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News-Review July 29, 1971
THE NEWS-REVIEW
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URBAN
LEAGUE
REPORT
As a community service the News-Review will print the entire
text of the report and recommendations of the National Urban
League concerning the causes of the events of May 11,1970.
It should be made perfectly clear that the text of this
report has not been edited or otherwise altered in anyway. Since
the report is too lengthy to be printed in one issue, we will print
it in a weekly series. We urge you to read it and carefully consider
the information found therein so that we may begin to work
seriously toward meaningful progress in race relations and human
dignity.
RACE RELATIONS
Summary
While almost all of the agencies in the field of health and
welfare and the various religious groups are supposed to be
interested in better human relations, few have openly committed
themselves to a program for improvement of race relations. The
only agency devoting its major emphasis to human relations is the
local branch of the N.A.A.C.P. Since all its staff workers are
volunteers, and its local support is limited, the effectiveness of
the organization is seriously affected. Expressions made by a
broad cross-section of persons interviewed during the course of
this audit indicate that police-black community relationships
present dangers. Employment discrimination, the seriousness of
the housing problem and limited recreational opportunities are all
social factors which breed hopelessness and despair in the black
community.
Recommendations
1. the various public, voluntary, civic and social
organizations develop neighborhood-based action action-oriented
programs to deal with the problems enumerated in this audit and
that each agency accept as its specific responsibility the carrying
out of those recommendationswhich have implications for their
program.
2. That the findings and recommendations of this audit be
given as wide circulation as possible, thus enabling individuals and
groups to have a basis for affirmative action in dealing with the
problems which adversely affect good race relations.
3. That the local press, television, and radio stations be urged
to use their resources to publicize more educational and cultural
programs that provide a deeper understanding of black-white
relations.
4. That the various service clubs, churches -- black and
white - and other organized groups invite speakers to present
subjects that will increase their knowledge of problems of racial
inequities, and that they be encouraged to accept as their
responsibility, greater involvement in programs designed to
eradicate inequities which are based on race.
5. That the various organizations in the black community
impress upon youth and adults that along with the opportunities
they seek there are responsibilities they must assume.
DEFINITIONS OF JOB CATEGORIES
Official and Managers
Administrative personnel who establish and/or administer
broad policies and direct individual departments or special phases
of a government’s operations. Includes: officials, middle
managements, department managers, and kindred workers.
2. t Professional and Technical
Specialized personnel with either advanced post-high school
education or equivalent experience. Professional. Includes:
accountants and auditors, social workers, editors, engineers,
lawyers, librarians, statisticians natural and physical scientists,
personnel and labor relations workers, physicians, social
scientists, computer programmers, etc. Technical. Includes:
draftmen, engineering aides, junior engineers, mathematical aides,
nurses, photographers, radio operators, scientific assistants,
surveyors, technicians (medical, electronic, physical sciences), and
kindred workers.
3. Office and Clerical
All clerical type employees regardless of level of difficulty in
which the activities are predominantly nonmanual. Includes:
bookkeepers, cashiers, collectors (bills and accounts), messengers
and office boys, office machine operators, shipping and receiving
clerks, stenographers, typists and secretaries, key punch
operators, computer operators, telephone operators, salesmen and
kindred workers.
4. Craftsmen and Operatives
Craftsmen. Manual workers of relatively high skill level having
a comprehensive knowledge of the processes involved in their
work and who exercise considerable independent judgment and
usually receive an extensive period of training. Includes: foremen
who are not members of management, mechanics and repairmen,
skilled machining occupations, electricians, stationary engineers,
and kindred workers. Operatives. Workers who operate machine
or processing equipment of perform other mechanical type duties
of intermediate skill level which can be mastered in a few weeks
and require only limited training. Inlcudes: apprentices,
operatives, deliverymen, furnacemen, motormen, drivers, and
kindred workers.
5.. Laborers
Workers in manual occupations which generally require no
special training. Includes: garbage laborers, car washers and
greasers, garbage and trash collectors, groundskeepers,
construction laborers, street and highway maintenance laborers,
and kindred workers.
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WITH iSiF
DIGNITY
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(MOST MEN ARE FORCED TO WORK FOR THEIR DAILY
BREAD, BUT MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE)
Was Saint Paul morally wrong when he gave that momentous
edict to a first century Church that those that would not work
would be denied the right to eat. There is a sociological
controversy raging about regimentation of industrial workers.
