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APRIL 18-Attorneys for the Ft. Jackson Eight have gently needed defense funds- should be sent to the G I moved to obtain a writ of habeas corpus to free the im­ Civil Liberties Defense Committee, Box 355, Old Chelsea prisoned antiwar Gis. Five of the servicemen have been Station, New York, N.Y. 10010. in the stockade since March 20 and three are under Since the development of the Ft. Jackson Gis United barracks detention. Their sole crime is association with and the Army's attempt to victimize those associated with Gis United Against the War in Vietnam and seeking to it, major national press and television publicity has fo­ exercise their constitutional right of free speech. cused on the still-growing antiwar servicemen's group. In Jailing of the men and the court-martial threatened addition, there have been increasing protests against the against them violates military law as well as their civil Army's punitive actions. rights. The Uniform Code of Military Justice provides A mass rally of striking students at Harvard voted for pre-trial confinement only in cases where there is unanimously to send a message to the G Is declaring: danger the defendant will not appear for trial. ((We see our fight to abolish ROTC at Harvard and your Attorneys for the eight have called on the Secretary fight within the military as one and the same struggle of the Army to act against the commanding officer re­ to end the war. We will win." sponsible for these violations of the soldiers' rights. In Atlanta, prominent black and antiwar activists A pre-trial hearing was slated for the eight to begin joined in sending a message of protest to Ft. Jackson April 22. This hearing has the power to recommend that authorities. Among those signing the message were charges against the men be dropped. It is thus especially Georgia State Representative Julian Bond; Steve Abbot, urgent that every organization and individual able to president, Emory University Student Government; Nancy do so demand their immediate release. Collinson of the American Friends Service Committee; Such demands should be made to General Hollings­ John Lewis, of the Southern Regional Council; Mrs. worth, commanding general, Ft. Jackson, South Caro­ Eleanor Hochman, Atlantans for Peace; and Sharon lina 27207. Copies of such communications- and ur- Naiman of the GI-Student Antiwar Action Committee.

THE FORT JACKSON EIGHT: (left to right) Andrew Pulley, Jose Rudder (hidden), Delmar Thomas, Edilberto Chaparro, Tommie Woodfin, Dominick Duddie, Joe Cole, Curtis E. Mays. Page 2 THE MILITANT Friday, April 25, 1969 Gls in San Diego antiwar rally THE MILITANT Editor: HARRY RING Busint·" :\1ana~l'r: BEVERLY SCOTT

Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass 'rz., 873 Broadway, New York, of the Vietnam war. In truth, Brad­ N.Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second·dass postage paid at New York, N.Y. Car caravan to L.A. ley attacked the actions of the Subscription: domestic, $4 a year; foreign, $5.50. By first class mail: domestic L~ rs Black Student Unions in Los An­ and Canada $10.50; all other countries, $15.00. Air printed matter: domestic geles, who called a citywide strike and Canada, $15.00; Latin America, $24.00; Europe, $28.00; Africa, Australia, Asia (including USSR), $33.00. Write for sealed air postage rates. Signed articles for Easter march after students were brutalized by contributors do not necessarily represent The Militant's views. These are during a peaceful protest at expressed in editorials. San Diego, Calif. f;~~~.t~~r Carver Junior High School. When asked about the war in Vietnam Five hundred Gis and civilians Vol. 33- No. 17 ~·· Friday, April 25, 1969 attended an antiwar rally in Bal­ reaiders and the antiwar demonstration, -­ boa Park, San Diego, Saturday, Bradley's only comment was that The closing news date for this issue was April 18. April 5, to drum up support for he "would have no foreign policy" the Easter peace parade in Los This column is an open forum as mayor. Angeles, and to provide a forum for all viewpoints on subjects of In the April 5 issue, which came general interest to our readers. for the expression of antiwar senti­ out two days before the march, quarters. When we were finally policy. Since I am a new sub­ Please keep your letters brief. Where ment by sponsoring groups and the Peoples World finally pub­ allowed to leave the base, one scriber, I wonder if you would necessary they will be abridged. Gis. lished an article about the April MP flashed us the "V" sign. print a policy statement of the Writers' initials will be used, names The event was sponsored by the 6 demonstration. It was on page Given the tremendous antiwar Socialist Workers' Party in your being withheld unless authorization Antiwar Coalition, formed of three, with the smallest headline response everyone received it is next issue. is given for use. groups and individuals from se­ type available. On page one, the common nationwide knowledge R.P. veral campuses, including San feature story, with banner head­ that the army is sitting on a Diego State College, Mesa City U.S. companies in Northern Ire­ lines of course, reported the tre­ powderkeg everywhere, despite in­ [Our criticism of the Progressive College, the University of Calif­ land cease their discrimination mendous victory of Bradley in timidation, harassment, and the Labor Party (April 4) was not ornia at San Diego and Crawford against Catholic and nationalist the election, stating what a great physical, quick transfer of G Is for its failure to spell out specific High School, as well as off-cam­ workers. 5) U.S. companies in step forward it was for the liberal to deter their organizing. What planks of a party program or po­ pus groups and individuals. The all of Ireland, unlike the practice forces in L.A., and California as antiwar people have an obliga­ licy, but rather a failure to present following groups had speakers: of many of them until now, recog­ a whole. tion to do is to get on base and a basic Marxist analysis of the Black Panther Party, Young So­ nize the dignity of their workers, Stephen Bloom rap with G Is in one-to-one, or political degeneration of the Com­ cialist Alliance, Tuesday the Ninth the right to form unions, to bar­ one-to-two situations at snack munist Party, which it had left, Committee, the Resistance, and gain collectively and to strike. bars or other appropriate places. or to present its own alternative the Chicano community. In addi­ The U.S. and her business in­ John Chairet political and theoretical point of tion, Kingsly Widmer, an English terests are presently interfering Another socialist view as to what it saw as neces­ professor at San Diego State, and with almost every aspect of Irish sary for the achievement of an 12 Gis from the audience spoke. life, and I believe that a U. S. American socialist revolution. In­ All except one of the G I speakers group truly interested in sup­ for Uncle Sam A comment sofar as the policies of the So­ were against the war. Thirteen porting the struggle for a free cialist Workers Party are con­ more Gis wanted to speak, but and democratic Ireland should cerned, its basic political views Ft. Knox, Ky. were unable to because of the time carry out a complete investiga­ are delineated in its biannual con­ Please rush my copies of The and a question limitation on the permit for the tion and expose of this matter. vention resolutions and in a series Militant, basic training has just rally. Brian Scanlon of books and pamphlets generally got started, and already I am There were, in addition, a rock Westchester, Ill. available from Merit Publishers beginning to feel out of touch band, guerrilla theater and folk­ In a letter with the title "Free­ (catalog on request)at 873 Broad­ with the movement. singers. A car pool to provide dom from Pregnancy" [The Mili­ way, New York, N.Y. 10003. The Fowl ending Although I am not a member free transportation for Gis for the tant, April 4], the author states viewpoint of the SWP is also ex­ of the YSA, I wholly believe in 130-mile trip to the next day's pressed in the pages of this publi­ your principles and was closely that it will soon be technologically Easter march in L.A. was orga­ to fishy spy venture possible to grow human fetuses cation. -Editor] nized. associated with the YSA in Ohio before I was drafted. outside the female body, in test San Diego is the home of one tubes. She also states the many New York, N.Y. Thank you for being a source of the two Marine-recruit training advantages of such a system. of inspiration for many Gis. centers in the country. In addi­ What should the Koreans do There are also many disad­ Private Situation tion, there are several Naval and with the USS Pueblo? Suggestion: vantages. Human tissues grown convert it into a tuna fishing boat, Army bases nearby. Sixteen thou­ outside the human body often sand leaflets were handed out to and rechristen it, "Chicken of the develop chromosomal breakage, Gis and civilians advertisin« the Sea." cancerous growths and other dis­ 1n Guadeloupe rally; the response of Gis to the R. v. Ft. Lewis blitzed orders. Having humans grown leafletings was very friendly and away from their mothers leads enthusiastic. to another dangerous possibility. New York, N.Y. A.. I. People's World Some central hospital would pro­ I've just come back from work­ Seattle, Washington bably be used as a baby-growing ing on a film in Guadaloupe. Con­ I would like to relate the ex­ center. If power were to fail in ditions on the island are terrible. U.S. im perialisnt flunks again periences some of us had as part the center, if a fire started or if France is pouring troops to fight of the 250 people who went down a demented attendant altered the against the G. 0. N. G. (the rev­ Los Angeles, Calif. on April 4 from Seattle to Fort controls, the death, deformation olutionary leftist group). A lot of 1n Ireland blasted In the past week in Los Angeles, Lewis. or Orwellian control ofthousands the GONG people are good and two significant political events Fort Lewis is usually an open of infants could occur. If women they're being killed. New York, N.Y. have taken place. The first of these base, but when we arrived we want freedom from pregnancy, The CIA is roaming around Regarding LEG's letter in the was the primary election, for found every entrance blocked by the best assurance is still birth the island, passing itself off as April 11 Militant, I agree that Mayor, school board, and other MPs and the state patrol. Those control. a group of geologists studying we should build support for the offices; and the second was the cars which they knew contained In another article, attacking the volcanic activity in one of the growing militancy in Ireland and GI-civilian antiwar march on antiwar leafleters were detained Progressive Labor Party, you two islands making up Guada­ that the demands he raises are April 6. Also in Los Angeles, in a long line, and kept several charge that one of their faults is loupe. good. But at the same time I as well as on the rest of the West hours before being escorted off their failure to declare a party V.B. feel obligated to point out that coast, is a newspaper known as the base. Those of us who were these demands go no further than the Peoples World. It's the West wearing no buttons, had no those raised by the reactionary Coast voice of the Communist Par­ stickers on the cars, were clean­ American Congress for Irish Free­ ty. cut and white got through each rJ like a big job please. dom, a coalition which opposes The PW represents itself as a check point with no problem at the Cuban and Vietnamese Rev­ revolutionary newspaper, sup­ all after an MP had thoroughly ' olutions and, ironically, supports porting the interests ofthe working shined a flashlight through the the racist regime in Rhodesia for class. What did it do regarding car. its anticommunism, ignoring the the L.A. election and the April 6 All the MPs on the base were IF YOU SUPPORT fact that it is also openly anti­ action? on alert; one officer complained Irish. During the entire month of that they do not have enough I feel, considering the way in March, the PW did not print a MPs on Ft. Lewis. THE CUBAN REVOLUTION which most Irish Freedom groups single word, even hinting at the I sneaked into the regular (non­ in the U.S. have degenerated in fact that there would be a dem­ CO) tavern at North Ft. Lewis THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT the past, that those who sympa­ onstration in April. At the same when the sergeant at the door thize with the Irish Revolution time', space was found in the paper left for 20 seconds. I look like a BLACK POWER and want to support it here should for several lengthy articles sup­ soldier, so I was able to leaflet place their main emphasis on porting the campaign of Thomas practically every GI in the place. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST CANDIDATES attacking the perfidious role the Bradley for Mayor. There was After a lifer discovered me, they U.S. has played in regard to not even mention that there was a summoned a black MP who said Ireland for well over 100 years. revolutionary socialist candidate he'd kick me in the ass. But all THE FIGHT FOR SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY IN EASTERN EUROPE We should demand that: for mayor (William Hathaway) the guys came up and said, "Hey, 1) The U.S. get her troops out who supported the immediate Sarge, why don't you let this of Ireland. (The U.S. has, as far withdrawal of all American troops guy go. You have to admit the as I know, two bases in Northern from Vietnam and Black control antiwar people have some good JOIN THE Ireland and others under the guise of the Black communities. The points." Then on the QT they of NATO. 2) The U.S. stop her PW chose to report sympatheti­ said to me "We want to talk to financial aid to English tyranny. cally on Bradley, a liberal you outside." But the MP would YSA (The U.S. has helped England Democratic Party politician and have none of this; he said to ------clip and mail ------in Ireland through the Marshall former cop who also happens everyone in the tavern in a loud, Young Socialist Alliance, Box 471 Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003. Plan and other financial and mili­ to be black, but who has nothing official voice, "No one is to have tary aids. She even supported the new to offer the people of L.A. this leaflet on their person. If you 0 I would like more information 0 I want to join the YSA English when they were waging In their articles on Bradley, it have this leaflet you are to place their infamous Black n' Tan War was implied that anyone who sup­ it upon the table or bar." He then Name. against the Irish.) ported any other candidate was repeated the same statement, Address . 3) The U.S. stop her training a racist. Bradley was made to whereupon a few of the guys of regular and secret police for appear a friend of workers and obeyed him. Finally three MPs City. . .. State ...... Zip .. the two Irish police states. 4) of blacks, and as an opponent arrived to escort me to head- Friday, April 25, 1969 THE MILITANT Page 3 Detroit high schoolers stage militant shutdown

