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f. . . . - - . . .) e . . .. 0 c . .. Y ., " , . . . . *. ' % to gain significant control of 'established organizations* the e a s y a v e n u e 'is simply to start a group o f their own. T h e PCPJ and r e m n a n b of the May b a y Collective have also decided this la11 to r i d e Zn the coattails of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, ked now principally by A1 Hubbard, The veterans group h a s for some time been planning activities o n Veteran's Day. October 2 5 and the 'PCPJ h a s jumped on this date, has claimed joint sponsorship, and un- doubtedly hope to gather added movement sympatlry through co-operation abli sympathetic greeting from a number of m e m b e r s of Congress l a s t spring. promoting leftist c a u s e s and challenging the established order, 2 7/ . with the vets. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War ccceived a r e m a r k - Political acceptance i s undoubtedly vicwcd as a valuable plus in . p a *,d*cam C.%/Z 6 The PCPJ in r e c e n t weeks h a s drifted into a number of channels in its continuing e l f o r t to enlist a broad b a s e of support. been the tactic o l CPUSA-oriented organizations to offer something f o ~ everyone, m o s t especially the American labor movement. A Washington P C P J task f o r c e which'met two weeks ago and w a s attended by a variety of left-wing radicals including Rennie Davis, Bob Greenslatt, of the Fifth Avenue Peace P a r a d e Committee, A1 Hubbard, Brad Lyttlc, P C P J national co-ordinator; C a r o l Kitchen, Steve Sacks, Bob L a m b , John Walsh, and Mike Walleck--all of May Day' and C a r o l Cullum, newly elected president of the National Student Association, put forward a num- b e r of highly diversified recommendations. recommended the theme "Answer the Call." "Answer the Call" could apply to almost anything radicals d e s i r e . T h e i r recommendations included a call for a n anti-heroin campaign, a call for no more federal grand j u r i e s , a call for economic reforms(obvious1y other than the P r e s i d e n t ' s p r e s e n t economic freeze), a call for a n end to American imperialism(particular1y in the East Pakistan Revolution), and a call for acceptance of the seven: point peace proposal of the Vietnam Communists. - F - L / , ~ f / / ~ - d / v ~ J V d It has long since The May Day representatives The m a j o r antiwar organizations seem as far as e v e r away f r o m co-oper-ating with one another. AgainSt the W a r and the relatively small Maoist P r o g r e s s i v e Labor P a r t y , no other m a j a r movement organization sccms to be able to main- tain its integrity as J unit and all have fallcn into otic camp o r tlrc i ~ l l ~ c r . Such organizations.as the A m e r i c a n F r i e n d s Service Committee, The War Resisters League, T h e Fifth Avenue Peace P a r a d e Committee, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, The National Welfare Rights Organization, and all o t h e r s with various a x e s to grind have e m b r a c e d either the Trotskyite NPAC o r the CPUSA i n f l y e n e d PCPJ. ical blood r e m a i n s between the two m a j o r forces. Except for the Vietnam Veterans Bad ideolog- 2 I I .