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_ BRAGG BRIEFS |
VOL.4 NO.? NOVEMBER 1971 DONATIONS
Telam cine
Servicemen F
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JOIN THE GI UNION
UNION DEMANDS AND GOALS
1. The right to refuse illegal
orders---like the orders to fight
in the illegal and imperialist
war in Southeast Asia.
2. Election of officers by the
vote of the men.
3. An end to saluting and sir-ing
of officers. An end to special
privileges for officers.
k. The right of Bleck, Latin and
other national minority servicemen
and women to determine their own
lives free from the oppression of
racist whites. No troops to be ~
sent into Black, Latin or other
national minority comuunities.
S. No troops to be used against
worxers on strike.
6. No troops to be used ageinst
anti-war demonstrators.
7. Court-martial juries made
up of men from all ranks in
proportion to their numbers.
8. The right to free political
association and free speech on
or off military property.
9. Pederel minimum wages plus
off-post housing and food
allowances for 811 who want it.
10. The right to collective
Unite
GIs need a union.
oOst people in the military don't
like things the way they are, but: _
feel powerless to do anything. A few
of us GIs have decided to try and do
something. : (2) aG on
ere at Fort Bragg--- we call it the
ervicemen's Union.
ereTs only a few of us now and
we will never accomplish anything
unless we can convince enough other
GIs to join us. What we're asking you
to: do is read our program and talk to
us (we meet Tuesday evenings at ~
Haymarket Square Coffeehouse) and if
you agree, join us.
Unions have helped make things
better for all kinds of people from
autoworkers to coalminers to
teamsters. Even teachers have unions,
so why not Gis? The union is an
American answer to the old problem of
getting the things you need and
deserve from the people who run
things. :
The brass won't like it, that's
for sure, but its not illegel for a
GI to join a union or any other group
for that matter.
Every GI and WAC knows the things
that are wrong with the military---
poor living conditions, long and dull
work hours, low pay, being at the
mercy of any lifer who wants to harass
you, racism, having to risk your life
in stupid wars like Vietnem--- the ©
list could go on forever...
The question is, what can we do?
Nothing. Nothing unless enough GIs
come together so that the brass must
listen. Then anything is possible.
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For over three years there has
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been an active duty group of GIs at
Fort Bragg calling itself Gls: tNITED,;"
concerned basically with ending the
war and securing GI rights. Um of
AND WACS UNITED now believe it is
necessary to change the form of our
bargaining. A union is a good way to do this.
All unions start out small so we're
going to give it a try.
RAP WITH US
11. The end to officially
sanctioned sexist oppression
of women and gay people in
the military community.
organ 28 ken te that of a unio
q order to broa nd_ more clearly define
Shc to tas tnichere aomeeten, tt TUESDAY NITES __ curcecels.tieubers of Vintian VETERNs
if they were, then it would be much
more difficult for the military to
serve the interests of the rich and
the pewerful rather than the real
interests of the American people.
HAYMARKET SQ __ ~itz tes tirten Stwvresenrs- unre.
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We welcome all men and women serving
at Fort Bragg and Pope Air Ferce Base
to check us out.
"5 la MN RE EAS AEDES Aa TERRE LOAN SO OMEL PI PMEE AGEME ED RR
.
1. We demand the resignaticn of Lt.
Gen. John Hay. Since he has become
commanding general cf Fort Bragg his
oold army" policies have pushed
morale to an alltime low. His recent
orders to have in-ranks appearance
inspecticns in every unit every week
and his ridiculous no-fatigues-cff-
post order are examples of bad
leadership.
2. We demand an end to unnecessary
and expensive field exercises. They
serve no purpose but to keep GIs busy
and give the brass games to play.
The money that's saved could be used
to equalize the jump pay for officers
and EM.
3. We demand that everyone have the
right to live off post with quarters
esllowance. Most Port Bregg barracks
are unfit for people to live in.
lh. We demand a 40 hour werk week
with extra time off to make up for
overtime, guard duty, field duty, CQ
and all other extra deseils.
S. We demand an end to needless
inspections and ridiculous appearance
stendards. Daily barracks inspections
wall-lccker inspections, and the
weekly in-ranks uniform inspections
(crdered by Gen. Hay) must end.
LOGAL DEMANDS
te trial. Even if they're found
innocent, they have still been
punished.
