New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00623
1963
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Big Six
The rally has the full coopera
tion of the organisations cooper
ating with the March on Wash
ington, and all proceeds from the j
rally will be used to help pay
for administrative costs of the!
March, spokesmen for the
March told the press conference.
Both Cleveland Robinson and
Bayard Rustin, coordinators of
the March, attended the press
conference.
AU of the nation’s Big Six,
Rev. Martin Luther King. A.
Philip Randolph. Roy Wilkins.
Whitney Young. James Farmer,
and John Lewis of the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Com
mittee are scheduled to address
the mass rally along with sev
eral local civil rights leaders
and government officials and
many entertainers will perform.
Nelson said.
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—Sweeps
-JFK
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At a press conference
weekend Randolph, Ji
Deputy Director of the f,‘*rch i the attitude of Conpre'-smen meri 0( CORE, and the N.i
said he expects more than 25.000 and Senators was the fact that Rov wilkins, three of thr;
[New Yorkers to participate in theja large greun met with A Philip iea(jers who will meet
Wa-hmgton demonstration,
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flaniMnh. chai man of the his- president, announced thgKI
tnric march, Wednesday after «expect marchers from
noon, and agreed to sit in -al a clties throughout the countrj.
Unemployed
Churches, political clubs, civic special reserved section at thc[
will
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rally on August 28
organizations, labor unions and
scores of groups are planning to
legal
do;
were reserving 50 buses to send
unemployed persons down free
District 65 and the Negro Amer
ican Labor Council have already
chartered trains.
__ _____ _ Randolph, chairman of the
ations. (ftficialslNegro American Labor Council,
said that response to date from
Negro and white groups and In
dividuals was "much larger than
expected,”which prompted many
to believe that as many as
250,000 persons would attend the
March.
the Washington Monument and-
the elipse area near 17th St..
the nation’s capital, and begflj*
a combined march at 12 aoaC
up both Independence and Con-’
•titution Aves.. to the Lincoln
Memorial where the rally. Wilt
begin at 2 p.m.. and wJft^eJR-;;
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tinue for about two *
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The mass demonstration Ah
aimed at stirring the cona<Je0e<
of the nation on the
facing Negro
ers and the crisis existing
Negro workers over
tomation, and to stir the
end Congress to pass
ful civil rights legislation
the present session of
Randolph aid “the
matching of white and
citizens will have a
significance and Impact.***
Civil rights group leaders have
taken special precautions to keep
out “lunatic fringes” and Com
munists. and will have a special
cadre of about 2,000 to keep the
March orderly._______________
—For Jobs
(Continued from Page One)
jobs should address their mail
to the committee at: Box 1587,
Grand Central Station. 10017, New
York.
Attorney Basil Patterson, chair-
an of the New York NAACP
March group, said the branch is
reserving one - fourth of Its space
for unemployed persons.
Local committees are being or
ganised in all of the boroughs to
spur Interest In t£e March for
Jobs and freedom Rev. Thomas
Kilgore la head of the Harlem
Committee. The various commu
nity coordinators, working out of
the March headquarters. 170 W.
130th St., are active stirring in
terest throughout the city. The
phone number is FI 8-1800.
Traveling around to get nation
al interest are Mr. Rustin. Cleve
land Robinson, chairman of the
Administrative Committee. Frank
Montero, and Theodore Brown.
Fund • Raising
In an attempt to answer ques
1 tions on the March, Mr. Robin
son and Dr. James Fanner, CO
RE national director, will appear
on the television show "Direct
Line” on Sunday. August 11.
Mr. Robinson estimated that
administrative costs will be near
$75,000 for the office, and special
fund - raising programs have
been arranged, including the Aug
ust 23 Apollo Theater benefit and
the Polo Grounds rally on Sun
day, August 25. Buttons with the
white and Negro handshake are
being sold at $.25 each, and pen-
ants for the March are also on
sale.
MR. LUCKY — Aloysius
“Lu&y” Gordon, who was
freed on July 30 from a three-
year sentence for attacking
Christine Keeler, has issued a
writ against the prominent girl
In the British sex scandal de
manding damages for malicious
prosecution. Some observers of
the whole scandal believe Dr.
Stephen Ward feared more
what Gordon told Scotland Yard
following his dismissal from
prison than the osteopath did
the outcome of hia trial. Gor
don, a 31-year-old Jamaican
jazz singer appeared three
nights last week at London’s
Stork Room for $100. (UPI
Photo)
—Gospel
(Continued from Page One)
cinity, Inc., told The Amster
dam News “we Intend to picket
until we get results."
