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17,1973 Volume tX, Number 13
U.F.W. Boycott
Duone E. Cnmpbell
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Chilian Diary.
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Grace Paley & Robert Nichols
Poems.
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A March on Wounded Knee .
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Jim Peck
Sittin' ln: An Occasional Column
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feature, "Sittin' ln". lVe hope to use
this column for a regular weekly discussion of nonviolent tactics and theories.
\Ue particularly want
"our readers to be
our writers. . . which is you!" Contr¡butions should be approxinrately 800 words
in lengh and should be marked for
"Sittin'1n."
STAFF
marls cakars
susan cakârs
nancy jqhnson
Ju116 maàs
mary mayo
brian wêst6r
FELLOWTRAVELERS
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dlana davles
ruth d€ar
ralph digla
paul enclmer
chuck fager
seth foldy
j¡m for€st
mike franlch
leah
fr¡tz
larry gara
nell hawofth
marty jezei
þecky Johnson
paul johnson
alllson karpel
box547 rifton
new
cra¡g karpel
cindy kent
petor klger
alex knopp
john kyper
dorothy lane
rob¡n larsen
elllot l¡nzer
Jackson maclow
david mcreynolds
mark mofrls
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peck
Judy penhit€r
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mlke stamm
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letters
I just finished Allen Young's "non-smokers'manifesto" [WIN, 41261731 and want
to express.my 100% support and admiiation,
In addition to the immediate offensiveness
of the smoker being able to impose an un-
healthy poüution on evetyone around, there
are other more ideological ¡easons for being
against smoking which might have more ap
peal for Allen Young's (and my own) stillsmoking fiiends. These are the economics of
the cigarette and tobacco companies-large
multinational corporations extensively sup
ported by U,S. government subsidies, exploiting labor, extending their agri-business
at the expense of small fatmers. A deeper
moral question is the use of a large portion
of the world's land for non-food crops when
so many people need food and'land for survival.
-MARY DAY KENT
to Jim Peck and a promise never to smoke
tobácco in front of Allen Young, but frankl¿
who can be bothered?
How about, tho, a bit more on Zionist
butchers and Palestinian
tïti'Åîîi.
FEMrA
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
I must admit to being
a
little bewildered
by John Holt's letter (WIN, 4/19). It seems
as though he's trying to say that since "revolution" carries with it the implications "vio
lent" and "quick", we should avoid using
.!he ryord. A good point (even though I personally disagree with the premise and therefore with the conclusion) and not the problem here. The difÏiculty I have is with what
follows, which appears to be offe¡ed as a
proof of the assertion that change won't be
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
"easy and quick", and in doing so casts
doubt on the ability of nonviolence to effect
It's such a pity, WIN is so full of trivial
shit that it's not worth the effort to read it.
Please don't insult us with anymore "One
Man's Vietnam Wa¡" o¡'!A Non-Smoke¡'s
Manifesto [WIN, 4/26]. A pat on the back
change,
First of all, while it's true that many pec.
ple abandonèd the
"tactic" of nonviolence
when it wasn't accomplishing changes as
fast as they wanted, I don't know ofanyone
who regarded nonviolence as the "magic
weaponÌ' John claims people thought of it
to be. I alsp don't know of anyone who
thought of it as "foolproof;" indeed, the
bþ problem in getting people to adopt ngnviolence as a tactic is that they usually doubt
it can be effective at all,
What disturbs me more, however, is that
John seems to regard the fact that the initial responses to nonviolent efforts have'
been increased intractability as evidence that
nonviolence is inefrective as a tactic and
should instead be reserved as a "way of bëhaving when you're not getting what you
want". On the conttary, it seems to me
that the reactions Johd mehtions are proof
that nonviolence can ánd does act as an
agent of social change: truly ineffective
methods are ignored, not repressed. All nonviolent movements of which I am awarefúet
with incieased repression at ûrst-including
Gandhi in South Africa and India and the
United Farm Workers in California, as well
as the Civil Rights'movement in the South
that John refers to. feel that such increased
repression should be expected âs an initial
response, expected because when you present people with something that disturbs
them (suchas, to continue using lohn's example, blacks' assertions of civil rights in
the 60's) in a way they can't ignore (such as
marches drawing significant numbe¡s of
people instead of riots that could be dis-
npro'of' "magic weapon" of nonviolence, To
say that dark times are ahead is one thing,
to say that we are as bad off as Hiiler's Ger'
many and Stalin's Russia and that nonvio-'."
lence isnt good for anything more than
"keeping our spirits up" is quite another.
citi,, For what it's worth, Gandhi did tell..fiII
i:ens of Hitle¡'s Germany to, in efrect,
thejails," although nót in thoie words. He
called upon'them to resist nonviolently the
oppres3ion being visited upon them, for the
pupose of "melting Mr, Hitler's heart,"
(See Fo¡ Pacifists, chap. 21) Gandhi, who
I'm sure I was brainwashed with propaganwas, as John said, "nothing if not a realist,"
da, along with many sisters & brothers. It
felt that the only thing worse than violence
makes it ¡eal.hard to learn how to love. r
Ûas non-resistance to evil. I must admit to
Fritz's "good wishes" to Berrigan and
feeling that just trying to "keep up our
his fellow priests & brothers is indeed a fine
.ryirits" and waiting for better days strikes
idea. Celebacy is not conductive to love, but
me as just $uch non-¡esistance.
to fuck & fall in love with a woman (or even
-LARRY ERICKSON, just fucking itself) is sure to.lielp. Stop
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LONG BRANCH, NJ freaking out over sin & God, and find out
who love is-a woman. But Jesus, don't
In a letter otherwise full of sage advice,
üeate a child. Abortion is heavy, and there
John HoIt (WIN 41I9fi3)-wges us to give up are enough children alrgady tolove & feed.
the wo¡d "revolutiont', [éit wé suggest unThank you sister, the criticism was appródue ease-or violent means-in social change. priate. . Maybç. they'll dig it.
I applaud everything Holt says after his.first
-BARB,&.RA A. ChSSIDY
pâragraph, in which he makes this recomSTONE RIDGE, N.Y. {
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missed as "criminal violence"), their ûrst response will be confusion ànd fear, confusion_
because they're p¡esented with a situation
they can't understand and fear because youl
actions threaten their security by challenging
the assumptions on which they've been living their lives. Confusion and fear breed angei and violonce. The point'of nùnviolence
as a tactic.is to carry.on from there, to continue your actions, to continue to press yóuî
point. in a way that the oppressors can't continue to justify to themselves as threatening
-a way, then, against which those same
Reaching such a point is to reach the begin-:
ning of respect-which is the beginning of
change.
Besides the mistake,
I think, ofjudging
two
I want to comment on Leah Fritz's opeh
letter to Forest & Berrigan in the April l2th
issue. F¡itz has got it pegged. I was brought
up in a Catholic home and even attended
their crazy schools. Supe¡stion and fgar
arejust about all ygu learn., F'or suie. nrorality is a very much ciaij, inhìbition. trty'o*n
mother has a mastets dedree in social work ,
(a good Catholic thing to do) and has never
worked a day since her marriageay,.et she
bore 4 children. I still go through changes
sometimes, 8 years after splittingthe Churôh.
nonviolence as ineffective, there are
.
problems with reserving nonviolence as a
way to live while we're not "getting what
(we) want:" first, how then do we get "what
we want" if nonviolence is not going to
"soften the hard he¿rts ofour countrymen"
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(i.e., help to reach them, to change
minds), as John claims? And second, what.
of the time when we do "get what we want?"
Do we then say nonviolence was ûne, but
we don't need it now?
To say that nonviolence hasn't "soften'ed
for
The message is that we are in
a long hard struggle, and that nonvíolent
means ¿ue no instant mediciire. One cannot
disagree.
Yet it is ironic that such a letter appear
in WIN under 0ate of April 19, 1973,,stilt a
holiday in Massachusetts,-which this year
marks the l98th anniversary of the start of
the Ame¡ican Revoh¡tion The word is sufficiently respectable, Our task is to give it
meaning, and our reyolutionary goals will
not be fu¡therèd by vertial taboos.
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-KARLV. TEETER
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
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The Apd[ sth WIN was veiy promising of
more to come with its story of the nonviolent interposition at Wounded Knee and the
statement by Kills Straight of AIM with thé '
ópposifion view of Hank Adams from the :
Survival of American Indians. This seemed
to open up the whole subject of the relevance of nonviolence for revolutionary struggle, I eagerly waited for the next issue for a
discussion at long last of "peace and freedom
through nonviolent action".
The April l2th issue didn't pick up the
discussion artd I am still wondering. HaS thg '
showy guntoting of AIM been all to the gciod.
