Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-10-05
FLORIDA EDITOR TELLS
URBAN LEAGUE MEETING
SOUTH is VICTIM OF
DISCRIMINATION
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ed "mass pressure" tactics, nego-
tiation, investigation and the like.
2. Survey the field in order to
know where the centers of resis-
lance are and how they are for
titled, where strength can be most
usefully employed and where it is
wasted.
3. Establish more intelligent
working relationship between the
foremost organizations working in
the field of nee relations.
a. Invest e forts in the field
with a greater'degre of courage.
"The white American in the
United States seems to be beset
by an eighth capital SIM Father
Francis J. Gilligan of st. Pauls
Seminary in Minnesota, said last
Friday night. at is race preJu-
dice" he added. 1t is acquired
early through the social environ
ment. 1t is subtle. 1t is inter-
woven with pride, hunger for
social environment. 1t is the fear
of social humiliation.
'eYet if the white American has
achieved a fair degree of success
in graphing with the other seven,
there is reason to believe that he
can succeed in the struggle against
the eighth. And he will struggle
when he is persuaded that pre-
JUDGE is evil"
A session on labor relations was
told by Lemuel L. Foster, hiring
consultant for r. H. Macy &
Company, New York City, that in
dustry and business are finding
colored labor a new and largely
untried essential for business OPP
erations, and that it was up to
colored labor to prove its worth.
Wilson w. Wyatt, national hous-
ing expediter, was the principal
speaker at a luncheon meeting of
the National Urban League last
Thursday. Noting the interest of
the league in the problem of hous-
ing for colored people, Wyatt
lsaid:
1.-THE National Housing Agency
recognizes the special problem
facing the minority group veter-
Jan. 1t has taken positive steps
to help him obtain decent housing.
Temporary war housing that
lis being reused to house veterans
in colleges and cities all over the
country is allocated to minority
groups on the basis of their pop
ulation strength and of their need.
"Out of 240,582 units of this
type of housing that have been al
located to cities and c0lleges.
some 1856 units or 80 per cent
are in areas where specific allo-
cations are indicated between
white and non-white, with 10,579
units intended for non-white oc-
cupancy and 63,007 units for white
occupancy. The remaining 1926
units or 70 per cent of the total,
are allocated to cities and colleges
and will not be known until the
units are actually occupied and
reported.
"Of 605,980 units of other types
Of public war and low-rent hous-
ing administered by the Federal
Public Housing Authority, 123,69O
units - or about one-fifth = are
occupied by minority group mem
bers, over 10000 of whom are
World War II veterans or service
men.
ct is the policy Of the National
Housing Agency that the homes
and apartments now being built
under the Veterans Emergency
Housing Program be available to
minority group veterans proper
tomato to their population ratio
and financial ability to purchase
OF. rent.
"Federal Housing Administra-
ton district directors, who issue
housing priorities, are instructed
by official order to seek the CO.
operation Of private developers
in complying with this policy and
to use the services of National
Housing Agency regional racial
relations advisers in carrying out
this task.
an addition, the National Hous-
Ing Agency has stated that if all
other efforts to carry out this
policy should fail, the housing
Expediter will invoke his power
to earmark veterans, building pri-
critics for housing available to
minority group veterans until they
have received their fair share of