MAY 2, 1975 25 CENTS VOLUME 39/NUMBER 16 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE ' Socialist action program to win jobs for all. See page 3. Militant/Harry Ring Aworkers' paper that tells the truth Layoffs. Rising prices. is filled with firsthand march for jobs: buy an Racist assaults on Blacks. reports on how union­ introductory subscrip­ War threats in Southeast ists, the unemployed, stu­ tion, get this issue free. Asia and the Middle East. dents, Blacks, and women Secret-police spying. are fighting back. Enclosed------------- is The Militant tells the The Militant is cam­ ( ) $1 for two months truth about what's going paigning against Ford's ( ) $7.50 for one year on in this country. It attempts to send more stands on the side of millions in arms to the Name _________________ working people who are Saigon dictatorship and striving to defend their to drag G Is back into Address, _________ rights and standard of Vietnam. living. .Don't miss a single City _______________ The Militant cuts issue-subscribe· today! A through the lies by the two-month introductory State _____ Zip, ___ government and big busi­ subscription is only a dol­ ness to expose the real lar. Clip and mail to: 14 Charles causes of the economic Special offer to partici­ Lane, New York, New York crisis. And every week it Militant/Baxter Smith pants in the April 26 10014. Spacial ollar--subscriba now· In Briel ATTORNEY GENERAL ON STARSKY CASE: Mount­ A SNITCH IN TIME: "A cop is only as good as his ing public pressure around the disclosure of FBI attempts snitch." A snitch is a police informant, and the above quote THIS­ to get socialist professor Morris Starsky fired from his post is a common saying among officers of the law, according to at Arizona State University has forced a public response by an article by Nicholas Horrock in the New York Times. WEEK'S United States Attorney General Edward Levi. The state­ A large list of federal agencies employ informants, and ment came in reply to a letter from William Van Alstyne, although there are no public records on the number of stool president of the American Association of University pigeons on the government's payroll, it is assumed that MILITANT Professors, who had written Levi to protest FBI harassment there are two informants for every full-time agent. "This 3 How the unions can win jobs of Starsky and FBI Director Clarence Kelley's defense of would mean that between the Treasury and Justice for all those FBI actions. A story on Levi's response was carried, Departments alone there are something like 30,000 paid 5 N.Y. budget crisis: city unions along with large photos of both Starsky and Levi, in the informants," Horrock reported. Chronicle of Higher Education, a publication widely read in under attack academic circles. MARCHING FOR THE ERA IN TEXAS: More than 6 Camejo takes campaign to "What your letter fundamentally seeks, I presume, is some 1,300 supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment converged streets of N.Y. assurance that for the future it will not be the practice of the on the Texas state capitol in Austin April14 to express their Department of Justice to engage in practices of [this] sort," opposition to a resolution before the legislature to rescind _7 Right-wing terrorists Levi wrote to Van Alstyne. "I am happy to provide that the state's ratification of the ERA. Anti-ERA forces in strike again in L.A. assurance." Texas have been gearing up for some time to push through 8 May 17 countdown However, Joseph Duffey, the general secretary of the the resolution, and 2,000 anti-ERA demonstrators came out AAUP, said, "The answer is not very fulsome for people the same day. 9 Stalinist record on Black whose skepticism has risen" because of FBI "counterintelli­ Although there is some doubt about the legality of such struggle .gerice" activity such as the attempt to get Starsky fired. action, two states have already voted to rescind their 25 Washington state students, par­ Duffey added, "It would have been more useful 'to know if he ratification. had, in fact, sent a directive Lto the FBI] about activities ents: 'Save our schools!' The rally was called by Texans for the ERA, a coalition relating to surveillance of domestic and political activity that was formed after anti-ERA forces began mobilizing 26 Roosevelt's attack on WPA and what the directive was." last fall. Some members of the coalition who opposed rallies 28 People of Pnompenh cheer or marches recently changed their minds when the liberators REVOLT OF THE JURIES: Dismayed at its inability to Republican head of the committee holding hearings on the obtain convictions in so many of its attempts in recent ERA suggested that ERA supporters hold a rally. He said 29 Frame-up against Georgia years to frame up political activists, the Justice Department students fai Is ordered a study to try to find out why. The answer they got was not surprising. 