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The 'other' California White police savagery in Detroit Jeenaged mother killed in Oklahoma Algeria modernizes agriculture

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JUibble €ast Report Is Sammy Davis against Israeli apartheid?

B y A l i Baghdadi F o r many y e a r s , I s r a e l and her Zionist ' allies have succeeded in suppressing the news the South A f r i c a - U S A style of political, social and economic oppression imposed by the Ashkenazim (Europeans and Euro Americans) against the Sephardim ( J e w s from A s i a and A f r i c a I who compromise 60 per cent of the total I s r a e l i population.

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H O W E V E R , T H E six hour violent confrontation which erupted last week between an I s r a e l i group which calls itself "Black Panthers'' and helmeted. club wielding I s r a e l i muwammadSpolice, has at last brought everything into the open.

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Posters which reflect the frustration felt by the • O r i e n t a l " J e w s (Sephardim) fill the walls of the occupied city of J e r u s a l e m . T h e signs made by the B l a c k Panthers • unrelated to the U.S. B l a c k P a n t h e r s ) read:

NEWS IN BRIEF I s r a e l ' s double standards W H E N P A L E S T I N I A N groups were hijacking planes. I s r a e l made a big fuss and joined other nations in signing a tough huernational treaty aimed specifically at this c r i m e . But in the public Moscow trial of nine accused hijack conspirators, it was revealed by defendants that I s r a e l w a s in contract with the would-be h i j a c k e r s and even supplied them with money.

V l a d i m i r Mogilever, 31, an engineer, said he w a s told he should request instructions through Osher Blank, a Soviet citizen who had visited I s r a e l , a U S 'student.' Donald Melament or a Norwegian 'tourist.' With his relatives and friends present at the trial along with those of other defendants. Mogilever said that the conspirators received 'parcels' from I s r a e l through a B r i t i s h company named D i n e r m a n .

Caueus nixed on progress 60 IMPORTANT proposals presented by the Black Congressional Caucus were Nixonized by the Administration. In an official statement, Caucus spokesman Charles Diggs ( D Mich.) said B l a c k elected officials accused the administration of trying to shut a l l roads to B l a c k progress. They cited his revenue sharing con g a m e , housing, employment, welfare and c i v i l rightspositions a s a complete refusal to meet the proposals they made to h i m in the name of B l a c k citizens.

Sadat plans constitution AS T H E H I S T O R I C vote on the proposed federation of the United Arab Republic. L i b y a and S y r i a approaches. U A R President A n w a r as-Sadat announced plans to creat a new U A R constitution. Sadat successfully blocked a move by several U A R leaders to prevent the federation from being submitted to the people of the three Arab states. S y r i a n and Soviet responses to Sadat's announcement praised the federation plan as a move toward greater unity of anti-imperialist forces. Syrian P r e m i e r Abdel R a h m a n K h l e f a w i said S y r i a sees the federation as "the foundation for building an Arab socialist society and full liberation from i m p e r i a l i s m , exploitation and backwardness." voting will take place September 1.

" W e , a group of young b -, call upon those who have had enough.

Enough of being jobless, enough of sleeping ten to a room, enough of seeing houses built for new immigrants, enough of spending time in j a i l , enough of discrimination, enough of being dispossessed. How long will we be treated like this while remaining s i l e n t ? "

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J e w s and Ashkenazi J e w s are the main grievances.

European and North A m e r i c a n J e w s hold almost all positions of influence in civil service, finance, c o m m e r c e , industry and even the a r m y .

T h e Asian and A f r i c a n J e w s ' social status is far lower in I s r a e l than that in their own countries which they left due to Zionist propaganda.

Oriental J e w s are treated as second class citizens.

G r i e v a n c e s which have often been voiced by J e w s against Gentiles a r e made by J e w s against J e w s in I s r a e l !

ETHNIC discrimination in I s r a e l takes the s a m e form a s that in the U.S. E a s t e r n J e w s a r e looked upon a s uncivilized, poor and less intelligent. In many instances.

Sephardic J e w s a r e denied employment for no other reason except that they are "Schwarz" (the G e r m a n word for " B l a c k " ).

T h e temporary - worker status forced on a large number of Sephardim by private firms managed by Ashkenazim is another serious problem in the so - called "land of opportunity."

Businesses can legally lay off a worker or re - employ h i m without his ever becoming eligible for pension, holiday pay or sick leave.

Discrimination is practiced in all aspects * of I s r a e l i life, including the government. In spite of the fact that Sephardic J e w s m a k e up the majority of I s r a e l ' s total population, they

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His r e a c h exceeds his grasp REV. J E S S E J A C K S O N has called on B l a c k people, presumably under his leadership, to seize the wheels of power' in the 1972 elections. T h i s c a l l ignores two main facts: first, it takes m a s s organization to build a political force, wishes won't do it. and secondly, given the U S political system, a B l a c k president's election would hardly mean an automatic gain in power or living conditions of B l a c k citizens.The timing of R e v .

J a c k s o n ' s annonuncement (after several curious meetings of B l a c k leaders' both in A f r i c a and the U S A ) indicates however, that this 'show-business' diversion of B l a c k political attention is better planned than R e v . Jackson's words indicate.

F u r t h e r m o r e R e v . J a c k s o n expresses this 'seizure of power' in language designed to provoke whites and to unify them rather than divide them. T h i s is what Republican and D e m o c r a t right wing elements want — a c r a z e d , solid bloc of frightened whites.

R e v . Jackson a i m s his divisive talents at the various B l a c k nationalities who can best succeed by uniting. In proclaiming that time and c i r c u m s t a n c e s have made us morally superior today.' J a c k s o n follows Nixon Black aide Arthur F l e t c h e r in attacking unity of P u e r t o J l i c a n . Chicano. Indian and U S B l a c k s .

T h i s calculated chauvinism not only insults other oppressed peoples, it also ignores the serious moral problems in the B l a c k community — the- increase in addiction, assasination. murder, insanity, theft, assault, prostitution, venereal disease and-other by products of oppression.

R e v . Jackson is quite *an acrobat; apparently he thinks these problems will disappear if he sticks his head in the sand while thumping his chest and kicking up his heels.

occupy only 17 out of 120 seats in the P a r l i a m e n t . They also hold only two cabinet offices out of 18.'

Sephardic J e w s are confine^ to ghettos and slums. T e n to twelve people per s m a l l two room flat with primitive facilities is common in the land which was stolen from the Palestinian Arabs.

Better housing is reserved or even built for immigrants from Western countries.

The justification given by the government for this racist policy is that it " a t t r a c t s new European s e t t l e r s . " T h e same reason given by South A f r i c a and B r a z i l for their genocidal policies.

S E P H A R D I C quarters have no parks or playgrounds.

Children have nowhere to go except into rundown, dirty streets. T h i s sort of child soon suffers from ernojieridisturbances created by the cruel environment around h i m and causes a great problem to most teachers.

Juvenile delinquency is common among the Sephardic J e w s . Boys turn to c r i m e and girls to prostitution.

Discrimination is also felt in education. E a s t e r n children m a k e up only twenty - five per cent of secondary school entrances, and constitute an even more disproportionate eight per cent of the college students.

T h e pros and cons of a return to M u s l i m A r a b countries are being discussed by many Sephardic immigrants.

According to M r . Y o u s e m I s h a , an I s r a e l i J e w who managed to flee back to I r a q last M a r c h , those Sephardim with jobs serve in house hotels and restaurants. M r .

Saghir said that the "highest post, occupied by any of the 125,000 I r a q i J e w s in I s r a e l is that of municipal accountant."

In the opinion of many I s r a e l i s , the " r a c i a l " relations are so tense in I s r a e l that an Israeli peace with other countries in the region would open the way for civil w a r among J e w s within I s r a e l .

T h i s is no doubt an important factor for those who determine I s r a e l i foreign policy.

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By Min. Andrew X and Robert 9X LOS ANGELES Beginning with the gold rush of the mid - 1800 s which attracted millions to California, the riches of the state have proven to be almost limitless.

The extreme wealth of the land has, deservingly, earned it its state name, "The Golden State." Its official flower, the 'Golden Poppy,' symbolizes the wealth that literally springs from the ground in abundance. eMJFOR.MA HAS the distinction of being the one state that c a n more than duplicate the products of any other state in the union. I t s resources are virtually unlimited and from agriculture to mining, it ranks among the top producers in the U S A .

Its wealth has not been limited to m e r e physical. production a s the moral and social c l i m a t e has been perfect

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for those who sought the "bright lights" in the world of the unreality.

Hollywood, the glamor capital of the world, enriched the creators of illusions with personal fame and fortunes among the largest on the planet earth.

A s the fame and fortunes of California became known throughout the world, the adventurers, the hopefuls and the entrepreneurs c a m e to the "Golden S t a t e " in droves. At its peak, more than 1.500 persons c a m e into the state each day.

While the wealth and glamor is r e a l , there exists another 'California' that has remained hidden from the eyes of those accustomed to the projected images.

The recent efforts of dedicated individuals such as C e s a r Chavez, organizer of the United Farm Workers of America, highlighted the m i s e r a b l e conditions existing within the agricultural a r e a s of this vast and wealthy state.

Approximately 100 miles north of L o s Angeles, near the s m a l l own of G o r m a n , begins one of the most fertile and prosperous agricultural a r e a s in the U.S. — the highly productive San Joaquin Valley.

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produces potatoes, barley, apricots, cotton, peaches, olives, figs, grapes and oranges — all in abundance.

Cattle raising is also a highly profitable business.

Y e t , amidst these gracious bounties of the earth, a strange paradox exists, the grim spectres of Iiunger, m i s e r y , unsanitary living conditions and human exploitation stand out in sharp contrast to the riches which dominate the area.

SIGNS OF HARD WORK reflected in hands a n d face of oldtimer bear witness to miserable conditions existing within agricultural areas of California. Scarcity of jobs a n d misuse of advanced technology create mass unemployment among farmworkers.

(MS photo: Knight and Robert 9 X ) through Central California, this a r e a which purportedly produces more than 80 per cent of the nation's leafy vegetables has been referred to as the " S a l a d B o w l " of the country.I n addition to its vegetables, the San Joaquin Valley

E x i s t i n g together in an odd juxtaposition, the growers (exploiters would be a better t e r m ) live in luxurious ranch style homes, complete with a i r conditioning, s w i m m i n g pools and every conceivable c o m fort.

T h e real P R O D U C E R S , the migrant f a r m e r s , who must work from dawn to dusk to provide for their families, live under deplorable conditions that m e r e words cannot truly convey. Poverty and m i s e r y is as widespread as its counterpart, abundance.

I n order to understand this oddity which exists within the "Golden S t a t e , " it is necessary to go back to the y e a r s of World W a r 2 when the San Joaquin Valley had its greatest development.

White f a r m e r s , with money,

finding the price of the land relatively cheap, flocked to the a r e a . L i k e their predecessors in the early days of this nation they needed cheap labor to get the greatest yield from the land, and, also like their predecessors, they resorted to false promises, tricky appeals and c r i m e s to get that labor.

Black m e n , women and children, lured by the prospects of a new life in the L a n d of Sunshine, moved from their various states by the thousands.

Highly mobile, they moved from the cotton fields of B a k e r s f i e l d and F r e s n o to the grape pickings of Delano and the asparagus fields of Sacramento.

M e x i c a n nationals, like the B l a c k s , lured by the bounties of the fields and hopes for better l i v e s , flocked to the fields in ever - increasing numbers. I n a very short time, the B l a c k s and Chicanos were pitted against each other, by the exploiters, in an economic struggle designed to lower wages and relegate them to positions of servitude.

T h i s tricknology continued until a few y e a r s after the end of the w a r when it w a s realized by both Chicanos and B l a c k s (Continued on page 4)

Need to expand trade is forcing South Africa's B y D. D. Shanklin

(Special to Muhammad Speaks) CAIRO—The Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola (Guinea B i s s a u is not directly discussed in this a r t i c l e ) were also settled by colonialists from Europe.

However, because of Portugal's lingering feudal relations and the late development of c a p i t a l i s m in Portugal, she w a s able to hold on to her colonial possessions when other E u r o p e a n powers were reorganizing their colonial relations from the old style colonial relationship to new ways of economic expolitation.

T h e Portuguese colonies in Africa were kept in the

historical position a s a m a r k e t for Portuguese goods and a s a supplier of r a w m a t e r i a l s for Lisbon.

This classical relationship of i m p e r i a l i s m has continued to this day until the Portuguese have considered these territories part of the mother country and are called a s i n the F r e n c h colonial system "overseas" orovinces ruled directly from Lisbon a s another province of Portugal.

MIGRANT LABOR BASE O F ECONOMY T h e other southern A f r i c a n countries (including the q u a s i independent states of M a l a w i .

Botswana, Swaziland, and Lesotho) have long historical relations with South A f r i c a through the migration of labor

to South A f r i c a and the expansion of- South Africa economically and politically into these countries.

Annually over 100,000 workers come from Mozambique, 20,000 from M a l a w i . 26.000 from Rhodesia. 100.000 from N a m i b i a and 100,000 from Angola go to South A f r i c a to work on short t e r m contracts.

T h i s migratory labor force enables the South African government to employ people at slave wages and prevent the development of a stable skilled labor force.

T r a d e has also tied these Southern A f r i c a n countries to South A f r i c a with South A f r i c a taking most of the exports of these countries and in return these countries accepting a

large number of South A f r i c a n eoods.

South A f r i c a n i m p e r i a l i s m in Africa and her economic relations with the rest of the capitalist world, especially with the U . S . imperialists, should not be underestimated.

In 1964 U.S. capital directly invested in A f r i c a amounted to only $1.6 billion or less than 4 per cent of total capital directly invested abroad— however the bulk of the investment (80 per cent) is invested in South A f r i c a .

U.S. imperialists' main concern in independent A f r i c a has been to prevent the development of strong political and economic systems in independent A f r i c a outside of Western capitalist control, and

to develop South A f r i c a a s an economic power complex in the region!

The rest of A f r i c a with its lack of an industrial structure and commercial markets growing, shortage of foreign exchange (which endangers the import of profits), lack of developed capitalist relations of production and low density of population has remained today a region so f a r of little capitalist investment.

SOUTH AFRICA CAN'T C O M P E T E AGAINST RICH COUNTRIES Inspite of the fact of South A f r i c a ' s strong position in A f r i c a it is unable to compete economically with the rest of the capitalist countries in the (Continued on page 4)

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SHARP CONTRAST of living conditions of 'growers' reflect gross inequality that exists among inhabitants of the plush fields of San Joaquin Valley. Complete with air conditioning and private gas pumps, the 'growers' who really grow nothing but money themselves live in atmosphere of luxury while workers w h o grow and harvest crops live under genocidal conditions. (MS photo: Larry Knight and Robert 9 X ) that they were the losers.

