.The Truth About Cuba. Operation Brainwash ' Fills American Press THE — —— — — By Joseph Hansen — MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE First in a series of articles. Vol. X X IV — No. 19 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY. MAY 9. I960 Price 10c In their plush skyscraper offices at 444 Madison Ave­ nue, high above Manhattan’s famous street of hucksters, the editors and executives of one of the country’s most For President widely circulated magazines were planning their April 25 issue. To anyone but these cynics, the problem might have seemed tough. Where should they turn the crystal ball? What was the most important spot i/i the world news? Dobbs Opens Campaign Newsweek’s top forecasters didn’t take long to decide. Cuba, of course. The tiny, poverty-stricken island of Cuba down there in the Caribbean just ninety miles from Florida. This is the startling prediction they put as No. 1 item in “The Periscope,” that fast-reading dish of inside dope that keeps you “Ahead of the News”: With TV Defense of Cuba "STATE DEPARTMENT — W ill Castro sever relations with the U.S. soon? This is highly possible — maybe on May Cuba’s Soldiers Help Build Homes Million Hear Day. Another possibility for May Day, when 1.5 million highly Myra Weiss volatile Cubans will be on the streets: A violent showdown between Castro and the growing opposition to his regime. LA Telecasts Still another possibility, according to well-placed diplomats: By Della Rossa That Castro will unveil a number of Red-built MIG jet Reports on fighters said to have arrived on a Czech freighter recently.” LOS ANGELES, May 1—The truth about the Cuban revolu­ That Was No Prediction Sit-In Fight tion was\ brought to more than a million people here this week­ NEW YORK — The Southern Was the prediction accurate? An honest question like end as Farrell Dobbs, presiden­ that is good for a laugh at 444 Madison Avenue. That was Negro battle for equality, the tial nominee of the Socialist no prediction; it was bait for the suckers. struggles against tyranny in Workers party, opened a na­ Some relations were severed all right. On April 28 Korea and Turkey — these tional speaking tour intended events, so heartening to social­ Guatemala severed diplomatic relations with Cuba. United to combat the campaign of ists, inspired a May Day rally smear and slander inspired by Fruit, a giant Wall Street monopoly, dominates Guatemala; here. the State Department against United Fruit also has large holdings in Cuba; United Fruit Highlight of the meeting, Cuba. Dobbs recently returned doesn’t like Castro. FARRELL DOBBS, 52, pres­ which was attended by more from a visit to Cuba, where he Was there a “violent showdown” in Cuba May 1? No. idential candidate of the So­ than 200 people, was a report on studied the revolution at first Instead some 1,200,000 farm and city workers paraded in cialist Workers party, is a the Southern sit-in movement hand. by Myra Tanner Weiss, Socialist every city and town to demonstrate their solidarity and former organizer for the A press conference on his Workers party vice-presidential arrival in Los Angeles F ri­ their support of the government they put in power through Teamsters Union. In 1934, he was a leader of truckdrivers' nominee, just returned from a day was covered by three a popular revolution like our revolution of 1776. strikes in Minneapolis that tour of Southern campuses. major T V stations and by the Did Castro “unveil a number of Red-built MIG jet helped pave the way for the The rally, sponsored by the three major daily papers. All fighters”? A ll Castro did was “ unveil” another school April rise of the CIO. Dobbs was im ­ New York Committee for three TV interviews, devoted 29, a school converted from a m ilitary barracks. prisoned under the Smith Act Dobbs and Weiss and the N.Y. largely to the Cuban issue, were carried on widely viewed But if you had read Newsweek’s “prediction” without in 1944 for socialist opposition Stale Students for Dobbs and to the war. Weiss Committee, also showed dinner-hour newscasts. stopping to think, would you have felt favorably impressed that important independent so­ Last night Dobbs addressed by the Castro government? Would you have felt like visit­ cialist backing is shaping up an overflow May Day rally of ing Cuba? for the SWP presidential cam­ the Socialist Workers party and Let’s sample something a little less slick. Not a “pre­ Turkish Youth paign. tomorrow night he is scheduled to be interviewed on the popu­ diction” hand-tooled by the Madison Avenue craftsmen, Declarations of support to the lar TV program, the Tom Dug­ but a rough-talking editorial from the Sarasota, Florida, Demand End to ticket were made at the rally by Elinor Ferry, Muriel McAvoy, gan show. He has been invited Herald Tribune. It was inserted in