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The Augusta News-Review - September 30, 1976 •
Walking With Dignity
By AL IRBY
Somethings Are Better If Left Undone
The U.S. Congress made a tactical mistake when it increased
the minimum wage. All the industrial companies were already
paying far beyond the increase. The only persons that in the
long-run would suffer were the young people and the unskilled
Blacks. Some businesses, that regularly hired young people in the
summer, were priced out because many small merchants were
unable to pay the increased wage. Therefore they cut back their
production. Thousands of unskilled Blacks, that did job or day’s
work, were affected immensely. If the small merchants were
forced to hire and pay the prevailing minimum wage, they most
surely will hire the skill worker and that would mean a smaller
work-force. Carter and Ford disagree on how to help teen-agers
get work. The U.S. economy is doing surprisingly well after
emerging from the worst recession since 1930.
The Department of Labor reports that the total of men,
women, and teen-agers seeking jobs have grown by 2.1 million in
the last year. Yet unemployment, though still very high, has
dropped from 8.9 per cent in the spring of 1975 to 7.5 per cent
of the work force today. The economy, in other words, is
absorbing enough people to pull down the jobless rate, as well as
provide for newcomers flooding in the labor market. That’s bad
for Mr. Carter and the Democrats. They were hoping that the
economy would reflect a far negative position than it is.
BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR BLACKS AND TEEN-AGERS
The darkest blot on the current economy is the inability of
thousands of young Americans, fresh out of school, to find jobs.
Nearly one out of five teen-agers is jobless. Black teen-agers are in
the worst spot, as usual. About 40 per cent of young Black men
and women -two out of five, cannot find work. These people,
experts say, benefit least from a U.S. economy which, more and
more, demand some kind of trained skill. Three prominent
economists, Albert Sommers of the Conference Board, Bernard
Anderson and Michael Wachter of the Wharton School, are
analyzing unemployment problems and what might be done
about them for Democratic Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter.
President Ford’s major initiative in this field an effort to
reduce the minimum wage for teen-agers - is stymied by the joint
opposition of the AFL-CIO and a Democratic-controlled
Congress. Mr. Carter also opposes lowering the minimum wage for
teen-agers. He says they often are not part of a family structure
and enter the world of work with the same needs as older
Americans. The Ford administration officials argue that a lower
TO BE EQUAL By Vernon E. Jordon Jr.
Busing And The Election Campaign
It remains to be seen whether political candidates in this year’s
election will restrain themselves from using busing, a tool to
desegrate the schools, as a political football to win votes.
The only role busing should play in the Presidential campaign
is for all candidates to agree to support the Constitutional
mandate to desegregate the schools and to pledge their support to
the courts and to communities engaged in desegregating.
The sooner this is done the better for the country, and for its
children who are all too often made pawns in the ugly battle
against desegregation waged by their elders.
The candidates ought to be honest in telling the country that
there's no constitutional way to avoid dismantling segregated
school systems. The courts have ruled definitively that districts
where segregation survives due to official actions, including such
dodges as gerrymandered school districts and racially-inspired
pupil assignment plans, have to desegregate.
Where those districts refuse to do it voluntarily, the courts
must step in and order it. That’s the origin of the so-called
“forced busing”. It’s “forced” only to the extent that
communities in violation of the law are forced to comply with
the law. No one complains he’s “forced” not to commit a
robbery or otherwise to obey laws.
And courts aren't frivolous in ordering busing as a remedy. It’s
often the absolute last resort and busing plans invariably bus the
minimum numbers of children to effect desegregation. In some
cases, implementation of busing orders meant fewer children
bused than before those orders were formulated.
All of this makes various legislative proposals to restrain busing
less than honest. For example, one proposal under consideration
is a law mandating the courts to use busing only as a tool of last
resort if all else fails. But that is exactly how the courts now
handle busing - it's ordered as the last, not the first, of possible
remedies.
The Administration has proposed a limit of five years on
busing orders, and limitations on how and when courts may order
busing. But putting a time limit on court orders is only a promise
of resegregation when diey expire and will clearly tell a
community they just have to go through the motions until the
time limit is up. Further, everyone knows that legislative attempts
to limit court jurisdiction or restrictions on remedies for illegal
situations are doomed to be ruled unconstitutional in and of
themselves.
For too long political leaders have been manipulating fears and
emotions instead of coming right out and supporting desegregated
schools as a vital building block for a racially-just society. Because
of their failure to lead the nation in this effort to overcome the
racism of the past, busing and desegregation have had a rocky
road.
