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SUBVERSIVE INVOLVEMENT IN THE ORIGIN, LEADERSHIP, AND ACTIVITIES OF

THE NEW MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE TO END THE WAR IN VIETNAM

AND ITS PREDECESSOR ORGANIZATIONS

.' STAFF STUDY BY THE

COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL SECURITY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY"FlRST CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

(INCLUDING INDEX)

Prepared and released by the Committee on Internal Security

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COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL SECURITY

UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

RICHARD H. IOIlORD, M!ss<lur~ Chairman. CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida 1 iOHN:M. '.kSRB'ROOK, Ohio EDWIN W. EDWARDS, Louisiana RIOHAR)) L. ROUDEBUSH, Indiana RICHARDSON PREYER, North Carolina ALBERT W. WATSON, South Oarolina LOUIS STOKES, Ohio WILLIAM 1. BOHERLE, Iowa

',,-. D ONA-tD G. BANDBRS, 01116/ aoumd

RICHARD L. SCJi:ULTZ, A8Bocfate Oliu! Oounsel 'ALl'Bl\lD ¥; NITTLE, Lei1,Watlv6,Cowud - J OHM F. LEWIS, Ooord'nating EdUor iG$NN E.,-DA~, ~or'!lfPlmtqr

ROB'BBT M. lloR14EB, Chtef I~dfgatOT W~ G. 8IIAWr~¥MCh,,~!redor

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(Special aoknowledgement.fs given to Mr. wnUam Poole. staff researcher, tor the preJjaratlon of this studJ;.) (Ill

CONTENTS

Foreword ________________________________________________________ _ SynopsiB _____ ' ____________________________________ ~'_' ______________ _ Staftstudy ______________________________________________________ _ Index ___________________________ " ________________ , __ , ____________ _

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The Ho.use Co.mmittee o.n Internal Security is a standing co.mmittee o.f the Ho.use o.f Representatives, co.nstituted as such by the rules o.f the Ho.use, ado.pted pursuant to. Article I, sectio.n 5, o.f the Co.nstitutio.n o.f the United States which autho.rizes the Ho.use to determine the rules o.f its pro.ceedings.

RULES ADOPTED BY THE 91ST CONG~ESS

House Resolution 7, January 3, 1969, as amended by House Resolution 89, February 18, 1969

RESOLUTION

Resolved, That the Rules of the House of Representatives of the 90th Con­gress, together with all applicable provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended, be, and they are hereby adopted as the Rules of the House of Representatives of the 9~st Oongress * IT! *

• • • • • • • RULE X

STANDING COMMITTEES

1. There shall be elected by the House, at the commencement of each Congr,ess'

* * * * * * * (k) Committee on Internal Security, to oonsist of nine Members ..

• • • • • • • RULE XI

POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEES

* * * * * * *. 11. Committee on Internal Seouritr. (8.) Communist and other subversIve activities affecting the internal security

of the United States. . (b) The Committee on Internal Seourity, acting as a whole or by Bubcommittee,

is authorized to make investigations from time to time of (1) the extent, oha.racter, objectives, and aotivities within the United States of organizations or groups, whether of foreign or domestic origin, their membersl agents, and affiliates, whioh seek to establish, or assist in the establishment ot, a totalitarian dictatorship within the United States, or to overthrow or alter, or assist in the overthrow or alteration of, the form of government of the United States or of any State.thereof\ by foroe, violenoe, treaohery, espionae:e, sabotage, insurrection, or any unlawfu means, (2) the extent, character, obJeotives, and aotivities within the United States of organizations or groups, their members, agents, and affiliates, whioh incite or employ aots of force, violenoe, terrorism, or any unlawful means, to obstruct or oppose the lawful authority of the Government of the United States in the execution of any law or pollcy affecting the internal security of the United States, and (3) all other questions, inoluding the administration and exedution of any. law of the United States, or any portion of law, relating to the foregoing that would aid the Congress or any committee of the House in any necessary remedial legislation.

The Committee on Internal Seourity shall report to the House (or to the Clerk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any suoh investiga.tion, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable.

For the purpose of any such investigation, the Committee on Internal Security, or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit and act at suoh times and plaoes within the United States, whether the House is in sessionj ,has reoessed" or has adjourned, to hold suoh hearings, and to require, by subpena or :otherwise, the

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attendanoe RPd testimony of such witnesses and the/roduotion of such books, records, correspondenoe, memorandums, papers, an dooumenta, as it deems necessary. Subpenas may be issued under the signature of the chairman of the committee or any Bubcommittee; or by any member designated by any suoh ohair­man, and may be served by any person designated by any Buch ohairman or member.

* * * * * * * 28. To assist the House in appraising the administration of the laws and in developing such amendments or related .egtslatiqn as it may deem necessary, eaoh standing committee of the House shall'- exercise oontinuous watohfulness of the exeoution by the administrative agencies concerned of any laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of such committeej and, for that purpose, shall study all ,pertinent reports and da.ta submItted to the House by the agencies in the exeoutive branch of the Government,. . ;

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FOREWORD

During the recent hearings held by the House Committee onInternal Security on the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, a staff study of subversive involvement in the origin, leader­ship, and activities of the New Mobe and its predecessor groups was accepted for inclusion in the hearing record as an exhibit. This study reveals how the New Mobe has operated from its inception with significant domestic and international communist support, and it details for the interested reader "the basic pattern of communist participation that has remained a characteristic of all Mobe activity."

Because of its timeliness, as evidenced by the steady flow of requests for copies from Congressmen, private citizens, and from official agencies and because of its nature and length, the study has been printed as a separate document.

One additional aspect must be emphasized. The New Mobe is a coalition of organizations, both communist 0Jnd noncommwnist. Its basic organizational principle is nonexclusion. Were it not for this "umbrella" nature of New Mobe, providing association with many sincerely motivated noncommunists, the communists and other subversives within the group would have little effectiveness. All too often such "umbrella" coalItions are cynically exploited by the communists and thereby serve to promote internatIonal communism's objectives. This has traditionally been the pattern when communists have coalesced with noncommunists in united'front operations.

While the staff study focuses on subversive involvement in New Mobel I would caution readers that mere mention of an individual or orgamz~ti0':1 should not necessarily be construed as a finding' of subversIve mtent.

RICHARD H. IOHORD, Ohairrrw;n,. June 30, 1970

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BYNOPSIS OF IrIFOR..'-Yt.TION Ul CQ.1T!T'...£ RESEARCH STUDY OF SUBVERSIVE INVOLVEMENT IN rm: ORIGDJ, LEADERSHIP J AiID ACTIVITIES OF TH£ NEW ).!OBILIZArION COMMITTEE TO

END THE WAR IN' VlE'r::Af..1 MID ITS P!'.EDi:X:ESSOR ORGANIZATIOUS

The New tI.obilization Cortmittee to End the ;':ar in Vietnam is, in its own words. "a broad coalition of organizations and individuals whose purpose is to gain an immediate end to the war In Vietnam through iltOediate and total with­drawal of American llIen and c:ateriel." The Hobe regards all Ulited States pro­posa.ls for peace in Vietnam as fraudulent, thinly veiled demands for the absolute surrender of P.anoi and the Provisiona.l Revolutionary Government to the "fascist" forces supported by the United states In South Vietnam.

study of oft"icial 1·:Obe pronounce.oents discloses that the official stacce of tbe coal.lt1oo's leadership is militantly pro-Hanoi &Ild anti-United states. The ~l11zation' s program calls tor 8. "unilateral deCision for withdrawal" by the united states, to be followed by " reparations t o the Vietnamese people for the damae;e the Un! ted states has done to their country."

Professor Sidney H. Pecit, a national co-chairman of New Mobe and a for­mer member of the Wisconsin State Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A., has stated:

t~e want an end to the '\of8.r __ a war that is a war of inter­vention and aggression __ and we want the complete and total Yith­drawal of American forces from Vietnam. If that results in a vic­tory of the National Liberation Front, we are pleased with that re-s~lt because that would in effect be the Yishes of the Vietnamese people.

Another New Uobe co- chain::.an, Professor Douglas Dowd, b&S said:

One of the tensions that we've had to work out Within the Hew Mobilization Cccmittee is that the people who do the organi ­zing for this kind of thing, almost all of them, really feel that not only the war should end but that if there had to be a side in that war I think most of us feel we would be on tbe other side .

The New fo'.obil1zation CO""JD.ittee functior.s today as the lineal descendant of the November 8 ¥'Obilizatioo Ccmm1ttee, formed in Cleveland, Obio, on Septecber I O-ll, 1966. At a subsequent conference in Cleveland on liovember 26-27, 1966, the group reconstituted itself as the Spring ~~bilization C~ttee to End the War in Vietnam. This group, which organized mass anti-Vietnam war protests in New York and San franCisco on April 15, 1967, was cited as cammunist-dcminated by the House C~ttee on Un-American Activities in its ~Arch 31, 1967, report on the Communist Origin and Manipulation.£!. ~~.

Af'ter a l/~ 20-21, 1967, National Anti-~Iar Conference in Washington, D.C., the Spring Mobilization Comoittee to End the War in Vietnam became known officially as the National ¥.obilization Coc:mittee to End the War in Vietnam. The primary pro­jects organized by the l;rational l·!obe were the October 21, 1967, aarch on the Penta­gon in Washington, D. C; the August 1968 violent demonstrations in Chicago during the Democratic liB.tional Convention; and the January 1969 Counhr-Inaueural demon­strations in Washington, also carked by violence.

Tbe New l~be was formally established at a national conference of anti­war groups and individuals in Cleveland. Obio, durine; the weekend of July 4, 1969. This conference , hosted by the Cleveland Area Peace ActloD. Council . a key M::lbe affiliate formerly led by Peck, was attended by several hundred delegates from around the United States . A large percentage of the delegates were mel!lbers of the Communist Party, U. S.A . ; tbe Trotskyist cOlMlunist Social.ist Workers Party; tbe Young SoCialist Alliance. youth and training section of the SWP; and the student ~Dbillzation C~ttee to End the War in Vietnam, an organization controlled by the YSA.

