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to Negroes.

to Negroes.
During the last ten years the
principle of merit employment
which gained limited acceptance
during the 1888 to 1919 period be-
came the code of practice for an
increasing number of major en-
ployers. A member of the Urban
League remarked recently that the
sales personnel in one of the lead
ing downtown department stores
during the Christmas holidays
looked like the United Nations.
Non-white teachers are employed
and assigned on the basis Of need
for teachers in schools throughout
the city without regard to race,
creed, color or national origin. Ne
groes are now employed as chem
ical, electrical, electronics and civil
engineers, architects, physicists and
accountants in some of this area S
major firms. During this period,
Negroes were, for the first time.
employed as cashiers and courtesy
boys in the major super markets.
White collar workers have been
employed in banks and other lead
ing institutions, Negro taSd-cab
drivers have been employed for the
first time by two of the major
cab companies, although one cab
company stin practices discrimina-
ton in their employment policy.
While we reflect with a feeling
of accomplishment on these posi-
tive gains in employment, the
practice of discrimination in hous-
ing presents a real roadblock to
smooth democratic and christian
race relations in our city. Equal
opportunity in housing does not
exist for Negroes and other nom
whites in Minneapolis. The Negro
population which has increased by
approximately 33% from 1850 to
1858 still resides in the same areas
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Making Negro Civil Service
Conscious