T h e " g r o w e r s " had grown fat and wealthy vyhile, they, the TRUE PRODUCERS, THE TILLERS O F T H E SOIL, reaped a harvest of m i s e r y and poverty.

Many of the f a r m workers, having no other skills, stayed near the fields in hope that their d r e a m s could still be realized, or that they would at least be able to earn a decent living.

Advanced technology and improved methods of agriculture soon made it evident that the f a r m laborers w e r e in trouble.

A new generation of children had been born. H a m p e r e d by constant migrant travel, inadequate housing and living conditions, they became tragic pawns in a vicious game. F o r many there were no available schools, for others, the quest for an education caused them to have to travel many miles each day.

T h e s c a r c i t y of jobs and the hopelessness that gradually creeped in caused thousands to settle down to a life of drudgery and despair. No running water. improper bathing facilities and clapboard shacks b e c a m e their lot.

Oldtimers, recalling the long and tedious y e a r s of toil that began with their d r e a m s of a new start in California, complain bitterly of the exploitation and the inhumane conditions they endure.

T h e valley is still green and productive. Miles of produce line the fields; modern advances have virtually eliminated the boll weevil, the crop - destroying insects and the diseases which once periled the a r e a but like in most of the agricultural regions throughout the country, the old m a x i m still holds true.

"THE RICH G E T RICHER. WHILE T H E POOR GET POORER."

LETTUCE BOYCOTT is still going strong. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee leads boycott of this National Foods store in Chicago because it refused to sell union label lettuce. Young Black brother in background helps predominantly Chicano picketers pass information to shoppers warning them that improved living conditions of many farmworkers depend upon boycott. (MS photo: Nassar Muhammad)

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SUB-HUMAN CONDITIONS such as these prompted Cesar Chavez, organizer of the United Farmworkers of America, to seek methods to eliminate poverty-stricken areas within agricultural regions throughout California. Efforts of Chavez, R. Tijerina, Juan Chacon and others Chicanos have brought national attention to conditions of Chicano nation but job of eliminating poverty in this rich area is still in its infancy. (MS photo: Larry Knight and Robert 9 X )

Black capitalism progra unable to get off ground

NEW YORK E f f o r t s to develop business enterprises in the nation's ghettos have produced disappointing results, according to T h e Conference Board, a private non-profit economic r e s e a r c h organization. " T O D A T E these efforts have had little over-all i m p a c t , " said the magazine. " N e w ghetto enterprises have provided relatively few jobs; and most have not been successful in t e r m s of the

conventional business c r i t e r i a of productive efficiency and profit."

Major barriers to the development of ghetto business ventures, said the study, are the economic recession, the failure of established f i r m s to become immediate customers of ghetto business and delays in getting government sponsored contracts.

An underestimation of the problems involved in turning

out f a m i l i a r products and services sometimes with little or no experienced manpower was also cited by some companies as a reason for disappointing results.

T h e study w a s based on interviews with over 300 businessmen and government officials involved with business ventures in the ghettos of 15 U S urban a r e a s between mid-1966 and mid-1970. At least 30 ventures were studied in depth.

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world. She neither has the markets nor at this time the channels for competition on the world capitalist market.

South A f r i c a is also hampered in her production of .certain capital goods for export by the segregated policies of the government in the labor force which h a s produced a shortage of skilled labor forcing South A f r i c a to import white skilled labor.

Therefore the competitive position of South Africa's manufactured and capital goods on the world m a r k e t is likely to r e m a i n weak relative to U.S..

European, and Japanese —manufactured goods. It is therefore to Africa that South A f r i c a must hope to sell most of its growing exports of manufactured goods.

Vorster's "outward-looking" policy is a direct reflection of this need to trade in A f r i c a , and part of the imperalist

design of drawing independent A f r i c a n countries into the South A f r i c a n economy.

Thus the dialogue with South A f r i c a that Houphouet-Boigny.

Busia and other Western puppets suggest should be viewed in light of the fact that these countries already trade directly or indirectly with South A f r i c a and the fact that these governments and individuals are supported financially by the South

A f r i c a n government.

E v e n though South A f r i c a n trade figures with other A f r i c a n countries a r e hard to find, mainly because many A f r i c a n countries would be e m b a r r a s s e d to admit to this fact, South A f r i c a in 1967 earned some 221.5 million R a n d (1 rand in 1967 equals $1.40) from trade with A f r i c a n countries other than M a l a w i , Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho.

Sihanouk was target of CIA coup N O R F O L K , Va - A G r e e n B e r e t officer admitted that he took part in a secret mission in 1967 which had as its goal the overthrow of Cambodia's P r i n c e Norodom Sihanouk.

T H E N O R F O L K VirginianPilot reported in recent editions that Capt.

John M c C a r t h y , 28 told them that the operation w a s directed from South Viet N a m by the Central Intelligence Agency.

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"Operation C h e r r y , " but a s usual the Pentagon denied any knowledge of Operation Cherry.

M c C a r t h y served two y e a r s in a federal prison for the murder of a Cambodian m e r c e n a r y before his conviction w a s overturned by a m i l i t a r y court of appeals.

Interfering with internal politics of other nations is an often repeated c r i m e of the champion of the "free w o r l d . "

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Savage Detroit police harass Black family, bayonet Black girl D E T R O I T — Already infamous for ignoring the soaring crime rate in Detroit, the Detroit Police Department consistently manages to find time to launch terrorist attacks against innocent Black citizens.

MRS. C A T H E R I N E Browning. who lives on Detroit's Northwest side, complained of a Gestapo - like attack on her home while she was at work and the children were left unprotected. M r s .

Browning said that she never expected that her property would be destroyed and her family severly beaten by the " P r o t e c t o r s of L i b e r t y . " as Detroit P o l i c e officers c a l l themselves.

T h e first of these cowardly attacks took place early on April 20. after M r s . Browning left for work.

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pretense of looking for stolen guns, the bigots seized the opportunity to terrorize the B l a c k children.

"Open the door or we'll kick it down," announced one of the patrolmen. One of the children c r a c k e d the door and the officers forced their way in.

They began searching all over the house.

Nathaniel, age 14, telephoned one of his older brothers, Leonard, who lived nearby.

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P O L I C E C A R S harassed the Browning family for two days before they launched another attack. On April 22. neighbors reported that eight carloads of white officers converged on the house.

Again Mrs. Browning was at work.

While a group of uniformed officers surrounded the house with rifles and bayonets, plainsclothesmen broke down the front and r e a r doors with

DAMAGE DONE by some of Detroit's infamously wild white police is shown by Mrs. Catherine Browning. Police beat and kicked several of her children after breaking through this door with sledgehammers. They produced no warrant, said they were looking for guns. 'I hate all niggers,' one policeman screamed as he attacked family and its possessions with an insane passion familiar to Black people throughout the USA. (MS photo: Herman L. 2X)

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B y D a v i d 15X E A S T O R A N G E , N.J. - MS: M a y o r H a r t , how long have you been in office?

Do you have a financial problem here in E a s t Orange?

Y e s sir, most of the central cities are having financial problems and we're no different from them. We've had a rapid change over from upper middle c l a s s whites to a middle class downward, economically, of B l a c k people and that has caused or created additional problems because of a lack of respect for B l a c k s from the president's office and downwards.

on their land. We have people who never pay as m u c h as $1.00 for taxes, ship magnates and millionaires, while poor Blacks and poor whites

Black legislator warns of Reagan's police state move SACRAMENTO-Senator M e r v y n M. D y m a l l y , C h a i m a n of the Senate Majority C a u c u s , warned that one of Governor Reagan's proposed welfare reform bills would give h i m and his administrative officials the right to inspect the income tax return of any California citizen. " I T I S B A D enough that this bill would permit officials in every county the right to poke into welfare recipients' income tax r e t u r n s , " D y m a l l y said during a hearing on the bill this month. " B u t as it is worded, Senate B i l l 546 does not l i m i t this to welfare recipients but extends it to 'the

ould you say the War in Viet N a m is directly responsible for the financial c r i s i s in the country?

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A r e you for a total withdrawal of U S troops from Viet N a m ?

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At one time the city of E a s t Orange held the prestigous standing as being the cleanest in the country. What is it ranking today?

We a r e still ranked high as far as the cleanliness of the cities a r e concerned. T h e cleaning efforts are what the a w a r d s are based on.

We have received three of those a w a r d s in the last ten y e a r s including m y first in office which was 1970. last year.

T h e efforts were put torth by the high schools, boy scouts, girl scouts and church groups.

Our ban of on the street parking at night allows our sweepers to get closer to the curbs. But we a r e not a clean city " p e r s e , " we're a nice city and we would like to be much cleaner and we're working at it.

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O K L A H O M A C I T Y - A 27year-old white m a n has been charged with first degree manslaughter in the shooting death of a 17-year old B l a c k girl. Deloris Jefflo. whom his

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What do you thing about the F a m i l y Planning P r o g r a m ?

I think family planning is false insofar as the way people go about doing it. T h i s is geared to B l a c k people but B l a c k people are tired of people planning their lives Our families were disrupted many y e a r s ago. dating back to the continent. Africa and A s i a .

It has caused some of the moral fibers, religious fibers and things that a r e dear to racial groups to be loose and so many tentacles on it. Most of us don't know what our real religion, our real names and backgrounds a r e . so therefore some of us try to plan families but actually what you're doing is using European knowledge of what a family should be.

I don't agree with people who say a certain number of children a r e ideal. I've seen a family of 15 children, the mother and father ran a good home but they ran their own homes and were not run by the system.

A r e there any plans to grant raises for the city employees?

Welfare is a c r i m e , actually criminal. that has been perpetrated on the people in America.

Especially Black people. Puerto R i c a n and poor whites. I t ' s a hoax, it's a teardown.

They're talking about family planning on one hand and they're tearing us apart on another. I n this country we c a n send people to the moon and search the depths of the sea. do everything they want to do. create lotteries, hold Kentucky Derbys, hold baseball and basketball games and a l l kinds of things that we see.

Y o u can't tell m e a country like that can't provide a decent living for the people. Welfare is a w a y of keeping people regimented and under control.

Common sense will tell you this is what is being done because this is only being done in m a j o r cities. This country could provide a m i n i m u m income to families, forget calling it welfare. If a person lives in an a r e a where there are no jobs, he should have a m i n i m u m income. Don't make the people slave to the system.

Many of them have to buy at a higher rate than other people, then they're even told who they better not support politically.

Deloris Jefflo

According to a Black Oklahoma City resident: ' T h e incident started when a drunk white m a n (Michael L a m b ) threw a rock from the building ( L a m b ' s G a r a g e of which he is part-owner) where he w a s working and hit a 17-year-old B l a c k girl, Deloris Jefflo. and her three-month-old son.

D a r r e l l . as they walked past.

"She went home to call the police. T h e police c a m e and arrested the m a n . T h e m a n managed to get away from the police and there was a chase and the police recaptured the man and they told the girl to file a complaint at police headquarters."

T H E M A N , Michael Eugene Lamb, was arraigned last week before Special Judge J i m Barnett on the weak manslaughter charge.

In the excitement a crowd of teenagers gathered near L a m b ' s G a r a g e to watch the action.

Although police believe that another B l a c k youth. L a r r y C a v e r s . 14. w a s shot in the right thigh by the same bullet which killed the Jefflo girl, no one w a s charged with the second shooting?

" A dog was brought out by Michael Lamb from the' garage. This disturbed the crowd so they started throwing bricks at the dog. A B l a c k teenage girl then got her dog and put him on L a m b ' s dog and

there w a s a dog fight with many more people gathering to see the dogs fight," B l a c k witnesses reported.

over the fallen girl after she was shot and left lying in the street.

The incident occured on a Michael L a m b went inside Wednesday at approximately 7 and got a rifle and when the p.m. M i s s Jefflo died at M e r c y crowd s a w this they all started Hospital on Thursday at 10 running away. T h e m a n shot a . m . from a gunshot wound. into the crowd running a w a y D E L O R I S ' M O T H E R , Mrs. and shot Miss Jefflo through Geneva Tillis, thinks that the back.

L a m b "should riot be o n ' t h e " T h e police were called, by s t r e e t s " after killing a young the time they and an woman. And he "should have ambulance arrived Miss Jefflo been charged with murder had lain on the street since the girl w a s shot in the approximately 30 minutes. b a c k ! " added M r s . T i l l i s . She said that she is not satisfied at A W I T N E S S to the incident.

Barbara Little John, 19. all with the handling of the reported that a c a r tried to run case.

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Gladys Browning went to a neighbor to phone for help and was wounded by an officer with a bayonet.

One of the neighbors called R i c h a r d , age 30 and F r a n k i e , age 19. two more of M r s .

Brownings sons.

Upon arriving. R i c h a r d saw a group of white m e n beating and kicking his sister. Coming to her defense, he too w a s beaten.

F r a n k i e tried to help and received the same treatment.

The "protectors of liberty continued their wanton destruction of doors and furniture.

They never identified themselves or produced a search w a r r a n t during the fracas. R i c h a r d and F r a n k i e were handcuffed and taken outside. " I ought to kill you. nigger!

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Inside the police c a r the patrolman spoke insultingly and pointed his police revolver at them. H e threatened to shoot all the way to the 12th P r e c i n c t Headquarters. M r s .

Browning was denied permission to see her children.

After a three - hour delay, they were taken to Receiving Hospital and treated for knife wounds and severe bruises.

T h e Browning brothers were tried in court on contrived charges of resisting arrest and assaulting an officer. Police officials have made no attempt to explain the severity of their beast - like attack, their disregard for the rights of the Browning family or the unwarranted destruction of personal property.

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An exceptional Nigerian village

By Charles Simmons (UN Correspondent) A I Y E T O R O V I L L A G E , Mid- Western State, Nigeria — Our last trip inside the Western Nigerian interior is taken from Ibadan to Akitipupa near the Gulf of Guinea, formerly known as the Slave Coast. The ride on land takes a complete traveling day and the next morning we take a canoe from Akitipupa village to Aiyetoro and pass numerous villages of fishermen on the way. petroleum which under exploiters control is of no direct benefit to those living on subsistence levels.

But Aiyetoro is an exception among a l l the villages we have seen in Nigeria. The fishermen here manufacture larger ships capable of going to sea and staying for weeks at a time.

