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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7. 1983 j
Plans Being Drawn for Gigantic Civil Rights March in Washington
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Editor's Note: The greatest
i e i 1 demonstration in the
nation'i history, a march oi
100, MO strong, is planned by
Negro civil rights groups for
Washington on Aug. 28. The
story oi how a dozen men and
women are mapping out the
march, step-by-step, and of the
precautions to keep it peace
ful is told in the following dispatch.
By JOHN PIERSON
UPI Correspondent
In a little yellow house in
Harlem, a dozen men and
women are making plans to
send 100,000 civil rights
marchers to Washington late
this month.
The little house, which usu-
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Gresham - fUPD - Dist. Atty.
George Van Hoomissen has
closed down seven amusement
concessions at the Multnomah
County Fair.
Van Hoomissen said he be
lieved the games were being
operated as games of chance.
The district attorney earlier
Monday arrested Ernest Hob
lit, 61, El Monte, Calif., on a
charge of operating a game of
chance.
.Hoblit pleaded quilty to the
charge before District Judge
John Gantenbein and was
fined $20 and given a 30-day
suspended jail sentence.
Van Hoomissen said the in
vestigation came following a
complaint from Harold Carl
son, 55, Portland. Carlson re
ported that his 16-year-old
nephew lost S3 by gambling
on a fortune wheel.
A crowd of 14.334 persons
saw the fair Monday to raise
attendance after five days of
the 10-day event to 97,611.
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Portland -fUPli- Barge ton
nage in the Columbia river
picked up during July. The to
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Dalles, Army Engineers said.
This compared with 74,159
and 61.922 tons, repectively,
during June.
ally serves as a community
center for getting children off
the streets, has become head
quarters for an effort to get
an army of adults on the
streets of the nation's capital
Aug. 28.
Civil rights leaders call it
the "march on Washington for
jobs and freedom."
They say the marchers will
provide evidence of the need
for quick Federal action to
safeguard civil rights and pro
vide jobs for the unemployed.
President Kennedy has en
dorsed their effort.
At a news conference last
month, the President said the
march is "in the great tradi
tion" of lawful protest. Un
like some other recent demon
strations, Kennedy said, this
one gives "every evidence it is
going to be peaceful."
"I look forward to being
here," Kennedy said. "I am
sure members of Congress
will be here."
The Presidents distinction
between peaceful and violent
demonstrations was not lost
on those who are planning for
Aug. 28.
The Rev. Martin Luther
King predicted it would be
"the greatest non-violent dem-
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onstration ever to take place'
in Washington.
But all leaves have been
canceled Aug. 28 for the Dis
trict of Columbia's 2,900 man
police force. They will be
supported by 500 reserves, 250
National Park policemen and
the district's 2,000 National
Guardsmen.
If serious trouble devel
oped, authorities in the Fed
eral city could call in the
army.
As an additional precaution
no parade permits will be
issued that day except to the
six groups sponsoring the pa
rade and those they designate.
The six sponsors are the
Congress of Racial Equality,
the Southern Christian Lead
ership Conference, the Stu
dent Non-Violent Coordinat
ing Committee, the Negro
American Labor Council, the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple and the Urban League.
The American Nazi party
asked permission to stage a
"counter demonstration" but
was refused.
Despite these precautions,
the marchers intend to police
their own ranks. They are
acutely aware that any out
break of violence might preju
dice their cause not only in
Congress but in the eyes of
the American people.
They have asked the Guar
dians, a private group of off
duty New York policemen, to
train 1,000 men who will
circulate through the crowd
and watch for trouble.
Five hundred more men, in
teams of 10, will be stationed
along the line of march and
equipped with walkie talkies
and bull horns. No one will
be permitted to march who is
not wearing an arm band
issued by the national head
quarters. The national headquarters
will also supply all placards.
No other slogans will be
allowed.
Places of Assembly
At 10 a. m., on the morning
of the 28th, marchers will as
semble at 51 different spots
around the city.
Congressmen will be invit
ed to come to the assembly
points to receive petitions and
address their constituents. A
congressman who fails to
show up will be visited by a Early in June, one of King's
small delegation in his office aides, the Rev. George Law
on Capitol Hill. rence, announced plans for a
But mere will be no sit-in massive, militant and monu
on Congress.
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galleries of the Capitol, should
Southerners stage a filibuster
against the Kennedy rights
program.
