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BULLETIN STUDENTS FOR A SEPTEMBER 1964 VOLCNOI DEMOCRATIC

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In what may prove to be the key to building GOLDV/ATERISM a realigned and revitalized Democratic Party, the Mississippi Council of Federate AND HOW IT GREW- Organizations (COFO) is sponsoring a po­ By JIM WILLIAMS litical challenge to institutionalized racism. The challenge takes the form of The Goldwater phenomenon continues its the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, spread across the American body politic, an interracial group which, primarily causing increasing concern for American under the leadership of SNCC, is sending liberals, radicals and decent people gen­ an integrated delegation to the Democratic erally. In every community, new strength National Convention this year to challenge is being shown by the Goldwater forces. the seating of the lily-white official slate of delegates. Since the San Francisco convention the following events have taken place: This is but one part of a three-pronged , political attack that marks this year's • (1) Public sentiment is obviously swinging "Freedom Summer." The voter registration toward Goldwater at an unpredicted rate. Before the convention the polls (Lou. Har­ (continued on page i;) ris, et.al.) showed Goldwater with only 20$ of the public behind him whereas John­ son had the support of about 73$ of the Sumner BULLETIN Editor: STEVE SLANER, nation. In the very short space of three who is responsible for unsigned articles. weeks after the convention, a similar Signed articles do not necessarily reflect poll showed that Goldwater's support had the opinion of SDS as an organization. jumped to 39$'. Obviously, much of this was based on pure-and-simple party loyal­ — inside — ties and the Republican bureaucracy — but ERAP Director's Report ,., pp. 2- note that'at this point his support had ERAP Project Reports pp. 5- doubled. Goldwater has also made terrific Civil Rights News p. ] gains in the South winch are still hard to SPU Convention pp. 12- estimate simply because of the immensity Intellectuals in Retreat pp. 13- of his effect. The abdication of George Community Organizing pp. 15- Wallace from the race has boosted Nat'l Secretary's Report p. " Chapter Reports p. j (continued on page 20) AuH20 Jump pp. 20- By RENNIE DAVIS, ERAP Director than two months have been impressive and generally encouraging to those who now The first phase of the SDS program to or­ dedicate themselves to organizing a new, ganize ten communities around economic and powerful constituency among the American social issues is nearly over. There is poor. But in this short time we have less than a month before a sizeable por­ Joae __i appreciate much better what we tion of the nearly 150 ERAP fi_ld staff are up against, to see the enormous bar­ leave their project areas. As this crucial riers and to understand the heed for summer railroads to an end, all of us, still better anlysis, strategy and pro­ wherever we stand in relation to our com­ gram. munity action program, need to begin the hard task of evaluating the ERAP organizing Probably ell of the ERAP community work­ effort. ers have developed a deeper sense of the extreme slowness of building permanent It is important, I think, that the evalua­ community organization on a program of tion be centered around common questions fundamental change. Todd Gitlin talks and central issues and not become two (or of the enormous time consumed in Chicago more) debates unrelated to each other, developing neighborhood associations of carried on, on the one hand, by those who unemployed. Scores of unemployed are spent the summer-in.;community work and, talked with in the JOIN office adjacent on the other, by those who did not. The to a large Chicago unemployment compen­ evaluation of ERAP should engage the en­ sation center. An organizer can spend tire organization as much as possible at two or more hours with a single individ­ the same level. ual. Through hundreds of conversations, slowly, clusters of unemployed contacts Hardest of all to answer is the question: are made and identified on city maps. Did the projects succeed? was the enormous One person in a large unemployment area expenditure in human and material resour­ is approached about having a meeting: ces worth it? The difficulty lies in agree­ he agrees, but hasn't the time to contact ment as to what would constitute "success." neighbors. So the JOIN worker calls No project succeeded in giving life to every nearby unemployed by phone or sees our slogan, "an interracial movement of them in person. Thirty people are con­ the poor," and certainly none "organized tacted; eight turn out. One is a ra­ a community." cist, but his arguments get put down by the group. One (maybe) is willing to The projects did succeed, however, in de­ work and has some sense of what needs veloping scores of viable block organiza­ to be done. The others go round and tions around economic (particularly hous­ round on their personal troubles. The ing) issues. They did demonstrate that process is slow, particularly when there college students could organize in poor is no visible example of what unemployed Negro and white areas. In virtually every people can do to create pressure for job% area, solid and substantial contacts were made in the community. A base for contin­ On the other hand, one often gets a ; uing the initial program with the partici­ sense that the potential for a militant pation of local people was laid. Dozens community grouping exists in the tender, of small victories could be counted: lib­ beginnings of a neighborhood tenants' erating congested streets for community council, block organization or organi­ play areas; getting people who were drop­ zation of welfare mothers. In Cleveland ped from the welfare lists back on; for­ (near West Side) where a recently-formed cing unemployment compensation offices to neighborhood group donated food to a come through with overdue checks. mother who had lost her son in a summer drowning, poor white people are discov­ The accomplishments of_a period of less ering for the first time in their lives

- 2 - 1 n! yJ r n jJU C the community they live in — that it can be to demand an end to income differen­ act collectively, that it shares common tials and to call for redistribution of problems, and that something should be power and new concepts of public control done about them. over the economy. Should our strategy be to "take power" in a local community In Hazard one gets the same sense: that by building our support in Negro and people are seeing new possibilities be­ white communities around a series of im­ cause they are meeting and talking. Among mediate, conscious issues (bad schools, in the hollor organizations that have devel­ adequate housing and recreational facil­ oped this summer, there is utter disgust ities, no housing, etc.)? Should our aim with the way school funds are administer­ be to establish small "islands" of power ed, particularly those for the school (a Congressional district, a city, a town' lunch program. It would appear that only with a base of radicals to serve as a a few steps need be taken before the Haz­ symbol or an example for others? Should ard community would mobilize to vote out our strategy be more modest — simply to three (among the five) school members up test organizing techniques, to gain ex­ for re-election in November. perience and knowledge before finalizing any long-term strategy at all? But those few steps can meet enormous re­ sistance from a threatened power group. The list could be extended at length. Already, supporters of the school board And it should be. Practical questions of are attending the hollor meetings on strategy are being explicitly raised by better schools, intimidating the partici­ the summer ERAP work and must not be back­ pants and disrupting the sessions. Since ed away from now. most of the people attending the meeting are on welfare, they fear any controver­ This is not to say that we should ignore sial action, particularly if it looks the closely connected issues of program like it could fail, because of the real or goals (the "strategy for what" ques­ possibility of being dropped from welfare. tion) . The summer has pointed up numer­ ous gaps in analysis and programmatic de­ From these and related experiences, major tail which need filling. In particularj problem areas are emerging. One central I think, the summer has shown that we concern, hoever, has come to dominate the need solid information on the political discussions of those who organized this economy, the organizations and the tra­ summer, and should now dominate debate ditions of the communities where we work; in the organization. The"issue is "stra­ more subtle insights into the real maneu­ tegy." What do we do to prevent or with­ vering of the power structure; proposals stand city-wide smear campaigns? With that movements can adopt as programmatic what people are we most interested in demands; and a constant stream of expo­ working, and around what issues? What sure in leaflets, pamphlets, articles is the immediate political unit (city, and broadcasts. congressional unit, state) on which we should focus? Only some of this work can be done by the actual full-time organizers and the In my view, the primary considerations at people of the community. Much needs to this time should be those of political be done by students, teachers, union re­ strategy. SDS needs more discussion and search staffs, newspapermen and any otherc decision on methods for radicalizing and whose professional activity complements changing communities. Should our approach our program. Not only will this create a be to organize around a single "radical" bank of information, but it will also issue, like unemployment — an issue, in broaden the base of our movement by forg­ other words, that has many sides? Some ing meaningful links between community argue that to demand full employment may organizers and allies in mainstream insti-

- 5 - two (Michigan and California) include sup­ port of the Freedom Democratic delegation in their resolutions. According to some press reports, President Johnson recently tutions. From this can come insurgence not made a deal with the Governor of Mississip­ only against poverty but against the afflu­ pi, Paul B. Johnson, to the effect that ence and decadence v/hich permits it — not the official Mississippi party would send only movements from the ghetto but from all a delegation pledged to support Johnson at those who are denied control over their the Convention which would be seated in ,/ork and living conditions. return for stopping plans to run a slate of unpledged electors in November, thus In addition to this "strategic" and more forcing the President to run as an Inde­ Immediate task, we must stress the pro­ pendent in Mississippi. found importance of broader studies of the ;ritical trends affecting our political It is not clear whether Johnson will ac­ economy: monopoly concentration; vast dif­ tually oppose ousting the Mississippi ra­ ferences in income and opportunities; the cists from the National Convention, which placing of private greed over public needs; begins August 2. in Atlantic.City, N. J. the relation of automation to our tradi­ But reliable reports indicate that pres- . tional productive system; the future of the sure is coming from the White House on the Labor and consumers' movements; the charac­ state delegations which have already pled­ ter of poverty and deprivation; -he func­ ged themselves to fight the racists at the tion of the defense economy; alternative Convention. nodels of planning and democratic control, iore than anything, the summer has shown It appears likely that, whatever the out­ that it is , time for a popular revival of come of the Mississippi challenge, the hard thinking on these kinds of strategic Alabama delegation, which is supporting an and programmatic issues. unpledged slate of electors, will be ex­ pelled. This is in retaliation for Ala­ bama's Governor Wallace's earlier indepen­ dent presidential candidacy which collapsed in the face of overwhelming Southern sup­ port for Goldwater. (continued from page 1) campaign is aimed at registering 300,000 As of this-writing, C0R_fand'SNCC have'an­ disenfranchised Negroes in an unofficial nounced sponsorship'of a demonstration out­ "Freedom Registration"; they will then be side the Democratic"National'Convention in eligible to vote in the Freedom Democratic Support of the Freedom Democratic Party's Party convention and in the mock November right to be seated. The demonstration; which is to beheld the evening of August election which sees Four Freedom candidates : opposing Senator Stennis and Congressmen gg, is expected to focus public attentionh Whitten, Colmer and Williams, all estab­ on the moral and political*issues'involved7 lished racists.

