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■Walking t ■ I I i ■ Dignity by Al Irby PMr>i4i THE SO-CALLED BLACK CAUCUSES, BOTH LOCAL AND NATIONAL ARE FUTILE IN APPLIED POLITICS. THE M OST THEY CAN DO IS GIVE EXPENSIVE SPREADS, AND POUT OVER THEIR OPPONENTS. WHEN THE DEMOCRATS LOSE, THEY ARE BY-PASSED AND LEFT FORSAKEN AND ALONE. The Congressional Black Caucus sported another of its famous dinners. The Caucus may be short on accomplishments, but it has learned well all of the white middle-class expertise on expensive eatery. Os course, if it keeps its cusines above the pocket-books of the Black plebeians so, they can remain ultra-exclusive, just like Mr. Charlie, eh? Black America expected great things from “The Caucus but it has emulated the whole group,to the last degree, by only exercising their jaws. The Congressional Black Caucus' first vice was trying to ignore the Nixon’s election reality. This group of knowledgable and talented Black legislators acted like spoiled school brats, toward the Republicans. All ethnic and economic groups accepted what was a political fact, that Mr. Nixon is the President of the United States, like it or not. The disgruntled Black Caucus should have forgotten race for awhile and sought a political impasse, didn’tbut two or three attend the swearing-in of the President. Philip Waring, a columnist for THE NEWS-REVIEW, wrote a striking account of their culinary jamboree at the famed Washington Hilton. Black Politicians must learn the finesse of how politics is played in these jungles, called U.S.A. Bargain and compromise, that’s the name of the game. Sticking your head in the sand, and cussing the opposition will get you nothing. World cultures have entered a new era of global politics in which rapid change is a dominant consequence. Politics is contending with fundamental changes. Blacks must better appreciate this fact, and develop the wisdom to direct the political process toward his and other people’s fulfillment, rather than hoping for the destruction of those of a different ideology. By acting in this fashion, Blacks in reality will be extending their innate capacity, and augment their ability to think and to create.. Blacks have history on their side, because reconstruction Black politicians put some of the most progressive laws on the books that this country has ever produced; and the whites did not change them when they disinfranchised Black lawmakers. The situation in today’s world is new. No civilization has previously had to face such challenge in governments, and there must be new responses. America is at low ebb, and no doubt many white voters will turn to women and Blacks to guide the nation, and ensure the spiritual and moral needs that Watergate has eroded. If the Congressional Caucus will bring some of the more level-headed into its leadership of the organization, they will go forward; because the radical persuasion, who have called the signals heretofore has proven unproductive. BLACKS MUST HITCH THEIR KITES TO THE FEMININE MOVEMENT. WHITE WOMEN ARE NOT HUNG-UP ON RACE, LIKE THEIR MASCULINE COUNTER-PART Many Blacks do not dig the “Women’s Liberation Movement”, but Black destiny is surely tied to the American Women’s political ascendancy in the nation’s body polity. Women are on the march in every facet of American life; and they are void of much of the white man’s gross prejudices. They are carrying Black women along with them, that is, the ones that are wise enough to climb aboard. THE LADY CANDIDATES VOWING FOR OFFICES-A . political promulgation which seems safe enough, even if the 1974 election is more than a year off; there will be many “Fems” running for local, state and national office, and many will be elected. WOMEN WILL ACT MORE UNEMOTIONALLY-A second prediction, perhaps a little shakey, is nevertheless likely to prove true. Their steadily increasing numbers will markedly change the way women will behave when they are elected. They’ll be more outspoken, demanding a larger role in decision making, less timid about being women, and joining up with more women’s issues. Women are subjectively orientated, they posess what Blacks call “soul”. Women, like Blacks have too long been notably under represented in elective positions. The women represent half oflthe population, yet there is no woman Senator, and only 16 women in the 435-member House of Representatives. White women have been treated almost as niggardly as Blacks in reference to holding offices in the U.S.A. Since Jeannett Rankin from Montana, a devouted peace advocate, was swom in as the first woman member of the House, in 1917, only 87 women have served in the House or Senate. Practically all of these women came to the Congress replacing husbands who had