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Peace Mobilization April 4 - 6, 1969 The next speaker was Beulah Sanders who began her speech at approximately 4:00 p.m. with the reading of a telegram which she stated was being sent to President Nixon, the Secretary of Defense, United States Congressmen, the Ways and Means Committee, the Armed Forces Committee and Governor Rockefeller of New York State. This telegram stated that the war in Vietnamims a direct and clear relationshtp to the war on the poor in New York City and that the Federal Government is spending thirty million dollars a day in Vietnam to kiil innocent people while the State Government in New York City reduces the amount a person on welfare is to live on to. sixty cents a day. The reading of the telegram continued that the New York State welfare cut equals one hundred fifty million dollars while the Federal Government spends that much in a week in Vietnam and Governor Rockefeller spends four times as much in building the mall in Albany. Sanders, in reading the telegram further, demanded that the war in Vietnam be stopped immediately and that the thirty million dollars a day saved be diverted into meeting the domestic needs in this country. At the conclusion of the reading by Sanders, the Master of Ceremonies requested that a11 in favor of sending the telegram to Rockefeller and Nixon say “Aye"and there was an overwhelming response on the part of the audience. . ~ Seep ee RE LR LE ME OE ORT SRN eR ee ON Ee OTe TS ee rT