The conference f oroulated a program known &s the Fall Of'f'ensive, de­signed to serve as II. focal point for groups around the nation in organizing a series of anti-Vietnam war activities culminating in JtaSS rallies -and marches in washington and San Francisco on November 15, 1969. The student Il.obilization Committee, Y"uns Socialist A1llance, and Socialist Workers Farly played crucial roles both in lIetting up the flew l<lobe and in staging the Fall Offensive.

(Ed. nole. This snyopsis was introduced as Comminee Exhibit No. J in the April 7, 1970, hearlnJ(s on the New Mobilization Comminee to End the War in Vietnam .)

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In addttiCln, as sbOwn"by original documents dissem1,ne.ted by s\lch inter~ natt.,:tal communist "peac;:e" organizations as tbe stockholm Conference on VietDMQ. and the World Peace Assembly, both projects of the Sov1et.Qontrolled World Peace C?uacl1, as well as by official statements made by communist officials and organi­zations in Vietnam, the New MObilization Committee bas operated ,from its inception with significant International communist su~t. ,

lD:,_recent montblh acUvities of the New Mobilization Committ~e have taken OIl a proader complexion. Iaste$d of the mass marches favored by the Trot,­skyists, led by, the SWP and 1M, the Mobs has shifted its emphasiG to more local .. lzed activities such as demonstrations .. t Selective Service offices dui-ing March and at Internal. Revenue Service officss across the country on April 1;, 1970. The Trotsk;yists see this, ,c.e in emphasis .8 a ~ution ot the Mobe' s e,ttective~ ness, which. they teel., can be maintaine,d onl¥ by consis:t;entl:y' ca).ltng tor and organizing mass national, mobilizations against tbe war and f~r the witbdrawal of American troops. '

Despite this. however, SWP and YSA leaders bave remained emong the e.ctive participants in Mlb~11I Activities.; and, as in the past, the YSAMcoJ'ltrolled student M::Ibil1zation Committee 1s rend'ftng tuU support and providing crucial, organi7;ing abilities for tbe Mobe's progr8J4.

Two ot the chief pe.rtiCipapts in the New MoblJ coalition l!L1'e the student Mobe and the Vietnam. lOOratoriwn Committee~ The latter group is an organization whicb. while contin~ to support Mobe activities_,'ii.ati~w14e, baa also branch~d out into more specitic~ political actiVity., The ~be sees tbe ditr~ent emphases ot tbeee organiza.t1ons as complementaI7 rather than competitive. 'An itltOl'Dlation sbeet Circulated prio;o 'to tbe November 15 demonstra.tions stated:

The leaderShip ot the three groups sees the activities ot'''the others' as compliment~ (sic] to its own. In,otber words, the activities of one organizat1qn is' (sic] 111 no_ way seen as contxildictor,y to tbe others, neitber are the. activities 'competitive.' tleerlf, there is a need tor viable anti .. war, actiVity moving f,orward, on various levels &.!1d under ' various operating proQ!&4ures., Thus, tbe Vietll6lll Moratorium:'Cpmm1ttee organizes on the local level tor'strictlY local activity;-tbe New MOb­ilization Committee org8Q1zes to bring people to wasbington o~ specific days; and tbe student Mob'l1ization Committee organ'izes atudeQts on cam.­pUSes for activlties,there ~ tor the Waab1ngt~ [MarCb.

'ThoIl$l1 sO!ne ot. the emPhaseS' have changed, ,a.1lI nottli:1: ab'ove, thi~ descd,~ .. tion of the interrelationship among the, three prildary orgaJU.zations r,ema.ins gen .. erally accu~ate. '

SOme ot tbe New lobbe's -primary affiliates, "Whicb iD. turn fUnction as major regi9nal Coalitions of local anti-war groups, ~e;

(1) 'the" Fiftb Avenue VietnJUD. Peace ~, coiQ6u,ttee, Rew rork Mobe office led by DlLvi~ J;>el,linger) a Qattonal OO;'9~i~ of Mobe and selt .. identltled non .. SOv~et, commUliist;, " _" - ' , '

(?) the Chicago 'peace Co~~il; be&\ied by ,Sf1via ~sbp.er, a melnb,r ot tbe 'Communist Party, 'U.S.A.; '., '.

(3) the Peace Action Council of SOuthern Calitornia, 8- -Los Angeles .. based group, :).e~ by torme:r Soutbern Califorllla Dietric~ cPUSA _offlcilij. Irving _ Ba,rp,ott.; ,,\;',

(4) ,tbe' ,New.'" M:>b. il~iza.tiotf 9.' ,OOJllOli. t~,.e (J4~8t')'f"bea'dquart:erl:Id;' 1n ,san. " 'Frail. c. i. SCO , < and Led ~ 'I1'~ence ~U:tnlln;. Ii. -leader in the C~.cOntrOl1e~ W.E.B. I

'. ))U~is Clubs' ot ~,rlC8- an<\ lilitber of C_PUSA: o~¢'ia'l ~~t~ew 'Hallt," ' Q,an; fl'oteSS01;' Donaid ~sh';<"'ho '~J 8e1t~~d!llit-f!8'd~ fe.r' t'o th~tJ,:e'tt

(''Yt:'tbe C~8t ~y; atid Df. C~~o"n ~6dlett';'a'mem'ber of tb.,' ' __ Pre:SidiWl1,ot'~:tb.e So~ft .. contt,Ql.tedjloil~ Pe,aCe',CoubCl1~ :'<1",,:', ,

, (5) tbe Bay Area-Peace l'cti:on council, ',tOl'll($rly Gl .. CivllJ;aii Alliance;,tor Peace, ,also beadque.rtered in Ban Fl'8tlClsco, and 'led ''Of people clOse to the, SWP and ,{SA;

"(6) t~·)Ciev,laI1d.,Al'ea ~o~I(Actlor'-'CoUne'ii; and:--;' ". -': "'~' ',1. ,

· .. {1rt.b.~"bet.,rblt'C1Sa.U;ti¢~,:t)(J.'~~''bhe'Wi.''.~'NOW." an Oi'gaD:l.i:s.tiOll. -, und.er'~.swp.· .. ",J.'

: ~i~tlu~~e~ 'led :F1~:I.~':'6Y meJDbera and"consistent' '8upii6rters or 11118'-"" .. : ~'-and'1t. frOnt orgaill~a~:l:olls~" . \~( 1;',," .. ,·V,' If

. J', ~ ,. - ''- Ji." ~ (,',' , • ~~J" ( ',> -; One ot'tht cbtet'organlZiit1oiUI,l ten.ts"~~·:whicb tbe:lojobe t 's'i,l'lader.b1l' bas, \'

adhered is _ tba.t ot nonexcluaion. This ~,tncipl.) Wbicb bas, remained ,fundamental to ",.,MQbe. _ t)p.nld.,t\g, ,~M19~ tb't fOlU;l(l.ing o,f McI~_'!~~r~irs;~ ",.~",a,s~or in:,~'»POJIIb~r! 1~;I :, ~ i

means si!DPll' tbii.t communiat;s IIP4- non"4()f1l1QUD,~1I.~8:JIUIs,t, 'b'I~V§;a.com,d MJ.~h\l,be po.a.1~tJ;9.P'f

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on BD equal footing, the 60al of the policy being the creation, of the broadest pos­sible united tront of the lett against the war in Vietruu». 'rhus,. although a number of pacifist ~d other groups have been involved in MObs activities, 80 also bave the follOW1ng:

(1) tbe Communist Party, U.S.A.; (2) the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of AIIlerlca, o1'i'icial. CPUSA youth front until

the founding of the Young Workers Liberation League in Chicago during February 1970 j .

(3) the Socialist Workers Party, largest and oldest TrotSkyist communist group in tbe United states;

!4l the Young Socialist Alliance, youth and training section of the SWP; 5 the student Mobilization Comm~ttee, controlled by.memtiers of the YSA; 6 the Workers World Party, a dissident rtotskyist group formed in 1959

by former members of tbe SWP; (7al Youth Against War and Fascism, youth arm of the WWP; ( the &nerlcan Serviceme~' s Union, founded and led by Andrew Stapp, a

member of youth Against War and Fasciatn; (9) the GI-CiV1lian Alliance for Peace, an organization led,principally

by members of the SWP, YSA, and SMC; , (10) the Committee of Returned Volunteers, an organization ot former Peace

Oorpa workers who support·an American defeat and communist victory in Vietnam;

(11) the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union, ,which has long been under tbe control of identified members of the CPUBA and which has participated actively in West Coast MObe affairs;

(12) Women strike for Peace, a pro .. Hanoi organization characterized by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1967 as one "which, ,ince it was first formed 1n the fall of 1961, bas enjoyed tbe completl sup­port of the Commun1st party;"

(13) the Black Panther Party, a militant, violence-oriented revolutionary group;

(14) students tor a Democratic SoCiety', particularly tl':\e Wor,!fer-student Alliance and Revolutiona.r:y Youth Movement II factions; and , '

(15) Veterans for Peace ,in Vietnam, founded during 1966 in Chicago by veteran Communist Party member Leroy Wolins.

Tbe national,leaderehip of the New Mobil~zation Committee includes several ke;y activists who have been shown either by public source data or by' committee uves tigation to be or to have been members of such diverse communis,t groups as the Com­munist Party, U.S.Ad W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America; lAbor Youth League; Revolu.­tiona,ry Wo~lter~, Lea((,u.~; Socialist W()rkers Party; _ Young SOcialist Alliance; and stu .. dent MObilization Committee. (see first attached ohart.)

The first chart also includes David Dellinger, one of the most important and inf'luentiaJ. Mobe leaders and e. mao. who bas proclaimed himself to be a ,'noll-Soviet type Communist, and otto Nathan,. New Mobe steertng committee ,~ember Who ~s been identified as having beell a member of the Communist Party of Germa.ny and ,who ,refused to tell the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 whether b$-'W8.s thfn or bad ever been a. member of the COlll!l\unist Party. ' , , \

Not included on the chart are MObe co-chairman and steering co~ttee mem­ber Donal.d. Kalish, who bas described himsnf as being far to the left; 'of the' Commu"\ nist PartY', and. Irving Beinin, Mobe steering comad'ttee member and _stl!¢t: ~oyee of the self-described "independent radiceJ. newsweekl.yf! ~.

