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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Okishoma City, Oklahoma August 15, 1969 ane poet Reference step dated a August nea Iseo, yoo at Oktahona City, (Okishoma, ;. eee ae ares eget ‘ Seveg A The’ ‘August. il, tee, ‘issue of “Journal” contains an article reflecting Ro - Executive Secretary of the nation-wide NAACP,\had pled ed wholehearted support. for’ the Oklahoma. City gar age workers' © ‘demand for a $100 per month pay raise and five-day work week. According to the article, Wilkins, in New York, stated "We haven't made any definite plans. It's st a question . ‘of what form the action will take.” me art c artigie’ a quoted ‘.. ae another NAACP official in New York, — comparing the Oklahoma Cite tivcstt situation SET earllher. r’con- _. £rontations in Tennessee and South Carolina. . Moon stated, | | -.. “There is no question that wé will stand behind them just ~ as we stood by the workers in Memphis and Charleston." The August 12, 1969, issue of the "Oklahoma Journal" representing 26 black members within the 75-member _ahiioinced that they were “shocked by the city sanitation '_ ‘workers" wages, working conditions and gave thety support ane to the workers’ threat to strike. Reverend J. CXWest, OKIA President of the Alliance, was asked by newsmen whkt —_—_— form the pledged support would take and West replie > _."If it's necessary to say some more later, we say some BET ae The’ ‘August 12, ‘1969, “tssue of ‘the. ““Daily, Oklahoman" Les contains. an article stating chat City Manager Robert H.- .. «.,Oldiand, Oklahoma City, had reiterated his pledge that any .. ; .. sanitation worker walking off his job on August 19, 1969, ‘Water and suwer work | forces will supplement sanitation crews ae pa th BS age ND ORE Eee ge to ann CON “ih NNO "this document contains cotter reeosucgamee ts —_ aR aa on ay usions of any kind. tt ts the property of the ToL ie: : “t eta a MEAT a loan to your ezency;it andlor ts contents ere ia loa pcg? mee meenge day: Goss _ 4279 ee se sste, t Pt ee tt ae nen Ree Bea Wilkins, ifs. contains an article indicating: that a group of ministers -~---~-:-- > terdenominational Ministerial Alliance in Oklahoma cisy, 0K a. MOTE. af. itis, necessary to do some MOre, we'il do some more." oe ord aa Cae : “will be dismissed. He said volunteers from the parks, Peet