Congress was shocked. Sen.
Lister Hill (D-Ala.) called
Lawrence's plan a "blatant at
tempt to club Congress into
submission."
Even some of the strongest
backers of civil rights bridled
at the idea. They said a sit-in
would alienate many liberals.
Rep. Emanuel Celler (D
N.Y.) who has charge of the
administration's rights pro
gram in the House, said it
would cause "tremendously
deep resentment, which un
doubtedly would prejudice
the cause of the Negro."
Negro leaders canceled
plans for a sit-in.
One of them, the Rev. Wal
ter E. Fauntroy of the SCLC,
said, "after all, when you
want legislation, why tie up
the legislative process."
Counter Filibuster Planned
But plans still arc afoot, in
case of a filibuster before or
after the 28th, to send 1,000
persons a day to Washington
to stage a "counter filibuster"
somewhere near the Capitol
grounds.
The leaders also hope that
while the marchers are meet
ing their congressmen, a small
delegation can present de
mands to President Kennedy.
The delegation would include
at least one Negro and one
white person who are out of
work.
Their demands will be:
-Passage of an "effective."
civil rights program during
the current session of Con
gress. -Immediale desegregation
of the nation's schools.
-An end to police brutality
against demonstrators all over
the country.
-A massive federal public
works program to provide
jobs, bolstered by legislation
to promote an expanding
economy.
-A federal fair employment
practices act to bar job dis
crimination by federal, state
and local governments, pri
vate employers or unions
that covers low - paying jobs
not now covered.
-A national minimum wage
of $2 an hour.
Marchers To Lunch
By noon, the "confronta
tions" are supposed to be over
and the marchers will go to
lunch.
At 12:30 p.m., they will
start converging on the El
lipse, a big open park just
south of the White House.
There they will form up, state
by state, in preparation for
the march.
At 2 p.m., the parade will
hrgin, its destination the Lin
coln Memorial.
The marchers are supposed
to be assembled in the open
spaces around the memorial
by 3 p.m.
Integration leaders will
climb the steps of the me
morial and there under the
eyes of the Great Emancipa
tor, will report on the morn
ing's "confrontations" with
Congress and the President.
The speeches are scheduled
to last two and a half hours.
The six sponsors hope fra
ternal, labor, religious and
o'.hcr groups will join their
inarch. The National Catholic
Conference for Interracial
Justice says it is going to
send "many delegations."
The leaders want while
marchers as well as Negroes.
"This is not a Negro dem
onstration," Fauntroy said.
"This is planned as a demon
stration of Americans. There
are just as many white peo
ple as Negroes who want to
see the record of America
changed."
If all goes as planned, the
crowd will break up at 5:30
p.m., just when government
offices are letting out. Police
plan to block off a large part
of the city near the memorial
to try to prevent a massive
traffic jam.
Within two hours, the or
ganizers hope, all of the dem
onstrators will be back on
their buses, trains and planes
and on their way home.
Inspiration Hoped
Negro leaders hope the
marchers will not lay down
their banners as soon as they
-A fair labor standards act quit Washington. The hope is
they will "go home inspired"
to work for civil rights and
to drum up crass roots op
position to any filibuster that
might occur later.
The effort in involve the
"folks back home" will go
further still. Governors are
being urged to declare Aug.
28 "Freedom Day." And em
ployers are called upon to
give their men a holiday with
pay.
The national organizations
estimate the march will cost
them $65,000. Transportation
for 100,000 may run into mil
lions of dollars, but the local
groups are going to have to
pay for that.
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which would eliminate con
gressional influence in the
appointment ot postmasters
have been introduced jointly
by Reps. Edith Green, Robert
Duncan and Al Ullman, Ore
gon Democrats.
Their bills provide that the
appointment of postmasters
"shall be marie completely
through the civil service merit
system without regard to any
recommendation (except a
statement as to character or
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plicant for such position, by
a member of Congress or res
ident commissioner in Con
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office at the time of its en
actment. The three Oregon Demo
crats said they believed "the
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central committee which
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the congressman who makes
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legislation would properly
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masters in the selective civil
service and away from the
political influences of the
past, and in addition, would
eliminate a time-consuming I
job, one that we are sure is I
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hill would terminate the in
fluence of the so-called con
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effect, we disqualify persons
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