Top American Reporters in Vietnam Agree 'Pacification' Is Major FailureTHEMILITANTPublished in the Interest of the Working People

V o l. 31 - No. 45 M onday, D ecem ber 12, 1966 100

Berkeley StudentsEnd Their Strike

BERKELEY, Dec. 7 — Striking students at the University of C ali­fornia here voted last night to suspend their strike, and to con­tinue negotiations w ith the admin­istration over their demands. The decision was made in order to allow students to take fina l ex­aminations next week. I t came after the faculty voted against the strike on Monday.

W hile favoring amnesty for those arrested during the strike, the faculty turned on the students in a 795 to 28 vote, w ith 143 ab­staining.

A fter the faculty decision, the official student government, a more conservative body, broke ranks and came out against the strike. On Tuesday, the campus newspaper, the D a ily C alifornian, did the same.

The general mood among the students is that the situation is now at a stalemate.

B y B r ia n ShannonBER KELEY, Dec. 5 — The stu­

dent s trike at the U n ive rs ity of C a liforn ia campus here was pro­voked by the un ive rs ity adminis­tra tion ’s action in calling in the police to arrest six an tiw ar dem­onstrators. The six were non-stu­dents, singled out of 200 students protesting the appearance of a Navy recru iting table on campus. F ive of the six have been active

in the an tiw ar movement in B er­keley during the past year and a ha lf: Je rry Rubin, B il l M ille r,S tewart A lpert, M ike H am ilton and M ike Sm ith. The s ix th was M ario Savio, leader o f the 1964 Free Speech Movement fig h t at the un iversity, and recently denied re-admission a fte r “ ille g a lly ” handing out a lea fle t on the cam­pus.

The w arrants sworn out by u n i- (Continued on Page 6)

NYU Students Fight Tuition Hike

N E W Y O R K — W ith o n ly a fe w hours no tice , 1,000 N ew Y o rk U n iv e rs ity s tudents tu rn e d o u t to a ra l ly to p ro ­test a tu it io n rise . A f te r th e ra l ly , th e students dem on­s tra te d at V a n d e rb ilt H a ll, o ff ic e o f th e p res iden t o f N Y U . A t a m ee ting th a t n ig h t, the A d Hoc C om m ittee to F ig h t the T u it io n R ise In ­crease vo ted to dem and th a t N Y U c a l l a m o ra to riu m on the increase u n t i l s tu ­dents, fa c u lty and the ad­m in is tra t io n can discuss i t and go o ve r th e f in a n c ia l books.

Despite U.S. propaganda claims about m ilita ry gains in Vietnam, news reports reveal tha t the U.S. and its Saigon puppet regime are su ffering stunning defeats in the ir efforts to “ pacify” the country. The reports con firm they are un ­able to crush the guerrillas who continue to attack the occupying forces and who enjoy the support of the local population in doing so'.

W ritin g in the Dec. 1 New York Times, R. W. Apple, Jr., describes a tr ip from Saigon to the nearby Mekong Delta. The drive, he com­ments, is a h is to ry of the e ffo rt to pacify south Vietnam. “ A t ev­ery stream or r iv e r crossing, there is a rem inder tha t a ll past e f­forts have failed. Each w aterway is spanned by a Bailey bridge or some other expedient, the orig ina l bridge having long since fa llen to Vietcong explosives.”

A U.S. m ajor serving as adviser to Saigon forces in the area tells Apple: “ Things are no good. I ’ve got few er than 600 men to w ork w ith and they’ve got to cover 80 square miles. They [the g u e rr il­las] h it you w ith a batta lion one n ight, bu t next m orning you can’t find a squad.”

Apple continues: “ On Oct. 9, two outposts w ith in sight of Saigon’s outskirts were attacked . . . V ie t­cong have b lown up bridges, staged ambushes, sometimes w ith in 400 yards of the com­pound . . . ”

The U.S. m ajor explains: “ They know p re tty w e ll everyth ing tha t goes on. They m ortared our com­pound tw o nights a fte r I came here. They always t r y to welcome the new arriva ls .”

Apple asked ju s t how secure the area is. The m ajor shied away from answering but, Apple ob­serves, “ when he w ent to the highway fo r a quick tr ip to a nearby headquarters, he wore an armored vest, carried a r if le and took a second jeep along fo r protection.”

Describing the extreme d iff ic u l­ty confronting U.S. forces in the Delta region, Apple w rites tha t w h ile in the f irs t tw o months of the d rive “ bu lky GIs sloshed fo r hours through rice paddies, wet below the w aist from mud and paddy water, wet above the waste from perspiration — only 14 guer­rilla s were k illed .”

Four teams of “ ru ra l-deve lop- ment” workers, who are supposed

M IL IT A R Y T A R G E T ? Rescuers d ig o u t tw o c h ild re n a fte r U.S. bom bs b ro u g h t dow n th e ir school a t T h a i-b in h in N o rth V ie tn a m on O ct. 21. F o r ty persons w e re re p o rte d k i lle d , in c lu d in g 30 s tu ­dents fro m 13 to 16 years o ld , a w om an teacher and tw o p regnan t w om en. S ix o thers, in c lu d in g fo u r p u p ils , w e re w ounded. 1

P ho to b y B r ia n Shannon

S E A O F U M B R E L L A S . Scene in f r o n t o f fam ed S p ro u l H a ll a t U n iv e rs ity o f C a lifo rn ia campus a t B e rke le y as 8,000 students ga thered in ra in Dec. 1 to vo te o v e rw h e lm in g ly in fa v o r o f s tr ike .

to w in over the local peasants, are assigned to the d is tric t, “ but none are ye t old enough to sleep in the hamlets they are supposed to b ring under Saigon’s control.”

The lieutenant colonel in charge o f the area to ld Apple tha t even i f he could accomplish his entire mission in a year — w hich he considers improbable — he would have dealt w ith only one of six d istricts in the D elta ’s 16 p rov­inces.

“ In a province like th is,” he said, “ a whole batta lion — 600 men — can be gobbled up by the rice paddies. You ju s t lose them.”

Apple ’s find ings confirm ed an earlie r Saigon report to the Nov. 25 Times by M ax Frankel. These are some of the things Frankel found:

“ In Saigon, they w o rry about the chiefs of villages who under­standably but s til l unfortunate ly refuse to r is k sleeping in the ir hamlets at n ight.

“ In south Vietnam, they hope in tw o years to have beaten o ff the m ain Communist m ilita ry units and to be concentrating fu l ly on the ‘rea l’ enemy, the Vietcong guerrillas . . .

“ A lm ost every soldier, from priva te to colonel, counts the days u n til his year of du ty here ex­pires . . . Y e t a ll believe there is now no easy way out of the morass. They expect a long guer­r i l la w ar even a fte r the bigger Communist units are hunted down and humbled. They expect tha t a longer tim e s till w i l l pass before Americans can safely leave the nation to the polic ing of the south Vietnamese . . .

“ ‘Perhaps,’ says a general, ‘the real hope is the education of the ch ildren — i f we can get more than 20 percent in to school and w a it fo r them to m ature’ . . .

“ So fa r there is only a doctrine fo r pacification, no program w orth the name, and the experimental teams already in the fie ld s till fear to spend the n igh t in the ir assigned ham let . . .”

A lieutenant colonel to ld F ran­

kel: “ Make them understand tha t th is is ju s t lik e the Ind ian wars, except tha t the helicopter has re ­placed the horse. And you know how long those wars lasted.”

The theme is echoed by M arv in L . Stone in a pa rticu la r revealing artic le in the Dec. 5 U.S. News & W orld Report. He began cover­ing V ietnam in 1954.

“ A fte r a ll these years,” reports Stone, “ the w herew itha l of v ic to ry does not seem to exist. The p o lit­ical fab ric o f the country is s ti l l shredding. Social progress is held in tig h t re in. A fte r a ll these years, the w ar against the guerrillas in the countryside has not ye t rea lly begun . . .

“ The influence of the Saigon government seems not to grow at a ll in the vast countryside. Some Americans insist there is less e f­fective presence in the villages now than there was three years ago . . .

“ The pacification program, de­spite a booming send-off last Feb­rua ry at the H onolu lu ‘sum m it’ meeting, a ll bu t fe ll on its face in 1966 . . .

“ A th ird of the countryside is under the perm anent day-and- n igh t contro l of the Vietcong. Much of the rest, w h ile claimed by the government, is actua lly no more than secure in day ligh t hours only . . .

“ In the past year, no substan­tia l num ber o f new roads have been opened; no substantial num ­bers of people have been brought under government contro l . . . In the Mekong Delta, the Reds have mobile taxation points on the roads, canals and rivers.”

“ . . . the Vietcong continues to levy taxes of one fo rm or another in every province in south V ie t­nam, includ ing Saigon itse lf.”

SPECIAL FEATURE. For an analysis of Bayard Rustin's a t t a c k on black-power views of his one-time sup­porters, see page 4.

Page Two TH E M IL IT A N T Monday, December 12, 1966

O ffic ia ls of the In ternationa l Brotherhood o f E lectrica l W orkers have fa iled to press the un ion ’s demand fo r a single contract fu l­l y covering a ll its 14,000 members a t Westinghouse. The Nov. 19 A F L -C IO News reports: “ The na­tio n a l pact, i f approved, has terms apply ing to a ll locals. O ther p ro ­visions invo lv ing such issues as sen iority, job classifications, geo­graphic d iffe ren tia ls and job pool­ing, are negotiated loca lly . . . The fu l l objective was not achieved b u t the IB EW did w in a common exp ira tion date covering a ll 46 p lan t locations.”

W h ile several local disputes continue at Westinghouse, a strike has been settled at its Baltim ore aerospace p ldn t w hich employs about 2,400 IB EW members. The new local contract there provides m in im um wage increases of 11% cents an hour, la rge ly fo r women doing assembly w ork. Employes in higher classifications w i l l get an add itiona l 1 to 10 cents an hou r over the m in im um raise.

C ontinuing stoppages elsewhere include* a w a lkou t o f 670 IBEW members at the Cheswick, Pa., atom ic fue l fa c ility over job clas­sifications and w ork ing conditions. A nother 365 are s tr ik in g fo r im ­proved wage rates a t the Athens, Ga., transform er plant. A to ta l of 2,700 are o ff the jo b a t Westing­house lam p plants in Richmond, K y ., Paris, Texas, L it t le Rock, A rk ., and Reform , Ga. IBEW spokesmen describe wages at the la tte r fo u r p lants as the “ worst in the nation.”

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For seven weeks, General Elec­tr ic tr ied unsuccessfully to break a strike of 2,000 UE members at the Ashland, Mass., assembly p lant. A settlement was then reached under w hich, fo r the f irs t tim e, the p lan t w il l be covered b y the national UE contract w ith GE. In addition, the strikers won adjustments in area rate inequi­ties w hich had held them from 6 to 22 cents an hour below aver­age GE rates. O ther union gains include some easement o f speed­up pressures under the piecework system and Improved w ork ing conditions.

