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thike University Library ; Newspaper" Department Durham, N. C, 27706 , 11-30 . Tfto Dcsfr Prccc-. . VordD Cs VJlcJcm It it ridiculous for a man to critklsV the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performance Addison Cur Freedom Depend Oh It! 4' v 1 -1 VOLUME 65 NUMBER 7 'READ BY OVER 30.000 DURHAMITES" 1 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1977 TELEPHONE ' (919) 683-6537 PRICE: 23 CENTS KDSIAL BUR EAU 0? lliVcSTOATIO; i ' VJJ yj L3 1 f , The Federal Bureau of Investigation is in vestigating a complaint of a Durham man who was ' held as a slave on a sweet potato farm near Benson for more than -a month during Septem ber and October of last year. Inspector Holden said Tuesday "We got : the infor mation we need ' from Mr. Quill and are going ahead with the investigation." Inspector Holden, according to ; FBI policy would not discuss the complaint, except to say that investigation had been trans ferred . to the Raleigh FBI office. According to Quill, he was recruited along with other men from Pettigrew Street in Dur ham to work on a sweet po tato farm for decent wages and oetnA . urnrlrino rnririitfnn In September 1976. When the van that transported him and the otherr soon to be migrant slaves to a farm near Benson he said he found "the most deplorable conditions that I have ever seen". "When we got there I was shocked. The mattresses were filthy. . . no glass in the win dows. ... no heat at night . . . and the fnnr? ua tprrihlA" caiH Quill. He said that his mattress was urine stained from pre vious migrants and they were placed on a cold floor. ' Food at the camp accord ing to the 63 year old Quill was deplorable too. Breakfast con sisted of "hominy grits" with grease with sometime, a piece of I .-v.w.-.VA-.h-..-Sv.v. AMY S SCHOOL Five Amy Carter and her mother, nfttart Reporter NEW YORK w Fourteen hundred pages, of FBI files on Malcolm X recently released under the Freedom of Informa tion Act were called a coverup on February 4 by Omari Musa, a staffwriter for the MILITANT . newspaper. The files were released to a Washington - based MILITANT correspondant. rThe FBI collected infor mation on every move Malcolm made," Musa reported. "The files they have released to us. make that clear; but there are virtually no files regarding the assassination itself. , "We are filing an appeal witlr the U. S. Attorney General protesting the FBI's failure to release all its files on Malcolm."' Musa, who was the Social ist Workers Party 1976 candi date for U. S. Senate from California will begin a speak ing tour February 9 on the legacy of Malcolm X The tour will take him to six eastern and midwestern cities. sausage the size, of your little 1!" finger. . "Lunch they would give us bread with some kind of cheese spread that you .could hardly . eat. Most of the time I didn't. Then dinner would be chitterl lings' which metimes " had pork ; worms (hook worms)", Quill explained. v , ' The, condition of the camp is not a matter for the Federal Bureau of Investigation but the U S. , Department of Labor Wage and Houi1 Division. How- ever, sources say mat wnat tne FBI is interested in is Quill's charge that he and other men were held under those condi tions, against their will and without payv Federal laws, en forceable by the U. S. Justice Department do apply to that situation. Those law are called "peonage" laws carrying maxi mum t imprisonment of five years, $5,000 fine, of both. Quill's - complaint was made against the crew leaders Ivory Lee Wilson and several of Wilson's brothers. According to staff of the Wage , and Hour Law Division of the U. S. Department of Labor and the Migrant and Seasonal Farm workers Association, the Wil son's v frequent Johnson County during the growing season and move to another location after harvest. This will not be the first investigation of Ivory Wilson. A previous investigation led to his conviction of peonage in 1975 in Florida. That situa tion was similar to the Quill TV security agents stand guard Rosalynn, arrive for school. Says ' The speaking tour coin cides with the publication of "The Assassination of Malcolm X" (Pathfinder Press, 1975), a book which refutes the official government version of the mur der and raises serious questions regarding! possible complicity by federal and local police agencies in the assassination. . Further indication that the files have been laundered came in a January 4 statement by CBS newsman Dan Rather who reported on national television he had obtained information that an FBI agent had pene trated Malcolm's inner circle and was one of the bodyguards the day of the assassination. - Rather asked, "Did the FBI know that Malcolm X was going to be assassinated? Did they know