The demonstrators, whose
ranks Included laymen and rep
resentatives of the Baptist Min
isters Conference of Greater New
York and Vicinity, the Greek Or
thodox Church, AME Ministerial
Alliance and the Protestant
Council of New York, marched in
front of the night club from 9p.m.
to 3 a.m. Wednesday night and
Thursday morning.
Dr. Stamps said he was "en
couraged" by the sympathy
shown to the
the public and the patrons of
the night club. He said the club
suffered a decrease in volume
of business as a result of the
protest.
Set For TV
"Although there may well be
cases of racial discrimination,
the low number of non - white* in
the building industry has its basis
a special full-length motion pic-
in the historical development c*
the industry and not In a policy' ture. will make its New York
of racial discrimination.” a com- television debut on WPIX-11
! Tuesday. September 3, beginning
mittee statement said.
•The Crowing Experience”
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at 7:30 p.m., it was announced
Tuesday by William L. Cooper,
manager bf Film Programs for
Channel 11.
•*R will be the function of this
committee to refer qualified
craftsmen and apprentices who
lack an avenue of sponsorship
and thus overcome the one ob
stacle blocking non - whites in
many cases.”
Other members of the com
mittee include John Burnell, di
rector of Voluntary Hospital Org-1
anizing Division, Local 144; Jer-■
emiah Burns, president of Jere-| (^
miah Burns. Inc., and second «F
vice pesident of the Building
Trades Employers' Association; I
Edward Dickerson, member Lo- ,
cal 3. International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers and the Ne- 1
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March chairman, as the featur-
gro American Labor Council; Sid-1
ed speaker has been set forThurs- _
day. August 22 at 6 p.m. in Wash- ney Glasser. business manager ,
ington Square, sponsored hy the of Glaziers Local 1087; and Fred
by United Civil Rights Organizing Munder, president of A. Munder
' Committee of Lower Manhattan. "
Others scheduled to speak at the
rally are Rep. John Lindsay.
Councilman J. Raymond Jones,
and Rev. Howard Moody. "
& Son. Inc., and treasurer of the *
Building Trades Employers’ As-1
sociation.
Burnell and Dickerson are the
Negro members.
Man Killed Aiding Wife
During the demonstrations
Tuesday night, the club's man
ager. Joe Sandore. made no
move to open negotiations with
the clerical picketers, and per
sonnel of the club marched and
sang in a counter demonstration.
The night club features gospel
singing groups, most of which
are Negro. It issues tambourines
to patrons to allow them to ac- bed to death Sunday morning .n
company the rhythm with their front of 164 Lexington Ave., dur-
own beats.
Marvin, to his native Goldsboro.
the body of her 33-year-old son.
ing for burial. Marvin was stab-
North Carolina. Tuesday morn
Mrs. Sarah Exum accompanied
ling a fight over his wife.
Robert Williams, 29. of 90 Mon
roe St.. Brooklyn, charged with
Exum's death, is being held
without bail for action by the I
Kings County Grand Jury. Po- (
lice said the two men became'
Involved in a fight when Exunri*
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(bolesting his wife.
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-Elks
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tan area to show their support
for President Kennedy’s civil
rights program, the March on
Washington, and for the final
establishment of true democracy
by attending this gala local
rally," Edward L. Nelson, presi
dent of the 50,000 - member
state Elks declared at a press
conference announcing the rally.
TAKING A DM VIEW — Sit-
ten Claudette and Cynthia Ak-
enoo watch Grand United Or
der of Odd Fellows* parade
Sunday from 141st St. and Sev
enth Ave., where marchers
passed in small but colorful
-Parents
-Convene
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th< previous day.
Mn. Tucker s demands and
der way Monday after a parade-s^c*^ to toe deadline earlier
set for a plan on school Integra
tion, because of grave conditions
in the schools and the dropout
problem.
Special Services
parade which opened their five-
day convention. (Gilbert Photo).
More Photos on Page 18
Former Judge Hubert T. De-
lany, Congressmen Adam Clay
ton Powell and William Fitts
Ryan. Manhattan Borough Presi
dent Edward R. Dudley, City
methods of teaching their child- Councilman J. Raymond Jones
and scores of others will also,
speak during the 12-hour rally I
which is being held in support
of the August 28th March on
Washington.
ren if they are
withheld this fall.
Harlem School
going to be
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parade, which wound
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the p
thiough
the streets of North Har-
leas, wa
was terminated by special
sdfvices Sunday afternoon at
Gaeater Hood AME Church at
l48th St. near Lenox Ave. The
Rev. Frank E. Churchill, the
church’s pastor, conducted the
rites.
More than 1,000 delegates, rep
resenting 2,000 men and women
of the 50-odd units throughout the
state, attended the sessions which
cloae Thursday.
