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Show The and the Revolution Super-Ric- h (See Page 6) 'klt'trltitit'Ait'tc'&ilc'frirtcititir&'frimiciictcIrlt'trtcIrMriir'tc'tr'ir'trlr'Ar&'Ar'fr'ir'fr'trtrtir'tr Volume 2, No. 6 Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 lesfim 250 April 16, 1971 NOT TRIAL ANSWER: Oh, I think there are certain instances but I Wouldnt charge anybody with brutality if it's in a combat mission. Surely, if theyre on the streets in foreign towns and they murder Lt. William Calley INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE W. LATIMER, attorney for Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. April 5, 1971, Salt Lake City, Utah : Do you think that QUESTION Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. received a fair trial from the Army? Id answer that within the limitations of military justice he received what people might believe to be a fair trial but I dont think it was a just trial. I think there are many limitations on military justice which deny a person the same rights hed have in civilian courts. So if you want to measure justice by our civilian standards it would not be a just trial but it would be a fair trial within the limitations of the military. Most everybody knows that ANSWER: Well, places a lot of emphasis on discipline and so in somebody thats one thing, but you have so many things. Youre under stark horror when youre in combat. You have the lives of your own buddies to take care of. Its a question, I think, as Lieutenant Calley tried to say, his priorities were apparently wrong. He thought he ought to try to save his own troops and forget about the civilians. So they killed Do you think the decision would have gone the same way had it been in a civilian QUESTION: court? f. ANSWER: I do not. proper to charge our soldiers with brutality against the enemy when were at war, regardless of who they are? when you do that you stir them Continued on page 4 QUESTION: Do you think pre meditated murder was a proper charge in this case? ANSWER : I think not. Thats one of the ingredients that most of the people who heard the trial were surprised that they found. In the final findings, this was murder. I didnt think it was a proper charge nor pre-meditat- ed do I think its a proper finding. QUESTION: Why was the charge e against Calley for first-degre- murder, that is, for pre-meditat- ed murder? ANSWER: Well, I suppose that that is the most serious crime they could charge him with and as long as they were classifying this as a massacre they would use the most serious implications. Now I think everybody at the trial was very much surprised that they a finding of murder because its just not that kind of offense. pre-meditat- ed At least, nobody down there thought it was, excepting the members of the court. George W. Latimer CESAR IS COMING was necessary and he alone didnt kill, all three platoons were shooting. There were twenty-fiv- e to thirty--fiv- e men involved in this. returned QUESTION: In your opinion is it ANSWER: Well, actually, what happened was that a man who was never in My Lai and didnt have anything to do with it, heard about it so he wrote thirty congressmen and senators and because they thought it the military making findings and judging appropriate sentence they have to measure the impact on the military services and that makes it more severe. QUESTION: Who was it that brought pressure for the Calley indictment and subsequent trial and why the nationwide notoriety given to this? . Exploits Farm Workers Senator John Harmer 2 1st District of California Date: April 5, 1971 Senator Harmer, I understand that you had some experience with Cesar Chavez in California and that you went into the grape fields to actually work and find out for yourself if what Cesar Chavez and his group said QUESTION: was true. Wed like you to comment on that if you will. COMMENT: For about the past four years I have had close contact with the operation of Chavezs organization called the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC). Ive been n of the Senate Committee On Industrial Relations during that time and it has been important for me to understand the facts in this area. I can tell you without fear of contradiction that Chavezs main weapon is the lie, that he has, in vice-chairma- effect, been one who has California farm worker. He has been an oppor- exploited the tunist who has sought to utilize THE UTAH INDEPENDENT. these people for his own ends through misrepresentation and false promises. I did go into the grape fields and work with the farm worker. I have travelled extensively throughout the main agriculture producing areas of California where the contro-verse- y with the effort to organize knees economically through a boycott nationwide of their products. The union then negotiated with the growers to relieve the boycott on the basis that the growers must require every worker who worked for them to join the union. So you have workers joining the union the farm worker centered. I have debated many of Chavezs representatives in public and ova the media and I can reiterate that Chavez, and his representations because its imposed upon them by the grower who in turn had it imposed upon him by the unholy alliance of a lot of factions around the regarding the conditions of employment and the circum- country. The worker, who stances of the California farm worker, has never found himself circumscribed by loyalty to the truth nor the best interests of the farm worker. I might add, it has been the experience of the farm workers that have become involved with Chavez, that it was a great mistake. I could also point out that the farm workers of Californiawho know the circumstances have never supported Chavez. They became members of the union because it was imposed upon them by virtue of a secondary boycott whereby the growers were forced to their ultra-liber- at Serials Order Department Utah of Libraries University Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 873 un-inform- ed supposedly was being benefited by all this, was never given an opportunity to voice his feeling on it and still does not. The union does not come into existence through a worker election. It comes into existence by the imposition of the union upon the worker through the grower as a result of the loss of his market by this boycott. Senator Harmer, I understand that the farm worker rejected for a number of years the unionization that Cesar Chavez was trying to bring to them. They Continued on page 5 QUESTION Second P.O. Box 6274 Salt Lake City. Utah 84106 al : Class Salt Lake Postage Paid City, Utah |