Rockefeller murder trail By ART SHIELDS Governor Nelson Rockefeller was only following the bloody traditions of his family—and the monopolies it represents—when he authorized the ghastly mas- sacre in the Attica prison. Mas- sacres of strikers who wanted more of the wealth they pro- duced are engraved in the Rockefeller family record. This must not be forgotten as the New York State governor’s name is mentioned as the pos- sible vice-presidential candidate in a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket. These massacres were com- mitted in many lands, for the Rockefeller empire is interna- tional. And we'll begin with Saudi Arabia, a slave land where chattel slavery - still flourishes. There three Rocke- feller oil companies hold 70 per- cent of the stock of the fabu- lously rich ARAMCO oil firm. and there David Rockefeller, the Chase Manhattan. banker, Nelson’s brother, shares power with the king. ARAMCO splits its profits with the slave king, who keeps the oil workers in bondage. When the oil workers began building a trade union in 1956, the company called the king’s killers in. The oil workers’ leaders were promptly put to death in a fiendish way. They were fiung into pits filled with scorpions and stung to death. Many strikers were also but- chered in the Rockefeller oil fields in Venezuela. There Nel- son Rockefeller, the present governor, had a special respon- sibility. He had general charge of the family’s Latin American properties for many years. Coming back to the U.S. we find the tombstones of many murdered coal miners who went on strike against the Rockefel- ler companies in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Colorado. In these states the Consolida- tion Coal Co. mining camps were really miners’ prisons for many years. They were policed by murderous gunmen from the Baldwin-Feltz agency of Blue- ‘ fields, W. Va. These killers were LIKE FATHER—LIKE SON Up Y ( A p x _ Ww \ THE ROCKEFELLERS John D. Senior Because of greed intense Murdered his miners In their temporary tents. His grandson Nelson One by one Hunts them down in prison Where they have no room to run. J. S. Wallace given sheriff’s badges in West Virginia that gave them license to murder. And in Colorado they were sworn into the State’s National Guard before the Lud- low massacre. Mother Mary Jones, the Joan of Arc of the coal miners, told me that she saw the same Bald- win-Feltz killers in Colorado whom she had known in West Virginia. They were using more than bullets, however, when they murdered 11 children and two women in one of the strikers’ tents on April 21, 1914. The women and children were hiding in a hole in the ground under the tent to escape machine-gun bullets at the time. But that U.S. guilty of Diem's murder Nixon confesses WASHINGTON — President Nixon boasted that the U.S. rulers were guilty of the mur- der of the then president of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem on Nov. 2, 1963. “ft would remind all con- cerned that the way we got into Vietnam was through overthrowing Diem and the complicity in the murder of Diem,” he told a news confer- ence here on Sept. 16. The killing of Diem and his brother at the time was pass- ed off as “accidental suicide.” i. A, KGa ~~ ty, — “\ = ad 4 JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., GAVE THE ORDER THAT LED To THE MASSACRE OF (9 COAL MINERS, THEIR WIVES & CHILDREN AT LUDLOW, COLO., APRIL 20, 1914 “oad ns NELSON ROCKEFELLE GAVE THE ORDER THAT LED TO THE MASSACRE OF 41 PRISONERS & GUARDS AT ATTICA PRISON, ATTICA, NEW YORK-SEPT. (3, (971 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1971--PAGE'10' | * = ° didn’t save them. The gunmen poured Rockefeller oil on the tent and set it ablaze. When one of the miners’ lead- ers tried to save them they kill- ed him. I’ll let Michael Dispenza, an 80-year-old veteran of the Ludlow massacre, whom I met later, tell the story. “Louis Tikas was a very brave man,” Dispenza told me. “He was running into the tent to pull out the women and chil- dren when the gunmen grabbed him. They crushed his skull with gun butts and shot him full of holes.” Many other mine-s were kill- ed at the same time. These mur- ders were endorsed by Gover- nor Rockefeller’s father, John © D. Rockefeller, Jr., who had per- sonal charge of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., a Rockefeller property. At the time of the Colorado killings he was teach- ing a bible class in the Baptist church in New York City. The United Mine Workers Journal depicted this Sunday School role in two panels of a bitter cartoon. One cartoon panel shows the frock-coated Rockefeller quot- ing Jesus’ appeal to “Come unto me.” The next panel shows his gunmen burning the children to death. We said Papa Rockefeller en- dorsed the Ludlow massacre. And we'll quote his own words form his telegram to President Welborn of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. after the strike was broken. It read as follows: “Hearty congratulations on winning the strike. I sincerely approve of all your actions.” (Daily World) Labor aims in Winnipeg electiOt By DON CURRIE WINNIPEG — Working class voters have an opportunity on Oct. 6 to elect a labor and peo- ple’s majority to the new Win- nipeg City council and make it