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FD-350 (4-3-62) om (Mount Clipping in Space Below) | SWITCH TACTICS, Threaten a ‘Demonstration. Against Jackie Robinson A Negro group, led by a} Black Nationalist, shifted its protest tactics yesterday away. from fpanite business man to’ Jacki obinson, the former star. The Negroes dropped plans to demonstrate against a pro- (posed steakhouse in Harlem| when they learned that the white proprietor planned to pull out. But they threatened to picket today against a Chock Full 'O' Nuts restaurant at 125th jStreet and Seventh Avenue be- cause Mr, Robinson had criti- cized them for anti-Semitic slo- gans used in protests agajnst the white man. | Despite their threat, Mr. Rob-: inson, who is a vice president of Chock Full O’ Nuts, refused to withdraw comments that ap- peared in The New York Am- sterdam News on Thursday. In his newspaper column, Mr. Robinson said Negro pickets had chanted such slogans as “Black man must satay; Jew)! ‘must go" while demonstrating]; agains’ @ proposed restau-/. DATE erence 54 AUG 1 1952 oe ee - -like this. It ig a matter of prin- .| The Harlem Consumers Com- mittee, led by pores BU has picketed against the steak- ‘out of business. ‘ “velvet fez, had threatened to- “resume picketing yesterday un-' ‘less he was given assurance! jthat Mr. Singer would with- draw. nee hte iti an ama tan nanbaanpsttchaatie in A AAI te ine itcnenir a ttl —shOanc ecb AtTaRes. sit Re — nena citar - 4 ) Mero ter Tele. Room ee Miss H lmeg___ Miss Gandy ~——. . yt (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) Matter of Principle’ “all my life we have been fighting against this same!. thing as it applies to the Ne-|. ," Mr. Robinson said yester-|' day. “I won't retract something 8 NEW YORK TIMES ciple. Black supremacy is just as bad as white supremacy.” The dispute revolves around plans by So) Singer, a white!’ restaurateur, to open a steak- house next door to the Apollo Theatre in q choice section of 125th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. house off and on for three weeks. The group had asserted /¥ 7! that Mr. Singer planned to ‘force a near-by Negro-operated| restaurdnt, Lloyd’s Steakhouse,- Mr. Michaux, who calls him- ‘seg an African Nationalist and wears a goid-trimmed, black. 1 . | Mr. Michaux’s colleagues said, However, Mr. Singer said in| ‘their lawyer had informed them that Mr. Singer intended to pull Date: 7 /14 ‘yout. Edition: PATE CITY a telephone interview yesterday, Author: ithat he was lea town y Editor: check with his financial backers or JOHN B. OAKES about the venture. He said he Title: KATION oF ISLAM. yhad already invested $90,000 in! restaurant’ improvements and —SM=NOT was reluctant to absorp such ‘ loss. He has offered to sell ou . to Negro business men but has Character: had no OffeFs. einemmener | or Classification: an . , ¥ ALL INFORMATION FONTAN: HEREIN | UNCLASSIFicD Submitting Olfice: NYO 9 RE © peer erm Wr terra ene e