For the Record

■ Re-election of I. W. Abel as Steelworkers president important on number of counts. 1) It means Abel is in line to succeed George Meany as head of AFL-CIO, 2) It means the Steelworkers will not split away from parent organization and join Walter Reuther’s and Jimmy Hoffa’s Alliance for Labor Action (ALA) which is what insurgent candidate Emil Narick had hinted, and 3) it indicates backlash vote is not as big among steelworkers as thought. Abel had campaigned for Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher, the Negro mayors of Cleveland and Gary, Indiana, and was attacked by Narick for doing so. . . . Hatcher, incidentally, taking socialist line more and more. He’s against capitalism black and white because “capitalism for the most part has been able to progress only by exploiting the masses.”

■ New fun and games planned for spring. At Princeton meeting of SDS and Progressive Labor types (they’re the Maoist fringe of the youth movement) it was decided to stage mobilization against the military in Washington in March and a national student strike in May. Mike Klonsky, national chairman of SDS, says even high school strikes against dress codes are good practice for militant youth. . . . According to the NSA, only 39 of the students who took part in violent demonstrations in first half of 1968 were suspended from school. NSA says 39,000 students were involved in all. . . . New Left Notes (the SDS paper) putting out emergency call for bail money. It cost the Left $16,000 to bail out the 650 students arrested in San Francisco State riots in late January. . . . Guardian gleefully reports that at a New York meeting of the new Wallace-ite youth, called National Youth Alliance, chief targets were YAF and Wm. Buckley of national review, for being “the best friends the Bolsheviks have.”

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■ Re-election of I. W. Abel as Steelworkers president important on number of counts. 1) It means Abel is in line to succeed George Meany as head of AFL-CIO, 2) It means the Steelworkers will not split away from parent organization and join Walter Reuther’s and Jimmy Hoffa’s Alliance for Labor Action (ALA) which is what insurgent candidate Emil Narick had hinted, and 3) it indicates backlash vote is not as big among steelworkers as thought. Abel had campaigned for Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher, the Negro mayors of Cleveland and Gary, Indiana, and was attacked by Narick for doing so. . . . Hatcher, incidentally, taking socialist line more and more. He’s against capitalism black and white because “capitalism for the most part has been able to progress only by exploiting the masses.”

■ New fun and games planned for spring. At Princeton meeting of SDS and Progressive Labor types (they’re the Maoist fringe of the youth movement) it was decided to stage mobilization against the military in Washington in March and a national student strike in May. Mike Klonsky, national chairman of SDS, says even high school strikes against dress codes are good practice for militant youth. . . . According to the NSA, only 39 of the students who took part in violent demonstrations in first half of 1968 were suspended from school. NSA says 39,000 students were involved in all. . . . New Left Notes (the SDS paper) putting out emergency call for bail money. It cost the Left $16,000 to bail out the 650 students arrested in San Francisco State riots in late January. . . . Guardian gleefully reports that at a New York meeting of the new Wallace-ite youth, called National Youth Alliance, chief targets were YAF and Wm. Buckley of national review, for being “the best friends the Bolsheviks have.”