The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-04-19

Jobs offered. IN Arkansas. fo- ex.
ample. IS per cent Of the place.
ments made by the USES ~
Negroes were for service and In.
skilled jobs A survey in Georeis
concludes. Jobs are splenty bul
az low pay and in unattract.He
work IN town after town. i 9
being found that Negro vetersns
are being offered Jobs at -. IS,
3 or 20 odd dollars a week.
For the first half Of 1916. VI.
employment ran III per cent high.
er among former Negro service.
men than il did among white
veterans.
Negro veterans are found 70 be
particularly anxious 10 enroll in
apprenticeship or on-the-j JOB
training IN skilled and sem.
skilled trades; but even in the
best training programs. white
veterans have outnumbered Ne
gro veterans about fifty to one
In u Southern states, only one
out Of IL veterans receiving or.
the-lob training under the CT
Bill is Negro. although one vet.
eran out Of three in the area
colored.
Negro veterans by and large
have not been able 10 buy houses
at the high prices which have
prevailed since VI Day. Thev
need rental housing-at low
rents. pnat the need Of Negroes
for housing is more acute than
that Of the general public i
borne out in the 1910 general
housing census. This showed that
while the house Of one whita
family out Of four was substand.
ard, one Negro family out Of
three had substandard housing.
Current plans for veterans
housing in eight Southern states
allot only 81 per cent Of the new
homes TO Negores although one
third of the veteran population
is Negro.
The immediate future for Ne
gro veterans housing lies in low
cost housing projects" the au-
thors declare, "and the develop
ment of inexpensivea prefabricst-
ed homes. But in the long run
the fundamental solution lies IN
raising the wage scale so that Ne
gro veterans. and all Negroes. can
afford to pay the costs of decent
housing"
The educational benefits under
the CT Bill are among the most
substantial benefits provided for
veterans of World War II. But
once again Negro veterans have
been prevented, through discrim-
ination, segregation, and second
class facilities. from obtaining the
advantages which are theirs I'M
der the law. Out of 100000 Negro
veterans who are eligible 10 at
tend college under the CT Bill,
only 10000 have been able to OBJ
tain admittance, Another $4,000
applied but were unable TO find
a college or university which had
room for them. It Is estimated
that IL there were space. another
$4,000 would have applied for
higher education. Upwards Of 20
per cent Of the Negro veterans
who have succeeded in enrolling
in colleges are attending all-Ne-
gro institutions.
Segregated Negro colleges are
neither we'll enough equipped nor
numerous enough TO meet the de-
mands OF Negro veterans for
higher education. A survey OF
twenty-one of the leading Negro
colleges, with a total veteran en-
rollment of i1,043, showed that
SIS per cent of all veteran appli-
Giants had 10 be turned away be-
cause OF lack of space.
FOR NEGRO VETERANS, by
Charles Bolte and Louis Harris,
is Pamphlet No. 1913, in the series
of popular. fpctual pamphlets is
sued by the 'shlic Affairs Com
mittec, Inc. ron profit cduca-
organization al % East 38th ST.,
New York is, N. X.