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& Be CV 44-703 — oo ; oo , CAlicnv cjw (13) ae! PROGRNSAIVE LABOR PAR (PED) 2 . Ld . 4 "The New York Vines" city edition, Tuesday, April 20, 1965, page 27, reported that a new party of "revolutionary socialism" was formally founded on Apri) 18 1965, under the name of the PLP which bad been knewn as the : Progressive Labor Movement. According to the article, "he Frogressive Labor Movement was founded in 1252, by Milton Resen and MWortiner Scheer after they wore expelled from the Communist Party of the United States for assertcdly following the Chinese Communist line." A source advised on dunc 3, 1968, that the PLP hold jts Second National Convention in New York City, May 3i to June 2, 3968, at which time the PLP reasserted its objective of the establishment of a militant working class movenent based on Marxism-Leninism. This is to be accenplished through the Party's over-all revolutionary strategy of raising the consciousness of the pcople and heiping to provide ideological Jenadership in the working class strugele for state power. ‘fhe souree also advised that at the Second National Convention Milten Rosen was unanimously re-elected National Chadanan of the PLP and Levi Laub, Fred Jerome, -Jared Isracl, William Epton, Jacob Rosen, Jeffrey Gordon, and Walter Linder were elected as the National Comaiitee to lead the PLP until the next convention. The PLP publishes “Progressive Labor," a bimonthly MALAL ING; “World Revolution," a quarterly periodical; and “Challenge-Desafio," a monthly newspaper. The April, 1969, is sue of "Cha Llenge-pesafio" sects - forth that "Challenge is dedicated tothe peoples fight for anew way of Life-swhere the working men and women control. their own homes. and factorics; where they themsclves make » up the entire gpovernnent on every level and control the schools, courts, police and al) institutions which are not used to contro) then." . .