Last October, Johnson slapped a T a ft-H a rtle y in junction on 5,900 w orkers who struck GE’s je t en­gine p lan t at Evendale, Ohio. They are members o f the U nited Auto W orkers and the In te rna tiona l As­sociation o f Machinists. A tenta­tive agreement has since been ne­gotiated which, according to “ in ­form ed sources,” adjusts wage inequities and clears the w ay fo r settlement o f accumulated g riev­ances.

Since Oct. 17, some 11,500 IU E members have been on strike at GE’s m ain p lan t in Schenectady, N.Y. They are fig h tin g to get r id o f a measured dayw ork speedup scheme w hich results in pernicious wage-cutting. Through t h i s scheme, w h ich was imposed in the 1964 local contract, GE changes production standards at w il l, w ith ­ou t regard to past practices and w ith o u t consulting the union. To enforce its a rb itra ry production

standards fo r day workers, the company has used every fo rm of harassment and discipline, up to and inc lud ing fir in g . A lso involved in the strike are about 800 dra fts­men belonging to the Am erican Federation of Technical En­gineers.

In D etro it, Mich., about 1,100 U AW members are out in a strike tha t began Oct. 2 at GE’s Carboloy plant. A un ion ad in the D etro it News says the dispute centers on job security and GE’s demand “ fo r the discharge o f tw o men, w ith 12 and 15 years seniority, who, the company says, were engaged in a picket lin e argument.” U AW o ffic ia ls have pleaded fo r a rb itra ­tion o f the dispute, and GE has rejected the plea.

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On a th ird try , o ffic ia ls of the Communications W orkers of Am erica got membership appro­va l of a new contract fo r 22,000 telephone equipment installers employed by the Western E lectric Co. An in it ia l company o ffe r to increase wages 8 to 14 cents an hour was rejected by the installers w ho voted 7 to 1 to authorize a strike. Western E lectric next p ro ­posed raises o f 13 to 20 cents an hour. CW A offic ia ls urged ac­ceptance of the new offer, bu t the workers rejected i t 8,231 to 7,240.

The company then amended its proposal to provide tha t money items in a new three-year con­trac t could be re-opened a fte r 18 months. The immediate wage in ­creases were made retroactive to last Ju ly . In a referendum, w ith a proviso tha t a ‘no’ vote w ould empower a strike, the installers accepted the amended o ffe r 10,697 to 6,027.

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In the f irs t s trike in the h is to ry of the Raytheon Co., some 10,000 IB EW members have w alked out a t 26 plants across Massachusetts. Raytheon — whose p ro fits jumped over 30 percent last year, p a rtly due to w a r production — says the union is m aking “ excessive” mo­ney demands o f 11 percent an­nua lly . O ther key issues in the dispute are w o rk assignments and job security.

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Public employes seeking higher pay are beginning to rebel against the d ictum tha t “ you can’t s trike against the government.”

In Rhode Island, where a state law bans strikes by public w o rk ­ers, some 1,500 state employes stayed home “ to rest.” They sought to force a special session o f the Democrat-dominated Gen­eral Assembly to vote them a cost- o f- liv in g increase. A fte r being promised legislative action at the regular January session, the state employes complied w ith an in ­junction ordering them back to w ork.

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Public school teachers in H ub­bard, Ohio, managed to resist a strikebreaking in junc tion long enough to w in a p a rtia l v ic to ry in an e ight-day w alkout. The settlement provides an annual in ­

crease of $470 in wages and $60 in re tirem ent benefits fo r H ub­bard ’s 140 teachers.

In nearby Youngstown, around 1,200 teachers were involved in a week-long strike over bargaining recognition and wages. School o f­fic ia ls got a court order requ iring them to go back to w ork. They did so a fte r agreement was reached on a collective bargain­ing election. The strikes, con­ducted by the American Federa­tion o f Teachers, were supported b y school bus drivers and Team­sters U nion members who make deliveries to the schools.

Last October, the A FT was cer­tifie d as bargaining agent fo r 475 teachers in Chicago’s c ity ju n io r college system, bu t in negotiations tha t fo llowed the school board im ­posed 17 “ preconditions” fo r col­lective bargaining. As a resu lt the teachers struck on Nov. 30. School o ffic ia ls qu ick ly got a restraining order to force an end to the w a lk ­out. The s tr ik in g teachers then held a meeting and decided to continue p icketing despite the court order.

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Spokesmen fo r the O il W orkers Union have raised the possib ility o f a nationw ide strike o f o il re­fineries on Jan. 1. K ey issues are wages and job security. Autom a­tion and technology are tak ing a heavy to ll o f o il jobs, the union says. O lder workers have been re­tire d at an accelerated rate, w h ile few new ones are being employed, w ith the result tha t “ o il has be­come an industry of middle-aged men.”

As of th is scoreboard, we have ju s t one month le ft in the cam­paign. I w ish to urge a ll those branches w hich are below 72 per­cent to speed up the ir payments. This fund is being raised, not fo r some fu tu re project, b u t fo r b u ild ­ing the Socialist W orkers P arty r ig h t now.

A note from B il l K . o f San Diego assures us tha t “ we got a late s tart bu t we w il l get there on tim e.” That is ve ry good news.

Three friends swelled The Gen­eral th is week. We thank F.J.M. o f New York, W.H.B. of Wash­ington, D.C. The th ird contribution came from a m em ber-at-large in Madison, Wise.

A recent le tte r from the fund d irector in Oakland-Berkeley, Tony C., via the branch financia l d irector, Sue S., is most in terest­ing. That branch operates on a s ix-m onth budget w hich includes the special fund, bu t th is tim e they took more of a quota than had been figured on. So to raise the additional money, they are p lan-

M IN N EAPO LIS — A lm ost ha lf o f the more than 3,000 members o f the Minnesota Nurses Associa­tion (M N A ) have subm itted one- month resignation notices to pres­sure T w in C ity hospitals to grant im m ediate salary increases.

The resignations are pa rt o f an M N A d rive to force the T w in C i­ties Hospita l Association (TC H A ) to g rant wage boosts more than seven months before the nurses’ contracts expire. The TC H A is the bargaining organization fo r 21 hospitals in the area. The resig­nations become effective Dec. 26 i f no settlement has been reached.

The M N A has asked the im m e­diate raises because, i t says, low nurse salaries are causing nurs­ing shortages — u ltim a te ly harm ­ing patient care. In fla tio n and the effect of large salary increases fo r nurses in other areas have added impetus to the M N A ’s de­mands.

The hospitals argue tha t to g rant the M N A ’s request now, be­fore the contract expires, w ould encourage other employe groups to ask fo r pay raises.

Offers made by the TC H A and accepted by M N A members on the negotiating committee include $1 an hour fo r “ on-ca ll” tim e (when nurses are not w o rk ing bu t are forced to rem ain at a desig­nated spot in case o f emergen­cies), and tim e-and -a -ha lf fo r overtim e w o rk done when “ on- call.” The nurses’ spokesmen re­jected the H ospita l Association’s

n ing the showing of some new Cuba film s, a ra ffle of Malcolm X ’s tw o books, and a flea market. As Sue says, “ We’ve got so many irons in the fire , i t is hard to keep track o f them .”

They are already w ork ing on a M arx is t calendar to sell next fa ll. This w i l l include birthdates of im ­portant Marxists, im portan t dates, etc., w ith revo lu tionary pictures at the top.

A l l o f w hich goes to prove tha t i f you pu t your m ind to it , there are many ways of ra ising money, and doing im portan t po litica l w o rk a t the same time.

Readers o f The M ilita n t can also help by m aking contributions to the Socialist Fund. Most o f the readers are acutely aware of the v ita l necessity of bu ild ing a p o lit­ica l pa rty w ith a socialist pro­gram. I t is not enough ju s t to agree w ith us. Such agreement imposes an obligation as w ell. Make your contribution now. Use the coupon to send in your down payment on a better w orld.

o ffe r of s ligh tly raised salaries.T w in Cities nurses are seeking

$541, $591, and $641 m onth ly sa­laries fo r general duty, assistant head nurses, and head nurses, respectively. This w ou ld be an increase o f $66 fo r the general du ty nurses, $86 fo r the assistant head nurses, and $96 fo r the head nurses.

Reasons given at a Nov. 21 meeting o f the nurses, in favo r of mass resignation ra ther than a ca lling in sick proposal, were tha t a sick call was “ no real com­m itm ent” and tha t d isun ity m ight result i f some nurses began to re tu rn to w o rk a fte r one or tw o days of ca lling in.

The nurses voted to hold an­other meeting to hear reports on the num ber of resignations and progress in negotiations.

Three Pacifists Given Six-Month Sentences In Draft-Card Burning

NEW YO R K — Three pacifists who p u b lic ly burned the ir d ra ft cards as a protest against the V ie t­nam w ar were sentenced to six months in prison by a federal judge here Nov. 30. Under the law recently jammed through Con­gress m aking i t a fe lony to burn a d ra ft card, they m ight have received m axim um sentences o f five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. They were released on the ir own recognizance, pending appeal.

The three are M arc-Paul Edel- man and Thomas C ornell o f New Y o rk and Paul L iske r o f Ph iladel­phia. They burned th e ir d ra ft cards at a U nion Square demon­stra tion Nov. 6, 1965, organized by the W ar Resisters League, C NVA and other pacifis t groups. Edelman, a member o f the s ta ff o f the F if th Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, is asso­ciated w ith the W R L and CNVA. Cornell is president of the Catholic Peace Fellowship. L iske r is active in the Philadelphia pacifis t move­ment.

The three were defended by attorneys fo r the ACLU . The A C LU w il l appeal the convictions on the ground th a t the law is un­constitutional, v io la ting the F irs t Amendment.

Commenting on the m in im um sentences, Edelman said he con­sidered them a product o f the grow ing popular an tiw ar senti­ment. He pointed out tha t the sentences were s im ila r to those given c iv il rights and peace ac­tiv is ts fo r lesser offenses.

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W H O KILLED JO H N F. KENNEDY—Startling new facts on the assassination and an analysis of the Warren Commis- sion Report. Speakers: Edward M.Keating, publisher of Ramparts; Harold Weisberg, author of Whitewash. Fri., Dec. 16, 8:00 p.m. Hall of Flowers — Golden Gate Park, 9th and Lincoln. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum.

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Antiwar Unity Bugs Right U.S. Impounds Vietnam Mail To an Antiwar Organization

B y H a rry R ingA m ajor, unprecedented gain

registered by the an tiw ar move­m ent during the past year has been the rem arkable degree of u n ity in action achieved by or­ganizations opposed to the V ie t­nam war.

A t the outset, there were many groups and ind iv idua ls who be­lieved tha t the adm inistration had floundered in to th is w ar through a series o f errors. They believed th a t the adm in istra tion ’s ruinous po licy could be reversed i f enough o f the real facts were placed be­fo re i t and i f i t were made fu l ly aware o f the extent o f the opposi­tion among in flu e n tia l people, as w e ll as in the population gen­era lly .

Johnson’s steady, ruthless es­calation of the w a r made many such people realize th e ir hopes were unfounded. I t convinced them tha t on ly a significant, m ili ­tan t mass movement could stop the warmakers. To achieve that necessary goal, they turned to ­w ard united action w ith the more m ilita n t w ing o f the an tiw ar move­ment.

