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• Publication Date: April 3, 1967
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terview ?,".tb. the Soviet youth publication
Komsornonsi,:aya Pravda:
"Our pnrty is the main force in the left-
wing movement, it is the most influential
among the left-wing groups and among the
yoyi, -if,. Naturally, the closest ties we have
are with the DuBois Clubs, since they occupy
Marxist positions. Many of the DuBois Clubs
members have joined our party."
Many of them didn't have to join, since
they were already in. Its founders, after all,
included what the FBI wryly calls "Red
Diaper Babies" meaning the sons and daugh-
ters of old line party members. They in-
clude:
The zealous Miss Aptheker, whose father
Herbert, is a leading Communist theoretician,
Once described her occasionally confusing
philosophy by insisting on "destroying or
eliminating corporate monopolies and na-
tionalizing control of the industries into the
hands of the people."
Eugene Dennis Jr., son of the former U.S.
Communist Party chairman, who has in-
sisted, since he left the Wisconsin University
club for the San Francisco office, that he
isn't a Communist though he believes in
the teachings of Karl Marx.
Michael Eisenscher, who replaced Dennis
In Wisconsin, the son of Sigmund Eisenscher,
a member of the Wisconsin State Committee
of the Communist Party.
niargarat Lima, onetime Berkeley student
and daughter of Chairman Albert J. Lima,
a write: a,na leader of the Northern Cali-
fornia 'iiristrict of the Communist Party.
Another leader, Mike Myerson, a delegate
to the Eighth World Communist Youth Fes-
tival in Helsinki, Finland, popped up in
Hanoi two years ago, sporting a Viet Cong
cap and a ring he said had been made from
the wreckage of a downed American plane.
For his efforts in several Hanoi demon-
strations, re was made an honorary nephew
of President, Ho Chi Minh. His philsophy
is almost an echo of Miss Aptfleker:
"If it were up to me, I would like to see
'passer.. a 25th amendment to the Constitu-
tion to abolish private ownership of property;
just as the 14th amendment abolished pri-
vate ownership of people," he has said more
than ance, although he seems to have con-
fused his amendments: the 13th abolished
slavery, the 14th deals with due process of
law.
With this sort of position being loudly ex-
pressed by members of domewhat dubious
backgrounds and purposes, the DuBois Clubs
quickly ran afoul of FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover and such political figures as Sen.
Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), former Vice
President Richard M. Nixon, and former At-
torney General Nicholas Katzenbach, not to
mention a number of Congressional investi-
gating units.
As early as 1964, Hoover warned that the
DuBois Clubs were the patty's "newest fa-
cade on the nation's campuses-to draw young
blood for the vampire that is' international
COMMUni.97 71."
In 1086, Katzenbach moved to have the or-
ganization registered as a Communist front
with the Subversive Activities Control
Board, a move that DuBois attorney Patrick
Hallinan greeted with the crude observation,
"He can stick his registration in his ear."
Byrd and Nixon have both been roundly
criticized for their views on the club, Byrd
after Senate hearings at which he said that
they were "the illegitimate spawn of the
Communist Party," and Nixon when he ac-
cuseci the club of deliberately trying to mis-
lead the public into confusing DuBois Clubs
with the Boys Clubs of America.
That controversy arose when some radio
announcers, instead of correctly pronouncing
DuBois' name "dew-boys," slurred it into the
Brook:ynese "duh-boys."
The Boys Club. horrified at the violent
phone calls and bomb threats that resulted,
was so worried about protecting the millions
of dollars a year it needs in donations,
? pleaded with announcers to be ,more care-
ful and Nixon called the DuDois Clubs' choice
of a name "an almost classic example of
Communist deception and duplicity."
Probably more than anything else, the up-
roar over this first catapulted the clubs onto
front pages across the country. But it was
almost nothing compared to what Katzen-
bach's move did last year.
BROOKLYN RIOT
On March 7, in New York, the Brooklyn
DuBois Club on Vanderbilt Ave. in the Park
Slope section was the scene of a small riot
when 150 infuriated neighbors bombarded
the young left wingers with eggs, beer cans
and ' fists. Thirty club members, mostly
Negro and Puerto Rican, were injured and six
were arrested. it r
On March 8, 40 or 50 pounds of dynamite
blew apart the Negro ghetto headquarters
of the club in San Francisco and damaged
several neighboring houses. The club was
empty at the time.
The Attorney General's attempt to have
the clubs register as a Red front is still pend-
ing, largely because DuBois lawyers enjoined
him from acting on the grounds that the
McCarran Act is unconstitutional.
The move also backfired, in a sense. The
club's membership mushroomed after the
government's action, climbing from 3,000 to
4,500 in a few weeks.
