Youth Movement Under Attack

ré from "The Militant". On March 4th, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach announced that he was petitioning the Subversive Activities Cmtrol Board to order the DuBois Clubs to register as a ‘Communist Frent! under the McCarran Act. On March 5th a press conference was held by the Brooklyn,N.Y., DuBois Club to protest against Katzenbach's action. As this press conference came to an end, a gang of hoodlums which had been mobilized. outside the Dubois Club's Headquarters began throwing eggs, cans and other objects. Several policemen arrived, -As members of the youth organisation left the headquarters, they were attacked and they ran to their cars... the police pulled four of them from their automobile and threw them into squad cars. The police aided the right-wing gang. One member relates "the police held my arms while people hit me, and a cop cursed me and hit me with a billy". A Negro youth singled out as a target by the palice and the mob, says ‘the cops stood around and laughed while we were beaten." The leader of the New York DuBois Clubs, said that the New York 'Daily News! reporter spit at DuBois Club members. The police did not arrest any of the attacking gang, but arrested six DuBois Club mem bers~ all under twenty years old, The next day, March 6th a blast shattered the national headquarters of the DuBois Clubs in San Francisco. Police investigators report that the charge was placed beneath the porch, and it is estimated that as many as 40 sticks of dynamite may have been used in the explosion. The buildings on either side of the Club weré wrecked by the explosion. ‘y