A bomb—powerful enough to have blown up a city block, police said—was discovered under Roa’s car outside his residence in Manhattan. Police defused the device.

The ultra-right Cuban exile group Omega 7 called news services later to take credit for the murder attempt. The caller reportedly told United Press International that Omega 7 had found the Cuban ambassador “guilty of treason and now we are going to execute him.”

In a protest telegram to President Carter March 26, Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Andrew Pulley said the assassination attempt “makes federal action to stop Omega 7 even more urgent.”

Omega 7 has carried out a long series of murders and bombings. It has been documented that the assailants are well known to the police. But nothing has been done to bring these criminals to justice.  
 
April 4, 1955
CLEVELAND, March 27—Frederick Engels noted many years ago that F.M. Fourier, the French Utopian Socialist, was “the first to declare that in a given society the degree of emancipation of women is the natural expression of the general emancipation.”

This truth can probably be adapted as follows: A union’s attitude to women workers today is an expression of its general level of class consciousness.

At any rate, the only real debate on the first day of the 15th convention of the United Auto Workers, CIO, was the one that broke out over “the woman question.”

The main reason is that the auto workers experienced serious layoffs during 1954. The union leaders failed to provide the members with any effective program to fight unemployment. This failure created an opportunity for the more backward elements in the union to come forward with their own “solution”—drive women workers, and especially married women, out of the plants as long as any men workers are unemployed.  
 
 
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