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) EEOC and Uniiod Airlines Sign Consent Docroo - s 4 WASHlNGTON-tOwcll W. Perry, chairman-of jlie U. S. Eiiual Employment .Oppor tunity Commission (EEOC), announced ' that the United Airlines Corporation has agreed to pay more than one million dollars in back pay in settlement of a job discrimination lawsuit. The consent decree, signed re cently, was filed in U. S. District Court in Chicago. The commission had charged United, the nation's largest airline, with discrim ination based on racc.natiojv al origin and sex in the com-, pany's higher-paying job's. In addition, to backpay. t!i. settlement provides for the aggressive movement of minorities and women into upper-level jobs, including pilot, mechanic and manage ment positions. Chairman Perry said that' "the settlement, while esta blishing far-raching programs benefitting' minorities and women at the management level, is also the largest gover nment case to date, with respect to respondent sic. that has gone to trial under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." United employs more than 50.000 workers. The suit against United was filed by the U. S. De partment of Justice in April 1973 and transferred to the LEOC a year later when the commission gained exclusive authority to bring Section 707 or "pattern or practice" suits against private The case went to trail in June 1975 in Chicago before Judge Hubert Will. Following pre- . sentation of the government case. Judge Will suggested that parties attempt to settle. The resulting consent decree, the product of several months of negotiations, disposes of most issues in the suit. Under the decree, United willpayjl Ma! pf,S,l,Q,5AQPA , to;, minorities.'. aud; .women-,, whomM lw commission allege i were denied jobs due to un lawful employment practices, Further, the company is re quired to offer jobs, with retroactive'' seniority, to ipeciflcd black pilots and mechanics who were earl ier rejected for employment at United. .The decree also sets hiring goals and ratios for both minorities and women in management positions, pilot, mechanic and higher paying agent, .positions, and goals for minorities alone in other agent and clerical jobs where women,' arc heavily represented. A substantial number of jobs will eventu ally be awarded to minorities and! women under the terms of the decree. Some 00 of these jobs, will be in manage ment. The decree also changes procedures for filling vacan cies, establishes objective, non-discriminatory selection standards for all of United's major, more desirable jobs, and sets a mechanism for monitoring the company's administration of employee discipline. Moreover, the decree alters United's seniority system, particularly as that system affects employee lay off and recall. Pursuant to the decree, total seniority with the company will be the criterion for layoff and recall in all ground jobs. This pro vision is included to protect minority and female workers who have recently transferred into more desirable jobs but would have been vulnerable to layoff under the former departmental job seniority system. Remaining unresolved are several questions concern ing sex discrimination, includ ing United's refusal to per mit pregnant women to utilize their sick leave and disability insurance benefits for , maternity-related pur poses. The decree reserves these issues for decision by Judge., (,.Will ..following the 'Supreme- Conn's findjng in a 'pending cse 'involving similar maternity issues (General Electric 0. v. Gilbert). II. ' , I . , - - w v. Wf Jul A, mi j $AT,. MAY 22, 17$ THf CAffQt f t TfTt -1 Mayor Jackson Af St. Aurjustao' r- NATHAN A. SCOTT, JR. FLAXIE MADISION PINKETT CHARLES DIGGS.JR. Federal City College To Confer Honorary Degrees On Three Distinguished Leaders Federal City College will present honorary doctoral degrees to three distinguished public personalities at its 1976 Commencement, to be held on Sunday, May 23 at 9 a.m. in the D. C. Armory. Congressman Charles Diggs, Jr., Chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee, and business woman Flaxie Madison Pick ett will receive Doctor of Law degree, while author and literary critic Professor Nathan A. Scott, Jr., will be honored with a Doctorate of Humane Letters. The were selected for their out standing leadership and con tributions in their res pective fields of politics, public service, and litera ture and their specific contributions to higher education. Survey Of Black Elected Office-Holders NCCU Alumni Slate Confab On Commencement An attendance of from 300 to 500 alumni is hoped for as North Carolina Central University prepares for its first Annual Alumni Con vention here Mav 20 through 22. The convention, planned by alumni Roger Gregory and Charles Strayhorn takes the place of a one-day annual meeting which has been held for many years on the Satur day before the university's commencement, which is Sunday, May 23, this year. Alumni attending the convention have been asked to pre-register by May 15. Many will live in on-campus accommodations vacated by underclassmen. Others will stay at Durham's downtown Ramada Inn. Morning activities Thurs day, May 20, include regis tration at 9 a.m.' and meet ings of some Alumni Associa tion committees at 10 a.m. Thursday afternoon will be devoted to workshops for local chapter officers of the Alumni Association, with a session on Alumni Giving and another on chapter activities scheduled. The first General Session of the convention is at 7 p.m. Thursday at the downtown Ramada Inn. A re ception is scheduled at 0 p.m at the Ramada Inn for alumni members of the university's faculty and staff, and friends of the university. Friday activities include, the