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LUME 57 - NUMBER M Wilson Library N C Collection UNC-CH Chapel Hill NC 27514 tm0 yfHE^UTwl^WtiSFO^ (USPS 001-380) Words of Wisdom "Madness is the feeling that we cannot love until we have time. We shall never have time till we love." John Berry 'Every man has a sane spot somewhere," Robert Louis Stevenson DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1979 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE; 30 CENTS NAACP ASSAILS Hooks Blasts Remarks of Former Texas 6ov. EW YORK-The Exec- Director of the mal Association for the ncement of Colored le, Benjamin L. Hooks, charged Republican iential candidate John ally with lending lence to the efforts of gationists, discrimina- and naive individuals seek to perpetuate and id the status quo of 1 inequality.” te remarks were spark- f a speech the former Governor dehvered in lurgh, in which he said aative action programs negative in nature” “only replaces an old of injustice with a new of injustice.” a sharply worded let- Hooks said Connally’s tks were “a clear sig- ) openly resist, if not the laws of the United B,” and was “a disturb- idication that you are insensitive or indif- to the civil rights ■ment’s effort to heal divisions in society.” )oks called upon Ubn- to “rethink, reconsider repudiate” his sfate- and offered to discuss the Republican candi- “The moral and legal pinnings of afflrma- ON STATEMENT Activists Unify; 1980 to Call for Massive Greensboro Demonstration tive action programs.” The full text of Hooks' letter read as follows: Dear Governor Connally: I am writing in response —- MAlONE, JOHNSON, DeJARMOU am', ATTORNEYS (l-r) SPAULDING, BROWN, WILLIS, MALONE and DeJARMON pose in front of the firm's new offices on Kent Street, recently, when they were hosts to a "walk through" for the public. to the comments about af firmative action programs attributed to you in the November 16 issue of the New York Times. On Satur day, November 17, the Ex ecutive Committee of the NAACP National Board of Directors met in New York City and considered the impact of your reported remarks. I fully concur with their unanimous decision for me to write to you expressing our utter shock and dismay. If the N.Y. Times ac curately quotes you, your speech evinces a total lack of understanding and appre ciation of the regulations, laws, and principles re specting the need for affirmative action programs in order to remedy egre gious discrimination long practiced against non- Whites. According to the N.Y. Times article, you said that affirmative action pro grams are "negative in nature" and "lead to charges of reverse discrimi nation." You reportedly [Continued on Page 5] SA-Assisted Firms Boost Employment Sharply .LSHINGTON, D.C. byment at small busi- s helped by the Small less Administration i) increased three times luch in Fiscal 1979 as overall employment in iation. )A Administrator A. on Weaver said recently a survey of 21,481 :y-assisted small firms !d their employment risen 9.88 per cent in 1 1979 as compared Fiscal 1978. le Fiscal 1979 Year I September 30. ireau of Labor Statis- figures show that over Employment in that d increased 3.2 per le SBA sampling also ed that the surveyed assisted companies, of which employed ty or more persons, increased employment romen and minorities; icantly. The small boosted employment Eomen by 11.22 per and employment of nties by 16.05 per ireau of Labor Statis-| tics figures show that in Fiscal 1979 overall employ ment of women and minori ties each went up 4.7 per cent. “These results,” Weaver said, “illustrate again the importance of small busi ness in creating jobs in out country. The results also show that SBA efforts to help minority-owned small businesses and to open up opportunities for worhen- owned businesses are paying good dividends.” The SBA survey also showed that minority em- , ployees represent almost 23 per cent'of the work force among SBA-assisted small firms. This figure compares to about 15.5 per cent of minorities in the entire work force and 16.75 per cent of minorities In the popirlation. Inman Burford Named Marketing Service Mgr. Of B&C Associates HIGH POINT—Inman Bui fold, of High Poini, lias been named marketing ser\ ices manager of B & C Assoeiaies, Inc., accor ding to .lames H. Mack, president of llie Iwenly- year-old High Point-based numagemeni consulting, firm. Burford is a graduate of ihe University of Norih Carolina at C'hapel Hill and the Wharton School, the business school of the' University of Penn sylvania. I B & C speciali/es in the developtneni and execu-. tion of corporate affir-. mative aetioti, minority tnarkeiing, and ctitnmuni- Inmtiii Biii fnid ty relations programs. Among its clients are such major corporations as Johnson Wax, Nabisco, Hanes Corporation, F.W.i Woolworth Company andj Wachovia Corporation. I Burford will manage Bi & C’s community! analysis, market re,search,' and other marketing ser-' vices programs. He has been an assistant store manager for the F.W. Woolworth Company, a marketing representative, at IBM corporation, and a Slock broker at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith. “When our monitoring of SBA recipients started in the mid-1960s,” Weaver said, “the percentage of minorities in the small business work force was significantly below that of minorities in the entire work - force and in the population. It is now 7.5 per cent higher than minorities in the work force.” A national study has shown that in one eight- year period, nine million new jobs were added to the overall work force. Of that total, six million were ac counted for by small busi ness and about three railUon ' by state and local govern- ; ments. The Nation’s 1,000 largest corporations accounted for about 75,000 new jobs. , The 21,481 small firms in tJie SBA survey employed an average of 797,005 em ployees in Fiscal 1978 and 875,723 in Fiscal 1979. Their minority employment rose from 173,051 to 200,833 and their female employment rose from 276,542 to 307,582. By Pal Bryant ATLANTA, GA. — Around 500 activists representing nearly 100 organizations met here last week to lay plans for a new offensive for the 1980’s beginning with a call for a massive demonstration February 2 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Twenty years after the February 1, 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins that triggered a wave of desegregation struggles across the South, the march is planned to commemorate the last twenty years of