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APPENDIX ee fi PROGRESSIVE 1.4BOR_ PARTY (PLP) "The New York Times’ city edition, Tuesday. April 20, 1965. page 27, reportea that a new party of "revolutionary sor i1alism" was formally founded on ‘tpril t& 1965, under the name of the PLP which has been knovn as the Progressive Labor Movement. According to the article, "The Progressive Labor Movement was founded in 1962 by Milton Rosen and Mortimer Scherr after they were expelled from the Communist Party of the United States for assertedly follozing the Chinese Communist line." A source advise? on June 3. 1968. that the PLP held its Second National Conveation in New York City. May 31 to Tune 2, 1968, at which tame the PLF reasserted its objective of the «stabdlishment of a militant working ci3ass movement based on Marxism-Leninism This is to be accompltishec through the Party's over-all revolutionary strategy of raising the corsricusness of the peaplte and helping to provide ideological leadership in the working class struggle for state power, The source also advised that at the Second Nationa! Conven- tion Milton Ros€a was unanimously re-elected National Canairman of the PLP and Levi Laub. Fred ‘'srome, Jared Israel, William Epton. Jacob Rosen, Jeffrey Gordon and Walte# Linder were elected as the National Committee to lead the PLP until the next convention. The PLP publishes "Progressive Labor" a bi-monthly magazine: "World Revotutian’, a quarterly periodical; and "Challenge- Desafio"’ a monthly newspaper. The April, 1969. issue of "Challenge-Desafio" s<ts forth that "Challenge is dedicated to the people's fight for a new way of life--where the vorking men and women contrcet tieéir own homes and factories; where they themselves make up the entiré government on every level and control the schools, courts, police and all insti- tutions which are now used to control them " Source advised on May 8, 1969, that the PLP utilizes an address of General Post Office Box 808, Brooklyn New York. and also utslizes an office in Room 617, 1 Union Square West. New York New York.