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1 APPENDIX PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY (PLP) "The New York Times" city edition, Tuesday April 20, 1965. page 27, reportec tha* a new party of "revolutionary so.1alism"” was formally founoed on it $4 1965, under the name of the PLP which has been knovn as to: Progressive Labor Movement. According to the article, "The Progressive Labor Movement was founded in 1962 by Milton Rosen and Mortimer Scheer after they were expelled from the Communist Party of the United States for assertedly follo#ing tne Chinese Communist line.” A source advise? on June 3. 1968. that the PLP held its Second National Conveation 19 New York Caty. May 31 to fune 2, 1968. at which tame the PLF ressserted its objectave of the estaolishment of a militant working ciass movement based on Marxism-Leninism This is to be accomplished through the Party's over-all revolutionary strategy of raising the corscicusness of the people and helping to Frovide ideological leacership in the working class struggle for state power. The source also advised that at the Second Nationa! Conven- tion Milton Rosen vas unanimously re-elected National Chairman of the PLP and Levi Laub. Fred ft*rome, Jared Israel, William Epton. Jacob Rosen, Jeffrey Gordon and Walter 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 Revclution’, a quarterly pertogical; and "Challenge- Desafio" a monthly newsparer, The April, 1969. issue of "Challenge -Desafio” s*ts forth that "Challenge 1s dedicated to the people's fignt for a new way of life--where the vorking men and women controi '1€ir ovn homes and factorie where they themselves make up the entire government on every level and control tne schools, courts, police and al! 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 utilizes an office in Room 617, 1 Union Square West, New York New York