Albany, New York Vol.
August 25-31
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William Gibson
SPEAKS OUT -- Leading off the
Brothers' rally Saturday, William
Gibson, 7th Ward candidate for Alder-
man, attacked the, city's stop gap,
token,..pilot trash collection program.
What’s Happening
At The Brothers’ Office
with Mike Dunn
Are conditions so bad in Albany and
the surrounding area that the law can
stand by quietly while a white citizen
abuses the law to intimidate a black
citizen? Asa matter of fact, it's some-
thing that a number of us have exper-
ienced in one way or another over the
years.
This past week in Albany three ae
incidents came to our attention. We're
sure they are not the only cases like
this, but are typical of what things ere
really like.
Case No. 1
One of the incidents occurred this
past Saturday when a black man, whose
name we don't need to mention, drove
into a filling station and asked for two
dollars worth of gas. The attendant
proceeded to place five dollars of gas
into the car, which brought about quite
a discussion as you can imagine.
When our friend refused to pay for
the five dollars of gas, the attendant
grabbedthe keys from the car and said
he would not return them until the gas
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notice
No Liberator next week
Next issue September 8
“Gibson Proposes City-Wide Vote
On Trash Collection at Rally
by Dick Evans
Circulating petitions to put the issue
of city-wide trash collection to a vote
was an idea proposed last Saturday by
spokesmen for the Brothers during a
rally on trash collection at Ten Broeck
Street Park.
The purpose of the petitions, accord-
ing to William Gibson, Liberal nominee
Alderman in the 7th Ward, is to
the voters a chance to decide
whether they want the city to take the
responsibility for collecting trash on a
regular basis.
Gibson told the rally that the May-
or's stop-gap, token, pilot program!"
for
give
was not enough to satisfy the people of
Albany. He said the problems of rats
and roaches would not be solved until
the trash piles were removed perma-
nently.
Gibson indicated that if residents
"all over the city of Albany" want»to-
that -
have the city pick up their trash,
they start leaving it out on the street
every Saturday. He also suggested if
the city doesn't pick up the trash, the
people ought to deposit their trashon
the steps of City Hall to let the city of-
ficials "fight their way through the
roach ridden trash to get to their high
paying jobs."'
Speaking about the results of a sur-
of trash removal,
Harry Hamilton, President of the
Council for Community Concerns
vey on the prices
and
vice-president of the Albany NAACP,
challenged the idea that municipal trash
collection would cost more than private
collection.
Hamilton pointed out that the cost
per person of collection in Albany is
the highest of any city in upstate New
York. He also told the audience that
various plans of city trash pickup were
available and all would mean a saving
to families who now pay from $.50 to
$1. 00 a barrel.
A biologist from Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute in Troy spoke on the
health hazards of accumulated trash in
back allies, yards, and vacant lots.
Dr. Donald Aulenbach pointed out that
food remnants left in trash piles are
eaten by rats and that trash itself pro-
vides breeding grounds for rodents. He
also indicated that flies and other in-
sects that Sobbect around: trash threat-.
ened the health the community.
One of the speakers, Mr. John
Reilly, President of the Board of Li-
rectors of the Albany Urban League,
did not agree with the Brothers' attack
on the Mayor's trash program. Mr.
Reilly said thathe thought the city's pi-
lot project wasa sincere effort and that
groups like the Brothers should work to
make it successful.
Sam McDowell, who plans to run for
County Legislator as an independent in
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INTERESTED AUDIENCE -- Members of the Brothers. and friends wait
for the start of Saturday's trash rally at Ten Broeck St.
Park.* A proposal
to place city collection on November's ballot was made by speakers.
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‘Law And Order”
‘Law and order" has been the big thing in
this country this year. Over 2, 200 law enforcers
were
necessary to protect a couple hundred
black people marching on the highways of Louis-
iana.
As James Meredith proved last year, it
still isn't safe to speak out in the South.
"aw and order" was re-established in Ne-
wark,
Hughes with the use of over
Guardsmen,
mounted machine guns.
last month by Governor
3, 000 National
State Police, and police cars with
What turned a window
New Jersey
breaking and looting spree into a full scale war,
was the Governor's anger at the ''carnival at-
mosphere of the people who had taken control
- of several ghetto streets.
