Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-10-20
Treatment of Negro
Called Greatest Evil
In United States

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DIR. Herman Feldman, dean of tbs
Amos Tuck School of Business AID.
ministration at Dartmouth Col.
lege, told the conference on The
Postwar Industrial Outlook for Ne.
groes at Howard University on
Wednesday (Oct. 49, that at may
be truthfully said that the great,
est evil in the United States and
its most serious problem is its
treatment of the Negro"
"If the injustice were one which
benefited the rest of the nation
he declared, although exploiting
the Negroes, there would at least
be some rationale for such a situa-
ton. In fact, however, national in
terests of the widest character, in
deed international interest affect
ing the whole human race, are af-
fected by the attitudes am the
treatment of which the Negro is
the victim"
DR.. Feldman told the opening ses-
sion of the conference which is
sponsored by the Division of the
Social Sciences of the Graduate
School at Howard University and
co-sponsored by the A. Philip Ran
dolph Educational Fund, that the
heart of the immediate situation
is the opening of the ranks of en-
ployment to Negroes, fully and
freely in accordance with their
capacities to enter them or to ad-
vance in them.
'The Negroes who are given an
incentive" he said, ITO develop the
training and the habits and the self.
respect, which go with good en-
ployment, authority, a good stand.
ard of living and security, will
themselves be the best force in
improving the national attitude"
DR.. Mordecai johnson, president
of Howard University, opened the
conference, and Miss Freda Kirch-
way presided at the first session
1t. Col. John K. Collins, Bureau
of Placement of the War Man
power Commission, was also a first
session speaker. The conference
was held for 8 days, Oct. 10, 10
20.
Beginning on Thursday, the con.
ference began discussions of post.
war prospects on the basis Of war.
time experience in selected in.
dustries. The morning session was
devoted to the shipbuilding in.
dustry, at the afternoon session, to
aircraft and automobiles, and the
evening session to railroads.
On Friday the discussions COW
cred the steel industry during the
morning session. In the afternoon
and evening the conference turned
to the federal policies and the en-
ployment and advancement of Ne
groes in postwar industry, and to
labor and fiscal policies of the fed,
eral government.
Participating in the conference
from industry, labor and govern,
ment were many of the big anC
well-known names of the country
Among them were C. E. Musser
chief of personnel for the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad; R. Randall Irwin
Director of Industrial Relations Re,
search Department of the Aero,
nautical Chamber of Commerce Of
America; Abe Rubin, vice president
of the National Smelling and Re,
fining Co., Cleveland, Ohio; Emer.
son Schmidt, director of Economic
Research, U. S. Chamber of Com.
merce;
Michael Ross of the shipbuilder.
union, CLIO; George H. Schmekt
of the International Boilermaker:
Union, AFL; W. A. Calvin, vice
president of the Boilermakers I'm,
ion; Willard Townsend of the
United Transport and Service EN-,
ployees of America, CLIO; B. F
McLaurin, of the Internationa
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port.
ers; DR.. Boris Shiskin of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor; George
Weaver of the Congress of In,
dustrial Organizations;
Elmer A. Carter, member of the
Unemployment Insurance Appea
Board of the State of New York
DR.. Herbert R. Northrup, regional
director in New York for the Ma.
tional War Labor Board; Miss
Freda Miller, director of the Won.
ems Bureau of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor; E. ]. Lever, vice
president of Manpower Require
ments of the War Production
Board;
A. ]. Allen, Industrial Secretary
of the Baltimore Urban League; DR..
William Leiserson of Johns Hop
kins University; C. w. Washington,
Industrial Secretary of the Pitts
burgh Urban League; DR.. Francis
D. Tyson, of the University of
Pittsburgh, and Dean William
HASTE of the Howard University
Law School.