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NEW NEGRO THREAT: MASS DISOBEDIENCE Johnson in the 1968 presidential election "unless he changes his conduct" of the war in Vietnam. "We will go all out to take a stand in voting for someone who is against the war in Vietnam," he said. .IH0 115 \0 i fA UIIIUl TO 8£ 8t l ( - UPI P hoto DR. KING' S plan : " Disrupt a city." ATL ANTA - Riot-torn cities of the North now face a new threat of Negro disruption. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , is organizing what he calls "civil disobedience on a massive scale." · ere are some of the things he talks' about: o A march on vVashington by thousands of unemployed Negroes who would camp out in the capital city, somewhat like the bonus marchers" of 1932. • A hungry people's sit-in" at the D epartment of Labor in Washington. • Sit-ins of unemployed to block gates of factories in many cities. • School boycotts on a weekly basis. The idea, as Dr. King put it, is "forcefull y to cripple the operations of an oppressive _society." He said: "To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the societY, but not wantonly destructive. "Moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior fo rce." Dr. King revealed his latest plan on August 15 at a convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which he heads. His listeners, mostly Negroes, cheered him . It was the most militant speech yet by the Tegro minister who in the past has preached nonviolence, and has worked mostly in the South. Announcing his new tactics in the orth, he said: is a "Taking into account that ~ powerful fact of life in the gnetto, the mechanical application of tactics of nonviolent marches and meetings which could work among Southern egroes becomes unsound." ' •,~ust 17, Dr. King ai r! �