CORE Asks for Boycott of Trailways Buses; says Company Discriminates in Employment

The Boston chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is asking college students to boycott the Trailway company during Thanksgiving because of its alleged discriminatory employment practices.

CORE has been picketing the Trailways Terminal in Park Square Friday afternoon for the last five months, but according to a statement from the Boston Globe the demonstrations "have not appreciably hurt Trailways' business."

CORE charges that Negroes seeking advancement above the position of porter have been told no openings exist, only to see white applicants hired soon after. Another tactic used by Trailways, CORE says, is to tell Negroes that no tests for higher jobs are available, and then not bother to secure any more.

The Trailways management has several times indicated its willingness to hire Negroes, but then refused permission to let CORE advertise such an employment policy, the statement says.

Another civil rights protest was made last weekend by four first year Divinity School students who joined 350 other students in testing discrimination in restaurants in the Baltimore area.

The demonstrations were called by CORE and the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) in support of a continuing campaign by the Civic Interest Group in Baltimore against discrimination in local eating facilities.

The Harvard Civil Rights Committee next week will solicit funds for SNCC, which according to reports from its headquarters in Atlanta is in dire need of money. Eighteen SNCC workers are now living on a subsistence salary of $20 per week.