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. ew Seer rere ante Le es tn Ae el lal wr “ vetemes LB ae ~ SEMET hae Southern Christian Leadership conference (SCLC) - CONF nm TAY Young explained that he felt Abernathy should attend -: .. but was not anxious to have Coretta King in on the negotiations with the international presidents. He said that he had suggested Wednesday, June 5, as a better day for the meeting. Young also mentioned that Epps said that with respect to the SCLC going into a membership campaign that they want to try to guarantee that a good percentrage of their membership would become SCLC members and that they are willing to push a. membership drive but want Abernathy to be present. §- Levison said he saw no objection for not going along with the meeting or going along with Epps SCLC membership proposal Oo Young brought up the matter of Bayard Rustin's statement and said that Rustin wanted him to approve it. Young stated that he would not approve it wouthout a group analyzing it. He said he did not know why Rustin issued it.@é Levison attacked Rustin's statement stating he has never seen anything as insulting. He said that the PPC effort in Washington is being sabotaged by the SCLC people in Washington, including Young, by actions such as bringing Rustin in to run the June 19 march. He told Young the SCLC was playing house with Resurrection City,that it had been said at the outset that not much of a city would be needed because once the action began and people went to jail they would be fed there. He said there has not been any campaign and for Rustin to come in as he kas, compounds all the confusion about leadership ss Levison brought up the fact that Coretta King wants to be on the SCLC Administrative Committee. He said he told her that the problems are too deep for her to think she cen solve them, that she had underestimated the gravity of the problems and overestimated herself. He noted that Coretta is not sure | whether she can work on the book she Had planned for July because she felt she hed to be in Resurrection City and that she has been told she has a duty to the movement. He said he told her that the book represents financial security and wagned her against people trying to use her. Levison edded that he «