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Class Perspective. The manual told students how to get jobs: "You're not afraid to work is the idea to get across"; "Don't dress like a slob." It also explained how to act: "Don't talk to workers like you know everything and they know nothing." It summed up the program's purpose: To get across "the identity of interests of students and workers" and spell out "the relationship of the Viet Nam and the other imperialist wars to their immediate demands, to the fact that they and their sons die in the war, that...
...They held briefings and sent out thousands of letters informing executives about the program and recommending screening procedures to keep activists off payrolls. J. Edgar Hoover warned that union members would face "fanatic, anarchist revolutionaries" who have left behind them "a bitter wake of arson, vandalism, bombings and destruction across the nation" and who believe that "unions should be destroyed, along with the Government, the military, private industry and law enforcement." New York's Commerce and Industry Association held a meeting, closed to outsiders, at which 250 executives were given lengthy, detailed counsel on methods of blocking the infiltrators...
Actually, only a few hundred militant students, perhaps 1,000, have found jobs in parking lots, factories and warehouses, where they are trying to put across their message in talks with small groups and individuals. Their reception has been cool, if not hostile; most of the industrial workers have no patience with revolutionary jargon and little sympathy for comparatively privileged college students who spout it. The president of the Brewery Workers Union, Karl F. Feller, says: "A well-placed fist could be the welcome that awaits S.D.S. revolutionaries," and a Chicago United Automobile Workers' spokesman says, "Those kids couldn...
...across the country, radical groups are working intensively on plans for a massive descent on Chicago in mid-October. They claim that as many as 30,000 students will gather there to protest the war and demonstrate their support for the Black Panthers and for the "Conspiracy 8," who are charged with conspiring to incite riots at the Chicago Democratic convention last year. For sheer propaganda, however, nothing the activists are planning or doing is likely to equal the summer project of ex-S.D.S. Organizer Rennie Davis and Detroit's Linda Evans, an S.D.S. leader. They are presently...
...Deal's WPA Theater Project; of Parkinson's disease; in Old Tappan, N.J. Unemployment was skyrocketing in the Depression-bound U.S. theater when Mrs. Davis, who founded Vassar College's Experimental Theater, was asked to help the show go on. She established theaters in 40 cities across the country, opened up jobs for some 13,000 actors, directors and theater workers, and helped introduce such playwrights as Christopher Marlowe, Maxwell Anderson and Clifford Odets...