'rhe ,'second chart -shows the major recent contacts of f,k)be leaders 1d.th.,iA­terna.tioDlll QQllllnUQist front organizations and conte1'eJices, as well as parti,Cipation in meetings With representatives of the oommunist North V'i'etnamese and National _Libna1?ion front,. - ,

Tbe t~rd -chart allows some of the New Mobili,zation Committee(s ,major . affiliated 'grQU.ps, especially thpse organizations vb1ch serve as 'regional aad'16c&1 co .. ord1.ne.lIinS agencies in the a8!ll8 manner in which the MObe function" on a national level. '

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tan' LBADBltS or THE REW K)BILIZA1:1OH OOMMrrrBB WHO HAVB BEEN IDBN'rIPDD IN PUBLIC SOURCBS Oil BY OOIti1TTEE INVESTIGA'I'ION AS MBMBERS or COMMUNISt PAR'l'DS. COMMUNlST YOUtH GROUPS. AND/OR THE SWORN'r MOBILIZATION COMMlnBB

Name and HMC Self-Position(a) . Peofened CP DCA LtL I BIlL SWP i YS' " SMC

! Communist i ,

Dl'vid yslli,!ser Co-Che nIIan X Steering Committee National Co~ittee

Ierence Hallinao Co-Chairman X Steering Committee

Sidney ~ Co .. Chairman X Steering Committee

Sidney 11. E!sls. Co-Chaiman X Steering Committ.e Wash. Action Comm.

~ !!!lli.i:. National Committee X Steering "'tOlJl1littee

Marjorie Colvin National Committe. X Steering COmmittee

!!£h Fds_nbel'S Steering Commit~ee X X

~~ ationa Committee . ! X Sta.dng COIIIIlietee

Don Gurewitz : -i

Wai'h~ Comm. X X X New Mobe Staff'

I 'alen~

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8sh. Action Coan. X 1 ," f New Mobe Staff I

pr"~ i I Hatrona itte. X

I Steering Committee Wash. Action Comm .•

Dorothy !!!1.t!. ~ j

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Wash. -Action Comm. X i I

i , il!!. I!W:!!l..U. I ~ati~al Committe. ,.;. X i , "'\ St •• ring,Committe. I

I Wash. Action Coam.

6£n2l4~ Nationa Committee X I

St.erins COfIIDdtt •• We.h. Action Com..

Name and NMC Posit1on(s)

!l.!!.!!. Kua mer NaU'onal Committee Steering Committe.

Carol Lipman National Committee Steering Committee Wash, Action Comm.

R08er~ Steering Committee

:l2! ill.!!. National Committee Steering CoDImLttee

Allen Myers National Committee Steering Committee Waeh~ Action Comm.

~~ National Committee Steering Committee Wash. Action Comm.

JI!.ta. !U.u Wash. Action COIIIID.

J08e~ Waeh. Action Comm.

!WD& Sarnoff National Committe. Steering Committe.

!:!W. Seide Steering Committee

L!.m. !!!9.a!t Steering Committee

l.!!I. !!!ill!!I National COIIIIIIittee Steering C0llll1tt •• Wash. Action Comm.

~W911nlll W •• h. Action 001IIII.

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AbbnvLatione. used in the ab~.' chart are 88 foll0.8: (1) CP· Coamuniat Party 0) DeA • W.B.a.DuBois,. C~\,b8 of Ame~ica (3) ttL. Labot Youth La.Sue (4) RWL. Revolutionary Workn. League (5) SWP'~ SOcialitt Workere Pe;fty

x

x

x

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(6) YSA" t'ol.lRg SoClaliet Alliance (17) SHe· Studen~ Mobilizat~~ COmmittee to '£~' ~he. War' tn

. , Vietdam (8) HMO· New Mobilization COIIIIDittee to' Em! the, Wer to'

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RECENt CONTACTS 0' NEW MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE LBADBRSHIP WITH INTEIl­NATIONAL COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFE~NC£S. INCWDING . MEETINGS WItH REPRESENTATIVES OF NORTH VIETNAM AND/02 THE NATIONAL

LIBERATION FRONT

Name and NMC , Hemis. I Stock. IlPA Ctlll ~to~k. .PC Quebec Poaition(a) Conf. I£g • Conf. I Africa

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Steering COIIIIIittee X , National COllll1littee , E!!:2! Andreas

I , , Steering Committee

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Norma Becker !

, Steerlng Committee l , National Committee I , Wash. Action Comm. , 1 ! , Barbara J!!£k. , Steering Committee I , X National Committee , i ,

I ! Wash. Actioo'Comm. i Katherine 2!mP. , , : Steadns Committee i

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, National Committee I i ! I X Wash. Action Comm. , !.!:.!.!!!I! Davidon

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Steeri~8 ·9ommlttee . , , i , X

, National Committee I I i I Wash. Action COIIIID. i I , i roughs Dowd··, -: ,

i -turing Committee , i , I

I Wash. ActioD'eomm. i X I , i Co .. Chalman i , , " , ··4 I , ,

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~F8rnandeB I ' ' Steering Committee I X i I National Committee I ,

Wash. Action'Crimm. , I , , '

i.arl.ton 'Goodlett , , : ' - ~ '"

teering Committee , i I i i X I X X X National Committes I I

true •• Naw Hobe We8~ I , , : \ [

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!ill!!.~ X Netional CODIIIIittee .(

Dorothy lim!. " Wesh. Action CODm. , X .. 1-

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j I X I I. National COt'GlIitte. I -.1,

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I Hational Com.ittee ,

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Name and NNe Position(s)

~Kallsh Steering Committee COMChairman

Hemis. i Stock. Conf. Conf.

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\IPA WPC Quebsc WPC Africa BC

COMCh., New Moba West

WY!.t.~ Steering COIiWQi-ttee National Committee

Lincoln Lynch Stee-dng Committee National Committee

Stewart t!!!£h!!!!. Steering Committee Wash. Action CoDiu. Co-Chatman

~t!.l!S!i Steering Commit.tee 1-,a.h. Action CO!lllh COMChairman

Irvin8~ Steering Committea National Committee

Cora -lei88 stee'i ng COlIIDittea Wash. Action Co'-. Co-Chairman

~~ Steering Committee National Conmittea

!2!!. Youns Steering Committee National Committee Wadh., Action Comm.

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(9)

MHC - New Mobilization C«=ittee to Bnd the War i'n Viatnam H,mi,. Cont .... Hemisphart9 Conference _,to Bnd the VlUham War, Montreal, Canada, Novembar-28-December, I, 1968 Stock. Cont .... Stockholm Conferezwe.-,oit.: Vi.tn .... , an operatlon ()f the World Peace C'lIuncU,"'St;ockbolllt~!·sWed.n, May 16-18,,1969 WP/L ,. World hace AnembIy, an operad6n of t~ World Peace Councll~ 18.t ,Bariin, damany, 4'une 21-24j',1969 cyw ~ Canadien Voice o~ Women meattng wlth_raptesentative. of Np-tth Vietnam add the ~a~lona1 L1.~-~atiOlC"t'ont. Canada, July ,7,,1969 ", " . " .

:!~~:~'a~~:~~!~ c:n!~~::o!:e:~:;:r;:~~be~ n!~;:-l~:;ar. 'WPC Afrt;cal ·,_World' Peaoe Council meating :Ln Af~lca, January

: 1970. at wb:Loh t,he. February 7-8" 1970. WPC; me'trins :Ln , Vancouver:, Br1tUh~ C~lU1'11bia, Canada,), .,a. t[ni-tt4ted by

Carleton Goodlett fnd Itv~, 1$ S4~of:t": . i Quebec .. meeting wfth r4f asen'tltlv8'8 o,f(JNorth;'Vlotnam, the, HLP, and var:Lou8 pe_98,)1" p •• , ~eb8c, ,C::anad_~, Jaau-ery 31 •. 1970 ; w-, ,.. ': ': ' , WPC BC - Wot'ld Peabe CouncU maating, Vancouver, Brl1:Uh

. Co1Uft1b:La., Canada. FebrUAry" 1'.s, 1970 'i r ,

IllLATIONlIHIP or IIBW IfJBILIZATIOlI OOMMITI'BB !O SBLBCTBD KEY ArrILlA'rBS. IlIC1.UDIlIC VIBtIIAM IfJRA!OIUIlM OOMMITI'BB. mJD!NT IfJBILIZATIOlI OOMIIITI'BB ("rOGB7HBP. WI'rII CUUBN'r UGIONAL SIIC OFlICBS). _ IIAJOR

AFrILlA'rBD 1U!CIONAL OOALI7I011 CJII)Ups

I I I My • , PBACB IIBW , ,VUT\IAM ;S7UDBNT DB7ROIT \ CLEVELAND . CHICAGO' ,

! ACTION I AIQIA :IfJBILIZAl:ION ; )IORA!OIUIlM I MOBILIZIOtIOIi OOALI7ION· ' AREA PEACE I , 00IJIIClL ' PEACB ' OOMMITI'BB , OOMMITI'BB OOMMITI'BB 1'0 BND PlACB COUNCIL! PF I =lOII ! 'WSS7 i m "IAR ' ACTION

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OOUlICIL I !Wa.h.,D.C.' ~a8h. D.C. 101 , COUNCIL ! CALIP. I ""-,' \ ~.P. ..".,.... I j ., , i So;.' . Lo, .

..I Ansel •• S7UD!N'r HOBILIZIOtION' , VETERANS OOMMlnBB !POB. IlEGIONAL ' PEACB IN : bFFICBS !VU7NAM 1

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, Mtb .. ATtANTiC IUR. SOUlBEJba IIBW BlICLAlID D.C. . RiMST

Cambrid.ge, . PhUa., Pa. ; I ' Atlanta,

i Chicago

PInH AVENUE

VIETNAM PBACB PARIIDB COMMInB!,

Ne~k!

