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A memorial swvlce ' Will be beld for political · acllvlst aad labor

mWIADt SimCil Peter 1 OwiiiS at 3:30 p.m.,. Sunday, Nov. 8, at the 1

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~·lbbituaries SJmon P. Owens J!abor, civil rights militant ; 't.ongtime Detroit labor militant, civil • hta a~t and author Simon Peter Owens 1s'!faad a(.%.

iMr. Owena was a leader or early efforts by the l..f&W to O!l&nize the·BriBP Manufacturing Co. ail<! Chrysler Corp. He participated In the Mcintgomery,Ala., bus boycott of the mld·1950s ai~ helPed penuade the UAW to co-tponaor a 1963 Detroit visit by Dr. Martin Luther Kine Jr. t~ft resulted In a parade of thousands or march· en: down Woodward .to Cobo Hall Cor a civil rii!lta rally. . ~~· also wrote an autoblosraphlcal ·book.

l~ifPISIJI Hurt. in 1952 under the name of Cliarles Denby about a black worker'aliCeln the o.Gttoitauto plants. • ,Mr. Qwe111, who died Monday, ileurvlved by

~:Wire, Effie; three aona, Simon Jr., Henry ani! Silnl; and seven grandchildren. Sarvlcet Will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday In the Greater St. Ste­ph~n Missionary Baptist Church, Detroit. . . . .

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e South In the 19201, he aoodby 10. the awful en llld·aoodby 10 ht• I, Rlya DuntyiYikaya, t. ; . uald lohlmMII, 'What ' Rolna:to heaven,. and I QuiW'IVIkl)'llald. " ror ivrlllna thedabor Ito, "lndlaiWit Hean: llaok Worklr'i :Jour. :•. ~Monday. at . ~~ ?fi•' ~In Dltrol.t •. fij Dillllu ' wu ... _. ' "-'OW .•1.1 ~ .. "'!W. •u WD• I' al,li, A,.i·m·~ ,. '.' '911111"1'1 end 100n 111111avol 'ln'lallo~{; ialalq 1trlorll ln·thti·

'J.~:~:and•lll~ I~· ,. i!!IUIIIIt In UAW Local . IIIIICHI OWtnl wallht · "1~! numerout·lebor 11 ... on thtllloP floor " lrflll Menulactur• planl ahd lallr the lillr Mack s

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him speak. I wu lopklns lor a worker to be the editor lnetead ~~ Intellectuals always being the editors. He. nld 'I welcOme ·this opportunity because (the newepaper will help me create a:toru~ workers to epeak their thousb!l for. themselve~she said.

Mil: DENBY w~· editor of News & Leiter~ fro'm · 1955 until his death. He also authored a monthly • column, ~~Worker's Journal," fo! the paper. .. . In the 1960sob~ck.larmersln his natlv~ Lowndes: County were evicted from their land!· Mr. Denby In· 1965 h~lped organize the Mlchlgan·Aiabama to~~~.~.a_l=.l!l!n!Y Alloclatlon for Human Rllhtr ·

. The lint edldOii:,Pi'hli aiii(iblo~-witi'·pu~ · l11h~.ln I.B.52:he'used the name Denby In im a !tempt 10 dleguliilili'"ldentlty during the McCarthy.eta. The

'second edition appeared In 1978. . · Mr., Denby deicrtbed his. story, In· the closing·

parasrapha ol · hiJ auiOblography as "pan of ·the worldwide struggle fpr freedom," .

