle School in South Boston. They fighting scum such as you," read nists" coming into the area, urging marched to the L Street Annex of the handwritten note addressed to that they be "thrown out." South Boston High School, where they the Coalition for the April 24 March "These are being posted in all the stoned an empty school bus, police on Boston. "In fact it is what we live· housing projects, on main and side cars, and a radio news van. for most right now. Despicable slime streets, poles, vacant buildings, The cops have yet to comment on like you must be eliminated and it barrooms and handed to all gangs who was responsible for a midnight will be." and groups of our youths in Southie bus-wrecking foray that resulted in The racist death threat received and Charlestown to alert them to ~50,000 damage on March 9. April 3 by march organizers was the communist filthy swine crawl­ The white student boycott of April-5 signed by "Michael O'Connor," for ing around this city," the threat was a stunning confirmation of the the South Boston Defense League, written by "O'Connor" stated. continuing power of the racists. Built one of the best-organized terrorist A statement issued by April 24 over the preceding weekend by ROAR, gangs in South Boston. project coordinator Maceo Dixon it cleared elementary and middle The antiracist coalition began an demanded official action "to prevent schools in South Boston, as well as the immediate public· campaign to de­ O'Connor and his ilk from making embattled South Boston High School mand that federal, state, and local this threat real." and Charlestown High School. officials apprehend those behind the "This threat to our lives and to The scope of the boycott and violence threat. The South Boston Defense our civil liberties occurs in the broke the uneasy, temporary calm that League hooligans have participated framework of stepped-up attacks has permeated the schools for the past in assaults on Blacks and antiracist against Boston's Black citizens," two months. activists during the past year. Last Dixon stated. The need for a massive, united summer these racists mobilized The statement stressed the confi­ action that can focus the rage of the several hundred "Southies" to "pro­ dence march organizers have in the Black community and the militant tect their neighborhood" in anticipa­ peaceful, legal, and orderly charac­ solidarity of its white supporters on the tion of protests aimed at making ter of the upcoming demonstration. government is greater than ever be­ Militant/Lou f-!_owort fore. South Boston's beaches safe for "Hundreds of march participants April 24 coordinator Maceo Dixon Blacks. will be trained in advance as mar­ Support for the April 24 march The April 3 note was written on shals entrusted with the job of assumes a *new importance in the the back of a mimeographed warn­ ensuring that both the march and sibility to immediately ensure that context of the immediate, emergency ing entitled "'Southie': Beware of rally proceed peacefully," Dixon O'Connor is apprehended, prosecut­ situation in Boston. Infiltrators." stated. ed, and convicted. We will not let The largest possible turnout on that Tlie flyer has been in existence for "Governor [Michael] Dukakis and these kinds of threats intimidate day can deal a powerful blow to the about a month, and purports to alert Mayor [Kevin] White have a respon- us!" -J.H. racists and their violent anti-Black drive.

4 March against racist violence! April 24 coalition intensifies its activities By Jon Hillson :4lcP!.,,~.,,,,,,,,.,, BOSTON-Organizing for the April 24 national march on Boston has intensified in the wake of the April 5 racist mob attack at Boston's city hall. Special literature distribution teams are regularly covering the city with leaflets and posters announcing the action. An initial run of Spanish-language leaflets is being distributed in the city's Puerto Rican and Latino commu­ nities. A statement of solidarity with bilin­ gual and bicultural programs was recently issued by the Coalition for the April 24 March on Boston. "In Boston, the antibusing school committee is attacking school desegre­ gation and bilingual education at the same time," the statement said. "This racist school committee is just as ruth­ less in their opposition to bilingual May 17, 1975, march in Boston. Stepped-up attacks on Black rights should be met with massive response on April 24. education, trying to place the blame for their failure to provide bilingual pro­ from some who claim to represent Reid; State Rep. Barney Frank; Frank Boston Teachers Union have initiated grams on the 'cost of desegregation.' labor, and. Niesser, a member of East Boston a teachers' contingent for the march. Desegregation means bilingual educa­ "Whereas the leaders of Boston's People Against Racism; and Ruby Among April 24 endorsers are . BTU tion, no matter what the costs. . . . Black community and labor movement Bradley, a Black woman whose family Black Caucus chairpersons Rick Mur­ "We see the April 24 march in along with Black and labor leaders was driven by racist terrorists from phy and Elsie Franklin. support of school desegregation and from throughout the country have their Dorchester home. A contingent of gay supporters of against the racist attacks as a chance called on all supporters of equality to Confirmation of more local and Black rights has also been initiated. to build a movement that can also win participate in a peaceful, legal protest national speakers is expected shortly. bilingual education." march and rally in Boston April 24 to Regular marshal-training sessions On April 5, the coalition announced Community leaders especially con­ demonstrate support for the embattled designed to involve local activists in that demonstration organizer Maceo cerned with bilingual and bicultural Black community of that city and to ensuring the legal, peaceful character Dixon will debate Louise Day Hicks, counter peacefully the antibusing rally of the action are being held, with the central leader of Boston's antibus­ April 24 march organizers, in Washington, D.C., called for the meetings being hosted by community ing movement, under the sponsorship same day, therefore be it agencies such as the Roxbury Multi­ of the student government lecture marshals, and funds are "Resolved that School Employees Service Center, Mothers, Inc., of Rox­ committee of Georgia State University urgently needed. For more Union, Local 99, Service Employees bury, and the Roxbury YMCA. in Atlanta. The debate will take place information, contact the International Union, give wholehearted Supporters of desegregation in the April 21. support to this protest and add our Coalition for the April 24 name to the list of endorsers of the March on Boston, 1530A demonstration, and be it further Tremont Street, Roxbury, "Resolved that Local 99 encourage , Racism in a 'liberal' suburb BOSTON-It used to be that Metco is a decade-old voluntary Massachusetts 02120. the labor movement in Los Angeles as a whole to adopt a similar attitude when someone wanted a symbol of busing program that allows Black Telephone: (617) 445-0791. toward this crucial issue confronting liberalism and progressive attitudes students from Boston to attend both labor and the minority peoples in in education they looked to Newton, suburban schools. This one-way programs who have endorsed the April this country, longtime allies in the an affluent suburb of Boston. busing plan has run into increasing 24 march include: Miguel Torrado, fight for human justice and social and On March 8, that myth was suburban opposition from antibus­ executive director, Hispanic Organiza­ economic equality." shattered. The Newton School Com­ ing groups, many of them linked to tion for Planning Evaluation (HOPE), The April 24 coalition has an­ mittee voted 6-3 to prohibit one of its Boston's ROAR. Boston; Marla Cuadrado, chairperson, nounced that marchers in the national elementary schools from participat­ These racists have charged that United Puerto Rican Educators, Inc., protest will assemble at 10 a.m. at ing in a "pairways" program. Under any voluntary busing will pave the New York City; Los Universitarios, Franklin Park at the corner of Blue the program students from a New­ way for "metropolitanization"­ University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Hill Avenue and Columbia Road in the ton school would have taken field busing between the city and the and Herman Baca, Committee on Black community. From there, they trips once a week with students suburbs. They are whipping up a Chicano Rights, San Diego. will proceed through Roxbury to down­ from a Black school in Boston. fear campaign, demagogically voi­ The largest union in the Los Angeles town Boston for a rally at the City The vote against the program was cing concern about the "safety" of Unified School District has endorsed Hall Plaza. hailed by Boston bigots. Although a white students. the April 24 march on Boston. School The initial speakers' list for the rally survey showed most Newton resi­ Hysteria. Lies. Racism. The reac­ Employees Union Local 99, of the includes: Percy Wilson, director of the dents in favor of the program, the tionaries are out organizing from Service Employees International Un­ Roxbury Multi-Service Center; Massa­ school committee voted it down, the housing projects of South Bos­ ion, passed a resolution March 26 that chusetts Legislative Black Caucus arguing that any voluntary steps ton to the split-levels of Newton. said in part: members Doris Bunte and Robert toward desegregation could lead And their target. is not the bus, be "Whereas school busing to achieve Fortes; Rev. Vernon Carter, a veteran toward Newton being "dragged it two-way, one-way, court-ordered, desegregation of the schools has come of a decade-long battle to desegregate into" a metropolitan busing plan. or voluntary. Their targets are the under attack by bigots from all walks the schools; Socialist Workers party Another program, known as Met­ Black students who ride it to get a of life, from political leaders and even vice-presidential candidate Willie Mae co, is facing a crisis in funding. better education, anywhere. ·

By Joe Kear The NAACP's chief attorney, Natha­ signs at the U.S. Courthouse on March CLEVELAND-Implementation of niel Jones, suggested to the court that 19. Busing countywide school desegregation the suburbs could be brought into a Russo and the Cleveland Student could be ordered here this fall if the desegregation plan. The NAACP is Coalition Against Racism have agreed NAACP wins its suit in a Cleveland arguing that the Cleveland school to a debate on busing, scheduled in decision federal court. Closing arguments in the board allowed white areas of the city to April. school desegregation trial were heard affiliate with adjacent, largely white A WEWS television survey in Sep­ March 19 and 20. A decision is expect­ suburban school districts in order to tember 1975 showed that 58 percent of ed in May. avoid desegregation. Black people in the -Cleveland area due in The NAACP brought suit against favor busing to implement desegrega­ the Cleveland and Ohio boards of Jones requested that U.S. District tion. The Greater Cleveland Inter­ education, charging them with deliber­ Chief Judge Frank Battisti schedule Church Council and the Cleveland Cleve. ately perpetuating school segregation. hearings to present evidence on how Catholic Diocese have stated their Some 90 percent of Black students in segregation in Cleveland and the support for school busing if it is Cleveland attend schools that are more suburbs is related. ordered by the court. lawsuit than 90 percent Black. If such a relationship is proven, a The Cleveland school board is countywide desegregation plan could In the meantime, SCAR is soliciting charged with having redrawn school be implemented that would not be in support for the April 24 March on boundaries to conform to segregated conflict with the 1974 U.S. Supreme Boston. Endorsers include NAACP housing patterns, and in the process, Court ruling against countywide de­ desegregation suit attorney James perpetuating segregated neighbor­ segregation in Detroit. Hardiman; Cleveland Urban League hoods. The Ohio Board of Education is Opposition to busing has been orga­ President Owen Heggs, Jr.; Cleveland charged with failure to implement a nized by white city coub.cil member Southern Christian Leadership Confer­ 1956 opinion by the state attorney Basil Russo, who has spearheaded the ence; the Cleveland State University general requiring action against segre­ formation of an antibusing group. A student government; and Inter-Church gated school districts. few racists picketed with antibusing Council Director Dr. Donald Jacobs.

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 5 Marches &meetings back desegregation brutality and such racist frame-ups as president, "that this rally will serve as • that of Gary Tyler," she told the crowd. a giant step toward mobilizing the BI k K "Gary Tyler was sentenced to die, Black community, supporters of civil ac s lng and the only reason he's on death row rights, and all other people of good will •buies in Angola [prison] is because he is for a city-wide demonstration in sup- ~ally tor trl Black. That is racism pure and simple. port of State Commissioner [of Educa- Gary Tyler is innocent. We demand tion Ewald] Nyquist's desegregation freedom for Gary Tyler!" order for Andrew Jackson High School 'P d Other speakers included Anne Brad- and the borough of Queens." "en1 d asa ena de11 en, cochairperson of the Southem Robert Allen, editor of Black Scholar Organizing Committee; Willie Mont- magazine, urged people to participate I ' •l ng gomery, field representative for the in the national march on Boston on p an bus AFLCIO; and Bemard Lee, national April 24 to defend school desegregation executive vice-president of SCLC. and Black rights. Allen is currently on By Nancy Cole In Washington, D ..!]., "Desegrega- a speaking tour of New York college By Joanne Tortorici A series of meetings and marches on tion in Danger-All Out in Boston campuses under the auspices of the PASADENA, Calif.-"We walked, April 2• 3• and 4 paid tribute to Dr. April 24" was the theme of a teach-in Student Coalition Against Racism we worked in Montgomery; we walked, Martin Luther King, Jr., on the eighth sponsored by SCAR April 2. Sixty (SCAR). we worked in Watts. We can't, we anniversary of his assassination. people attended. "I feel the most important thing we won't go back to the 'bad old days.' Occurring in the midst of a drive to Billy Kirk, staff aide for Rep. John can do to honor [King's] memory is to We're gonna keep on marching, so you halt school desegregation- Conyers (D-Mich.), announced Con- dedicate ourselves to rebuilding the might as well tell 'em we're on our increasingly taking the form of overt yers's support for the April 24 march mass movement against racial and way." acts of racist violence-many of the and noted that the action "reaffirms The speaker, the Right Rev. H.H. memorials focused on the struggle to everything that Dr. King stood for. Brookins, a bishop of the African defend Black rights today. "Dr. King taught us not to be Methodist Episcopal Church and the Supporters of the April 24 march on intimidated and to stand up for what is newly elected national chairperson of Boston urged participants in these right and just. This march is saying Operation PUSH, was addressing a activities to join with others on April that we are not intimidated. It's a mostly Black rally of more than 200 24 to deliver a message to the racists in strong statement that these racists are here on March 28. that city and to their backers around not going to keep us out of the streets The event was called on one week's the country. when our rights are in jeopardy." notice by the NAACP to win public In New Orleans, more than five Alice Cummings from the National support for Pasadena's school desegre- hundred people attended a rally follow- Education Association spoke of the gation plan. ing a march to honor the "spirit of Dr. need for the labor movement to act in The local school board has chal- Martin Luther King" and demand defense of Black rights. She denounced lenged the plan and succeeded in "jobs, equality, and peace." The action the anti-Black, antilabor march sche- getting a Supreme Court hearing for was initiated by the Sou them Chris- duled for Washington April 24 and its views. The hearing is set for the end tian Leadership Conference (SCLC) affirmed her support for the antiracist of April. and the Southem Organizing Commit- mobilization in Boston. Among the other groups represented tee for Social and Economic Justice. Seventy-five people met at Dallas's at the NAACP rally were the Urban Many other groups cosponsored. Bishop College April 3 for the first League, Pasadena Federation of Gary Tyler is a young Louisiana public debate on the desegregation Teachers, Pasadena Education Asso- Black man sentenced to die for a crime plan adopted recently for the Dallas ciation, and Concemed Audubon Par- he didn't commit. The need to defend Independent School District. Greetings ents. him was a theme running throughout came from the national office of SCAR Speaking for the Pasadena Educa- the rally speeches. inviting people from Texas to partici- tion Association, Norma Sandusky Speaking for the Student Coalition pate 1·n the Apn"l 24 march. Jerome McFar 1an d , pres1.d ent o fA n d rew Coombes explained that the school · Against Racism (SCAR), Gretta Biback One hundred supporters of Black - 1, board has used $750,000 in tax money d h A ·1 · 1 h -lackson High 8 choo s parent sai that t e pn 24 natwna marc rights gathered April 2 on the Newark t;ssociation, addresses April 4 rally of intended for implementation of the in Boston would be a protest against campus of Rutgers University. Black desegregation plan for its own racist racist violence. "This violence is the Scholar editor Robert Allen was the 400· ends. The money has· been spent on same violence that we see here in New keynote speaker. legal fees for the board's attack on Orleans with the problems of police The meeting was· sponsored by economic injustice in this country, desegregation. SCAR, Operation PUSH, the Newark because this was his dream," Allen "Five evil men who say they repre- NAACP Youth Council, and campus told the meeting. sent this school district are attempting groups such as the Black and Afro Democratic senatorial candidate to reinstitute segregation and put our Studies Department, Veterans Club, Ramsey Clark said, "The question isn't children back into schoolroom prisons, Black Organization of Students, and. whether you bus. Seventeen million behind the bars of segregation," she the Federaci6n Estudiantil Latinameri- kids get to school no other way. said. cano (Latin American Student Federa- "We sat around this nation of ours She explained that when the chil- tion). and watched Black children from the dren's test scores indicated the plan In Los Angeles, 2,500 people gath- South bused-on buses not provided by was successful, the board demanded ered to honor King at the Holman the school system. They had three United Methodist Church. The fea- tires, generally, and a bunch of cord tured speaker was Rev. Jesse Jackson. wrapped around the other wheel- Speakers from the Southern Christian provided by the church. · · · Leadership Conference and the "Nobody said, 'Those poQr children.' NAACP told of recent battles against Everybody said, 'Look how good we the Los Angeles school board's opposi- are-giving them an education!' tion to school desegregation. "You go to Manhattan Island, where rich people live, and you watch the prettiest little minibuses you ever saw come by and pick up the children in the moming and bus them forty-five minutes out to Westchester or Nassau Queens or some place like that, where they can get a good education. "And nobody says, 'Those poor little parents children, being bused forty-five min­ utes each way.' "The question isn't whether you bus. iii demand The quet~tion is which way the buses Operation PUSH Chairperson Brookins: run and what's at the end of the line." 'We won't go back to the bad old days.' Cathy Sedwick, New York SCAR action coordinator, noted that the new racist retesting. When the retesting showed By Jerry Merrill movement against Black rights "was the same good results, the board QUEENS, N.Y.-Four hundred par­ hom in the 'cradle of liberty'­ refused to allow the release of the test ents, students, and members of the Boston-two years ago, and was fed scores. community rallied here April 4 to and reared by its politicians." "The board is fighting so hard honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sedwick said that racist attacks because the truth of Pasadena threat­ to demand school desegregation. must be met by a "militant, nonviolent ens the system of privileges all across The action was called by the parent show of support" for Black students, this country. But the truth about our association of Queens's Andrew Jack­ such as the national April 24 march in desegregation plan is our unassailable son High School after a March 15 Boston. and invincible weapon-it works.'' deadline for the school's desegregation Other speakers included parent asso­ It was announced that the student plan passed with no action taken. The ciation ·President Jerome McFarland; congress of Pasadena's three high New York City Board of Education has Michael Lux, Socialist Workers party; schools has called for a "Pasadena requested that the state education Robert Simmons, United Black Men of Plan Picnic" in support of desegrega­ commissioner rescind his desegrega­ Queens; city council member Archie tion on April 24. The action is intended tion order. Sprigner; Charles Isaacs, of People to counter the racist mobilization "We hope," said David Brown, the Against Racism in Education; and planned for that day in Washington, Militant/Ike Nahem parent association's second vtce- State Rep. Edward Abramson. D.C.