As Hallinan put it, (it would seem _cor-
rectly) :
"He (Katzenbach) doesn't understand
young people today?you try to intimidate
them and keep them from speaking out
about the Vietnam war and they just become
determined to be heard.
"These kids who are in our group have
been steeled by the civil rights movement.
The 'Communists' label just doesn't scare
them," he said.
And the DuBois Clubs, instead of getting
weaker, have grown stronger.
Basing their appeal to new members on
attacks on the House Unamerican Activities
Committee, the draft, civil rights, and an
occasional strike such as the one by grape
workers in California's San Fernando Valley,
they offer something for everyone in the
left-wing movement toward "social justice."
Possibly because it will help them to retain
members during the traditional summer
doldrums when loyal workers leave the cam-
puses for vacation, they are now focused on
- the Vietnam issue.
Even when next month's demonstrations
are over, thelnotoriety DuBois leaders know
they will attract can be used next fall to
recruit new students to the movement.
AMERICA'S "RED GUARD"?PART 2
(Mr. ASHBROOK (at the request of
?Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT) was granted per-
mission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the
following article completes the two-part
series recently featured by the New York
Daily 'News on the "new left" and its
corning participation in the Vietnam
Week program. As previously stated, the
House Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities in its report of March 31 entitled
"Communist Origin and Manipulation of
Vietnam Week," stated that Commu-
nists are the principal organizing force
behind the Vietnam Week demonstra-
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tions slated for April 8 through 15.
Readers of the News are indebted to this
publication and to the author of the se-
ries, Mr. George 1.cobbe, for providing
much needed information on this up-
coming program.
To disseminate more widely some of
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and its participants, I insert the article,
"America's 'Red Guard'," from the News
of March 26, in the RECORD at this point:
AMERICA'S "RED Gusrts"-200,000 FROM "NEW
LEFT" EXPECTED FOR BIG RALLY HERE
(By George Nobbe) ?
The dozens of overlapping "New Left" or-
ganizations which plan a series of massive,
disruptive anti-Vietnam demonstrations
starting here on April 8 have mobilized so
many militant out-of-town peaceniks that a
critical housing shortage has been their most
pressing problem.
Trains and buses, many of them chartered,
are due from Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit,
Ithaca, Washington and Minneapolis, with
more expected from other cities in time for
a protest march on the United Nations on
April 15.
Leaders of the march, which will climax a
week draft-board sit-ins, campus teach-
ins, peace fairs and art exhibits, expect close
to 200,000 young radicals to congregate here.
But they are also fearful that the faithful,
long on zeal if short on cash, may wind up
with no place to stay.
It all adds up to a big headache for New
York police; and this doesn't at all disturb
the leaders of the so-called Spring Mobiliza-
tion to End the War in Vietnam. The more
uproar the better.
The idea, according to a stormy organiza-
tional meeting of the committee in Green-
wich Village last week, is to put on the most
militant display their funds and zeal can
promote.
They've already spent plenty. The eastern
section of the Spring Mobilization is $2,500
in the hole by its own admission and is fran-
tically peddling literature and throwing
dances to come up with more cash.
Some of it went for printing and mailing,
some on rent for such groups as the Fifth
Avenue Peace Parade Committee and the
Fort Hood Three Committee, which seeks. the
release of three GIs jailed for refusing to go
to Vietnam.
But most of the money goes to finance the
harangues of such peace pitchmen as James
Bevel, a leader in the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference on leave to organize
the New York end of Spring Mobilization.
His wanderings have taken hint to Ithaca,
where the Cornell branch of the far-left Stu-
dents for a Democratic Society hope to have
500 students burn their draft cards April 15; '
Washington, where he will help complete ar-
rangements for a "peace and freedom" train
to carry demonstrators to New York; and
Boston, where he organized yet another office
of Spring Mobilization.
Even Bevel's poise almost deserted him at
the Greenwich Village meeting when a group
of farther-left youngsters screamed for what
they called "more radical speakers" to ad-
dress the peace march when it ends at UN
Plaza.
Asked what he meant by "more radical", a
bearded zealot who introduced himself as
"Michael Lasky, Communist Party, Marxist- '
Leninist," yelled, "anti-imperialists!"
His demand was voted down by a 2 to 1
margin, but it points up a basic division in
the movement, which includes scores of paci-
fist organizations that have accepted the
support of the far left only to find out that
peace isn't necessarily their only motive.
The extreme left-wingers consider Vietnam
a racist war against a colored people,'typical
of the "imperialistic" system under which
they reluctantly live.
As one member of the New York Spring
Mobilization office put it: "We'll take anyone
who's against the war. We have people from
left-wing groups'like the DuBois Clubs, but
we also have people from college fraternities.
campus leaders and religious organizations,
too."
