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STATE- Chicago Integrationists Shower Police With Bricks -A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE. Wednesday. Autust 11. 19S3 AFL-CIO Refuses To Okay Negro March on Washington March Head A Pervert Thurmond National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; 1 i i i I 1 1 i i O- A has often used, and which we may often use in the future. "A number of AFL-CIO affiliates have elected to join the Aug.

28 demonstration. As autonomous affiliates, under AFL-CIO policy, they have every right to do so. This is a matter for individual union determination. But the question here for the AFL-CIO executive council is simply stated: "What role shall the AFL-CIO play in the civil rights struggle this summer?" "Our answer -is to continue our own two major efforts on the legislative front and at the grass roots level." Meany said "In my judgment Negro American Labor Council; National Urban League; Congress of Racial Equality; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee are organizations determined to overcome prejudice and discrimination. So are we.

"They are also determined to meet the problems of job lessness which to the Negro is twice as bad as it is to the rest of America. We share that goal. Action Vital' "Action is vital to winning these battles, and one important type of action that is needed here and now is legislative action. pletely the right of any Amer- the redress of grievance. This la a Lli cviuus rvmci itaii ngui.

which the rade union movement 4 -ft. i 11 jf i 1 ur 'nr ft lir-' Transport, Money Plagues Washington March Planners (Continued from Pace 1) back with a brick but not injured. Rocks and bricks flew In a mid-afternoon ruckus when officers seized five persons who tried to breach a police cordon. Four of the five were coupled by chains a Negro boy to a white youth and a Negro boy to a Negro girl in an apparent effort to complicate policemen's work. One demonstrator chained himself to piping when he and nine other pickets swarmed over and under a truck that arrived with a load of pipe.

Police arrested him and he read a copy of "The Quiet American" as officers sought to remove the chain. Wynn Yancy, a 20-year-old Negro, and Sibylle Bearskin, an 18-year-old Indian girl from Green Bay. scampered up two 35-foot power poles and held out for hours despite an occasional chill rain. Police considered retrieving them with fire department snorkels but the fire department declined to help. Miss Bearskin finally came down after negotiating permission to go to a park comfort station before being hauled away to a police station.

Yancey came down a couple of hours later, fled from an unlocked paddy wagon and was seized in a building two blocks away. Scuffling broke out several times near the power poles. Police unlimbered their night sticks. Reporters said no one appeared to be struck with the sticks but a woman fell in an alley and the crowd chanted "police brutality. police brutality." Five persons, two Negro and three white, were arrested in one melee at the power poles.

Six were hauled away after they sat around a power company truck. Six girls were arrested when they lay down on Rock Island railroad tracks that border the classroom site. A young white woman was strapped in a bag normally used for psychiatric cases, lowered to the ground and arrested after she scrambled atop one of the trailer-like classrooms. A girl was carried away after she fought to climb into a classroom. Three women were pulled out from under one of the vehicles and carted During the night an attempt was made to burn one of the makeshift classrooms.

An arson investigation was ordered. More than 50 persons, including Negro comedian Dick Gregory, were arrested at the 73rd and Lowe Street site yesterday. POLE SITTING PICKETS Chicago Man and woman sit on crossbar atop utility poles in Chicago part of a protest against construction of mobile classrooms which school board says are needed and which demonstrators say are not. This is part of systematic hampering of workmen on job, but since Chicago weather turned chilly and blustery it could be pole sitters wish they'd brought sweaters. Police guard against violence.

(AP Wirephoto) HE SAYS NO! Union Leader Meany marchers got out of hand and marched on Capitol Hill they would not get a single vote they don't have now." Meany said if members of the AFL-CIO staff in Washington want to march he would not stop them. star Burt Lancaster. In Paris to work on a movie called "The Train," he plans to fly here Aug 27, take part in the march, and fly back the night of Aug. 28. A big contingent of stars is also flying in from Hollywood.

The AFL-CIO executive coun cil took yesterday what President George Meany described as a hands-off policy on the march. Meeting at Unity House, the council did not endorse the march but said its affiliated unions and anyone else in the labor movement has every right to participate. Meany said two members of the council did not consider this statement strong enough. The two are Walter Reuther, presi dent of the United Auto Work ers and active in the NAACP, and President Randolph of the sleeping car porters. One of the best vantage points to get a view of the march will be the top of the Washington Monument, although the space there is strictly limited.

Asked if he plans to close the monument to prevent early birds from struggling for choice "box seats" the morning of Aug. 28, T. Sutton Jett, head of the National Capital region of the Park Service, recoiled at the idea. "We don't close it on July 4 when we get1 huge crowds," he remarked. "If there's a jam, we'll meet the problem as it arises.

there is a great question wnein-er the march will help legislation. I'd be the last person in the world to say they shouldn't march. I hope there are no incidents that would hurt the civil rights drive. "I would say personally that it is not a wise idea. If the bership.

Nobodv knows yet just how many civil rights rooters will come here, by train, bus, private auto. A. Philip Randolph, president of the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and one of the main pluggers for the march, estimated that 25,000 would be coming from New York alone. Reports spread that the Pennsylvania Railroad had run out of cars to assign to the New York-Washington run. Asked about this, a railroad official said it probably would turn out to be true, but that it was a little premature to say definite ly.

He said the railroad has received requests for at least 13 special trains, but that until it receives definite orders and cash on the barrelhead, the exact requirements are up in the air. Bus companies also were reported flooded with requests. Some of the demonstrators, however, were not depending on mechanical means of locomotion. The Brooklyn chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality announced that 20 of its members would make it on foot. Will Walk They plan to set out Wednes day from the New Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel, camp out at night and complete the trek in 10 days.