.The army must respect the GIs privacy 10. We demand an end to CID harass
and individuality, allowing him to
wear his hair as long as he wants it,
weer his fatigues off-post, wear
unity bands and other symbols, and
have full control over his quarters.
~6. We demand an end to useless
parades and ceremonies,
Ta
daily workings of the military at
Bragg and Pope. Lifers who show :
racist behavior should be removed.
Discriminaticn must be ended in such
things as making promotions, discip-
linary actions, and picking werk
details. Cultual and racial differ
ences must be respected.
8. We demand that the Fort Bragg
authorities use their power to fight
ageinst racial discrimination in the
surrounding community, especially in
housing.
9. We demand an end to pre-trial
confinement at the post stockade.
Often Bragg GIs spend up to 3 months
in the stcckade before they even cone
We demand an end tc racism in the
ment of WACs at Bragg.
11. We demand that the army and air
force end their policies of helping
the local rip-cff businessmen collect
debts from GIs. The military doesn't
force civilians to pay their bills.
le.
medical and dentel care, especially
for dependants. Many GIs and WACs
should be taken out of useless jobs
and retrained as health workers.
13. We demand that VCLAR money be
spent to provide GIs with free
laundry and haircut service instead
of wasting the VOLAR money on things
the army should pay for anyway, like
maintenance costs.
ly. We demand that GIs be allcwed
their constitutional rights, like
freedom of speech, freedom of the
press, and freedom of peaceful
assembly on post. If GIs are old
enough to die, then they are old
enough to make up their own minds
about the issues. :
We demand an end te depersonslized
Division
A group of divisicn soldiers have
claimed they are being used by their
commanding officers ofor their own
promotional benefit."
The soldiers who represent 71 per
cent of the men of 2nd Bn. 50th Abn.
made their complaint in a letter sent
to The Fayetteville Observer, Lt. Gen
Hay, the Secretary of Defense and the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
_ The soldiers ssy they are being
sent in the field unnecessarily and
that the training exereises are having
harmful effects on the home life of
the soldiers. :
"We, a collective group of indivi-
duals in the First Brigade, have de-
cided that we can no longer sit idle
and let the commanders exploit the
troops for their own promotionsl
Soldiers & Wives Fight Field Duty
benefit."
"The new Army ccncept says that the
troops will not operate in the field
unless it is an absolute necessity,"
the letter continues.
"Then why is it that the 2nd Bn.
SOkth is going to be in the field fer
12 days starting Tuesday? We're not
complaining just to be complaining,
but no other brigade in the division
Spends as much time in the field as
the First."
"Our family life is really deter-
iorating because our commanders have
ne consideration for us. We feel that
this complaint is just. We would like
to bring this gross injustice to the
eyes of the public and a few govern-
ment officials who may be able to
help us." -
Page two
The letter says the group consists
mostly of enlisted men and of some
junior officers, all of whom oaro fed
up with being separated from their
families unnecessarily."
The troopers! wives also wret. «
letter to the brass complaining that
"the division is asking our husbands
to be more devoted to the Army than
to family,"
oMany families are on the verge of
breaking up. Our chilé:sn don't get te
see their fathers because they're out
in the field. No other unit on this
post spends as much time in the field
as they do," the wives said.
The official response of the 82nd
command was tc write a long letter
justifying field duty.
Cver 1000 sellers shoard ths UGS
Corel Sea, scheduled te leave Kes .32
fcr Yankee Station in the Gulf of
Tonkin, have signed a petition to
Congress voicing their unwilling-
ness to go to Vietnam.
The petition is called SOS (Stop
Our Ship). It reads,"The Coral Sea
is scheduled for Vietnam in Noven-
ber. This does not have to be a fact.
The ship can be prevented from tak-
ing an active part in the conflict if
~we the majority voice our opinion that
we co not believe in the Vietnam war."
In another development which shows
the rising militancy of sailors ag-
ainst the war, nine sailors from the
aircraft carrier USS Constellation
took refuge in a San Diego church to
protest their ship*s departure for
""-¥Vietnam, pi itien
They were shanghaied from San
Diego and flown to the ship at sea,
and tried before the Constellation's
captain J.D. Ward and sentenced to
30 days tn corrective custody.
Draft Cows!
- Rep. Henry S. Yteuss cf Wisconsin
has protested what he calls the Ar-
ay's "Let them drink Coke" pclicy
under which some mess halls are cut-
ting back on the daily milk allctment.