died in office. There’s no woman governor, and only three states have ever had one. OUt of 1,000 largest cities, only 42 have lady-mayors. The 441 women serving in state legislatures are barely 6% of the total males sitting in these law-making assemblies, and even this ia a helluva lot more than before the 1972 elections. Women’s Liberation is the prime mover of this heightened consciousness of American women. This feminine awakening will be deliberately encouraged and strengthen by women’s groups from all over the civilized world. Every since recorded history began, men have made a mess of all life in their voracious scramble to pile up wealth. WOMEN ARE PREPARING THEMSELVES FOR PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP-A new organization called the Nation Women’s Education Fund plans an aggressive campaign to recruit women and Black candidates in both parties. A series of seminars where women interested running for office will be trained in campaign organization, money-raising, press relations, using polls and kindred essentials. All signs are pointing to the fact, that women voters are now ready to favor women, particularly if a male opponent seems overly critical and condescending, especially toward race. Quite a few women office-holders report that more and more female voters, particularly younger ones now volunteer how glad they are that members of their sex are running for office. Previously women voters would often nastily hint that lady candidates should stay home and take care of hubbies and kids, but that old stereotyped backwardness is fastly vanishing. A recent conference held in May 1972 by the Center for he American Women and Politics was a relevant testimony to he coming of age of American womanhood. THE AUGUSTA NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Mallory K. MifUncter Editor and Publisher Mailing Address: Box 963 Augusta, Ga. Phone 722-4666 Second Class Postage Paid Augusta, Ga. 30901 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One Year in Richmond Countys6.oo tax incl. 6 Months $2.60 tax ind. Ohe Year elsewheres6.oo tex incl. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Classified Advertising Deadline 12 noon on Tuesday i Display Advertising Deadline 12 noon On Tuesday News Items Printed Free lIGOING I I PLACES I ■ I PHILIP WARING II NATIONAL TELEVISION EXAMINES AUGUSTA TREATMENT OF BLACK VETERAN Over the past few weeks it has been my pleasure to highlight good national publicity accrued by Augusta on network television recently thanks to two of its prominent sons, James Brown, entertainer and Emerson Boozer, Jet gridiron star. But as an away-from-home 35-year long booster for Augusta, its residents, history and future, I received a shock on Friday, October 11th. The NBC TV Today Show came into Augusta for an interview with Sgt. Ernest Tabb, the highly decorated Viet Nam veteran. The sergeant pointed out to some 30 million American homes that he felt neglected and ignored by Augusta-area public officials. After this telecast 1 received several local and long-distanced phone calls. Several persons, who know of my intense involvement with Augusta, pointed out that this was extremely negative publicity and showed racism, etc. As I keep in close touch with racial happenings around the nation via several media and professional sources, I’d like to share with our NEWS-REVIEW readers some important background data. (1) For the past decade or more scores and scores of Southern cities have sponsored parades, recognition dinners, etc. for its Black veterans with public and business officials in attendance, (2) This practice did not usually obtain following World War II but started with the Korean War in the mid-fifties when Black and White boys fought together on an integrated basis in Korea, and (3) All of us have seen many pictures of even Governor Wallce publicly citing Black Alabama Viet Nam war veterans. What is the meaning of this background material to Augusta? Augusta is a major military base which brings million of dollars into the community each year. Is there any type of structure, civic or pulbic, which would prevent a similiar occurance? It would not be good for Augusta’s future to have this type of unfortunate Sgt. Tabb situation bring about a halting on the expansion of new business, conventions, tourist, visitors, military growth, etc. The naked challenge is for the leadership to bring about change and get in line with other cities who recognize their veterans regardless of skin color. What do you think? The Daily Defender article on household workers is shared with our readers: A CODE OF STANDARDS TO GUIDE HOUSEKEEPERS The National Committee on Household Employment has issued the following guidelines to help