The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1937-08-28
ALLEN SPEAKS
TO BUSINESS
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cumulated from common labor.
2. ALSO. many of these people
enter into business without regard
] for the amount Of capital that may
be required to open such a BUSH
ness One must realize that it
takes from two to five years to
establish a business and because
OF this person who intends to
engage in a business must provide
enough capital to support himself
and his business until his business
has become established and be-
comes paying proposition.
! 3. Another important factor to
! be considered in the organization
of business is the necessity for
having a competent. experienced
personnel. No person should at
tempt to build up a new business
without the aid Of experienced en-
ployees. Incompetency of person.
mel has been one Of the greatest
handicaps TO Negro business. That
to a great extent will have to be
charged TO our college professors
and social leaders, because usual
| ly when our college trained boys
and girls have completed their edu-
cation, they look first to the gov
eminent payrole for a livelihood,
and our college professors and So
cial leaders make every effort to
place them wherever they desire.
This misguided effort is serving to
a great extent to retard the pro-
gress OF Negroes in the commercial
world. The young man and wo-
man who are college trained be-
come lazy, and lax toward their
economic advancement. In other
words, they show that they are
not willing to pay the price of
economic freedom. When they at
tempt to secure job, they seek
that type of employment where
there is no initiative or response
bility involved. In order that the
Negro will take his place In the
economic world. we must turn our
efforts toward encouraging the
college trained men and women to
seek their careers in Negro bust
ness.
4. Twenty years ago, the more
lowly types Of common labor were
performed b yNegroes and foreign.
born whites. Their work was al
most invariably supervised by the
lower class American-born whites.
Today, the machine age has adj
vanced to the extent Of ousting
the Negro. almost completely from
the common labor jobs, and we
find the American-born white, who
was formerly the straw boss, re-
duced to the ranks of common la
bor Since the Negro has been al
most completed ousted from these
common labor jobs, he has been
forced to accept a place on the
relief rolls. This unfortunate
plight OF the Negro compels him TO
establish his own position in the
world. He can no longer depend
upon the other group for support
or employment.
5. Il have discussed standards
that Negro business must maintain
also why I believe that Negro busl.
ness must succeed. Now let us
discuss some of the standards that
any business or management must
maintain.
A. Expect prosperity always.
B. Maintain a sytsem and hold
the respect of your employees.
Respect of employees must be
maintained.
System: Will make man better
balanced; will enable a man to find
anything he wants Immediately;
will increase your own efficiency,
en- life. and will make it more
worth living; will increase the re-
spect of your employees; will pro-
duce more work Of better quality;
viii increase your own efficiency,
because it will increase your self
confidence; will save the results of
your labor, so that you will not
have to do things over and over
again; will make leisure; a man of
organizing ability has time to see
his friends, to go to amusemcnts,
to travel, because his system is
working for him; will enable you
to make better use Of your expert
ence, and save you from pitfalls
and business disasters.
c. Don't try to be general and
a private at the same time. Many
man fails by trying to be gen.
eral and a private at the same
time. He ruins his capacity for
executive work, for planning and
carrying out large things, because
he cannot trust others to carry out
his ideas.
d. Don't adapt the suspicious
mental attitude. There is more
stealing in establishments of sus-
picious employers than in concerns
Of large hearted kindly men. 1t
pays to trust your employees. Don't
keep a scout line looking for
trouble.
E. "Look your business in the
face. Diagnose your business. Don't
shrink from applying the surgeons
knife. A poor physician palliates
with drugs often until too late.
j f. do not fire new employees