VErERAl~S PO.t PEACE IN; VIEtII&l

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RESl!WlCH STUDY' OF SUBVERSIVE INVOLVl!r'~ IN TIlE onIGIN, LEAimlRSHIP, AND ACTIVITIES OF THE NEW MOBII,rYA'l'ION' COM'iIl:'l"l'F.E TO END m WAR IN VIETNAM

AND ITS PliEDEC:.l:SSOB ORGANIZA'l'IONS

~.!:m!!L~ .. J:!Q.JU!.IZAT±~:cr!! Tbe November 8 Mobilization Committee was established at the National

Leadership Conference ot anti-war activists in cleveland, Ohio, on september 10-11, L966. This conferenoe was of pivotal importance for two reasons: (1) it repre­sented e. rssttrf$snce at tbe united tront coalition str&tssy within the "peace lt

movement, and (2) it established tbe baSil) 'pattern ot communlat participation that has remained a characteristic of all Mobe activity.

The official proceedings of the confe~ence reflect that the idea for the gatbering originated with tbe University Ciro1e Teach-In Committee, a CLeve­land anti-war group, and its chairman, Professor, Sidney M. Peck. Peck, who Played a key role ,during and aft8l" tbe oonter.enoe, :Ls a, former melllber of the Wisconsin State Committee of the COOlI\IUIust ,party, U.S.A., and has a sust!ined reoord of ~fil1ations with communist and communist-front organizations.

The conference was ~ttended by appro~tely 1;0 delegates and observers from around the country, 1nClUdil18 tmt following;

(1) Sholem ~bovitz, representative of veterans for Peace in Vietnam, a group founded in C~iCago in, 1966 by veteran Communist Party member Leroy WoUns;

(2) Erio Reinthal.er; inomber ot the univeraity' Circle Teach-In Com .. m1ttee, former member of the CPUSA, and more reoentl¥ an aC~ive member of tbe Trotskyist communist SOCialht Workers party;

(3) Irving Bein1n, represeQtat,ive of. the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Comnd,t,tee and statt employee q~, tbe selt.described tl1nde~ pendent radical_ n,*swe;ekly:'~, Guardian;., ,',

(4) Sidney Lens, leader ,in the." Q.hio(l80 PeaCe Council and one-time leader of tho RevolutioMl7'-Workers Leasue, cited as SUbvergive and CQlllmqlllst by tbe Attorney General p,f tbe, United states;

(5) James We-II;'I;,. an,1l]4.n01s member of the ClllSA;:7", • (6) Jack Spiegel, a,l~,&4,r 1n t!rle CbiC8Sa Peace Counc.!l who ha.~ be.n

identified as 8. member of tbe_ qWSA; . ,(7) A. J. Jotls,te, ~scribep. by FJlI:"D~x:ector J. E~,Hoover &S a man

"who has long fronte4 tor, coamu.m1sts;"9 (6) Danny LuQo, member of' youth Against War and Fascism' youth arm

.·('9) o( the'd1l./Jaident Trpt'slty1st Worker8.,t~ld Pa.rt;y; , Anthony Se6de~ly, member of YAWF;ll~" ;~ .. " ~ "

(10) Ohto 'Nathan, ~epresenta'!live Of the Fifth Aven~~ Vietnam Peace Farad., Committee and an ide~tified'communi8t;

(U) Joel Wers, m.~ber ot YAWF; 3 ',' ,>_r ': ' (1..2) Robert Gre,!3o\;).l:8.tt_, 89 open -,support,er ot·;tbe-'-V:LEit:'Cong;14 (13) Hugb:FOWler, 'leader 'in the "III\E""B-j 'buBo~8 C1I.1bS',ot, Amer1oa'--offic1a1

youth front tor the' CPUSA until its recent 'merger into the YOW1g, , 'Wol'k~r$, U»era",1on:, Leaglle', 'founded til 'February, 1970, _&8 a youth

ol'gan1zaili16n ot'the CPUSA';15' ' (14) lof:J.ke stet;, «ew York member Of the CPUSA;16 '

- H~'~, ~d s=~!:::: :~ e:t:te ~-;!:~' F~';b' __ ~wn~., ~ Peace fuMe COBIl!1ttee arid a prominent membet'l()t' the"'SVIP; -' (. ~-t). G1.\8, Horowitz, well-knOwn member ot t1\e.~~119 ,

(.w) ~ S~i~eJ prOlli1nent member of the !8~ $otdauet',.iliance,., yo:u.tb ~d' trainlne section of tbe ~:i ¥

Il21J, ~ aose~.h1nlh member ot the YSA1·• , cv ~'_ P~'fr Buo)l, me1i1ber of t~e swp.~2 "< ( ~\, or '"I

'·!liebard.l'>.~dk. '!dIIl/~. ot'b6b tho ,_ .. ~ ~~2'. :"," 22 .. (~:RQp.tn:,Miia~/::~1:I.e.r 'o:f::tbe' .;24,,:, '~, ,::,': - ,;'~ " ~. '

<!.t\ .a~ lJ)i;;,t,ld.\- t.fulP),,',plembet, o't 'the,' gwp-·a.nd,- tSA;:a5,~ ':,., }"I'}". _ "';:. " ':_ ",,9, a4 !qnQ,'~nd.ereon., r~senta:b1ve O~, the m1J.cago"._. 'It Coui'lcit and.

member of the SWP;~ , ",',", , ,.~,:.&i_ ',,::'t':,:tr

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tfie,:MWI Mobdt(Atlo~: ppmnuttee tQ-~~,~:~;h~ 'war'~,:~~:,n~,~~ i. \ ::',:r;-:'" -·:~Ii~c~~;;'~~~u".'~~' ,~, ,,,.' .';r-"

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Marci& Sweetenham, m,ellibel' Qf, the ~ and YSA;2'7 . Linda _Shepherd, member of ,the SI'1Pj Rachel To'lll18, Wl'1ter for 'l'he ,Militl,mt, official SWP newspaperj29 Douglas Jenness, member ofbol.b-~ne-swp and YSA j 30 Jack Barnes, member of tJle, mIPj31 -Lew Jones, member of th~ miP and YSA j 32 Frank E~pakJ leader of tlle Na,1;1onal coordinating Cormnittee to End the W&.r, in Vietnam, participant in meeting, of the DUBoiS Clubs,

(32) and son of a dec_ea.sed moolber'_of tb~4CPUSA; 3 ,.,

Da.vid Fl!ankel, Q.ueen,s College _ SDS ;35 '

133) CharUe Bolduc, member' of 'the YSA~6 34) Harry Ring, prominent SWP leader'j,;) 35) Joe Henry, member of the YSA;3?

(36) 'Mareen Jasln, member of the YSA;3B (37) ThanM Dennis~' CPUM member from Detrol~39 (;~8-1 EVe~ Kirsch, -YBA tllember fr(jDt ]}&trolt; 4 (39 Barb&r&;Gregorich,-wrlter for 'l'he Militant; 1 (40) John Mccann, "IQ.ernber of the YsA;'i2' ' (41) Ellen RObiilson~ member ot'the: swp;43 I. 44 (4423) 'l'otJI. liJell" met$er ot SDS rpm ,It¥C,a, Uf' York;_, ( ) J1m :8enton, ans member tZ'Olp .MiChigatl j (44) Pete BroWnlie, SDa member' rrom MacAU'stt1.il' COllegej46 (45) ~dney Peck,- tormer membe:li' ~f ,:the ,,!i-scon~in St,&t~ CotllllJ1ttee of the

FUSA; ",_:- ,,'.' 47 (46) Walter Kos, member of 'the Y8Aj: ,i· 48 . (47), Ricbard 111:11, an organizer t<n- the SWPj 0

(48) Eloise, Nesek;y, YSA member ,frOJll Boston;li59

(49) Jeff PowEll'S, YSA" member rrom:;A.nn Arbor; 0 (50) Edward Heisler, -member -ot ,tbe YSA';;],. (51)' Ben' Friedlander, who:"h¥ -:t;een 'idenUfieCl &8 a inember of tbe CPUSA j 52

(52) Sylvia KuabnerJ, key leader il:l' the l Chicago Peace ,Cou.o.,c;ll QIld

identified member 'of the·'CPO'SA.53,.. > ,t.' i ;n\

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SWP member Judy White and CPUBA leader Herbert Aptheker were il1trodueed to the crowds j and David Dellinger ,: who has publ1cl¥ identified himself as a non­Soviet type communist, sent greetings from North Vietnam. Speakers included SUe Eanet of SDS; Grace Mora'Newman, sister of DuBois Clubs member Dennis Mora of'the Fort Hood. -Three j Leon. J. })avis., who is president of Local 1199, Drug and Hosplt&l Workers of America, and who refused to tell-a subcommittee ot tbe House Committee on Education and Labor in 19fB whether he ~s a member of the Communist Party, U.S.A.; and AleX8.l'l.der Evari0f'6i prcminant New 'York labor leader and supporter ot cOJtll1Ullist fronts and causes.

qn N"ovember 26.27 J 1966, the November 6 Mobilization Committee beld anothsr ,c,onterence in Clevelanll. Of tile U7 persons registered ,tor tbis gathering, 75 were members .Qt 'the SOciali'at Uorkers P8rty or It~ youth arm, the Young SoclaJ.­,~st AlU~ce. "1I.'rnoLd Johnson and' ~alDes West represented the COllllnUlust Party and ',the' DuBois' CLube ,were represented by tb~ir executive secretary, 'Hugh Fowler.62

* * * * SPRmG MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE'TO,',END 'l'HE' WAR IN VIETNAM

Tb&''-conf,ereIl.Q'' .. :r.esoL~e~. 1..0 reqons:b1tute £tself as, the sPrtns ~bilization Committee to' End the War.in Vietnam and t06~oncentrate on organizing mass protests &6ma-j;.,~he Vietnam"war on April ,L5, L967'."':": Amoll$ ,t!M' 40 p~oplec who were listed &4 sponsors on, the text"of ,the, resolutj,.on as, passed by 11Jle conference, were:

RQbert, Greenblatt;", S1'dney- .pe,9k; otto Nathan; Frank Emspak; Gus HopoWitz;. ", " .... , , " Kipp Dawson, a member ot tbe SWIi and YsA;64 Carl Oglesby; Jack Spieg,e).,; 'SidneY Lens; Fred Hals~ee.d; , ' " 65 FaUl, Booth, a tOnQ,ei- national se'cretary ot SDS; Hugh Fowler; , ' , , A. J. Muste; l.OW:,.~o.nes,;, '" , " " Stoke~' C~cl1&el, ,chairmari:',:dt':tlie, student. '.NonViolent Coordinating COmmittee and orie ot'th'e ,kei tu-cJu,tect,lj!,:"ot 'tbe alUance bfl1;weel1' SNCC ~ ,the Mpvement 'for Pl.t'mo'RicM IJidi;peridencef; 'one '36 "the three

" ,: .. '~ ". ~~,~ng ,pr?"c."",. unis~' O.l;t~~za~,ion8· o~ Pue~o R1C~;" ;,~, "i.(·lt,'-jArnol.~,.JP.~89.n •. '.''''