By Gordon Fox iting police harassment of leafleters was DETROIT- Thousands of Detroit-area unsuccessful, charges have been dropped high school students participated in the in several of the cases because the law does April 3 high school strike against the war not apply. in Vietnam and in commemoration of Dr. Despite the intimidation, the students at Martin Luther King, Jr. Students from Denby did have a fairly successful school most of the city's high schools, many jun­ boycott April 3. ior high schools, and suburban schools as well, took part in the strike actions. At least four Detroit schools were vir­ The strike took place amid harassment tually paralyzed by the strike. Students of strike organizers by school administra­ at Western, Murray-Wright, Malcolm X tors and cops. Strike organizers at Denby (formerly Northwestern). Malcolm X Jr. High School, an all-white school on the (formerly McMichael) high schools suc­ city's far northeast side, were under par­ ceeded in calling walkouts and boycotts ticularly intense pressure. On Monday, which, for all practical purposes, closed March 31, two Denby students were tick­ those schools. At Western, which is in the Photo by Karra Kenyatta heart of the Chicano community, well over eted for "leafleting within 300 feet of a IN MALCOLM'S TRADITION. Students at Malcolm X Junior and Senior school in session," a law that does not 50 percent of the student body of 2,300 took part. High Schools, led by Lyngore A. Fong Bey, chairman of Malcolm X Senior apply, according to previous court deci­ High Association of Black Students, set out for citywide rally during Detroit sions, to political leaflets. The law carries Although harassment was commonplace high school shutdown. a maximum $50 fine. The next day, three throughout the city, it was at its peak at more were ticketed for the same "criminal" Mumford High School. The Mumford stu­ to the central strike rally at Wayne State proper diversion." Charges against Haw­ act. On Wednesday, April 2, four more dents had called a walkout for 9:40 on University. kins have been rduced to "assault and bat­ were given tickets. Although an attempt to April 3. They had planned to hold a rally When the students began to walk out, tery against a police officer." A vigorous secure a federal court injunction prohib- in front of the school, and then to proceed John Hawkins and Louise Goodman, two campaign to defend Goodman and Haw­ Young Socialists whom Mumford students kins-and the civil liberties of all high had asked to help with the rally, began school students -will be waged. leading a chant of "On strike, shut it down!" A high school strike rally was held at The cops decided that this had to be stopped Wayne State University. As contingents and proceeded to arrest Hawkins. Good­ from different schools arrived on the mall, Odyssey of a young rebel man grabbed the bullhorn that he had been they were cheered by their fellow students. using and she, too, was arrested. They Students from over 15 schools spoke, in­ By Naomi Allen and beat her over the head with a club. were told they were being charged with cluding Highland Park, Malcolm X Junior CHICAGO-"I've been a socialist ever Some people took her to an apartment, "inciting to riot." and Senior, Western, Cass, Dondero in since the 6th grade, but I didn't get to but the cops came and broke in the door. Since the arrests, charges against Good­ Royal Oak, Denby, Wilson Junior, Mur­ read the Communist Manifesto until I was "They herded us into a patrol wagon with man have been reduced to "creating an im- ray-Wright, Mumford, and Southfield. in 7th grade." By the time 17-year-old two cops inside. All the way to the station, Paula Smith addressed the historic April the two cops were beating on the men who 5 antiwar rally here, she had supported had long hair." The strike at Malcolm X: the victory of South Vietnam's liberation The cops decided that she had a record fighters for five years, had been beaten from April 27th, and this time sent her up by cops twice, had spent 42 days in to Audy Home, a juvenile prison, where a juvenile jail, and been expelled from they threw her into solitary confinement a participant's account her high school. As Paula puts it, "You for three days and kept her over a month. don't have to be a political genius to Even then, she argued politics with the By Norman Oliver understand that the American government jailer who brought her food, and once DETROIT- I arrived at Malcolm X is oppressing the Vietnamese people, and got beaten up because she told him she that that oppression ties in with a pattern Junior High School at about 9:30 a.m. on was freer than he was even behind bars, the morning of April 3 to find approxi­ of real oppression and injustice here at and refused to "take it back." "Almost mately 20 students outside the school. home." all the girls in the Audy Home were black. A walkout had been called for 9:40 a.m. By the 9th grade, she was having long Even in solitary, we would rap messages We began encouraging the students to arguments with her history teacher about of solidarity to each other through the strike, using the bullhorn that I brought socialism. She wrote to the South Viet­ walls." with me. The students were hanging out of namese NLF, and began receiving litera­ When she got out of prison, she hated the open windows, listeningtowhatwewere ture from them in the mail. saying and told us that they could not get She found out by accident about last cops, and jails. Nor did she feel kindly iisposed toward the government. Right out because their teachers were standing April 27's antiwar march, and came along. at the classroom doors and the exit doors When the cops busted the demonstration, about then, the right-wing Chicago Tri­ from the school were locked (this happens they grabbed a friend of hers, and beat bune carried an "expose" of the Young Socialist Alliance, just before the YSA N a­ to be against the city's fire ordinance). him with clubs even after he was uncon­ So, we decided to go in and help the bro­ scious. When Paulaprotested, she was ar­ tiona! Convention in November. It accused the YSA of wanting to overthrow the gov­ thers and sisters get out. rested along with about 80 others for dis­ We entered the complex of schools ernment with force and violence, and so State University campus where a strike orderly conduct. through the Martindale building and began "When the Democratic Party Convention on. Paula took an interest and decided rally was being held. After a short stay opening classroom doors, telling the stu­ came to Chicago, I heard there would be to come to the convention. At the con­ at the rally, we marched downtown to dents to get their coats and walk out. antiwar demonstrations on Michigan Ave­ vention, she decided to join the YSA. participate in a demonstration in support Having picked up about 100 students, we nue. I had to go." She set out with a movie "I like the emphasis the YSA puts on of Judge Crockett. went through the tunnel connecting Martin­ camera, and with her mother following, education, on learning a lot about politics. dale and Malcolm Junior Higl, School imploring her not to go. "My mother got When I went back to school, I decided to and did the same there. her picture in the Walker Report, standing organize an antiwar committee. People Black militant Now numbering about 200, we decided next to a flagpole crying because I insisted are interested in the war, but the schools to go over to Malcolm X Senior which is on going. Meanwhile, I took 600 feet of don't even mention it. I told the principal also part of this complex of schools. The police brutality in color." that it would contribute to the school's jailed for same situation existed there -locked doors, The filming ended abruptly when a cop program." It was around this issue that chased Paula half a block into Lincoln Paula was finally expelled from the Aca­ teachers guarding classroom doors. The resisting draft Park, dragged her behind a pick-up truck, demy of Our Lady. principal came out and told us that he supported the strike but that we didn't NEW YORK- Brother Malik Kimani, need to parade around the halls of the school with a bullhorn. I asked the prin­ national chairman of the Democratic Lib­ cipal if he supported the strike to announce eration Party, was arrested on April 8 it over the bullhorn and he refused. at the newsstand he operates and charged We then told the principal that if the with refusing to go into the United States class-change bell did not ring by 10:20, Army, and failure to appear in court. If we were going to go in and get the stu­ convicted, Kimani could get five years dents out. (The Detroit schools in an emer­ in jail for refusing induction and five gency can keep class-change bells from aC.ditional years for jumping bail. ringing.) The 10:2 0 bell didn't ring. So, Bail has been set at $20,000, which we went inside. There was a lot of confu­ cannot possibly be raised from Kimani's sion and fire bells began ringing. Stu­ income. He is married and has a four­ dents began leaving the building and rally­ month-old son. All those who would like ing around the black nationalistflagwhich to contribute can make checks payable we had next to the bullhorn. Altogether to: Cheryl Jeffries, P. 0. Box 691,Jamaica, more than 2,000 students were outside the N.Y. 11431. building. About 1,500 marched with us to Webber Junior High, seven blocks away. On the way to Webber we marched down to the middle of Tireman, a major tho­ Bound volume 1968 roughfare, tying up traffic for blocks. At Webber we found locked and chained doors. This made it impossible to enter THE or leave the school. However, about 20 MiliTANT students crawled out through the windows. It was clear from exclamations of soli­ darity coming from inside the school that $10 PROTEST EXPULSION: Paula Smith, expelled from Chicago's Academy of there would have been a major exodus Our Lady high school for her antiwar and socialist views, was a featured from the school had it been physically Send check or money order to speaker at the April 5 Chicago antiwar rally. This demonstration at the school possible. The Militant, 873 Broadway, :Mlrch 8 is part of a broad defense effort which has won widespread support We then assembled, five abreast, and New York, N.Y. 10003 for her rights. marched about five miles to the Wayne Page 4 THE MILITANT Friday, April 25, 1969 Auto strike adds new ingredients

DETROIT, April 13- Negotiations be­ concern to the auto barons and the UAW to return to work, and under these cir­ The strikers were not taken in by Fra­ tween top UAW officials and high-ranking bureaucrats than the immediate fate of the cumstances no effort was made to enforce ser's threadbare pattern of operation. To Chrysler Corporation executives were con­ 69 victims who were left outside when their the injunction. Sterling Heights police chief many it was the same old story they have tinued here this weekend to decide the fate shopmates returned to the job. The new Maurice Foltz announced that picketing heard so many times before. To others, of 69 workers fired for picketing the cor­ developments are a new source of strength was peaceful and there were no incidents. the younger workers, it had a false sound. poration's key-stamping plant in the indus­ and a welcome promise of future successful The UAW International reinforced the An unidentified rank-and-file striker called trial suburb of Sterling Heights where an struggles by workers who will be herded company move by placing Local 1264 out at the union meeting, ''We're finally eight-day wildcat strike drained the Chrys­ daily into the hot and stinking auto plants under receivership and ordering the strikers united, let's stay united. Let's stay out until ler complex of essential auto assembly in the long summer months ahead. back to work. the plant is safe." parts and forced the closing of seven other During the eight days they were out, Douglas Fraser, U AW Chrysler director, No one has any confidence in the UAW of the company's plants across the nation, the Sterling strikers were joined on the took personal command. An experienced to improve conditions or settle grievances. with an estimated 30,000 workers sent picket line by students from the Universi­ home. ty of Michigan and Wayne State Univer­ The Sterling workers who have been sity. That is one of the things that was new fired are those picked at random to be this time. And the part about it that most victimized after the 3,500 work force there worries auto management and UAWbrass left the plant April 2 when company is that these students were welcomed on the supervisors attempted to force a small picket line by the striking workers. crew of production workers to clean up Local action a mountain of scrap metal under unsafe There is another thing that was new if working conditions. When UAWshopstew­ not entirely unprecedented in the Sterling ards, committeemen, and officials of the wildcat. Some local union officials, through U A W Sterling local1264 protested the high­ their own union attorneys and completely handed orders of management and advised independent of the International UAW legal workers that they were in no way obligated department, are seeking redress of their to work under the existing unsafe condi­ grievances through the National Labor tions, these union representatives were sum­ Relations Board and have filed charges marily fired. In all, 12 union represen­ of unfair labor practices against Chrysler tatives were fired on the spot. They were Corporations. the UAW local president, the vice-president, Both developments-students on UAW and the entire plant committee. They left picket lines and legal charges of unfair peacefully. And so did 500 others who labor practices- are the direct result of didn't want to be left behind without union an inadequate union grievance procedure representation. By the end of the day, all and the UAW-management collusion to were out. stifle, forestall, and prevent work-stoppages After eight days, during which the fami­ no matter how intolerable working condi­ liar pressure techniques of concerted union­ tions may become nor how provocative company threats, intimidation, and bribery plant bosses may act. were applied, the Sterling workers in a What was old, familiar, like a replay stormy 2 1/2-hour meeting on April 9 of thousands of other wildcat strikes, was were finally maneuvered into a back-to­ the traditional response of the company work movement. They returned to the plant and UAW International. The company last Thursday morning, April 10, in a rushed to the courts for an injunction quietly resigned mood, pondering what against picketing which was promptly had happened during the preceding week. issued by a compliant judge. This is where hand at what they call "settling grievances "Even when we do settle one, Chrysler Much had happened that was old and well­ the students came in. They offered to help and establishing labor peace," which is turns around and does the same thing known in the auto industry, where the wild­ man the picket line since some thought their euphemism for strike-breaking, the next day," one striker said. cat strike is common. But this time some­ the injunction would not apply to them. Fraser first ordered the strikers back to Fraser was booed and jeered. But the thing new was added. As it turned out, all workers left the plant, work. This was to make it absolutely strikers went back to work, as usually What was new is presently of far greater there was no attempt on the part of any clear to the Corporation where he stood happens in a wildcat strike, because they and what his purpose was. Then he said had nowhere else to go and saw no other to the strikers it is all "for our own good" way to escape the legal entanglements the because nothing can be settled until "we" UAW and the company had involved them Why Oregon State blacks are back at work. He repeated the com­ in. This time they went back with the pany charge that the strike was "illegal," promise and the clear expectation that called in violation of the UAW contract. through their own efforts they will be made a decision to leave He added the further admonition that the able to make some changes. They don't whole action was a flagrant violation of feel any longer as if they are isolated, By Bill Meyer President Jensen replied briefly saying, the UAW Constitution. cut off from all sources of support. The CORVALLIS, Oregon-The recent pro­ "You have shared with us in seeing a seg­ Having laid down the law, Fraser then students on the picket line proved that there test led by the Black Student Union at Ore­ ment of life as it is lived in the United took the "reasonable" approach. He is sympathy for the strikers and that they gon State is of special interest because the States today. We are grateful to our speak­ charged that the strike was, in fact, a can get help from unexpected sources. BS U here faces a situation different from ers ... I don't believe the procrastination company provocation and that the strikers Also, within the UAW there is a new that of most BSUs around the country. The alleged has occurred." were playing into Chrysler's hands. This feeling of solidarity. black population of Oregon is very small Following this incident feeling ran high strike was just what the Corporation One of the Chrysler plants directly af­ and only one family in Corvallis is black. in Corvallis. Townspeople and students wanted, according to Fraser, because it fected by the Sterling wildcat, the Mound Oregon State has traditionally been a alike were discussing "Freddie Milton's helped management to cut back produc­ Road Engine plant here, voted to autho­ strong-hold of conservative middle-class beard," the BSU, etc. A full-page ad sup­ tion and adjust inventories of new cars rize UAW local 51 to take strike action values, and there are less than 100 black porting Coach Andros appeared in the without paying lay-off benefits won in to settle safety grievances similar to those students out of a total student body of local paper. Governor McCall gave his the union contract. that prompted the walk-out at Sterling. 