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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1970 10- Section 1 CIVIL RIGHTS Urges Emergency Talks on Gangs rm TT71 A the black community and act to solve the problem, he will be H1ACTI0IJHIT BY HESDUilGH VV-il I I VV II -A unable to count on the support of the black community on election day, he said. Blasts Communities BY ARTHUR SIDDON The Rev. Curtis Burrell head of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, called yesterday for an emergency meeting between city officials and black leaders to develop a citywide program to combat crime by street gangs. The Rev. Mr.

Burrell warned that very little time remains if the city is to avoid what he called a major disaster and conflict which could involve the entire city. "The city has no program to solve crimes in our community," he said at a press conference in the K. O. C. O.

offices at 1328 E. 47th St. "The mayor must act to call an and Counties WOODLAWN, 19 W) The chairman of the United sAILIE States Civil Rights Commission charged today that federal and local governments and the ma The Rev. John Barber, head of Black Men Moving, an Operation Breadbasket subsidiary, also was at the press conference. He called Chicago "a disaster area" and said the black community will no longer support an administration which ignores it.

Renault Robinson of the Afro -American Patrolmen's League spoke at a public affairs meeting in the YWCA Loop Center, 37 S. Wabash and called for a new security program at the Cabrini-Green Housing Project He said his program would require uniformed policemen to be on duty is each building 24 hours a day. People Are Afraid Robinson said he met with jority of citizens are not seri ous about equal opportunities for minority groups. commission has had it up to here with counties and emergency conference to work toward an' alternative to a communities that have to be dragged kicking and screaming Extraordinary values in an exciting variety of furs and styles! A comprehensive group of full-length coats, -length coats, jackets, wraps, and boas in: major conflict" Suggests Participants into the U. S.

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Burrell suggested that Mayor Daley and Police Supt. James B. Conlisk Jr. meet with him and Laplois ings is that people aren't seri ous about equality of opportu residents of the project two months before two policemen were killed by gang members nity and the government isn't serious about equality of op portunity. Comment on Final Day Ashford, executive director of the Chicago Urban League; Renault Robinson, president of the Afro-American Patrolmen's League; the Rev.

Jesse Jackson, director of Operation Breadbasket; and Thomas Todd, an attorney. "We have very serious sur Natural Fisher Argentine Dyed Processed Lamb Natural Lynx Natural Muskrat Dyed Alaska Fur Seal A complete collection of Men's Furs Natural Ranch and Autumn Haze Mink Natural Tourmaline and Glacial Mmk Russian Dyed Sable Russian Natural Sable Natural Silver and Blue Fox Natural Stone Marten ITRIBUNE Staff Photo) The Rev. Curtis Bun-ell left and his assistant, the Rev. John Barber, at press conference. Father Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame University, commented on the final day of a three-day commission hearing on minority job and way, a high speed county gery to perform in our community," he said.

"We cannot try housing opportunities in Balti artery built principally with there last month. "Even then they complained of no police protection," he said. "People are afraid to come out after dark, and we found some policemen afraid to go into the project." In addition to the 24-hour a day detail, Robinson's program calls for the right of the tenants to select which policemen would work in the project. He said this would not exclude white policemen from working in the program. He said he had been unsuccessful in an attempt to meet with Supt.

more County. to solve our political position or federal aid, was of more bene The county, which has a 3 per our monetary position until we cent black population among 615,000 citizens and the adia cent city of Baltimore, with a population of 893,000 of whom 46 per cent are black, have deal with the crime problem." Called Disaster Area The Rev. Mr. Burrell's life has been threatened and his church has been burned since fit to white suburbanites than to inner city blacks. At that point, Father Hesburgh noted that federal civil rights legislation requires government agencies to affirmatively determine whether their programs and expenditures are been selected by the.

commig the Baltimore FHA office, said his staff collects no figures on the number of blacks getting federally backed home loans and does not follow up to check the racial composition" of housing developments approved by the FHA. No Active Attempt Yesterday, the commission was told that the Federal Home Loan Bank Board does not actively attempt to assert whether discrimination is practiced thru the savings and loan association the board oversees. August Schofer, regional administrator for the transportation department, said today it was not his legal concern SAVINGS 10 TO 40 Comparison will pay a dividend Thomas EsMcElroy Company sion as the East Coast model in a national study of heavily black cities surrounded by Conlisk to discuss ws police can only be safe if the people believe in them and trust them," he said. discriminatory or are being he launched an attack on street gang crime. He said Daley's own political future may be threatened if nothing is done.

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