Letter from Charles Butcher to Caleb Foote and Bayard Rustin
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Butcher, Charles
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Reminds Caleb that the article they were to write on CPS has not come to pass and that there is no sense in writing it now. Conference in Chicago on CPS was not successful as a group from Merom came to discuss the "greater opportunity" while the rest did not, and when the discussion dealt with conscription, slave labor, race relations, the Merom group felt the time wasted. Otto Dahlke's ideas on race discrimination not quite understandable to Butcher. Race discrimination at Patapsco. CPS has recently establishing harvesting crops as part of the work, raising the question of CPS men replacing men whom Selective Service would otherwise have to leave on the farm: "some, I hope a lot of men,would refuse to cooperate with the idea under any circumstances since it is the same thing as draft labor, the next step planned by the government after the elections." Brethren opening a new camp in Waldport, Ore., which Butcher thinks a bad thing. Faced with the dilemma of going to Oregon or staying to fight racial discrimination.
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