13,000. support to Andros. "The Scab Sheet," an Simultaneously with this broadside This vote was taken at the very time The protest, which began back in J anu­ underground paper, was born, supporting against the strike, which was designed Fraser was blasting away about how such ary, centered around a Black Student the BSU. to demoralize the strikers and weaken strikes "play into the hands of the com­ Union demand that the president of the support in other affected locals, Fraser pany." The BS U then laid out a perspective for university sign a human rights proposal softened up local 1264 officials and en­ Reuther's hirelings continuing the protest, which was supported which guarantees that students not be repri­ listed their support in his back-to-work At UAW International headquarters, by the SDS, the American Federation of manded or threatened because of their "be­ effort by promising, and getting the agree­ down by the river in Solidarity House, Teachers and other group d. Mass meetings lief, mode of dress, hair style or any other ment of management, that none of them where the International representatives of 1,000 were held to explain the BSU's human right." would be victimized if they helped to call come out of their cubicles for coffee breaks position. Twenty-six faculty members and The proposal had special importance be­ off the wildcat. and make their little "in" jokes among them­ many students supported a boycott initated cause of several infringements on human Double-talk selves, they are snickering and winking by the BSU. The black students were able rights at the school: Fred Milton, a black Finally, at the back-to-work meeting of about the unfair labor charges filed with to win large numbers of students over by student who is a line backer on the Oregon the strikers he cynically pleaded the case the NLRB by some members and officials making them more aware of the the prob­ State football team, was told by Coach against the Corporation, proving beyond of local 1264. These time-servers all know lems of black students. Dee Andros to shave his beard or be off doubt the justice of the grievances over that the NLRB is an agency of the corpo­ the team. Ten days earlier a white athlete When the administration refused to unsafe working conditions. Militantly de­ rations and sometimes subject to the in­ lost his job because he refused to shave budge, BSU president Mike Smith fying the power of the Chrysler empire, fluence of the giant UAW International. his moustache. announced at a mass meeting that the he promised that if the strikers would vote They are all quite sure that a legitimate After a number of fruitless attempts to black students felt they could no longer to go back to work a "legal" strike vote grievance won't get a hearing there if the persuade President Jensen to sign the hu­ stay on campus with its "plantation logic" would be authorized by the International "red head" upstairs wants to block it. man rights proposal, the black students and spineless administration. Immediately "next Monday" and all the resources of But upstairs at Solidarity House the decided to take more drastic action. Linus following this the black students made their the UAW would be behind the workers to UAW top brass must take a different view Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner and dramatic walk through the campus and settle their "just demands." of this matter. If they are not now greatly Oregon State graduate, was scheduled to out the east gate of Oregon State. Fraser intimated that "most" strikers concerned about the action at Sterling make an address as part of the lOOth The next day the Faculty Senate was would be rehired. After the workers re­ local 1264, they nevertheless must sense anniversary celebration at the university. called together for the second time to con­ turned to their jobs a Chrysler spokes­ that this reflects a growing determination Just as Pauling was about to speak to an sider the human rights proposal. After man announced that the UAW grievance on the part of UAW locals to settle their audience of 6,000 in Gill Coliseum, a they rejected it, Coach Andros stepped be­ machinery would be followed in discussing grievances independently of the Interna­ group of 50 black students took the mike. fore the microphone to answer questions reinstatement of the discharged workers. tional ''by any means necessary." President Jensen told the students they and to say a few words. His remarks were "We have agreed to expedite this," he said. The ever-increasing percentage of young could talk for three minutes. Rich Harr, a so revealing of what the black athletes Fraser leveled his sharpest attacks workers in the auto industry, with little black football player, spoke first. Then were up against that the faculty recon­ against the appearance of "outside forces," seniority and therefore less subject to pres­ Mike Smith, BSU president, spoke, telling sidered, and finally accepted it with a few especially the student supporters of the sure and threats, opens the immediate the audience about Fred Milton's case and changes. strike, who threaten to unbalance the easy possibility of massive wildcat strikes that the unsigned administrative proposal. The acceptance came a little late. The working relationship between the Corpo­ will not easily be confined to a single They were warmly applauded. black students had already left. rations and the UAW bureaucrats. local union. Friday, April 25, 1969 THE MILITANT Page 5 Army admits concern Minn. students hear Indian on Viet Gl race •1ssue on fight against oppression

By Joel Aber Americans in the First Corps area of South The fear that they are sitting on a racial Vietnam set up grievance committees which powderkeg is now being conceded by the include black representatives to hear com­ military brass who supervise the half plaints of racial prejudice. million troops in Vietnam. A few of the Apparently military officials have ad­ facts behind this fear found their way, mitted to the AP reporter that they go all through an Associated Press dispatch from out to break up groups of Afro-Americans Saigon, to the front page of the April 13 who assert their rights while in Vietnam: New York Times. "Once moved to action ... commanders The article presents some scraps of in­ almost invariably invoke swift, decisive formation about the Long Binh stockade measures. This has involved courts-mar­ rebellion of September 1968, "when mili­ tial for men of both races and the breaking tant Negroes took over a part of the up of what one senior Military Police compound, put on blankets to simulate commander called 'militant cells' by scat­ African robes and held the inner area for tering members through other units or by several days." returning some to the United States as Also briefly mentioned is an incident undesirables." between black and white Gls at the rest­ While the article is revealing in its ad­ and-recreation center at Danang last Octo­ mission of racism in the armed forces, ber, in which "a major battle with auto­ which the brass have thus far tried to matic rifles was narrowly averted" and a hide, it attempts to minimize the situation black GI was killed. by asserting that "the racial problem Clearly, the Times article only begins appears to be caused mainly by a hard to scratch the surface. The two sketchy core of militants of both races estimated reports on Long Binh and Danang are at one percent or less." the only concrete incidents specifically cited, The AP dispatch worriedly observes that WHY A RED POWER MOVEMENT. Winter on an Indian reservation in but the article indicates that the Army has "the outward signs of black power in Viet­ northern Minnesota. taken unusual steps to cool things down: nam are most often reflected in the ex­ "Following a series of disruptive events," change of clenched-fist salutes, although By Nancy Strebe represented in any organization then in the news reporter says, Lieut. Gen. Robert black flags with white letters spelling' Black MINNEAPOLIS- Over 600 students at­ existence. In September, AIM organized Cushman, commander of the 170,000 Power' have begun cropping up, together tended a noon rally at the Univer­ police patrols because of undue harass­ with a considerable volume of literature sity of Minnesota April 11 to hear speakers ment of Indian youth. The patrols observe from Black Muslim and Black Panther from the American Indian Movement tell of police action in the Indian community and Cuba teach-in groups, much of it strongly opposed to the abominable conditions Indians live un­ assist those faced with arrest. Since the the war." der and to describe the latest police harass­ Indian Patrol was organized, AIM mem­ • In an accompanying article written from ments and arrests. The rally was spon­ bers have been subjected to vindictive po­ slated 1n L.A . Washington, Times reporter Thomas John­ sored by the newly-formed Ad Hoc Com­ lice action and arrested on trumped-up son mentions that high Pentagon officials mittee to Defend Native America, a broad­ charges. share the same fears as field commanders. ly-based group including many who took At present Bellecourt and another AIM by the YSA "Pentagon statistics," he points out, "show part in the recent University of Minnesota member, Jon 0' Brien, both face jail sen­ that Negro servicemen number over Liberation Week. tences for arrests. Bellecourt was arrested By Angie Vinther 300,000 or about 8.8 percent of the active Clyde Bellecourt, chairman of the Amer­ the first time on March 21 for allegedly LOS ANGELES- The Young Socialist forces. They represent about 10.6 percent ican Indian Movement, reiterated the stand "obstructing an arrest." The arrest referred Alliance will hold a teach-in on "Ten Years of the forces in Vietnam and Southeast that has made him a controversial figure to was that of 0' Brien, who cops had of the Cuban Revolution" on April 26 at Asia, although the percentage is thought in Minneapolis: that Indians must control stopped and arrested without giving a the Ashgrove, 8162 Melrose Ave. The to be at least twice that in the front lines." their own destiny and that they must begin reason. When 0' Brien asked why he was featured speaker will be Joel Britton, Los (Emphasis added.) by controlling their own communities. Den­ being arrested, the cops smashed his head Angeles organizer of the Socialist Workers While the Times reveals only the surface nis Banks, chairman of the Indian Dance against the patrol car and hit him in the Party who recently returned from Cuba. of an iceberg, the fact that it does even Club and an AIM member, also spoke. stomach (the charge turned out to be reck­ Britton was part of a delegation of 13 this betrays the great concern with which The American Indian Movement is based less driving). Young Socialists who went to Cuba to those who run America regard this poten­ in Minneapolis and was formed last July Bellecourt happened by, and protested to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the revo­ tially explosive factor in their unwilling because, according to Bellecourt, the the cops. He was told by one of them, "I'm lution. He will show colored slides taken armed forces. 10,000 Indians in the Twin Cities were not going to get you." Sure enough, three days all over Cuba. The program will also later Bellecourt was arrested by the same include films and several other speakers cop, who then proceeded to twist the hand­ from Southern California who have re­ cuffs on Bellecourt until his wrists were cently returned also. Socialists register gains cut and bleeding. Bellecourt has requested Britton is currently on speaking tour a jury trial for that arrest, and the trial of the Southwest. He has already spoken will be be held in late May. at two Militant forums and has had several • Then, on April2 at 3 a.m., after having hours of radio and TV time which included In Berkeley city elections been followed around by cops for 5 hours, one of the most popular talk shows on Bellecourt was arrested again. This time television in Los Angeles. He has also By Clare Fraenzl order" on campus rather than outside he was charged with 4 traffic violations. spoken at Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal BERKELEY- An increase in support police. Mrs. Hancock also supported the Nine squad cars showed up for the arrest. State Los Angeles, Cal State Fullerton, for the ideas of socialism was reflected Los Angeles campaign of Bradley, the Bellecourt was alone. and California Institute of Technology in the recent Berkeley city elections. Anto­ ex-cop and Democratic Central Commit­ Jon 0' Brien's trial is Monday, April 14. in Pasadena. He is currently teaching a nio Camejo, Socialist Workers Party can­ tee member who is running for Mayor. The Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Native course at the UCLA experimental college didate for city council, received a vote The Peace and Freedom Party was con­ America will be holding a rally that day on revolutionary Cuba. of 1,518 or five percent; Froben Lozada, spicuous not only by the lack of anything and a march to the courthouse from the Britton is scheduled to speak on many candidate for school director, received "revolutionary" in its program, but by University will coincide with the start of more campuses in the next four weeks, 2,539 or seven percent. City Council can­ the trial. including a two-day tour of the College its small and relatively ineffective cam­ didate Pat Wolf received 450 votes. paign. With over 7,000 registered voters in AIM is not only concerned about the po­ campuses in San Diego. He will also be Although it was a so-called "nonparti­ lice occupying their community. Other con­ going to Santa Barbara and to Phoenix, Berkeley alone, they able to field only one san" election with no party designations ditions they would like to change are 1) Arizona. Further speaking engagements candidate, Lee Cole for city council. indicated on the ballot, both Camejo and the average annual income of Minnesota may be made by calling the Los Angeles PFP fell victim to its own earlier attempt Lozada are well-known in Berkeley as Indians, which is $1,400 or about one­ YSA at 269- 4953. to cheat history. The big 1968 campaign socialists. Pat Wolf is not as widely known. quarter that of whites; 2) infant mortality of the PFP in California was geared to win The Socialist Workers Party campaign rate of 33%; 3) life expectancy of 43 years, Democrats away from the Democratic Par­ offered the only openly socialist choice compared to 65 for