Notes in the News
NOTES in the NEWS The Right to Rebuttal Radio stations across the country are estimated to be carrying as many as 10,000 right-wing broadcasts weekly. But because of the great number and wide...
...Milwaukee's Father Groppi After a long and bitter summer in the Negro ghettos of the Northern cities, Milwaukee has emerged, somewhat surprisingly, as the focal point of the civil rights crusade...
...Fortunately, the Federal Communications Commission has at last put some sharp teeth in its "fairness doctrine...
...Reportedly, according to The New York Times, he is moving away from his past backing of the Administration...
...But he consistently perverts that Herblock in The Washington Post "These weren't damaged in the riots—they went to pieces years before" power...
...His views have been repudiated by both state and county Democratic committees...
...operations...
...Highway Robbery A decade ago General Motors officials revealed to a Senate investigating committee headed by the late Senator Estes Kefauver that GM automobile prices were determined by a formula which produced a profit of twenty-five per cent on investment— ajter taxes...
...This compared at that time with an average manufacturing corporation net profit of about eleven per cent...
...This prospect grows stronger as the war drags on...
...Senator Edward Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who announced support of the White House following a trip to Vietnam months ago, has veered toward the doves, protesting that no more GIs be sent until the Saigon government "begins to stand up to its responsibility...
...If I were concerned only with my own popularity or my own poll, that wouldn't be the way I would go about it—to suggest higher taxes or more wars...
...His performance is characteristic of too many investigating members of Congress who bring in the verdict before the trial begins...
...In the meantime, the average of all other manufacturing profits had inched up to 11.6 per cent...
...How much of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's budget of more than $140,000 for political operations in Mississippi during the second six months of 1967 has been supplied, either directly or indirectly, by the Communist Party or by organizations or individuals connected with or influenced by the Communist Party...
...Not to do that would be a horrible distortion of the teachings of Jesus Christ...
...In an effort to decipher this Reagan message, we have read it while assuming both horizontal and vertical positions...
...and it would be nice to have the SACB to retire to...
...As a matter of simple fact, the SACB has never had a smidgeon of utility beyond affording a haven or sinecure for Presidential proteges...
...How much is the National Council of Churches going to contribute to the activities of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party or for its operations...
...many experienced observers feel the day-after-day marches have provided a safety valve that has averted a fiery explosion...
...The Washington Post October 6, 1967 agree with the AFL-CIO hierarchy's stand on the war...
...I have to do what I do because of what I have seen...
...Father Groppi, who is based in St...
...It was the first time in the Catholic Herald-Citizen's ninety-seven year history that an archbishop had gone directly to his Catholic flock through an editorial...
...The public may pay heavily for this generous excursion of the insurance companies into the slums...
...the profits of Ford increased by 51.6 per cent, and the profits of General Motors rose by 100.8 per cent...
...The marches have been met on occasion by vindictive, brick-throwing crowds in the virtually all-white south side of Milwaukee, whose working and lower-middle class residents are largely Polish-American Catholics...
...But before the citizenry could applaud the generosity of the life insurance industry or perhaps suggest that it was long overdue, considering its massive profits, the President and the insurance tycoons were congratulating each other on television on the deal they had made...
...And the wise thing...
...The latest Gallup Poll in October revealed that disapproval of the way Mr...
...Johnson said last month with more than a modicum of self-righteousness...
...Boniface parish in the heart of Milwaukee's near north side Negro ghetto, has been adviser for the past few years to the city's NAACP Youth Council, and is well-known to television audiences as the leader of daily demonstrations in the form of Selma-style marches and rallies demanding desegregated public schools, the removal of the Caucasian-only clause in the Eagles Club membership requirements, and the adoption of a fair housing law in his city...
...The FCC's ruling provides long-needed protection for long-libeled liberals—and maligned conservatives...
...Paste and paper clips won't do...
...Clause by clause the courts have found it to be unconstitutional...
