Evening star., 1948-12-10

by Negro crews, but the drivers are
usually white and are paid at q
higher rate.
"A Negro cannot get a job as q
water-meter reader, a building in.
spector, a weights and measures
inspector or as a guard in a Jail
No Negro who applies will be &C.
cepted for work above menial leve
in the Office Of the Vehicles anc
Traffic Department, the Collector
of Taxes, the Engineers ONCE OF
the Purchasing Office. '''
"Seventy-five years ago q Negro
policeman arrested Gen. Grant
(then President. who was driving g
spirited team of horses for speed
ing in the city streets and was con-
graduated by the General for do
ing his duty. There are 153 Negro
policemen in the city today, but as
a rule they are assigned to Negro
areas where they have little oppor-
tunity to make general arrests
There Is only one Negro scout car
in Washington.
There are even fewer Negro fire.
men, and they are concentrated at
the two Negro fire stations.
One chapter on employment is
headed Uncle Sans Example"
Report on Civil Service.
Despite the Ramspeck Act of
1910, Civil Service regulations and
executive orders, discrimination pre-
walls in all departments in varying
forms, the report states. 1t gives
the following as three general types
Of discrimination:
First, there is the exclusion pat
tern. Under it, Negroes are hired
only for the menial jobs that whites
will not accept. 1t is typif1ed by
the State Department, the Justice
Department, the Bureau Of the
Budget, the Federal Trade Com
mission, the Federal Reserve Board
and various other independent
agencies.
Second, there is the segregation
pattern. 1t is typified by the
Governments factories which en-
ploy many Negroes but keep them
in the lowest routine jobs in sepa-
rate units. The Census Bureau. the
Government Printing Office and the
Bureau of Engraving belong in this
group.
Third, there is. the integratior
pattern where jobs are open te
Negroes at levels on equal terms
1t is exceedingly rare, and was
largely a wartime phenomenon. Wal
agencies like the Office Of Price
Administration and the National
War Labor Board made some ap-
proaches to this practice. This is
also true of the Public Housing
Administration, a non-war agency
brotherhood of Man.
Under the heading THE Brother.
hood OF Man" the report assert.
there are instances of segregation
on the part of churches and church
organizations.
THE exclusion of Negro Cath.
olics from white Catholic churches
is one of the most disturbing as.
poets of segregation which Latir
Americans find in Washington" tht
report states.
"A devout Catholic from Panama
entered a Catholic church in Wash
ington. AS he knelt at prayer,
priest approached him and handel
him a slip of paper. On the pape'
was the address of a Negro Cath
olic church. The priest explained
that there were special churche
for Negro Catholics and that h
would be welcome there"
Church Segregation.
After giving out the release, tn
committee announced this addition
to the report referring to the churcl
incident:
These incidents are few in mum
ber but have a symbolic importance
Recently action has been taken ii
the archdiocese of Washington t.
eliminate discrimination"
The printed report then continues
with this statement:
The canon Of the Washington
Cathedral (EpiscopaD has appealed
to the Nation for funds to complet
a building program, saying that tn
Capital possesses no physical 'symbo
of the sovereignty of God But in
side the largest churches, Protestan
as we'll as Catholic, visitors are mad
unwelcome on account of color"
The committee announced tina