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:',-, <{~tN~ve1'ber 27/i966', 'the temp~rary-"s~e'eriil6r c~t~i'e:tor ~he Spring :MQ,b11.izp.t~on !J1et- ,in Cl,ey:e~d;, •. ,~:'I:?ttici.a+- ~\lies ,~t!1~ ,19,:PJlpt>le"",! present." 'Of: !,t~s. 1il}UIIl),~ ~ .s;$.,l5 wer.e II\wnllprfJ, of, tl1et. ~C!~~~~~' 'wPf,I((f.l's Farly or Ydung Socialist

. All~'A.~"b ~~er Bueh", J(lpp" ~w:son, ~ed ,ua~4I:'j;"a4f' ou~~:}IordWitz, Lew Jones I and

.Hobin MaUel; .l\J.S() present were identi'tied cPUBA' meml:ior,l'¥l:k ~egel, identitied '·9~~4t,:,ot'tlq ,Na:.t~, ~ois".91ub:,:.+eade.r,,~Eq1 F~er, tormerll'~SA ~ber ~idney Peck" and cPtitJA ott'1cia'l: Arnotct' JObrison,",ln 'aWtiQl)'to Joan.UlV.,t:nollO'n>; a New

Jl'l'~~l' ~o,.b&I.,~m,.n,;b .• !,9~\',& cOnveJ:l~iQn",fIf' the<l>uao:1s, q,LUb.S,·M'g who ~s served ~8 an ot:d~1&1 ot the rl'e.e~i,an~~p!lC,,':,p~ty .0f,NII,~):torko',Bt.~'tp'. 7

-. . ,'l, ',"',,' ij" "', • ',t'" t" r ,,,.' __ ,~, '" "." ''''Co'. , " " , ,1'be above·iuts ~'t--actj.;v,e,,~ic,~t8:il:l,,~~' ~~II:,point' to one" ot

the' Q~.diAa-l. pr1ncip~ .. ,QbB~d~J,rOlll,thF)f{t~t ,~Y' ij~'Mob.e,,~e~rsl1;'p': tlbe'"prin­oi!)le,iot.' n~mexc1118ionr :Amot\g the' 'MQbe ,1.eaderl'llU.p:,- A:i~J ~ 'Musile,,· :Whb( 'liI,rved &S QbM.:rm&n' Uhtil his' d~~~,iQ, 1967.,'£t,~8:'P'P»~P'8, :~.st fO;~9~~j'in argUll,iJg tor non­,eXClu~~.,"orr, Wh10.h m.ean. t.· ~'ll .. ~"-1f"c~ ... ,:I.jI,s,w.;re :~."':'.W.,~l,.9,om.ed in:t;o,t.he coaU .• ,ti,9D.' -9li<;tA~,eqWl>'~.:~.,nO,ll,!,9,9mIn~~"'l-} Muit.) i4zed- ,:repe~t"cUy- :bhat WJjI~(loqllll.~~: .. lI~~'}~' ,til ',49¥ .'Ptffl j)~~cOJde .'·;,~,,9t, ~9b.", c1f¢t~in,' or practlioe. £

" ' J" '~: ' (! " " ,-,', , ;,< , "" ~ l;',;, ':." t I ;', . '.r ''''~!~ ~iJt~, 1: ~'j ,prtnOipl~:9t,~~lQ&t.On;,ha-.+aeti'fl'.all¥.! b~.n;;:Qb.oued~ :dowil: to the' ·~e8.n:t 'tim.., althOugh ,;!;there ,bav:tl'"been oooa.ston~,,'j'andlbitt.r,llae:Uont-l fights wit4., ~':".1'(lo&ll~6n';' e~~~·b~~n'l:the'-Tr,01I,sk:V1ets.-.JU1d' .the" c.ommUnd.p; P4l'ty and ~lls atl:tll's. ','", , " 'r "":.:, .--<,,.;,," ',: "',:'1, ' ~

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The united front clml'",ctex- of tbe coalition remained evident in the roster of officers chosen for the Spring Mob~ll~atlon Committee. Muste was named cba.irman. Vice-chaimen included non-Soviet communist and Viet Cong 8l,l'p­porter Dave ~llinger; Viet Cong supporter Robert Greenblatt; Sidney Peck; Edward Kea.ting, PUbliSher. of the pro-:Ha.nol magazine ~~; Cleveland Robinson, a Naw York labor leader and supporter '0£ numerous CPU~t8 and causes; and Dagmar Wilson, founder of WOJIIen Str,ilte for Peace and an open advocate of the C~unist NortJ?,. Vietnamese cause .whO has traveled to North V1etnw;o. West coast executive director was Kipp Dawson, a member of the SWP and,YSA.Q~

In California, Asher Harer, an SWP leader, was active in staff work, W¥le his dAughter Kathie, e. member of the YSA, was in charge of orge.n.tzing B~ Area high school-support. 0 Robert Himmel, an SWP organizer, was in c~ge of the arrangements for the S8.d, Francisco activities in Kezar' stadi),lm.-"l.·."Another ' active partiCipan~ in west coast preparations for April 15 was CpU~,functionar.r Don Hamroerquist:r

In Ohio, regional coordinator was former CpUM member 'Sidney, Peck. 13 In Chicago, CPUSA'member>andGb1cft80 Peace 'qOUOc.tl leader 'S;ylvia Kusbner was in charge of tre.1n arrangements,.7 , In New York City, one, of ,the ful.J..r~1me staff wor~ kers was Mike Jarvis~' a self-prOfessed member of the DUBoiS ·Olubs\

In"~ew York, black partiCipation in the April l5"rnat'ch was oitganiz,ed partl¥ by two groups: the Blaek united Action Front, one of whose off'ic$l's',was well~known swP member Paul,Boutelle, and Blacks Against Negat1ve,D.Y1ng, founded and led by YAWF activist EdWe.rd Oquendo, Boutelle was, prom1nell~- in New York organizing for the ~ch among members of the black commUnity:' '

Some organizations which formally endorsed arid/or actually~iCipAted in activities of the -Spring Mobil1~at10n Committee' are listed below: '

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Formed at a conference in Chicago during Deoember 1966, student Mobs has from its inception-been dominated by coremunista,.,e. fact thorough~ documented by the House Comm1tte,~, on un.American Activities in its March 31, 1967, report on Communist, "aMiD and ~qJ,ation of Vietnam Week.. The committee also detailed the communist natron ~1ne: ltDbe' iii'd~u§8formally tba11 COmmwlists were Pla¥ing "dominant roles" in both organize.tlons~

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The idea tor the December 1966' c'Onter:ence he.d first been proposed by sett-professed CPUSA,member Bettina. ~eker, ~~t members of the SWP and YSA quic~ became ~ctlve in student M::Ibs .,e.f1'a1rs. 'In -1968, &!ter a bitter factional dispute between -the YSA. and forces led by the CPUBA, tl;le student Mobiliza~~on Com.­mittee tell -- and has remained __ under the complete control of the YSA.

Besides pis.yiI1g' e. key role ''in -the 'orsanlzat:fon and exec~t1On of the April 1967 actioQs, Stuci8nt'Mobs'oMS oollabora.te'd closel¥ with the Spring, Na.tional, and New Mobilization committees ~ ev~ry mass anti-Vietnam war demonstration down to the present time. The Student MobU~1zation Committee rema.ins tode¥ the most active-'and potent' natioru\l organization ill:'the coalition' wbich ~es _'up the New Mobe

Support for the Spring Mobilization came also fran a Wide ~iety of in­divid\lal.s, both ,FQnmUnist and non-COWl1Unist, including tbe following:

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Bettina. Aptheker, CPOSA; Beverlt Axelrod,' National L4wyere Guild;B4 Peter camejo, SWP and YSA;tl5 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cugini, DuBois C1Ubs;86 Robert DaviS, YSA;t:S7 K1pp Dawson, BWP, !SA, and student Mobe; 88 Benjamin Dreyfus, CPUSA and National Lawyers Guild; Martin Hall, one-time active member 01' the ?a§m8n Communist Party and prominent supporter of"cOllllltuUst fronts; Terence Hallinan, active Pu)3ois,.Clube leaderif Ralph Johansen, san ~ancisco LaWyers Guild; PrI)i'esIQr DonaJA., Kalisb, selt~li.dmittedly "far to tbe ~_eft" of the CPUSA;Y~

Michael Kelley, NLG student Division;93 . . 94 Albert J-., ~, cnairmaq, Nortborn California District, CPUSA; James R. '~Boblt LIndsBY, CPUSA;95 Wayne Mercer~' ~ Jose DuBoiS C1Ub_;96 , Ben' Dobbs,_ Sputbern. California District, CPUaAj77 98 Arllold Johnson, -pubUc relati.qn8 director, CPUSA; ,Rob~rt Tr~uhaft, ideqtified II/.8Dlber, ~99 Don Rotbenberg, identified. lIIembltX"),,,QPUSA; 00

