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beeen - APPENDIX [= WORKER STUDENT ALLIANCE/PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY - A source advised during August, 1969, that at the National Convention (NC) of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held in Chicago, Illinois, during June, 1969, a split arose between the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and the National Office (NO), the NO becoming known as the Weatherman faction. The PLP faction drew the largest i. ss -_— a he] — oF -support among those in attendance at the NC. Source further advised that during late Summer, 1969, the PLP faction of SDS established its National Headquarters (NH) on the second floor of a loft-type building at 173A Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. The campaign on which the PLP faction centered was to build a worker student alliance or a campus worker student alliance, Thus, they adopted the names of Worker Student Alliance (WSA) er Campus Worker Student Allience. Source stated that the "New Left Notes," printed in New York City, is the official publication of the WSA faction. A second source advised during January, 1970, that within the SDS, the WSA is a caucus of which the PLP constitutes the leadership. A third source advised during July, 1970, that during demonstrations staged in the Boston arez during the Spring and Summer of 1970 by the NH, the main theme of previous demonstrations staged by the NH shifted fron protestations of the Vietnam War and other United States foreign policy matters to attacking domestic issues such as racism and unemployment and demonstrating support of the “workers' struggle."