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That is why the Negro people are demanding a halt to the Vietnam war, as is demonstrated in the call of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee for the United States to get out of that invaded country. The Negro people are learning daily that their aspirations for economic, political and social equality are being sacrificed on the bloody altar of Johnson's war in Vietnam.

This May Day the American people will raise ever higher their demand for a halt to the dirty war in Vietnam. They will VOW to mobilize their strength to defeat the enemies of peace in the Johnson administration and in Congress.

the arena of independent class political action.

What are these questions which demand labor's political action to assure correct answers? They are three. First is the political-moral question which the war being waged by the Government of the United States against the peoples of Vietnam poses for the Nation. History will not absolve or make excuses for either the Nation of the United States as a whole, or the working class for the continuation of the war in Vietnam. The U.S. workers are called upon by every consideration of class morality and selfinterest to take action to put an end to the war, to champion the national honor of our country against that section of the monopolists and government circles that is responsible for the war in Vietnam.

Second is the struggle to defend and extend labor's economic gains against the monopolists and to defeat and repeal the antilabor laws which the representatives of big business constantly foster in the legislative bodies. Already, the war in Vietnam has resulted in demands for new sacrifices from the workers. They are being pressured to forgo the exercise of their right to strike and are warned by the Johnson administration to restrict their wage demands in the face of mounting speedup and increases in the prices of consumer goods. The massive war profits have given the monopolists added incentive to step up the process of extensive introduction of automation of industry and many service occupations. The automation process is eliminating men and women's jobs from the labor force at the rate of 2 million a year. These new jobless from automation are added to the scrapheap of wasted lives and human resources already represented in the figure of 55 million who dwell in poverty or severe deprivation.

The Government's war on poverty remains a mocking slogan and nothing more when all of the Nation's resources and budgetary allotments from the Public Treasury of tax moneys are being stipulated for the prosecution of the bloody aggressive war being waged against the people of Vietnam. There can be no effective program against poverty in the United States so long as the war in Vietnam is not ended.

Third, there is the need for the U.S. working class to wage an independent struggle along with its allies-to impose its will upon the policies of Government through direct political action at the polls voting for peace

candidates, in the streets demanding an end to the Vietnam war, on the picket lines demanding wage increases from the new profit taking.

These are the problems facing the U.S. labor movements on this May Day.

APPENDIX 2

THE WORKER, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1966

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CP Greets Soviet Union On Its 49th Anniversary

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THE ANNIVERSARY of the founding of the Soviet Union on Nov. 7 marks the "beginning of the fiftieth year of socialism and communist construction," the "fulfillment of the dream and hopes of peoples of all lands," Henry Winston, national chairman, and Gus Hall, general sec-gressive mankind will honor you retary, of the Communist Party U.S.A. declared last week. In a cablegram to the central committee of the Communist. Party of the Soviet Union, sent to Leonid Brezhnev as general secretary, they said:

"On this forty-ninth anniversary of the great October Revolution we warmly greet you and your comrades, the Communist Party and the people of the Soviet Union. We greet you on behalf of our Party, our working

tems has won for the Soviet Union the hightest respect among the millions of peoples throughout the world."

"The very existence of the Soviet Union in the pursuance of its goal of communism is a tremendous source of strength to peoples everywhere in struggles. for independence and national liberation and is a bulwark for peace and the advancement of civilization.

"This has been a year of the great harvest in the Soviet Union, and a year of great strength with the unity of the people and the strengthened bonds of international solidarity.

"Congratulations and greetings to you in that spirit of friendship and fraternal workingclass solidarity."

GUS HALL and Leonid Brezhnev, with Arnold Johnson, CPUSA leader, and Mikhail Suslov and Boris Ponomarev, Soviet party leaders, in Moscow.

INDEX

(NOTE. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee attaches no significance to the mere fact of the appearance of the name of an individual or an organization in this index.)

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Childs, Morris (a/k/a Childs, Maurice; Chilofsky, Morris; and Summers,

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