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CPUSA, ‘the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Young . Socialist Alliance (YSA), and the Student Mobilization Committee to. | End the War in Vietnam (SMC). The extended sessions were attended by Sarnoff and Wilson, and as a result of their daily meetings, the - conferees formed the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Q - Vietnam, which became known as the New Mobe: Following a July 4 meeting, New Mobe leaders ‘announced that an intensive campaign against the war in Vietnam would be organized across the United States. While they approved the scheduling of var- ied antiwar activities throughout the summer, it was clear that their - ultimate goal was the launching of a two-part fall offensive. Accord- © ing to instruction leaflets distributed to their followers, a nationwide moratorium would be held on October 15. A march on Washington was scheduled for November 15, along witha simultaneous action on ~ the West Coast. At the end of July 1969, during a meeting of the project directors of New Mohbe, it was decided to include a “March of the Dead” in the - . Washington demonstration, This dramatic activity envisioned parade participants being issued placards. with the name of a serviceman . killed in Vietnam. The marchers would then move past the White - House in 8 single file and on to the Capitol building where the street - drama would end. In the middle of September, New Mobe held a press ‘conference i in” New York City for the purpose of publicizing the fall offensive. Follow.’ ing release of the details of the moratorium and the Washington | ‘march, Senator Fred Harris of Okiahoma, the Democratic National Chairman, called a secret’ caucus on Capitol Hill. The meeting on September 26 was attended by twenty-four liberal Democrats. Among | those present were Senators Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy, George S. McGovern, Walter F. Mondale, Birch Bayh, Clai- borne Pell, and Mike Gravel. ‘The House was represented by Allard K. Lowenstein, Brock. Adams, Edward P. Boland, John Conyers, Jr. - and Robert Kastenmeier. During the caucus, these influential con- gressional leaders agreed to support the nationwide moratorium and ‘to develop a set of resolutions calling for the withdrawal of all Ameri: | cari troops from Vietnam, They also discussed the possibility of forc- ing the Senate to shut down on October’15 by simply failing to at- ' tend, As he left the Vandenberg room; where the caucus had met, To aa Harris declared: “It’s time to take off the gloves on Vietnam,”7" |. “The demonstrators received, other support for their efforts from vate. - " dous foreign sources. On October 6 Tran Buu Kiem, chairman of the - |: South Vietnam Liberation Students’ Union, sent a i message to. "Ameri- - New York Times, Sertember 27, 1969) — can students anc movement.” In hi wrote, “The heroi: Oakland, and Ber. namese youth anc: ‘A few days bef sentative Wayne | ered that he wou’ assembly in Brus- his absence, he su Tam debating >. single-handedly-b: Hanoi to make it Representative . T happen to be ¢ orders tomorrow. . ‘ Hanoi? Hays answered: No, I would no: an effort which is get any benefit o.: that the majorit, Vietnamese, bec: done. The next day, t: activities. On Oct: the United States Vietnamese gover: aged “U.S. progre “Our people’s pati’ justice that you #: 1969), ' In the early af: ceived in the Uni: gave his impressic ing.moratorium ac What really con. _- who apparently a: above country at : Record, October |