Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-03
Residents Lack
Parade Interest,
Randolph Says
By CLARENCE HUNTER
Star Staff Writer


apparent lack of enthusiasm
for the march among WASH
ington citizens" said Mr.. Ran
dolph, chairman Of the national
committee.
He added, however, that re-
ports from the march's WASH
ington Co-ordinating Commit
tee indicate that a program is
under way to mobilize the Dis
trict community for the mass
demonstration.
1.-THE District should turn out
at least $4,000 - and we hope
more people for the August
% demonstration" Mr.. RAN
dolph said during a curbside
interview as he tried to hail a
cab in the rush-hour traffic.
He was rushing to return to
New York City after an after
noon meeting with AFL-CIO
President George Meany and
other members Of a special
AFL-CIO committee to fight
racial discrimination in unions.
employment, housing, voting,
public accommodat serv-
ices and schools.
Exploratory Policy
Mr.. Randolph described the
as merely an explora-
tory conference" Mr.. Meany
announced establishment of
the committee on July %.
Other members in addition to
Mr.. Randolph and Mr.. Meany
are Walter P. Reuther, United
Automobile Workers Of Amer
lea president; C. j. Haggarty.
president of the AFL Clio
Building and Construction
Trade Department, and William
F. Schnitzler, AFL-CIO secre-
tary-treasurer.
Mr.. Randolph, only Negro
vice president of the AFL-CIO.
is president of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters and
the American Negro Labor
Council. He originally con-
ceived the March on Washing
ton to highlight the high rate
of unemployment among Negro
workers.
There is mounting enthusi-
aSm for the demonstration
throughout the country, Mr..
Randolph said. March sponsors
expect that no less than 100, 900
whites and Negroes will travel
to Washington by bus, train
and plane for the one-day DEM
onstration.
Mr.. Randolph said the heads
OF the other five major ma
tional civil rights organizations
sponsoring the march meet in
New York City today for fur
Their planning. Today's meeting.
he said, will be concerned pri-
with 1.-The logistics of
the march"
To See Senators
Mr.. Randolph returns to
Washington Wednesday after
noon for a Capitol Hill meeting
with interested Senator's and
Representatives so he can ex-
plain the purposes of the dem
to them.
The first real test of Dis
trict response to the March
on Washington will be at 8
pm. Tuesday at a meeting at
Shiloh Baptist Church, Ninth
and P streets NV.
The Rev. Walter E. Faunt-
roy, chairman of the Washing
ton Co-ordinating Committee
for the march, said representa-
tives OF organizations support
ing the demonstration as well
as unaffiliated but interested
citizens will attend the meeting
to learn about the march.
The Catholic Interracial
Council announced yesterday
that march committees are be-
ing formed in Washington,
Northern Virginia and Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
Counties in Maryland. Dele
gates to the council expect
large Catholic participation"
IN the demonstration, said j.
Francis Pohlhaus, a member
Of the councils executive
board.
Personal Decision" T.
Mrs. Rita Sylvester, execu-
tive secretary of the Washing
ton Catholic Interracial Coun-
Gil, said that participation in
the August % march sis a mat
ter Of personal decision for
each individual Catholic"
The United Christ Churches
OF the Metropolitan Washing
ton Area have Endorsed the
and urged member
churches to help provide any
needed overnight facilities for
the demonstrators.
Washington's Presbyterian
congregations have been asked
by church officials to "mani-
fest Christian grace and char
ity, personal courtesy and hos
pitality to your neighbors and
to all who are guests or visitors
in this Capital city"
Commissions on race and re-
ligion OF the Episcopal and
Unitarian Universalist church,
es have separately urged mem
bers Of their respective faiths
TO participate in the demon
stration by sending delegates
to the rally.