The Phoenix index., 1941-10-04
Negro Workers
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The L. and L. Optical company
of Brooklyn has one Negro glass
grinder and has asked for more
grinders and polisherS as soon as
they can be obtained.
The Yonkers situation shows the
Otis Elevator Company has four Me-
gro v..enen as light assembly work.
ers; the first to be taken on.
The Anaconda Wire anC Cable
company of Yonkers has four Ne
gro machine operators and five are
requested to be sent in within the
week.
The Habirshaw Wire and Gable
company has engaged two NYA ma
chine workers on wire machines.
Out in Detroit, Aeronautical
Products, Inc, interviewed twenty
one trainees and accepted four as
machine shop apprentices.
The Hudson Motor Car company
hired fourteen to place "in-plant
training machining tool operations"
The Curtiss Wright Airplane
corporation of st. Louis has five
Negroes in the apprentice school
who will go straight from the school
into the plant to work.
The Remington Arms company in
opening new plant in Kansas Ci-
ty, Mo-, with 100 workers hired, en-
gagged 81 Negroes; Is material hand
lerS, / foreman and Is service work
erS.
The Cramp Ship Yard of Phila-
delphia reopened with A. skilled
and semi-skilled positions.
The international Shoe company
of Marshall, Mo-, engaged gen.
eral workers.
The Brewster Aeronautical COM
pany of Long Island City has Is
Negroes employed
The Sperry Gyroscope company
of Brooklyn has a total of 81 Ne
groes, 6 on the assembly line work.
ing on aircraft detectors, two ma
chine workers and two shipping
clerks. They have asked for 10 paint
spray operators and in this shop
Cnere is no segregation of Negro
and white workers.
The Ford Instrument company,
which made the much publicized
bomb sight figuring in the recent
spy trials, has 7 Se~1i-skilled work.
ers. They are also working on the
famous navy bombSight
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
at Philadelphia has engaged in
various capacities.
The Sun Ship building company
raised the number of Negroes to
787.
The General Steel Works of Phila-
delphia, has 400 Negro employees ov-
er a report of 200 of a month past.
Westinghouse at Philadelphia has
% Negro employees.
The workers at the Cramps ship
yards are employed as. clippers,
caulkers, drillers and fabricators.
The Bud Manufacturing company
at Philadelphia has IL. They are
shearer operat tors; conveyor load
ers; garage men. This in spite of
the fact that the company was
forced to lay off 1000 men due to
failure to obtain materials.
The Philadelphia Battery COM
pany has e skilled and semi
skilled Negro workers.
The Western Electric company at
Kearney, N. j., is asking for three
detailed instrument workers skilled
In the manufacture of machines.
The Brewster Aeronautical Corp.
at Newark, N. j., has three Negro
anodyzers engaged in metal plat
ing) and three machine tool grad.
erS.
The Western Electric company,
which never used Negroes before
has one colored stenographer; four
electric testers; three women pro-
duction workers. one material hand
Ter; one elevator operator; one win
dow washer and one janitor.
The Wright company of Peterson.
N. j. has engaged IS Negroes since
May to bring to the total up to lis
and they are in the field for Is ad-
ditional paint sprayers.
The Federal Ship Building COM
pany of Kearney, N. j., has raised
the number of employees from 500
IN May to 300 in September and
expects to increase this to HOO by
October. They are engaged as car
penters, painters, fabricators, rive
terS, drillerS, boilers and reamers.
The Emerson Electric company of
st. Louis has 13 Negroes in train
ing and expect to engage more un-
TIL 100 workers are employed.
The Scullin Iron Works in St.
Louise has some 300 Negroes work.
ing, having increased the number
from 400 in May.
In st. Louis, the CIO Electrical
union did not want to admit Ne
groes but a sharp reprimand from
the main office in Washington
changed this situation and the Me-
groes went to work immediately.
Another interesting point in
the st. Louis situation is shown in
the employment of the first Negro
painter at the Homer Phillips hos
pital.
The Winchester Repeating Arms
company in New Haven has engag-
ed 600 workers with women as ma
chine operators, gaugers, inspectors
Men are working as machine opera.
tors, helpers, truckers, laborers
storekeepers, counter clerks, and
other positions.
The whole picture is one of grad.
ual change, says OPM.