.or not? Are there other action groups in
Indian communities that we should aid
.
encourage; Do we ignore lndians unless they
and
are into "heroic" actions? Are mediation
j
and interposition the only possibilities for '
nonyiolence? I hope WIN will become a forr . .j
um for these issues and not simply do move- '
book I've read in three years. ment style reporting of current popular ac. . .
tions.
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-ORABELLE POLL
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BOTHELL, \ryASH.
list" in your April 19 issue
nice'thing, Ild like to give one other
book some attention. The book is THE
HIDDEN INJURIES OF CLASS by Richard
Sennett and Jonathan Cof (Knopf, $6.95).
This book is the most deliciously brilliant
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their
the hearts" of the oppressors is a partial
truth (emphasis on pa¡tial), but to say that
it won't is, I feel, an unjustified conclusion.
"Hasn't equals won't" is very bad logic,
Agreed, there "won't be very much good . ..
news." I don't think there's been an avalanche of good news up until now, and I
don't expect one to start now, But that
doesn't mean there haven't been reâI, pos!
tive changes, and it doesn't mean the¡e won't
be more. I suspect that as much as anyone
he refe¡s to, John is disillusioned, having
lost a previously held belief in the "fool-
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The United Farmworkers Union (AFL-ClO) is now
at a critical point of peril and of opportunity. The
next two months will probably have a significant effect on the future of the union and upon the future
of nonvíolence in America.
Cesar Chavez, Dolores
Huerta and the UFW Union have created one of the
major nonviolent social change forces in America.
The United Farmworkers Union, having achieved
victories in the grape fields in 1 970, have for the
first time given a sense of hope to migratory workers.
There are about two million migrant farmworkers
in the United States. George Meany, President of the
AFL-CIO, has called them, "some of the most exploited workers in the natiqn." The key to these
people's problems is not some new form of welfare,
it is organìzed power. The United Farmworkers
Union represents their hopes and'their determination.
ln their struggle for justice they have been able to
overcome the efforts of giant corporation agri-business and the hostility of giant market chains like
A&P and Safeway. They won their Initial successes
against these foes throulh the help of millions who
supported their boycotts of grapes. Now, however,
they have a whole new struggle on their hands.Cesar
Chavez and the United Farm Workers have effectively employed the philosophies, the techniques, and
the strategies of nonviolence. They have fostered
significant education for the union members through
their newspapers and their schools. There is a great
deal of respeçt for individual union members. The
leadership has struggled against the media's attempts
to make Chavez seem to be the only leadeç in the
union. Dolores Huerta and Fete Velasco, union vicepresidents, and many other people in the union have
been given important roles to play in the union, and
decentralization of decision making has been achieved
in many instances.
The present crisis began in the lettuce fields in 1970.
grape boycott was coming to a successful
J ust as the
conclusion, the lettuce growers ccjntacted the Teamsters Union in an attempt to keep the UFW Union out
of the lettuce fields. Workers in lettuce and in many
other crops had been contacting the UFW Union to
send organizers for years. However the struggling
union could handle only one major conflict at a time
and it had to spend its efforts on the grape industry.
Then, just as the U FW organizers arrived i n the Sali nas Valley, the Teamsters Union agreed to represent
the workers even though the workers showed an ob'
vious preferencefor the United Farm Workers. Teamsters contracts differ in several important areas including job securíty, heälth standards and safety
loffuoo
standards, Even more important, however, is the
issue of self-determi nation.
The right of most workers to organize a union and
to select a union of their choice was guaranteed by
the National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act):
in 1935. Pressure from the farm lobby and prejudices
against the then powerless "Mexican" and "Oakie"
farm labor force led to specific exclusion of farm
labor from this law. The growers have used this ex- '
clusion to crush past attempts at unionization in the
fields. The UFW has overcome the power of the'
growers by adding the powerful tool of boycott to the
already useful strike. The union organized an unpre:
cedented national boycott of grapes and thereby
brought the growers to the bargaining table after a
six year struggle. Now the growers have turned to another loophole in the law and arefrying to force a
grower selected union on the workers. Since the
NLRA does not apply to farm labor, there is no
mechanism for a federally supervised election between
thé unions.
The Teamsters Union leadership has participated in
the rape of justice for several reasons. Although. thatunion has achieved outstanding ivages for its truck:,
driver members, its social responsibility is notoiiou'Cly
under-developed. The Teamsters were one of the
fi¡:st unions to jump on the Nixon bandwagon. ln
California the Teamsters are the representative union
in several canneries. They have been of so little help
to the workers they have "organized" that in San
Jose and in Sacramento canneries, Mexican-American.
workers have organized defense committees to protect themselves from the company and from their
own union. lh San Jose the group may soon chal.
lenge the Teamsters to a collective bargaining eleCtion.
ln Sacramento the Chicanos have sued the company
and the union for discrimination. Further, Teamster
workers from truck drivers to cannery workers depend
upon the fieldworker to harvest the crops. lf the
field worker strikes, the Teamsters are laid off. Thus
Teamsters, like their growers allies, have a vested interest in no strikes.
Not only misrepresenting workers in the lettuce
fields (ttnt issue is not yet settled), the Teamsters are
now signing contracts in the grape fields while the
United Farm Workers Union is on strike. The growers
are happy to have the Teamsters' contracts because
the Teamsters are more sympathetic to their interests.
They know that building a boycott will be difficult
for the UFW. Boycotters will have to choose one
union's crops over another's. Further since the'crops
are delivered in Teamster's trucks, UFW crops may
not even reach the market in order to be competitive.
Now the Teamsters have even organizod the labor
contraótors. These body-merchants recruit labor on
a commission, serve as a pay master to the workers,
and are notorious for their exploitation of domestic
labor and for their importation of iflegal aliens as
strike-breakers. There is no person more despised by
FACTS
NUMBER OF FARM WQRKERS (T971);
2.6 Million persons 14 years ofage or older earned
migrants than these modern day overseerLr By or'
ganizing the labor contractors, the Teamstet s can sign
up every worker. lf a worker doesn't sign, he doesn't
To the workers the United Farm Workers Union
offers fair wages, a union ñiring hallio replace the
labor contractor, and job security for the first time.
U FW contracts also place strict limits on tþe use of
pesticides ¡n the fields ánd they demand that the
growers finance health clinics for the work€rs. Finally, and most importantly, the U FW offers self determination for the workers through a unjon that they
WAGES (r971):
3/4 of all farm workers earned less than federal poverty-level
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For all of the above reasons we should support lhe
UFW boycotts. Successful boycotts are not built upon
upon good wishe¡. They are built upon hard, rewarding day to day work. For the UFW to survive,
the boycott of Safeways, A&Ps, and of non UFW
grapes and lettuce in any store must work. .We must
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Average schooling is 8.6 years,
25Vo of fa¡m worke¡s had 4 years or less schoóling,
77 Vo of farmworkers are functionally illiterate.
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HOUSING:
Farm worker families lived in an average 1,9' rooms.
l\'k of farm workers hôusès had no electricity'
90% of fatm worker houses had no sinks.
96%had no tubs or showe¡s.
LABOR COSTS (1971):
Price
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lettuce
pound
lemons
oranges 601 per dozen
tomatoes 491 per pound
Comr¡odity
E. CamPbell
Retail
Field I¿bor cost
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0.81 Per Pound
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less than %d per pound
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HEALTH:
Average life expectance was 49 years. The average life ex-'
pectance for all Americans is 70 years,
The infant mortality rate for fa¡m workers is t2lVohigher ,
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than the national average,
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The maternity mortalitÍ rate is I 187o hibhe¡ than the national average.
Influenza arid pneumonia ¡ate is 2Û0Volnigher' than the natiOn':
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Tuþerculosis/infectious diseases - 260% higher than the nationafaverage. "
Àccitient iäãäïs'300% higher ihan the national âverage.'
. Pesticides poisoned over 75,000 workers,
, -' Health.cera.,qxpçnsgs for mþant wo¡kers averaged less than
. . $10.00 per persòri,'The IlS. riverage was over $250.00 per
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the fields, sanitary drinking ìvater, an end to child
labor in agriculture and controls placed on the use of
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CONTACT:
Your local boycott office, or, if you cannot find one,
Boycott Office, UFW, Box 62, Keene, CA 93531
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erage wage.
One farm worker supplies enough. food and fiber for^45
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demonsffate that a boycott, that powerful tool of
nonviolence, is more powerful than even the collusion
between growers, the politicians,-and afenegade
union. The union will win because of thq support of
people like you ând me, or it will lose because'it
lacked our support. To a significant degree the futuré
of nonviolence and jusfice in America js in our hands.
To build the boycott the-union needs all of the help
it can get. lf you and I don't íend a hand, it6imply
done.
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wages.