General Sessions at 10 m. and 2 p.m. at the James T. Taylor Education Building Auditorium, a luncheon at noon at the W. G. Pearson Cafeteria, and a barbecue at 8 p.m. at the Alfonso Elder Student Union. General Sessions scheduled at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Taylor Building Auditorium on Saturday. At 6:30 p.m., a reception and Maroon and Gray Banquet are scheduled in the W. G. Pearson Cafeteria. TRIVIA ATLANTA - A drama tic annual increase of 356 black elected officials, bring ing the total number of southern office held by blacks to 1,944, still leaves blacks with only 2.5 per cent of the total number of offices in the 1 1 southern states, according to the latest findings of the Voter Education Project (VEP). "In the overwhelming majority of political subdivi sions in the South, there'are no black elected officials at all," observed John Lewis, Executive Director of the nonpartisan Voter Education Project. "We are pleased by the increase, which is 27 times the number of blacks who held office in 1965, but when you consider that blacks constitute 20.4 per cent of the population of the 11 southern states, there is obviously a serious problem of under representation." I ' ', the; aspiratirtrtS "!of blacks and other minorities who have a strong desire to partidpate in the govern ment of this country, time may be running out," warned Lewis. "The gains which are being made today are changing the climate of both regional and national politics and have changed some of the conditions which people must face daily, but in terms of the untapped re sources of full political partic ipation, we haven't seen the real gains which are needed." Stanley Alexander, VEP research director, pointed out that the number of black elected officials has increased substantially each year since the Votinc Richts Act was .passed in 1965, when only Expectancy Increase Some scientists predict that 50 t .1 lie. vears irom now me avn age un- f lv4on,.v a hirth a-iit. hav.7Ji72 blacks held public office increased to 90 years of ageb'0y 1970, the number stood for both men and women ... Ac-t 565, with the following cording to observers' the aging i annual increases since that in 2025 will be-healthier-''-V;,, 197, . 7,,. ,972 . portionately greater incumber J 'inie; 71 better educated, better, pcepr;ed'nH J. - lJI1 for old age. morexrrienced.'j 1,307; and 1975 - 1,588. more adventuresome j and with fl jhc 1.944 elective higher expectations of ftem-, offices n0w held by blacks selves- ... South are distributed as follows: Alabama, 193; Arkansas, 212; Florida, 79; Georgia, 221; Louisiana, 278; Mississippi, 237; North Carolina, 210; South Caro lina, 153; Tennessee, 118; Texas, 155; and Virginia, 88. This count includes 23 black officials who have been app ointed to elective office to fill unexpired terms on state school boards, judgeships and city and county governing bodies. The public offices now held by southern blacks in clude: U. S. House of Repre sentatives, 3; State Senators, 3; state representatives, 88; county officials, 294; amors, 68; other municpal officials, 827; law enforcement 204; and education officials, 445. "This is a key amount in the history of the black stru ggle for the right to vote," commented John Lewis. "Ten years from now, the Voting Rights Act may have expired, the black movement may be only a memory, and the full trine work of the VEP may no longer exist. What we are able to accomplish in Continued On Page 8 "Your degree makes you special, but not any better than you brothers and sis ters," Mayor Maynard Jack son, told 274 graduates of Saint Augustine's College on May 9. "Don't you dare strut out of here with your degrees over your eyes." he admon ished. Your degrees arc man dates that you root your selves in your environment to advocate freedom for all per sons by democratic participa tion and action. "Go home graduates! You arc needed at home! Wc arc still on the freedom train, but you will never live to sec it. "Currents in society arc now accentuating the pro blems which has surfaced from lime to time in this country," Jackson said. Un equal distribution of lack of proper health care, especially for the Afro-American arc some of the pro blems which he cited. The African American is more likely to die at the age of 35 than the white amcrican. If you arc Afro-American you are more likely to be robbed, and raped. The odds arc greater than if the person were white and not poor. Mayor Jackson said that these problems are direct re sult of "politically dynamic and racially and economically oppressive public policy, de cisions made and controlled by the power brokers of the nation, the corporate, politi cal and military elite." In a dramatic presenta tion interspersed with humor, he referred to five shifts in national institutions which he said were responsible for removing people farther from farther Irom government ir and the political process. The fiflh-a concentration of the political, corporate, and military elite in key sec tors of society, reinforces (he other four, said Jackson. "None of the current power brokers is going to favor or sponsor societal change which is anything more than cov inctic," he stated. The moyor blamed Presi dent Ford for reflecting the interests of groups, whose policies don't benefit mino rities and the poor f the nation. "It H if we were drowning, and the lifcjruard. President Kurd, was simply waving fotnlhye," he said. - ' j i'-'f Nwi -ntu m VnmtA' wily province 'with its mm fkiR grant ed by Hml Ovirter Thr flan orijiinirtrt with thr tlmmvT 4 Nw Scotland givi-n in 121 ! Sir William Alfxandrr In- Jam- King of KnKland a Jamc I and it Scot kind as Jam V I. 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