Bronze Reporter [Volume: 7, Issue: 39]

Joblessness Up Sharply In
Most Major Centers. WASHINGTON, D.C.~U nemployment increased sharply during the early winter in virtually ajl of the Nation's
major industrial centers, resulting in the reelassification,
to reflect higher joblessness, of 48 of the 150 major areas
covered by the Bureau of Employment Security area ré-. porting program, the Department of Labor announced.

More than half of the 150 major
areas are now classified as having substantial unemployment.

The Department said surveys,
conducted by State employment
security agencies showed that
between November and January
the aggregate rise in unemployment in the 150 major areas totaled about 50 percent. It added that
manufacturing employment~both
durable. and nondurable goods
industries~continued to decline
in four fifths of the 150 areas.

The surveys showed that in
many areas the deepest employment losses occurred in construc:
tion, hard hit by winter stornis
and a continuing decline in homebuilding." Durable goods industries, according to the surveys,
also played a significant role in
the general employment decline,
with heaviest losses in areas producing primary and _ fabricated
metals, nonelectrical cee
and automobiles.

The Department said 25 of the
48 reclassified areas were added
to the list of major areas with
substantial labor surpluses, bringing the number of such areas to
76, largest total reported since
the low point of the 1958 recession when -89 major areas were
so classified.. Some. of, )
~tan ~areas~ in the Nation ~were
among the 25 areas added to

DR. HORATIVG SEYMOUR HILL
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Dr. O. Clay Maxwell, New York,
President of the National Baptist
Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress, meeting in
St. Louis, Missouri, June 19-25,
1961, appointed Dr. Horatio Seymour Hill, as Dean to fill the
~ unexpired term of the late Dean
A. Franklin Fisher.

Dr. Hill is Director of the Baptist Educational Center of: New
York City. He stated that the
Congress program will consist of
Bible Study Courses dealing with
the psychology. and methods of
Sunday School and Baptist Training Union. The 1961 Congress
theme is~~~OUR. BAPTIST WITNESS IN AN EMERGING AGE

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struction, trade, ~
~pother ~nondurable _

the -substantial labor. surplus

grouping. ~ihe 25 areas were: Phi-;

edeipnia, Pa., Cieveland, Ohio,
Baitimore, Md., Los AngelesLong ~~ Calif, St. Louis, Mo.,
Peoria,
Akron, ait Atlentown-Setnlehm
Easton, Pa., ~ Asheville, ~N.C., Corpus Christi, Tex., Flint, Mich.,
Grand Rapids, Mich., Knoxville,
Yenn., Louisville, OKy, 6
Ala., ~ Newark, N.J., New Brunswick-Perth Amboy, N.J., Portland, Oreg., Savannah, Ga., Tacoma, Wash., Toledo, Ohio, Tren
ton NWJ., Worcester, Mass., and |
York, Pa.

The surveys covered both current. employment conditions and
future hiring plans of employers.
The results are summarized in~
the January issue of ~Area Labor
Market Trends.~

With regard to the future outlook, the summary pointed out
that manpower requirements reported by employers to local public employment. offices indicated
that the majority of the 150 surveyed areas expected nonfarm
employment to begin to edge up

slightly by mid-March. Such non- |~

farm employment pickup expect- |
ed by March will be largely in
seasonal activities: such as conapparel, ~ns

year, as anticipated by employers,
are somewhat smaller than those
which had been forecast for the
same period in both 1959 and
1958.

|Seminar Series

On Africa Set

HAMPTON, Va..~ To increase
understanding of Africa-and its
problems and to stimulate a greater interest in African nations,
Hampton Institute will sponsor
a series of three day-long seminars on Africa during the next
three months.

Under the over-all title, ~Africa. Today,~~ the seminars will deal
with the following topics; ~Afri~a
~Background ~and Context~ on
February 25; ~Africa in,Transition~ on March 25; and ~African
Nations in the World Community~
on April 22.

The guest lecturers for the
seminars will be prominent Americans in African programs and
outstanding Africans from. the
United Nations and African embassies. Two lectures, each of
which will be followed by a
discussion, will be scheduled for
each session. On each of these
dates there will be a morning
session from 9:30 to 12 noon and
an afternoon session from 2:00
to 4:30 p.m.;

~The Importance of Africa in
the Contemporary World~~ will
be the title of the keynote address given by Dr: John W. Davis,
special director, Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, NAACP,
Saturday, February 25, at 9:30
a.m. in Ogden Hall.

