JUNE 28, 1974 .... 25 CENTS . ~~::.VOLUME 38/NUMBER 25 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE • 1a i j I t j Il Brooklyn workers line up to seek iobs. Official unemployment rate is now 5.2 percent. For Socialist Workers Party program to fight unemployment, see page 4. Portuguese troops in Africa: 'Bring us home!' · -See World Outlook section May Day, Lisbon. Antiwar sentiment is widespread in Portuguese army. In Brief YOU CAN'T TRUST THE CAPITALIST PRESS: The NEW YORK ·MEETING FOR ROSENBERG& Carnegie THIS New York Post of June 10 carried the following Associated Hall's 2,800 seats were filled June 17 for a program com­ Press item: "A measure extending the right of prisoners memorating the deaths of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who to vote in elections was signed today by Gov. Wilson." i WEEK'S were executed June 19, 1953, on the frame-up charge That's all it had to say. of conspiracy to pass the "secret of the atom bomb" to However, the truth of the matter is a lot different than the Soviet Union. MILITANT this AP dispatch leads one to believe. The measure that Sponsored by the National Committee to Re-open the 3 Why Kissinger threat­ New York Governor Malcolm Wilson signed into law Rosenberg Case, the June 17 meeting announced plans ened to resign applies only to prisoners who have not yet been con­ to fight for full disclosure of government records on the 6 Nixon trip: Washington victed of any crime. Rosenbergs and for a new hearing in the case. Speakers presses Mideast offen­ All convicted inmates are still denied this basic demo­ included MJchael and Robert Meeropol, sons of the Rosen­ cratic right. bergs; Morton Sobell, who was convicted with the Rosen­ sive bergs and served more than 18 years in prison; Attica 8 Wounded Knee judge CIVIL LIBERTIES SUIT: The Socialist Labor Party ·indictee Frank "Big Black" Smith; and Dr. Emily Alman, backs prosecution in New Jersey filed suit May 31 against the borough acting cochairwoman of the new committee. Alman read 9 S.F. carpenters' strike of Wallington and its chief of police. The suit asks the to the audience two government documents that provide 13 Prospects for Ladies court to throw out a 1973 ordinance that requires mem­ new evidence of perjury on the part of prosecutioP ~lt­ bers of political parties and candidates to register with nesses at the trial in 1951. Garment Workers the police and carry registration cards before engaging Union in any political activities in the borough. This restric­ If you subscribe to The Militant and plan to move 14 Why some Black Dem­ tion applies to obtaining signatures on nominating pe­ soon, don't forget that the post oHice does not for­ ocrats back Wallace titions and distributing political literature. ward newspapers. Send your old address label 17 Missouri socialists com­ The SLP suit against this undemocratic ordinance was and your new address into The Militant business plete ballot drive prepared by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. oHice at least two weeks before you move to ensure 18 Vietnam accords: How that you will not miss any issues. Moscow, Peking aided u.s. ARIZONA STRIKE: Mllitant correspondent Betsy McDon­ 19 Five prominent Iranian Veterans to march ald in Tucson, Ariz., writes that the first unauthorized artists jailed strike in more than 20 years at the Magma Copper Com­ 21 60th anniversary of on Washington, D.C. pany near Tucson was broken June 13. By RICH ROBOHM 'Bloody Ludlow' The strike began when an entire shift working at the WASHINGTON, D. C.-Veterans from across the coun­ smelter walked off the job because two of their co-workers 24 Northern Calif. nurses try will be gathering here during the first week of July were fll'ed. Striking workers persuaded more than 1,000 in militant strike to protest the plight of ex-Gis. workers on the morning shift not to go to work. The American Veterans Movement (AVM) is organizing The striking pickets were able to turn away two-thirds for what they term the Second American Veterans' Bonus 2 In Brief of the afternoon shift before they were intimidated into March, to take place July 4. standing clear of the entrances to the company property 10 In Our Opinion The AVM marchers plan to leave Malcolm X Park here by a temporary restraining order. The order cited the no­ Letters at 12 noon on July 4 and march to Lafayette Square, strike articles of the United Steelworkers contract, which · in front of the White House. The march will be led by a 11 National Picket Line had been negotiated in 1971 without rank-and-me ap­ contingent of disabled vets in wheelchairs. The demonstra­ Women in Revolt proval. The USW officials joined with the company in tion has gotten the endorsement of traditional veterans 12 Great Society labeling the strike "an illegal and unauthorized work· organizations in