Conscious
Meanwhile, the League was
pressing campaign to make Ne
groes civil service conscious. In
two-pronged effort, courses to
prepare Negro applicants for ex-
aminations were fostered and the
appointment of Negro oral exam
iners was secured. Thus it was
assured that Negroes would be
qualified, and the handicap of fac
ing a sometimes unfriendly exam
liner was countered.
But then the depression hit, and
hit especially hard at the Negroes
aspirations for opportunity in en-
ployment. With fewer jobs to go
around, whites competed for even
the traditional Negro jobs"
League effort was directed primar-
lily into cooperation with govern
ment, federal, state and municipal,
to bring help to the hard-hit Ne
gro population.
Vocational Opportunity Campaign
This was a problem Of education,
the League decided, and a nation
wide program-a Vocational On
portunity Campaign-was mapped
in 1880 and widened in scope in
the next three years. 1t met with
heartening success as prominent
speakers addressed meetings of
business executives and union lead
ers, and vocational guidance ex-
perts counseled job seekers. In
1882, a study revealed Negroes
were working in $50 of 534 major
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Baldwin founded the League for
the Protection Of COlOred Women
in 1905. (Thirty-five years later
her son, William H. Baldwin, be-
came President of the National
Urban League.)
A year later the Committee for
Improving the Industrial COndi-
tons of Negroes In New York was
started to give industrial training
and job opportunities to both men
and women. The Negro and white
leaders included DR.. Eugene P.
Roberts, distinguished physician;
Fred R. Moore, publisher; William
L. Buckley and Abraham Lefkow-
itz, both educators, and William
]. Schiefflin, civic leader, who be-
came chairman.
DIR. George Haynes Founder
But, George Edmund Haynes, a
Fisk University graduate, writing
his Pho. thesis in social econ
omics at Columbia University, be-
lieved that the problem of adapt
ing the rural, southern Negro to
his new industrial, northern en-
vironment was broader than find
ing jobs and saving colored women
from black slavery"
There is a place for these men
and women in the American socie-
ty and economy" he declared
He was sure that place could best
be attained by broad social action
including education and adjustment
of the Negro to his new environ
ment.
Young Haynes took his ideas
to Mrs. Baldwin who listened SYM
pathetically. In 1910, they organ
lied the Committee on Urban Con-
ditiOns Among Negroes.
Booker T. Washington Support
They had influential support.
Booker T. Washington endorsed it.
Among its sponsors were Felix
Adler, Columbia Professors Edwin
r. A. Seligman; its first chair
man, and Edwin T. Devine, New
York University Professor Edward
e. Pratt, and L. Hollingsworth
Wood, member of Fisk University's
board.
The first thing Haynes did was
to start a survey of conditions in
Harlem, designed to document the
social factors that called for re-
medal action.
Soon the inevitable happened.
The three agencies helping Negroes
find a place in their new city en-
Hronments merged into what was
called the National League on
Urban Conditions Among Negroes.
DR. Haynes was the director.
Eugene KincIxIe Jones
A young Louisville high school
teacher joined the staff. He was
Eugene Kincl<le Jones, who be-
came the sparkplug of the Urban
League, and its chief executive
and guiding genius for more than
80 years.
The Urban Leagues ultimate
goal has been best expressed by
Mr.. Jones: ITO work itself out of
a job" When he started, the
Leagues paid staff numbered two;
its first annual budget was $500;
its small headquarters had second
hand furniture and a kerosene
stove. But its objective still guides
the League today!
ITO carry on constructive
and preventive social work
among Negroes for improving
their social and economic con-
ditions in urban centers; to
bring about coordination and
cooperation between existing
agencies where necessary; to
secure and train Negro social
workers; and to make such
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occupational groupings. Equal
membership in labor unions also
held a vast advance for Negro
workers. Ever since the League had
conferred with AFL President
Samuel Gompers in 1918, and had
protested the use of Negro workers
as strike-breakers in 1919, organ
lied labor had cause to believe in
the Leagues constructive program
and attitude. The newly organized
CLIO guaranteed Negroes equal
membership in the basic industries.
Negroes took their places in great
numbers in trade unions as semi
skilled and skilled workers.
While working to open up mass
employment, the League battled
to get a job for one man. When the
victory was achieved, he became,
as in the case of Bellevue Hospital
in New York, the first Negro doc
tor on the staff of a municipal
hospital. The event was the fore
runner of hundreds of "firsts"
later accomplished through the
Leagues formal pilot placement
program"
World War ii Discrimination
BattIed
The second World War called for
vigorous action from the League.
Again, as in the first conflict,
northward migration of farm Ne
groes scared Industry required ad-
vice in applying the new labor
force for the maximum war effort.
The League kept track Of Negro
workers contributions in 800
plants, and the study proved their
merit.
Wartime efforts to remove dis
elimination against Negroes in the
armed services eliminated in 1915
in the appointment of League ex-
ecutive Granger as special advisor
to Navy Secretary James Forces
tai, and in 1913 to President Tru-
mans Committee on Equality Of
Treatment and Opportunity in the
Armed Forces.
The committee was able to re-
port two years later that in the
Navy, Negroes in general services
were completely integrated in basic
training ashore and afloat. Marine
Corps training was almost COM
pletely integrated, and approx
mately IA percent Of the $4,000
Negroes in the Air Force were
serving in integrated units. The
Army followed suit in 1853.
Efforts in this field, as in others,
were aptly described by a national
magazine this way: THE Urban
Leagues tactics are study and
persuasion" Today, that method
guides the Leagues future.
What new challenges are now
ahead?
Housing still is the only COM
modify that Negroes cannot buy
in the open market. Bankers, bas-
ing fears on false conceptions,
make capital for construction for
the Negro market scarce.
Only Per Cent
Employment presents the sullen
fact that only per cent Of skilled
workers and technicians are Ne
groes, though Negroes represent
about 8 per cent of the male work
force. Newly-Opened opportunities
must not be lost through lack of
job training. Opening new job fields
must continue, as must the effort
to help industry achieve harmoni-
GUS Indignation of its work force.
Health and welfare services
need to be adequate as well as
CONTINUED on Page ABB
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Minda, Magnolia Latimer, now
Mrs. James Coleman and A. b.
Cassius.
The audience was a cross section
Of the leadership and fellowship Of
the Twin City community. Many
of the two cities most prominent
figures In social work, civic, pol
lticaI spiritual and governmental
circles were present.
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President Of the league at that
time was Charles L. Harris, furni-
ture company president. Charles
w. Washington was executive sec
Rotary Of the Minneapolis organic
alton. At the speakers table at
the huge meeting reading left to
right can be seen with n micro
scOPeD such league supporters as
Guy Alexander, Katharine KOhIey,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-04-22

Above is n photo Of the March,
1912 sixteenth annual meeting of
the Minneapolis Urban League, the
largest Urban League dinner ever
held in the Us. up to that time.
1t was held on the campus Of the
University Of Minnesota at COff-
man Memorial Union with Lester
Granger, executive director of the
National Urban League as prin-
cipal speaker.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-04-22