OF FREEDOM.~
p. Petri

Introduces

Legislation Change

Representative Alexander Petri
(D-Ecorse) introduced a. resolution yesterday which would attempt to process bills in an orderly fashion and to provide Committee consideration of all proposed legislation. The House rules
now provide that a standing committee shall consider a bill -within two weeks. There is no proVision for unconsidered legislation to die-or to be further re
ported.

P This. change will require every
bill to be acted upon by the com
for debate and passage.

I feel that every item of legislation submitted in Bill form is
important to some individual or
group. Considerable time and expenditures have gone into the
drafting, preparation and printing
of these bills. After this expenditure of time, effort and money

~ mittee of referral, either asking | from

more time for consideration, voting to kill, or reporting the bill
out with or without amendment
or recommendation for passage.
Failure to. give final considera
tion in the 14 days allotted will}:
utomatic reporting out

_ th bl tothe Foo of the Hows

~ Kansas City, Mo.,j - ~

~ Mobile, |

| South. Carolina
= CORE hpeiere pire

~ State Capitol here Tues

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Dr. J. S. Willidms.

THE DETROIT CHAPTER HOWARD UNIVERS! |
Charter Day Celebration~ honoring Dr. James M.?
University in the Wolverine Hotel, Sunday, Febru
Hon. Judge E, L. Davenport, Dr. James M. Nabrit -
vision Prosecutors Office; Attorney Andrew W.

UMN ASSOCIATION held their Annual
i Sr. (third from ~Tet president of Howard
r Scan From left are: Attorney Thomas Stewart,, (honoree) Hobart Taylor,. Jr., Chief Civil Di-, Jf., president hee Howard Alumni; and

NEW YORK City., > The solitary confinement of eight CORE
members in the Yo

Farmer sired! ~gined February
17 eight members of |CORE including Field: Secretary Thomas
Gaither have béen in solitary confinement... for refusing to stop
singing hymns during their morning devotions. This interference
with the personal and religious
freedom of these young Americans piles one illegality upon
another. South Carolina officials
acting under guise of police power
have done violence to constitutional ~concepts ~of equality before the law and freedom of
religious observance.~

The eight were offered the
choice between solitary. confinement and giving up their hymns
by prison camp superintendant
Charles C. Maloney. One line
that seemed to particularly irritate camp officials was ~Before
Vll be a slave, I'll be| buried in
my grave.~

Maloney ~said that

N. Y. NAACP
Plan Fair Housing
March on Capitol

ALBANY, N. Y. ~ The New
York State Conference of NAACP
branches descended |on_ the
day, Feba_ strong

the eight

ruary 28, to demand
fair housing law.

Dr. Eugene Reed, State NAACP
president, said 55 | branches.
sent delegations to participate
in the all-day. demonstration.

Both the NAACP. national office and state conference have
criticized the proposed fair housing bill sponsored by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller as being weak
in that it omits from its coverage
one-and two-family houses.

The NAACP has further noted
that the provision forbidding real
estate brokers to discriminate applied only to the type of housing
covered by. the bill, which means
brokers are free to discriminate
in the handling: of one-and twofamily houses in-which the bulk
of the Negro market is interested.

NAACP contend

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f.: Ms
CORE members. had~
on- bread and water,
confinement for rei
orders, He ~added, *

~|, bem out when they s

ander Gaies,: ~had dronicusis!
been transferred from: the work

~gang to the county jail; ~ine nine

nave been in prison since their
arrest for sitting-in at a McCrory
juncn counter on January 31.
ancy have cnosen 30 day prison
seucences to aramatize their protest against segregation.
Since their arrest the CORE
mempers have been jomed by
tuur memuvers of the Studenvr
Nonviolent Coordinating Comiuttee.:

Lumumba Memorial
Meeting Held In N. Y.

ingw xunK, ~ ~ine Liberation Commuttee* for Atrica has
urganbizea a Lumumba memoria
Meeting to protest the premedilated mmuruer of Congolese Fremuer Patrice Lumumba by the Belgran puppets, Kasavubu, Mobutu
and ~isnombe. ~the meeting was
held at Stuyvesant Casino, 14u
second ~Avenue, New York City.

ppeaking at the meeting was
Rienara Ginson, Acting Executive
Secretary of the Fair Play for

Cuba Committee, 1.M.B. Sanga,
observer to the United Nations,

from Tanganyika and Daniel H.
Watts, Chairman of the Liberation Committee for Africa.

