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TWO-MAN RACE IN FRANCS-Six candidates are running
for president in France in the June 1 election, but new entry
of Interim President Alain Poher (left) against front-run
ning Georges Pompidou (right) makes it a two-man race.
Poher is 60 and Pompidou, a former premier, is 57.
BRUCE BIOSSAT
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McCarthy's Red Herrings
Peril Dem Party Reform
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Democratic party reform efforts may be crippled if
militant liberals keep on insinuating that Hubert Humphrey
might not have been nominated in 1968 if the party had
held its convention elsewhere than in Chicago.
There is not a shred of evidence to support this notion.
Humphrey’s rival, Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota,
himselt fed this idea when he told the Democrats’ reform
committee he has received no apologies from any of the
party officials responsible for taking the convention to
Chicago.
McCarthy, who got a mere 601 delegate votes against
Humphrey’s 1,761, would not have won whether the con
vention was held in Chicago, in San Francisco, or Upper
Sandusky, Ohio.
Alert party officials, indeed, might more properly de
mand apology from McCarthy’s partisans for their own
consistent distortions of the democratic process—and its
results—in 1968.
In the preconvention period, McCarthy forces, in addi
tion to making constant loose, unsupported charges of
“delegate stealing” against Humphrey, laid out other com
plaints which reached the convention.
When McCarthy’s great “unfairness” hue and erv got
to the convention Credentials Committee, it quickly faded
into a pathetic echo.
His own partisans were well-represented on that com
mittee. But they gave it heavy support when, at one swoop,
it rejected unfairness charges as levied by McCarthy forces
in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Washington
State. ®
It should be noted further that neither McCarthy nor his
vocal supporters challenged the delegate-selecting process
in advance of its unfolding. They accepted the rules of the
game as applied for 1968, and challenged them only when
they did not work in their favor.
So the McCarthy people wound up trying to change the
rules in the middie of the game. They gave this the label
of reform, but its real purpose was simply to get Mc-
Carthy more delegates in 1968.
It is brutal but accurate to say that the McCarthy forces
tried to use their unfairness cry as a substitute for the
hard work of delegate-hustling. They sought to win at the
’’egotiating table what they did not even try to take on the
Battlefield.
As part of their effort to “psyche” their way to victory
some McCarthy leaders boldly misrepresented McCarthy’s
performance in the primaries. He lost six of the eight in
which he had competition, and in four ran behind Lyndon
Johnson or a pro-administration slate.
Reforms rooted in the trauma of Chicago will have a
hollow ring until militant liberals cast off false nobilltv,
accept Humphrey as properly nominated under prevailing
rules, face the fact that the McCarthy camp’s excesses
had a key role in besmirching the Democratic party as an
unfair, unrepresentative” nolitirnl nr<x»ni< m .
RAY CROMLEY
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SDS Instructs Members
How to Infiltrate Industry
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Documents which have come into the hands of this re
porter indicate the thoroughness with which the organizers
of this year’s campus “force-ins” are preparing for their
move into industry.
The effectiveness of the student-labor alliance in France
last year had a pronounced effect on riot leadership here.
The French results contrast with what one SDS (Students
for a Democratic Society) instruction letter calls their
“frustrating and often demoralizing experience” here in
the United States the past 12 months.
“Students and middle-class people . . . are not powerful
enough to stop the war machine. Closing down our schools
is not enough. Workers produce and move the goods that
are used in the war, and It is they who are primarily forced
to fight the war. They can stop it..
An SDS “Work-In Organizers Manual” explains the pri
mary target companies and outlines the techniques student
activists are to use in getting jobs in target firms. Excerpts
from that manual follow:
“Job-seekers should try to get hired in plants or trans
port depots that have several hundred (. . . 400 minimum)
workers. In larger plants, such as GM (General Motors),
GE (General Electric), United Airlines, Pennsy RR, etc.,
there is a greater tendency for workers to regard them
selves as workers, with less illusions about becoming . . .
a ’boss.’ ... In large plants in national unions there is a
greater chance that the workers will become part of . . .
mass strike movements, rebellions against sellout leader
ships, conflict with the government due to ‘national inter
ests’ injections, etc., which might create the basis for
greater mutual exchange about questions relating to oppo
sition to the government’s policies . . .
“(Larger) wholesale and retail outfits within the city
proper could be . . . advantageous . . . large mail-order
houses (Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward department
stores) . . . Other such places could include the telephone
company, gas and light company, mass utilities (if pri
vately owned)...
“In general... seek unskilled jobs ... In most cases it
would probably be best not to mention that you are a stu
dent . . . (but apply as someone who has worked since
graduation from high school) . . . which means you have
to have a place or person who will say you worked there
for the past 1 to 4 years. Each area should develop ‘back
ground’ like this for their group. . .
“If places require a ‘non-Communist’ or ‘nonsubversive’
signature, sign it. You’re not breaking any law. If it’s
engaged in government work, and you would be breaking
a law, it will be so stated on the application. Discuss this
beforehand with your group.
“You should be at your first place looking at around 8:30
or 9 a.m. It’s hard to get a job if you. start at 2 p.m. You
generally should not wear a suit and tie or fancy dress, but
don’t dress like a 510 b...
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