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...situation where being against the Vietnam war can mean anything from supporting Vietnamization to wanting victory for the National Liberation Front, the subtleties of political stances can be very confusing. To label one SDS-PL and the other SMC-YSA is on oversimplification...
cussion of whether there should be a demonstration against the Vice-President at the Sheraton-Cleveland. The SDS-PL group put forward the idea that there should not only be a demonstration against Agnew, but also one against Mayor Carl Stokes. They claimed that Stokes was against the workers, even though he was black. They referred to the calling out of the National Guard to break the postal workers' strike. The planners of the conference wanted instead only to have a peaceful and orderly demonstration in front of the Sheraton against Agnew...
...course of the heated discussion. Peter Camejo of the Socialist Workers Party gave a speech which managed to inflame the passions of the members of PL. Starting off slowly and with control, he would gradually increase the speed and fervor of his remarks until he reached a shrill, unintelligible climax which would be drowned out in the applause of the moderate group, and the angry cries of the PL members. He said PL did not want to align with any sell outs, and then accused PL of feeling that everyone was a sellout except themselves...
...chairmen of the Cleveland Area Peace Action Council, the group which organized the conference, was sitting near the front. He was a middle-aged fellow with close- cropped hair. He looked exhausted. I asked him what he felt about the conference. He lamented the fact that SDS and PL had "obscured" the issues, but he felt that was just part of the overhead of having an open conference. When asked who was running the conference, he became even sadder, and said intensely, "The people are running this. To say anybody else is running this thing is ridiculous. The people...
Finally, one of the speakers who had been already recognized gave up his time so that the point of order could be made. The point of order was that there should be some speakers from SDS and PL, and more people allowed to speak against the Lafferty proposal. It was pointed out by the man who raised the point of order that the chairmen who had refused to recognize him was none other than Jim Lafferty himself, the man whose proposal was being discussed on the floor. In the ensuing vote on whether SDS and PL should be allowed...