...NOTES in the NEWS The Right to Rebuttal Radio stations across the country are estimated to be carrying as many as 10,000 right-wing broadcasts weekly...
...Naturally HUAC wants to keep it going...
...One item that seemed to elude the television script writers for the insurance companies, which are devoted disciples of risk capitalism, was the fact that there was no risk at all in the deal they made with the President...
...John Kenneth Galbraith, national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, and Dr...
...Given this hard fact, some commendation may be due the nation's major life insurance companies and President Johnson for working out the recently concluded arrangement under which these firms pledged to invest $1 billion in ghetto real estate development...
...Ford and Chrysler did their best to achieve the GM profit standard...
...The ruling also has been appealed to the Supreme Court by the Red Lion (Pennsylvania) Broadcasting Company which claims it limits free speech and is unconstitutionally vague...
...But it has become the center of national attention in the post-summer era of the civil rights struggle because of the impassioned activities of Father James Groppi, a slight, intense, thirty-six-year-old Roman Catholic priest who was born and raised in an Italian neighborhood on Milwaukee's white south side...
...The Milwaukee City Council, reflecting the fears and prejudices of its home-owning ethnic constituents, has yet to learn the lesson of the summer violence and has consistently voted down proposed fair housing ordinances by margins of eighteen to one, the one favorable vote being that of the only Negro on the Council...
...But, honestly, if they want it to work, they had better let somebody else try to rig it...
...Unhesitatingly the Senate has voted a generous installment for the supersonic transport subsidy, which may well turn out to rival the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) line as the egregious boondoggle of our day...
...But Reuther pointed out that labor productivity has soared to such an extent that in the same five-year stretch, while "improvements in wages and fringe benefits of auto workers . . . averaged about twenty-nine per cent...
...The hitch, of course, is that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Congressional patrons of the military want to commit the country to a heavily-deployed, or "thick," antimissile defense system—complete with a vast national network of nuclear shelters...
...Such a Senator is James O. Eastland...
...The leading organizers whose names appear on the letters of invitation are E.mil Mazey, secretary-treasurer of the United Auto Workers...
...As for the additional cost of required safety equipment, Reuther pointed out that "the added safety equipment sold for only $58 when installed as optional equipment last year...
...Failure of a station to comply may mean a fine of $500 for each day of delay, up to a $10,000 maximum for each attack...
...But the Sixteenth Street viaduct between the north side Negro ghetto and the lily-white south side, often crossed by Father Groppi and his marchers, is called for good reason, "the longest bridge in the world, because it separates Africa from Poland...
...Martin Luther King, Jr., both critics of Administration policy in Vietnam, will address the Chicago gathering...
...And slenderization is a mass production industry, along with trimline television, lean automobiles, and linear sofas...
...A Democrat from Mississippi, Eastland holds impressive power as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and its Internal Security Subcommittee, among other assignments...
...The wave of peace sentiment seems to have had some constructive effect on every GOP Presidential aspirant but Ronald Reagan...
...Reagan's Riddle "Dutch Reagan, '35," returned to his alma mater, Eureka College in Illinois, and made a speech that included passages fuzzy with gobbledy-gook...
...Carl and Anne Braden, executive directors of the Southern Conference Education Fund, an interracial group working in the civil rights and poverty fields...
...They, in turn, have counter-marched in opposition to Father Groppi's band, sometimes into the north side ghetto, and on two occasions to the residence of Archbishop William E. Cousins, where they demanded in harsh terms that Father Groppi be suppressed...
...It was perhaps inevitable that this aesthetic of emaciation should flower finally in the form of a "thin" anti-ballistic missile system...
...Maier fears that a city-only law would intensify the flight of whites to the suburbs and leave the city with a decreasing tax base from which to draw funds needed for urban development...
...none has shown signs of adopting any kind of effective fair housing law...
...Furious at the FCC for its expansion of the fairness doctrine, the Reverend Carl Mclntire, who broadcasts over 600 stations daily, has appealed to his followers to write their Congressmen demanding legislation to overturn the ruling...
