ot HW 532716 -Docld: 32397374 Page 7 mie » OCT Wot’ rorayecms  Wiows of Sidney Lons on fkoentic Nachal oktuation 7 end the New Politics Convention | L. Sidney Lens wes extremely pessielsatic aboubl the present ols tloal, ettuation in tha United Chatea. Hoa bolleved that tha groving forks a etrivte was) bvingtiny about the boeakup of the Aeclean Liberal concensus, rc yealing 7. “he _ ound cis coud hypocrisy” ef Mie fraerican power cbrnchure. . Ke . condoned nar Tlbecnh reforms bo head olga violent domestie aielife dnevitable aT a acey OY jceandon of black militants snd Loft Liberals ond radicals yord even asalble. Ne believed that come sorb of vast conspiracy on thea rignt might a be already underway to Gestroy Snertcon QAROCT ACY © 2. Lanst gtate of Geprsasion might in pact be okplained by the follure “Or She How Politics Convention with which Lens vas eceably involved. He vada that: Use Diack Cancus/ond the. CPuga dad virtually urecked tne convention, 2bethe Commsumists had wailed to got tha Convention's OUP work Lor a King-Speck ay ie or coe obher third tleket in the J 953 nvesidential cleetions > vad ch the C ; communists vere very eoger to ovtain. 36° Tong paid thee ealyidye yaclal pour bad been Palnteained ia Chicasyo PBI Gunns af money moving into tae pocketa of known Cactus bie subsaer bs blaék nationalists Leaders, youth gang herders ond certain loonk politicians. his oneration, to heap Chalengo “cool”, had been succesatful, Imbt had elso oeotnced wuch cyniclen cong ordinery Whack people who vere opin ing to enpenaere ls ost wheb verb on und EO oon goused Dy ou vonenb. fons ia a . Ty slieved that conditions vere suena thet Black people Jin Cinicazo could not tr _ protest willtantly ina the Pubuece, and yerhaps nob ony OL sein, hob weal Sow Thack easwuntbhy, he maintained, nhawed creat solidarity, despite lts Aivistous. According to Longs, nots one iegro sniper vaa coupe or Genounced cueing the sucmer. . , dk. Devas said he ied a be een ole “to puuintaln toarly sood tentacts wi heny Uegroes in the ghettoes and vita mack Intellectuals, rid be seemed tO nave a Lubeby self-contid mb idea of vbab was going on within the black coamupad by. 5. Ue moatntained thal white radicals in General, however, had virtually po intluence inside the chestoes and that tha Daly machine vas more infhuential bhaa tna ssourepalve La the CLUSA or the Socialist Vorkara forty. Mo lney nothing abouk RA ee fluence, 12 eny, bub sald that the canter of black nationaLllen a othyity 6 eed ot pre esens in the Vest Gartield aion.
G. Concesn Lng any poosible black comaplracy on a ine: oniide scala, - Lens thoughy this waa nonsense, ‘Vices betvean groups cond Lsaders bad been reported to lin-os loose, with many feuds betveen them, Leas cold. Te added thab he hud heard of no international contacts by black nabionalista, except — os ‘the well-lmoim tries wbroad of TCC leaders. 7. feng yemalaed a ehrong obatrer of De. Loeebin Rutaor xing, Lo be felt had mule memy pistakes in bis Cilcago cperationa, bub wao novertheless was o sincere leader who naintalacd his chocisma over the black masses, despite the desagogsie behavior of the leaders of the smaller black cxtremist groups. On the other hand, Lena folt that Rev. James Devel Ames often exrabic ond even 4Arresponsivle in his actions. In any cose, Lens stronwhy believed that dag ned the possibility of playing a future role of great Inmcortance in the black conan ty. , &. Lens ceald hs had heacd nota ing fvon the organizers of the Stockhola. Confsrence co Vietnwa, wiiely he had attended, end wondered 32 eny cffortes alk wore belng nade by the Continuins Cormlctea of tha Couference to develop peace initiatives. He said thatohe hed never heard Sra the Latia Anexteuns ho had proposed in Stockholm that u.G. ond Latin Americen yoace mliitants -hold o neeting semawhere In the neer Putwee. Lens thought they had dropped the idee, vaich was to have been conerntinzed through hia, os cheilrman of the American TLelegation In Stocxnoln, bub could not understand + cy a 7 9. 