• •••••> •• -—. "- •• •"••,. «_.••• Mv •' ,^y_"ri • •4ie Freedom Democratic Party was estab­ lished at a Jackson meeting on April 26th, The War-Resi'-ters League and'the Committed at which 300 delegates elected a party for Non-Violent Action,' among other organi­ executive committee. All efforts have zations, are sponsoring a demonstration out­ been made to comply with all state laws side the Democratic Convention the evening which apply to the formation of political of August 25 attacking the "dirty war" in parties, and their activities will paral­ South Vietnam and calling for the withdrawal lel those of the official Mississippi Dem­ of U. S. troops from that area. The demon­ ocratic Party, thus laying the groundwork stration will take the form of a vigil, em­ for a legal challenge of the political phasizing the shame and horror felt by the basis of the Mississippi power system. participants at U. S. policy in Southeast Asia, and comparing our situation to that As of this writing, nine state delegations of the French in Algeria. There will prob­ have passed resolutions opposing the seat­ ably be buses leaving from N_C at an ap­ ing of the racist delegation, although only proximate cost of $U.OO round trip. - u - /^ C^C\ /)0 /7-y /_ r,n?j

Q circumstances was one for decent low-cost public housing. People- whose house will By SCOTT SPENCER or should be condemned do not, by and largo, have places to move to. In certain It has become undeniable, for all those areas, Project 70 will start in within a who may have been skeptical before, that year and whole neighborhoods will be dis­ the movement for freedom in Chester, Pen­ located, homeless. So in the past few nsylvania Is not a flash in the pan or weeks, we've been raising demands that the 'seasonal movement, but rather a force city take responsibility for people who for social protest that will be the main have no place to live and that they meet — determinant of Chester's political and this responsibility by building public social life for the next years. Although housing. This is a good issue ou v/hich to it has been several months since Stanley organize. It is clerr, to the point, and Branche and the Committee for Freedom obviously justified. There IS"-good reason Now hold the mass demonstration that led to believe that the city also understands to hundreds of arrests, the Negro commun­ the value of this demand since a few days ity in Chester is still very much aware after petitions were being circulated'de­ of the freedom movement and, in almost manding public h 'using, the newspaper car^ all cases, thoroughly sympathetic with it. ried a headline story announcing plans to build a public, low-cost high-rise for peo Our main focus is still on block organi­ pie over 62 years. It was a sop, and a zation. (See July issue of SDS Bulletin). sop of a city justifiably frightened by Significantly, however, there has been a the potential of a real and vital movement shifting emphasis in regards to the why o for better housing. of block organizati n. When this quest­ ion was discussed during the winter and at the beginning of the project, it was All this is not to say that the ideaof a taken as a given that cur primary objec­ rent-strike has been abandoned. Some of tive was to work towards a rent-strike. the block organizations arc still think­ The CFFN had come out for rent-striking ing in these terms, some will think in . but it xtfas fairly unorganized and very these terms in the future. The blocks als sporadic, and we thought one of the most also devote time to social welfare moves a valuable things we could do was to work as a method of organizing people, like the for a rent-strike that had the support tearing down of a rotted house, ths block­ and active participation of the community. ing eff of a street so it can bd used as But as we worked in setting up block or­ a playgr3und, demanding stop-signs etc. ganization, and after vie talked about problems with the people here, it became Although our work with blocks demands a apparent that much more than a rent- high level of committment and r ctivity,... nt A strike was needed to secure decent hous­ we do do other things in Chester. We re­ ing in Chester. cently two children's marches to city hall demanding a swimming pool on the Negro The problem of housing here has two fo­ side of town. As it stands now there is cal points. On the one hand there are no place for the Negro kids to swim ex­ hundreds of families that live in houses cept the white YMCA, where they are- allow­ that should have been condemned and le­ ed only 1 hour a week, and the Delaware veled years ago. Secondly, there are River, where three or four drown in that plans for a great deal of urban renex-il dirty water every summer. We organized ..and for "Project 70," a state-wide pro­ the kids by playing guitars in the play­ ject that will clear neighborhoods in fa­ grounds and the housing projects and then vor of parks and parking lots. The pro,- : let them fun the show from there. They gramatic demand that naturally flowed literally took over City Hall when they from the consideration of those objective went dox_i, and, as it looks c&od.ay, they - 5 - had a great deal of success. The city is management of the housing project or the promising to open up the IM and YWCA for welfare department so great that people swimming every day for the rest of the will be afraid to confront these institu­ summer and to have a pool ready for the tions? Will the isolation and distrust beginning of next summer. created by the system be too great for • people to be able to form an organiza­ Work still continues on voter registra­ tion and cooperate on some project? Or tion. There has been a steady and vigor- will the organization itself — a tenant- I our campaign against the infamous machine council or a groups of welfare mothers or . of John McClure; if it were called for unemployed men — destroy this dependency a voice vote tomorrow, McClure would be and isolation enough just by providing dislodged. But rs long as thousands shy opportunities for the people within to away from the polls (there is a logic to take leadership and face and fight the this, however, since many have been per­ institutions which control their lives? , secuted for voting Democratic in Chester) there will be no hope for unseating the Tactically, these questions have becomeh machine. Although many of the activists critical ones in the housing project. in the freedom movement look at the Coun­ Groups which enthusiastically came to­ ty Democrats with a good measure of skep­ gether for the first or second time were ticism, we have been working in coopera­ suddenly confronted by the management, '' tion with the Democratic Party and, as The recreation director of the project yet, they have given us facilities without sat in on meetings md cast doubt upon the overtly trying to change the pol tical CCP: "Who are your superiors?" "What nautre of the registration campaign. right do you have to use these communist tactics?" (printing a leaflet). Are the The CFFN is talcing to the streets again. tenants' groups going to be strong enough Picketing of slumlords is going on every to withstand this threat of management dgy. There are mass street corner rallys disapproval? Is it best to avoid con­ that attract three hundred people and are flict for the time being and build as a growing. A boycott of Scott Paper is be­ neighborhood improvement organization of ing discussed because it has been charged sorts, or is it better to confront the that "cott is guilty of unfair hiring management immediately and hope that the practices. Mass marches are planned for personal rapport built up with the tenants the next two weeks. So, with the combin­ \dllhold them to our side?, ation of grass roots community organiza­ tion and the flare of mass street demon­ In the case of welfare, we are not so im­ strations, it is clear that the movement mediately faced with this problem. We in Chester is rising up to meet not only will not become a visible threat to any­ this long hot summer but all the cold, one until we start leafletting the food- cold >iinters ahead. stamp office, and maybe not until we pi­ cket the welfare department. Even then, it may be that the x.elfare department will be more sympathetic to our demands EVELAND than the housing authority will be to de­ By JOAN BRADBURY mands of a tenants' council. Nevertheless, we are forced to deal with the problems of In the last Bulletin, Nanci Hollander de­ dependency and isolation in both short and scribed the kind oT~neighborhood we are long-range program development. Some kindd working in and some of the problems in­ of LDP (leadership development program) herent in it — the dependency and isola­ must be built unto our work with the wel­ tion of the people on welfare and within fare mothers' group. Initiative must be public housing projects. Both of these developed, isolation dissolved. Even be­ factors become critical in the process of fore the first meeting, there were posi­ organization. Ia the dependency upon the tive signs in this direction. A woman, - 6 4 CONT'D]

