THE Cancer-Breeding A-Tests MILITANT A Crime Against Humanity Published in the Interests of the Working People By Herman Chauka APRIL 25 — The U.S. resump­ Vol. 26 - No. 18 Monday, A p r il 30, 1962 P rice 10c tion of cancer-breeding nuclear tests today is a crime against all humanity. It w ill bring disease and death for generations to come and it increases the peril of a world atomic holocaust. Kennedy’s cold­ Los Angeles Pickets: blooded decision to resume the deadly blasts is cloaked w ith crude lies intended to deceive the m il­ lions around the globe who have demanded, “ No more tests!” Easter “HUAC Go Home!” week end was marked by big anti­ test demonstrations here and By D ella Rossa abroad. LOS ANGELES, April 24 — were well represented among the The claimed “reluctance” to go Thousands of pickets conveyed the demonstrators. ahead with the atmospheric ex­ message to the witch-hunting Underlining the collaboration plosions is so much hogwash. The House Un-American Activities between HUAC and local ultra Soviet resumption of tests last fall Committee today that its presence rightists was the appearance of a — which Kennedy piously de­ in this city was extremely unwel­ full-page advertisement in yester­ nounced as a “crime” — was ac­ come. Picketing of the HUAC sub­ d a y’s Herald-Examiner w e lcom ­ tually greeted with ill-concealed committee’s closed hearings began ing the committee in the name of joy by Washington which had at 8:30 this morning, swelled in the John Birch Society. The ad already decided on another round size to some 1,200 by 11 a.m., com­ was signed by almost 200 chapters of tests and seized upon the Soviet pletely surrounding the Federal of the notorious neo-fascist or­ action as the pretext for doing so. Building on all four sides, and ganization. The U.S. participation in the continued till 4:30 p.m. Opponents Rescue Operation Geneva negotiations for a test-ban of the inquisitorial, civil-liberties accord was an utter sham. Wash­ ACTING FOR PEACE. Some of the thousands of New Yorkers A principal object of the HUAC destroying agency plan to continue ington’s real attitude was blurted who marched on the UN April 21 to demand a halt to bomb tests subcommittee’s visit to this city picketing for the duration of the o u t A p r il 20 b y the Wall Street appears to be the staging of a and the scrapping of weapons of war. smearbund’s four-day stand. J o u rn a l which reported: rescue operation for John Birch Banners displayed on the picket “The m ilitary is eager to get the Society elements in Consolidated line identified such organizations tests under way as soon as possible ington officials, the J o u rn a l re ­ the less said, the less the upset for Western Steel, the U.S. Steel sub­ as the Youth Action Committee, to bar the possibility that a last- ported: jittery neutrals and other nations, sidiary, in nearby Maywood. Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and minute test ban concession by the “The Atomic Energy Commission such as Japan, and fallout worriers Birchites in Steelworkers Local the Unitarian Fellowship for So­ Soviet Union w ill cancel them.” plans to issue only the tersest an­ at hom e.” 2058 and management elements cial Justice, Leaflets were distrib­ The article also noted that nouncement that a blast has taken The ranks of such worriers are there took the offensive some uted by the Citizens Committee to Washington doesn’t put too much place with a vague approximation increasing rapidly. On the Satur­ months ago in connection with a Preserve American Freedoms and stock in its propaganda efforts to of its size . ‘The administra­ day before Easter more than 5,000 grievance over the firing of a the ironically named HUAC Re­ justify the new test series. Point­ tion thinks that if officials aren’t New Yorkers paraded to the Unit­ unionist for refusing to fill out a ception Committee. Students and ing to the already planned press allowed to talk about the tests ed Nations. The Sane Nuclear Pol­ security form inquiring into pol­ steelworkers — one of whose censorship on the Christmas Is­ there’ll be fewer stones and they icy Committee has just announced itical beliefs and associations. The unions, Local 2058, is a target of land blasts and the close-mouthed don’t want publicity,’ explains one plans for a series of protest dem­ Steelworkers international put the the reactionary Congressmen — approach of usually verbose Wash- expert. Obviously the hope is that onstrations in Times Square. local into receivership and ap­ Easter week end in England saw