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Thursday, Dec. 27, 1963 *
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Small Business Ass’n Answer
Salt River Project Statement
The Small Business Association
must answer the intemperate at
tack of the Salt River Power Dis
trict upon the Small Business As
sociation, its members and its pe
tition to compel Salt River Power
to pay its fair share of taxes.
The charge that Small Business
Association is the tool of any group
or organization is a typical, un
thought out, ill advised Salt Riv
er remark.
In short the Salt River Power
imagines that they can shout
meaningless accusations into a
hollow barrel and hopes the echo
will frighten someone! Who?
Certainly not Small Business As
sociation.
This action (the filing of the in
itiative to make Salt River Power
to pay their fair share of the tax
burden of Arizona) was undertak
en with the advice, consent and
by the direction of our members.
After we lost our initiative
drive by such a narrow margin in
June, Small Business Association
balloted by means of personal in
terview and written ballots a large
segment of our membership.
The ballots with the signature
and business stamps affixed are
in our office.
The primary question as to con
tinuing our fight for inventory
tax repeal and to compel Salt
River Power to pay its fair share
©f taxes met with a resounding
yes!! The general feeling was
that we had come too close be
fore, lets don’t stop now.
The Small Business people and
home owners need a tax cut, and
we are going to get it if it means
“brideling the bear in his den”.
Nothing has been done In this
state to give relief to the small
business man of homeowner in
years and we qsp only get it by
plugging the loopholes that allow
so called co-ops and other ‘‘free
rides”. And the free rides had
better be over, if personal initiative
is to survive,,*
Our petition has been in the so
called mill for e,weeks. We were
not advised that Arizona Public
Service was going to conduct an
advertising campaign. We were
delighted with their efforts. We’re
equally sure our initiative caught
Arizona Public Service officials as
unaware as it did Salt River Pro
ject.
While our County Assessors are
being torn to shreds by the home
owners for not doing a job that it
is impossible for 14 men to ac
complish, the multi-million dollar
electric power company stands on
its tax free dignity and shouts, ‘.‘We
are doing Arizona a favor being
here” but neglects to say that
they make 50c profit on a dollar.
If they put 25c into the “tax kit
ty” they still would make a 25%
profit and what business man
wouldn’t be happy with that.
If Arizona Public Service is a
collection agency for state taxes,
“bully for them.” They are doing
the tax payers a good turn. If
Salt River Project would give
the same “collection service (?)”
most of the home owners and
business men in Arizona would
get some of the tax relief they
need.
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: NAACP Appeals NLRB
: Ruling Steelworkers
Recent Bias Case
5 WASHINGTON The NAACP
j has asked Stuart Rothman, gen
- eral counsel of the National Labor
- Relations Board to reverse a rul
ing of the Board’s regional direct
r or in Atlanta, Ga., and order that
t complaints be issued against Lo
j cal 2401 of the United Steelworkers
3 of America for discriminatory
? practices against Negro members.
. Robert L. Carter, NAACP gen
eral counsel, asserted that Negro
workers “have a right to a hear
ing on the merits to determine
£ the validity of their claims.”
The NLRB’s Atlanta office re
j fused to issue complaints on No
-3 vember 14 on the technical ground
B that grievances or claims were
S not filed with the union within
3 six months prior to the NAACP
1 action. The appeal from this rul-
B ing was filed with Mr. Rothman on
S Nov. 28.
The Association contends that
1 the National Labor Relations Act
2 does not require the filing of such
grievances.
Further, Mr. Carter pointed out
that “manifestations of discrimi
* nation have an inevitable effect
l on Negro workers who are denied
* »equal employment opportunities
s because of their race.
“Loss of confidence (by Negro
workers) in their union, discour
-1 agement and apathy result from
i the feeling-that regardless of
> diligence and ability,, their race
will be an insurmountable obstacle
to attaining a better or more skill
’ ed position.
* “This sense of futility,” the
1 NAACP continued, “lowers moti
-1 vation to file formal grievances
with a union which has relegated
j them to a second-class position
‘ within it.”
i Mr. Carter and his - associate,
Mrs. Maria Marcus, both of New
. York City, stated that this case
> does not involve a single act but
; a continuing violation occuring on
i a day-to-day basis.
a The NAACP pointed out that
; “identical jobs are given different
t titles, classifications and salaries
; |ft:cording to the race of the
. employee performing them.”
The Association’s attorneys also
cited instances where Local 2401
' refused to negotiate for better
: terms forN egro workers.
The affidavits, upon which the
‘ NAACP petition was filed, show
that “Negro workers in the bar
‘ gaining unit represented by the
' union have for many years been
’ confined to unskilled and lowest
positions.
“The higher positions are in
another line of job progression
and are held by white workers.
1 Instead of negotiating for the eli
mination of these two lines of
j progression,” the workers argue,
“and providing for the possibility
, of promotion to the next level for
r those in the highest ‘Negro’ job
, classification, the union contract
’ ed in June, 1962, that any move
I from the ‘Negro’ to the ‘white’
I line would be at the cost of seniori
, ty rights, even when the two lines
are in the same department.”
