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JACKSON QUITS AS THE
CHIEF OF BREADBASKET
The Rev. Jesse Jackson
announced today he has
resigned as head of Operation
Breadbasket, the economic arm
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, in a
dispute with its directors.
The young minister was
suspended Dec. 3 for 60 days
without pay by the
conference’s executive board,
which charged him with
“administrative impropriety”
and violations of its policies.
The dispute peaked when
two corporations were formed,
allegedly without approval of
the national board, to operate
Black Expo, an annual
exhibition of black business
and cultural achievements.
Jackson, in a telegram to
the Rev. Ralph Abernathy,
president of the conference
and Dr. J. E. Lowery, board
chairman, said, “The time has
come when I cannot any longer
give my active service to the
organization. And since I
JOB BIAS
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said are discriminatory
employment practices against
women, blacks and
Spanish-surnamed persons.
The FCC rejected the
request but said it would
reconsider the matter if the
job-bias agency could show a
connection between
discriminatory employment
practices and telephone rates.
Later, the communications
commission granted AT&T a
part of its rate-increase request;
the remainder is pending.
The FCC’s action led the
job-bias agnecy to launch a
new investigation into AT&T
employment practices, which
officials of the agency would
say confirmed its charges.
Among the agency’s new
findings were these:
-Women employees lose
$950 million annually in wages
because discriminatory
-practices allegedly keep them
in low-paying office and
clerical jobs.
-Blacks in the nation as a
whole lose over $225 million
annually in wages because
they’re “not employed in
AT&T’s Bell System in
numbers proportional to their
percentage in the population
and because those who are
employed work in low-paying
jobs.
-Spanish-surnamed
Americans nationally lose over
$137 million annually in wages
“because they’re denied
employment at- Bell and
because they’re confined to the
lowest-paying jobs.”
The job-bias commission
contended that “the Bell
monolith is, without doubt,
the largest oppressor of women
workers in the U.S.” The
agency also accused Bell of
proposing artifically high
educational and testing
requirements for blacks. “The
failure of the Bell system to
provide real equality of
opportunity for blacks must be
considered a national tragedy
the agency concluded.
AT&T’s Mr. Lilley listed in
his statement these “facts”
with respect to minority and
female employment by AT&T:
-“Of the new employes we
hired this year and in each of
the preceding two years, one
out of every four is either
black, American Indian,
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consider 60 days too long for
this vital work to be
endangered by my ‘leave of
absence’ I hereby submit my
resignation for the good of the
organization, effective Dec.
17”.
Jackson has been national
director of Breadbasket since
1967.
It was not immediately
clear what his future
relationship with the
conference would be.
The group’s primary
objective has been economic
development in the black
community creating job
opportunities and other
benefits by promoting
black-owned and
black-managed businesses.
oriental or Spanish-surnamed.
-“While total employment
since 1963 has moved up 39%,
the number of (our) minority
employes has climbed 26%.
-“Altogether, we now have
more than 135,000 minority
people on the payroll. That’s
about 13% of our employes. As
it happens, this is fractionally
higher than the proportion of
minorities in the U.S.
population taken as a whole.
-“Already, we have 7,500
minority people in
management jobs. Not enough,
but we are making good
headway. This is more than
double the number three years
ago.
-“We now have 524,000
women on the payroll. That’s
about 55% of total employes.
-“Presently, about one in
three of our management jobs
are held by women. And last
year alone, more than 8,000
women earned promotions into
and within management in the
telephone companies. Most of
these are in lower levels of
management; we need more in
higher levels and plan to have
them.
“This isn’t a dismal picture,”
Mr. Lilley asserted. “On the
contrary, the facts suggest that
the Bell System is a good place
of employment for women as
well as minority people.
“We believe the facts of the
case, as they evolve, will also
show that many of the specific
kinds of allegations made
against us are ancient history,
long since mooted by changes
we’ve already made.
“For example, pension
options are now identical for
women and men. Similarly,
women may, if they wish, seek
employment or ask to be
transferred into crafts which
have heretofore been
considered male jobs. Also,
wage-zone differentials which
the EEOC has considered
discriminatory have now
largely been eliminated
through new collective
bargaining agreements.
