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WEB. DU BOIS CLUBS OF AMERICA A een hae sAVIe cA the on oA etober 3x0 997 1aqa¢a Pe Sources dita O1NOL¥ OC Lia Wo LVL 2uUT EI g LIV a conference of mempers cf the Communist Party (CP), including National Functionaries, set in Chicago, Illinois, for the purpose of setting in noticn forces for the establishment of a new national Marxist oriented youth organization which would hunt for the most peaceful transition to socialism. The delegates to this meeting were cautioned against the germ of anti-Soviet and anti-~CP ideologies. These delegates were also told that it would be reasonable to assume that the young soCialists attwacted into this new organization would eventually pass into the CP itself. A second conference of over 20 persons met in Chicago on December 28-29, 1963, for the purpose of initiating a "cail" to the new youth organization and planning for a founding convention to be held in June 1964. A second. source has advised that the founding con- vention for the new youth organization wat held fron June 19-21, 1964, at 150 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Czlifornia, at which time the name w.E.B. DU 30IS CLURS OF AMERICA was adopted. Approximately 500 delegates frox throughout the United States attended this convention. The eins of this organizaticn, as set forth in the preamble to the constitution, are, “It is our belie? that this nation can best sclive its problems in an atmosphere of peaceful co-existence, complete disarmament and true freedom for all peoples of the world, and that these solu~ tions will be reached mainiy through the united efforts of all democratic elements in our ccuntxry, composed essentiaily of the working people allied in the unity cf Negroes and other minorities with whites. ‘Je further fully recognize that the greatest threat to American democracy cones from the racist and right wing forces in coclition with the most reactionary sections of the economic power structure, using the tool of anti- communism to divide and destroy the unified struggle of the working people. As young people in the forces struggling for democracy, we shall actively strive to defeat these reactionary and neo-fascist elements and to achieve complete. freedom and democracy for ali Americans, thus enabling each individuel to freely choose-.and build the society he would wish to live in. Through these struggi-s we feel the American people will redlize the viability of the socialist alternatives." areexr, Qs