"A• a Black from ·south U.S.A; and a Blacti iiuto production worker In Detroit, my ex~rlence has proved to me ihif hlJior,y Ji the r!MX~rd of ihe fight of all oppreued.people In eveeythlng .they have thought aM dontto try 10 set buman freedOm In· this world." . Survlvorstnclude,Jjtl.wlfe:EtQe'; thiee sons, Slmdn

.~r., Henry and Salil;·and'ieven sl'llidi:hlldren; · · ·

. Services will. •be 'Saturday. at the Greater St. :Stephen Mlnlon&rY Baptist ChurCh; 3952 Dickerson· at Mack, Detroit, VIsitation· will be Frld'ay from 7 to 9 ~:lio,lswa~n ~~~~!'Ho~e, 806 E. Grand Blvd.,

· ·A m~morl~'aer'Yice\:vil(be at 3i30}I.m.:·Nov:·a, at the Flnt Unltirlan Urilvensllst Church, 4605 Cass, Detroit. · ·

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Dear Friends:

On Saturdmy the family hal•~ tho fun·"~.,1. J'cw Hi1non. ~·here were 300

in attendance, including all the momborn of N<''~" and r~ettcrs committees

in Michigan. The family had asked Hny., Lo bo L~"' onu to "'"Y a fm~ •lords

about Simon "as a friend", whicn she did in a most moving and profound way,

never leaving Si's life and illuminating each of the forces of revolution •

. ·.R~ya 's words are encLosed as she spoke them.

Last night the Detroit local met to hear Eugene's presentation on

'tierspectives. Raya became the special chairwoman for the evening, and •"'"·'··:·····: ,.• .

act.ed as secretary. We felt that the minutes were so important

will be sending them out to you tor.tily.

Tonight the REB will hear Andy's presentatl.on on his dratt of the.··

··.194:9,-50 miners' strike pamphlet, and Ray a's outline of the. appendix to

We. are of course wanting to hear your thoughts at this time, in

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ffie late vU1. glmon OweiiS. g~,, son ol !~e late utl1. C)A)!Qiklnl Owe/IS and cpa119 Owens. was .. bo1n !A f;fowftdes· Couft!9 . ..Alabama oft ..August 25. 1906. CJJe co!jessed a bel~j In CMIS! a! an .. erulg age. and jOined!~eutloun! f;£1llg CBap!ts! C~Ulc~. ffie1e. ~e semd ja1!~ullg until ~e wen! !o vUon!gome.~g. ..Alabama.

· CJJe mo.ved !o' erie lAo!!. vUtclt!gan In 1941. w~e1e ~e was emplaged a! CMgsle! vUoto1 CO~g; CJJe lei!Aed In 1979. ajte1 I'!A!g gerus o! emplagmenf. CJJe was ve~g active 1ft l~e CU..ACW. rud a good :union Membe.~ .. CJJe also se1ved as flli?Stdent o! t~e f;fowndes Countg CM1st1ru vUovement jol CJJuman CR1g~!s as well as ed1to1 oj u\lews and f;feHeAS.'iJJe was ve1g conwned about CJJumru CR1~fs rud WD.Iked ve1g Mid at If dUA!Jtg t'e pe11od oj t'e C1v1l CRI~ts uiAovemeRI.

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CJJe leaves to MOU!n. a devoted wtje. £Uie Owens. tMee sons: gOJII Owens .. 'iJieMg Owens and glmon Owens. JA .. all Oj COet1olf. viAic'lgru. a beloved slsfeA. vUrug 9'1anCis Owens oj CJJagnev1lle • ..Aiab0111a. a ltost oj !}IMC,!Id.len. nieces. M~ews. dau~teAS-In-law. bloiMIS-In-law. siSieAs-ln-law. rud a mass o! ot,eA 1elat1ves and ~lends. ·

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To a!! Nei.ts and r."'tten CO!l1l•>:ittees, 'Bt'itish Marxist-Humanists, ~nd ·.v·1many·: f:i:iends''of c~~rl.es Denby .. ~ .•. ,. :•