“We believe we have been a
leader, not a barrier, in equal
employment opportunity. That
is still our outlook, although
we don’t claim to be perfect.
We recognize that there is
much, much more to be
accomplished and we’re doing
it.”
Bunche As 'ldealist And Realist'
Mourned By Thant And Wilkins
Dr. Ralph ’J. Bunche,
described as “both an idealist
and a realist,” also left “an
indelible memory of a
wonderful man and a legacy of
achievement such as few men
can bequeath to history,” U
Thant, the United Nations
General Secretary, said
yesterday.
Mr. Thant, delivering a
“word of tribute” during the
hour-long funeral service for
Dr. Bunche at the Riverside
Church, said Mr. Bunche had
“succeeded where many others
had failed” because “he was
modest but tough, brilliant but
Jackson
Sings Own
Record
Michael Jackson, the young
teenage idol of song has
released a single “Got To Be
There” on the Motown label.
As a young vocalist belonging
to the younger generation,
Michael at such a tender age
distinguishes himself with
profound expressiveness in an
exemplary clear voice.
The same magnetic vocal
thrust comes through on the
recording with dynamic
spontaniety.
Already Micheal is entering
his eighth year as a
professional. He was born
August 29, 1959 and was the
last of the Jackson family to
join the group. He has a
younger brother Randy who is
now expected to join the
group. Perhaps Michael is being
groomed to become a single
attraction with the Jackson 5.
“Randy is the one I’m with
most of the time,” says
Michael, “cause the rest of ’em
- they’d rather go to the park
but he’d rather remain with me
and he’s the only one I can be
a big brother to.”
“When Tito and Jackie want
to make us mad,” Michael says
laughingly, “They’ll call
Jermaine ‘Big Head’; Marlon,
‘Liver Lips and they call me
‘Big Nose’ ”.
Michael is an artist and he
likes to draw cartoons and
watch them on television. He
has pictures of all the groups
he likes including a picture of
Diana Ross, his favorite singer.
Right now he is fond of mod
style clothes and often wears
silk shirts with matching sash
belts. “1 love silk, or cowboy
outfits complete with hat,
boots, gtin and holster,” he
said.
He collects pets and has
mice and a snake.
Michael enjoys show
business and likes to learn new
songs. He has his own method
of learning new songs. When he
knows the tunes other people
sing, he writes down the words
and makes sure he understands
the meaning. When he learns
new songs he listens carefully
to the producer who plays the
tunes for him and then he
learns them.
Learning is easier now
because he is learning to read
music at home and in school.
Michael’s favorite sport is
soccer, swimming. He says, “I
don’t have any problems - not
a one. I guess the worst one
would be if I was conceited,
but I don’t have those kind of
hangups now ... maybe when I
get older.”
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The service for Dr. Bunche,
who died Thursday at the age
of 67 in New York Hospital,
was attended by several
hundred persons, many of
them nationally and
internationally known figures.
A steady stream of mourners
entered the front and back
doors of the church on
Riverside Drive and 122 d
Street. They walked between
rows of uniformed policemen
who had jammed their caps
onto their heads because of the
brisk wind. Despite the wind,
the day was warm, and a bright
sun added a brighter luster to
the many highly polished
limousines bringing the
dignitaries.
Inside, at the front of the
church, the coffin, sealed and
blanketed with red and white
carnations, was flanked by
wreaths of flowers from the
Norwegian Mission to the
United Nations.
Early arrivals included
United Nations Special Envoy
Gunnar V. Jarring, who sat
beside Mr. Thant near the
coffin.
“Messenger of Peace”
The service started at noon
when the Rev. Dr. Ernest T.
Campbell, minister of the
Riverside Church, standing in a
raised pulpit in front of the
United Nations Choir, prayed
for God “in the quiet of this
hour, [to] speak to us eternal
things.” Mr. Campbell
described Dr. Bunche sd an
“indomitable messenger of
peace.”
The the Metropolitan Opera
Soprano Leontyne Price sang
the spiritual “I Want Jesus to
Walk With Me.”
Her voice sounding clear
throughout the massive Gothic
hall, Miss Price, without
musical accompaniment, sang:
I want Jesus to walk with
me,
I want Jesus to walk with
me,
While I’m on this tedious
journey,
I want Jesus to walk with
me.
