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The rage of Red China is a catchy ditty entitled “Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention.” Radio stations have been broadcasting the song continuously, with pauses after each phrase so that the happy masses can catch the lyrics: Obey orders in all your actions/Do not take a single needle or piece of thread from the masses/Turn in everything captured. Rumor has it that Lenny Bernstein will do the recording for the Carter Burdens’ Starve-In in Southampton early next year.

The myth has it that Republican campaigns are paid for by the “fat cats,” who will be amply repaid for their contributions by government policies favoring big business, whereas the “ordinary people” altruistically send the Democrats their contributions of $5 and $10, saved out of the grocery money. Not so, says the Republican National Committee, which has put together a batch of statistics pointing out the big givers on the Democratic side. Item: In 1969-70 organized labor contributed over $4 million to candidates for Congress and governorships. Of this, more than 96 per cent went to Democrats. (Reminder: This money comes from union dues, many of them extracted involuntarily. ) Item: Barry Goldwater read into the Congressional Record a list of people who gave $30,000 or more to the Democratic Party or its candidates in 1968. There are 31 names, and their contributions total over $2 million. This is half what Republicans in the same category gave, but still hardly negligible. Item: COPE, the political arm of the AFL-CIO, reported that it spent $969,328 in 1969, but, according to information read into the Record by Sen. Paul Fannin, that did not include the salaries of its employees. The salaries of just those making over $10,000 per year totaled $443,862, and records are not available to the public as to how much was spent on lower-level salaries.

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The rage of Red China is a catchy ditty entitled “Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention.” Radio stations have been broadcasting the song continuously, with pauses after each phrase so that the happy masses can catch the lyrics: Obey orders in all your actions/Do not take a single needle or piece of thread from the masses/Turn in everything captured. Rumor has it that Lenny Bernstein will do the recording for the Carter Burdens’ Starve-In in Southampton early next year.

The myth has it that Republican campaigns are paid for by the “fat cats,” who will be amply repaid for their contributions by government policies favoring big business, whereas the “ordinary people” altruistically send the Democrats their contributions of $5 and $10, saved out of the grocery money. Not so, says the Republican National Committee, which has put together a batch of statistics pointing out the big givers on the Democratic side. Item: In 1969-70 organized labor contributed over $4 million to candidates for Congress and governorships. Of this, more than 96 per cent went to Democrats. (Reminder: This money comes from union dues, many of them extracted involuntarily. ) Item: Barry Goldwater read into the Congressional Record a list of people who gave $30,000 or more to the Democratic Party or its candidates in 1968. There are 31 names, and their contributions total over $2 million. This is half what Republicans in the same category gave, but still hardly negligible. Item: COPE, the political arm of the AFL-CIO, reported that it spent $969,328 in 1969, but, according to information read into the Record by Sen. Paul Fannin, that did not include the salaries of its employees. The salaries of just those making over $10,000 per year totaled $443,862, and records are not available to the public as to how much was spent on lower-level salaries.