whom we thought we had not reached when welfare mothers' group? Will we be able we visited her home called up the next to interest men in an organization led by night raging about the welfare system women? ("What do they think we are ... wated Americans?") and announced she was bring­ But it is not only in the short range that ing a list of nine questions to the meet­ dependency and isolation enter Into consi­ ing to be discussed and that we would deration of organizing around welfare make sure there were enough copies for issues. Essentially thesf two factors everyone. are products of the welfare syst_m as it now exists. What might this mean in At the first meeting, a high-pitched terms of long-term considerations? First, gripe sessin on sever. Is levels, it it makes us question the desirability of was decided that we would divide into the welfare state notion. Do we rally three smaller groups for the week to find want to expand public housing projects? out about issues in three ? reas of pos­ Do we want to have bigger and better wel­ sible future action: (1) clothing (2 ) fare benefits covering more and more foodstamps (3) allowing mothers to work peop__? Secondly, it makes us think of part-time without getting cuts in their possible ways of altering the welfare sys checks. Each of us was to work with one tern, altering it enough so it -Tight not of these groups. So far, LDP looks good. produce the dependency and isolation so The mothers have been willing to spend evident today. Suppose, for instance, that time in small meetings talking. The food- benefits xrere really adequate; then wel­ stamp group raet first to talk about what fare recipients would not be forced into questions should be asked of the food- isolation. Incorae would be high enough stamp official, questions about the ex­ to afford transportation and recreation clusion of certain items such as cleaning and. entertainment of friends in the home supolies and questions about who had the (and with this government subsidy of power and the money to open another of­ transport and the arts would begin). Some fice, or to keep the present ones open of the dependency could be broken down if longer on crowded clays of the month. Then mothers were allowed the chance to work if they met again to visit the official and they wanted. Suppose then that the program talked afterward about the runaround he were designed to leave this opportunity o had given us and what possible action open. Job training programs could be set might be taken. The clothing group drew up, child care provided, and maybe even a up a list of minimum clothing needs for severence pay for leaving the relief each age and se_ for school, and this was roles, as an extra something to get going on the inspiration of one of the mothers. on. But this latter suggestion does not Initiative has really been taken in the deal with those still on the- relief roles field o£ recruitment. One mother made up £of which the.ee may be ever-increasing a list of about 15 people on welfare and numbers) These mothers should be recei­ has volunteered twice to go around to ving adequate amounts, but it should not visit these people with us. Another woman be in the form of a dole, but rather as planned a whole day of recruitment activi­ an income for geing mothers (remember., ty for herself and one of us. And another nothing besides the FBI is so sacred as took one of us to the Spanish Mission. American Motherhood) This income could not be cut without due process; and it The whole LD? process raises questions co'ld not be allowed to fluctuate dt the of its own. We are gromming certain for whim of the worker or the whim of the future leadership — Are they the best government when it decides roads are more ones? Are we run '.ing the risk of cut- important than mothers and children. t ting future numbers b - developing women Children on welfare chould have the same who are for the most part friends of one opportunities as other children. They another and belonged to the previous dhould be able to keep what money they - 7 - ERAP[CONT'D]... want and not have it deducted from their this period the judge soundly repriman­ mother's check or from the family rent in ded the FBI chief for the conduct of his a housing project. There should be a tr men. trust fund s et up for any child's educa­ tion, college or trade school. The four men who were found guilty had been coerced into signing confessions at Do these tentative visions significan­ the time of their arrest one year agoi The tly alter the basic welfare set-up? Do judge ruled that the confessions xrere ads* they alter it enough so as to exclude the missible as evidence ~ hence the jurat's dependency, the isolation, the insecurity, guilty verdict. Huff and Combs had not the degradation, the hopelessness that is signed confessions and the jury could find built into the present welfare system? I no evidence upon which to convict them. In a ny case, it is clear that these char­ Berman Gibson had been cited by the pros­ acteristics, which almost define the po­ ecution as the leader of the conspiracy. verty group in our community, have signi­ There was no real evidence against him, ficantly affected our choice of areas of and the jury was unable to reach a ver­ concentration this summer and also the dict. A hung jury in Berman's case means tactics of organizing and long range goals that there must be a retrial. We are not for these areas. positive at this time whether or not the government willchose to go into the entire process of bringing Berman's case before another jury. If the case is tried, it HAZA RD means that we will once again be involved By ARTHUR CORSON in complicated lower court litigation on Berman1s behalf. Our lawyers feel that . The Federal trial of unemployed Hazard, a very strong trial record has been made. Kentucky miners ended last Thursday in It is felt that when the case is taken to Lexington Kentucky. The trial on charges an appeal court and the transcript is of conspiracy to dynamite a railroad scrutinized, the only possible verdict on bridge had begun July 13. The verdicts points of law will be not guilty. of the jury were as follows: Hot guilty — Combs and Huff After the trial, Berman Gibson said, " Guilty — Hensley, Stacy, Turner, Engel They found all these men guilty 'cause Hung Jury — (No verdict) Berman Gibson they w£re out to stop our movement. When they re-try me, they'll work even harder The charges dealt with conspiracy to plan to put old Gibson behind bars. In Ken­ to dynamite a railroad bridge. The tucky, a man who fights for the rights of bridge is still standing and the defense these people finds all the power of the charged throughout that his was a simple government up against him. Look at the effort to frame these men. The defense facts, and you'd think that no jury in was handled by New York attorneys Paul the world could find us guilty. Those O'Dwyer and I.Philip Sipser, and Pike- who are against us will find that it is ville, Kentucky attorney, Dan Jack Combs. very hard to stoo our movement,'" Paul O'Dwyer handled the cross examinat­ ion and most of the actual trial work. He \ did an outstanding job and overwhelmed the government attorneys. The miners had M the full power of the FBI, state police By WALT POPPER and railroad detectives massed against them. O'Dwyer skillfully exposed many in­ The project staff for the month of Aug­ consistencies and malpractices on the part ust is down to five full-time people and of the FBI agents testifying for the pros about ten part-time workers, high school ecution. At one point in the Trial, the and college students from the area. Work Federal judge called the head of the state continues with the tutorial and with the FBI from Louisville for a special three- Mercer Jackson Tenants' Council in our minute appearance on the stand. During integrated neighborhood. -8 - ERAP REPORTS... We have begun to work on blocks in the eral government would soon feel pressure. all-Negrc South W rd, an urb..n renewal area scheduled for destruction in a year There are severe 1 problems with the plan. or so. All the residents are afraid that Even without government interference, the the city r loc tion pint re incomplete, amount of manpower needed for mass regis­ especially in the area of low-cost public tration is prohibitive. And as soon as housing. Block groups are acting as a the city officials realized the plan, they pressure group for better housing and would find legal-technical obstacles — lower r.nt in the city as veil as demand­ interviews, inspection of present housing ing th t the city build playgrounds in the conditions, etc. But most importent, a are now, nd cle. r lots and remove gar­ single-issue organization, where the bage. The city, While very liberal, has issue is Utopian or has a long-range been down on us ever since we started solution, has little chance of winning distributing leaflets and organising those small victories which will encour­ block groups. By then they should be age its members and increase its numbers. able to tell the city that the residents of the are refuse to move until each family is reloc ted in satisfactory D housing. E W A \ By CARL BITTMAN The city has stated th. t with a housing project now under construction there will The project is located in the Clinton Hill be sufficient low-cost housing. To deter­ section of Newark's South Ward (one of mine the validity of this argument, we five wards). Upper Clinton Hill is an in­ have undertaken a survey of all the rented terracial middle and working-class resi­ housing units in the city. Through this dential area while the Lower Hill is part survey we will find out how many families of Newark's 200,000-person ghetto. Proj­ h ve applied for public housing, and hew ect work is concentrated in the Lower Hill many want to apply, with the list of po­ v/hich, despite its relatively pleasant tential applicants we may be able to have facade, is rapidly becoming a slum. Most a public housing registration campaign. of the houses are now owned by absentee Housing projects pay for themselves over landlords — sometimes the ex-resident a thirty-year period; the only reason who has moved to the suburbs but more ofte; that there are not enough now in Trenton a realty corporation or slumlord. The is that federal legislation sets a limit density of population has greatly increase on the number the feder 1 government will v/ith the subdivision of apartments and help finance. Most of this program, if the creation of rco; ing heuses. The we decide to continue it at all, will be houses the; selves are deteriorating and an activity of the Princeton chapter next the rents are rising. fall. Blame for these conditions is placed by We hoped, originally, that one would be the remaining whites and some Negro home­ able to start a city-wide organization on owners on the "different kind of people" the issue of more public housing. In poor who have moved into the neighborhood: areas of the city there would be a concen­ dirty, irresponsible people who don't take tration of applicants, and they would be proper care of their children. It is organized on a neighborhood basis. Such cle r, howevei, that the blame belongs block organizations would then become with the system which forces Negroes to multi-issue groups, united on a city-wide leave the South, to enter an urban-indus­ level by the principal issue. The issue trial society where they are unwelcome is an economic, not a social one, and so and vh ee their labor is fast becoming the movement around the issue would be irrelevant because of automation. interracial. Public housing registration would be similar to voter registration in The city of Nev/rk is not unaware of its the South. The list of applicants would problems. By most standards it is a "pro­ increase enormously andthe city and fed­ gressive city." It has probably the earl- - 9 - ECONOMIC RESEARCH 6. ACTION PROJECT iest and one of the largest comprehensive offered by the Youth Unemployment Service urban renewal programs in the nation; being office are unappealing to those who have a depressed area, it has applied for many become so disccuraged th t they have stopp­ of the federal programs to fight unemploy­ ed looking for work. When the agencies ment; its councilmen will, if pushed, deal find a job, more than occasionally it is with citizens' complaints; it has, at city berrypicking at ridiculously low wages. hall, innumerable plans for a "new Newark." Retraini g programs are fitted for employer's But from the streets of the Lower Hill the needs and are totally inadequate. Skills City's plans look more like a fraud than such as construction are awarded to all- anything else. white unions,