This ve ry sa lutory development has caused vis ib le dismay among supporters of Johnson’s d ir ty war. T he ir apprehension has been ex­pressed in a large advertisement th a t has already appeared tw ice in the New Y ork Times.

Sponsored by Freedom House, the w e ll-financed ins titu te of the co ld -w ar liberals, the ad hopes to tu rn conservative elements in the an tiw ar movement against the m ilita n t w ing o f the movement. I t calls on “ responsible” critics of the w a r to “ disassociate them ­selves from w ild charges being made against the nation and its leaders.”

The essence of the statement is pure po litica l reaction veneered w ith transparently fake liberalism . Its p rinc ipa l concern, the sponsors

G enera l E isenhow erAdvises Peace Movement

piously declare, is tha t “ extrem ­ists could delay V ietnam negotia­tions.”

Among the signers are sqch Johnson-line union bureaucrats as Joseph Curran of the National M aritim e Union and Joseph Beirne of the Communication Workers. A lso included are “ I-used-to -be-a- rad ica l-m yse lf” cold w arrio rs like Sidney Hook and John Dos Passos.

B u t most fitt in g ly , the lead names on the ad are those w e ll- known peaceniks, D w igh t D. E i­senhower and Dean Acheson. As T rum an’s secretary of state, Ache­son was a princ ipa l architect of the “ containm ent-of-com m unism ” policy. And Eisenhower is so deep­ly concerned about peace in V ie t­nam tha t he recently indicated he is ready to drop a few atom bombs to achieve it.

The statement argues tha t the “ irresponsible” elements in the an tiw ar movement are a ba rrie r to a negotiated settlement because the ir a c tiv ity may encourage “ our antagonists” to hold out fo r v ic ­

to ry. W hat they rea lly mean is tha t i f the an tiw ar movement builds up su ffic ien t strength, John­son w il l not be able to achieve his goal of exterm inating the south Vietnamese gue rrilla move­ment and dealing m orta l blows to the north Vietnamese regime.

Even those in the an tiw ar move­m ent (w ith the disgraceful ex­ception of the Socialist P arty) who had previously argued in favo r of a negotiated settlement, now p re t­ty much recognize tha t the only negotiations Johnson is interested in are fo r the unconditioned sur­render o f the Vietnamese libera­tion fighters.

About the only tru th fu l state­ment in the Freedom House ad is the boast tha t in addition to other “ beneficia l” results, the U.S. in ­tervention in V ietnam "provided a shield fo r the sharp reversal of Indonesia’s d r i f t tow ard commu­nism.” The hundreds o f thousands of Indonesians slaughtered in tha t fea rfu l “ reversal” stand as mute testim ony to this.

The ad declares tha t “ respon­sible” dissenters must denounce such “ fantasies” of the “ irrespon­sible extrem ists” as these:

• “ That th is is ‘Lyndon John­son’s W ar’ or ‘McNamara’s W ar’ or any other ind iv idua l’s w ar.”

• “ That the Am erican in d iv id ­uals are com m itting ‘w ar crimes’ or indu lg ing in ‘genocides.’ ”

• “ That m ilita ry service in this country ’s armed forces is an op­tion exercisable solely at the dis­cretion of the ind iv idua l.”

• “ That th is is a ‘race’ w a r of whites vs. colored people.”

• “ That th is nation’s leaders are obsessed w ith some compul­sion to p lay ‘w orld policeman’ or to conduct some ‘ho ly w a r’ against the legitim ate aspirations o f un­derdeveloped people.”

A ll o f this, of course, is a ra ­the r accurate compendium of U.S. policy.

In one sense, of course, i t isn’t Johnson’s or McNamara’s war. I t is a w ar waged in behalf o f the ru lin g capita lis t class in th is coun­t r y as evidenced by the b i-p a rt i­san support given the w a r in Con­gress and a ll other branches of government. B u t i t is John­son’s and McNamara’s w a r in that they are the chief executives o f Am erican capitalism and have demonstrated a determ ination to continue the w ar against the wishes and needs of the American and Vietnamese people.

The charges o f w ar crimes and genocide are confirm ed by every news report and every T V film of the use o f napalm and chemi­cal and biological w arfare, the bombing and s tra fing o f c iv ilian centers and the burn ing o f entire villages.

The “ discretion o f the in d iv i­dual” to refuse to f ig h t in an i lle ­gal and un just w a r was, o f course, upheld as a du ty by the Nurem ­berg tr ib u n a l a fte r W W I I , on w h ich the U.S. sat.

The u tte r callousness w ith which the U.S. has used every h o rr ify in g weapon at its com­mand against the Vietnamese people, and previously against the Korean and Japanese people, cer­ta in ly bolsters the conviction of the colored peoples of the w orld tha t th is is indeed a racist war.

F ina lly , the g iant ne tw ork of U.S. bases and forces aroun'd the globe, the in tervention in Cuba, Guatemala, Santo Domingo, the Congo and V ietnam more than suffices to demonstrate tha t the U.S. is acting like the policeman of the w o rld in an e ffo rt to th w a rt the legitim ate aspirations of the colonial people — aspirations tha t r im contrary to the interests of Am erican im peria lism .

Arguments to the contrary have as much relationship to rea lity as “ Freedom House” has to free­dom. The established facts about the U.S. ro le in V ietnam have served to b ring the an tiw ar forces together. Freedom House fanta­sies are no t lik e ly to d iv ide them.

NEW YO R K — The United States Customs Service is being challenged on its seizure o f 5,000 paperback books from north V ie t­nam, by W alte r D. Teague I I I , who heads the U nited States Committee to A id the National L iberation F ron t o f South Vietnam. The New Y o rk C iv il L iberties Union is pro­v id ing H enry W inestein to rep­resent Teague in court.

Teague was notified on Nov. 14 tha t the shipment was being de­tained by the Customs Service and tha t the books w ould no t be turned over to h im unless he ob­tained a license under the “ T rad­ing w ith the Enemy” Act. The Customs Service said the books w ould be destroyed unless Teague presented a “ foreign assets con­tro l” license w ith in 45 days.

Before the Customs Service in ­tercepted th is m ailing, Teague had received several shipments from Hanoi w ithou t d iff ic u lty . The 5,000 volumes o f the intercepted ship­ment were m ailed to Teague via Prague, Czechoslovakia.

“ I t ’s m y feeling tha t they stopped th is shipment of V ietna­mese lite ra tu re because they were w orried tha t we m igh t have some effect in getting th is lite ra tu re in to the hands of interested people around the country,” Teague told The M ilita n t. “ R ight before they clamped down, we had sent a large m a iling to college newspapers, asking them to in fo rm students tha t they could obtain these books from us. I t goes w ithou t saying tha t the seizure of th is lite ra tu re is a b la tan t v io la tion of freedom of speech and thought.”

O ur Neim an-M arcus Xmas cata­logue fin a lly a rrived and i t ’s rea l­ly loaded w ith goodies th is year.

F irs t o f a ll, in our previous re ­po rt on those H is and Hers bath­tubs ($4,000, plus fre ig h t) we d idn ’t mention tha t the porcelain is acid-resistant.

We don’t know i f i t ’s also acid- resistant, b u t the catalogue in ­cludes a porcela in-lined cigar hum idor $400.. Another nice his and hers g ift

m igh t be a man’s m u ffle r of shatoosh wool ($100) and a wom­an’s stole o f the same m ateria l ($1,500). Shatoosh, in case you don’t know, is the soft th roa t hairs of the Ibex goat which, i f mem­ory serves us, is found on ly on the highest peaks of the Himalayas.

For the home, there’s a lovely Venetian table c loth fo r $2,750 w ith 12 tea napkins and 12 dinner napkins th row n in fo r free.

I f the fa m ily is getting a b it creaky fo r lack o f exercise and you fin d i t too much to get out of the c ity , you may be interested in a backyard, year-round ski slope. I t ’s 121 feet long, 25 feet w ide and 25 feet high. The sur­face is plastic w h ich skis lik e snow and, best of a ll, never needs sho­ve lling . Complete w ith lights fo r n igh t skiing. O rder from the Toy Shop. $100,000.00.

A w onderfu l idea fo r the bath­room, besides the H is and Hers tubs, is Neiman-Marcus color por­tra its . You can get a pa ir o f 8" x 10" photos fo r only $125. These can be set on the tub boards along w ith the m irrors, perfumes, etc. And fo r the w a ll, a s tr ik ing 30” x 40" shot o f the tw o of you. $800.

Step out o f the tubs onto a French tapestry fu r rug, 8' x 10'. $10,000.

Inc identa lly , don’t get the idea tha t everyth ing at N eim an-M ar­cus is higher-priced. There’s a ll

H enry W inestein said tha t he would demand in court tha t the books be turned over to Teague w ithou t a license. “ Under the free speech guarantees of the F irs t Amendment, the government can­not compel an im porte r o f po litica l lite ra tu re to apply fo r a license. The N YC LU ’s position is tha t the license requirem ent constitutes a forb idden p rio r restra in t on free­dom of speech and of the press,” he said.

Phila. Forum Discusses Vietnam War Crimes

P H IL A D E L P H IA — On Nov. 30, the U n ive rs ity o f Pennsylvania Committee to End the W ar in V ietnam held a successful fo rum on U.S. w ar crimes in V ietnam . The meeting began w ith the film , “ T im e of the Locust,” w h ich was made from U.S., Japanese and National L ibe ra tion F ron t news­reels.

Russell Stetler, U.S. co-chair­man of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, ta lked about w hat he saw in north V ietnam during a recent tr ip there made in connection w ith the W ar Crimes T ribuna l.

He described the. effects o f “ lazy dogs,” or fragm entation bombs w hich spew out sharp m etal frag ­ments designed on ly to k i l l and m aim humans, w hich the U.S. is dropping on north Vietnamese civilians.

A message from B ertrand Rus­sell was read a fte r S tetler’s ta lk .

k inds of cheap trinke ts fo r office parties, etc. There are nice cof­fee spoons at a do lla r a piece and matching g rape fru it spoons fo r $2. There’s a love ly l it t le porcelain ow l fo r $20 and brass bridge pen­cils, a t $7.50 fo r a set o f four.

Neim an-M arcus also has a real yum m y food shop and there are a num ber o f items tha t sound won­de rfu l fo r the snack table w h ile everyone’s busy decorating the tree. For example, a large 14- ounce ja r of French tru ffles , $50. A 14-ounce tin o f Rom anoff ca­v ia r, $62.50. And fo r a nice sand­w ich meat, better than any local live rw urs t, a hunk o f pat6 de fois gras (w ith tru ff le s ), $36 a pound, unsliced.

When you’re ready fo r th is snack, you don’t w ant to be stand­ing there screaming at the top o f your lungs. N -M has ju s t the th ing fo r that: A Maid Call, w h ich is a pocket-sized remote c o n t r o l sw itch (w ith a s ilver-p la ted shell) w hich buzzes a sound box in the kitchen. Both units, $200.