.2.6 million farm workers over 14 years of age avenged 76
days of work with an average annual income of $882'00'
1,4 million farm workers averaged 135 days of work, with
an average annual income of $1,576.00.
An average migrant family (6.4mèmbers) hád 2.3 persons
working and earned $2,021.00 a year. Less lhan9%rcceived
any public assistânce.
The hourly rate for farmworkers was $1.73.
A îarm worker's average \Ãtage was 4&% of the industrial av-
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won't be
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Children under 14 years of age bring the totâl f¿irrh labor
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force to over 3 million.
Over 600;000 persons were migrantlfarm'workersj
work.
control.
farm
wages.
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dangerous pesticides. They can win these simple improyements only with our help. A&P and Safeway,
the largest chain stores in the nation (and, consequently, the largest buyers of produce), are selling iceberg
Iettuce from growers who have denied fheir workers
these requests. Please don't shop at any A&P or
Safeway until they refuse to handle iceberg lettuce
from growers who have not recognized their workers
demands. DON'T BUY ICEBÉRG LETTUCE UNLESS YOU SEE THE UNION LABEL OF'THE
UNITED FARM WORKERS_THE AZTEC EAGLE.
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and a cup of coffee half that. Last year the rate of inflation was "163%, the highest in the world.
a bench and try to listeir to conversations." This is
where Parra says the retired people come, the pen-
sioners, and feed the pigeons. And
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Grace Paley is a widely known author of short stor¡es
ond l1I N articles, She teaches at Soroh Lowrence Col_
lege ond is active,wìth the Greenwich Villose peoce
Center, Resist, the WRL and other groupsl She ¡s .arrÌed to Robert Nichols who is q well known londscape
orchitect, playwrtght ond pacifist activist.
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Salvator Allende Gossens is a figure from the pen of
Moliere. He presides over the Socialist Adventure in
a drab business suit;'by profession a doctor and by
habit an astute ward boss. I arrived at the Santiago
airport on the same day that Allende left on his tiip
which took him to Mexico, Russia, Algeria, Cuba 4nd
to New York to address the U.N. as the spokesman
for "the little nations beleaguered by world-wide im-
perialism." The papers were pleased to say that in
New York he "bearded the lion in its den."
And I had the pleasure of welcoming him back:
in Constitution Square in front of the Moneda, awash
wíth colored flags-the red flag of the Communists,
the blue and white flag of the Socialists, the green;
red and white flag of Mapu (a split-off from rhe opposit¡on Christ¡an Democrats), and cheering throngsof
youngsters in their special red (jota-jotas) jackets.
Allende spoke.in that soft caressing accent characteristic bf so mafry Chileans, particularly the downfall on the word,"pueblo," over the f¡neit amplifying
system I had eúer heard. But I never saw him, or
knew where he. was. At that time I knew little àbout,
don't.
Does
anybody?
The sidewalks of Santiago. A scored, ¿urableceramic set on the bare earth, which hasmuch cla\, in'it
and packs hard, almost like cement. Along the curb
and parallel to the buildings there is a directional line
of black. The main body of tiles is yellow, the color
of summer squash. And it r early summer in SantiQBo, the first of December-which corresponds to our
first of June.
The streets are full of people. I don't think I've
ever seen such crowds as on the central streets where
the dignified office buildings rise high with a showing
By ÇracePaley
& Robert Nichols
of Madison Avenue Modern.
People seem
extrerhelf
well dressed-rather likea crowd in Florence, only '
younger and livelier. The women are all in miniskirts
and look absolutely wonderful. And on every street
corner there are vendors of tomatoes, apricots and
peaches, leather belts and toilet articles, and combs.
And all crying their wares. The Chileans are a nation
of husilers.
The Plaza des Armas: a center-city park like New
York's Bryant Park. I dislike being here in El Centro;
the commercial travellers' hotel, fighting my way thru
the crowds, and eating in places'called ';Center Óity"
and "American Quik Lunch." ln fact the main reason
I came here-with the encouragement of my friend,
the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra,-was just to get away
from New York. But the Plaza is beautifully kept up.
Early in the morning a man sweeps the ceramic walks
with a big Balm frond from one of the trees. I sit on
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"in return the
pig-
And being no other poet in the world but Parra,
he adds: "As pigeoris are to the pensioners, crocodiles are to the angels."
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All the busçs in Santiago seem to converge on the
Alameda or along the four thoroughfares around Ar-
EL CENTRO
Chilean politics. I still
eons pick their teeth."
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mas. So that the streets are a solid sÉream of buses,
all going at tremendous speeds. The pedestrians expect no quarter and dodge buses with greatalacrity.
People of all ages run'after them and jam irlto them,
spilling out the front door, where they hang on like a
hive of bees. The buses are always full.
The buses are small, the la,rgest tyvo-thirds the size
of a New York City bus, the smallelt-which are called
"hares"-only slightly bigger than a VW. They are all
different colors-red, blue, red and blue, green, yellow.
One can generally identify one's route by the color.
The bus driverf are also non-institutional. These
are not municipal buses, but run by private companies.
So the drivers don't wear uniforms. Each one has a
different l¡ind of handmade curtain hanging'over the
windwhield against the sun, and a variety of hand-lettered signs and totems. The Chilean mo,ney is also
crazy. All paper, np coins. lt is unbelielably difficult
to handle-dirty, pâtched, rolled together.' But somehow the driver manages to sort it all out without los-' r
ing his temper, stuff the bills into a woqden box with
little compartments, and give out a.ticket. And this
he does speeding through iraffic, among pedertrians
and sometimes horses and wagons. Sometimes he is
helped by a small boy, a son or,nephew, sitting up
front on.a rail.
The ¡ames of the buses in Santiago-soon one gets
to recognizÊ thêm:. Coroscol, Los Leon'es, Los Dominicos, Bilboa, Yorur Sumar, Ricoletto Lira, Cementario,
Motodero. Are there such places? t:
Stores of El Centro: a consumer's magnet. Christmas is approaching. The stores seem full and the merchandise is of good quality and fairly cheap, but not
for export items. The street glare is murderous, but
the'weathe.r is very dry and therefore bearable.
One of the first things one notices is tfie number of
service personnel in the shops. ln a soda fountaih
(fuente-de soda), haberdashery or d¡ugstorê, where
we would have two salespersons, the Chileans have
ten, and all seem reasonably busy, or at lçast in goodhumored attendance. Many have a "duêÍo" or small
"patron" hanging about, managing. Another feature
is the
"caja."
People serving at the counter never
handle the money. They give out a slip or "vole"
and you take this to another person at the cash regis'
,
ter.
How low the wages must be, with all tþese helpers!
I was told later that a sales employee makés a,minimum wage, set by the government, of 2,20:0 Escudos
monthly. There is galloping inflation,but the government tries to keep up with it by decreeiñg þeriodic
"reajustes" of wages. For what it's worth; while I
was there a pair of shoes or a cheap dress cost E.500.
A brassiere is E.300. A quart of cooking oil E.15. A
half:bushel of tomatoes E.30. A month's rent in a
modest section E.200. A newspaper costs from E.5-9,
Newspapers. Chilean newspapers are on display.
They are not folded, with the front page down so ioll
can't read them, as is our way. ln fact,"every news- -,
!
paper kiosk is an outdoor reading room. The first
page hung open is clipped to wires along the side of
the kiosk; and other piles arè spTead out along the
sidewalks, so that he who runs rnay read. There'ls'
I
little advertising, so thaû newspapeis have to be s$nsational to sell. Clarin and Ultimos Noticios, pro-gov'
ernment popular papers, feature bathing nudes on the
page who are invariably called "Lolitas," and t
there is a lively diet of traffic accidents and mürder'
ous soccer g"r"r. Puro Chile is also combaiively left.
El Siglo is the mo¡e dignified Communist Party newspaper (on its masthead' "30 Years in the Strugglefor
Socialiim")i and Lo Nacion has taken gver ás the offi'
cial government organ.
Rightist papers are El Mercurio (with a format
somewhat like the New York Times,,.ar¡d with the ads).
"Pren!;a,
krcero Horo, Tribùno, and thé oÎgan of the
, Nacionalista Party,Potrio Y Libertad, which drips pure
front
'
venom. All the papers are unabashedly partisan, arid
are continually t¿king swipes at-the other side. ln
this they are like the lndian papers a friend of mine used to send me frorn Calcutta, No punches þulled.
,,
Santiago is an exploding metropolis. lt is a city of
three and + half million, the same size as Chícago in
!930 and has grown in the last 50 years at the same
rate as Chicago. Large sections of it are called "Mushroo m co m mu nities" - pob lo ci on es co I la mpøs. But it
contains the country within it in a way Chicago never
did. The countrymen bring it there, with their grape
arbors, parrones. The soil is close under Santiago.