There is much concern among top businesses in Europe and
America relative to modern-day work and its effect upon
workers. Congress is pondering hearings on this vital subject. This
interest is beamed not to the instability of welfare recipients but
to bona fide union workers, including white collar type.
Adam Smith a noted labor expert made the following
observation regarding the depression of workers long ago: “The
division of labor leaves the workers with no occasion to exert his
understanding or to exercise his invention, so he loses the habit of
exertion and generally becomes stupid and more ignorant as it is
possible for a human being to become.” Today a growing number
of Americans on the production lines despise their work, as Mr.
Smith contended.
Absenteeism, job turnover, shoddy workmanship, alcholism,
and even sabotage are proof of the discontentment of a large
segment of America’s work force. Some employers are still
clinging to the use of the Germanic tactics of slave driving. A few
progressive companies are making a genuine attempt to make
their workers a part of the human race. Here are some of the
efforts that some employers are making; They are sending
employees to school - often with unselfish motives of making its
employee a better person. A few are letting employees change
jobs within the Company and are giving days off just to get their
minds on new interest, to return afreshed.
Black workers particularly are complaining because their jobs
are mostly dead-ends, without much chance for advancement.
Frank Wallich, an official of the United Auto Workers said that
Ford Foundation, and the W.E. Upjohn Institute Os Employment
Research sponsored a conference recently that concluded that the
principal cause of employee discontent is what workers consider
the inhumaness of their jobs. In the Wall Street Journal survey
scores of workers gave this condemnation in general of what were
wrong with their job: “If you give all your working hours to a
company, they own you.”
Dr. Frederick Herzberg, a professor of Industrial Psychology at
Western Reserve University,is the father of the new Industrial Job
Enrichment. His new book-“ Work and the Nature Os Man”, is
generating much in industrial circles especially amongenlightened
companies. Dr. Herzberg’s book reminds us that man works not
for bread alone. Man’s hunger is mental, and spiritual too. But
both union and management have utterly failed to recognize
adequately man’s true nature. The good Doctor implies that the
animal side of man’s nature can never be fully satisfied; high pay
and shorter hours only whet the workers appetite. No matter how
much a man is paid, he will be unhappy; if he is not allowed to
bring his talents and intiative to bear upon his job, to grow
psychologically to prove his manly potency.
Modern companies of the near future will have their
industrial-relation divided into two sections; one to deal with the
workers material needs, and one specializing in aid to the human
and spiritual needs. It’s asking too much from an employee when
a company wants him to give up his personal objectives to job
satisfaction and accept the corporate total purpose and
technique. The Protestant Ethic about work is antiquated and
should be discarded.
The, intrinsic value of work is a concept of recent vintage.
Socrates viewed work as an expedient; Aristotle considered it a
means to the end of leisure; and the Bible’s authors saw it as a
curse or penance. Not until the Sixth Century did the 9-to-sism
over-power our psyche. Because of America’s slave-labor, and
semi-slave labor since so-called emancipation, this country has
industrialized by trying to stop the organizing of labor by brute
force, thus the over-emphasis upon work. When and where will
this work ethic cease, and we will come up with new systems and
institutions in which leisure not work will be the desirable and
socially acceptable goal of mankind. The exploding population
and technology will result in some other ethic than the so-called
sanctity of work.
Jesus, and not Saint Paul, will have the last word - “Man does
not live by bread alone.”
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6. Service Workers
Workers in both protective and nonprotective service
occupations. Includes: attendants (hospital and other institutions,
recreation, and personal service), janitors, charwomen and
’cleaners, cooks, elevator operators, porters, guards, watchmen,
and kindred workers.
7. Uniformed Police Personnel
8. Uniformed Fire Personnel
INTERVIEWS AND CONFERENCES
Abrams, Grady, Committee of Ten;
Adams, John, Economic Equal Opportunity Commission
Officer, Ft. Gordon, Georgia;
Agee, Sam 8., Area Coordinator, Renewal Assistance Office,
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Atlanta,
Georgia;
Anderson, John C., Jr., Planning Commission and Council;
Andrews, Charles, General Manager, WTUG;
Armstrong, Mrs. Margaret C., Chairman. Tenant Council,
Augusta Housing Authority;
Ashmore, Jr., W.T., Fine Products Company, Inc.;
Barreas, Charles, Director, CAP, Richmond County Economic
Opportunity, Central River Area;
Beckum, Millard, Mayor, Augusta, Georgia;
Bellman, Charles H., Executive Director, No. Augusta United
Fund;
Berry, Mrs., Executive Director, United Cerebral Day Care
Center;
Bowden, Jack, Assistant Director, Georgia-Carolina Council,
Boy Scouts of America;
Bowles, Richard M., Hospital Administration;
Blanchard, C. Gordon, Director, Youth Development Center;
Brown, Allen N., College Physician, Paine College;
Burton, Elias, Director, Economic Development No. 1;
Busch, AAron, Director, Economic Development No. 2;
Busch, George, President, Political Club for Better
Government;
Bush, Mr. Lula, Community Organizer, Community Action;
Cannon, Frederick, Community Developer, Augusta C. & S.