‘aw and order" is also being used in Tenn-
essee
Slay
Tennessee sedition law.
to protect black chilren who attend a Li-
beration School from George Ware, a worker
or the Student Non-
ilies aie
iolent Coordinating
Kentucky two field workers for the South-
--ern Conference Educational Fund and another
poverty worker were arrested under a Kentucky
sedition law. They were trying to reach poor
whites in one of the most poverty stricken areas
of the country.
In
those areas of the country where ''man's
inhumanity to man"! is the greatest, law andor-
der is most likely to be used to stiffle dissent.
& Tt is
the tool of the simple mind; it is the poli-
tician's trick on the people; it is the justification
for killing looters and beating suspects.
At
made
the present time "law and order" has
it possible for right wing organizations to
possess and use arsenals of weapons, including
submachine guns and bombs.
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Albany Liberator
August 25-31
Malcolm X
The Man and His Mission
At the Grass Roots Conference
in Detroit in November 1963,
Malcolm X made his last important
speechasa Muslim. In this speech
he took a revolutionary position in
the civil rights struggle--speaking
mainly for himself and not for the
leader he always referred to as
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
This speech showed clearly that
Malcolm X had outgrown the nar-
stage of the Black Muslim
Movement.
He devotes a chapter in his book
to the growth of his disenchant-
ment and his eventual suspension
from the Black Muslim Movement.
He says: "I had helped Mr. Mu-
hammad and his ministers to rev-
olutionize the black
man's thinking, opening his eyes
until he would never again look in
the same tearful way at the white
man...If I harhired any personal
disappointment whatsoever, it was
that privately I was convinced that
our Nation of Islam could be an
even greater force in the American
black man's overall struggle--if
we engaged inmore action. By that
I mean I thought privately that we
should have amended, or relaxed,
our general non-engagement poli-
cy. lfelt that, wherever black peo-
row
American
Com- le itted. ihems elvean dots
Paste Ete Ree an e Birming: ams
and other places, militantly disci-
plined Muslims should also be
there--for allthe worldto see, and
respect and discuss."
The split with Elijah Muhammad
finally came, as it was expected,
and over a matter that seemed
rather trivial. The occasion for
the split wasa remark by Malcolm
after the death of President Ken-
U.T. Hippie
Landlord Ain’t No Fool, You Know
Well, man, I'm sure glad that
prayer for social justice and such
meeting's over and done with. I
was beginning to get a real atti-
tude, Jim! Seem's every time I
stepped into the street, of
them Brothers be talkin' in my
face, urgin' to picket the
meeting with them. Couldn't find
no peace at home, neither, 'cause
my old lady kept on persuadin' me
to go pray with her at the damn
thing! It was a bad bag, man. Like
I dig those Brothers, despite they
crazy ways; but then I sure dig
that woman, Didn't want to
offend nobody, man...so it eased
my mind when I finally come up
with a sorta compromise ~ spend-
in' the evenin' over to the 'Down-
beat."'
- Still can't understand why
one
me
too.
+ after the assassination of Malcolm
_ X wentbeyond this feat. Though he _
conclusion of series.
by John Henrik Clarke
nedy in November 1963.
During the last phase of his life
Malcolm X established Muslim
Mosque, Inc., and a non-religious
organization--The Organization of
Afro-American Unity, patterned
after the Organization of African
Unity. He attempted to interna-
lize the civil rights fight by taking
itto the United Nations. In several
trips to Africa and one to Mecca,
he sought the counsel and support:
of Africanand Asian heads of state. >
In the Epilogue to this book Alex
Haley has written a concise account
ofthe lastdays of Malcolm X. The
book, revealing as it is, reads like
the first draft of what could have
been the most exciting autobio-
graphy of our time. It is unfortu-
nate that Malcolm X did not live
long enough to do the necessary
editing and pruning that this book
needed. Wehaveno way of knowing
what liberties Alex Haley took, if
any, while editing the manuscript
X on Sunday, February 21, 1965.
That a man who had inhabited
the "lower depth'' oflife could rise
in triumph as a reproach to its
ills, andbecome an uncompromis-
ing champion of his people, is in ~
itself a remarkable feat. Malcolm
came from the American ghetto an
directedhis message to the peopl.
inthe American ghetto first of all
he also became, inhis brief life-
time, a figure of world import-
ance. He died on the threshold of ©
his potential. ''The Autobiography
of Malcolm X," written hurriedly
near the end of his life, is a clear
indication of what this potential
could have been.
them Brothers would even want
to picket a prayer meetin' though.