. lt is summer here. ln the back of the endless single;
story dúellings built with government subsidy gng seeq
people bending over their vegetable gardens or knocking together some wooden shack or small store. Over
the front fence spill roses and bougainvillea, the gera-niums grow eight feet lall. And in the background of
the city always the Cordillera, range on range, the
snow-capped mountains of the Andes, with the city
pushing up against the foothills, which are yellow and
.. bare òf trees, like the flank of some tawny animal.
Unlike in the United States, the government has
' 'brisk
met the hdus[çg,c¡lSis head-on. Santiago is a city of i
socialis! housihg production. Not only now under Allende.a¡U the Unidad Popular. lt was so eveìr
befóie, wiili"ìhe'Cllrisua-n Dqryoçratic regime of Êrei.
. :- With littlç foreign currency exchànge, they have to " ''.
: put lheir money into native, or "national" materials
for domestic housing.
All this one-stot'y development is wasteful of land
and costly in terms of municipal services: street lights,
sewers and transportation. The shantytown aspect of
the new suburbs may be picturesque-probably not
half so picturesque as the "bariadas" or squatters
: cities clustered on the hills around Rio de Janiero or
' Caracas, But their construction is much more efficient
and well-organized. And in terms of socíal dynamics
the Chilean ones are much more intereSting.
I played the travellers' game with the buses during
the two months I was in and around Santiago. They
are cheap-half the price ofa cup of coffee. Each day
wlN
.
7
I would take a bus by chance and ride to the end of
the line and walk around there. At the end of one
bus line and along'one side of the street, the usual
scraggle of shanty houses and"gardens push up against
the edge of the mountain. But along the other side
of the street there is a long, six foot-high wall, two
wire gates 300 yards apart, and beside each gate and
overlooking the street, a little watch tower.
It is forbidding, but I enter and saunter along the
blocks. But here the rows of jerry-built shacks are not
along the front fence line but along the back, leaving
a space in front of bare dirt, no flowers even, that
seems to be waíting. ln fact, at the corner of one of
the blocks new houses are actually in the process of
being constructed. The first two are finished, then
several with no walls or roofs but only poured concrete posts and steel window frames. The one or two
with only the foundations. This is the site,four years
ag-o of one of the famous,Santiago "tomas"-or taking
of "waste" land by an organized,group of squatters.
It has been the scene of struggle, and the watch towers
,
actual ly were guard houses.
Next up the road is a neighborhood already built.
This is complete, with houses, sidewalks, a school
and a supermarket, in front of which there is a long
line of waiting housewives, and I stop and buy from
two children a drink of mixed tea and fruit ¡uice with
grains of wheàt. The neighborhood is called the
"Poblacion Pablo Neruda."
Across from it is the government yard, or depot,
containing all the materials for mass assembly-ihesteel rods and window frames, concrete sewer pipes,
roofs. lt is all very efficient, "rationalized".
On the way back I look out and see a straggle of
new shacks and huts on a baked field that last year
grew cabbages. And soon this will be a new section
of the city., Flying in the sun a big banner which proclaims it,to be the "Campamento Angêla Davis."
There is a tribe which seems to be outside the iob/
consumer-even housing network. They are on the
streets of any Big City but in Chile they stand out
more as pariahs-the beggars, the alcoholics, crazy
people-in contrast to the neat bustling quality of
"
everyone else. Gypsies have a stand in the park opposite the railroad station, bythe Mapocho river. Then
there are the famous child beggars of Downtown
Santiago, thecaras sucias, 1'dirty-faces". Coming out
of a restaurant you see one of them, an eight year old
exhausted from begging, asleep on the curb; he will be
picked up after midnight and taken "home'l somewhere. Under the bright marquee of one of tþe movie
houses of El Centro, a,sturdy little one of .five, his
nose dripping, is putting on a manic burlesque, crawling along the line from person to person pretending
to polish shoes. A sharp-faced woman and an older
sister watch him from around a corner in shadow.
I spent only the first week in El Centro of Santiago,
and then headed south by train over the great plains
with its vineyards and irrigated farms, and every once
in a while a big factory. On the wall of one of them,
painted in bold colors, was: "Defend Socialist production. This factory is in the hands of its workers."r
.Next week: THE COUNTRYSIDE
(
THE WINDOW
Not one dot of
-rain. Will bring
to
No Matter
Where
dot plink unheard
or another scar
on window
Neither will anger neither charm
. Bring what has gone and is
Now
else.
Or furious beat to dance
will not. ls where ' :
is
else
-Carol Rubenstein
'1970
l4 April
FLV
NOW
Outside himself he saw it
happening: the great prick
rising at a forty five degrbe
angle from the airport flash- '
ing westward Machismo metal
(shine, perishing republic!)
but no, no symbol: the real
thing: head and shoulders. pure
thrust take it or
. tl
leave it And on its side:
Coitus lnterruptus full of
travelling salesmen (flagship
He saw
it - our hero -
and he
was in itl he was airborne with
a drink in his hand and through
the PA system the voice of the
stewardess: Pan American sucki.
Twenty years old, flat out, the voice
of her generation.
Up
front: Dr. Freud,
i*l
WtN
whose wife
could not let go to fly
with him.. They never got
to Africa. The
phallic
symbol, as people used to
call it, was his idea, yet
it is as old as the human
body. lt is for sale. Fly
now, pay later.
-Mitch
I
being.
Gone dot.
Every one bliñd. None
know
Goodmon
A MARCH ONWO UNDED KNEE
JIM PECK
isa veteron pocifìst octivìst and *faff mem'
lím Peck
ber of the WRL.
AIM (American Indian Movement) called upon.peo'
ple acioss the country to converge on WoÚnded Knee
'Easter
Sunday, and jóin in delivering much'needed
food and medicine. Would the federal government
have the humanity to relent on its roadblo.pks for
Easter Sunday? Ór would the marshals pursue their
'$
customary policy of blockade?
Unforiunately, the response to $llvl's call was
meagre. By Sunday morning onlytome 7O'persons
had ãssembled at Crow Dog-s camp, near Rosebild'
Manv had traveled a lons dlstance. Groups in cars
cum" from O¡egon and tüäing from Berkeley and Madison. from Miniæpolis and lndianapolis. The lndians
for the occasion and the whites who al"rsembled
ready had been working on the rcène did not have to
travól. On Saturday nifnt, 15 of them were arrested
for tryinþ to run food into Wounded Knee through'
the
- roadblocks under cover of darkness'
Because of the small tL¡rnout, the AIM leadership
decided on a change of plan. lnstead of attemptinE
to enter Wounded Knee on Êaster Sunday, on'that I
ãay tt't" aisembled gtoup *ortO start -a mâich to
Wóunded Knee, arriving there the following Saturday
,(the distance is about 100 milgs). This would give. .
iim" to rally more participants as the march gathered
momentum.
The plan was submitted-to the,group assembled at'
Crow D'og's camp. Althoúlh thére'was some opiniôn
favoririe'oostponement because of the light turnout,
iñ" raläiitv ielt that if we didn't stait now, the show
might nevei get oñ the road. Though the group had
noiormal stiìcture, no appointed'9r elected
n
leaders'
no name even, we operated with customary demo'
cratic proçeedures. This was to be a nonviolent march
ofthe participants
-without guns. Though severala policy of nonviolence'
felt differently, they apcepted
Less than an hour after the decision-making meetins. we hit the road. Three marchers, gne holding
atõit an AIM pennant walked about 200 yards ahead.
ln the event of an armed attack by wh¡te'vigilantes,
the pennant would be lowered. Ttiis would alert the
rirãñätt ior quickly, duck into a ditch oi'dip älong'. .
siôe the road.'The van carrying food arid the medical
station wagon, which brought up.the rear, then would
pull up aloigside where the marchers were lying down '
äno oiotectîhem from gunfire. So that all participants
worid b""ome familiar with this çiroceedure, we held
a surprise drill. The danger.of an armed attack along
these little-traveled roads, though small as long as we
were on lndian reservations, would becó,me.substantial once we crossed ¡nto tsennett County; the one '
white countY along our route. . -.
