The Omaha guide., 1955-09-02
Urban League TO Discuss
Job Outlook At Milwaukee

subject of one of the discussion
sessions at the forthcoming Annual
Conference of the National Urban
League in Milwaukee. The session
is being jointly planned by the Ur-
ban League and the National As
ISOLATION Of Market Developers.
Lester B. Granger, League Exc
cutive Director, and Moss H. Ken
dirk, NAMD President, will open
the discussions. The discussion
panel, chaired by Guichard Paris,
Director of Promotion and Publici-
for the National Urban League,
will include Julius A. Thomas, the
Leagues Director Of Industrial Re
lations; Louneer Pemberton, In
dustrial Secretary, Urban League
of Dayton, and NAMD Secretary;
Ramon Scruggs, President of the
Detroit Urban League, and NAMD
Treasurer.
Other panelists include Samuel
w. Whiteman, NAMD Vice Presi-
dent and Assistant Manager, New
York Office, R. Mars, The Contract
Company; and Joseph F. Albright,
National Representative, Curtiss
Candy Company. H. Naylor Fitz-
hugh, Howard University Market
ing Professor, and Consultant to
the NAMD Board, will serve as re-
corder for the session.
Participants will discuss such
questions as: the significance of
the job openings for Negroes with
large firms seeking to cultivate the
Negro market; the past and future
impact of indignation upon such OPP
erations in various sections of the
country; and the roles which the
Urban League and organizations
such as the National Association of
Market Developers have played,
and may be expected to play, in
this area.
In preparation for the Milwaukee
session, the NAMD, whose head
quarters are located at 1880
Eleventh Street, N. w., in Wash
ington, D. c., has conducted sur
veys among local Urban Leagues,
Negro colleges offering training in
marketing and related subjects,
and persons actively engaged in
Negro market operations. Results
of these surveys will be presented
at the session.
According to NAMD'S prexy,
Moss Kendirx, who is Public Re-
lations Counselor to the Coca-Cola
industry, and Ramon Scruggs, of
the Public Relations staff of the
Michigan Bell Telephone Company,
the Milwaukee session is expected
to attract nearly 100 participants
from Urban League and from mar
keting circles. Over thirty local
League industrial secretaries have
already indicated their intention
to participate.
AS a 'warm-up" for the Milwau-
kee meeting, officers of the Ma
tional Association of Market De-
velopers will meet with a number
of Chicago sales and public rela-
lions personnel on Saturday, Sep
TENDER 3. A luncheon session has
been arranged at the Washington
Park Y.M.C.A., 5000 South Indiana
Avenue. Louneer Pemberton, for
mer Industrial Secretary for the
Chicago Urban League, and newly
appointed Industrial Secretary for
the Dayton Urban League, has ar
ranged the meeting, with the CO.
operation of Chicago members Of
the Bottle and Cork Club.
The luncheon meeting, slated for
1890, will review the services Of
the Urban League and the Bottle
and Cork Club to Negroes in sales,
advertising, and public relations,
and develop recommendations re-
garding possible future programs
in these fields.
The National Association of Mar
ket Developers was organized at
the Tennessee A and / State Uni
versity in March, 1854, after two
years of planning activities. Pur-
pose of the Association is to serve
as an information center to aid
persons working in the Negro mar
ket, local associations of such
workers, and young people aspir-
ing to careers in this field.
Honorary members of NAMD in
clude James A. BillboardD jack
son, of the Standard Oil Company;
DR.. W. S. Davis, President of Ten
nessee A & l State University; Jul
Illus A. Thomas, Director of Indus
trial Relations, National Urban
League; and John H. johnson,
President of the Johnson Publish
ing Company.