Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
AS WE MOVE FORWARD

AS WE MOVE FORWARD
 The most important question before the Negro population here in or roi in the employment fields; how to make nghsoundlng W must scover to focus people, their actual needs and rights
 As we rightfuy seek to explore and invade former ly distant fields of public and industrial activity we shall ned to nd little more and little less "F In business we 1espaSe M of wes % such principles all business such is predcated to club that's one relationship faternal in character If this "A in business he enters into another rela tionship; for alderman he still other responsibilities. No individual people can the of some as +hio oV9f need not be cause for alarm
 divdaaf ean Se human race itself Instinct as suc has been the greatest single factor in developing tech known It has flung the human up from the dim, dark days of primitive through ntermnable must inevitably bring up date with this conception of human guidance unaltered.
 Every past civilization has experienced the necessity for passing through major social crisis in which great leaders have more less nstnctvey guided through
 "Need the first experience" says Dr. Sumner of it has ever been thus. It is true today it thousands of years ago.
 Shall we be more specific, strike nearer to home? ? Then let's talk about Connecticut about it's Negro popula tion, it's needs.
 
 tcut Interraca1 Commission learn that there ap proxmately 900 Negroes in Connecticut Their voting potential must be at least 3O,OOO and there spcuous lack of Negro representation in nearly all public services.
 Information coming from other authoritative sources indicates that need Negro representatives council men, the Civil Service Commission, perhaps Negro Judge representative the Boxing Commission, the Parole Board And while we're the question need Tn employment, how about the Telephone Companys tor Vehicle Department Highway Department etc.? Ne gro people thousands and thousands of dollars in the Public Utilities coffers and in all fairness some consideration various employment fields herewith We have literally dozens and dozens of beauty shops and barber shops but Negro inspector for of these We need Negroes in the Fire Depart ment and Negro taxi-drvers.
 The State of Connecticut will have guber- material candidates for office. The question is our 5OOOO Negroes continue to remain politically cent Tn the face of these urgent needs?
 - Will we listen again to the outworn patitudes of these politicians who seek only maintain themselves within their seats of office Close your eyes for mo- ment = tighter tighter! Now just imagine Isaac Wood ward years old and Negro Veteran with com bat service to his his eyes gouged out bv South Carolina madmen.
 Need,! Need! Need! We need to take the initiative at the pos to shoulder the responsibility civic ana poltcal guidance of We need to Negro representation politically that improve conquerng his environment forever improving it. forever making technoogca gains whatever in this stvale of tars' is hostile to life itself
 As forward, must inevitably come to know that baslcay duties cannot be nseparabe from the duties of other who aspire to community est good of all. And we must new world a-coming and it's going demand qualified workers. W ~ d""iilioo
 To be continued