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——e 0-19 (Rev. 10-15-62) Ph a ———— a PUERCO ROCCO LULL ELC OL el ds Negro Ticket in Offing? Muslim Leader Poses. 4 By George Breitman jliijah Muhammad's recent call onjthe Negro people to “elect your own candidates” raises more ques- tiohs than it answers. But they are crucial] questions, and it is good for them to be raised and discussed widely. The Muslim leader’s statement on political action was reported in the March 18 issue of Muhammad Speaks, but with only a few di- rect quotations. It said that Mu- hammad urged American Negroes to “seek freedom through unity and through the judicious use of the ballot box in the coming elec- tions.” It also reported him as saying that “honest and adequate political representation for the black people in America was an essential step towards the winning of equal justice for the oppressed and persecuted.” The only direct quotations at- tributed to Muhammad were these: “There will be no real freedom for the so-called Negro in Amer- ica until he elects his own polit- icll leaders and his own can- ditlates, PBiack peop cient Shatin own & WILE weevil ple in America must candidates instesd Malcolm! X ; ST of merely existing under those chosen by the descendants of the slaveholders who are primarily in- terested in keeping the siaye- master’s children in a_ serv: nt status. le NOT Rv CORDES M9 MAY 8 1963 Tolson Belmont Mohr Casper Callahan Conrad DeLoach Evans Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room B Holmes Gandy Political Action Issue_ - | \ The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Start New York Herald Tribune New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Fost The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer Date 4-29-63 The Militant WOR TIB Af 3