Lloyd p. johnson, the late 1. Myr-
tie Garden, Clarence r.. Clancy,
John Thomas, Cecil Newman,
Charles L. Horn, Mr.. Granger, Mr..
Harris, Mr.. Washington, Thomas
Vennum, the late Talmage b.
Carey, the late r. A. Skinner, j.
A. Quint, Mrs. Estella Sims, the
Rev. ii. w. Bolts, ST., the late
Vincent Owens, Rabbi Albert I.
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Impact OF First World War

workers,
Impact OF First World War
When the nation modified to
fight the first World War, the
northward stream of Negroes burst
into torrent. Half a million mig
rated during the war, and another
half-million between 1921 and 1924.
The Leagues activity expanded
to meet the need, by the creation
in 1925, of a Department of In
dustrial Relations. T. Arnold Hill,
executive secretary Of the Chicago
Urban League was selected to di-
rect this work, and headed the de-
partment until 1910.
Opportunity Magazine
In the early twenties, another
new field was developed. To bring
the work Of Negro writers and
artists to recognition, the League
initiated Opportunity magazine in
1928. Countee Cullen, Langston
Hughes and Claude Mckay were
among the contributors whose
works were given a public. Five
years later, the editors felt their
point had been proved. The mag
azine content was changed to COW
er conditions and trends affecting
the Negro and the white in his con-
facts with Negroes BY 1919, when
the Leagues board felt this OBJ
jective had been accomplished, the
magazine was suspended.
In line with efforts to gather
material for lecturers, articles and
college classroom discussions on
the life and social conditions among
Negroes, Eugene Kinclxle Jones,
with the aid Of L. Hollingsworth
Wood, League president, was in
strumental in persuading the Car
negie Corporation of New York to
appropriate $4,000 to purchase in
1926, the Arthur A. Schomburg
Historical Collection of Negro
books, prints and other data. This
was turned over to the New York
Public Library as a permanent
collection. -.-nat,sss--~ -
Evening star., 1960-03-02
CASHIER

Full time. good pay, good working
conditions, paid vacation, all COM
pany benefits. Good Job with a fu-
ture for risht man. HERSON'S
AUTO a. APPLIANCE CO.. ia
o St NV. Apply in person.
Evening star., 1960-03-02

WhsR sHspsFtnO g6Usrttssmsnts
ad6ressed to Std1 boxeS do NOT
enclose original references pho
tonraphs or other materials OF
personal pdlue Copies seTre the
OHTpose Originals may Get loSf
Evening star., 1960-03-02
COOK
D. C. BRANCH OF
Display Opportunity

OISpIdV opportunity
For ambitious young man. Must
have knowledge Of type and show
card layout in advertising display
field. Advancement unlimited
Apply Mr. HEINLY, 1907 Duke
at , Alexandria Va
Evening star., 1960-03-02
HELP WOMEN
coNIINuEpl

ACCOUNTANTS, FOR cPAs. $4,000
Bkkprs., several S90-Sl0O
Bkkpg. mach OPT, Sc. SIC
ATLAS AGCY.. 1920 NY. Ave. NV
ADMIN. sECY. SaO-SlOO vk
Recep. -Secy., young S100 wk
so Other Opens Daily-Visit First
Miss Grant, BOYD'S (Est. - Yrs
Evening star., 1960-03-02
statesmen

To sell household articles, furniture
and appliances on credit with
no money down. Outside work;
white or colored; car not neces-
sary. Full time or make extrs
money in your spare time. Liberia
commission. Firm well known ir
Washington. Apply Mr.. Phillips
H. ABRAMSON CO., 1882 7tf
81 NV
Evening star., 1960-03-02
statesmen

Exper. IN mems clothing
and mems furnishings. II
you ere looking to better
your income We have q full
time, also part-time lob
to Offer at good salary
in pleasant surroundings.
Phone 10. 4-6060.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
900 14th ST. NV.
Statesmen

Washington corporation wants fivl
statesmen to work Northern Viz.
ginia cities calling on business.
men, selling legislative service
on an annual basis with nc
minimum, no maximum member
ship fee. Salary plus bonus. This
service. recognized on Capitol Hill
Call for appointment. LEGIS-
LATIVE RESEARCH CORP. RE
7-53Sg.
SERVICEMAN-National organiza.
tion, business machines, has po-
Sition open in wash. as service
representative, some sales: must
be excel. mechanic: starting sal
$50 per wk. plus car expenses
Phone MR. BILL. RA. 6-4S4O.
SERVICE STATION ATTENDANTS
exper, Apply KENSINGTON AMO-
co, 300 University blvd, LO
5-5766.
SERVICE STATION ATTENDANT
ewes; must be exper.. bondable
and capable of carrying Shif In
small operation; local refs. Apply
1903 r. ave. ne. between "a
SERVICE STATION ATTENDANT
Fully experienced in all phases
Of service station work. CON
NoRS, INC, 1921 Naylor rd. sc
SHEET-ROCK WORKERS; / crew
wanted. Call WA. 7-S3lO from
$50 pm. TO $50 pm.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
Statesmen