the April 29 Congres­ Fred Mazelis ^nd William A. % Militant photo by J. H. to address two college campus sional Record by Senator Russell B. Long, who represents Dictatorial Rule Price, administrative committee Unlike the United States where the main In the photo above, three soldiers place groups and a trade-union gath­ Louisiana’s sugar-cane barons; members of the recently dis­ government preoccupation is stockpiling H- rods in forms for concrete slabs. When finished ering. By Lillian Kiezel solved United Independent-So­ bombs and building intercontinental rocket these w ill be put together to make walls and Telecasts cialist Committee. A message of missiles, Cuba's new government is building roof. Image of “ The Enemy” The heroic struggle led by stu­ solidarity was read from the dis­ decent homes for workers and campesinos as The new housing projects are much less “The only presidential* candi­ “The Cuban regime has failed to honor its international dents that ousted South Korean tinguished civil rights attorney, rapidly as possible. pretentious than are usually seen in the United date who supports the Cuban agreements, has brutalized its own citizens, and is not worthy dictator Rhee has fired Turkish Conrad Lynn. The National Institute of Agrarian Reform Slates but are solidly constructed in the most revolution. That’s how Farrell of the diplomatic recognition the U.S. Government has students with the spirit of free­ Mrs. Weiss gave a stirring ac­ supplies the concrete at low cost and shows modern architectural styles and are artistic­ Dobbs of the Socialist Workers extended . dom. In Turkey’s major cities — count of the many young civil- those who are going to move into the new ally finished in attractive pastel colors that party described himself in Los ' “Castro has turned Cuba into an armed camp, with even Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and homes how to make it a do-it-yourself project. make them seem an integral part of the balmy Angeles today,” reported Ed children and parents drilling in the streets. He has spent rights fighters she had met and Erzurum — thousands of youths Cuba's soldiers roll up their sleeves and pitch tropical countryside. F leming over KABC. millions of dollars for war materials in Europe, and ¿s even ■ discussed w ith in the South. She have, since A pril 28, led demon­ in, too. -He also reported Dobbs’ now concluding a deal with Communist Poland t<S: obtain cited their remarkable courage strations against Premier Adnan statement that while Cuba is Russian-built jet aircraft. in the face of racist terror and Menderes’ police-state rule. not at this stage organizing “How long are we going to continue to subsidize this their absolute determination to Six demonstrators have been achieve full equality. At Hamp­ a socialist society, "the new dictatorship with millions of dollars in payment for sugar at revolutionary government of prices above the world market? How long are we going to killed and over 100 injured (ac­ ton Institute, she reported, the AFL-CIO Unions in Canada cording to unofficial press esti­ students have lit a torch at the Cuba is undertaking to or­ continue to lend prestige to this strutting megalomaniac by ganize a whole series of re­ extending formal diplomatic recognition?” mates). O ver 2,000 student sit- school gate “as a symbol of their downers, including 100 women, determination never to submit to forms for the benefit of the The propaganda has a deadly familiar ring. It is the at Istanbul University which had Jim Crow again.” Vote to Organize Labor Party people." language used to create a hated image in your mind — the been o'rdered closed, were herd­ She pledged that a central part Jay Elliot of KTLA asked: “Mr. Dobbs, since your rccent image of The Enemy. The calculation is that if' enough ed by troops to government army of her campaign would be to MONTREAL, Canada — The As the motion was put and the the international unions, locals camps and detained. They had trip to Cuba do you believe loaded words like these are fed to the public, and the rally public support to the stu­ major plans and some of the vole tallied, the entire assembly of such organizations as Inter­ held out for more than 18 hours. dents’ cause. project drawings for the con­ sprang to its feet to a fanfare national Typographical, Car­ Fidel Castro is a Communist public is not given a chance to hear the intended victim, Another thousand, arrested in struction of a Canadian labor of cheers and whistle ¿alls. penters, Teamsters and Commercial or in any way Communist-in­ fluenced?” then everybody will agree that The Enemy should be other parts of the city, were also party' were signed and sealed Confetti scattered through the Telegraphers, have CRUSHED — even if it’s a little country like Cuba,, no sent to these camps.