A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Afirsthand report BY DERRICK MORRISON side the Attica Correctional Facility were false." ATTICA, N.Y., Sept. 15-"Time would Monday, Sept. 13, around 11 a.m., Oswald's denial of "throat-slittings" have meant nothing here but lives, rang tr~er and truer as the hours and "castrations" and other "atroci­ and I thought lives were more im­ passed. Today the Buffalo Courrier ties" was forced in the wake of an portant than four days or eight days Express carried a bulletin reading: autopsy report from the Monroe or 10 days .... They (the inmates) " State Correction Commissioner Rus­ County Medical Examiner's office in told us yesterday (Sunday) no hos­ sell G. Oswald confirmed Tuesday Rochester. That report held that ni ne tages would be harmed if the police night that nine of the 10 hostages of the 10 hostages died of gunshot did not come in. They (hostages) who died in the Attica prison riot wounds. would have been alive, the ones who succumbed to gunshot wounds fired This sensational disclosure clearly died, right now." by state police during the retaking of demonstrates that the blood, the will­ These words, by the prominent civ- the maximum security facility Monday ful and deliberate murder of 32 in­ il liberties attorney William Kunstler, morning. He said that earlier reports mates and 10 guards and civilian spoken to me and other reporters out- that the hostages died of cut throats Continued on page 5 M.t\..JORITY . :oF- NEW . VOTERS ARE NONCOLLEGE ing $135 a month, were provided with pest-ridden,. squalid THIS YOUTH: 'S)f the il million Americans between the ages eating and sleeping quarters and "recreation centers" of 18 and21~ ·f?ur million· are college students and 900,- .. containing coin-operated pool tables and pinball machines. 000 are; higli ·school :stit·dents. Of the. rest, over ·four mil• · Cannasquillo charged that conditions were "inhuma~ ~' WEEK'S }Jon are workers, soo;ooo are Gis; one million are house~ · but Frank J. Jill, an owner of sever~! of the WQrsi ;camps, wives :a~a. 600,0~0 · a!~ in pris~ns or hospitals.· A story.·· had a ready answer when he was contacted by -repor,ters: MILITANT in the Sept.· 9 ·Los Angeles Times reports that both cap­ "I doubt very much that those conditions exis.t/: Jill told itali~t parties are stumped over how to reach the seven repqrters who had just seen the camps witl} t~~ir own 3 Good start ·toward goal million voters not on c-timpuses. A spokesman for the eyes. of 30,000 new readers Democratic National Committee says "because it's harder Hush over Saigon-U. 5. to identify them, it's harder to reach thern." A Republican FILIPINO MASS ACTION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES: A offensive · spokeswoman says, "If you can find out how to get to Reuters dispatch dated Sept. 13 reports that about 15,000 persons marched in six columns through Manila in the 4 Bipartisan support to these noncollege people, let me know." But we asked a represe~tative of the Young Socialists for Jenness and Philippines to Plaza Miranda, demanding the immediate post-wage-freeze con­ Pulley, and she said, "For us, it's no big mystery. Young restoration of habeas corpus and the release of political trols workers and Gls and housewives and prisoners and high prisoners. According to the dispatch, the action was or­ 5 Attica prison massacre school students are concerned with the same issues we ganized by a coalition of 70 organizations called the 8 Army brass worried talk to col.lege students about- the war, Black and Brown Movement of Concerned Citizens for Civil Liberties and about Gl morale liberation, women's liberation, G I rights, high school was participated in by nuns, priests, farmers, students 9 Nat' I support for Nov. rights and the need for socialism." and workers. 6 keeps growing THE CASE OF BILLY SMITH: An appeal from the NO REASON FOR PRISONS: An article by Jim Stingley 10 Boston SWP candidate Billy Smith Defense Committee reports that Smith is a from the Los Angeles Times that was carried in the Sept. visits prison Black G I framed up for a "fragging" incident in Vietnam. 8 Washington Post tries to show the reader how things 11 Pulley blasts Rockefeller He is· being held in solitary confinement .at Ft. Ord and look from the prison guards' point of view. Most of the for Attica massacre faces the death penalty if he is convicted. The Army's interviews are just what one would expect, but one of 12 Women's liberation and evidence is that Smith had a grenade pin in his pocket the guards, without meaning to, touched the heart of the matter. "I think the thinking of the people outside needs political power (hardly unusual· among Gls who are issued and use . grenades ia combat) and that he has a "bad attitude" correcting," he said. "I mean, there doesn't seem to be 15 Pl breaks with Maoism -i.e., he hates the war and hates the Army. For more any real reason for having a prison any more.... " 16 labor unity is theme of information and to help, write the defense committee at UE convention 288 Alvarado St., Monterey, Calif. 