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Wrong Course. The trouble began quietly enough, with a sit-in at the district office of the Boston Welfare Department by a group styling itself MAW -Mothers for Adequate Welfare. Complaining of hostility on the part of welfare workers and arbitrariness on the part of the department, about 30 MAWs locked themselves inside, announcing that they would not move until they had talked with Welfare Director Daniel Cronin. When police came to remove them, one woman screamed, a window was broken, and the crowd outside went on its mindless rampage...
...MAW demonstration of June 2 become the beginning of a weekend of violence, when last year's incidents caused none? There are two possible explanations...
...poverty program, and civil rights news from other parts of the country increase the awareness of Boston Negroes, they become more willing to redress their grievances and less willing to stand by passively in the face of what they consider injustice. The new spirit manifested itself June 2 in MAW's decision not to leave the welfare office before talking to the Welfare Commissioner, and in the resentment and possible scattered planning that moved the crowds to violence...
...June 2 something new happened. Three days of rioting and violence followed a sit-in demonstration by the Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAW) at the Grove Hall Office in Roxbury...
...stayed overnight without incident. But on June 2, a Friday, the welfare workers wanted to close the office for the weekend, and the mothers' grievances had not yet been considered. Welfare Director Daniel J. Cronin had not come to the office to talk with the mothers. This time MAW decided they would not be put off again...