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...domestic construction without eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs. "When a worker tells me." he said. "Sure, I'll help you end the goddamn war, if you'll just tell me where I'll find work when it's over, what am I supposed to say to him?" Carol Lipman, executive secretary of SMC. advocate of mass actions, answered without batting an eye. "That's not our concern. The SMC can only demand an end to the war in Vietnam...
...chaos of the Sunday meeting was the culmination of the political battle that permeated the week-end. The majority of the conference, represented by Miss Lipman. National staff member Frank Greer, and Boston organizer Peter Camejo, contended that the SMC's November strategy of mobilizing masses of people has been successful in forcing the Nixon administration to address itself to the logistics of withdrawal...
...Lipman proposal designates April 13-18 as "the focus of the spring offensive." On Wednesday, April 15, "massive student strikes and actions in the colleges and high schools across the country" will be followed by "city-wide demonstrations later in the day," Miss Lipman emphasized that the spirit of the campaign should be "Bring November 15 to every possible city on April...
...proponent of the Lipman proposal responded that demands couched in terms like "imperialism" and "racism" would repel many people. A RYM spokesman insisted that it was impossible to articulate the reasons for the war outside of the context of "United States corporate interests...
After the Lipman proposal had passed, the Independent Front asked for an amendment to change the central SMC slogan. "Bring All the G.I.'s Home Now." That sentiment, said a RYM speaker, is "blatant national chauvinism in that it concerns itself with American lives, and doesn't preclude the continued "Vietnamized" presence of the U.S. in Vietnam...