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Mr. and Mrs. Jamas Townsend were hosts at
a party honoring Sgt. and Mrs. Wesley Toney
Saturday. Sergeant Toney is the brother of
Mrs. Townsend, and has been overseas for 30
months. He is now enjoying a thirty-day fur
lough. following his action in the Mariana
la I f Blasted By
NNC Secretary
NFW YOflK. N Y Senator
Tift ' e'fi>:t to s,iP'>t.i2r lemslation
'■>r a -?nin«. pern inent P'nii Em*
'>! ii y ;n/ ii ! Pi ictin > (*i>mnutter
tln ii.'i .n::')<l4t' inn nf .i bill for
. mere him •.'•isatina fommitter,
i.* blasted tni w eek l<y Dorothy
K Funn. L.ibor Seeretary of the
N N Congress -
THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE
Islands. In the picture are: Ola Tenniie, James
Townsend, Sgt. and Mrs. Toney. Jeanette
Townsend. Mildred Brocken. Archie Cook.
Hudson Jordon. Marie Murrie. Dorothy Free
man, Winston Walker. Robert Johnson, John
Bracken. Tollie Smith. Robert Hines, Beulah
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Tubbs.
Examine Complaint
Against Mo. Corp.
WASHINGTON Complaints of
employment discrimination Mod
auainst the General Cable Corp , of
St I/ouis. Mo, \% l ll he publicly
examined in St. Ixiuis on March 9.
M. Irolm Roys, chairman of the
Postal Workers
Asking An FEPC
For Their Dept.
CHICAGO. 111.--<NNPA> Postal
workers. though the Chicago
branch <>f the National Alliance of
Postal Employees, are seeking re
lief from unfair practices in the
Chicago Post Oftlce.
They have submitted a detailed
brief on such pi act ice to Ernest
J. Kruetgen. postmaster of Chi
cago. in which they point out the
statement of Postmaster General
Frank G. Walker made in a mes
sage to all postal personnel on
June 2. 1943.
• • •
DISCRIMINATION is repugnant
to all our principles of good gov
ernment and deeency. . . . Every
jmstal worker should have full op
portunity of aspiring to and reach
ing positions to which his talents,
his energy, and his integrity en
title him," the statement declared
Acknowledging that the local
postmaster has made a start in ef
fecting satisfactory improvements*
m the status of Negro workers,
•he brief says much yet remains
to hr done to accord equal priv
ilege*.
Spe ifir charge* made include:
1 Whites are Riven preference
for promotion in the V-Mail
unit.
2 Preference is given whites in
preferred assignments in the
V-mail unit
3 Negro acting-assistant fore
men aie "passed over' in pro
motions.
4. Negroes share less than 2 per
rent of over 600 supervisory
jobs
5. Preferred assignments are de
nied Negroes in other sections.
6. Eligible Negro workers are
excluded in advancement to
'special clerkships outside the
quota
Approval Of New
W orld Labor Body
NFW YORK. N Y. "The Negro
people in America, and the colonial
peoples throughout the world, will
heartily endorse Ihr decision of the
lamdon World Trade Union Con
ference to form a new world trade
union federation." Thelma M Dale,
u tir g secretary of the National
tir e secretary of the National
Negro Congress, predicted last
A l.i'if fi non more woiknf could he
used immediately for machine shop*,
p oduc'ion of end product* and in
r e eseembly plants, officials sa d
\bmit RIO 000 workers are employed
in plant* owned or operated by the
,1 ito notive industry.
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President’s Committer on Fair Em
ployment Practice, announced to
day.
* V
EMANUEL H. BLOC H, hearing
examiner on the staff of FF.PC,
will sit as commissioner Simon
Stickgold. of the committee's legal
division, has been designated as
FF.PC counsel.
Involved in the hearing are com
plaints ranging from December
1943, to January 1945. alleging that
ihe company •!> has refused to
hire qualified Negro women in
other than menial capacities; i2>
refused to employ or train quali
fied Negro men except in the lower
categories of jobs; and <3l refused
to promote qualified Negro work
ers to better jobs despite a need
for such workers, solely because
of race or color.
Challenge War
Secretary To
Back FEP Bill
WASHINGTON. D. C.—(NNPA)
—ls Secretary of War Stimson is
*o concerned about manpower he
should back passage of the bill for
a permanent FEF J C which has
t«>eth in it and would make em
ployers hire tens of thousands
from minority groups, Martin Ger
ber, international board member
of the United Auto Workers de
clared last week.
He charged that Stimson's recent
speech urging a labor draft "is an
attempt to split veterans from la
bor by giving only the debit side
of the manpower problem." The
War Secretary does not show the
hundreds of thousands of work
ers available from cut-backs,
youths reaching working ace, em
ployable army returnees to civil
ian life, and from minority groups,
Gerber said.
Detroit Sergeant
In Major Battles
WITH THE T. S. SUPPLY
FORCES IN FRANCE First Sgt.
John Peeks, 2574 Beale street, De
troit, who was recently promoted
to his present rank, now' wear*’
thiee battle stars for participating
in the Normandy, Northern France
and German campaigns.
First Sgt. Peeks is serving as top
enlisted man w th the 309th Quar
termaster Railhead company, w hich
is playing an important part in
funnelling supplic* to the combat
troops on the front lines
MWn^NFU^D
Constantly changing tax laws offer problems that can
best be solved by one who devotes his time to studying
and working in the highly specialized tax profession.
