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Emphasizes Public Health

The congressman
emphasized the need for more
concern for public health "We
aren't coming to grips with the
issue when blacks have to
go on television and beg for
money in a country where the
Gross National
Product is over one trillion
dollars."

Mr. Dellums vehemently
attacked sexism which has
"caused us to become
ineffectual human beings That
is what we have done to
women and to ourselves."

Citing statistics from the
Nixon Administration's
Department of Commerce. Mr
Dellums pointed out the
inconsistency in the job market
produced by the Vietnam war

"When the United States
spends one million dollars on
warfare, it creates 59,000 jobs,
and when the government
spends one million dollars in
peacetime it creates 110,000
jobs or specifically twice the
jobs generated by killing."

Mr. Dellums, an advocate of
"Coalition Politics," received a
standing ovation and
concluded,"If we are ever able
to bring political forces
together in the country,
we must take America from
madness to humanity,
exploitation to equality, racism
to freedom and war to peace. I
join you in that effort."