Americas leading mems furnishings
chain has openings for saleSmen
In their new Wheaton Plaza store
Excellent earnings, full company
benefits. Wonderful opportunity for
one looking for future. Apply
Mr. Munaker
NATIONAL SHIRT SHOPS
Evening star., 1960-03-02
HELP MEN

JANITOR, colored. exper., for apt
bldg. must have 6th-class license
and top ref; good salary, apt. and
paid yearly vacation. Apply ga
SHAPIRO INC l4l3 K St NV
JANIToR, colored; part time; fol
lS-unit NV. apartment bldg
Must be able to make minor re.
pairs. Settled couple. Apartment
rent free and small salary. Con-
suit Mr.. Martin, 9-11, Thurs
March 3. SHANNON & LUCHs
CO., 724 14th st. NV.
JANITOR, colored, married, ne
children. for large apt. house
Must be experienced and capable
OF making minor repairs. Refs. re,
THos J. FISHER i CO. INC.
73S 18th st. NV, DL 7-6S30.
JANITOR, COLORED, $3.50 mo
plus 3-rm. apt. tCouple.) For %
unit downtown apt. bldg. Must bt
experienced; Stoker heat and know
how to do minor plumbing anc
electrical repairs. Call EN-, 3-123F
ewes, or ME. $4,000 during day
JEWELRY SALESMAN, expert.
enced. Retail credit store. Apply
DAVID MANN JEWELERS., Con
course, Pentagoh Bldg. Call ia
2-7107 for appointment.
LAB. TECHNICIAN - Must bt
thoroughly exper TO take com.
plete charge of lge medical lab
Salary up to $3.50 Wk, JU. Q-5blU
Evening star., 1960-03-02

$500 Per Mo. Guar. to
START FOR QUAIL. MAN
To qualify you must be between 90
and 50, bondable. neat. willing Ia
work and learn. have car, and be
deSirouS OF making sales your
career Complete training assured
chance to advance to 81 900 per
mo. within 100 days. Call KI O.
-s2O0 for apt. for interview.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
HELP MEN
ELECTRICIAN

With D. C. card. Call CHARLES W
MARSHALL q CO., TU. 2-0044.
ENGINEER, 9th class; moderr
luxury apartment building in n "
must be familiar with central air.
conditioning system. Call Mr.
MULDOWNEY, EN- 2-9S00.
ENGINEERS
Evening star., 1960-03-02
BELLBOYS

MUST HAVE GOOD REFERENCES
ALBAN TOWERS, 300 Mass. Ave
Evening star., 1960-03-02
statesmen
statesmen (3)

Wonderful opportunity for advance.
ment. We are new oTganizA.
tion. Apply g-10 am, 42S Vic
tor Bldg, 724 9th st. NV.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
HELP MEN

REAL ESTATE Statesmen, expert
encei men, full time only, work ii
Northern Va, special emphasis IL
the Vienna area. MANAGEMENT full,
qualified to assist and direct
MYERS g. HILL, INC, DU. 5-6133
Evening star., 1960-03-02
ASST. BOOKKEEPER
ASST. MANAGER
ASSOCIATE BUYERS

Basic eXperience IN merchandising
and handling Of personnc must
be aggressive. willing to work
hard Advancement unlimited 10
man who can produce: 500 week
ly or UP depending on experience.
See Mr. Murray, { N, MCBRIDE
INC. 700 II st ne
Evening star., 1960-03-02
HELP MEN

MEN (3). part time. white, livinl
in NV. Wash. or Silver Sprinl
area; average over $40 wkly.; nj
exper,, but car necessary. Phone
co. 6-1256 Wed eve. after 8 pm
Money! Money! Money!
If you are tired Of layofis anc
want to make good money, cal
JU 5-7674.
OFFICE CLERKS. white sales, jr
asst. mgr trainees: so opens S
excel. future; good pay. Visit Mr.
Black ct BOYD'S. 700 18th NV
MA S-O2An
Evening star., 1960-03-02
Real Estate Statesmen

