PASSAGE OF BILLS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30156, 13 June 1963, Page 13

PASSAGE OF BILLS

Negro Plan Revealed (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, June 12. The Rev. George Wallace, the regional representative for Dr. Martin Lyther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, today disclosed negro leaders’ plans for equal rights. He said that massive, militant, and monumental “sitin” demonstrations would take place in Washington to press Congress for action if it did not deal speedily with the forthcoming civil rights legislation, and that a largescale civil disobedience campaign would begin in major cities across the nation if Senate tactics delayed the civil rights bills. In this event, negroes and white supporters “will tie up public transportation by laying our bodies prostrate on runways of airports, across railroad tracks, and at bus depots,” he told a press conference. Negro demonstrations continued yesterday in the United States. In Danville, Virginia, shouting, singing negroes marched through the city again, this time without incident, as State troopers arrived to reinforce local police after two police cars were fired on early yesterday morning. In Gadsden, Alabama, police moved in on a gang of whites marching on negro demonstrators picketing city lunch counters and dispersed them. In Savannah, Georgia, several hundred young negroes marched on the city hall and demanded “freedom" from Mayor Malcolm Maclean. The Mayor told them the city had no control over the private businesses the negroes were trying to integrate.