But a recent report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
indicates that desegregation of the schools is proceeding, and that
for every publicized case of illegal resistance, such as in Boston,
there are dozens of communities that desegregate their schools
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minimum wage for teen-agers might induce employers to hire
them for bottom-rung jobs, from which they could begin to climb
the ladder. Some experts point to the failure of American schools
to furnish young people with marketable skills. West Germany,
they note, has a youth unemployment rate of only 3.6 per cent
because the majority of young Germans go to some form of trade
school. Educators in this country have a dreaded mania of
so-called education getting its hands dirty.
Why can’t an architectural student learn carpentry or
brick-laying along the way to his or hers profession. A majority of
young Americans do not go to college or leave school all together.
Or better still, a goodly number in college don’t have any business
there. A majority of young Americans do not go to college. But
traditional American high schools, geared to college preparation,
provide limited opportunity to learn manual trades at least to the
extent demanded by the marketplace.
Meanwhile, says the U.S. Labor Department, “the youth labor
force-ages 16 to 24 is expected to reach 25.8 million by July,
1976, about 600,000 greater than in July, 1975.” Anyone can see
by those statistics that employment conditions for teen-agers are
getting worst and nothing is going to help but to remove
minimum wage, especially for young people and unskill Blacks.
By 1980 according to labor analysis, “post-war babies" will
emerge fully on the labor scene and the youth labor work force -
as a percentage of the total U.S. work force should level off; if
one can buy that kind of fallacious reasoning.
On the bright side, if there is one. The Manufacturers Hanover
Trust Co. makes this report, that the U.S. economy now is
putting people back to work at a faster pace than it did after all
but one of the postwar recessions. On the other hand, the U.S.
has a higher “employment ratio"-percentage of working-age
people actually holding jobs - than some other major
industrial-democracies, including West Germany and France. Yet
the latter nations have lower unemployment rates than in the
United States. How is this possible? Because, experts say, more
American women enter the labor force than in most European
countries. Fewer European women, in other words, show up
either as part of the “employment ratio" or as unemployed
because they do not seek jobs outside their homes. All of that
verbosity is fine but this column still stands by its conviction,
that is, that the “minimum wage should not apply for unskilled
persons and teen-agers.”
without tension and without disruption.
' Desegregation works”, the Commission concludes from its
survey of many school districts all across the country. And where
it has proven successful, the Commission found a pattern of
support from community and political leaders and a positive
attitude on the part of participants
This finding spotlights the role of leadership in effecting
peaceful compliance with the law. Enlightened local leadership
can now draw on the experience of many communities that show
desegregation can work, that it can improve the quality of all
children’s education, and that it can be a positive experience for
their locality.
And the report serves to spell out a lesson to candidates and
officals -- that their moral leadership and active support of
desegregation can ensure its success. Instead of encouraging
last-ditch resistance, political leaders ought to be endorsing a
carrot-and-stick approach to ridding the schools of segregation.
All communities not in compliance with the law ought to be
firmly told they can’t expect any federal aid of any kind until
they stop denying constitutional rights to their citizens. And at
the same time, federal funds ought to flow into those districts
that desegregate, in order to help them improve the quality of
education for all children.
Letters to the Editor
Reader Seeks
Correspondence
Dear Editor:
My name is Hutson R.
Tigner Jr. and 1 am a Black,
36-year-old male presently
incarcerated in London
Correctional Institute in
London, Ohio.
I'm writing you this letter as
an agent of appeal for
correspondence and friendship,
and I'm hoping that you will
be kind enough to publish it in
your newspaper.
Loneliness in a place like
this is almost unbearable - It's
very much like that of a quiet
drama which keeps building
and building seemingly without
end.
The experience of such a
feeling has to be felt to be
understood. I have no wish to
continue to be swallowed up.
what appears to be a vacuum
of emptiness, nor do I wish to
remain just a faint echo of a
hidden shadow.
In a desperate effort to
emerge from this internal
prison of lost despair: I have
written you this letter in an
attempt to reaquaint myself
with the outside world, and to
become associated in a more
honest and valid relationship
with humanity.
My interests are many, but
my pleasures are few.
I seek not pity, but rather a
more meaningful strength in
understanding of others as well
as myself.
In closing I would like to say
that I believe 1 really do believe
■h
that, whenever two strangers
can share a smile, a tear or a
thought, that they are strangers
no longer.
1 wish to thank you in
advance.
From a friend in need of a
friend.
Hutson R. Tigner Jr.
143-427
P.O. Box 69
London, Ohio 43140
Request For
More Human
Relations
Coverage
Dear Editor:
The Augusta-Richmond
County Human Relations
Commission deserves more
coverage in the News-Review.
The Commission has served
Richmond and the surrounding
counties well. Its objective,
communication between
people and opportunities for
all, is the objective of
progressive people. To not give
the Human Relations
Commission proper coverage is
not to give proper support to
this objective.
