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Allen Gartner, head of the Boston chapter of CORE, admitted Sunday that there is no concrete evidence of actual discrimination by the Hayes-Bickford Cafeterias, and said the July 10 demonstration outside the Cambridge Bick was not meant to imply that there...
...said, however, that the demonstration was prompted by "had faith" on the part of the Bick management in negotiations with CORE officials...
Gartner said he was "not terribly concerned with overt discrimination." He observed that the low number of Negroes employed tends to "build up a rigid system." This is so, he said, since many employees obtain jobs through people who already work at the Bick, and because Negroes are discouraged from applying for a job when they see that most of the employees of an establishment are white...
Gartner said that CORE's aim was that the Bick make a concerted effort to attract more Negro employees. Merely not to discriminate is not enough, he said...
...people behave as do the Characters in Duncan Foley's Three A.M.; most of us have behaved that way ourselves. A boy and a girl, alone in the boy's apartment, go through a ritual we have all performed, whether in our own apartments or over coffee in the Bick. More confederates than adversaries, they engage in ironic and highly artificial conversation, as a means of testing each other, of feeling each other out, of becoming acquainted...