F ina lly , i f the lady of the house is beat out from the holiday, how about a week a t the N e im an-M ar­cus Greenhouse? I t ’s a beauty and health center in A rling ton , Texas. Includes breakfast in bed, w ater and ton ing exercises, beau­ty consulations, lunch, m ake-up assistance, hand and foot care, rest, w ine lecture, a rt o f g ift wrapping, dinner, movies and w hat have you. A week’s stay is only $650, and there’s no tipp ing. Instead they add on another $98 and N -M takes care o f the help fo r you.

A nd w hat w i l l the man o f the house do w h ile the lady’s soak­ing i t up at the Greenhouse? Simple. He’l l have both tubs to himself.

Joyeux No61!— H e rm a n C hauka

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Vol. 31 - No. 45 < ^ ^ > 3 4 5 Monday, December 12, 1966

"Great Society" in 1967A lthough President Johnson w i l l not present a f u l l program

o f domestic policies fo r 1967 u n t i l the opening o f the 90th Con­gress in January, the character o f th is program is ind icated by a series o f p re lim in a ry W h ite House announcements. These show th a t the Dem ocratic adm in is tra tion is m ounting a campaign fo r in f la tio n a ry w a r financing coupled w ith w hatever a n ti- la b o r legis­la tion i t can get away w ith .

The massive extent o f the present and planned w a r spending was revealed by “ government experts” to New Y o rk Times re ­po rte r E dw in Dale Jr., Nov. 30. According to Dale, the W hite House now intends to lay out between $127 and $130 b ill io n in the cu rren t fisca l year. Th is compares to estimated government revenues o f about $117 b illio n , m eaning th a t there w i l l be a fed­e ra l d e fic it of a t least $10 b illio n .

The cu rren t expenditures are add itiona lly $10 b illio n over the budget Johnson proposed in h is 1966 estimates, and accord­in g to Dale, the add ition is solely a ttr ib u tab le to spending on the w ar. Tha t b rings the to ta l w a r budget in fiscal year 1967, end­in g June 30, to $67 b ill io n — o f w h ich over $20 b ill io n w en t to the w a r itse lf.

In the fo llo w in g fisca l year, 1968, the government sources revealed th a t Johnson w i l l ask fo r close to $140 b illio n , another $13 b ill io n h igher than the 1967 budget. I t is evident th a t the add itiona l $13 b ill io n w i l l go 100 percent in to the escalated w ar. Th is w ou ld fo llo w fro m Johnson’s statement Dec. 1 th a t over $5 b ill io n had been cu t from domestic spending in 1967, w ith the im p lica tion th a t fu rth e r cuts were being anticipated a t the ex­pense o f g rea tly needed social measures.

The cu rren t cuts in the “ G reat Society” budget came out o f housing and urban development program s: health, education and w e lfa re expenditures.; and a g ricu ltu ra l development budgets, among others. These cuts are made op the p re text th a t a tax in ­crease m ay be avoided. B u t, even w ith d e fic it spending, the p lanned escalation o f the w a r makes a tax h ike inevitab le.

In both ways — th rough h igher taxes and greater d e fic it spending — i t w i l l be the w orkers w ho are d ire c tly h it. This is one o f the reasons w h y the Johnson adm in is tra tion is p reparing s tif fe r a n ti- la b o r laws fo r the coming year. The capita lists are fu l ly aware th a t in fla te d prices and h igher taxes w i l l be m et by increased labor pressure fo r h ighe r wages.

On, Nov. 29, the W h ite House revealed th a t Johnson had established a “ special study group to search fo r new ways to cope w ith strikes th a t are judged to threaten the nationa l in terest.” Th is panel was “ q u ie tly ” set up before the November elections.

A lthough the details of its recommendations have not been made pub lic, the New Y o rk Times, one o f the most conscious spokesmen o f the cap ita lis t class, gave a good idea o f w ha t we can expect, in its e d ito ria l columns Dec. 1. U nder the heading of “ Stopping Emergency S trikes,” the Times editors a ffirm ed th a t ‘fNo single remedy is going to be ideal fo r coping w ith a ll the complex causes and characteristics o f strikes.”

Consequently, according to the New Y o rk Times, the Presi­dent “ should be free to chose, on the basis of each specific emer­gency, w hether to move fo r fa c t-find in g , compulsory a rb itra tion o r tem pora ry seizure o f a ll o r p a rt of an ind us try .”

W hat constitutes a “ s tr ike against the nationa l in terest?” I f you fo llo w the e d ito ria l pages o f the New Y o rk Times, every s in­gle m a jo r s trike o r s tr ike th rea t o f 1966, to begin w ith , fa lls under th a t heading: the New Y o rk tra n s it w orkers s trike in Jan­ua ry ; the a ir lin e mechanics s trike in the la te summ er; and the e lectrica l w orkers struggle th is fa ll.

B u t these ve ry struggles show th a t many Am erican w orkers are in a mood to f ig h t fo r fa ir wages — laws, executive in te rven ­tio n and congressional o ra tory, not w ithstanding.

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Bayard Rustin's 'Prodigal Sons' Get a Free Lecture

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By B arry SheppardWhen Bayard Rustin was a

young man in the 1940s, heworked w ith A . P h ilip Randolphin the struggle to desegregate the armed forces. Rustin was d irector of the Committee to End D iscrim ­ination in the Arm ed Forcesheaded by Randolph.

The two leaders had somewhat of a fa llin g out in 1948, however, when T rum an issued an executive order banning d iscrim ination in the services. Randolph wanted to dissolve the committee, w h ile Rustin wanted to continue i t u n til freedom was won fo r those sup­porters of the committee s till in ja i l as a result of the figh t. When Randolph announced the dissolu­tion of the committee, Rustin de­nounced h im as a sell-out.

This -story is to ld in an artic le by Stephanie H arring ton in the Oct. 13 Village Voice. The artic le is based on an in te rv iew w ith Rustin, and th is story is supposed to show the natura l, impetuous radicalism of youth versus the w isdom o f m a tu rity . Now, Miss H arrington, says, the tables have turned to the extent tha t Rustin, as d irector of the A . P h ilip Ran­dolph Institu te , is the wise old man who is being denounced by his young proteges.

Frustration Politics“ Remembering his old battles

w ith Randolph,” Miss H arrington says, “ Rustin explains, ‘I t ’s that experience tha t gives me great affection fo r young people who th in k I ’m a sell-out. I was p lay­ing frus tra tion po litics then, just as I th in k these boys are now.’ The ‘boys’ Rustin is re fe ring to include CORE director F loyd M c- K issick, SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael, SNCC legend Bob Moses, and B lack Panther organ­izer Courtland Cox. A ll Bayard’s children, p o lit ica lly speaking.”

The question Miss H arrington asks is, w i l l Bayard’s children, his “ prodigal sons,” come home? — i.e., abandon the concepts o f b lack power and re tu rn to. R ustin ’s brand o f coalition politics?

Dismisses Black PowerRustin consciously adopts the

stance o f the wise old fa ther in re lation to the young, m ilita n t sec­tion o f the Negro movement in order to confuse the issues and denigrate the black power move­ment w ith o u t actua lly coming to grips w ith its ideas. Rustin at­tempts to dismiss the black pow­er movement as an in fan tile emo­tiona l reaction to w h ite suprema­cy. He “ understands” th is reac­tion : Carmichael and McKissick are “ em otionally honest,” bu t have no po litica l program and th e ir positions are the resu lt of fa ilin g to th in k th ings through logically. He, Rustin, has thought things through log ica lly, and per­haps these emotional youngsters w i l l one day grow old enough to realize it.

On the question o f self-defense vs. nonviolence, fo r example, Miss H arring ton says, “ The aban-

IN DEFENSE OF BLACK POWER

A n answer to Bayard Rus­tin and other critics of black power is the subject of George B reitm an’s “ In D e­fense of B lack Pow er,” the feature article in the new In ­ternational Socialist Review. B reitm an is w e ll-kn o w n to readers of The M ilita n t for his articles on black nation­alism and the c iv il rights struggle. H e is the editor of M alcolm X Speaks. Copies of the In ternational Socialist R eview m ay be obtained by sending 50? to 873 Broadway, N ew Y ork , N .Y , 10003.

donment o f nonviolence as a tac­tic is another position Rustin feels has been adopted w ithou t g iv ing su ffic ien t thought to its im p lica ­tions.” She also says tha t Rustin and K in g feel tha t “ the rejection of nonviolence has cost the move­ment w h ite support in general and the 1966 c iv il rights b i l l in particu la r.”

Rustin recalls a debate he had several years ago w ith Robert W illiam s. “ W illiam s,” Rustin says, “ was advocating self-defense. And I said to W illiam s on tha t p la t­fo rm tha t there were only three courses open to Negroes who are incapable o f advocating nonvio­lence. They w ould end up In ja il. They w ould end up in exile. They w ould end up shot, and probably by Negroes. Today, they’re try in g to pu t Epton in ja il; W illiams is in exile ; and M alcolm was shot— by Negroes. A nd i t ’s m y feel­ing tha t i f S tokely and his sym­pathizers do not abandon the con­cept o f b lack power and do not stop ind irec tly prom ising young Negroes a hope w h ich th e ir ab­sence o f a program cannot fu lf i l l , th is is the fate th e ir frustra tion w il l lead them to.”

This piece o f ro tten reasoning turns everyth ing on its head. Ne­groes advocating self - defense cause the corrup t capita lis t po li­ticians in Washington to scuttle an ineffectua l c iv il righ ts b ill. W il­liam ’s advocacy of self-defense is to blame fo r the F B I and state government o f N orth Carolina fram ing -up W illiam s, president of the local NAACP, and fo rc ing h im in to exile. W illia m Epton is to blame because the libe ra l c ity government in New Y ork framed h im up on the rid icu lous charge o f being responsible fo r the H ar­lem ghetto outbreak in 1964. And M alcolm X ’s death is the fa u lt of— Malcolm!

M alcolm X M urder

R ight a fte r M alcolm X was murdered, the New Y ork Times came out w ith a vicious ed itoria l on the theme tha t M alcolm ’s ad­vocacy of “ violence” was the cause o f his death. One expects such venom from the pen prosti­tutes o f the capita lis t class, who feared and hated Malcolm , bu t Rustin is supposed to be a leader o f his people.

The same argument could be used to “ prove” tha t K in g ’s non­vio len t tactics in Chicago “ caused” racist whites to attack open-hous­ing marchers; th a t nonviolent tactics have “ resulted” in thou­sands o f people being sent to ja il; tha t Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner “ caused” th e ir own deaths a t the hands of w h ite ra ­cists, etc., etc.

I t is, o f course, tru e tha t m ili­tan t leaders are singled out fo r special a ttack and have been

throughout history. M alcolm X m ight w e ll be alive today i f he had given up the struggle and made his peace w ith the powers tha t be. He knew tha t ahead of time. B u t he wasn’t w il lin g to give up the figh t, no m atte r w hat the cost to him . R ustin ’s argument boils down to the thesis tha t i f you don’t f ig h t you won’t have any m artyrs. W hich may be so. B u t you w il l have continu ing and deepening oppression.