The urban renewal program has removed much Until this spring, the only local organiz­ of the slum area of the center-city. It ation concerned v/ith these problems was has built high-rise housing projects v/hich the Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council. instructure, design and administreetion, Formed 9 years aro, this neighborhood im­ are inappropriate to the needs of the peop­ provement association has fought the city le living in them. They haeve, in fact, do on the blight declaration, the decline of done little more than institutionalize the services, and the multitude of injustices already existing poverty. The people who done to residents. They, in cooperation were displaced by the slum removal prog­ v/ith a group of labor, professional and ram moved, for the most part, to the South civic leaders who formed the Newark Commi- Ward where, on arriving, they were told tee on Full Employment, invited our proj­ that their new home, lower Clinton Hill, ect into Clinton Hill. The staff of 13 was a blighted area and that they were to students and gr duates work in coordination be replaced by light industry and middle v/ith the local groups and the National income housing. That the area was becom­ Committee on Full Employment research ing blighted was assured by the de facto staff to lay the base for a community cessation of city services. movement which will speak to the problems of Newark. Street cleaning slowed down, as did garbage removal. Deterioration of housing was Laying the base for such a community move­ accompanied by a decrease in housing ins­ ment , as we see it, involves the formation pection. Remains from burnt housing stand of as many block groups as possible in for years. Schools have remained the same the area, th development of leadership size despite a phenomenal increase in withing th se groups, the education of • school-age population. These factors as the people on the block as to the real cau­ well as increasing taxes served to drive ses of their condition and the way in middle-class and well-off working-class which they may deal most effectively families into the suburbs. As a result, with them, and the eventual federation of Clinton Hill rapidly took on the aspects of all the block groups within the Clinton the ghetto: concentrations of low income Hill Neighborhood Council. The block org­ families, ADC mothers, inadequate welfare anizations all begin wit a discussion payments, slumlord housing with high rents about and action on issues important at and no services, band and de facto segreg­ the block level. Eventually they develop ated schools and unemployment. to a discussion of major issues, such as employment, job security, housing, etc. The inadequacy of the City'c solutions to At the present time we are working on its problems is further shown by the pro­ about twelve blochs, each of v/hich is in grams of the Youth Unemployment Service a different stage of development. From office in the area. The city optimistic­ each group a minimum of two people have ally states th. t only 6% of the high school shown either leadership or unusual inter­ graduates from 1962-63 are not in college, est in activity and are beginning to adopt the army or on the gob. However, indep­ our analysis. Some of the more material endent estimates of youth unemployment gains that have been made heve been: a range upwards of 30_, and for Negro fem­ play-ctreet, welfare checks for several .. ales easily double that figure. Programs women who had hitherto been denied them, better tree pruning, garbage removal, a - 10 - REPORl S/CONCL UDED] little more fair treatment by the cops, ice of the Mississippi Summer Project, ruined houses demolished, liquor store 708 Avenue N, Greenwood, M.ssissippi. kept out of the neighborhood, housing inspection, etc. In addition three James Forman, Executive Dir ector of the apartment houses went on rent strike at Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the beginning of this month, v/hich is (SNCC), has endorsed the SAFE drive, emph­ particularly significant in light of the asizing the need for. students' cooperation fact that there is no r~nt control in in support cf the Mississippi Summer Newark. If the present trend in block Project, groups continues, it looks as though a community-wide program for better hous­ T" ing inspection and repairs may develop in the very ne_r future. Such a program V would probably involve block-by-block The following article is reprinted from action '..hereby a. block v/ould be surveyed the NEWSMAN'- GADFLY, a monthly publica­ for code violations, v/ith the leadership tion edited by Walter Gormly — P. 0. of that block group coordinating the eff­ Box 26, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 5231^: orts of all of the block groups, working as a v/hole, to demand better service from News stories on racial discrimination landlords and the city. demonstrations v/ithin the grounds of the World's Fair in New York City on opening day left me v/ith a feeling of bewilder­ STUDENTS A.!D QJAUT>1 ment as to what they were all about. / r James Farmer and Bayard Rustin were arr The Student Governments at the University rested for demonstrating at the New York of Chicago, Roosevelt University and stud­ City pavillion, but I didn't understand ents at Shimer College h. ve created a why they demonstrated there. I didn't new group called SAFE (Student Aid For know what the objective of their demon­ Eque iity) to raise funds to aid the Miss­ stration was. issippi Summer Project, j Two days later, Mr. Rustin got off a plane SAFE will send letters to all students at in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a radio and TV the three schools asking for one day's newsman tape recorded an interview for summer earnings. The object of thedrive is broadcast. I heard Mr. Rustin say . . . to enable those students who are not in that they demonstrated at the NYC pavil­ Mississippi this summer but v/ish they lion because the Mayor of New York had were to contribute directly to 'the Missi­ taken no action on a number of issues. He ssippi Project. went on to tick off the specific points of inaction on the part of the Mayor that Letters will also be mailed to student prompted their protest. I have not seen body presidents and student newspaper ed­ those specific points listed in any of the itors across the country in an effort to newspapers I read. spread the drive to other campuses. For those students on campus at the three His explanation made their demonstration schools, booths will be set up at which understandable. His explanation put a students can either contribute on the definite connection between the purpose, spot or obtain a coupon to send v/ith - . the locale and the demonstration. The their donation. nev/s reports had withheld the specific purpose of the demonstration. All money collected will go tov/ard paying for books, supplies, lunches, gas, tele­ If a news report tells about a protest phones, bail m ney and subsistence sala­ demonstration and gives little or no rea­ ries for field workers. All contributors son for the protest, that half-truth (if will be asked to send their money direct­ that half is true) leads people to believe ly to Mississippi - to he Greenwood Off­ the protesters are irresponsible, irratio: ice of the Mississippi Summer Project, creatures that cause trouble for the sake 708 Avenue If, Greenwood, M ssissippi. - 11 '-- of causing trouble. N PU CONVENTION \| s \ By CHARLES HOOK less to fighting the Bomb. The struggle for Negro equality and against unemploy­ A motion was passed at the recent Student ment has the important advantage of deal­ Peace Union Convention calling for dissolu­ ing with more tangible issues than cur­ tion of the organization and the creation rently affect the daily lives of a large of a Student Peace Coordinating Committee number of Americans; and since the country in its place. Since the war system has not has recently become considerably more aware disappeared, since the threat of megadeath of these problems, it seems possible to in­ remains and no adequate machinery for re­ volve more people and achieve more tangible solving international disputes by reason­ results. ably sane and civilized methods has yet been developed, it is appropriate to ask The changes within the international and why the convention acted as it did. national political climate have been re­ flected within SPU as reduced activity in The convention was held from June l8 to 21 many chapters, a drop in membership and a at SPU headquaters in Chicago; it was at­ decrease in available funds. The SPU, tended by about 35 delegates and a number since it has always been a student organ­ of observers. The first sessions consider­ ization with no direct connection with the ed the political aspects of poverty and adult peace movement and therefore no di­ Civil rights as they related to peace. The rect financial support, has always had motion to dissolve, which was to take up difficulty financing the staff and pro­ most of the remaining convention time, was jects of its national office. Last year, introduced by Mike Parker, one' of the orig­ approximately half the N.O. funds came inal organizers of SPU. The basic polari­ from non-members and the N.O. accumulated zation that emerged in the ensuing debate a substantial debt, an important factor Was between those who favored a new form in the final convention decision. Further­ of organization to meet changed circum­ more, since the active members of the Uni­ stances and thus supported the motion to versity of Chicago SPU had all left campus dissolve, and those who thought SPU had a work for work in the N.0., the problem of vital role to play and ought to continue staffing the N.O. assumed a crucial import­ on the reduced scale circumstances necessi­ ance over and above its financing. tated. The latter position was primarily supported by delegates from the most active local chapters. The motion to dissolve What lessons can those students concerned was twice defeated and twice reconsidered, with peace learn from the convention de­ finally passing on the last day of the con­ cision to dissolve? Here, of necessity, vention when new facts on the availability one enters the realm of speculation. First, of a national office staff came to light. since a minimal detente does exist no mat­ ter how one may assess its extent or per­ manency, the peace movement must seek to In considering the reasons for the final link its appeal for a reduction of tensions decision, it is important to distinguish the external conditions from the situation and armaments with constructive proposals within SPU. In the international sphere, for creating permanent international ma­ the establishment of the "hot line" phone, chinery to insure peace by something more the cutback of fissionable materials stock­ substantial than the fickle good will of piling, and the general improvement of re­ sovereign nations vying for power in a lations between the U.S. and USSR have cold war. To many, this means the strength­ been vewed by many as sufficiently reducing ening of the U. N. by the abolition of the the immediate threat of war to make the Security Council veto and undemocratic, peace issue a less pressing concern. With­ unrealistic voting structure in the Gen­ in the United States itself, the emergence eral Assembly, and the creation of a per­ of a vital civil rights struggle has manent police force, coupled with general caused many politically committed people and complete disarmament. Secondly, just on campus to direct more of their energies as the civil rights movement is forcefully to combatting racism and, consequently, learning the connection between Negro - 12 - STUDENT-PEACE UNION...

T» equality and job opportunity and thus the larger issue of poverty, so the peace move­ intellectuals in retreat ment must understand and make public the By RICH HOREVITZ economics of war preparation and disarma­ ment. Third, ways must be developed where­ On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was ar­ by the abstract questions, of war and peace rested for attempting to sit at the front can be related to the actual conditions on of a bus- In the nine years that have campus, much as the sit-in movement related followed this event, America has witnessed the abstraction of discrimination to specif­ the first real political movement in over ic cases; campus action directed against twenty years- This year v/as and will be ROTC, fallout shelter programs, recruiting the high point in the creation of this and the like could serve to make the war movement. With the Mississippi Summer machine more visible in the community while Project, the challenge of the Mississippi providing concrete channels for dissent. Freedom Democratic Party, the ERAP-SDS Fourth, any student movement without a summer projects, the revival of a peace parent organization must realize that it movement, and the ability to challenge is essentially campus-based and act accord­ the nation's right-wing forces in the No­ ingly so as to prevent embarassment with vember election, the basis for a sustained problems of finances and staff. political movement has been created.

