City Hall Grants Permit For Antiwar March Today

Boston officials last night granted a permit for today's antiwar march. Demonstration organizers agreed to end the march at Copley Square instead of at Post Office Square to avoid lengthy traffic snarls.

Groups will assemble at 2 p. m. at Cambridge City Hall, the Northeastern University Quad and the Boston University Sherman Student Union. The three feeder marches will converge on the Boston Common at about 3:30 p. m.

A speaker at the Common will discuss the Laos invasion and the Indochina situation. In front of the Copley Square Induction Center another speaker will describe plans for spring demonstrations in the Boston area, including the Mayday demonstrations supported at the Ann Arbor conference last weekend. A Media Center spokesman said last night that the speakers would probably be representatives of local radical women's groups.

Spring Campaign

At the Commons rally, a mass meeting to consider plans for a spring antiwar campaign will be announced. That meeting is scheduled for some time next week.

A demonstration spokesman at the Media Center criticized "the use of random violence" and said he hoped there would be no trashing. A few marshals will patrol the march.

In a rally at 1:30 p. m. at M. I. T., Noam Chomsky will speak. The meeting is sponsored by the Science Action Coordinating Committee. Those at that rally will join the feeder march from Cambridge City Hall when it passes M. I. T.

Chomsky also spoke last night at a B. U. teach-in sponsored by the Student Mobilization Committee. SMC will distribute leaflets at the Commons rally supporting its own April 24 demonstration.

Across the nation, many college groups have planned marches for today, but most of the demonstrations are expected to be small.

Wisconsin Strike

There are some exceptions. At the University of Wisconsin, 3000 people at a rally last night called a one-day strike for today. According to the Daily Cardinal, the university newspaper, the strikers hope to prevent all students from going to class. The Cardinal said that 1500 people were demonstrating in the streets last night.

Police have granted a permit to University of Michigan students who will hold a march at 4:30 p. m. today. About 250 attended a rally yesterday and, despite snow, the Michigan Daily expects 1000 people to participate in today's march.

Demonstrators in Washington, D. C. will march from George Washington University to the White House. Dartmouth students will gather on the College Green. A mill-in is scheduled bylocal groups at 5 p. m. in Times Square in New York.

Small marches will be held at Penn State, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley and Eastern Michigan University, as well as at other universities throughout the country.

Ann Arbor Conference

The Ann Arbor Conference last weekend called for demonstrations today to protest the invasion of Laos. Without much time, local antiwar leaders organized the march and rally. The demonstration has not been endorsed by any official group, but its leadership is based in the Media Center.

SDS-which held a rally yesterday to support Charles McNeil, the University electrician who says Harvard cheated him out of his raise-does not support today's march. An SDS spokesman called all negotiations a "fraud" and urged "an alliance with the working people, not with liberal politicians."

SDS will hold a rally at 4 p. m. today at Holyoke Center in support of McNeil.