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By 100~161445 The leadership of the meeting was then turned over to HOFFMAN. HOFFMAN explained that it wag his belief that YIP should be organized around local chapters who were responsible to & national headquarters. He stated that he personally felt that YIP should strive to obtain national scope and national recognition. -HOFFMAN continually stressed the importance of organization to achieve the Party's goals. HOFFMAN stated that he and other YIP leaders were contemplating the organization of a r&ional YIP newspaper. . HOFFMAN stressed to those in attendance the advantages of displaying the YIP flag at rallies and demonstrations so0 as to give high school and college students a flag to identify with which is opposed to the United States flag. HOFFMAN stressed the potential for power that could be gained from the organization of various youth groups and from the organization of the entire youth culture. HOFFMAN displayed a@ building stone which he identified 8s &@ portion of the Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesote, which had been recently bombed. HOFFMAN stated that stones from this explosion hadteen gathered by Minneapolis youth groups and sold to raise money for various legal defense funds. After his opening comments, HOFFMAN opened the meeting to a discussion session amcng those in attendance. The general topic of this group discussion was the relative merit of organizing YIP on the basis of strong local chapters - as opposed to a more centralized national organization. After approximately 11/2 hours of discussion, the meeting degenerated into disorganized arguing. HOFFMAN then canvassed the group for persons who were available to assist in the organization of a San Francisco chapter of YIP. Several persons indicated they were available and desired to assist in this task. CATHY PEARL and PAMELA GARRETT explained that assistance was needed and that YIP had opened an office at 86 ~ 3rd Street, San Francisco, but that the office was presently unoccupied and had no furniture or telephone. ~22- mg