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VOL. 28, NO. 31

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Vietnam Vets rushed in

Ghetto uprisings

rock U.S. cities

The U.S. government rushed thousands of troops—including paratroop veterans
from Vietnam — to the ghettos of American cities last week as Negro and white
dwellers of the slums gave warning that either the conditions that gave rise to the

slums be wiped out or the slums will wipe out the cities.

In America’s long, hot sum-
mer more than 27 cities have
witnessed massive uprisings in
ghettos, and more than 6,000
people have been arrested and
scores killed. Hundreds of thou-
sands of Negroes have been
made homeless.

In a front page editorial this
week the U.S. Worker described
the background to the demonstra-
tions in this way:

“In a land where affluence is

boasted of as commonplace in
every TV cigarette ad, millions
are jobless and hunger dwells
among them, Half of all Negro
Americans and a fifth of the whole
nation have endured an agony of
poverty and neglect for years on
end.

“Their appeals and petitions
have received mocking response
and empty demagogice promises
from the local politicians andthe
Johnson administration, Such is
the background to the Detroits
and Newarks...”

The editorial says that Ameri-
can cities are now the scene of
violent upsurges of the most
downtrodden and deprived of the
poor and jobless, “The Negro
communities, suffering the most
outrageous discrimination in
matters of jobs, decent housing,
educational and recreational fa-
cilities, are targeted for massed
police occupation.”

It says that the events in De-
troit “signalize a new stage in
the rebellion of the poor. Though
the bulk of the Negro people
are of the poorest category of
the population, though the Negro
people played the major role in
the demonstrative protests
against the crimes of the Es-
tablishment there, Detroit wit-
nessed an upsurge of the poor
which featured the united and
fraternal action of Negro and

‘white together!

« ... The uprising in the
slums of the big cities during
this month renders a dramatic

service to the country, It has

administered what should be a
timely shaking-up of all thought-
ful people. The rebellion of the
poor has served warning to the
nation to stop its drifting toward
disaster in the wake of the L.B,
Johnson dream of a Southeast
Asian empire, and to strike out
on a new course in national

policy.”

The editorial calls for an end
to “Operation Graveyard” in Viet-
nam and urges that the $50 billion
a year being wasted in “this mad-
ness be re-routed into vast in-
vestments for eliminating slums
in America.”

It urges mass demonstrations
to aid the victims of the “brutal
and heartless military suppres-
sion throughout the country,”
and calls for material and moral
aid to the struggle for equality
and justice for the Negro people,

“No one has the right to chal-
lenge the form of their struggle,
after hundreds of years of abuse
and absence of relief,” concludes
the editorial,

President Johnson, in aspeech
last week on the ghetto uprisings,
indicated his intention to. crush
the Negro people and the poor
in the U.S. with clubs, bayonets
and machine guns, His “tough
line” was echoed Wednesday this
week in a speech by Vice-Presi-
dent Humphrey.

Armed forces sent into De-
troit last week included about
2,000 paratroop veterans of the
Vietnam war,

All out to Peace Arch rally

-* Hiroshima Day rally starts Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
| * Youth march leaves City Hall Saturday, 11 a.m.

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