The Illinois standard. [volume], January 15, 1949, Page 6, Image 6

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UOPWA opens $100,000
drive for white collarites
. NEW YORK (FP)—Spear
headed by a SiOO.OOO “fighting
fund.” a “drive to organize
white collar workers and raise
their living standards" was an
nounced by the United Office
and Professional Workers (CIO)
this week.
The action was voted at a 2
day week-end conference of 430
delegates representing UOPWA
members in 22 cities. Terming
all white collar workers under
paid. the conference went on
record for wage boosts without
price increases by industry. As
part of the organizing campaign
230,000 leaflets calling for S15
weekly raises and a $40 mini
mum wage will be distributed
in all major cities.
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Answering a warning by CIO
Pres. Philip Murray at the re
cent national CIO convention
that he would set up a white
collar organizing committee or
charter a new union because of
UOPWA's failure to organize,
a resolution expressed hope that
no steps will be taken “to divide
the ranks of organized office
and professional workers. . . .
Any such measures could only
be condemned and opposed by
the UOPWA as destructive to
genuine organization of white
collar workers and harmful to
the labor movement.”
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MIAMI SUN beams warmly on
shapely Helga Brandt, while
blizzards and sub-zero temper
atures put rest of country in cold
storage. Scene might have been
duplicated in Chicago this week,
but not "sunny" California.
Fewer Farm workers
In 1848, 22 percent of our
total population was work
ing in the field of agriculture,
but in 1948 only 7 percent were
engaged in the labor force that
produced the year’s crops.
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But the experts brought back
a word of caution with their plan
—you can't build houses on sand,
an island of beautiful buildings
in the midst of a sea of tene
ments would never stand.
So the Michael Reese Plan was
expanded to include the com
munity and became the South
side Development Association, a
non-profit organization formed
t carry out the vast program.
In addition to the hospital's
medical center and housing proj
ects for its staff, the area from
12th St. to 47th, and from the
Pennsylvania RR tracks to Lake
Michigan will be re-zoned and
re-built for modern urban living
RENTS STILL HIGH
However, one flaw mars this
picture of community action for
interracial housing As the Arch
itectural Forum points out,
“Only joker in the program is
that even subsidized housing
cannot offer rents low enough
for the poorest members of the
community (m a i n 1 y Negroes).
Thus, homes must be found else
where in the overcrowded and
restricted city for sizable num
bers of South Side residents."
Of the housing project sched
uled for early erection next to
Michael Reese campus, the
building magazine notes the $45
to $80 monthly rent, observes,
“Tenants not on the Michael
Reese staff will inevitably be
drawn from the better-off mem
bers of the Negro community.
Few persons now living on the
site could afford the rents. . .
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For the past two years integra
tion of Negroes. Japanese-Amer
icans and members of other mi
nority groups has proceeded
without fanfare. A Jewish-owned
institution. Michael Reese ob
serves Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur. giving its staff of 1.500
men and women two extra holi
days not usually allowed in in
dustry.
Michael Reese was the first
private hospital in Chicago to
appoint a Negro medical social
worker and the manager of the
new' X-ray clinic at 28th and
Cottage Grove is a Negro, Miss
Berenice Davis. Another pro
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appointed is Bert Anderson, as
sistant architectural planner.
There are four Negro girls en
rolled in the school of nursing
and 15 registered nurses On the
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a department with 30 beds. Lab
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lent community relations work
But in the higher levels there
are few Negroes, although a hos
pital spokesman asserts .this is
not because of institution policy.
Only one Negro physician has
“courtesy privileges” which per
mit him to bring patients there
and two Negro doctors are resi
dents. doing post-graduate work
in their special fields.
Perhaps the highest position
(non-paying) occupied by a Ne
gro is member of the Mandel
Clinic Committee, a post to
which the noted industrial chem
ist, Dr. Percy L. Julian, was re
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The completion of its redevel
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tegration of its staff may be fu
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Hospital, but to date its demo
cratic policy of admitting all
Chicagoans and its willingness
to try fair employment practices
set a pattern that might well be
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