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FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1942

Singing Soldiers ~Swing~ Steel Too

~Singing Engineers~ are. shown ene: ~felping "ieijethoce to ~music, ~and maybe they do just. ~as tool

carry part of an H-10 ~ on the Fort + PORE Mil- ' a job of demolishing one.~International News Photo.

16 Southern States Account For
~ Two-Thirds Of Group With Wages

Detroifers In
Another Trip
To Washington

Housing Fight
Continues; Mayor
Is on the Spot

WASHINGTON, D. C. ~ (ANP).
Visiting this city again on behalf
of the Detroit housing situation,
LeBroun Simmons and the Rev
Horace White carry on <vhe fight
for Negro occupancy of the Sojourner Truth homes in that city.

There seems to be a general buck
passfig in the situation with the
Detroit mayor -taking first one
stand and then another.

After receiving instructions from
Jolin B. Blandford, Jr., to move
Negro families into the praject,
the mayor is said~ ~to have refused
declaring he could not guarantee
them police protection.

Mayor Jeffries is said tc have
' asixed for state troops to guard
thexe homes if Negroes move into

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inatiequate, he has recourse
cfficials here who intend,, to see that Negroes get
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give Mayor Jeffries final
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and give. such police.

Social Security
Bulletin Reveals

Wage Credits

WASHINGTON, ~ (ANP) ~ In
the Social Security bulletin issued
January, 1942, an article on Taxable Wages, 1939, stated that of all
wage earners in that year with
taxable wage credits; 93 pér gent
were white and seven per cent. were
Negro workers. Of this seven per
cent, more than two thirds were accounted. for by 16 southern states,
which represented 25 per cent of
the total white and about 76 per
cent of the total colored population.:

The report said only 15 per cent
in these 16 states earned some taxable wages in 1939 as compared
with 20 per cent of all Negroes in
the remaining 33 states. white workers with social security credits in 16
states represented 19 per cent as
compared with 27 per cent for the
remaining states.

Entry of Negroes into covered employment is sporadic the~ report
said, due to the fact that Negroes
in the deep south are largely restricted to domestic service and
agricultural labor. This is reflected
in the average annual taxable wage
of Negroes! which is $326 in the
group of 16 states as compared with
$585. for the rest of the country,
and is said to be due chiefly to
relatively more shorttime and-sporadic employment.

Further the report stated that in
1939 wage credits among white workers, there were almost 2 1-2 times
as many men as women, while for
Negroes there are five times as many men. The opportunity, for em
ployment of white women~ is great-.

er than for Negro women, since Ne
~was chairman of a

Dr. Hargrave,
N. J. Statesman,
Is Laid To Rest

Was Member Of
Legislature
Past 13 Years

ORANGE, N. J. ~(ANP) ~ Dr.
Frank S. Hargrave, 60, a practicing
physician here for 18 years and a
member of the New Jersey legislature for the past 13, was buried
Monday in the Elizabeth, N. J.
cemetery following funeral services
from his home where he ~
away last Wednesday.

Born in Lexington, North Carolina, Dr. Hargrave graduated from
Shaw university and the Leonard
school of medicine. He practiced a
while in Raleigh and then went to
Wilson, North Carolina, where he
practiced seven years before moving
to Orange.

Dr. Hargrave was first elected te
the state assembly in 1929 from Essex county and was returned eight
times; the last five in consecutive
years. In the New Jersey legislature he was a leader in _ public
health matters and chairman of
that committee in 1936, 1938-1940.
PROMOTED HEALTH *

He was credited with originating
much health legislation and ~
report on culture, health and living
conditions of urban Negro ge
tions. He was.a former president. of
the National Medical. Association:
and chairman of its committee on
medical. education and hospitals.

Dr. Hargrave was a member of |
Medical Society. |

Threaten
If Anti-Poll Tax
Bill Reaches oe

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Two More Flint
Girls Given
Posifions = _

FLINT, Mich~Answering: the
cal! of our government for stenegraphers and_ typists, Misses
Spencella Pittman and Boler have
gone to Washing to ape up théiy
new duties.

Now, we would like to say here
that the time will soon ccme when
Colored people will. have the ovpportunities thqy have Jorg: beer.
boping fcr. In many lines of production, also,-there will be opportunity for our young men after the
war. The hest thing to do is to-gei
ready by studying how to become
a first class producer in sume nec:
essary field. We are not enccuraging too many professional occurations; but rather emphasize the
importance of knowing~ hew to do
chemical. analysis in industries.
making teols, and creating someéthing first hend. That is the Colcored -man~s duty from ticw on.

WhiteHouseGuest

William Cross, Mduhouts senior and president of the student
body, who recently attended a
conference in Washington, D. C.,
on the Future of Government
Youth Programs, on March 6. He
was a luncheon guest at the White
House.

WASHINGTON, D. C. ~ (SNS)
One morning last November, a
short time tefore the Japanese
sneak-punch at Pear] Harbor, the
workers in one of Lockheed-Vega~s
booming aircraft plants were given
a short recess. As the machines
slowed down and a small delegation of visitors was. ushered
through~ the shop by management
representatives and photographers,
a& nearby sheetmetal worker nudged
his companion,

"Sa-ay;* he whispered, ~Aint
that Joe? That looks like Joe!~

The worker was right. The visi| tor WAS Joe Louis. And the occasion was the hiring of its 100th
Negro aircraft production worker
by the Lockheed-Vega Corporation.
Management had decided to make
the event a special celebration and
the world~s heavyweight boxing

| champion had been invited out tc

induct this 100th Negro worker
into his job. The induction was
carried out and amid the cheers
of thousands of white fellow workers, a large proportion of whom
had recently emigrated from Texas and Louisiana.