It was 2 p.m. on a sunny Easter S'unday when we
started. teàding the march were five or six persons
carrying a long itrip of canvas inscribed with "Liberty
if tr'irt¡ä" for Ã11."'ln addition to lndians and whites,
our grorp included three black from the Deep South
and ieveial Orientals. Many of the inarchers were
young women. Around 5:30 p.m-.,.we s9t up camp for
if,r" nigftt, along the roadside. Building fires was ei'
NEWS FLASH. . . Federal negotiators and lndiani a'
ereed to a settlement of the Wounded Knee occupation
än Mav 6. Dennis Banks, an AIM leader is quoted as s¡ry'
¡ne. "ÁlM's iob is done here." The occupiers of the villale are scheduled to leave on Wednesday, May.9, and
de"legation of White House reprcentatives is expected to
arrivi within two weeks to meet with lndian leaders.
wrN 9
sFTn'lfl
AN OCCASIONAL COLUMN ON NONVIOLENCE
Articles of obout 800 words on the topic of nonvio'
lence are welcomed
for this column,
After the Pentagon demonstration of October 1967
a dozen or so of us started to.noncooperate in the
D.C. city jail. We wouldn't give our names, walk, put
on prison clothes, eat, drink or obey the prison au'
thorities. lt was an ugly experience. Prison inmates
had to carry us bodily through the admissions proce'
dure, strip us of our clothes and cart us off to solitary.
The strip cells had no bed, bench or mattress. There
was just a stagnant piss hole that stunk from earlier
defecations. The concrete floor was cold and damp,
we were naked, and cockroaches that made the New
York variety seem like friendly midgets were our com'
pany. A few cells away a psychotic prisoner was going
mad.
I
I
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I
l
I
,l
I
.
their aggression.
But that's not what I want to talk about. When I
was released from iail, Brad Lyttle accompa4ied me
to meet the press to tell my horror story. I was reluctant to go. I have always figured that jail and po'
lice brutality were occupational hazards that one
:should expect and then forget about. Besides, paci'
fists tend to talk about their prison experiences the
way veterans boast about their exploits in war, and
both topics are boring. Anyway, the press took my
story and the next day there was a small article con'
10
f
Ën
..
The next day a gang of prison offcials took us in'
dividually from the cells and pressed wrist screws into us. A wrist screw is a two-pronged vise that is fit, ted around the wrist bone and tightened. When my
turn came I tried to scream and cry but couldn't because my musclgs were so contorted with pain. I finally gave up arid promised the guards that I'd be
good and cooperate like other prisoners. They un'
tightened the vise and I noted looks of both satisfaction and relief on their faces.
That was the last time I ever tried noncooperation
in prison. The theory is that by not cooperating with
evil you confront your "keepers" with the true mean'
ing of what they do and because you yourself are pas'
sive and nonviglent you can appeal to their human
selves. But that's bad psychology or not the way it
works; not with me, anyway. lnstead of being loving
and nonviolent I was self-righteous and doctrinally
rigid. And far from appealing to their better selves, I
was inviting their brutal¡ty. There are many forms of
violence, not all of them physical, and I consider now
that I was as violent in my passivity as they were in
wlN
prods, wrist screws, blackiacks, murder at Attica and
San Quentin. The Hanoi Hilton has nothing over
Parchman Farm or the D.C. jail. Still, I was anngyed
when Jane Fgnda made the statement that the POW's
were lying. That was a knee-jerk reaction of a dedicated radical, the kind of dogmatic response that we
all too often make.
Of course, our POW's were tortured. That's what
happens in jail, unless there are interested civilians
who keep a watchful eye (presuming they can)
pn \
prison-guard conduct. Those people who took the difficult and unpopular position of arguing the North
Vietnamese side tend to let their expectations match
their rhetoric. The people of Vietnam may indeed be
rnore generous than we Americans but they are not
superhuman and they're not likely, at least not all of
them, to rise above the dehumanization that is inher'
ent in war. And prison guards with no opportunities for
heroism, no possibility of proving their valor or
courage, (just the day to day tedium of watching
caged animals) are especially prone to this.,
Moreover, the V¡etnamese have been fightíng now
for more than a quarter of a century. Generosity and
kindliness are virtuês of patience and understanding.
But the Vietnamese have no reason to be patient. And
they've no emotional reason to act generous to men
who appear in the sky, drop bombs, and then flee, and
who-the majority being professional airmen-would
do the same thing over again ûnder orders. ,.;
But I don't think we need condone thetorft¡re in
the North, Nor do I feel particularly sympathetic to
the flyboys who got burned. They could have always
stayed at home.
But there is still one more point to be made: And
that is that those of us who sided with the North
should expect to be embarrassed. Pacifists should
know most of all that war brutalizes and dehumanizes
both victims and executioners. I would love to pound
this into every revolutionary's head (if you'll pardon
the aggression): ends and means are inseparáble and
that if violence is used to create a good society it may
achieve an improved society but it is also going to be
a violent society. No violent revolution has yet avoided that dilemmã. The tragedy of the Vietnameie Revolution is that the West has forced this violence on
them for more than a quarter of a century. And this
has taken its toll. lt cannot do otherwise.
The Metnamese have arrived at their present point
.
in history at a terrible satrifice. I do not suggest that
theie was another way because I think that-being the
kind of people they are-if there were they would
have taken it. But the price of revolution by military
means is coming very high. Future revolutionaries,
including thgse of us in America¡ ought to-s_eriously
ponder if there is not a better method. -Marty fezer
Morty Jezer, pacifrst octivist, helped start lillN and
lns helped it continue lo these mony yeors.
I
an
taining my accusations (without mention of the wrist
screws) with a denial by the head warden of everything I said. And that wa3 that.
Now, watching the POW's tell of prison atrocities
in North Vietnam, and digging how the administration
orchestrates the compliant media for emotional effect,
I want to stand up and shout, "Hey, I've been atrocitized, toó."
lndeed, prison atrocities are familiar to people who
have done time for radical causes: Electricized cattle
The eight arrested wer:e foqnd guil'
of
tv a misdemeanor and released, af-'
o
¡er a¡hirty day sentence and a $50 flne
weri suspónaeb by a Brùnswick Coun-
ty
iudge.
NEWS
FLASH!' i
. -B;t]t volk
i
Women Strike for Peäce and the Na'
tional ì,tielfàre Rights Organization
are
åtl¡ne foi a women's rnàrch'?n w?tf'
¡nstoñ to protest the bomblqg'and tne
GREGORY STILL FASTINGDick Gregory, who went on a'liquidsonly fast )/z year,s ago lo protest the
Vietnam War, is still refusing to eat
solid foods.
Gregory had announced in JanuEry
that he would be abandoning his Pñtest fast this spring as soon as the
American POW's had returned home
and as soon as the U.S. bombing had
$ooped. Howevdr, the comedian re'
ceniiy r"ported tñat he has. decided to
continue his fast because the lndochina.Wa¡ is still in progress. He stated
that he would continue to avoid all
solid foods until all U.S. bombing in
Cambodia and Laqs has been halted.
During his fast,'GregorY has shrunk
in weighifrorn 152 poinds down to 98
poundl.
area Metnam Veterans Against the War,
Bethel and Hesston Colleges Peace
Çlubs. We received a good response
from all over the state of Kansas; about
40-45 people showed up.
with rhe possibility of a war Resisrers League Plains State Regional Office
-coming
into existence in September the
future fo¡ nonviolence in this part of
the country has some glimmer of hope.
I would appreciate hearing from WRL
people in this part of the country to
know what they feel such â region
should concentrate upon. $/rite'Sun'
flower Life Center, 418 W. 1Oth St.,
Newton, KS
1
SEN¡OR CITIZENS
Cnlf¡C¡Zg COMEDIANE
less and.s'eni le
by some oÏ^the
-Bob
M4yer
According
io
williake
Place
on TuesdaY, MaY 22,
w¡ll incluäe a Speak'Out on the
Son Franciséo' Chroni'
c/e columnist Herb Caen, anY German-English dictionary will tell youmen who quit.the Nixon Administra'
Cçitol
:30 and 2:30 as well
ä ¿ãtonttrat¡on at the White House'
steos between
1
"t
More information
äom the
äääîi"
can be obtained
WSP New
York office at799
i pt' one; (2't 2) 2s 4'1e7 o)'
On MáY i9 and 20 there will be an
anarchist confererice on self liberation
it Hunter College,in New.York City'
Soeakers will inctude Al Goldstein, ediior of Screw Magazine; Murray Book-
chin, autho.t: of Post SørcitY Anorchism; Karl Hess; Carl Oglesby;
educaîion critic John Holt.
Beck and iudith Malina of the Living
Theater will perform. Admission is
and i
,ulian I
free!
lwnlt's lN A NAM
-Zodiac
old peoþle are.being ridicufèd
671'14:
¡rìâset cuts. The demonstration which
-M,C.
p 0Tre
"-r-y-i!; ''"Êfli,äl,fnrf::l*rli:ftlroï\;n',,
rc¡en¿ie"si, in G.rmun, m""nt
ll.:^tg-n't,
;i"ä
Härãeman is Ger;"*ii
:fg'å#'wii iilll:i"å''jll"'å o" :'"Tlt
::li
man'"
for
man
"dump
-Zodiac
something about it. iläË fË;öä
thev critiãized are Carol Burnett, fohnnv Ó¿rson and Jonathan Winters-
nôt"d for their TV skits of
elderly people.
bumbling THE MOTSU PROf
ECT
in
Monday morning, April 16, eight people.were arrested whçn thev sat down
"n¿
rlle àccess roail ro fhe tul¡litaiy
?n.
lift
Oöean
Terminal'at Sunny Point, North ^-'
Àitn.