whites; 4) only 159 In­ ty, but not on the basis of a clear socialist L.A. May Day: in the city elections, and even the conser­ dians at state colleges and universities and program. Most of PFP's supporters have vative Berkeley Daily Gazette had to admit only 38 at the 40,000-student U of Minne­ that the SWP candidates were the "most found their way back into the muck of sota Minneapolis campus; 5) allotment to Militant stars honesf' in the elections. Democratic Party politicking and in Ber­ Indians of the most menial jobs and highest During the campaign over 15,000 pieces keley many of them supported Ilona Han­ unemployment rate in the state; 6) educa­ cock and candidates of the Black (Dem­ of literature and posters were distributed, tion of Indian youth. Indians in Minnesota ocratic Party) caucus rather thanPFP. The and the candidates received extensive press do not feel they are being educated in the to be honored Independent Socialist Club, the major ten­ coverage. Significant support for the cam­ white man's schools. As one person put it, dency behind and apologist for the PFP, LOS ANGELES- Los Angeles support­ paign came from the Third World commu­ "the education's not bad; it's just white." endorsed Lee Coe, but refused to support ers of The Militant will hold a May Day nity. Endorsers of the candidates included And they are tired of being depicted as the socialist candidates, those of the SWP. celebration Saturday, May 3. Lew Jones, the Berkeley Brown Berets and the Teatro savages and being denied their true history former national chairman of the Young Urbano, and individual members of the Charles Bursey, a Black Panther, formed and heritage. Socialist Alliance and presently organizer central committee of the Third World a coalition with Bill Miller ("Vote for a head AIM has declared that May 4-10 will be of the Berkeley Socialist Workers Party, Liberation Front, as well as members of to get ahead"). Bursey's coalition with American Indian Week in Minneapolis. will speak on "May Day and the World a number of groups associated with the Miller, candidate of the street people re­ They plan to block off 2-3 blocks of Frank­ Youth Radicalization." Milt Alvin, national TWLF. flected the view of some Black Panthers lin Avenue (main section of the Indian committee member of the Socialist Workers Other "left" candidates in the Berkeley that the Yipp ies are the true "revolutionaries" community) to hold a teach-out during the Party, will speak on the history and tradi­ elections were Ilona Hancock of the Ber­ and made it difficult for the Panthers to week to tell people what they can do about tions associated with May Day. keley Coalition, Lee Coe of Peace and project a serious campaign in the black the miserable conditions in the community. Militant supporters have launched a cam­ Freedom, Charles Bursey, a Black Pan­ community. They are going to tell the people to come paign whose goal is to substantially in­ ther candidate, and Bill Miller of the street The final returns of the election were as to AIM with complaints of police harass­ crease circulation of The Militant in Los people. Ilona Hancock, assertedly repre­ follows: Of those running for city council ment instead of to city hall, where the com­ Angeles. Special credit will be given at the senting the radical forces in Berkeley, cam­ for a four year term, Ilona Hancock re­ plaints lie and gather dust. They are going celebration for those who have dis­ paigned for a "better" police chief. While ceived 9,963; Lee Coe, 1,860; Antonio to continue to build AIM into a strong tinguished themselves in selling subscrip­ nominally supporting the University of Camejo, 1,518 and Pat Wolf, 450. Charles community movement, which will be able tions and individual copies. Refeshments California TWLF strike, she called for the Bursey, candidate for a two-year term to exercise some power against the outside will be served at 6:00p.m., dinner at 7:00, use of Berkeley police to take over the received 1, 651. Fro ben Lozada, running forces which now control the Indian com­ and the program will begin at 8:00. responsibility of "maintaining law and for school director, 2,539. munity. Page 6 THE MILITANT Friday, April 25, 1969

Antiwar marches not its bag

The Guardian's proposal

for a fnew movement'

By Gus Horowitz ical politics, compromise and caution-or formula of simple opposition to imperi­ The April 5-6 demonstrations against to push the new movement back to a Viet­ alism is really the "lowest-common-denom­ the war in Vietnam were an outstanding nam-only perspective, could bring things inator" politics which the Guardian so fre­ success. The demonstrations were far lar­ to a standstill again . . ." quently rails against. It is, in short, just ger than anyone had anticipated, showing "Being against the war is not enough. a phrase that covers up for the lack of a that antiwar sentiment continues to deepen The newly radicalized antiwar movement program and organization capable of end­ Photo by Shelley Ramsdale and that the disorientation induced by the must struggle against the source of im­ ing imperialism. Paris talks is rapidly dissipating. perialistic war and it must conduct the strug­ That is why serious revolutionaries, from ANTIWAR LIBERAL? GI at New Moreover, the youthful composition and gle here and now against the capitalist Lenin's time on, have never tried to build York's April 5 demonstration. The militant political tone to the demonstrations system, its institutions, politicians and po­ "lowest-common-denominator" movements Guardian says "being against the testified to the continuing and deepening licemen which make such wars inevitable. against imperialism. Serious revolution­ war is not enough." Says antiwar process of radicalization in the United The movement, simply, must struggle for aries are unwilling to perpetrate such a marches are "watering down of rad­ States, a process in which opposition to power to the people." fraud and call the variegated protest move­ ical politics" unless they " struggle the war plays a decisive part. Wrong on 2 counts ment (all the individuals and groups in­ here and now against the capitalist But the April 5-6 demonstrations also The Guardian's proposal is dead wrong volved-revolutionary and reformist) an­ system." produced a curious side effect. Some of the on two vital counts: 1.) the kind of move­ ti-imperialist. Revolutionaries are anxious, people who had taken little notice of the ment it proposes would not be able to strug­ however, to build actions against specific So, no thank you. We don'twanttoscrap actions prior to their taking place, now gle effectively against imperialism; 2.) its imperialist wars -like the war in Viet­ the antiwar movement for demonstrations see an opportunity, after the outcome of proposal would seriously weaken the pre­ nam- and to do so will unite with every­ that are limited to the select few. We pre­ April 5-6, not to build future, larger dem­ sent struggle against the imperialist war one, regardless of ideology, who is ready fer the present method which calls on every­ onstrations like it, but to try to undercut in Vietnam. to build mass actions in the streets against body who is ready to act against the war the very basis on which April 5-6 was Just what is a movement that can "strug­ the war. to come out in the streets and demonstrate­ built. Speaking for many of these people gle against the source of imperialist war In terms of opposing the war in Vietnam, even if they're not ready for the Guardian's is the newspaper, the Guardian. ... against the capitalist system"? If we the Guardians's editorial boils down to "anti-imperialisf' movement! An April 12 Guardian editorial tells us are to learn anything at all from history, asking simply, "... for the general anti­ In contrast to the electioneering for lib­ that "It is clearly time for the general anti­ it is that imperialism will not be defeated war movement to recognize in theory what eral capitalist politicians, lobbying Con­ war movement to recognize in theory what by anything less than a revolutionary so­ it is in practice- a mass radical move­ gress, or other activities which divert the it is in practice- a mass radical movement cialist party-like Lenin's Bolshevik Party, ment with Vietnam as its central but not thrust of antiwar sentiment into ruling class with Vietnam as its central but not exclu­ for example. exclusive thrust." Since they don't want "to institutions, demonstrations in the streets sive thrust ... Any attempt to revive the The Guardian does not represent any push the movement back to a Vietnam-only are an independent expression of mass op­ old left-liberal coalition as itformerlyoper­ such organization. Nor does the Guardian perspective," what changes do they have in position to the war. On the basis of such ated- resulting in a watering-down ofrad- claim to have a revolutionary program mind? In particular, on what basis would independent action, revolutionaries can around which to build such an organiza­ they ask people to fightthewar in Vietnam? unite with other groups in antiwar pro­ tion. Nor is it either of these things that the At this point, search as we might, we test. Yes, revolutionaries work in coali­ Guardian is proposing. can't find any particulars in the Guardian tions whose single purpose is to build ac­ The extent of the Guardian proposal is editorial. Do they want the anti-imperialists tions against the war in Vietnam-but that there should be a radical organization to carry their own banners on the demon­ they are aware of precisely who they're uniting all people who agree that they are strations, and chant theirownchants?That uniting with, and for what specific purpose, opposed to imperialism. can be done already. Do they want the an­ and don't muddy the issue by seeking BERKELEY And who might that include? Well, one ti-imperialists to launch an extensive propa­ agreement with them on a common watered­ THE EUROPEAN STUDENT MOVEMENT Speaker: might be Dave Dellinger, an anarcho-pac­ ganda campaign in the movement, to ex­ down political program. Art Sharon. Fri. April 25, 8 p.m. 2519-A Telegraph ifist, opposed to parties in principle. Then plain their ideas to other people and raise What the Guardian incorrectly and dis­ Ave. DonationS]. Ausp. Militant labor Forum. there's Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, consciousness? That, too, can and is being paragingly calls the "lowest-common-de­ representing the Yippie and/or Crazy op­ • done already. nominator" is, in actuality, the only basis BOSTON position to imperialism. And don't forget What would be new? Here we can only on which independent mass actions can be WHAT NEXT IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? Speaker: Youth Against War and Fascism, which guess, but a process of elimination leaves built against the imperialist war in Viet- seems to feel that clubbings by cops offer Patrick Kelly. Fri., April 25, 8:15p.m., 295 Huntington only the following: to change the antiwar nam. the best way to raise anti-imperialist con­ Ave., Rm. 307, Ausp. Militant labor Forum. movement into an "anti-imperialist" move­ Mass action is key sciousness. Then, of course, the SDS na­ ment, the Guardian would draft some sort Revolutionaries always try to find the tional collective, which in recent months CONFERENCE ON LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY, of "lowest-common-denominator" anti-im­ way to involve masses in such action, even has been so wrapped up issuing anti-im­ though the majority of people do not yet Harvard Univ., Emerson Hall, April 25-27. Speakers: perialist analysis of the war; then it would perialist documents, that it neglected to dis­ have a socialist consciousness. The orien­ Juan Mari Bras, Movement for Puerto Rican Inde­ draft up some "lowest-common-denomina­ cuss, much less support or build, the April tation towards mass action is a mark of pendence; Blase Banpane & Thomas Melville, priests 5-6 demonstrations. tor" anti-imperialist slogans. Then they would have to limitthe actions revolutionary strategy, because it is only expelled from Guatemala; James Petras, Dick Garza, Quite a conglomeration. And they're all to those who agreed to the coalition "com­ through mass action that revolution, and James O'Connor, Charles Turner, Edward Boorstein, anti-imperialists. If you don't believe it, all promise" analysis. They would summon to in fact all social change, is made. Norman Diamond, and others. Ausp. Committee on you have to do is ask them. demonstrate only those people who agreed Moreover, even casual observers can see latin American Solidarity. For info contact AFSC, 48 But that's just a starter, for the number with such analysis and slogans. Other­ that one of the by-products of the mass Inman St., Cambridge. of people who will speak out against im­ wise, wouldn't it be reverting to the coali­ antiwar demonstrations has been a tremen­ perialism can be greatly expanded, once • tion with "liberals"? dous radicalization in the United States. LOS ANGELES you think about. There's the Communist There are today broad layers of people Far from limiting consciousness, the mass REPORT ON THE CHICANO YOUTH CONFERENCE. Party. And the Peace and Freedom Party. demonstrations have created a climate of And even some liberals in the Democratic against the war in Vietnam, but not in Speaker: Tony Camejo. Fri., April 25, 8;30 p.m., 1702 protest, of opposition, of struggle that has Party are outraged by imperialism and agreement with the Guardian's analysis of E. 4th St. Contrib. $].For info call269-4953. set tens of thousands of youth thinking in wish the U. S. wouldn't act that way . society and, therefore, presumably not a socialist direction. This radicalization • All of them can agree that imperialism qualified to participate in such demonstra­ MINNEAPOLIS and climate of protest makes it much easier must be ended. All they disagree on is how tions. Does anyone get the feeling that such Hear Socialist candidates David Thorstad, Derrel to build other struggles against other fea­ to do it-which just happens to be the key actions might be considerably smaller than Myers, Lee Smith. Sot., April 26, 8:30p.m., 704 Henne­ tures of the capitalist system, struggles point. April 5-6? pin, •240, Minneapolis. Ausp. Twin Cities Socialist which should also be organized to involve Is that the type of organization the Guar­ Added problem Forum. dian wants? Of course not, they would pro­ And serious revolutionaries would also masses of people independent of the ruling • test. Some of the people mentioned are not face a problem. We in the Socialist Work­ class. NEW YORK ''really" against imperialism; the movement ers Party think that we do have a Marxist Furthermore, when it is possible, in the EXPLOSION IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS. Panel discussion the Guardian has in mind would be limited program that is adequate to the task of midst of an imperialist war, to mobilize on recent struggles in the New York high schools by to the "real" anti-imperialists. And who are organizing against imperialism. What is masses of people-including members of those involved. Fri., April 25, 8:30p.m., 873 Broadway they? Which of them are "really" capable more, however hard we might try, we don't the armed forces!