European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Experimentally against the lines of grim police. I m Here because i m polish she screams. And i hate niggers. I hate pm hate pm hate  the thrust of the negro demonstrations has fallen primarily on polish americans. The South Side is their neighbourhood. Their Faith is roman Catholic. And so a troop of muscled youths in jeans and jackets marches across the Bridgeland into the Central City bearing a Box painted Black and shaped like a coffin  residence of their archbishop the most Rev. William e. Cousins. A legend is painted god by Dion Henderson a staff writer e this the autumn of Milwaukee year of trial the old Green Bridge that links the teeming segments of the Central City has come to Lead two lives. By Day the mile Long viaduct carries the Commerce of a great City across the Smoky Haze of the Industrial Valley beneath it workers to the factories of the South shoppers and businessmen tothe towers of the North. But by night night after night since the last week of August the Bridge be comes a Gap in the lines of a City locked in racial conflict. Negroes trudging out of the slums of Milwaukee s inner Core to dramatize their demands for open housing and of Oss the Bridge to invade the bide All White and mostly polish. I he Southern terminus of the Span Isth staging ground where Whites gather to Melet the demonstrators determine mat they shall not enter. Sometimes the Whites Send their own marchers across the Bridge in counter demonstrations. Occasionally the fringes of these forces touch breaking through the lines of sweating police struggling to main Tain order. An incendiary burst of violence inevitably ensues quelled Only when Banks of tear Gas Roll like fog across the Bridge approaches. This is Milwaukee today and it Little resembles the fun Loving town that joyously boasted of its Beer and bratwurst and once of its prowess at  confrontation of a few thousand h?134? and Wylte Nas wrought in credible changes even among those who Only watch in horror and disgust. At a picnic ground 100 Miles away woman spots a Milwaukee newspaper and her face convulsed. I m sorry i m a Catholic she shouts at an utter stranger. Do you hear i m sorry sorry  almost always at the head of the Long Lack line that nightly takes to the streets is one White face the  b. Groppi a Parish priest who has taken up the Black Man s Burden. At the intersection of 16th and Lincolna woman in a Blue knit dress weeps and exhorts a White crowd As it heaves Ike All marchers who tramp Mil Waukee s streets this group has an escort of silent men in Blue wearing xss"1 he Tsu and carrying the Stubb shotguns that hurl canisters of tear Gas. The White youths flourish their right to protest and recede across the Bridge. The police turn to escort another column a Long Black line stepping along to the cadence count of negro youths marching on the flanks. These Are the youngsters of the Mil a  Council the Shock troops of the National association for the advancement of coloured people in that organization s drive to Force adoption of a City ordinance outlawing racial discrimination in the Sale and rental of housing. Marching on the heels of the White demonstrators the Black line tramples res Fusu father Groppi the Whites now milling South of the Ridge chant get  this too had been the plea of the youths who marched upon the Home of the archbishop. Instead Rev. Cousins published an editorial in the Catholic Herald citizen addressed to the 700,000 faithful in his flock. Do i agree with everything that father Groppi has said and done he asked. I certainly do  but he added people Are so disturbed by father Groppi s activities that they lose sight of the cause for which he is fighting that of Freedom and human dignity. As christians we favo the same just  father Groppi assistant pastor of St. Boniface Church in the inner Core and at least formally adviser to the youth Council takes no Public notice of signs or statements. Each Day at noon he performs his priestly duty at the mass each night he summons his charges to the Church and leads them into the streets. The Campaign began As a demand for an open housing Law but father Groppi has said the marches would continue even if the ordinance were adopted. There Are other areas he  is a vicious Cycle we must  the physical Law that an action sum Mons up an equal and opposite reaction has come into Force. The South Side now has its Organiza Tion for a closed housing Law along with a new chapter of the National association for the advancement of White Treopie. A 2 55� Black men marched South and raised their voices in hymns at Kosciusko Park Only a few Hundred White watched in murmur us hostility. The next Day the negroes tried to repeat the March and covered Only four is a fore coming face to face with5,000 Whites. Police shepherded the demonstrators Back to the Bridge hold ing off the charging Whites with Volley after Volley of tear Gas. Milwaukee had a riot earlier inthe year. It was shut off after one night of unremitting violence and there was almost unanimous agreement that most of the credit was due to patient effective police work. No one at Headquarters will say How Many resignations have piled up from patrolmen since the nightly demonstrations began. But there s a lot of talk about quitting among the patrolmen As they Battle to prevent collisions Between White an negro. A hard faced officer of polish ancestry charges into a threatening group of Whites on a Corner and Muscles them Back an aggrieved voice from the crowd says dammit Stanley you re a  and the cop says if it gets too bad 111 take off this suit and be on the other Side of the  recurrent negro polish hostility theme defies explanation out of context. There Are 350,000 residents in what is called the South Side 160,000 of themare of polish extraction. Being polish in Milwaukee is consid ered by Many to be a distinction it is like being Irish in Boston. The near South Side has endless rows of Small neat two Story houses a Yard  Veach with High front Steps and cherished foot of Lawn in Spring there Are tulips some of them guarded by Pink flamingos made of plastic. This is the area where the negroes March demanding a Law that says they Nave a right to live there. But fou times the common Council has rejected in open housing measure. Four Tim Este Bill has been introduced by the coun cil s Only negro member four time the vote against it has been 18 to 1. Mayor Henry Maier defends the Little Guy who lives on the South  a mayor Henry Meier fights tirelessly for his 39-step program to end poverty in City s Core. The mayor is fighting for an open hous Sec that would delude suburbs. Heh the workingmen of the South Side had m. Been Tow by labor leaders that a ado Ted a eventually would be Why then did he have to March on the South Sider has been unfairly depicted As a bigot says the mayor. ,"5e May see a nonwhite skin As a Biot Una Ammarito but be is not n Mai works endlessly for what recalls his 39 Steps a program aimed at ending crime bad housing Une Plov ment and other manifestations of the wretched poverty in the inner Corenn. Named a new Community relations commission. Gov. War Ren p. Knowles has sent his investigators into the Core. When the legislature returns to session in october it will consider proposals remedies and re pairs. Knss & thl inner Core and on thebout Side there Are no signs that Point toward Compromise. At father Groppi s Church there s poster that shows a Black Panther enjoying a meal of polish sausage on the South Side the residents Are ready for More intrusions All the Pink flamingos have been stowed safely away. And the Only link Between the two worlds the old Bridge lives two lives one by night and one by Day 12 there is a vicious Cycle a must break ays father Groppi right As he leads negro demonstrators in nightly marches. The stars and stripes ,_,.,.wednesday, september 27, 1967 a Whites have responded with counter demonstrations demands for a closed housing Law. The stars and stripes a Page 13