persons in this type of employment. It is hoped that misunderstandings will be prevented and housekeepers will obtain all benefits to which they are entitled. SOCIAL SECURITY: Earnings should be reported and payments should be reported and payments made in accordance with the law for Social Security credit toward old age, survivors and disability insurance. Records of payment should be furnished annually to the employee in compliance with Social Security legislation. SICK LEAVE: Employees working one day a week in one home should receive one day of paid sick leave a year. Fulltime employees should receive a minimum of six days of paid sick leave annually. VACATIONS: Fulltime workers hould receive two weeks of paid vacation after one year of service. Employees working one day a week in one home should receive one day of paid leave for each six month period worked. HOLIDAYS: Live-in worker should receive a minimum of eight legal holidays with pay, a year. Fulltime live-out employees should receive the equivalent of six legal holidays with pay, a year. A day worker working one day a week in one home should receive one paid legal holiday a year, providing the holiday falls on one of her normal working days. WAGES: The minimum wage should be no lower than the amount stipulated in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Where the cost of living is higher than average, wages should be raised accordingly. Higher wages should be paid for jobs requiring previously acquired training or skills. Days upon which wages are to be paid should be agreed upon in advance. Gifts of clothing and-or tood should not be considered as a part of payment. HOURS: Live-in workers: any hours in excess of 44 hours a week should be paid for at one and one-half the regular hourly rate. Hours in excess of 52 hours a week should be paid for at double the hourly rate. Live-out workers: day workers should receive overtime for hours in excess of 8 hours a day. Workers employed on a full-time weekly basis by a single employer should be paid one and one-half the hourly rate for hours worked in excess of 40 hours a week and double the hourly rate for hours worked in excess of 48 hours a week. WORKING RELATIONSHIPS: Schedules should be agreed upon in advance of employment. If an employer does not require the services of a day worker for the agreed upon time or times, the employee must be notified at least a week in advance or be compensated in full by the employer. The employee has the responsibility of notifying her employer as soon as possible if she is unable to report to work. A written agreement between employer and employee should clearly define the duties of the position, including specific tasks, frequency and desired standards. Promptness, integrity and courtesy should be observed by both parties. Efficient, safe and workable appliances and cleaning aids should be provided and used carefully. Adequate provisions for maximum safety and health should be maintained at all times. Rest periods, meal times, telephone privileges and time out for private activities (such as church attendance for live-in employees) should be agreed upon in advance of employment. Work and work relationships should be periodically discussed with the intent of improving efficiency and understanding. Constructive and helpful evaluations of work should be encouraged. Pleasant and private quarters should be provided for live-in employees. A professional working relationship should be maintained by both parties. This includes proper forms of address for both employee and employer and their respective families. There should be a code of standards for the household employee and employer because the image and dignity of household employment will improve only after wages, hours and working conditions have been raised sufficiently to reflect the value of the service performed. SICKLE CELL ANEMIA TEST SICKLE CELL CENTER SCREENING CLINIC OPEN MONDAY - FRIDAY 8:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. SATURDAYS 9:00 A.M. -1:00 P.M. 1526 GWINNETT STREET PHONE 724-0104 REGISTERED NURSE ON DUTY NO CHARGE--NO WAITING I TO BE EQUAL J BY VERNON E. JORDAN, JR. U M DEBATE ON JOBS STARTS | There are encouraging signs that a national debate on the merits of a full employment policy is getting under way. At the moment, there are just some faint stirrings of discussion, but they’ll mushroom into a full-fledged national discussion of the issue before too long. Earlier this year I called for a Full Employment Policy that will guarantee a decent job at a decent salary for everyone willing and able to work, because almost twenty million Americans are either out of work, working part time when they want full-time jobs, or working full time