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Show A meat cutting room was installed in the Union basement 18 months ago to replace the practice of buying packaged meats that were harder to inspect, and that came pre-cut, usually allowing smaller individual portions. Clog Pentagon Halls 'Peaceniks' Plan Disruption By PHIL SEMAS Collegiate Press Service WASHINGTON (CPS) Opponents Oppon-ents of U.S. policy in Viet Nam are shifting their tactics from protests pro-tests and demonstrations to actual attempts to disrupt the war effort. The new tactics will be tested on October 21 when thousands of people peo-ple will gather in Washington for ;- protest which, for some of them, i will include an attempt to "sit down inside the Pentagon and stop groups will converge on the south parking lot of the Pentagon, where there will be a mass rally. Jerry Rubin, the full time organizer organ-izer of the demonstration, says if there the more than 200,000 people, peo-ple, there may be two or three rallies. No one in the Mobilization leadership has any idea of how many people will be coming. The group has made arrangements for 1,000 buses to bring people down from New York City to the demonstration, demon-stration, however. our bodies to get into the building." build-ing." Father Richard McSorley, a theology the-ology professor at Georgetown University, Uni-versity, says the policy of the Mobilization Mo-bilization Committee is non-violence "in the Gandhian sense. If we are hit we will not retaliate. We will not break police lines." But Mobilization leaders admit that they can't guarantee against the actions of individuals. (Continued on page 10) ii irom working." Dave Dellinger, chairman of the National Mobilization to End the War in Viet Nam, emphasizes that there will be three parts to the October 21 demonstration: a march, a rally, and "an opportunity for civil disobedience." Broadly Based He says the Mobilization is a broadly based organization with 100 groups supporting it and the October Octo-ber 21 protest is intended to provide pro-vide ways of protest both for those who wish to march and those who, in Dellinger's words, "want to do more than dissent, who want to try to stop the war." On October 21 there will actually be two marches, one from the Lincoln Lin-coln Memorial and the other from the Washington Monument. The two Dellinger says the list of speakers speak-ers for the rally is not yet complete. com-plete. Sin-In Planned After the rally, those who wish to will hold a sit-in at the doors of the Pentagon. The object will be to stop people from entering the building. Both Dellinger and Rubin say that anyone who wishes to leave the building will be welcome to do so. -Rubin says the sit-in will be both "symbolic and disruptive." The Mobilization Mo-bilization doesn't really expect to shut down the Pentagon, where as many as 10,000 people will be working work-ing that Saturday. "The Movement Move-ment hasn't yet reached the stage where it can do that," says Rubin, but Dellinger adds, "We hope people peo-ple will at least have to step over Marchers Picket Army who are sitting in non-violently" replied Mrs. Donna Allen, co. chairman of the Washington Mo- L bilization Committee. "They can be arrested peacefully." (Continued fron Page 3) "If there is a problem of violence on October 21 it will be caused by the police," Dellinger says. The committee leaders say they have reason to fear police attacks. They point to Sept. 20, when demonstrators dem-onstrators from Women Strike for Peace were attacked with clubs by police because more than 200 were attempting to picket in front of the White House. A recent rule limits the number to 100. Police Mistreat And in another recent case two young men who had been protesting protest-ing the draft with a sit-down in front of the Selective Service headquarters head-quarters in Washington Rodney Robinson of Redwood City, California Cali-fornia and Matthew Clark of Clarkesburg, Virginia said they were pushed into corners and handled very roughly by police, even though they said they neither resisted nor co-operated with their arrest. At a press conference last week several reporters suggested that by sitting in at the Pentagon the demonstrators dem-onstrators will be inciting violence. "There is no reason to club people |