Bank;
URBAN LEAGUE
FINAL PART
NEXT WEEK
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Letter to the Editor
News Review
Augusta, Georgia.
Dear Sir:
It was quite evident that
Miss Ceclia Butler has a strong
“hang-up” con- cerning the
“color-bag”. Apparently sire
was motivated by her emotions
which conveyed a great deal of
confusion and bias rather than
a rational approach based on
facts and the praticality of the
situation at hand. Perhaps, as
she stated, it (her views) was
due to her “youth” and to her
very “innocent mind”, because
she expressed her feelings or
what she felt rather than what
she knew to be factual
information.
As a result of Miss Butler’s
lack of knowledge concerning
certain data, I have outlined
the following data to
enlightened her:
1 There are @ 13,000 black
voters in Richmond County
who are registered voters as
opposed to @ 47,000 whites,
there; anyone with the most
minute intelligence could see
that the black did not have a
chance to win or even become
victorious in a run-off even if
the white vote had been split 4
ways as opposed to the 2-way
split of the black vote.
2 Voting for a man based on
“choice of colors” and not on
that man’s intent, character
and platform contributes only
to racism which, when defined
by Webster’s seventh New
Collegiate Dictionary means,
“A belief that race is the
primary determinant of human
trails and capacities”. Black
racism is just as evil as white
racism. Do you still wonder if
we, as black people, are not
retrogressing instead of
progressing when a man takes a
stand, speaks out, and votes his
conviction without being color
blind or being caught up in the
“color-bag”.
(3) If you observed the
outlined returns by wards of
the results of the Sheriffs
Race, you certainly would have
noticed how the people
(especially Blacks) refused to
go to the polls to exercise their
right to vote - that’s “Black
Power”, “White Power” and
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“People Power” - there was
such a’strong air of apathy.
I truly hope that the old
saying “We’ve been down so
long, ain’t thinking about
getting up” does not find a
dwelling place in our “souls”.
(4) It was stated in your
article that it has been rumored
(not proven) that Rev. Sims is
being given “under the table”
money. I am wondering if you
really know what a rumor
really is since you stated that,
not all rumors are true.
Have you tried to obtain any
substantial facts as to:
(1) - (Who put up the
money and paid the
qualifying fees for the black
candidates)
(2) Why - (The real reason
why they entered the race)
(3) How - (How the money
was paid and how much was
spent is campaigning fees.)
For a person of your
HI wish to
thank all the
voters of Richmond County
for their support
and trust in me.
BILL ANDERSON
intelligence you are quite
limited in terms of obtaining
data through research.
(5) You stated that if the
blacks were to overcome, they
had to overcome by
themselves. “No man is an
island, no man stands
alone ” How in the hell
can black people overcome by
themselves? Sticking together
for the sake of sticking
together is futile and without
substance.
Should a black teacher, who
works in a predominately
white school (and vice versa)
exert her energies, or exercise
her intellect, or challenge her
students any less because her
students are white? If you
think so, you are out of step
with the times, because color
as well as love and hate have no
foundries.
It is not enough to be
“black” or “white” in this day
and time especially if you are
economically deprived. It is
not the color that makes the
man. A man is measured by his
character, purpose
convictions, intent, beliefs
ideas and ideals and most o
all, how he puts them to work
(6) If you still believe tha:
you or all the blacks are beinj
laughed at because Rev. Sims
and some other blacks, spor.e
out and voted their convictions
based on the facts, then you
need to be laughed at,
Perhaps maybe through this
experience, you can be
shamed, shocked or guided
back to reality.
(7.) You stated that
we-were in desperate need of
leaders like Malcolm X,
Stokley Carmichael, or Kwame
Nkrumah. Where are they
now? Why are they where they
are? Who supported them
financially and why? Did their
beliefs benefit all the people,
especially poor people?
Why is Mr. Carmichael
residing in Africa? What
liappened to the true
See Letters To The Editor
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