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ARE BLACK VOTERS BEING SHORTCHANGED?
Now that the citizens of Charlotte have made
their selection of the gentlemen who will governor
them in the next few years, it is time to advance
the question-Are the black people of Charlotte
going to BeTorever used as a«pawrt of those who -
desire to hold public office here!?
Tuesday's election was no different from past
elections in that the numerous candidates fnr
political office seemed to have had the feelings
that the black votes were in the bag. Con
sequently, there were no special appeals made by
these candidates to the black communities of
—‘Charlotte _____
The progress or the lack of progress for blacks
in our community should be among the high
priorities when those who aspire for political
office make their pitch to the general electorate. -
This has not been done-even by the black can
didates. •■-r '
Blacks are no different from any other citizen
of this area in that they are mainly interested in
crime improvement, economic gains and equal
- opportunity for employment in the various
municipal agencies.
It is a well-known fact that black people have
more money to spend, they are more intelligent
and selective in placing their votes, and they
expect to be better represented by those who
command their votes.
It is too early to evaluate the results of the
latest municipal election in which Fred Alexander
was re-elected for the fourth time to serve on the
Charlotte City Council and in which Julius Cousar,
the otherblack candidate on the council ticket, was
defeated.
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• •vifVTvi, u to uiuai gi tamy mg lu US to point Out
that these two gentlemen have served the com
munity extremely well and it seems to us that
Cousar is among the new breed of young men who
should do exceptionally well in future elections.
It is hoped here that Mr. Cousar and any other
gentleman—black—or white— who hopes to secure
enough votes to win public office will bear in mind
that the key to such a election could possibly lie in
the majority vote of the blacks. ,
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The appeal, here then, it that these can
didates should be more responsive to the needs of
v the people in the Black community.
if used effectively, the black votes is a great
power base. Although there are not enough black
registered voters to place a candidate in office it
would appear that this base would be significant
enough to attract the attention of any one who
wants to win an election.
It seems to us that the black voters are being
short changed. Prior to Tuesday’s election there
. were no direct appeal offered by the local can
didates to the black community. Something
certainly ought to be done aboutjhis oversight.
Should we blame the candidate?
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We take the position that black people should
have an organized input into a municipal election
where the local candidates can obtain some
positive points of community problems.
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It is time now for blacks to offer their services
to the individual campaigns to learn the
mechanism and strategy of a political cam
paigns to learn the mechanjsm and strategy of a
political machine.
It is how time that we become aware of the cold
fact that a candidate needs our time, our efforts
and our money if he is to become* most responsive
to our needs.
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Blacks should prove that they have the
collective ability to punish those candidates who
are negative to their community problems and to
handsomely' reward those who are positive to
their needs.
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To Be Equal . . ~r—
Debate Starts On Full Employment
“J
Vernon E. Jordon, Jr,
There are encouraging
signs that a national debate on
the merits of a full em
ployment policy is getting
under way. At the moment,
there are just some faint
stirrings of discussion, but
they’ll mushroom into a full
fledged national discussion ol
issue before too long_
Earlier this year I called fot
a Full Employment Policy
that will guarantee a decent
juo ai a aeceni salary for
everyone willing and able to
jwork. because almost twenty
million Americans are either
out of work, working partjjme
when they want full-time jobs,
dr working full time for
salaries that keep them in
poverty.
Now, support tor some
kind of federal job program
—has rnme from two eminent
economists Gabriel Hauge,
Chairman of the Manufac
turers Hanover Trust Com
pany.and William Fellner, an
economist who will be joining
the President’s Council of
Economic Advisors.
In a September speech Mr.
Hauge proposed that the
500,000 people at salaries of
$7,500 a year to cut unem
ployment.
—Mr, Hauge arrived at this
position because he feels in
flation is a grave threat to the
, country and_expansiontst
economic policies relied on to
create jobs intensify in
flationary pressures. Many
people, he says, “do not have
the skills to be employable
except at times of extreme
labor shortage and therefore
«of rising inflation pressure.'