one of the most progressive ad- ministrations in the country. Labor Election Committee spokesmen are needed in the Council to play a role that no other left representatives can play. To unite the labor vote is a decisive feature of the elec- tion—and only the Communists have advanced this vital issue as part of their campaign. It is doubly important in the period ahead to have a majority of working class spokesmen among whom are Communists, to fight for jobs and an adequate income and to advance pro- grams to cope with President Nixon’s 10% import surcharge, which Manitoba government spokesman say will add another 2,500 jobless to the 23,000 al- ready looking for work. Led by Ald. Joe Zuken and former school trustee . Mary Kardash, the Labor Election Committee, a coalition of Com- munist and non-Communist working class voters, has _field- ed nine candidates for the 50- seat Unicity Council. The LEC is campaigning for the election of a labor majority to city council to defeat the “Independ- ent Citizens Election Com- mittee” (ICEC) candidates, a co- alition of big-business-backed Liberals and Tories. The so- called “independents” opposed Unicity in the legislature but now are attempting to capture the new city to steal a march on the NDP provincial government at a local level. courage to face it. racism. ers? Racism. fense of democracy. We join all other cans now demanding the punishmen responsible for the Attica massacre. What turned them into such sadistic that they failed to discriminate between ers and hostages? Racism. What caused Correction Comm wald to spread tales about prisoners ‘throats of hostages as a pretext for signal for the massacre? Racism. What caused Governor Rockef: to visit the prison and then to order the ™ assault on the prisoners? Racism. What prompted President Nixon gratulations to Rockefeller? Racism. And what, in the first place, caused t able prison conditions which bear mos sively on Black and Brown prisoners, the country’s prisons far in excess 0 portionate number in the population This is the truth also behind the Reagan frameup of Angela Davis, t Rockefeller was a willing accessory. truth behind the recent murder of Georg® son in San Quentin prison. The extirpation of racism from our tions and customs is an imperative for 2k democratie-minded, The NDP so far has under- played the danger of the ICEC and has not appealed for unity of the labor voters to win a majority on the new council. In fact, in some wards the NDP has carried on a flirtation with local Liberals and Tories, and it has not fielded a mayoralty candidate. . The LEC has sharply. criticiz- ed the NDP for its failure to contest the mayoralty seat and” for its refusal to agree to a unit- ed front approach. The LEC in- dicated its willingness to forgo running in certain wards if the NDP would not oppose alder- man Zuken and Mary Kardash. Instead, the NDP nominated in all wards, and in the school board race—-with three to be elected, and Mary Kardash a strong contender for re-election —the NDP nominated a full slate. The Waffle group inside the NDP is divided on its attitude to the issue of unity. Some favor a united approach while others played the decisive role in bringing about a solid NDP slate in the school board race. Some left forces in the Waffle are supporting -Ald. Zuken’s campaign while others have adopted an _ anti-Communist position. = Two ‘The NDP and LEC programs reveal how each group is plac- ing the issues. The LEC is -ad- vancing a clear working-class program of struggle, while the NDP tends to emphasize en- vironmental issues, planning the urban core and setting up a committee to coordinate hous- ing construction. The NDP to date has not tackled the big ment, or the ne and pensioners. The fundamen The truth is that this atrocity was caus _ What filled the state troopers and police such a bloodlust that caused them to shout, ©) your knées, n - - -- r,” and “Crawl n-~= and “n - - - - r this” and “n - - - - r that emptying their guns in the bodies of the P”™ killes priso™ to rush who ¢ their PY aca re Nb it is t eet Bloodbath at Attica Editorial in the U.S. Daily World Before the truth about the Attica p bath is buried under a mess of officia empty cliches, we should try to summo? rison blot: aa 1 alibis Ae ed by me while son con ne intole? yr t OF aD é Jack institt the a issues of tax rela the tal me yi ; thos? with “ issioner Os cutting OF | giving ! fuse e eller to * sive h between the approae qat® NDP and the LEC © ardund the questio if to organize a PO at a local level for action. To date the voters aroun class issues, bU the labor vote for & This attitude wie jetely , p slose™ ed in the Iccal rade which com the elections in its the action of the Labor Council W: da and labor candy ning ty Wl majo 5 pling Po mal tunity of m parade. Why The LEC is @ election of a ati tet merely to admi n city government, a senior tack on the pusiness deal Metro and the big for a new tax city. The old a debt of $ taken over by t plus 80% of ee Jfare- calling for the ie come from inc : es a and tion and all health and wé and royalty ° mining firms, CPR which for been subsidize ers and contin pay its fair sh@ es ; of ig taken no initiative |.) w0 fi ends © the é ea which the LEC '8 s sot 1 DY ost! 6 af p %