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BB - oe calizetion Comittee To Enc The War in Vietoam; Ketion®1 Student Kcobiligzation Committee’ . 7? . * - A source advised on May 16, 1959, thet the Student Kobllizeticn Committee originelly grew out of the National | - Student Strike for Peace ccnference held in Chicago, Illinois, . on December 23-29, 1666, which resulted in a call for massive antiwar demonstrations in Kew York City and San Francisco, © Celifornia, on April 15,°1957. The National Student Strike for Peace was originelly celled by the Communist Party (cP). Divisions crose tstween elements of the CP and the Socialist Workcre Party (SWP), culminating in a take-over by the SVP element in the Summer of 1958 and the CP element with- drawing. Source, further advise¢ the Student Mobilization Comittee locélly and nationally is controlled by the SWP and its youth arm, Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), as evidenced by their participation 1n Student Mobilization. Committee functions and their leadership role played in the student Mobilization Cormittee. . The SWP has been Gesisnated pursuant to Executive Order 16450. . . A report ty the Cornittee On Un-American Activities, House of Ripreseniatives, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, e2ted Merch 31, 1657, entitied “Communist Origin and Manipulation of Vietnam Week (April 8-15, 1957)" stated that ths Student Kobilizetion Committee and the April 15, 1957, antiwar demonstrations were Communist dominated and inspired. . A e2cond source on April 3, 1959, made available 8 copy of "Tne Student Mobilizer" dated April 5, 1559, which was self-described as being pudlished by the National Office of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnan, 657 Broadway, Reom 307, New York, New Yor, 10003. In this issue, the aims of the Student Kobilization Committee were set forth as: Bring the GIs home from Vietnam now; end campus complicity with the war; ané win s2l1f-determinetion for . Vietnam and Black America. 2