93730 or call (408) VEG-0-MATIC: It's a small comfort, but late last month 17 AFT projects no fight 373-2305. the Federal Trade Commission finally got around to against wag.e freeze telling Popeil Brotlie.rs Inc. that their "works-like-magic" 19 Pentagon papers: Viet­ SIT-IN GETS RESULTS IN SPAIN: Eighteen days of food· slicer isn't good for slicing much. The company sit-ins, involving up to 2,000 doctors, forced Madrid med­ signed a consent order agreeing not H> engage in "false nam escalation sparks ical authorities to back down from their plans to reduce and deceptive advertising," but a company spokesman antiwar movement the number of beds for psychiatric patients at the Fran­ said Popeil Brothers felt no change in their existing ad­ 24 New developments in cisco Franco Medical Center there, the New York Times vertising was called for. More newsworthy than the tooth­ Davis, Magee trials reported Sept. 14. Not only were the beds kept and dis­ lessness of the FTC is the way the agency happened to Campaign launched to charged staff people rehired, but a commission including act against the Veg-0-Matic commerical. An FTC em­ convict Hanrahan doctors' representatives has been set up to determine future ployee purchased one after seeing it demonstrated on Stokes assailed for ex- policy at the center as a result of the sit-in. late TV. When he bought one and tried to slice a tomato, he said, "It splattered all over everything. It was as if .. cusing Rockefeller CAPITALIST CAMPAIGN WRITEOFFS: Representative it had exploded." Samuel Devine ( R-Ohio) revealed some evidence of one way capitalist candidates trim their campaign budgets PRISON LEGION POST: The New York Daily News 2 In Brief when he inserted figures on airline writeoffs for 1968 reported Sept. 11 that 37 inmates at the Colorado state 6 In Our Opinion Republican and Democratic presidential aspirants in the prison in Canon City had been granted a charter by the Letters Congressional Record Sept. 8. Some of the figures include American Legion and allowed by the prison administra­ 7 Great Society writeoffs from American Airlines of $69,376 for Nixon, tion to set up a post at the institution. It sounds good The National Picket Line $138,762 for Humphrey, $135,872 for McCarthy, and to us, not because of the Legion but because of the prec­ $415,120 for Robert Kennedy. United Airlines wrote off edent involved. If these prisoners can set up a Legion 73 Women: The Insurgent bills of $75,000 for Nixon and Agnew, $79,000 for post, other inmates should be allowed to set up chapters Majority Humphrey and Muskie and $12,651 for Kennedy. TWA of antiwar veterans organizations- or of Black, Puerto 14 La Raza en Accion wrote off close to $250,000 for Humphrey, $6,000 for Rican, or Chicano nationalist organizations or any other 17 By Any Means Neces­ McCarthy and $13,000 for the Republican National Com­ kind of organization with which they wish to affiliate. sary mittee. 20 In· Review BEING GAY NO SECURITY RISK, JUDGE SAYS: Dis­ STUDENT VOTERS WIN RULING: A U.S. District trict Judge John H. Pratt ruled in Washington, D. C., Sept. Court told registrars in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 13 13 that government security evaluators cannot deny clear­ to stop discriminating against students in determining ance to applicants because they are homosexuals. The the resident status of voter applicants. If an applicant ruling came on three suits brought by the American Civil is 18, has lived in New Haven for six months and re­ Liberties Union on behalf of three men who had been gards it as his or her home, the judge said, then it must suspended from their work on the basis of their sexuality­ be presumed that the applicant is a resident. a linguist and two scientists. INHUMAN CONDITIONS FOR PUERTO RICAN MI­ DELIVERED FROM TEMPTATION: The Sept. 13 News­ GRANT WORKERS: An investigating team of legislators week magazine reported that Billy Graham, in Amsterdam from Puerto Rico, headed by Senator Ernesto Cannas­ to attend an evangelists convention, donned a cap and quillo, is in the U.S. for two weeks to inspect the living shades to see what life was like in the city's notorious and working conditions of Puerto Ricans here.