pointed one John Despol as ad­ a massive four-day march from ministrator. Recently Despol has the Aldermaston missile site to Ga. Negroes Fight been the target of severe criticism London participated in by more within the local and the labor Pretense Dropped that GIs than 25,000 people. In West Ger­ movement of Greater Los Angeles many, press reports credited peace "Murder" Arrests for having solicited a contribution demonstrations with a turnout of to the local’s “anti-Communist The Negro community of Augus­ Are Not Fighting in Vietnam 10,000 in eight cities. Thirty thou­ fund” from John Welch, fuehrer ta, Georgia, is collecting money in sand people staged a demonstra­ of the John Birch Society. By Alex Harte tion in Copenhagen. preparation for a court fight to Twelve members of Local 2058 defend eight Negro youths charged One by one Kennedy’s pretenses on the fact that by law the med­ Similar demonstrations were known to oppose Despol and the held in the m ajor cities of Canada. with murder in the death of a that U.S. involvement in South als can be awarded only to those Birchites have been ordered by In Vancouver, more than a thou­ white teen-ager the night of April Vietnam’s civil war differs in any wounded in war. the HUAC subcommittee to appear sand marchers, including unionists 19. way from the U.S. “police action” A revealing sidelight of the at its star-chamber hearings. Sig­ and members of the new Canadian The eight are accused of firing nificantly the Birchite elements in in Korea are being dropped. test case, about which this Purple labor party, demanded a national a fusillade of shots at a car car­ the plant were naming those who Heart protest raged, was its con­ Latest indication of this was referendum on the issue of nuclear rying white youths through a cealment from the American pub­ would be supoenaed 24 hours be­ Kennedy’s April 24 order to the arms for Canada. Negro neighborhood during a fore the subpoenas were served or lic . New Y o rk Tim es correspondent Pentagon to devise a way of issu­ In San Francisco, student and campaign of rock-throwing by the names officially divulged by Homer Bigart wrote (April 24), ing Purple Heart medals to U.S. adult peace organizations turned whites against Negro homes. One “Although the incident was more the witch-hunt committee. soldiers wounded in action in out 1,200 for a rally in Golden of the occupants of the car, Leslie Yesterday Despol and his ap­ South Vietnam. Refusal to issue than two months ago and although Lee Luttes, age 16, was struck and pointee, Joseph Brennan, an­ such medals to GIs wounded there the sergeant was the first casualty (Continued on Page 3) killed by a 38 caliber bullet. Police nounced they would appear before had aroused a protest from U.S. among U.S. Army helicopter per­ found bricks and pieces of iron (Continued on Page 3) troops. Refusal had been based sonnel, the episode was hushed pipe in the car. up by the m ilitary command.” Fair Play Protests Rev. Turner W. Morris, vice Kennedy’s direct plunging of president of the Augusta branch 8-Page Militant Fund U.S. forces into the “dirty war” of the National Association for the against the rebellious peasants of Cuba Invasion Units Advancement of Colored People, the southeast Asian country was NEW YORK — The Fair Play said Negroes had armed them­ made evident by the A pril 15 land­ Help Arm the New Generation for Cuba Committee said A pril 21 selves after repeated raids on their ing of a 400-man U.S. Marine heli­ that it has called upon U.S. At­ neighborhoods and after repeated copter unit in South Vietnam. The By Marvel Scholl for those in areas where there are torney General Robert Kennedy to pleas for police protection had Fund Drive Director Marine unit flew directly to the as yet no organized groups to pre­ take immediate action against Cu­ gone, unheeded. He said a large sent study courses, lectures, sym­ military position assigned to it Last week we gave you a samp­ ban counter-revolutionaries pre­ rock thrown through a window posiums, etc. from the U.S. aircraft carrier ling of headlines of articles we paring armed attacks against Cuba had broken the legs of a Negro Princeton lying off the coast. “Couldn’t Fit to Print” in a 4-page Older readers will recall that from U.S. territory in violation of child. The Militant used to be larger. tabloid. This week we would like Truth Emerging: U.S. neutrality laws and inter­ “We don’t condone violence,” to call your attention to something The conjunction of the witch hunt, That the war of South Vietnam national law.