T h e i r catch is enormous and the price of seafood in the Some of the fish are dried and cities of Nigeria brings the sold, other fish a r e sold fresh, fishermen a very high gain. and still others are kept for the They therefore participate in home. Sailing along the Niger the national economy and also R i v e r , we see s m a l l children a r e self - reliant. The villagers have constructed an paddling their canoes alone at here the age of six. They c a n s w i m entire town on the r i v e r Niger as early a§ they c a n walk. near the ocean. Y o u simply Women take their children walk along wooden streets to along on fishing expeditions adjoining houses, some of c a r r y i n g babies in their laps which a r e two-story buildings, and food piled in the center of to a hotel for guests which provides free rooms and has the canoe.

Compared with what we have toilet facilities with running seen in much of North A f r i c a water. and the Middle E a s t , the They have their own power fishermen a r e much better plant to provide electricity to fed, and appear much the entire village of about 1,000 healtheir. No such abundance inhabitants and employees of natural resources exists i n from nearby villages who work North A f r i c a or the Middle here in the factories which E a s t with the exception of manufacture cloth from r a w T H E L I V E S of the fishermen and women seem to have fewer burdens than those of the f a r m e r s . T h e r e is no cost to build a house on the river, no expense to build a canoe, and the seafood is plentiful. A fishing expedition lasts for several days and the catch is generally large enough to last for several weeks.

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BIG MARKETPLACE Ibadan is a place where both local and national economies converge in Nigeria. Small agricultural producers and fishermen bring their surplus goods here where they both trade with one another and sell to the government. In village described in article, a system of collective labor greatly enriches village resources. (MS photo: Charles Simmons) A medical clinic has been set up and a hospital is being planned. At present, some of the youth are attending the University of Ibadan so they will be able to start a secondary school for the community.

Schools, medicine, food, housing and education a r e a l l provided by the community free of charge.

Aiyetoro also has a shoe factory and tailor shops which make m e n and women's clothes for the community and other villages. They have their own hardware store and maintenance shop to repair engines and appliances. They make modern furniture both for the community and to export to other parts of Nigeria.

"I A M A M A N of the c o m m u n i t y . " our young guide tells us as he escorts us around the town above the river. " B e t w e e n the hours of eight and noon, we work for the community and from noon until two we can work for ourselves.

Saturdays are partial working days and Sundays a r e holidays."

T h e fish taken during the

T h e r e is a technical school here which trains young men and women in navigation and engine repair.

A nursery school is available for all mothers of children from one to five.so the women are free to work if they like. T h e r e is also a p r i m a r y school for a l l youngsters of the village.

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Marriage rs either monogamous or polygamous and must be by consent of both parties.

Most Nigerians to whom we spoke about Aiyetoro usually laughed when the name w a s mentioned. They consider the villagers religious fanatics.

However, there w e r e some who considered the Aiyetore economic policy very sound and said it would be good if it could influence other Nigerian communities, and even other -countries in the developing world.

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Algeria modernizes agriculture B y Charles Simmons ALGIERS B y 1980, Algerian officials say they intend to be self - sufficient in food production for the nation.

This will be a major breakthrough for the economy since the present rate of government spending on •imported foodstuffs is $97 million out of a total of $645 million for imports.

TODAY, ALGERIAN agricultural production is back up to its 1962 level, and if you consider that the population has increased by two million since then in addition to a great deal of destruction due to the w a r against F r a n c e , that is a m a j o r accomplishment.

According to planning Minister Adballah Khodja, argiculture is one of the three indispensable elements next to industrialization and education in the struggle of Algeria to modernize itself. Officials in the Agricultural Ministry told me that part of the agricultural sector is privately med. and some is state

owned. They say the emphasis is on r u r a l development rather than urban housing.

According to a cabinet minister from the department of Agriculture and A g r a r i a n Reform, the economy of agriculture is divided into two sectors: modern and traditional. T h e modern sector was formerly exploited by the F r e n c h settlers, or colons a s they a r e called here. This factor w a s one of the m a j o r causes of the liberation w a r . I a m told.

After the w a r , there w a s an attempt to unify the two sectors but it had to be abandoned. T h e second sector of subsistence f a r m e r s , or traditional agriculture w a s difficult to unite with the highly mechanized modern sector. L a t e r , the government took the road to improve the traditional sector by training peasant farmers to be agricultural technicians and increasing the mechanization of the traditional sector.

I n the words of the ministry of

Conservative figures show poverty for 33% of Blacks WASHINGTON ( P A C ) - D a t a collected from a nationwide survey indicates that the number of people who live below the poverty level of $3,968 h a s risen 5 per cent in the last year. T h e dominant reason for the increase in the number of poor is unemployment.

CENSUS EXPERTS have said that within this overall percentage increase, the increase for B l a c k s is f a r , greater. A s many a s one out of every three or 33 per cent of

the country's B l a c k population live below the poverty level.

T h e report also showed that the true existence of poverty is even w o r s e than the survey indicates.

If the poverty m i n i m u m were realistically increased one-fourth, or 25 per cent, to $4,960 for an urban family of four, poverty among B l a c k s would jump from 33 per cent to 43 per cent.

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So the government had to try and bring up the standards.

"We had to borrow money to get agricultural equipment for the peasant f a r m e r s . That has raised the agricultural standards. Another attempt was made to create schools and cultural centers to improve the social standards.

Roads bridges had to be built and general reconstruction of a w a r - torn nation."

I w a s told that nine schools of agriculture have been built since independence compared to one during the F r e n c h occupation. These schools for farmers are four year institutions which award the (Continued on page 10)

US union leaders sit back wh plants are moved to foreign MEMPHIS, T E N N E S S E E Because of administrative reasons, R C A w a s unable to give all its 4,000 workers their C h r i s t m a s present at the s a m e time.

THEREFORE only 2,000 received theirs the week before C h r i s t m a s , and the remainder had to wait until D e c e m b e r 30 to receive theirs.

But they a l l received the same present — final termination of their jobs, because the company is moving to T a i w a n in a n effort to attract cheaper labor. T a i w a n e s e cannot form unions under the U S backed dictatorship. They work eleven hours a day for 15e to 30c a n hour for productivity valved at $5 an hour.

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Although the company said that low sales is the reason for its leaving Memphis, the truth is, according to Frank M c C a n n , R C A ' s Indianapolis public relations man, that R C A has been moving its equipment and top management personnel to T a i w a n for over a year.

I n fact it is believed that R C A really decided to move when in 1970 it lost a suprising wage battle to the International Union of E l e c t r i c a l Workers.

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in JUS economic positio 'This is my farm Drop now!' rise of Japan, worry Nixon WASHINGTONU.S. economic power abroad has declined to such an extent that President Nixon has ordered P e t e r G . Peterson to give a closed - door briefing to all Republican members of Congress.

PETERSON is a former c h a i r m a n of the board of B e l l & Howell and has also given confidential briefings to senior staffers in the White House and to House and Senate Republican leaders.

T h e Nixon Administration is pursuing its usual policy of deceit by refusing to make the economic stature of the U.S. abroad known to its own citizens.

According to some reports.

Peterson has made no hard proposals to the President yet for legislation which would permit U S companies to pool their resources and obtain federal subsidies in an attempt to become competitive with such huge c o m m e r c i a l entities as J a p a n .

J a p a n , whose monopolies are

even more closely linked to government than those in the U.S., is hurting the U.S. economic posture by creating powerful industrial enterprises supported by the legal and financial resources of the J a p a n e s e government.

This plus low wage scales at home and cheap transport to foreign m a r k e t s has allowed J a p a n to lock up foreign m a r k e t s and drastically undersell U.S. exports.

A s an example of Japan's trading power, Peterson stressed the fact, in a closed door session, that Japanese steel can now be delivered

2.000 miles to some U.S. ports as cheaply as Chicago produced steel can be sold on the West Coast.

If the U.S. does not close the competitive gap soon, it is likely that she will become a second c l a s s power in the spiraling world contest for foreign economic markets, both Nixon and Peterson believe.

One result of Nixon's foreign trade strategy will probably be the relaxation of antitrust laws in order to permit more efficient exploitation by industrial combinations for foreign investment and trade.

Want new P u e r t o R i e a n p a r t y A D D R E S S I N G A crowd of 5000 people in Puerto R i c o , J u a n M a r i B r a s , general secretary of M P I (Movement for Puerto R i c a n Independence), said he believes M P I should be transformed into a political party representing the interests of all Puerto R i c a n people except those exploiting their fellows.

R e j e c t i n g what he called "reformist ideologies" as having no value for a people in the "straightjacket of c o l o n i a l i s m , " B r a s said the proposed party would provide a society d e s c r i b e d irTthe words of another Puerto R i c a n liberator. Eugenio M a r i a de Hostos, a s : " P r o p e r t y for everybody, work for everybody; production and consumption for everybody.'"

THIS FARM w a s owned by one of richest French colonialists in Algeria. Now it belongs to Algerian people as a state - operated farm. Peasants who slaved for the Frenchman now are agricultural workers and run farm through a worker management committee. They receive technological training free and use part of farm earnings to advance their health, educational, housing and other needs.

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There the f a r m e r s spend an additional four y e a r s and one more for specialization. They graduate as agricultural engineers.

These social and cultural revolutions are to dispose of the competition which existed before. It will give Algerians a chance who aspire to unify the country," the ministry spokesman said.

On one state f a r m I visited there a r e about 200 f a r m e r s including their families. It w a s an experimental f a r m which has increased production and exports fruits and vegetables for foreign cash. F o r m e r l y the f a r m belonged to a group of five F r e n c h families. Y e t . the work was done by the

Algerians many of whom work here now.

One f a r m e r to whom I spoke said he is proud that he works for himself now instead of for the F r e n c h . He says he is not r i c h , but what he has is his own. H e adds proudly, that his children go to school less than one mile from the f a r m .

T h a t was impossible during the F r e n c h occupation because he had no money to send them to school. When the F r e n c h were the bosses, he says, he drove a f a r m truck and also did some farming. Today he is a manager of f a r m production, a highly responsible position in a state f a r m .

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Deposed Ghanaian president K w a m e N k r u m a h founded and named the ship line.

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Aspirants for positions in Ghana's commercial and m i l i t a r y s e r v i c e are trained extensively at the G h a n a Nautical College at A c c r a . T o become a captain of a ship requires a m i n i m u m of nine y e a r s of schooling. Those nine y e a r s a r e a combination of stages which must be

MASSIVE AFRICAN C A R G O SHIP ' N a k w a River' dwarfs dock workers in Milwaukee port as it arrives in United States to deliver cocoa beans from G h a n a . Ship is one of fleet of 16 ships belonging to Black Star Line owned and operated by government of G h a n a .

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CAPT. E. O. AGBAKOBA, 32 years old, is symbolic of attempt

by African governments to place their countrymen in top positions as commanders of commericial vessels.

satisfactorily completed at each level before one passes on to a higher position.

T h e 454 foot long ship w a s i m m a c u l a t e in spite of the turmoil the unloading and loading created. F r o m the galley to the captain's quarters, the ship w a s a definite example of the high degree of training the young c r e w received. E a c h crew m e m b e r performed his job with authority, confidence and pride.

c r e w m e n , serving mostly in the capacity of duty officers and engineers, but a s more A f r i c a n s graduate from the training school with the capabilities necessary for these positions, they will replace the non - B l a c k s .

T h e N a k w a R i v e r , one of the fastest ships in the fleet, is capable of sailing at 19 miles per hour on the high seas.

Costs of jrunning the ship come to approximately $2,000 per day.

W I T H I N T W O years, it is expected that all the ships in the B l a c k Star L i n e will be manned entirely by A f r i c a n c r e w s . At present, there a r e onlv a few non - B l a c k

Times have changed considerably since Captain Agbakoba began his apprenticeship as a youngster.

T h e captain of today has a (Continued on page 12)

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'Black people can do anything crew says much more intimate relationship with his men.

Gone is the distant a i r and overt authoritarian attitude of the ship commanders — a carryover from British colonialism.

Captain Agbakoba said. " I t * isn't necessary to keep your men at a distance anymore. I find that a closer relationship with my men creates an atmosphere that promotes greater efficiency. After a l l , these men are professionals

and with the pride they display in their work, a captain c a n really feel good as their leader.

It takes a good c r e w and staff to sail across the ocean to other parts of the w o r l d . " The pride and abilities displayed by the c r e w of the Nakwa R i v e r assure G h a n a of a great future in shipping because, as one of the crewmen stated.

Black people c a n do anything and do it w e l l , as long a s they are given a chance."'

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CHIEF COOK ABAKA prepares meat for captain and crew.

ENGINE ROOM OF N a k w a River has six - cylinder engine, making it possible for ship to glide through waters at fast pace. The entire ship is kept immaculate at all times.

PART OF PROUD CREW of N a k w a River rests for few minutes as ship is unloaded and reloaded for trip back home.

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Those who would like to apply for such courses and are unable, the NATION OF ISLAM will help you until you are able to pay them back.

If the Black man is ever to get any place in the way of self and doing for self — which means self independence — He must know how to lay the ground -work — and that is in engineering.

The Knowledge of Engineering is the main course you should be taking today — CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING— CIVIL ENGINEERING — ELECTRICAL ENGINEER MECHANICAL ENGINEERING—All thauis possible tp aowledge needed to build a nation.

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Statistical review of 1970 accidents

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NEWARK— Accidents caused a n estimated 113,000 deaths in 1970. T h i s is approximately 2,000 fewer -an in 1969, or a decline of under two percent.

The provisional mortality rate from accidents in the y e a r just ended w a s about 55.5 per 100.000 population, compared with 57.0 recorded for 1969.

T h i s estimate would put the rate for 1970 at the lowest level since 1964.

A S H A R P drop i n the death toll from motor vehicle accidents w a s i n large part responsible for the decrease in the loss of life from accidents in 1970. Motor vehicle fatalities decreased by 1.100 ( o r 2 percent) to about 55.300 in 1970.

Public accidents, other than those involving motor vehicles, also figured in the decreased death toll from a l l types of accidents combined, dropping to 20.0OTr-^Trr about 1,000 less than the figure for the previous year.

THE NUMBER of job related fatalities in 1970 w a s approximately 14,200 - about

trie s a m e a s in me previous y e a r ; approximately 3,300 of these deaths a r e included in the estimate of 55,000 motor vehicle fatalities mentioned above. T h e toll from injuries in and about; the home w a s slightly less than the 27,000 recorded for 1969.