Two such moderates are Susan Cloke, an
import from San Francisco State College, and
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411?11,1k it ill I iielr thflUI.Ifl I/I how many
will turn out out, litTe during "protest week,"
they have planned a series of "peace happen-
ings," including photo exhibits and folk sing-
ers, when the marchers assemble at 11 AM.
on April 15 at the Sheep Meadow in Central
Park, near 66th St.
BIGGEST YET
"All we know Is that this will be the big-
gest peace demonstration New York has ever
seen," Susan said. ."We've had inquiries
about buses and trains from towns you'd
never think would be interested in some-
thing like this. I don't know where we're
going to put them all . . maybeln armories
or gymnasiums."
Tho pacifist organizers here may have some
TOR!;011 to be apprehensive about the activist
lefi,-wingerts in their midst, but those in
cAtror.lilt, yawn" lian Francisco la the prime
targeI,, )1ILVO lot, more to be worried about.
urasisy alliance of professed Commu-
nista, avowed Trotskyites and sincere though
possibly naive pacifists is spearheading the
West Coast end of Spring Mobilization, along
with a motley assortment of leftist splinter
groups.
They have planned an explosive program
that calls, sometimes ungrammatically, for
such things as:
A "construct fully disorder/u demonstra-
tion" April 15 at the San Francisco Internal
Revenue office, aimed at disrupting business
on the last day tax returns can be filed.
A mass demonstration to jam a narrow
road that leads to a napalm plant outside of
Redwood City on April 14.
A "peace fair" in the civic auditorium fea-
turing such noted peace-lovers as child care
expert Dr. Benjamin Spock and folk singer
Joan Baez, coupled with a pictorial display
illustrating the effects of alleged American
use of napalm, gas and defoliation chemicals
in Vietnam.
A protest march to Kezar Stadium for a I
P.M. rally.
Public burning of draft cards despite the
U.S. Supreme Court's refusal last week to
hear an appeal from a 5-year prison term
given a draft-card burner.
A series of kangaroo court "war crimes
-aibunals" along the lines of one planned in
Europe by British philosopher Bertrand Rus-
sell, with guilty verdicts reportedly already
decided upon by students at the University
of California and San Francisco State.
The defendants in the mock trials will be
faculty members and school administrators
charged with "complicity" in the Vietnam
war because they permitted CIA and FBI
recruiters on their campuses and have not
spoken out against government research
grants.
Among the leaders in the San Francisco
area are Bettina Aptheker, DuBois Club
founder and admitted Communist, who has
been a thorn in the side of Berkeley officials
ever since her role in the ill-starred free
speech movement that turned into "dirty
word" riots two years ago.
TROTSKYITE TOURS
The executive director is Kipp Dawson, a
former San Francisco State College DuBois
leader, who, with her husband, is a militant
Trotskyite. The Dawsons have spent months
touring western college campuses four or five
days ahead of their featured speaker and
chairman of the West Coast Spring Mobiliza-
tion, Edward Keating.
, Keating is publisher of the left-of-center
y monthly, "Ram arts," the c_lar,Ung,of the rad'.
eals for its recen a tr-ic-ks on the CIA, and
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"The demonstration committee is open to
anyone and everyone?even conservative Re-
publicans, provided they are opposed to the
war in Vietnam."
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Crii,141111(.(1. Ili non-exclusionary.
We are gettiog a great response, no l, BO much
for what, we are doing but for what the Ad-
ministration is doing in Washington."
At the high school level, Kathie Harer,
teen-aged daughter of Asher Harer (long
active in such causes as the now defunct
Fair Play for Cuba Committee and a leader
of the Socialist Workers Party), claims she
has organized anti-war groups at eight
schools in the San Francisco area.
Like a great many youngsters in the peace
movement, she seems privy to a lot of infor-
mation normal Americans have had to mud-
dle along without.
- In one recent report she wrote: "The hos-
tility or lust the indifferencd that you find
among many high school students in relation
to the war is clue to the basic ignorance of the
real facts behind the war." She didn't
bother to divulge the "real facts."
What bewilders many observers of the Nelv
Left 16 where all the money comes from, since
organizing 200,000-man rallies for any cause
should cost far more than Spring Mobiliza-
tion has chosen to report.
For instance, the West Coast office, in a fi-
nancial report for the threo weeks ending
Feb. 2, listed income of $1,136, some of which
is known to have come from-Albert (Mickey)
Lima, Communist party chairman for north-
? ern California.
LIST LONG
In addition to Lima's donation, it is public
knowledge on the West Coast that the list
of local sponsors on the Spring Mobilization
Committee includes the names of 23 known
Communists, affiliated with everything from
the American Communist Party to the Prog-
ressive Laborites and the Young Socialist
Alliance.
(Like many militant organizations, Spring
Mobilization lists sponsors rather loosely.
