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American Friends Service Committee — Part 22
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DRAFT RESIS TASTE UNION OF KEMPEDS (DRUM)
are Communists of
reletive. Most pecrlt I know is SPS
their ovn tree till. Ee #asea, ‘Am I &8 Communist? =
I‘r & Firxistsienirnist." Fright etatec thm he hee been in
KMerphis for 5 years anc thet he hed been a Marxist-Leninist
while in the LU. S. Army while “ceneral Edvin Welker wse in
cherge.* Wrignt erated, ‘SIS is not trying to hide its
Cormunigt philosophy“, adding that moz< SDS members are
Communists.
Fright etated “Communism will ultimstely control
this country." He s2id he consicerea §D5 to be "very
Arerican". Pe stetéed that ths Progressive Lebor Party €PLP)
was one of the ver; strong fsiticns within SDS.
A celier then asked Clifton Riley Tayior if he was
the same Clifton Riley Taylor who had recently been active
in the DRUM movement in Mtmphnigs, Tennessee, denouncing U. S.
policy in Vietsam and the Selective Service draft, and, if
s0, whether or not be, Taylor, had told the youngsters who
he was trying to influence #bout his real affiliations and
beliefs a= @ Communist and SDS member, Taylor answered,
"SDS sponsors DRUM. But we in SDS don't try to recruit them
into SDS as euch." Taylor then stated that SDS wes a means
of turning the UT, S. into a socialist country and “this is
why thousands of students are turning to the SDS". Taylor
claimed that #11 SDS meetings are open but it has internal
caucuses which are not open to the public. He stated that
SDS has"sub=groups Within the movement but not all the
members were CP members."
A caller asked Taylor, “Bo you,as Communist, seek
out jobs in order to inflvence people?" Taylor answered, "Yes
we do, just as do the Republicans and Democrats", Taylor
concluded, "America is not fair,.For this re2son we don't all
identify ourselves."
On September 2, 1969, queguateee terete advised
that the DRUM group will have a Se nonsiration at the South-
land Mall at noon, Wednesday, September 3, 1969, and will
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