Furtherm ore, violence against Negroes and against Negro or­ganizations is caused by the ra ­c ia l oppression w hich is p a rt and parcel o f the Am erican capita lis t system. One o f the tactics used by racists against Negro leaders and organizations is violence. The question is, w ha t is the best w ay to meet racist violence? Those who/advocate self-defense believe tha t in certa in situations nonvio­len t tactics may be the best, but tha t in general, racist violence m ust be countered w ith self-de­fensive measures, w hich w il l re ­duce violence to Negroes and are necessary to assure tha t Negro organizations w il l no t s im ply be chopped up or terrorized in to sub­mission.

Black Panther PartyOn the subject of politics, Rus­

tin discussed Stokely Carmichael and Courtland Cox o f SNCC, both o f whom were active in he lp ing to bu ild the Lowndes County Freedom P arty (B lack Panther P a rty ) . The “ master strategist im ­patient w ith his e rran t pup il,” as Miss H arrington describes Rus­tin , says, “ M y fig h t w ith C ourt­land was always tha t he d id no t fo llow the logic of his position. This is the reason I th in k C ourt­land has become, in many ways,

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odigal Sons’ Get a Free Lecturethe symbol of B lack Panther isola­tion .”

This is R ustin ’s favo rite argu­ment against independent black p o litica l action. Rustin is against “ isolation.” He is fo r a “ coalition o f a ll progressive forces — w hite and black.” Those who are fo r b lack power are presum ably fo r “ iso lation” and against a ll coali­tions.

B u t bu ild ing independent black organizations is not an obstacle to coalitions w h ich can aid the Negro people. Such independent organ­izations are perfectly capable of entering in to coalitions w ith others to w o rk fo r a common aim, ju s t as CORE and SNCC have begun to enter the coalition of groups w hich make up the an ti­w ar movement. A n independent black po litica l pa rty could do the same, when and i f there were re liab le forces ready to fig h t alongside the Negro p a rty fo r common aims. For example, at the present time, a revo lu tionary socialist pa rty and an independent b lack po litica l pa rty w ou ld be, able to *w o rk together on many issues.

The real question here is not w hether independent black organ­ization prevents coalitions w ith others inc lud ing whites. I t doesn’t — in fact, i t helps fac ilita te such coalitions when i t is m u tua lly ad­vantageous, and helps guarantee tha t Negroes' w i l l be equal pa rt­ners in any such coalition. The rea l question bothering Rustin is

the question o f coalitionism w ith the Democratic Party.

The black power movement is s ti l l ambiguous on the question o f the Democratic Party. Some sections of i t w ant to break w ith the Democrats. Others are fo r rem ain ing pa rt o f the Democratic Party . Some are rio t sure yet. B u t the logic and th rus t of the b lack power movement is to break w ith the Democrats and fo rm a p o lit i­cal party responsible to and rep­resenting the Negro masses. W hile th is remains an inc ip ien t tenden­cy in the black power movement, Rustin hopes to intervene and cut o ff th is possible road o f develop­ment, and keep the movement w ith in the confines o f the Demo­cratic Party.

Freedom Democrats“ R ustin ’s tactica l disagreements

w ith the SNCC generation erupted in to public bitterness at the 1964 Democratic convention in A tla n ­tic C ity ,” Miss H arring ton says. “ S ix ty -e igh t members o f the M is­sissippi Freedom Democratic P ar­ty had gone to A tla n tic C ity to challenge the a ll-w h ite delegation from th e ir state. SNCC demanded tha t the convention unseat the en­tire regular Democratic Party delegation from Mississippi and replace them w ith a ll 68 MFDP representatives. The old H ubert H um phrey was w ork ing fo r a compromise w h ich w ou ld have seated tw o of the M FDP mem­bers as delegates-at-large. Rustin backed the H um phrey plan.”

“ I to ld them [SN CC ],” Rustin said, “ tha t you cannot b ring the dynamics of protest and s it-ins in to politics, tha t absolutism is ab­solutely necessary in sit-ins, bu t tha t in te lligen t compromise is ab­solutely essential in politics. You buy and sell in politics. You’ve got to.”

Here we have R ustin ’s concept o f w hat the Negro movement should do. I t should remain in the Democratic Party, “ compro­m ising” and “ buying and selling” like “ you’ve got to” in tha t par­ty. Through w ard-heeler politics, w ith the aid of wise old men like H ubert Hum phrey, the Negro people w il l w in th e ir freedom!

The experience of the M FDP at the Democratic P arty national convention, where the Democratic P a rty p ractica lly sp it in the face of the Mississippi Negroes, even though the M FDP supported Johnson through the w hole cam­paign, was a demonstration in i t ­self o f the racist character o f tha t party. Perhaps i t was one o f the experiences th a t helped shape the Lowndes County Freedom P arty as an independent party, not tied to the Democratic P a rty on a na­tiona l level.

R ustin ’s position offers nothing new. He wants the Negro people to continue to support the Demo­cratic P arty and he is m o rta lly a fra id o f the development o f sin independent b lack po litica l par­ty . He wants to continue the po li­cy of coalitionism w ith the Dem-

Bayard Rustin

ocrats practiced by the Negro people fo r the last 30 years.

One of the most eloquent testi­monies to the fa ilu re o f th is po li­cy is the condition o f the black masses today. Some gains have been won — bu t on ly as a resu lt o f independent struggle and not through coalitionism w ith the Democrats. B u t the black masses s ti l l su ffer from a ll the conse­quences of racism. In many ways they are worse o ff re la tive to the w h ite population than 30 years ago.

The fa ilu re o f coalitionism w ith the Democrats is a fact. To achieve any real gains, the Negro people are going to have to break w ith the Democrats and bu ild th e ir own po litica l organizations to fig h t fo r the ir ju s t share of power.

The logic of b lack power is in ­creasing opposition to the racist cap ita lis t system and to the ca­p ita lis t parties. The development of mass independent b lack p o li­tica l action w ou ld produce a pro­found a lteration in the po litica l l ife o f the country, break up the Democratic Party , p rovide a pow­e rfu l example to w h ite workers, and open possibilities fo r a re ­vo lu tionary development.

Rustin FrightenedThis is w ha t scares Rustin about

b lack power. R ustin doesn’t be­lieve tha t a new society is pos­sible. He doesn’t re a lly believe tha t racism and exp lo ita tion can be ended. He is b itte r ly opposed to any efforts to do so. H is per­spective is to gather a few crumbs from the table o f Am erican capi­talism , as a rew ard fo r loya l serv­ice to the Democratic Party . He is frightened tha t any movement tow ard a fundam ental change m igh t upset his apple cart.

A nd th is is w hy Rustin is going to be bypassed. The b lack masses are going to have to seek fu n ­damental answers to th e ir prob­lems, because no other answers are satisfactory.

How Cubans View Black Power Movement[The following article by Felix

P ita Astudillo appeared in the Sept. 18 issue of the English lan­guage edition of Granina W eekly Review, official organ of the new, united Communist Party of Cuba. We are reprinting it to give our readers a Cuban view of the black power movement.]

There can be no doubt about the greatness o f M alcolm X . As a result o f experience, he began to realize tha t the Negro prob­lem in the U.S. was more than a simple local conflic t, an isolated phenomenon. Because his th ink ing carried h im beyond the narrow confines of th is conception, he de­cided to v is it A frica , m et w ith the p rinc ipa l leaders of the national libe ra tion movements there, a n d , came to understand tha t the posi­tion o f Negroes in his own coun­tr y was the counterpart of tha t w h ich the co lon ia lly-exp lo ited peoples o f the A fro -A s ia tic w orld were suffering. When M alcolm be­came thoroughly convinced of this, he began a tireless campaign to propagate his new ideas.

However, there were forces w hich were fa r from w ish ing to pe rm it th is Negro leader to give public vent to ideas w hich were at odds w ith the established social order o f w h ite supremacy.

AssassinationN ot long afterw ard, in the U.S.

Negro ghetto of Harlem , M alcolm X was shot down, v ic tim o f as­sassins. He had previously ex­pressed his certa in ty tha t reaction w ould resort to desperate meas­ures in his case.

“ The machine designed fo r my assassination is already in action. They have already tr ied to k i l l me several times by dynam iting m y car and h u rlin g bombs at m y house.”

Obviously, the reason fo r M a l­colm X ’s assassination was tha t the U.S. ru lin g classes fe lt he constituted a th rea t to th e ir in te r­ests. The Negro leader w ould have been perfectly safe i f he had been a classic “ Uncle Tom,” and had played the game according to the rules of the establishment.

Reaction characteristically uses a double-edged weapon in deal­ing w ith po ten tia lly dangerous revo lu tionary figures in the sphere o f economics, politics, lite ra ture , o r any other activ ity . The tw o basic treatments are: buy them o ff whenever possible, no m atter w ha t th e ir price, b u t i f they re­fuse to sell out and keep up the ir revo lu tionary activ ity , liqu ida te them po litica lly , and even phy­

sically.I t happens tha t w ith in the pres­

ent U.S. Negro movement, the leadership has lined up in to de­fin ite po litica l camps. There are those who w ant to make reforms w ith in the existing institu tions, and those w ho declare tha t only through the destruction o f such institu tions may true re form be achieved. The violence versus non­violence polemic has served to

Stokely Carmichael

polarize forces and opinions and has brought the radical w ing in to clear re lie f. This w ing has in ­creasingly adopted positions sim ­ila r to those o f the late M a l­colm X .

The most s tr ik in g leader o f th is w ing is Stokely Carmichael, presi­dent [cha irm an] of the Student N onvio lent Coordinating Com m it­tee.

He f irs t gained public notice as a result of the march from Mem­phis to Jackson. Carmichael is the ideologist b e h i n d the slogan “ b lack power” and his positions have been developing both in scope and in p ro fund ity .

Despite having lived in the most miserable neighborhoods of H ar­lem and the Bronx, Carmichael has not spent a ll o f his 24 years in the U.S. This b r ill ia n t and hard­w ork ing student, graduate of Howard U n ivers ity in Washington, was not born in the U.S. bu t in T rin idad, and perhaps th is has something to do w ith his interest in the problems of the underde­veloped countries o f the T h ird W orld. Carmichael has confessed to the bitterness w h ich the fu ­nerals of 17 comrades k ille d by southern racists has le ft in him.

W hite LiberalsThe slogan “ black power” has

le t h im in fo r the worst k in d of nam e-calling from w h ite liberals. The reasons fo r w h ite hos tility against the you th fu l leader may be sought in the words o f the document w hich sets fo rth the movement’s philosophy, draw n up by Carmichael himself. Extracts from i t have been published in The New Y ork Times.

“ I f Negroes in th is country are not given the righ ts and respect they deserve, the resu lting an­tagonisms and contradictions w il l become more and more evident and intense and w il l f in a lly pro­duce a national explosion.”