6 Move to cite Kelley for contempt By Larry Seigle Disruption Program" was to "alert the public to the fact that the SWP is not Attorneys for the Socialist Workers just another socialist group but follows party and the Young Socialist Alliance the revolutionary principles of Marx, FBI vs. went into federal court in New York on Lenin and Engles [sic] as interpreted April 5 to ask that FBI Director by Leon Trotsky." BILL OF Clarence Kelley be held in contempt of This attempt to pass off the "disrup­ court because FBI officials had denied, tion program" as merely a political in statements submitted to the court, education service run by the FBI fell RIGHTS that the bureau had burglarized the apart as soon as the true nature of PROTEST MEETING SWP and the YSA. The FBI's denial Cointelpro began to emerge from was proven false by documents re­ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 documents the FBI was forced to tum 7:30P.M. leased last week. over to the SWP and to news reporters. Attorneys Leonard Boudin and Her­ • Boudin also pointed out that the NEW YORK SOCIETY bert Jordan also moved to block the FBI's claim that there was no disrup­ FOR ETHICAL CULTURE FBI from destroying any Cointelpro tion program against the SWP prior to 2 W. SIXTY-FOURTH STREET files that may be relevant to the 1961 is contradicted by a document NEW YORK CITY socialists' lawsuit against FBI spying made public by a Senate committee. and harassment. This document, dated Auglist 28, 1956, Sponsored by Political Rights De­ The latest legal steps came after a contains a reference to "the current fense Fund. For more information week in which public attention was SWP disruptive program." call (212) 982-4966. focused on the FBI's crimes as a result of the widespread news coverage given to FBI files that recorded 94 burglaries 'Deliberate falsehood' against the SWP in the period 1960- Boudin told Griesa that this record 1966. The files were turned over under proves that the "government's policy is comply with the court's directives." A the pretrial discovery provisions of the one of deliberate obstruction and false­ deposition is testimony given under socialists' civil suit against the FBI hood." oath outside of court. and thirteen other government agen­ Boudin, who defended Daniel Ells­ cies. berg in the famous Pentagon papers Raw nerves The move to prevent the shredding case, recalled that in that case the The massive publicity, almost all of of files was in response to the an­ government had also withheld rele­ it hostile to the FBI, that surrounded nouncement by the Justice Department vant materials. "We all know what the revelations of the burglaries and of a scheme to "review" the FBI's KELLEY: A case of 'deliberate happened, how Judge [Matthew] Bryne the fact that the government had lied Cointelpro records and to notify some obstruction and falsehood.' was deceived in the course of the about them had produced some raw people that they had been victims of Ellsberg case," Boudin said. Byrne nerves among the government's attor­ FBI plots. finally was compelled to dismiss the neys on the case. Attorney General Edward Levi said danger lies, the Justice Department case on grounds of "improper govern­ Steven Glassman, a junior U.S. that a panel of Justice Department can use this 'review' of its files as an ment conduct." attorney, even went so far as to plead lawyers would review all Cointelpro excuse to destroy evidence of Cointel­ "It seems to me absolutely neces­ in the hearing for an order prohibiting files from 1956 to 1971-an estimated pro operations, evidence of illegal acts sary," continued Boudin, "that an the SWP from releasing the contents of 35,000 pages-and attempt to notify that the American people have a right agency that is engaged in such lawless the deposition it will take from the the victims, if: to know about. behavior outside this case-that is, FBI. • in the opinion of the panel the "They may get requests from some directed against our clients-and that He complained bitterly about the "specific Cointelpro activity was im­ individuals to destroy their Cointelpro has followed it now by contempt for public attention on the case: proper"; and files and use that as a justification to the processes of this court-that such "The plaintiffs, we believe, have • "actual harm" was done, such as purge the files of documents essential an agency must be told by a federal frequently attempted to litigate some if someone "lost his job or couldn't get to our case, and to other civil suits that judge that the time has come to stop." of the issues in this case in the press a job or if his family life was disrupt-· are pending or may be brought. Despite the clear record of govern­ rather than proceed in a good-faith ed"; and. ' "That's why," Stapleton explained, ment misconduct, Griesa declined to effort towards trial. . . . • the victims are "not already "our attorneys are seeking a court issue the contempt citation on the "Reports of supposed Justice Depart­ aware" that they have been targets for order to prevent any such actions by grounds that a protracted dispute on ment denials of burglaries appeared in harassment. the FBI or anybody else." · that issue would delay the opening of the newspapers following a news A Justice Department spokesperson In a hearing on April5 U.S. District the trial, which he has scheduled to conference of the plaintiffs," he predicted that only "a few hundred Court Judge Thomas Griesa withheld begin on July 1. However, Griesa said whined. people" would meet these standards. a final ruling on the motion. However, he would hold the motion in abeyance Griesa responded: "Look, Mr. Glass­ This would be a small fraction of the he instructed the government that, and added, "If it is necessary to have a man, there is no reason that I know of thousands of civil rights, antiwar, and until he makes his decision, "there is to socialist activists whose rights were be no destruction of anything relevant violated by the FBI. to the case." The Justice Department is fightin~ Excuse to shred files? the proposed orqer. They deny that Syd Stapleton, national secretary of there are any plans to destroy docu­ the Political Rights Defense Fund, ments that may be relevant, and · characterized the Levi program as "a therefore the order is unnecessary. But slick maneuver." The defense fund is at the same time they claim that-such publicizing and raising money to pay an order would be too burdensome costs of the SWP and YSA lawsuit. because it would mean the FBI "First," said Stapleton, "the govern­ couldn't proceed with its "routine'! ment pretends that it is going to 'come destruction of files without checking clean' on Cointelpro and tell everybody with a federal judge. the terrible things that were done. That's a complete sham. In fact, they More FBI lies Socialists are seeking court order to block shredding of FBI files under phony are doing everything they can to In arguing that Kelly should be held Cointelpro 'review' scheme. prevent the truth about Cointelpro in contempt of court, Leonard Boudin from coming out. reminded Judge Griesa that, prior to "Second, and this is where the real · the release of the burglary documents, the FBI had insisted in court that it contempt proceeding to make clear to which would prevent the plaintiffs had not burglarized the SWP or YSA. anybody their obligation, I will have here from making statements to the "It is impossible, not conceivable," it." press. . . . You might as well get used PRDF said Boudin, "that the Federal Bureau He also r.eiterated his order to the to the idea, and I am sure the FBI of Investigation was not aware of the government's attorney to tum over already is, that this kind of thing is out burglaries" when it made those state­ without any more stalling all docu­ in the public domain.... " appeal ments. ments related to the SWP and YSA. Further details that help explain the The Political Rights Defense Fund Boudin went on to review three other Griesa added, "It would be a matter problems facing the government law­ has issued an appeal for anyone instances in which the FBI was caught of intense embarrassment to every­ yers were provided by John Crewdson contacted by the Justice Depart­ lying: body concerned with this case if we in an article in the April 4 New York ment as part of its "review" of • The FBI has claimed that none of tried the case. . . . and then in some Times. According to Crewdson, Justice Cointelpro plots to request their the documents in the Cointelpro "New later lawsuits or in some administra­ Department "sources" said that gov­ complete file from the FBI and to Left" files relate to the SWP or YSA. tive proceedings or investigative re­ ernment iawyers involved in the case forward copies of the files to the However, a number of documents ports or however, we had a lot of other "had not been informed of the exis­ PRDF. carrying the "New Left" heading stuff come out. tence of the [burglary] documents until "These files may contain informa­ concern plots against members of the "It just cannot be done." the day before they were provided to tion that will be helpful in the suit SWP or the YSA. These have come to The judge said that the files must be the party's attorneys." of the SWP and YSA, or in other light through Freedom of Information turned over quickly, even "if the FBI One official told Crewdson that it suits that may be brought," ex­ Act proceedings and through . other has to put a staff working around the was "embarrassing when you have to plained PRDF staff member Cathy sources. clock seven days a week." keep going before a judge and saying, Perkus. • In the same legal document in Griesa also agreed to order the FBI 'Sorry, sir, we just found this.'" The PRDF address is: Box 649, which the FBI denied that it had to produce a "proper witness" to give a It may be embarrassing. But so far Cooper Station, New York, New burglarized the SWP, it asserted that deposition about "the status of [the the government has not figured out York 10003. the "basic purpose" of the "SWP FBI's] documents and their efforts to another way to handle the problem.

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 7 Millions hear about SWP through news coverage of FBI burglaries By Jim Mack The Atlanta Constitution observed, "FBI Admits 92 Burglaries­ "No wonder people have lost faith in Repeated Break-ins at Socialist Offices and respect for institutions like the Told," proclaimed a banner headline at FBI and others. When an agency that the top of page one of the Los Angeles is supposed. to uphold and enforce the Times. "FBI: We Burglarized Socialists law makes a regular routine of break­ 92 Times," read the front page of the ing it, sooner or later the public wises Miami Herald. up." The New York Times played the The New York Times, in a lead story across three columns at the top of editorial, said, "These burgl~ries were its front page, with a dispatch by its raids against the Constitution. They correspondent John Crewdson from were carried out by a governmental Washington and a separate New York agency in deliberate disregard of one story. Between the two stories the of the most fundamental rights of editors placed a photograph of SWP citizens in a democracy: to be safe from presidential candidate Peter Camejo. illegal search without warrant." The revelations of the FBI burglaries The Nation, the country's foremost were given similar treatment by papers liberal magazine, ran a major editorial across the country, in big cities and in support of the socialists' lawsuit, small towns alike. urging its readers "who would like to It was also major news internation­ help bring the official criminals in this ally. Although we haven't yet received case of 'legal' burglary to book" to clippings from abroad, we do know / ., send contributions to the PRDF. Macintosh/Minneapolis Star that the International Herald Tribune 'I do not note in these activities any gross abuse of authority.' The Black biweekly Philadelphia front-paged the story. Tribune said in an editorial, "Those Somebody with a sense of humor at who feel this has nothing to do with the Miami Herald decided to run a UPI Blacks should remember that SWP has dispatch headlined "FBI Chief Cites many Black members and that the FBI Apathy to Crime" as a box inside the carried out [the same kind of] illegal story on the burglaries. "Our society is operations against the late Dr. Martin truly beset by a crime wave of unprece­ Luther King, Jr., and many Black dented dimensions," Burglar-in-Chief leaders and organizations throughout Clarence Kelley is quoted as saying. the 1960's. "The time has come when citizens · "And where are the expressions of must stop talking about how terrible outrage at FBI lawlessness by our 'law crime is and do something about it." and order' President, not to mention Tens of millions of people learned the other candidates such as Carter, about the Socialist Workers party and Jackson, Wallace, Reagan, et al? Their its fight against government spying silence seems to indicate that Water­ and harassment through radio and gate still lives, that crimes are only television news and features. Syd bad if they are committed by poor Stapleton, national secretary of the folks, not if they are committed by the Political Rights Defense Fund, ap­ government." peared on the NBC network "Today" The Maoist weekly Guardian pub­ show on Monday morning, March 29. lished a comprehensive news story. That evening, a Public Broadcasting However, the pro-Moscow Daily World, Service feature on Peter Camejo op­ blinded by sectarian hostility to the ened by describing the new revelations Auth/Philadelphia Inquirer SWP, hasn't written a single word about the FBI burglaries. The follow­ 'Positively un-American . they play by the rules.' about this major development. This ing morning, SWP leader Linda Jen­ gives the Daily World the dubious ness appeared on the nationally tele­ distinction of being virtually the only cast ABC morning talk show "Good denounced the FBI burglaries as "sub­ The Miami Herald called for "a paper in this country that saw fit to Morning, America." versive, illegal and an affront to the complete and open airing of the federal ignore the story. The release of the FBI documents U.S. Constitution." It noted that "de­ government's unconstitutional activi­ Only those who studied journalism also prompted editorials supporting spite its relentless criminal activity, ties , against a legitimate political in the Stalin school of censorship could the SWP in its fight against govern­ the FBI was wholly unable to produce party, with fair recompense for any feel comfortable covering up one of the ment harassment. The New York Post any evidence to incriminate the SWP." damages done." biggest revelations of FBI crimes yet. How the FBI puts a 'snitch jacket' on By Larry Seigle be carefully selected or prepared for The evidence against Albertson ostracism that have been visited on the One of the most highly prized furnishing to the Panthers. . . .docu­ consisted of a document found in a car children of informers throughout histo­ disruptive techniques in the secret ments could be prepared pinpointing in which he had ridden. The document, ry. The youngest, then eight years old, police arsenal is the planting of false Panthers as police or FBI infor­ which was made to look like an was denied a private school scholar­ evidence that a member of a political mants.... " informer's report, was signed "Bill" ship [because] his father had ostensi­ organization is a police informer. The Panthers' lack of political expe­ and was in handwriting that resem­ bly earned enough money from the Circulation of this "disinformation" rience, combined with their ultraleft­ bled Albertson's. It ended with a FBI to pay the tuition. . . . is designed to create an atmosphere of ism, left them unable to defend them­ "request for a raise in expenses." "His widow recalls that ... 'he was susp1c10n and distrust inside an selves against the FBI disruption Albertson was booted out of the constantly involved from the day of organization-a spy mania that can operations, including the "snitch jack­ party. His claims of innocence were his expulsion in one appeal after debilitate and even destroy a group et" ploy. brushed aside. Soon after, his wife and another, in corresponding with the that makes the mistake of swallowing But the FBI was also able to use this his mother were expelled-without party and doing everything possible to the bait. technique with devastating effective­ even a hearing-although there was no have his name cleared and to be In FBI parlance this gambit is ness against the Stalinist Communist evidence at all against them. reinstated, to also do his own investi­ known as "putting a snitch jacket on." party USA. In fact, in the memo Albertson, who was then fifty-four, gation to try to find out how he had FBI secret documents describe its proposing the operation against the had been a Stalinist functionary for been framed. The most painful thing use in the FBI's war against the Black Panthers, the FBI noted, "Although thirty years. For years after the expul­ that I ever had to experience in my Panther party. this proposal is a relatively simple sion, he fought in vain to have his whole life was watching a destroyed On May 11, 1970, FBI headquarters technique, it has been applied with name cleared and to be readmitted. man trying to save himself.' ~ in Washington sent a memo to San exceptional results in another area of He must have known it would be "Albertson never recovered from the Francisco containing "a proposal for a intelligence interest where the target futile; he himself had participated in trauma of the frame-up. In February disruptive-disinformation operation was of far greater sophistication.... " the bureaucratic expulsion of too many 1972 he was killed in an accident." targeted against the National office'' One of the "exceptional results" the CPers who committed the crime of In August 1975, a document expos­ of the Black Panther party. FBI achieved involved the case of expressing a disagreement at a party ing the case against Albertson as an "Xerox copies of true documents, William Albertson, a longtime member meeting, or who couldn't follow the FBI plot was released to the public, documents subtly incorporating false of the CP National Committee who twists and turns of the Stalinist line buried in a huge stack of other, information, and entirely fabricated was expelled in 1964 ·as an informer fast enough. unrelated Cointelpro files. The docu­ documents would be periodically anon­ for the FBI.. The Albertson case is Nonetheless, Albertson had no other ment was a 1965 FBI report boasting ymously mailed to the residence of a described iri an article by Frank life to tum to. He doggedly insisted that "the most active and efficient key Panther leader," the memo sug­ Donner in the April-May issue of the that he had been framed up. functionary of the New York District of gested. Civil Liberties Review, a magazine Donner, who knew some of the the Communist Party USA and lead­ " . . . A wide variety of alleged published by the American Civil Lib­ people involved, reports: "[Albertson's] ing national officer of the party, authentic police or FBI material could erties l}'nion. three children suffered the stigma and Continued on page 26

8 'Whodunit? We dunno' In rea/life, New York cops aren!lt like Kojak By Linda Jenness party candidate for Congress in the NEW YORK-Let me tell you, it's Eighteenth Congressional District. not like "Kojak." Sunday nights on The police were immediately notified. television, Kojak and his buddies race Here's their record: around the city. They haul in suspects, March 16: Police arrive at apart­ examine witnesses, and diligently put ment. Says one cop, "This sort of thing the pieces of the puzzle together until happens all the time down here." they solve the crime. When Garza's campaign, workers Kojak himself often stays in his insist, cops call in ballistics and office all night to devote his full forensics department to determine mental powers to a case. where bullet was fired from. Ballistics In real life, it's different. Especially experts say, "No way in hell to tell if the victim of the crime is Puerto where that bullet came from." Rican, Black, or a socialist. March 17: Cops answer reporters' On March 16, a would-be assassin inquiries by saying they are "not fired a rifle bullet into the apartment of treating this as an assassination at­ Catarino Garza, Socialist Workers tempt." March 18: New evidence that it was an assassination attempt is turned over to cops. Evidence consists of a Cops ignore newspaper called the Baruch Eye, distributed by ultrarightists at Baruch new evidence College. Paper contains death threats Several days before a bullet was aimed at Mark Friedman, a student fired into the New York apartment leader and supporter of Garza's cam­ shared by Catarino Garza and Mark paign. Friedman shares the apartment Friedman, a hate sheet called the with Garza. The real one Baruch Eye, published by a group of Detective Butler, in charge of the ultraright veterans, began circulat­ "investigation," calls to say he will be duty." man. The residents in the building ing on the Baruch College campus. "off duty" until March 20. April 1: Garza calls Butler. Butler where Garza and Friedman live have The paper contained several overt March 19: Nothing from cops. says, "There's nothing our department not been questioned. Neither have threats on the life of Friedman, who March 20: Nothing. can do about harassment." residents in a nearby building from is editor of the Baruch Sentry, a March 21: Butler calls to set up That same day (four days after news which the shot might have come. The campus paper. appointment with Friedman, but fails story on FBI burglaries of SWP) people who threatened Friedman's life Now a second issue of the Baruch to show. " apartment of Katherine Sojourner is at Baruch have .not been interrogated. Eye has appeared on campus. Un­ March 22: Garza calls Butler. Butler ransacked. Sojourner is Garza's cam­ In fact, if the cops themselves were der the headline, "To Whom It May is "working on a case" and is "unavail­ paign manager. Nothing is taken from directly involved in carrying out these Concern," the paper states: "You able." the apartment, even though a camera, attacks, isn't this exactly the way they need a great deal of instruction on March 23: Nothing. a portable television, and an expensive would carry out an "investigation"? the proper methods to execute an March 24: Butler agrees to meet piece of jewelry are all in plain view. In 1969 and 1970 in Chicago, the assassination. First, you must use a with Garza on March 26. Police are called. police repeatedly refused to act against larger caliber than a .22 [the caliber March 25: Nothing. Butler and a sidekick arrive on the a right-wing group known as the of the bullet fired into Friedman's March 26: Butler fails to show up scene. Says Butler, "This is harass­ Legion of Justice, which carried out and Garza's apartment]. Second, for appointment with Garza. ment, not a robbery. There's nothing armed attacks on the headquarters of know who you're shooting at, and March 27: Butler calls campaign we can do about harassment." the SWP and the Young Socialist DON'T MISS. headquarters and asks for Garza. His sidekick adds: "Why do you call Alliance. It later came to light that the "Perhaps you can persuade your Leaves no message. the police anyway? Three-fourths of cops themselves organized the attacks local vet to give you a few pointers. March 28: Nothing. the police in this country don't give a and provided protection while they Many are very experienced in these March 29: Butler calls for Garza, fuck if socialists live or die. were being carried out. matters." who is out campaigning. Butler claims, "Somebody doesn't like you people," It makes you wonder a bit about the Cops supposedly investigating the "I've been trying to get in touch with he adds. cops in New York City. shooting continue to claim that this him." Imagine that on "Kojak"! One thing is for sure. It's not like is a campus affair and "not in their March 30: When Garza returns After almost three weeks, Butler still "Kojak." department." Butler's call, he is told Butler is "off hasn't met with either Garza or Fried- In real life, cops are cops. Socialist teacher sues Austin school board By Brian Rasmussen Subsequently, a closed session of was filing her suit on behalf of herself Federation of Teachers, Local 2048 of AUSTIN, Tex.-Evelyn Sell, a mem­ AISD's board of trustees decided not to as an individual, on behalf of other the American Federation of Teachers, ber of the Socialist Workers party, has retain her as a Head Start teacher and teachers, and on behalf of the rights of has passed a resolution supporting "a filed a damage suit against the Austin not to hire her as a teacher in the city's all Americans. · teacher's right to his/her own political Independent School District (AISD) new kindergarten program, even Sell also spoke to 800 students in beliefs as a private citizen." and the Austin Police Department. Sell though she was one of the few teachers education and government classes at contends that her constitutional rights in Austin who had kindergarten certifi­ the University of Texas, and at Austin Among those who have signed a were violated when the AISD refused cation. Yet Sell was described by the Community College (an AISD facility) statement of endorsement of her suit to renew her teaching contract in 1970. AISD as "an intelligent, excellent and St. Edward's University.. are the executive director of the Na­ In June 1975, the SWP forced the teacher who was well qualified in her Sell has received broad-based sup­ tional Committee Against Repressive FBI to turn over Cointelpro memos as field." port for her fight. When the FBI Legislation, the executive director of part of its federal suit against the The suit was filed on March 29, the memos on her were first revealed, the the Texas Civil Liberties Union, the government. Six of those memos day the national media reported that executive secretary of the 1.8 million­ director of the Austin Women's Center, showed that in 1970 the FBI had the FBI had engaged in at least ninety­ member National Education Associa­ thirteen professors at the University of provided information about Sell's past two burglaries of the SWP's New York tion condemned the actions against Texas, and the chairperson of the political activities to members of AISD offices over a six-year period. At a well­ her. Parent Advisory Evaluation Commit­ via the Austin cops. attended news conference, Sell said she The executive council of the Austin tee for Title 1 in the AISD.

By Marilyn Markus The opening of the new hall was the rich, who monopolize government NEW YORK-Ninety people turned turned into a protest meeting against using different labels, Democrats and New York out April 3 for the opening of a new the FBI's break-ins against the SWP. Republicans. That's a right that was Catarino Garza for Congress cam­ The burglaries were revealed in docu­ won by people before us. This year paign headquarters at 200Ij2 W. ments made public on March 29. we're celebrating the two-hundredth socialists Twenty-fourth Street (off Seventh Ave­ Earlier in the week, Garza and SWP birthday of a struggle to win those nue) in the Chelsea section of Manhat­ senatorial candidate Marcia Gallo had rights, the American Revolution of tan. Garza is the Socialist Workers led a delegation to city hall to demand 1776." open party candidate for Congress from the that Mayor Abraham Beame take Eighteenth Congressional District. action to arrest FBI agents, city cops, Also speaking at the rally were and anyone else responsible for the Marcia Gallo, and Woody Batiste, a newhall The Chelsea headquarters is the illegal break-ins. The delegation also representative of the Desmond Trotter second one to open. The other is at 221 demanded that the files of the New Defense Committee. Batiste explained East Second Street, on the Lower East York cops, who provided protection for the case of Trotter, a political prisoner Side. the FBI burglars, be opened to public in Dominica, and thanked the SWP for in Chelsea The new headquarters will also inspection. · its support to the defense effort. provide space for the Chelsea branch "We have the right to organize," Participants in the rally .pledged a of the SWP, which has just been Garza told the Chelsea rally, "to run total of $600 for the socialist election established. candidates against the politicians of campaign this spring.

