OCTOBER 12, 1973 25 CENTS VOLUME 37/NUMBER 37 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE II Interviews with Hugo Blanco, other exiles, on right-wing junta's repression · -pages 5-7 Mexico City. Part of demonstration of 100,000 to protest Chile coup. U.S. protests, pages 9, 10. ln.Briel MICHIGAN STUDENTS OPPOSE TUITION HIKE: Stu­ in San Francisco last March of the tenth anniversary dents at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are of the CIA-backed coup that brought the shah of Iran THIS organizing a tuition strike to roll back a 24 percent fee to power. hike passed by the board of regents this summer. Widespread protests forced the dropping of the assault WEEK'S The Student Action Committee, which is coordinating charges. But Shokat and Ghaemmagham pleaded guilty the strike, held a rally of 250 students on Sept. 28, despite to the lesser charge of "intimidation" to bring the case MILITANT pouring rain. Militant correspondent Marty Pettit reports to an end. 3 UFW-Teamster talks the protesters then lined up in front of collection windows ·The Iranian Student Association has urged protests 4 Boudin describes gov't in the registration area and successfully prevented cashiers against these sentences, especially the imposition of the from accepting payments. maximum jail term on Shokat. Write to: Honorable Judge attempts to discredit him Strike leader Ruy Teixeira said, "A lot of people see this Williams, Federal Building, Nineteenth Floor, 450 Golden 8 New evidence of mass whole struggle, which hopefully will become nationwide, Gate Ave., San Francisco, <_::alif. 94102. executions in Chile in terms of people's struggle for the democratic right . 13 Argentine voting shows to education. The university raising tuition is an attack WOODCUTTERS DEFEAT INJUNCTION: A victory was gains for PST on that right." won by the Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association Sept. 21 when 14 Chicago Gateway strik­ The Student Action Coalition has gathered 5,000 signa­ U.S. District Judge Virgil Pittman ruled that woodcutters tures on petitions to the regents that include demands for: ers win wage hike and wood haulers are "employees," not "independent con­ rollback of tuition, implementation of Black students' de­ tractors." The ruling has the effect of legalizing the strike 15 Subscription blitz a suc­ mands agreed to by the university in 1970, and adequate of more than 2,000 Black and white woodcutters against cess financial aid for students who need it. the giant pulp and paper companies in southern Alabama 16 Brooklyn SWP campaign and Mississippi. in final drive STEELWORKERS PICKET ABEL: Thirty-five rank-and­ The Scott and International paper companies had sought 17 Socialists launch cam­ file steelworkers from the Chicago area picketed I. W. an injunction against the strike by claiming the woodcutters paign in Pittsburgh Abel, president of the United Steelworkers Union, when are independent contractors. 18 Healey, Rich.mond: still he spoke to a national conference of representatives of But court testimony of a company official revealed that the companies help finance wood dealers, who in turn Stalinists union safety committees Sept. 22. The steelworkers were protesting Abel's "experimental negotiating agreement" hire foresters to tell the cutters which trees to cut and how 19 Wash. Indians fight for with the big steel companies that bargains away the steel­ to cut them. The dealers loan the cutters money to buy fishing rights workers' right to strike. their equipment- trucks, saws, parts, gasoline, etc.-and 21 Readers boost Militant In a leaflet aimed at the meeting, the picketers pointed deduct the money owed from their paychecks. As a result, fund drive by n,ooo out the sharp increase in disabling accidents on the job the cutters are in constant debt to the dealers, who are in 24 Agnew: chickens come and a proposed section of the United Mine Workers con­ effect their overseers. home to roost stitution that advocates the right of miners to refuse to For information on the strike contact: Fred Walters, work under dangerous conditions. president, Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association, P. 0. Box 53, The USWU coke advisory committee is "recommending Eastabuchie, Miss. 39436. Tel.: (601) 582-5184 or 477- In Brief 2 shorter working hours and early retirement to combat the 8133. 10 In Our Opinion high incidence of cancer among coke plant workers," · Letters the leaflet said. It added, "If we allow the right to strike BLACKS CONVICTED IN MISSISSIPPI: "Seven citizens 11 La Razo en Accion to be given up, how do we persuade the steel industry of the Republic of New Africa were convicted in U.S. National Picket Line to make these important contract changes necessary to District Court" in Biloxi, Miss., reports a Sept. 25 news 12 Great Society our health?" release from the Southern Conference Education Fund. The charges stemmed from a shootout at RNA head­ Women in Revolt The picket line was organized by the Defend the Right to Strike Committee, which intends to call a larger action . quarters in Jackson, Miss., two years ago. The charges By Any Means Necessary when the regional conference of District 31 is held in against the two women and five men included conspiracy 19 American Way of Life Chicago Oct. 12 and 13. to assault federal officers, conspiracy to possess weapons, 20 In Review and assault on a federal officer. 21 News from Pathfinder. CHICAGO STUDENTS PROTEST ARRESTS: More than The RNA charged that police and FBI agents had at­ 200 students demonstrated Sept. 27 to protest the arrest tacked the house where the shooting took place. WORLD OUTLOOK of 38 Puerto Rican and Latin students the previous day. Sentences for the seven ranged from three to 22 years. 1 Cordoba Fiat workers The arrested students have been charged with criminal Judge Walter Nixon set their appeal bonds at amounts from $5,000 to $25,000. In state trials last year four fight union bureaucrats trespass and interfering with a public institution of higher education by the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle RNA people were convicted on charges stemming from 2 Statement by Chilean Campus, because of a nine-hour occupation of the admin­ the same incident. Three were sentenced to life; one re­ Trotskyists before coup istration building lobby. ceived two 10-year sentences. 3 World News Notes The Puerto Rican and Latin students were protesting One defendant, Addis Ababa, told the court, "We are 4 British agent provoca­ the eviction that day of the Puerto Rican recruitment pro­ innocent of any conspiracy and you know it. We were teurs in Ireland gram from its office. Student records and files and staff railroaded by this unjust court, but you can't stop the personnel belongings were taken away without the consent struggle. You can jail us, beat us, even kill us, but Black of the students or staff. people will be free." Militant correspondent Terry Quilico reports the univer­ -DERRICK MORRISON sity is attempting to submerge the student and staff-run program in~o the more general Education Assistance Pro­ gram. TERRORISTS FIREBOMB COMMUNIST PARTY YOUR FIRST HEADQUARTERS: In the early hours of Monday, Oct. 1, a terrorist was seen throwing a firebomb into the nation­ ISSUE? al headquarters of the Communist Party in New York THE MILITANT City. The offices were unoccupied. The lone witness imme­ VOLUME 37/NUMBER 37 diately called the fire department. Damages were estimated SUBSCRIBE OCTOBER 12, 1973 at $2,000 by CP spokespersons. The bombing was the QOSING NEWS DATE-OCT. 3,1973 fourth attack on the building in the past year. 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