The ultimate fate of SPU is as yet undeci­ Throughout the history of this movement ded, and probably will not be decided for students from across the country have another month or two. If total dissolution played a leading role, and hopefully will should be the final outcome, then the active continue to do so. The possibility of di­ chapters and individuals v/ould probably re- vorcing the intellectuals from a center in affiliate with one of the other peace or­ the 'movement • is a disastrous prospect, ganizations, such as PREP, SANE.UWF or WRL. one which must be prevented. The student Alternatively, a student committee may be intellectual must see himself in a dual established to coordinate the activities role. First, he must continue to be an of the remaining active SPU chapters. It activist, using his time in school as a is even possible that the New York SPU chance to involve himself in the battle Regional Committee may ignore the conven­ which we are fighting; secondly, and this tion decision and assume the responsibility is the point that will be dealt with in of continuing SPU as the new National Of­ this article, he must remember that while fice. Whatever the outcome, suitable re­ being an activist, he must continue to re­ thinking and reorganization could well gard himself as an intellectual. provide the basis for a new growth of peace-centered awareness and action on "Freedom now!" is still the cry raised by campus. civil rights activists across the country. It is a beautiful cry, and it rings in EDITOR'S NOTE: Charles Hook, Vice-Pres. our ears, but what does it mean? For one of Kansas University SPU, was a delegate thing, it no longer just means "public to the last SPU convention and is a member accommodations" laws, or equal job oppor­ of that organization's Steering Committee. tunity. It means the right of all people He is also a member of SDS. to have a job and decent standard of liv­ ing. It means stop v/asting $80 billion a year on the defense-industry complex and IMPORTANT ! start building low-cost public housing, hospitals, schools, urban transportation PLEASE SEND YOUR FALL ADDRESS. TO THE systems, etc., etc. It means real educa­ NATIONAL OFFICE — EVEN IF IT IS THE tion and a life where a man is a man. But SAME AS YOUR SUMMER ADDRESS. THIS still today there is no real plan or idea MUST BE DONE IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE for a decent standard of life beyond the FUTURE ISSUES OF THE BULLETIN AND concept of guaranteed income or jobs — no OTHER SDS MATERIAL. outline of what a society is that makes a man a man. - 13 social hchange

Kj Ah3 \l REIREA It would, of course, be unfair to assume its obligation to attend and function in that there is anything like a complete in­ these retreats. And it is in these re­ tellectual bankruptcy that has failed to treats, if they are carefully planned think of these questions, but they are not with a coherent structure and set of ques­ completely answered. tions to be debated, that both new answers and new leaders are created. It is only The Port Huron Statement and America in in these retreats that the long-range the New Era are, in fact, preliminary at­ perspective for action can be seen in tempts to deal with these problems. But terms of a new and developing ideology. the debate must continue and new answers It is here that SDS prepares to meet the and ideas must be found. The need for future, as program, ideology and new 'such answers is not merely to satisfy the leadership are developed. intellectual curiosity of those of us in­ volved in the movement; it is, in a word, The NO should see its function three ways: the only alternative to being "betrayed" (l) to encourage campus groups to set up by the flexibility of the capitalist sys­ these retreats; (2) to help develop a ser­ tem. The labor movement failed to devel­ ies of questions to be asked, as well as op an ideology and set of demands beyond a scheme for utilizing and coordinating the present, and was "sold out" by high the results of the retreats; (3) to make wages, fringe benefits and job security sure that some of SDS' top "ideologues" (all of which may be lost today with the are sent to each of the retreats. The unchecked and irresponsible grov/th of BULLETIN could be used to coordinate the automation). Will the new movement be discussions emanating from each retreat, sold out by equal!-employment practices, and these discussion papers could then be public housing and a guaranteed income? incorporated into the Flacks Committee for Without new alternatives to demand at the revising ANE. This system, I believe, granting (however token) of each of to­ fulfills the tv/o needs I have been empha­ day's demands, this betrayal is what we .•» sizing throughout this article: the de­ face. velopment and refining of SDS ideology, and the involvement of new SDS people in It is, then, a time for renewal of debate, the important discussions in a way that , a time to reconsider PES and ANE in the the convention certainly does not provide. light of the changes both in America and So, taking a leaf from our community in­ the world since they were written, with volvement, the only way to initiate dis­ the involvement of the new group of student- cussion of this type is to have every in­ intellectuals who have had no experience terested person swamp C. Clark's desk with in ideological thinking before. It is the mail (mark it "personal"). responsibility of the "old guard" to teach the "youngsters" how to think and how to debate questions of ideology. It is also With working capital of „U.l billion, GM their responsibility to refine and update made a gross profit of $1.1 billion in 3 their own ideological thinking. Ideology months. This is at the annual rate of 106^ should not be developed by a Marx but Even net profit, after taxes, is running should be formulated by the group of stu­ better than $0% of working capital — a handsome return, indeed. dent intellectuals who identify with SDS. - . . •

The mechanics of such development must be It is this kind of fantastic profit-making clearly outlined. First, meetings should that enabled GM last year to give 1U,000 oi be set up by campus or regional campus its executives bonuses totaling $100 ndllici groups in the form of retreats. In addi­ But the share-the-wealth plan of industry :' * tion to campus leaders and other interested highly restrictive. The average factory SDS people from the campus, the national worker's earnings show only a modest gain c^. leadership should be invited, and see as S-3% over the corresponding period last yet' (Progressive, June I96i|) - 1. _ MMUN1TY'RJRCANIZINC - A NEW TWIST

By HARVEY GLASSER can be delegated or represented. Thus the problem becomes one of decentralizing po­ We live in a potentially wealthy society. litical and economic life to the point at We seem to have the machines and resources which it is coextensive with a meaningful which would enable us to live human lives human community organized according to the — lives .in which necessary labor is re­ principle of voluntary association and duced to a minimum; in which people are based on the values of freedom, play, able to play, love, create; in which one spontaneity, eroticism, understanding and man's well-being is not purchased at the creativity. price of another man's misery. Yet we have inherited a culture and a mode of po­ For this purpose it seems desirable that litical and economic organization which diverse communities be established in this deny these possibilities. We work and country. These communities could experi­ live in an atmosphere of administration ment in different ways with the creation and manipulation. We inhabit ugly cities of integral community cultures and with and towns. We feel trapped in jobs which new economic forms involving the decen­ are not our own. A deadening mass culture tralization of technology and the reduc­ deforms us. Our natural exuberance, ero­ tion of working time. One group in the ticism and playfulness are confined by re­ USA encouraging the formation of diverse pressive sexual and social mores. We keep types of communities is the School of Li­ our children in tutelage and when they are ving, Rural Route 3, Brookville, Ohio. grown up they do not question. Our old people are lonely and afraid of death. We A PROPOSAL pay for our "comfort" v/ith the sacrifice of the wholeness of our perception, sen­ There is probably no one form of the "id«_l suality, insight; we pay for our "success" community." Any community conceived along by abandoning the quest for wisdom and libertarian lines must reflect the wishes, each man's right to be an artist. attitudes, and beliefs of its members. I would like to invite those who basically A COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVE agree with v/hat has been said to begin a discussion leading to the establishment Is there a way out of this situation? The of a libertarian international community. very productivity of our society makes II hope that from this discussion a group any assertion that it is in need of radi­ of people might emerge who know one ano­ cal transformation seem outrageous. How­ ther and who have worked out together mu­ ever, because of the boredom and stultify­ tually acceptable forms of association. ing job alternatives in our society, there My own ideas about the purposes towards are those who see this need and who search which the community should work and the for a way out. I want to suggest one pos­ values on which it should be based are sibility. clear from what I have said. I would like to begin the discussion on a number of •' Since the shape of the world seems to be other points with a few thoughts, on all indicated by advanced industrial societies of which I would welcome comment and cri­ such as our own, it becomes vitally impor­ ticism. tant to see if an alternative, freer, more human pattern of existence which utilizes My thoughts about location have thus far the benefits of modern technology can be centered on the northeastern U.S. or per­ evolved. Freedom, it seems to me, in­ haps Pennsylvania. I'd like to be on land volves participation in the basic decisions which included arable land, woods, meadows which affect one's life in the context of and streams or lakes. My preferences in a community which presents meaningful architecture are for the use of stone and alternatives, including the possibility wood. I like a lot of Frank Lloyd Wright's of realizing one's human potentialities. ideas about the "natural house." I don't believo that such participation

