Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 9]

Saturday, January 16, 1954

THE BRONZE REPORTER

arena~

our Union...
our Community

By EDGAR HOLT

_ It was my good*fortune last
week to sell the BRONZE REPORTER to some workers who
were not aware of its existence.
Their reactions were varied and
interesting.

The overwhelming majority
bought the paper with a promise
that this will be a weekly habit.
A few outrightly refused at first
but; later changed their minds.
This group, though small as it
was, represents the general pessimism that blocks progress and
causes so many to say ~~what~s
the use?~ ~What good will it do?~

|Understandably, these people
have developed propaganda blindmess or deafness because their
eyes and ears are bombarded all
day with the. blandishments of
special or selfish interest Therefore, it must be known to all of
us and our friends that the
BRONZE REPORTER is not just
another paper, but a very special
one that concerns itself with the
TOTAL community.

You must help people understand that ~our BRONZE REPORTER~ is published in the interest of a better community. Our
people and community have been
~made weak and vulnerable by
~Selfish interest~? who take advantage of our cultural, social,

educational, and economic resources. The people stood helpless without. a voice. ~Sell out
attists~ of every description give
lip service for the sake of expediency, but betray. their words in
-aetions and deeds. With a divided
and confused community, we see
the continuance of jim crow and
segregation in housing and employment and the failure to have
Negro representation in the City
Commission.

Th BRONZE REPORTER is a
unifying force to seek solutions
for these problems. Realizing
there are no simple answers for
complex problems The BRONZE
REPORTER~S | aim is not agitation. which produces ~a lot of
heat, but education, which produces more light.

Our responsibilities are great
for these are eritical times. We
are on the verge of making demecracy work in Flint. In 1954, we
ean have Negro. bus _ drivers,
FEP, opportunities for. the care
of our dependent children in all
the institutions supported by the
Red Feather Fund, and Negro
representation on the City Commission. Rhetoric and fine ora--
tory will not do as much as we
love goad speeches. Only actions

and deeds will make: the Big
j Flint Story The BRONZE REPORTER is looking ~for. Our

readers will remember the advertisers who respect our gesture
and will not foregt those who
don~t. 3

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WEAR

AFTER.

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Jchn T- Damm pleads for re-zoning at the recent pearing before the City Planning Board held
Tuesday, January 12 at the City Hall.

found 10,625 jobs during 1953)
thru Urban League employment |
and welfare activities in 47 cities,
the National Urban League reported this week after an inventory of the work of its 60 locals

The report included 273 new
jobs opening with employees who
had not ~previously hired Negroes.

Tk new jobs, described bv
the National~ Urban League
~pilot placements~
range of skills, such as chemists,
machinists, accountants, linotypists, toolmakels, electronic engineers:

~First placements~ were a'so
made of Negro firemen in several cities, ~bus and street-car driv
ers in others, and office workers
in a wide spread of financial,
commercial and retail business.
TO STRESS OPENINGS

This emphasis on the new. jobs
not previously held~ by Negroes,
B. Granger, the League~s
National Executive Director explained, has meant a reduction of
Unban League general employmint office services.:

~We can se~ our way clear
in the next few years to stepping
out of general placement and
leaving this job for the public
employment (services entirely
2~Se

An Air Force checkup has re
gealed that 59,965 sub-contractors
~all of tham small businesses~are
working on air~defense jobs. The
small businesses have sub-conSracts amounting to $2,400,000,00%

2102 LAPEER RD.

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~ PHONE 5-7093

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ed pigs, ponies.

Nat'l Urban League Places
10,625 Workers In 1953

NEW YORK ~Negro workers,

This wil allow us to concentrate
~all of our employment resources
on making new openings for Ne
groes in new jobs,~ Granger said.
High on the list of local Urban
Leagues making reports were Chicago with 2,828 jobs;
2,424; and New York, 1,034,
INTEGRATION PLAN
League -. sponsored
utilization conferences

manpower
to widen

eas lessen = Opal
Shrine Cireus -
fit Flint IMA
Jen. 17 Thru 23

Opal, whose specialty is walking on her front feet, is: star of
the Besalou~ Baby Elephants. making their debut appearance with
the eleventh annual Flint -Shrine
Polack Bros. Circus at: the IMA
Auditorium, in Flint,.the week
starting Sunday! Jan. 17, and

ending Saturday, Jan. 23, Afternoon and night performances will
be given all seven days, starting
at 2:30 and 8:15.:

This year,s citreus) boasts an
exciting new international assemblage of aerial, acrobatic and animal talent, plus intriguing special
presentations and comedy interludes: by the clowns. Prominent
among the new features are the
high-wire hazards of Harold Alzana & Company. Animal] acts, in
addition to. the baby elephants,
include movie chimpanzees, tramdogs and horses.

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Milwaukee, |

i | gugs have been around a

employment opportunities: for Negro ~workers held in Akron and
Dayton, Ohio, Pittsburg and New
York.

Top management and organized
labor leadership teamed with Urban League staff to explore plans
for fuller integration of Negro
workers at all levels of skills and
to upgrade Negroes now in their
present work force- A' number of
significant changes are cited, as
a result of this program, in these
three cities.

According to researcners, cotton

Jong
time. They say cotton floor coverings were in use in the eastern
hemisphere prior: to the rise of
the Roman empire.

When painting steps, you can
keep the stairway. open to traffic
by painting every other step first.

When dry, paint the remaining
steps. ~
England claims ~the world~s.

largest sea-going railway system.
The British Railway~s~ fleet of
steamers and ferries. which carry
trains ply the English Channel,
the North Sea and the Irish Sea.
It~s possible for travellers going
from the British Isles to Western
Europe countries to enjoy a combination land and sea journey
without leaving their trains.

King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia
recenty ordered $50,000 worth of
commercial cooking equipment
from an American concern. It~s
said that the king~s kitchen takes
up 15,000 square feet~slightly less
than half the area.of a football
field.

The 4,000-year-old:patace of King
Minos at. Cnossus, Crete was: as
large as London~s Buckingham

Page Seven

Classified Ads

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MEN ~ Age 25-over. Neat, good
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Prefer previous experience.in
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Seashore sand at Beppu in Japan|
ts black, hot to the touch, and/
gives off sulphur fumes. Thousan
of people go there to lie for hours,|
even days, covered by the pulver
ied volcanic debris, which

hope will cure their ailmentg,.

Wearly 55 per cent of afl the

| heat and mechanical energy pro
duced in this country from 1800

eg 1950 was derived from

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FIGHT

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