- in militant demonstra­ !near 18th St.). Contrib. $],high schoolers 50c. Ausp. of organizing to overthrow imperialism? think we would be able to get together in tions demanding the immediate withdrawal Militant Labor Forum. And which only talk a good game? No a single political party with Dave Dellinger of the imperialist forces and self-determina­ • comment from the Guardian here. Jerry Rubin, Abby Hoffman, YAWF, the tion for the "enemy" that is far from a PHILADELPHIA Program and party SDS N. 0., the Guardian, etc., etc. or even "lowest common denominator." It is con­ STU~ENT RADICALS AND MASS MOVEMENTS. Panel Serious people will have to return to the in drafting a mutually agreed upon analy­ crete, meaningful struggle against an im­ including Richard Feigenberg, member of the SWP original argument. The only way of de­ sis of imperialism and how to fight it. And perialist war- not hollow verbiage. and U. of Po. student; Steve Fraser, chmn., Philo. fining anti-imperialism is in terms of a we certainly won't be party to any formula The Guardian's proposal to scrap the SDS Labor Committee; Joe Mikuliak, leader of U. of revolutionary socialist program and party that embraces liberal and radical, reform­ antiwar movement is a gross disservice, Po. SDS. Fri., April 25, 8:30 p.m. 686 No. Broad St. capable of overturning the imperialist sys­ ists and revolutionaries, Marxists and anti­ not only to the struggle against the im­ !corner Fairmount). Donation $], students 75c. Ausp. tem. Marxists and calls all of them anti-imperi­ perialist war in Vietnam, but to the en­ Militant labor Forum. All of which simply illustrates that the alists. tire struggle to change the capitalist system. Friday, April 25, 1969 THE MILITANT Page 7 Albright College study-in rrconspiracy'' wins solid campus support trial pushed • By Jay M. Ressler READING, Pa. -On April 13 over servative college, with predominant enroll­ In Berkeley 500 of the 1,200 students here at Albright ment from the small cities and towns of BERKELEY, April 12- The March 27 College entered the library to "study-in." Eastern Pennsylvania. acquittal of the Oakland 7 on felony charges Albright is a church-related, formerly con- The group presented the administration of "conspiring to commit a misdemeanor" with 23 demands involving student parti­ was an important victory for the antiwar 2 black Marines cipation in all levels of the decision-making movement. What was involved was the de­ process affecting the student community, feat of a law deviously contrived to stifle including 6 demands drawn up by the the rights of free speech, belief and assem­ in Naval brig for Afro-American Society ( AAS ). bly. By April 14 the number of students In spite of this favorable ruling, the Ala­ studying-in had increased to well over meda County District Attorney, J. Frank 700. More than 250 stayed all night. Coakley, is now preparing to use the same The administration was given until noon, antiwar views law against the Berkely Three-PaulGlus­ April 17, to respond to the demands. A William Hathaway man, Peter Camejo and Jack Bloom. On By Linda Sheppard negotiating team has been set up to repre­ May 26, the three, who are representatives BOSTON- Two black Marines from sent the students, and they are planning methods to intensify the pressure on the L.A. elections: of the Students for a Democratic Society, Brooklyn- Lance Corporal William Har­ the Young Socialist Alliance, and the In­ vey Jr. and Pfc. George Daniels- are serv­ administration. In addition to the overwhelming student dependent Socialist Club respectively, come ing six- and 1 0-year sentences, respectively, support for the action, many faculty mem­ Black Democrat to trial under charges arising from the at the Naval brig in Portsmouth, New bers are actively supporting the students. October 1968 Moses Hall sit-in at the Uni­ Hampshire, for opposing the war in Viet­ Faculty members came to talk with the versity of California. The sit-in was aimed nam. They have been in prison for the students in small groups and also came the next mayor? at the board of regents' refusal to grant past year and a half and are now awaiting to observe the mass meeting held on Mon­ By Gordon Bailey credit for a faculty-approved course in the decision on an appeal argued before the day night, April 14. LOS ANGELES- By a heavy vote, Los which Eldridge Cleaver was to be the main Naval Board of Review in Washington on The students refuse to be intimidated by Angeles citizens have repudiated incum­ lecturer. March 6. threats from the administration which bent Mayor Sam Yorty and opened the During the three days of protest, 198 people were arrested, 76 for the occupation The two men were court-martialed at might disrupt their education or violate way for City Councilman Thomas Bradley of Moses Hall. The Berkeley Three were Camp Pendleton, Calif., in November and the spirit of reason which is supposed to to become the first black Mayor of the be part of the academic setting. The stu­ singled out and charged with "conspiracy December, 1967, for statements they made country's third largest city. The issue was dents want to make their school one which not settled at the April 1 primary election to commit a misdemeanor," which is a the previous summer during an informal is relevant to their lives and their role because no candidate got 51 percent of felony with a penalty of three years in jail bull session with some fellow Marines. in American society. the vote. Yorty got 183,334 votes; 26 per­ and a $5,000 fine. The other 195 were Daniels was convicted under a provision cent of the total cast, while Bradley re­ found guilty of trespass with a maximum of the notorious Smith "Thought Control'' Students' demands ceived 293,753 which was 43 percent. penalty of 10 days and a $300 fine. The Act of 1940 that makes it a crime for any The major demands of the strugge are: Yorty who is trying for a third term actual acts cited against the three defen­ person to attempt "to cause insubordina­ e A representative board of trustees was not expected to win a majority in dants are speeches at a mass public rally, tion, disloyalty, mutiny or refusal of duty" which is in daily contact with the problems the primary elections. Too many residents and the chairing of an open meeting. by a serviceman. Harvey was acquitted of of the college and more concerned about have expressed dissatisfaction with his According to the conspiracy law, if a the Smith Act charge but convicted under the humanity of the institution than cor­ corrupt, incompetent administration. But misdemeanor is committed during a dem­ the "general article" of the Uniform Code porate interests. the extent of this defeat was a surprise onstration, the leaders of that demonstra­ Complete student control over the stu­ of Military Justice, which decrees almost e to many, and a shock to the Yorty forces. tion can be indicted on a felony charge­ dent media. anything displeasing to the brass but not While repudiating Y orty the Los Angeles " conspiracy to commit the misdemeanor." e Abolition of oppressive women's covered by some other article of UCMJ a voters also rejected his conservative oppo­ The "conspirators" do not have to have ad­ dormitory hours. nent Republican ( 'ongressman Alphonso vocated committing the misdemeanor, nor "cri.nle." Open dorms. e Bell. Bell was backed by the powerful do they have to be present or commit it Attorney Ed Sherman, who is represent­ Aboation of mandatory convocations. e Los Angeles Times and launched a pro­ themselves. All that is necessary is thatthey ing Harvey and Daniels, has pointed out The right to evaluate the curriculum. e fessional, well-financed campaign. How­ organize or help organize the demonstra­ that this was the first case in which ser­ Reorientation of admission criteria. e ever, he wound up with only 25 percent tion. vicemen were court-martialed for state­ Appeal from punitive actions taken by e of the vote. The Berkeley Three Defense Committee professors. ments against the war when no refusal of As Bell's campaign sagged, the Times has been formed to raise funds and solicit duty or other action followed the state­ hedged its bet on the Republican by de­ support for the Berkeley Three. The Com­ ments. Black demands claring editorially that Bradley would also mittee, headed by Professor Franz Schur­ Sherman has appealed the cases on the The six AAS demands adopted by the make a good mayor. They have now mann, chairman, and Professor Troy Dus­ basis that the laws the Marines are accused students were: given Bradley their unqualified endorse­ ter, treasurer, has already enlisted a large of having violated clearly infringe First e Black professors for the next aca­ ment. number of sponsors in support of the de­ Amendment rights. He has also raised demic year. Bradley's record and campaign have fense. the question of racism in the unduly harsh e Black courses included in the curri­ fully justified the support of the big busi­ Contributions can be mailed to the Berk­ culum. sentences the two received. ness interests around the Times. A cop eley Defense Committee, 2158 Emerson St., e Establishment of an Afro-American for 21 years, he had defended the police Berkeley, Calif. 94 705. If the pending appeal is lost, the case Center. and stressed the need for "law and order" will be taken before the Court of Military Admission of at least 50 black stu­ e in the schools. He opposed the recent boy­ Appeals and, if necessary, into the federal dents to the class of 1974. cott by black students. courts. e Recruitment of black students, con­ The wide support extended to Bradley Further information may be obtained trolled by the AAS. in the elections included significant layers from the Boston G I Civil Liberties Defense e Open admissions policy for under­ of radical- minded voters. As a result, Committee, PO Box 513, Cambridge, Mass. privileged and Third World students with William Hathaway, Socialist Workers can­ 02139; telephone: 491-9593. tutorial programs. didate for mayor, was credited with only 375 votes. However, his running mate, Della Rossa, campainging for Board of Education, polled 26,730 votes. Hathaway was the only radical candi­ date running for mayor. The Peace and Freedom Party did not run a slate, and PFP leaders Ed Pearl and Milton Zaslow endorsed the Socialist Workers campaign. In the course of the campaign, the SWP slate reached a significant number of peo­ ple with their revolutionary ideas. The candidates concentrated on mobilizing the support of campus and high school youth, through campus meetings and street rallies Peter Camejo at high schools. Significant numbers of Chicano militants and organizations en­ dorsed the campaign. Antiwar students Philly cops do it again: another rrbomb plot" hold L.A. parley By Fred Stanton PHILADELPHIA- Four members of By Jessie Parker LOS ANGELES, April 12-Forty high the Philadelphia SDS labor committee have school and college students met here today been arrested by police on crude frame­ up charges of possession of explosives to evaluate the April 6 GI-Civilian Anti­ war March and rally and to project future and "conspiracy" to use the explosives. actions. The goal set included reaching out The charges are based on claims by the to G Is and expanding the student antiwar police "civil disobedience" squad that plastic explosives and gun powder were "discov­ movement. ered" under the refrigerator in the apart­ The main decisions were to have a GI­ ment of Steve Fraser, a local leader of student teach-in and picnic near a military the group. base and to publish a student antiwar BARRY'S GRIP BROKEN? Testimony to the growth of antiwar sentiment was The frame-up attempt has been attacked newsletter. Graduation day actions and GI the activity organized in solidarity with April 5-6 in Phoenix, Arizona, heart by the Philadelphia ACL U, members of defense work were also discussed. The body of Goldwater territory. Here, Bob Dale, chairman of the Black Liberation SDS (the committee is not part of SDS), decided to call itself the Student Mobiliza­ Organizational Committee, speaks to rally of over 500 at Arizona State Uni­ the Penn Community Involvement Council, tion Committee and elected a steering con,­ versity. Over 1,000 students at ASU and Phoenix College took part in various the Young Socialist Alliance and the So­ mittee of representatives from each of the Vietnam protests on "antiwar day" March 26. cialist Workers Party. 15 schools present. Page 8 THE MILITANT Friday, April 25, 1969

Attacks

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By Elizabeth Barnes NEW YORK, April 15 - Two Black Panthers had their bail lowered yesterday at a hearing for the Black Panthers ar­ rested on charges of "conspiring" to blow up department stores and kill policemen. But the judge refused to reduce the ex­ ceedingly high $100,000 bond set for each of the 12 other defendants. The total amount of money which must be raised if all the defendants are to be bailed out comes to about $2 million. When defense Attorney William Kunstler Photo by Larry Birkner made the point that the preposterously Panthers assemble at New York Criminal Court during bail hearing. high bail was part of a calculated attempt to victimize and destroy the Black Panther Party, Supreme Court Justice Charles to hearing all kinds of talk about commit­ the hot breakfast and free clinic program tionalism has to be socialist." Seale struck Marks replied that he would consider ting a crime (''conspiring" to do so) and which the Panthers are launching in Los a disturbing note when, while lauding charging Kunstler with criminal contempt. this is accepted as evidence even though Angeles in accord with the Ten Point pro­ Huey P. Newton for his revolutionary at­ The two Panthers who were able to get there is nothing to back it up. The jury gram. tributes, he compared Newton to Stalin, a bail reduction were Lonnie Epps, 17, simply has to go by whether or not they Bobby Seale pointed out, "We will feed apparently unaware of Stalin's record of whose bail was lowered from $100,000 to think he's telling the truth. hungry children in the richest country in betrayals of nationalist and socialist strug­ $10,000 and Eddie Josephs, also 17, who Bail money is urgently needed to free the world. We will feed hungry children in gles. "They both kept the will of the people won a reduction from $100,000 to $25,000. the Panthers. Contributions may be sent a country where farmers are paid to throw uppermost in their minds," according to On April 11, the first day of the bail to: Legal Defense Fund, Black Panther wheat in the ocean. We will feed any hungry Seale. reduction hearings, a crowd of approxi­ Party, Box 1224, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202. children." In other parts of his talk, Seale lumped mately a thousand gathered at the Crimi­ As to the free clinics, Brother Masai said, Stalin and Mao together with Marx, Lenin, nal Court Building to protest the indict­ "Black people need hospitals, not butcher Fidel, Che and Malcolm as great revolu­ ments. Nearly two hundred Panthers took 1,000 attend shops. The power structure spends billions tionaries and internationalists. part in the demonstration. of dollars on the war in Vietnam, yet they It was announced at the rally that a The indictment of the "Panther 21" has L.A. benefit can't build hospitals in the black commun­ letter had been received from Robert Wil­ been accompanied by much sensational­ ity. We must end this racist society. We liams, Afro-American in exile in China, ism in the press, and it is obvious that the By Terry Hardy must fight racism with solidarity, capi­ stating his plans to return to the United case is part of an effort by the Lindsay LOS ANGELES, April14-Aboutl,OOO talism with socialism, cultural nation­ States to help carry on the struggle. administration to woo racist votes while people turned out for the John Huggins­ attempting to victimize and discredit the alism with proletarian internationalism." Bunchy Carter Hot Breakfast and Free Panthers. The fact that the charges are Joel Britton, Los Angeles organizer of Clinic Fund Benefit organized by the Los all based on alleged "conspiracies" is the Socialist Workers Party, was among Police trap a giveaway as to the trumped-up charac­ Angeles Friends of the Black Panther Par­ those who presented brief messages of soli­ ter of the case. ty on April 13. The main speaker was darity with the Black Panther Party. He Conspiracy charges are used when the Bobby Seale, national chairman of the told how when he was in Cuba in January in Chicago cops don't have any evidence of actual Black Panther Party. Brother Masai, dep­ many