Ain'tno big thing who's sponsoring
it -- them hunkies all the same
anyway. Seems like such a harm-
less little thing -- not worth gettin'
too excited over, way or
‘nother, you know?
My old lady, she really enjoy-
ed herself. Said it was a beautiful
experience. ..finespeeches an! up-
lifting words...she got so emo-
tional, like to bust out crying,
just realizing as how here in Al-
bany, N.Y.,. people can all get
down together in prayer like that.
....First time she seen our z
landlord, Jim, since we moved
into one o' his buildings, too.
She told me as she felt halfway
one
Te Me be
ey ae
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Man on the Street
pe
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By
BARBARA SMITH, Li-
brarian, John Howe Libra-
ry: "Streets that are well
paved are easier to care for
and encourage the people to
keep the streets clean. The
paving of streets is an ini-
tial step that is very much
needed."
MELVIN HUSBAND, 42
Broad St: 'They should-fix
up the potholes. If they can
tear down our houses, why
can'tthey fix the streets?"
Question of the Week
What do you think of the present
condition of the streets in Albany?
Clinton St:
them."
ALBERT JACKSON,
"They're real St:
bad. All ofthe streets need
cleaning. It would bea good
idea if they started to fix
135 BOB CEDAR, 168 N. Pearl
"Some streets are
‘rather rough, butthereis
much sweetness and beauty
in Albany, ifone can cutit."'
U. T. Hippie
(from page 2)
tempted to go up andask him ‘bout get-
ting our wiring insulated, seein' as
there's no tellin' when she might have
another chance, But somehow it didn't
ite fitting a subject to pene up
edityin nt atmoep
he's interested: even ve you n't n never
reach him on the phone to remind him
about repairs. He does seem a bit for-
getful 'bout his promises, but he's a
real busy cat, after all. And how can
you blamehim for the rats an' roaches
really? I mean, everybody I know got
rats and roaches an! they all ain't livin'
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in my landlord's houses...and there
sure ain't no shack 'mong his proper-
ties, Jim. I certainly wouldn't live in
no kind of shack.
Yeah man, I live in a regular citi-
fied apartment house...got two big
windows of my own, bathroom real
convenient like, just down the hall, an'
ich at all.
esrriiery tt oo ea
gedy landing, ‘specially at night when
the hall an' stairs so dark an' all. But
the ceiling only looks like it's about to
cave in, .. been cracked an' funny lookin'
like that for years now, but my insides
went a little watery, though, that first
night I woke up sudden like to find this
big nasty rat sittin' on the foot o' my
bed. His beady little eyes were starin'
straight at me, man--he just big 'n
bold as could be. Ikilt him easy 'nough’
but my woman was 'woke too, by that
time and stone scared plus fightin' mad!
When she got thru to our landlord
the next week, he was very under-
standin' and offered to lend us some
carpentry materials, so'sI could board
up the holes them rats was usin' in and
out. After a couple of months or so,
though, we give up waitin' on him, and
Ijust done the job's best I could... Like
I said, our landlord's pretty under-
standin’ and all, but sorta forgetful,
too. And that big rat turned out to have
a lot o' brothers and sisters, too; and
Ijust couldn't stand my woman pester-
in' me about them no longer!
..Course, she still after me about
them roaches, man...like to blow my
mind... You see, it's still dark when
she gets up to start breakfast, bein' as
she splits for work so early in the
mornin'...and she claims she almost
afraid to turn the kitchen light on,..
dreads seein' all them ugly little crea-
tures scurryin' in all directions to get
back in they hiding places. You know
how damn stubborn a chick can be,
man, so last winter, just to satisfy
her mind, I called our landlord to see
‘bout gettin' in one of them extermin-
ator cats.
He was real polite and all..
- said
he'dhave to think the problem over and
he'd let me know when he'd decided o:
"Cause this week
and,
sure enough, he had it all figured
out. Turns out he got absolutely no Obes
jections at all to us hirin' one o' them
guys to exterminate our apartment.
