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JOBS AND TRAINING FOR MINORITIES
A $970,63 1 jOO contract with the Washington, D. C.-bascd
SouAcrn Railway Company to help train and provide job for
1,164 minoritiesdisadvantaged and unemployed during 1977,
was announced recently be the Employment and Training Ad-
ministration of the U. S. Department of Labor.
The one-year agreement continues a similar program con
conducted by Southern in 1976, which resulted in the training
of 1,230 persons and their subsequent placement in various
mechanical, clerical, informational, and train service jobs
throughout Southern's 10,500-irdle system in 13 southeastern
states. 4 ;
Individuals selected for training will be recruited from the
areas in-which they will be offered jobs. The selection will be
made in cooperation with U. S. Employment offices, and other
federal and state agencies. , .
US FIRMS AID AFRICAN EXTLOITATION
.NEW YORK - An executive of the National Council of
Churches has told 35 businesses here that sell or advertise the
South African Krugerrand that they have "perhaps uninten
tionally become an accessory to repression and exploitation . ."
Robert C. . S. Powell, the Council's Africa director, said in a
letter to New York area businesses that U. S. sales of the gold
South African coins are helping the white regime solve its
balance of payments crisis and maintain "a social stability that
is based oh decades of racial injustice."
"Selling this 'gold is like selling the blood of black Africa
miners," Powell said; He added that South African government
officials need U. S. dollars to "continue their repression and
killing of any blacks who fight for what is theirs."
Noting that "one major department store in New York
when urged to stop selling the Krugerrand agreed to do so,"
Powell called on the retailers and advertisers to also "desist
from selling the Krugerrand obtained from cheap black labor
in the rrines."
END PRIVATE BIAS
NEW YORK - Regarding the "recent flurry" over
Attorney General-designate Griffin Bell's club memberships, the
President of the National Conference of Christians and Jews,
says that the more shameful fact is that "in every nurjor city in
this country there are still some social and country clubs which
refuse to admit blacks, Jews, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans,
Mexican Americans, Asians or women."
Dr. David Hyatt, in a statement issued fro rn. the NCCJ's
national headquarters here, said that although opln member
ship in social and country clubs has a lower priority as
opposed to the needs of minority groups for equal opportunity
in jobs, housing and education "It is nevertheless a shameful
practice on which the spotlight of public opinion must be
focused until it is finally eliminated.
He called upon all social and country clubs to change their
past practices and open their doors to all Americans regardless
of race, creed, or color.
He urged all NCCJ staff and lay leadership, through its net
work of 70 regional offices and 200 chapters, "to make every
possible effort through personal contact, discussions and con
ferences, to sensitize community leaders and club officers and
members to this sin of exclusion because of race, creed, or sex."
EEOC LITIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. - The U. S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission coming off its busiest litigation year
ever, filed 99 lawsuits and court settlements between Ju'y 1 and
September 30, 1976. The legal actions were taken to aid vi :tims
of job discrimination.
The Office of General Counsel reports that the five regional
officer handling EEOC litigation continued processing cases- at
an accelerated pace during the transition quarter. That was the
three-months added. to the fiscal -year ?n. 1976 to, make fiscal
years end September 30 instead of June 30 from now on.
During the normal 12 month span of Fiscal Year 1976, the
EEOC filed 414 lawsuits and court settlements. The 99 actions
initiated during the t ransition quarter make a total of 51 3 filing:!
for the extended 1976 fiscal year. That figure dwarfs the pre
vious high of 318 total court-filed actions recorded during FY
1975.
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
.amended in 1972, the EEOC initiates civil action in Federal
district court when conciliation efforts fail to end job dis
crimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national ori
gin. The EEOC is the Government's sole litigant of Title VII
matters in the private sector.
Arthur Unger, TV critic for The Christian Science Moni
tor, says, 'The Monitor doesn't feel it has to review TV
shows that aren't worthwlule. Our function is to help readers
not waste time - help them become more selective viewers."
Would tliat this feeling woul l go for some movie critior -those
that can use up nearly a whole page damning a film. If
it takes up all that space o say it's so bad it could whet up
the appetites of some readers to plank down $4 to go see i' .
The Small Business Administration reportedly is
challenging the eligibility of 15 firms in Southeastern states
to participate in a program fi r minorities. The report states
that more than half of 29 firms the SBA audited apparently
are not controlled by blacks, Latins, cr other disadvantaged
people as required by law.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Thomas Bradley has announced
his candidacy for a se-,erd term to head the nation's third
largest city. In NYC, Manhattan Borough President is report
ed ready to announce he is runa'nj for mayor even if Mayor
Beame seeks reelection.