She then sang the Lord’s
Prayer.
Roy Wilkins, executive
director of the National
Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People and a long-time friend
of the former Under Secretary
of the United Nations for
Special Political Affairs, spoke
also in tribute to Dr. Bunche.
Mr. Wilkins, told of Dr.
Bunche’s early life-orphaned at
13 and raised by his
grandmother, Mrs. Lucy Taylor
Johnson-and of the influence
of her wisdom on the man who
was to win the Nobel Prize for
1950.
“He was the noblest
practitioner of man’s noblest
profession,” Mr. Wilkins said,
“the quest for peace.”
The NAACP official spoke
also of Dr. Bunche’s work both
on domestic and world
problems.
“Never in his soaring
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career,” Mr. Wilkins said, “was
he apart from or indifferent to
the afflictions visited upon his
people.”
Mr. Wilkins recalled the
1959 incident in which Dr.
Bunche and his son, Ralph Jr.,
were refused membership in
the West Side Tennis Club in
Forest Hills.
‘Heritage Will Endure’
When club officials later
offered to accept both for
membership, Dr. Bunche
declined, Mr. Wilkins recalled,
“because the decision did not
touch on the broad racial
policies of this nation.”
Repeating Mr. Bunche’s words
at the time, Mr. Wilkins said:
“No Negro American can be
free from the disabilities of
race in this country until the
lowliest Negro in Missippi is no
longer disadvantaged because
of his race.”
Mr. Wilkins told the
mourners: “The sadness will
fade but the heritage of a man
of peace—not brown, not
black, not white, but of the
human race—will endure and
shine into the darkness of this
world.”
The clear, even voice of
Mr. Wilkins broke as he ended
with, “Thank you, Ralph, and
good-by.”
Among the scores of
well-known figures at the
funeral were Governor
Rockefeller, George Bush,
United States Representative
to the United Nations,
Presidential Adviser Henry A.
Kissinger, Mayor Lindsay,
Senator Jacob K. Javits and
Representatives Ralph H.
Metcalfe and Charles C. Diggs,
Jr.
A private burial service was
held at Woodlawn Cemetery in
he Bronx.
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Willie Mays, the veteran
outfielder for the San
Francisco Giants, was married
for the third time Sunday in a
civil ceremony.
Mays was married to
32-year-old Mae Louise Allen
of San Francisco in the private
offices of a local judge. The
couple then left for a
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Wesley L. Watkins
Wesley L. Watkins, for many
years president of the Citizens
Voters League and a member
of the Richmond County
Democratic Executive
Committee, died Thursday
after a long illness.
Mr. Watkins, who lived at
1343 Dewitt Street, was a
native of Burke County but
lived most of his life in
Richmond County. A member
and deacon of the Palmer
Grove Baptist Church, he was
employed by Harison-Gulley
Chevrolet. He was a York Rite
Mason.
Active in political affairs for
many years, he was an
unsuccessful Augusta City
Council candidate in 1970.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Mattie A. Watkins; four
daughters. Mrs. Juanita W.
Taylor, Mrs. Delores Merritt,
Mrs. Gloria Johnson, all of
Augusta; and Mrs. Mattie B.
Hill, of Jesup, Ga.; a sister,
Mrs. Marie Bryant,
Philadelphia, Pa., two brothers,
the Rev. Richard Watkins, of
New York City and Rayford
Watkins, of Philadelphia.
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honeymoon in Acapulco.
Mays refused an interview
with a local reporter, saying,
“Nothing about baseball today,
no comment.” He did answer
briefly a question whether he
thought Hank Aaron of the
Atlanta Braves could pass Babe
Ruth’s homerun record, saying,
“Aaron could reach it ... and
maybe me too.”
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Wayinan W. White, Jr.
Wayman Winfield White, Jr.
of 1339 Eleventh St., Augusta
radio personality for a number
of years, died at his home
Friday.
He was the son of late Dr.
W.W. White and Mrs.
Wilhelmina White and was a
member of the Trinity C.M.E.
Church. He had been a disc
jockey at Radio Station WAUG
for many years and at the time
of his death was employed at
Radio Station WTHB.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Wilhelmenia White.
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