. Course,
couldn't afford to pay for it himself,
cause it wouldn'tbe fair, like. I mean,
then all them common dudes up an'
down the street would be wanting the
same thing as
he explained as how he
we had done, and ex-_
pectin' their landlord to cover the
bill...that could run into maybe hun-
dreds of dollars, man...Guess he
really can't be expected to lay out all
that bread, I mean considerin' as how
he can't be collectin' no more'n ‘bout
ninety dollars a month off each o' his
tenants.
Are You A Man?
Join The Brothers.
Meetings:
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Wednesday, 8pm
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Movement Theory
Liberation Schools Distorted by Press
In recent weeks we have read and
heard a lot about a new idea in the
black man's struggle for freedom in
the United States, the -Liberation
School.
Much of the news about this idea
came from Nashville, Tennessee where
cused the local anti- portunity, 7
poverty program of financing a "hate
Whitey school.'' The accusation was
that one person on the staff of this Li-
beration School was a member of the
Student Non-Violent Coordianting Com-
mittee and that they were teaching pre-
school age children to hate the white
man.
This past week,
SNCC
Nashville when he came there to teach
for one day in the Liberation School.
Ware was charged with sedition (the
stirring. up of discontent against the
government in power) on a Tennessee
state law that is undoubtably unconsti-
tutional.
Discussion of Liberation Schools
reached the mass news media
after the Black Power Conference held
in Neward, N.J. last month. According
to some press reports, "revolutionary
black universities'’ would be set up
around the country to teach racial ha-
tred and revolutionary methods.
However, according to Jim Ran-
dolph, a member ‘of the Brothers who
attended the four day conference, the
press report was a complete lie. The
idea of the Liberation School was dis-
cussed in the workshops on Youth and
Development which Randolph attended.
He told The Liberator that the
schools would be set up to give pre-
school children a pride in being black.
Lessons in Afro-American history,
plus basic education would make up the
George Ware, a
staff member was arrested in
also
Albany Liberator August 25-31
basic curriculum.
The main difference between the
Headstart and Liberation School pro-
grams would be thatthe teachers would
beblack and the programs wouldbe run
by local neighborhood people instead o
officials of the Office of Economic Op-
As a follow up to the Liberation
Schools, Randolph said that getting con-
trol of the school boards in the slums —
is a "must." :
In effect,
idea
the Liberation School
is merely demanding for black
children what the whites already have--
a school system that recognizes and
reflects the black American's heri-
tage--one that prepares his children to
take their place in his society.
Yet the Liberation Schoolhas a more
radical implication in the present day
society because it stands for change
from the present segregated, racist
school systems that try to make blacks
eitherfit the white mold or be exiled to
the ghetto.
The Liberation School also holds
this country to the first amendment to
the Constitution. If freedom of speech
and freedom of thoughtare to be mean-
ingful, then Liberation Schools must be
free from persecution by the press,
Congress, and the State of Tennessee.
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Raw Deal on
are never
government.
in. plants
This meat is processed
which completely
state, from slaughterhouse
operate
within one
to table.
cross the state lines,
Because this meat does not 4
it is not federally
inspected. 2
A recent U.S. Department of Agri-
culture survey of these intrastate — {
plants has pointed up how the meat q
packers, eager tomake maximum pro-
fits, take advantage of unsuspecting
consumers. An example quoted by
Nader was the survey's report of con-
ditions in the state of Delaware: "In
addition to the very grave and urgent
problem posed by the distribution of
food derived from diseased animals,
the attached report details extremely
bad and revoltingly dirty food-handling
methods without any regard for rudi- 4A
mentary sanitation. Rodents and in- a
sects, in fact, any vermin, had free ag
access to stored meats and meat pro-
duce ingredients. Hand-washing lava- a
tories were absent or inadequate. Dirty a
meats contaminated by animal hair, the q
contents of the animal's digestive tract, 2
rodents and the filthy q
hands, tools and clothing of food hand- a)
lers, were finely ground and mixed
with seasonings and preservatives.
These mixtures distributed as
frankfurters, ©
sawdust, flies,
are
most of the adulterations could ni
detected by the consumer." ‘
These intrastate plants can ‘make a
lot more money when they sell "4D"
(dead, dying, disabled, and diseased
animals) meat. The cost to them is of
course much lower, but they sell the
meat for the same pricesas good meat.
In turn, much of this meat is distribu-
ted through the small local grocery.