Ruess said that as an economy mea-
sure, some Army posts are reducing a
soldier's daily milk supply frem
four glasses tc three.
We wonder if this cutback has af-
fected Fert Bragg. What abcut it
General Hay?
Organized
Crime?
The Haymarket Square Ceffeehouse
Me hale) --olm Goh Tome leloMmn a Nelo: Ba © lo male)
slonday October 25.
The front counter was pushed cver
and everything on it went caresning
over the floor.
The coffee urns and .two refrig-
erators were broken, anda lotof the
plumbing was ripped out.
The cash register was empty at the
time of the breakin. but there was
meney (about $10) in twe cellection
jars on the counter which was net
taken. é
The cnly things which were taken
were twe anti-police pesters - cns
was a pcem and the cthen was a candid
phote cf a cop flashing es mecne the
bird.
Steff members estimstes the damage
te be about $1000. This has been the
third breakin since. the coffeshruss
was esteblished over a yeer ago, and
steff members encourage anycnes whe
; can te help defray the erst cf this
vandalism, ;
mmee lle merefer
ah to the suPPly Toon!
A new progressive psper is starting
in Fevetteville. The purpose of. the
pacer will be te previde information
On.the struggles cf working pecple,
GIs, women, blecks, faruers and stu-
dents in Cumberland County. It will
be. @:monthly peper cf news and opinicn
previding a true vcice cf the pecple
in this area.
us=dave hettick, dick clsen, 4
ed, gene, mac, charley, bob, "
ry elem M- Lalo Ml ohalel el-R7t-B Oe)
Pecple interested in working on any
part of the paper should come tc our
meetings; every Suncay at 3:00 Pu.
uestings are held at the Quaker Heuse,
223 Hillside Ave (cff Hay St. near the
ocwn town). If you haven*t worked en
& paper befcre, that's fine. wa can
learn tcgether.
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OFFICERS PRINT
ANTI-WAR AD
On Monday September 13 the news
media carried yet another example of
~the growing resistance to the Indo-
Chinese Wer from within the military
----135 officers from all around the.
~country signed their names and ranks
(mest of them) to. an anti-war in the
Washington Post.
The statement took the form of an
advertisement taken out in the paper
and was sponsored by the Fort Bragg
Chapter of the Concerned Officers
Movement.
The wording was identical to that
of an ad placed in the Fayetteville
Observor on May 15 (Armed Forces Day)
which stimulated many similar ads
~around the country by Officer groups.
The statement demanded owithdrawal of
~a11 American military personnel and
~advisors---by the end of 1971."
Contributors to the Washington Post.
-ad included army officers from Ft. Sam
Houston and Ft. Bragg as well as 3h
officers from Ft. Knox. Lackland, A
Andrews, Charleston and Bolling AFB
~were included. Kodiak Naval Station,
U.S. Coast Guard in San Francisco and
Naval Ships at sea Tecumseh, Hunley
and Nuxubee had signers.
news from nam
Vinh Long
October 12
Brothers,
Ihave been on your subscription
list for some 8 or 9 months. During
that time I have received quite a few
additional issues which I passed a-
round to as many people in my own and
other units as was possible.
Hewever, I find that due to the
"subversive" nature ("Uncle Sugar's"
definition, not mine) I seem to have
a little delay in my delivery.
In fact, I almost never get mcre
than one issue at a time.
What I am proposing is this: why
not completely wrap the papers up in
brown paper and put a single name and
home address on the outside so the
pigs might not be able to tell at a
glance what is on the inside.
I guess I can't say for sure they
are being deterred, but it seems more
than coincidence that every month I
get the papers (when I get them) sev-
eral months late (e.g., I received the
~August issue yesterday.)
As I ssid earlier, I pass all the
papers around so as many of the GI's
here as possible can read the truth.
Enclesed you'll find a slip of
paper with 2 more names of pecple who
weuld like to receive "Bragg Briefs".
Right now I'm in the process of
taking up a collecticn to send to you
to help with your publication costs.
my goal is $25. I realize it isn't
much, but things being what they are
here, with most GI's spending their
money on Booze, girls or"skag,�" it's
rather hard to get money from them,
.As of now I have $10.35. If, by the
end of the menth, I don't have the
amecunt I hoped for, or if I have mere,
I'll send it to you in hopes it will
help a little. rs
. I'll continue to "spread the word"
@s much as possible, and to try and
help raise a little money so you can
continue publication.
