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Cesar Chavez — Part 2
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APPENDIX CONFADENTIAL
PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY
"Tne New York Times" city edition, Tuesday,
April 20, 1965, page 27, reported that a new party of
“revolutionary socialism" was formally founded on April 18,
1965, under the name of the -Progressive Labor Party (PLP)
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which had been known as the Progressive Labor Movement.
According to the article, “The Progressive Labor
Movement was founded in 1962 by Milton Rosen and Mortimer
Scheer after they were expelled from the Communist Party of
the United States for assertedly following the Chinese
Communist line."
A source advised on June 3, 1968, that the PLP
held its Second National Convention in New York City,
May 31 to June 2, 1968, at which time the PLP reasserted
its objective of the establishment of a militant working
class movement based on Marxism-Leninism.
The source also advised that at the Second National
Convention Milton Rosen was unanimously reelected National
Chairman of the PLP and Levi Laub, Fred Jerome, Jared Israel,
William Epton, Jacob Rosen, Jeffrey Gordon, and Walter Linder
were elected as the National Committee to lead the PLP until
the next convention.
The PLP publishes “Progressive Labor," a bimonthly
magazine, and “Challenge-Desafio," a monthly newspaper.
Source advised on May 25, 1970, that the PLP
utilizes an address of General Post Office Box 808, Brooklyn,
New York, and also utilizes an office in Room 617, 1 Union
Square West, New York, New York
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