Naturally, the meat companies like
Swift, Armour, Wilson & Co., insist |
that everything that they dois on the up |
and up. At the moment, q
the Agriculture Department has kept it
from taking any meaningful
reform the horrible abuses of the meat
packing industry.
Since at this point, the consumer 4
cannot trust his grocer to sell him se
meat fit for human consumption, he |
should ask where the meat he is buying
was processed and if it has been fed-
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New Role For Religion At Providence House
by Pat Bunce
To reach people at the grass-roots
level, to respond to their concrete hu-
man needs was the basic reason for the
establishment of Providence House last
October. In the words of Father Ho-
ward Hubbard, director of this unusual
store front church, "It is important to
get to know individuals as persons,
neighbors and brothers before you can
talk to them about God."
There is a need, he feels, for the
church to concern itself with the moral
and physical plight of people. By serv-
ing people in the South End in terms of
their immediate needs, Father Hubbard
feels the church is fulfilling its social,
ministry.
"The idea’ of a store front church
grew out ofthe Inter-Faith Task Force
Program inthe South Endlast summer.
Two priests and a deacon had been as-
signed from the local diocese and from
their experience and recommendations,
BS
STORE FRONT CHURCH -- A Providence House worker and Mike
tion on questions of health, job train-
ing, welfare and anything they feel the
need to talk about. If the problem can't
be solved by Providence House, the in-
dividual is sent to the proper agency.
The work at Providence House does
not end with referral. The workers
check up to make sure the individual
follows through with the agency.
In addition, helping one family may
take a lot of time, Father Hubbard ex-
plained. Finding a job for a man, for
example, does not end the family's
problems. Itmaybetwo weeks or more
before the first paycheck comes in, and
meanwhile the family must be housed
and fed.
There have beenover 100 volunteers
working for Providence House during
its first year. Sisters from the local
areaas well as high school and college
students have worked there. In the
spring Father Hubbard was joined by
WELGOME.
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Dunn, member of the Brothers, discuss conditions in the South End.
Providence House presents a new approach for the Catholic Church to »
social problems in the ghetto.
it was decided toassign a priestto work
full time in the South End.
Not only is the idea of having a
priest work on this kind of program”
new, but Providence House is unusual
in not having religious services as the
basis of its operations. There is no
preaching or attempts at conversion.
"Nevertheless, the work we do here,"
said Father Hubbard,
work."
Centrally located at 231 South Pearl
Street, Providence House is within
walking distance of the Green Street
housing project with easily available bus
service for those further away.
The first floor of the building is bas-
ically an office for providing informa-
"is a religious
two work ‘study students from Sienna,
Joe Dube and Mike Barber, who serve
as program aides. With the help of
these people Father Hubbard has been
able to put into effect a variety of pro-
grams. x ge
In conjunction: with Trinity Institu-
tion, a tutorial program was developed
during the past school year in which
forty youngsters took part. A recrea-
tion program, and arts and crafts were
also offered.
This summer 200 children took part
in remedial reading and math classes
held at St. Joseph's in Arbor Hill, St.
Anthony's, and at Kenwood Schools.
Over twenty sisters and two certified
lay teachers were involved, giving an
6 Albany Liberator August 25-31
excellent opportunity for help to the
individual child.
In addition to the summer school
program, Providence House started
two other projects this summer. Three
sisters with the aid of high school vol-
unteers conducted a baby-sitting ser-
vice in the community room of the
Green Street housing project.
Under another project, sisters from
Providence House made door to door
visits in the South End concerning
health and pre-natal care. The visits
also included aid to emotionally handi-
capped children and help in other fam-
ily problems.
One of the special programs begun
this spring was a group therapy session,
on Thursday nights for narcotic ad-
dicts. Help House, Inc., asit is called,
was founded by Jane Colman. In visit-
ing an individual with a drug problem
atthe Albany County Jail, Miss Colman
became aware of drug addiction as a
contributing factor in many criminal
offenses.
Looking for a place to meet with
narcotic addicts, she asked if Provi-
dence House could be used. A group
therapy session was set up, aided by
Dr. John Roseman, a psychiatrist from
the Albany Medical Center, who had ex-
perience inthis kind of therapy before.
hese sessions grew from 8 to nearly
40 by this summer. ~
Several problems must be solved to
make this an effective program. Per-
mission must be obtained from the State
Narcotics Boardtodevelopthe program
fully and added funding is needed.