where and when? It was no secret that J. Edgar Hoover hated ' Malcolm X." "We hope Rather's infor mation will lead to a public investigation into Malcolm's death," Musa commented. He went on to describe case and several other , com- plaints that have, been bought against him. , William Snipes, Director of the Migrant and .Seasonal Farmworkers ' Association said .that many of the people that X-X-t-X-M-X-K';-: r m m m m m " A Bleach RALEIGH House Local Government Committee refused to decide on the request to incorporate ftS5x?ft5KWxx:H :-:fX-x-y.v CLINTON (CCNS) - Forty-seven year old Leon "Tash". Williams became the highest ranking black employee of Sampson County recently when he was hired to the posi tion of Chief Rabies Control Officer. Blacks in the county have sought to get a black hired through the, County Democratic . machine as a 7 v-w mm to the Stevens school as (UPI). Qossnng the FBI files that had been received as "a fraud and a coverup. The FBI hasn't, turned over at least 95 per cent - maybe 99 per cent -of their material about Mal colm. After all, Malcolm was a chief target of surveillance for more than ten years. The FBI had agents and informers in the Nation of Islam before 1964, as well as in the Muslim Mosque, Incorporated, and the Organization of Afro American Unity in 1964 and 1965. They had his phone tapped during all these years. We know for a fact that the FBI cooperated with the New York Police, es pecially the Bureau of Special Services (BOSS) their sub versive squad. But there is not one reference to BOSS includ ed in the files. ' ' ; "We did receive some in ; portant documents which in " dicate the nature of FBI harassment against Malcolm which I will be releasing to the press on my tour, But over all these files just continue the God ObIv are caught by some means into the "migrant stream" and are - forced to live under conditions described by Quill, : few ever that this kind of thing will be -seek to prosecute their captors stopped., It is just like slavery once they escape. , the -way it used to be, and ; "many of the people that you Quill said that he feels that " know from Durham are re- x-x-x-x-x-x-x,!WX'X-i,c,x,X'X,wx-x-xx-x-X'X-:-; - ra VWtll rtrtTp . .... 'i .... f , . . Toot -Id the predominantly black town jaon for the group of fifteen of NavassaV a small Brunswick ' Navassa residents, appeared be County Community. fore the committee on Louis Brown, spokesper- February 2. Brown said that if .v.:.v.xy - x.: - x - x.:.xrfwx - x - x C7sDtl sgbHraBo magistrate. "Tash" Williams believes that : his employment is a beginning. Many, other blacks in the county disagree. Tash Williams' job is similar to that of dog catcher, which many communities have dressed up with a title in re cent years. Williams picks up stray dogs and tries :td con trot the county's wild? dog population which often attacks livestock. He said that jicppmg m .ur w v rnmmlcelnfur If, iha nv fAU years. A resident of Salem' berg.wuliams l,s active in community affairs, serving on the local community action agency;, advisory ; board. Williams says that he has also been an active member of the . County, Democratic Party for 30 years. James Hall of Sampson County said recently at a meet ing of the N.: C. Black Demo cratic Leadership Caucus that blacks in the county were up set by the "dog catcher"job and had approached the chair person of the County Demo cratic 'Party. Hall said that blacks did .not accept Demo cratic Party Chairperson Larry Barnes' answer of "Well, he's the head dog catcher," Williams has a staff of one Soprpma Court Suoars In Sovon Black Lauyors By Roy Betts Seven members of the National Conference of Black Lawyers were sworn in by the United States Supreme Court January 24, enabling them to represent ' their clients before the highest court in the land. Monday's swearing in was the first time a national black legal organization had spon sored any of its members to become officially certified by the Court, according to re ports. According to Lennox Hinds, the National NCBL na tional directior, this effort will be institutionalized annually. He pointed out that a lawyer not certified' by - the Court cannot represent his client at the highest judicial level, motion for the admission of each member of the group be fore Chief Justice Warren Burger and the other eight justices. , Stevens has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court for 29 years, since WatergatingV and coverup tactics the FBI is famous for: The only way to end FBI and CIA crimes is to open all their files to' the 'American public." " an.exposure and prosecution of lthe persons responsible for his enslavement is necessary "so v .x - xs - - BircDCuSukh - : - xxc iJx-itX'r'X-X'A-x-x-x-x!' other than himself. But