The Liberation Committee was
one of the leading groups that
organized the recent demonstration at United Nations Headquarters, protesting the murder
of Premier Lumumba and the
~vmplicity of U.N. Secretary|~
General Dag. Hammarskjoid ana
his assistant, Kaiph Bunche.

The Liberation Committee for
Africa ~ Box 303, Cathedral
Station, New York 25, N.Y. ~
was formed in June 1960 by a
group of white and Afro-American intellectuals who were disillusioned with the do-nothing attitude of the professional committees for Africa that exist in
the United States. The Liberation Committee seeks to give concrete aid to- African freedom
fighters. and to mobilize U.S.

public opinion to give the most

effective support to Africans
fighting against imperialism.

NAACP Hails Pa.
Fair powies ' wma

Membership Drive

NAACP. Girds For

NEW YORK, ~NAACP officers
in 35 state and~ regional con
ferences this week received a4].
five- point program to spur the| ~
Association~s ~ rising membership s

to an all-time high.; Gloster B. Current,
Aivector. of branches, |

Pnational eee last year
was 357,905. Its goal for ~1e61. is100,000." |

~The thagnificent. work pes
by our state and local leadership
in the past year is indicative of
the heightened interest in the
civil rights struggle on the part
of the nation~s Negro penince
current said.

The Association~s branches conwibuted $176,353.91: to the Fight
ior Freedom Fund raising drive
last year. The suggested FFF |
quota this year is $300,000.00.

Current stressed that the NAACP ~will need one worker for
every ten- memberships.~ There
~mands for a Federal fair employ
-ing uniom racial.bias~was denied

~Meany.

{membership or job discrimina
NAACP | queen
urged NA+] ~
ACP leadership to agaest mem- aa

tive Council. of the AFL-CIO

Twenty-nine leaders of the nations~ largest. union forms the
Council. They renewed their de
ment practices act to help check
racial bias.

But a charge that the AFL-CIO
itself is dragging its feet on end

by... AFL-CIO. President George

The charge was made by A.
Philip Randolph, Negro president
of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters, who.also proposed
expulsion of any AFL-CIO. unit
failing within six months to end

tion against Negroes. é

The Council adopted instead a
policy statement pledging cdontinuing strong measures to bring
all federation unions into compliance with the AFL-CIO constitutional lan against discriminatory practices.

Although calling for a Federal
fair-employment law, the Council
said it believes that ~even without
~statutory authority President

MIAMI BEACH~The midwinter meeting of the Seten
ended span ~nes a call

for stronger Civil-Rights Legislation.~

strenattien the Govetnaiit~s policy under which Federal contracts
are let only to Boscia eneney
firms,

Mathis Names Urban
League As Beneficiary

Johnny ~Mathis has made the
National Urban League the beneficiary of a $25,000 policy insuring his life. The singer has presented the policy to Lester
Grainger, the ~Urban. League~ s
National Director,

The singer~s decision. to take
such a policy.came after. discussions with Philip J. Goldberg,
chairman. of the board of the

} Institute for Financial Planning,

specialists | in charitable endow
~ment bequests through: life _in
surance.

~In making the Urban League
the.beneficiary of my life insurance policy I have done something which I hope other people,
in all vwaiks of life, regardless
of their race, ve also Kee said
Mathis:..

Kennedy ~can and should~

rhe NAACP executive pointed
out the beating of two college
youngsters by a mob of white
bystanders who were antagonized
when ~the students attempted to
peacefully demonstrate against
lunch counter discrimination in
nock Hill.

Mr. Wilkins, in a. wire dispatched from the ~ Association~s
national office-in New York City,
called attention to the arrest of
the Rev. Cecil~ A. Ivory, president of the Rock Hill NAACP.

Rev. Ivory, although confined

fore, 50,000 workers are needed
across the country.

to a wheel chair, is pastor of the

Ex-Sit-Inner Directs

New S.C. Mobilization

COLUMBIA, | $.c., ~ NAACP
Youth Fieid Secreary Julia
wright arrived here this week
to direct stepped-up sit-in demonstrations against Jim Crow.lunch
counter facilities by NAACP
youth units in this state. ~

More than 100 students, from
Benedict College and Stark Theological Seminary are participating in the local sit-ins which are
~part of an all-out campaign that
will persist until eating bias barriers are beaten,~ according to
Rev. L. D.. Newman, NAACP field, secretary here.

