St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-06-06
TOP MANAGEMENT
Join Urban League
Industry Council
UTTER
NEY YORK CITY N. Y.

IWenty-siX top representatives
OF management, headed by Win
throp Rockefeller as chairman.
have joined forces as members of
the Commerce and Industry Coun-
Gil of the National Urban League,
1913 Broadway. The Council is
dedicated to the belief that there
should be equality of opportunity
for all Americans, and that there
should be full utilization of the
vast Negro manpower potential.
The Council works to strengthen
and extend the industrial relations
and vocational guidance program
of the League, the nations Oldest
interracial voluntary service agen-
cy which strives to promote equal
economic opportunity for Negroes
in all fields of endeavor. Members
of the Council actively participate
in and support the Leagues pro-
gram and invite their friends and
co-workers in industry and COM
merce to join them in achieving
this goal.
longtime member OF the boaru
of trustees of the National Urban
League, Mr.. Rockefeller serves as
chairman of the Council with
Ralph L. Mason, of Standard Oil
Company New Jersey, as CO.
chairman of the Council with
executive cOmittee with Hoyt
Ammidon, OF The Hanover Bank;
Benjamin F. Wander Peel. of
Union Carbide & Carbon Corpora
ton: and Joseph r. Bransford, of
Western Electric Company.
Two Of the Leagues projects
which have attracted widespread
attention and In which Council
members have been active are
pilot" placement Of qualified Ne
grOes In highly technical. skilled
and administrative positions, and
career conferences held In leading
Negro colleges and universities,
with Council members serving as
or securing cOnsultants. Career
conferences are designed to
aCquaint students with oppOrtun-
tiles in industry and business and
the preparations required to quail
ify them for employment This is
achieved by bringing to the con-
ferenCes representatives OF man.
agement who advise the students
in round-table sessions.
Nine top-flight industrialists
have just accepted membership on
the Council They are: Victor
Borella. vice-president in charge
of operations, Rockefeller Center,
Inc; James Felt, president, James
Felt & Co; Bernard f. Gimbel,
president Gimbel Bros. Inc: James
c. Hanes chairman. Hanes Hosi-
cry Mills Co; Philip Lehman.
president, Lehman Breweries
Inc. James l.. Macwithey, assis-
tant vice-president. Bristol-Myers
Co; Walter Rothschild. president.
Abraham & Straus; Frederick
Warburg. Kuhn. Loeb & Co: and
Walter II. Wheeler. Jr,, president.
Pitney-Bowes, Inc.
Other members OF the Council
are: William f. Cotter, counsel,
Union Carbide & Carbon Corp:
Robert w. Bowling. president,
City Investing Co; Frank NJ. Fol-
som. president. Radio Corporation
Of America; William H Harrison.
president. International Telephone
& Telegraph Corp; Alfred O.
Hoyt. Gillespie and Hoyt: Henry r
Luce. editor Time, Life. and
Fortune: William s. Palcy
chairman, Columbia BrOadCaSting
System, Inc; Dwight r C Pal
mer chairman of the board Gen
eral Gable Corp; Elmo Roper, Inc;
Allan A. Ryan, chairman, Royal
Typewriter Co, Inc; Edward l.
Shea, president, Ethyl Corp; and
Charles II. Silver, Uce-president,
American Wooden Co.