Top-Paid State Execs are White, Male
CHARLOTTE <AP) ? Women and minorities
aren't making it on the list of top-paid executives in
North Carolina and critics say that's because corpora
tions may recruit them but neglect programs to keep
them.
"There's a lot of action on the front end, but
when you look at the bottom line, there are no
results," said Troy Watson, executive director of the
Charlotte Area Business League, an organization that
promotes minority' business interests.
Watson said corporations spend money to
recruit women and minorities but often neglect pro
grams to retain and promote them. The list, compiled
and published by The Charlotte Observer, shows com
pensation for the 100 best paid executives in North
Carolina and South Carolina. The top 10 all are from
North Carolina:
1. Haynes Griffin, chairman and CEO of Van
guard Cellular, Greensboro, S6,864,832.
2. Stephen Leeolou. executive vice president of
Vanguard Cellular, S6, 824, 832.
3. Richardson Preyer Jr., executive vice presi
dent of Vanguard Cellular. S6, 824,832.
4. John Medlin. chairman and CEO of
Wachovia Corp., Winston-Salem. S4.072,573.
5. Hugh McColl Jr., chairman and CEO of
NationsBank, Charlotte. S3.642.077.
6. Ed Crutchfield, chairman and CEO of First
Union Corp., Charlotte. S3, 3 13.921.
7. Richard Vetack, senior vice president of Cone
Mills, Greensboro, S2,590,192.
8. Richard Mackey, chairman and CEO of
Worldtex, Hickory, $2,22 1,996.
9. John Bakane, vice president of Cone Mills.
Greensboro, S2, 176,977.
10. Frank Greenberg, chairman and CEO of
Burlington Industries, Greensboro. S2;089.975.
Minority-Owned Company
Reportedly Run by Whites
BOSTOS f AP i ? A firm that
has won millions of dollars in public
contracts because its owner is a
minority is apparently run solely by
whites.
The Boston Herald said the
president of Converse Construction
Co. Inc., Jack E. Robinson, is a "no
show" at the company. .
Robinson, a founder of the
minority advocacy group Contrac
tors Association of Boston and
twice the head of the Boston chapter
of the NAACP, declined to com
ment. But former Converse employ
ees, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said Robinson came to
the firm only twice in two months -
to sign checks and for a Christmas
party.
"It was just a known fact he
was a phantom," said a former
high-ranking Converse official.
Of minority business enterprise
subcontractors on state public works
projects, Converse is one of the
most frequently hired. One of its
current subcontracts is worth more
then S10 million. Robinson's
reported lack of involvement vio
lates state regulations that owners of
minority business enterprises receiv
ing contracts set-aside for minorities
must run the company on a day-to
day basis. State construction con
tracts require winning bidders to
subcontract a fixed percentage of
the job to minority businesses; fed
eral contracts require a minimum set
aside for minority or women-owned
firms. Last year, the State Office of
Minority and Women Business
Assistance told Converse it was
investigating the company because
of evidence the firm was run pri
marily by Joseph Tamulis and
Richard Johnson, two whites from
the Boston-based T Equipment Co.
Edward Mason, a former
Robinson employee, said Converse
is a legitimate minority enterprise.
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Dillard's: A Department Store for Whites Only? from p,a?e A1
"The name of Dillard's has
come up in the last 30 days as a
retailer that doesn't do business with
the African-American community,"
Bogle said this week in an inter
view. ' It is difficult for me to under
stand how they can say we do not
effect their bottom line."
Bogle, owner of The Philadel
phia Tribune , said he would investi
gate why the company does not seek
to attract minority customers
through advertising.
"If they don't want to do busi
ness with black folks, that's fine-.
But we will let our 4.5 million read
ers know not to do business with
Dillard's," Bogle said.
Fred H. Rasheed, director of the
NAACP's economic development
program, said from his East Orange,
N.J., office, "They have not honored
the agreement and never have." ? ?
Kelly Alexander, president of
The North Carolina branch of the
NAACP, said African Americans
should not shop at the chain.
