Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This fall students from local colleges formed the Boston Action Group (BAG) to aid the Urban League and other organizations examining employment practices in the area. The new Civil Rights Coordinating Committee has chosen the BAG project as one of the three for which it will provide volunteer workers...
Prior to initiating any selective buying campaign BAG is examining the employment policies of Boston firms which are located in Negro districts and sell to Negro customers. It is primarily concerned with food companies which operate on a low profit margin and depend on regular customers. A boycott would be most effective against such firms...
Students are gathering information on employment policies by talking to workers, observing plant procedures, and asking for information from company officials. According to Karen M. Weissburg, a leader of BAG, they want to be perfectly sure discrimination exists before initiating any sort of a campaign...
Before undertaking any campaign BAG will present a firm with specific demands for the hiring of Negro workers and offer to negotiate. This approach often causes the company to relent immediately, Miss Weissberg said...
...Graham, 47, stole Columnist Walter Lippmann from the New York Herald Tribune syndicate last month, Graham hinted broadly that more raids might follow. His newest columnar prize is Joe Alsop, another old hand of the Tribune syndicate, whose byline will join Lippmann's in Graham's kit bag. Any more columnists to come? "Well." said Graham. "I could have had another big one, but I didn't want to seem greedy...