Yours truly,
Lawrence E. Harrison
Route 3. Box 99
Aiken, S.C. 29801
Africa Speaks
/ ' ~ \ REMARKS MAPE BY
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fetyPltr PR. KENNETH
> president of the
REPUBLIC OFZ4MSIA
' * ' at a WHITE HOUSE DINNER GIVEN IN HIS HONOU R
As/?. PRESIDENT WE WISH AMERICA TO UNDERSTAND OUR AIMS
AND OBJECTIVES. WEARE NOT FIGHTING WHITES, WE ARE FIGHTING AN
EVIL AND BRUTAL SYSTEM. ONTHIS THERE MUST BE NO COMPROMISE.
AMERICA SHOULD ALSO UNDERSTAND OUR STRATEGY WE WANT TO
ACHIEVE OUR OBJECTIVES BY PEACEFUL METHODS FIRST AND FOREMOST
AFRICA IS READY TO TRY THIS APPROACH WITH PATIENCE AND EXHAUST ALL
POSSIBLE TACTICS. FOR PEACE IS TOO PRECIOUS FOR ALL OF US, BUT OUR
PATIENCE AND THE PATIENCE OF THE OPPRESSED HAS ITS UNITS.
MR PRESIDENT WE ARE HERE ONLY FORA SHORT TIME.WE HAVE NO
OTHER MISSION EXCEPT TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE VISIT TOPUT
AFRICA'S STAND.WE WANT TO AVOID CONFRONTATION, BUT LET US NOT BE
PUSHED INTO IT
ONCE AGAIN ON BEHALF OF MY WIFE AND MY COMPATRIOTS AND INDEED
ON MY OWN BEHALF I THANK YOU FOR THIS WARM WELCOME AND HOSPITALITY
THIS IS INDEED A MEMORABLE VISIT, MEMORABLE BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN FRUITFUL
AND IT COINCIDES WITH THE LAUNCHING, ONLY YESTERDAY, OF YOUR BICENTENARY
CELEBRATIONS WE CONGRATULATE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR
THER ANTI-COLONIALIST STRUGGLE OF THEIR FOUNDING FATHERS.
FINALLY I TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY OF INVITING YOU, MR.PRES(DENTAND
MRS.FORD, TO PA> A VISIT TOjAMBIA. WE WILL BE HAPPY TO RECEIVE YOU
IN OUR COUNTRY AT ANY TIME CONVENIENT TO YOU.
I NOW INVITE YOU LADIES AND GENTLEMEN TO JOIN ME AND MY WIFE
IN THIS TOAST:
TO THE PRESIDENT AND MRS.FORD
Mostly About Women
By MARIAN J. WARING
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Bicentennial Bits Os Black History
SEPTEMBER 3, 1868 - Henry McNeil Turner, Black member
of the Georgia Legislature, delivered a speech entitled “Eligibility
of Colored Members to Sit in the Georgia Legislature”.
SEPTEMBER 4, 1923 - George Washington Carver, the noted
Tuskegee scientist, was presented the Spingam Award for his
distinguished research in agricultural chemistry.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1865 - Atlanta University was founded by
the American Missionary Society.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1863 - Birthdate of Mary Church Terrell in
Memphis, Tenn. She was a noted civil and women’s rights
advocate.
SEPTEMBER 26, 1937 - Bessie Smith, popular blues singer,
died in Clarksdale, Miss. She was born on the same date,
September 26, in 1894 and was reared in poverty in Chattanooga,
Tenn. At the age of 13, Bessie was discovered by Ma Rainey, the
first nationally famous Black blues singer who persuaded her to
go on tour with her minstrel show. At age 17, she was singing in
Selma, Ala., where Frank Walker, head of Columbia Records,
heard her. Back in New York, Walker sent an associate to find
Bessie and bring her back to record for Columbia. In February,
1923, she cut her first disc., Downhearted lllues. The record,
which sold more than 2 million copies during its first year of
release, made her an overnight success. During her first year with
Columbia, she became the highest-paid Black entertainer, making
as much as 51,500 a week during her peak years from 1924 to
1927. Bessie was most famous for the song, Xobody Knows You
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When You're Down and Out, which was cut in 1929. A last
recording session was arranged in 1933 to cut The liessie Smith
Siorv as a tribute to her career. Four years later, she was involved
in an automobile accident. A segregated Mississippi hospital
refused to admit her and she bled to death outside. (Note: Me
and liessie, the musical life story of Bessie Smith, is in its second
year on Broadway in New York City at the Edison Theatre. Linda
Hopkins, playing the role of Bessie, is dynamite. Don’t miss it if
you are in the Big Apple or if the road show comes to your area.
Hope you saw Linda Hopkins on the Tonight show in September.
If you did, how you know why she is packing them in at the
Edison four%hows daily.)
SEPTEMBER 29, 1644 - The first marriage of Blacks in the
U.S. to be officially recorded was that of Anthony and Lucie
d’Angola in New York.
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