S hortly afterw ard, in a televised in te rv iew , Carmichael and five other Negro leaders representing diverse tendencies, gave opinions on several questions, one of which was the Vietnamese w ar. Car­

M ichael's opinion, w ord fo r word, was w o rth his w e igh t in gold:

“ This is an un just and im m ora l w ar. Negroes should no t take part in it , bu t ra ther should jo in hands w ith th e ir brothers o f the Third W orld who are oppressed by the U.S. Negroes who fig h t in V ie t­nam are mere mercenaries.” Now* cables report the arrest o f Car­michael, accused by A tlan ta , Ga., authorities o f “ in c itin g rebellion.” O ffic ia l mass media have jo ined in the campaign against the young leader; and th is was on ly to be expected, since Carmichael has shown no vac illa tion in his strug­gle against the monstrous status quo.

This bodes no good. The enemies of the people, w h ile they are gen­erous w ith hand-outs to those who oppose the im peria lis t offensive w ith noth ing sharper than rose petals, have shown themselves to be implacable w ith leaders like the S tokely Carm ichael o f today and the M alcolm X o f yesterday — those who insist th a t on ly cold steel w i l l serve in the m orta l struggle against a proved and savage foe.

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Administration Kept Attacking

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The curren t student s trike at the U n ive rs ity of C a lifo rn ia Ber­keley campus is the culm ination o f a developing antagonism be­tween the students and the ad­m in is tra tion , w hich has been w h ittlin g away at the po litica l righ ts secured by the students in the Free Speech Movement fig h t o f December, 1964. The fo llow ing lis t o f incidents in the past months bears witness to this, and pro­vides a background to the issues invo lved in the curren t strike.

On A ug. 10, the campus com­m u n ity learned tha t a policeman was appointed to w atch over the Sproul Plaza area fo r vio lations o f campus rules. The steps of Sproul H a ll and the plaza have been the scene of many student po litica l ra llies.

Tw o weeks later, the V ietnam Day Committee was kicked o ff campus fo r alleged rules vio lations and debts. ( In October, the VDC was re-adm itted.) K aren L ieber- man, a VDC leader, was fired fro m her campus job fo r p icket­ing UN- Ambassador Goldberg when he appeared a t Berkeley. A campus cop reported her activ­ities to the adm inistration. Chan­ce llo r Heyns said tha t her fir in g “ had no connection w ith the in ­cident.”

On Sept. 28, Heyns re-defined a “ student” to mean one curren tly enrolled at the un ivers ity . P rio r to th is a student was iden tified as one enrolled in the previous semester.

New RulesTwo days la ter, Heyns issued

new rules. These included: 1)Names of members of student o r­ganizations w ould be made ava il­able to the public; 2) student o r­ganizations may in v ite non-stu­dents to the campus only w ith perm ission of the dean or “ other un its o f the un ive rs ity having au­th o r ity to make rules fo r the fa ­c i l i ty being used” ; 3) no leaflets o r handbills could be handed out by non-students; and 4) no an­nouncements o f any k in d could be a ffixed to build ings, trees, w alls, etc.

On Oct. 3, demonstrators Steve

H am ilton and M ike Sharon were arrested. The Berkeley C ity Coun­c il also proh ib ited the use of the 2400 b lock of Telegraph Avenue fo r dances, rallies, etc. The Better Berkeley Committee and the VDC were both refused perm its to use the block.

On Oct. 4, V ice Chancellor Boyd denied permission to Students fo r a Democratic Society to hold a conference on b lack power. In the meantime, a tr ia l was set fo r Charles Aronson, fo rm er lecturer at the un ive rs ity extension, who was arrested last M arch fo r s it­ting a t a table o f the Peace/Rights Organizing Committee.

Black Power MeetingThe next day, SDS made a

fo rm al request fo r permission to hold the black power meeting. Boyd again refused on Oct. 11. He said the conference was not stu­dent controlled, and maintained tha t “ outside influences,” w hich he d id not iden tify , were at w ork.

Then the adm inistration re trea t­ed somewhat. On Oct. 14, i t la id down guidelines fo r the black power conference. I t said tha t no other groups were to be represent­ed, tha t there should be only one table and only one banner. The SDS considered the proposal un­acceptable. On Oct. 17, SDS was not allowed to use a sound tru ck to publicize the conference.

The next day, the Associated Students of the U n ive rs ity o f C ali­fo rn ia banned non-students from campus activities such as movies. Two days later, V ietnam Day ' Committee signs were removed from a bridge on campus and other locations by un ive rs ity em­ployees.

Both the Republican candidate fo r governor, Ronald Reagan, and the Democratic incum bent Brown, attacked the black power confer­ence and S tokely Carmichael, the featured speaker.

Nearby Oakland reverberated when a ghetto school boycott was denied the use o f UC classrooms to hold freedom schools. On Oct. 24, teachers allowed the boycotting students in anyway, and la te r faced the adm inistration charge

tha t they had violated campus rules. The charges were subse­quently dropped.

U n ive rs ity Regent John Canady wanted the regents to p roh ib it M ario Savio and the M ime Troupe from campus.

As pressures mounted, the ad­m in is tra tion f in a lly approved the b lack power conference on Oct. 25, bu t under s tr ic t rules. The same day, one of the ug ly fru its o f the adm inistration attacks upon le ft-w in g student groups was evidenced in a bomb th reat against the VDC.

On Oct. 26, Heyns banned any fu tu re conferences w hich “ receive p rio r p u b lic ity and show evidence o f non-student control.”

As a new month got underway, the un ive rs ity made public the membership lists of campus or­ganizations and proposed to move ra llies from the Sproul H a ll steps. A n Oakland housewife, Patric ia A tth row e, made headlines when she said she was concerned about campus organizations and spent several hours copying member­ship lists. The names she copied included people who had been promised anonym ity by the ad­m in istra tion.

Banned MovieOn Nov. 4, a V D C movie was

prohib ited. That same day, ven­dors fo r the Barkeley Barb, a newspaper, were forced o ff-cam ­pus by the campus police.

On Nov. 9, M ario Savio was denied re-admission to the u n i-

A N T IW A R D E M O N S T R A T IO N . Scene at Berkeley campus last spring when U N Ambassador Goldberg was greeted by opponents of V ietnam w ar.

vers ity on the grounds tha t he d idn ’t intend to obey the campus rules.

Heyns said he w ouldn ’t “ be coerced” on the question o f ra llies on the Sproul H a ll steps, and stat­ed he w ould a llow them only on a tr ia l basis. He le ft no doubt that he considered the ra llies “ in s tru ­ments of coercion.”

On Nov. 10, some 3,000 students signed a petition to Heyns calling on h im not to move the location of the rallies.

The fo llow ing day, David F ried ­man, a student, faced possible dis­c ip lina ry action fo r w r it in g a “ strongly worded” le tte r to the

campus newspaper c ritic iz ing the adm inistration.

C hris t K inder, a non-student member o f the Spartacist League, was arrested on campus fo r pass­ing out leaflets on Nov. 15.

On Nov. 21, a decision on the Sproul H a ll steps was delayed fo r the rem ainder of the quarter.

A Navy recru iting table was set up on Dec. 1. A demonstration resulted, in w hich several non­students were arrested. This be­came the incident w hich triggered the grow ing resentment among students against the consistent and steady erosion o f student po litica l rights by the adm inistration.

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W ith in five minutes, she was ordered to take the table down. A crowd of 200 students gathered, and began a p icketline in protest of the special p riv ilege accorded the non-student N avy table. Cam­pus police shut the doors leading in to th is area o f the student union, and attempted to hold students from coming down the sta irw ell. They made an exception, however, fo r s ix foo tba ll players.

According to a facu lty member present, one of the foo tba ll p lay­ers struck student W illia m Brandt. B randt was then arrested on charges of assault.

There was evidence tha t the ad­m in is tra tion saw the s it- in at the N avy recru iting table as a long- awaited opportun ity to h u rt the student an tiw ar movement by s ingling out a few o f the p ro ­testors as non-students. John Searle, assistant to the chancellor, to ld an im prom ptu meeting of 400 facu lty tha t fo r the last 18 months the adm inistration had been sub­ject to “ b lackm ail” by non-stu­dents. Wednesday apparently was a chance to “ get them.”

A n artic le in the Dec. 4 San Francisco Exam iner begins: “ Ten non-students are the chief targets of U n ive rs ity o f C a lifo rn ia ad­m inistrators who say they are now reacting to ‘18 months o f b lack­m a il’ on the Berkeley campus.” In addition to the s ix arrested, the 10 include Karen Lieberman, a fo rm er leader o f the V ietnam Day Committee; Jack Weinberg, also recently active in an tiw a r acti­v ity ; socialist w r ite r H a l Draper; and Peter Camejo, one of the leaders of the U nited Committee Against the W ar.

In a statement in support of the s tr ike read to a mass meeting o f students, R ick Feinberg o f the VDC said:

“ The V ietnam Day Committee regards the present con flic t over student rights as a struggle fo r its own existence. As in 1964, when the Free Speech Movement was in itia ted in reaction to the power structure ’s attem pt to de­stroy the c iv il r igh ts movement, the present con flic t stems from a continuing attem pt to crush the

an tiw ar movement.“ The r ig h t of dissent is a fu n ­

damental princ ip le of democracy and essential fo r the furtherance of our aim to ha lt Am erican sup­pression o f se lf-determ ination in V ietnam. We must and w il l de­fend our rig h t to dissent when­ever i t is attacked.”

The arrests took place at 6 p.m. In addition to B randt and the s ix non-students, three stu­dents were arrested fo r in te rfe r- ring w ith an arrest. B y then over 1,000 students had gathered in the student union. Discussion conti­nued a ll day and evening. From the discussion, the students fo r­mulated five demands and short­ly a fte r m idn ight, a ca ll fo r a student s trike was overw helm ing­ly passed by 3,000 students meet­ing in Pauley ballroom o f the student union.

The demands include tha t no police be called in to settle p o li­tica l disputes between students and the adm inistration, tha t some non-students not be priv ileged over other non-students, and th a t the un ive rs ity drop charges against those arrested and not discipline any students involved in the s it-in . A key demand, w hich has been urged ever since the free speech fig h t of 1964, is tha t d isc ip lina ry hearings be indepen­dent of the ru le m aking agency and the chancellor’s office, tha t they be open and bound by due process of law , tha t the burden of proof be on the adm inistration, and tha t the adm in istra tion o ff i­cials be subject to ca ll as w it ­nesses by the defendant.

The fo llow ing day, 8,000 stu­dents at a mass ra lly approved the demands and the s trike call. The strike grew from about 25 per­cent e ffective on Thursday, to about 50 percent e ffective today, Dec. 5. The teaching assistants local o f the Am erican Federation of Teachers has been a strong supporter o f the strike. W orkers in the cafeteria s truck w ith the students. V ir tu a lly a ll student o r­ganizations, includ ing the student senate, gave in it ia l support to the strike. A po ll taken by the strike committee indicated tha t 75 per­cent o f the students approved of the strike demands.

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"N o, I don’t th in k much about napalm. I f I did, I couldn’t do m y job. Besides, I ’ve heard i t k ills almost instan tly .” — A U.S. Arrrvy lieutenant quoted by Laura Bersquist in her V ietnam report in the Dec. 13 issue o f Look

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Still CampaigningNew York, N.Y.

