Int’l Vietnam Protest MILITANT Published in the Interest of the Working People Planned for Aug. 6-9 Vol. 30 - No. 22 Monday, M ay 30, 1966 Price 10c Parade Committee Detroit Meeting Salutes In N.Y. Issues Call By Harry Ring NEW YORK -i- The Fifth Ave­ nue Vietnam Peace Parade Com­ Slain Young Socialist mittee has issued an international call for united, m ilitant protest ac­ By Evelyn Sell tions against the war in Vietnam DETROIT, May 20 — About Aug. 6-9. 150 persons, the largest group The call for the action was made ever to assemble in Debs Hall at a Manhattan Center rally of here, paid tribute tonight to the 1,500 on May 23. Announcement of work and ideals of Socialist Work­ the projected demonstrations was ers Party member Leo Bernard, made by Dave Dellinger, co­ k ille d by an assassin’s b u lle t on ordinator of the committee. Speak­ the afternoon of May 16. The ers at the rally were I. F. Stone, memorial meeting also expressed A. J. Muste and Isaac Deutscher. solidarity with the other two vic­ Otto Nathan was chairman. tims of the attack, 22-year-old Dellinger reported that notice of Jan Garrett who is Wayne Coun­ the Parade Committee decision to ty chairryan of the Socialist Work­ organize such an action had been ers Party and 19-year-old Walter sent to all local, national and in­ Graham who is a member of the ternational groups opposed to the Young Socialist Alliance. A ll three war. Although the committee’s let­ had been shot by a man whose ef­ ter was only sent out a short time forts to emigrate to the Union of ago, he said, and many groups South Africa and whose threats to abroad may not yet have even re­ Photo by Finer “ kill some communists” were well- ceived it, the pommittee has al­ known to local police and the Se­ ready received communications NEW YORK RALLY. Scene at Manhattan Center rally of Fifth cret Service. from groups in 25 cities declaring Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee which announced call The audience represented a they would organize united anti­ for antiwar demonstrations Aug. 6-9. broad cross-section of the major war demonstrations Aug. 6-9, the social protest movements in the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and declaration by Dr. Nathan that continue. He charged that it is the Detroit area. There were students Nagasaki atom bombings. the committee had a clear-cut re­ U.S. military establishment that is and adults from the antiwar move­ ply to President Johnson’s demand pressing to keep the war going. He ment, black freedom-now fighters, A ustralian Response Leo Bernard that his critics should state an declared: “ I wish there were some activists from the Students for a Dellinger said the Australian alternative policy. The answer is way to say: ‘Let’s get out!’ ” Democratic Society, the Commu­ Vietnam Action Committee, with . simple, Dr. Nathan told the ap­ Muste said he, too, had found a nist Party, the Michigan Civil Lib­ meeting included the murdered affiliates in Australia and New plauding audience, “ Mr. President, great war weariness in Saigon and erties Union, Facing Reality and socialist’s co-workers in the anti­ Zealand, had written that it is bring our boys home now!” a strong desire by the vast major­ Leo Bernard’s fellow workers war and radical movements, pro­ calling for demonstrations in co­ That demand, he added, w ill be ity for an end to the slaughter. from the Socialist Workers Party fessors from Wayne State Univer­ ordination with the New York the theme under which the Parade He said most of the people and the Young Socialist Alliance. sity and a representative from the Committee and had notified 80 Committee w ill pursue its future want to negotiate a settlement with National and international mes­ League for Socialist Action of Asian groups of the slated action. activities. the National Liberation Front and sages of sympathy and solidarity Canada. From th e ir hospital beds, He said the Parade Committee is want the American troops to get Saigon Reports were expressed through telegrams the two wounded youths sent mes­ waiting to hear from other groups out because they feel a settlement and the presence of people from sages which were read aloud to the abroad. The rally heard reports on the can’t be negotiated until they do many cities. audience. The precise nature of the proj­ situation in Saigon from Stone withdraw. For the same reason, Heartening Response Walter Graham is still listed as ected New Y ork action has not and Muste. Stone recently spent ■ he said, they want