32 No Gls to Vietnam! More and more juries are "at least partially composed of people willing to be convinced of government misconduct, or 2 In Brief willing to believe the exculpatory motives alleged by the defense," the report said. Furthermore, the government 10 In Our Opinion found, defense _attorneys for the victims of the political Letters frame-ups were "able to evoke ... the sense that the 23 Women In Revolt Government used the legal system to legitimize or enforce National Picket Line unpopular policies or decisions." 24 The Great Society GOVERNMENT MISCONDUCT?: If federal prosecutors Their Government are wondering why anybody could possibly think the American Way of Life government guilty of misconduct, they need only look at the 11-22 International Socialist news from Buffalo, New York. There a woman recently testified that she was paid by the FBI for fourteen months Review to spy on the legal defense team in the Attica cases. Attorneys for one former Attica inmate charged with Militant/Suzanne Welch murder during the 1971 rebellion have demanded· to see her Tallahassee, Florida Austin, Texas reports to the FBI. "I took the FBI job on, thinking it was honorable," Mary that the numerous protests and rallies being held by the Jo Cook told a court hearing. "During the course of it, I anti-ERA forces were having a big impact on the legislators. realized it was not honorable. I committed a political Among the buses coming from Houston was one organ­ crime." ized by the Coalition of Labor Union Women with Mter the recent rash of informers spilling· the beans, assistance from the Teamsters union. maybe the Justice Department will now commission a study on why they are losing so many spies. AND IN FLORIDA: "Equal rights, equal pay, ratify the ERA," chanted demonstrators as they marched, some 2,500 THE MILITANT Planning to move? Don't forget to take your Militant strong, in Tallahassee, Florida, on April 14. Buses from all subscription with you. Send us your old address label over Florida and contingents from several other states VOLUME 39/NUMBER 16 along with your new address at least two weeks before turned out for the march, which was called by the National MAY 2, 1975 you plan to move to ensure that you don't miss any Organization for Women and endorsed by a broad range of CLOSING NEWS DATE-APRIL 23 issues. groups. Governor Reubin Askew, actress Marlo Thomas, Betty Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Friedan, and actor Alan Aida were among the speakers at Business Manager: ROSE OGDEN 'ZEBRA' TRIAL UNDERWAY: Four Black men charged the rally. "· Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING with being members of the "Death Angels," a group alleged Washington Bureau: CINDY JAQIJITH Supporters of Socialist Workers presidential and vice­ to be responsible for the so-called Zebra killings of whites in presidential c~ndidates Peter Camejo and Willie Mae Reid Published weekly by The Militant Publishing San Francisco last year, are now standing trial. The distributed 500 copies of the SWP's "Bill of Rights for Ass'n .• 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. defendants, all Muslims, were charged with the crimes after Working People" to a receptive crowd. Telephone: Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Busi­ ness Office (212) 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 710 Mayor Joseph Alioto, at the time a candidate for governor Meanwhile, the April 16 vote by the North Carolina S. Westlake Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90057. of California, dramatically announced that he had un­ legislature to reject the measure is expected to kill chances Telephone: (213) 483-2798. Washington Bureau: covered a national conspiracy responsible for seventy-three for final ratification in 1975. So far, thirty-four states have 1345 E. St. N.W., Fourth Floor, Washington, D.C. murders. This followed a massive stop-and-search opera­ 20004. Telephone: (202) 638-4081. passed the ERA. Thirty-eight are required to make it part of Co"esponde11ce concerning subscriptions or tion by police against hundreds of Black men who happened. the Constitution. changes of address should be addressed to The to be on the street. A federal judge ruled the searches Militant Business Office, 14 Charles Lane, New unconstitutional. YOUR TAX DOLLAR: Looking forward to a tax rebate? York, N.Y. 10014. Quentin White, one of the defense attorneys, charged that Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Well, if you are on food stamps, don't get your hopes up too Subscriptions: domestic, $7.50 a year; foreign, the state's star witness, a police informer, is "insane" and high.