I thought your readers would be interested to know tha t a l­though Nov. 8 has come and gone, the Socialist W orkers campaign office is s ti l l busy. One o f the most exciting features o f the cam­paign was the w onderfu l response and help we got from young people on college campuses and a t h igh schools. Now we are syste­m a tica lly meeting w ith these young people to get them more fa m ilia r w ith our ideas so they w i l l jo in us in the fig h t fo r so­cialism.

There are around 50 o f these young people tha t we are in the process Cf getting together w ith . The discussions are proving very fru it fu l. For example, one n in th - grader came down to the office w ith her mother. They became SWP fans during the campaign because they are deeply concerned about V ietnam and appreciated our stand on it.

A fte r a couple of hours o f dis­cussion, the m other made a con­tr ib u tio n to the curren t SWP fund-ra is ing drive and the daugh­te r signed up fo r a class on so­cia lism w hich w il l include some o f her school friends and others in her area.

Since the election, a few young people a week s im ply w a lk in to the o ffice to ask i f they can help w ith whatever w o rk the SWP is doing. They heard about us during the campaign and w ant to know more about us and become pa rt o f w hat we are doing.

One N YU student we m et re ­lated a story w hich seems typ ica l o f the k ind of experience tha t is rad ica liz ing young people. He to ld me he was tu to ring a Negro youth who wants desperately to become a scientist. The N YU stu­dent says he knows the youth s im p ly isn’t going to become a scientist, “ because he isn’t real b r ill ia n t and he isn’t a basketball p layer.” I f he was w hite , he added, he probably w ould make it . This experience got the N YU student th in k in g about the sys­tem we live under and when he heard about the SWP he w rote in to fin d out about socialism.

The firs t concrete result o f the campaign is a class on socialism organized in Queens by the Young Socialist A lliance. S ix high school and college students tha t we met du ring the fa l l attended the f irs t session and showed a great en­

thusiasm fo r learn ing about so­cia lism and getting the ir friends to do the same.

Judy W hite

Message from JapanKyota, Japan

We have learned, through The M ilita n t, of the Sept. 29 f ire - bombing of the headquarters of the Socialist W orkers Party.

Japanese journa lism neglected th is im portan t news and we had not known of the a ffa ir u n til we received The M ilita n t. This in d i­cates how they are afra id o f the expansion o f an tiw ar sentiment and of the le ft-w in g movement in the U.S. and Japan.

We express our so lidarity w ith you against such r ig h t-w in g a t­tacks, pa rt o f the grow ing pattern of violence bred by the Washing­ton warmakers.

In Japan, workers of Sohyo (General Council of Japanese La ­bor Unions) walked out o r held protest meetings on Sept. 21 against the V ietnam war. On the same day, students o f the non-CP le ft-w ing , inc lud ing our league, held demonstrations and a bloody collision took place between them and the police.

We hea rtily support your fig h t against the V ietnam w a r and we continue to fig h t also in Japan.

We are convinced of the u l t i ­mate v ic to ry o f Trotskyism through our so lida rity and our fig h t fo r w orld revolution.

T. HasseChief of In t’l. Bureau, Rev­olutionary Communist League of Japan

From GhanaAccra, Ghana

Not having been able to obtain the usual price of a subscription to your constructive and im por­tan t journa l, i t has been coming to me, through your hab itua l in ­dulgence, as a favo r from you.

The A frican people are begin­n ing to have confidence in the Am erican people concerning the great problems of the hour.

I was to ld about your news­paper by an Progressive A m eri­can fr iend who has been here fo r a long v is it. Since then I have become a fa ith fu l reader of The M ilita n t.

I hope tha t you receive this le tte r soon and tha t you w il l ac­cept th is expression of m y de­voted feelings w arm ly.

J.B .

S.F. Student Food BoycottSan Francisco, C alif.

The in fla tio n caused by John­son’s w ar in Asia is reaching deeper in to the pockets o f the American consumer.

Students at San Francisco State College, fo llow ing the example of

housewives a ll over the country, have begun a boycott o f the cam­pus cafeteria. They are demand­ing a 20 percent reduction in food prices.

The boycott has the solid sup­port of almost the whole stu­dent body. In one week before the boycott, Students fo r a Democra­tic Society collected 2,000 signa­tures on a petition demanding the price reductions. The f irs t day of the boycott was 90 percent effec­tive and the students plan to con­tinue it.

Campus student groups are dis­tr ib u tin g th e ir own food outside the cafeteria — and the prices are much low er than those inside.

P .M .

Nashville ProjectNashville, Tenn.

As fa r as we know, the South N ashville Com m unity P roject w h ich we are bu ild ing is the only in -the-com m unity pro ject in an urban poor w h ite area in the South.

We like your paper a lo t. Can you a fford to send i t to our p ro ­ject at no cost to us? O ur bank account is too low to subscribe to anything.

We figure tha t i f enough pro­jects lik e ours can lead enough poor whites to an understanding o f th is country, people won’t have to ju s t ta lk about big changes.

B .H .

Anti-Sane — A manifesto was issued by the Spartacist League, an u ltra - le ft grouplet, ■ calling on people to p icket the SANE M adi­son Square Garden ra lly to End the W ar in V ietnam Now because o f defects in SANE’s program. Maybe the name bugs them too.

Be I t Ever So ’Umble — TheH onolu lu home of tycoon H enry Kaiser was described in the New Y ork Times as a series of rooms and courtyards d ivided by s lid­ing glass doors. “ The most spa­cious of the areas,” the Times reported, “ is a fo rm al room that could accommodate a couple of tennis courts . . . I t opens onto a sw im m ing pool large enough to have a high and low d iv ing board. On another side is an a ir-cond i­tioned inner draw ing room. And on the th ird side is a sunken bar on a long terrace.” Mrs. H enry Kaiser says: “ W ith only tw o of us, we don’t need much space."

Really? — James Reston, the New Y ork Times pund it, offered th is disclosure Dec. 2: “ The re­m arkab ly successful Am erican penetration of fore ign markets is becoming a m ajor issue in w orld politics.”

Objective C riteria — Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle re ­cently reported: “ Tom orrow the Bank of C a liforn ia in Berkeley opens a b ig -b ig Picasso show on its mezzanine — honoring the 85th b irthday of the most successful Communist painter in history. B u t i f there is one k in d of a person a banker respects, i t ’s a m illiona ire .”

Hear, Hear! — The fo llow ing le tte r from a housewife appeared in the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times: “ I see in the Times tha t one sugar grow er was paid $2-m illion fo r le ttin g his land stay idle. This man probably got the most, bu t others got a m illio n or more. This is the k in d o f th ing housewives should go a fte r . . . Every housewife in the country should flood her rep­resentative w ith m a il to get r id of those controls whereby we pay enormous taxes to make prices h igher fo r ourselves.”

O — The f irs t hundred thousand copies of the October issue of Glam our magazine included an ad

Thank You NoteWeldon, N. C.

Thank you very much fo r pub­lish ing our fund appeal. The in ­terest exh ib ited by you and your readers is greatly appreciated.

The contributions received have enabled us to ren t o ffice space, buy supplies, inc lud ing a type­w rite r, ins ta ll a telephone and start saving fo r a m imeograph machine. A l l o f w h ich are neces­sary fo r our movement here.

Thank you once again.Jan and Julianne Tyler North Carolina SNCC

Rockin' the BoatNew Y ork, N. Y.

M ilita n t readers who don’t tune in to the ir local rock -and -ro ll sta­tion are missing some good songs w hich express a defin ite a ttitude tow ard th is country and its po li­cies, both domestic and foreign. One such song is title d “ S ilent N ight: Seven O’c lock News” and consists of the Christmas song per­formed to the background o f a typ ica l 7 p.m. news broadcast.

tha t was yanked from the balance of the one-m illion run. I t showed a young woman in a scanty leather dress kneeling w ith her hands bound. The name of the dress is “ The S tory o f O.” The ad was yanked when i t was spotted by an ed itor who had read the recent­ly published novel, The Story of O, an “ adults on ly” w o rk fea tu r­ing a va rie ty of masochistic and sadistic sexual practices. The ad was reported scheduled fo r a re ­run in the November issue w ithou t the iden tify ing line.

Florida Politics ( I) — E. W ilson (B ud) P urdy has been appointed she riff o f Dade County, Fla. (M i­ami area). H is predecessor, TA.. Buchannan, was suspended after being charged w ith conspiracy to com m it bribery. Purdy, a form er F B I man, was forced to resign earlie r th is year as head of the Pennsylvania State Police Force when a probe revealed tha t state police were tapping phones in v io la tion of state law.

Florida Politics (n) — S heriff R ichard S tickley of Charlottee

The news covers such things as the HUAC hearing where the students were tossed out, c iv il rights actions and how Am erican GIs are k ill in g and being k ille d in Vietnam.

Another song is s im ply called: “ I Was Robert McNamared In to Submission.”

M .S .

Thinks W e're ProvincialSan Francisco, C alif.

I. M angin & Co., a local shop, is o ffe ring an early b ird , p re- Xmas special o f m ink coats fo r on ly $3,000.

I report th is because so many o f The M ilita n t’s te r r if ic shopping tips are available only to New Yorkers.

A .M .[N o t so. For example, T iffa n y ’s,

w hich has an Xmas special on men’s gold cigarette cases and matching butane lighters ($850 fo r the case, $685 fo r the lig h te r) has a shop r ig h t on Post St. in San Francisco. W hich indicates you s im ply have to be an a le rt shop­per. E d it o r ] ,

County was suspended a fte r being indicted fo r malfeasance. He was the eighth state o ffic ia l to be su­spended in the past 12 months. The ind ictm ent said he refused to ja i l a woman charged by a state patrolm an; had encouraged opera­tion o f an illega l lo tte ry ; had fa iled to fin g e rp rin t a prisoner charged w ith a fe lony; had re ­leased w ithou t bond a prisoner charged w ith manslaughter; had appointed deputies w ith o u t l is t­ing them. Maybe he’l l be replaced by the suspended Dade County sheriff.

Them That Has Gets — In a re ­port to the San Francisco Exam in­er on the New Y o rk social scene, Suzy Knickerbocker w rites: “ Anne M cDonell Ford, looking d iv ine in black velvet, w ent to B eve rly ' W eicker’s d inner w ith the E arl o f H ardw ick, one o f her heavy beaux . . . Another heavy beau, Gen. John Coulter, came to the dinner as an extra man. Some g irls don’t even have one boyfriend, and there was Anne up to her diamonds in them.”

Announcing The Jan.-Feb. 1967

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1 In ternationa l protests are m oun­ting over the new attem pt by the Peruvian government to pu t pea­sant leader Hugo Blanco to death. Hugo Blanco, a T rotskyist, had or­ganized peasant unions in a struggle fo r agrarian re form be­fore he was arrested by the m ili ­ta ry government in 1963. He was held prisoner fo r three years, un­t i l the end o f August of th is year, before being brought to tr ia l on charges stemming from the fact tha t three policemen were k ille d du ring e fforts of the Peruvian m ilita ry to repress the peasant movement.

On Sept. 8, in a courtroom packed w ith sympathetic peasants, Blanco and his co-defendants were found g u ilty . He was sentenced to 25 years in the fortress prison of E l F ron ton. On Nov. 4, at his appeal before Peru’s highest m ili ­ta ry court, whose decision is fina l, the prosecution pressed fo r the death penalty.