the Washington, D. C., area and of some stoppage." La Raza en Accion prominent individuals, such as Congressman Paul McClos­ By Any Means Neces­ Hundreds of strikers decided to return to the smelter key (R-Calif.) and Joan Baez. entrance before the graveyard shift in defiance of the Ron Kovic, a national coordinator of AVM, told The sary restraining order. Company police and riot-armed sher­ Militant, "We will march on Washington as our grand­ 16 Campaigning for So­ iff's deputies threatened to attack them unless they dis-,· fathers and fathers did in 1932 and build an encamp­ cialism persed. It was at this point that the strike ended. ment in front of the White House until each and every In the next two days about 100 workers were fired. 20 In Review one of our demands are met and until the national veter­ Fifty-three of these are members of the USW. ans· crisis is ended." The nonferrous Steelworkers contract expires July 1, The AVM plans to establish bivouacs in Lafayette Square and contract negotiations are about to get underway. WORLD OUTLOOK and on the Ellipse- surrounding the White House with The USW local at Magma voted that the reinstatement of 3 CP and SP: guardic.ns their tents. all the dismissed workers be one of the union's demands. Also planning actions in Washington, D. C., during the of Portuguese capitalism first week of July is the Vietnam Veterans Against the -NORMAN OLIVER 4 New attacks on oppo­ War (VVAW). VVAW actions are scheduled during the nents of Peron's 'social week at the Veterans Administration headquarters, the pact' Military Court of Appeals, the Capitol building, and other sites. YOUR FIRST STRAWBERRY STRIKE: A Ventura County judge has ISSUE? THE MILITANT upheld an injunction restricting picketing of striking straw­ berry pickers, mostly Chicanos, in Oxnard, Calif. But the VOLUME 38/NUMBER 25 strike, which began May 24, remains 80 percent effective JUNE 28, 1974 nonetheless, according to United Farm Workers orga­ CLOSING NEWS DATE-JUNE 19, 1974 SUBSCRIBE· nizers. Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS The UFW estimates that growers have suffered a severe Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS financial loss because of the strike. But the growers refuse TO THE Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING to sign a union contract, hoping to break the strike through the use of scab labor and the courts. Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., MILITANT 14 Charles Lane, New York. N.Y. 10014. Telephone: A preliminary injunction covering 18 of Ventura coun­ Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) ty's 23 strawberry ranches was issued limiting picketing 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 710 S. Westlake Ave., to 50 people at each farm with no more than two people Don't miss our firsthand reports from Portugal. Subscribe now. Los Angeles, Calif. 90057. Telephone: (213) 483-2798. Correspondence concerning subscriptions or changes every 50 feet. This injunction followed a temporary re­ of address should be addressed to The Militant Business straining order, which had placed similar restrictions on Office, 14 Charles Lane, New York. N.Y. 10014. the UFW. Introductory oller-81/3 months Second-doss postage paid at New York, N.Y. Sub­ During hearings on the preliminary injunction, the UFW ( ) $] for three months of The Militant. scriptions: domestic, S5 a year; foreign, $8.50. By first­ class mail: domestic, Canada, and Mexico, S30; all was accused of burning down buildings belonging to the ( ) $2 for three months of The Militant and three months ather countries, S5l. By airmail: domestic, Canada, growers. Evidence submitted by the UFW, however, of the International Socialist Review. and Mexico, 540. By air printed matter: Central showed that the growers had set the fires themselves and ( ) SS for one year of The Militant America and Caribbean, S38; Mediterranean Africa, blamed it on the farm workers. ( ) New ( ) Renewal · Europe, and South America, 550; USSR, Asia, Pacific, The judge ruled in favor of the growers. and Africa, 560. Write lor foreign sealed air postage NAME---------------------------------- roles. UFW lawyers will be taking legal action to end the ADDRESS _______________________________ Far subscriptions airmailed from New York and then growers' harassment of picket lines. The growers have posted from London directly: Britain and Ireland, L1.20 been driving noisy tractors between the workers and the CITY _________ STATE--------- ZIP----- lor 10 issues, L4.50 for one year; Continental Europe, picket lines, as well as playing blaring music to prevent 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Ll.50 lor 10 issues, L5.50 for one year. Send banker's draft directly to Pathfinder Press, 47 The Cut, London, the strikers from talking to the workers in the field.