Arizona sun., 1961-05-11
THE BIG ISSUES IN THE NEWS

UNEMPLOYMENT and job continued to be a
mong the major issues dominating the While Admin
spokemen cautious optimism that the re-
cesson leveng they warned that the hard prob
lem of chronic obessness would still be with
certed cooperative effort is made to find cure
Hardly had the new Presidents Committee Equal EN-
ploymen Opportunity set shop when the NAACP filed
complaint with against the huge Lockheed Aviation
Plant at Marietta bill of particulars presented by
Herbert HILL the labor secretary the association charged
employed only 400 Negroes out OF 10000
EMPLOYEES: and that these were subjected paid
segregated fac
e including separate time clocks and required to belong to
a segregated union local which meets in Atlanta 27 miles
Lockheed just recently awarded 81 billion
contract build BAT jet bomber for the Air Force
A company representative for Lockheed said they
complying provisions of the contract
Meantime James McGon general vce-president
Machnists Atlanta, denied that the
terd segregation He said the Negro employees had
requested their charter in 1851 and that in 1887 they
rejected his proposal with the three white locals
McGon said they were welcome the union hall in
for meetings. preferred their Union
officials in the plant pointed out that there certain prac
cal advantages in segregated local which could be lost under
merger the workers would be outvoed into
obscury by the white majority especially in segregation
conscious Marietta"
Washington Assistant Secretary
Labor Jerry Hoeman who is serving as executive
Presidents Committee After the meeting Hoe-
told reporters that the was pledged
the contracts with employer who refused
comply with the Presidents Executive Order
The Department promised investiga-
ton of the Lockheed situation well two other plants
the South included the NAACP brief Holeman said that
after the Committee had reviewed the that Lockheed
would fail discrimination provisions
the contract the Committee would cancellation
the billion dollar award with the company.
Returning from Negro colleges
he went mission to explain the Governments oppor
program McVegh the
Department of Labor reported that few Negro students
enough about positions interested
in this field Decades of segregation had their impact
this Most Negro college the
turn to teaching the ministry social work. the medical
profession primarily
goreS for security To them, the Federal Government
vast nebulous operation in which they place. Mcvegh
said that the Government needs public relations job to
Negroe college graduates
Federal Service.
Elsewhere in the employment area Labor Department
moved to break widespread discriminatory practices of
the u Employment Services offices Although
the Federal Government spends year
to finance these offices they administered
tors In southern cities separate main
tanned in different sections Of the
Negroes and for whites separate entrances
and facilities building offices get
around outright segregation having
die domestic workers Since Negroes up vast ma
Jorlty OF domestic workers the South segregation
type Racial discrimination also extends hiring the
Employment
merit system Civil Service permit selecting
the three candidates been device
Tor excluding Negroes who have qualified in the
Some of the largest clothing Phoenix are backing
beautiful display of fashions looking people
this FIRST" (WAR1