Illinois Prison Charged
Willi Bias And Cruelty
, RALEIGH (a!NS) - Joan
little has fiiisd a grievance v.-ith
the ' North - Carolina . Inmates
Grievance - Commission charg
ing tinea. al treatment at the
Ncrth Carolina CorretfJcnal
Center for Women. --
" Ms. Little's complaint to
the t Grievaccr Commission
grew, tit of her being charged
Atfth an infract m o!' prison
contraband after a search of
her Lirt i y Captain Max
8 Am i . Barbour's se.iuli of
another inmate's room on the
same day disclosed items pro
hibited by the prison but. that .
inmate, Nancy Sloop, was not
charged with an offense.
Ms. Little said that she
questioned Barbour about the
unequal treatment and he said
tfu: "while all inmates are
equal they are. net treated
equal." Barbour did not deny
'I.tf 7&tement but said that ;t
was taken out f civ cxt. Bar
bcu: said that Sloop was nr t
cliarged because it was h first
offense. Ms. Sloop's contra
band was found a few days
prior to her parole review by
the N. C. Paroles Commission.
The charge came just two
weeks before Ms. Little was re
viewed for parole by the
.N. C. Parole Ccrn.TUSsion. Her
The Department of Justice
filed civil suits charging wide
spread deprivations of the civil
rights ot inmates or uie w
Illinois state penal facilities
with the Cook County Jail in
Chicago.
According to the Depart
ment the state suit charged
that state officials have vio-"
lated the Eighth and Four
teenth Amendments to the
Constitution by inflicting cruel
and unusual punishment on in
mates and depriving them of
life and liberty without due
process of law.
Attorney General Edward
H Levi said one suit was filed
in U. S. District Court in
Springfield, Illinois, against
Governor Daniel Walker,
Charles Rowe, acting director
of the department of correc
tions, and the state.
A second suit was filed In
U. S. District Court iin Chicago
against Cook County Sheriff
Richard Elrod, the 16 county
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parole wn denied by tu? ,
Cc.uitj.don because .ChA -lan
Jack Seism said tfut :'he
disobeyed a prison official
last July, and got into a fight
with an inmate that' sanv-'
rrjnnth. . ;
The Parole Commission
was considering paroling Ms.
Little to Virginia to the
Ciitholic Diocese, ; afta re
fusing to trader paroling"
her to tar home in easten .
Nori.'i Carolina. Chal7iu Jack
Seism s.v.d Mi. Uttle's request
was denied because he. :V
recognition in eastern North
Carolina was great and would
lead to reaction from" white
supremacists in North Caro
lina. Interviewed at the pri
son, Ms. tittle said that follow
ing Paro'e Analyst L. M. Mit
chell telling her that the
Commission would only psrole
her to live outside of North
Ca oLi t, ihe chose to do s
to iet out of prison although
she does not want to leave
the state.
Now eligible for w rk
release, Ms. Little i:s looking for
a job. Her parole request w;i5
V -.rsidered again in August..
Ms. Little says that she is
being given unequal treatment
at NCCCW beca-iik- ?: .-.r 1975
acquittal " - the murder of 62
yov Beaufort Cori fl.
er Clarence Digood during a
se.v.r.l attack from her by thrt
jhiler. .
Ms. Litt'e :;vd that whites
irrk'e f.'e prison contjiris ;o
display racist sertiments to
wards her Xi a result of her
;i Nfi? . al. She displayed a
Christmas card addressed "To
Black Joan Link," which read,
"May you enjoy all the Turkey
and dressing in jail and not out
on tail, also your lif? r-vy of
crime and m der bring a lot of
i 1 . e - 1
Ms. Little
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MEMBERS OF THE COMMI77 EE -Member of the House Committee on Assig
nations said in its final report the ijucstion of whether a-i; iracies existed in tPw
assassinations of John Kennedy and Mr.ilin Luther King stiii is unresolved, and
imied the new congress .. ci.rtinue tne investigation, wiemuers ui in toiiiiiiiuw
are (L-KJ waiter t. i-auntroy, u. niciwu picjue, unci wunw .
committee, and Thomas N. Downing, D., Va , chairman of the corTnittee. (UPI)
e
happiress to a 'clear con
science' on this your ?2nd
Xmas. A friend of AUigood's"
The vC was postmarked
Rockwell, N. C. December 20,
the day of Ms L't'tVs parole
de:J;i' Rockwell, located it
Rowan County, has bcn a
Ku Klux Klan stronghold since
confederate soliders flocked to
the Klan during Reconstruc
tion. North Ca-x Una's Grand
Dragon during the 1960'i,
Robert (Bob) Jciii ived in
Rockwell.
commissioners, Rowe, Wins
ton Moore, executive director
of the county department of
corrections, and the state.
The 17 adult state penal
institutions and faculties house
some 9,700 inmates. The
county jail houses more than
4,000 inmates on any given
day.
The suit said the state has
failed to provide safe and sani
tary living conditions by over
crowding. Both suits asked the courts
to issue permanent injunctions
forbidding state and county
officials from continuing the
alleged unconstitutional prac
, tices and requiring them to
improve penal conditions to
meet constitutional standards..
The state suit also asked
the court to order state offi
cials to abolish racial segre
gation in penal institutions
and to end all alleged dis
criminatory practices.
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