- 15 - discussion on this problem. This satis­ LIBERTARIAN COMMUNITY... fied me more or less until I received the July BULLETIN in which Messrs. Paul I think that we should aim at providing our Booth and David Smith expressed extreme own food through gardening, dairy-farming, opposition to governmental policy in poultry-raising, etc. After we were fully Indochina. Both evidently felt that they self-supporting, we might begin to'experi­ were expressing the dominant sentiment in ment with the possibilities of integrating some form cf industry or craft into the SDS on this issue. A casual reader could community — maybe to see if a factory can come to no other conclusion than that this be run without hierarchy. was the official SDS policy. After all, was not one the director of PREP and did not the other cite the SDS BULLETIN as I like the way the Quakers decide things one of the main advocates for removal of at their meetings — by getting "the sense of the meeting," I think that it is bet­ U. S. troops? ter to talk until we agree than to oppose a majority will to a minority will. The Of course, the casual reader might take community should be small enough to permit some comfort in David Arnold's paper on this. I hope that the community would show Vietnam, an SDS-PREP product, which seems a continuing concern with the larger socie­ to be highly dubious of an immediate Am­ ty through study and discussion of its erican pull-out. Even so, the paper of­ problems and through political action. fers no clear-cut alternative which is Support of the peace and integration move­ politically viable. Besides, doesn't the ments should be easier for people who can­ near-unanimous prevalence of opinion in not be coerced in their means of livelihood. the BULLETIN for the last seven months more accurately reflect SDS opinion than a little-read policy analysis? Education in the community should be devo­ ted to the liberation of the senses, deep­ ening psychological av/areness, the culti­ I have little background to engage in a - vation of "sensuous reason" and of all discussion on Vietnam, and this concerns forms of creative expression. I like many me less than the curious way opinion and of the ideas and attitudes expressed in policy seem to be molded in SDS without A. S. Neill's Summerhill. any visible majoritarian consensus. How­ ever, I might indicate that I have found much of value in Bernard Fall's authori­ We must fully recognize the difficulty of tative (though pro-French) Tv/o Vietnams our task. In planning the community in and in New Republic editorials and arti­ our discussions we might study the history cles since I960.These have assisted me , of past community attempts and try to in arriving at the conclusion that in a learn from their failures. choice between two evils, intelligently and humanely aiding a benevolent, pater­ The difficulties are formidable but the nalistic , authoritarian government is far possibilities are there. If you are in­ preferable under present circumstances terested in joining the discussion, please to a removal of such aid with a subsequent write to Harvey Glasser, 1 Maple Ave., increase in power of the "National Libera­ Cambridge 39, Massachusetts. tion Front." r FQP, \ EDITOR'S NOTE: Perhaps this is as good a \ \ time as any to note that BULLETIN articles From MYRON SACHS reflect the opinion of the author, and not necessarily the official policy of SDS. Some time ago I inquired whether PREP (and This holds true for articles on ideal BULLETIN) endorsement of the May 2 Vietnam communities (see preceding page) as well demonstrations, and the BULLETIN'S carry­ as material on Southeast Asia. Where ar­ ing a Viet Cong Medical Aid statement, in­ ticles are unsigned, the BULLETIN editor dicated that effective debate on Southeast must be deemed responsible for their in­ Asian policy in SDS had ended. Both Steve clusion. It should be noted that while Max and Don McKelvey hastened to assure me SDS has taken a position opposed to U. S. that SDS had not committed itself on Viet­ policy in Vietnam, it has not supported nam but instead was hoping to initiate the May 2 demonstrations or the Viet Cong Medical Aid Committee. 16 - ^ ~^

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By C. CLARK KISSINGER ars on such topics as University Re­ form, Poverty and Community Organizing, One aspect of our summer community organ­ NSA Reform, Draft and Reconversion, izing project is that more people than ever Northern Unrest in the Ghetto, Goldwater before are debasing on a day-to-day basis and the Parties, the Third World and the the direction of SDS. And much of this de­ Cold War, Christian Social Action, and bate will be given an opportunity for air­ the Mississippi Project. ing and implementation during the conference and National Council meeting scheduled for Finally, now is the time for chapters early September. The three-day conference to be preparing their fall programs. The (exact time and place not set) will be de­ first week of classes is too late. The voted both to an evaluation of our summer National Office will, of course, be con­ program and to planning a fall organizing tacting those chapters already organized program. to give.their fall efforts a little prodding. But it is^the "lost hundreds," In preparation for this conference and the those scattered hundreds of SDS members following NC, a number of persons and com­ who are not in chapters, with whom we are mittees are currently preparing written also concerned. Being a single, isolated programmatic suggestions. The ERAP Com­ member can often be a depressing experi­ mittee, which has met several times during ence. But it doesn't have to be. In ad­ the summer, will share a major burden in dition to working in other student action shaping the fall program, since many of the organizations, the isolated member can community projects will be continuing remedy his situation by signing up his throughout the year. The return of most friends and forming his own chapter — project people to the campuses, however, even if it is only a "paper chapter." provides a real opportunity to carry the At any rate, he can write to us, tell summer experience back to the chapters us what he is doing, tell us what we can and to the campus base. do to help him get things going.

•••--' -y^--'•••iy.i-- Both the Peace Research and Education Pro­ ject and the Political Education Project are formulating written prospectuses of IN KEMORIAM their programs for the school year. The President is preparing a comprehensive fund-raising program. Both the National Secretary and several groups of members are preparing written campus programs for the fall. And I urge all members to join in. Chapters should be debating the is­ sues in preparation for sending their delegates to the NC. Even if you can't make it to National Council meetings and other SDS meetings, you can write us.and MICHAEL SCHWERNER share your thoughts about what sort of programming would be most effective on your own campus. ANDREW GOODMAN

On other fronts, SDS is again participating in the National Student Congress through JAMES CHAN-EY our sponsorship of the Liberal Study Group. In addition to the traditional publication of the Liberal Bulletin and LSG study pa­ pers, we will be sponsoring evening semin­

. 17 - r\ c J K j LOUISVILLE By JIM WILLIAMS products they were boycotting were geared to the student market. Mr. Jack New areas of labor-student friendship are Kadish of the ACWA Union Label Depart­ developing in Louisville as local SDS mem­ ment pointed out that students at Har­ bers help the Amalgamated Clothing Workers vard and Roosevelt Universities had also of America, AFL-CIO, in their boycott helped in the campaign in their cities. against H*I*S apparel. On Saturdays and The stores were to be picketed which'had Mondays SDS'ers man the picket lines out­ signs directed at the student public; side stores which carry the offending pro­ balloons would be passed out to children ducts with signs directed especially at and leaflets to their parents. The rov­ students ("I'm going steady — but not with ing picket line encompassed ten downtown H*I*S," "I'd rather wear burlap than H*I*SJ* stores. Lines ere set for the Saturday and "Louisville Students Support Southern morning and Monday evening rush hours. Workers' Right to Organize," etc.). i i The picketing actually seems to have had Labor-student relations hadn't always been some effect and many young people have so good here. Last spring University foot­ stopped and asked questions about the ball players helped break a strike of line, and why H*I*S was being boycotted. photoengravers by escorting "scabs" across the lines4nd physically assaulting strik­ H*I*S is made by the Henry I. Siegel Co., ers. The Greater Louisville Central Labor which owns seven plants located mostly in Council complained to the University Presi­ the south. Two of these are organized by dent and even passed a resolution to the ACWA and the remaining are unorganized. effect that students were certainly not When the ACWA tried to organize the run­ friends of labor. away plants in Tennessee, the company re­ sorted to the vilest forms of red-baiting, Two winters before, SDS members'had _._» race-baiting and a multitude of unfair approached the Central Council to get labor practices. Although ordered to help for the striking miners in Eastern cease and desist by the National Labor Kentucky and had had no response because Relations Board, H*I*S has not; it con­ the body didn't want to damage its rela­ tinues to disrupt workers' organization. tions with the UMWA. This didn't endear It v/as at this point that the ACWA deci­ the labor movement to progressive students ded that a boycott was necessary — and who were working hard for what they felt all over the country, wherever H*I*S to be labor's interests. products are sold and there is an ACWA local near, you will find an informational However, labor-student relations began to picketing taking place. improve slowly as labor's commitment to civil rights became more outspoken and was Since students are the main buyers of ". - transformed into reality when the State these products, we here in Louisville AFL-CIO affiliated with the Allied Organi­ hope that SDS chapters all over the coun­ zations for Civil Rights in Kentucky. Stu­ try will place cooperation with the ACWA dents began to feel that labor wasn't boycott on their list of projects for the quite as stodgy as they had imagined and summer and the fall. re-examined labor history, taking a longer look at labor's role in American society. It is important that students, and partic­ ularly SDS members, participate in these So when SDS and ERAP members encountered an campaigns. Labor is still the most lib­ ACWA picket line in front of a men's clo­ eral of the mainstream institutions and thing store, they quickly asked if there one of the biggest friends (admitting was any help that they could give. It some bad guys) of the civil rights move­ seemed that there was. The ACWA was very ment. As we continue our work in the glad to have student help because the H*I*S Other America with the unemployed and