Father Hubbard would like to estab-
lish a half-way house in Albany where
addicts who have withdrawn from the
drugs can be further helped to a new
life. Nowthey are referred to half-way
houses elsewhere. A program of this
kind must also include public educa-
Father Hubbard added, for the
drug addict is condemned by society.
Father Hubbard feels that the work
of Providence House lies not only in
helping the people of the area, but in
creating an awareness in the commun-
ity at large of the presence of poverty
and discrimination. We must, he said,
carry the message to the total com-
munity of their moral responsibility.
Part of Father Hubbard's means of
doing this is in working with other or-
ganizations. He is on the Council of
Community Concerns, a member of the
N.A.A.C.P., the Red Cross, and an
advisor for the Senior Citizens pro-
gram.
With a year's experience now,
Father Hubbard feels that the workers
at Providence House know more con-
cretely the needs of the people. They
look forward to expansion of their pro-
grams this fall into the local schools
and churches. The need is great, and
Providence Househas shown a promis-
ing beginning.
tion,
ame to
Black Migrant Workers Trapped
y
In New Jerse
by William Price
Every spring thousands of black farm
_ workers head north from Florida and
_ Georgiaalong a pathof misery--other-
wise known as the "migrant stream.''
Most of the migrants come in sec-
-ond-hand school buses 1, 000 miles or
more with no overnight rests but with
the distant hope of somehow lifting
themselves They
rarely do.
About 2,000 migrants come to the
rich vegetable fields around Bridgeton,
ie New Jersey where they bend from the
{ waist or crawl on their knees to har-
“vesta variety of truck garden products:
cucumbers, string beans,
strawberries, lettuce, cab-
bage, asparagus.
Their pay is subject to the weather
as one mother of nine said,
above subsistence.
tomatoes,
onions,
sor, "ac-
cording to how the beans be"' and all the
other vagaries of near-peonage. They
are housed in lines of shacks, rent for
which can be deducted from their in-
come asa ''gratuity.'' They are isolated
_ sin remote areas by lack of transporta-
_ tion of their ownand from outsiders by
strict enforcement of trespassing sta-
tutes by jittery but well-organized
®
growers. Despite a state child labor
law prohibiting farm work for those
der 12, the above photograph shows
children as young as five gathering
1s in a field south of Bridgeton.
under state law; none at all provided by
any trade union.
line were drawneast from the southern
through this section of New Jersey and
make its bottom counties part of the
South. The area visited by this corre-
spondent is, in fact, sort of low-key
Mississippi. He wastwice ejected from
migrant camps, his film demanded and
_arrest threatened. A sign on the out-
skirts of Bridgeton announces '"'Crimi-
nal Registration Required, ''and follow-
ing disturbances in the town last year
a permanent curfew was enacted to keep
any youth under 18 off the streets after
10 p.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. week
ends. Unless, as the city ordinance
reads, they are attending "bonafide"
functions such as those "sponsored by
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The migrants have little protection
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boundary of Pennsylvania, it would cut:
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from The National ,amip
religious, school or civic organiza-
tions.'' Persistent posters on farm
property warn outsiders away and the §
law provides the right of any landowner §
tomake his own arrests against "'tres-
passers."
A migrant, if he is young, male,
strong and without family can end up
the four-month picking season with
$500 to $1,000 after expenses; if the
weather is right, that is, and the crops
good. i
George Banks, 41, of Americus,
Ga., explained over coffeein a Bridge-
‘cafe that he had come because
"there's nothing to do this time of year
in Americus and what jobs they is, they
don't want to pay you nothin' for."
Banks said a friend hadn't changed his
ton
trousers intwo months because he only Bm
has one pair.
Plummer Strickland of Vero Beach,
Fla., the father of four, said he had?
made $17.03 after a week of picking
cucumbers, and "that's hardly eatin'
money.'' He added, "I can't do no bet-
ter, I can't find no jobs."' Another man
reported he had been able to pick only
two bushels of string beans on a parti-
cular day because the beans were ''so
poor.'' He was paid $1 a bushel. The
onions were good this year, however,
andanother said a good man couldpick
100 five-eights bushel baskets in a day
at 16¢ a basket.