"I would not encourage any
body in the African-American com
munity to trade with them," he said.
Alexander said the state chapter
has received "periodic complaints
from customers." He said that he
first heard of employee-related
pfoblems when Dillard's bought the
Ivy department store cfiam In the
early l-980s.
Blacks in Florida have had their
share of problems with the company
for some time, too. On July 30,
eight plaintiffs filed a discrimination
lawsuit in U.S. District Court
against Dillard's stemmin^&onv
three incidents.
o In March, two African-Amer
ican students from the University of
South Florida and a friend were
arrested and charged with trespass
i np-a nd disorderly conduct last
November while shopping at a
Tampa store. They were buying
jeans and got into an argument with
officers who were following them
around the store.
Three Florida A&M students
charged that store security officers
followed them around a store at a
distance of two to three feet in Janu1
ary. The officers then accused the
students of stealing lipstick and
forced them to empty their purses.
>
o In May, Dillard's security
officers accused a husband-and-wife
couple of shoplifting at a Tampa
store. After a search revealed noth
ing stolen, the officers took the cou
ple's licenses and ran them through
a computer, the lawsuit said.
Michael Cannon, who had been .
a shoe salesman at Dillard's in Win
ston-Salem for nearly two years,
said he was fired after he was
accused of giving his friend a pair of
shoes.
"Why didn't you catch him
when I gave him the merchandise,"
Cannon asked, when interrogated
the day after the alleged incident by
McCloskey and the security guard.
Not questioning a suspected
shoplifter when under surveillance
appears to be the norm. A school
teacher, who asked that her name
_joot be used, said she and her chil
dren were accused of shoplifting
shortly before last Christmas.
She said she went to the cos
metic counter and purchased about
$40 worth of merchandise and
thought no more about the transac
tion until about a week later. While
she and her husband were out shop
ping, city police officers came to
their home. They questioned the
children ? the oldest of whom was
14 ? who were there alone.
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came to my house and attempted to
interrogate my children." the chil
dren's father said.
He said he contacted his lawyer
and McCloskey. He said he learned
from McCloskey that a salesman
had witnessed the theft and had fol
lowed his wife and children to the
parking lot. The salesman got the
number from the car's license plate
and reported the alleged theft to
security.
He said he asked McCloskey
why a Dillard's employee did not
approach his family before they left
the store, and was told that employ
ees are warned not to get involved
for their personal safety.
"I would have preferred that
they search us right there on the spot
so they could have seen that we did
n't have anything." the woman said.
They vowed never again to
shop at Dillard's.
Jackie Bates said she resigned
from Dillard's in June after being
asked ? for the fifth time ? to
train someone to take over a posi
tion she had applied for eight times.
Bates started with Dillard's in
1990 as department manager in the
lingerie department. During the
three years she was employed by
Dillard's, she said she witnessed a
number of incidents that point to
egregious practices of inequitable
treatment of customers and alleged
shoplifters.
Bates explained that store pol
icy allows customers to take mer
chandise to be purchased to any
cash register as long as they don't
leave the floor with the goods.
A pair of Bates' friends, who
were regular shoppers at the store,
brought items to be rung up to her
cash register so that she could get
credit for the transaction. On their
way, someone railed a security nffi
cer. who confronted one of the
women. They got angry and left the
store. But what caused Bates to
resign was her being asked to train a
employee who was hired to fill the
area sales manager slot. Bates had
applied for the positipn eight times,
each time being passed over and on
four occasions asked to train the
new hires. One one occasion, Bates
called the Dillard's office from her
home while out sick and expressed
interest in the area sales manager s
job that had come available. She
was told they were interviewing
people. No promises were made, she
said. " ~ .
When she returned to work
from sick leave, she was told that
someone else had gotten the job.
She was asked to train the new per
son.
. "If you think I'm qualified to
train someone else." she wanted to
know, "then why can't I have the
40b?
"They're just prejudice." she
added.
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