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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ’ Ste "ie i vee ee INVESTIGATION wo In Reply, Please Refer te Y%> QLASSIFIED Ann File Ne Bufile 100~-438794 waren ihe aa BY. Fp, hag lA NYfile 100-1 cases Suse ae? RETF. PFASCR ELA Og qe ORRCTR ERETN he Co a ee OPRTA® @ ects mpxcert st Bea: x poe ae t ' : >. ae FEN AV Or : Southern Christian Leadersh yuchissi in SS2EE. SAO oe Me Conference (SCLC) ~ Racial Metters iy A confidential source, who has furnished reliabie _ _, information in the’ past, advised on May 4, 1968, that, on \- that date William utherford, Executive Director of the SCcJ£ discussed with\Stanley Levison the SCLC sponsored Poor reople's Campaign (PFC) in Washington, D,C, Rutherford indicated that he was impressed with the way the opening of the campaign had gone. He told Levison that people got up and spoke spontaneously, that they (SCLC) did not know what these people were going to say. He recalled one woman telling the Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, that his department chases people who do not want to go into the Army but does nothing about segregated draft boards or about people stealing money from the poor, He also commented that he was one of the ‘persons who worked up the committee that worked on "those ‘position papers", which were good, He said they got up a daraft called a Declaration of the | PPC based mostly on a ee Pas Lo ite Levison’ 8 Work; "it is about 99.9% of that last draft you wrote “y/ y gE tutherford was upset over the lack of cooperation . from the union in Memphis, Tennessee, which was involved in the garbage workers strike. He noted that he and Cerillo (phonetic) (SCLC Treasurer) were in Memphis and that "we" (the SCLC) had 30 buses Jined up (for the PPC) but nothing had been paid for s0 he and Cerillo paid for the buses but the union "hasn't done ) a thing" . He added ¢t that at a chur ch rally the a Li Bt night in Memphis they raised only $2,067.00 because they had no fund raiser and the union gave nothing. He continued that they were supposed to meet with the union at breakfast but the union representatives never showed up. Later, according to Rutherford} This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It ie the property of the FBI and te Inaned to vour acreneyv: if and Piwpyvae wie a ee ee ee ee we ye a uppbwaiw yg hw CR its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. 00. je 203g Tele Qos ts ae thr