Ther ie. -tadlerati ya fonehedeerntierte:
poverty group in the area, the South-
west Citizens Organization for Poverty
Elimination (SCOPE) with headquarters
at the Millville, N.J., airport. ‘Al
Federici, coordinator of migrant pro-
grams, said one crew of black workers
from the South had been without work
for two weeks when they first cameup
‘land by that time, they were all in hock
to the cook.''
The state has defineda housing code
for migrant camps but a special inves-
tigating team found this June that it was
frequently not enforced and camps were
opened to the newcomers without state
certification.
On the 1,000 acre farm of Louis
Pizzo, mayor of Rosenhayn, a few
miles north of Bridgeton, J.D. Black
of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., lives with
his wife and five of his nine children in
an uninsulated shack. The main room
is just large enough to hold a double
bed, a kitchen table, a dresser of
on which has been placed a
None of the camps visited had run-
ming water except froman outside com-
munal spigot. None had inside toilets.
two sons of the
claimed his camp had passed
inspection even though a four-
hole, male-female outhouse was located,
irate
Albany Liberator
Guardian Photo
six feet from one of thehouses ina
cramped quadrangle that faced onto a
small central dirt court, whereas state
law requires the placement of ‘such fa-
‘cilities more than 50 feet away.
SCOPE'S Federiciis one of the rare
anti-poverty workers who views his
role as beyond that of developin: social
"welfare type "services! whichhi
only oer people in "suspended -
vity."'
"It is not for us to try to improve.
the educational system, for instance,"
he say, ''but tomobilize people so ey
will press for changes."'
Trash Rally |
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acti
the 7th Ward, stressed the fact that
trash collection is only one ofthe prob-
lems faced by Black People in Albany.
He spoke of the need for all black peo-
ple to ''stick together'' and work for
their rights.
A similar message was brought to
the rally by Mrs. Ruth Joyner, the~
Schoharie County woman who has leased
100 acres of her farm land to the
Brothers for a teencamp. Mrs. Joyner
praised the Brothers for building
“black self-respect"! among the youth.
She told the audience that"Black Power
is beautiful. "'
The rally, was a happy event for
many people in Arbor Hill. There were
many children running around the park.
The adults enjoyed themselves sitting
on the’ grasgs!around the platform that ~
was constructed by the Brothers; even
though they had to cope with a faulty
amplifying system.
August 25-31
Liberator
News Notes
Freedom in Bogalusa
The 10-day march of black people
from Bogalusa, Louisiana to the steps
ofthe state capital, Baton Rouge, ended
Monday in a rally where the marchers
demanded an end to employment dis-
crimination. The rally was watched by
morethan 2,200 National Guard troops
and all ap-
proaches to the capitol, surrounded the
grounds
tops.
policemen--who lined
and even watched from roof
A helicopter circled above.
Themarchers, demanding only basic
auman rights, met constant harassment
from white racists on their long trip
and were under constant police sur-
veillance.
The rally on Monday was
tended by eight robed members of the
Ku Klux Klan who told a white supre-
sembly that the civil rights
Jemonstrations were the work of Com-
also at-
macist <
munists, Jews, and alleged undercover
agents for the
H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael.
Senate--none other than
Romney Reneges
Michigan's Governor George Rom-
aey told a Negro rally in Flint, Michi-
zan Monday that ''there must be an open
1ousing ordinance inthe state of Michi-
gan." Butafter a meeting with the state
legislature leaders the following day,
the Presidential hopeful told reporters
"I didn't mean to say that about open
housing. It was a slip of the tongue."
Tension has been mounting in Flint
the
an open occupancy ordinance a weekago
andthe Negromayor Floyd McCree an-
nounced his intention to resign in pro-
since City Commissioner rejected
test of the Commissioner's action.
New Jersey Migrant Camps
After investigations into the condi-
tions in migrant labor camps in New
the state's Migrant Labor Task
called on Gov. Hughes to close
of the camps immediately
or else they would resign.
Jersey,
Force
down some
In a resolu-
public this week, the Task
declared that the camps fla-
grantly violated provisions of the Mi-
Law
just made
Force
grant Labor and accused them of
"intolerable" conditions of over-crowd-
ing, grossly polluted water, inade uate
garbage facilities and unsanitary open
privies.
The Task Force Gov.
Hughes of reluctance to implement their
accused
recommendations, pointing out that vio-
existed all
yet the camps were allowed
They urged that the
penalize the who
squalid camps for the
black migrant workers.