Rather than rely on an over
heated economy to create
jobs, he thinks the govern
ment ought to hire people. The
total cost dr his prograir
would be much less than the
cost of existing pump-primin{
programs.
I would dirfeT winrsoWren
the points Mr. Hauge makes
but not with his main con
nection that the kind ol
“structural unemployment tha
keeps people out of work, can
be lessened by strong federa
hiring and training policies
And there is a need for fai
more than the haff-millioi
jobs he proposes; a need tha
can and should be met by th<
private sector as well as thi
government. . _
Mr. Fellner, a noted con
servative economist, made i
point similar to Mr. Hauge's
He thinks the unemploymen
"target” ought to be aroum
five percent of the labor force
-the level it has been at fo
some time-rather than th
theoretical goal of four per
cent. 1 don’t care much for this
kind of numbers game since
the official unemployment
rates are lower than the true
unemployment rates, and
because I feel even four
percent is fSf' above the full
employment that ought to be
the goal of national policy.
—_Mr. Fellner suggests raising
the unemployment fate goal
because there are more
women and teehagefs in the
._labor market today and since
they generally have fewer
skills and the labor force is
so different that old goals
ought to be scrapped. But
aren’t women and Teenagers
people too? Don't they have
the need to work, to be em
ployed constructively, and to
earn decent salaries? It is the
economy that needs to move
[ up, hot the unemployment
rates.
But he does recognize
the need for employing at
least some of the people who
1 can’t find jobs in today’s
t market pnd suggests a
. federal, state and local
government program to hire
400,000 such individuals.
. The real meaning of these
two proposals coming within a
few weeks uf each other frojn —
important economists is that
the truth of the problem of
unemployment has begun to
.sink in to the very sectors of
public opinion that had not
been concerned with it before
forth in the context of the
Administration's desire to kill
the existing feeble federally
financed public service em
ployment program that hired
only 100.000 people.
So the numbers are starting
to fly. plans are being thrown
on the table and for the first
time in years there is some
serious discussion about the
country's biggest problem.
Discussion has to precede
change and that is why_L I
welcome the beginnings of a
nation-wide debate on a
national Full Employment
Policy.
VOTED FOR 1
AMENDMENT TO
BLOCH BUSING AS
A MEANS OF
ENDING SEGRE
GATION OF BLACK
CHILDREN, IN
SCHOOLS,,
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VOTED TO DENT
‘HOST FAVORITE
NATIONS'STATUS
TO THE SOVIET
UNION AS LONO AS
IT RAISES IMPEDI
MENTS TO JEWISH
EMIGRATION,
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The Double Standard Of ‘Integrity’
Letter To The Editor
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The Civil Right Movement ,
To The Editor:
Too often we hear from
people who ought to know
better, in articles and
speeches reported in the mass
media that the civil rights
movement is slowing down. It
is being argued there is a
growing disillusionment
among civil rights workers
because the advantages of the
gains made in civil rights
legislation and court
decisions, won mainly by the
political pressure and legal
work of the NAACP, are-not
reflected in the economic
conditions of poor blacks in
the ghettoes. Sometimes it is
even claimed lhat the ghetto
Negroes are envious of the
more affluent Negroes who
have made economic gains, in
jobs and education for
example, from civil rights
legislation; and that the af
fluent Negroes want to
separate themselves in turn
from the disadvantaged
ghetto blacks.
However, there are im
portant factors which are
helping to counteract that
situation in so far as it exists.
Most members of the NAACP,
and a few others, mainly
Negro trade unionists
recognize that the struggles
against racial discrimination
and against economic ex
ploitation are very closely
intertwined. They can best be
fought by cooperation between
black and white organizations
and individuals.