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 9 In Our Opinion Letters

A little help needed to work and see people like Gary Tyler Recently, the Spanish-speaking and the others. prisoners at Dallas formed a Spanish These are men who are March on Boston Cultural Club. We are in need of books unquestionably innocent-yet the [The following statement was issued by Socialist and funds so that we may achieve our victims of our sick system of justice in Workers party presidential and vice-presidential candi­ aspirations. Louisiana. · dates Peter Camejo and Willie Mae Reid.] We want to meet the educational, This miscarriage of justice points to spiritual,- social, historical, and one person: Attorney General William On the night of March 31, in Louisville, Kentucky, a six-foot­ cultural needs and wants of the Guste. He is ultimately responsible for tall cross was burned on Nancy Galt-Clayton's front lawn. She Spanish-speaking prisoners. the state's unscrupulous district attorneys and prosecutors. He is is a leader of the pro-school-desegregation movement there.· Approximately 99 percent of our members are Puerto Ricans. Thus we responsible for a worse crime than any On the night of April 3, in predominantly white Rosedale, are mainly interested at the present man on death row. New York, a fire bomb was hurled at the newly purchased home time with the historical events which Mr. Guste ought to be the victim of a of Sidney Lindsay, a Black man. affect Puerto Rico and our lives. frame-up, and then let him see what it Then on April 5, in broad daylight, Boston Mayor Kevin It is our aim to eventually attain is to suffer on death row. Then maybe White watched from his city hall window as a gang of contacts, books, and records which he will exercise a little responsibility antibusing demonstrators tried to run a flagpole through the touch the lives of all Latinos in the and put a stop to the frame-ups. U.S. and the world. A disgusted ex-security officer Black director of the Boston Contractors Association, Theodore Angola, Louisiana Landsmark. If anyone is interested in helping us, please send money or published [The Militant's special Prisoner In the face of these vicious attacks on Black rights, not one material to: Carlos S. Soto, K-1397, Fund makes it possible for us to send presidential candidate of the capitalist parties has spoken up to Secretary, Spanish Cultural Club; complimentary or reduced-rate condemn the racist violence. Not one has declared, as we do, Drawer K, Dallas, Pennsylvania subscriptions to prisoners who can't 18612. that if elected they will use all the power at their disposal to pay for them. To help out, send your One of the terms set forth by the defend the law of the land prohibiting segregated housing and contribution to: Militant Prisoner schools. prison administration in allowing us to form the club is that all published Fund, 14 Charles Lane, New York, In fact, the very day the shocking picture of the attack on New York 10014.] material received must be bilingual. Landsmark was flashed across newspapers around the country, Anyone interested in finding out more Democratic presidential contender Jimmy Carter chose to come on how we are making out, or anyone out in defense of segregated housing. who may want to share a little of their Using "unusually blunt language," according to the April 7 time by addressing our group in open Religion-a capitalist tool New York Times, Carter talked about "'black intrusion' into forums inside the prison, can write to Undoubtedly, religion is still one of that as president, "I'm not me at the above address. the most powerful instruments in the white neighborhoods." He declared hands of the bourgeoisie for going to use the Federal Government's authority deliberately to Carlos S. Soto Dallas, Pennsylvania channeling the anger of the masses circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnically away from .the capitalist system. homogeneous neighborhoods." It seems that here in America, In short, Carter is echoing the racist code words of the parallel with the developing student­ flagpole wielder and his ilk, who talk about preserving their Letter suppressed worker radicalization and the "neighborhoods" and "neighborhood schools." In 1974 I ·wrote a letter to Debbie increasing degeneration of the Carter's remarks represent a new low in this year's presiden­ Bustin, who was then in this area imperialist system, the bourgeoisie may even be attempting in a conscious tial campaign, which has been marked by a total unwillingness representing the Socialist Workers party. Recently I had the occasion to manner to wield this instrument in its on the part of the capitalist candidates to even speak about see this letter in my prison file, made struggle against socialism. much less to the growing crisis facing Blacks-in jobs, housing, available through a suit under the That's the impression I got after and education. Freedom of Information Act. attending a meeting of the Freedom None of these politicians can be relied upon to solve the This letter is one of the items the Leadership Foundation-a religious­ problems facing the Black community. None of them can even prison officials are saying is exempted. political organization founded by the be relied upon to take action to halt the rising wave of out-and­ At no time was I informed that the "South Korean Billy Graham," Rev. letter had been taken by the prison · Sun Myung Moon. out physical assaults on Blacks. This group's ideological program is Where, then, can Blacks and supporters of Black rights turn? keepers. I feel that I should be included in the pending suit of the SWP. It could called "Victory Over Communism." We must turn to each other and organize our own indepen­ really help our struggle if we could win They give lectures "disproving" dent power into a massive, visible movement to counter the a victory against our keepers just once. dialectical materialism, the labor racist drive and demand that the government enforce the law of A prisoner theory of value, etc. They attempt to the land. Georgia, show-in the Calvinist tradition-why Antiracist forces have a historic opportunity to deliver a capitalism is the economic system message to the racists-and the politicians who refuse to stand most in accordance with God's "plan." I think it's important to expose this up to them-by showing up in massive numbers for the and other groups like it as regiments in national probusing march on Boston April 24. the battalion of stooges defending the Called last month by more than 100 Black and white Louisiana frame-ups bourgeoisie. supporters of desegregation, this demonstration can be a I read the letter from Gary Tyler Michael Heslin powerful show of solidarity with Boston's embattled Black (Militant, Februaey 6) and I want to Baton Rouge, Louisiana community, and a rallying point for a renewed effort to defend tell you that what he says is true. The state of Louisiana mutilated his Black rights across the country. rights and framed him. I know this We urge all our supporters to launch a stepped-up drive to because I used to be a security officer New subscriber response spread the word about the April24 action-to mobilize people to at the Angola penitentiary and I am If subsequent issues are anything march on Boston. familiar with his case. like the first one I saw, you can bet I'll I also want you to know that there resubscribe. are some others on death row at the Peter Lisker Louisiana StatePenitentiaryin Angola Oakland, California Abortion rights who were also framed on their The worldwide struggle by women to win control over their convictions. I could go on and on with examples pf men on death row as a own bodies took an important stride forward April 3, as an result of police frame-ups and estimated 50;000 to 100,000 supporters of abortion rights misguided prosecutors who are so 'Political influence' demonstrated in Rome. unethical that they are the ones who The success of the SWP in This almost spontaneous outpouring was an angry response belong at Angola. unearthing the truth about the FBI to parliamentary maneuvering by Italian rightists and the It is these prosecutors who seek glory break-ins is a real tribute to the ruling Christian Democratic party to avoid a referendum on the and fame who are the real criminals in socialist movement. What a treat it current law banning abortions. Louisiana. These prosecutors think was to see a picture of our candidate, nothing of grooming anyone from the Peter Camejo, on the front page of the The Rome demonstration was the latest and largest in a streets to say anything they want. New York Times in its coverage of this growing number of pro-abortion mobilizations around the Louisiana prosecutors play a dirty event! world. Last June 25,000 people marched in London. That same game-they have no conscience. They The Times even wrote an editorial in month 1,000 demonstrated in Mexico City, and in September do not hesitate to convict people with opposition to the FBI's attacks against 25,000 mobilized in Germany. perjured testimony. Then they pass the the SWP. Women have organized marches, conferences, and tribunals buck by saying "the jury convicted" I was glad to see that, too. But I when all along it was -them-the in Canada, France, Australia, Portugal, and elsewhere. was annoyed that the Times felt it was prosecutors-who fed the jury lies and necessary once more to state its The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortions fake information. opinion that the SWP is "singularly spurred women around the world to redouble their own efforts I quit my job as a security officer at lacking in political influence." This is to win repeal. Their ongoing struggles today are an inspiration Angola because it got to where I an idea that the Times seems to repeat to American women to turn back each and every assault on that couldn't sleep at night knowing that I every time a major revelation about historic victory. would get up the next morning and go government harassment forces them to National Picket Line deviate from their editorial policy of pretending that the SWP-and other smaller parties-don't exist. Now it's true that the SWP hasn't Frank Lovell yet elected anybody to office, and it is still relatively small. But whether it is "singularly lacking in political Treating deadly diseases influence" is another question. It was the SWP-not the Democrats or When I went to the hospital on the morning of One young comrade wrote, "I am moved by the Republicans-who had the February 16 I did not know I was having a heart feeling that some very great opportunities will soon be commitment to democratic rights and attack, and while in the cardiac care unit for the next unfolding... [andl the thought that they will be the tactical good sense to seize the five days I suffered no great pain. But there I was. shared in the comradely warmth of old friends and initiative in the battle with the FBI. And there was no denying that a heart attack had put teachers." Such sentiments of confidence and opti­ And as for "political influence"­ me there. mism are always flattering. They prompt the desire well, the fact that the Times itself has The doctors attached a temporary pacemaker to my and determination to help fulfill these expectations. been compelled to cover the SWP so heart for a couple of days to keep it going at the proper Most of the letters were on political matters. They prominently in the past week should be rhythm. I felt good f!:nd in competent hands. were about SWP election campaigns, new recruits to answer enough. Close friends and relatives visited and stayed with the party, the building of new branches, and the Pat Rich me during the first days, and I also began receiving response to socialist ideas in the unions. One comrade New York, New York mail. wrote that she is serving on the negotiating committee The room I was moved to for the rest of my of her union. "I'm looking forward to it," she said, "as. hospitalization had only one other patient, a man I a learning experience." had known before World War II when we both sailed This is characteristic of members of the Young Information requested on coastal ships in the Pacific lumber trade between Socialist Alliance and SWP in unions and other I am now in the process of preparing Seattle and San Pedro. Both of us were members of the organizations where we are intr9ducing our socialist biographical and critical studies of the Socialist Workers party in those years. We recognized program and our proposals for independent working­ poets John Wheelwright and Sherry each other as soon as the nurse wheeled me into the class politics. Our young members know that we have Mangan. Both joined the Socialist room. much to learn as well as teach, not a new discovery for Workers party in the mid-1930s, and He had been hospitalized for nearly a month with Trotskyists. It is the beginning of wisdom, the both remained 'committed to the pneumonia, was recovering and· anxious to go home. assurance of success. revolutionary movement until the time But he was not released for another week, only a few Some letters and a few phone calls came to the of their deaths. days ahead of me. This gave him a chance to tell hospital from readers of the Militant who learned of I would appreciate it if anyone about his travels in Europe and Britain, and added to my illness from the paper. A shop steward called long possessing information, letters, my knowledge. distance from the job to wish me well and to say that reminiscences, or anything else that My doctor allowed me out of bed when I was moved other readers in the shop send best wishes. This was might be useful, contact me in care of ' from the cardiac care unit, and in a couple of days he the English Literature Department, further testimony that the Militant gets around. said I could sit up and move about my room "to the 7607 Haven Hall, University of There is no better medicine for the morale of a Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. point of endurance." By the end of the week he advised patient in my position of enforced idleness than the Alan Wald me to walk in the corridor and sit in the visitors' room certain knowledge that everything is in order, that the Ann Arbor, Michigan when I felt like it. organization is moving along easily and steadily. This My comrades came every day. More visited as the has always been a feature of the SWP in good times word got out that I was feeling well, better than and bad. It is what members who keep their dues paid expected. up expect. A correction About midweek, after my regular morning examina­ Our party is more knowledgeable and experienced The article announcing Margaret tion, the doctor remarked that "everything seems to be than any other, and that is why each and every Mora as the Socialist Workers party healing all at once." He congratulated me on my member can draw upon it for strength and encourage­ candidate for Los Angeles County speedy recovery, as if I had some control over the ment. This is a good omen for the future. Only such a Board of Supervisors (Militant, April 9) healing process and was able to step it up by extra party can expect to win the political allegiance of had an error. effort. His remark was reassuring, but the feeling of millions of workers and mobilize them for the complete It stated that Mora was a member of general well-being that I enjoyed despite my illness reorganization of society. the Los Angeles Equal Rights was due to outside sources of strength. Coalition. This is incorrect. Margaret The visitors contributed to this. They came to tell * * * is an active member of the Los Angeles about what was happening in their unions and how This is to thank all those who wrote and otherwise Coalition for the ERA. the SWP campaigns were going. sent greetings while I was ill. I am still confined to my Dave Jerome The hundreds of cards and letters I received were the Los Angeles, California home, more or less. But I expect to gain more leeway other source of strength. The nurses were impressed on April 12 when I again see the family doctor, who and seemed pleased with the large volume of mail, now has charge of me. which they attributed to me or to something I was -When I visited him last he ·said the examination doing. Maoist charges against Cuba showed heart damage, but that I can expect to aurvive. I received a large group photo of the entire Militant Of course, I had not doubted my continued normal In the April issue of the Call, staff, with Cindy Jaquith in the front row holding a newspaper of the October League, existence at least for the next decade. "Get Well Soon" sign. This hung on the wall beside my As to the future, it is permissible to make an there is an article charging the Cuban bed. The nurses all said it was the most unusual and volunteers (who fought the South analogy. Organizations, like the human body, suffer imaginative card any patient in their experience had from internal weaknesses and external pressures. The Africans in Angola) with the mass received. Of course, I said this was only another murder of 150,000 Angolans! unions today are greatly weakened, as the current example of the unusual talents and imaginative skills The original charge, however, is just round of wage negotiations shows. Most of their being echoed by OL. The New China ·of the Militant staff, and that I was lucky to be weakness results from an internal disorder known News Agency originally made this associated with them. under its clinical name as class collaboration. This incredible, lying accusation. My roommate recognized· Dick Roberts in the often takes the form of political support to Democratic I urge you to publish an article picture, and said he had heard Dick in a debate on party politicians, who are the hired agents of the answering the Maoist charges, economics at Columbia University. He said, "I would eQlploying class. defending Cuba against Kissinger's recognize that young fellow anywhere. He knows his invasion/blockade threats and subject and he is good." upholding the rights of the liberation Books and pamphlets that came with the mail also The unions, in their weakened condition, are also forces in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), attracted attention. The pamphlets were just off the being severely battered by external forces. These are . Namibia (South-West Africa), and press. My comrades in Canada, members of the virulent antiunion organizations such as the Right To Azania (South Africa) to gain their League for Socialist Action/Ligue Sociaiiste Ouvriere, Work Committee and the National Association of liberation by any means necessary­ sent their pamphlet on the danger of wage-price Manufacturers, .spawned by the industrial giants of including asking for Cuban volunteers. controls, and Pathfinder Press sent the revised edition monopoly capitalism. Carol Montoya of Why Women Need the Equal Rights Amendment by Government agencies, also controlled by corporate Denver, Colorado Dianne Feeley. Both prompted discussion. There was interests, are conducting a flanking attack on the so much interest in the ERA pamphlet that I had to faltering unions. These predatory bodies have been order several extra copies. studied under the Marxist microscope for many years. The mail from comrades in the branches across the Their essential features are well known. They are in country, and from abroad, was a pleasure, some of it the general political category defined scientifically as personal but most of it political. the dictatorship of the employing class. On the personal side, I received warm invitations to Weakened by severe internal disorders and under The letters column is an open vacation in the quietest and most pleasant parts of the attack from these deadly external forces, the union forum for all viewpoints on sub­ country, some encouraging advice from others who movement is like a critically ill human body. I submit, jects of general interest to our have suffered much more severe and painful injuries, on the basis of my experience, that the unions can readers. Please keep your letters and warm words of encouragement from old friends overcome their illness only if they are inoculated with brief. Where necessary they will and young comrades alike whom I knew when they be abridged. Please indicate if socialist politics. first joined the socialist movement. Some of us were your name may be used or if you This life-giving serum is the class-struggle program prefer that your initials be used neophytes together, others were among my teachers. of the Socialist Workers party. · instead.

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 11 The Great Society Harry Ring

Not to worry-The Florida Power was "the will of Christ." A generous Down to his last dividend-If any & Light Company said the leaking man, the good bishop added that while of the various Socialist Workers candi­ radiation from nuclear fuel storage he saw the status of women in the dates for the U.S. Senate are elected, plants is not a hazard-and besides, it church as "not equal" to that of men, we're reasonably certain they'll set a can't be stopped. They said efforts to he did feel their role would be "equally new record. Curreptly the poorest plug the leaking tanks have been important." person in the Senate is James Abou­ hampered by the intense radioactivity rezk (D-S.D.). He is worth a mere inside the tanks. They added that they Sounds reasonable-A Ford cam­ $28,941.67 and, apparently, he's not will go ahead with plans to triple paign official said political differences happy about it. "It's no disgrace being production. between the president and Ronald poor," he said, "but it's no great honor Reagan "are a matter of style, not either." Now hear this-"WASHINGTON substance." (UPI) Beef prices are so low they Sociology dep't-Forty anthropolo­ represent a bonus for shoppers, the Fundamentalist-"The function of gy students at the University of Agriculture Department said." government is to provide a climate California at San Diego spent a that encourages economic growth and semester frequenting bars to learn who He died for his sex-Archbishop 'If you've finished blasting Federal industry, but it is not the function of patronized them. They concluded that Jean Jadot, the Pope's personal rep to . giveaways, your million-dollar check for government to solve all existing prob­ all types of people go to bars at one the U.S., said women will never be matching Federal campafgn funds lems in society."-Gov. Dolph Briscoe time or another, some of them regular­ ordained as priests, indicating this came.' of Texas. ly. By Any Means Necessary Baxter Smith Knocking down doors in housing To hear it from Ronald Mansoldo, he might as realtors for violating fair housing provisions of the they can afford or that is dilapidated or otherwise well don a black cape and porkpie hat and get a 1968 Civil Rights Act. unrepresentative of a given area. mustache to twirl. Because there, lashed to the The far-reaching suit-which includes the city of The suit further charges that brokers have tracks and crying for help, are Patricia and Melvin Englewood as a plaintiff-hopes to make the real discouraged Black home buyers by chiefly advertis­ Eason and the other Black home buyers. And estate industry liable for affirmative-action pro­ ing housing in exclusively white areas, and doing dashing to their rescue, just before the train arrives, grams to correct past discrimination. If these are very little advertising for housing in mixed areas. are Lee Porter and the open-housing advocates. won, brokers will be required to offer first to Blacks Such descriptions are exaggerations, Mansoldo any better housing that is available in predomi­ "Ten years ago," said Lee Porter, the Black head claims, that have him blown up to be the villain in nantly white areas in Bergen County. of the FHC, "a broker confronted with a Black the recent story about Bergen County, New Jersey, The 1970 census found that 2.8 percent of Bergen customer looking for a home in a white community real estate brokers-of which he is one-who have County's population is Black, but 82 percent of the would simply slam his listing book closed in his been maintaining housing segregation by steering Black population is concentrated, because of hous­ face and say, 'Nothing is available, everything's Black home buyers away from white areas. ing segregation, in just three municipalities. sold.' Today, you just don't get to see the book or the Totally unfair persecution, he claims. The demarcation line between those municipali­ houses.'' Those "ranting and raving" open-housing advo­ ties and predominantly white ones has come to be "Brokers look at the color of your skin and decide cates don't understand what brokers like him are up known as the Bergen County Mason-Dixon line. where you're going to live, and that usually means against. "This suit won't guarantee integration in Bergen segregated," she said. "We're on a tightrope," he says, that is stretched County," an attorney for the Fair Housing Council The Easons are the Black couple who brought the between the open-housing advocates and whites (FHC) said. "But if it succeeds, it will at least give racist practices of Mansoldo to the attention of the who fear Black encroachment. every perso11-Black or white-an equal chance." FHC. After that, white investigators from the Black home buyers· and others, however, tell a The suit documents how Blacks who ask to see council went to Mansoldo's agency, which, they different story. In March they filed a class-action homes in predominantly white areas have been said, "went out of its way to show us homes that it suit against Mansoldo and other Bergen County shown housing that is much more expensive than never showed Mr. Eason." Capitalism in Crisis Andy Rose_

/ Truckin' up the escalator... .' Inflation is a permanent feature of decaying pivotal issue in major union negotiations this year. The trucking bosses evidently cried all the way to capitalism. The recent national Teamsters strike was fought the bank-or at least to the Interstate Commerce This basic fact of economic life has been burned mainly to knock the "cap," or upper limit, off the Commission, where a number of firms actually into the consciousness of millions of working people truckers' escalator clause and to improve the terms lowered rate-increase requests they had submitted by the experiences of the 1970s. on which it is calculated. before the settlement was reached. Even though the rate of inflation has subsided for In the previous National Master Freight Agree- . Escalators. can be strengthened in several ways: now from the double-digit levels that prevailed a ment, signed in 1973, Teamster President Frank eliminating "caps"; shortening the time lag before year ago, few workers doubt that prices could take Fitzsimmons agreed to limit cost-of-living increases wages are adjusted; and bringing wage boosts off again at any time. to a maximum of eleven cents an hour each ·year. closer to matching price hikes. This includes There are two fundamentally different answers This giveaway to the trucking firms cost Teamsters pegging wages to the real cost of living as the labor movement can give to the erosion of real dearly in purchasing power. Without the cap, their determined by union and consumer price wages by inflation. One is to call upon Washington escalator would have added seventy-five cents an monitors-not the government's rigged indexes. to hold down prices. The problem here is that hour to wages. With it, they got only twenty-two In an editorial entitled "Escalator Run Amok," workers are always expected to sacrifice now­ cents. The lesson was learned. the New York Times called the new Teamster through high unemployment, wage controls, or After a strike that was in full force only forty-four contract "a gaping wound in the whole economy" both-for the promise of "price stability" sometime hours, the last holdouts among the trucking firms and bewailed the "dangers implicit in that trend" in the dim and distant future. And experience agreed to the unlimited escalator clause, along with toward escalators. The employers' virulent opposi­ shows that the promise has never been kept. across-the-board wage increases totaling $1.65 over tion to effective, unlimited escalators reveals two The other answer is to concentrate on what the three years. things: workers themselves can do to protect real wages, The formula for determining the escalator pay­ First, that the capitalists themselves expect while refusing to assume responsibility for the ills ments is no winner, though. Truckers will get one inflation to continue and worsen. of the capitalist economy. This can best be done cent an hour for each 0.4 point rise in the Consumer Second, that they are determined to use this through the cost-of-living escalator, a provision to Price Index. This means wages will go up at less inflation to increase their profits by cutting work­ automatically increase wages as prices go up. than 70 percent the rate at which prices rise. And ers' standard of living. Escalators have won growing popularity among truckers don't see the raise in their paychecks until Which is precisely why all workers need the American workers, and are shaping up to be the many months after prices go up. protection of effective escalators.

12 CLUW helps mobilize unionists for ERA rally By Suzanne Haig coordinate the work of building union banners for their delegation at the ers; American Postal Workers; United CHICAGO-The AFL-C/0, United participation in the rally. march. Electrical Workers; and American Auto Workers, and the Teamsters have In addition to the labor leaflet, the • Contribute funds to CLUW to help Federation of Government Employees. all endorsed the Equal Rights Amend­ CLUW office has other materials with costs for printing, staff, and office Union ERA activities are stepping ment as a statement of commitment to available to local unions: buttons, a supplies. (Checks should be made out up in other cities as well. In Detroit, the principle of equality that working transportation information sheet for to ERA Mobilization Fund.) the Wayne County chapter of c·LUW is people need to eliminate employment unionists going to Springfield from • Organize transportation for union organizing a meeting to publicize the discrimination against women. The Chicago, and a sample letter urging members through the union newsletter. labor movement's commitment to ERA ERA is a union bread-and-butter issue. union locals. and officials to support Darlene Kemmerer, who is coordinat­ ratification. The event, which will We need numbers on our side. With the the rally ing transportation in Illinois, told the' feature key leaders of the Detroit labor weight of the labor rrtr'Juement behind This letter points to the recent Militant that unions on the East Coast movement, will be a powerful answer us, we can win. That's why we need statement by AFL-CIO President and in Chicago should encourage their to current efforts to rescind Michigan's you. Come to Springfield. For your George Meany. "Passage of the Equal members to go on the Freedom Trains 1972 ratification of the ERA. The union. For ERA. For yourself! Rights Amendment . . . must be a being organized from these areas. CLUW chapter is also encouraging its priority matter to the entire trade­ To get the union outreach campaign members to participate in the May 16 So reads the leaflet issued by the union movement," Meany said. moving in Chicago, CLUW members national rally. Coalition of Labor Union Women in an held a meeting here on April 3. On Unionists from across the country effort to enlist trade-union support for CLUW is suggesting that unionists: hand were representatives of the Amal­ can find out more information about the May 16 national ERA rally in • Get their unions to support May gamated Clothing Workers; American the national demonstration and order Illinois. 16. Federation of State, County and Munic­ materials by contacting: CLUW-ERA, CLUW has opened an office in • Put out a mailing to union mem- ipal Employees; Brotherhood of Rail­ 5 S. Wabash, Suite 1614, Chicago, Chicago, in the same suite as the hers urging them to come to the rally. road and Airline Clerks; United Auto Illinois 60603. Telephone (312) 236- National Organization for Women, to • Have their union make signs and Workers; Hotel and Restaurant Work- 8148.