- 18 - will appear, Hargis told us, in a future Chapter Reports . . issue of the CHRISTIAN CRUSADE. dispossessed, we will find ourselves de­ The nature of his audience was not red­ pending on the labor movement more and necks. For the most part they were well- more. In a crass, pragmatic sense, the dressed and composed business types of contacts that we can make will be extreme­ - the petty-bourgeois bent. Their ideolo­ ly valuable in the coming years. gy, however, was obviously fascist. Many comments were made about Williams being a Even if this were not so, our values and "Communist," etc. The brother of Congress­ our vision still direct us to support of man M. G. ("Gene") Snyder rushed up to tell the labor movement v/hich transformed Amer­ ica. 'Williams that he could expect a Grand Jury investigation soon. Joan Goldsmith was greeted with the crack "here comes a little Students desiring to join the campaign fortune-teller girl" and the hecklers made locally should write to Jim Williams, no attempt to conceal their anti-semitic 7.4 Heywood Ave., Louisville, Ky., or to feelings. Mr. Jack Kadish, Union Label Dep't, Amal­ gamated Clothing Workers of America, At one point some Goldwater supporters AFL-CIO, 15 Union Square, N. Y. 3, N. Y. counter-picketed the line — which was what we had hoped for — to blur the dis­ tinctions between Hargis and Goldwater. The signs we carried read: "Hargis sup- : ports Goldwater: BOTH oppose Medicare," Monday, July 27, we jointly sponsored a etc. Noticeably absent from the line picket line against Ultra-Rightist leader were members of the local civil rights Rev. Billy James Hargis with the Jefferson movement — even the militant Gandhi County AFL-CIO COPE. Since the Goldwater Corps. All civil rights groups had beeh nomination they have been very receptive invited. It shows that the civil rights to action against the Ultra-Right?, and movement is still way behind the times many new forms of cooperation are devel­ politically and is a real cause for con­ oping here with COPE and the labor move­ cern. ment generally. ^See above report on the H*I*S campaign^/ COPE is now committed to all sorts of action against the right. It marks a About 50 persons picketed Hargis, includ­ new day for labor here. ing 10 from SDS and the rest from the Amalgamted Clothing Workers, the Tobacco Workers International Union, etc. Jerry Thompson, President of Kentucky State WESTE RN COPE; Richard Miller, Secretary-Treasurer of the Greater Louisville Central Labor Council; and Stan Clair of the ACWA Union KENTUCKY By AZLE BECKNER Label Department led the line. We are at present corresponding v/ith the Kentucky ACLU Academic Freedom Committee. Over .00 people attended the Hargis rally They are going to investigate the lack of during which Hargis blasted the Bradens, academic freedom at Western. Jim Williams and Walter Reuther. Hargis called Reuther, a "Communist," a "social­ We have also made up a petition to give ist" and a "Keynesian Marxist." Hargis' to the new editor of the school newspaper main topic was assuring the Ultra-Rightists asking him to establish a Letters to the that they could now operate in the open Editor column and take a stand on issues v/ith impunity since THEIR candidate was in an editorial section of the paper. None running. He pointed out that now Ultras of these have been in past papers, and could count on at least 50% press coverage the Public Relations Department of the from the "left" press. college has acted as censor for any arti­ cles that have appeared in the paper in Hargis took time out to come down to the the past. line and f*--- ;"f'irAs of Williams and Dr. '; nric;'ers. They (Chapter Reports continued on page 2ii) 10 _ GOLDWATER ANALYZED Most state delegations were infiltrated (continued from page 1) by Goldwater supporters and members of the John Birch Society and indicate the Goldwater's chances in the south tremendous­ intensive organizational footwork that ly and it is safe to say that he will Gar­ ry most of the south this November. the right has made within. the party. While Wallace appalled liberals with north­ Mike Munk points out that the Texas and ern gains of, say, 20% of the vote, it is important to realize that Wallace — in California delegations were prime exam­ the south — v/ould have actually won many ples of rightist control. He makes a of the primary elections or would have breakdown of the delegations from these come very close. The transfer of the Wal­ states. The 86-member California lace bloc, is then crucialtfe the south. delegation was headed by William Know- Recent events in the north such as the land, an old China Lobby hand, and was Harlem and Rochester riots will only serve closely assisted by former FBI agent to increase the intensity of the "White and Los Angeles sheriff Peter Pitchess, Backlash" in these states and will help Among the rank and file, according to Goldwater in terms of new cadre and money the New York Times of 23 July were as well as votes. "between twelve and twenty-four" hard­ core reactionaries, including Mrs. Fritz Burns, an avowed Bircher; Walter 2. )Goldv/ater's capture of the Republican Knott, whose Knott Berry Farm bankrolls party machinery and the victory of his manny rightists; Mrs. Patrick Fr v/ley, ideology is complete and is now in a mop- wife of the Schick Corporation executive ping-up process of consolidating. The head who is a backer of Fred Schwarz's southern victory is only the most spectac­ Christian Anti-Communist Crusade. ular. The Wallace forces are setting the About a dozen delegates were wealthy conditions for Goldwater's support and these corporate figures who represent a are alleged to be a) veto over the appoint­ healthy section of California's economy ment of the Attorney General and b) the and about forty-five others v/ho were barring of civil rights leaders from the small business men and professional White House. Even the Negro defection, people. There were no Negroes, Jews, or which was expected, has not been as to­ Mexicans on the delegation despite the tal as was previously thought. (Even in fact that these comprise 25% of Califor­ Louisville, the Negro Republican bureau­ nia's population. cracy is supporting Goldwater.) Other defections, such as that of Javits and Keat­ ing, are deeply significant in terms of In Tex s the Birchers take open credit realignment in NY stele politics — but for capturing the party for the Ultra- their apparent sparsity through the Right. Many former Johnson backers, such rest of the country has not been enough as Robert Kleberg, president of the to indicate a major trend toward realign­ famous King Ranch, now support Goldv/ater's ment in a national sense. treasury. In Kentucky, the Birch Society and its front the United Assoc­ iation of Constitutional Conservatives, Thus, the Republican bureaucracy has rem­ h ve made tremendous strides and captured ained intact in Goldv/ater's hands and the Kentucky delegation. (This is also Goldv/ater has moved to consolidate his indicated in local and state politics, control over it by appointing key right­ the Third District Republican congress­ ists to important positions. It is imp­ ional incumbent, M.G. Snyder, from ortant to note here the contempt with Louisville, being one of the few mem­ which Goldwater has been able to treat bers of Congress to the right of the bureaucracy and the total lack of Goldv/ater, and Louis Nunn, defeated- organizational or ideological concessions gubernatorial candidate also being a to the liberal and moderate elements. The staunch Goldwaterite.) The list of attitude of the larger sections of the Goldv/ater's national contributors is party has been that of going along with also impressive and puts the lie to their defeat; even Scranton, who had cal­ the myth of "Eastern Money" being - led Goldweter a "dangerous" man, capitu­ lated without struggle or whimper. necessary to victory. Oil magnate H. jac]/i