About 900 persons lost their lives during 1970 in catastrophic accidents, i.e.. accidents taking five or more lives. T h e catastrophic death toll w a s over 500 less than that of 1969 and also lower than the average for the past decade in the United States excluding A l a s k a nd H a w a i i ) .

During 1970 there w e r e seven m a j o r catastrophes, each of which caused 25 or more deaths: in the aggregate they resulted i n 254 deaths. T w o of these disasters involved accidents i n civilian aviation: the chartered j e t l i n e r c r a s h on November 14 in Huntington. W. V a . , resulting in 75 deaths, the heaviest toll of the y e a r , and the chartered plane crash which occurred near Silver P l u m e , Colo., on October 2 taking 31 lives.

The second largest

Sen. Mondale says US form of apartheid is developing NEW YORK-Democrat Senator Walter Mondale from Minnesota recently declared at a luncheon session of the 1971 law institute of the N A A C P that the r a c i a l conditions here in the United States a r e rapidly beginning to resemble the apartheid (white - minority rule) , conditions in South Africa.

THE SENATOR stated, 'native reserves and

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Bantustans a r e the inner city, and our apartheid i s a l l the m o r e disgusting for being insidious and unproclaimed."'

The native reserves and Bantustans in South A f r i c a a r e the s m a l l a r e a s of land on which the B l a c k majority a r e forced to live.

In his address.

Mondale accused the federal and suburban governments of perpetrating the " A m e r i c a n apartheid"' system.

The government's involvement in residential segregation is not an unconscious a c t . but rather a conscious stated policy which entails the building of ghettos and the creation of isolation.

He further expounded that only the executive and legislative bodies and not the courts could implement new policies to avoid turmoil in school desegregation and low income housing.

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FACTORY ACCIDENTS are on rise in United States. This victim of explosion at chemical plant in Brunswick, Georgia, w a s one of mounting number of people erfl ed by ignoring of safety l a w s by government, management and most union leadership. Mining disasters, are as common now as they were decades ago; over 55,000 people are hurt on jobs every day. But this is good for the economy, government, business and labor leadership claim, because to improve working conditions would reduce profits a n d force owners fo move jobs to other countries. catastrophe of the year resulted from a coal mine explosion in Wooton, K y . on D e c e m b e r 30 which cost 38 lives. A nursing home fire in Marietta, Ohio on J a n u a r y 9 took 31 lives and a hotel fire in Tucson, Arizona on D e c e m b e r 20th took 28 lives.

The remaining two castrophes: the tornado that struck Lubbock, T e x a s on M a y 11, fatally injuring 26 persons, and the series of tornadoes that hit the T e x a s Panhandle on April 17-18, accounting for 25 fatalities.

Most of the m a j o r categories of catastrophes—civil aviation. motor vehicle, hurricanes. tornadoes, military aviation. water transportation recorded substantial declines in fatalities from the levels in 1969. T h e toll from fires and explosions, however, was about equal in 1970 and 1969, while catastrophic deaths in mines and quarries were slightly greater in 1970.

F I R E and explosions, mostly in private homes and apartments, were responsible for almost one third of the catastrophic deaths in 1970.

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I do have bachelors degrees in Science and C i v i l Engineering and two years teaching experience at Muslim University. Aligarh. India.

I have a long desire to knowabout American Black M u s l i m s , their problems and achievements. I also wish to serve them as a teacher.

Working as a teacher. I think, would give m e an opportunity to know them closely. My wife is also a devoted Muslim and she has a bachelor degree in Arts from Muslim University.

Aligarh. with major in education. geography and psychology.

I take this opportunity to request you to provide m e relevant information about technical institutions serving B l a c k community. I will much appreciate if you inform all such institutions about m y feeling and desire to serve.

Anybody interested m a y feel free to write to me.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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O N C E A G A I N the white m a n has gone out of his w a y to show us and the whole world who and what he is. I a m referring to one of the new eight cent postage stamps honoring the State of Missouri. On this stamp, you will find one Indian, three white m e n . two white women, two white kids, one white dog. These people a r e part of a wagon train, meaning there a r e more.

T h e Indian is approaching the whites with his hand outstreched offering these people his peace pipe. T w o of the white men are approaching the Indian with guns. T h e other white m a n is approaching the Indian with an ax raised in a

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• T h e white m a n constantly reveals his true self; but the lost found need to heed the teachings of T h e Honorable E l i j a h M u h a m m a d in order to be able to recognize these revelations when we see them.

A l l praises due to Allah for m y ability to see the white r a c e for what it reallv is.

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P r i o r to coming into the Nation of I s l a m , behind the Divine guidance of The Honorable E l i j a h M u h a m m a d , Messenger of Allah ( G o d ) , I heard many rumors and statements concerning the Messenger and his followers.

T h e talk that I heard about the Nation of I s l a m c a m e from devils (white people), fellow college students and friends whom I associated with, and others whom I c a m e across.

I E V E N recall the time when I w a s in high school, how m y history teacher (devil) would make derogatory and unscrupulous r e m a r k s about Messenger M u h a m m a d and his followers to the predominantly B l a c k classroom. Many of the students in that class credulously accepted what w a s said to be true, without pondering upon that which was said.

Some of the things which I heard people say were: " M u h a m m a d had M a l c o l m X murdered; Muhammad teaches hate, the M u s l i m s are extremists; Muhammad is taking B l a c k Peoples money; he is using B l a c k People as his subjects and slaves; M u h a m m a d is a liar, e t c . " I would question some of the people as to where they received this information and the usual reply w a s : " I read it in the newspaper (devil's n e w s ) , m y friends told m e so, e t c . " They had no knowledge or evidence of what they said.

It was always what someone had told them, not what they found out for themselves.

It irked m e to hear all of these insinuations, for I admired the Messenger immensely. I got into several arguments with m y " f r i e n d s " when they would talk against the Messenger and his followers, though I was not really qualified with the understanding to defend the Messenger's teachings.

B u t , I w a s equipped with the determination to follow Messenger Muhammad, regardless of what I heard coming from these misinformed people.

I f i r m l y believe in what Messenger Muhammad teaches and what he is doing to be the only solution for the upliftment and betterment of the B l a c k People of A m e r i c a .

E v e r y t h i n g about M u h a m m a d and his P r o g r a m is good.

T h e r e is nothing wrong with what he teaches— M u h a m m a d is right, his c r i t i c s are wrong.

T H E L I E S put out about Muhammad are from his enemies — the devil (white man), disbelievers and hypocrites.

They are all

envious and jealous of him and the work that he is performing among the B l a c k People of America.

The enemies of M u h a m m a d are angry because they cannot hinder the progress that he is achieving among the B l a c k people.

It is impossible to stop him for Allah (God) I s with him.

The enemies have tried everything, in vain, to stop him. but cannot. So, therefore, they put out lies and false information about him (The enemies of Allah have throughout their history put out lies to the public about all of H i s prophets or servants) in an attempt to keep the B l a c k People f r o m coming to h i m , and also to drive followers a w a y from h i m , but this too will fail, for M r . M u h a m m a d is determined to awaken all of the B l a c k People, and his work and teachings are now being generally accepted more than ever before, especially by the young people.

B l a c k People of A m e r i c a , the lies and c r i t i c i s m coming from M u h a m m a d ' s enemies cannot and will not overshadow the good that he has done and is doing for you and m e . H i s work speaks for itself. No matter what they say you should not let this interfere with your coming to the Nation of I s l a m .

If you let lies and slanderous remarks about Muhammad

prevent you from following h i m , then this shows that you are weak and that you are easily led in the wrong direction.

B l a c k People of A m e r i c a , no matter what you hear it has no bearing on the fact that Messenger M u h a m m a d is the only divinely - missioned and qualified L e a d e r , T e a c h e r and Guide for you and m e . No matter what you hear, it does not hinder the fact that Mr. M u h a m m a d has done more for Black People mentally, spiritually and physically than any other m a n , other than Allah (God) Himself.

N O M A T T E R what you hear, it has no bearing on that which he teaches — which is the truth. Nor does it change the proven fact that he is who he says he is — the Messenger of Allah (God) Who c a m e in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom all P r a i s e s are due!

Many B l a c k People are using this feeble and ridiculous excuse (lies about M u h a m m a d ) as the reason that they don't come and get behind h i m , as their objection toward him.

It is a test for a new believer who c o m e s to M u h a m m a d , to hear and go through with the criticism and accusations directed at Messenger M u h a m m a d and his followers.

before getting a basic and concrete understanding of the Messenger's mission and the time that we now live in.

T h e enemies of Messenger M u h a m m a d pounce upon one who becomes a follower — they question his or her belief, they tell lies on M u h a m m a d , criticize h i m , they try to confuse the teachings of I s l a m with the teachings of Christianity and they try to irritate and s c a r e Messenger Muhammad's followers away.

THE DEVIL white man knows who M u h a m m a d is and they know that he is teaching nothing but the truth, from Allah (God) — but they want to keep as many of the B l a c k People a w a y from h i m as they can.

However, as I mentioned before — this will not impede the unlimited success of Messenger M u h a m m a d and the Nation of I s l a m , for God is with the Muslims. T h e Nation of I s l a m is expanding today by leaps and bounds throughout A m e r i c a like an epidemic, under Muhammad's leader ship.

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B y H e r m a n L. 2 X Muhammad's Mosque No. 1 The Association of B l a c k Students (ABS), an organization of B l a c k students on the campus of Detroit's Wayne State University a r e seeking to educate themselves to every phase of the struggle for Black survival and independence.

B U T B E F O R E Monday night, April 17. they lacked an understanding of the significance of the rise of the Nation of Islam which heretofore had been a n obscure phenomenon.

They were brilliantly introduced to the actuality of the Nation of Islam by Minister Louis F a r r a k h a n of Muhammad's Mosque No. 7. who c a m e a l l the way from New Y o r k in response to their invitation.

SEEN ABOVE is Brother Bernard X., of Mosque No. 29, MiarniT Fla., 19 year dedicated follower of the Honorable Elijah M u h a m m a d . Brother Bernard chalked up 22 'Judgment of the World Is Now' album sales for month of April. This great album

by Messenger Muhammad is already on the number one sales list in Southern Florida.

Thousands of acres of farmland are being purchased, schools are being built, all types of machinery are being acquired, factories, supermarkets, canneries, restaurants, etc. with the very finest facilities of this modern age are being bought and set up by the Nation of I s l a m under the divine guidance of Allah's (God's) last and greatest Messenger, the Honorable E l i j a h M u h a m m a d . H e is the only B l a c k leader who is attacking the unemployment problem among the B l a c k people in the proper manner — by creating jobs for ourselves.

So, B l a c k People of A m e r i c a , instead of listening to and reading f r o m what the enemies of M u h a m m a d and all B l a c k people, are saying of h i m , why not come to the T e m p l e s of I s l a m and take a closer look at what M u h a m m a d is doing.

Read Muhammad Speaks, Message to the B l a c k m a n , and listen to his R e c o r d Albums, for a better understanding of his mission. L e t nothing and nobody stop you from coming to M u h a m m a d !

T h e large gathering, which included ABS members, college students, professors, and several professional men and women of the community were very receptive to the teachings of Messenger Muhammad which were embodied in Minister F a r r a k h a n ' s subject, "Who is The Right L e a d e r for The So Called N e g r o ? " Minister F a r r a k h a n clarified the folly of choosing leadership that has proven to be incapable

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of producing the desired change in the downtrodden condition of the twenty to thirty million so - called Negroes.

He made it obvious that since the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is building schools, creating jobs, and providing food, clothing and shelter for his people in a way that excels the efforts of all of the other leaders combined, then he must be the leader we a r e looking for.

Concerning the non - violent movement and the A r m e d Revolutionary Movement, Minister Farrakhan proved that they were produced a s a result of the white man's education. The white m a n has also fooled us into following dead leaders.

This dynamic spokesman pointed out the way the white man cleverly uses his knowledge of tricks and lies to divide the Black leaders against themselves here in North A m e r i c a in m u c h the s a m e w a y as he has already done in the Congo, Nigeria, Viet N a m , China, K o r e a and other places. He explained that the knowledge of the origin of the white m a n , which is being taught by the Honorable E l i j a h M u h a m m a d , prevents us from falling prey to this natural enemy to humanity.

By Elijah Muhammad Messenger of Allah Under the guidance of the all-wise Supreme Being, we can unite easily and build one of the greatest nations in all history.

A nation chosen and beloved and under divine guidance, is a nation unequaled

and will always be the superior of other nations.

If we understand scriptures, wherein are the prophetic sayings of the prophets, it all sums up to one thing: God making a great and powerful nation out of a people who have been trod under foot by the nations of the earth; people of nothing, unwanted in the societies of the

intelligent nations of the earth — this is the American so-called Negroes.

We know that we were not wanted as members of intelligent societies by the nations of the earth before the coming of that Just One, Whose coming forth is for freedom, justice and equality.

Search the scriptures and you will find in them the prophecy of you becoming the

B Y : Captain R a y m o n d Sharrieff I N our May 28, 1971 edition of M U H A M M A D SPEAKS Newspaper, I diligently read the editorial article by E d i t o r John Woodford and I was so surprised to see how the people look at M a l c o l m , today.

T H E glorifiers of M a l c o l m want to blow him or his work up a s an equal, or superior, to the work and stature of his teacher, ELIJAH MUHAMMAD. I W O U L D . like to say, in a few words to the glorifiers of M a l c o l m , " Y o u do not know why you are glorifying M a l c o l m , yourself, a s M a l c o l m had no work on time, for the time we now live in.

M a l c o l m had no work in introducing, or doing what M R . M U H A M M A D is doing for us, the Black People in A m e r i c a .

Malcolm C O U L D N O T do this kind of work of setting up a future for the Nation of I s l a m , in the Wilderness of North A m e r i c a . I do not have to say here what M U H A M M A D is doing in the way of a future for us. Y o u know this yourself, for you a r e watching M R . M U H A M M A D every day and every night.

I F M a l c o l m had lived to this present day, or for another hundred (100) years to come, do you think that M a l c o l m would have built in the City of Chicago. Illinois, what M U H A M M A D has built?

DO you think that M a l c o l m , according to what he said before death overtook him — do you think that M a l c o l m would have been able to set in motion the minds of us, who have had nothing, and who never thought of trying to lay an industrious foundation for us, Black People?

Y O U must r e m e m b e r that Malcolm's greatest desire w a s to get people to think about fighting.

We never have learned how much fight M a l c o l m had in himself.