an end to the Frank Lovell, Michigan state in- critica l condition, and faces yet been decided on, Dellinger eight days there to obtain a first­ Ky dictatorship which they know chairman of the Socialist Workers more operations, but is expected said. He added that a planning hand view of the situation for his is determined to keep the war going. Party and the chairman of the to recover. Jan Garrett is expected conference would be held in June publication, 1. F. Stone’s Weekly. to leave the hospital in a week or and other organizations invited to Muste, chairman of the Parade meeting, told the audience about Bernard Slaying the heartening responses to the at­ two. Both face long periods of participate. More than 80 groups Committee, was recently expelled tack on the three young socialists. recuperation. opposed to the war in Vietnam are from Saigon with a group of fel­ The veteran pacifist charged “The first and most gratifying Marilyn Levin, Detroit chair­ now affiliated to the Parade Com­ low pacifists. that the Johnson administration is responses,” he said, “came from man of the Young Socialist Al­ mittee which organized the mas­ Stone reported that the great fanning a dangerous anti-com­ the university centers. The stu­ liance, presented a picture of Leo sive Fifth Avenue marches last majority of the Vietnamese people munist hysteria in this country dents at Wayne and from the Uni­ Bernard as “a warm human be­ Oct. 16 and March 26. want an end to the war. Only the and pointed to the killing of Leo versity of Michigan — those who ing . a man of science . a The rally was opened with a profiteers and generals want it to Bernard in Detroit as an example have been identified with the anti­ realistic optimist.” She described of what such hysteria produces. war movement on the campuses of his evolution as a socialist and “I hope none of us will slow this country — came immediately gave insights into his dedication down our opposition because of to the hospital to donate blood for to the struggle against racism, Activist in Peace Movement such incidents,” he said. the wounded. It was as if the news war and exploitation. “Leo’s The Johnson administration, he flashes of this terrible attack were major concern was people,” she concluded, may be trying to find appeals for blood donors. They stressed. a way to “save face” in Vietnam. came all afternoon on Monday Murdered in Richmond, Va. But, he added, it is not the re­ Job Experience sponsibility of the antiwar move­ and Monday night and Tuesday Addison Wilkins, a 20-year-old Wilkins graduated from a Rich­ ment to help them do it. and the day after and still we re­ “Leo came from a middle-class native of Richmond, Virginia, and mond high school last June and “If we yield in any way,” he ceive calls asking if blood is still background, but his job experi­ a staff member of the Student then attended the Virginia Poly­ declared, “or slow down our in­ needed or what else or what more ences had widened his view. In Peace Union in New York City, technic Institute at Blackburg, Va. transigent opposition to the war, can I do . order to go to school he had to was found shot to death in his Relatives said he dropped out of we shall be traitors to everything The speakers at the memorial work. He had worked at Receiv­ home town. He was shot 10 times, school and went north in October human. But if we continue, we ing Hospital, where the poor of five times in the head and_ five to work for the peace movement shall have the undying gratitude this city are taken. While there, times in the upper back. His body in New York. At the SPU head­ (Continued on Page 3) he had witnessed a case of police and that of Malcolm Norment Jr., quarters, Wilkins quickly became brutality that deeply disturbed 41, who had been shot seven times, known for his hard work. him. He had worked in a factory was found near a cemetery on Wilkins left New York on May and knew how alienating this type Saturday, May 21. 11 to return to school at Virginia of w o rk can be. For a w hile, he Wilkins was a member of the Polytechnic Institute and to or­ was a teacher and saw the in­ Fellowship of Reconciliation and ganize a peace movement in his equities of the educational system. of the War Resisters League, as home state. He also spent years in the army well as an active member of the He was last seen at a forum reserves and developed a strong SPU. Friday night, May 20, at the First hatred for the military, where the The Student Peace Union in Unitarian Church in Richmond.