OCTOBER 21, 1977 50 CENTS VOLUME 41/NUMBER 39 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Protests demand: overturn ~Bakke' ruling! -PAGE 5 Militant/David Nudel SOUTH B SPEAKS 'Carter comes from a different world,' community tells socialist candidate -PAGE 9 ~···'" Catarino Garza (right), Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, talks to South Bronx residents. In Brief THIS UFW OFFICE BOMBED: A building housing the United when the LoVaca Gathering Company shut off service. The Farm Workers New York headquarters was fire .bombed city's·Raza Unida Party administration had refused to pay WEEK'S October 9. The bombing was the latest in a series of a 600 percent rate hike. City officials announced October 7 unexplained attacks on the UFW-owned building. that they had contracted for a month's supply of propane. During the week before the bombing, rocks and golf balls Meanwhile, many of the city's impoverished residents are MILITANT were thrown through its windows, and mysterious fires were cooking on outdoor fires. Mayor Benavides said the propane 3 Carter okays set there." Water and smoke damage . has rendered the would be purchased with part of a $310,000 grant from the new MX missile building useless. federal Community Service Administration. 4 Black workers Union president Cesar Chavez called on Mayor Abraham Mayor Benavides also said the city is considering drilling in white unions Beame to protect the union's New York offices. a well for gas. Earlier, Zavala County Judge Jose Angel Gutierrez had urged the city administration to declare a 6 Steel imports cut: no D.C. GAY RIGHTS MEETING: Some 225 supporters of state of emergency. If it did, Gutierrez declared, he would victory for workers gay rights attended a "Speakout for Human· Rights" in follow suit with a county declaration of emergency and take Washington, D.C., September 23. A major demand of the over two wells owned by LoVaca's parent company. 7 Iron range meeting was enforcement of a D.C. law that prohibits strikers under attack discrimination in employment, housing, public accommoda­ 8 1 out of 10 pick tions, and education. UAW WON'T REJOIN AFL-CIO: The international socialist in Boston vote The meeting also called for an end to discrimination executive board of the United Auto Workers rejected a against lesbian mothers and gay fathers. proposal October 5 to reaffiliate with the AFL-CIO, which it 13 N.Y. women's groups Speakers included Washington Teachers Union President left in 1968. plan Califano picket William Simons; D.C. Statehood Party leader Josephine The board voted down President Douglas Fraser's plan to 14 National subscription Butler; Charlotte Bunch, of the National Gay Task Force; hold a special convention for a formal vote on rejoining the drive round-up and Leon Rottner, who is chairperson of the Speakout AFL-CIO. Committee of Dialogue for Human Rights. Fraser, who favors reaffiliation, explained that the board 16 Teacher strikes face The meeting was sponsored by Dialogue for Human believed a majority at such a special convention would fines, scabs, jail Rights, a newly formed gay rights group and endorsed by a oppose his view, despite the fact that most of the interna­ 17 AFT stand on busing, large number of women's, Black, gay, civil liberties, and tional executive board supports it. political groups. 'Bakke' hit 24 Red-baiting of Chicano/ RSB CONVENTION BANNED AT KENT STATE: The HAITIAN REFUGEES WANT ASYLUM:· About 150 Latino conference administration at Kent State University has denied the Haitian refugees and supporters marched through down­ Revolutionary Student Brigade the right to hold its national town Miami October 1, seeking asylum for the refugees from 25 Chicano leaders hit convention on campus. The RSB is a registered campus red-baiting attempt the island country's brutal Duvalier dictatorship. group. Marchers chanted, "Asylum yes, deportations no" and, Campus President Brage Golding defends his undemo­ "Hey, hey, USA, stop supporting Duvalier." 2 In Brief £ratic ruling by charging that he isn't convinced the 10 In Our Opinion convention will be legal and peaceful. After a brief rally, sixty of the demonstrators marched to Letters "Freedom Tower," a seventeen-story building that once housed special agencies set up to aid the half million Cuban 11 National Picket Line exiles who came to Miami between 1961 and 1974. Capitalism in Crisis Break-in at D.C. The U.S. government has refused to grant asylum to 12 Great Society Haitian refugees, and many have already been sent back to La Lucha. Puertorriquefla socialist offices Haiti. ThosP who remain cannot legally find work. An Capitalism Fouls Things Up immigration official said the 2, 700 refugees couldn't get By David Frankel legal status because they would take jobs from Americans. 18 Union Talk WASHINGTON-Offices of the Socialist Workers Party -Arnold Weissberg and Young Socialist Alliance were burglarized here October 23 In Review & . Investigating officer P. L. Green commented, "This is an WORLD OUTLOOK unusual burglary in that nothing was taken. They seem to 19 France: 'Union of have been mainly interested in your files." the Left' breaks up Later, however, it was discovered that a petty cash Special offer 20 What happened at China's envelope had been stolen. But the burglars passed up 11th Congress? typewriters, a small calculator, and other office equipment. SWP offices in other cities have been victimized by to new readers. 21 World News Notes similar break-ins, which have often turned out to be the work of the FBI, local police red squads, and other govern­ 22 New prime minister ment agencies. Tbe Militant-tO weeks/12 appointed in Iran Afrodita Constantinidis, SWP candidate for D.C. School Board, noted that the burglars entered the offices in broad daylight, sometime between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. THE MILITANT "Anyone with knowledge of the SWP would have known that all our supporters and activists would be at the Bakke VOLUME. 41/NUMBER 39 protests at that time to demonstrate against the attacks on OCTOBER 21, 1977 affirmative action," she pointed out. CLOSING NEWS DATE-OCT. 12 Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Managing Editor: ST_EVE CLARK RAZA SI, MIGRA NO: More than 100 demonstrators, THE Business Manager HARVEY McARTHUR Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING . mostly Chicanos, picketed Leone! Castillo, commissioner of Washington Bureau DAVID FRANKEL the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, at the THE ~· 13AI<I~J Arizona Mexican-American Political Conference in Tucson, Published weekly by the Militant, 14 Charles Lane. September 24. New York, N.Y. 10014. Telephone: Editorial Office 13AI(I\E )~ECIS (212) 243-6392; Busmess Off1ce (212) 929-3486. 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