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k 0 0 0 I . ' 1822 0 M Y - . . . . . . .- 1 t -. .. - Seven hundred-and sixty-nine represerllatives of black, white, Chicano, Puerto Rican, American Indiin, Asian, and labor organiza- , tions attended the founding NDO Conference. Angela Davis, kert ' Corona of Casa Hermanidad, and Carl Eradden of.the Southern Con- ference Education Fund were ekected co-chairpersons of the new coalition. Those elected as vice co-chairpersons yere Clyde Eellecourt . of the American Indian Movement; Alfred0 Lopez of the Carlos Feliciano Defense Committee and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party; Rev. Ben - CJmvis'of the Commission of Racial Justice and the United Church of Christ; Bill Takahashi of the United Defense Against Repres;ion, Los Angeles; and Fred Eell of the United Defense of Political Prisoners, Dallas, Texas. 0 . . . . The founding conference, in addition to launchirig a new tiation.zl communist- dominated coalition, brought into sharp focus the disunity - within'the "radical left" in the U. S. today. Fractionalism highlighted the organizing conference. AccQrding to'reliable sources, each attend- ing group strove to esfablish itself as the "revolutionary vanguard" of the new coalition and consequently very little concT9te organizing was actually accomplished. It should be noted, that the Socia3ist Workers Party (SWP) and other Trotskyjst splinter groups did not prtic-ipate. In addition, the Maoist organizations chose to boycott the conference. ' There are basic ideological .pfoblems to be overcome if these groups are to become involved. Lremains to be seen, if the new coalitidn will be able to a.ccommodate the ideologically different "leftist sects" and still be a viable ordanization. ! - ihr W d ar&73 CALENDAR OF TEIJTATIVEL8Y SCHEDULED ACTMTIES 26 May, Nationwide. A second nationwide African Liberation Day has be, an annomced and will be held in 3.5 cities across the country on the above date to show support and solidarity with Africans in southern Africa. J 2 LT-- .