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" contracts to set up their own industrial conversion committees. Given the fact that a business needs anywhere from one to perhaps three or four years “lead time” to prepare for new products, it is already too late as lar as many communities are concerned. The contract cutbacks wil] hit them before they have planned for the change. Faced with a great opportunity to solve the problems of poverty and inequality at home and abroad, we are missing the boat. The civil rights movement, those involved with the war on poverty, trade union- ists who have had a traditional interest in solving a long series of social problems, the peace groups, and many other concerned Amer- icans must help change this situation. The civil rights struggle is already forcing Americans to grapple with the broader problems of jobs, housing, and schools. If the effort to end poverty is to succeed, we must: decide how vast federal funds are to be spent: Shall it be for the war on mankind, or for the struggle to end poverty and injustice? We can- not do both. . _ Non-military solutions to the cold war can release the funds, man- power, and talent needed to solve civilian problems. Decent schools, housing, and medical care for all can be achieved. Minimum incomes which condemn tens of millions to poverty can be raised. If we demand that these problems be solved, then we shall have to re-consider how we now spend our money. To solve our domestic problems requires a non-military foreign policy. In this way peace and the achievement of a better life become a single issue. How do we go about making the most of the opportunity ahead, instead of wasting this chance to build a better world? The first step is to build a political force in this country for that purpose. We do not held to a conspiracy theory. of government, but there are interests which continually try to block every move in the direction of reform, the achievement of equal rights and the re-appraisal of our foreign policy. Those interests will have to be overcome. In i0