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The NAACP, for example,
has added to its program of
civil rights legislation for the
racially underprivileged,
support for economic
legislation for the financially
underprivileged. These
measures include better social
security, particularly
government health insurance
to provide part of their pay
plus medical and hospital care
for those who cannot work
because of illness or non
industrial accidents, higher
and more inclusive Federal
minimum wage legislation
especially the effort made by
Congresswoman Shirley
Chisholm to bring domestic
workers under the protection
of Federal labor legislation.
'(A bill which Nixon vetoed.)
The NAACP also supports the
right of unions which do not
discriminate to get
recognition by a labor board
election instead of having to
strike for it, more public low
rent housing, more nearly
adequate public welfare
relief, and more money for
food stamps to help the diet of
the poor. All these measures
help poor whites as well as
poor Negroes, although
Negroes suffer from poverty
more in proportion than do'
whites. There is ground for
belief that poor whites will
Join with poor blacks in an
effort to get these measures
adopted; and in a common
political effort both groups
*
will get to understand each
other better, and racial an
tagonism will efode with this
greater understanding.
There 'is no conflict here
between more affluent
members of the black middle
class and poor Negroes, since
black doctors, dentists,
lawyers, and ministers
depend overwhelmingly on
poor Negroes for their
patients, clients, and
congregations. The same is
true of black teachers and
professors, although to a
lesser extent because of some
real progress which has been
made in school integration
among faculty as well as
students.
Alfred Baker Lewis
CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY
GET8 GRANTS
Former tuba player
Congressman Jim Martin
announced that the Charlotte
Symphony Orchestra has been
awarded a $20,000 grant from
the National Endowment for
the Arts. The money is to be
Msed to cover the costs of the
Symphony’s Chamber Or
chestra Ensemble Program
for students in the Charlotte
' Mecklenburg School System.
THE HANDICAPPED
More than 11,000 han
dicapped employees serve in
300 occupations in the
Veterans Administration.
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Motor Vehicles Registration
Section To Undergo Change
KAJLcJiviH—Motor Vehicles
Commissioner Boyd Miller
announced a re-vamping of
operations within the
Registration section of the
Motor Vehicle Division.
“We are getting geared up
to incorporate some practices
which will add responsibilities
to several areas and make the
operation smoother for the
people,” Miller said. “We are
adding some planning func
tions and systems analysis
capabilities.”
In making the changes there
will be a personnel shift.
Former Motor Vehicles
Commissioner JoeGarrett
who has been serving as head
of registration will become
assistant „ director of
registration. He will be
replaced by W.H.
“Dave”Davis who has been in
the assistant director’s
position.
Miller said thenew
operations would be gearing
up to the use of permanent
license plates which are
planned for use in 1975. The
plates would be a five-yea'r'
plate using attachable tabs to
certify the proper year. •
In addition a staggered
registration system is ex
pected to go into effect in 1976.
Under this plan, license would
dxpire at various times
during the calendar year.
Now plates expire at one time
which creates the heavy work
load and long lines which have
become familiar to most
North Carolina motorists. The
staggered plan would set up a
system for registrations to
expire by number throughout
the year.-'
Another new point Miller has
in the. works would allow*
titles to be checked at various I
points throughout the state.
Currently all title searches I
and information updating]
must be'done in Raleigh. This j
has also caused a lot of time|
which the motoring public |
doesn’t always understand. I
i m: new system wouia utilize '
computer terminals at
numerous motor vehicle of
fices throughout the state.
These terminals would allow
an operator to check a title,
update computer bank in
formation in Raleigh, and
print out a temporary title for
the motorist on the spot. All
this would be done while still
protecting the integrity of
North Carolina vehicle titles
which have a good reputation
throughout the country,"i
Miller said.
“I think the people of North!
Carolina will benefit fromi
these new operations and!
others which we have planned. |
Dave Davis and Joe Garrett
have worked as a team. I am|
doubled please that Dave will
be taken over the reins and
that we can still count on the
I
knowledge and experience
which Joe Garrett has to of
fer."
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