Morton presided over the ses
sions held for the men, while Mrs.
Vivian C. D. Robinson, of Brook
lyn. district grand govern''', pre
sided over the distaff sessions.
Election Set
The convention reaches a high
point Thursday afternoon with the
election of officers of both the
men's and women's units of the
statewide Odd Fellows organiza
tion.
Up for acceptance or rejection.
along with Morton, are Harold
Le Gall, district grand secretary;
Hubert A. Stevens, district grand
treasurer, and Leonard Kilpatrick,
district grand director, all-of Dis
trict Grand Lodge No. 2.
'After more than 10 yean of
meetings with the Board of Edu
cation on this question of
tion, there have been no improve
ments. We still have heavy teach
er turnover, bad attitudes by the
teachers and watered - down cur
riculums in our schools. Negro
and Puerto Rican children aren't
learning,” Mrs. Tucker said.
Grass Speaks
The threats of wholesale boy
cotts of schools in Negro com
munities continued to mount as
Superintendent Gross, who is re
ported to have not worked out
any plan on integration to date,
is scheduled to disci
tion and education and listen to
views of the Harlem community
at a meeting on Wednesday night
August 14, at 8 p.m., at PS 108,
Madison Ave., and 108th St.
Spokesmen for the local school
i^ards will present Dr. Gross
with a Joint statement on
tion in upper Manhattan as will
Mrs. Tucker’s Metropolitan Edu
cation Council, composed of NA-
ACP branches throughout the
city.
Mrs. Robinson will be unable to
run for dfi
the DistricMuMaHOhoid of
Ruth No. 7 since she already has
zed four years In two terms.
|tot Juanita Doss, district grand
hie governor; Egantine Fran-
district grand recorder;
lys C. Small, district grand
tasurer, and W. Elizabeth
A spokesman for the* -Harlem
_____ Parents Committee, headed by
eovernor of Isiih Robinson, said they were
launching an intensive drive to
organize parents in preparation
for the mass boycott and with
drawing of students from schools
in Harlem if the integration plan
is not proposed by the Board of
Education.
"The report that the Board has
distrirt grand “director inten“on tot c°m* UP "lth *
plan to eliminate Jim crow leaves
no alternative,” Mr. Robinson
said.
1 run far re-election.
Iarr.
Spokesmen for the Parents
Committee pointed out that they
are considering the boycott only
as a last resort. Mrs. Tucker said
that “We-will consider any
onable plan as long as true inte
gration Is a result”
Failing this, however leaders
of the groups are preparing for
all-out demonstrations including
sit-ins and stand - ins at the
Board of Education offices in
Brooklyn and at local schools and
Board offices.
Meanwhile parents in the neigh
borhood of PS 154, 126th St., be
tween 7th and 8th Aves., threat
ened to boycott the new school
until the surrounding area is
cleaned up of dope addicts, pros
titutes and other unsavory con
ditions.
Assemblyman Lloyd E. Dick
ens, who had opposed building of
the school on the site because of
the run - down social conditions,
wrote Police Commissioner Mi
chael Murphy requesting a meet
ing with parents to discuss the
stepped - up activities the local
problems in the area and what
police could undertake.
-Picketing
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would be enforced, and funds
would be. withdrawn from any
State construction project where
discrimination is found. An ef
fective recruitment program, he
said, will be worked out with
civil rights leaders to ‘obtain
qualified Negro workers, appli
cants for apprenticeship and
membership in 18 craft unions.
Alss True
Heads It
Named to watch over the build
His group has organized cap
ing and construction industry was
tains who are already signing up
Herbert W. Crispell, deputy com-
parents for the movement, and
. . .missioner, who as state repre-
,
Judging by the large number of
each Thursday classes are being sentative will report all cases
t»ach of promise cases, the held at the Harlem YMCA »l|^toimlniti^ to toe sTte
5‘There
jjmere is too much love In
’jj in, says a literary critic.
.
kerse ,s also true.
W. 125th St., to Prepare parento Commission for Human Rights,
-Passing Show on the Issues involved and the and the legal procedures pn>
vided for such violations will be
applied by the Commissioner.
Governor Rockefeller announc
ed that a public hearing will be
held Aug. 15 by the SCHR to
probe Into specific charges of
Job discrimination against the
Sheet Metal Workers Intcrna-
■tiowal Agon., Local Union No. 28.
■ In announcing the rally. Nel
son said that it is the feeling
of the State Elks that “The
American Negro’s fight for first
class citizenship has reached a
point of no turning back.” He
said he hoped an estimated 50,-
000 persons would attend the
rally.
-Next
(Continued from Page One)
tions during the two-hour protest
at UN Plaza.