25% beveling of his associates in thea poace wovemeni, he oo it ths Staugaton Lynd, : Showa & amber of che boelal borurd . never consulted nin about ceythiag. Porbave , Tams “Ee Vat Lynd wa very hostile to ony proposals Por clectoral action, ile Lens vas not. As Tor Lave Dollinger,/Lons cald he did nob understand whab IeLiinger uns wo to these days. Tollingsr, he naditatacd, Teal esowned on "equivocal attitude’ to the pneifiob principles he hod believed da witil the deatan of AJ. Muste./ Lens Be id be had never heard Dellinger explain hizaaself or his projects. LO. Abt: wwned 46 6 hond-ont of m poper ontitled “Ccme Ghougnes on the HOP Conference” written by Lons,: ond e copy of a presas release containing, Long? statement on his rebum to the Stetesa froa the Steexhobla Confermnce on Yietnen, 6-9 Subly 1967. ot 12.0 The pure PEM TVA pass the nboye revorb to opsrocr date £loLd offices tor Background Use Only. It is vognested no direct eebion pe worn osainat ths subject on the basia of the contents of this reyort ilbhoub prior onsultation ween this Asency. ‘Yivin rostriction may be conaidered withdr Caan one wouth after fource'’s departures Prom the United Stobes, althougn the Pact that these nbaber ents wers made by Snbject should contémse to be considered: restricted. 4D HW 53216 Decreases? a7a page tg Qbove
2, { . . . ae we ‘ , COND TE: ar : Sidnoy “aspn Sd BG Wuee Pash jolest Coie: sO, KLIS nads i. the Confecence VAS A mote Deda ate aoe tava for renal Pola, but licoevesd trong ly. on os foo achiewine: : One heltoaving , TOD WYO, Ate pes Mio drain | NATIONAL action fold, wanted to.cencowexate on.” — ox gankeiney) COMIN t y CGLOUNS AS A Sent ai on-cnindg Vint “ d A secend aroun felt that Leon Offered aw excoptie ral opnox tunity for a breakthrangh to Inendlecas Of thousands wha wore rot vot Alitaned with the movernent, and Suggested | that sn acdit tO pro- test avd resistance a now P esidential canpakga, concen. trating Jess on votes ard Lire a vwonld widen the _ hovenant's influence appre A third gqeon the Black Canc Sy ’ sympathized with. both ‘Str: but belaeved th ang fal coalition could bo br > lat: Anericans must Cixrst con- -eentrate on ereatin g their own sc eparate identity and. pover DASE. rs uh vi botoxe ~ ~ a, The. young peeple plapning tha Conference had four alt natives before then: | (A) to bring togethéx. solely those who belseved in communtiy: organizing as the concentration. point Yor ‘the nent YOOX, and develon stratrgy fer accele erating that cam: ALONG (dD) to Prabang ctegother these who wanted to emphasize ale fetoral ActAon to plan (Strategy Sax ‘the Presidential year and perhaps choose a-Pros- identiad tickat; (c) to hola three sinultaneens ecnforences the. thee constitrenaios at the Conferance and arraAnae a stiru trra by which the three axoups worrld lave Gnome bouse, wit ANECNOF 1Inus Leadership and structuse, but with oad mos Lox oils Lavoration and pateval aid-whon these was agyecuont, to do sos.” (a) hold: a single conference but evolve, as was done, a lew . shin which As based on tuo sets at parbios , betveon. th OZcan in and the clecteral wings ‘the one pansy oo ao beth: Of ose ancl the Black Caucus the othor The conference planners cid a Landatory job of assnxing deag- OxaAtic representation and Cenooratie expression ,- but At seems to mo that the effort xseflected an immature £orm of pz Artio@pathvea Conocracy, Altexnatives (a), {b), and (c) above cave ceasicd. erably more hope for a mature participatory Gerocracy. than < alters a mative (ad). Et was cloar in advance that no copmor a sould be wrought out of the divergent ¢ BELAT tegical porspontives : vepresented at the Conference, and it was a miectalkea to cath poopie :tegether on such a basis. The SDS model was folleved, in my epinion, too schomatically. SDS is a: anicatiion composed or a single stratum of the population, th students, who Find the MSA ANA samilax moderate institutions too confining. NON?, en the other hand is not, and will not be £o- Some tine, Ay Shino bara Of grouns made wp of mowbers of PAL stra EUS 2%, S much moxe ALLER cult, Tventually the coals he hewa’ into an organization, pnt it wae prenature ta ¢ eonld be born that WAY. Stanghton Lyid and Pennie pay