L.A., Seattle set solidarity actions May 15 By Ginny Hildebrand Endorsements for May 15 are rolling the ERA for April 25 at the Communi­ activists have met with a friendly ERA supporters in Seattle and in 'fast. They include: James Bender, ty Concourse in downtown San Diego. response while seeking support for 'the Southern California will be mobilizing executive secretary of the King County However, nearly a dozen ERA oppo- . debate and march. Among the endors­ on Saturday, May 15. Coalitions in Labor Council; David Mascarenas, nents have said they are "not avail­ ers are: San Diego NOW; American both areas are organizing marches and president of Snohomish Labor Council; able" for the debate. At a press Federation of Teachers Local 1930; rallies in solidarity with the May 16 and the mayor of Lacey, Washington. conference on April 8, San Diegans for CLUW; Eboness House, a Black com­ national ERA demonstration in A February conference of 300 in Los the ERA will issue a challenge to the munity group; San Diego and Imperial · Springfield, Illinois, called by the Angeles initiated the plans for a anti-ERA movement to come ·up with County Labor Council; NAACP; National Organization for Women. Southern California May 15 solidarity someone to explain its antiwoman Socialist Workers party; the campaign In Seattle, momentum for a solidari­ demonstration. position in public. At 2:00 p.m. on April of Tom Hayden for U.S. Senate; ty action began with an International The Los Angeles Coalition for the 25, ERA supporters will present their YWCA; Center for Women's Studies Women's Day "Speak-out for the Equal ERA, which sponsored the conference, case for women's rights even if no one and Services; Young Socialist Alliance; Rights Amendment" last month. At has already confirmed several speak­ is on hand to take the podium against and Women's Political Caucus. the meeting, a NOW leader called for ers for the rally: academy-award win­ them. Those interested in joining in the the formation of a coalition to join in ner Lee Grant; Deputy Mayor Grace There will be a campus forum on ERA activities can write: San Diegans the national drive for ERA ratification. Davis; Yolanda Nava, producer of the April 28 at California State Universi­ for the ERA, P.O. Box 7141, San Diego, More than sixty-five people turned "Saturday Show," a local KMBC-TV ty-San Diego. California 92107. Telephone: (714) 233- out for the founding meeting of the program; Vicki Isted, president of West As in other cities, San Diego ERA 8986. Washington State Coalition for Ratifi­ Siqe Women's Political Caucus; Gloria cation of the Federal ERA. Participat­ Gutierrez, president of Poder Feminino ing were members of Seattle NOW; (Woman Power); and Victoria Yanez of Coalition of Labor Union Women the University of Southern California (CLUW); American Civil Liberties MECHA. Union; American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Students at California State Univer­ Local 1488; Women's Political Caucus; sity at Long Beach are helping to League of Women Voters; Socialist publicize the march and rally by Workers party; Bqsiness and Profes­ organizing a debate on the ERA for sional Women; and campus feminist May 1. groups. The Los Angeles coalition has an Activists in these groups are reach­ office at the University of Southern ing out to involve additional forces. California, YWCA Building, 857 W. For instance, Evelyn Jaeger, vice­ Thirty-sixth Place, Los Angeles, Cali­ chairwoman of the state labor coun­ fornia 90007. The telephone number is cil's women's committee, is sending out (213) 746-7688. a letter to unions encouraging their Round-trip bus tickets to the Los participation. At the University of Angeles march are being sold for $4.50 Washington a debate on the ERA in in San Diego. San Diegans for the April and another campus action the ERA is coordinating publicity and Militant/Pat Hayes day before the march will be aimed at transportation. Banner in St. Louis International Women's Day demonstration calls for support to involving more students. The group has planned a debate ori May 16 Springfield, Illinois, ERA march.

Shotgun blasts rip socialist offices in Denver By Joan Paltrineri SWP organizer Ruth Getts then "this violent attack," said Priscilla the National Lawyers Guild. State DENVER-In the early morning phoned the head of Denver's detective Schenk, SWP candidate for U.S. Con­ Senators Regis Groff and Roger Cis­ hou:rs of April 5 unknown attackers bureau. The officer in charge told Getts gress. ,;In fact, the hostile attitude neros could not be present, but· they fired five shotgun blasts through the that he was tired of hearing demands reflected by the chief· of detectives joined with Schenk in demanding a storefront windows of the new Social­ for "special treatment for the Socialist indicates they don't C;are who fires at full investigation of the attack. ist Workers party campaign headquar­ \Yorkers party," and that she could our headquarters. They do not feel they Raul Gonzalez, a leader of the Young ters on this city's predominantly Chi­ ta,ke her case to the newspaper for have to protect the rights of socialists. Socialist Alliance currently on a speak­ cano West Side. some free publicity. Then he abruptly "But we will not stand by while ing to.ur of the Southwest, demanded Several empty shotgun casings were hung up. right-wing attackers attempt to silence police protection for SWP vice­ scattered in front of the building, The following day, more than forty us," she said. presidential candidate Willie Mae Reid indicating that the slwts were fired campaign supporters and West Side Statements of support at the press when she is in Denver May 6-8. from point-blank range. community activists gathered amid conference were read by: Everett Cha­ Fortunately, no one was in the shattered glass and torn campaign vez, a leader of the Concerned Citizens Schenk announced that the SWP offices at the time of the attack. If banners for a press conference at the for Equal Education; Kay Young, a campaign committee was organizing a campaign workers had been there, socialist headquarters. member of the Woman to Woman delegation to Mayor Bill McNichols's they would have been seriously All the messages delivered at the · bookstore collective; Dan Martinez, office to demand a full investigation wounded or killed. conference were the same: This is an representing the Metro State College and the arrest of those responsible for After reporting the shooting, cam­ attack on all those in Colorado who MECHA; and Olga Pedroga, a writer the shooting. She urged supporters paign workers waited almost an hour seek social justice for oppressed people. for El Gallo, the newspaper of the around the country to send letters to before a lo:qe policeman responded to It must be answered by a united Crusade for Justice. the mayor protesting the attack. Let­ their call. Calling the attack a simple defense. Also present were members of Casa ters can be sent to: Mayor Bill McNi­ case of "criminal mischief," he filled "It's obvious the police have no del Barrio, a West Side community chols, City and County Building, out. a :routine report and left. intention of seriously investigating organization, and a representative of Denver, Colorado 80204.

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 13 ~Go to bat for Pat' Wash. SWP launches '76 state campaign By Alicia Merel · work forces in the country-and one of tion in Boston April 24 and the May 16 SEATILE-As Patricia Bethard the highest jobless rates," Bethard told demonstration in Springfield, Illinois, approached her desk here at the the audience. "A public works program for the Equal Rights Amendment as University of Washington recently, she could use that skill and expertise to the kinds of responses that are needed found that it had been decorated by co­ provide jobs for the 10 percent of our to rebuff the reactionary attacks on workers with colorful streamers, stars, population that is out of work while at past victories. and signs announcing, "Go to Bat for the same time eliminating pollution, "We have to fight in greater and Pat" and "Pat for Governor." building' homes, schools, and child-care greater numbers," Reid said, "and we Bethard had just returned from a centers, and constructing a decent have to take back from the complacent March 10 press conference launching transit system." and comfortable bureaucrats the or­ her campaign as the Socialist Workers Where would the funds for such ganizations created to fight for us-the party candidate for governor of Wash­ projects come from? Bethard pointed to trade unions. We have to turn the ington. Bethard, who won 26 percent of the treasuries of the state's many war­ unions into organizations struggling the vote in a race for Seattle city profiteering corporations, which hold for the rights of working people and all - council last fall, is a secretary and a nearly $3 billion in military contracts. the oppressed." member of the executive board of her "It is high time that big business Dale Van Pelt brought greetings to union, Local 1488 of the American took the financial burden of this state the rally from the United Farm Work­ Federation of State, County and Mu­ off the backs of the working people," ers and urged support to the boycott of nicipal Employees. Bethard said. She suggested that a Sunmaid and Sunsweet raisins, At the press conference, Bethard referendum defeated last fall favoring prunes, and other products. announced plans to take the state and a corporate profits tax to fund public Also speaking at the rally were national SWP campaigns to every schools be reintroduced. "This time, Carmen Maymi, SWB candidate for major city in Washington. Campaign she suggested, "let it be voted back to . the state legislature, and Jeff Ford, a committees are already off the ground back with the existing property tax on member of the Young Socialist Alli­ in Tacoma and Spokane, and in working peoples' homes." ance and an activist in the fight Seattle's University District and Cen­ Bethard also said that she opposed against tuition hikes in the State's tral Area. further construction of nuclear power colleges and universities. Reports of Bethard's candidacy were plants in Washington "until they are Other members of the Washington televised on both the NBC and CBS proven to be safe." Commenting on the SWP slate were also introduced at the local evening news prog-rams. 500 pounds of cancer-producing arsen­ rally: Karl Bermann for U.S. Senate; Also in Seattle to "go to bat for Pat" ic spewed into the air daily by the Margaret Trowe for U.S. Congress was SWP vice-presidential candidate giant Tacoma Smelter, Bethard said from the First Congressional District; Willie Mae Reid. Reid and Bethard that "people in this state have a right Craig Honts for attorney general; and were the featured speakers at the to a safe and healthy environment." Barry Fatland for superintendent of campaign's kick-off banquet and rally Reid focused her remarks on the public instruction. March 13. One hundred people from Militant/Toby Emmerich current erosion of many gains made by Pledges and contributions totaling Seattle and other cities in Washington Bethard participating in farm workers' women and Blacks during the 1960s more than $2,iOO were collected at the attended the rally. protest during last fall's city council and early 1970s. She pointed to the rally. Three people who attended the "We've got one of the most skilled campaign. upcoming march for school desegrega- rally signed up to join the SWP. Camejo tours New Orleans; Reid in Pittsburgh By Noah Ellsworth Agnew and Nixon," Camejo charged, Courier that she thought most Blacks the meeting was Fred Stanton, SWP During the last week in March, while "while innocent men and women such who attended the convention were candidate for the U.S. Senate from Democratic and Republican contenders as Gary Tyler are sitting in prison. disappointed that no independent Pennsylvania. were jockeying for the top spots in the That, more than anything else, tells us Black slate emerged for the 1976 Reid also spoke to fifty students at a New York and Wisconsin primaries, something about justice in this coun- elections. In a statement addressed to local community college and was the Socialist Workers party candidates try." the convention, Reid had said: "Blacks interviewed by Pittsburgh's two daily were talking to audiences in Pitts- The SWP candidate also attended a aren't going to get anywhere at all in newspapers, the Press and the Post burgh and New Orleans about the real rally Sunday afternoon, March 28, the struggle for our rights by support­ Gazette. issues in the 1976 campaign. organized by students at Southern ing politicians of either [the Democrat­ Peter Camejo, the party's presiden- University in New Orleans to raise ic or the Republican] party-and that tial candidate, focused on the issue of funds for the Tyler defense. Tyler's includes Black politicians.... racism during his tour of Louisiana. In mother spoke at the rally, along with "We need our own political that state, Gary Tyler-a seventeen- the mother and sister of Richard Dunn. organizations-fighting organizations year-old Black youth-is today sitting Dunn, a nineteen-year-old Black youth, that would help lead and organize the on death row in Angola State Peniten- had been murdered by white night struggle for our rights." tiary. Tyler was convicted gf a killing riders as he left a fund-raising dance Reid spoke at a community meeting he did not commit. for the Tyler case the night before. of fifty people held at the Reizenstein Camejo discussed the case at length SWP vice-presidential candidate Wil- Middle School, on the border of Pitts­ during an hour-and-a-half appearance lie Mae Reid went to Pittsburgh burgh's Black community of on the popular Wayne Mack radio talk straight from several days of cam- Homewood-Brushton. As Carla Hoag, show in New Orleans. He also blasted paigning at the National Black Politi- SWP congressional candidate from the the racist frame-up during an inter- cal Convention in Cincinnati. Fourteenth Congressional District, view with a reporter from the New Reid's assessment· of the Black explained, Reizenstein has been the Orleans Times Picayune. convention was the topic of an inter- center of the struggle to upgrade the "We have at least two criminals view she gave to the Courier, Pitts- schooling of Black children in Reid toured Pittsburgh after attending walking around free in this country- burgh's Black newspaper. She told the Homewood-Brushton. Also speaking at Cincinnati Black political convention.

Ohio socialists wind up successful ballot drive By Shirley Pasholk · District, were both present in Colum­ tions to place Singler and Alewitz on to undergo the incredible expense and CLEVELAND-More than 23,000 bus when the signatures for the nation­ the ballot had also been turned in- time to gather them in the first place. signatures have been filed in Ohio to al slate were filed. 10,780 for Singler and more than 2,000 This requirement has one and only one secure ballot status for Socialist Work­ "This November the people of Ohio for Alewitz. aim: to keep dissenters off ·the Ohio ers party candidates in the November will have a chance to vote for socialist After filing her signatures March 22, ballot." elections. candidates," Alewitz said, "candidates Singler said: "In gathering more than On March 24, a total of 11,269 who support the Equal Rights Amend­ twice the amount of signatures re­ The Ohio campaign made the best of signatures were turned in to the Ohio ment and school desegregation and quired by law, we have more than met a bad situation, however. While peti­ secretary of state's office to place SWP who are not owned and controlled by the legal requirements for ballot sta­ tioning for Alewitz, for example, cam­ presidential and vice-presidential can­ bankers, businessmen, and their twin tus. Because the ballot laws are de- paign supporters met three students didates Peter Camejo and Willie Mae parties-the Democrats and Republi­ signed to discriminate against anyone from the University of Akron who Reid on the ballot. The state's legal cans. We will be campaigning more other than the Democrats and Republi­ became interested in the campaign and requirement is 5,000 signatures. vigorously than ever with the socialist cans, my campaign supporters were joined the Young Socialist Alliance. Melissa Singler, the party's candi­ alternative to the war, racism, sexism, faced with a great challenge to collect Two of the three later accompanied date for U.~. Senate from Ohio, and and corruption on which those two the necessary signatures. Alewitz to file his completed petitions Mike Alewitz, candidate for Congress parties are built." "In handing in these petitions, we at the Summit County Board of Elec­ from the Fourteenth Congressional During the previous two days, peti- protest the very fact that we are forced tions.

14 Camejo and Reid 1976 ~CamRB!gn Fund $10,000 drive set for socialist candidates By Andrea Morell with Ford and Kissinger that the More than a million readers of the American people have no business March 29 New York Times were knowing the full truth about the "All the News greeted by a three-column headline at policies carried out in our names. That's Fit to Print" the top left of the front page: "FBI Socialists think differently. Burglarized Leftist Offices Here 92 We don't believe that these politi­ Times in 1960-66, Official Files Show." cians and the tiny club of bankers and F.B.I. Burglarized Leftist Offices Here SURGE BY CARTER Underneath was a picture of Peter businessmen that pay their salaries 92 Times in 1960-66 ,Official Files Show ON NATIONAL BASIS Camejo, Socialist Workers party presi­ should have a monopoly on knowledge o.,,.:;;;,;-.;;J-L.ttm. Porti• c,.d;dot• s,,. INDICATED IN POLL tltii~SocialirtWoro\m; PolictA1dH !rtal-iJU, , dental candidate. simply because they monopolize this flllli Allili.t11 Copiftl 1 2 Providint Stcaril, Survey Reports Victories The story that followed detailed country's wealth and political power. -,~N i ~r~•- formartv"•h!ldquan~rFred Halstead; cratic and Republican parties agree bia. all. Treasurer, Andrea Morell.

Author of Woman's Evolution' tours Canada By Kate Alderdice of Abortion Laws (Edmonton); the debate his views with her for some ward the progress of civilization. TORONTO-More than 1,500 Cana­ Women's Committee of the Quebec time. "This has finally been remedied by dians attended lectures by American Federation of Labor; and the League Tiger's appearance had been video- socialist Evelyn Reed in a twenty-year anthropologist and author Evelyn for Socialist Action/Ligue Socialiste . taped by Access Alberta TV, an project entitled Woman's Evolution." Reed during her recent tour of this Ouvriere. educational network. Reed supporters One high point of the tour was a country. Reed is the author of Wom­ During her tour Reed made many contacted the network and suggested meeting in Montreal attended by 145 an's Evolution, which explores the role radio and television appearances. In that in the interest of fair play they persons. It was sponsored by a wide of women in the development of early Toronto she appeared on "The City should also film Reed's talk. range of academic bodies, the Women's human societies. Show," a popular local public-affairs The network agreed and is planning . Commission of the Quebec Federation Reed began her tour in Vancouver on program. At the end of the show, host to put together a package program of Labor, other women's groups, and March 8, International Women's Day, Martin Shulman offered Reed's book based on film clips of both Reed and two political organizations-the and from there traveled to Edmonton, and two of her pamphlets to the first Tiger. Groupe Socialiste des Travailleurs du Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, three people who called. Many student newspapers ran re­ Quebec (Quebec Socialist Workers Hamilton, and Kitchener. More than The books were gone in about fifteen views of Woman's Evolution or ac­ Group) and the Ligue Socialiste Ouvri­ fifty sponsoring organizations partici­ seconds and the switchboards lit up counts of Reed's meetings on universi­ ere. pated in the tour. with callers wanting to find out how ty campuses. At the University of Reed's lecture and answers to ques­ These included the Vancouver, Ed­ they could get copies. British Columbia, Susan Borys wrote tions were translated into French for monton, and Toronto New Democratic Reed arrived in Edmonton shortly in the student newspaper, UBYSSEY, the audience. After the meeting Reed party organizations; the Edmonton after an appearance by male­ "Some time during your history commented that the number of trade Public Library; several student coun­ supremacist writer Lionel Tiger, whom lessons in high school you may or may unionists present was larger that at cils and anthropology departments; she describes as her "arch-opponent." not have noticed the definite lack of any other meeting she has addressed the Canadian Association for Repeal Reed has been trying to force Tiger to contributions women have made to- in North America. Raza Unida leader victim of racist witch-hunt By David Jerome His expertise, however, quickly be­ raged students to do. They spoke only SAN FERNANDO, Calif.-Andres came suspect. According to Perez, when recognized by Fellows. Torres, California state chairperson of Fellows stated that he had gone to the Before the next class, Perez and the Raza Unida party (RUP) and a predominantly Black Watts area of Hernandez received letters from Dean speech professor at Mission College, Los Angeles but was "unable to find Robert Williams informing them that has been charged with instigating and the ghetto." they had "disrupted" the class and supporting a "disruption" in a class Fellows also stated that the United that they could not return until they taught by another faculty member. States is a wonderful place to live, had met with him. In effect, they had A motion of censure has been placed since it allows the free development of been suspended. . before the Faculty Senate that includes all minority ethnic cultures. Using Torres quickly came to the defense of Torres's removal from the school's refugees from Cuba and Vietnam as the two suspended students. After a executive board. examples, Fellows hailed America as meeting with Dean Williams, which What was this so-called disruption? a haven for peoples fleeing from resulted in the reinstatement of Perez Two Chicano students, Miguel Perez political "terror." and Hernandez, Torres and others and Eugene Hernandez-both mem­ To students who had grown up in the thought that the incident was over. In bers of the San Fernando chapter of. barrios and ghettos of this country, fact, it had only been round one. the RUP-told the Militant that they such statements didn't exactly make Rumors began to circulate among enrolled in a class entitled "Ethnic Fellows an "expert." the faculty that Torres had in fact Indentification in the United States," Perez, Hernandez, and other stu­ instigated the "disruption" and that he taught by a teacher named Dan dents challenged Fellows's racist as­ would do so again. To certain Anglo Fellows. At the ·start of the first class, M"'""n"'·'""" Barrett sumptions. They felt that they were faculty members, this seemed to consti­ Fellows made clear that he considered TORRES: Steadfast supporter of placing not only setting the record straight, tute an infringement of their "academ­ himself an expert on the subject of Mission College at service of Black and but also participating in the classroom ic freedoms." minority cultures in the United States. Chicano communities in Los Angeles. discussion-as Fellows had encou- Continued on page 26

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 15 ~P-S riot against Arabs Palestinian freedom protests rock Israel

By David Frankel ·> .• ,,,., that "police in northern Israel today From Intercontinental Press ~ 4.... rounded up 50 more Arabs suspected of ...... ·· ... ·...... ··•.·.•··.· ...... ·. ~ ~. ' ··,··.·.·.~ The two-month-long upsurge of the , ., a part in the rioting, bringing the total Palestinians on the Israeli-occupied ·· .... ,·.~-~ in custody to 300. The police were said West Bank spread to northern and to be studying press photographs of central Israel March 30. Strikes and the disturbances and planning further demonstrations paralyzed more than a arrests." dozen areas, including Nazareth, the The upsurge against the Israeli largest Arab town in Israel, with a occupation on the West Bank that population of 43,000. began at the end of January was Joseph Fried of the New York Daily fueled by the decision of an Israeli News estimated that one-quarter ofthe court calling into question the status of Arab workers in Israel observed the the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of call for a general strike, staying away the Rock, both Islamic holy places. The from their jobs despite threats that March 30 general strike originated as a they would be fired. protest against the expropriation of Shops and schools were also closed Arab land in the Galilee. But as we in many areas of the West Bank, have seen, such partial struggles bring including the cities of East Jerusalem, ~ the Palestinians into conflict with the Nablus, and Bethlehem. Israeli state almost as soon as they This is the biggest upsurge of the begin. Palestinian people since the 1936-39 Not only did the Zionist settlers rebellion against British colonial rule. drive the majority of the Palestinian The size and militancy of these demon­ people from their homeland to make strations represent something new in way for the Israeli state, but they the development of Palestinian resist­ continue to discriminate against those ance to the Zionist regime. In response to PalestiniC!n protests Israeli border guards charged through INazareth Palestinians who remain. beating any Arabs they could find. There is glaring discrimination in employment, housing, health care, and Continuation of the Palestinian the allotment of public funds for struggle at this level could quickly "At one point, the enraged guards Ten thousand mourners, including everything from recreation centers to alter the relationship of class forces in attacked the horne of the recently contingents from thirty-six towns and street paving. Israel to the decided disadvantage of elected Mayor, Toufik Zayad, a Com­ villages, turned out. They raised their The nearly 500,000 Arabs inside the Rabin regime. munist, smashing windows and doors fists in unison and chanted, "With Israel make up 16 percent of the The response of the Zionist regime to and beating several members of his spirit and blood we shall free Galilee!" population, but they number only 3 the March 30 protests. was savage. family and friends who had gathered While Hillel expressed the forlorn percent of the university students. Police throughout Israel were ordered there." hope that the weeks of militant pro­ Arabic is formally an official lan­ to "keep the peace everywhere and in tests by the Palestinian people would guage in Israel, but few Israeli officials any way possible." The Israeli regime was quick to disappear and "prove to be a single, speak it, universities do not bother to This order was a license for a blame the March 30 protests on "out­ isolated incident," Premier Yitzhak teach it, and public telephone directo­ pogrom against the Palestinian popu­ side agitators" and "extremists." Po­ Rabin opened up a red-baiting attack. ries are printed in Hebrew and Eng­ lation. Before the day was over, six lice Minister Shlomo Hillel said at a According to Rabin's fantastic lish, but not Arabic. persons had been killed and dozens Jerusalem news conference, "Due to charges, the violence on March 30 The Palestinian masses will no more wounded. the influence of events on the West carne not from the killers in the Israeli tolerate this state of affairs indefinite­ As far as the Israelis were con­ Bank and the encouragement from police and army, but from the Israeli ly than will the Blacks in Zimbabwe cerned, any 'Arab was fair game. abroad, we have witnessed something Communist party (Rakah). and South Africa. They have been Terence Smith, in the March 31 New none of us in Israel has experienced Rabin's red-baiting statement was inspired to struggle by the worldwide York Times, described the behavior of before." (Quoted in the March 31 New intended to divert attention from the recognition accorded to the Palestine one group of border guards in Nazar­ York Times.) massive character of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and by the eth, suggesting that they had "pan­ But the determination pf the Palesti­ resistance. It was also intended to set growing isolation of the Israeli regime. ic' ad" after being stoned. "Shouting nian masses to win freedom was the stage for further victimization of They have been steeled by the brutali­ at. 'vaving their nightsticks," Smith shown again when three victims of the Palestinian militants. ty and racism of the Israeli occupation saia, ''they charged through the streets Israeli terror were buried March 31 at An unsigned dispatch from Tel Aviv forces, and they are determined to beating any Arab they could find. Sakhnin, a village in the Galilee area. in the March 31 New York Times noted fight for their rights.

