The Chicago star., July 27, 1946, Image 1

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THE CHICAGO
Published
Weekly
, No. 4
Vol 1,
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Inside mew of Coyne’s icell
equipped electric school. Mak
ing more than a half-million
yearly under the G1 Bill of
Rights , if bars Negro vets.
The slogan is a direct quote
from Coyne’s official applica
tion blank.
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I INFLATION I
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100J000 of these buttons
toil be distributed to Chicago
consumers next week in the
city-wide anti-inflation fight.
(See story on p. 16)
Vets crack down on race - quota school
Veterans and civic leaders this week struck back
at Chicago’s trade schools which ban minority-race
vets under the GI Bill of Rights.
On the heels of the Star’s expose of Coyne race
hate policy, the Americans Veterans Committee
cracked down on the giant trade school, which has
95 percent of its 2,000 trainees under the GI Bill of
Rights, and demanded that its officials “live up to
the spirit of the bill.”
Sidney Ordover, executive secretary of AVC’s
Chicago area council, made a call to Coyne’s general
manager, S. C. Narland, to demand a retraction of
the ban against Negro Gl’s.
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“NARLAND said that Coyne ‘might’ admit non
white Gl’s sometime in March, but we’re not waiting
for that. AVC’s going to fight this thing through.”
Ordower declared that a delegation of white and
Negro AVC vets will call upon Coyne officials and
upon Robert D. Beer, manager of this regions’s Vet
erans Administration. Beer is responsible*for allow
ing the race-hate school to remain on the Gl’s ap
proval list.
Chicago, July 27, 1946 ‘^§^66
Wire to Star:
Gen. Bradley dodges
Coyne jim (row rap
By BICHARD DURHAM
The trade school business is booming.
Millions of dollars of government money paid under the GI Bill of Rights is the
lucrative take reaped by these Chicago schools.
But the Chicago Star learn
ed exclusively:
1. That this lush pay-off
goes to schools that specialize
in anti-Negro and anti-Jevvish
bigotry.
2. That despite this near
complete ban against war vet
erans because of race and re
ligion, these schools carry the
stamp of approval of the Vet
erans Administration, a fed-
See Back Pag®
Meanwhile civic leaders, shocked by the expose
of the trade school’s racial ban, kept under cover
for years, planned to take direct action against the
school’s policy.
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D. BURNETTEE of the National Conference of
Christian and Jews said his organization would take
steps this week to contact Coyne officials and plan
action to have it dropped from the Gl’s list.
Officials of the Chicago Civil Liberties Commit
tee pointed out that the school was “running on an
outlaw basis insofar as state laws are concerned.”
and indicated they were preparing a case against it.
Urban League’s chief A. L. Foster bitterly as
sailed “racism under the GI Bill of Rights” and
said it “must be uprooted if vets are not to loose
the privileges they fought for.”
Kenneth Kennedy, national commander of the
United Negro and Allied Veterans of America stated
that many members of his organization had been
barred from the Coyne trade school and that a dele
gation would be sent to the Veterans administration.
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In a wire to the STAR this week General Omar N. Bradley, chief of the Veterans Ad
ministration ducked the hot issue of trade schools which ban minority veterans under the GI
Bill of Rights.
Bradley backed the right of Gls to go to “any approved” school but passed the buck
for race bias to Illinois State Superintendent of Schools:
Full text of Bradley’s wire to the STAR stated:
UNDER PROVISIONS PUBLIC LAW 3',6 A VETERAN MAY ENROLL IN ANY
TRADE SCHOOL APPROVED BY ILLINOIS STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION. VETERANS ADMINISTRATION PROHIBITED BY LAW FROM EXER
CISING CONTROL OR SUPERVISION OF SCHOOL.
BRADLEY ADM VETS ADDMN WASHN DC
An editoriol
Now and November,
beat the price gougers!
The word from Washington adds up to the fact that there
is no peace on the cost of living front.
Now, in the next weeks and in November the people must
be prepared for a relentless and bitter battle on prices.
* * *
President Truman must now sign a poor OP A bill and must
be held partially responsible for its shortcomings.
And Congress will have to be called in to answer- for Its
treachery.
Nor will the people soon forget the shameful Republican-
Democratic bid in the Illinois Legislature to force through a 10
to 15% increase in rents.
* * •
The STAR calls upon Chicagoans to:
1. Intensify the boycott against price increases. Build
the Tenants’ League in your block. Support the Chicago Com
mittee for Price Control.
2. Labor must be prepared to win back —by strike ac
tion where necessary any cuts in the standard of living.
S. Prepare now to clean house in November. Congress’
vote on OPA must be answered with your vote in the elec
tions.
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