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COO01816 20 July 1970 '- 8 SPECIAL INFORMATION REPORT Direction of the Antiwar Movement In June two national meetings were held in the U.S. by leaders in the antiwar movement. Significant events took place both at Cleveland and at Milwaukee, largely missed by news media, which give salient evidence with regard to future antiwar activities in Amer- ica. .J. . . First the National Emergency Conference Against the Cambodia- - Laos-Vietnam W a r was staged a t Cuyahoga Community College under the sponsorship of the Cleveland Area Peace-Action Council. The con- ference was held from 18-21 June and attrbcted about 1,400 activists. +ong the sponsors were such well-known' revolutionaries as M. I. T. 's professor Noam Chomsky, black radical clown Dick Gregory and Trot- skyite communist Fred Halstead. Rdpresentatives-were present from a number of small second string r a d h a l leftist gioupp ihduding the National Chicago Moratorium, the San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party, Chicago Women's Liberation Union, Wkrkers League and the Sparticists. relief by their incessant bickering and name-calling over trivial ideo- logical differences. The latter two groups report%dly created some comic The principal and most significant breach i n conference unity was perpetrated by the two leading groups which indulged in a three-day running battle over both tactic and objective. Student Mobe and the Worker Student Alliance (which was out-gunned by about 2:l) exchanged denunciation and angry rhetoric. Since the Student Mobe (inspite of announced conference sponsorship) was the principal conference mover, they managed to out-vote the WSA on all critical votes. , These b o groups, the In summary (and over-simplified) the Student Mobe is the ' creation of exceedingly strange bedfellows. Several years ago the CPUSA, the Progressive Labor Party (which is Maoist)(and the SWP (which is Trotskyite) jointly launched what was to be, for classical communist motives, _a mass antiwar youth group that promised to ' - - _.. . . . _. . .. I 1 .