By MIKE DAVIDOW
There is a danger that Pre-

sdent Johnson can be “un-
dumped.”
ute threat does not come
*om any massive. “draft. John-
ald movement. The five per-
rht vote for the President in
ne oraska last week where his
Bene remained on the ballot
dly gives evidence of any
Public clamor for the President
Teconsider his decision.

oth’ danger comes from the
ther main member of the Ad-

istration, Vice-President Hu-

BERT HUMPER

Riding on the

Johnson machine

ber H. Humphrey, who is well
on the way to gaining control of
the Democratic national conven-
tion through machine manipula-
tion of state delegations, partic-
ularly from the non-primary
states which outnumber the
others 35-15.

A recent CBS analysis of the
present delegate strength of De-
mocratic candidates revealed
that Humphrey with 1,265 dele-
gate votes was only 46.5 votes
short of winning on the first
ballot.

A majority, 1,311.5, is needed
for nomination. .

The CBS tally shows Hum-
phrey’s threat is based on alli-
ance of racist Dixiecrat and
Johnson forces in control of
party state machinery all over
the country. :

Humphrey is getting solid sup-
port from the South.

His vote here includes: Ar-
kansas, 33 out of 33, Georgia 43
out of 43, Louisiana 36 out of 36,
Mississippi 24 out of 24, South
Carolina 28 out of 28, North
Carolina 58 out of 59, Virginia
54 out of 54, Florida 48 out
of 63.

Even in Wallaceland, Alaba-
ma, Humphrey will get close to
half the vote, 14 out of 32.

The Johnson-Connally mach-
ine in Texas is delivering the
complete delegation, 104 votes,
to Humphrey even though their
candidate for Governor, Eugene
Locke, former Deputy Ambassa-
dor to Vietnam, ran fifth in the
May 4 state primaries.

The CBS analysis gives Hum-
phrey 100 out of 118 votes in
Illinois.

And despite the fact the pro-
Humphrey candidate in Indiana,
only 31 percent of the vote as
Gov. Roger Branigan received
compared to a total of 69 per-
cent polled by Senators Robert
Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy,
Humphrey will get 40 out of 63
to 21 for Kennedy and 2 for
McCarthy.

Likewise in Pennsylvania
where McCarthy with 400,000
votes won an impressive victory
in the preferential primary and
where Humphrey secured an in-
significant write-in vote, the
Vice-President will nevertheless
receive 80 out of 130 votes with
18 for McCarthy and 32 for
Kennedy.

This is made possible by party
machine-made regulations which
override, avoid or undermine
the clear choice of the Demo-
cratic voters.

Humphrey’s rise to near-con-
trol of the convention delegates
is in sharp contrast to the anti-
Administration trend and his
Own poor showing in the pri-
mary ‘contests since the Presi-
den withdrew from the race
and he announced his candidacy.
Aside from his and the Admin-
istration’s defeats in Indiana and
Texas, Humphrey was
in Washington, D.C., by Kenne-
dy and only managed to get a
9 percent write in vote in Neb-
raska despite efforts of his sup-
porters.

Thus, it was with good reason
that Humphrey’s and the Presi-
dent’s strategists decided to
avoid entering primaries still
open in any form.

Moreover, this enabled them
to quietly concentrate on the job
of sewing up state delegations
while the two anti-Administra-
tion candidates sharpened up the
struggle against each other.

The strategy thus far appears
to have achieved some of its ob-
jectives.

The President’s withdrawal,
the beginnings of Vietnam peace
negotiations, and Humphrey’s
demagogy have tended to ob-
scure the fact that the aim of
the “Dump Johnson” movement
was not just the removal of the
President but of his Administra-
tion and its crisis-breeding poli-
cies at home and abroad.

And Humphrey was second
only to the President in the Ad-
ministration and in responsibil-
ity for the policy of guiding the
unjust and unpopular war in
Vietnam and for the contain-
ment policy imposed on the
black ghettos.

But the character of the elec-
tion campaign thus far since the
President’s withdrawal and the
conduct of McCarthy and Ken-
nedy is hardly in the spirit of
this all-important fact.

McCarthy has certainly not
dealt with Humphrey forcefully
as the candidate who represents
an Administration and its poli-
cies which the McCarthy move-
ment is dedicated to eliminate.

Kennedy on the other hanf
has largely limited his attacks
to light jabs against Humphrey’s
“happy” campaign.

McCarthy and Kennedy have
reserved most of the heat for
each other.

Even more important, with
the dump-Johnson objective half
completed, the McCarthy move-
ment and the anti-Administra-
tion forces around Kennedy have
considerably blunted their blows
against the other half of the
Johnson team.