,,
C'entral
Sú¡; ¿''r'""ns
'"
lt wa-s ah attempt toiobs[ruçf
Carolina.
pretend old age i, ror"ífring to
ttle shioment of moie than 36,000 tons'
., df anti-perscinel weapons'; white ph{rsMember Hal Llewellyn said, "Their. -'
phoroui.rounds, and tfiickenerðBirta'';
äägtJå
demean
characters
-"-äiräåãrpriiu;i
pal! thát wer.e þeiiìg loaded that week.
"n¿
mo¡or iåñ-ior
,,The old oeoole come stumbling
tn¿ .rå öitãi"ã'ut *ültti
s"ñile'il
;; ilI;s;níti,ls,pi"iìáã"iri¡r."'
"V
iurit
"
at.,,
ui."
citizen
The civil dis
cr.rp,li
iï;;ñth¿ UieiLJun¿ mósi po*"rÍul Iv: month long ed-ucat'ronal.proiect to
inform the state of MOTSU's presence'
.riiition por"ríb1"" to pioitit tt "¡t.
pur an end ro rhe munitions shipro
;r"ü;;;,rJ¡,;;ifiø i",iifiìit¡r"nr.,' r, ments,
and to çonvert the terminal to
CENTER
-YPNS -
:HöLDËRËfnt¡r on
LIFE
on
April 13-15 a farm retreat held
CALC analyzes the first Year of the
Honeywell campaign in its Feb' 20 :
"Ocóasional Memo" which alqo inclgdes the response of staff and com'
ifitteei¡nêmbers to the peace trpaty:
"Muted ioy., . . Cynicism. . .'. Ppni-
tence.... Ambiguity... !"
.,-
AMNESTY: Packets available fromWSP in E. Meadow, NY and Natl. ln-
"
terreligious doard for CO's in Wash.'
'civilian uses. The MOTSU Proiect,a
DCI Bumperstickers from VVAW '
("the very people that took the draft
::,i,tt'ffiiil:ilif?::'Ïfifffi,i;6
resisters'ànd deserters' places on the
battlefield") in KC, Mo; .'. : lfind peo'
ple very responsive to the petitions
circulated by WRL, WSP, Chi. Peace
Council etc. . . . . Chargingthe U-.S.
Servicemen's Fund with supporting
"that segment of the military estab-
mile waik rr'orir H¡gtr
Pointro
Raleigh
prito collect materialãnd medical aid for
;;;ì;ì;"t rrcial change dealt
training in.
lndochina. The material was-presented
ä;''l;;iih ;i"hõ¿tuä¿retr-eat
was in' , foi shipment at the M¡l¡tarv facilitv
fn¡r
ffi;'äË;T;;ü*.
Sundav, Apti!.t! u.v eightv supporters
i;i;ä; ü rh;lrntto*"r LifebvCenter
the of the MoTsu Proiect'
supported
;il;,iJt;¿Aind
Fgîgú,¡
wlN
11
i
o
lishment who oppose the Vietnam
of the peoþle here get money for working. And no one hardlygets a raise
over the initial $10 [per month] ."
Recently New York Times columnist Tom Wicker discussed the difficulties that those with criminal.and arrest
war and the use of conscription," the
IRS on Feb.7 finally succeeded in re-
voking their tax exemption retroactive
to 1969. Your financial support is
therefore a must: USSF, 44 Green*
wich Av., NYC. . . . A list of prisoner
support groups is available from Prisoner Visitation and Support Comm¡ttee, suite 300, 2016, walnut st., Phila.
records have in finding jobs. Citing a
Georgetown University Law Center survey, Wicker found that a third of all
state and local governments and around
of the cities disqualify job appli"unfit" without additional definition, and about half of the
four thoúsand occupations requiring
"WHAT CAN A GIRL D9?" Help us
to liberate books and reaijers from sexual bias, says Feminist Press, Box 334,
Old Westbury, L.l., NY. . . . lncredibly, an lll. Federation of Labor women's conference featured as their
ERA speaker, Tom Hanahan who had
characterized liberationists as brainless,
bra-less, broads, And when Addie
Wyatt objected to the all white all
male panelists, she was told they
were the most qualified. (Wo.nankind
4173). .. . Chicago May 1 celebration:
Films of Mayl68 Paris uprising and US
labor struggles, lnsitute for Soc¡al
Studies, 2400 N. Lincoln. The institute is also running spring courses to
June. . . . Susan Miller who has been
with Episcopal Peace Fellowship since
1970 is moving on.
PROJ ECTS: Feeling like an "ovérgrown amoeba. . . lumbering around,
pushing and pulling every which way,"
Institùte Mountain West has split in
two. Some people
have begun Daisy
flill
Puppy Farm, an alternative projects house and She Life, a crisis center
and women's community. . . . A July
1-8 Chippewa River Conference for
people in com.munes and co-ops to develop skills for community success is
being planned by Madison, Wis., com-
munitarians (1330 Velas Ave.). . . . Attica Summer: Attica Legal Defense
is asking people
to come to upstate
New York for at least 3 weeks begin-.
ning 6118 to analyze written.evidence
on the Sept. 1971 rebellion,.to make
maps, investigate, interview. Write
Don Jelinek, 2437 Durant Ave.,
Berkeley, CA94704.
WEDDING BELLS: ln a major event
of the East Coast radical spring social
season Jim Forest (Milwaukee 14 conspirator and WIN contributor) married
Laura Hassler (daughter of FOR's Al
Hassler and co-worker with Thích Nhat
Hanh)on April2gth in Nyack, N.Y.
A friend writes: "Wouldn,t it be mar
velous to have a peoples caravan ali
across this country to Wounded Knee?t'
Which prompts me to ask, Why is it
more newsworthy that ohe establish-
ment party bugs artother than that ln-
dians seize and hold land that belongs
to them?
-Ruth Dõar
12 WIN
4O%
cants for being
licenses exclude those
with ôl"iminal
records. Many,businesses also refuse to
hire ex-cons. When persons with felony
convictions find good employment they
sometimes become the center of controversy, as did Roger L. Braith.waite, ¿
prison inmate on a work-release program in Washington State. Braithwaite
Nonviolent action by prison inmates is employed as program planner for lnattempting to correct abuses by offisititutional lndustries and helped decials contiriues to spread. ln April,24 velop a proposal for a work program
of the 56 women in the D.C. Women's involving a new concept of a smãll shop
Detention Center sat in at the dining upholstery project which was highly
room following luñch to underline successful and widely publicized. His
their complaints about inadequate med- work is skilled and^he is paid'a salary
ical tr-eatment and capricious actions of $923 a mohth. Because of the high
by officials. Thd sit-ín lasted 25 hours salary some legislators questioned thi
and ended when the acting director of wisdom of employing a prisqn inmate.
D.C. Corrections and the chaplain
ln addition to facing legislative critispent two hours discussing grievances. cism, Braithwaite had to take a cívíl
Prisoners were promised that there
service exam to try to hold his job (five .
would be response to their complaints. applicants took ¡t and none pajsed"ànd
One of ttreir objectives was to have Dr. it must be given over) and had to ap- Samuel Bullock, institutional physician, pear before a parole hearing which'was
fired for refusing to give inmates medi- inconclusive because the officials
cine prescribe{ for them at the D.c.
couldn't find his file. Braithlvaite said:
General Hospital. Dr. Bullock maín- "l'm committed to succeeding and I'm
tains that strong drugs should not be
going to make it." Yet the obstacles
given to those who are drug dependent he faces are formidable; for thousands
.and alleges that some women refuse an of former inmates they are overwhelm-
'internal examination at the time they ing.
are admitted to the center. Complaints r.
:l;Ít;i'; *:sl l',**l
;fl
ttfujt n iiïi üJi,ï ffi 'ål :ij i¡oi''
i
î
il,i:Tf3',1ïIfl :"',?tri"
tråî"j#,",îtrí",ru*+*m,;;¡Ï.;iili:ffi
that officials violated the cbnstitutional
post
ton
reporred
rt" i ¿Tåi¡üli";i;j;';ä
u"d;;ä ilff"
*.'
punish rhe inmares r"r;h"
nor yer been made
Úre ia,st no acrion
üi;;"u;;;;
peaceful demonstrations.