: 8 Albany Liberator
lations in the camps had
summer,
to remain open,
Governor growers
have operated
Office
was paid for. Our friend stated that he
would call hisbrother, who happened to
possess another setof keys; but the at-
tendant understood that he was calling
the Brothers, which gave our friend a
very good idea.
(from page 1)
When two of the Brothers arrived on
the scene, two State Troopers were al-
ready there. Although they admitted
they had no right to interfere in the
matter, the Troopers said they would
remain''to prevent physical violence."
The situation quickly escalated with
more Troopers arriving. More Broth-
ers arrived in their cars and blocked
all the gas station's pumps. It became
apparent to the attendant that he was
losing a lot of customers by trying to
get that three dollars.
The Troopers who had before not ob-
jected to the attendant's taking our
friend's car keys, now reversed their
position, saying that if the attendant
wanted to pursue the matter, he would
have to take it to court.
Case No. 2
Around the middle of the week, we
got a call from a young friend of ours.
It seems like this girl was having trou-
ble finding a new apartment for her
husband and herself.
When she came down to the office,
she told us the following story:
Like most people who are looking
for a new place to live,
in the local papers. She was calling
Big Spenders
The Senate approved this week a
$70, 1-billion defense appropriations
bill, the largest single defense bill in
history. $20-billion of this appropria-
tion will be used to finance the Vietnam
War for the next 12 months.
Thisis the same Senate that is con-
sidering the authorization of $2. 2-bil-
‘lion for a one-year extension of the
Anti-Poverty Program.
According to Senator Joseph S.
Clark of Pennsylvania, this country is
presently spending $57 on each of its
35 million impoverished citizens, while
spending $1500 for each South Viet-
namese.
Welfare Mothers To March
1, 000 welfare mothers are expected
in Washington, D.C. during the coming
week in a 'mothers' march on Wash-
to voice their protest of new
welfare restrictions recently passed by
the House.
Dr. George A.
the Poverty Rights
Washington, D.C.,
welfare
ington"'
Wiley, director of
Action Center in
an organization of
recipients, announced the
march at the culmination of a four-day
convention of what Dr. Wiley calls the
"first organization of poor
people."
national
August 25-31
around to some of the places, when she
found one apartment that seemed just
what she was looking for.
The lady who answered the phone
was very nice. The rent was reasonable
and it sounded like the apartment was
in good condition. Then the lady said:
You're white, aren't you?" Our friend
replied, ''No, I'm not. '' Whereupon the
lady said, ''Only whites live in my
I don't rent to colored."
Our friend said she heard things
happened like this, but shenever
thought it would happen to her. She
called the Brothers because as she
said, ''Something's got to be done about
Tei!
house.
Case No. 3
On the afternoon of August 23, 1967
Mr. Orist Jenkins of 293 Hamilton St.
was arrested and charged with public
intoxication: But Mr. Jenkins claims
that he had not been drinking and that
he was the victim of police injustice.
Mr.
Livingston Avenue shortly after drop-
ping off his riders from work, whena |
young man came in and told him that —
his car had just been hit by a truck.
When Mr. Jenkins got outside, the
truck had left and Mr. Jenkin's 1963
red Cadillac had a big dent in the left
front side. ke
Taking the fellow that had witnessed _
the accident, Mr. Jenkins started in
pursuit of the truck. He claims #
Jenkins was visiting friends on
SG found | it after a sho if W
“friend had pean atteckinge wer we aaa pe ‘
paint on
truck that had done ‘the damag.
Mr. Jenkins then tried to
driver of the truck, but whenthe pol ce
got to the scene they accepted the story —
ofthe truck's driver and dispatcher that —
it had been sitting there all afternoon,
Without letting Mr. Jenkins get the
driver's name and other necessary in
formation to informhis insurance com-
pany, the police arrested Mr. Jenkins —
and charged him with public intoxica-
tion. Why? Well, it seems that Mr.
Jenkins demanded that the policeman
do something about the hit and run
driver and the police told him that he
should take it to court.
Mr. Jenkins got very angry at this
and we don't blame him. As he said
later, he wonders what would haye
happened to himhad he been the hit and
run driver and the other fellow the vic- —
tim. Whose side would the cop have
been on then?
As a Mr. Jenkins went to
jail because his car was hit and dam-
aged. It's a strange world, we all
agree.
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