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Yes~erday we held. "Indignant Heart: A Memorial Meeting for Charles Denby". 'l'he room we had· rented was fi·lled to overf:lowing as 100 came out, and we hiid to set up extra chairs in the foy~r.; The size of the audience, and the multi-dimensionality of· the part:i;lipa­.tion left· !11 deep impression on all of us· even before a single,. word was said; Evecy chapter in Denbj's life was ·represented in that· room, from Alabama struggles over 50 years and more, through Denby's three decades in the shops,: as well as the many university classes he ad­dressed; to the politica 1 tendencies he haa··an impact· 0!'1 1 even tpose •11ho are today very far from Marxist-Humanism:·: And there was ourselves, comrades· cit Denby • s from Ca'tiforilia and Chica'go and New. York. wh.o. travellec;t to the meeting,· and' all of us fro'Jn.•D·etroit, F.lint and·.Ann Arbor. OVer'· half the aud'ie"rice was Black;'·~nd far from• tile majority being of Deilby's generation,''·nis impact·:pltt·youth was .. evident from the many who came. · ·· •· ·· • ;'

As each person entere~ .the hall they found the most magnificent exhibition. of Denby's life-story in the .displays

. created for the me~t:l:hg. Michael P 's pho~ographic ·WOrk WaS",j;IO beautiful., and so fully did it re-cre·ate· Denby's life from 1939 ·in Montgomery to a portralt ot; Denby and' Efiliie at the meeting · exact·ly

. a year ago, when we ai lebra 'I:E!a the puh t:l:t:l!l tion of .Rosa·. Luxemburq, . ''lomen Is. Libliration ·ancf Marx Is ··Philos'Ophy· of Revo'lut'i'on; . that. many ''stayed after· the ·meeting to study the·'.-d'isplays." One labor .. history prC!f!!.s"!or who had taught Indignant Heart in his classes was.:never­the1esll ··surprise~· !:iy the exhibition, ·aayingi -that he didn't know there was sd inU'ch behind' 'IHEI~i'J, and h0.11 ta'!Cen he· was with what .it showed of our 'organization·:· There ·were reviews of IHB'i'J, and .·le.ttera. to Denby from 'its readers~ ·the're were leaflets from shop st<rliggl.es' at Chrysler Mack and 'fi::'cirn civil 'righ't:s ··pr'otests in Alabama ·and Detroit. There were selections from Denby's''Wor'ker.~s Journal.''•:calumns and,from '"

11orkers Battle Automation". And·there was the international dimension ··--:_.·-the letters and reviews from Br·itain:'and.:Germany, the caribbean

arid 'Africa. All·of those whose· i!ibo:t cl'f'·the' heart·created the·,displays -- Make ·Pearn, Jim Mills, Mary·.Jcf'Grey·;· ·:Eugene ·~alker"'"" desen.e the most eep.J,yfelt thanks. The exhibition''ll-iU accoi!Ql!any Johri Alan to liis meet{n'ifli in Cali'fornia, and'Lou·TUrl'ler when he' speaks in·New York. and t~e·:inay offer it to the Afro-American Museum here for a' .spec:ial sho,,.ing. .. : .' • · : ·. ,.,,.

All "tli:l:li •..Sas 'yut prologue to the::.prog.ram.itself .• ·A copy of the brochure· ill enc'losed';. and by i't:self ·qives-.lan 'indication. of .the unique kind "of meeting H:· was. Buf it was a ·sp·eclal -priv.ilege to ·be there' to hear and see it as it unfotded. It was the ··farthest thing froiil-'ariythirig. funereal. The rciom'was ative with Denby'·s presence; and the 'presence of the whole ·history ·of''t~aoti'st-Humani'sm,, in the /remem­brances ·and the music; in the readings frolii I'IJB'-V'J and·.:Ln Raya's clos­ing presentation on "Charles Denby-- ·~orker-Editor, Marxist-Humanist".

