SOCIALISM ON TOUR: Students Active in Socialist Campaigns - Page Berkeley Students YOUNG SOCIALIST ght Speech Ban; Ten Cents Voice of America's Future Hits New Areas VOL 2, NO. 2 November, 1958 bv Tim Wohlforth (Tim Wohlforth, editor of the YOUNG SOCIALIST, is cur- rently on a nationwide barnstorming tour in the course of which lie will speak at some 45 different campuses. The following report is based on the first leg of the tour during which Wohlforth spoke to students from San Diego State College, University of Southern California, Los Angeles City College, UCLA, University of Cali- fornia (Berkeley), University of Santa Clara, Reed College and Portland State College.) SEATTLE—This tour is in many Santa Clara. ways a pioneering venture. This is Close to 10 per cent of the stu- not simply 'because I am bringing dent toody turned out to hear a a new publication, the YOUNG discussion on Marxist philosophy SOCIALIST, the product of the and ideas. The reaction of the freSh regroupment of socialist audience was not too different youth forces, to a larger audience. from the average American secu- It is because I am bringing so- lar college except for a little cialism itself to thousands of greater pre-ocoupation with ethi- cal questions and an occasional DENITCH-WOHLFORTH DE- freshman who would ask you with BATE on socialist morality, re- a straight face: "Do you believe groupment, and approach to« in Adam and Eve?" ward foreign policy—page 3. A couple of the Fathers, who seemed to be Christian socialists, young people who have never explained that a small revolution heard a socialist speaker in their had taiken place at the College be- IN THE YOUTH MARCH FOR INTEGATION Oct 25, thousands of Negro and white student* lives. fore speakers of a controversial demonstrated against segregation and expressed solidarity with their heroic brothers and sinters in thf It is therefore quite natural that nature were allowed to be heard. South. They hope that scenes like the above (teenagers in a Louisville school lunchroom) will soon b» the first three weeks of the tour (Continued on Page 2) commonplace. For a full report of the Youth March by a participant, see the next issue, of the YS, Should t>e marked by a number of "firsts." When I spoke to 150 stu- SIX OR HALF A DOZEN? dents at UCLA on "Marxism— Science or Religion" I was the first socialist to speak on that vast campus since the revision of rules last year which liberal- Donkey Balks at Integration, Liberal Goahs ized regulations regarding student by Daniel Freeman rights. A socialist group, the Eu- "You really want to know how I'd like to vote?" said a Negro mechanic in Cleveland. 'I'd like to ther, has often proclaimed his gene V. Debs Club, has been rec- "neutrality" as between capital ognized as an off-campus group vote for the whole United, States Supreme Court, that's how I'd like to vote. When ic comes to this iWc- can use campus facilities giration and civil rights stuff, neither party is worth a damn." and labor. But is it not a principla wTnich of liberal democracy that govern* for its speakers. A New York Times survey of seven states revsaled that increasing numbers of Negro voters shared, this conviction. Can integration, or other liberal go-its, for that matter, be brought about by the two ment should represent the major- Elsewhere in Los Angeles, I was ity? Williams' neutrality has also the first socialist in many years major parties? That is what Daniel Freeman, student at Columbia University and YS Corresponding Editor for New York, seeks to answer in the fo-llowiig article. extended to 'his refusal to take .a to "soapbox" in front of Los An- part in important primary fights geles City College and the Uni- The election season, more than,: any other time, calls on the po- who have nothing to gain from sociation, the rights and welfare in Michigan this year, notably versity of Southern California. At those involving representatives of LACC over 250 students stood litically aware person to "take the status quo. of labor, and peace. around and listened, argued and sides," to consider the conse- But what about the liberal, who One argument often heard from the labor movement. heckled for three and a half hours quences of his vote and support. sees an election as a contest of liberals and some who describe A similar situation exists in New as we discussed American troops Socialists have always consid- immediate issues? He must ask themselves as socialists is that the York state, where Rep. Adam in Lebanon, the war threat in ered a vote for the Democratic or himself: can the Democratic or Democratic Party should toe sup- Jlayton Powell, riding the crest of CJnemoy and Matsu, Little Rock, Republican parties a vote for