...Michigan's Governor George Romney has confused everybody about his Vietnam stance, but has managed to emerge from his "brainwashing" flap as more dove than hawk...
...War Divides the GOP As nationwide support for the war in Vietnam continues to decline steadily, dove sentiment has risen sharply among prominent Republicans...
...Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara phrased the...
...and Alan McSurely and his wife, Margaret, mountain organizers for SCEF...
...such "improvements" have dislodged the poor and packed them tighter than ever in the ghettos, and at higher rents...
...The companies have financed many commercial and high-priced apartment buildings in deteriorated areas...
...To teach, as a priest must, about brotherhood and not be concerned about injustices and not condemn them everywhere is the worst kind of pietism," Father Groppi says...
...Milwaukee, with its 800,000 citizens, is neither the largest city that experienced summer troubles, nor do its 90,000 Negroes represent anywhere near the largest black urban population—although possibly the most segregated...
...this voter opposition now numbers more doves than hawks...
...They were Joseph Mulloy of the Appalachian Volunteers...
...The SACB is really an invention of the HUAC, although the late Senator McCarran succeeded in claiming some of the credit for it...
...This is an ancient device long cherished by demagogues...
...To his everlasting credit, the Archbishop, resisting pressures he described as "beyond belief," has backed Father Groppi and the civil rights goals he and his NAACP group are trying to achieve...
...But there are some Senators and Representatives whose minds are made up in advance and who would rather not be confused by having facts tossed at them...
...For the present, Father Groppi accepts non-violence, but as a tactic, not necessarily as a "way of life," as he puts it...
...Readers of The Progressive can support this drive for fairness on the air by joining the monitoring effort (for details write the Institute of American Democracy, 1330 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C...
...Of course the Committee hasn't had much material to work with since it put on that great show in the House Caucus Room a year or so ago with a talented group of anti-Vietnam students from California...
...policy in Vietnam...
...But consumers buy cars, not hours...
...TV Guide summed it all up by saying that "whole sections of the nation are awash with a brand of vitriol which is neither rational political dissent nor the constructive goading of responsible reformers...
...Among the organizations most persistently excoriated by rightist broadcasters are civil rights and civil liberties groups, the National Council of Churches, labor unions, peace organizations, the United Nations, the U.S...
...Unblushingly the apostles of fiscal prudence in the House have voted themselves new mileage fees...
...On Capitol Hill, the arguments of the economizers have an insincere and hollow ring...
...Actually, the Mayor should feel grateful toward Groppi...
...Reprisals followed: A grand jury in Pike county in eastern Kentucky's hills indicted five anti-poverty workers under the state's forty-seven-year-old sedition statute...
...And if not, why not really reform the tax structure, close the loopholes, perhaps even do away with that holy of holies, the oil depletion allowance...
...Some are now warning their GOP colleagues that to win the Presidency in 1968 the party must offer the voters some better choice than more bombing, and Senator Thruston Morton of Kentucky, a former GOP national chairman, said flatly that no Republican hawk can be elected to the White House...
...In its earlier form, the FCC regulation governing this doctrine placed the burden, in effect, on the victim to find out that he had been smeared on the air...
...From where we sit, the popular thing—de-escalating the war and its staggering costs—might, just this once, turn out to be the responsible thing, too...
...Walter Reuther has stated his case well...
...But because of the great number and wide dispersion of these extremist programs, organizations and individuals smeared by the hucksters of hate often have been unaware of the attacks on them...
...is not justified...
...The pressures for an anti-ballistic missile program are rooted deep in the American "military-industrial complex," to borrow a phrase from that famous honorary non-Socialist, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...The Institute for American Democracy, formed by a number of prominent citizens to combat extremism, is seeking to establish monitoring groups around the country...
