Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 6]

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THE BRONZE REPORTER _

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Saturday, December 26, 1953

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NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE.

| Dizzy Gillespie, who plays -a dance date Christmas night eat the
ag Hall here, has signed a contract with Cleff Records. -.

| Newest recording company to tobe in Michigan is Great Lakes
Records, with headquarters in Detroit~s Fairbairn Hotel.

Tony Vance, who has been in the retail record business in Detrot for a number of years, is in charge ofpopular and jazz music
for the firm which is headed ~by Kenneth C. Campbell. Sax- Kari, an
outstanding coppeter st ger heads the rhythm and blues division.

Gréat Lakes ~wal aie records in all fields and its first are expected to) be oigimand this week.. Some of the artists already on the label~s roster are Debbie Andrews, x Kari, Sonny Johnson, Jimmie Hami: ton, Gloria Irving
stian.

* * *. || Brtha. Kits, ~currently riding the crest of Chr! stmas season retord buying wave via her ~Santa sgt ~ is doing sensationally as | star
ork~s Mocambo.,

~Billy Daniels, who hasn~t, had a record to ~go~~ in quite some
months, combined cutting some new tunes for mene while doing a
stint, at. Chicago~s. Rezal heatre.

While here at home, -at Bddie~s. Lounge, eel Mitchell pe Be
Tea

Rose will remain here throughout the Yuletide,

3% aan

bluesy cookie.

The entire Jazz at the Philharmidnic troupe is back on the side
of the big drink following an extended tour that- ended in Japan.

Ca wb Calloway will be a isae | cesllsselabaien nibbincbeeaees of

a newly formed Negro radio network which gets underway next

month in some of the Nation~s larger cities.

ie network will lead off with a soap opera titled, ~Ruby Valeriting,~ starring Juanita (~South Pacific~) Hall. It will be broadcast five times a week for fifteen minutes daily, as will three other
dramatic shows,

Still another show~ to be presented by the network will be a half
once-a-week mystery series called ~It~s A Mystery,.Man~ with
~alloway as host.

~ Qf additional interest. is that the network will be headed by a

Negro, Leonard Evans, veteran Chicago adveiising executive and

marketing consultant. Evans was most recently with Ebony Miaza
zine. if;
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The singers have replaced vocal groups in popuiarity, judging
from Lhe most ~ tunes on my radio show ~ anid nationwide
polls. |

Here are the toppers:!

Money Honey, Honey Hush, Christmas in. peers I Had a Notion, I'll Be There, IH Die Trying, Please Love Me, Blind Love,
Lonely Chirstmas, and Lights Out.

In the spirituals field, Prof, Alex Bradford continués ~way out
front) with Too Close To Heaven, followed by the Dixie Humming
Birds~ Let~s Go Out To The Programs and Sister Wynona Carr~s
Life. Is A Ball Game.;

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By EDGAR HOLT

I would hate to predict: whether
or not the Labor movement would
have faced up to the problem of
integration of minorities into our
industrial society as they have if
it were not for the compulsion of
organizing workers into ~unions.

The founders of the CIO were
clearly aware from the beginning
that the only way they. could -organize mass production industries
into strong unions would be. to
include all workers regardless of
their race, color or creed. Thus
it became a basic part of their
doctrine, also ~being integrated
into: the philosophy and laws of
the. CIO. It~ did not take them
long to realize that it required
more than a stimulating democratic statement in their constitution. It required Hapteajentation
and enforcement.

To implement the constitutional principle of ~no disecrimination,~ ithe Committee to Abolish.
Discrimination was. located. by the
National CIO in 1942 for practical
day to day -action. Since that
time there have been similar
committees and departments organized in 16 of the largest CIO
International Unions with a staff
assigned to handle problems a3
they arise.

Of the 16 International Unions
with fair practices departments,
the UAW have been the trail
blazers. Their ~ anti-discrimination department is fixed in their
constitution with a porton of their
per-capita. tax. allocated. to its

work. Since it is properly financed out of union membership
dues, the members look for tangible action and not mere lip
service (Please see Editorial. on
page 2).;

In the UAW, president Walter
Reuther-is co-chairman with Wm.
Oliver of the Fair Employment
Pracitice~ Committee. Robert Carter, Flint Regional Director and.
City Commisisoner is ja member
of this committee. He, Carter,
has an International Representaitive who is Mr. Earl Crompton,
devoting full time to the FEPC
committee.

However busy these people may
be, and I assume they are, we
find that the actual work of giving union members action that]!

a te a ra

skills are invaluable to other organizations.

Let us hope that more of these
rank and file workers will rise up
to the occasion that some of the

~paid officials ~so easily shirk. The
|| lecal officers:-of 599,

Chfford

Rock, and Joe Berry, though not
directly involved on the committee, gave support to strengthen
the determination of ii committee,

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they pay for comes from the fellow workers who are so dedicated to the principles of their constitution, that they are willing ~ to
spend many hours working on an
FEP committee. after a hard days
work of back4breaking toil. Such
is the case. of John Hightower,
Nathaniel Turner, Floyd McCree.
Willie Williams, E. L. Holmes,
and others of Local 599 at Buick.
These men have found other pro~
lems pertaining to community life
outside those of a strictly union
nature flowing from traditional
discriminatory. policies that have
been fixed on the community.
This is a direct indication that

extended out into the community)
and justifiably so, for the ~UAW
can not hope to have workers organized into one union with full
equality and not be interested in
various community problems that

various plants for their home.
Hence, we can see that the
UAW is fcrced into many fields
of activity which 15 or 20 years
ago would have been considered
completely foreign to the functions ef a labor union, Unfortunately, we find some union officials hiding their faces, refusing
to face up. to issues. Such was
~the case last week when Local
599 FEP committee joined hands
with a, community: organization, |

the National Association for the|!

Advancement of Colored People,
and broke down
discrimination in bowling at Capitol Recreation.

Labor n more progressive
like those
mentioned above for future lead
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