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·.:1e heard of his experiences in the shons from John Miller and John Bryant, from Hank ·H lson and from llndy Phillips, each .wit~ the:l.r o• .. n remembrances to tetl. So vivid were they that· :l:t almost fel·t like an editing sess~.on for the next issue of News & Letters, as we heard about Denby taking the floor in a contract fight w~th. Irv Bluestone, leading a walkout against smo1'e in the shop, creating a rank-and-file.paper-- the ~tillqer-- an<'! smugglJ.ng it into the plant. They spoke of his impact· on the newest l .. o.rkers, 1~-year-olds facing production for the first time. And when John ~Iiller, with hi's. c;>wn. 32 years at Chrysler, told of hor ... discussions with Denby on. the shops always ended up viewing civil rights, "!Omen's rights., the-,whole of society with his "philosophy' Of liberation", a murmur of ;-ecognition swept the room. . .·• ·

Interwoven with the remembrances t~ere the r.eaP,ings from IHB!'IJ, beginning •11ith "I was born in Alabama •• ,." and en~Hng ... with Denby's last· paragraph on his" "life story as part o.f the world• .. ide struggle for freedom"·~·. In fact,• s.o beautifully dicl:the readings con­nedt'with the remeinbrance:sthat· it was oft~n hard,tQ·tell where one stopped and the. other began. '~e'; heard Rosa; Parks· tell· of her meetings with Demby about the Montgomery"Bus Boy.cot·t, and of• reading h()w he re-told the story in IHB•.;rJ. And then suddenly Denby's words came ~rom Indignant Hea·rt 'Speaking of his journey .to Alabama in 1956. · ·• · ·r , . : .,. . : ., .... There were ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ •- '·.: . .

also the ltlessages, from ·those· who coul.di.n()t attend, £rOjll· Gwen Patton in Alabama·, from Genora-:Johnson Dollinger, from Harry McShane and from Felix Martin •. You ·fEll!::: the• world dimension ·of l!lbor.: From .Britain ) •11e 'heard also .from.the· youn'cj.London Marxist-HUmanists, as well as from a young Black ·arit!i~h·· wo~n who had. .written. to· ~enby abo~t.,.IHB'ITJ, and from .Germany came a· message from those .t~ho.':had ·l>e'e[l A.lisi;>:l,red. by the German edition. ' · .. . :·· . : , . . :-.: · .. : '··· . • .,.,, . ,.·> ...•.

But nowhere wa·s. the .. interna,tiona 1. dimension. of ·nenby's life•better express.ed·.'than when we heard t;he.pa.ssage fiOm. IHBC.;rJ ·on St'eve Bilto and .the. tl'/o.,.way road ·be,t• .. een· :1\·f.r:Lca and ~pleri.ca I

·followed by. sandra Hines! .. wonclerful. pe,rformance·. of '.'Biko".• Be;-· vpice filled the room,· and the. WOJ;ds :>Showed h0w · insf!.l]arable· ,..ere, .capetown ·and ··1ilmington, North carolina.;· .. ' . · ·,,. . . . . : ,,. ..

· , •.::As.rwaa fit;ting,· ·the. ;Prc;>g.r~m was per­meated also 111ith ·the battle •Qf :ideas;· ·wl\ether that was John ;\lan con­trasting Denby's autobiography:ahc!· v.t-s·ion.to Nltru.iQah~s ... :.ol; .Black labor historian Richard. ThOJIIS·S. ·demonstrating ·ho~1 ·po~erf~~iy .. I·HB'"J destroyed 'the standard formula tio.ns ·'of both Black history· 'and labpr history as taught in·. the univers·:lit:sr. '·7e l:i.stened ·t9 Dia-:ne .Lee argu­ing with those intellectuals who don.'t understand the d:l.ff.erence between Part I and Part II of IHB.~J, because they don't und,erstand . Individuali"Universalt the'y don't see that· in .chapter ·1 .there is an

·'individual born in :Lowndes .county,.·'in a particq],<;lr plac:;e .·al)d tilliE!, . i!nd by the last chapter that individua 1 has fully, exp,re~sed, the world universal of·. freedom •. And we"heard Lou, TUrn:er. speak of .. Denby. as ed- ) iter, as journalist, who expressed-toe continuity .. of,freedom's Idea so fully that you sa1 .. the· link ·back to .Fredericlt ·Doqg~aQs, who in­sisted on sub ... titling his Narrative, "as written b}!. ·hims~lf".