£eace,
c.D.S.
mm £2202 2 switch.
The New Haircut Reg?
RACISM
Bragg Briefs and the Fort Bragg
Concerned Officer Movement is doing
an independant investigation of racial
discrimination in housing pract~c
involving Military Personnel in the
Fort Bragg - Fayetteville area.
If you have any information tc
add to the investigation, call Hay-
market Square - 485-9792 or come on
down. Information can be mailed to
Bragg Briefs, P.O. Box 437, Spring
Lake, N.C. 28390.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Prison
Machine
Fort Bragg's brand new mechanized
stockade opened in the lest part of
September. It stands as a warning
to those reformers who think that
oppression consists of crumbling
buildings and bugs.
The stockade, which is located on
Butner Road near the old basic train-
ing area, is one of the most ultra-
modern prisons in the country.
Everything is mechanized. The
toilets have no lids and have tc be
flushed from outside controls. Like-
wise the showers are controlled from
outside. a
All the docrs are operated from a
central point. If a door is unlocked
manually the red light in central
control turns green. Central contr
The door locks and
the light turns red again.
Guards watch from tcwers with
shotguns. z
But whet about the injustice of
pretrail confinement? 4
What about the GI who was AWOL
21 days and spent longer than that
in the stockede waiting before he
was ever tried?
What about the GI who spent 7
weeks without charges and without a
-lawyer?
What about the guy who went AWOL
to settle some marrtage problems?
Do they deserve ® glossier prison,
or a society and system of justice
that gives them a fair shake?
Check It Out.
BAGG BRIEFS needs stories, pic-
tures, cartoons. We need stories
about what's happening in your coa-
pany.T ;
- We heard about a riot in the
7lkth Preventive Medicine Unit
months after it happened.
We just heard about three guys
who went tc the stockade for re-
fusing to wear their uniforms.
There are stories in every unit.
about how GI's are getting worked
Over or getting ever.
; Let us know about them and we'll
let the rest of Ft. Bragg know.
BRAGG BRIEFS also needs money,
typists, and workers.
It cests $200 to $300 to put out
One issue. We take most of that cut
of our own pockets
We are not on the gravy train of
the military industrial complex as
are the PARAGLIDE and VERITAS.
If you have five or ten bucks
this pay day, send them along. It's
not enough just to wave the peace
sign or put groovy bumper stickers
On your car.
Contact us at the Haymarket Sq.
Coffeehcuse in downtown Fayetteville
or write BAGG BRIEFS, Box 37,
Spring Lake, N.C.
Idaho Or Bust
For all you GIs who think Gen.
Hay's no-fatigues-off-post order is
stupid, we have some inside info.
-on the real reascn for the policy.
It seems that there is a secret
Communist plet te kidnap GIs, one at
a time, and send them to brainwashing
camps in Idaho. Gen. Hay has cleverly
decided to keep GIs from showing that
they are in army by requiring them to
hide their uniforms.
He Was At At
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Brother Fi Ortiz of the Young Lords
| Party talked at the Haymarket Square
| Coffeehouse on October 15 about the
Lmassacre at Attica State Prison last
onth. Brother Fi was on the citizen
observation team that tried to mediate, "
|the dispute. After his talk BRAGG
| BRIEFS interviewed Brother Fi.
BRIEFS: Why were you on the committee?
FI: I went up to Attica at the request
of the inmates. It was one of the.
things they demanded before starting
_ megotiations. I represented the
| Young Lords.
BRIEFS: What happened before Attica
. that led to the rebellion?
FI: In April and May demands and sug-
' gestions were sent by the prisoners
to Warden Mancusi and twice he re-
fused. His response was to seek out
those who had written the petit;ion
- and put them in keeplock. Some were
_ beaten,
BRIEFS: What kinds of demands were
presented?
FI: The demands were very
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simple. They
| dealt with conditions inside the sys-
T tem that affected them directly -
food, clothing, shelter, correspon-
dence. They were fed pork nearly _
every day. Often it was half-cooked,
Many people inside sufféred from vi-
tamin deficiency and anemia. They
| weren't asking for steaks everyday.
Just healthy food.
BRIEFS: What did the prisoners do when
_ their demands were ignored? "
FI: They continued organizing them-
Selves. The blacks organized the
blacks. The whites organized the
whites and the Puerto Ricans organized
the Puerto Ricans.