Cubans asked about the prospects steps taken to commit a crime. Lacking uty minister of information of the Southern for socialist revolution and the progress of By Ellis Burress such evidence, they charge the victims California Black Panther Party, also spoke. the black struggle in North America. "If CHICAGO, April 12 - Chicago police with talking a bout-that is, "conspiring" Phil Ochs sang, as well as Elaine Brown, the Cubans we talked to knew I was giving and federal agents set up an elaborate to commit a crime. Also, in a conspiracy communications secretary of the Black Pan­ a message of support to the work of the trap in order to bring about the arrest trial all kinds of unsubstantiated hearsay ther Party. Two of Elaine Brown's songs Black Panther Party I am sure they would of three members and one supporter of testimony is permitted. In a trial involving were in tribute to the two slain revolu­ want me to express their deep feelings of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Seventy­ charges of actual crimes committed, such tionary leaders of the Black Panther Party, solidarity with the struggles in general and eight federal and local cops took part in hearsay evidence is permitted only if it "Bunchy" Carter and Franko Digs. the Black Panther Party in particular." the frame-up and arrest of the four, who can be substantiated. Thus, in a "conspi­ Besides the educational purpose of the Both Seale and Masai spoke in favor of are accused of trying to buy machine racy" case, a lying police agent can testify rally, it was also held to raise funds for socialism, Masai saying"revolutionary na- guns. According to police and press accounts, a federal agent posing as an illicit gun dealer approached one of the Panthers some time last week offering to sell four Electrical unions map bargaining unity machine guns for $500. Arrangements were said to have been made for the Pan­ thers to drop the money off at a rail­ In early March a delegated rally of all trical Workers. If the UE is included it will road station and for the weapons to be the AFL-CIO electrical workers unions, re­ mark a broadening of the united front of picked up at another location. presenting 200,000 employees of Westing­ workers against the electrical corporations. Once the guns were allegedly in the pos­ house and General Electric Corporations, But, in addition to the need for a genuine session of the Panthers, the trap was sprung met in Washington, D. C. tolaytheground­ united front among these workers, there is and they were arrested. Bail was set at work for a bargaining coalition. According the need for a correct union policy. The top $65,000 each and trial slated for April 17. to the March 15 Business Week, this coali­ union officials were guilty ofmisleadership The case is being handled by Dennis tion may also include the second largest in 1966 on several vital counts: Cunningham, a Panther Lawyer, and Ker­ electrical workers union-the United Elec­ e They buckled under Johnson's strike­ mit Coleman of the American Civil Liber­ trical Workers-which was ousted from determined to have honest collective bar­ breaking pressure. (Meany intervened ties Union. Contributions to aid the de­ the CIO by the red-baiting top CIO brass gaining. We are going to have a resolu­ when Johnson was on the verge of impos­ fense should be sent to the Political Pri­ during the McCarthy witchhunt. UE is the tion of our demands, regardless of what it ing a Taft-Hartley injunction, and agreed soner Defense Fund at 2350 W. Madison second largest union in the electrical in­ takes." instead to mediation by three Cabinet mem­ St., Chicago, Ill. dustry. James Compton, chairman of the joint bers. The result was a last-minute, badly The Washington rally, attended by dele­ bargaining steering committee, warned the emasculated settlement.) gates representing 170 local unions, heard delegates "not to attempt to coordinate bar­ e They gave in to the corporations with­ Indianapolis George Meany declare that the forthcoming gaining beyond mutual cooperation at the out a real fight and at the expense of the 1969 contract covering the two giant cor­ bargaining table." He said further: "On ad­ rank and file. porations, would "dwarf' the 1966 agree­ vice of counsel, we must emphasize that we e They accepted a badly defective es­ rally held ment and "set the pace for the nation in do not intend to engage in joint or multi­ calator clause in thefaceofrunawayprices. By Rick Congress 1969 and for 1970." union bargaining. This does not exclude e They allowed continuation of totally INDIANAPOLIS- An April10 rally to The meeting took up the question of unjustified geographic differentials in job the right of each unit to negotiate its own defend the Black Panther Party facing wages, vacations, pensions, and health and contract." rates. police harassment around the country drew welfare plans in a general way but was Mr. Compton's timid cautioning came e They hastily gave up the demand for 250 Indiana University students. It raised much more specific on two issues- a full after two delegates urged common expira­ a reduced work week with no cut in pay. $150 for Panther defense. cost-of-living clause and the union shop, tion dates for all contracts. After the 1966 e Then, as if to add insult to injury, they Indiana Black Panther Party speakers which would make union membership man­ coalition bargaining, Westinghouse Elec­ failed to do anything significant about the included Fred Crawford, deputy chairman; datory after 30 days employment. This tric tried to have all contracts thrown out big backlog of workers' grievances that Will Sharrief, captain of defense; and Law­ latter issue is the one which received the as illegal under the National Labor Rela­ had accumulated due to the corporations' rence Roberts, deputy minister. Russell loudest applause from the delegates. tions Act. The NLRB ruled againstthecor­ violations of the previous contract. Block of the Young Socialist Alliance also James Woodside, president of the Ameri­ poration which is now appealing that deci­ The balance sheet shows that top union spoke. can Federation of Technical Engineers, sion in the courts. However, in another officials simply grabbed a few face-saving The rally was called by the Revolution­ hailed the proposed bargaining coalition case involving the copper strike, another concessions and settled more or less on ary Student Party, a YSA-initiated campus thus: "This is our most comprehensive dis­ NLRB trial examiner held that the copper terms laid down by the two giant com­ electoral organization, which is running play of solidarity. The day has passed union coalition violated the law by insist­ panies. Block for student body president. when company giants can play one union ing on common contract expiration dates, It remains to be seen whether or not the The Panthers described the police harass­ against another." a company-wide settlement package, and present steps toward a stronger union co­ ment to which they have been subjected IUE (AFL-CIO) told the delegates that settlement with all unions involved before alition will be matched by a change from in Indianapolis, including a December bust "the coalition is not put together to get work was resumed. the past malpractices of the leadership on to "search" for "automatic weapons," and muscle or to blow the whistle and hit the The present coalition appears to correct the question of union policy. also made an appeal for defense of the bricks. We may have a strike but we are the factional exclusion of the United Elec- -Marvel Scholl recently framed-up Panthers in New York. Friday, April 25, 1969 THE MILITANT Page 9 The Chinese CP meets

By George Novack constitution and the election of a new gates and 21 of these are generals. Dele­ ( IP) The struggle for supremacy among Central Committee. gates representing party members among the contending factions in the Chinese Com­ The 1, 512 delegates in attendance were the Red Guards are also at the congress. munist leadership, which brought on the constitutionally required to be elected. Ac­ Hsinhua News Agency exuberantly "great proletarian cultural revolution," has cording to the New York Times corres­ hailed the gathering as "a congress of been settled for the time being with the pondent from Hong Kong, "it seems un­ vitality, a congress of unity and a congress holding of the ninth congress of the party. likely that such legal procedures were fol­ of victory." While it does signify the vic­ The congress, which opened April 1 in lowed." The electoral principle has fallen tory of the Maoist forces, the facade of Peking, has been called to ratify the com­ from favor under the latest dispensation unity and unanimity rests on the irre­ plete centralization of decision-making of Mao's thought and replaced by what parable shattering of the old party and power in the triumphant Maoist grouping. is euphemistically termed "full democratic state leadership, which has weakened the The congress was convoked after a long bureaucratic regime as a whole. series of delays. Following its formation The havoic on the party hierarchy by in 1921, the party held six congresses in the interbureaucratic conflicts is visible :::.;/"~ seven years. Since Mao took command in the removal of many of the most pro­ Lin Piao in the mid-1930s, it has had only three minent veterans of the regime. No less congresses: the seventh in 1945, the eighth than two-thirds of the former-90-man cen­ of Sino-Soviet amity, 46 foreign delega­ in 1956, and the second session of the tral committee have either fallen into dis­ tions attended. It is not known how many, eighth congress in 1958. grace or are now deceased. Only nine if any, were represented at the current The eighth was the last formally elected out of 26 members of the directing poli­ sessions. congress. The party constitution adopted tical bureau which came out of the eighth No foreign correspondents were admitted at that time stipulated that a congress was congress have politically <>r physically to the proceedings and no news of the to be held every five years, the delegates survived. sessions was forthcoming from official to reconvene annually until the next set The congress is expected to approve sources for more than a week after the of delegates were selected for the next con­ the expulsion from the party last October congress began. It is known that both gress. However, the set of delegates selected of President Liu Shao-chi as a "scab, re­ Chairman Mao and Marshal Lin made for the 1956 congress met only once, in negade and traitor," along with other pre­ important speeches on the first day. Lin 1958, and have not assembled again for viously powerful personages in the top presented the general report which in 1956 the past 10 years. leadership. The draft of the new consti­ was given by the deposed Liu Shao-chi. Very likely the protracted conflicts within tution bars the way to their reintegration It was a balance sheet of the last three the top circles, which have been going on into the party, since it provides no appeal years of the cultural revolution, but the behind the scenes since the 1958 "great procedures against expulsion on such text is not yet available. lead forward" and which broke out in public charges. In the reconstruction of the party it with the cultural revolution in 1965-66, At the same time, the congress will serve remains unclear what functions will be have been the principal reason for the \ Cof/~ to rubber-stamp Mao's designation of Lin assigned to the revolutionary committees­ repeated postponements of the congress. Mao Tse-tung Piao as his heir. Chairman Mao has writ­ made up of the military, reclaimed party Mao has been no more scrupulous in ten Marshal Lin's name into the new con­ cadres who have abjured their anti-Maoist complying with the provisions of the party consultation by party organizations at stitution as a guarantee that his "close errors, and "real revolutionary" workers statutes than was Stalin who likewise called various levels." The delegates were pro­ comradLLin-arms" will accede to power. and peasants- which have been admi­ congresses of handpicked delegates at arbi­ bably handpicked by the revolutionary In Moscow's unbridled denunciations of nistering the government in place of the trary intervals that suited his bureaucratic committees which now administer the pro­ the congress as a "Maoist farce" its publi­ dismantled party apparatus. convenience. Under the new proposed party vinces. cists have scornfully referred to "the mo­ According to an Agence France-Presse statutes, delegates are not required to con­ Role of the army narchical thesis" by which Lin is consti­ dispatch April 8 in the Paris daily Le vene during the five-year periods between The preponderant weight that the army tutionally directed to succeed Mao. To be Monde, after vice-president Lin's political congresses. has acquired in recent years is evidenced sure, Stalin's successors have not been report, three documents were submitted As expected, Mao was elected chairman, in the estimate that one-third of the 176 freely chosen by the party ranks or the to the congress on the situation in Asia, Lin Piao vice-chairman and Chou En-lai persons elected to the presidium belong Soviet people. But it is difficult to gainsay the Middle East and Africa. These resolu­ general secretary ofthe congress. The three­ to the military. All the chairmen of the they criticism of Mao's anti-Marxist and tions are said to advocate a policy of point agenda included a political report revolutionary committees that govern undemocratic procedure. revolutionary armed struggle not only by Lin, the adoption of a revised party China's 29 provinces are among the dele- There was also more than a touch of against the governments of Burma, Thai­ nepotism in the choice for top honors land, Indonesia and Malaysia but also of the 13 notables on the platform. The against those of India andJ a pan. Pakistan wives of both Mao and Lin are conspi­ and the Philippines are omitted from the Young Socialist Cuba talks cious among them. The original team list of countries that are ready for armed of Chinese Communist leaders has been struggle. The documents likewise express narrowed down to a coterie of personal support for the guerrilla struggles of the followers of Mao. Presumably, not too Palestinians against Zionist Israel and of heard in various regions many individuals in high places outside the Africans against the South African the family circle are now considered to and Rhodesian regimes as well as against MACON, Ga.