350 NOW WORKING

Three months prior to this occasion, Lockheed-Vegh~s record
payroll of 40,000-odd workers had
included not one single Negro.
Three months later, more than 350
colored skilled and _~ semiiskilled
aircraft workers were speeding
plane production in this one plant
alone and the number was being
augmented daily.. Lockheed-Vega
had discovered a new source of

Joe Greets 100th

much needed labor supply.

~Eliminate the Champ, the fanfare arid the excellent public relations job and the incident can be
duplicated daily in scores of war
production factories throughout
the country..~For, in arsenals,
shipyards, ~converted auto plants
and aircraft establishments in
all sections of America, production
goals are being met. by.an_ increased utilization of the Nation~s total labor supply. -And* the country~s largest racial minority ~ its
5,000,000 Negro workers ~ constitutes an. important segment in our
total labor, resources.

The increased. use of skilled: and
semiskilled Negro workers jn all
branches: of ~armament. production
was noted recently my Sidney

~| Although Sen. O~Mahoney

'@ parade of ow

Hillman, Director of the Labor Division, War Production Board, in
reports from ~Dr. ~Robert Cc. Weaver, Chief of the Negro ~Employment
and Training Branch, This Branch
was established on April 11, 1941,
on, the same day that the OPM
wrote all holders. of defense contacts that:.

NEGROES RESTRICTED

{In many localities,~ qualified
and. available Negro workeis are
either being restricted to unskilled jobs, or barred from defense
employment entirely. All holders
of defense contracts are urged to
~examine their. employment and
training policies at once to determine whether or not these policies
make ample provision for the full

utilization of available and compe(Continued on Back Page)

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56-Hour Speech
Is Promised By
One Senator

Many. N egroes
~Testify During
Bill Hearings

By ALVIN E. WHITE
WASHINGTON, D. C.~(A N P)~
of the senate sub-committee holding

the hearings on the poll tax repeal |.

bill; said he felt there would be a
repeal of this pernicious.law which
prevents states where the poll tax
is common, mutterings of filfibusters on the bill are beginning to
fill the air.

Sen. O~Manoney said in his opinion it was just a:matter of deciding
whether the bill now before the
senate would pass or whether. an
amendment to the constitution was
necessary to make the repeal 4a
reality do away, with the vicious
practice once and for all.:

Yet on the other hand there is
one senator who is- said to have
promised -a_56<hour speech. if. the
bill oy iewue. wed a, of the

that such

unless cloture ~were. voted if the | (3
senate and he would fight. this to 9h;

the: bitter end.
Saturday morning~s. hearings saw

tstanding. Negroes
testifying on behalf of the bill,
with a group of whites from
northern states which feel the: pol]
tax states impose on them in the
matter of equal representation, also fought for the bill.
Perry W. Howard, National Republican committeeman from Misstssippi, John P. Davis, of the Na
tional Negro Edgar
Brown, president - of the United
Government Employes, Jeanetta |

Welch, all joined: in the fight for
the repeal of the unfair legislation
which has kept. Negroes and poor
whites out of their just rights in

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Correction

FLINT, Mich~In aan _ article
printed in these columns last week.~
March 21, a statement. to the effect that the local union officials
had held up a resolution made by
the C.I.O. headquarters in interest of non-discrimination against
Negroes in jobs, only. to release it
after Mr. Clark~s protest meeting
two Sundays or so ~ago.

This newspaper wishes to apologize for the mis-statement. It was
an error thru misunderstanding.

~The Union is certainly doing a
good job and We are heartily in accord with its work: Colored ~people
are especially grateful to it for the
fire-spirit- of brotherhood it has
been practicing here.

Famed Sociologists Visit Fort Valley

pono ageless ei a

BRIDE OF MARCH~

JACKSONVILLE, Fla~(SNS)--
Mr. and Mrs. A.~ Vy, ener At, New dag

~10,000 Will ~ae egroes Is
War Department. inne uncement

WASHINGTON, D.C ~(SNS)~About 100 000 ~rien and ~
women, about 10,000 of whom will be Negroes, ~will be
trained in the course of the next year for War ~Department,
civilian jobs, the War Department~ announced Saturday.
~This program is under the supervision of William: H.
~Kushnick, Director of Civilian Training of the War Department. The 10,000 figure ree ~ten per a. the pro
portionate Negro population.

~Trainees for War Department -
civilian jobs willbe qualifying for
duties. as overhaul. and repair me- {|
chanics, production workers, and inspectors. at government-owned faec- |,
tories, arsenals and depots.

~MUST BE OVER 4

Men receiving training under the
program must be over 44 years of
age or between the ages of 17 and
20, So. as to be outside the limits |
for selective service, or not eligi~ble for military service for some fas
other reason. In most instances |
the only other qualification ~is | ~
ability to pass-a mechanical apti- }
tude ~test which requires no technical knowledge, and is designed to
weed out those- who aré wecike aad
unfit.

For those who are eager io. serve

fo solo er sear wl n ining.
The training courses