B U T , this is the greatest thing that M a l c o l m was trying to show - off in — in saying that he would like to have an a r m y to be taken and killed, while going to w a r to kill the white people in the South for their mistreatment of us.

T H A T is insane thinking! That is not the thinking of the scholars and the scientists of our B l a c k Nation of I s l a m . How far would M a l c o l m have gotten with an a r m e d a r m y going to Mississippi, to beat up some white people down there or kill them for beating and killing our people? The white m a n would not have let him or his a r m y get across the border!

T H E C I V I L R I G H T S M O V E M E N T with their passive teaching w a s not able to go down there with that; not to even think of a w a r r i o r going down there. I want you to know how you a r e deceived by the a r c h - deceiver.

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I N worshipping M a l c o l m , you a r e hated before God and before His Angels, for grabbing a disbeliever in H i m and His Messenger, who is now universally approved by the world to be the Messenger of God, in the person of the Honorable E l i j a h Muhammad.

I only want to acquaint you with the basic meaning of what you a r e actually trying to c a r r y into practice, and that is a worship of a dead M a l c o l m . As M U H A M M A D teaches us, this is the work of your a r c h - deceiver.

place where M U H A M M A D w a s putting h i m . Y o u know that now.

Y O U know that you did not ever read in the Bible or in the writing of the scholars or prophets that M a l c o l m would come a s a Servant of God. HERE, in the pages of the scriptures, M U H A M M A D is written out boldly, for you and me to read of and his work is most surely made manifest to you and to m e , today, that M U H A M M A D is the answer, to that which is written of him.

T H E devil does not want you to follow a Servant of God. Instead of following a Servant of God, the devil wants you to follow a hypocrite and a disbeliever of God. B y following a hypocrite and a disbeliever, you would be the friend of the a r c h deceiver, the devil.

E L I J A H M U H A M M A D is the m a n in the Bible which teaches you that E L I J A H would come and guide you in the right path and bring us again into the love of your and our B l a c k People. M a l c o l m did not even start any such path.

E L I J A H M U H A M M A D has now joined the B l a c k M a n in A m e r i c a with our B l a c k Brothers of A f r i c a . Mail is pouring into M R . M U H A M M A D ' S house almost daily, from A f r i c a , giving M R .

M U H A M M A D honor and credit for the great work that M U H A M M A D is doing for the B l a c k Nation.

M a l c o l m , goes to M E C C A . He m a k e s a pilgrimage, and for the first time M a l c o l m gets a chance to eat out of the same dish with the devil.

This excited M a l c o l m , lover of the devil.

Malcolm, came back from MECCA, worshipping the devil because this w a s the closest that he had ever gotten to be in the society of the devil. Malcolm all but wanted to swear at your God and my God. and Mr. M u h a m m a d , for not teaching him to love white folks.

I F I would test your conscience, it would tell me that you a r e only lying when you a r e trying to follow a dead M a l c o l m rather than a L I V E MUHAMMAD. M U H A M M A D wants for us that which other nations want for themselves, and that which they have achieved for the independence of a nation and not that of a beggar.

M U H A M M A D is accomplishing and he is laying down to you and m e the right way to go about independence of self, with the essential ideals of going to the earth for our bread and meat, first — this is the wisest step that a l l people take to become independent — they have to first feed, house and clothe themselves. These things M U H A M M A D is doing for us.

M a l c o l m , saw white people in M E C C A and he dined with them and ate out of the same dish with them. Judas Iscariot ate out of the dish with J e s u s , but Judas was not a Jesus. Judas was a betrayer.

M R . M U H A M M A D teaches us, and we bear witness that the white m a n has lived on this earth to deceive. He has deceived everyone who believed and who followed h i m , by making them believe that the white m a n was something other than what he is (the devil).

I H A V E been reading and watching you and the white people who a r e now bestowing this false honor upon a dead M a l c o l m . When Malcolm was following M R . M U H A M M A D and when Malcolm was telling the devil who he is, a s you r e m e m b e r , and saying that he wished that he could destroy white people, there were no white people speaking anything in the favor of M a l c o l m . It was only after Malcolm became a hypocrite that he got a deceitful and hypocritical honor from the devil.

M U H A M M A D is in the South seeking f a r m s and a w a r m e r climate. We are southern - born, so M E S S E N G E R M U H A M M A D is taking steps to the South.

W E own thousands of a c r e s of land from M U H A M M A D going South. These lands a r e producing food for us. M U H A M M A D is going South to build better houses and to show them how to grow crops that they can market and make money for themselves.

Y O U glorifiers of M a l c o l m , in honoring M a l c o l m , you fell in love with the devil. Y o u know that Malcolm would never have gotten to the

M R . M U H A M M A D is not only doing this for us, but he is also seeking trade from Mexico and all the way down to the cape of Argentina —

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the equal and superior of the present superior nations.

With the golden scepter of truth, with the divine guidance, if you will submit today you have no need to worry about being rejected and despised any longer.

Stop worrying over the rich man's wealth. If God wants you to have some of it, He will give it to you. But do not pray for it, for the earth is full of wealth.

greatest nation that ever lived under the sun — that is, those of us who are willing to submit to the divine guidance of the God Who came seeking us out of the nations of the earth.

As Ezekiel points out, that God will seek and search the earth for us, a despised and downtrodden people, to mount up, like mountains on the earth, to

Let's go after the earth and get out of it some of its eternal treasures.

Come, follow me and build of yourself a great nation.

Thank you.

M U H A M M A D talks little, but he does plenty of work.

M a l c o l m w a s seeking credit from people for that which he had not done for the people — he could not do it. M a l c o l m could not be a Divine man. H e made mockery of Divine, although a l l prophecy teaches us that there will be no w a y out for us, except by Divine Way.

Icolm! wherever he can find something good for us.

M U H A M M A D will soon be reaching across the Atlantic and the P a c i f i c Oceans, for something for the once slaves whose m a s t e r did not give them anything with which to go from the m a s t e r and to start a good life for themselves.

W H E N the slave i s freed by the m a s t e r , he is free to go for self and to become independent like his m a s t e r — not a free slave, but a free and independent m a n . If he does not go for self then we call him a freed - slave. H e is free for anyone to use him a s a slave for himself.

NOW, a l l of you who read this a r t i c l e , if you think that your little devil schooling, devil association and attraction of the devil will get you any further than a free - slave and hell - fire i n the end — try and see.

M U H A M M A D is a world - wide m a n , now.

M U H A M M A D is not confined to Chicago, Detroit, New Y o r k , L o s Angeles, or S a n F r a n c i s c o — M U H A M M A D is world wide in honor by nations.

W H Y ? Because M U H A M M A D is backed by Divine. A m a n doing the work M U H A M M A D is doing cannot be said to be other than a Divine Man.

B U T , M R . M U H A M M A D frees the mind and gives us a new thought and a new idea that we fashion into being a fruit bearing people, of good.

M U H A M M A D also unites the B l a c k M a n into the love of B l a c k People. Look at how the B l a c k People in America now go under what M U H A M M A D taught them years ago . . . B l a c k . .

Y o u do not find B l a c k People now, who want to be called negro. Where did they get it f r o m ?

MUHAMMAD!

Y O U who seek dead hypocrites or live hypocrites of M U H A M M A D , — you will never get any place among the nations of earth except the place of a fool.

A G A I N , I wish for you to look at M U H A M M A D a s being an unlearned m a n a s the history teaches us that MUHAMMAD was unlettered.

M U H A M M A D is doing more for the good of the people than any lettered m a n of the nations.

W E did not know how to respect B l a c k . We hated B l a c k because the white m a n hated and scorned B l a c k . We wished to be white so that the white m a n would accept us.

S O M E of you would like to make fun by saying that M U H A M M A D never went to school. Y o u have college and university degrees, for nearly one hundred (100) y e a r s . But what has been the good of it? Y o u a r e still here under the foot of the white m a n .

M U H A M M A D has no degrees from the devil and he does not seek any. Allah (Godi Who C a m e in the Person of Master F a r d M u h a m m a d , to Whom P r a i s e s a r e due. Taught and Guides M U H A M M A D . M U H A M M A D is the Student of

M R . M U H A M M A D has turned the tables. It is the opposite, now; we love B l a c k and we hate white, for white is a made color. White is temporary from B l a c k . I say temporary because M U H A M M A D teaches us that white will not rule B l a c k any longer.

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Holy Q u r a n ( 7 : 2 7 ) O children of A d a m , let n o t t h e arch deceiver seduce y o u , a s he e x p e l l e d your parents f r o m t h e g a r d e n , pulling off f r o m . t h e m their clothing t h a t h e might s h o w t h e m their s h a m e . H e s u r e l y s e e s y o u , h e a s w e l l a s his hosts, f r o m w h e n c e y o u s e e t h e m not. S u r e l y W e h a v e m a d e t h e d e v i l s to b e t h e friends of t h o s e w h o b e l i e v e not.

This h a p p e n e d to t h e Black P e o p l e w h o f o l l o w e d Y a k u b f r o m A r a b i a . H e pulled off, f r o m their original Self, t h e clothes of R i g h t e o u s n e s s a n d t h e clothes to cove r their s h a m e ; a n d t h e n m a d e t h e m to g o n u d e in the hills a n d c a v e - s i d e s of E u r o p e , until t h e birth of Moses.

Y o u a r e w a r n e d . Y o u b e l i e v e y o u a r e s a f e in foll o w i n g t h e invitation to evil a n d filth of t h e w h i t e r a c e .

Wait and see.

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God and he m a k e s us the same.

I T is a senseless and a fatal opposition that you are undertaking against MUHAMMAD. M U H A M M A D is actually among us, a God over the devil's professional people, because M U H A M M A D is Guided by the Wisest and Best Knower.

G O D I s V e r y Careful of M U H A M M A D .

M U H A M M A D is the one that the Bible prophesies will be seen sitting on the right hand of the power,' in the day of Judgment of the wicked. I can show him to you in the Bible, now.

A L L A H (God) I s Teaching M U H A M M A D and He Bids us to B O W and F O L L O W M U H A M M A D , or suffer the punishment of hell, for in this day and time there will be one preacher and teaching.

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pocketing pay - off's from their white backing is so abundant in these last days of the fall of A m e r i c a .

The hypocrisy of our B l a c k WE WHO follow the kind posing to project Honorable E l i j a h M u h a m m a d meet with this (hypocrisy) daily. An example of such hypocrisy occured this past weekend, M a y 22, 1971, when the M u s l i m women, after receiving an invitation B y M a r g a r y Hassain approximately two weeks ago by word and by written I N the N a m e Of Allah, M A S T E R F A R D M U H A M M A D , to announcement, to attend the Whom P r a i s e s a r e due forever. T h e Woman in I s l a m G i v e A l l Chicago Conference of B l a c k Holy P r a i s e s to A l l a h (God) and forever thanks H i m for H i s Women of the Y . W . C . A . on Messenger who teaches us the Natural Religion of the B l a c k Man May 22. 1971 at the H a r r i e t t â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which, when practiced, restores the B l a c k Man and the B l a c k Harris Y.W.C.A. 6200 S. Woman to our natural self. We Thank Allah (God) for the Divine D r e x e l . were abruptly told that Light that H i s M E S S E N G E R Brings to us so that we see, and if e c a m e , we could not speak. bear witness to, the teachings of M E S S E N G E R M U H A M M A D .

At the extention of the U N D E R Christianity, we, the B l a c k People, lived a life invitation, we were told that opposed to our own B l a c k Nature. We lived under unnatural many Black women from conditions even in something a s important a s our m a r r i a g e . various groups interested in There w a s no healthy relationship between m a n and woman â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the advancement of the B l a c k because we were reared by an enemy (white r a c e i . The enemy woman would meet together laid the pattern for our entire existance under his rule. We lived and discuss the following an unholy existance. for it w a s not according to the L a w of the topics: 1. Develop unity among Holy God Allah.

B l a c k women, 2. Strengthening T R U L Y only the God of Truth. Allah, Can Untangle us from the functioning towards goal enslaving net pf the devil. Only by following M E S S E N G E R a c h i e v e m e n t s .

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M U H A M M A D ' S teachings can we build a new future.

Maximumizing power towards I T I S no wonder that the God of Righteousness and the People liberation. of Righteousness have so much anger against the devil. T h e devil I asked if only registered thoroughly corrupted and poisoned the righteous people's very m e m b e r s of the ' Y ' were going life. to attend, and if they were T H E devil poisoned the minds of our B l a c k M a n so that his going to be the only ones thoughts were evil toward the B l a c k Woman and he did not know presenting their views on their and appreciate the value of a righteous B l a c k Woman. Many poor above stated agenda? T o both B l a c k Women have suffered the indignity and the humiliation of questions the a n s w e r s were no. the B l a c k Man asking her to m a r r y him for no reason except that I also asked if the M u s l i m he wanted her to go 50 50 in support of food, clothing and women would be allowed to shelter. T h i s cold, calculating idea is spawned by the devil. It is present the M u s l i m s ' views on against our very nature. No matter what he c l a i m s , such a m a n the B l a c k woman's place and has the mind of a slave. H e does not offer her love, comfort, position in the community, etc. spiritual and moral support, nor does he offer her a future. No We were told of course and B l a c k woman taught by M E S S E N G E R M U H A M M A D would that we would be welcomed accept such a proposition. T h e teachings of M E S S E N G E R and that our opinions would M U H A M M A D has freed our minds. We must have a mate whose also be welcomed. We told mind has been freed .. one who knows his own value and worth them that we would consult our and who knows the value and worth of the B l a c k Woman.

Leader and Teacher M E S S E N G E R M U H A M M A D teaches us that the Black m a n is concerning our attending this the God. the Provider. T h e woman's part in the m a r r i a g e is to conference, and would let adore her husband and to attend to his needs physically and them know if we had spiritually. She is his loyal support and encourager in his doing permission to attend. something for self: ' s e l f i s tne both of them, for they a r e one.

When we responded positively T h e i r s is a tender relationship. B y doing her job of being a Black and asked what time would be woman for her B l a c k m a n , she is happy and he is happy. She feels best for us to attend, a s their loved, needed and useful. conference was scheduled W E must practice I s l a m and take on a new mind of F r e e d o m , from 9:30 a . m . to 4:00 p . m . , J u s t i c e , E q u a l i t y and Independence in all a r e a s of our life. I n the B l a c k Sister who extended Allah (God) we a r e conquerers; no longer slaves. the invitation to us got very The Woman in I s l a m w i l l not accept the unholy alliance of a excited and replied that He cold, empty m a r r i a g e . She wilt not allow her spirit to be killed by could not c o m e . " We asked her a m a n who wants only what he c a n get out of her and who sees who.