for salaries that keep them in poverty. Now, support for some kind of federal job program has come from two eminent economists -- Gabriel Hauge, Chairman of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, and William Fellner, an economist who will be joining the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. In a September speech Mr. Hauge proposed that the government act as employer of last resort and hire some 500,000 people at salaries of $7,500 a year to cut unemployment. Mr. Hauge arrived at this position because he feels inflation is a grave threat to the country, and expansionist economic policies relied on to create jobs intensify inflationary pressures. Many people, he says, “do not have the skills to be employable except at times of extregie labor shortage and therefore of rising inflation pressure.” Rather than rely on a over-heated economy to create jobs, he thinks the government ought to hire people. The total cost of his program would be much less than the cost of existing pump-priming programs. I would differ with some of the points Mr. Hauge makes, but not with his main contention that the kind of structural unemployment that keeps people out of work can be lessened by strong federal hiring and training policies. And there is a need for far more than the half-million jobs he proposes; a need that can and should be met by the private sector as well as the government. Mr. Fellner, a noted conservative economist, made a point similar to Mr. Hauge’s. He thinks the unemployment “Target” ought to be around five percent of the labor force - the level it has been at for some time - rather than the theoretical goal of four percent. I don’t care much for this kind of numbers game since the official unemployment rates are lower than the true unemployment rates, and because I feel even four percent is far above the full employment that ought to be the goal of national policy. Mr. Fellner suggests raising the unemployment rate goal because there are more women and teenagers in the labor market today and since they generally have fewer skills the labor force is so different that old goals ought to be scrapped. But aren’t women and teenagers people too? Don’t they have the need to work, to be employed constructively, and to earn decent salaries? It is the economy that needs to move up, not the unemployment rates. But he does recognize the need for employing at least some of the people who can’t find jobs in today’s market and suggests a federal, state and local government program to hire 400,000 such individuals. The real meaning of these two proposals coming within a few weeks of each other from important economists is that the truth of the problem of unemployment has begun to sink in to the very sectors of public opinion that had not been concerned with it before. And the proposals are brought forth in the context of the Administration’s desire to kill the existing feeble federally-financed public service employment program that hired only 100,000 people. So the numbers are starting to fly, plans are being thrown on the table and for the first time in years there is some serious discussion abut the country’s biggest problem. Discussion has to precede change and that is why I welcome the beginnings of a nation-wide debate on a national Full Employment Policy. THE DOUBLE STANDARD OF "INTEGRITY" VOTED TO DENY VOTED FOR 'MOST FAVORITE AMENDMENT TO NATIONS"STATUS BLOCH BUSING AS TO THE SOVIET A MEANS OF UNION AS LONG AS ENDING SEGRE— IT RAISES IMPEOI - GATION OF BLACK MENTS TO JEWISH CHILDREN,IN EMIGRATION. SCHOOLS. Announcement: WBBQ Radio Now has a opening for a personality Announcer - D.J. Good Opportunity for Right person. Must have F.C.C. 3rd Class License with Broadcast ■ Indorsement. Send Audition tape and Resume to: Harley Drew - Box 1443 - Augusta, Ga. 30903 OR Call 279-6610 for an appointment An Equal Opportunity Employer The Augusta News-Review - October 18, 1973 - l H^KS speek ' n 9 I From I I hBBHB Athens | By J ! I Roosevdt Green, Jr. A number of issues deserve our focus in these trying times. I do wish to apologize in a fashion to readers of my column for missing printing deadlines the last three weeks. However, I will try to submit material each week in the future. A very busy schedule keeps me from sometimes sitting down to write. The race for mayor of Atlanta will no doubt be over by the time you read this material. That election process has been revealing in terms of how racist that community’s power structure really is. The two white newspapers of Atianta have worked hard against the Black candidates for political offices. The newspapers, for instance, have dragged up so-called criminal records of some Black office seekers with the “records” simply