01 t-Blvina Reynolds, identified member, cpuBA;l .Al Ri~Olld, executi~aditor of the ,~~, otticial CPUSA we"t, coast newspaper;, : '_ ' Eldridge Cleaver, 'whO has lerv:ed' as one ,of the ,primary leaders of the BJ.aak Panther Party;l:O;:s . Jack spiegel, identified member, CPUMj Fred H$lstead, 6WP; Irvina BuJ;tq;ff, 1d~t1fied,member, _CPUeA, and lft~er in the Peace Act.1on Council Of Boutberp_ ~f'otI11a.; ," ' 4 Jerr;y RulIin,. a; fo_under ~f, 1;he .yi~t~ Da:r,",c~~tee;lO PrOf,sao;- Eli, Katz, ideutifia4 member, C~,SA j,,: 106 Profe".so,r Leon. Wofsy:, 1denti~ied, ~'bt5t, ,CpOSAj Jesse Gray, identified member, cPUSA; -:,' , 108 Professor Linus Pauling, identified meinber, CPU'SA; Rev. ~ed, -Sbuttl.esw:or:tb,'. off1c~~ ;Ln the, S?u~n Conferenoe Eduoa­tional., Fund" a -sro~Il_led. by per,soris who have been. ident:\.:fied, as _ mem-bers, at tile qrQBA; U'J " ' -Dr. Carleton (Joodle~11oa. leading IDember of the Sov:l.et",oontroll~ World-Peace Council; JeSSica. M1tford, identified. membe:r', CPUSA;lll ' .. Deb-dre' QN.swo14, , YAUp, S1:~8y- Lens ,'" former teadel', ReV01Ut;l,.otlary Workers League I' Re'l~', st$phen 'i'titcbmAn, who in two appearanoes, before the Houee CClrGLittee on Ul\*Juneri1lAl\ Acti¥ities- refused: -to' ~fwer all quest~ona pel"bM.n1ng:, to membersb1p:: in the CatIIIIUt1ist ffi'by ; ;;: , ' AI1~r~ Gros~, identitied member, CPUSA;

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Lester Cole. ~dentified member, ~PUSA;~14 . M:orris Watson, identified member, CPUSA;1l5 Rev~ WllliaJ)llicn-181'd Melish, identified member, CPUSAj1l6 J. n. O'Dell' (also known M Hunter Pitts OlDeU), member Communist party National Committeej U7 . Mae MaJ.lory, associate of Robert F. Williams and urominent in activ1ties of the WOl'~ers WOfld Party and yAWFjllO Irving Beiriin, G1.1ardilin st.a.£f; Rev. Lee H. Balli prominent sUpporter of CpUSA fronts'and causes and exei~tive secretary 'of the Metbodist Federation for Social Action j 9 .< :

Nelson Biackstock, YSA;l20 _ 121 Anne ,en~ ·,Garl ~,84en. '~de'ntlfled members.,. CpYSAj '. Al Evanqff. prominent supporter of communist causes ;_, Sue' E~e_t, SDS ; . Nick _l!Sleaoll, president ot BDS;122 . Paul Boqth, SDS, leader in tbe ·National Conference for New Politics;l Hugh Fowler, DuBois Clubs; Gus HO:.:ow1tz, SWP; Lew Jones, $WI' and lSA; " ;'1.

Dr. CorUss Lamont, identified member, 'CPUSA;~~ Dan Rosenshine, YSA; '(i~5 Abe Weisburd, Tradf.:!gniOnists for Peace; Jaim$1 Allen, ~ , Ova Ospoy, SWP; 128 Brian Shannon, ffi'lP j Carl Oglesby. snsh, 12 l-hrian Gordon, DuBo'~s Clubl.l'; 9 Rev. John, ",, Darr, head of tbe Greenwich Village Peace Center in New York City and an identified member of the Communil.lt Party,130

The PZOple1j World, official Commuqlst party west coast newspaper, thus was able to sta e in t'S"'iiS'us for January 21,' 1967: "National sponsors of the action indica.te posSibillties of unprecedented breadth."

An estimated 100,000 to 125,000 ~eople participated in the New York march and rally on April 15. 1967. Speakers incl~!1eii: stokelQ Carmichael, Nick. Egleson, William F. Pepper of th~ NCN1=',' and Pedro 'J'iian Boa of ,the Movement for PUerto Rican IndepElndence. Chairmen of t,be rally' we:re noll-Sorist communiSt Dave Dellinger and Dr. Benjamin Spook., prominent anti-Vietnam war activist and suppor­ter of the communist .. control1ed National Emergency Cirtl Liberties Committee. and the Freedom and Peace' Pal'ty.' 'Singers 'who lI.lIfeared in New York· included identified Communist Party menllSer Pete Seeser~ ~ "

Disn1ta.~ias listed as attending included identified communist Otto Nathan, identified Communist Party member Lil;1us Pauling, 'i_dentiried COll\ll'1unist Party member David Livingston, former' CPOSA ~isconsin Sta.te Committee member 132 Sidn$1 M. PeCk, and North Vietnamese supporter and WSP founder Dagmar Wilson.

Th~, San Francisco rally, att_ended by:':an E!stitllatGd 40,000 ,to 50,000 people, was entertained by,' 'among ot;hers, tdentif'1e~, CblDlllunist, Party member Malvina R~9,lds,~, Sp,~atterlJ, i!1clude~: l!)~d"~idge c;~~ye"r,:whd"_ac_~used the United States of ,ruurd.er_ ~.&,:t'.1t60i~, in V~eI!!l~J .sWP";MMv~s~ td.'pp':J)~wson,; and Grace Mora. Newman, st.te~'''~t' DuBo~'~ dlubs member Denn1$' ie V.or& 0r~M:f'ort, :aood Three. Mrs. Newman has::Wa.r~lad~-tb,'tiQrth VletnOOu"_an'4'is "aft PIlei!. ~upporter" of the North Vietnamese c_~~st:cau'OE!.q.~B',' __ 'i'" ",: ," -:,' - ." "(,

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':., ',- G~oupa pti4)iet~t:tns, 'ri'i sWi' rl'MO~~o inclildid":'tl1e" PrOgres'sive "Labor 'I'FartYI Soc!e.l,ist ,110l1t~rs ~~f' aM.:Fi'eo'aoni $()·C:tl.f!S't-,'PattY'~6f' $eat1;lle, while the

New York -parade includ,e~ a publiC, c_oJ.lt1nsent_ Of-c'th'4 Co~ni~t -Part;y,-V.S.A. 1_ led ~ top party "leaders GUS HAl1"and Arn:old ,Jo)1tIsbn.13 ,

Financial SljPPOrt" foi' the~ Mo'M.liz~'bj;on cattle' from __ a. vat-iety ,Of SO~(lEls! A west, coast financial :r~ot1i 'to~ the peliX~\ JfW,Uary,' loa- thr0IJi:h:'Feb~uIU'Y ,2, 1967, Mknow).adgad ,$ loan, of --$400- rr.Qtli)1>he 'sM'I_Plr&.ncbu~o. st~te co-lil;Jge Vl1&tnam Day "Cc_m .. mittee; and,,$.' wellt C;Qll.st P:rQSl',ess-.tep()rt,_-~t,,(l Febr\l-8.1V'l,4_",.1.9"61:; fIlMa'spec_11ll. ~·mention of -con1;X'1'but1'ons from. 1dellil1-fied'"Cofumunist r:Elft.rtY',Il1J~er, BenJ8lllin Oreyfus ($25) and from Ca~tFnia COIIllI1unist'~ P&rtr;.,J.~r"Alber.t" J,i,J~!i1JDa'($lOO).

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the Young ,People!!! Socialist League, 'youth gl'OUp of the Socialist, ps,riy.~ c1eclared in a resolution:~5 • ,"

W'J(di):not support the "Hpring Mobili~ation to End the War ·in·~.:let-, Ram," s1n¢e this effort is a continuation of the kind of united~:t'ronti8m that clouds the real issues and confuses the American people about 'what ' the peace lItov:elltent -stands for. political. differences are ~othered unc!er amorphous slogan, with the result that supporters of a Vietcong mUitary viet_ow are lwnped in with some who sincerely hope to make a. contrlblltitm to pelice. "

The last '''Call'' of the Spring MobiUzatiop' Cotll/llittee * -,. '* maJ.tOO no demands on the Communists J ' as well ~8 the' united' states:, to de-eeoalate and end the war', Such one-sided dell\attds * * *''c~ onl$' alienate Ameri­cans and cause th~'to wonder if the peace mo~eMent is ~ainst the war, or mere~ against the American side in' the-' war~ Anti·Al.ne:rica.nism alone. m8¥ appeal to simple minds, but will on~ discredit the legitimate pelee movement. * * *' * " ' , ,

Another statement announcing a refusal to participate 'in th~ April 15 Mobllize;tion, ae:ain because,_of the Mobe's one.stded. emPhasis on alleged American responsibility for the Vietnam war', was issued on' Ap:ril 12, 1967, by the ~xecutive board of the Non~ern Califorriia region,'Ot'cthe National Committee for a SlAe Nuclear Poli~f. 3 j " ,

Foreign communist endorsement_s fOr' the Mobilization' came from the Viet .. nam Peace Conmdttee, a North Vietnamese group, and from North Vietnamese Premier Pham. Van Dong, who hailed the movemeJl~ _~'to detnand United states Government stop war of aggression in Vietnam and bring A\nerican ,troops bome." A February 19, 1967 t article in the official North V1etname,s~ government newspaper Nban Dan alsQ "hailed the mountihg stl-uggle of the entire ~eOfrt:e of' th:e" Unit~tiFe'8 of AlIIeri .. oa against" ¥:o~son~~, aggreSsive war ,in Vietn_am.! ~7 ~

DUring -the- weekend of' M&y' 20.21, 1.967~' the:' Spring Mobilization Com· mitte~ be14. 'N .. 8tiona .. 1 An. t~ .• ,".w ... Conference in washin~toa, D.C. Of ~he more than !OO peOJl:le who regid1{~e* for the conference, qver 300 were members of the Coomum.st ,~y" W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of AmeriCA, socialist Workers Party, YOWlg SOcIalist Alliance, or youth Against War and Fasciam~ CPl,JSA and SWP officials Partic,i~'!ied in a ~e~ies of workshOl's, one of which 'ria devoted to fundraising -~~c6hducted by inactive CPUlJA National_Committee member Hunter Pitts O~Dell. " , ;':, ,

The conference ended by calling f9I'_'& _esive'w'ch on Washington on October 21, g)t$7. ~s pr,ojeQ~_ bad a1«!~ been ProPosed atac;l en,dorsed by a. Chicago conference of the Student Mbbilizatioil Committe'e the previous 'weekend, M!.I¥ 13·14. The Student Mobe ae,881,0n hl¢ been, attended by scme 500 delega!;es J m8Jlf of them ==;~~~9tM C~, nuBo~s Clube,- SWP,},SA; and Studen1's, for a. Democra"!lic

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NATIONA.t g;g,IZATl9N COMMITTEE TO END '!!'HE , wAll Dr VmNAM I.