"'
For many prisoners the only cash
they possess is what the government
provides on the day of their release.
Now the Nixon Administrration is forc-
ing the federal prisons to reduce costs,
and part of that reduction is coming
from releasq payments. A draft resister
in prison writes: "One of the budgetcutting ways they are ¡nto here is to
cut down on release money. As late
as last October they were giving out
$80, now only $60. About one-fourth'
or inmates and denied due pro'
l':"1': law and freedom from cruel and
:.:::":f
:i?ä:J?l?ili';i,1i,ïåfT[?i:"if,"yr:'#
äjÏiiì¡n, were ptaced in cells 6 by 10
feet in size witñ as many as five others,
were threatened with death, hit'with
of 125 to 300
Prison officials testified that punishment by taking away
"good time" and placing men in segregarbage and deprived
days "good
time."
gation is not unconstitutional but necessary for prisori security. According
to the Seottle Times, the suit is one of
the first in which prisoTrers or former
prísoners took their jailors to court for
redress of violations of civil rights.
Larry Gara
.
thev relented. The i moortant truth about Luddism is con'
äi*¿ in the¡e men's ii"* ã"¿ actions in tlre context of the
õänomi" arid industriat:*ãrru which called them onto the
.t*å óf históry ¡n f gtì-.-ìn most fundamental ways, they
iuii ¡ãr"ìyr"rérUl" tneir lruáô un¡on progeny and-there is
t"iã¡ñtv ho historicii U;ri; f;¡ äieir'libniiatiòn as early
tage and violence as a 'primitive' form of behavior.and a
, wiy
of solving labour problems inferior to the methods em'
ployed by mõr who laier built up powerful.tradg-unjo¡s.or
ättómpteA io use ttre power of the state on bèhalf of their
sectiònal i¡t.r"rtr." A perspective seems to emerge out of
rhese conctusions rhat ii not sensitive to the plight of.helR' ,
less and inaiticulate victims of social förces only partlyþnããuñt"ilcuttrre
'- Wñ"n Nlalcolmheroes.
derstood. More importantly, it is jnsensitive to the.protest
Thomis writes that the üüddites' "at'
Þckion machines OiOn;t imþty any necessary hostìlity to ma- politics that is theii only means of regi5tering a mute awåre- .
machin"iy'*äs jústaconveniently-exposed nessof arawdeal.
,ioì , trð,.,
lna pre"frìnltyutsuch;
target ägainst which an attack could be made" (p. 14),.he.is This insensitivity is wonderfully exempllÍed
preciouslv
reis
too
which
pori"iãúrãnuloey ît'om¡s offers
fi'ñiÃiiñ ttr" i"tiãi, îáñä* iìiã¡t¡ðrrof history. Aná he
later
any
from
quote
fully.
vealing
distinguíshing
these
not
rebels
to
clearly
immorol way of trying
iårmíof indüstrial, þolitical or cultural reiponses to the
Jus'í as *a, ß o, irrotionol ond
so is 0 r.e.vers¡on'
be
dimgreëmen-ts,
cannq{
his
shtement
7o
solve
fnat
is
international
accurate
ätine.
tu the techniques and methods of the unaivilised borUuï *frut it does not say lingers in my imagination. For
barian, controlled and timlted by the.Luddites z'they
ãnð implication of the Lud¿''ite choic'e of m¿chinery.as
ore controlled ønd limited by the maQers.ol worrore,
convenìent target is that something çlse (wages, hours,
a less iational and less morally lcceptoble wly.or ffy'
ployment, conãitions) was on theiifüinds"another
ing to solve industrio! disputes than that Yh¡C.h..l?l¡es
í¡ãí rrrt'utro be exposeã. inut is, the mâchine-that
burned,
later
on voting power or, in o situation ol ¡ntoler1þ¡l¡ty,
put
and
to
which
axe
one
they
the
ticular
the power to withdraw lobour' (p' 1 / I )
soecific stocking-frame that was destroyed rather than
.' ',- : I t¿í<¿ it ttrat it would not be necessarv to be irresponsitp;;;ã becaú" the man
ã*"r¿ it did not È"rp"iuií" an eionomic grievance-that ble as an historian or as one committed to the broadest extension of hqman liberation, tq ¡ugles1!f31-th"::ij." P-:
very unique; conu"nibni-ruchìn. *u, madã an example
found confuiion,here between the warmakeTs and their vic- ,
symbot as a taiget
it *u, rå¿ru tvruói.'jf
axe
the
once
it
became
axe,
â
symbol
¡
the vandal's
,keeps
,i|9[ to guarding his other machines. lt is probably the sense of a victim's defiance that
;il;
"¡;6y;ita;dbrd
the Lud'dite symUo¡ alive in the hearts of modern machine
io tírint t6at tñ" rvruãfir irpofu of *," Luddite
Í'ten¿
breakers. Thé my1frg that grow up around what Eric Hobsi¡åî'r.t"*-iäì;;;it on'thé historiåal stage that links
is
romantlc
madoubted,if
a
emimplicapar'
the
the
who.,';;; ãìi *nñ'*ü
of.
for
ii;;;¡|t;
fell'and tims.
-.
achis
"
narrowconcerns*,if'*Ui"qrôntequallyñarroriVand bawmcalls"primi.tive.rebels"areasmuchapartoftheir
back to
unlqrá ion""rnr. Iti;rh;;;;bú¡c'ttrat'attows historiéal history-as'thè ascerta¡nablê facts. And this turns us
the issue of sources again, for there are sources of inforrnaand tñat r"¡uéii"l¡*r inà ¿rfiunt u"t.
ùentification
'quite
extion utilized by Hobsbawm and more directly by. E. P.
in fu¡rn"rr to ffro¡ii, whose h¡storical wor! is
its
ädherTil;t;;
if
anythin;;;;;it:¿";i"i"näãur-ití
and
W;a¡ns of the .Enstish !.orkins C/øss) which are
ce¡enr
facilely'put aside by Thomis. They are sources of the
ãn¿" to the asceitaina"Ule facti about the Luddites, I should- too
o'wn
its
on
taken
tradition which emerge as folklore, balladry, popular
oral
account,
done,
Hid
well
a
be oraising iob
talàs and the like which are often partly or whollv corrobã[;i;;i ïú;lir;, i;;tid; ìhöìiu¿v ¡t-eräunded in contên¡porary sources ranging from Home OffJce and court recorbs orated by private letters and reports.of Sover.nment spies.
sources whidli
i;ì;äi;"*rï"péä iñ¿ jãurnats and it is therefore an im. and ag:"rti provlcoteurs. These are historical
are difficuli to rely on or use with very much confide$..
pãrtrnt n"* ioürr" ;l;ó;¡rir; i"iormation about our
,
h"roãr. I wish I |
Å;ãt;; rv póiñi'"är'ri;;;öbliñãi ihis historv has let .""r, ¡"ã¡"i¿uãl uii of information we might
me dówñ an¿'that there is more tó know about the Lud- : row about yesterday's draft card burning or Pentagon levi' . :
. dites rhar does not corne ãown th¡ough tt't" iourã"r ttrom¡s ;;;i"" -guí when fólklore pilãs up; the ñistorian frg p..Aa i t
must use if he is going to do cautiþusly.accurate history. sãmething with it: ignoring such sources is a sign ôf failure-:' '
This contrast betwlen t*o *"frr of viewing the Luddites in the hisiorical imagination.
in co.mteÍtr'i
. ' . îñ"?iìirr" of imãeination is all too comm'on
is an example
Ëäì;;'r5;;[i;;;,lt-;pãrury,rónu"\
the "irrele'
and
it
accounts-for
wrìting
porary
queihistorical
"r.
fun¿ameñial
ohe
ask
ru[Àt
Ii
iätión, iUärt fr¡stoiv.
that is
rions: When un¿ *fív ü,l|;gthing it,"th.þp"neà iü ttr¿ . vancei'.of history. Jf is the.vìtal spirit of Luddism by the'
is better understoon
f[ornis
pasr have meaning ioi- it pr*"nt? . li.the çuiditgs^ trave
¡s19rqo ,uv
¡y^whjch
or present' l.
"
ttreir t¡ves iämef s-o vê*rl
ffi;ñä;;i' i" ír,liäïlì,ilõf
Étt wisaomof,rnachine-bieakers,.past
.
'
-
.
,
P.