The committee — comprising
officials of the NAACP the Con
gress of Racial Equality, the
Negro American Labor Council,
the Workers Defense League,
the Association of Catholic Trade
Unionists and the Urban League
of Greater New York — met
at the league’s office at 202 W
136th St. in an hours-long session
from which nonparticipants were
barred.
Ramon E. Rivera, job oppor
tunities consultant of the league
and an official of the Joint Com
mittee, said the urgent, sealed
meeting was called partly out of
the failure Monday of construc
tion union and management offi
cials to attend a bias parley at the
City Commission on Human
Rights. The Monday meeting was
attended by civil rights leaders
and Stanley Lowell, CCHR chair
man, at the commission's offices
at 80 Lafayette St. >
New Strategy
Rivera refused to comment on
the nature of the Wednesday
meeting outside of saying that
it would certainly examine the
‘'breakdown in developments”
on Monday and adapt new stra
tegy for stepping up the on
slaught against discrimination in
the construction field.
Peter Brennan, president of
the Building and Construction
Trades Council and the central
figure in the anti-bias contro
versy, was charged by the Rev.
Milton A. Gal ami son. a leader
in the Downstate Medical Cen
ter’s demonstrations in Brook
lyn, with breaking faith with ci
vil rights negotiators Monday by
his failure to attend the com-
nussion meeting. _
BY
50,000 NEW YORKERS
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JOHN LEWIS
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
ROY WILKINS
WHITNEY YOUNG
SNCC
NALC
SCLC
NAACP
NUL
GUEST SPEAKERS:
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CONGRESSMAN
Adam Clayton POWELL
GUEST SPEAKERS:
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COUNCILMAN
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JUDGE
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He said another conference to An aide of Brennan, who was
review methods, procedures and unavailable for comment, said
progress will be held in 90 days the construction union official
with represent! ves--eftfte clergy had' *’H6 reaction” to the Gala
and state officials.
mison charge.
.♦
"What are you supposed to say
if someone accuses you of mur
der." his aide parried with a
reporter who sought to find out
whether Brennan actually snub
bed the conferees or failed to at
tend simply because of a Wash
Greater1 ‘"gton meeting on a similar sub
Taylor Speaks
Rev. Gardner Taylor told a
press conference. “I believe the
discussions were open, thorough
and helpful. Substantial progress
has been made.”
, Ramon Rivera, representing
the Urban League of
N. Y. admitted that "substantial
progress has been made” but
in one area alone, and it was the
State. He apparently alluded to
the breakdown this week in the
Mayor’s panel talks.
The Governor said there was
no discussion on the application
of a quota. 25 per cent or other
wise, when asked whether this
issue came up during the session.
He also confirmed that the con
ference with the ministers was
called at their request, and prior
to the Mayor's July 30 overall
discussions at City. Halt.
Repeats Statement
Meanwhile, the Governor re
peated a statement he has made
several times in recent weeks,
regarding the right of the indi
vidual to fight for freedom His
reply was in reference to the sit-
ins st his office. 23 W. 85th St
During the meeting, two CORE
members were carrying on the
around the clock vigil. They were
Moon Eng, 21, City College ju
nior, and Wayne Klnsler, 18, un
employed, high school graduate,
of the Bren.
Uie Governor's eon-
W. A. Jones
Jr.. Rev. Gardner Taylor, Rev.
R. J, Lowry, Rev. Milton A.
Galamisoe. Rev. W. G. Henson
Jacobs, Rev. Walter Offutt, all
of Brooklyn; Ramon Rivera. Ur
ban League, and Commissioner
George Fowler chairman of
SCHR '
ject.
To Take Part
CCHR Chairman Lowell laid
that he plans to take part in
the Aug. 28 march on Washington
which will seek federal legisla
tion on civil rights and job Is
sues.
The Washington meeting with
Wlrtz. which union and industry
officials attended and bypassed
that of the commission’s in New
York City, saw the participation
of Thomas Tobin, secretary-
treasurer of the Building and
Construction Trades Council, and
Sam Kaplan, a member of the
council; Jack Zucker, president
of the Building Trades Employ
ers Association, and H. Earle
Fullilove, chairman of the board
On Board Of
Higher Ed.
Mayor Wagner appointed Ben
jamin F. McLaurin, prominent
labor leader, to the Board of
Higher Education, R was an
nounced Wadneeday by Qty Hall
McLaurin. 87. Eastern Zone
supervisor for the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters, will
serve out the non-salaried term
of Joseph Schloasberg, who re
signed early this year after 35
years service.
McLaurin will be officially
sworn In when the Mayor returns
here from Pari*.
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