hedI ESCdIe SdleSIIleIl
S S S S S
We have room for 2 wide
awake aggressive Salesmen
for active 40-year-old firm
Excellent commission
bonus and sales contests
If you have Maryland
license and want to in
crease your earnings, call
Mr.. West for appointment
ROBERT Z. LOHR. INC.
REALTOR HE. $4,000
REAL ESTATE SALESMAN, with a
PROVEN RECORD, preferably with
local exper. DRAW. BONUS, VA
CATION and other benefits
BOWERS BROS, AP. ,-S400
real ESTATE Statesmen openins
for , eXper top producers for eX-
panding progressive company in
Falls Church. FOR appoint. call
Colonel MacClure JE. 2-2620.
REFRIGERATION SERVICE ME-
CHANlC. EXper. commercial. have
car. Only honest, sober, need ap-
ply. Year-round work. Top pay
many benefits. Good refs. re-
auired. Call RE. 7-O941 for ap-
point, McCRAY REFRIGERA-
TION
Evening star., 1960-03-02
ROUTEMAN
ROuTE Statesmen

ROUTE statesmen
If you are interested in a career
with the largest route sales or
sanitation in the country. and
need the following to make
change: Guaranteed income, estab-
lished route. top line, 5-day week
life insurance, disqualification, va
cation with pay. retirement.
9ualifications: White. 25-40. am
bilious. See Ell REEVES, Park
Silver Motel. sO4n 18th st., Silver
Spring. Thurs. March 3, 10 am
tn n n m
Evening star., 1960-03-02
CLERK -TYPIST
CLERK -TYPIST

Excellent opportunity for begip-
ner, with knowledge Of book
keeping for general ONCE work in
credit department Of large auto.
mobile dealer. Call. Ma. $500
for appointment, for interview.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1960-08-13
Whui Goes With
BOOK Learning

are accepted for employment, 1t
means they arc going to execute
heir duties in manner COM
mensuratcd with their perform
ance on the test.
In calling the Sanitation De-
psrfmenf and the Department Of
Public Works about loads OF old
furniture that are ACCOMPLISHING
in our formerly clean alley from
an apartment in the back Of
me. very little action has been
gorfen in the way Of moving the
accumulation Of rubbish. When
our taxes are gradually mounting
and a great number Of tax payers
are unemployed, there must be
an adjustment somewhere.
In classes at the University OF
Michigan Extension last Spring,
we noticed a number of PAM
phlets on Neighborhood Conser-
Walton and Identification, which
we brought home for distribution
In needed areas. n seems more
people should read and heed the
advice given In free educational
materials prepared by the De-
rsrfment Of Parks and Reeres-
ton, the Department Of Water
supply. the Department Of Public
Works, and the Sanitation De-
parfmenf.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1960-08-13
Detroit
Spotlight
BY JAMES ALFRED Butter

Charles G. Scribncr has been
named assistant cashier by Pu.
Die Bank, It is announced by
Joseph +. Verhclle. president.
Scr;bner has been with the ac-
bunting department Of Public
Bqnk for more than two years
Prior TO that he had seven years
Nperiencc in the accounting de
parlmcnt Of two other Detroit
arcs banks.
A graduate of liamtramck High
School. Scrinner received degree
in accounting from Detroit Bust
ness University He also has com
l,rcd special courses at the bet
rod Institute of Technology and
the American Institute of Bank
Ing.
A panel of the executive board
OF the international Hold Carriers
and Laborcrs Union has upheld
Adam White. president and bust
ness manager of Detroit Laborers
Local 334, in the discharge of
II employees of the local. White
fired four business agents last
MEvch. Eight other employees
walked out as a protest The dis
1runtlcd employees contcnded they
had been appointed by Andrew
). McFarlanc. former president
and business manager. They in
sisted they should hold their
'clS until the end of Whites
Il ," in 1861
'Ihs nanc' y the parent unions
Internal. snal executive board
ruled there was no basis for the
u employees contentious
Negroes are invited TO apply in
the first state police recruitment
dr.sc in three years. There never
has been a Negro state police
man But Commissioner Childs
said he wants all qualified men,
REGARDLESS Of race. creed or re-
'isicn to apply for the force
state police now have II posi-
ron> TO fill because of retire
mcnls and promotions This
would bring the strength up to
The authorized l.l55 About 800
applicants will be needed to find
the required II men, police es-
iimsted The requirements are
'ou4h, il was explained. and only
the best men make il Basic re-
luircmcntS are a good record.
(. he equivalent of a high school
education. age between 81 and
% and husky physique. Married
a, we'll as single men are ac-
copied
Members OF the Detroit Post
otficc Clerks Union held their
snnual picnic and Field Day Sun
day at the Utica Amusement
Park.