,
?f;';ülJ"?*mt.i[:l|"9ff[;, #i?iî'trfiT
ä.
to
will
continug
the
on
meaning
Luddism
"ffi.]üiltEË¡ËE.Ëii:,..i'1ilii:i,#"j"i':i'{ff'
votumes
the.pres-., :l'ipéaics
'*'''""#:íi^"
question: historl, ;;;;h, nas nottr¡nÉto ¿o witn
and some 150
enr. To raise such õ!Ji;;rr is ultimat-ely a pol¡tiái issle, tràv". Rtt"r a bloody- battle between the law
of 1812, seveiâ[
nor an hisrori.ur o,Tj"änîï;ïiË;;ì;riream hisrorian is, l-u¿ïit"ì aì the Rawîold mill in the spring
in his owri way, a Political man'
and water until they divulged luddite secrets.-One of ... '
Èo¡ ri.rpí", we find Thomis arguin-g at one point
faúlt
really
the
Luddites
cannot
(p. i 7Oj tn"íth'ough we
them, John Booth the nineteeh year old son of an Anglican
ioi notãirrringtñetechniquesof trade unionism and elec- clergyman, was hovered over byan unsympathetic Revertorat poiitics deîelopeá by their'succgs¡o.r1, "!t would be j end"Roberion. As he weakened, Booth signalle$ to his capunduiy romantic to suppose that indusÊrial sabotage had a -' tor.
a. secret?" he asked weakly.
useful part to play in future attempts by.the.working
119n you keep
"Yes, yes,."¡eplied the eager Roberson, "l can!"
;1"**ãilùæäfor tt'r"¡r vario.us causes." Hence, tõ his
"9o can 1," Bogtf ;aj-d_. "So can 1." and he died.
ráã¡ng of itre tristóry, the significance of Luddism diminand
conditions-which
times
secret was- kept from Thomis and Roberson alike.
the
The
ishes with ttre passlnábf
-'ilr
necessary
to
the facts too keenly. Only-Booth, Ned Ludd
not
be
is
either
Whigsought
They
Uiårehiit ¡nto U"¡"g1
- ¿iJ i knÑ there
was no secret. -foseph C. d'Oronzio
gish or Fabian,,, t,"'Zontinr"t defensively, "to reject sabo-
."
WIN 13
KS
,
Peoples Bullétín BOafd
consciousness, or del¡ver such terror to millions of lndochinese.
ln a strange way our country seems to be fulfilling desti-
ny. Vietnam is a mirror of colonial history. Like Europe,
tlie United States achieved dominance by its alacrity at
olundering and enslaving "backward" peoples.'1Well,.man,
we iust had to have that gold. lf there's one thing the West
still excels in, it is stopping at nothing." America is just
more efficient than its predecessors, and the horror of its
vengeance accordingly more terrible now that ¡t is threat'
THE ALMOST WORLD
Hans Koning
New York: The Dial Press,1972
$7.95 hardcover, 213 PP.
ln the mid 1960's I first became acquainted wiüh the inci'
ffi:*,nþHhinfri[ï"ïffi
A FALL CONFERENCE neår Santa Barbara.
Callf orn¡a, wlll explore "Amerlcanltv"--th¿'
sive mind of Hans Koningsberger, Love ond Hote ln Chino
heloed mark mv liberation from our Cold lVar myopia, es'
o"iiullu with h¡; succinct definition of "imperialism," white
ioldieri in a colored country. Only much later did I appre-
his power as a novelist with The Revolutionary, which
captured much of the anguish I h.ad. Plt as a student, torn
beiween my privileged situation (which enabled ff¡e to re'
volt) and the realization of my impo-tence.
Éor a time he was a regular contributor to Boston After
t'Our Third World War," writfen
Dork,' I can never forget
iait spring, shortly beiore the mining of Haiphong harbor' I
was wort<Ïng wittrthe Ad Hoc Military Buildup Committee,
It is clear that the author feels no need to flatter or envy
youth. His praise in genuine, for he has shared their com'
ìiate
*tti.f', fr.¿ iist broken the story of the nationwide mobili'
zation of pianes and ships foi'Metnam. Better than anything else I read, his piece expressedour desperation at
fighting the war-agaìn-becapse we had n-o other choice'
" Koningsberger ii naturally
passionate,
for he, too,
has
lived undãr bombs. The Almost World is a freeform auto'
biography, from his days in the Dutch Underground' He
üiått in sharp vignettei his odyssey out of E-urope and into
itr" Un¡t.¿ Stãtei his life as a writer in New York and else'
*tt"i", and finally his growing commitment to the antiwar
róu"tit"nt. We áre treãted tõ a remarkable series of in'
iigtts,'comptemented by a subtle humor that frequently '
dr-iver home his most v¡tal thoughts.
Ádopting an abbreviated pen name-"| got very de'.or"trãd. . . 6eine asked if i write in German"-was small
i mh is sÏngu lar Americanizatio n. Koni ngsberger.
ñi"ãr"ià
against
"t
war
holy
our
of
heyday
rieræ"o in 1951 ãuring the
tglling
öå"tun¡tt, which affórded him many of his most
ã¡iåï""t¡à*. Yet though he was repelied by this nation's
iuiri¿it¡ut,'r,e discoveiõd upon his ieturn that Europe, both
gast an¿ \4iest, was stultifying in the materialism of its new
:
prosperitY.
'' ïãt¿ã*i"ally, it is America again that offers
the promise
of salvation-thiough the rebellion of its young. The propo'sition is now trite and nearly meaningless, but he argues
cònuinc¡ngty, avoiding the na¡vete of pop prophets.like.,
Charles Rèiðtr. He is not optimistic and acknowledges that
this is the movement of a minority even among the young;
ñ"uottl.t"tt, he scores its significance as the first maior opposition movement to arise within an empire at the he¡ght
of
- its imperialism.
Wn"iéu.r the barbarities of their respective colonial systems, neither Spain nor England experienced comparable
onlv ou-r advanðed technologv could
biins the war into our living rooms and impose it upon our
õhä;;i;ilotiã.
,
m¡tment. Emerging from the intimidated silence of the Mc'
Carthy era, he began in the late 1950's by ioining a protest
aga¡nst Civil Defensè drills. Civil rights and Vietnam were
sõon to follow, as were repeated iailings and the loss of
friends. "There was nothing sooth¡ng for me about being
right. lt soured my life."
Doubtless this ädmission will ring true to those of us in'
the struggle, determined to live free from the systematic
lies thafdetermine "reality" in this society. These lies.must
be opposed at every turn, we must persist. At a time of exhausiíon and despair, one finds in the writings of Haris
Koningsberger reason for the hope to continue. iI
1¡oñn'Kyper
THE LUDDITES:
tvtãctr¡ne-greaking
Malcolm
l.
Fôr those
of
in
stats r€llglon of Amer¡ca and how ltiffocts
and/or lnhlblts our revolutlonary heritaõã.For ¡nformation contact Humanltas Foúndatlon, Thê -fhomas Merton Unltv Centãt,892 Camlno Del Sur, Got6ta, CA 93017
A THOMAS MERTON UNITY CENTER
Am€rlcan
.has been establish€d ln lsla vista. cat¡fornia.
'Weekly råps on candh¡, tvlerton ãnO It¡é""-:
Gospel, exploratory dlscuss¡ons and exDer¡monts ¡n voluntary. ppvgrty, communitü.
. nonvlolent
reslstance. etc. For lnforma:t'lonms.
R. Scott Kenn€dy, Thomas Merton'
Full
contact
and
h
unity c€nter, 892 cam¡no Det sur, Goteta,
va
ruN:trffim
\
Regency England
excnanse
oUT-OF-WEDLOCr ? lf you wêre basêborn
ór are the mothgr. of-an lllegal chitd, paease
ioin us, we ar€ lnlnKln9 ol planninq a con?erence. Our consc¡ousness-rals¡nq qrouo ¡s
only to women, but w€ would ilki to
""ooen
'oä ln touctt w¡th, natural-born men. too.
cåt|3 (2L21 925'9413 or (2121 982-0794 or
wr¡ter Mother-rlght; 8o Thompson st.. abt
no. 7, NYc, NY looo2i Mother-riqht. ó7'
Columbia St., apt. no. 3-c, NYC, NY'1O0O2.
ened.
With our prosperity, we are the beneficiaries of several
hundred years of genocide; our freedom has been at the expense of others. The author perceives that.the young have
been made to bear the heaviest burden of this past:
Amerìcon children had to raise their heads obove a seo
of muck ond blood, with an entire civllization of
school teachers and frlm producers and John Woynes
putting them down, telling them that-those klllingi
'equatõd
pride ond iirilny ond love of country. . . ,.lt's
amozing'how many yoing people immunized therh':
selves to these obscenities' . . ' A supposedly pom'
generation of white sheltered middle-ctoss kids
pered
-oip*í"a
on the nationol scene-perhops for the frrst
iime in Mississippi-with a new and real courage.
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ti
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us who take solace from history, the-revival
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crãcv which routinely processes our humanity
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Uan'd of vandals who sprung up in the English midlands
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