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he does not advocate illegal resistance." =. 7 Awe “inconsistencies built in." NITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Kenphis, Tinnessee September 4, 1969 RE: PEACE CARAVAN, 1969 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE IXFORNATION CONCERN ING DRAFT RESISTANCE UNION OF MEMPHIS (DRUM) SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT INTERNAL SECUR:TY - MISCE!i.ANEOUS Toe Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee daily newspaper, pege 4, Section 1, 1ssue OF Sunday, August 31, 1969, in a story entitlec "Nov Peaceful Campus Ponders Fall's ‘f*udies' In Sirife", by Reporter Gary Guodran. This i~ticle discussed general campus unrest in the Mid-south area and predicted the potential for trouble during the Fall, 1969. One part reads: "The role of SDS and white radicals on the Memphis State Campus further illustrates the relative quiet in the Mid<south. The MSU Student Senate refused to grant a charter for the local SDS chapter. James Gaylord, an unofficial leader of SDS, tried to form an organization without official approval. His first demand was better seating for students at university sporting events. Geylord's demands and tactics do not bear a resemblance to the disruption led by the Columbia SDS in which the New York university agreed to abandon construction on a multi-millisn dollar gymnasium located in a city park. The apparent successor to the SDS chapter at Memphis State is a ‘Human Relations-Club’ headed by 26-year-old Army veteran Victor A. » Mr. Smith says, ‘He hasn't decided’ whether to push a confrontation with the university or to try to gain support through mass meetings and leaflets. He has busied himself this summer organizing DRUM, the Draft Resistance Union of Memphis. Every Wednesday, the group of about 12 reads the names of local residents killed in Vietnam on the steps of some public building. Sometimes it is the Federal Building. At other times it is the First National Bank Building at Third and Madison in Memphis. Butte stresses — The story states that "His rhetoric also has logical "He talks of the ills of the American system and its - inequities. He says the faults of the system are built into it and cannot be reformed, But when he is asked whther a 573 / setae 7°