AUGUST 31, 1973 25 CENTS VOLUME 37/NUMBER 31 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY /PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Exgose new Teamster trickerY- -- Militant/Howard Petrick More than 7,500 marched in funeral procession for Nagi Daifullah, Arab farm worker killed by a deputy sheriff. Cesar Chavez condemned new Teamster moves to divert attention from killings. By HARRY RING said the growers, the Teamsters, told him the day before that Team­ sidered meaningful, he declared. ARVIN, Calif., Aug. 21- United and the police are responsible for sters union President Frank Fitz­ He recalled that the Teamsters Farm Workers Union President these deaths. simmons had pledged he would officials had signed sweetheart con­ Cesar Chavez has denied recent Chavez made his remarks at a notify the growers that Teamster tracts with lettuce growers in 1970 news reports that the Teamsters news conference following the fu- contracts stand repudiated. and then "repudiated" them. But, union had given up its grape con- neral procession for Juan de la Chavez branded Fitzsimmons's he pointed ·out, the hard fact is Cruz, a founding union member move as hypocritical. He pointed that the contracts not only for additional on-the-spot cover­ who was shot down on a picket out that Fitzsimmons had an­ remained in force but were age of the United Farm Workers line here last week. More than nounced as early as Aug. 10 that renewed just a few months ago. struggle, turn to pages 8-9. 5,000 farm workers marched in he was repudiating the contracts Chavez said the UFW intends to tracts in the Delano area and is in the funeral procession. This was and that Fitzsimmons's letter to bring the growers to the bargain­ effect leaving the grape workers the second burial of a slain farm the Delano growers simply re­ ing table by intensifying the grape to UFW jurisdiction. worker this week. On Aug. 17, peated that the contracts would boycott and the boycott of A& P Chavez charged that the an­ more than 7, 500 marched in the not be enforced. and · Safeway. He predicted the nouncement was designed as a funeral for N agi Daifullah. However, Chavez said, the con- present boycott would become even smokescreen to distract attention During the discussion with re- tracts still maintain full legal force. more effective than the one that from the fact that two members porters, Chavez said George . Nothing less than the legaldissolu­ forced the growers to terms of the UFW have been killed. He Meany, AFL-CIO president, had tion of the contraCts would be con- in 1970. In Brief THIS GRAND JURY HEARS CASE OF NCLC GOONS: Steven area, and the Control Office. Twelve of the Camp Allen Getzoff and George Turner, two National Caucus of La­ defendants have been convicted on a variety of charges WEEK'S bor Committee members identified as among those who as a result of the incident. have attacked members of the Socialist Workers Party Johnson faced eight charges carrying a possible sentence MILITANT and Communist Party, appeared for preliminary court of 100 years. The most serious charge was soliciting 3 Spiraling cost of eating hearings Aug. 2 in New York. to mutiny, a clear attempt to hold him personally respon­ The felony case against Getzoff was refered to a grand sible for the rebellion. Johnson was found not guilty on 4 Washington seeks deal jury, which heard testimony Aug. 13 from three mem­ this charge but was convicted on several minor counts. with Sihanouk bers of the SWP. The grand jury's action has not yet He has been sentenced to 18 months at hard labor, loss 5 VV A W case exposed as been announced. Getzoff is charged with taking part in of pay, and a bad-conduct discharge. frame-up a June 9 clubbing attack on the three SWP members that 6 Agnew caught with arm left Jesse Smith hospitalized with head injuries and a FORT WORTH FIVE OUT ON BAIL: The five Irish New Yorkers who have been imprisoned in Texas since in pie fractured arm. Jan. 29 have finally won their long battle to be released 7 Nixon's 'counteroffensive' The case of George Turner, arrested June 11 for an assault on two supporters of the Communist Party, was on bail. a flop bound over for trial. Getzoff was also arrested in this The Fort Worth Five were imprisoned on contempt 9 Houston teachers strike attack, but charges against him were dismissed when charges for refusing to answer a federal grand jury's for living wage the victims did not appear to testify. questions. The grand jury investigation attempted to link 12 Haitian refugees fight them to the illegal purchase of guns for alledged shipment to Ireland. for asylum SAN FRANCISCO TO VOTE ON CHILDCARE: Child Paul O'Dwyer, a lawyer for the Fort Worth Five, said 13 SWP holds 25th nat'l and Parent Action (CAPA) of San Francisco has filed that Watergate may have helped his clients "because it convention 15,000 signatures on petitions at City Hall to place a disclosed what kinds of things the government has been 14 Convention focuses on child-care initiative on the ballot in the November elections. doing." international questions Twelve thousand six hundred signatures are required. 