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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE _ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION e Norfolk, Virginia November 14, 1969 EFFORTS TO ORGANIZE NONPR WORKERS, LOUISE OBICI MEM SUFFOLK, VIRGINIA Reference is made to memorandum from the Norfolk Office of the FBI dated November 4, 1969. & Gn November iz, i > ‘DB, Se »:.!:-: econo ” . the situation in the Sufrolk-Nansemond County, Virginia, area pertaining to the efforts of Local 26, Distributive Workers of America Union, Suffolk, Virginia, to be recognized by the Louise Obici Memorial Hospital has remained calm and no acts of vjolence have occurred. OE that neither Reverend Ralph#Abernathy, fertrA - President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conferencg, (SCLC), Y nor any other high official of the SCLC has appeared in fuffolk, - Be Virginia, in connection with instant matter and, therefore, there has been no confrontation with the police. ° , dvised that ropysikins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had appeared in Suffolk, Virginia, on November 6, 1968, at which time he had spoken before approximately 300 people, primarily Negroes, at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in support of the efforts of Local 26 to be recognized by hospital officials. Wilkins stated that the Negroes had no quarrel with the Chief of Police or law enforcement officers, and likewise did not have any quarrel with ‘the local Hospital Board, the Board of Supervisors of Nansemond a 2 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED S i . WEREIN {S UICLASSI;¢p 249)304 =v naTe__BEIES EySS citoms 16q- HHA ZZ > -*