Try taking the ~Militant' to work with you By Pat Galligan custodial workers and teachers at the explain his views to a growing audi­ the Socialist Workers party cam­ An increasing number of Militant counseling center where he works. ence. paigns, although some of the workers subscriptions are being sold by social­ A member of American Federation of "After hearing me answer the chal­ at first doubted whether the SWP was ists to their co-workers and to members State, County and Municipal Employ­ Jenges and defend my views, they really serious about running in the of their unions. ees (AFSCME) Local 159, he is became interested in finding out elections. We talked to Shafiq Abdulahad, a currently seeking a local delegate's more," Abdulahad said. "Now," Abdulahad concluded, "they provisional member of the Socialist post in the union. "I began to bring copies of the see the SWP as being very practical­ Workers party in Philadelphia. Thus Abdulahad is known as a socialist at Militant to work," he continued. "I sold 'in touch with reality.'" far in the drive, he has signed up four­ work and within the union. His social­ them right by the time clock." "That Camejo knows what he's teen co-workers. Some of these sub­ ist views have proven to be controver­ More people started to listen to him talking about," said one of Abdula­ scriptions have been sold to youth sial with some of his co-workers. But and to buy the Militant-first single had's co-workers. counselors like himself and others to this helped give him a chance to copies, and later subscriptions. The Philadelphia SWP isn't relying What do these Philadelphia solely on subscriptions sold on the job AFSCME members like about the Mili­ to reach their spring quota of 200. Sales scoreboard tant? On March 27, socialists there Sold Seattle 300 186 62 "Many of the people I work with launched the campaign of Tony Austin last Detroit 300 177 59 consider themselves pan-Africanists," for Congress in the Second Congres­ City Goal week % Washington, D.C. Area 265 157 59 he explained. "They followed the sional District. During a door-to-door Houston 300 395 134 New York 750 418 56 Militant's coverage of events in Ango­ blitz of West Philadelphia and Ger­ Cleveland 175 207 118 San Francisco 375 200 53 la very closely." mantown they sold sold forty subscrip­ Milwaukee 225 112 St. Louis 250 280 112 50 tions. San Diego 200 215 108 Dallas 25 12 48 Portland, Ore. 175 188 107 Minneapolis 300 138 46 Articles about municipal workers in Nationally, the Militant's spring Chicago 350 350 100 Total 7,000 5,452 78 other cities, the extensive coverage of subscription drive continues ahead of New Orleans 175 175 100 the cutbacks and their effects on the schedule. Only 28 percent of the way Newark 150 150 100 Black community, and reports on the through the drive, we have already Richmond, Va. 50 50 100 YSA Teams struggle for school desegregation in reached 38 percent of our goal. We now Logan, Utah 15 15 100 Wisconsin 60 67 112 Boston are among the features that have 2,075 new subscriptions. Chico, Calif. 10 10 100 Mid-Atlantic 90 79 88 However, we fell short of our goal Atlanta 300 294 98 Michigan 90 76 84 have been the subjects for discussion. "Also, they liked the article I wrote with sales of the April 2 Militant Champaign-Urbana, Ill. 20 19 95 Upper Midwest 90 74 82 (headline: "Palestinians rebel in occu­ Boston 410 379 92 Ohio/Kentucky 90 62 69 about a recent cop killing here [March San Antonio 95 85 89 Texas 90 57 63 5 Militant]," he added. pied lands"), as the scoreboard shows. Philadelphia 275 230 84 Rocky Mountain 60 37 62 What was the reaction to the revela­ Leading in sales are Chico, Califor­ Oakland 150 123 82 New York 90 55 61 tions about the FBI burglaries of the nia; Newark; New Orleans; Portland, San Jose 75 59 79 Southern Calif. 90 55 61 Socialist Workers party? Oregan; Richmond, Virginia; and St. Berkeley 175 135 77 Pennsylvania 60 30 50 "In their view," he said, "the govern­ Louis. All made their sales goals three Pittsburgh' 225 157 70 New England 60 29 48 ment resorts to such tactics because it weeks in a row. If other cities can Illinois/Indiana 90 30 Baltimore 125 88 70 33 sees the SWP as a threat." match their performance, we'll hit the Los Angeles 685 .448 65 Total 960 651 68 There has been a growing interest in 7,000 goal.

16 Junta cracks down Argentine right-wing squads step up terror By Judy White traffic have a seal on their doors showing those arrested-though not generally junta ordered the expulsion of any From Intercontinental Press that they have been closed. . . . Such is the by name, as in the case of arrested foreigner who criticized the junta or Rightist terrorist groups resumed case of the Uni6n Obrera Metahirgica Peronist officials-are trade unionists who "carries out activities that affect . kidnapping and killing trade-union (UOM), Sindicato de Mecanicos y Automot­ and students. Many of the trade the social peace, national security, or ores (SMATA), Asociaci6n Obrera Textil militants and revolutionists in Argen­ unionists were arrested during raids on public order." There is no appealing (AOT), Uni6n Obrera de la Construcci6n union headquarters, where arms were such expulsions. tina only days ·after the country's new (UOCRA), and the Federaci6n de Prensa.1 president, Lt. Gen. Jorge Rafael Vide­ allegedly found. Seriously threatened by this decree la, promised his regime would respect Garcia pointed out that other unions Possessing arms had become a are the thousands of political exiles human rights and use legal methods to would most likely be treated in the necessity for self-defense among mili­ who reside in Argentina. Victims of "assure a situation of absolute social same way in view of the junta's decree tant trade unions and political groups the 1973 Chile coup alone probably peace." on trade-union activity. that opposed the Peronist regime. In number between 1,000 and 2,000. In Two persons died in a raid staged by In -fact, the process is already under face of the frequent murderous attacks the aftermath of the Videla take-over the junta on a Buenos Aires local of way. by groups like the AAA, which operat­ in Argentina,-the Washington Post of the Communist party March 24. An official communique dated ed with total impunity, organizations March 30 reported, thirty-five Chileans The Buenos Aires daily La Opinion March 25 announced the take-over of critical of government policies were who were living in the United Nations reported seven "subversives" killed in the Cordoba CGT,2 along with a forced to take extreme measures to refugee centers were arrested. two separate incidents in Cordoba number of provincial unions: Luz y protect their members and offices. One unexpected positive outcome of March 25 and 26. Fuerza, Sindicato de Trabajadores de What the March 28 issue of La Opinion the junta's expulsion order was the Juan Carlos Dergan, a worker in the Perkins, Uni6n de Educadores de la called the "normal possession of arms release of a Chicana activist from meat industry, was shot down in the Provincia, Asociacion de Trabajadores among legislators, functionaries, trade California who had been imprisoned in capital by unknown assailants. del Estado, Sindicato de Empleados unionists, and political leaders and Argentina since November 1974. Olga The March 31 La Razon reported a Publicos, Sindicato de Obras Sanitari­ activists" has now become the pretext Talamante was tortured until she Fiat worker kidnapped in Cordoba. as, and Sindicato del Taxi. 3 On April 3, according to the New On March 29 the Sindicato de York Times, the bullet-riddled bodies of Obreros Panaderos4 in Comodoro Riva­ fifteen young persons were found in davia was occupied by police. Weap­ ditches and empty lots around Buenos ons, ammunition, and explosives Aires. were reported found, and the leaders of The same dispatch in the New York the union were arrested. An official Times cited military reports of the communique stated that they would be killing of Eduardo Guillermo Castella­ tried by a special war council for no Soto, Cordoba political secretary of "possession of arms and explosives of the Partido Revolucionario de los war." Trabajadores (PRT-Revolutionary Workers party); and of ten ·"leftist Arrests continue guerrillas" in Tucuman and Cordoba More details on arrests have become provinces. available, although the number of Thus the rate of assassinations, after persons jailed as a result of the coup dipping for a few days, is continuing at was still unknown as of April 4. The about the same level as in the months March 29 issue of the Washington Post preceding the coup. The Alianza Anti­ cited an estimate of 4,500. comunista Argentina (AAA­ On March 30 the offices of- the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance) Communist party's newspaper, Nuest­ seems to be functioning with the ra Palabra, were raided. A New York support of the military dictatorship as Times dispatch on the incident report­ it did under Isabel Peron, and it is ed hundreds of shots being fired by supplemented by the repressive actions soldiers and policemen in civilian Avanzada Socialists of troops and the police. clothes. Ten persons were arrested. 1973 congress of Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores (PST -Socialist Workers In general, the bourgeois press Hector Campora, leader of one of the party). Junta has banned PST and several other parties and opened assault on trade emphasized, "normalcy" has been left-wing factions of the Peronist unions. restored throughout the country. movement, has disappeared. A war­ By March 25 transport was function­ rant is out for his arrest. Also being ing as usual and government offices sought by police is CGT General for rounding up individuals who might signed a confession of involvement in were open. Theaters and movie houses Secretary Casildo Herreras. Herreras dissent from the policies of the junta. "subversive" activities. In September were in operation and some radio was in Uruguay at the time of the coup The penalties for arms possession 1975 she was tried and sentenced to stations were permitted to resume but has since disappeared. under the new law are imprisonment three years in jail. regular programming. Prior censorship Frequently referred to in accounts of up to ten years. In his first speech as president of the press was officially lifted the March 30, Videla indicated how the following day. 1. Metalworkers Union, Union of Auto­ Parties banned junta proposes to meet Argentina's Most important to the capitalist motive Machinists and Allied Trades, _ escalating economic crisis. "Sacrifice, Textile Workers Association, Construction Communique No. 45 of the junta, work, and austerity" were his major owners of the media reporting the decreed the evening of March 25, situation, production was reported up Workers Union, and Press Federation-the themes. unions that spearheaded labor struggles stated: In addition to eliminating collective in almost all industries, absenteeism during the past year. was down, and the wave of strikes and Article 1. All activities of the following bargaining to determine wages, the ·work stoppages that had plagued the 2. Confederaci6n General del Trabajo organizations are prohibited: Partido Comu­ program totally eliminates price con­ Peronist regime in its final days had (General Confederation of Labor). nista Revolucionario, Partido Socialista de trols; encourages foreign investment in ended. los Trabajadores, Partido Politica Obrera, heavy industry, especially oil; sets a 3. Light and Power Workers, Union of Partido Obrero Trotskista, and Partido Perkins Workers, Provincial Educators new currency-exchange policy, bring­ Comunista Marxista-Leninista.5 Repressive moves Union, Association of State Workers, Public ing almost all imports into the country With regard to the trade unions, Article 2. The headquarters used by the Employees Union, Sanitation Workers organizations named in the previous article at the free-market quotation for the which had fallen under a blanket Union, and Taxi Drivers Union. are hereby closed, once all insignias and Argentine peso; and increases domes­ decree barring any trade-union activi­ signs related to the activities of the afore­ tic prices on petroleum products and ty, Roberto Garcia reported in the 4. Union of Bakery Workers. mentioned have been removed. electricity. March 27 issue of La Opinion: Article 3. All properties and bank ac­ What the program will mean to the counts of the organizations named in All day yesterday ... activities in the masses of Argentina was indicated by Article 1 are hereby seized. majority of trade unions in the capital Joanne Omang in the April 4 Wash­ Article 4. In coordination with the Eco­ developed normally. However, it is true that ington Post: it is practically impossible to locate the nomics Ministry, the Ministry of the Interi­ "Argentina's new economy minister main figures of the unions (their general or will determine the disposition of the property mentioned in the preceding article. promised continuing unemployment, secretaries as well as the members of their rising costs and falling purchasing respective leadership councils), who possi­ power.... " bly are waiting until next week to decide These organizations are the first political parties to be singled out and The New York Times editors warned whether to put in an appearance, since by April 4 that it would require "some then, presumably, the new official policy banned by name. Although there have with regard to trade unionism will be more been two raids reported on the Commu­ near-miracles" to achieve the junta's clearly defined. . . . nist party, it has not been specifically goals. A partial check of trade-union national banned. The main challenge to the junta's headquarters in the capital showed that Another decree announced by the miracle-making powers is yet to come. except for half a dozen of them the rest The Argentine working class has been have no problems in carrying out their waiting to see if the military will activity.... 5. Revolutionary Communist party, a lighten the burden it was staggering It is also obvious that military vigilance Maoist group; Socialist Workers party, a under in the final months of the Per6n is not the same for all unions. On the blocks sympathizing organization of the Fourth regime. Now, the resumption of right­ where some headquarters are located, for International; Working-Class Politics party, wing terror against trade-union and example, motor traffic has been banned for the Argentine affiliate of the Organizing revolutionary activists, in combination security reasons, while at others you scarce­ Committee for the Reconstruction of the ly notice the presence of a light guard·-of Fourth International; Trotskyist Workers with attempts to impose the junta's soldiers. Up to 4,500 have been arr~ted since party, the followers of Ju~ Posadas; and economic recovery plan, are likely to There are union headquarters that in coup. Junta has warrant out for Peronist Communist party Marxist-Leninist, a Mao­ precipitate new explosions in the class addition to having a ban on automobile leader Hector Campara. ist organization. struggle.

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 17 Condemns 'cannibal morality~ Plyushch answers Jackson at NY meeting By David Frankel is an example of true humanism, true Congressman Edward Koch tried to Plyushch's case at the International From Intercontinental Press internationalism. whip up the audience. "What is taking Congress of Mathematicians in Van­ More than 3,000 persons came to "We Soviet dissidents, democrats by place inside the Soviet Union . . . couver. Nearly 1,000 participants in greet Leonid Plyushch at a meeting conviction, appeal to the American rivals Nazi Germany," he said. He that congress signed a petition for the held March 27 in Manhattan Center in people: Fight for political freedom called for ending the sale of wheat to release of Plyushch. The British Royal New York. The meeting opened a throughout the world. You, a great and the USSR and denounced Ford for the College of Psychiatry and the World speaking tour of the United States and powerful people, will to a great extent "outrageous act of refusing to have Association of Psychiatry protested Canada by the former Soviet political determine the fate of all the peoples of Solzhenitsyn come to the White the _yiolation of medical ethics revealed prisoner. the world." House." by the treatmer.t of Plyushch. Profes­ Unfortunately, the meeting, which Simas Kudirka, a former Lithuanian sor Lucio Lombardo Radice, a member was sponsored mainly by the Commit­ Angers right-wingers sailor, also compared the Brezhnev of the Central Committee of the Italian tee for the Defense of Soviet Political Right-wingers in the audience hissed regime to the Nazis and lamented that Communist party, added his voice to Prisoners, was marred by the inclusion Plyushch. Although they had joined in what he saw as "the only ray of hope" the campaign to free Plyushch. of well-known representatives of the the ovation given Plyushch at the at the United Nations-Daniel P. On October 23, 1975, the committee Democratic party on the list of speak­ beginning of the meeting, they were Moynihan-had been "extinguished" of mathematicians organized a protest ers, including Senator Henry Jackson, obviously shocked that Plyushch did by Ford. rally in Paris attended by 4,000 per­ who is running for the presidency of not share their anti-Soviet sentiments Pavel Litvinov, the grandson of sons. Most of the French left, with the the United States. and was critical of their hero Jackson. Maxim Litvinov, who served As Stal­ exception of the Communist party, These anti-Sovieteers, all of whom The senator did not respond to the in's foreign minister during the 1930s, endorsed the rally. spoke before Plyushch, sought to turn critical observations made by the gave a straightforward appeal for the the meeting into a right-wing political recently released Soviet political pris­ defense of those victimized by the Impact on CP rally. oner. He did not add his voice to those Kremlin bureaucracy, as did Tatyana Two days later, the daily newspaper Plyushch, who is not interested in condemning the murderous right-wing Zhitnikova, Plyushch's wife. of the French CP, l'Humanite, was becoming involved in American poli­ dictatorships supported by the State Some criticisms have been voiced of forced to take note of the Plyushch tics and still less in being used by Department in Latin America. He did the mistake made by the sponsors of case because of the impact of that imperialist enemies of the' Soviet Union, felt compelled to take his distance from these speakers, particu­ larly Jackson. "It is immoral," Plyushch said, "to speak out against violations of human rights in the Soviet Union and not in Chile-and vice versa. That is canni­ bal morality-it is all right if I eat the enemy but bad if the enemy eats me." Challenged Jackson Turning to Jackson, Plyushch re­ ferred to the case of Jose Luis Massera, a leader of the Uruguayan Communist party imprisoned and tortured by the Bordaberry regime. He called on Jack­ son to support the campaign to free Massera. Plyushch then stressed the impor­ tance of actively supporting the efforts to win freedom for the political prison­ ers imprisoned and tortured by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile: "A struggle for Chilean political prisoners is developing. It must be pointed out that the repression in Chile is very severe. Mter all, even in the USSR singers do not have their hands chopped off. "Mr. Jackson, your authority is very great. Your participating . in the PL YUSHCH: 'It is immoral to speak out against violations of human JACKSON: No comment struggle for freedom in Chile would be rights in the Soviet Union and not in Chile.' very important." · Plyushch also brought up the case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were not join in the effort to clear the names the meeting in including figures like rally. "If it is true-and unfortunately murdered in the electric chair during of the martyred Rosenbergs. To have Jackson and Koch on the speakers' up until now no proof to the contrary the regime of General Eisenhower for responded favorably to Plyushch's list. Their presence injured the work of has been f~rthcoming-that this allegedly stealing the "secret" of the remarks might have cost Jackson seeking freedom for political prisoners mathematician is interned in a psychi­ atomic bomb. some votes in the Democratic prima­ in the Soviet Union. atric hospital solely because he has "The children of the Rosenbergs are ries. taken a position against certain seeking to obtain from the U.S. govern­ It was noticeable after the meeting How Plyushch was freed aspects of Soviet policy or against the ment the complete file on their parents' that not one of the big capitalist dailies The fact is that the sponsors of the regime itself," an editorial in l'Human­ case," Plyushch said. reported the reception given Plyushch meeting followed a course different ite said, "we can only affirm in the "I do not know if the Rosenbergs upon his arrival in "free" America. from the one that gained the release of most forthright manner our total were Soviet spies or not, but I do not Other speakers at the meeting ex­ Plyushch. In this respect, it is worth disapproval and demand that he be understand why their children cannot tended from Michael Harrington, a recalling how Plyushch came to be freed as rapidly as possible." be permitted to have the material in longtime Social Democratic leader who freed. The pressure of these events was felt this case. still poses as a socialist, to Congress­ The group that played a key role in in Moscow, and on December 26, 1975, "This situation is analogous to the man Edward Koch, who if anything winning Plyushch's release was the Tatyana Zhitnikova, who had been case of Bukharin in the Soviet Union. stands to the right of Jackson. International Committee of Mathema­ seeking permission to leave the USSR Bukharin's widow has fought for years ticians for the Defense of Shikhano­ with her husband and family for now for the restoration of his good Greetings from Udall vich and Plyushch. (Shikhanovich, a months, was suddenly informed that name, but the Soviet government has Harrington's · main contribution, Moscow mathematician who was ar­ she should reapply for visas. Two refused to rehabilitate him formally. I aside from asserting the obvious fact rested in 1972, was released in the weeks later the Plyushch family was hope the American government is that Soviet society is not socialist, was summer of 1974.) allowed to leave the Soviet Union. more intelligent and humane. to bring greetings to the meeting from The formation of this committee was This is the pattern that ought to be "I ask Mr. Jackson to_support the Morris Udall, a liberal rival of Jackson announced in Paris in February 1974. continued. effort of the Rosenberg children to in the Democratic primaries. Although' the committee included indi­ Plyushch himself, as he indicated at obtain the complete file. 1nez Weissman, a leader of the Long viduals of all political views, its the March 27 meeting, is interested in "If Mr.. Jackson acts on these three Island Committee for Soviet Jewry and members were academic figures who extending such efforts to all countries requests it will show that he is speak­ the Labor Zionist Alliance, hailed were not linked to any imperialist where democratic rights have been ing in behalf of human rights, not out Jackson's efforts on behalf of Soviet government or to any propaganda trampled underfoot. For this purpose of expedient political considerations, Jews "as a monument to American agency designed to further imperialist he has urged the organization of a but for genuine moral ones. moral principle." objectives. nonpartisan international committee. "There are four Ukrainian women Vladimir Markman, a Soviet Jew Many of those in the committee, Whether a broad international com­ political prisoners whose action should now living in Israel, and Vladimir including two of its founders, Michel mittee of this kind can be set up in the be an example for all of us. They Davidoff, a Soviet emigrant living in Broue and Laurent ·Schwartz, had immediate future remains to be seen. requested that the money they are paid the United States, both stressed the participated actively in the movement Meanwhile the struggle to free other · for laboring in the camp should go for importance of Jackson's 1974 amend­ against the war in Vietnam and in the Plyushchs can certainly be continued. the def~nse of Chilean political prison­ ment linking U.S.-Soviet trade to the .defense of political prisoners victi­ And the struggle can achieve new ers. These are so-called Ukrainian lifting of restrictions on emigration mized by right-wing dictatorships. successes if the right methods are bourgeois nationalists'. But their action from the USSR. In August 1974 the committee raised followed.

