ARRESTS OF NEGROES

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30191, 24 July 1963, Page 6

ARRESTS OF NEGROES

Mass Protest On Job Site

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright)

NEW YORK. July 23

Wave after wave of praying. hymn-oinging civil rights demonstrators knelt and lay down in the path of cement trucks at a construction site in New York today. Police arrested more than 300 of the demonstrators, who were protesting against alleged job discrimination. It was one of the biggest mass arrests in New York City for more than 100 years. Most of the demonstrators arrested were charged with disorderly conduct. Six were charged with assault because they allegedly tried to kick a policeman picking them off the ground. More than 1000 white and negro demonstrators paraded around the construction site of a medical centre in Brooklyn. As fast as the police vens were filled, more demonstrators took the place of the arrested pickets.

Police warned the demonstrators as they assembled that anyone who sat down in front of entrances to the site would be told once to move and then would be arrested

The pickets refused to heed the warning. One group of negro ministers locked arms across the entrance. In Chicago, integrationists tried to storm their way to the upper floors of the Chicago Board of Education building to stage a pit-in. One negro girl fainted during the struggle with police.

Passed In.— Offered on account of the estate of Matilda Louisa Le Gros, a house at 28 Railway terrace, Riccarton. was passed in at £ 1300 at public auction yesterday. The auctioneer was Mr D. C. Sheppard. The house, on a section of 44.7 perches, has two livingrooms and three bedrooms. The rates are £23 17s Hd.