State YD's Propose Miss. Regulars Integrate With Freedom Democrats

The State Convention of Student Young Democrats accepted a compromise resotution yesterday to "recognize the existence of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and urged its integration" into the regular state party.

The original resolution, initiated by Jerry Umanski '67, recognized the MFDP as "Mississippi's legal party organization." It was attacked on the grounds that participation in an intraparty feud would only "embarrass the state and national parties."

The final resolution reserved the YD's right to alter their position "if no unification is achieved before 1963." The controversy provided the only heated discussion of the afternoon.

In a unanimous vote, Paul DeRensis '66 was elected state chairman of the State Young Dems. He is second vice-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe unit, which had the largest number of voting delegates.

Two members of the Harvard delegation, Steven Young '66 and Nathan M. Riley '66, were responsible for a resolution to back state and federal studies of the problems of economic conversion of industries from military to civilian production. This included the possibility of turning the Watertown Arsenal into an Industrial Conversion Technology Center.

The resolution also supported the McGovern Bill, which proposes establishing a National Economic Conversion Commission to study federal programs for economic conversion. The resolution passed by a large majority.

Earlier, the keynote speaker of the convention, state senator Beryl Cohen of Brookline said that the new legislature will not stand for Volpe's "care taker approach" to government. "Volpe will be the beneficiary of welfare programs in spite of himself," he prophesied, adding that the Democratic majority is large enough in each House to overrule the gubernatorial veto.