...What the commercials did not point out—but The New Republic did—is that for years the insurance companies have gouged slum dwellers with high rates for life and auto insurance, and sometimes refused them insurance, even protection against fire and theft...
...But now the situation has been radically changed because the FCC has notified radio stations in every state that henceforth "when a personal attack is made on the honesty, character, or integrity of a person or group, the station carrying this attack must inform the person or group attacked within a week, supplying a copy of the tape, script, or accurate summary of the attack, and making time available for a response...
...About 450 full-time union leaders or staff members are expected to attend the National Leadership Assembly...
...In all the thirty years of froth and frenzy provided by HUAC, the so-called Subversive Activities Control Act is its sole significant legislative product...
...We know that these people are Communists," declaimed Robert Holcomb, who is president of both the Pikesville Chamber of Commerce and the coal operators association...
...It is this kind of public sentiment that may make peace ever more popular at the upper levels of the Republican Party...
...Mulloy and the McSurelys filed suit in Federal court, challenging the constitutionality of the Kentucky sedition law...
...Each group tends to preserve its customs, language, and literature...
...But the cost of any optional item is greatly reduced when it is made standard and produced in volume...
...The key commentary in Reuther's statement is: "Industry spokesmen point to increasing labor costs per hour...
...Bankers Life Company of Des Moines, Iqwa, for example, paid $7,200 a minute for NBC commercials in which the company extravagantly praised itself and the insurance industry for their forthcoming investment in the ghettos...
...Twice as many Americans disapprove as approve of his way of dealing with the war...
...At one point, deploring the "horizontal nature of contemporary society," California's Governor declared: "This horizontal stratification has led to lateral communication, and it is highly essential that we restore vertical dialogue if not an outright recognition of the naturalness and rightness of a vertical structuring of society...
...There is no excuse—including labor and safety costs—for driving automobile prices still higher...
...The culture of our country is being brutalized by a logic which seeks to justify the use of the most inhumane weapons of war whose primary victims inevitably are the population of Vietnam—both North and South...
...Groppi-"advised" demonstrations are still non-violent, but the priest has warned openly that if his movement fails to achieve its goals non-violently he would not hesitate to turn (or advise turning) to violence...
...Eastland, who runs his Subcommittee with an iron grip, graciously assured anybody who might be listening that because an investigation might be imminent—it had not been ordered by the Subcommittee—he would not "attempt to draw conclusions" in advance...
...Nor do they generally have the resources or the time to monitor the huge number of broadcasts sponsored by fundamentalist preachers such as Carl Mclntire and Billy James Hargis, the Life Lines programs backed by oil billionaire H. L. Hunt, the Manion Forum, the Dan Smoot and Birch Society programs, or the myriad other spoutings by extreme right-wingers...
...Both Senators Morton and Case reported extremely heavy and favorable mail response to their speeches attacking President Johnson's Vietnam policy...
...Senator Eastland's modus operandi was made clear in his recent speech on the Senate floor in which he charged that the National Conference for New Politics (NCNP) was dominated by Communists and worked "hand in glove with the Communist Party...
...Times have not changed...
...But you have to do what is responsible and you have to do what is right, if you sit in this place...
...Unstintingly the war in Vietnam is bankrolled to ' a point that is now sure to exceed the officially acknowledged $30 billion a year...
...Their newly enhanced stature may make it more difficult than ever to get Congress to conduct a comprehensive, long overdue investigation into these firms' discriminatory insurance procedures, the nature of their investments, and the reasons for their meager contribution to Federal income tax revenues...
...If Father Groppi can open this bridge peacefully, he may save Milwaukee from the hell on earth that would result if the demands of racial justices are not met...
...It was all to be guaranteed by the taxpayers...
...each group lives in close proximity to its own ethnic kind, and none evidences any neighborhood welcome to Negroes...
...Maier's bitterness toward Father Groppi reached its climax last month when he denounced the priest as a "white Uncle Tom" serving the interests of suburban whites...