Numerous NAACP youths have
been arrested. at Eckard~s Phar
St. Patrick Day
Parade Planned -

Honorable Detroit Councilman
Ed Carey, General Chairman,
and Martin W. Baginski, - Asst.

-Grand Marshall, of the St. Pat-;
~rick~s Day Parade cordially- in
vite~ all the fraternal, religious, |labor, veteran, civic, business
and patriotic societies to actively
participate in the Annual Detroit
St. Patrick~s Day Parade to be
held Sunday, March 12, 1961. The
United Irish Societies and- all of
~Detroit~s ethnic groups will hon~or St. Pattick, ~the Patron Saint

~darting at Weodwasdl
or, at 2:00 P.M. andj; south to Jefferson}

macy, the only store that has

{ ie Groiiet investigation~ of acts of violence.against Negro sit-in demonstrators in Rock Hill this week
by NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins.

inept

Hermon Presbyterian Church. He
was leading a picket line, from
nis wheel chair, when arrested.
~His case~ is being handled py
NAACP Attorney Matinew Perry.
Full text of Mr. Wilkins~ var,
totlows:
Latest report here. is that two
Negro coilege youngsters were
beaten by bystanders in Rock
Hill this morning as they attempted to protest segregation
peacefully before Tollison and
weal Drug Store on Main Street.
President of Rock Hill ~Chapter.
of NAACP also arrested in his
wheel chair although arresting
officers reportedly stood pind
and. passive nearby when students were beaten, National Association for Advancement of Colored People urges your office
through appropriate. officials or
agencies institute prompt investigation of these acts against citizens ~exercising their constitu
requested that ~police arrest. the
aemonstrators.
Seven stuaents were arrested |
last Wednegaay at kekard's.
~rheir fenuws formed a picket
line in front ot the Jail and police
proceeded to arrest an auditional

The South Carolina NAACP arranged pail.

NAACP sit-ins here under the
leacersnip of David Carter, 26
president of the Benedict Corege
intercoliegiate NAACP unit. He
is enrolied at Stark Theoiogical
veminary,

Miss Wright, who will give
guidance to the South Carolina
sit-ins,, is am experienced hand
at direct action tactics. She was
one of the two leaders of the
famed March 15, 1960, demonstration at~ Orangeburg, S.C.

Some 1,500 students participated and a~ record 338 were arrested and forced to stand soaking wet, having been attacked
with tear gas and fire hoses, in
the cool spring air for hours.

Wilkins On TV~s =
Civil. Rights Program -

NEW YORK, ~ Roy Wilkins,
NAACP executive secretary, participated in a panel on civil
rights on ~The Open Mind~ program aired ~locally last Sunday, Feb. 26, by WNBC-TV, at
(2:00 to. 2:30 p.m. and by WNBC_
radio at midnight.

Other panel. members were
Father Donald Campion, S.J., associate editor of America Maga
13 ~for obstructing the sidewalk. Jas

tional right of peaceful protest.

KDB Workshop.
s Plans For
Cleanest City

~We are both,pleased and
proud to have Detroit win third
place in the national Cleanest
City competition for 1960, but
in 1961, we'll take first place!~,
said Mrs. William G. Koerber, j
President of -the Mayor~s Committee to Keep Detroit Beautiful
~We've got everything we need
to win the top prize next time,
including more than 2,000 civicminded people who will be at
our Workshop Thursday night.
This is-close to four times as
many people who have ever attended a Workshop. With their
cooperation, we can~t lose!~

Mrs. Koerber said that ways
and means of bringing the coveted Cleanest City award to Detroit in 1961 had been added to
the agenda for Keep Detroit
Beautiful Committee~s fourth
annual Workshop held in the
Main Ballroom of Cobo Hall in
Detroit on Thursday, February
23.

Overall theme of the Workshop
was ~Take The Lead! Make Detroit the Pride of the Nation.~
Keynote speaker was Dale J. Madden, Detroit business consultant
and General Manager of the Leadership Training Institute.

The K.D.B. Workshop is open
to any interested person. There
is no charge for any phase of the

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