Page Six THEM MICH IGAN DAILY Tuesday, July 13, 1976 "....Six.THEMICHGANDILYTe Juy ,i7 Davis hits repression in Detroit talk By MICHAEL YELLIN Angela lDaris, self-proclaimed revolutionary and execu- tive committee member of the U.S. Communist Party, spent last weekend in l)etroit, in a vigorous attempt to publicize and organize the upcoming National March for Human Rights and Labor Rights. The march is set for Labor Day, September 6, in Raleigh, North Carolina - Davis will be one of its most prominent participants. SPEAKING AT an informal brunch on Sunday Davis proclaimed, "This march is going to be of the most impor- tance. % r "It iC not congh to feel upset, disturbed and outraged at the raci t, repressive acts being encouraged by Washing- ton, wa have to ds something in such a way as to bring . -au changes." She added, "The unly way we can do this o.5 ft is to shw that we are not one or two individuals but we are hundreds and th- 'isands."- Organized by the National Alliance Against Racism and . Political Reression - of which Davis is co-chairperson- the Labor Day march is slated as a major offensive to reverse the "anti-Labor anti-black". drive in North Carolina,, T r s p d ti- Davi. said. The organizers expect the demonstration to be ~~' the targ .t in the South in many years. THE ALLIANCE has singled out North Carolina as the "focal point of national repression" and contends that developments there are in no way unrelated to occurences in the rest of the country. Davis rattled off a depressing list of statistics about z North Carolina's penal system and labor force, pausing to ask the small crowd gathered at the fund-raising brunch, "Do you know that one per cent of the entire adult black male population in North Carolina is in prison?" North Carolina has the most prisons of any state, the most prisoners per capita, the most women prisoners per capita, the most juvenile prisoners per capita, the country s biggest military base, the lowest percentage of unionized workers (seven per cent), and the lowest industrial wage rate, according to Davis. THE MARCH, she said, will specifically bring national attention to the plight of the "Wilmington ten," nine black men and a white woman convicted in North Carolina of firebombing a grocery store during racial disturbances in 1971. Davis contends that the ten were convicted on the testimony of two witnesses being paid $4,000 by the govern- ment to testify on their behalf. The Alliance believes that one member of the group, Ben Chavis, was singled out for special harassment as a result of his civil rights organizing activities. From 1960 to 1972 Chavis was arrested six times with charges ranging' from running a stoplight to accessory after the fact of[ murder. All six cases ended in dismissals or acquitals See DAVIS, Page 10 .:i'Hearst almost died in shootout-Harris P LOS ANGELES UP) - Emily Harris told her jurors yester- day that Patricia Hearst es- caped death in a fiery shootout only by "a freak chance hap- pening," a decision to "go along for the ride" on a shop- ping trip. But for that twist of fate, Harris said, Hearst would have perished in a Symbionese Lib- eration Army hideout - and Patricia "Mizmoon" Soltysik would have lived. HARRIS, in the role of her own lawyer, delivered an open- ing statement to jurors that challenged for the first time Hearst's version of events in- volving the trio. Testimony' was scheduled to begin today. Harris and her husband, Wil- liam, are on trial for kidnap- ing, robbery and assault. Hearst, a codefendant, is scheduled to be tried separate- ly. "MIZMOON was going to come along with us," Emily Harris said, recounting the shopping trip of May 16, 1974. But she said Hearst asked to go instead. "That chance decision cost Mizmoon her life and saved Patricia Hearst's life," said Ms. Harris. Soltysik, who died on her 26th birthday May 17, 1974, was slain along with five other SLA "sol- diers." in a battle with Los Angeles police. HARRIS, describing Hearst as a convert to the SLA, said the newspaper heiress acted "to- tally spontaneously" when she fired a volley of machinegun bullets to cover the Harrises' getaway from shoplifting. The heiress has testified she fired as a "reflex action" to the Harrises' orders. "WE DID NOT anticipate problems," Ms. Harris said of that day. "If we had, Patricia Hearst would have been the last per- son we'd want to take along . . . She was the least experi- enced of us all." She said Hearst had never fired an automatic weapon be- fore she blasted her gun at Mel's Sporting Goods Store in suburban Inglewood. "Patricia Hearst was not there to protect Bill or myself," she said. "If anything, it was the reverse," And the walls came tumblin down Dr. Rabbi Gernterstein blows a Shofar, ceremonial rams horn, prior to presenting it to Presi- dent Ford as a birthday gift yesterday in the White House. Ford will be 63 tomorrow.