Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...management pays Guild reporters a top minimum of $150 a week, compared with the $190 that Guild reporters get in nearby Washington. In the past, Baltimore's Guild went along with management's offers, but this year it got tough. Spurred on by the more powerful Washington chapter, it reorganized as a Washington local. It also imported a veteran Washington negotiator, a move the company denounced as a "Washington takeover." The company's last offer was a $10 boost in minimum pay over two years...
...only organization actively seeking Northern volunteers is Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Selma incident diverted SCLC's attention at a key point in the recruitment drive, but the SCOPE project has inspired the formation of chapters at several key universities. At both the University of Minnesota and Brandeis, SCOPE groups are training for a summer of voter registration work. As explained in today's insert, each chapter will work under the supervision of Negro leaders in preselected Southern communities...
...doesn't Harvard have a SCOPE chapter? The story is rather involved. Originally the Young Democrats agreed to form one but, after several weeks of deliberation and contemplation, decided not to. Peter Weiner, president of the YD's, explained that he had doubts about the project. Had the preselected communities been adequately researched by the SCLC staff? Was there a danger that massive Northern participation would smother or inhibit local initiative? And, undoubtedly, Weiner was reluctant to throw his organization into the factional strief of the civil rights movement: many YD's belong to SNCC, and SNCC takes...
...reported today, Weiner has once again decided to join the SCOPE program. But, because of all the delay and confusion, there is no longer enough time to form and train a separate Harvard chapter. Instead the YD's will channel interested students to the Brandeis chapter, which will work in Columbia, South Carolina...
Maher hopes that a chapter of the Progressive Labour Party will be organized in Boston. "There are a couple of people interested in it. There are also some people in Roxbury and Dorchester who are interested in doing some organized work as Communists." He has no immediate plans, however, to get such a organization started