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Mount Calvary Zion
Mission Annual Party
By Willie “GusT Farrell
Mount Calvary Zion Mission an
nual Christmas party was at the
home of Mrs. Dorothy Patterson.
Turkey was served with all the
trimmings. For dessert, apple pie,
pumpkin pie and ice cream were
served. The party was enjoyed
by everyone.
Honored guests were Mrs. Billy
Jo Phelps, Mrs. Irene Patton, Mrs.
Mable Hutchinson, Mrs. Dolores
Moore, Mrs. Owalda Williams,
Mrs. Ernestine Patton, Mrs. Lena
Mae McGriff, Mrs. Katve Starr
and Mrs. Opal Maupies.
Mrs. Joana Brown, president
Ordelia Wilson, Publicity
Ministerial Alliance
Observes Annual New
Year's Day Services
The Inter-Denominational Minis
terial Alliance of Phoenix & Vi
cinity observes their annual New
Year Day Services at the First
Institutional Baptist Church, 12th
and East Jefferson Streets.
The occasion is the Emancipa
tion Proclamation Services. The
Message will be delivered by the
Rev. George B. Brooks, pastor of
the South Minister Presbyterian
Church. There will also be spe
cial numbers rendered.
The time is 11:00 A. M.
The Place, Ist Institution Bap
tist Church.
The date, January Ist., 1963.
The public is invited.
Rev. C. N. Hall, president, Rev.
L. J. Harper, Chairman of Pro
gram Committee.
Thus, in event of a lay-off, which
frequently happens in this in
dustry, Negro workers attempt
ing to improve their plight by
transferring out of the “Negro”
line into the “white” line, lose all
their seniority, and their chances
of employment.
They have nowhere to turn.
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OPERATION FREEDOM
EXTENDS INTO MISS.
CINCINNATI, Ohio Operation
Freedom is extending its work in
to the Delta Area of Mississippi,
where it is assisting persons har
assed for registering to vote.
The board of Operation Free
dom voted to expand into Missis
sippi after receiving reports of
widespread and bitter hardship
resulting from the drive to register
Negroes to vote in that state.
The Rev. Clarence T. R. Nel
son, Detroit, board chairman, re
ported that thousands of persons
have been cut off from surplus
food. Others have been driven off
the land, denied credit, shot at,
and arrested on trumped-up charg
es, he said.
For two years Operation Free
dom has been assisting farmers
and others subjected to similar
harassment for registering to vote
in Fayette and Haywood counties
in West Tennessee. Cash grants
and loans helped to save many
families from being driven off the
land.
The Delta region of Mississippi
adjoins one of the Tennessee coun
ties. It includes some of the rich
est farming land in the world, pro
ducing fine cotton in great quan
tities.
The Delta is not the same as the
the delta of the Mississippi River.
It is an alluvial plain formed by
the wandering of the Mississippi
as it flowed south from Memphis,
Tenn., to Vicksburg, Miss., a dis
tance of roughly 200 miles.
The area includes 18 counties in
which Negroes constitute up to
80 per cent of the population. Ox
ford, scene of the riots at the Uni
versity of Mississippi, lies on the
eastern edge of the Delta. The
vast plantation of U.S. Senator
James O. Eastland is in the heart
o£ the Delta, south of Ruleville
inj Sunflower County.
■‘“Ruleville is one of the places
where Negro citizens have been
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wounded by gunfire, jailed, and
run off the land for registering
to vote or for encouraging others
to vote,” Operation Freedom re
ported. “Negro business houses
have been closed on various pre
texts.
“Members of the Student Non
violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) and the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLCI
who have led the registration
drive in the Delta, have been
arrested and shot at. SNCC work
ers in Greenwood, LeFlore County,
narrowly escaped being lynched.”
LeFlore County is where the
body of Emmett Till, 14-year-old
Negro boy, was found in the Talla
hatchie River after he was brut
ally murdered in 1955. Two white
men later admitted killing him
but werefreed by a jury. 22,000
Negroes in this county alone have,
in recent action, been cut off
from receiving surplus foods.
Operation Freedom sent a com
mittee of three into the area to
investigate reports of hardship.
This committee was headed by
the Rev. L. Richard Hudson, Cin
cinnati, secretary of (\oeration
Freedom. He took along enough
money to pay off the mortgage
of a man who had lost his job
for getting people registered to
vote.
The committee found that the
situation in the Delta is des
perate, but that few people out
side the area are aware of it.
Mississippi newspayers have not
reported the atrocities against ■
Negroes, with the result that ifews
services have not sent the infor-"
mation to other news media.*'
Operation Freedom plans a. drive
to raise funds for relief work in
the Delta. Working with Opera
tion Freedom will be Bob Moses,
Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry and
others who have been active in
the voter registration movement
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