Word: women
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Molino sees no chance of the Centro replacing SNAP, either. He points out that next week the first Area Council will be popularly elected in the South End. The Council is a committee of 15 neighborhood men and women, formed to represent the community in SNAP...
...regular South End group. MAWS, whose Roxbury division helped spark the riots there last summer with a sit-in at Grove Hall, Roxbury's welfare office, is dedicated to keeping at least one segment of the poor strong and united. MAWS pressures welfare agencies to deal fairly with women whose husbands have deserted them...
Last June, Roxbury had a riot. A group callel Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAWS) staged a sit-in in Grove Hall, the Roxbury welfare center. The women locked themselves and the welfare board into the building. Then someone called the police, who waded into the crowds, swinging their nightsticks and touching off a bloody melee, which soon spread throughout the area...
...Board, which includes Mrs. Pusey, said she wanted the neighborhood to take over control of the center, but did not feel threatened by the "blackmail situation set up by PBH." The Board did not resolve the confrontation beyond forming a Board-community committee to discuss recruiting young men and women from the neighborhood to work in the center...
Cynthia Conrad, a Conn. College for Women delegate, said last night, "We were told by implication, that if we refused to vote for Johnson candidates and resolutions, our club charter would be revoked by John Bailey. We were unwillingly controlled by him." Bailey could not be reached for comment...