One it names is "Herbert Hoover," without
identifying him either as the ex-President,
who died in. 1964 or some other Herbert
Hoover. On Feb. 19, the Ad Hoe Faculty
Committee on Vietnam, many of whose mem-
bers are in sympathy with Spring Mobiliza-
ticrn, took out an ad in the New York Times
carrying 1,200-plus names, 200 of which, it
turned out, appeared without authorization.
One listed was that of a New York doctor
who earlier had protested that such anti-war
as were a "disservice to the country.")
There is no evidence that Spring Mobiliza-
tion is supported financially in some clan-
degtine fashion by the Kremlin, but some
wonder where the money comes from.
They feel that there is simply too much
spent on such things as sound systems, print-
ing, organization, speakers and travel for the
whole April protest to have been financed
solely by the dues of idealistic college stu-
dents and a few anonymous donors.
Very few would quarrel with the New
Left's right to seek an end of the Vietnam
War, even if it does involve a series of poten-
tially explosive demonstrations that the law
is powerless to halt because there is nothing
illegal about them.
What they do quarrel with is that the
more militant radicals see peace in Southeast
Asia as the beginning of the end of the
American system.
One such is Bettina Aptheker, who advo-
cates an end to private ownership of property,
has called Secretary of Defense McNamara
"insane" and Secretary of State Rusk
"maniacal," and derisively refers to most of
the nation's newspapers as "the cap
[capitalist] press."
Earlier this year she told "Dimensions,"
elf-styled "discussion journal of the WEB.
DuBois Club":
RADICAL'S ROLE
"This commitment to the building of a
radical movement is healthy and important.
The problem is to see that radicals do emerge
from the struggle. Radicals do not emerge
I rotol a [Jell tient VrifIll UM: they emerge froni
pe I Iilea] programs lu i iflrthfl movemen tf3.
radicallem is a slow process and a difficult
one. It will be strengthened by a growing
peace movement involving hundreds of thou-
sands of Americans. Radicalism will be tre-
mendously enhanced when the movement
succeeds in ending the war.
"When the U.S. is forced to get out, and
it will be, it will represent a tremendous
triumph for the forces of peace, socialism
and national liberation?and a tremendous
?
blow far imperialism."
Bettina, a history major who often writes
and talks with a magnificent disdain for his-
torical accuracy, can speak for hours about
"the evils of the system."
These sho blames for wars, slums, segrega-
tion, police brutality, inadequate housing
and educational shortcomings. All of them,
she insists, will magically vanish once the
war ends and democracy gives way to radical
socialism.
Many of her opinions are echoed by two
other DuBois Club activities, Matthew and
Terrance Hallinan. The Hallinans, though
not Communists, nonetheless agree that the
peace effort has drawn leftists together.
But splits have developed all along the New
Left front.
The first came in Chicago when moderates
in Spring Mobilization refused to go along
with the West Coast DuRoisers on a proposal
for a nationwide student strike.
The reason given was that they did not
want to run the risk that such a grandoise
project might flop. They chose to concen-
trate on New York and San Francisco
demonstrations instead.
Then the militant Youth Against War and
Fascism, claiming it had "no confidence in
the liberal line of [sen.] Robert Kennedy,"
chose to participate in the April demonstra-
tions with its own slogans. They include
such as "Big Firms Get Rich?GIs Die" and
"Johnson Speaks Phony Peace?Widens War."
Then the California section of Students
for a Democratic Society dealt the peaceniks ?
the stiffest blow of all by voting not to en-
dorse the April 15 mobilization.
An SDS position paper argued that parades
no longer attracted either new members or
sufficient press coverage, that the protest
should be held in Washington, and that the
timing of Spring Mobilization was politically
Irrelevant.
"We in SDS," the paper continued, ". . .
view the wax as an oppressive action on the
part of the government similar to many other
oppressive actions which form a part and
? parcel of the lives of many Americans.
"Thus we feel that the suffering of the
Vietnamese people is akin to the suffering
of the people of the United States, that the
draft and the war are manifestations of the
same kind of thinking on the part of the
government, that poverty and racism are as
much a result of deceptive government
action as the Vietnam War."
And to make matters worse, DuBois Club
membership on the West Coast has dropped
steadily since former Attorney General
Nicholas Katzenbach's attempt, unsuccess-
ful, to list the clubs as a Red front.
Even so, the peace marches next month
could well be the most disruptive yet, if only
because the chances are excellent that they
will be the biggest.
That, at least, is the opinion of two New
York DuBois Club officials, Jose Stevens, a
one-time Hunter College student, and Jose
Ristorucci, a Brooklyn College dropout.
COST CUTTERS
Both of them work fulitime for the or-
ganization, both live with their parents to
cut their living costs, and both vehemently
deny the Communist party has anything to
do with their organization or Spring Mobili-
zation.
"Communist is a dirty word, a smear word
used by people who don't agree with our
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