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(foodstuff) from coming onto the Harlem shelves.

Another guy I remember who carried out such a program was James R. Lawson, (the todays firebrand), who as a follower of Garvey, along with my cousin Arthur Reed, Columbus Austin, and Coliss Cook, lobbied for what they thought was right stopping Rheingold Beer trucks from delivering beer on 135th Street. Lawson's campaign was so successful that, we in the advertising department of New York Courier ante up to pay Lawson's expenses everytime he went to Rikers Island for our cause.

In fact, I will say it now, if it were not for James Lawson, of the early fifties, all of the first liquor salesmen hired right after World War II and our campaign in the New York Courier would not have been hired.

What's more when the guys felt that they were getting shafted by their liquor union and their bosses, they would call upon Lawson to start talking but when things were going good for them, the guys sort of faded away from James.

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