The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-04-18
THE NATIONAL URBAN
LEAGUE LAUNCHES INDUS
TRIAL PROGRAM; T. ARNOLD
HILL HEADS UP WORK.

The National Urban League has an
nounced the Inauguration Of its Ma
tional Industrial Program which has
been under contemplation for the past
year for the purpose Of conducting a
strenuous nationwide campaign for
larger opportunity for Negro workers.
The Director Of this program is Z.
Arnold Hill who for the past eight
! years has been the Executive Secre-
tary IF the Chicago Urban League and
Western Field Secretary Of the Ma
tional organization. Mr. Hill, whose
headquarters are now in New York
City, has had most successful adj
mYnistration in Chicago and the West
In Chicago, he developed the League
from its incipiency to the point where
it had sixteen workers and a budget
of $4,000 per year. He laid the foun-
dalton for League organizations in a
number Of western cities and became
the outstanding authority Oh the prob
lens Of race relations and the Negro
in industry in social work circles re-
gardless Of color.
During the Chicago race riots, he
was instrumental in bringing together
the leading white and colored citizens
Of Chicago, resulting in the establish
ment Of the Chicago Commission on
Race Relations which published a re-
port which is considered the most au-
lucrative report of race conditions yet
presented Before leaving Chicago,
Mr.. Hill was a member of the Execu-
tive Board OF the Council Of Social
Agencies, and the Social Workers
| Club. He also was member of the
Committee representing all Of the
social agencies Of Chicago which pub
lished an authoritative report on the
financing Of social agencies
Mr.. Hill is thirty-six years of age,
graduate Of Virginia Union Univer-
sity, and has specialized in the social
sciences at New York University.
The program Of the Industrial De
partment IS as follows:
l. TO standardize and coordinate
the local employment agencies of the
League SO that exchange Of informa-
ton and more regular correspondence
between them can assure applicants
for work more efficient and helpful
service and employers of labor more
efficient group Of employees;
2. To work directly with large in
dustrial plants both in cities where the
League is established and the com
munities removed from such .centers to
procure larger opportunity for work
and for advancement on the job for
Negro workers and to stimulate
Negro workers to fresh determine
ton TO make good on the job SO
that their future in industry may be
assured;
5. To help through available chan
nels Of information to ascertain points
at which there is an oversupply of
Negro labor, and to use existing
agencies Of publicity and placement to
direct Negro labor, including mi
grants, to those points where they are
most needed and where their families
will most easily become adjusted.
The Department of Research and
Investigations Of the League Charles
S. Johnson, Director, is cooperating
with the Industrial Department by
making an investigation Of the exper
fences of Negroes with Trade Unions
throughout the United States the re-
suits Of which study will immediately
be placed at the disposal of the Indus
trial Department.