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PAGE TWELVE
Deny Discrimination In Benton Harbor Public Schools
Philadelphia
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#f Lincoln to paint Roosevelt a* *hc
tnrnu ol the Negio»> because ih**i*
face not* occurred and to paint hin
• « a "coddler" of Negroen for tahinc
atrong action to mpprr*« these out
breaks Of course. opposite prop*
jtanda tunes would hr discreet l\
played in selected neighborhood*
The possible role of rnemv agent*
trill no doubt rereive the attmtinr
*>f the grand lury, b'rt it * n.»v
known that the glee of the N;in«
and the Japanese «as in>tauta;ieou«
HACK TO WORK
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Some people who recognize t‘i*’
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Philadelphia transit tie-up find it
difficult to understand wh\ it w • *
*<t effective if a majority of the
Worker* were against it This mi*-
tmderstanding i« due to a lack of
Information. Little mention wa*
made in the press of the fad that
every day thou*and* of employe*
reported for work hut were turned
• way. Three attempts to resume
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Philadelphia because thV union, the
people and the government were
Hu l to the rvituie of the events and
took a him in smashing the
plot It* i» important now that the
Atilho « nl the conspiracy and evu v •
one ron'TCted u ith It b«* uncovered
and appropriately punished Wha*
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(wtinot.r organization and for all
Ameruans of good will to draw the
Irsaono fiorn these events We must
Inin means for solving moie rapid
l\ our racial problems
The events in Philadelphia weir
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many p* nple We must take the time
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NEW ADDITION
CAUSED CHARGE
AGAINST HEADS
RFN’TON H \RBOR—Negro atu
dents, living in the Benton Harbor
project were urged by Russell
Bruce piesident of the Benton
Harbor. NAACP. to return to achool
on Sept 19 after a conference be
tween school authorities and pro
ject officials
A leaflet was distributed through
out the Negro project urging par
ents to send their children to
x-hnol Attending the conference
n Benton Harbor. Sept Ift. were
Ren Riemerxma, superintendent, of
Bard school. Cluster R Curent. exe
rutive secretary. Detroit branch
NAACP. Mi«s Lii-llle Green of the
NAACP; Mrs Margaret Diedrich
and Mrs Anderson. FPHA; Russell
Bmce. Renton Harbor
The controversy arose over al
leged "j m-rrow" facilities provid
ed for children in gade* 1-fl in
room* set aside in the project
P > on's had refused to send their
children to the school, claiming
that it was discriminatory
NAACP investigation dis
closed that the Bard School Dis
trict at Benton Harbor, through
Mr Riemersma, had made appli
cati »n to the Federal Works Agency
for assistance in providing a six
room addition to the existing school
The school distuct at present op
na'es a permanent elementary
school with both white and col
oied children attending Hie appli
cation to FWA was to take care
of the influx of population from
the housing project.
The Bard school does not prac
tice discrimination, the NAACP in
vestigation revealed, and Mr Rie
mersma assured Association oflfi-
J cials that no discrimination would
be practiced in the addition soon
to be built
According to Wilfied F Clapp,
chief of school plant foi the Stale
Board of Fducation, in a letter to
Current, “the dissatisfaction Is
caused by the fact that temporary
facilities are being provided to
house surplus children until such
time as the building can be con
structed These temporary facili
ties are provided by a Federal
Public Housing Authority by the
temporary conversion of some of
its housing units so that they can
be used as school rooms . . . The
fact that the housing project is for
colored people means that all of
the children attending in these tem
porary quarters will be colored
children. I am sure that there is
no intention on the part of any of
the school authorities to practice
any policy of segregation.”
Bruce declared that a segregated
project should not have been built
in the first place and that this wa»
further evidence that the policies
created greater community con
of FPHA in separating the races
flirt.
The leaflet stated that "The
NAACP is watching developments
and cooperating with school au
thorities to speed erection of the
new building.”
Brothers —
(Continued From Page 1)
daughters, Mrs. Emma Johnson
and Mrs Lonnie Johnson, to spend
each day with his wife in their
modest home at 13978 Fleming
avenue.
Bertha was wearing a pink snd
blue plaid coat, a blue sweater,
blue plaid skirt and a brown ba
buska, the day she left home.
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Arthur W. Tibbs Jr., who sorvod
two yosr* in the U. S. Army,
one year of which was spent in
the South Pacific. Tibbs, who
lives at 622 C. Bethune street,
is studying accounting at De
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that gives ex-servicemen and
women an opportunity to go to
school at government expense.
Dearborn —
• Continued from Page II
the barber, had been in Dearborn
15 oi 16 years, said:
“I wouldn't want it either.”
The barber cut ill with: “Not a
nigger! Hasn't been one here.”
The Second Barber
A second barber had walked in
and *tarted working on the extra
customer and hearing the tail end
of the conversation, declared, "And.
far as we are concerned, there w on't
be any around Might be different if
they'd go in a place and stay in it,
but they don't* stay one place.”
The second customer agreed, sav
ing: “I'm from the South, myself.
Ought to handle it here way we do
there They stay in one section and
w'e never have no riots or nothing
at all down there"
The southern customer from Chat
tanooga. Tenn . said then. • I’ve got
nothing against them Out at the
shop where I work. I got eight or
nine rnlored fellows under me We
get along OK”
Then 1 asked the more talkative
barber what they’d do if Negroes
were to come out to Dearborn to
live in large numbers. He said. “If
it s the law we’d have to obey it!”
