4430 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 23, 1970 ADJOURNMENT TO 10 A.M. come before the Senate, I move, in ac­ The motion was agreed to; and <at 6 TOMORROW cordance with the order of Friday, Febru­ o'clock and 25 minutes p.m.> the Senate ary 20, 1970, that the Senate stand in adjourned until tomorrow, Tuesday, Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Pres­ adjournment until 10 o'clock tomorrow February 24, 1970, at 10 a.m. ident, if there be no further business to morning. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ANTI-AMERICAN YOUTH pletely cont rol the Student Mobilization neighborhoods. A group of Black Panthers, ORGANIZATIONS Committee to End the War in Vietnam, an armed with a variety of pistols, rifles and organization which has fully supported the shotguns invaded the California Stat e As­ projects of the New Mobilization Committee sembly while it was in session on May 2 , 1967, HON. PAUL J. FANNIN to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE). YSA to protest pending firearm legislation. Mem­ OF ARIZONA is well represented on MOBE's Steering Com­ bers of the BPP are armed with an assort­ mittee which is composed of a high concen­ ment of weapons and many have criminal IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES tration of Communists and pro-Communists. records. For example, while stopped by law Monday, February 23, 1970 A considerable portion of YSA anti-war ac­ enforcement officers for a traffic violation in tivities is devoted to undermining the morale October 1967, Minister of Defense Huey P. Mr. FANNIN. Mr. President, it has of the United Sta.tes Armed Forces through Newton killed one policeman and wounded come to my attention, through requests subversion and propaganda. At its most re­ another. Leroy Eldridge Cleaver, who as BPP to my office for information, that certain cent national convention held in Minne­ Minister of Information brought consider­ so-called youth organizations in the apolis, Minnesota, December 27-30, 1969, YSA able growth to the organization, became a United States, while prominent in the discussed plans to take over the leadership Federal fugitive as a result of criminal of the left-wing student movement and to charges involving violation of parole and news, have so little information published fill the vacuum created as a result of the participation in a gun battle with Oakland, about them or about their genesis. recent decline of SDS and the splintering of California police. David Hilliard, BPP Chief I am indebted to members of the that group into various factions. of Staff, was recently arrested for threaten­ American Research Foundation for sup­ ing the life of the President of the United plying me with carefully researched con­ STUDENT MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE To END States. Approximately 350 members of the cise information about several of these THE WAR IN VIETNAM Party were arrested on criminal charges in groups whlch I believe should be more The Student Mobilization Committee to 1969 alone. Violence against law enforcement End the War in Vietnam (SMC) is a na­ officers, whom the Panthers term "pigs" and widely disseminated. consider prime targets for destruction, has Mr. President I ask unanimous con­ tional organization composed of college and high school students united in an "uncom­ been a notorious part of BPP activities. Gun sent that the information be printed in promising struggle" against U .S. military battles between police and the BPP have oc­ the RECORD. involvement in Vietnam. The SMC was curred in Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, and There being no objection, the material founded as an outgrowth of a conference held other cities. Some clashes with police have actually involved BPP-instigated sniping and was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, in Chicago, December 28-30, 1966, undPr the sponsorship of the Communist Party, U.S.A. ambushes. Police raids on the BPP in various as follows: cities have resulted in confiscation of large YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE (CPUSA) and the Trotskyist-Communist group, Socialist Workers Party (SWP). The caches of guns and ammunition. The BPP The Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) is the purpose of this conference was to consider ideology is based partly on the writings of youth and training section of the Socialist a proposal of Bettina Aptheker to call a Communist China's Mao Tse-tung and em­ phasizeEs the slogan "Serve the people." To Workers Party (SWP), a militant revolution­ nationwide student strike as a protest against win support among poor blacks, as well as ary communist party based upon the theories the war in Vietnam. Bettina Aptheker, whose of Marx, Engels and Lenin as interpreted by middle-class liberals, the Panthers have or­ proposal failed to receive the support of ganized "Free Breakfast for Children" pro­ Leon Trotsky. Numerically, the SWP is the the majority solely because the delegates largest Trotskyist-Communist organization