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Show 23 described by local a law inforcement officer I'a as typical military underground newspaper written to berate and belittle the military,"2 was also used to promote the various The paper political activities financed from the MOM's general was funds, of the MOM. most of which came from donations. Paul Robert Moore Trust Fund whose executors had been labeled Commu- The nist party members during organization's biggest benefactor was 1950 session of the House Committee a the on Un-American Activities. It is the fall racial interesting to note that the demise of Attitude Check in of 1970 apparently ·coincides with serious political and factionalism within the MOM. included a shooting incident the coffeehouse, Other political in which unidentified persons fied into wounding an active duty marine. confrontations between black marine corpsmen Machine and black residents in the lication difficult. pressures At the attending same time, the Green neighborhood:made continuing pub Founding members of the MOM moved south to San Diego where they began publishing another underground aimed at navy personnel: Up From the Bottom. At least two other undergrounds, Navy Times Are Changin' and The Great Lakes Torpedo (both published in the MOM. Chicago area), have been identified as associated with the Although this explanation and various GI almost entirely undergrounds on of the is not relationship between highly detailed (based, the MOM as it is, testimony given before Congressional committee), it indicates the· potential significance of the organizational affili ation category. General sources factionalism may be on a the GI movement suggest that organizational prime factor in the historical development of |