- Not many people had The meetings so far have ranged in size be completely trustworthy interpreters of the Portuguese colonialists. ever seen a socialist in this Georgia Bap­ from 35 to 200 people. Mareen Jasinski his thought. The congress has also categorically con­ tist stronghold before Linda Jenness of reports that the most interesting aspect of Few visitors demend the Brezhnev doctrine of "limited the Atlanta Young Socialist Alliance spoke the tour, next to the widespread interest in Peking's isolation in the Communist sovereignty" which Moscow invoked to here April 1 about here recent trip to Cuba, is the noticeable radicalization of world is indicated by the almost total justify its invasion of Czechoslovakia. Cuba. people in isolated places. There are large absence of foreign visitors to the congress. Peking fears this doctrine may be used for Soviet incursions into its territory. The meeting was sponsored by the Open numbers of people in small towns in rural At the 1956 gathering, held at the height Forum S~ries at staid and tradition-soaked areas who are against the Vietnam war, she Mercer University. She opened her remarks reports, and posters of Che Guevara and by explaining that many of her conserva­ Malcolm X can be found everywhere. tive relatives had attended Mercer and that she was very happy to have an opportunity to let Mercer see the "progressive" side of BERKELEY, Calif. -Peter Camejo, a her family. spokesman for the Socialist Workers Party Approximately 60 people attended the who just returned from a three-month visit meeting, most of whom were not sympa­ to Cuba, addressed an overflow meeting of thetic to either the Cuban revolution or socialist ideas. About eight counterrevolu­ 250 at Dwinelle Hall at the University of tionary Cuban "gusanos," or worms, at­ California here April 4. tended as well as a large number of con­ The discussion at the meeting centered in servative Mercer students. After speaking large part on the SWP's disagreement with and showing slides, an orderly but heated the Cuban leadership on the invasion of debate followed for about an hour. There Czechoslovakia (which the Cubans criti­ was a small group of students that bought cally endorsed and the SWP opposed) and some socialist literature. on the SWP view on the need for the de­ This meeting was part of a Southwide velopment of structured workers' demo­ speaking tour that she has been making cracy in Cuba. From the lengthy discus­ in support of the Cuban revolution. For sion, it was apparent that the great major­ information about setting up a meeting ity favored the SWP position of supporting in the Southeast write: YSA, Box 7817, the Cuban revolutionary government while Atlanta, Ga., 30309. presenting its own independent and, in some cases differing, views on various issues. The previous day, Camejo spoke on the PHILADELPHIA-Mareen Jasinski, achievements of the Cuban Revolution to who was a member ofthe Young Socialists' a rally of 500 students in the Sproul Steps delegation to the celebration of the lOth free-speech area. Every Bay Area TV sta­ anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in tion and several radio stations covered this Havana in January, has completed the meeting. first part of a speaking tour through the On the initiative of the Young Socialist mid-Atlantic states. She has spoken about Alliance, the Berkeley Independent Socialist Cuba before college, high-school and Black Club, which holds that the Castro regime Photo by Bruce Marcus Panther audiences throughout Pennsylva­ is reactionary, has agreed to an open de­ nia. Further speaking engagements have SPREADING THE WORD. Mareen Jasinski, at Philadelphia Socialist Workers bate of the Cuban question. The debate will Party hall, tells TV interviewer about what she saw on visit to Cuba. been arranged for her in New Jersey, West be held on May 9 at the University of Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. California. Page 10 THE MILITANT Friday, April 25, 1969

Detroit racists forced to tone down attack

By Evelyn Sell respected individuals and organizations shot three ofthe four wounded New Africans he said, 'You didn't have no business here.' DETROIT- The police, Prosecutor Ca­ issued public statements of support to Judge during the police attack. Then he put his gun in my back and said, halan and the daily press have been forced Crockett to counteract the attacks on the Detroiter James Dawkins, a 27-year-old 'I ought to shoot again.' When I asked to tone down their racist campaign against black judge by leading public officials Ford Motor Co. foundryman, told re­ them to take me to the hospital, one of them black people in Detroit as a result of such as Michigan Governor Milliken. Well porters what happened to him after he said, 'You ought to die."' broad opposition to their attacks against over 50 organizations formed the Black heard gunfire outside the church. He and Additional information about the police the Republic of New Africa (RNA) and United Front to resist police oppression another brother stepped up near the pulpit raid and subsequent events was presented Recorder's Court Judge George W. and defend the victims of racist injustice. and told everyone to keep calm. "Some of at an April 11 meeting of the Militant Crockett. Police were forced to ease up on the them got down on the floor. The others Forum by RNASecondVice-PresidentBro­ The police used the March 29 death most blatant aspect of their campaign sat like we told them. But then we heard ther Imari (formerly Richard Henry) who of one white patrolman and the wounding against Crockett when it was discovered glass break- it must have been shot into was accompanied by Brother Abdullah, of another outside New Bethel Baptist that they were using a special phone line the building- and the brother and I hit Assistant Minister in the Foreign Ministry, Church as the pretext to storm the RNA in Police Headquarters to gather signatures the floor. I saw three policemen come in, and Brother Balogun, from the RNA In­ convention being held inside. The invading on petitions to remove him. Police "termi­ two with rifles and one with a handgun. terior Ministry. All three had been inside officers wounded four New Africans, in­ nated" the phone line after Ernest Mazey, One had a shield over his face. The brother the church and, like the others, knew no­ jured many others and arrested everyone. executive director of the Detroit office of and I were lying there- I was on my thing of the slain patrolman outside. "I Wayne County Prosecutor William Ca­ the American Civil Liberties Union, re­ stomach- when I was shot the first time, was surpised," Brother Imari said, "when halan was a party to the police denial vealed that leaflets were being circulated in the shoulder. Then, just seconds later, I heard and saw the police coming in of constitutional rights to the 142 black around the city urging people to call 224- was shot again . . . I asked the policeman shooting. We three weren't shot but plaster prisoners. When Judge Crockett initiated 4425. Mazey called the number and asked standing over me why they shot me and and chips hit us." court proceedings to protect the prisoners' the answering policeman "if this was where Brother Imari commented on the special rights, Cahalan objected, defied the court I put my name on the petition against fugitive warrants issued against RNA ci­ by rearresting a released prisoner and Judge Crockett? The officer said 'Yes.'" tizens Rafael Viera, charged with killing then charged the black judge with im­ As the racist forces in the city were forced Patrolman Czapski, and Alfred Hibbitt, proper legal acts. The daily newspapers to retreat, attention began to shift from charged with wounding Patrolman Woro­ launched a massive campaign to whip up the controversies surrounding Judge Cro­ bec. "Fugitive warrants were issued because hysteria against black militants and to ckett to the police stormtrooper attack on the police wanted to hunt them down and drive Judge Crockett off the bench. RNA. New Detroit Inc. (a committee re­ kill them on the way in." Fugitive warrants All of this aroused great numbers of presenting the state's business, political weren't necessary, Brother Imari ex­ blacks and whites. Judge Crockett's actions and labor leadership circles) stated on plained, because, "Hibbitt was just going were supported by several mass demonstra­ April 7 that it would investigate charges to work every day and going home to tions which were much larger than police by RNA First Vice-President BrotherGaidi his family every night like any normal picket lines opposing the judge. Highly (Milton Henry) that police deliberately person." Hibbitt voluntarily appeared before po­ lice when he learned he was wanted. The RNA is handling the extradition of Rafael Viera from New York where he lives. In an April 10 telegram to Detroit Police Commissioner Spreen, RNA First Vice­ President Gaidi said that the citizens of Kathy Boudin recently returned from a Goodman's article on a stormy meeting the Republic, which seeks establishment 15-month stay in the Soviet Union. Acritic of the Atlanta Alliance for the April 6 of a separate black nation in the South, of the Soviet bureaucracy, she sought out peace march in the Feb. 17 issue. were "people of good will-not criminals. critically-minded young people. The in­ The Bird's fair-mindedness extends it­ If you have any warrant for arrest of formation she gathered and the analysis self to its coverage of cultural subjects any citizens of this republic presently out­ she made of it is presented to us in "Mother as well, as with the two side-by-side hot standing, we will present such citizen in Russia's Young" in the March premiere and cold reviews of the Atlanta perfor­ the appropriate court without the necessity issue of Leviathan, a new monthly radical mance of blues singer and guitarist, John of service of any process." journal with a format and style half-way Hammond, in the March 24 issue. Brother Imari told the Militant Forum between the Guardian and the New York In any case, the Bird's coverage of the audience that RNA was confident it could Review of Books. Southern radical movement is of parti­ prove the innocence of the accused men She writes: "A mass movement for change cular importance to people in the rest of and was concerned with making sure "they does not exist in the Soviet Union today. the country because of the present paucity live through the trial and are not killed There is, nevertheless, a small but growing of info on what's shaking in the South. by police." A spontaneous collection was minority of Soviet youth dissatisfied with (Subs to the Bird may be obtained by taken up and a substantial amount was their society and willing to take political sending $6 for one year to Atlanta Co­ given to Brother Imari as the initial fund risks to express their dissatisfaction." operative News Project, P. 0. Box 7946, for a defense committee. The most hopeful group of young Soviet Station C, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.) Following Brother Imari's talk, a state­ radicals · she encountered was a group ment supporting the rights of the RNA called the Kineticists, which is a kind of The Trial of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Judge Crockett was read by Paul community of young artists who ''have by the American Civil Liberties Union Lodico, Socialist Workers Party candidate risked open involvement with a form of (edited and introduced by Corliss Lamont, Photo by Gerald SimmonsfUlozi for Detroit Common Council. The state':. modern art, and as individuals, they have Horizon Press, 222 pp., $5.95) presents Police stomped on ankle of Mrs. Ade­ ment is printed on the back of a campaign broken with the pattern of life expected us with the grotesque and unlikely sce­ fumi who was attending RNA con­ poster featuring photos of police and en­ of them." nario of the Board of Directors of the vention from New York. titled, ''the real criminals." ''With my other friends," writes Kathy American Civil Liberties Union going Boudin, "they shared a deep distrust of through the very uncivU libertarian pro­ the government. Similarly, they were cedure of expelling the late Elizabeth Gurley openly critical of the undemocratic plan­ Flynn from the Board because of her Books by James P. Cannon ning, hypocrisy, and lack of civil liberties membership in the Communist Party. in the USSR. But their spirit and response The bulk of this book is the fascinating was very different. They conveyed mockery transcript of the May 7, 1940 meeting of LETTERS FROM PRISON of their own government, yet maintained the ACL U Board of Directors at which The author personifies the continuity of the revolutionary movements of the a distance from me and the West which Miss Flynn was deemed unfit to remain past half century with today's struggles. An IWW organizer, a leader in the old I symbolized. There was none of the sur­ a Board member because of her member­ Socialist Party, a founder of the American Communist Party, expelled from the prising respect for the United States that ship in the CP. Ever since, according to Communist Party for Trotskyism, James P. Cannon organized the Socialist Workers I had sometimes met among my other Dr. Lamont, members of the CP have Party and is now its national chairman. In 1944, along with others, he was im­ friends. been excluded from being officers or staff prisoned under the Smith Act for his opposition to the war. These are the letters "The Kineticists listened to me describe members of the ACL U on the basis of he wrote while serving his sentence in the federal prison. The letters constitute a community schools, the antiwar movement their political beliefs and not for any act combination of a party leader's working correspondence, a guide to international and community organizing with excite­ of opposition to civil liberties in the U. S. politics for professional revolutionists, a manual for organizers and a prison jour­ ment, not disbelief. They spoke freely of (which, after all, is the ACLU's domain). nal. Cloth, $5.95 their own socialist ideals." Previous to this 1940 meeting, CP spokes­ SOCIALISM ON TRIAL (A subscription to Leviathan, 2700 men had served on the board of the ACL U The official court record of James P. Cannon's testimony in the famous Minnea­ Broadway, New York, New York 10025, without their right to do so being polis "Sedition" trial. Under direct examination by defense counsel and cross­ costs $5 a year.) challenged. examination by the federal prosecutor, Cannon develops what has become a clas­ However, during the period in question sic statement of socialist aims and methods and a stirring defense of the right of the liberals were feeling the pressure of revolution. Paper, $1.50. Cloth, $4.95. The Great Speckled Bird is an under­ their milieu. The American CP was back­ NOTEBOOK OF AN AGITATOR ground newspaper published in Atlanta, ing the very unpopular Stalin-Hitler pact Over a hundred articles on the events of 30 years of labor history. The cam­ Georgia, and, in my opinion, it's one as well as the Soviet side in the war with paign to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the historic strike movement of the mid-thirties, of the best in the country. Finland. the Korean war, prize-fighting, intellectuals, movies, Stalinist ideology, the Church For one thing it doesn't fall into the Hence, the grotesque scenario: the un­ and preachers, crime and criminals-here is socialist journalism at its best. bag, common to a great many under­ liberal liberals probe Miss Flynn on her Paper, $2. ground papers, of displaying a sensa­ political beliefs a Ia HUAC, in response THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM tionalistic obsession with drugs, sex and to which Miss Flynn makes the naive Invaluable letters to a historian on what really happened, and why, during the weird goings-on, which makes a part of assertion that the Soviet Union under Sta­ founding period of American Communism. Cloth, $4. the underground press seem somewhat lin is fully democratic and asks to have HISTORY OF AMERICAN TROTSKYISM less than vital. Not, by the way, that the the USSR constitution in the record to The origin and development of the U. S. Trotskyist movement drawn against a Bird is shy about covering what's happen­ prove it. background of world politics: the rise of Hitler to power; the Spanish Civil War; ing with sex, drugs, and what-not. Without a doubt, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and other great struggles of this period. Cloth, $2.75. More importantly, the Bird takes a had as much right to be a member of the serious attitude towards building the radi­ ACLU Board as did severalofitsmembers cal movement. It gives the movement ample who, as Miss Flynn pointed out, were and fair-minded coverage. Two good ex­ champions of the alleged "rights" of ma­ erit amples are Jim Gwin's article on a South­ nagement to carry out suppressive actions 873 Broadway ern Student Organizing Committee con­ against organized labor. New York, N.Y. ference in the March 31 Bird and Bob -Malachi Constant Friday, April 25, 1969 THE MILITANT Page 11 The Great Society THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE An apology - Naively accepting the students and faculty members at Pacific A dog and his mistress word of the Wall Street Journal, we re­ Union College in California staged a mili­ ported April 11 that Bob .Jones Univer­ tant nine-mile march and rally in protest sity in Greenville, S. C. "has no rebellion against cigarettes. The hooker came in the problems" merely because it bans beards, last paragraph which explained it's a miniskirts, movies, rock music, liberals Seventh Day Adventist school, and the stu­ and blacks, requires daily prayers, is se­ dents and faculty neither smoke nor drink. cured by a high fence and has armed guards patrolling the campus. (It's not How respectful can you get? - Out of clear if this is to keep people out or in.) respect for the late General Eisenhower, Anyway, Bob Jones, Jr., president of Bob an officers' club near D. C. decided to dis­ Jones University, has requested state per­ pense with its bar's "happy hour" for 30 mission to arm his guards with machine days. !,>uns against any possible red invasion. The tommy guns are needed, Dr. Jones Rationalized saint-making - The Vati­ explained, because they have 2,000 young can has moved to streamline the process ladies on campus and have promised their by which those who have performed a mothers to keep them from all harm. minimum of two verified miracles are made saints. Previously nominations were pro­ With justice for all - While the Army cessed in the candidate's home diocese is threatening to jail Ft. Jackson Gis for and then the entire investigation repeated seeking to execise their constitutional in Rome. Now saints will be made largely right to free speech, an Air Force colonel on the basis of the local action. The pre­ was llned $600 after admitting he destroyed vious procedure sometimes took as long the film from cameras in two fighter planes as 50 years, resulting, a church spokes­ that strafed a Soviet ship in a North Viet­ man said, in the disappearance or aging nam port in 1967. of witnesses and the obscuring of the truth. The old procedure also involved an es­ Lack that native larceny?