...Anti-poverty workers who help the mountain dwellers in their opposition to strip mining have incurred the wrath of the coal companies and their allies among county officials...
...He may be right, but we wonder...
...Less clear-cut is the non-violent aspect of the Milwaukee movement, a heritage of the Martin Luther King philosophy and technique as exemplified in Selma, Montgomery, and elsewhere...
...We have been listening hard, but nobody has told us why not...
...Chairman Eastland then proceeded to draw the following conclusions, from testimony in hearings which had not been held, and hearings which minutes before he had stated might never be held: ". . . who can doubt the cooperation between the Communist Party and the Conference for New Politics...
...Lowell K. Bridwell, Federal Highway Administrator, confirmed this judgment last May when he said: "In my opinion any substantial price increase based on compliance with the initial Federal motor vehicle safety standards...
...Tlrie Word^^f rom Washington It is a fascinating contest, the game of chicken being played by the President and Congress to determine which will come first, the tax surcharge or cuts in Federal spending...
...Secretary-General U Thant's view that there is an alternative creative role for America in the world today and that 'the labor movement can be a very powerful force in producing the changes in attitude which will be required.' " The middle and lower echelon unionists who will make up the bulk of the attendance at the National Assembly are much closer to the grass roots of the labor movement than Meany or his top AFL-CIO colleagues...
...No Republican appears more alarmed by the dove-hawk split in GOP ranks than Everett Dirksen, Senate minority leader, a bristling hawk...
...New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, from the privileged sanctuary of being an avowed non-candidate (but the GOP's strongest contender in the polls), has not discussed Vietnam for months...
...These leaders, and others, have organized chapters of the Trade Union Division of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) in a dozen cities, in opposition to U.S...
...Tainted Altruism The country's rapidly deteriorating central cities and their slum dwellers desperately need all the help they can get...
...Confrontations between the Executive and Legislative branches are always entertaining spectacles, and there have been altogether too few such diversions of late...
...Dirksen has enjoyed the past occasions when he pointed out that while Republican Senators supported President Johnson on Vietnam, Democrats were hopelessly divided on the issue...
...The judges said, "We do not think the government of Pike County or the government of Kentucky can be overthrown without in part overthrowing the Government of the United States...
...Victory for Freedom Many of the mountain people of Kentucky's coal regions have been ruined by strip-mining operations that scar the land, destroy timber and wildlife, cause rapid erosion, and bring on rock slides that crush homes...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, "brought the nation's anti-poverty program to another crossroads, testing once again whether Americans really want to allow the poor to assert themselves...
...Johnson is handling the situation in Vietnam has climbed to a record high...
...Political pundits predict that Richard Nixon, still considered to command most GOP delegate strength today, may modify—or at least becloud— his long held position which made him even more hawkish than President Johnson...
...The military is talking thin and thinking thick...
...What makes it even more repulsive is this fraudulent attempt to destroy their impoverished victims by impugning their patriotism...
...The automobile industry tries to justify its price increases on the grounds of increased labor costs and required safety improvements...
...Some of Senator Dirksen's sharpest attacks in recent Senate debates were aimed at Morton's and Percy's dovish proposals...
...Once again, budget-cutting has become the pretext for an assault on domestic welfare programs...
...Supreme Court, various agencies and officials of the Federal Government, and almost every other organization committed to progressive goals...
...Senator Morton, who until a few months ago supported President Johnson on Vietnam, appears to have become the spearhead of a growing Republican peace faction whose other spokesmen include Senators John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, Clifford Case of New Jersey, Jacob Javits of New York, George Aiken of Vermont, Mark Hatfield of Oregon, and Charles Percy of Illinois, along with at least some of the forty-eight House Republicans who have signed a call for Congressional review of the Administration's Vietnam policy...
...Freedom of speech on the air means not only freedom to make a charge, within the limits of the laws of slander and libel, but the opportunity to answer the attacker through use of the same broadcasting facilities...
