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_ O rn oe eee e —. 2 SEUDEIND MOBILIZATION COSSTTEE, ' &iso Frovrn As - os € + { Student Hitilizetion Comittee To Eon! Enc The War in Vietnam; - . aa Netion®i Student Ecbiligzation Coumittee - A source advised on May 16, 1959, thet the Btudent — Mobilizeticn Committee originelly grew out of the National | - Student Strike for Peace ccnference held in Chicago, Tllinois, — on December 23-29, 1666, which resulted in a call for massive : antiwar demonstrations in Kew York City and San Francisco, — Celifornia, on April 15,°1657. The National Student Strike for Peace was origineily c2lled by the Communist Party (CP). Divisions srose between elements of the CP and the Socialist Workere Party (Swe), culminating in a take-over by the SVP element in the Summer of 1958 and the CP element with- crawing., Source. further sdvisec the Student Kobilization Committee locally and nationally is controlled by the SWP and its youth arm, Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), as evidenced by their participation in Student Mobilization : Committee functions and their leadership role played in the tudent Mobilization Cormittee. , . The SWP has been Gesisnated pursuant to Executive Order 16450. : _ 0 A report by the Cernittee On Un-American Activities, Hcuse of Representatives, Nirnetieth Corgress, First Session, ec2ted Merch 32, 1657, entitied "Communist Orizin and Manipulation of Vietnam Week (April 8-15, 1057)" stated that the Student Mobilization Committee and the April 15, 19657, antiwar cenionstrations were Communist dominated and inspired, - A e2cond sourc® on April 3, 1959, made available @ copy of "Tne Student Mobilizer" dated April 5, 1559, which was self-described e8 being published by the National Office of the Student Mobilization Ccamittee to End the War in Vietnam, ‘657 Brozdv2y, Room 307, New York, New Yor, 10003. In this issue, the aims of the Student Kobilization Committee were set forth eas: Bring the GIs home from Vietnam now; end campus complicity with the war; and win s21f-determinetion for Vietnam and Black Americe., . an Lele oe ; 6 wo ts