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i. YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE oy The May 1950 issue of the "Young Secialis." (YS), page 1, column 3, disclosed that during April 15-17, 1960, a national organization entitled "The Young Socialist Alliance" (YSA) was established at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. This issue stated that this organization was formed by the nationwide supporter clubs of the publication YS. The above issue, page 6, set forth the Founding Declaration of Y¥YSA. This declaration stated that the YSA recognizes the Socialist Workers Party (SWP} as the only existing political leadership on class struggle principles, and that the supporters of the YSA have come into basic political solidarity with the SWP on the principles cf revolutionary socialism. A source advised on Mey 6, 196, that the origins? YSA was an organization formed during Octeber 1957 in New York City by youth of various left socialist tendencies, particularly members and follewers of the SWF. The leaders of this group were the guiding forces in the establishment of the national organization. The source further advised-on May 6, 1964, that the YSA is dominated and controlled on a national basis by the SWP thrceugh having SWF members tomprise exclusively the National Executive Committee (NEC) and through an official SWP representative at all YSA NEC mecstings. Phe YSA, in reality, is the youth and training section ef the SWP and the main source,of new SWP members. ~ The headquarters of the YSA are locetied in Room 631, hi Union Square West, New York Citr. ‘The SWP has been designates puravan? to Evecutive Order 10450, o* -