The Paris da ily Le Monde re ­ports tha t seven o f Blanco’s co­defendants signed a le tte r on Nov. 5 demanding the honor of having th e ir fate linked w ith Blanco’s. I f he is to be shot, they asked, le t them be perm itted to stand at his side and be shot at the same time.

Hunger Strikeshe Monde also reported that

po litica l prisoners of a ll k inds in Peru have gone on a hunger s trike in so lida rity w ith Blanco. This was indicated also in the Nov. 17 issue o f Granma, o ffic ia l organ of tiie new, united Communist P arty o f Cuba. Granma reports tha t two Outstanding gue rrilla leaders, Hec­to r B e jo r and R icardo Gadea, who are being held in prison in Peru, w ent on a hunger strike in solida­r i ty w ith the peasant leader.

A lfonso A ra ta and some other gue rrilla fighters also w ent on a hunger strike. The Cuban news­paper reported tha t in tw o p r i­sons, a number of inmates holding s im ila r views had been on a hunger s trike fo r eight days.

In Chile, a petition appealing to Peruvian President Belaunde T e rry to grant amnesty to Hugo Blanco and hundreds of other revolution ists and fighters fo r so­cia l emancipation, was presented to the Peruvian embassy in San­tiago, Chile, on Nov. 25. I t was signed by C lotario Blest, chairman o f the Central U nion of Workers, and many other socialists, union leaders, attorneys and w riters.

The fo llow ing telegram was sent fro m Paris to President Belaunde T e rry : “ INFORM ED APPE ALCONTAINS NEW TH R EAT OF D EA TH A G A IN S T HUGO B L A N ­CO. WE A S K YOU MR. PRESI­DENT TO G R AN T GENERAL

New York City Socialist Vote

N E W Y O R K — The N ew Y o rk C ity Board o f Elections has reported the gubernato­r ia l vote fo r the Socialist W orkers P arty and the So­cialist Labor P arty . Returns fo r the entire state s till have not been reported.

According to the board, Judy W hite, the SW P candi­date fo r governor, polled 8,952 votes in the city. M i l ­ton H erder, SLP candidate, polled 4,238 in the city.

In last year’s m ayoralty contest, the SW P polled 3,977 votes in N ew Y ork C ity.

Hugo Blanco

AM N ESTY FOR H IM AND A L L THOSE IM PRISONED.”

The telegram was sent by the Committee of S o lida rity w ith the V ictim s of Repression in Peru and was signed b y Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and other French intellectuals. Daniel Mayer sent a cable to Belaunde in the name of the In te rna tiona l Federa­tion fo r the Rights o f Man.

Three French unions, the Na­tiona l Union of H igher Education, the National Union of Students o f France, and sections of the General Union of National Educa­tion protested in a jo in t cable to Belaunde.

F o rty-th ree members of the Belgian House o f Representatives, belonging to a ll the d iffe ren t po­lit ic a l parties, responded to the in it ia t ive taken by P ierre Legrdve, deputy of the Union of the So­cia list Le ft, and sent an appeal to Belaunde, asking h im to prevent the death penalty from being car­ried out against the peasant lead­er.

In B rita in , a petition in behalf o f Hugo Blanco was signed by a num ber o f figures in the labor movement, includ ing members of parliam ent. The petition was pre­sented to the Peruvian embassy by Peter Taafe, editor of The M i­litan t, and others. A demonstra­tion at the Peruvian Consulate in Glasgow was held, organized by the R evolutionary S o c i a l i s t League.

Last week we reported tha t the Ita lian Confederation of Workers sent an appeal to Belaunde. Earlie r, the U.S. Committee fo r Justice to La tin American P o lit i­cal Prisoners held a demonstra­tion at the Peruvian Mission to the UN in New York.

Seek to Win Clemency For Fort Hood Three

NEW YO R K — A campaign to w in executive clemency fo r the Fo rt Hood Three has been launched. The three GIs are serv­ing prison terms in the A rm y p r i­son at F o rt Leavenworth fo r re ­fusing to partic ipate in “ an illegal, un just and im m oral w a r” in V ie t­nam.

The campaign on behalf o f Pfc. James Johnson, Pvt. Dennis Mora and Pvt. David Samas w il l open w ith a fu ll-page advertisement in the New York Times shortly be­fore Christmas. The F o rt Hood Three Defense Committee, w hich is sponsoring the clemency drive, is seeking the names of prom inent figures here and abroad to sign the ad.

Among those who have already agreed to do so are fo lk singer Joan Baez, novelist K ay Boyle, author Lew is M um ford, fo lk sing­er Pete Seeger, Father P h ilip Ber- rigan, Rabbi Everett Gendler, Prof. Sidney Peck and Prof. M u l- fo rd Q. Sibley.

Pfc. Johnson and Pvt. Samas are now serving five -year terms. Pvt. M ora was sentenced to three years.

Treatm ent of the three service­men has been improved since the ir recent transfer to F o rt Leaven­w orth . W hile the ir sentence was under in it ia l appeal, they were held at F o rt Meade, Md., and sub­jected to barbaric treatment, in ­c luding isolation and being forced to stand from m orning u n til night.

A t F o rt Leavenworth, they each have an ind iv idua l cell and are perm itted lib ra ry privileges and recreational exercises. They are en­ro lled in study courses and are aw aiting w o rk assignments. Mora and Samas are tak ing a biology course. Johnson is tak ing one in psychology.

The defense committee also re ­ports tha t Rev. John Swomley of Kansas C ity has agreed to organ­ize clergymen in the area to v is it the men and to hold protest v ig ils at F o rt Leavenworth against the ir im prisonm ent. I t was also an­

nounced tha t the Iowa U n ivers i­ty SDS is planning a protest ac­tion at the prison.

Meanwhile, servicemen here and abroad are being apprised of the facts of the case. Leaflets are dis­tribu ted to servicemen here at bus and ra ilw ay term inals. In Eng­land, peace groups are d is tr ib u t­ing leaflets about the three GIs to American servicemen.

The heroism of the three young men in m aking the ir challenge to the lega lity of the V ietnam war was recognized w ith an award by the W eintraub M em oria l Fund of New York. The Fund conferred its annual award fo r an outstand­ing act of bravery to the Fort Hood Three. Each was presented w ith a check fo r $300.

By F ran k LovellDETROIT, Dec. 2—The D etro it

Common Council has before i t a petition by attorney Ernest Good­man, representing the victim s of a po lit ica lly motivated m urder in th is c ity last M ay 16, requesting that the c ity pay bu ria l costs and medical, hospital, transportation and rehab ilita tion expenses. Hear­ings in the m atter have been set fo r Dec. 20.

Three fo rm er students at Wayne State U n ive rs ity were the victim s of the shooting at the offices of the Socialist W orkers P arty on W oodward Ave. Leo Bernard, 27, member of the Socialist Workers P arty and outspoken opponent of the w ar in Vietnam, was m u r­dered by a gunman whose avowed purpose was to “ k i l l communists.” Jan G arrett, 22, Wayne County Chairm an of the Socialist W ork­ers Party, and W alter Graham, 19, member of the Young Socialist A lliance, were seriously wounded. Both were members of the stu­dent-organized Wayne Committee to End the W ar in Vietnam.

When the petition fo r aid was subm itted to Common Council last Sept. 7, attorney Ernest Goodman stated tha t “ i f th is crim e had oc­curred in the state of New York, the v ictim s w ould collect up to $15,000 in state compensation fo r bod ily in juries. U nfortunate ly we have no such law here in M i­chigan.”

Hum anitarian GroundsGoodman’s appeal to Common

Council is based on pure ly hu­m anitarian grounds. He argues tha t the three young men who were gunned down by a deranged k ille r were “ un ive rs ity students concerned w ith the nature of so­ciety, its grow th and development and the overrid ing importance of the avoidance of w ar w hich could result in the destruction o f man­k ind .”

The ir assailant, Edward W anio- lek, was known to the police as a po tentia lly dangerous, m enta lly deranged person. He had been under investigation by both the U.S. Secret Service and the De­tro it Police. Police Detective Ro- jowski, as early as last March, tw o months before the fa ta l shoot­ing, urged W aniolek’s w ife to start proceedings to have h im in ­stitutionalized. When she refused, nothing fu rth e r was done u n til he was arraigned fo r m urder and committed to Ionia State Hospi­ta l.

P hoto b y M a u ry E ng la n de r

U N IT E D . Young relatives of Pfc. James Johnson and Pvt. Dennis M ora, of Fort Hood Three case, at N ew Y ork an tiw ar demon­stration last Aug. 6. In background are other members of fam ­ilies. P vt. D avid Samas’ fam ily lives in California. Relatives of three GIs have stood solidly w ith them and worked hard to w in support fo r case.

Leo Bernard

Atto rney Goodman argues that the crim e should have been pre­vented because “ M ichigan law specifically gives the police au­th o r ity to take the in itia tive in ins titu ting comm itment proceed­ings against a socially dangerous person where the immediate fam ­i ly is u n w illin g or unable to do so.

“ The police should not have placed the burden solely on the w ife . For her to have proceeded may w e ll have made her p a rt o f the ‘Communist conspiracy’ to W aniolek’s distorted b ra in and re­sulted in her death.

“ In any event, W aniolek’s threats were directed to others in the comm unity, to whom the po­lice owe responsib ility fo r p ro ­tection.”

When the extent o f in ju ries to the tw o surv iv ing students be­came known, A tto rney Goodman petitioned Common Council to give aid. He says, “ I t w ould be iron ic i f the u ltim ate workings o f our system of justice, in dealing w ith th is tragedy, were to resu lt in the payment by the public fo r the hospitalization, treatm ent and u ltim a te cure of W aniolek, b u t to leave the bodies o f the innocent v ictim s of his bullets to be m in ­istered by fam ilies who are un­able to a ffo rd the cost o f th e ir care and rehab ilita tion .”

Student P etitionW hile th is appeal was pending,

students at Wayne U n ive rs ity in the Committee to End the W ar in V ietnam undertook to c irculate petitions among interested citizens asking tha t D e tro it Common Council act favorab ly upon the pleadings of A tto rney Goodman. Joseph Sanders, chairman o f the student an tiw ar committee, says 4,267 signatures were obtained.

The M ichigan Socialist W orkers P a rty said tha t “ the murderous assault was a product o f the w itchhun t tha t has been stirred up and intensified by the ‘d ir ty ’ w ar in Vietnam. From the W hite House on down to the John B ir - chers and the K u K lu x K lan , the country is being incessantly in ­cited against the ‘communist me­nace.’ Today’s g lo rified ‘hero’ is the k i lle r in the green beret in Southeast Asia.

“ Taking the o ffic ia l propaganda as a cue and a license, the m u r­derer armed him self and set out to k i l l ‘communists.’ L ike others of th is type, W aniolek was also a rab id w h ite supremacist. In March he applied fo r admission to the race-state o f South A frica , saying he was armed and pre­pared to fig h t against the com­munists and tha t South A fr ica was the on ly free country in the w orld .”

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