BRIEFS: What was the amnesty demand and
what did it mean?
FI:.The amnesty demand, to the inmates,
was @ guarantee that 1) the demands
would be put intoT effect; and 2) no
administrative, legal, personal or any
sort of reprisals would take place.
BRIEFS: Did*amnesty tiean amnesty for
whatever the inmates were in prison
for?
FI: No.
BRIEFS: In your talk at the Haymarket
you said it was very obvious that what
Rockefeller wanted ~was a massacre. Why
do you say that? ae :
FI: Because he refused to cooperate with
the inmates and the committee. He lied
about his power to grant amnesty. His
agent at Attica refused they day before
the attack to meet with the prisoners.
No matter what the charge the governor
as chief executive has the power to
reprieve, © * °F
BRIEFS: An hour before the attack Tom
Wicker and Herman Bedillo reportedly
called Rockefeller. Is this true?-
PI: Yes, and he refused to come down.
BRIEFS: Some of the leaders of the re-
bellion were short-timers. One of the
central leaders had only about four
months left to serve. What led men to
risk so much when they had so little
time left?
FI: They said that the conditions in the
jail were so horrible and that they had
brothers who would stay in. They deci-
ded to put the interest of the inmate
population as a whole before their own.
BRIEFS: There was a great deal of racial
unity. How do you account for that?
FI: The inmates called it class unity.
They were all poor. They were a11 being
_ messed over by the system regardless of
race. They were in a position where they
had to unite in order to survive.
BRIEFS: What about the hostages? They are
relatively poor.
FI: We interviewed the hostages the day
before the attack. They requested Rock-
efeller to come down to Attica instead
of playing politics with their lives.
BRIEFS: What do you think the discipline
of the rebellion means? For example the
prisoners treated the gurads very well
considering all the hostility they must
have felt. 3 Re et ot
FI: It means that the inmates are
becoming more serious and determined to
fight for their rights 4 uniting inside
a
the prisons. They're building a movement
for their lives. a
' military
1d (or:
BRIEFS: What is happening in Attica now?
Are there reprisals?
FI: There have been reports of harass-
ment on the part of the guards. Inmates
are being forced to sign papers and. |
alot of inmates are being transferred
out J
BRIEFS: What do you think of Rockefeller's
- offers of prison reform?
FI: The liberal's idea of prison reform
after Attica is a maximum security pri-
son where they will put 600 known trou-
~blemakers., That is how they intend to
deal with conditions inside the jail.
_that shows that Oswald never had any in-
~tention of implementing these proposals.
BRIEFS: Oswald has the reputation of
. being a progressive prison administrator. |
What do you think? : |
FI: His practice shows. The conditions e
the jails in New York shows whose inte. �"�
rests he serves.
BRIEFS: What are the Young Lords?
FI: The Young Lords are a Puerto Rican
revolutionary, political party which is
organizing and fighting for the libera-
tion of Puerto Rico. We want the inde- |
pendence of Puerto Rico from the U.S.
and the self-determination of Puerto
Ricans here in the U.S. We see the con-
flict as being between the people who
control this country for profit and H
those who produce that profit for the
rich. We support the other groups who
see the main conflict as between those
who have and those who don't. We work
with the Black Panthers but have no \
formal ties.
BRIEFS: What can Puerto Rican brethers
do about the military? &
FI: There are people in the community
who are fighting to be exempt from the
« Citizenship in Puerto Rico
was imposed illegally. Peblo "Yoruba"
Guzman is going to stand trial this
; month for refusing to enter the Amer-
ican military, He's Signe ing his case
on the basis that citizenship was im-
posed illegally. Puerto Ricans were made "
made citizens by decree of the U.S. A
It wasn't taken to any kind. of vote by ]
citizens or representatives. : "|
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NID CO)N(O)\V (Ors
Watch out brothers and sisters~
Tricky Dicky is at it again.
For 3 years he watched the unem-
ployment rolls get longer and loriger
(greater than 6% average nationally,
14% for ex-GI's) and inflation drive
prices higher and higher. Finslly,with
an election coming,he decided to do
something. What he did was his New
Economic Policy(NEP):
1.Freeze wages and some prices for
90 days, starting Aug. L5, followed by
Phase II with appointed Pay and Wage
control boards to decide on wages and
some prices.
2.Placed an additional 10% tax on many
imported goods.
3.Let the dollar "float" so that it is
now worth less than before compared to
other currency.
