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aA ea. wane! Pe i latent Dey ds Ce ore In Reply, Please Refer te File No. - Bufile 100-106670 FEDERAL BUREAD OF INVESTIGATION New York, New York May 2,-1968 § Martin Luther King, dr.; Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) internal Security - C UM:ZED STATES DEPARTMENT OF Ohr1ce A confidential source, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised on May 1, 1968 » that on that date, Stanley Levison and Ben Hooks of Memphis, Tennessee, a member of the Executive Board of the SCLC, discussed making. the SCLC a membership organization. Levison felt that they -..- . did not have to go in for branches that, at the present time, particularly in churches, it is possible to launch a campaign. - around the slogan "A Million to Replace One". Levison also noted that the SCLC has more entry into labor unions than any ~ other civil rights organization. Levison recalled that he had told Martin Luther King, Jr. that the SCLC never used the strength they have in the labor movement. He said that in the Black locals of the Teamsters Union alone they could get thousands of memberships with the cooperation of the union. | He added that the National Vice President of the Packing House | Workers Union in Chicago, a Negro, told Andrew Young (Executive Vice President of the SCLC) that they would do "these kind of things" with the SCLC, such as raising money, provided the SCLC backed up the Black members in those unions: ALL INPORY PTCEIN 15 18 EXCEPT ¢ OTHERRISE 2 THISDUCUMENT CONTA'NS NEITHER RECOMMENDATIONS No” ONCLUSIONS OF Til Fil IT IS THE Py PERTY OF THE FRI AND IS LOANED ‘tu YOUR AGENCY; IT AND ITS CONVENTS ARE NOT TO BE DISTHIEUTED OUTSIDE YOUR AGENCY. | | 2 ATU QONTALRED “AShIFUOD , SHOMS al” | | St 1 : from autonatic deengfaiing and fication REASON-FCIM TT, 1-2.6.2