She said.

"Elijah nothing of her a s a desirable woman. Nor is she looking for a M u h a m m a d . " husband who c a n only provide m a t e r i a l things for her though he W E T O L D H E R that he would m a y have the wealth of a king. H e r mate must be a righteous not be coming to such a mate. meeting, but that those whom The Woman in I s l a m wants to love and be loved, for first she is she invited would attend. But a woman, Bible Mat. 6:31 - 33, "Therefore take not thought, then she stated, "but you won't saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink: or. be able to address the whole Wherewithal shall we be clothed? ( F o r after a l l these things do a s s e m b l y . " and that "there the Gentiles s e e k : ) for your heavenly F a t h e r knoweth that ye would be no chance for u s " to have need of a l l these things But seek ye first the kingdom of ever speak to the assembly.

God, and his righteousness; and a l l these things shall be added We were told that they were to unto y o u . " report on the results of a A L L P R A I S E S A R E D U E T O A L L A H , (God) M A S T E R F A R D previous meeting where MUHAMMAD! &

liberation for the advancement and betterment of the m a s s e s of-the B l a c k people while a l l the time just speaking words not supported by action and

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Dr. Lonnie Shabazz, Minister of Muhammad's Mosque No. 4 a s he addressed about 700 students at North Carolina A&T's Harrison Auditorium. Minister Shabazz "put something (Islam) on their minds.' ( Photo: S. Stanley Hanks) supposedly 500 B l a c k women from 141 associations including 16 student associations from 38 states and Washington, D . C . met in April of 1971 and resolved to thrust its collective power towards the elimination of r a c i s m and work together for the liberation of B l a c k People.

They were to do this by 'organizing women in their local communities and regions to develop strategies toward self determination to more revelantly use the resources and services of the Y . W . C . A . " They were also to report their discussions of the mornings meetings.

If these B l a c k Sisters were so interested in full advancement and betterment of the B l a c k woman, how could they in sincerity exclude the women who belong to the Nation of Islam under the Divine Guidance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad who represent a large portion of the B l a c k population?

He is the only one who has changed the position of the B l a c k woman in A m e r i c a from one of no respect to one of high respect. H e is the only on-'Âą who has changed the basic m o r a l s of the B l a c k woman f r o m indecency to decency and admiration. H e is the only one who has taught the B l a c k woman how to respect self that she might have the dignity worthy of the B l a c k woman.

This is a l l in I s l a m for the B l a c k woman.

These B l a c k women who administered this conference could not have been sincerely interested in the Advancement of the B l a c k woman a s they claimed n the beginning, for if they were, they could never have excluded the M u s l i m

woman. I t w a s also exposed that the three topics which they were to discuss ( a s stated above) were pre - arranged at this integrated meeting in A p r i l which shows c l e a r l y that the white m a n w a s at the root of this meeting.

W E A R E N O T offended by the rudeness of this s m a l l group of white - backed B l a c k women who a r e trying to fool and trick our young B l a c k women to go along with their program a s opposed to that which the Honorable E l i j a h M u h a m m a d has put into effect for their advancement a s a whole, for we know for assurity that they will have to come to the Honorable E l i j a h M u h a m m a d in the very near future for their safety and existence not only because their program will fail, but because the whole system of the white man's existence will be brought to a nil, and the only one whom they will be able to seek for help is Allah and H i s Messenger, the Honorable E l i j a h Muhammad.

We a r e sorry that they did not take this opportunity and sincerely work for the real advancement of their B l a c k selves and kind.

Pardon m e for the lengthy letter, but I just wanted to m a k e it clear that we a r e not in any way enemies nor a r e we displeased to our not being in your midst, nor having anything to say about our women's school of reform. I do hope that you will not take it like his because we love a l l B l a c k people, and want to see them united and liberated from their 400 year enemies and go for self, so please take this in no other w a y , than that we a l l love you and hope that we will a l l be united in love and unity of the whole Black Nation.

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Islam accepted by prison officials because it

B y Captain E d w a r d 2X L O S A N G E L E S - California prison officials have been the subject of justified, c r i t i c a l evaluation.

Recently there were a series of knife murders in the San Quentin prison in which it has been reported by prisoners recently released that the prison officials allow, even support^ white prisoners making knives to murder B l a c k prisoners with;

the white prisoners are allowed to set up therr own prison "court'' and sentence B l a c k people to death. Y e t prison officials say that they have no power to stop these murders.

A P R I S O N official stated on T V that they have no way to control or stop these m u r d e r s ; he stated that if he locked all the prisoners in their cells, trouble would break out

MOGADISCIO, Somalia lAWA) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Two generals, members of the Somali Revolutionary Council, have been arrested following the successful frustration by loyal citizens and m i l i t a r y m e n of a coup attempt. The Mogadiscio radio announced May 5 that the two generals were M u h a m m a d Ainanshe and Salad G a v a y r i e who now must face trial.

A R A D I O commentary the s a m e day laid the plot to "colonialists" who when they wish to bring a country under their control "organize m e r cenaries who a r e nationals of of that country."

I n his May D a y speech Somali Head of State. Major G e n e r a l Siad B a r r e . had given an indication that there were

some disgruntled leaders when he stressed that the success of the revolution depended upon the endurance of some hardships in order to "achieve complete political independence and sovereignty." .

elsewhere and in other forms.

P r i s o n officials, according to ex -prisoners, locked Black people in their j a i l cells for two to three years without interruption of sentence, for their professed belief in Allah (God), as taught by the Honorable E l i j a h M u h a m m a d .

Today, however, many of the prison officials of California who refused to grant M u s l i m s their rights in the past now

obey their F e d e r a l and State L a w s which give all people the right to worship the God of their choice without fear or persecution even when their God is Black.

Prisons of California such as San Quentin, F o l s o m . Soledad, V a c a v i l l e , Tracy, Susanville, Lompoc, San Luis Obispo, Corona (womens prison), and Chino, have been lectured extensively by Minister Bashir

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He said Somalia had rejected capitalism and adopted socialism and urged the Somali workers to unite against exploiters and colonizers. A workers' spokesman responded by declaring that the Somali workers would always support the revolutionary administration and the freedom fighters in Mozambique, Zimbabwe.

South A f r i c a . Indo - China, and the Middle E a s t .

WESTERN REGIONAL Minister of Mosque No. 27, Los Angeles, Bashir Muhammad (center, grey suit) is shown entering San Quentin prison where he conducts meetings for many Black prisoners. Min. M u h a m m a d also recently lectured to 300 Black students at UCLA who showed strong approval of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad's program.

M u h a m m a d of Mosque No. 27, Los Angeles, the Western Representative of the Honorable E l i j a h M u h a m m a d .

I s l a m is being taught directly to the prisoners by Min. B a s h i r M u h a m m a d on a consistent basis, and a s a result r a c i a l conflict between white inmates vs. B l a c k and B r o w n inmates has diminished considerably.

T h e prison officials have come to recognize that the teachings of the Hon. E l i j a h M u h a m m a d create " p e a c e " and motivate B l a c k people to greater sense of pride, dignityand self improvement.

A S U M M A R Y of .what is taught follows: " T h a t the Messenger has love for them all and he is proud of them standing up behind the prison w a l l s ; that he desires to help t h e m ; the Messenger sends word for them to be the most obedient inmates in prison; that by being righteous M u s l i m s , they will be released sooner." " W e have been a do-nothing people all our lives and now that they have this time on their hands, not to waste it by sitting a r o u n d . , go to school, learn a good trade, get a higher education, etc., because the Nation can use them when they* come h o m e . "

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J U N E 4,1971

Police heat Illinois alderman B y Nathaniel 10X E V A N S T O N , 111. - " I f there is a m a n in town that has taken E v a n s t o n B l a c k s out of the past and into the twentieth century it has been ' B r u c e ' A l e x a n d e r , " said B e n W i l l i a m s a board m e m b e r of E v a n s t o n ' s H u m a n Realtions Commission.

HE HAS B E E N in the forefront of the B l a c k struggle for a number of years, W i l l i a m s said '— even before he w a s elected alderman of the 5th w a r d .

H e and two other companions w e r e severely beaten by local police recently. H i s a r m w a s broken. L a r r y Alexander, the alderman's 27 year old brother received head injuries and a friend, Robert Johnson, 43. got his leg broken in two places.

Aid. Alexander has fought diligently against police brutality, and for this reason, many B l a c k s say it became "necessapy" for Evanston police to brutalize h i m in hopes that this would shut h i m up.

It cannot be denied that he and his companions were held in E v a n s t o n Police station for more than two and a half hours without any medical attention.

Yet Chicago area white newspapers did not report the lack of medical aid to the injured m e n and have tried to color Alexander as an ill tempered B l a c k radical asking for trouble.

Muhammad Speaks attempted to verify the police account of the incident published in local newspapers, and the pplice refused to cooperate entirely.

They would not confirm or deny that the white police were out to get even with Alexander because of his crusade in behalf of B l a c k s for better treatment bv the police.

I T W A S N O T a case of mistaken identity, Alexander

reports. " T h e y knew who I w a s — they knew I w a s an alderman."

He told M u h a m m a d Speaks, " O n e of the officers said, 'You're Alexander aren't y o u ? ' " Johnson's leg w a s broken in the melee in two places and soon w a s swollen to horrifying proportions but the police would not do anything to help him.

In addition to the brutal beating the three B l a c k m e n received, Alexander said he also was harrassed and intimidated. Obscenity w a s used against his wife, and police also attempted to s c a r e Johnson.

Alexander says his family has been h a r r a s s e d often since he was elected alderman and all five of his brothers have been jailed for whatever reason the police could d r e a m up.

Following his injuries and hospitalization. Alexander ap peared on the floor of the E v a n s t o n City Council and exposed the police account of the incident a s "100 per cent lies."

He pointed out that the police had used " e x c e s s i v e force and brutality without c a u s e . " "Mr. Johnson asked for medical treatment. T h e police said he didn't need it and he had to wait two and a half hours while being harrassed and intimidated. " I want a report on this without further delay," Alexander said.

"What happened to m e a s a public official happens to all B l a c k people. I will not put up with this bull that is put down on m e . " he said. B l a c k s say that Alexander's presence and

ALDERMAN ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER (right) and Robert Johnson discuss police brutality at Evanston Hospital. Johnson's leg w a s broken in two places. Aid. Alexander received broken elbow..

Alderman's brother Larry (not shown) w a s also beaten by police a n d received head injuries. The three Blacks were held at Evanston police station for nearly three hours without medical attention.

Evanston police refused to comment on case. (MS photo: Nathaniel 10X) persistence against the evils of the white society has also strengthened the position of Evanston's two other B l a c k aldermen.

When E v a n s t o n policemen shot B r u c e W i l l i a m s in the back in an alleged burglaryattempt. Alexander questioned their charges and later testified at the hearing in favor of Williams.

I n several other incidents involving B l a c k students and police A i d . Alexander has pointed out the inadequacies of the department and the rash actions of the police.

F o r these reasons the police, many of them unrepenting descendants of nazi G e r m a n s , hated Alexander and they used this latest incident to vent their anger, local B l a c k s say.

E V A N S T O N P O L I C E admit that a complaint has been filed against the police department, but no a r r e s t s have been made.

According to Captain Robert Bennett they a r e currently conducting an "investigation."

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J U N E 4,1971

Union shaken by Black suits for back pay

Black steelworkers fight for power B y Charles Wartts Special T o M u h a m m a d Speaks Part Two CHICAGO B y accepting certain leaders of the B l a c k steelworkers' caucus into the United Steelworkers of A m e r i c a staff, union chief I.W. Abel w a s following a time tested policy of weakening challenges to racist and other sell - out practices of union leadership.

THE T A C T I C of drawing miltant B l a c k unionists into the union power structure w a s not a new one. Since the old organizing days the union elite had a l w a y s appointed a fewB l a c k s to highlevel positions a s ' t r o u b l e - shooters." They were usually given a title like "personal Representative to ..." or "International R e p r e s e n t a t i v e , " fat salaries, expense accounts, and no genuine responsibility, except that of quieting down the militant B l a c k s in the rank and - file.

So. in a series of "high level appointments" after the "68 demonstration, two Ad Hoc ers ( m e m b e r s of the Ad Hoc Committee of Concerned Steelworkers, a B l a c k c a u c u s ) became sub - district directors and several became international representatives.

Meanwhile, the great m a s s e s of B l a c k workers had been skillfully relieved of leadership and condemned to fill the

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BLACKS GET TOUGHES JOBS They a r e the scraphandlers, the furnace chargers, molders. shake - out men and otherwise solid stepping stones for white labor fleeing from the foundry.

Again, for lack of a more effective alternative. Ad Hoc ringed the Steelworkers international office in Pittsburgh with a picket line last J u l y . T h e effort w a s again aimed at forcing genuine reforms designed to relieve the oppressive working conditions of the m a s s e s of B l a c k workers.

Union leaders replied with the same song, a little reminiscent of Dixie, but different tempo.

However, what promises to be the most effective challenge to the plantationstyle hierarchy of white union leadership has come about through the courts.

In Birmingham, Black steelworkers have filed suit against the United Steelworkers of America demanding $40,000,000 in back pay. A s i m i l a r suit has been filed by an Ad Hoc unit in Baltimore.

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However, in fact, the union attached a clause to the agreement that would almost guarantee no change in the status quo. B l a c k workers became eligible for jobs offered in the white lines of progression, but they could not take their seniority with them. . A s c h a i r m a n of the Ad - Hoc ers R a y f i e l d Mooty put it. " i t amounts to a situation where a B l a c k worker has 30 y e a r s on the job and one day in the line."

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HEAD OF Black caucus challenging white management and union bigots is veteran labor activist Rayfield Mooty of Chicago. Plant where Mooty works refused to let M.S. photograph Mooty inside plant for fear that Black co-workers of Mooty would gain even greater respect for a man who proves that militant demand for freedom, justice and equality knows no age limit. (MS photo: Chester Sheard)

"The Steelworkers are fighting like hell to reach an out - of - court settlement,

because that amount of money could break the back of the s y s t e m , " Mooty related. T h e Nixon administration and steel companies look favorably toward the suit because it c a n hurt the union's chances of holding a long strike.

Such a decision could mean a tremendous boost for B l a c k labor if it does not cripple the union's ability to fight the owners of the monopolies.

In B i r m i n g h a m , the judge has apparently postponed decision on the case indefinitely rather than render a decision that could bring down the wrath of the powerful and influential Steelworkers' leadership.

