The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-08-28
SISTER DlLCY'S
ANNOUNCEMENT

ANNOUNCEMENT
REVEREND PASTOR. IL you'll
'scvse me for just minute ! have
an announcement I'd like TO make;
now won't take up much OF your
time cause I know most Of you are
full OF the spirit. and IL you didn't
get full OF the spirit listenin' to the
pastors sermon you want TO get
home right away for I don't doub.
but what most Of you have some
Of the spirit stored away 'rouno
home Sor?ewhere.R -
VIA: want TO say, Reverend
Pastor. is that God don't like no
ugly. and the way I see il. some OF
Us women are actin mighty Ugly
on our defense jobs, and further
more the way we are actin is driv-
ing some OF the union leaders
mighty nigh crazy. ! was just tell
in Sister Banks the other day that
most OF US women don't seem to
have no interest in whether or not
we'll have Jobs after this was Is
over. and Reverend Pastor l do
hope The war will be over soon. but
If il is over soon. most Of US women
won't have no jobs and it will be
n ghty hard for our husbands ano
sons and brothers to get jobs be-
cause the women just don't do any
thing to protect the jobs We have
Now the union leaders had plen-
y trouble gettin' the defense plants
20 paw equal wages To women. and
they had more trouble gettin' col.
ored women in some Of these jobs
but since they started work. Rev
erend Pastor. these women seem II
have forgotten all about the hard
times we had gettin jobs in the
frs: place. Union leaders are COM
pla.nin that the women don't 60
out % union meetin' 70 find out
what is soin' on and how things are
workin' OFT Coz Us inside the union
IT ovement. AS mater OF fact. Rev
erend Pastor, some OF the women
refuse to join unions although they
know il is for their own benefit,
and I think this is u, 'scuse
me Reverend Pastor. I mean I think
this Is an awful way for Us to act
just as IL we live for today and
don't care what happens to us to
morrow or what kind Of condition
our men folk viii have TO face whel
they come back from TIE war.
But all the time we are goin' on
way cuttin' the fool the othe
groups are pilin' up seniority an,
gettin' promotions in the union ant
on the job and doin' everything
alse to protect their jobs.
Now what I'm tryin' to do Is &c
the women 10 wake I'D and get busy
and help the union leaders WHIT
worked so hard for us 10 get jobs
And Reverend Pastor. think it!
about time you got interested ir
your congregation too. say Amen
everybody! Now I don't want &c
hurt your feelin's. Reverend Pastor
bu. this Is the truth. and the truth
sometimes hurts so IL this is one oil
I the times when Il hurts, well, you'll
just have TO take it. Everybody say
i Amen!
| OF course We know you're glaC
TO see so many OF Us workin' Rev
erend Pastor, cause you tell US 81
every time you lift an extra collec
ton. and you tell us again whel
you come around for a little some
hing for your sinkin fund. Vel
Reverend Pastor. il you don't bus,
and find out what is the right thin
for your flock to do, and pass
on 70 your flock. there amt goir
20 be no sinkin' fund cause Their
won't be nothing to sink. Amer
EVERYBODY say Amen.
Now that's your Job as well a
te,lin' Us about the slories OF tn
hereafter, Reverend Pastor, and It
10: beneath your dignity to consul
with union leaders in the interes
Of your flock. When the wome
we're workin' out in service durir
the depression. Reverend Pastor
you was always tellin' us to d
RICH. on those kitchen Jobs. and yo
did the same thing when we &c
jobs on the WPA. SO Reverend Pas
tor. you get busy on this thing 70
It's for your benefit as well as oul
and furthermore. won ought 70 te
US something about how to live 9
wei, as what is goin' to happen I