Take your problems to a certified Tax Consultant and
be sure'
ERNEST A. WESTBROOK
oo CERTIFIED TAX CONSULTANT
Associates RUTH CRAHAM. LILLIAN F. BROWN
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A RFI.IABI.E INDEPENDENT WEEKI.Y.
LABOR LOOKS AHEAD
By GEORGE W. CROCKETT
(From Indianapolis, Ind )
WRITING A WEEKLY NEWS
PAPER COLUMN about labor de
velopments of interest to readers
of the colored press, is a most diffi
cult assignment because of the
large number of things, totally un
influenced by race or color, which
are happening to and in organized
labor these days And, further,
because of the dilemma one faces
whenever he tries to segregate
these developments on the basis of
race or color.
There really Is no more Jus
tification for such segregation of
the news than there Is for a
“Negro” newspaper. News is
news to everyone regardless of
race or color.
* * *
BI T UNFORTUNATELY the re
porting. the eri.t ng and the com
ment on the news is too frequent
ly influenced by the, writer*’ or
the commentators own views about
race and color questions. If. for
example, the Detroit dailies hon
estly reported all of the news of
interest to all of their readers,
there would be no justification for
a Negro press. lAnd, incidentally,
there would be no ne»*d for Cluster
Current and Horace White to con
tinue to be at each others throat.)
But this is not the case. And.
hence, during the week >our Negro
newspaper columnist is busy ac
cumulating a lot of ideas and
thoughts which he thinks should
be tossed out to the leaders of the
Negro press. At the time the par
ticular thought occurs to him it is
most important; but he soon no
tices that the last idea always
seems far more important and
more urgent than any of its
predecessors.
So he frequently ends up by
writing a column on whatever
thought impresses him most as
of the day and time he begins
to hammer out his column.
* * *
FOR FXAMPI.F. during the past
week I had on different days de
cided to comment on the recent
formulation in London of a ClO
spon.sored plan for a new world
federation of international labor
organizations: the decision pf the
Senate Committee on Labor to
write a new “work or fight” bill
more acceptable to organized la
bor than the House approved Mays
Bill: the organization by Cornell
university of a Workers' School—
first of its kind to he established
by a leading university; the in
creasing likelihood that former
Vice President Wallace will be
confirmed as Secretary of Com
merce.
Each of these subjects is im
portant to readers of the “Negro"
press. But whatever presumed
special significance they have for
Negroes is also of special signifi
cance to whites as well; and vice
\ersa.
And, so. 1 am right back where
I was when I first sat at the desk
in this Indianapolis hotel room and
began thinking about "Labor Looks
Ahead." And I doubtlessly shall
do again precisely what I (and all
other eolumnisLsi have done and
will continue to do. namely, write
about that which interests me most
at the t.me.
• • »
FOR EXAMPLE, this hotel-the
only passable one in this workers’
section of the community—-is vio
lating OPA regulations by requir
ing that guests make application
to and join a pseudo-foundation
known as the Founda
tion before they can get accommo
dations. It is done very shrewdly,
too. You pay from four to ten dol
lars per night for a room you ordi
narily would not accept at one
dollar per night; and when you
complain to OPA. as some gue<ls
have done, the hotel's answer is
that the money which you paid
in excess of OP As rent ceiling
really was vour “membership
dues" and not rent for lodging.
But why come to Indianapolis
to point out what a joke price
control has become. Just walk in
to a Detroit restaurant located in
a workers' neighborhood 0 Places
that would not dare think of
charging ten cents for a cup of
coffee or 15c for a slice of apple
pie prior to April, 1943. not only
serve the stalest cup of coffee and
the smallest piece of pie imagin
able now. but they also have the
gall to print and publish notices
that those were their prices on that
date And what does the local
OPA office do about it? Nothing!
Yet. price control was designed
to protect workers whose earnings
it was expected <and now know)
could not keep pace with timejyi
lat<>d price increases.
We do not single out the OPA:
it’s not the only Federal agency
whose local officers are not doing
their job.
• • •
TIIF WAR MANPOWER COM
MISSION and especially its
United Slates Employment service
continues to refer white workers
to plants whose personnel depart
ments are daily laying off non
white and Jewish workers for the
most picayune reasons. Recent
reports reaching our UAW-CIO
Fair Practices committee indicate
that those la.'offs ostensibly based
upon violations of old company
regulations, long ago forgotten in
their files which have been dug
up. dusted off and used (in Detroit
as well as here in the Indianapolis
<*ai to justify summarily dis
charging these so-cnllod minority
group workers for smoking nr spit
ting on floors literally covered by
tobacco, grease and dirt.
The failure of USES a Federal
agency which also was designed to
benefit workers—to protect these
workers is a continuation of USES’
basic discriminatory pattern of op
eration. First, nothing very much
was done by it to compel the em
ployment of minority group work
ers; then after sheer manpower
shortages forced manufacturers
into a relaxation of their discrim
inatory hiring practices. USES did
nothing to compel meritorious up
gradings and transfers for nvnonty
group employes; and now that the
manpower shortage has subsided
•though WMC still refuses to con
cede this obvious fart), nothing is
being done to prevent the unjusti
fiable displacement of these
workers.
What has born said .about WMC
and USES in this area applies also
to FEPC. In this latter instance,
however, there is one mitigating
factor, namely WMC has the staff
personnel as well as the power to
to something effective about em
ployment discrimination; FEPC
has neither It all adds up to a
pressing need for a permanent
Federal Fair Employment Practice
commission with sufficient power
and staff to make its decisions
effective.
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