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It is this clause that is now being contested in the courts, and from some strong indications, according to the Ad Hoc c h a i r m a n , the balance is heavily weighted in the workers' favor.

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As the Nixon recession deepens across the country c a r r y i n g with it widespread cutbacks in payrolls, white workers have become extremely sensitive about job classifications and seniority.

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Jesse Jacob, Board of Education president. (MS photo: Robert 7X NEWARK The Black president of the Newark Board of Education believes that the school children of this city got •'kicked in the teeth a g a i n " in the settlement that ended the longest teacher strike in this or any m a j o r U.S. city. Eighty two percent of the 78.000 - plus public school* enrollment is North A m e r i c a n B l a c k . 11 percent Puerto R i c a n B l a c k , the remainder non - Black.

J E S S E J A C O B , who was born here 44-years ago and insists that nobody knows the "emotional N e w a r k " better than he does, revealed his reflections on the state of the school system and city in an exclusive MUHAMMAD S P E A K S interview.

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Y o u are not one of the apples from the trees in our garden, you came from another g a r d e n . " Jacob and the two MS reporters chuckled at these remarks.

According to Jacob, the pro student clauses in the union contract, such as revision of the entire c u r r i c u l u m , draft counseling, sickle cell anemia and lead poisoning testing and quality control were agreed upon early in the pact talks, as was the $500 raise for 1972. T h e points of dispute centered around the binding arbitrary clause, elimination of so called non - professional tasks and health benefits for teachers.

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- " T h e r e a r e close to 4,700 teachers in the s y s t e m . " said Jacob.

"It seems rather ludicrous to m e that any large urban a r e a would think in terms of giving teachers who already earn an average of $11,400 a y e a r a welfare clause to teach children who come to school with no food half of time, don't have decent shoes or clothes to wear, and who. on various levels, have to sit in the classrooms without books because the city council sees fit to cut school budgets. " A n d they are talking about spending one - half million dollars this y e a r and one million dollars next year, not for educational purposes but for teacher personal purposes." he said, snaking his head. " I can't justify it and can't see how anyone else can justify it. Unfortunately, six members of my board accepted it. so being the president I'm mandated to go with i t . " he said.

Some pro - union supporters have charged that J e s s e J a c o b is a "front j n a n " for L e R o i (Continued on page 23)

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NEWARK The Black president of the Newark T e a c h e r s Union termed the settlement of the longest strike of educators in a m a j o r city " a moral victory."

In an exclusive interview with M U H A M M A D S P E A K S . Mrs. Carole G r a v e s said. " W e stood up and said Don't push us around, even though you got the courts and state capital on your s i d e . ' " W H A T A R E the lessons to be drawn from the strike? To M r s . G r a v e s it w a s that "the whole political structure in the state, and maybe even going to Washington, was enlisted in the attempt to bust the teachers union."

About $262,000 in fines have levied against the union, long j a i l sentences loom over the heads of union leaders (including Mrs. G r a v e s l. and prison terms and $500 fines still face a number of individual teacher strikers.

M r s . G r a v e s , who grew up in the Ironbound section of town with three sisters and two

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T h e judge who sentenced her to six months in prison, called her " a m e n a c e " and " a danger to the welfare and health of the c o m m u n i t y . " H e said that she needed rehabilitation and the prescription w a s prison. M r s .

G r a v e s served 41 days of that t e r m and is now out on bail until a decision is rendered by a higher court.

T h e state's highest court is expected, however, to uphold the conviction of M r s . G r a v e s and others this year, as it recently did concerning s i m i l a r convictions during last (Continued on page 23)

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Carole G r a v e s isn't her own woman. We put this to Jacob.

H i s reply: "Nobody tells m e what to do. At long last I've found m e a vehicle in which to fight injustice — injustice to youngsters. I don't happen to be one who thinks that these youngsters a r e as bad as people made them out to be. I think that if you give a kid half a chance he will m a k e you proud of h i m . A l l of these people who run around hollering, 'A kid is this' and 'a kid is that' a r e the s a m e ones who kick a kid in the teeth the first chance they get.

" I ' M N O T A B O U T T O sell my children down the river. I've two girls in the s y s t e m , ages 12 and 3. Until such time that I'm ready to turn m y back on them, there's just no w a y that I can turn m y back on the other children in this city because these a r e the children m y children have to grow up with.

When I vote (on the school board) I vote with m y children in m i n d . " Asked about a local newspaper account that had Jacob citing that all but one school in the city remained open during the school strike and stating that Jacob said, " I f the children didn't attend the schools while they were open,

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yearns strike. A l l the c a s e s will probably be fought up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Interesting to N T U P r e s .

G r a v e s is that B l a c k s who opposed the union for "political and financial r e a s o n s " were so cooperative with the courts and police in attacking the N T U . " T h e r e is a glaring inconsistency when people who c l a i m to be B l a c k militants and revolutionaries link up with an establishment that they are supposedly against."

I T WAS T W O women from L e R o i Jones' commune, says Carole G r a v e s , who went to the prosecution to volunteer to testify against her. " I knew them and I have never seen them before wear regular street clothes. But when they St walked into court, they were w •wearing clothes like everyone there. That w a s the tipoff to

what' w a s going down,"' she said.

Calling them "hypocrites" because of the switch in dress, M r s . G r a v e s related that the B l a c k women's testimony was that she had conducted a strike vote and spoken at a teachers rally (in violation of a court injunction). M r s . G r a v e s said that it w a s a lie that she had conducted the strike vote even though she did speak at the said meeting. " I f it was during the strike and I w a s here talking to you (the two MS reporters) about the strike, I could be charged with conspiracy.

The permanent court injunction covers all this," she complained.

Asked about the whitewash of her role in the strike and negotiations by the white mass media nationally, M r s . G r a v e s responded that "the B d . of E d .

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that's tough!'' Jacob's face stiffened and he passionately declared: "That's exactly what I said and exactly what I meant. That's their p r o b l e m ! " He pulled out of his desk in Board of Education headquarters a M a r c h 10, 1971 record where B a r r i n g e r High School had 78 teachers and only 125 students present.

Absent were 2,652 children. " T h a t ' s almost private tutorial s e r v i c e , " said Jacob. " T h a t is less than two children per teacher. Would you suggest then." he asked, "that it w a s m y problem that the parents did not see fit to m a k e these children go to school?

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Questioned about the Board of Education's use of the courts, in which the judiciary imposed

heavy j a i l sentences and fines on the N T U , its leaders and individual teachers, Jacob complained that that is a loaded question because you are asking m e to m a k e a statement concerning the findings of the court. I'm not about to get involved in that. I f the teachers union and the other unions in the state of New J e r s e y feel that the law (prohibiting strikes by municipal workers) is unjust, then there ought to be means available to them to have that law changed. But until that law is changed, I suggest to you that what they did w a s illegal."

brings in a (high - salaried) B l a c k guy from South J e r s e y (to negotiate the contract with the teachers union) and he never wanted to talk with me.

He called m e and my team 'meaningless people.'

He preferred to wait for the chief negotiator (white) to come in.

As in the case of most unions, you have someone for that job."

come to a membership meeting or rally to know who is the l e a d e r , " M r s . G r a v e s added. M U H A M M A D S P E A K S has attended both NTU meetings and rallies and it is quite obvious that M r s . G r a v e s is indeed in the driver's seat.

THE CHARGE is widely transmitted among Newark B l a c k s that M r s . G r a v e s is " a front" or " t o o l " of whites behind the scenes. We pressed this accusation with her. " I t is generally some B l a c k s who charge m e with being a front for someone e l s e , " she noted, "but I view this only as a transmission of their inferior feelings to me. They say that I can't possibly be B l a c k and a woman and running any kind of show. T h e fact that I a m the president and whites outnumber B l a c k members leads them to say that whites must be controlling me.

G e n e r a l l y that someone is from the national union (in this case the A m e r i c a n Federation of T e a c h e r s ) and it frees the local president to do the numerous tasks that cannot be done if the local head is at the bargaining table all the time.

NONETHELESS Mrs. G r a v e s participated in the negotiations until she was j a i l e d , and had to be released from prison in order to get a settlement worked out. T h e pact talks had greatly deteriorated during her six weeks behind bars.

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He maintained that the late D r . Martin Luther K i n g and his followers broke the law (when he opposed laws he deemed unjust) and paid the price (going to j a i l ) , and the N e w a r k

As far as name - calling goes, last year I was called a figurehead, a puppet and a T h o m a s i n a . T h i s year I ' m a Communist and a jailbird. I think there is also perhaps a.lot of jealousy involved," she said.

M r s . G r a v e s is in agreement that as a result of the 11 - week teachers walkout "students surely lost in their school work whether they were in — where little learning w a s taking place — or out" but schools could have been closed and legally had the time made up. " T h i s y e a r we feel that if make-up is to take place let the demand come from the parents or the students t h e m s e l v e s , " she said. T h e N T U would be willing to work into the s u m m e r vacation if this is the case but they don't want to get into a phony "money greed t r a p " this year.

Educational demands, beneficial to the students, were a m a j o r part of the teachers contract by the N T U .

These included a complete revision of the school curriculum, opening grade

teachers must pay the price for their actions as well.

Jacob insists that he is not anti - union. The last one he belonged to was the Housing Authority Union but he quit because that union backed the Newark T e a c h e r s Union in its strike. (Jacob earns a living as a Housing Authority project manager.

His Board of Education post is non paying.)

WINDING UP our conversation, Jacob asserted that "folks are going to really have to understand what I ' m talking about. I ' m going to fight for these youngsters because I think they a r e worthwhile saving. Anybody who gets in the way is going to have to fight me. It doesn't make any difference who it is — whether it is a Carole G r a v e s or a Joe Walker.

books to parents, tests for sickle cell anemia and lead poisoning, and draft counseling services in high schools. " T h e s e things weren't widely publicized because it might make us look like good g u y s , " charges Carole G r a v e s .

T H E R E W A S a hectic fight over health benefits for teachers but the pay raise — nothing this y e a r , $500 across the - board next year — w a s approved early in the negotiations. " I f we had asked for a pay raise of $2,000 this y e a r and $3,000 next year, we would have had practically everybody out of the schools, especially those who were in there 'for the c h i l d r e n , ' " asserted M r s . G r a v e s . " Y o u ' r e sure we can quote you on t h a t , " one of the M S reporters asked.

"Sure," replied M r s . G r a v e s , " I tell them all the time. I know why they were in.

What is the national meaning of the Newark Teachers Strike? M r s . G r a v e s contends that there is a national plot against municipal workers everywhere. " L o o k at N e w Y o r k City, Mayor Lindsay casually says 90,000 people are going to have to go because of the big deficit in the city budget. They consider the easiest w a y to m a k e it up is to eliminate workers from the public payroll. We a r e so accessible. T h e r e is a revolt against more taxes so the city rulers say, Dump city workers."'

Mrs. Graves views the tremendous furor about non professional chores in the Newark strike in a s i m i l a r vein: " T h e aides hired to perform these responsibilities, relieving teachers to perform the paramount duty of i n s t r u c t i o n , were predominately Blacks and Puerto R i c a n s . But the Board of Education fought tooth and nail against this wider job m a r k e t and increased B l a c k employment."

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Seasoned with a heavy measure of self - interest, a predominantly white movement, The National Steelworkers R a n k and F i l e Committee has now taken up the banner against r a c i s m . No doubt, in an effort to mobilize B l a c k support behind their push for widespread reforms designed to insure greater job security and increased benefits for"'all" workers.

Another rank - and - file multi - national movement, the T r a d e Unionist for Action and D e m o c r a c y is composed of all international labor unions T U A D sponsored a m a m m o t h lobby in Washington M a y 22 and 23. T h e group is petitioning congressmen to introduce a bill creating full employment or a guaranteed living income for all workers drawn from

corporate profits. Mooty is a national officer of T U A D .

BLACKS AWARE O F S E L L OUT L E A D E R S A s for the drive to exert B l a c k influence at the policy making levels in the "72 elections, B l a c k workers will no doubt find a candidate for their votes. Militant young blacks a r e steadily gaining in the local union hierarchy and m a y rage a courageous battle for reform on the convention floor.

However, the gains are far from assured. To rely on a commitment from any candidate is to assume his honesty or integrity is shaky, especially in light of current labor leadership.

Furthermore, .influence, whether in the courts or in the convention hall. is no

substitute for power, and that is precisely why B l a c k s have a l w a y s gotten the short end of the stick in any coalition with white labor that puts B l a c k s at the m e r c y of racists.

The "modern" labor movement a s co-opted by Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, took its ascendancy on the deathbed of the movement that c a m e closest to pursuing a genuine labor philosophy in this country.

The movement led by the AFL compromised genuine and equitable labor reform in the name of practicality. And much of the price paid to white labor for its share in the spoils c a n be counted among the B l a c k millions that were systematically excluded. Such hardearned privilege is not likely to be surrendered except in the face of poverty and ruin.

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MBAMBARA UJAMAA V I L L A G E , Tanzania (LNS — There are few countries in the world, and certainly very few in Africa, where Mbambara Village would be famous in government circles, frequently visited by high - ranking officials, given awards and prizes for its labors.

AS WE approached it, bouncing along the rough dirt road in the back of a truck, that fact was perfectly understandable.

Mbambara isn't much to look at: a cluster of 40 or 50 mud and thatch huts balancing down a steep hill: fields of sisal, (a plant used to make rope), and maize that swarm over the surrounding nils ""with none of the impressive regularity of the large estates; and close to 200 people, formerly migrant sisal workers, now sole owners of their village, their land and their future, shabbily dressed, meagrely nourished, calloused and muscled from long hours in the fields.

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Eight years, ago, there was nothing here— "Just a very thick forest," explains Bernardo Kilonzo, elected manager of the village and the only member who speaks fluent English. He was one of a group of migrant sisal workers who met as members of TANU Youth League (TYL—youth branch of the party which led the fight for independence and has led the nation ever since.)

"We began to ask ourselves.

How can we develop our country as we want when we must work for it. At first we thought we would cut wild sisal, but we couldn't get transportation. So then we thought. Why can't we start our own village?' And we came here."

They have been here ever since, have cleared much of the land, planted sisal, maize, orange trees, coconuts, and bananas, constructed a school, a communal chicken house, a pond to water livestock they hope someday to acquire.

A F T E R E I G H T years of immensely hard work, their lives are still simple to the extreme that they still live in the mud huts they built when they first arrived, still cook over open wood fires, light their homes at night with

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Building kerosene lanterns, carry their water in buckets from a small stream at the bottom of the hill.

