Spartacus League Pickets Candidates

A group of pickets from the Spartacus Youth League demonstrated against the Boston School Committee at a panel discussion last night at the Graduate School of Education.

Although billed as a discussion in which nine candidates would talk about the issues of the upcoming school committee election, the only candidate represented at the sparsely attended meeting was Nathan Greenberg, who did not attend it in person. His wife and campaign manager, Ellie Greenberg, was the sole speaker.

About 15 picketers from the Spartacus Youth League, described by spokesman Ellen Hamilton as a Marxist group of about twenty, denounced the candidates as racist. Hamilton said the Spartacus League is in favor of busing, and sees the busing conflict as a class struggle.

Inside the hall, Greenberg also said the busing issue is a "diversion" from the real class issues. She said, "they need people they can exploit," explaining that "they" are the "power structure."

The picketers shouted such slogans as "Palladino, Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, Smash the racist scum of the land."

Pixie Palladino, a candidate for the school committee, was one of the people scheduled to speak, who never arrived.

The meeting was organized by an ad hoc committee of teachers and students at the Ed School. Members of the committee declined to comment on the pickets