he is delighted because he and the white staffer, Paul Jones, "get along just' fine." Hall, President of the Sampson County Voters League said that although pro mises were not made in writing . to! black voters -before the election, voters were led .to believe "that we v would get a - black magistrate. It looks like ;Trr 71 ;.",iVoT"i- f.flK VOierS " OflCC elected v HaU said Tash Williams claims that the only reason that blacks did not get other jobs after the election is "they were bashful about going down and signing up. That's exactly what I did andigot the job." Hall has a different account. "Not only did we have a black sign up for the magistrate position, we found out that three other positions were left unfilled and we sent blacks down to apply for those jobs." ; ' Sampson County operates a spoils system that gives the County Commissioners final approval over all Wrings. After elections many of the key positions become vacant. December 18, 1947. NCBL's decision to . sponsor the admittance of seven of its members to the,Supreme Court bar marked the first time the international organization of black lawyers and law students had engaged in such an effort. v According to Hinds, in some cases, a defendant may seek to appeal a lower court decision to a higher court. If he is . granted an appeal1 oh the Supreme Court level, but his lawyer is not a member of the high Court's bar, the defen dant, has two choices; drop the appeal1 or hope that his lawyer seeks a co-counselor who . is Among the NCBL members who were sworn in were Lawyers Lennox S. Hinds the NCBL national director of. New Jersey; Judith L Bouren, NCBL'co-chairperson of South Carolina; Alvin O. Chambliss, a Howard University Law School, Alumnus of Louisiana; Gilbert A. f Holmes of New York,; Judge Arthur C. McFarland of South Carolina; Stanley E. Tolliver of Ohio; and Derrick, A. Humphries . of Michigan. ; ; Hope R. Stevens, who is a reputable lawyer and ;scholar among law circles and an NC BL co-chairperson, made the Continued On Page 14J crtrited into these farms While Quill says he will do J what is-, necessary' to. prose-1 cute the Wilson's he says that', he might be in danger, physi-1 cally but is willing to under- ,go the risk so that the condi tion can be stopped; , iyj:5'XSx'X - iw the community of 502 persons were incorporated as a small town, they could get water, sewer and other grants from the federal government. Representative Allen ,C. Ward of Brunswick Countyf '( sponsor of the bill, told the committee that the county commissioners and surround-, ing communities were in favor of incorporation of the town. One legislator asked if the town's residents would expect the state to bear the' H expenses of operating a government. Ward responded, "If they get ; services they are the ones that wiD have to pay for them."Ward said that other communities, some much smaller than Navassa, .have been incorporated by the legis lature : . ; . '- ";r,f.rM.i ; Primary objections to Na- vassa's incorporation were raised by James McGee, Attor ney for U S. Steel and lobbyist . for Brogden Fertilizer Cpnv .J ,K. ,T,u . m. taxes, Mcuee said. Brown said that if incor porated 'status', is granted by the legislature, taxing power would be reasonably used. "We can't v tax the company without taxing ourselves," Brown said. . An . attempt of Represen tative Porter- Collins, of Alle ghany County to table the bill in committee was defeated and the bill, according to " the Chairperson will be considered with other requests before the committee. ' ; Residents of the . town were not. pleased with the committee's inaction. Brown said; "The reason that Navassa is not seriously oeing con sidered is that its residents are nearly ' all black." Brown and the delegation from Navassa said they will appear before the committee until it takes action. The 1975 session of the legislature defeated a similar proposal to incorporate the town, again at the request of the two giant corporations doing business in the community. ' If Navassa is incorporated, funds to pay its administrators and to provide services will come from taxes,, federal and any other assistance it can muster. Some of the legisla tors said they would object to a bill that would tax property owners of the area for new ser-, vices and give rise for requests from the state. v r - ' , 1 ' Representatives James Ed wards of Caldwell County asked if the size of the community would allow ' an efficient delivery of services that residents ' could afford;' Brown ' said that Bolivia, population 85; Sunset Beach, 108; Yaupori Beach,334; Hol den Beach, '136; and Boiling Springs, 245 are communities , already incorporated by ' the General ; Assembly that ? are s smaller than Navassa. Most of those communities are resort