mathew Ceca, : Wonents Sindh That £2 Ata not Aistiantedrcate bafore boanmg duienr Coen cecedht the thy sense of dedieation that eniagtad amoaah cir BQ) mre: “2pants. No matters hen angeg each of us becom: ewes this ex tuac poane (3m all three cauenses) there wan @ gqamesal , Mobilization to End. the war in Vietnan, te besene the fowrih anto- > “jects such as raising and allocating hn ‘It would he wrong to quangercate the threa issvas that cauncd Paolt en this Vhea coadaition that came owt of the Conierongoa Fen temvape ome, Lf. f ’ ealscation thatowe bad mo place clas to go, thot had to bo maanhawey moo mabkter what the Fa2tfrow cool Laght-o€ toror would toa wise Sox. thn consider the realities o€ the situation: “namyts 3 thren Aistinet wings to the hoyse we putlt.. Spore “hs mech pore hope of suxryvival for an NCNP which wonla have three antononors sections, coordinating theoix worl mont carn be reached, than undox present Foun, EZ would stxonaly suggest that the Board ngildex setting vp ths roe sQpat- ate. bodies within NCNP, a comnunit: {Degen iaiog save, an olectoexal politics group, anda Re nek ON GAM %! leadership, The Board might also monate anc conloaschad only whare acmote as Ba, Oech ou Ds hn ats own: aghking the Matienal cnomous body. - Coalition between these four groups wanke bo pyace ticed through a small governing board of shx, one from cach ef the} non-Black groups and three from ee Tac K, Fo Toei action where joint action is feasibia, and 1 inve As an improvement over the previous one i 7 REY reflects the currents an the movement, Bet at is no form; aA mere: viable. one can be found along the Rines heres’. T.think. 7 od ~ friction, namely. the 13 points, + 23,000 lack Caneus vote, ‘LThe fact thah there tas ont indicates how strongly the dolhegatos were cup2 ted philosoph- zeally and how overriding was the Cosies to jsaumtain BRAty the long run, if wo build a healthy Nctle, shoo 2S5ve5 forgortt tan or washed avayv by healthier farms of collabora 12 Poxveran motions, avd: the DO Ago wadhe Rut preen. sely because vio hone ta coalesae More Levey Ly wa: within the Black Cancus ow: Foe seep te, < P NRE ETE EE ITO AALS DEL IER i “‘Docla: 32397374 ‘Pa e 10. must ane vlyne MAS takes. Lt was weeng fox the Black.c ; sist that the 12 points be accepted withaut changing a coman: the three points that were in dispute coald cacily have beox C worked out to evexyone'’s satisfaction, particulaxiv 2f sub. commitices of the Black Caucus and the Steering Committee had sat down and discussed at for a half hour, To am ware of the Doyo a logical overtones behand this issue aud also aware of the problens 2 t3.07 th. those who ap posed Forma coalition altogether. Nonetheless we must wetioh this against the loss of credibility suffered by the vast majority. who voted to | endorse, say, ALL the resolutions of the Nowark Black Powex Con- | Serence without having xvoead any of them. Poreman's spoech had the meraht that. at relaxed tensiong: betwacn Black anc White 2 ciably, Dut at was a mistake for him--oven Joonlayiy.- duce parts of his speech as resolutions and vote oa th Aiscussion, Fox Anstance while ZT faver the boycott oft Gonecal: Motors for doing business with South Ateriea, Tomianh have pres foxred a boycott against Standard O21 ascbod WG Rayo weiner ta), -