a Republican parties realize even ported as the "lesser evil," or, as *n anti-Tammany revolt by the socialism vs. capitalism and so decaying capitalist system. They the minimal liberal values which this tendency dubbed itself in vegro people, easily defeated his forth. have seen as a necessary step on socialists and liberals hold in 1956, "Sadly for Adlai." While the teSapio-backed opponent. But the In the Bay Area, I had the most the road towards socialism the common as necessary? This area Democratic Party does have the final result of his attempt to "(re- unusual experience of the tour so formation by the working class of of agreement includes civil rights aura of liberalism about it, it also form" the Democratic Party is the far. I spoke on Marxism air a a party of its own, a labor party, for Negroes and other minorities, contains the most militaristic and spectacle of Powell leading his fol- Catholic college, the University of which would give voice to all those civil liberties of speech, press, as- Negro-hating members of the lowers back to full support of the Congress. The Northern liberal's corrupt machine which tried to vote for Humphrey or "Douglas is knife him. Powell has now an- also a vote for Eastland. When nounced his support of the full U. of Wash. Student Runs as Socialist the Democrats capture Congress, slate of DeSapio-picked1 Demo- cratic candidates. by Ted Lane Un-American Activities Commit- Eastland and his ilk become the (Below is an article by a University of Washington student tee, said his aim was "to clean out chairmen of the committees con- ADLAI, THE SOUTH'S FRIEND on the current campaign of Jerry Barrett for state office in Wash- the reds" at the University. Sev- cerned with labor and civil rights A final illustration of the sell- ington. A Barrett Campaign Committee has been formed and a eral professors were dismissed, put legislation. This Jim Crow, labor- out by northern liberals to the headquarters set up in the University district. Some 40 young peo- on probation, and defamed. hating wing of the Democratic forces of reaction and racism is ple are already participating in this committee. Plans are being The culmination of the trend Party is the most unified and most Stevenson's 1956 campaign. For 'laid to reach the 7,000 registered voters in the area and the stu- of McCarthyism came when the powerful element of the party. the sake of "party unity," Steven- University President, Dr. Henry dent body). ®- THE BLIND LEAD son and his liberal camp-fol- Jerry Barrett, senior in history Schmitz, refused to allow Dr. J. lowers took such a weak position Robert Oppenheimer to speak on The Democratic Party is noth- at the University of Washington, ing more than a coalition of these on civil rights that many North- having earned a reputation as a the campus as a Walker-Ames ern Negroes voted Republican. Lecturer in the course of his tour Southern reactionaries, urban po- defender of academic freedom and litical machines and the labor Meanwhile, a campaign poster Civil liberties, was nominated by of Western universities. The re- circulated in Florida during the sponse of a few people interested bureaucrats, who, like the ma- a convention of independents, so- chine bosses, attempt to "deliver" primary campaign showed a pic- cialists and liberals to run for in civil liberties resulted in a series ture of Stevenson with the follow- of protests which were instrumen- the votes of the workers to the the State Senate in the 32nd (Uni- party. We thus observe the curi- ing caption: "Florida and the versity) District. Barrett, 28-year- tal in reversing this trend. South NEED A MAN OF MOD- Jerry Barrett was one of these ous contradiction of labor "lead- old Korean War Veteran (para- ers" leading labor into the hands ERATION ... a man friendly to troops), accepted the nomina- people. He wrote the petitions the South Adlai Stevenson has which were signed by nearly 2,000 of those who stand for the open tion of the "United Liberals and shop, against the minimum, wage, shown more understanding and Socialists" saying he would cam- students, faculty members and consideration of the South's prob- residents of the area in a three- for the Taft-Hartley Law; of paign "as a socialist." Negro "leaders" placing the Negro lems than any other candidate for day period of canvassing. He and President." It is common knowl- The candidacy of a University four or five others organized a people in the hands of those who student as a socialist would have are today fighting a last-ditch edge that a principled attempt to meeting which overflowed one of act on evil rights, rather than just appeared to be impossible until the lecture halls, and formed a battle against racial equality.