grams in poor areas in many cities. These felt that such a project was incapable of programs are supported in part by the BPP operating in the United States. Like the being successfully organized, was subse­ SWP, YSA opposes Soviet and Red Chinese intimidation of local merchants to contribute quently elected to the National Committee food and supplies. Another source of funds "bureaucracy"; however, it fully endorses of the CPUSA. The CPUSA and SWP con­ their economic systems. It also lends whole­ for the Party is the sale of its weekly tabloid trolling factions within the SMC were in a newspaper "The Black Panther," a publica­ hearted support to the Cuban revolution as state of almost constant disagreement from well as other revolutions of Communist ori­ tion devoted to disseminating BPP's doctrine the beginning. This dissension reached a of revolution and hate. The BPP seeks revo­ gin. Founded in 1960, YSA openly claims that climax in June 1968 when the CPUSA with­ it is a "nationwide communist revolutionary lutionary allies among certain minority drew from the organization, thereby leaving groups and white radicals. It is noteworthy youth organization" composed of both stu­ the SWP in complete control over the SMC. dents and young working people. It has a that the BPP has recently received consider­ The SMC has sponsored several national anti­ able support from the Communist Party, current membership of over a thousand and war demonstrations and has cooperated in maintains 40 local chapters. YSA's national U.S.A. Certain officials of the BBP have various protest actions of the New Mobiliza­ traveled abroad to various countries includ­ office is located in New York City, where it tion Committee to End the War in Vietnam publishes a monthly journal, the "Young ing Communist ones, for the purpose of de­ and its predecessors. It has also actively Socialist." YSA views the war in Vietnam veloping international contacts and gaining promoted agitational activities among mem­ from a broad international perspective. It support. In view of its violent and revolu­ bers of the U.S. Armed Forces through dem­ advoowtes the formation of an international tionary nature, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover onstrations and other forms of protest. The united front under the banner of Che Gue­ has declared that the BPP "represents the vara's revolutionary call for the creation of national office of SMC is currently located greatest threat to the internal security of "two, three, :many Vietnams." YSA has pub­ at 1029 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, the country." licly repudiated outright terrorist actions by D.C. Significantly, every prominent officer of certain small groups in the United States the SMC on both the local and national levels YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS OF THE COMMUNIST but has fully supported the concept of "self is a member of the SWP and its youth sec­ PARTY, U.S.A. defense." While praising the Black Panther tion, Young Socialist Alliance. The W. E. B. DuBois Clubs of America Party, YSA condemns the Students for a (DCA) served as the youth group of the Democratic Society ( SDS) , particularly its BLACK PANTHER PARTY Communist Party, U .S.A. (CPUSA) for nearly Weatherman faction. According to YSA's own The Black Panther Party (BPP) is a Negro the last six years. Named in honor of a de­ pronouncements, it advocates "the concept extremist group which seeks a violent social ceased member of the CPUSA, the DCA is of turning the campus into an organizing revolution in the United States. Its members the lineal descendant of a number of Party center for the anti-war, black power, and receive instruction in guerrilla warfare youth organizations including the Young revolutionary socialist movements." Certain tactics, including the preparation and use of Communist League, American Youth for YSA members have been instrumental in Molotov cocktails. Founded in Oakland, Cali­ Democracy, Labor Youth League, and the fomenting disruptions on various college fornia in 1966, the BPP has a current mem­ Progressive Youth Organizing Committee. campuses. Following the pattern of the SWP, bership of about 1,200 and maintains chap­ Since its founding convention held in San YSA maintains fraternal relations with cer­ ters in 30 cities, including New York, Phila­ Francisco, California, June 19-21, 1964, the tain international Communist elements. delphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco DCA has been substantially directed and con­ Prominent members of YSA have made re­ and Oakland. The BPP initially gained na­ trolled by the CPUSA and was operated for cent visits to Communist Cuba. During the tionwide attention when its members began the sole purpose of 'rendering support to the past several years, YSA has been exceedingly openly to carry firearms on Oakland streets Party itself. At various times, DCA has main­ active in both anti-war and anti-draft ac­ during what they called "defense patrols" to tained a national office in San Francisco, tivities.