The lead~rsbip·'~f th~.'MobhizA~ion~ known'subsequent to the MaY meet. ing as the Nationa1'.'MobilizatiOI1, Committee to End the War in Vietnam, remained Wlited front in character.' Non.'Soviet'~com.munist ])8.1/e Dellinger oontinued as ohairman. Co-cbairme~ included Qreenblatt, Peck, Ka~18b, Evanof'f,_LsQs, and Dagmar Wllson;' 'Also"Usted' as co.cha.irttfen)t8i'8 Joln{Uilson, ~ member of the SNCC 6entr&l Committee and leader in the' Nai~Q~~l' :BUck Anti .. \Il~~, Anti-Draft Union, an offshoot of_ t~ Student 'Mobilizl.t_ '01'1 Committee, ","d t.incoln Iqnch, atl official in the Conerells of RaciAl' Equality,"-sp:onsor Of~a._ testimOnial dinner in' behalf' of CPU:3A leader Wllliam"L~ Patterson, 'and"su~~rter' of the, freedom and Peace Party.140 c

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National. QoQ~nator ",as Rob'ert Greenblatt, _With "J.rty' oot1:l.n and NBAWADU leader John Wi'lson servlng<.s'-pl'9'ject .... Oirectors. ' swpe_ber Peter Buch was listed AS part of the staff'of MOBItIZER', the Mobe's of'ttcia.l'voice'; OPUBA, functionaries a.ctive in plapning for oCliOl:ier 1ncluded t'&fOY Wolina,' founder ot veterans tor Pfn~e in Vi~~',: and ¥~ta ~~hner~ '~~ding' :1nflu~ce in ~h~. Chic&$O Peace Council;

Medical arrangements for the projected demonstrations were to be handled by the Medical 90fDll1ittee tor Human R~bts I one of tbe top leaders of which, Dr. Quentin young of ,Cll1eago) appeared in October 1961l before the Hous,e Comm1ttee on

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Un-American Activities ~g refused to answer all ,questions pertaining to Com­munist P(l.rty membership. 2

Legal arrangements'we~e partly to be hWldled by the communist-controlled Emergency Civil Liberties Committee and by the Law Center for Constitutional Rights, represented by euch attorneys as Wll118l11 M. Kunstler and Arthur Kinoy. botb active in the IDOLC and National Lawyers Guild, and MOrton Stav1s, a Naia~nal La.wyers Guild attorney and identified member of: the Communist Party, U.S.A.

Again, a crucially important role in organizing tor the October pro­tests was p~ed by the communist-dominated Student ~~billzatlon Committee, which actively, prompted ~artiqi~tlon by grqups and individu&ls across the United States. In Chlc$S~. Student Mobs organized and sponsored participation by Chicagoans in collaboration with the C~caso Peace Council, a numbert86 whose most influential figures are identified members of the C~ist. Party. ,

other organizations which contributed actively in organizing support for and participation in the washington action Included:145

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the Communist Party, U.S.A., which marched under, its own banner under the leadership ot such top ,Party officials as Arnold Johnson, chairlll!lJl of the Peace Commission, Michael Zagarell, chairman of the National Youth Commission, and James Jackson, chairman of the International Affairs Commission; the Socialist Workers Pa,rty; The Young Socialist Alliance; the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America; youth Against War' and Fascism; Students for anemocratic SOCiety; the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee; the'BlaCk Panther Party; WOtnen Strike for Peace, rOunded' by Dagmar WilSM, Mobe leader and open supporter ,of the Worth Vietnamese communists; the ProgresBi ve Labor Party; , the Chicago Area Draft Resisters (CA,l;>RE), an organization which has recently emerged as a supporter' of 'the Black P8..ll:ther' ~ty. the U;S. COIIIIIIittee to Aid the National Liberation FrOnt of 'South V:l.etnam; the Fifth Avenue Vietnam PeaCe Farade Committee; Veterans tor Peace in Vietnam; the National Conference for New' ~litics; the Spartacist League; Trade Unionists for Peace; the,Veterans of the Abraham LIncoln :arisade, a CPUSA front.

The demonstrations 00 October ~l, i967, included a rally at the Lin~ colo Memorial and oivU disobedience at the ,Pentagon, an attempt to ,gain en .. ' trance to the 'build:l,.ng In order to tlcontront t~ wa.rmalters" ,and "disrupt the war machine." In the cou:rse ,of the!lle demonstrations, in which. an estimated 30,000 to 60,000 people took pa~, more than 600 peopl!!! were ,arrested. After~ wards, Dellinger hailed the demonstrations and the arrests !B6' great victory which signalled the birth of a new, more miutant IIlOvement. , ,

Speakers at tbe Lincoln Memorial rallY' included :147.

(1) J)a.vid Delline:er, t>f9be .cbairma.n: and stlpJ)Ort'er ;of' the Viet Conl$ who bas traveled, e~ensively to,c~unijA'll. cOWltries '_~o 'oQnsult ,wi:bh ,to:re~~ .commun:tet le&dtrs;l .

(2)' Dr,. Be,n~ami, "u"SW"Ck" ,SUW, orter,'oi' several ~OIilmWl, lot, frOnts; (43) De.gmB.r<W~soo) 'tIIobe .. ,!lO,cha11"man.; () Ossie r:tt1s, sUPl:'orter of nuitiero~s "Communist PartY ;fronts and

causes; 9 . (5) John Wilson, wh9 oalled for. a mome~t ~f_sile~ce in !~r,y of

tatin ~~1can C~~ist rev91utlon~ ~he Guevara; Linda Morse, head of t~ studen~.J~Obill¢atiQ.\l Committee; Fred Davis, aDS representative;:·' " . Lincoln ~ncht who c~8d on '~r1can;~,old;l.e:r:" in yietnall,l,to ;i;t~~he~r e.rms b~ the:~housand,s'a:nd< .. c~ on home and

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During the demonstration activity, Negro partlcl~t8 were urged to break ott from tbe main. line of march and proc~ed to a Separate &rsa to bold their own ral4". Bome 300 did so and hoard speeches by leaders of SNOO, a Bl.8.ck Nationalist group known as the fobu Maus, and tbe Pro8Chinese Marxist­Leninist organization known as RAM -(Revolutionary Action Movement)~ then being led from exile in Red China. bY' ~bert-F. Wlluams.152

Jnternation~ cOIDIIluriist support for the Oo.tober 21 Mobilization pro­ject was aubstanti&l. The Hu~ian 'Peace Council in I3Udapest announced 8. Viet_ nam 'W{Jek f~r October 15-~l:, 19670, , Demonst~~tion8, of 8,UPPO:rt were beld in various citie8 e.roufld the world, lneludin«_ Moscow, -~qo, Stol:ikliolm, Paris, and Munich, in e.ddrtion to at least five major cities in Canade..153 '

James Bevel, national directOr of the Mo'b1l1zat:l:.'on and 8. supporter ot many communist fronts and causes, includ~ a tund appeal and court actton in behalf of the CPUSA's DuBois Clubs, attended the Stockhdlm World Conference on Vietnam, July-6-9, .1967, and reported st'rOl:l~ '.suW,ort for rePresentatives ot the American peace movement at the _conference. One,' ot, the resol1,ltions passed by the co_nterence, which was organ:l;'t'ed primarily _by the World Peace Council, Soviet .. controu'ed international communist "peace" _front, stat,ed: "Tbe organi­sations and, groups working tor '-peace, in Vietn~ should mark O(ltober 21 ••• by demonstrations in II'It\JW countries Md' towns. "15 ~

In Vietnam, the National Liberation Front ~n.october 16, 1967, estab­lished the South Vietnam People's COllllllittee .tor SOlidarity wiyh :the, American People. One of the n.-w group's messages as br~cli\-st from Hanoi ,urged the Ameri­can people tlto step up the 'struggle to domand. an end to the U.S. aggression in South Vie'bn6\ll." Anot~,§ message ~oJO"t)le SOJ.1d&rity c_~ttee, aleo broadcast from HanOi, 'Mclared: , : 'I "

" " * * *, We btgbly value the AlDer·ican peoPle's IJIOvem.ent" &ge.tnst the U.S. war in Vtebnam and regard th1s movement, as a just and valiant action.,

I May t;b:e Oct. 21 struggle mark e,. np,w. development in the;.Am.erican,·peop.l,e's movement for AU), end of the,U.S •. ,:'~ in Vfe1m8.ll!-. We ~_sh,;yo)1 briUtant success. ", .. ', '.

, , "o~h Vie'bn8ll18se Pl:'emier phaDi ':v~ DOng ,d.ciar,~< 1_0,·.,a mes'sase ~Q: the M:lblltzat:1,on Committee: "Tbe VietlUUJ).e~e people' t~, ~balt friends in An\erica &nd ~ish t~em great succe!'s ,~Q. their I,1IOWltins_1lI0vemell'!i:,."156 -', .. ,<

,"During l~,: ,the ~'or pr,ojeot of' the NatJoila1-t~"lliz_t1o~",comxn:ittee was the, organizing" ,of.)jl&ssive, and disr~pt1ve 4emonstrati,ollll.i.Il Cbic*,o· durins the August 1966 Democratic National Convention. 'These demonstrations, with tlleir. rEt.!lltant v:i91enqe" war,e, examined in., d .. et~il dur.lng ,he(L1'j~. s., by the House Committee,o,n l!n-Ame:"ican Activl'ties: in October. and D,80ember J.9W._. In -the- course of these, hearill$s, evidence was introduced which revealed extensive part1cipa­tl~»y , cOlllDun1sts. -in tl¥!' pl.-$nniag and execut~on of tl1.e demop,strations. Evi ..