...The city is composed largely of tightly-knit ethnic groups...
...The Eastland Syndrome There are countless investigations by committees of Congress, and some of them are revealing and fruitful...
...Its current attempt to revive the Subversive Activities Control Board is a characteristic example of its wit, aptitude, and lively feel for the ludicrous...
...and Patrick E. Gorman, secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen...
...If the threat is as grave as the President predicts, will $7 billion worth of tax increase stave it off...
...Labor's Peace Assembly The top brass of the AFL-CIO has long been as ardent as the American Legion, the Pentagon, or big business in support of the Johnson Administration's buildup of the war in Vietnam...
...The profits of the near-monopoly automobile industry are unreasonably high...
...Twiggy is the apotheosis of the age...
...I know it is not a popular thing for a President to do—to ask anyone for a penny out of a dollar to pay for a war that is not popular either," Mr...
...The increases on the 1968 models are simply highway robbery...
...The young priest's fervor springs from a deep conviction that racism is a deadly moral evil that must be fought not only from the pulpit but on the street...
...generals' demand for further step-ups in bombing...
...Franklin H. Littell, IAD chairman, says this is necessary because hundreds of stations have ignored past rules issued by the FCC regarding personal attacks...
...The court majority held that the Federal sedition law, the Smith Act, preempted the state law...
...If there is any element of altruism in the whole endeavor, it is that the insurance companies may reap somewhat less profit from their ghetto investment than they do on their other financial ventures...
...We share U.N...
...20005) and by letting their Congressmen know they do not want the FCC ruling nullified or weakened...
...Milwaukee, for a politician, provides an exercise in walking on eggs in racial matters...
...The indictments followed raids by county officials on the McSurely and Mulloy homes, in which Ratliff said "Communistic" materials were found...
...he has yet to retreat from his Goldwaterish suggestion of possible use of nuclear weapons in the war...
...This doctrine is the principle under which those attacked may claim and be given equal time on the air, without payment, to respond to their assailants even if the latter made their charges on a paid or sponsored broadcast...
...In their letter of invitation, Mazey, Rosenblum, Gorman, and Hartung said: "Young men who deserve better are dying in a war whose purpose they do not understand...
...They'll have to start by abolishing the Constitution...
...The five were indicted for sedition after Thomas Ratliff, state's attorney in Pikesville, a former president of the Independent Coal Operators Association and now a Republican candidate for lieutenant-governor, accused them of "trying to overthrow the government of Pike County...
...In a well-justified blast at recent automobile companies' announcements of sharply higher prices on the new models, Walter Reuther pointed out that in the five-year period of 1961-1966, "Chrysler made a 20.3 per cent return . . . Ford made a 21.9 per cent return and General Motors a 24.5 per cent return on their U.S...
...Who can doubt that the political activities of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party are in furtherance of the general objectives of the National Conference for New Politics...
...Ungrudgingly the funds are allocated for all sorts of dubious causes, while the banner of economy is raised only when critical needs for housing, jobs, and education are at stake...
...Father Groppi emphasizes—although this seems in real terms a technicality—that the Negro "Young Commandos" (originally intended to provide protection for women and children in demonstrations) make the decisions, and that he is merely their adviser...
...The response of the whites of Milwaukee to Negro demands has been mixed, but generally there is overwhelming opposition...
...Gilbert Fitzhugh, chairman of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and a leading industry spokesman, made it clear that any high-risk investments will be limited to Federally-guaranteed programs, such as those involving mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration...
...it has merely moved to Capitol Hill where the House Committee on Un-American Activities keeps alive its rich tradition of strip and boff...
...Any procedure that gives the victim of an attack prompt access to the same broadcast audience that heard the charges against him is not a weakening of freedom of speech but a reinforcement of it...
...The automobile industry's strong resistance to safety standards has revealed a callous disregard of their customers' welfare...
...In this case, Eastland deviously smeared an organization with his Red brush not only before an investigation was held but before there was even a decision to hold an investigation...