Gave industry a 10% tax investment
credit, and removed a 7%tax on autos.
5.Cut Federal spending$.7 billion,
eliminating 5% of government employees
and postponing welfare reform programs.
What he did not do was place any
It freezes the income of working
people in a country where the distribu-
tion of income is already grossly unfair.
The top20% of American families got 45%
of all personal income, while the lowest
20% of families shared only 3.7% of all.
personal income. One tenth of the nation
owns 2/3 of the nation's wealth, while:
the lower 50% owns only 8.3%.
Phase II of NEP links wage increases
to increased production. So in a country
with millions of unemployed people and
25% of its industry idle, workers will
have to work faster-and harder. Why?
MW Mo oS alo) T-Teh am eb ale) a AT
We can be sure that every employer
will be only too willing to do his
"patriotic�"� duty and refuse to grant pay
raises.
But capitalists can get around
price control. Corporations can ensure
this by introducing "new" models, sell-
ing products of lower quality, or sell:
less for the same price.
Prices of fresh foods such as meat
poultry, eggs, vegetables and fruit will
restraints on profits, interest rates or
stock prices. He refuses"to penalize
success",
Nixon is trying to get us to believe
that inflation is due to the workers
greed, that it is due to wage increases.
But wages. have not kept up with rising
prices for the six years of the escalated
Vietnam war.
Nixon's NEP is a form of economic
escalation against the great majority of
the American people.
oLET US RECOGNIZE -
THIS PROFOUND TRUTH:
fe VEN ~
The People
Pay
+*eTHEREFORE I AM
_ ORDERING A
SUBSTANTIAL
INCREASE IN
MILITARY
EXPENDITURES
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not be controlled at all.So the foods
needed to keep a family in good health
will keep going up in price while the
wages of workers are frozen.
The 10% taxon imports and the de-
crease in the value of the dollar will
drive prices of the cheaper imports up
and cut people off from one source of
lower prices.
While wages are frozen, Nixon's plan
calls for people to buy new goods such
as cars, thus ostimulating� the econ-
omy. To do this Nixon wants people to
dip into their savings, now earning
5% interest. This will shift money from
the people to the corporations.Plus
the banks and corporations get a 10%
tax break, not to mention the 8%, 15%,
even 20% returns they already get on
their investments.
All this while the Military mon-
ster devours $80 billion tax dollars
a@ year. oioney that could build decent
low cost housing, transportion,hos-
pitals, and provide adequate medical
care for all our people. ;
The balance of payments deficit. .
(the amount of money and goods that;
leaves the cuontry,never to return)
is due largely to the military and
political adventures of the U.S.
government all over the world.
The war machine is out of control.
It sucks up our lives and our dollars
and uses them to fight and control
people all over the world. -For whom?
Certainly not for us, the GI's and the
working people, whose lives and doll-
po a being used. We're not getting
rich.
WELCOME HOME VETS
Unemployment among veterans is near-
ly twice the national average.
While the national unemployment is
over 6%, unemployment for exGI's is
11% for whites and 21% for blacks.
This does not tell the whole story
since it does not include those who
have not field fcr unemployment, those
_ The situation has become so ex-
plosive that this year a crash program
was begun called "JOBS fcr Veterens"
headed by Sec. of Labor James 0. Hodg-
son and James F. Ostes.
Oates summed up the situation in a
Take fcr example the New York State
Chamber of Commerce, which published a
pamphlet, "Drug Abuse as a
Problem,"
vets.
Business
advising members not to hire
The pamphlet begins bluntly: oWith
press conference: :We have an cbliga-
with only part time jobs, those on wel- tion to these young men, and we need
fare and those in job training pro-
grams or going to college.
T veterans are unemplcyed at present
despite the Army's highly publicized
training and placementT services
channel men primarily inte police and
defense jobs.)
Unemplcyment ameng veterans poses a
much more serious problem to the pec-
ple in power in the U.S.
their labor and productivity. sany of
these young wen know only the arts of
will follow surely if they de not have
~ educationaand training fer jobs."
(which |
But inspite cf these pleas it turns
the spread cf drug abuse in schools and
among the armed forces in Vietnam, it
would be unrealistic for business tc
assume it could recruit from these ©
markets and not risk bringing abuse,
Even so estimates show some 500,000 war. Many of them are black. Bitterness
narcotics: addicts and pushers into
companies, despite all the sophisticated
screening tests aveilable."
out that the seme superpatrict business-
men who cheer "our boys" in Vietnam des-
pise them back home.