areas and predominantly white.. Some of them have corpora . tions operating within .their . city limits. ' ' ' Navassa could well be come a resort community. It is located 9 miles south of Wilmington and is a peninsula bounded by the Cape Fear River and Brunswick River on, the inland waterways. ; : A spokesman for the the committee did not say when the bill would be reconsidered. f iMJ I jl 'Igl H III "I LA COMMENDS CHAPPIE - The first black Ameri can to attain four-star rank In United State military service, General Daniel -Chappie) James, Jr., receives a resolution of commendation from Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn upon his visit to Los Angeles County, General James is commander In chief of the North American Defense Command and commander in chief of the U. S. Air Force Aerospace Defense Command. Supervisor Hahn made the presentation as chairman of L. A. County Mili tary and Veterans Affairs during a ceremony in his Hall of Administration office. General James has been In the U. S. Air Force since he received his commission as second lieutenant in 1 943 as a fighter pilot. (IATI0UAI NEWS MOTES - .,. SY THE OEPAHTOENT OF DEFENSE DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY - WASHINGTON, D. C. - J. P. Stevens and Company, Inc., New York, NY, is being awarded a $1,829, 547 firm fixed price contract by the, Department of Defense for 45" width, OG-507, durable press polyestercotton twill cloth, following competi tion in which 10 bids were solicited and four bids were received. The work will be performed at Piedmont, SC; Great Falls, SC; and Cheraw, SC. The Defense Personnel Support Center is the contracting activity. denotes Labor Surplus Area BLACK BISHOP ELECTED COCU VP CINCINNATI4 OHIO - A black Methodist bishop from Georgia and a United Church of Christ regional executive from Southern California have been elected vice-presidents of the Consultation on Church Union (COCU), a unity movement of churches comprising some 22 million members. : . The. COCU executive committee meeting here, named Bishop Arthur Marshall Jr., of Atlanta and the Rev. Dr. Fred P. Register of Pasadena to key positions in the 10-body union effort. . President of COCU is the Rev. Dr. Rachel Henderlite of Austin, Texas; a Presbyterian Church U. S. educator elected last November. - Bishop Marshall presides over five conferences in the Ninth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The Rev. Dr. Register is Southern California conference minister for the United Church of Christ. NEW HEAD FOR BLACK CAUCUS WASHINGTON, D. C. - Vice Mayor Jessie M. Rattley of Newport News, Va., wis elected President of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBCLEO) at the or ganizations. sixth annual meeting held in Denver, Colorado, last month: The meeting coincided with the 56th annual Congress of Cities of the National League of Cities.' , Mrs. Rattley, a businesswoman who has served on the New- Krt News City Council for six years, succeeds Atlanta Mayor aynard Jackson who presided over NBCLEO in 197 5-7 Rattley will serve a one year term. ; NAACP TO CONTINUE SCHOOL BATTLE ;i;::-,i''vvi -..;..v """"S':,;:..,;-!-::'-'' " . NEW YORK - NAACP General Counsel Nathaniel R. Jonas said recently that the Supreme Court's decision on the Indian polis school desegregation case "was not surprising" due to the trend in earlier decisions. . - : . In a statement on the Court's January 25 decision overturn ing a lower court's ruling that had upheld a broad desegregation plan for public schools, Jones said that the ruling will make the . job difficult, but not impossible. The Indianapolis, case was initially brought by the U. S. Department of Justice in the late sixties." Subsequently, however Solicitor General Robert Borkwho had been appointed by President Nixon, took a 180 degree turn and opposed the Jus tice Department's original stand. - , "This is why the confirmation of Griffin Bell as Attorney General is so important,' Jones said. "We will just have to lean on him." The NAACP had fed the opposition to President Carter's selection of Bell, whom the Senate confirmed on Tues day, January 25. " . ; ! CONTRACT TO MINORITY FIRM WASHINGTON, D. C. - A $200,000 contract to develop a standard architectural and engineering buildinj design, has been awarded to a minority business firm by the FederaiAvia tion Administration of the U. S. Depjirtment of Transportation. . , Under the contract, Charles F. McAfee Architects of Wichi ta, Kansas will develop a standard design for buildings to hoUcs National Airspace Data Interchange Ne. twork facilities schedul;i for installation at FAA's air route traffic control centers la Hampton, Ga., and Salt Lake City, Utal v ;
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