15 Socialists map plans for CAPA is a coalition of community groups, parents, PICKETS PROTEST HARASSMENT OF IRISH AC­ TIVIST: More than 100 Irish Northern Aid members expansion teachers, trade unionists, and students who have joined together to place the child-care initiative before the voters. and supporters rallied in Philadelphia Aug. 19 to protest 16 Black feminists form The initiative states: "It shall be the policy of the people the continued detention of Daniel Cahalane. Cahalane, national organization of the City and County of San Francisco that low cost, a member of Irish Northern Aid, is being held for refusing 17 The Guardian: Debate quality child care be made available to all San Francisco to answer the questions of a federal grand jury in Phila­ on China children. Child care shall include infant care, pre-school delphia. He and three other leaders of the Philadelphia Irish community, Colm Friel, Dan Duffy, and Neil Byrne, 18 The 'Prague Spring'­ and after school programs. Policy shall be made by the parents and faculties at each center. Funding shall be were subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury Interview with Jiri Pelikan procured by the City and County of San Francisco." investigating arms shipments to Northern Ireland. 21 Militant protests hit 3 The demonstrators carried picket signs saying "U.S. Detroit auto plants WOMEN TO CELEBRATE AUG. 26: Aug. 26 is the Justice Department stop doing Britain's dirty work. Re­ 24 Angry Black workers fifty-third anniversary of the winning of women's suffrage. lease Dan Cahalane" and "Don't make Ireland another close Chrysler plant On Saturday, August 25, activities will be held around Watergate. You bug Dan Cahalane, now we bug you the country to focus public attention on women's liberation until he is released." demands. Cahalane is now being held without bail, a ruling that In New York, a rally and women's festival will be is being appealed. Letters of protest can be sent to the 2 In Brief held in Battery Park from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The day's U.S. Attorney, Ninth and Market Streets, Philadelphia, 10 In Our Opinion activites are sponsored by the National Organization for Pa. 19107 Letters Women (NOW), Women's Political Caucus, New York N.Y. SWP MAYORAL CANDIDATE FILES PETITIONS: 11 By Any Means Necessary University Women's Liberation, Women's National Abor­ Norman Oliver, Socialist Workers Party candidate fm National Picket line tion Action Coalition (WONAAC), Feminist Party, and other women's organizations. Speakers at the rally will mayor of New York, has filed 26,128 signatures of reg­ include Wilma Scott Heide, president of NOW; Susan La­ istered voters on SWP independent nominating petitions. Mont, national coordinator of WONAAC; and Brenda The law requires 7,500 signatures for mayoral candidates. WORLD OUTLOOK Feigen-Fasteau of the American Civil Liberties Union. Oliver filed the signatures Aug. 21 on behalf of himself 1 Pompidou forced to free At President's Park in Washington, D.C., an ali-day and eight other SWP nominees, whose candidacies require a smaller number of signatures. These include Maxine Krivine festival will feature displays, booths, and speakers. Williams, Mark Friedman, and James Mendieta, candidates 2 Workers control in A Women's Day demonstration in St. Louis will call for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), as for borough-wide races in Brooklyn; B. R Washington French watch factory will rallies in Bloomington, Ind., and Atlanta. and Richard Ariza, candidates for borough-wide races 4 Israeli skyjack fails to Passage of the ERA, child care, equal pay, and im­ in Manhattan; and Eva Chertov, candidate in the District capture Palestinian leaders plementation of the Supreme Court ruling on abortion 3 city council race. are some of the central issues the Aug. 25 activities will The SWP also filed signatures in Nassau County on focus on. Aug. 21 for Frank Manning, who is running for Nassau County executive. -MIRTA VIDAL If you subscribe to The Militant and plan to move soon, don't forget that the post office does not for­ ward newspapers. 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