Seay
~ ic tor Gravel Implies Nixonis a War Criminal
fom, .« .¢ Greve] of Alaska teld
thea J.S. wate that massive U.S.
airstrik: tn Indochina constituted
a war crivs comparable te Hitler's
final solution for the Jews.
Gravel's amendment to prohibit
further bombing in Indochine, except
in cases where it is directly neces-
sary to protect U.S. trceops, was de-
feated 41 tc 19.
Gravel charged that 100 tens of
explosives per hour were being rain-
4ve air campaign "not yei appreeched
in the history of mankind."
He said every nine days, 290,000
younds of bombs fell in Indochina
--- the equivalent of one Hiroshima,
"Prom 1965 to 1969, 70 tons of
bombs for every square mile of
North and South Vietnam were dropped,
SOO pounds fer every man, woman and �,�& {
child. In just the first five months
of 1971 there were 780 million
pounds cf bombs dropped over south-
(Toa) olmmn 70 eX- Ia oXe} ol? E-0 cb Kaleo MDM oloKel+d ob Nal: Tub Mo]
a "nightmare of wanton destructicn."
He said he saw ne difference be-
tween that and Nezi Germany's mass
exection of Jews. YIf we have a
oerimins] who is President of the
United Stetes, we should have the
moral resolution to peint te it and
correct it," he said.
Gravel, however, s2id Nixon was
not winding down the war but simply
chenging its character intc a mass-
Two Americas
Suppose British and mercenary troops retreated to Island
after the American revolution and"with the wie of the
worldTs greatest imperialist powers"continually engaged in sub-
gy and = " = i huge mainland.
ppose pt this up for a generation, proclaimin
themselves to be the oreal� America, gaining a lot of aisanan
in the process, until the majority of nations got tired of the farce
and decided to recognize the 3000-mile land mass a few miles
away as the America it was.
Suppose Britain, in order to retain a foothold in the area, then
proposes that there were otwo Americas,� not just the one tiny
America it had been supporting all those years, urging that each
live separately and at peace. Suppose further, failing this, that
= J aera America was indeed America and
nation of Long Island? en :
What do you think George Washington would have done?
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_ PIREBASE TIMBUKTU, SOUTH VIETNAM
GIs who refused to go on a night
ambush patrol outside embattled Fire-
base Pace gaid)Wednesday that the
mission was suicidal and ridiculous
and their refusal was not cowardice
but common sense.
Their platoon commander Lt.Schuler,
agreed it was not a matter of coward-
ice and cited several examples of
bravery on the part of men who came
to him and refused.
"The troops are always griping
when you order them to do something,"
Schuler said. . oThe night before they
didn't want to fill sand-
bags and they did it anyway."
"Tt wasn't a matter of cowardice,
it was a matter of common sense,"
said Spec. Walter Wernli of Three
Rivers, Tex. "This patrol was com-
pletely senseless - senseless
suicide."
Wernli and others of the 3rd Pla-
toon, Bravo Company, lst Battalion,
12th Cavalry, lst Air Cavalry Div-
ision, talked to newsmen here.
Tuesday they had been pulled out of
Pace following an Army investigation.
Pace is 80 miles northwest of
Saigon, close to the Cambodian
border.
Spec. Ernest French of Mattoon,
Ill., the point man of the platoon
said, "At home, newspapers write
that GIs are committed to defensive
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"When wé came here, they tceld us
this was an ARVN (South Vietnamese
Army) operation and that we would
only provide security for the
American artillery. And then they
want to send us out to ambush
Charlie."
"There was no good reason at all
for this night ambush, not even a
trail out there. All we would have
done was stumble around in an area
we didn't know and get shot up for
nothing."
The platoon was so upset that
Spec. Albert Orana of Los Angeles
wrote a letter to Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, D - mMass., that Orana
said tried "to draw the attention
of the American public to the situa-
tion - we are almost forgotten here.
Eventually the platoon decided to .
refuse. French went to Cronin and
told him he was "not prepared to do
my job." Five others told Schuler
they would not follow the order to go
out.
~According to the GIs involved, :
they did go out on patrol the follow-:
ing morning - and almost blundered
into an allied "automatic ambush" of
tripwire-trigger mines that they did .
not know about. f
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