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killer or his accomplice.

Angelo Torres gunned down Henehan at a Young Socialists' discotheque in Brookiyn, New York, on October 16 1977.

Henehan was a • Political Committee member of the US Workers League (the US organisation in political sympathy with Gerry Healy's "International Committee" , dominated by the British Workers Revolutionary Party).' Identity known Workers League member Jacques Vielot was also wounded in the shooting.

Torres' identity, and that of his accomplice, Edwin Sequinog was known to the police within an hour of the murder.

But it took these advocates of "law and order" four months to release his name, they still have not released his photograph; and, a year later, both Torres and Sequinog remain scot free.

This contrasts vividly with the draconian police and military moves against labour movement militants on picket lines-and continual FBI surveillance of left groups.

A barrage of obstructive excuses is thrown up by Brooklyn police whenever Workers League leaders attempt to inquire as to what has been done on the murder case.

But so far the Workers League has not taken the most obvious step of initiating a labour movement inquiry into the killing.

...Open investigation This course of action was urged on them by the US Socialist League (DC) in the first issue of their paper, Labor News, after the tragic killing had taken place.

Headed 'Open investigation necessary, the article-published before the killer's identity was known-pointed out:

"The ramifications of this murder are complicated and unLeague, or was it a normal homicide? To initially assume that the murder was not political, considering its victim and the location of the event (at Young Socialist dance), is most careless.

"To simply assume that it was, however, is equally dangerous.

"It is most likely that Tom's cops-condone murder of death was political, but this should be ascertained factually, with concrete evidence and not through conclusions based on the motivations of right wing elements.

"This will enable the Workers League and other interested parties to pinpoint exactly from what quarter did the attack on Tom and Jacques.

while harrassing come.

"What is the description of the two gunmen who killed Tom? Since the murder occurred at the entrance to the dance it is likely that there were witnesses.

'The Bulletin newspaper should interview any eye. witnesses and publish their observations of the night of movement October 15 and morning October 16.

"According to the minimal description in the October 21 and subsequent issues, Tom was inside during the dance and, following a disturbance at the door, came out to investigate.

"Therefore there must have been at least one other comrade already outside at the door (was «The New York police have been brought into the investigation of the killing but the readers of the Bulletin as well as other working class organisations, certainly need to know at least as much. as the "concerned" detectives of the 90th Precinct.

Unsolved

'The New York Police Department is not going to be interested in fully pursuing the investigation, and even if they were, the thousands of unsolved homicides in New York City raises doubts about whether they would succeed in solving it.

"However, the Police and other agencies are now in an excellent position lon the pretext of gathering information concerning the killing October 16) to probe every nook and cranny of the Workers League: the names of all its members and supporters, their addresses and places of work, etc.

"It is most unlikely that the police will find anything illegal, sicne the Workers League is known to oppose the use of drugs among its members, or terrorist activity such as trafficking in guns, bombs, or other patty-bourgeois "revolutionary" dilletantisms.

"But this won't stop the police from providing the CIA or Nazi organisations on the periphery of the police with the information they now have the opportunity to amass.

"This is why the murder of Tom Henehan is a double tragedy, not simply for Tom's family and comrades, but for the organisation he belonged to.

"Let the open investigation of his death and the shooting of Jacques Vielot begin immediately, and let it be independent of the police."

Unfortunately the Workers League has not acted upon this advice.

But more reprehensible by far is the deplorable silence on