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losses in production totaled 1,675 vehi­ cles. In Quebec, public service workers timed a one-day walkout to coincide with the action. A total of 120,000 walked off the job to protest Trudeau's wage controls, and the lack of progress in contract negotiations with the provincial government. All Montreal-area schools closed. Almost all hospitals were functioning on an emergency basis only. Many other Quebec workers also walked out, including Ottawa-Hull construction workers, ten thousand Hydro-Quebec workers, and three thou­ sand CSN members working for pri­ vate employers. General Motors had to close its auto plant in Ste-Terese. It was hardly surprising that the idea of a general strike came up again I and again on the demonstration in Ottawa. March 22 itself had turned Canadian, Quebecois into a massive one-day walkout. A number of banners, particularly from Quebec, called for a general strike against wage controls. They reflected workers protest the concern of many of the marchers that more action, and more far­ reaching measures, would be needed if wage controls Trudeau ignored the demonstration. Cross-country solidarity In addition to the estimated 10,000 Quebec unionists who came to Ottawa, another 10,000 marched in demonstra­ tions in twelve cities throughout Que­ bec, including about 5,000 in Quebec City. A solidarity march in Edmonton drew between 700 and 1,000. Section of crowd at March 22 Ottawa rally of 30,000 Labor Challenge/Darrel Furlotte The demonstration was spirited despite the intense cold and biting wind. A number of women from a CSN By Joan Newbigging ment Hill: "This is only the beginning. At the same time, the UAW contin­ local in Marienville, Quebec, sang Unless the government acts, we will gent was approaching the Hill from songs they had written to protest the [The following article appeared in organize actions that are bigger, bet­ the opposite direction. It was made up wage controls. the March 29 issue of Labor Challenge, ter, longer." of 3,000 unionists from Windsor, Lon­ There were marchers of every age. a revolutionary-socialist fortnightly March 22 must be the first step in a don, and Brantford who jammed a The march as a whole was younger published in Toronto.] coordinated campaign to put an end to chartered train. than previous large actions by CLC the wage controls. A chartered plane from British affiliates. The proportion of women OTTAWA-More than 30,000 trade The Canadian Labour Congress Columbia brought 135, and another was noticeably high. A large number unionists from across Canada (CLC) called the demonstration on the from the Maritimes brought 108 partic­ of students participated-a new and marched on Parliament Hill in sub­ date it was to present its annual ipants. encouraging feature. Several hundred zero weather March 22 in a resounding submission to the federal government. Six to seven thousand from Ottawa came from the University of Quebec demonstration of opposition to Tru­ But CLC President Joe Morris's joined the action, according to CLC and the Rosemont junior college in deau's wage controls. courtly discussion with Trudeau con­ estimates. Montreal. It was a historic day for the labor trasted sharply with the mood and the Treasury Board President Jean movement in Canada. meaning of the demonstration outside. Chretien ordered Ottawa civil servants Many signs expressed the views of • March 22 was the largest protest The roadway around Parliament Hill to stay· on the job, the CLC reported. the marchers: "Bill C73 promotes demonstration in Ottawa's history. was already filled with thousands of But hundreds defied his instructions, unemployment" (Bill C73 is the wage­ • March 22 was the first united demonstrators when two giant contin­ and left wo;k to attend the demonstra­ control law); "Fight inflation, not action in Canada's history of masses gents, one from Quebec and the other tion. people"; "United and organized" (Que­ of working people in both Quebec and from the United Auto Workers in Marchers were still pouring onto bec CSN workers); "OSSTF supports English Canada. Ontario, arrived to swell the ranks. Parliament Hill as Louis Laberge and CLC" (Ontario teachers districts 14 • Tens of thousands gave up a day's Joe Morris briefly addressed the dem­ and 16); "Wage controls bring us pay to come to Ottawa March 22, and Quebec contingent onstration. And they continued to uncontrolled wage disparity" (New the action became a widespread one­ The Quebec contingent rallied across arrive as organizers declared that the Brunswick steelworkers); "No compro­ day walkout in Quebec and in certain the river in Hull, Quebec, drawing action was over and urged everyone to mise on Bill C73" (Hamilton United points in Ontario. together thousands of unionists from go home. Electrical Workers). Quebec's three major federations. The The demonstration itself had a Controls can be beaten· Confederation of National Trade powerful impact on its participants. March 22 altered the political cli­ Unions (CSN) and the Quebec Teach­ One-day strike Few had expected such a crowd. The mate of Canada. It showed the country ers Federation (CEQ), while not affili­ March 22 caused havoc in the auto turnout was indeed astonishing. Little the immense strength of labor. It ated to the CLC, decided to support the plants in southern Ontario. The Ford had been done to build the action. Of proved that union members are ready action and brought out thousands of truck plant in Oakville was forced to the biggest unions, only the UAW to act against the controls. It proved their members. When the first part of shut down for the day. The Chrysler worked to bring out its members. Many that the controls can be beaten. the Quebec contingent reached Parlia­ car plant in Windsor shut down. locals scarcely knew that the demon­ Louis Laberg~ of the Quebec Federa­ ment Hill, the last of the marchers General Motors production in Oshawa stration was going to take place. tion of Labour echoed the view of the were still in Hull, more than a mile was halted on one of three production The CLC leadership pushed the demonstration when he said on Parlia- away. lines. The auto bosses reported their Continued on page 21

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published an article on the Belgian CP that said, "The Communist Party of Belgium (CPB) announced last week ·that it was not going to knuckle under to the increasing anti-Soviet tirades from the ruling circles of this industri­ Gus Hall rushes to Kremlin's defense al country, neighboring France." Two days earlier, in its first mention of the French CP congress, the Daily World printed the greetings given to ~cousins' embarrass CPUSA the congress by the representative of French the American CP. He told the French delegates: "We say to those in our country who would show concern for freedom and who even talk of morality to look homeward where an outworn capital­ ism still imprisons its 'dissidents' -as it tried to do with Angela Davis.... " It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the American CP would prefer its French cothinkers to follow the model set by the Belgian CP, or, better yet, by the American CP. In their greetings to the French CP congress, the American Stalinists reminded the French of how such problems were dealt with in the good old days. "In the bitter but victorious struggle against nazi fascism, the French Communists rejected any and all revisionist theories .... We grate­ fully recall the help given our Party by the venerated Communist leader, Jacques Duclos, whose famous 1945 article in Cahiers du Comunisme contributed to the restoration of Marxism-Leninism as our guiding principies." Only those familiar with the history of the so-called Duclos letter can fully appreciate its evocation by the Ameri­ can CP, which today would dearly like to invoke its own version of the Duclos letter ,against the· French Stalinists. The 7,600-word open letter, titled "On the Dissolution of the Communist Party of the United States," appeared Twenty-fifth Soviet Communist party congress. CPUSA's Hall received 'one of the most rousing ovations.' in the May 24, 1945, issue of the Daily Worker, and was the signal for the ouster of Earl Browder, who had By Oavid Frankel Marchais referred to "repressive of the suppression of human rights in headed the American CP for fifteen measures that infringe on freedom of the Soviet Union have been reported years. It is doubtful that anyone outside of op1n1on, expression or creativity," throughout the world and have been a handful of specialists in the 500,000- leaving little doubt in the minds of the subject of considerable discussion Browder a scapegoat member French Communist party most observers that he was including both in the capitalist press and in the The Duclos letter claimed that "one pays any attention to the decisions of the Soviet Union among the places working-class movement. But the Am­ is·. witnessing a notorious revision of the American CP. The American where such infringements occur. These erican CP has not yet reported either Marxism on the part of Browder and Stalinists have not even the shadow of statements followed a cautiously Marchais's criticisms or the discussion his supporters, a revision which is a mass base, and there is little that worded condemnation of the treatment they touched off. expressed in the concept of a long-term they can say or do that would be likely of Leonid Plyushch, the Ukrainian Instead, the American Stalinists class peace in the U.S., of the possibili­ to have the slightest effect on the mathematician who was imprisoned in have turned to Aesopian allegories to ty of the suppression of the class French CP. a mental asylum because of his politi­ convey their thoughts. For example, struggle in the postwar period and of Unfortunately for the American cal views. the February 14 Daily World, the CP establishment of harmony between Stalinists, the reverse does not hold Two articles in Intercontinental newspaper, while remaining silent labor and capital." true. They are very much affected by Press (see March 19 and March 26 itself about the international stir This description of the political line the actions of the mass Communist World Outlooks) have already dealt created by the French CP congress, followed by the CP under Browder was parties in Western Europe. The recent with the new-found concern for democ­ decisions of the French CP in particu­ racy claimed by the French Stalinist lar have proved troublesome. leaders. Their statements were merely On the one hand, the American CP vote-getting declarations that did not has consistently argued that the re­ change the basic relationship between What's there to hide? ports about bureaucratic repression in the French Stalinists and the bureau­ The American CP has finally "The other differences between the Soviet Union are rightist fabrica­ cratic caste in the USSR. taken its first public notice of other parties are largely tactical," tions and slander, and that any The American CP has no basis for differences that have developed Hall said. He noted that the Italian repression of dissidents that does occur existence except as a defender of the recently between Moscow and some CP, which "is very often used as an Western European CPs. there is justified by the need to defend Sovie~ bureaucracy whose job is to example of differences," signed a the Soviet state against imperialist­ translate the Kremlin line into Eng­ In the March 20 issue of the Daily joint communique with Kremlin inspired counterrevolution. lish. The French Stalinist leaders, in World's weekly magazine supple­ leaders during the Soviet party contrast, are obliged to take their own ment, Gus Hall expressed his opin­ congress. A different drummer? mass base into account; they walk a ion on the subject in an interview on "So there are differences," Hall How can this argument be squared tightrope between the demands of the the outcome of the Soviet CP's concluded, "but one should not with the declarations of French CP Kremlin and the pressure of the twenty-fifth congress. overstate these differences ...." leader Georges Marchais at his party's workers who follow them. "We have never tried to hide the congress early in February? "Paris All this, however, is cold comfort for fact that there are differences," Hall Commenting somewhat indirectly Red Charges Soviet Repression," was the American Stalinists. They cannot said-nearly two months after the on criticisms that have been made the way the New York Times head­ read the French CP out of the Stalinist much-publicized twenty-second by the Italian and French CPs of lined its front-page article on Mar­ movement-the Kremlin itself has French CP congress. political repression in the Soviet chais's opening speech to the congress. been careful to maintain amic~ble Quick to point out the potential Union, Hall said: "As to the ques­ It quoted Marchais as saying: relations with the French CP. At the dangers of such freethinking, Hall tion of democracy . . . what is most "We cannot accept in effect that the same time, the American Stalinists are warned, "Sometimes these differ­ important is the historic trend in the Communist ideal, whose object is the in a position of hearing rhetoric from a ences go further, and they are based world. In the socialist countries the happiness of man and for which we "fraternal party" that would earn on certain opportunistic considera­ trend is for a deeper, more broad ask the workers to fight, should be anyone else a denunciation as a tions." Using Maoism as an object form of democracy. Socialist democ­ 1 stained by unjust and unjustifiable counterrevolutionary agent of imperi­ lesson, he added, ' At the bottom of racy is still in the process of being acts. Such acts are in no way an alism. the swamp of opportunism is coun­ developed. What's important is it's obligatory consequence of socialism." The statements by Marchais critical teirevolution." moving in the right direction."

20 completely accurate. But this was not a necessary to do more than send a letter, a policy developed independently by the note, and the job is completed. American CP or by Browder, neither This is the organizational and politi­ one of which had any independent cal tradition that the American CP ideas. This was Stalin's policy, and it appeals to and holds up as a model in was followed by every Communist its greetings to the French Stalinists. party in the world. As was to be expected, the French In the Soviet Union itself, a dispatch Stalinists have ignored the squirming in the April 2, 1945, New York Times of their cousins in the United States. Washington's reported-nearly two months before In fact, at the Twenty-Fifth Congress the Duclos letter was published-"a of the Soviet CP, which opened in sweeping change is being made . . . in Moscow at the end of February, the ~selective' Marxist economic dogmas as they French, Italian, and British Commu­ have been officially taught in the nist party representatives restated schools, the press, on the platform and their supposed commitment 'to democ­ radio. Marx's theory of the exploitation racy and independence from the Krem­ refugee of the proletariat is completely revised lin. and capitalism is declared to be a 'progressive' and not a 'backward' Hall wins 'rousing ovation' policy system." Gus Hall, the general secretary of El Sol de Mexico/Vadillo Stalin's problem was that the war the American CP and a leader in the White House policy on admitting September 1973, when tens of thou­ was coming to an end, and a shift in tradition of Browder, rose at the March political refugees was examined in a sands of Chilean workers, peasants, emphasis was needed. Browder was 1 session of the congress to answer the feature article by Barbara Koeppel in and students were slaughtered or used as a scapegoat, and the Duclos Stalinist leaders who had not beeri the February 22 Los Angeles Times, penned up in concentration camps, the letter-which came straight from the deferential enough to the Kremlin prompted by the controversy over the foreign embassies in Santiago opened Kremlin-was the signal for the shift. bureaucrats. Hall, who was awarded resettlement of pro-American Vietna­ their doors -to refugees. Thousands of The dumping of Browder was meant with "one of the most rousing ovations mese in the United States. persons escaped death by this avenue, as a warning to the capitalist rulers accorded a guest speaker" according to The conclusion she came to was that and every major West European coun­ that if the wartime alliance with the the March 4 Daily World, explained justice or humanitarianism played try accepted thousands of refugees Soviet Union was broken, the Commu­ how, "Like a piercing laser beam of little role in government decisions in from the bloodthirsty Pinochet dicta­ nist parties would go into opposition. light, the basic theme of Marxism­ this field. The main consideration was torship. At the same time, the Stalinists pro­ Leninism runs through the very sober, political. "The United States was more cau­ mised that their wartime support profound and deeply penetrating as­ "The figures from the last few tious however. None were taken into would be continued if there were no sessments and projections of Comrade decades speak for themselves," she the U.S. Embassy: This country was change in policy toward the USSR. Brezhnev's report." said. "Approximately 800,000 Eastern the only one which did not offer The resolution of the American CP Hall is the American CP's presiden- Europeans were accepted after World protection. When they asked for asy­ War II as they ran from communism. lum in the United States, they were But before the war-at the height of told 'we don't have the machinery' to Hitler's persecution of the Jews, trade deal with emergencies and were ad­ unionists and socialists-only 19,500 vised to go through normal channels. out of 139,000 who applied in 1938 were Since the coup, only 70 Chileans have admitted. That figure was 10,000 below worked their way into this country on the quota set for German immigrants. regular immigrant visas and 19 for­ And when a bill was introduced in eign nationals [resident in Chile at the Congress in 1939 to admit 20,000 time of the coup] came on a case-by­ German Jewish children over the next case basis." two years, it died in committee." About 500 Haitians who fled to Special provisions for waiVmg red Florida in small boats from the notori­ tape and admitting whole groups of ously brutal, repressive regime of political refugees were passed by Duvalier were jailed in detention Congress in 1952. These have been centers. They were given summary used to admit refugees from East hearings before immigration authori­ Germany, 29,000 Dutch nationals and ties in which the translator was linked planters who fled in the face of rising to Duvalier's secret police. nationalism in Indonesia, and 650,000 In contrast with the government anti-Communist Cubans. But they gushing over the tens of thousands of have never been invoked to admit Hall (left), listening attentively to his Kremlin mentors, is a 'leader' in the tradition of refugees who linked their fate to the refugees from rightist repression. Browder (right), an ill-fated predecessor. American army and its puppet regime In the case of the Chileans, Koeppel in Vietnam, eight Vietnamese students quoted one source as saying that given who protested against the undemocrat­ the U.S. interest in the overthrow of adopted after the appearance of the tial candidate, but he had nothing to ic character of the Thieu regime were the Allende government, "it is obvious Duclo~ letter said: "It is imperative say about the American political scene denied asylum in the United States. that it is not going to fling its doors that the American people resolutely beyond a few generalities. The attacks They were saved from deportation to open to the same people it helped support every effort of the Truman on Black rights in Boston and other their homeland and certain imprison­ unseat." administration to carry forward Roose­ cities, the changing political outlook of ment or death only by the sudden That is, having helped to set up a velt's program for victory, peace, the American working class, the issue collapse of the puppet government. concentration camp regime, Washing­ democracy and 60 million jobs." of discriminatory layoffs, the attacks "Even more dramatic than the ton does not intend to aid any esca­ The immediate task was to "continue on the right of women to abortion-all Haitian or South Vietnamese example pees. In fact, the U.S. Immigration uninterrupted war production and this and much more was passed over is the case of Chile," Koeppel said. In department stands guard on the .other uphold labor's no-strike pledge for the in silence. the wake of the bloody rightist coup of side of the barbed wire. duration." But Hall knew what he was doing­ James P. Cannon, the founder of he was addressing his real constituen­ American Trotskyism, discussed the cy, the Stalinist bureaucracy. He said: The Executive Council of the CLC is downfall of Browder in an August 1945 In our times, the main ideological pres­ speech reprinted in his book Speeches sures of imperialism are in relationship to meeting in Ottawa to decide what for Socialism. Cannon said: the socialist world and against the Soviet ... Ottawa action it will take next. Union in the first place.... Continued from page 19 Its first move was to withdraw The very same people who spoke so March 23 from the Canadian Labor devotedly in echo of Browder in 1944 said Opportunism breaks through where the slogan "Whatever happened to price the exact opposite in 1945. All, without ideological pressures of the enemy are the controls," and it was seen on hundreds Relations Council and the Economic exception, denounced Browder as a revi­ greatest. of placards and buttons. This gave the Council of Canada, two bodies spon­ sionist of Marxism, as a peddler of bour­ Our party has a basic principled position impression that if some price control sored by Ottawa with the aim of geois ideas, etc. And Browder, who had on these matters. We are not going to fight measures were introduced, labor could binding the labor leadership into a unanimous support in May of 1944, had not imperialism by their rules. We are not going accept wage controls. And it is true tight collaboration with the bosses. a single vote in July of 1945. to use or repeat anti-socialist and anti­ that the CLC leadership have never CLC spokespersons indicated at the Now, what kind of a movement is it and Soviet slander to win acceptance, to win respectability or to prove our autonomy. ruled out accepting a modified wage­ sa:me time that this important step was what kind of leaders are they who can be control scheme. not the last. They reported that the unanimously elected one year and unan­ Much as the Soviet bureaucrats must But the entire march was firm on the organization of a one-day general imously rejected the following year without have liked Hall's impassioned plea in strike was among the proposals put any change on their part whatsoever? That key question: Trudeau's wage controls is the type of leader who is not elected, but behalf of their traditional prerogatives, must go. And that's the message that forward at their meeting. A demonstra­ is appointed from above. Such people are all they know that the unconditional came across. tion in Toronto April 28 was also being the same type; they are fit to run a backing of the American CP is no March 22 only hinted at the vast considered. bureaucratic machine but never to lead a substitute for the mass power of the numbers of working people ready to March 22 showed that labor stands real struggle. . . . French and Italian parties. Therefore, take action against the controls. together against the wage controls. These leaders hp.ve no personal authority, it appears as if the American CP will For the thousands whQ turned out, Large numbers of unionists are ready no independence. When Stalin wishes to just have to live with its dilemma, like the action gave a taste of the power of to join in an all-out campaign to smash depose one of them as a scapegoat, it is not it or not. labor. the controls.

