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PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA STUDENTS FOR A DEWOCEATIC SOCIETY Toe Students for a Dere”-.te Society (SDS), a: it is known today, came into being a: 4 foucding convention held at Port Huron, Michigan, in June, ifo2. The SDS is an association oft young people on the left and has ea current program of protesting the draft, p:onoting a campaign for youth to develop a conscientious objector status, denouncing United States intervention in the ‘ar in Vietnam, and to “radically transform" the university community, and provide for its complete control by studect+. Gus Hall, General Secretary, Communist Farty, USA, Wica interviewed by a representative of United Press Int<:aational in San Francisco, California, on Kay 14, 1965, descrited the SDS as a part of the “resporsitle left" which the Fa:ty has "going for us." At the June, 1965, SDS National Co;,ention, an anti-comsunist proviso was removed from the SDS constitution. In the October 7, 1966, issue of "New Left Notes,” the official publication of SDS, an SDS spokes”. stated that there are some communists in SDS and they are welcome. The national headquarters of this organization ss of July 24, 1968, was located in Kocm 206, 1608 West Maeciazon Street, Chicago, Tllinois. APPENDIX >>