The Administration forces ap-
pear to count on this shift in
Democratic and independent vot-
er rebellion to turn the heat
away from itself and to convert
“dump Johnson” into “enter
Humphrey.”

It is on this kind of an atmos-
phere that the Administration
also counts to make convention
deals.

There is an antidote to this
old politics: the new politics that
sparked the “dump Johnson’ re-
bellion within the major parties
and gave rise to independent
peace and freedom parties out-
side them.

And it is becoming more-and
more apparent that the strategy
of the Humphrey campaign is to
attempt to contain this rebellion
by dividing the powerful anti-
Administration mass movements
and preventing them from com-
pleting their significant partial
victories won in Johnson’s with-
drawal and the beginnings of
Vietnam peace negotiations.

Black liberation and anti-communism

By CARL BLOICE

WASHINGTON

mirssessing the recent spate of
itary coups that toppled pro-
iressive governments in Africa,
i Magazine “African Commun-
anti Pointed to tribalism and
Ol “communism as the two ide-
°gical instruments of the for-
a Colonialists in splitting and
Viding the people.
al It is becoming increasingly
“ar that these same two wea-
iad slightly altered — are
Ng used to accomplish the
nme objectives in the black
ideo unities of the U.S. The
yy logical campaign is delibe-
: € and was displayed in strik-
© Telief in the days following
assassination of Dr. Martin

her Z.

wet Outlines of the drive were
| Played most clearly in the
“ck on Stokley Carmichael

1 minutes of King’s death.

First, two syndicated column-
nd not noted for accuracy
: ©n it comes to black people’s
Vities, conjured up the image
; ichael receiving orders
© night of the assassination
om @ mysterious source, going
fo the streets of Washington,

D.C., and committing acts that
those of us who were on the
Streets that night know were
never committed.

It came, therefore, as quite a
surprise to hear Carmichael last
week denounce Lenin, Karl
Marx and the entire white Left.
His anti-communism appears to
have become explicit. Similar
shock has come with the new
anti-Left statements of writer
LeRoi Jones, implying that
white Leftists were partly res-
ponsible for the ghetto rebel-
lions.

Actually, both Carmichael and
Jones are politically sophistic-
ated. They know the direction
from which the threat of the
black community comes.

The drive to obstruct unity
within the black community, to
set people against one another,
to dissuade militants from read-
ing or considering the thoughts
of great revolutionaries of the
past and to remove the political
Left as a force in the community
began long ago. It is anala-
gous to tribalism. It is ironic
(or perhaps not) that two men
of great stature — Malcolm X
and Martin Luther King—who
spoke to the masses and de-

fended internationalism — were
gunned down. :

It is by now old hat to say
that co-operation and repression
are opposite sides of the same
coin, designed to continue op-
pression. So, while some are
pushed into defensive positions
and subjected to attempts to iso-
late them, others are wooed by
the “modernizers.”

Throughout Asia, Africa and
Latin America people are being
told by the neo-colonialists:
“The system works. Cooperate

with us and we will share with
you our techniques.” One would
be foolish to believe that what-
ever methods State Department
brains have worked out for for-
eign penetration are not utilized
for the home colony.

The irony of all this is that
while this unfortunate drama is
being acted out in the news-
Papers ‘and over the airways,
there are so many people really
“taking care of business.”

None of the various theories

being pushed explain, for in-

Fos obowesy cee

Union conference in N.Y.:

speech April 12, at the National Black Anti-War, Anti-Draft

Black people cannot trust the ‘hs leh ce lowe
use every time we did in the past we got sletiory
or,

= stiagle: h conker help black people because
Besides

Gos bon Saks Co she

account the economic aspect

PACIFIC TRIBUNE— MAY 31, 1968—Page 5°

stance, the Memphis garbage-
men’s strike. Only one possess-
ing a certain kind of faith and
trust in masses and an under-
standing of some rather old con-
cepts of struggle could have
foreseen it.

Much of the responsibility for
the current Situations must rest
with certain among today’s
white radicals. All too often, the
hard task of developing Strategy
gives way to what a noted white
revolutionary called “slavishly
bowing to spontaneity.”

While many whites have ac-
cepted the injunction to fight in
their own communities, too
many others still view black
People (and in their romanti-
cism — the ghetto rebellions)
as tools for making their revolu-
tion. Too often, this is a cheap
Substitute for the difficult job
of cambating racism, their own
and that of the nation.

Racism and anti-communism
are the creations of the oppres-
sors (no matter who adopts
them). For black radicals or
white radicals to graft either of
them to their political perspec-
tives, or to yield to them, plays
into the hands of the man.

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