THE WEEK

• Do you want to learn how to set up an effective organization for a “protest movement”? What direction to face if the police use tear gas? What sort of clothes to wear to a sit-in? How to place your co-members among the audience at a mass meeting? How to deal with police and wardens? How to prepare demonstrations? You’ll get some useful tips in the just-published A Manual for Direct Action, by Martin Oppenheimer and George Lakey, foreword by that veteran direct actor, Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington. It comes packaged with plenty of this-&-that about “non-violence” and “creativity,” but you’ll get the point.

• Along the right-to-work front. On June 7 the Supreme Court struck down a federal law making it a crime for a Communist to serve as a union official. If this decision stands, and Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley law is repealed as President Johnson has requested, then American workers throughout the 50 states could be compelled to pay dues to Communist-dominated unions. Rep. William Ford (D., Mich.), sitting on the House Labor Subcommittee, suggested at one session that workers who don’t want to be forced to join Communist-dominated unions are “cowards.” The Subcommittee chairman, Rep. Frank Thompson (D., N.J.), berated any workers who wanted to testify against repeal of 14 (b), calling them management “shills.”

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• Do you want to learn how to set up an effective organization for a “protest movement”? What direction to face if the police use tear gas? What sort of clothes to wear to a sit-in? How to place your co-members among the audience at a mass meeting? How to deal with police and wardens? How to prepare demonstrations? You’ll get some useful tips in the just-published A Manual for Direct Action, by Martin Oppenheimer and George Lakey, foreword by that veteran direct actor, Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington. It comes packaged with plenty of this-&-that about “non-violence” and “creativity,” but you’ll get the point.

• Along the right-to-work front. On June 7 the Supreme Court struck down a federal law making it a crime for a Communist to serve as a union official. If this decision stands, and Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley law is repealed as President Johnson has requested, then American workers throughout the 50 states could be compelled to pay dues to Communist-dominated unions. Rep. William Ford (D., Mich.), sitting on the House Labor Subcommittee, suggested at one session that workers who don’t want to be forced to join Communist-dominated unions are “cowards.” The Subcommittee chairman, Rep. Frank Thompson (D., N.J.), berated any workers who wanted to testify against repeal of 14 (b), calling them management “shills.”