APRIL 16, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME 40/NUMBER 15 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE ·...•.. '.: ® Stanley BOSTON-Antibusing lynch mob attacks Black attorney Theodore Landsmark outside city hall. Black leaders have responded with renewed calls for antiracist action. See page 4. on socialists move to Cite FBI ch· tor contempt -PAGE 7 Burglar's License THIS In Brief WEEK'S J.B. JOHNSON TRIAL DATE SET: Monday, April26, eyewitness, who could have testified against Banks's frame­ will be the opening day of J.B. Johnson's new trial. Police up, is dead. MILITANT framed this Black youth as an accomplice to the shooting Both Banks and Means are victims of intense government 3 S.F. strikers battle death of a white cop in 1970. After Johnson served three harassment. Means is currently free while appealing a years of his ninety-nine-years-and-a-day prison sentence, South Dakota rioting conviction. He still faces six more wage-cut plan the Missouri Supreme Court threw out his conviction, citing trials and could receive prison sentences totaling 175 years, 4 Blacks demand action to police misconduct at the trial. Driving toward a speedy plus life. halt racist attacks second conviction, St. Louis County Circuit Judge William Corrigan tried to set the new trial for February-a time 'MILITANT' GETS AROUND: The Workers Voice, 5 April 24 coalition when Johnson's chief attorney, William Kunstler, could not newspaper of the Bermuda Industrial Union, recently intensifies activities attend. But the Missouri high court ruled against this reprinted an article by Jose Perez that appeared in the flagrant violation of Johnson's rights. February 27 Militant. The article was an interview with 7 Move to cite FBI The National Committee to Free J.B. Johnson has focused Dominican union leader Jose Martinez Vargas, who de­ for contempt public attention on the consistently racist and arbitrary scribed government arrests of labor leaders, union-hall 13 CLUW helps mobilize behavior of the police, prosecutors, and courts in the case. occupations, and fixing of union elections. "The Workers the editors wrote in remarks accompanying the unionists for May 16 Now, St. Louis County Prosecutor Courtney Goodman, riled Voice," up and on an all"out campaign to put Johnson behind bars reprint, "abhors this blatant infringement on the rights of 14 Wash. SWP launches again, has assigned two prosecutors and a special investiga­ the workers in the Dominican Republic and joins with other '76 state campaign tor to the case. international unions and federations in denouncing this Urgently needed contributions to Johnson's defense behaviour." 1fl Palestinian freedom Another article from that issue of the Militant-"Where is protests rock Israel should be sent to: National Committee to Free J.B. Johnson, P.O. Box 4713, St. Louis, Missouri 62108. Telephone (314) the Nation of Islam going?" by Malik Miah-was reprinted 17 Argentine right-wing squads 725-0319 .. in the March 12 Viewpoint, a widely· circulated English­ step up terror language Pakistani journal. 'END ARGENTINE REPRESSION': In Los Angeles, 18 Plyushch answers Jackson seventy people picketed against repression in Argentina on IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE BLACK: DeWayne "Waheeb" at N.Y. meeting April 3. Picketers, lined up in front of the federal building, Willi_ams, a California State Northridge student, had a surprise run-in with the "law" last summer. One day a 23 Udall: peddling the demanded: "End U.S. aid to Argentina," "End the state of police helicopter and cop car began following Williams and 'painful truth' siege in Argentina," and "Free all political prisoners." The protest, sponsored by the United States Committee for a ·friend as they were driving home. When they pulled into 25 City seeks to block Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners, Solidarity the parking lot of their apartment building, the two men cost-of-living pay for found themselves surrounded by pistol-wielding cops. N.Y. transit workers The police claimed to be responding to the call of a woman who said that two gunmen were standing outside 28 San Jose Chicanos her door. The cops thought they'd spotted likely suspects protest cop terror when they saw two Black men driving along in the area. One cop grabbed Williams and shoved him into the back 2 In Brief of a car. Four more piled in and beat him viciously. Williams had to stand trial on charges of "interfering with In Our Opinion 10 an officer" and trying to take his weapon from him. Letters Testimony from several eyewitnesses to the police assault 11 National Picket Line were ignored, while other defense evidence wasn't even allowed into court. The student was found guilty by a jury of 12 Great Society eleven whites and one Black, sentenced, and thrown in jail. By Any Means Necessary Williams, now out on appeal, and his supporters are Capitalism in Crisis organizing a campaign to "Free Waheeb." To aid the defense, write protest letters to: Criminal Complaints, U.S. 24 In Review: How working Attorney's Office, 1200 U.S. Courthouse, 312 N. Spring St., people can fight fascism Lo" Angeles, California 90012. WORLD OUTLOOK -Ginny Hildebrand 19 Wage controls protested in Canada 20 French 'cousins' embarrass CPUSA 22 First 'Daily Rouge' rolls off presses Militant/Betsy McDonald Committee with the Argentine People, and Los Angeles THE MILITANT Group for Latin American Solidarity, was one of many defense actions scheduled in a dozen cities. VOLUME 40/NUMBER 15 Since the March 24 coup, concern in this country is . APRIL 16, 1976 CLOSING NEWS DATE-APRIL 7 growing for the safety of labor and political activists and the refugees from the Chilean junta now living in Argenti­ Ed1tor MARY-ALICE WATERS na. The Latin American Studies Association, representing ManHgmg Ed1tor LARRY SEIGLE university academic departments, discussed this issue at its Busmess Manager ROSE OGDEN Southwest Bureau HARRY RING recent convention in Atlanta. It adopted a resolution Washington Bureau· NANCY COLE demanding that the Argentine government respect the Special Offer democratic rights of its citizens and the refugees. 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Now, a defense Signed articll'!s !>Y contributors do not necessarily represent the Militant's views These are expressed in editorials 2 Wider shutdown discussed S.F. strikers battle wage-cut plan By Nat Weinstein committee of top labor officials was SAN FRANCISCO, April 6-The announced a week and a half before week-old strike here by city-employed the strike began, no systematic organi­ building trades workers has ,reached a zation was evident until the third day stalemate at a stage that can be of the walkout. characterized as a war of nerves. The contrast between the imposing In an attempt to break the stalemate, prestrike announcements and the strike leaders are making strenuous stumbling deployment of labor's forces eiforts to bring new forces to bear. was evidenced by the sloppy and Unfortunately, these efforts have been sluggish organization and dispatch of largely confined to verbal fireworks strikers to the different picket sites.