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APPENDIX {i PROGRESSIVE 1.8BOR PARTY (PLP) "The New York Tircs’ city edition, Tuesday, April 20, 1965, page 27, reportea that a new party of "revolutionary soc i2zbisn" was formally founseco ca April ts, 1965, .under the name of the PLP vhich ha- been know as the Progressive Labor Movement. , According to the article, “The Progréz=sive Laber Movement was founded in 1962 by Milton Rosen and Mortimer Scheer after they were expelled from the Comnunist Party of the Uniced States for assrrtedly folloving tne Chinese Communist line." A source advisec on June 3. 1968, that ‘the PLP held its Second National Coenveation in New York City. May 31 to Tune 2, 1968. at vhich time the PLP resss-rted its objeciive of the estaolishmeot of « militant working ciass movement based on Marxism-Leninism This is to be accorplishec through the Party's over-all revolutionary strategy of raising the corscicusness of the peaple and helping to previde ideological leadership in the working class struggje for state power, The source also advised that at the Second Nationa! Conven- tion Milton Rosen vas unanimously re-elected National Chairman of the PLP and Levi Laub. Fred t*#rone, Jared Israsl, Walliam Epton, Jacob Rosen, Jeffrey Gorcos and Walter Linder were Elected @s the National Comittee to lead the PLP until] the next convention. _.._._.______. — —-- The PLP publishes "Progressive Labor" a bi-monthly magazine; “World Revcluticna"™, a quarterly periccical; and "Challenge- Desifio', a monthly newspaner. The April, 1969, issue of "Cha!lengs-Desafio" sets forth that "Challenge is dedicated to the peopie's fiznt for a new way of Life--where the vorking men and women coatret wieéir own homes and factories; where they themselves make up the entire governmeat on every level and control tne schools, courts, potice an@ all insti- tutions which aré new used to control them," Source advised on May 8, 1969. that the PLP utilizes an addisss of General Fost Office Box 808, Brooklyn. New York, and alse utilizes an office in Room 617, 1 Union Square West, New York. New York, a VAAL SPORT SUR BSL AS RTE ae rE SET emery woe om Ca ae eo, al oe lace tal — ee eee” “ mae we . “x nate Ls ee pene Pe aay, wes oe: Pegs oi ; arn a et. evn ats re LO ER te