Mr, Stokely Carm ichael, chairman of SNCC and advocate of the "black power" slagan, advised American Negroes to copy the Vietmamese, He gave this advice at a Detroit meeting on January 19. The Vietnamese had learned "that they have the right to fight." A whole generation of Negroes might have to suffer before they learned this lesson, He stated: "This is why we can never win in Vietnam - because the Vietcong have learnt in fighting the French for so many years that the right to fight is theirs, We must learn that also." In his speech he advocated land redistribution - "and that's what this country doesn't want to talk about," The aim of an organised Negro vote, such as he worked for in Lowndes County, Alabama, last year, was to put in office men pledged to high property taxes, "The Negroes, being propertyless, will vote for the taxes, and the handful of landowners, if they don't pay, will have to forfeit their land - and the country will then redistribute it," he said, Mr. Carmichael had announced earlier in the week that he is to resign as chairman of the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee, He is to take this step so that he can concentrate on founding a third political party with a special appeal to Negroes, He is making a nation-wide tour explaining to Negroes that their first objective must be to organise themselves, starting in "shettoes" of the big northern cities,
Based upon press reports,