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1 APPENDIX W.E.B. DU BOIS CLUBS OF AMERICA advised that on October 26-27, 1963, a conference ‘of “members of the Comnunist Party (CP), including national functionaries, met in Chicago, Illinois, for the purpose of setting in motion forces for the establishment of a new national Marxist oriented youth organization whick would hunt for the most peaceful transition to socialism. The delegates to this meating were cautioned ageinst the germ of anti-Soviet and anti-CP ideologies. These delegates were also told that it would be reasonable. to assume that the young socialists attracted into +h td woe eee ed ee ed eee De er ee een Des me me a [oy Ome | new organization would eventually Pass ints the cr itseiz. A second conference of over 20 persons met in-Chicago on December 28-29, 1963, for the purpose of initiating a "call" to the new youth organization and planning for a founding con=- vention to be held in June, 1964, ’ i» w g 4 t) p =% U n A secord source has advised that the founding convention for the new youth organization was held from June 19-21, 1964; at 154 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California, at which time the name W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America was adopted. Approximately 500 delegates from throughout the-United States attended this convention, The aims of this organization, as set forth in the preamble to the constitution, are “Tt is our ner SR nae ee Se ke re GO belief that this nation can best solve its problems in an atmos- phere of peaceful coexistence, ccemplete disarmament and true freedom for all pecples of the world, and that these solutiors will be reached mainly through the united efforts of all democratic elements in our ccuntry, composed essentially of-the working people aliited in the unity of Negroes and other minorities with whites. We further fully recognize that the greatest threat to American democracy comes from the racist and right-wing forces in coalition with the most reactionary sections of the economic power Structure, using the tool of anti-~communism to divide and destroy the unified struggie cf the working people. As young people in the forces struggling fer democracy, we shall actively strive to ae defeat these reactionary and neo-fasetst elements and to achieve complete freedom and democracy for all Americans, thus enabling each individual to freely choose and buiid the society. he would wish to live in. Through theta struggles we feel the American people will realize the viability cf the socialist alternatives." "