21 World Outlook

fug steP- forward for French Trotskyists First 'D.aily Rouge' rolls off presses By F .L. Derry paper will appear six times a week: five editorial offices. 12-page issues during the week and a The paper will be divided up into PARIS-On March 15 the first issue 16-page issue on Saturday. several different sections: politics, of Rouge Quotidien came off the press, The financial campaign to launch international, social, cultural, and converting Rouge, the organ of the the paper began early last year. The "daily life." In addition, the paper will Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire initial goal was to raise 2 million feature contributions from other politi- (LCR), the French section of the francs (nearly US$500,000). At the end cal groups in France. Fourth International, into a daily. of the year the initial goal was raised An article in the November 14, 1975, Planning for the ambitious project to 2.4 million francs. Rouge by Ploech, one of the leaders of began some time ago. A fund-raising A week before the publication date, the LCR, discussed this aspect of the campaign was conducted for almost a all but 140,000 francs of the total had paper under the heading "A Perma- year, a new, modern printsho·p was set been raised. The money came from nent Debate": up, and a full-time staff was organized sympathizers, from a sustainer levied While firmly setting forth our political to put out the paper. on members of the LCR, and from the point of view, we will open up our columns Rouge Quotidien will be competing sale of calendars, postcards, and other broadly to those who do not hold the same with several other left dailies. The promotional material. _ kind of revolutionary opinions as we ... Communist party, of course, has l'Hu­ In addition, the LCR organized a What is more, the desire for unity on the manite as well as several daily region­ large two-day festival last October. part of those involved in struggles is al papers. However, in spite of the 50,000 persons becoming stronger and stronger. This is a culture section reviewed a new film The Socialist party and the Parti who attended, little profit was made to deeply felt need. As revolutionary crises and carried the day's television list­ Socialiste Unifie (PSU) have only aid the paper. Thus, the bulk of the draw near, sectarian quarrels seem if not ings. Other sections included articles weeklies. There are two Maoist dailies: money has come in the form- of outworn at least out of date. Debates, on psychiatry, a government-run home individual donations. polemics, yes. The scope of the problems Le Quotidien du Peuple and l'Human­ justifies that. However, staying huddled up for women that resembles a prison, a ite Rouge. These are both very small; Much of the fund has already been in a defensive position, with only your teeth government project to reform the in fact, l'Humanite Rouge is little more put to use. A new headquarters has and claws exposed-the time is passed for French educational system, and cover­ than a daily four-page leaflet. been located, which will serve both as that! age of a series of strikes of public Somewhat more substantial is Liber­ printshop and editorial offices for the employees. ation, which claims to be "indepen­ paper as well as a national office for Of particular interest was a full-page dent." the LCR. The old national office at 10 In a subsequent article in the Janu­ interview with Leonid Plyushch, the The first press run of Rouge Quotidi­ Impasse Guemenee will be used as a ary 2 Rouge, Rene Yvetot said that this Marxist Ukrainian mathematician en was 60,000. It is not expected that Paris headquarters. "right to reserve a place in the Rouge recently released from a Russian the run will remain at this level. What A new Suburban web press is being Quotidien" was not extended to "or­ "psychiatric hoSpital." A message of is hoped for is a steady level of readers installed as well as modern typesetting ganizations that represent nothing at greetings to the daily Rouge from above the estimated minimum of equipment. The press, according to all or that practice physical violence Rohan Wijeweera and Lionel Bopege 15,000 daily sales required to sustain plans, will also be used in the produc­ and resort to gross epithets in place of was also printed. Wijeweera was the the paper. The sales of Rouge as a tion of books and pamphlets. In debate." leader of the mass student revolt in Sri weekly were somewhat over 10,000. addition, a telex has been installed so The first issue of the new daily Lanka (Ceylon) in 1971 and is still Most sales will be done through that articles can be sent in without carried a front-page article on the being held in prison. newsstands, with a few subscriptions delay. An· Agence France-Presse tele­ results of the previous day's cantonal The launching of a daily is a big step and street sales on weekends. The type reports the news directly to the elections in France. Two pages in the forward for the French Trotskyists.

In rev1ew 'Pretoria and Washington--Allies Against Africa' By Steve Clark White House adopted a secret policy in herbicides and defoliants of the in league with covert U.S. intervention. toward southern Africa (nicknamed types used against freedom fighters in Harsch explains the impact of events Three recent issues of Intercontinen­ 'Tar Baby') that included a 'relaxation' Vietnam. in Africa over. the past several years on tal Press featured an information­ of the arms embargo against the white Harsch also details the military the majority Black population inside packed series by staff writer Ernest minority colonial-settler regimes." connections between South Africa and Pretoria's borders. He also shows that \Harsch that will be useful to all Sales of U.S. aircraft to South major European imperialist powers, the racist regime's policy of "detente" Opponents of the white racist regimes Africa, for example, jumped from $25.6 such as Britain, France, West Ger­ with some Black African nations is in Southern Africa. million that year to $70 million in 1971 many, and Italy. aimed both at defusing nationalist The central point of the series is and $80 million in 1972. "The arms sales to Pretoria by struggl~s in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and captured by its title: "Pretoria and Washington also exported more than individual NATO governments are its own colony of Namibia, and at Washington-Allies Against Africa." $22 million worth of sophisticated only a small part of what appears to be expanding its markets ®d economic "Pretoria's military buildup and the communications and surveillance an intricate-and increasingly influence throughout the continent. extension 6r its interventionist policies equipment to Pretoria between 1967 coordinated-network of military con­ Harsch concludes the series with a are a clear threat to the struggles of and 1972, along with about $10 million tacts and alliances between the South reminder of the dangers posed to the the African masses for genuine inde­ African regime and its American and African masses by Washington's back­ pendence," Harsch points out. At the European partners," Harsch says. His ing of Pretoria. "It is necessary," he same time, he convincingly argues second article explores the links be­ says, "to press forward with a broad that this danger "cannot be separated tween Pretoria and NATO. campaign ... to demand an end to all from the danger emanating from NATO views South Africa as an military aid to the racist South African Washington, the main bastion of indispensable factor in its "defense" of regime." imperialism and racism on a world the strategic sea route around the scale." southern tip of Africa. From South The first of the three articles cata­ African soil, NATO is already coope­ logs U.S. arms sales to South Africa, rating with Pretoria in a far-ranging Special offer placing them in the context of Wash~ surveillance operation sweeping al­ Intercontinental Press is offering ington's overall aims on the African most the entire South Atlantic, much a special deal on the three issues continent. The United States and other of the Indian Ocean, and the entire containing Ernest Harsch's series members of the North Atlantic Treaty African continent. "Pretoria and Washington-Allies Organization (NATO), Harsch points Harsch also exposes the aid of Against Africa." IP will provide out, have helped stock Pretoria's arsen­ NATO and of NATO members in these three issues, normally al for many years, despite the 1963 South Africa's pr~gress toward devel­ available to "World Outlook" United Nations sanctions barring UN oping a nuclear arsenal. readers for $2.25, for only $1.00! members from providing arms to The final article looks at Pretoria's Write to: Intercontinental Press, South Africa. role as imperialism's "gendarme" in P.O. Box 116, Village Station, New This military assistance increased South African armored cars poised for Southern Africa-a role most recently York, New York 10014. after 1970, Harsch says, when "the battle inside Angola earlier this year. dramatized by its invasion of Angola

22 The cutbacks liberal Udall: peddling the ~painful truth' By Cliff Conner "None of us wants to oppose enforc­ Morris Udall represents a new trend ing the Constitution and court orders," in American politics: the "cutbacks he said in Wisconsin recently. But liberal." In the past those who adver­ there is an "emerging consensus," he tised themselves as liberals, including OUR POLITICAL added, that "busing is not the best way Udall, generally favored at least token to achieve integration." increases in government spending for TWO PARTieS Never mind that in almost every some socially beneficial projects. major American city the deliberate But now they say they are "fiscal obstruction of desegregation since the conservatives," and they promise less 1954 Supreme Court ruling proves that of just about everything people need. busing is usually the only solution. We have already witnessed "cutbacks liberals" at work as governors of major Saying that he would like to "mini­ states: Edmund Brown of California, mize" busing and use it as a "last Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, resort," Udall suggested that Blacks Hugh Carey of New York. Now Udall might be willing "to wait a while" on wants to carry their program to the desegregation if they were given "com­ White House and practice it on a munity control of schools" in their national scale. neighborhoods and promised equal educational expenditures. Liberal? Progressive? This is nothing more than a retreat In fact, Udall would rather be called to the old "separate but equal" dodge a "progressive" than a liberal these of Jim Crow days-papered over with days. He explained in Wisconsin last some cheap exploitation of the nation­ month that he doesn't want a label alist sentiments of the Black communi­ "associated with abortion, drugs, bus­ ty. Udall's sudden "support" for com­ ing, and big-spending wasteful govern­ munity control of schools in the ment." neighborhoods of oppressed nationali­ "If I become President," Udall wrote ties will come as quite a surprise to in a fund-raising letter, "I'm going to Puerto Rican, Black, and Chinese tell it exactly like it is. And for starters, parents and students in New York's I'll tell you right now that the only school District One! way you and I and all America will Udall is also quite a law-and-order ever overcome our current economic man. The streets of Harlem "belong to and energy crises is to acknowledge a few hoodlums in sneakers," he said the painful truth that we must change while campaigning in New York. "We our way of life." (Emphasis in origi­ can feel guilty about them, but we nal.) must not allow them to terrorize a He argues that "conspicuous con­ city. . . . I say we can and we are sumption must be eliminated from our 'It's getting so I can't tell the difference' going to take back the streets from lives," that "we" must no longer these hoodlums, from the dangerous "overindulge ourselves with frivolous junkies and the demented killers." electrical appliances and gadgets," What is Udall's solution? He pro­ and that "we" must'curb 6ur "unlimit­ poses harsher sentences, reduced plea ed greed and desire for luxury." ate investment. year vote catcher for the Democrats. bargaining, and a halt to the tendency This is a contemptuous insult to He calls for reductions in the war It promises to shoot for an unem­ to release "the guilty" too soon. average working people, who are budget, but only by a paltry 10 to 15 ployment level of 3 percent (leaving This from a candidate who has no struggling just to provide themselves percent. "We must have a lean, tough millions jobless) in four years, and for solution to raging unemployment and their families with adequate food, military force prepared to defend the adults only. among young people. A candidate who clothing, housing, and other necessary national interest, however it might be The bill itself does not create even is in headlong retreat on busing. A goods and services. threatened," Udall says. one job. candidate who is for less, not more, It is doubly insulting to the unem­ In Congress, Udall has consistently A government-funded public works government spending on needed social ployed, to Blacks, Chicanos, and Puer­ voted for the Pentagon's war budgets­ program would be on the agenda in services. to Ricans, to those forced by circum­ straight through the entire course of four years at the earliest, and even stances onto welfare, and to others the genocidal slaughter in Vietnam. then only if it were deemed "practi­ Socialist alternative trapped by capitalism at the lowest cable," "consistent with . . . other The truth is that Morris Udall is tied wage levels and living conditions. Friend of labor? essential national policies," and "cal­ lock, stock, and barrel to the concerns "The test for America," according to Although Udall tells trade unionists culated to foster and promote free of American big business and to the Udall, "is whether we can adapt and that his election would serve the competitive enterprise." Democratic party, which helps prop change from an era of abundance [for interests of the labor movement, his it up. "There's a lot of good in this whom?] to an era of scarcity. I think record and platform prove otherwise. Wage controls old tree called the American free­ the central job of the next president is What does he say about unemploy­ Udall blames inflation on wages, enterprise economy," he says. to get us through that economic trans­ ment? "Until there are enough jobs to rather than on the hundred-billion­ An assault is under way on the past ition." go around, I believe that the only dollar war budget, where the cause gains of women, Blacks, and working Udall calls on working people to equitable approach is to share the really lies. This is despite the govern­ people, and Udall stands squarely on tighten their belts while not challeng­ work that is available; shortened ment's own labor statistics, which the side of the capitalists in that battle. ing the Pentagon's spending of scores working hours, shared shifts, slightly prove that wages have trailed behind That is why he is embarrassed about a of billions of dollars to patrol the world reduced pay for all instead of unem­ prices over the past few years. label that he thinks associates him and make it safe for American corpor- ployment for an unlucky few." Udall tries to appear evenhanded by with abortion, busing, and government "No longer can American workers calling for "new authority" to curb spending. complacently sit back, content with "large price increases and wage settle­ The Socialist Workers party candi­ former successes," Udall has also ments in the years ahead." But work­ dates, Peter Camejo and Willie Mae warned. "We must bring our productiv­ ing people have not forgotten that the ·Reid, on the other hand, stand on the ity back up.... " "wage and price controls" passed by a side of the oppressed and exploited. Socialist Workers party presidential Democratic party majority in Congress They support the movements for bus­ candidate Peter Camejo could agree under Nixon ~erved only to hold down ing, for passage of the Equal Rights with the shorter hours proposal, but paychecks while prices and profits Amendment, and to defend abortion why should workers have to take a cut continued to soar. rights. They believe that all working in pay? And any worker could tell Udall has voted for antiunion "right people have a right to a decent, well­ Udall that nobody outside of corpora­ to work" laws. He says that he is paying job, and they actively support tion suites gets paid for "sitting back personally opposed to such laws, but workers who strike to demand those complacently." voted for them because his congres­ rights. If the increased productivity sional career "might have ended right Camejo spoke on several Wisconsin achieved by technological advances there" if he had voted otherwise. campuses during the week before the were used to benefit workers rather We have a right to ask: what other of primary there, while Udall and his than boost profits, a shorter workweek our interests will be glibly sacrificed to fellow Democratic party contenders with no cut in pay could be easily political expediency by a would-be were also making the rounds. After implemented-eliminating the "need" President Udall? contrasting the SWP's program to that for layoffs and providing working of these capitalist. politicians, Camejo people with some well-deserved leisure Desegregation: maybe . . . was approached by a Black student time as well. Compared to most other capitalist who had attended one meeting. The Hawkins-Humphrey "full em­ candidates this year, Udall's position "See this?" the student said, point­ ployment" bill now before Congress is on school desegregation looks pretty ing to a "Mo" Udall button in his UDALL: Wants us to curb our 'unlimited another of Udall's wonder drugs. But good: he is not adamantly opposed to hand. "I just took it off, and I'm never greed and desire for luxury.' this legislation is simply an election- it. going to put it on again."

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 23 In Review How working people can fight U.S. fascism The Fight Against Fascism in the States and masses of workers turn to approach of others on the left. For ~~:~rib:~r~Y P~~t~~~pa~tfs b~t~~;;~: ~z::,li~r;:e f~m~~~:~rs c!~it~~~~s P~~i (, li \Ml ~:~r;:: 1ds!~:cf!~~! ~:~;:n~I:~~~ P. Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, Vincent begin to back fascist demagogues in material by the Spartacus Youth R. Dunne, Joseph Hansen, Malik the tradition of Hitler and Mussolini. . Ul[) League, a small sectarian group that M . h d h N y k In this regard, James P. Cannon, the organizes small demonstrations of N~~i~nalan Edu~~t~~~ D::arim~~/ !~~n~f~i~!dth~t!~~!~k;~~!;:~v~:e~~~~ 82 f Al ,~ ~~!!~:: ~~~~:~ci:~:.,rlemand of "No Socialist Workers party, 1976. 55 "American capitalism is not in love l··. l RQO The "no platform" demand gets in pp., $1.35 with democracy.... The only princi- •.. '. ft{J •f\. the way of mobilizing a mass response By David Frankel ple the American capitalists have is /1..·.·•·· .··.·,•0 .. ·.•V. IC" to the ultrarightists. As Miah says, From Intercontinental Press the exploitation of labor, the extraction L "Instead of coming across for what_it In October 1974, a racist lynch mob of profits, and the enrichment of really is-a struggle in defense of the went after a young Black man in the themselves at the expense of the work- democratic rights of the working class streets of Boston. It was only by ers." and oppressed minorities-the struggle chance that the victim was able to In his book America's Road to is turned into a sterile dispute over the escape with his life. Socialism, Cannon said that as the 'rights' of the fascists." Jean-Louis Yvon, a Haitian immi- class struggle in the lJnited States At the same time that the "no grant, had simply been driving heats up, "Fascist bands will be platform" demand makes it appear as through a white neighborhood when subsidized and armed and hurled if the antifascists are attacking demo- the racists pulled him from his car. against the strikers, against the union cratic . rights instead of defending This ugly incident, which made halls and all other workers' gathering them, it helps foster the idea that headlines around the world, reflected places and institutions. The workers, government or campus authorities can the racist hysteria that has been built for their part, will have no choice, if be relied on as a force to stop the up in the United States around the they don't want to be defeated and fascists. The American Communist issue of busing children in a school enslaved, as the German workers were party, in fact, calls directly on the desegregation program. It also repre- defeated and enslaved under Hitler- government to outlaw fascist organiza- sented something deeper-an impor- they will have no choice but to orga- tions. tant shift that is beginning to take nize their own defense guards, meet - This question was taken up by Leon place in the American political scene. the fascist bands on their own terms Trotsky in an article titled "Why I During the Vietnam War the and carry the battle to them." Consented to Appear Before the Dies government-as has been shown by its The Fight Against Fascism in the Committee." Dies was the head of the own secret documents-did its best to USA is a handbook for revolutionists House Un-American Activities Com- ~.~::,~n'!:;":O~:~;'h!~!:!:~le~e ::£::~~: 7~r. ~::~::[, :~~;~::! STOP RACIS FiF.i,£ ;~!:l~~:~ ..::5mS::::

opponent not only Pamphlets ~~~I~~~::~~7~~!:ts 1~~Fa~r:;~:!~:. it~ r1~ '~f · Tr::~::of fascism a:~~~concilable but also of the present-day In essence, fascism is a mass right- Comintern, I am at the same time decidedly though right-wing attacks were com­ wing movement that aims to smash against the suppression of either of them. mon, the government failed in its the organizations of the working class The outlawing of fascist groups would attempt to build a right-wing move­ through extralegal violence. The Trot- inevitably have a fictitious character: as ment to counter the antiwar forces. skyist strategy in fighting ·fascism reactionary organizations they can easily Rightist groups remained isolated and flows from this understanding. change color and adapt themselves to any on the defensive. As Murry Weiss explained in a 1945 kind of organizational form since the This has begun to change. Today, article describing the SWP's response influential sections of the ruling class and to a fascist campaign in Los Angeles: of the government apparatus sympathize the United States is entering a period considerably with them and these sympa- of prolonged economic crisis and "It is not a question of can we 'get by' thies inevitably increase during times of instability, which are creating a class with some small picket lines of the po 1·Ibca · 1 cns1s.· · . . . polarization. Right-wing groups are 'radical' parties. It is a question of how · However, the question is not exhausted expanding, while growing layers of the to mobilize masses of workers for by this consideration. Under the conditions working class are beginning to radical- struggle, without ignoring the reality of the bourgeois regime, all suppression of 1ze. of their existing organizations and political rights and freedom, no matter The reactionary forces have been leadership. Every party venture, every whom they are directed against in the encouraged by the attempts of the party tactic must be calculated to beginning, in the end inevitably bear down further this end." upon the working class, particularly its ruling class to whip up racist senti­ The mobilization of a mass most advanced elements. That is a law of ment against immigrant workers, history. The workers must learn how to Blacks, and Hispanics. The offensive response-that is what revolutionists distinguish between their friends and their against Blacks in relation to school aim for in combating right-wing and enemies according to their own judgment desegregation and job discrimination fascist demagogues. The success of and not according to the hints of the police. has been especially menacing. this strategy at any given time will, of ... the working class in the capitalist In Boston, the racists organized in course, depend on specific circum- countries, threatened with their own en- stances. In the struggle against racist Militant/Jon slavement, must stand in defense of free- ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights) . . . just as today antibusing racists have been able to terrorize whole violence in Boston, for example, the dom for all political tendencies including size of antiracist demonstrations will must be shown to be threat to whole t h e1r· own Irreconci· 1able enemies. communities and mobilize thousands working class. in opposition to Black rights. Else­ vary from time to time. This does not While revolutionists uphold the dem­ where, the Ku Klux Klan has become change the necessity of outmobilizing ocratic rights of everyone, this does not increasingly aggressive, speaking on the racists in the streets to show them A similar problem faces revolution­ mean that violent attacks on the campuses, running candidates, and that they are a minority and cannot ists today in dealing with the racist workers movement and oppressed picketing socialist headquarters in intimidate the opponents of racism. offensive against Blacks. Groups like minorities by fascists and ultraright­ New Orleans and Houston. In his 1945 article, Weiss shows how ROAR and figures like Arthur Jensen ists have to be tolerated. Farrell Another reflection of this developing the small Trotskyist forces in Los and William Shockley-academicians Dobbs, for example, describes how the polarization has been the evolution of Angeles were able to apply this strate­ who spread the doctrine of the genetic Minneapolis Teamsters union formed a the National Caucus of Labor Commit­ gy of mass mobilization and beat back inferierity of Blacks-are not fascist, workers defense guard to counter the tees (U.S. Labor party), a group that a campaign by Gerald L.K. Smith to but they are laying the groundwork for threat of fascist attacks in 1938. Such originated in the radical student move­ 1 establish a base there for his Christian the emergence of a· genuine American defense guards, built as part of the ment of the 1960s. It has become a National Front. The first problem was fascist movement. mass working-class movement, will fascist organization, coupling leftist to alert the workers of the danger Malik Miah, one of the contributors play a central role as fascist organiza­ demagogy with violent attacks on facing them. As Weiss said: to The Fight Against Fascism in the tions grow and the government shows USA, points out that "it is likely that various groups in the working-class Smith's movement is not the isolated its unwillingness to defend the victims movement. German-American Bund, wearing storm­ an American fascist movement will of their attacks. These are only indications of the troopers' uniforms and meeting in the not simply ape the German or Italian Today, however, it is the struggle class polarization that is building in Deutsches-Haus. He moves behind a heavy fascists, as the American Nazis do. It against the government-sponsored ra­ the United States, but they are impor­ defensive covering of "Christians Unite" won't identify with hated figures like cist offensive that is the key to hand­ tant nonetheless. Marxists have al­ and "Against Fascism and Communism!" Hitler. It will be camouflaged, its ing the ultraright a setback. Success in ways started from the understanding He works through the churches, the old age features emerging from the American building a mass antiracist movement that America, despite all its wealth, is pension movement, and every other possi­ class struggle and American preju­ in the United States will be an impor­ ble defensive camouflage. Thus when we not immune from the economic and dices." tant step in preparing the working formulated the policy of our antifascist In confronting the ultraright and social crises that arise from the contra­ campaign, our central thought was to force class and its allies for future battles dictions built into the capitalist econo­ the organized working class into conscious· racist forces such as ROAR and against fascist demagogues and their my. ness of who Smith was and the necessity of Jensen, the Trotskyists in the Socialist backers in the ruling class. The Fight It can safely be predicted that as the fighting him. In the first period this was the Workers party and Young Socialist Against Fascism in the USA will be a class struggle develops in the United main need. Alliance have had to argue against the valuable weapori in this fight.