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the Medical COllIIllittee for Human Rights, which served as the pr~, organizer of medical teams in anticipation of vlo1e~ce during the demonstrations; tbe Movement for a Democratic society, an affiliate of SDSI the National Black AntlMWar, Anti~Drart union, an offshoot of the student MObilization Committee; the National Conference for New Politics; tbe New Universl1ry Conference, an !;IpS-oriented academic group; the Progressive Labor Party;" the Radical Organ1z1ng Commit'tee, formed by Communist Party arid oi:;her noti-.'lXotlikyist members of the Student Mobilization Committee after_the June 1968 takeover of the SMC by members of the Young Socialist Allianoe and Socialist Workers Party; ~_~R, the pro-Hanoi, pro-Castro west coast,magazine which ~d a 4&11¥ newspaper duriJ;]g the demonstre.tlOI)Il, which newspaper' was publi~ed with. (p'8.tefull¥-a.cknOWledge,d assistance from identified Communist Party member David Canter; the socialist' Wo,rkers Party j The &outhern Conference Educational Fund, le(i by Carl and Anne arads'n,_ identified members ot cthe CO/lllD.unist P~y, U.S.A. j students 'for a Democratic society; Summer of SUppQrt, a project Of the l,iational Mobe; veterans for Peace in Vietnam; the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America; Women strike for 'Peace;

. the Young Socialist Alliance; the-~orker8 World Party, a dissident Trotskyist group.

When an otf1ce was established in Chicago to serve as A center for the organiZing effort, tbe Communist Party, U.S.A" indicated its willingness to suppl¥ funds for this effort. The party further offered to defray the ex­penses of Negro rePrftsentatives so that they might travel to Chicago to attend Planning sessions.L'~ , . ,

Onedif the _ ~Uest major planning sessiOns was held on January 26, l~, in the'New York City offices of the National."l,swy'ers Guild,- ,a Communist Party legal front organization. Present at tbis session, whiOh was called to

"disouss the estabUshment of a nationwide legal. defense appartus [sic) to deal witlf-"the prOjecte'd' ;leg~_'probl$lllS arising" from the convention protest, were such activists as Befnardine- Dohrl'i., at" tMt ~ime' auociated with the NLG j 'Lee Webb, currentl¥ associated With the Guardian; Ken Cloke, a top Law,yers Ouild functionary; Tom Hayden, a founder o75D'S';"1requent traveler to communist count_ ries, and open sUP}lOrte'r ~'the Viet Cong; and ,Joliathan, Lubell; Nati~l Lawyers Guild attorney ~~, identified ~mber of the ~st'.'Party, U.S.A. ,

Chica80. on- Februa.ry'- 1)., 1968, another planning meeting 'was held,: this tim~in A~ tbi~ 8eS8;l~, ther'e were 34 people' in a~,tei1dance, among th~:l

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James Rollins, 8: leader in the National Conference ~r New Politics and supporter of the ~1.E.B. DuBois Clubs;l Jack SPieGel, representative of the Chicago ,Peace Council and an identified, member 01' the COIllll1unist Party; Dagmar Wilson, founder, Women strike for Peace.

The meeting was chairs!! by Rennie Davis and. Ctlrlos Russell, the latter a prominent a.ctivist within the NCNP. Black Caucus and a. ~OWI). ... supporter. of- tbe CODI,IIluniat ~T·controlled W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of Amerlca.lb9

, burru8 tbe me~ingJ Lyncb (l,sked; "How 'are we going to -di.scredit (Chicago Mayor R1cb&.rd J.l Daley and show him to be a liar? How will we present challenges to the Convention?' H&l.stead advocated demonstrations even without official permission fropl. the, authorities: '~We shoul4 bp.ve a demonstration in Chicago whether or not it 1s allowed by tl;!.\!l city. He 'should' definitely go ahead With an actiQp..1i Ana Hammerqui'st st\l-t~d:

* * * What we PlUst do ioll, _oalt.e concrete demands on the -Convention which the Convention cah40t respond to. Our confrontation must be politioal in the sens. of winning peopl~ away fl'QlII. :libe Demo­cratic PartY. TbO, organi~ation that ~velops &round this aotivity should,el!lPbailize looal. org,anizing e.nd"pol,itical e,4ucation. It Should develop an alternative ideoLOgy arid,real leadership for the lett in the country. ' , ,

, Identif,1\td CPUSA:member and ~CagO: 'pea,oe Council r@resentative Jack Spiegel :;('ore~a.w ~le~ly that violence, Would ~velQP':'

We QaQit 'ca:j.l 260,000 'people ,to ChiCJ'go and'then dis .. MSOG1ate ,Qllreelves ,from violence. _ DisJ;'uption'and violenoe 'Ifill oOcur~ It's going to happen and we'n"have t? ,deal wi'tb tW,t,fact.

On March. 22 .. 24, 1968, a planning conference was held at Camp Ravenswood outside Chicago. Sponsors included seve),'al people who serve currentl¥ as leaders in New Mobe: Sidney Peck, A1 Evanoff, Sid Lens, and Cora WeisS, a New York Wo­men Strike for Peace leader who has traveled to No),'tb Vietnam'." othe),' sponsors included Carl,David.{iOAJ one .. t:i,me leader 1,n ,SDS ,and currently a writer. for_ the Guardian; Vernon Gr~z~az:4, a 'fOl'll1er Yice-~eBident 6f aDS; J4~Q.a Morse of the ~Mobil1zat:l.on ComI!littee; Wl1liaQtP~er of the _rrcrJp; Dagmar Wilson; and

'identifil8 C~8A member Dr. Quentin YounS of the MetU,c,ai Committee fqr Human Rights •. (

The temporary '~R4.etr~tive committee' 'for the'! confe~enc.1i! consisted of the fOllowing: Rennie navis, Dave Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Bob Grel'llblatt, and Sue fohmak.r.· A preas. release ,p.a.t~.4 ~ch a5, __ and 'issued bY' Re~:!.;S', Davis from. the ,Chicago office cla,1,m,,4!'d ,that _&round 25,o.,peop~e at.hnded _~,l;1e_"Dl8eting.

A. separ$te"me,at,tng ,lf8,',\ h~ld ne.-r~Y, at th, same t1nl~, attended bY' black activists who had ,determined to "ssist in "creating,:a parall,Gil. 'organizational. structl1l'$ ill wl!,i9Jl blac~· and white peoplre operate from II. basis of sepa.rate, and equal strength. n Ttl. ;l.e_pter pralWtins II.ttendan.ce at this' session was ~1gned ,by six &e1liVists, mas. thlMl Kendra Alexander, Linooln .. Iwncb, John WiJ.son, and· Carlos Russell."

rhe cont,erence-,-"att1\'Dl84 :i~s :intention_po hold demonstrations at the time of the: Demoo:r:~t1c N4.t1on~ijCo_nventlon.n ~~--program,,~ purpose of the efto;rt. :was· _a:t:_t_ed~,',a.s.; .f'olJ,ows ::l:!t "" " ':",:

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Tbe conference also selected a three-can interia c~ttee to serve unt1l 3u:h t ime as variolls national and regional student and atttl-war organiza­tions c·,uld choose their own representatives to serve on 8. national cCll!lr!littee to organize the de!l1OQstratlc'ils. 'l'ld3 interim carmittee consisted of Rennie DaViS, active in SDa cOI!!munHy ol'ganizinb projects and the bead of National Mobe'. 1968 SUlI'.lD.er of Support program. IUl operation aimed at servicemen disafi'ected with the war in Vietnam; Dave Dellio.;er; and Vernon Grizzard, 'Who, in addition to bav1ns been a.ctlve in SDS. has traveled to Budapest, Huncary. to consult with representatives of the National Liberation Front and the North Vietnamese forees. Grizzard also traveled to Hanoi in 1968 as part of a three-man National Mobe group invited by the North Vletn~ese to participate in the release of three captured A~erican ptlots.173

The pr0g7at1 announced after the Chicago conference of' ~larch 22-24 was niteratcd in an August ma.iling fiOl!l the Y.obe's Lfev York national office, follow­ing a July 20 Cleveland meeting of the Mobilization's administrative committee:

OUr activities will be issue oriented a."ld will not focus (Xl candidates. We will call for an end to the bombing (so that negotiations can take place) and f or American mili­tary withdrawal - frcm Vietnam and the black con:mwtities. We will call for self' determination in Vietnam and in the black and other poor cO'!lOUnities.

This letter announced that there was already a staff of 25 persons in Chicago preparing for the proj ected massive demonstrations. This staff vas led by proj ect directors Rennie DaVis and Tcm Jiayden "and is greatly aided by the Chicago Peace Council which is actively cc::cmitted to the program. " The letter was signed by Dave Dellinger, chaircaa of the Ilational !-!Obilization CO!!I!dttee, ,and Robert Greenblatt, V.obe ' s national coordinator, about whom the following document, written to a lJorth Vietnamese official, is of interest :174

JUDe 4, 1968

Dear Col. Lao;

This note is t o introduce you to i-tr'. Robert Greenblatt, the coor dinator of the t/ational Y.obilizatioa to End the ilar in Vietnam. He wor:ts cl osely with mysell and Dave Dell~er, and bas j ust returned f'ro=1 Hanoi.

If there are any pressing questions you -wish to discuss, Mr. Greenblatt will be in Paris for a few days .

We hope that the current Paris discussions go well for you. The nevs f'ra:! South Vietnam seems very good indeed.

We hope to see you this SU!!lJDer in Pari.! or at a later time.

'jood rcrtWl.e~ Victory~

Tom ?.ayden

en August 4, 1968, another meeting of the National Mobe administrative cOl!lldttee vas held in Chicago. Cha1~ Qf the session was David Dellinger . others present at the meeting included : 7;

(1) TcQ B1c:~ler, Radical. organizing COI!:IIlittee;176 (2) Irving Beinin, Guardian; (3) Richard D. conrid. Radic&l Organizing Corrmfttee;lT7 (4) Rennie Davis, Natioo.al ~:Obe; (5) Dave Dellinger, national M::)be; (6) Ted Dostal, "'orkers t·Jorld party;l'78 (7) Helen Gurewitz, Washington !~bilization for Peace r~~entative

and identified meaber of tbe COOEUDist Party, U.S.A.; (8) Richard Hill, Studeat I/.obillzat1on CcmmJ.ttee, S'.JP; (9) Bob Greenblatt, Nation&! Mobe;