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.After Lou spoke, came Denby's own contribution to the battle of ideas-- his la~t statement to the Constitutional Convention. It was as well. a perfect way to introduce the 35-year-long, deep, phitcBophic relationship bet1~een Denby and Raya.

Raya's presentation, "Charles Denby-- ·~orker-Editor, Marxist-Humanist", traced her relationship to Denby, and the relationship of worker to the fullness of a philosophy of freedom. All 'the speakers, and the audience, she said, proved that Denby's legacy does live on in us. And in a short space of time, it was shown philosophically as well, as Raya traced the history she has developed in the November N&L, copies of which lofere in each one's hands. The story of how Denby came to be editor of~ moved from Raya 's first meeting •d th him through his writing· of the first part of IHBIJ to the discussions on Lenin's Philosophic Notebooks and the events following the death of Stalin, when Raya's discussions with Denby became a part: of her essay, "Then and Now". It was at this point that Raya, in speaking of the new in the world at the birth of News and Letters Committees, with the struggles against automation, and the East European revolts, spoke directly to Rosa Parks on the Montgomery Bus Bovc-ott and its place in the "Automation and·the New Humanism" chapter that concludes Narxism and Freedom. Ns. Parks was fascinated, she said, by the ,.,ay Raya presented it, and asked to read a copy of ~-

The rote of ,.,omen in the freedom movement was underlined also when Raya spoke both of Effie's authoring two chapters in IHB<·lJ, and of Denhy's interest in o.romen students at Alabama State who were sitting-in and defying cops and their own administrators. And by the time we reached the end of the 1960s, we returned to phil­osophy when Raya presented the first draft of part of Philosophy and ~evolution to the "Black/Red Conference", •N"here Denby spoke of Hegel's C(UOtation on how the"goods of the Here and Now"upset all the "house­hold arrangements in the house of faith".

Denby and the "trilogy of revolution" was what all of us were feeling by the time Raya conclu­ded with his last letter to her on Marx and the Black World as"he had seen it in Rosa Luxemburg, -~omen's Liberation and Marx's Philos­ophy of Revolution, and as he wanted it expressed in the new edition of ACOT. I, for one, •.ofas glad that quite a few of those t.rho go around saying that Denby's life stopped •A7i th the 1952 edition of IH '"ere there to hear the story of how profound had been the unfoldment of his writing and activity over the last three decades, as editor of ~· No one could miss that to fully carry on Denby's legacy means to live this "trilogy of revolution" •.ofhich he labored so long to help create.

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A memorial meeting for Charles Denby (Simon Owens)

Editor of News & Letters, 1955-1983

Author of Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal

w • •• whether his voice cheered the starving Hindoo crushed · : .. · : beTW~th British selfishness, or Hungary battling .against '' ·::: . :. treason and the Czar;. whether he pleaded ·at. /lOme. for .. :' ; · bread and the ballot, or held up with his sympathy the · ' · · ever-hopeful enthusiasin'of Ireland,...:. every true word·sfto, · ken for suffering man, is ~o much dOne for the . Negro bending beneath the weight of Ame~n .bondage: Ills said ' that the earthquake of Lisbon tossed the SO!'. in. billows on the coast of Cuba; so no I,..Ugilant Heart·~ beating -"O!'Y· · · where whose pulses are not felt on the walls of our-Ameri, can bastille." · · · ·

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"/ consider my story as part of the worldwide struggle for freedom. As a Black from South U.S.A. and a Black auto­production worker in Detroit, my experience has prooed to me that history is the record of the fight of all oppressed people in everything they hat•e thought and done to try to get human freedom in this world. I'm looking forward to that new world, and I firmly beliet•e it is within reach, because so many others all over the world are reaching so hard with me."

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Cha.i.ltpelt~on~ O!ga Voman~k.i., Lou Tultnelt

John Alan Ro~a Pa1tk~ Andy Ph.i.U.i.p~

Rem em bit a nc e~ John Mat elt John Bltyant Jo.Uu'.. GUHam V.i.ana Lee

R.i.cha1td Thoma'.. Hank W.i.!6on Lou Tultnelt

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