In other words, they still live the life of ordinary Tanzanian peasants in practically all material aspects. In other words, they are poor.

But their life is not that of peasants in their villages in Tanzania. The fame of their village is not misplaced. When they rise at 5:30 in the morning to go to their fields, the fields they go to belong to the entire village.

They gather first in the predawn grayness in front of the village office to hear what work has been decided on for the day by their elected leaders. They move off alone the paths to the fields together, hoes angling back over their shoulders, pangas (African equivalent of a machete) hanging from their belts.

The actual work they do in the

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Tanzania fields is identical to what the peasants do throughout Tanzania. They cultivate fields with their hoes. They cut sisal with knives and carry the bundles of cut leaves on their backs.

leaves a foot above the ground, you frequently are stabbed by one that you missed.

SWEAT POURS into your eyes so that it is hard to see what you are doing. When you have worked your way down a It is in the fields that we first row you have to go back, tie begin to get a sense of the the heavy leaves into bundles spirit of ujamaa. the spirit that of twenty, hoist the bundles set Mbambara apart from onto your back and stagger out traditional Tanzanian villages, to the nearest pickup spot with the villagers work incredibly them. hard: the work itself is The work does not go on all backbreaking. For instance, day. Later in the afternoon cutting sisal: you are down in a comes a time for resting and tunnel between two rows of preparing meals and visiting. sisal plants, armed only with a In one house we spoke for quite sharp knife. a while with a 37 -year- old Your feet fight against a father of six who has been tangle of undergrowth. The air living in the village for six is hot and sticky. The sisal years. Before that he was a plants lean their long flat carpenter. leaves across your path. The "Now it is difficult." he told point, needle - sharp and us. "We have little money and extremely hard. You try to lop must work hard. But if we off the tips with your knife, but continue it will become when you stoop to slice off the better."

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According to an Agence T H E MALAGASY visit was France Presse report dated said to be in return for a visit May 6, 1971, reliable sources in last November to Madagascar Johannesburg said an official of South African Foreign mission from Madagascar is Minister Hilgaard Muller. It expected to arrive June 12 in was during Muller's visit that the South African capital for arrangements were agreed to talks with South African by both sides to cooperate in capital for talks with South tourism. including the

construction of a tourist hotel on the island of Nosy Be. Dialog with South Africa by African countries has always been presented as a means of helping to free the African enslaved by the white minority regime there.

TANZANIAN VILLAGERS cleared wild forest to build this model village, led by members of TANU political party's youth league.

They now have sisal, corn, orange trees, coconuts, bananas, chickens and place for livestock. They also built a school. Only source of water is well above, dug by villagers. Water is carried to dwellings in pails. (LNS photo: Shuster)

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By Bro. Robert 7X NEWARK Stokely Carmichael. before approximately 1.000 people dismissed the Religion of Islam from being a part of African Culture.

SPEAKING AT the Ebony Manor in Newark on Pan Africanism, he stated in response to a question about islam, " I ' m not religious and Islam is not an African Religion."

He said. " I t invaded Africa, originating in the Middle East. The Muslim came with the sword in the most barbaric manner.

Taking a swipe at the word Allah, he said. "Muhammad took it from a stone named Allat, which was the symbol of a she goddess."

Since Carmichael's distorted information allows him to assume the position of an authority, and reject the Muslim's interpretation of their own religion, we'll refer him back to a source of information more to his liking.

Encyclopedia Brittanica, an accepted authority in the irrter^r^tation of Arabic, into the English language, explains, "Allah, the Arabic word for God, used by Christians as wejl as Muslims and was known to Arabs in PreIslamic times.

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Is Carmichael right in saying Islam not African religion?

between Negroes, mainly from the United States and the West Indies with Africa, and insure their rights wherever they were, also to raise the morale of Black People throughout the World.

Ages, and it was Islam that stopped and converted the "Mongal Hordes."

Dubois, with the Christian dogma usually Senegalese politician, Blaise charges Islam as coming with Diague, called the first Pan the sword as a method of African conference in Paris, in justifying and hiding the most 1918. atrocious acts of genocide ever Another outstanding figure of performed. These acts have Pan Africanism was Marcus been committed by Christian Garvey, a West Indian also, nations, such as the bombing of whose back to Africa Hiroshima and Nagasaki, movement, "The United Negro where in one city alone, over Improvement Association, 40,000 women and children reached its peak in the early were killed. In Viet Nam, it is 1920's. a Christian government, not Among the other names Islam, that is waging war mentioned as outstanding against the people. It is a Black leaders were, Kwame Christian government that has Nkrumah, former president of enslaved 30,000.000 Black Ghana, of whom Mr. people in North America alone I Carmichael claims to be a and which colonized Africa. disciple, and Sekou Toure of Islam has not done these Guinea, both Muslim. things.

Nkrumah, a predominant As for the Political ideology figure in the recent history of Carmichael further stated that, " M u h a m m a d ' s of Pan Africanism, we ask, Pan-Africanism, also credits successor," (he couldn't think what form of Pan - Africanism much of his political ideology to Marcus Garvey. of his name) "tried to force is he promoting: We agree that the history of Islam into the interior of IT WAS Nkrumah, who also Africa but was defeated by the this ideology has changed from played a leading role in the original concept. history of Pan Africanism, Nubians." We can't think of his its documents emerging as a central figure in name either, and nowhere do Contemporary we find Islam being defeated in refer to W.E.B. Du Bois as 1945 at Manchester England, any war. In fact it was Islam one of the founders of this where for the first time, that drove Christianity back concept, which was originally A f r i c a n s outnumbered into Europe and the Dark designed to strengthen ties American Negroes at the fifth Pan African conference. Here also for the first time, the discussion entered on practical LOS ANGELES BUSINESSMEN'S DIRECTORY—FOR INFORMATION CALL 632 -2203 plans for achieving self APPLIANCES J o n s Bros.

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The Random House Dictionary of the English 'Language, a by product of Judeo - Christians whose Zionist inspired anti - Islamic theology, Carmichael seems to be so willing to espouse, say, "Allat, was a Pre-Islamic Arabian Goddess personifying the Sun and considered to be a daughter of Allah." This further substantiates the need for the re - emergence of Islam as a force, and necessitates the coming of the Prophet Muhammad to re establish the basic Muslim tenet, "There is no God but Allah."

The Americana reference library further explains, "Allah, the word in Arabic, is.

"The name of God, a word compounded of the article Al, meaning Supreme or One, and the word llah, which signifies, "The God." There is no information available to this writer that supports any of Mr, Carmichael's wild accusa tions.

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denouncing Islam. In fact the greatest exponents of its concepts have been Muslims and Muslim governments!

Mr. Carmichael presently

resides in a country that has a population over 70% Muslim — Guinea.

Throughout his lecture while emphasizing the need for land,

he kept referring to Malcolm as if he was the founder of the program of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad.

Using this cheap method to

try and discredit the work of the Messenger he said, "Some people propose that we take land in America. If I killed for something and somebody came to me and asked for it, I'd k \ them for being so stupid."

Muhammad is no fly by night leader who changes every six months with the trend of thinking.

His teachings determine trends of thought.

Islam, as taught by Messenger Muhammad, is the very pivot in the Black man's nature; it But Carmichael's errors do contains the key ingredient little harm. His mistakes are that will unite the entire Black easily exposed. Messengt, world. :

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Texas singer's songs too Black for 'souV stati here recently, this reporter was told, "Yes. I've cut a record with Judnell Records.

That is the company owned by George Nelson, a Black. I did my song called '400 Years' and another called Waiting On Your Mind.' What I can't understand is that they had 300 copies of the record made and all of them are sold. I've tried to get more made but so far I have not been able to get Judnell Records to do it."

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A F E W years ago. Blacks in Houston were laughing at him.

Today they aren't laughing anymore but are listening as he sings songs with messages for Blacks.

Thomas cut his first record this past fall. It was recorded

by Judnell Records and since it has been on the market it has sold like" hotcakes on a cold winter morning.

Continuing. Thomas said. " I haven't got one penny off of the first 300 records. People all over Houston are trying to buy the record but they (the company) won't make anv more copies of it."

Conversing with Melaneon as he prepared to take the stage

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The officials of the stations will never give me an honest answer. Maybe my songs are too Black for them."

There are two so - called "soul" stations in Houston.

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376-3197 WED. & FRI 8 P.M. — SUN P.M. MOSQUE NO. 31 Columbia. SC. 1125'i Washington Area Code 803 254-9124 WED & FRI, 8 P.M SUN 2 PM MOSQUE NO. 39 1329 "B" St 266-3598 Fresno. Calif WED & FRI 8 P M SUN 2 P.M. MOSQUE NO. 40 New Haven. Conn 111 Goffe St WED & FRI 8 PM — SUN 2 P.M

Fl 6 9966 WEO & FRI 8 PM — SUN 2 PM

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726 2365 FRI 8PM SUN 2PM

359 W Batiges

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210 12 S Chicago St

89 Kearney Ave

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MOSQUE NO. 9

1225 Bankhead Hwy Atlanta Ga WED & FRI 8.PM - SUN 2 PM

Camden. N J 966 2830 WED & FRI 8PM — SUN 2PM

San Oiego. Calil 239 6738 WED H FRI 8 PM SUN 2 PM

131 Woodland Ave

MOSQUE NO. 15

1102 Broadway

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Philadelphia Pa Kl 5 8994 WED & FRI 8 PM SUN 2 PM

257 S Orange Ave

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AT A A A

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T h e M e s s e n g e r of Allah

Presents

The Muslim Prog What the Muslims Want This is the question asked most frequently by both the w h i t e s and the blacks. The a n s w e r s to this question I shall

justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own.

state a s simply a s possible.

1. W e w a n t freedom. "We w a n t a full and complete freedom.

2. W e w a n t justice. Equal justice under the l a w . W e w a n t justice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or c l a s s or color.

3. W e want equality of opportunity. W e w a n t equal membership in society with the best in civilized society.

4 . W e Want our people in America w h o s e parents or grandparents w e r e descendants from slaves, to be allowed to

establish

a

separate

state

or

territory

of

their

o w n — e i t h e r on this continent or elsewhere. W e believe that our former slave masters are obligated to provide such land and that the area must be fertile and minerally 'rich.

We

believe

that

our former

slave

masters

are

obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 2 0 to 2 5 y e a r s — u n t i l w e are able to produce and supply our own needs.

Since

we cannot

get along with

them in peace and

5. We want freedom for ail Believers of Islam now held in federal prisons. We want freedom for all black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in the North as well as the South.

We want every black man and woman to have the freedom to accept or reject being separated from the slave master's children and establish a land of their own.

W e know that the above plan for the solution of the black and white conflict is the best and only answer to the problem between two people.

6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality and mob attacks against the so-called

Negro throughout the.

United States We believe that the Federal government should intercede to see that black men and women tried in white

courts

receive justice in accordance with the laws of tlisfejand—or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.

7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state or

and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human

territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice under

beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to

the

this land and the suffering forced upon us by white America,

opportunities—NOW!

of the United

blood, which has helped

America

become rich and powerful, "ttvst so many thousands of black people should have to subsist on relief, charity or live in poor houses.

8. We want the government of the United States to exempt our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land.

9. We want equal education—but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the girls be sent to women's colleges and universities. W e want all black ciiildre.a educated, taught and trained by their own teachers.

Under such schooling system we believe we will make a better nation of people. The United States government should provide, free, all necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslim teachers shall be left free to teach and train their people in the way of righteousness, decency and self respect.

10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be

equality, alter giving them 4 0 0 years of our sweat and blood

laws

We do not believe that after 4 0 0 years of free or nearly free -Ja:botv--sw9at,and

States,

but equal

employment

prohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught without hinderance or suppression.

These are some of the things that we, the Muslims, want for our people in North America.

What the Muslims Believe 1. W E B E L I E V E in the One God Whose proper Name is Allah.

2. W E

BELIEVE

in

the

Holy

Our-an

and

in the

Scriptures of all the Prophets of God. 3. W E B E L I E V E in the truth of the Bible, but w e believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.

4. WE BELIEVE in Allah's Prophets and the Scriptures they brought to the people.

5. W E BELIEVE in the resurrection of the d e a d — n o t in physical

resurrection—but

in

mental

resurrection.

We

believe that the so -called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection: therefore, they will be resurrected first.

Furthermore,

we believe

we are the people of God's

choice, as it has been written, that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons

separation of the so -called Negroes and the so -called white

If the white people are truthful about their professed

name as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should be

friendship toward the so -called Negro, they can prove it by

freed from the names imposed upon him by his former slave

dividing up America with their slaves.

masters. Names which identified him as being the slave

We do not believe that America will ever be able to

master's slave. We believe that if we are free indeed, we

furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed, in

should go in our own people's n a m e s — t h e black peoples of

addition to jobs for the 2 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 black people as well.

the earth.

10. WE BELIEVE that we who declared ourselves to be

8. W E BELIEVE in justice for all. whether in God or not, we believe as others, that we are due equal justice as human beings We believe in equality-—as a nation—of equals. We do not believe that we are equal with our slave masters in the status of "freed slaves" We

recognize

independent

and

respect

American

citizens

peoples and w e respect their l a w s

as

which

govern this nation.

9. W E

BELIEVE

offer

integration

is

hypocritical

the righteous.

year -old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality

BELIEVE

this

is

the time

in history

for the

by those

of

deceive the black peoples into believing that their 4 0 0 -

7. W E

and is made

the

called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection of

judgment will take place as God revealed, in America. . .

righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans. We do r.ot beiieve this nation should force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from ii unless America agiees to give us the necessary territory wherein w e may have something to fight for.

1 1 . WE

BELIEVE

who are trying to

are, all of a sudden, their "friends".

Furthermore,

we

our women

should be respected and

protected as the women of other nationalities are respected and protected.

12. W E

that

fitting this description in these last days more than the so -

6. W E BELIEVE in the judgment; we believe this first

for the separation from the whites of this nation.

Americans. We believe the black man should be freed in

BELIEVE

that Allah (God) appeared in the

Person of M a s t e r W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1 9 3 0 ; the long -awaited

"Messiah"

of

the

Christians

and

the

" M a h d i " of .the Muslims.

We beiieve further and lastly that Allah is God and beside?

M

I M there is no God and He will bring about a

believe that such deception is intended to prevent black

univer

lovernment of peace wherein w e all can live in

people from realizing that the time in history has arrived

peace'

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