- 20 - Reaction is on the march in America today. How and why it developed is an important GOLDWATER INU?... question for the left. V Porter of Houston, Texas, puts it this THE BASS FOR RUCTION: WHAT IS GOLDWATER'S t way: CONSTITUENCY AND HOW DID IT GET THAT WAY? "Because population and poli V/e have always been aware of a reactionary tical power has shifted, and strand in the thread of American politics because financial power goes and are welli familiar with its history, along v/ith this shift, for the the Know-Nothings, the KKK, and other nati- first time the West and South­ vist movements of the 19th and early 20th west wiH contribute a major centuries and the degeneration of populism share of the candidates' cam­ during this pe iod v/hich hardened into out­ paign funds, and the party will right racism. We're- also familiar with par- not have to depend on Eastern ticul rly 20th century examples, the campaign funds,'" A Bundists, and Coughlinites of the '30's and the Columbians, Mundts and McCarthys that Goldwater's brain trust is also composed of followed them up to the slick, modern the Ultra-Right, persons like Stephen reaction of today. American reaction has Possony and Gottfried Haberler and Edward not previously followed the lead of older Teller being representative of the nature European Reaction but rather followed of his advice. Russell Kirk and Brent its own meager tradition. In the post-war Bozell and William Buckley are also promin­ period, though, the right seems to have ent in the speech-writing and publicity borrowed more from the essences of Euro­ end of his campaign. pean reaction. The most important thing about reaction in Ame. ica today is that Also Apparent in every community is the fact it has achieved an organizational sophis­ that the "lunatic fringe" rightists are tication which it never has had previously. increasings their activities and have, in many areas, acquired a mantle of respect­ Historically in this cdntury, reaction and ability and closeness to the Republican fascism have been born out of an economic organization which was formerly veiled at and political crisis in which the in<$b_t- best and unacknowledged at worst. At a rial elements and the middle class have recent meeting in Louisville, Rightist felt themselves particularly threatened Billy James Harg'.js encouraged followers or hurt. In Germany and Italy it was . that they could now- "stand up and be count­ largely the middle class v/hich felt it­ ed" for Goldv/ater was "their"man. For once self economically threatened. Fascism he pointed out, the rightist viewpoint was gcred, then, to he needs of a must be "given equal time in the left press.' frightened middle-class as distinguished Except for the kookiest elements such as from traditional European reaction which the Nazis and the NSRP, the Right is united v/as geared to the needs of the old behind Goldwater with all the significance aristocracy and such elements. The demands of cadre influx that that will have. of fascism were an umbrella v/hich included many of the middle-clats de;.ands and those I point specifically at the influx of cadres of the lumpenproletariat. FMscism was brcu( that is the result of Goldv/ater's candidacy. to power by the middle-class elements. This is the most important contribution of It did, however, devour its children in the far right, that is, persons who '11 give a short period, revealing that the middle- much of their time and energy performing class hadA been used (i.e., its social the countless organizational tasks and dynamic) to accomplish the aims of monop­ administrative work. Rightist housewives oly capital. will be manning desks and the little old ^ ladies in tennis shoes w ill be out ringing doorbells. The greatest organizational ? Ame rice, knows this tradition also. Nat­ weakness of the Republican party has been ive leaders such as William Pelley and, * its lack of such cadres in the past. At to some extent, Townsend and Huey Long this point, the Right is much better orga­ owe their political careers to the frenzy nized and has more devoted cadres than of a disestablished middle—class. does the left. - 21 - own situation better than the acad­ emics who v/rite about a status rev­ HOT WATER IN'65... olution. But these middle-class discontents want to restore the Yet we ire not in a period of severe econ­ past, and hence they are reaction­ omic crisis now. We are at an era where ary." profits are up and stable and the threat of depression is ncnexistant. V/e are faced The Pressures j on the middle class in neither with revolution at home nor with Americ today are many. One can quickly economic collapse. What, then, is the val­ note that the neat world of the middle- id explanation of the rise of reaction class suburb is beset by many demons: among the middle-class? mortgages, bills, interest payments, status expenditures; in short, the middle The history of the middle class in the post­ class is suffering from a profound sense war period has been of rapid growth and of economic insecurity. Although the expansion and consolidation. But, and this middle class has not suffered the econ­ is an important but, the nature of the mid­ omic rout experienced during the depress­ dle class has changed from the traditional ion it too, is suffering from having won sense. the war but not having tasted the fruits of victory. It :is:full ofyfear -- fear Historically the middle class in America that Automation-will neaefct rid .itself .oft were the shopkeepers and artisans, that is the middle man.as it is"already depopula­ people who had some fair degree of economic ting the factories of blue collars; fear independence. This also included farmers th. t it v/ill be "outvoted" in the UN by a and a variety of other occupations. Today the"underdeveloped" countries that "it" the middle class is a different animal — it is su porting; fear that its favored 'hat: seen the _-placement of 'thd -hopkeeper pi ce in white Protestant America is by today*- professional man. While the being undermindd by the Negro revolution -liddle class of today retains the apparent and minority groups, fe r of Russian su- status and trappings of the old middle class Q pe iority, fear of spreading revolutions, its rol in society has been sharply etc. Im oitant is the fe r of the loss o altered. That is that the middle class has identity as the old ways pass from the really lost its base of power in society. scene and new, modern but unfamiliar In a nation of shopkeepers, each shopkeeper ones take their place. The middle class swung some economic weight, some "real" po­ is becoming deeply alienated ina sense wer, but in an economy increasingly domin­ which it has never been. The middle ated by monopoly and oligarchy and where class is economically dependent and the middle class is now an employer rather politically atomized. than an independent ag ent, the middle class has lost its economic pov/er and subse­ quently, much of its political power. In It is to this grouping to v/hich Goldv/ater a vulgar sense, one could speak of the most immediately appeals. He has a "proletarianization" of the middle class. progr m designed for their needs and This has resulted in the New Right and res onsive to their plight. the new forms of pretest. As William A. Williams puts it: Goldwater's appeal goes further than this though. There are other elements in society to which he has an attraction. "The program of such protesting i- - ' 'imiddle-c lass -people "is "tea __ronary. They retain the ideaseand general 'outd- One of these elements is a section of look of the middle class as of the the working class — particularly that 9 time when that class did enjoy a element v/hich supported George Wallace position in the property system (e.g. the Gary steelwprkers). All manner that gave them pov/er and influence. of skilled workers, crafts and building^ They are far more concerned, incid- trades feel pressure from tv/o sides. 0 ^r.^entally; 'With recovering thefr__o_m_r one hand they are pressured by increas- ,» ability to act upon their environ­ ing automation and the loss of their jobs ment than they are v/orried about v/hich would probably mean that they will their own status. To this import­ never work again. 0 the othe. hand, *• ant degree, they understand their the Negro demand for fair employment is a threat in an already straindd situation „ J -: -. &c__U - 22 - ___* •: the Left still has a chance for an alli­ . .BREAD6WATER IN'66.. ance with the middle class if it will speak to the very real needs of that sec­ tor. This has resulted in the "White Backlash" and a new racism where none particularly _ The menace 6f the Goldwater movement is had a hold previously. Also, cynicism is not that it is made up of "kooks" but on apparent among many workers v/ho frankly the contrary that the group who showed uj distrust Johnson and his administration. at San Fr. ncisco were well-heeled, solid middle-class citizens. As I.F. Stone I'll also list a separate category which has said: is really an umbrella ~ that is, the rac­ ist vote. This is composed of the sections "This Mr. Conservative of 196. is of the middle and working classes mentioned quite different from Taft, the Mr. previously plus other less-defined strata. Conservative of 1952. In foreign There is no room for doubt in the minds of policy, Taft was an isolationist; any of the American racists — Goldwater he wanted to keep the country out is their man. Every racist element from of trouble. Goldwater, if not exact­ the Ku Klux Klan to the Citizens Councils ly an internationalist, is an ultra—— to the workers, eti, has actively endorsed nationalist who's ready to get into him. Every manifestation of the "White trouble any./h^re. Taft fought NATO; Backlash" ~ which has gained — will Goldv/ater wants to strengthen it vote Goldwater. Few radicals and liberals with nuclear weapons. Taft is what have really grasped the depth of racism in used to be called a Republican stand­ the American psyche and only the recent patter with progressive fringes; northern demonstrations have revealed just Scranton was right when he declared how deep that sentiment is. several times in San Francisco that on such specific issues as labor, The significance of Goldwater's movement education and housing, he v/as closer is that it is an umbrella composed of to Taft than to Goldv/ater. In the many scattered and diverse elements. The political spectrum Goldw ter is half- Negro haters, the anti-semites, the anti- reaction_ry, half rightist European labor people, the anti-communists, the style." nationalists, the states righters, and all the various other' gripes of the middle class. Fascism is also an umbrella. THE NEANING EF THE GOLDW_TER CANDIDACY IN Fascism arms and unites scattered masses. OUR POLITICS AND WHY IT IS BAD. • - Out of human dust it organizes combat de­ tachments. It gives the middle-class the As we've previously pointed out, the illusion of being an independent force. Goldwater campaign is aligning all sorts of previously splintered and often oppose, What is the size of tlds constituency? groups of rightists around a national Wh.t is its force? The ye.rs of bragging program. The factional differences be­ about being a "nation of the middle class" tween say, Robert Welch of the John Birch comes back to choke us. Potentially, Society and, say, a Thruston Morton, Sen­ Goldv/ater's base is the whole middle class ator from Kentucky have become meaning­ — a majority element in our society. Po­ less in the new context. While Birch tentially, his base is v/ith the skilled was merely an "out" fringe yesterday, workers and the lumpenproletariat. Poten­ today it is a partner in the new coalitloT tially, Goldv/ater has the base for victory. It will also enable the right to further Radicals have alv/ays put forth the shibbo­ rationalize its organizational forms and leth that the middle class cemnot play will witness the growing merger of much an independent political role. That is, of the right which now will have respecta­ that it must unite v/ith either the haute bility and legitimacy to a previously bourgeoisie or the working class and unheralded degree. It will lso guaran­ that really it makes the key section of tee rightist control of the Republican either side's victory,, This is v/hy one party especially in local politics. says that Goldwater has the potential support of the middle class. This is why His candidacy also raises the danger that

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the dialogue already hideously far right |\ jV (continued from page 19) \ and will center around topics chosen by the right, that is we will deb.te how to I j PTr~)\A/ M ^ J°HN ROBERTS beat Communism rather than how to end po­ verty and so forth. The Heights Freedom Movement — the larger umbrella group of which the NYU uptown SDS Other dangers are that the left may serious­ chapter is a part — has recently moved in­ ly continue to underestimate Goldv/ater and to high gear on its summer program. Our fail to see the deep social ramifications increased activity, mostly due to prepar­ of his movement. It is possible, moreover, ation for school in the fall, has focussed that Goldwater may capture some of our mainly around the publication of a "Free­ constituency — poor whites and etc. in the dom Bulletin" every week and a half. wake of the White Backlash. The Bulletin's main purpose is to convey Also there is the real possibility that letters and news of the six people from Goldwater may win. Has anyone really our campus who are working in Mississippi considered what that would mean? Questions this summer to those students remaining in do arise v/hich ask v/hat could he really do? the North. There have been articles con­ Some say that Goldwater would be severely cerning issues and events in the North, limited and unable to carry out his program also, and pleas for material of a more and what we wcId face would be another analytical nature; however, it has been round of Eisenhowerism rather than reaction­ difficult to broaden interests and orient many of our members away from a strictly ary terror. Some speak in terms of concen­ Southern outlook. Our membership includes tration camps and dictatorship* Neither of all parts of the left but is basically these is quite true but the fact remains made up of suburbanite liberal Democrats that his victory would be an unparalleled whose primary concern and area of infor­ disaster v/ith real dangers to all of us and mation is civil rights. Our problem has civilization as v/e know it. always been how to approach this group. We should point out here that the loss of votes in November at the polls won't be One approach that I think had some success half as important to Goldv/ater as the reten­ was a meeting held the Friday of the week tion of the tight, disciplined Right following the Harlem riots. Attendance organization. There is no point in consol­ was surprisingly good in spite of the ing ourselves of a provable Goldw. ter def­ lateness of the hour, trouble with the eat at the polls. A defeat at the polls . mail and fear of taking the subway. The will not rid us of the organization — the discussion, oriented by Clark Kissinger Birchers — that made it possible to cap­ and two faculty members, ranged from Gold- ture the Republican Party and is already water and the far right through the Dem­ bracing itself for other battles. Just as ocratic Convention to the Harlem riots and the Dixiecrats in the Democratic Party police brutality. Its success lay in the continue to arm themselves, v/ith or without fact that some connections were made that Federal aid, to fight the unarmed civil had not been made previously, and some rights workers, so the Birchers in the new bones were introduced to munch on. North become the polarizing force for re­ action. The significance of the Goldwater Partly as a result of this meeting, there phenomenon v/ill outlast the November elec­ have been three committees set up to plan tion, for the fall semester. 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