24 City hall seeks to block cost-of-living pay granted to New York transit employees· By Lynn Henderson The transit workers' new cost-of- contract be modifed to explicitly re- NEW YORK-The new two-year living formula calls for a one-cent quire that any cost-of-living increases contract covering 34,000 New York increase in hourly pay for every 0.3 must come out of transit workers' City transit workers is seen as a point increase in the Consumer Price paychecks through increases in crucial one by Wall Street and city hall Index. The adjustment is made every productivity-that is, speedup, layoffs, in their campaign to reduce the stan- six months. The old formula was one and erosion of working conditions. dard of living of the city's work force. cent in wages for every 0.4 point One example of the "productivity" Other municipal unions also view increase in the price index. changes sought is elimination of the the pact as decisive in setting the · While the new pact represents an paid lunch period. pattern for their upcoming contract improvement in the formula, it still All in all, transit workers are likely talks. The powerful Transport Workers falls short of keeping transit workers to find they have another battle on Union Local 100, with its ability to even with inflation. For example, if their hands each time a cost-of-living shut down. business and seriously prices rise 10 percent in 1976, transit payment falls due. The city adminis- reduce corporate profits from the first workers will receive only about an 8 tration has made it abundantly clear hour of any strike, has traditionally percent increase in pay. The proposed that it has no qualms about breaking played this role in New York. contract in effect guarantees that union contracts. Agreement on the new contract was transit workers will suffer a reduction Officials of other municipal unions announced minutes before a 5:00 a.m. in their real wages over the next two may not have been exactly cheering deadline on April 1, when transit years. for the TWU to break through the workers, in keeping with their "no The New York Times quoted a wage-freeze pattern they had already contract, no work" tradition, were "knowledgeable observer" as calling accepted. The March 31 New York prepared to walk off the job. the package "a bargain" for the Times gave the evaluation of "a lawyer Transit workers will receive no wage Transit Authority. Nevertheless, a who has been involved in city labor increase during the entire two years of campaign was immediately launched negotiations": Militant/Lou Howort the contract. The only money they may to declare this miserly settlement "Some of the leaders of city unions BEAME: No qualms about ripping up get is a cost-of-living adjustment tied extravagant and lay the basis for the may want to be sympathetic to the union contracts. "in principle" to unspecified savings control board to reject it. city's critical fiscal situation, he said, through higher productivity. The city's rulers would prefer to force but if the transit workers got some- The wages of all city employees have an agreement more like the one Gov. thing ... the rank-and-file members in successful strategy of keeping the been frozen since last summer under Hugh Carey recently concluded with the city unions will not want to go unions divided and isolated. The TWU city and state laws. Cost-of-living the Civil Service Employees Associa- along with any concessions." officials did little to counter this strate­ provisions may be exempted from the tion, giving most state workers no The agreement has yet to be ratified gy. freeze, but all contracts are subject to wage increase and no cost-of-living by the membership of the Transport They failed to challenge the Demo­ review and rejection by the state- adjustment. Workers Union. There may be opposi- crats' and Republicans' premise that appointed Emergency Financial Con- Mayor Abraham Beame declared tion. an austerity drive is necessary. trol Board. Last fall the board, com- that "the specific elements of this TWU President Matthew Guinan They failed to rebut the city's propa­ posed of wealthy business executives agreement, if applied to city agencies, had to bring Harry Van Arsdale, ganda threatening a hike in the bus and Democratic party politicians, would exceed the city's financial plan." president of the New York City Central and subway fare, now fifty cents, and ripped up as "too expensive" the Beame, who is a member of the control Labor Council, into the union negotiat- new reductions in service if wages were contract accepted by the United Feder- board, let it be known that he plans to ing committee meeting at 4:00 a.m. to increased. (Instead the union hired a ation of Teachers after a five-day vote against the agreement. help sell the pact. The ovations that $2,000-a-day Democratic party econo­ strike. Other city officials propose that the have greeted past settlements . were mist, who blithely called for higher noticeably absent. taxes.) Despite VanArsdale's help, the best They made no attempt to form a that Guinan could report at the news united front with other unions against conference announcing the agreement the budget-cutting campaign. was "near unanimous support" for the They made no attempt to win sup­ proposal by the union negotiating port from other working people, espe­ committee. cially from the Black and Puerto Rican How far Beame and the Emergency communities, from which most of the Financial Control Board· will go in TWU's members are drawn. their attempts to whittle do.wn the Most important, as with the other contract remains an open question. city unions, the TWU officials contin­ Although apprehensive about forcing ued their support to the Democratic the powerful TWU into a strike, they "friends of labor" who are carrying· out are unanimously agreed that even the antilabor drive. these meager terms must not be - This disastrous policy continues extended to other city workers. unabated, leaving the unions political­ The New York Times reported that ly powerless. That the union tops have among "persons in the Mayor's suite, learned nothing frorrt their recent there was some feeling that the Mayor defeats was signaled again by the would rather take a strike by District April 2 announcement that Theodore Council 37 [American Federation of Kheel, the mayor's top labor advisor, State, County and Municipal Employ· "will be host at a small dinner next Militant/Linda Jenness ees] in July than by Mr. Guinan's Monday night of labor and city offi­ Union demonstration against fare hike last summer. City tries to blame fare transit workers yesterday." cials at which a wage policy will be increases, service cutbacks on wages of "transit workers. City hall wants to continue its discussed." NY hospital workers face state wage freeze By Fran Collet workers now agree was a big mistake. "endangering patients' welfare." President Leon Davis told a delegates' NEW YORK-Forty thousand em­ On March 16 the union sponsored a Hospital managements seek to profit conference. "What we do affects work­ ployees of New York's private health­ demonstration of more than 1,000 from the fiscal-crisis atmosphere in ers all over the country." care industry face a wage freeze and people outside Carey's office to protest New York City and the lack of re­ District 1199 has a tradition oftrade­ rollback of benefits as a result of the bill. sponse by lhe powerful municipal union militancy and courage. But in budget cutting by the state administra­ The League of Voluntary unions. In a bulletin warning employ­ this fight-against not only the em­ tion. Hospitals-eager to comply with "the ees at Mt. Sinai Hospital of layoffs, ployers but also the state..,....the threat Contracts between the League of law"!-launched their antilabor offen­ personnel Vice-president Norman of a strike or an actual strike may not Voluntary Hospitals and District 1199, sive more than a month ago, announ­ Metzger said: be enough to win- a decent contract. National Union of Hospital and cing plans for massive layoffs in "Employees have been laid off Success will depend on the union's Health Care Employees, expire June hospitals throughout the city. throughout the City in large numbers ability to win active support beyond its 30. The hospitals have announced in At Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn, in the Police Department, City hospi­ own ranks. advance that they have "no money" 325 layoffs were threatened and 80 tals etc. Employees have been laid off Millions of working people are fed up for wage increases. were actually carried out after spon­ throughout the City in many industrial with paying more in hospital bills, Their excuse is a bill proposed by taneous protests by workers at that firms. District 1199 cannot believe that taxes, and insurance premiums while Democratic Gov. Hugh Carey and hospital. A smaller hospital, New we in the voluntary hospital system the quality of health care is reduced. approved March 17 by the state legisla­ Rochelle, laid off 43 workers, more are immune to the financial restraints These people can be mobilized on the ture. The bill freezes or reduces Medi­ than 10 percent of the union member­ felt throughout the City and through­ side of the union if it has a social caid payments to hospitals and nurs­ ship there. out the country." program to deal with the crisis in ing homes. It is a cornerstone of what When angry union members re­ In preparation for the upcoming health care, and a political strategy to Carey calls his "new era" of govern­ sponded to these attacks with demon­ negotiations, District 1199 has held all, combat the attacks by the Democrats ment retrenchment. strations and workplace sit-ins, the day conferences of elected delegates as and Republicans. District ll99 ·endorsed and gave hospitals were quick to seek injunc­ well as membership meetings in the These are questions hospital workers money to Carey's campaign for gover­ tions from the state. They blamed the hospitals. will be discussing intensely over the nor in 197 4, a move many hospital union-not layoffs and cutbacks-for "People are looking to us," union next few months.

THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 25 become active participants in this itself from infiltration by agents and struggle, which cannot help but affect enemy spies. But what the Stalinist our standard of living. victims of Cointelpro didn't under­ "We propose: stand is that a "spy scare" can do Calendar "1) That we proceed, tonight, to ATLANTA 16, 8 p.m. 4040 W. Washington Blvd. Donation: $1. more to disrupt the functioning of the HEALTH CARE: PROFITS AND POLITICS. A Ausp: Militant Forum. For more information call establish a strike-support committee. party than dozens of informers. panel discussion. Panelists: Ira Janowitz, physical (213) 732-8196. "2) That all the facilities of our That is exactly what the FBI accom­ therapy student at Emory U.; Dr. Hemry Kahn; union be placed at the disposal of this plished by "putting a snitch jacket on" Mickey Gillmor, nurse; Cathy LeGuin, health care MILWAUKEE planner. Fri., April 16, 8 p.m. 68 Peachtree St. PROSPECTS FOR SOCIALISM IN AMERICA. A committee, which is instructed to en­ William Albertson. Donation: $1. Ausp: Militant Bookstore Forum. For class series. The revolutionary party. Sat .. April 17, list the active participation of all our more information call (404) 523-0610. 2 p.m. 207 E. Michigan St., Room 25. Ausp': SWP. members, to carry forward the struggle For more information call (414) 289-9340. to a victorious conclusion." CLEVELAND The statement was signed by Debbie S-1: THE BILL OF RIGHTS UNDER ATTACK. Speakers: Bill Leatherberry, ACLU; Paul Gross, PHILADELPHIA Camejo (Potrero division), Milton Chee Kent Coalition to Stop S-1; Jeff Rechenbach, SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN RALLY. Speakers: Peter (Geneva), and Larry Flynn (Geneva). ... Torres president, Communications Workers of America Camejo, SWP presidential candidate; Tony Austin, Continued from page 15 Local 4309; Jeffrey Feather, SWP. Fri., April 16, 8 SWP candidate for U.S. Congress, Second Con­ p.m. 2300 Payne Ave. Donation: $1. Ausp: Militant gressional District; Clare Fraenzl, SWP candidaie Finally, charges were brought Forum. For more information call (216) 861-4166. for U.S. Congress. First C.D. Wed., April 14. against Torres by another faculty Refreshments, 7:00p.m.; rally, 7:30p.m. First United member. DETROIT Methodist Church, Germantown Ave. at High St. One doesn't have to look too far, DETROIT, I DO MIND DYING. History of the Donation: $1. Ausp: Socialist Workers Campaign ~ ., h' however, io find the real reason behind Black workers' struggle, Detroit, 1969-1970. Speak­ Committee. For more information call (215) WA5- ... sn1 c er: Dan Georgakas, author. Fri., April 16, 8 p.m. 4316. Continued from page 8 · the witch-hunt against Torres. 6404 Woodward. Donation: $1. Ausp: Militant through our counterintelligence efforts Mission College was chartered in Forum. For more information call (313) 873-8836. PITTSBURGH has been expelled ...." 197 4 as one of ten schools in the Los STRATEGY FOR SOCIALISM IN AMERICA. A In one of those clerical goofs that Angeles Community College system. It LOS ANGELES: CRENSHAW DISTRICT weekly discussion of socialism. The fight against THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN ZIMBABWE. racism and sexism. Sat., April 17, 3 p.m. 416 turn up occasionally in FBI files was chartered specifically to meet the Speakers: Niko Ngwenyama, North American Oakland Ave., Apt. 3. Ausp: SWP. For more "sanitized" for public release, Albert­ needs of minority students in the San chairperson of African National Council. Fri., April information call (412) 682-5019. son's name, in one passage, was not Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. blotted out. Torres and the RUP were instrumental The frame-up, of course, would have in the formation of the college. fallen apart under any objective inqui­ Some people, however, have tried to Their proposal, under the headline ry at the time. It was just too conve­ steer the college in another direction. "This strike is our strike!", .reads as nient that the "informer" had signed When Mission first opened in Febru­ ... strike follows: his report with his real name, instead ary 1975, 57 percent of the students Continued from page 3 "Let us be under no illusion about of a code name, as both FBI policy and were Spanish-surnamed and 16 percent them from other working-class taxpay­ this strike! common sense would dictate. were Black. The most recent informa­ ers. "Involved is not only the question of But the Stalinists don't make it a tion available indicates that the fig­ The unions ought to challenge the union solidarity with those who have policy to allow the accused to defend ures have already dropped to 32 city property tax system, which shields been set up· as the target by the union­ themselves and confront their percent and 11 percent, respectively. the downtown corporations, banks, busting board of supervisors. accusers-either in the CPUSA or in Along with other measures, this foot­ and insurance companies while heap­ "If the city officials succeed in the Soviet Union. Those who sat in dragging on a promised extensive ing ever-heavier taxes on workers. breaking this strike, all workers, pri­ judgment on Albertson were trained in minority recruitment program has led Clarifying the issues at stake for the vate as well as public, will suffer the the school. of the most monstrous RUP members to question whether entire working class of San Francisco effects of such a defeat. frame-up trials ever; the Moscow trials, Mission administrators are really con­ would be a big step toward mobilizing­ "The union-busters, emboldened by where the "guilty" were not merely cerned about the educational needs of labor and its allies for a counterattack their 'victory' over the crafts, will say expelled, but executed as well. the Black and Chicano communities. against the capitalist rulers. to us: 'Now it's your turn!' Of course, it is possible that some in The attempts to drive Torres from "Workers, dependent on their wages the CP body that decided to expel the Mission executive board amount to for a livelihood, do not want to strike. Albertson thought the case was a little the removal of the most steadfast SAN FRANCISCO, April 7-In prep­ But they are given no choice! We can weak. If so, you can be sure that the supporter of Mission's original pur­ aration for the Muni drivers' mass act to hasten a victorious conclusion to real informers, who set the game up in pose: to serve the Black and Brown meeting tonight (which takes place this strike by throwing everythiQg we the first place, were among those who communities. after Militant press time}, rank-and-file have into it. argued the loudest and most insistent­ Messages of support to Torres should activists in the Transport Workers "Instead of standing by waiting for ly for Albertson's head. be sent to La Raza Unida party, 551 S. Union have drafted an action proposal the strike to end, and thereby inviting Naturally, a political party has the Maclay Avenue, San Fernando, Cal­ for strengthening the strike. defeat, we propose that Muni drivers duty as well as the. right to protect ifornia 91340. Socialist Directory ARIZONA: Tempe: YSA, c/o Jessica Sampson, Box 224-9632. Union, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Columbus: YSA, Box 3343 Univ. Station (mailing 2235, Scottsdale, Ariz. 85252. Tel: (602) 277-9453. GEORGIA: Atlanta: Militant Bookstore, 68 Peach­ 48104. Tel: (3·13) 663-8766. address); 325 Ohio Union, Columbus, Ohio Tucson: YSA, c/o Jeff Hamill, SUPO Box 20965, tree St .. NE. Third Floor. Atlanta, Ga. 30303. SWP Detroit: SWP, YSA. Militant Bookstore. 6404 Wood­ 43210. Tel: (614) 422-6287. Tucson, Ariz. 85720. Tel: (602) 624-9176. and YSA, P.O. Box 846, Atlanta, Ga. 30301. Tel: ward, Detroit, Mich. 48202. Tel: (313) 873-8836. 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Long Beach: SWP, YSA, Pathfinder Bookstore. 3322 Chicago, West-North: SWP, YSA, Pathfinder Books, Bookstore, 15 4th St. SE, Mpls., Minn. 55414. Tel: Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. Tel: (215) WAS-4316. Anaheim St., Long Beach, Calif. 90804. Tel: (213) 428 S. Wabash. Fifth Floor, Chicago, Ill. 60605. (612) 332-7781. Pittsburgh: SWP, YSA, Militant Bookstore, 3400 597-0965. Tel: SWP-(312) 939-0737; YSA-(312) 427-0280; St. Paul: SWP, Labor Bookstore. 176 Western Ave. Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213. Tel: (412) 682- Los Angeles: Crenshaw District: SWP, YSA, Pathfin­ Pathfinder Books-(312) 939-0756. N, St. Paul, Minn. 55102. Tel: (612) 222-8929. 5019. der Books, 4040 W. Washington Blvd., Los Chicago: City-wide SWP, YSA, 428 S. Wabash, Fifth MISSOURI: Kansas City: YSA, c/o UMKC Student . Stale College: YSA. c/o William Donovan, 260 Angeles, Calif. 90018. Tel: (213) 732-8196 Floor, Chicago, Ill. 60605. Tel: (312) 939-0748. 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THE MILITANT/APRIL 16, 1976 27 THE MILITANT • ose 1canos

By Rich Stuart it's the old and middle-aged too. It's SAN JOSE-Two thousand people gotten to the point where we're saying, marched through downtown San Jose 'We've had enough!' Believe me, this on March 27 chanting, "Justice for movement will continue." Danny Trevino!" In response to this pressure city They were protesting the inaction of officials have been trying to pass the city officials against two cops who buck. gunned down Danny Trevino, an "They say they don't have the power unarmed Chicano youth. Since Trevi­ to do anything," Gonzales stated. "The no's murder in January his killers, city council says it's the city manager. officers Craig Smith and Don Ed­ He says it's the district attorney, and wards, have been on paid leaves of so on. It's a conspiracy set up for this absence. type of thing. And the grand jury to The march, initiated by the Commit­ investigate the killings is selected by tee on Public Safety, drew wide support the same judges who send Chicanos from local organizations. Among them and Blacks to prison." were La Confederaci6n de la Raza The week after the demonstration, Unida, NAACP, United Auto Workers the grand jury completed its investiga­ Local 560, Student Coalition Against tion of the killing. Its decision-no Racism, American GI Forum (a Chica­ indictments. This boils down to a no civil rights group), Socialist Work­ verdict of "justifiable homicide," said ers party, and WOMA (Women's Alli­ the district attorney. ance). But this whitewash is not likely to A featured speaker at the rally extinguish the outrage of many Chica­ following the march was Dennis nos. Gonzales explained before the Militant/Rich Stuart Banks. The Native American leader is Two thousand marched to protest cop killing of Chicano youth Danny Trevino March 27 demonstration that he sees fighting extradition to South Dakota to the need for an ongoing mass move­ face prison on framed-up rioting ment against racist police brutality. "I charges. At the rally, Banks compared have always felt that it is the responsi­ the police terror in San Jose to the Angela Davis sent a message to the Gonzales, a longtime activist and bility of every one of us to get involved. racist hysteria being whipped up in rally. leader in the community, is secretary We have to not give up-keep march­ South Dakota against the American The demonstration was the second of La Confederaci6n de la Raza Unida. ing, keep protesting, make people Indian Movement. mass mobilization of the Chicano The group has been actively fighting aware." Other speakers at the rally included community in response to the Trevino racist discrimination and police brutal­ This determination was echoed by Corky Gonzales of the Denver Crusade killing. On February 17, 1,500 people ity in San Jose since 1969. Sandi Sherman, SWP candidate for for Justice; Bert Corona, a leader in the marched on city hall. "A lot of people have been coming city council, in a statement issued after struggles of undocumented workers; These protests have been much out strongly against oppression in the the grand jury decision. Sherman said, Bea Robinson of WOMA; and Sandi bigger than any in the history of San last few years," Gonzales explained. "This case is not closed. We need to Sherman, Socialist Workers party Jose, Ray Gonzales, a central organi­ "It has made people aware. It is not keep demonstrating until justice for candidate for San Jose City Council. zer of the actions, told the Militant. only the students and youth, but now Danny Trevino is won." Protests halt gov't hanging of Black rebel in Dominica By David Frankel ed by a delegation organized by the a sworn statement saying that she had reject a commutation of Trotter's Desmond Trotter's death sentence Desmond Trotter Defense Committee lied in her testimony against Trotter. sentence. The committee hands down has been commuted to life in prison. and the U.S. Committee for Justice to Francis, whose statement was made in only advisory rulings, but John want­ The action was announced by the Latin American Political Prisoners the presence of the delegation, said ed to avoid shouldering full blame for premier of Dominica on April 5. (USLA). that in return for her testimony the execution. This latest development in the Trot­ Participating in the delegation, against Trotter, police dropped charges Public pressure for Trotter's release ter case came in the wake of an which was formed to appeal for a against her on an unrelated matter. has been building up. In New York, international campaign to save • the commutation of Trotter's death sen­ The delegation drew up its own 140 persons attended a protest meeting young activist's life, accompanied by tence, were Philip Wheaton, a represen­ affidavit affirming that the statement April 4 to demand that his sentence be the discovery of important new evi­ tative of the National Council of by Francis was given voluntarily, and set aside. On March 31 a delegation of dence. Churches; Father William Davis, S.J., submitted both sworn documents to seventeen lawyers, doctors, judges, and Two days earlier Trotter had won a director of the Office of Social Minis­ the government of Dominica April 1. magistrates from Martinique went to temporary reprieve from the execution try, U.S. Jesuit Conference; Charles The announcement of the reprieve Dominica to lodge a protest in the order. Roach, representing the National Con­ followed a special cabinet · meeting Trotter case. Trotter, a political activist on the ference of Black Lawyers; and Ber­ called to discuss the new evidence. The Groupe Revolution Socialiste, Caribbean island of Dominica, had nard Wiltshire of the Desmond Trotter On the basis of the new evidence the the Antilles section of the Fourth been scheduled to be executed by Defense Committee. Desmond Trotter Defense Committee is International, has been publicizing hanging on or before April 8. The The delegation stopped at the island demanding that the case be reopened. Trotter's case from the beginning. It' twenty-two-year-old Black leader was of Antigua on its way to Dominica in initiated a recent demonstration of arrested in May 1974 on the frame-up order to meet with Vere C. Bird, the Premier John, whose political career several thousand persons on his be­ charge of murdering a white tourist. lawyer working with the defense com­ was helped by the frame-up of Trotter, half. He was convicted in a trial that even mittee. By coincidence, the delegation may yet go ahead with the execution. Only continued pressure of this type the actin~ chief justice of the Caribbe­ arrived at Bird's o{fice at the same When the U.S. delegation asked per­ can force the government of Dominica an Court of Appeals characterized as time as Camilla Francis, who was the mission to visit Trotter, who has been to free Desmond Trotter. Telegrams having gross irregularities. key witness against Trotter at his trial. held in solitary confinement for almost and letters of protest should be sent to The reprieve, announced by Domini­ USLA National Coordinator Mirta two years, it was refused. Premier Patrick· John, Ministerial ca Premier Patrick John on April 3, Vidal said in an interview with Inter­ Previously, John had been urging Building, Roseau, Dominica, West In­ was the result of new evidence present- continental Press that Francis signed the Dominica Mercy Committee to dies.