One demonstrator not trou bled by transportation is film 3 Brawls in New Jersey WASHINGTON P) Money and transport problems yesterday plagued Negro leaders preparing for the big Aug. 28 "March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs." Although most of the estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Negroes and whites expected to come here are supposed to pay their fare and bring box meals and jugs of water with them "incidental" expenses-are, mounting. Such items as printing costs for the pre-march literature are getting large. And the Rev. Walter Fauntroy, Washington co ordinator of the march, got a shock when he received an estimate of the cost of renting a public address system.

To keep the throngs attuned to the proceedings as they gather at the Washington Monument and march to the Lincoln Memorial for the climactic exercises is going to take a lot of loudspeakers. The best bid Fauntroy has been able to get so far is $15,800. Six Negro organizations are expected to foot much of the bill for such incidentals. They raise their money mostly by dues, special contributions and bequests, and passing the hat at rallies. The dues of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for example, start at $2 for a simple one-year membership and range upward to $500 for a life mem hands and moved toward the mob.

Another fight broke out and lasted for 15 minutes. Police arrested 29 persons, 22 of them teen-agers. After ttie second fight at the courthouse, the pickets drove for the first time to the apartment building being constructed partially with federal funds four miles away. The squad of police rushed there, too. The fight at the apartment house broke out when a dump truck driven by a Negro tried to enter the project.

The demonstrators berated him for working with what they called "Jim Crow unions." Police moved in with blackjacks in their hands although they apparently did not use them when the pickets refused to let trucks through. WASHINGTON (UPD Sen. Strom Thurmond. yesterday accused the Washington Post of "distorted and slanted reporting" and a "whitewash job" in favor of Bayard Rustin, the deputy director of the scheduled Aug. 28 civil rights march on Washington.

In a Senate speech, Thur mond charged that a feature story on Rustin Sunday was "a classic example of news reporting because the reporter took a series of ludricous facts and directed them so that they literally came out smelling like a rose and looking like a gilded lily." The Post story said that Rustin served 28 months during World War II as a conscientious objector and that he was convicted in Pasadena, in 1953 of a morals charge after being arrested with two other men. Thurmond said the true facts were that Rustin was sentenced for failure -to abide by the Selective Service Law and failure to report for work "of national importance," as required for conscientious objectors. Morals Conviction The South Carolina Senator said the words "moral charge" toned down the charge. He said Rustin was convicted of sex perversion "and a subsequent arrest for vagrancy and lewdness." Thurmond inserted In the Congressional Record clippings from the Los Angeles Times which showed that Rustin was sentenced to 60 days in Pasadena after pleading guilty to the morals offense. He also included FBI records which showed that Rustin served in two federal penitentiaries from March 9, 1944 to June 11.

1946, on the draft evasion charge. Thurmond added that although the Post said Rustin was a member of the Young Com munist League and later quit and attended the Communist Party Convention in 1956 as an observer "there is no mention of his denouncement of Communist ideological dogma." The South Carolina Senator said Rustin went to Russia in 1958 and participated in a Communist propaganda show called "noon-violent action committee against nuclear weapons." A. Philip Randolph, the leader of the march on Washington, has called Rustin "Mr. March-on-Washington-Himself." Rustin has publicly disclosed his record. "I wonder if even Mr.

Randolph could really condone the past activities of Mr. Rustin," Thurmond said. 1 KA UNITY HOUSE. Pa. WV-The AFL-CIO executive council yesterday refused to endorse the planned Aug.

28 civil rights march on Washington, but said in a statement it supported "completely the right of any American peacefluly to protest for a redress of grievances." The action created another split between George Meany, AFL-CIO president, and Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers. Reuther criticized the council's statement The statement also drew criticism from A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the only Negro vice president in the AFL-CIO, who will lead the inarch. Randolph and Meany were at odds a few years ago over job discrimination. At that time Meany was quoted as telling Randolph: "Who the hell appointed you the guardian of the Negroes?" Meany told a news conference after a three-hour closed meeting of the council that he had reservations as to whether the march would help enactment of civil rights legislation by Congress.

"We are not endorsing the march and we are not condemning it," Meany said. He pointed out that the council statement said a number of AFL-CIO union affiliates have elected to join in the demonstration and that they have every right to do so. Meany said all 20 members present, except Reuther and Randolph, felt that the statement was "all right." Reuther Opposes Reuther, who along with an estimated 2,000 members of his union, plans to participate in the march, said: "I consider the Washington march a great moral protest. I believe the American labor movement should have been part of it along with church, civic and civil rights groups. This is a moral protest, I think the labor movement should be identified with that moral protest." Randolph, who estimated that more than 100,000 persons will take part in the march, said the council's one page statement is a "masterpiece of non- commitment for or against the march evidence of a lack of recognition of existing racial and social realities.

He added "The labor movement, which represents the common people, should identify itself with the struggle of the common people. The march on Washington is the struggle of the common people. The official statement said In part: "The sponsors of this march lMk i lit MA (is I i 7 'I 1 t2T' i rWirv i ill It rr i IT ii i 0 YOU'RE IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT (Continued from Page 1) up on the streets of the Negro section. The 75 pickets at the site of the Union County Courthouse annex project in Elizabeth outnumbered police two-to-one yesterday. The fighting broke out when pickets blocked a cement truck trying to get into the project.

They refused to move when ordered to do so, and a policeman and a young Negro boy exchanged heated words first, then punches. The scuffle touched off a 10-minute screaming, shoving and punching melee. When order was restored, the truck tried to inch its way on into the project. Pickets streamed back and forth in front of it. The police squad joined IV.

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