Workin' At Travelers Aid-ISS Revisited (8)

 In the mid-1970s, the Billionaire Hearst Dynasty's mass media conglomerate then edited and marketed the magazines, like Cosmopolitan magazine, which it published, in an East Coast, Midtown Manhattan-based (perhaps still Hearst media conglomerate-owned) Hearst Building, near 57th Street on the West Side of Manhattan.

And, during the 1950's, this possibly could have been the building in which the, by the mid-1970's long-defunct Hearst-owned New York Daily Mirror tabloid and Hearst-owned New York Journal-American may have also been edited, marketed and printed; although I don't know for sure if that was the case, historically.

So after the 6 SLA urban guerrillas were allowed to be massacred in a fire by the Hearst Dynasty's LAPD and FBI cops, my first thought was that one particular possible way the then- revolutionary New Left Movement on the East Coast might be able to respond to the massacre of the SLA, on the East Coast, would be to just do some militant action at this Hearst media conglomerate skyscraper in Mid-Manhattan one night.

Yet, on further thought, I quickly realized that, in "the City that never sleeps," the streets in Midtown Manhattan surrounding the Hearst Dynasty's media conglomerate building there would likely never be empty of at least some pedestrians, passenger cars, tourists, theatre-goers, residents, bar and restaurant patrons, night workers leaving their jobs and NYPD cop cars, in either the dark late evening hours or the dark early morning hours.

Hence, any East Coast New Left Movement supporter who might had wanted to respond to the massacre by flame of the Hearst Dynasty's SLA political opponents, by doing some militant action at Hearst's NYC headquarters building might have had a hard time, in the mid-1970's, escaping into the nearest subway station, without being detected by somebody and then captured.

So a day or two later, I decided a possible alternative way for East Coast New Left Movement folks to express their outrage at the massacre by fire on the West Coast of the SLA urban guerrillas who had challenged the censorship and media monopoly power of the Billionaire Hearst Dynasty might be to possibly do some militant action at the mansion or on the estate of some member of the Hearst media conglomerate's board of directors, who might have then been residing on the East Coast.

Long before some addresses of some members of U.S.-based corporation or media conglomerate boards of directors could sometimes be found in the 21st-century more easily, after the internet browsers became more technically sophisticated, the quickest way one could then discover the residential addresses of the U.S. corporation or media conglomerate board of directors' members in the mid-1970s was still to go to a public library's then-reference section; and then look through the most recent editions of Standard & Poor's Register of Corporation Executives and a Who's Who In America reference book.

So in the mid-1970s, following the massacre by fire of the SLA, that's where I then looked and located a residential address of one of the Hearst media conglomerate's then-corporate board members; who then lived, historically, in some exclusive suburban town enclave in Westchester County. 

Workin' At Travelers Aid-ISS Revisited (7)

 The only other workers I can vaguely recall who worked in the building in which the Travelers Aid-ISS workplace office in Manhattan was then located were two African-American men, seeming to be in their late 20s or early 30s, who worked behind the counter of the small cafeteria, which was located in the basement of the building.

Each workday I would spend my morning and afternoon 15-minute coffee break time down in the small basement cafeteria of the building, usually buying and eating a buttered roll, a danish, or some other cake snack; and sometimes conversing with the two friendly African-American men behind the counter who were always dressed in their chef-suit workclothes.

But, so many years later, the only conversation I can now recall having had with them was one in which one of the African-American cafeteria workers expressed surprise when I mentioned to him that I didn't particularly mind it, if a woman lover I may have been involved with wanted to also be involved sexually with another lover, because I wasn't into monogamy and was in favor of multiple relationships for women, as well as for men.

It was also while I was working at Travelers Aid-ISS that the LAPD police officers attacked the house in Los Angeles in which six of the Symbionese Liberation Army [SLA] anti-imperialist/anti-capitalist and anti-racist left urban guerrillas- who had kidnapped the billionaire Hearst Dynasty heiress, Patty Hearst, a few months before to demand that the Hearst Dynasty set up a "free food for the poor" program and publish the SLA communique texts in the newspapers it then owned--were then hiding out.

And, like most 1970s U.S. left Movement supporters, after it was revealed that, rather than just surrounding the house in which the SLA members were hiding and waiting until some kind of negotiated surrender and arrest of SLA members would then be arranged by left Movement lawyers, the FBI-backed LAPD cops had chosen to just burn out and massacre, on the spot, the six SLA members who were inside the Los Angeles house, I then felt enraged. 

In the mid-1970s, the degree to which the U.S. West Coast FBI office and the U.S. West Coast police departments were able to be in immediate contact with the U.S. East Coast FBI office and the U.S. East Coast police departments seemed to apparently be much less than it became in later decades; after the development of more advanced computer technology had enabled FBI offices and local police departments to apparently substitute the use of emails for the use of telephones, telexes and faxes, as a means of communication among themselves.

So when I thought to myself that one way U.S. left Movement people on the U.S. East Coast might be able to respond to the FBI and LAPD's fascist-type elimination, on behalf of the billionaire Hearst Dynasty, of the six SLA members, I then assumed that the East Coast FBI and East Coast police department offices would be unprepared then to respond to some U.S. left East Coast act of revolutionary resistance, which focused on a Hearst Dynasty media conglomerate-related symbol.