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...weighs 115 Ibs., was all but smothered in the arms of the law. Bailiff Charles Michel rushed him head on. while the judge himself grabbed him around the neck from behind. Before they sent his camera and strobe unit crashing to the floor, Miami Daily News Photographer Charles Trainor leaped out of a phone booth in time to get the shot (see cut] that best pictured the law taking things into its own hands...
Lawrence P. Trainor, organizer, Boston local, Socialist Workers Party (nee Trotskyites) continued. "McCarthy is not through, even if he isn't the Republican hero he was in 1952 . . . he is speaking for all the incipient fascists. American imperialism is at the cross-roads!" A middle-aged woman in a shawl nodded. "That, in turn," Trainor barked, "calls for a counterpoint turn of the Marxists. Living life demands an answer. . .that is reality and reality will face us, even if we don't face...
There was brief applause as Trainor sat down; there was less response to a plea to "dig down deep and come up with some--money." He gestured to a girl in a tight sweater who resignedly passed a small basket. The meeting started again as Trainor rasped: "Anybody's got a question, go ahead and ask." A tall student in the back questioned Trainor's facts concerning the formation of the Republican Party. "Aw hell," the speaker blurted. "My six-year-old kid asks more intelligent questions than that." A white-haired listener snickered to his wife: "Only because...
...thousands--millions o' guys doing nothin'--why that's the most useless job there is. And all these salesmen tramping the same street, selling the same damn thing on the same damn day. Why--." "But they're not unemployed, are they?" said the girl. "Gimme another question," said Trainor. The woman in the shawl scowled at the girl while Trainor was engrossed in the subtleties of another question. "It don't take an Einstein," he replied, "to figger out that when the workers find out what it's all about, they aren't gonna take it lying down . . . some...
Someone else told him that even labor unions are assured of the success of capitalism--"they're putting their funds into stocks. How do you account for that?" "I never heard that before," Trainor barked, and returned to his seat. His lieutenant took over the meeting. Gesturing to a bookcase which displayed such titles as "Only Victorious Socialism Can Prevent the Third World War," he said, "I'm sure you all must have some unanswered questions about our group . . ." The tall student in the back was pulling on his raicoat. "Yah," he said to his friend...