Alabaman Speaks
The next person I talked to was
a middle-aged woman in a depart
ment store. She told me she was
from Alabama, but had been north
for 25 years. 15 in Dearborn. Traces
of her accent still lingered in her
speech She said. "Lost m.v home
that way in Detroit . . . colored
moving in. I don’t want them, 1 got
nothing against them though. 1
thought as murh of my old ’nigger’
maid as of my mother. Most people
around here feel the same way I
do. I always respected them, but
I just don’t want them as neighbors.
I guess it’s Just their color. . . . The
older ones aren't so bad, it’s the
younger generation that's so smart
Think they're better than anyone
. . . but there's respectable ’niggers,’
too.”
When asked how it would bejf a
nice group of Negroes moved in,
she added. "The nice group won't
stick. Real estate men and they
themselves will sell out to anybody.”
Traces of her southern training
lingered in her speech too.
My next stop was a little drug
store (purely a prescription phar
macy) where there were two phar
macists, a man and a woman. I
judged them to be man and wife.
When they heard my question, the
man answered. "I wouldn’t care for
it ” "Nor would I,” chimed in his
partner.
Shoved Aside
When a customer engaged the
male pharmacist's attention. I start
ed talking to the woman. She told
of having noticed how Negroes
seemed to fear being "shoved aside"
when they came in a store, and had
an apologetic air. So her solution
was a place like Inkster, where
"they'd have their own schools, their
own theatres, and have just as good
or bette- ones than the whites have.
I've thought about it, and that seems
to be the way out you’d think
they'd rather be by themselves. So
nobody could push them around.”
Then she went on. "Most of the
time it's the poorer class white Rnd
the poorer class Negro that mix, I
think " She also explained that "the
economic value of houses goes down
when Negroes move in."
"But.” she added. "I think there
are qualities in the Negro that we
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ers during reconversion. This pro
gram was adopted unanimously at
a special Labor day meeting of the
executive board, representing 107
affiliated and cooperating CIO and
AFL unions, with a combined mem
bership of more than 480,000.
The seven points a/e in the form
of basic principles to be incor
porated in agreements with un
ions, private employers and tfivil
service administrators, which the
board instructed its officers to ne
gotiate.
Proposed Agreements
These proposed agreements rep
resent a new approach to employ
ment problems of Negro workers
and are designed to prevent the
wholesale dismissals of Negro work
ers which led to violence after the
last World War.
The committee is also organizing
a national conference of labor and
government officials in December
as part of its job security program
The gist of the seven points
adopted by the board to be incor
porated in these union-government
industry agreements is as follows:
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2 Maximum employment of Ne
gro workers during laige-scale
layoffs.
,7. Complete acceptance of the
principle of seniority with negotia
tion of special formulae or pro
cedures to make possible the maxi
mum employment of Negro work
ers
4 Full participation of Negroes
in all programs for reemployment,
training, re-training, re-election, re
settlement, and compensation.
5 Rejection of policy of hiring
Negroes last and firing first.
6. Opposition to the freezing of
Negro workers generally and Ne
gro women in particular in service
and unskilled employment
7. Full support of the President's
Committee on Fair Employment
Practice, and a permanent FEPC.
all should admire his taste for
music, and his disposition. They
don't worry and fuss as we do ”
She told me of a little town named
Trenton, whrre her mother lives. In
Trenton there were no Negroes until
recently, when a Negro and h;s wife
moved in as caretakers at her mo
ther's apartment house, and people
in Trenton resented them.
When I pointed out that so-called
facilities in the Smith had
meant more for whiles and less for
Negroes, she said quickly, “Oh, I
don't mean segregation like it is
down there, where one group is
held almost Lke slaves by the other.
“I wouldn't mind living next to
them in itself. I just think the other
way is the best thing for them.
They shouldn’t have to accept lower
sections in housing, ones that whites
have left dilapidated. Let them have
things even better tban ours ”
I left the pharmacy and walked in
an eating place to get a coke. I
asked the young waitress the same
questions I had asked the others. In
a blase way, she said, "I don't care.”
When I pressed her further, she ad
mitted. “I don’t want that. Guess
it's just the idea of a different race."
I finished my coke, and feeling I’d
had all I could take of the type of
sentiments I had heard, came back
to Detroit.
On the way hack, recalling the
conversations, the most significant
things I had heard were. (1) the
barber saying. "If it's the law. we'd
have to obey it." and (2) the voung
girl in the eatery saying, "a different
race.” *
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Transfer 1 —
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listed men at Codaum. is *uil the
group commander.
After a month at Atteibury, the
618th and 819th squadrons will be
sent back to Godmau, and the
816th and 617th will be transferred
there. They wilL alternate in this
manner because Godmau does not
have facilities for night flying as
offered at Atterbury. Previously,
the group used Sturgis Field in
Kentucky as an auxiliary field for
night flying purposes. Atterbury is
no more than Sturgis—an auxiliary
field to Godman Field.
Except for the respite of a
month from the depiessing prob
lems which exist at Godman, the
men of the 477th are still in the
same predicament, as was pointed
out in the series of three articles
written for the NNPA after a four
day "on the spot” investigation by
an NNPA correspondent.
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