being arrests for civil sit-in demonstrations. The newspapers further, almost daily, highlighted the number of Black and white registered voters in a contrasting manner. This was designed to play on unnecessary white fears of a negative Black takeover of Atlanta. Blades certainly could do no worse than former white office holders in misleading the city. Black office seekers therefore have to wage battles against their political opponents as well as the two white dailies. The two newspapers died with he late publisher Ralph McGill who had been one of the most progressive white voices for social change in the South and nation. The two dailies have hypocritically lashed out at the present mayor for his appeals to white fears and white racism. City council president candidate Hosea Williams has been denounced as a racist by some whites but no Black person has the power to be racist. There is no such thing as Black racism. Hopefully, Black vice mayor Maynard Jackson will be the ultimate winner for the mayoralty position. The present mayor has done much for Blacks in the past but his true color - if you will pardon the pun - is now showing. Vice mayor Jackson is the best man for the position whether he wins or not, for he has truly dealt with the most important issues facing the city. A victory for Jackson would be a step forward for Atlanta and its Black and white citizens. Another matter of concern is the current policy of the Richmond County Augusta Sheriff s Department as it relates to carrying shotguns when arriving at troubled scenes in the Black community. Some Augusta citizens called this to my attention after 1 had observed this kind of behavior on a Friday night about two weeks ago. I observed a white deputy in front of a white owned Black night club on Milledgeville Road carrying what appeared to be either a high powered rifle or a shotgun with four police cars on the scene. The situation did not seem to justify that approach in my opinion. I have also observed a similar incident at a white owned grocery franchise store in a Black neighborhood wherein a deputy jumped out of a patrol car in a menancing manner. The shotgun or rifle the deputy carrys is obviously supposed to strike fear in the hearts of Blacks. This weapon carrying on an open basis will simply provoke at some point another major civil disorder with Blacks again being unnecessarily killed. It must be remembered that Blacks have weapons too. The Black man and woman are no longer scared of white man with gun being backed up by a crowd of whites. When will white law enforcement officials ever learn that Blacks must be treated as human beings; There is simply no need for white policemen who reflect the attitudes of the larger white community to continue to wage genocide against Blacks. I am citing this matter so that correction can be made before it is too late. Black and white citizens must support law enforcement agencies when needed but there is no need to give blind support. Law enforcement officials must learn that they are not supposed to render “justice” without trial in this country. It was refreshing to learn that Augusta City councilwoman Carrie J. Mays was re-elected this past week. She has rendered valuable leadership and service to the entire community when others sailed with he negative tide. Congratulations Sister Mays as you continue to wage the struggle for justice and human dignity. Brother Alexander Williams’ dreams should come to reality if Black and white Augustans rally to his needed cause. His plans for i Beau Jack Athletic Club are much needed in the Twiggs Street-Old Savannah Road area for the youths in that community. Efforts are now being made to help Brother Williams in realizing the needed recreational venture. Park nad playground areas are needed in all of the subdivisions in Augusta and Richmond County. One can observe children playing in the streets of both middle and low-income neighborhoods. Housing developers should take note of this need for the future and,the present. A report on the Athens scene will be forthcoming probably I next week. Interesting things are happening in this so-called I “Classic City”. The problem is that it is classic in too many racist I and oppressive ways. I appreciate the comments from fellow columnist Philip Waring lin his column two weeks ago. Brother Waring is doing an excellent job in many areas of public service. I was quite pleased at the reception of my article on women’s liberation that he cited. Please feel free to use that article as needed Brother Waring and 1 look forward to meeting you when you are in this area i again. Harambee!! fc SUBSCRIBE E TODAY U THE NEWS-REVIEW H FXLBOXH3 augufta. (WMwaAJtm Hmm ■ , . *■ Bn Addr— - ■ | r.— —~ Page 4