-"CHICAGO, timated average expenditure of $50,000 per April 11 ( UPI) - A Prudential Insurance saint. Company executive said today that his industry has concluded that slum business Still socking it to 'em- In its continuing enterprises would have to be developed campaign of stern justice for Nazi war and managed by whites until enough criminals, the West German government qualifi€d Negroes become available." convicted a former SS official of having "Treat my workers like a dog? You don't know what you're talking about!" aided in the murder of at least 1,500 Fine print?- Draft-'em-all Hershey says Jews. They gave him seven years. The country is slowing closing the image she eats in the dining room while Joie nonreligious CO's shouldn't be quick to gap created by the Johnson administration. has his lamb chops and a side of carrots take comfort from the recent federal court Federal crackdown - A pair of New For instance, there were those who saw it in the check room. To gloss things over, decision that the draft boards should not York meat packers were sentenced to 30 as an expression of the decadence of the they serve his order on a silver platter. days and $2,200 fine for shipping 25,000 discriminate in favor of religious objectors. system when LBJ lifted his dog by the Yet, with their example of love and Hershey says the way he reads the ruling pounds of uninspected meat adorned with ears for reporters. But the April 13 New affection, such people inspire others. Mrs. counterfeit government labels to West Point. is that now no COs are entitled to defer­ York Times had a lengthy illustrated ar­ Richard Harris, wife of a shipping ex­ ment. They are not exactly first offenders. One ticle showing that America's wealthiest ecutive, had a recent heartening example was convicted in 1949 for bribing an families actually love their dogs dearly, of this. One of her five dogs, Minnie, army sergeant to accept undergrade meat. Dental notes- A Madison, Wis., woman displaying a sensitivity to their needs and/ gave another, Alfie, a karate chop with In 1951 and again in 1961 the company is in the process of collecting damages or desires that leftists would hardly imagine her paw and Alfie stopped breathing for was convicted of shipping uninspected from an employer who literally snatched them capable of. six minutes. her dentures from her mouth to hold them meat. Last year they were convicted of Rich peoples' dogs, the Times reports, They rushed Alfie to a vet near their as collateral for a $200 loan he made attempting to sell 12,000 pounds of putrid "jet all over the world. They dine on gour­ to pay the dentist. Meanwhile, in a reversal meat. They were fined $1. Southhampton estate and he brought the met foods, they sport real gold collars. little thing back to life. (It's not reported of normal procedure, two armed men re­ They ride to their country homes in li­ if he used heart massage or mouth-to­ lieved a Quebec dentist of $60 and then Thought for the week - "The country mousines." mouth resuscitation.) required him to extract five teeth for one is looking for a scapegoat. First it was Perhaps the most touching animal­ of them. the draft, then recruiters, then Dow Che­ human relationship is that between Joie "That night," Mrs. Harris says, "the vet's mical, and now it's the bloody generals." de Vivre, a miniatun; poodle who lives wife took Alfie home with her and slept Lack single-issue perspective - We -Major General Melvin Zais, commander on Fifth Avenue, and his mistress, Mrs. with him to make sure he was all right. thought we had a movement underway with of the 101 st Airborne in Vietnam. Raymond Johnson, widow of a mer­ Can you imagine a regular doctortreating the report that a thousand non-smoking -Harry Ring chandising executive. people like that?" Joie "loves to eat caviar from a spoon Well, can you? and drink champagne from a glass," the While you're thinking about it, consider Times reports. 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About 1,200 dem­ onstrators marched to the State House grounds, where a spirited rally was held. The march was sponsored by the Texas Coalition Against the War. Several large banners appeared in the march, some designating contingents of active-duty G Is, others designating high school students. Signs and banners called for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, support to antiwar Gls, and condemnations of the Paris peace talks as fraudulent. About 100 active-duty G Is from Ft. Hood, Bergstrom Air Force Base, and other military installations in central Texas participated. Before the march, thou­ sands of leaflets had been distributed at Ft. Hood by civilian antiwar activists. Support was also given to the march by the GI Organizer an antiwar newspaper published by Ft. Hood Gls. General Hugh Hester (ret.), who had Photo by Shannon been scheduled as the leading speaker, New Yorkers protest slash in social services funds had to cancel his plans at the last minute due to illness. The first speaker at the Boutelle gets ovation rally was Larry Caroline, controversial Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, who is faculty spon­ sor of SDS and the New Left Educational Mass rally hits N.Y. budget cuts Project. Caroline said that the war in Viet­ nam is really the fault of the "American people," who should get out of "our middle class ruf' of TV, flashy cars, etc., and By Paul Davidson He received a standing ovation when he The rally ended with a demonstration work to create a world where people can NEW YORK, April 16-Thousands of called for immediate withdrawal from Viet­ of several thousand who marched from the love each other. New Yorkers turned out April 15 for nam. He said that to the three "R's" in the band shell out onto Fifth Avenue to dra­ The second speaker was Charles Cairns, a protest against the massive state budget rally's slogans of "Restore the money cut matize their demands. Moving swiftly and Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the cuts of welfare funds. The day began from welfare, medicaid and hospitals," "Re­ shouting slogans such as "End the War, University of Texas, faculty sponsor of with a mass rally in Central Park and peal the sales tax," and "Reform the tax Feed the Poor," the demonstrators went the University Committee to End the War ended when police attacked some of the structure" must be added a fourth slogan down Fifth Avenue to 42nd St. The pro­ in Vietnam and the Young Socialist protesters who brought their demands to "by any means necessary." testers were attacked at Grand Central Alliance. Cairns pointed to the successes the streets by holding an unscheduled Other speakers at the rally included Hul­ Station by mounted police, who charged of the antiwar movement and called for a march downtown. bert James, field director of the National up and down the streets and sidewalks, continued growth in its size and militancy The rally was sponsored by the Citywide Welfare Rights Organization, Beulah Saun­ forcing people into the sides of buildings, until the last GI is brought home. Coordinating Committee for Welfare ders of the New York Citywide Coordi­ injuring some. Thirteen arrests were made, Walter Kos, an active-duty GI who has Rights, other welfare groups and several nating Committee for Welfare Rights, the including welfare clients, unionists, and been outspoken against the war and for local unions, including District 3 7 New York Minister of Information of the Hulbert James of the National Welfare socialism, also spoke and emphasized the AFSCME; local 1199, Drug and Hospital Black Panther Party and others. Rights Organization. need for public support for antiwar Gls. Union; Uniformed Sanitationmen's Asso­ ciation; and the Social Service Employees Union. At the rally's height, over 5,000 people, many of them welfare recipients, filled the Central Park band shell area. The rally Harvard students press ROTC fight began with speeches by two local Democ­ ratic mayoral aspirants- Herman Badillo in and began an orgy of clubbings. About In an interesting by-product of the occu­ and James Scheuer. The audience re­ By John Banman 200 of those sitting"in were dragged down pation, the underground paper, Old Mole, sponded unenthusiastically to what either CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 17 - the stairs; several by the hair. Some were has printed letters found in University of these had to say except at one point­ The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, thrown over the railing. They were beaten Hall which show that the Kirkland House­ when Badillo called for an end to the which represents well over half of into the police vans and even onlookers master was a CIA agent for 10 years. Vietnam war. all faculty at Harvard, voted over­ were brutally assaulted. A total of 197 The paper also published correspondence The city commissioner of social services, whelmingly today to sever all ROTC people were arrested. About 80 were treated between the school administration and the Jack Goldberg, was also scheduled to contracts with the Pentagon, which for injuries, including one broken back Pentagon discussing how to circumvent speak, but was literally hooted off the amounts to abolishing ROTC. and two broken leg!'. Most were charged the faculty resolution removing academic stage as soon as he appeared. with trespass but a few were singled out credit for ROTC. Paul Boutelle, Socialist Workers Party In an interview with a student yes­ terday, Hugh Calkins, a member of on phony charges of assault and battery. candidate for mayor, was then introduced. Immediately following the bust, students the Harvard Corporation, said the At last people had someone whq could in the yard started a chant: "On Strike! Student action articulate their feelings and who could corporation would "not accept the Shut it Down!" At rallies the next day, be cheered. Boutelle took the trade union pressure of anyone to get rid of ROTC, the strike was endorsed by a majority of bureaucrats to task for their halfhearted because we think it is a good thing." students, divided into two groups. efforts at defending poor and working at Boston U If no action is taken on the faculty A meeting in Memorial Church, attended people, called for the release of the Panther resolution, both the Strike Committee by over 2,000 students enraged by the ad­ By Toba Leah Singer 21, and pointed to the need for a complete ministration's wanton use of police force, BOSTON, April 14-Students at Boston break with the two parties of racism and and Afro are expected to escalate demanded that charges be dropped, that University have been occupying the Dean capitalism. the strike. police not be called on campus again, and of Students' office as part of a campaign that Harvard's President Pusey resign if by B. U. SDS to kick ROTC off campus, the demands were not met. to end the B. U. Overseas Program (in Meanwhile, SDS and its supporters called which professors go overseas to instruct Jury acquits By John Barzman, Steve Lewontin and for a strike on its own. A meeting of over U.S. troops in "foreign policy") and to Dick Osborne 1,000 participants elected a steering com­ end all military recruitment on campus. ten at S.F. State CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 15 - The mittee of 15. On April 13, two more de­ Last week students occupied the Office student strike at Harvard was about 80 mands were added to those of the original of Financial Aid to dramatize the demands percent effective today. The campus is sit-in: 1) No punishment of any kind for and try to win support. SDS sought to SAN FRANCISCO - The first bubbling with strike-rap groups, and stu­ those who sat in at University Hall and win campuswide support on the basis of two trials of those arrested in the dent groups have taken over school build­ 2) The formation of a Black Studies Depart­ the political demands, rather than a police Jan. 23 mass bust at San Fran­ ings freely. ment as demanded by the Association of bust, and left the building when the cops cisco State. resulted in a hung jury The struggle began on April 9, when Afro-American Students. came. The action was followed by a march and an acquittal. In the trial of about 200 student began to occupy Uni­ The demands of the Strike Committee are · to Harvard to show solidarity with the the first four of the 450 arrested, versity Hall, demanding abolition of ROTC gaining support through intensive discus­ student struggle there. the j~ry was deadlocked. In the and an end to Harvard's expansion at sion by political brigades and by leafleting. Rallies and meetings have been taking trial of the next ten the jury voted the expense of working people and black On Monday a mass meeting of 10,000 place all week to determine further action unanimously for acquittal. All had people in Cambridge and Roxbury. By called by the Memorial Church Group, at B. U. The entire campus is talking late afternoon, about400peoplehadjoined voted overwhelmingly to add the following politics, discussing the war and campus been charged with unlawful assem­ together inside the building, while about to their earlier demands: 1) Abolish ROTC complicity. Last night 650 students at bly, failure to disperse and dis­ 1,000 gathered outside. Dean Ford then 2) stop Havard expansion 3) support the a mass meeting decided today's actions. turbing the peace. The prosecutor announced that all those in the building Afro demands and 4) amnesty for those The students see a possibility of a student said he will seek a new trial in would be subject to charges of "criminal arrested. strike here if the administration fails to the hung jury case, an unusual trespass." He gave them 15 minutes to Leadership in the strike has passed into respond to the demands and in protest procedure in a misdemeanor. clear the building. the hands of the Strike Committee, whose against the administration's repression of At 4:45 a.m. about 500 cops stormed 15-man steering committee are all SDSers. political freedom on campus.