...Said Senator Morton: "Reagan doesn't know what goes on beyond the continental shelf...
...The danger, we suspect, is more political than economic—a record "peacetime" deficit in the offing in an election year...
...By hanging a question mark at the end of his charges, Eastland could pretend that he was competent to sit as judge even as he was delivering the prosecutor's allegations...
...Either way the meaning remains as puzzling as it was to his sitting audience...
...Milwaukee is ringed by all-white suburbs...
...One of the most enduring fetishes of Twentieth Century American society is the pursuit of slimness...
...No organization, not even the Communist Party, has been required to register under its totalitarian rules since it was created seventeen years ago...
...There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it...
...or, to put it another way, that these political activities of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party are a part of the drive to bring about Negro revolution in this country...
...The California Governor has responded by going all-out in support of the U.S...
...They had established a base here...
...Frank Rosen-blum, secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...At the White House, the President warns solemnly of the "inflation tax" we will pay if the ten per cent income tax surcharge is not swiftly imposed...
...The Federal court, of course, did not rule on that aspect of the case, but the effect of its decision should be helpful in encouraging the nation's poor to organize and fight for their release from poverty without fear of being branded Communists...
...Father Groppi and his Young Commandos have a hard march ahead...
...Well, you don't actually have to, but it would be nice if you tried once in a while...
...It keeps trying just the same...
...They intended to take over the county...
...A five-billion-dollar program, to be sure, but one that the Pentagon has certified to be "thin...
...On the other hand, their public relations activities have guaranteed that their newly-found interest in slum dwellers will greatly enhance their public stature...
...They have picked up significant support—from the League of Women Voters, many church organizations—local, state, and national—and from small but vocal Milwaukee citizens' groups, including some based on the antagonistic south side...
...Nothing quite like it has come out of Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798...
...Months ago a few political observers were saying that if the Republicans decided to become "the peace party" by nominating a Presidential candidate committed to achieving an early negotiated end to the war they could build a winning combination of Republicans, Democratic doves, and independents...
...The Archbishop, in addition to an August speech which was widely televised, wrote a precedent-breaking editorial in the archdiocesan newspaper...
...A panel of Federal judges specially convened at Lexington, in a two-to-one decision, ruled the state statute unconstitutional, ordered the Bradens released from jail—the others were out on bail—and enjoined the state courts from taking any further action against the accused...
...Father Groppi has been scorned by some national Black Power advocates as a white man leading a black rebellion, but his Negro Milwaukee associates have rejected the black separatist principle and have resolutely kept the local movement integrated...
...What counts in the cost of a car is not the labor cost per hour but the labor cost per car...
...Al F. Har-tung, president of the International Woodworkers...
...For our part, we think it would be better to abolish the SACB...
...They represent an especially welcome and timely addition to the swelling ranks of those who reject the Johnson Administration's policy of escalation...
...A significant factor in the Groppi-advised Negro movement that sets it apart from the current national trend is its insistence, by both blacks and whites, on keeping it bi-racial...
...Some day the members of the Committee may want to lead a less hectic existence...
...Mayor Henry Maier, a Democrat long active in state as well as city politics, has supported a Milwaukee fair housing ordinance only if at least fourteen of twenty-six suburbs also adopt it...
...Its sporting aspects aside, however, we suspect there is much less to the dispute than meets the eye...
...They have invited union leaders in every state to attend a National Leadership Assembly for Peace at the University of Chicago November 11 and 12...
...The Pike County case, wrote James C. Millstone in a searching account carried in the St...
...Now a group of trade unionists, who back strong peace initiatives but have not had the numbers or resources to be effective on a large scale, are ready to tell the country how much they disBurlesque on Capitol Hill Burlesque isn't really dead...
...The naked greed of the state's strip mining operators is ugly enough...
...Polish and German predominate, with smaller populations of Central European origins, and Italians, Irish, and Scandinavians...
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