struggle, and to express outrage at the November 3 Nazi-Klan attributed murders of the five anti-Klan demonstrators in Greensboro. The violent rise of rightist forces—including the thirty or so Klan and Nazi groups nationally, plus a Klan mentality which threatens to destroy even the minimal elec toral, employment, hous ing, and other gains won in the sixties—cemented these activists into a fragile coalition. Conference convener. Rev. C.T. Vivian, recalled that the idea for the grow ing network spawned from conversations bet ween Mrs. Ann Braden, co-chairman of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice, and Ms. Marilyn Clement, of the Center for Constitu tional Change, following the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s May 21 march in Decatur, Alabama. That march drew around 3,000 anti- Klan demonstrators pro testing Klan shots fired at a peaceful march two weeks earlier. A Norfolk conference in August gave birth to the anti-Klan network which attracted about eighteen organizations. Direct ac tion, legal action, and political action were chosen as objectives to combat Klan resurgence. Before these strategies were developed, a caravan of Klansmen and Nazis killed five Communist Worker’s Party members just before a “Death to the Klan” march was to begin on November 3. The nation reeled in shock. But the center and left forces were unable to res pond through a broad >9oeioooQeoeo6iO«ioeoee> PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT The Durham YWCA Women’s Health Cooperative is committed to working towards belter health for area women, primarily through educa tional programs and volunteer counselling. If you are interested in work ing with these women, you are invited to attend their meetings on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at the YWCA, 809 Proetor Street. The first is a potiuek meeting at 6:30 p.m., and the third Tues day is a program meeting at 7 p.m. Call Ihe YWCA at 688-43% for more in formation. *e®ooe®®oo©ooieoo©60« demonstration, according to Ms. Lynn Wells, organizer for the Southern Conference Education Fund. A November 18 march was aborted, she said, due to disruptions by the U.S. Justice Depart ment and the City of Greensboro. From the start, the Atlanta conference, called by SCLC and the Inter- Religious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), the concensus was that Greensboro and Decatur were not isolated occurrences, but rather were manifestations of ris- ing“Klan mentality” na tionally. Mrs. Braden defined “Klan mentality” as being caused by “people in high places...It is the powerful people who are telling the white people of this coun try that if taxes are eating up their paychecks, it is not because of our bloated military budget, but because there are too many government pro grams for blacks and minorities. ’ ’ That same at titude, she says, advances the notion that “somebody has got to protect the rights of white people”. In addition to the march, legal and political actions, educational pro grams to enlighten America to the threat of the Klan, and rightist forces were conference resolves. Lucius Walker, ex ecutive director of IFCO, noted that “some of the, signals (indicating thejtise [Continued on Page 2] MEMBERSHIP IN NORTH CAROLINA LOWEST IN NATION Union membership in North Carolina rose at a slower rate than nonfarm employment during the last two years for which information is available, according to Donald M.| Cruse, Regional Commis-! sioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, in Atlanta. From 1976 to 1978, the number of union members increased from 141,000 to 147,000—4.3 per cent, while nonfarm employ ment grew by 8.5 per cent, 'averaging 2,264,800 in arch of Dimes Reports Largest Ever Contributions e National dation-March of ts ’ received W,900 in campaign ributions in 11979. This is the ist amount ever >ed by the voluntary t organization in a. ; campaign. f le 1979 Annuall, lit, released recently, lentrates on the lican family as the point of child health today, it traces the ly’s role in khe mis-; sion of- the March of Dimes, first in overcoming polio, and today in the prevention of birth: defects. ' “Radically changed ini form, the family unit has' demonstrated its own flex ibility and resiliency” says! board chairman Harry E.! Greenv “it’s continued strength remains central to our mission, the preven tion of birth defects.” | The report explores the. drastic change in the* American family structure citing the only 16 per cent of today’s families fit the nuclear concept of mother, father, and two children with the father going to work and the mother staying at home. It delves into the many faces of today’s: family—the thirleen-year- old girl determined to keep her unborn child and raise it herself; a man, divorced or widowed,: struggling alone with the unaccustomed demands of fatherhood; and the wofk- ing nlother. By examining the health care demands of these families, the report; reflects the March of Dimes commitment to ad-: dress those needs through! programs of research,! medical services and education. In its support ofl, research in biology,; medicine, and in the social; and behavioral sciences, i the March of Dimes spent $11,580,240 during fiscal! 1979. ■ ! March of Dimes sup- j port of medical service programs for clinics, emergency transport systems and genetic ser vices totalled $8,959,853. Through its 965 chapters and dedicated . volunteers, the March of' Dimes has placed increas-! ed emphasis on communi- j ty service programs to j make maternal and newborn health care more j available and accessible.' Foundation allocations for community services; amounted to $11,798,606. Professional and public; health education pro-' grams, aimed at providing ; continuing education for I professionals and basic in- ' formation for consumers, | were funded with ! $18,416,975. i In July of this year, the j organization changed its j corporate name to the March of Dimes Birth | Defects Foundation — to | better reflect the emphasis I on improving the outcome i of pregnancy- 1978. During this two-year period, union membership as a per cent of nonfarm employment in North Carolina dropped from 6.8 to 6.5 per cent. In 1976, North Carolina ranked 28th among the fifty states in terms of membership as a percent of nonarm employment 'dropped from 49,th to 50th during the period. In 1978 the proportion of employees in nonfaVm establishments organized in Southeastern States ranged from a high of 22.4 per cent in Kentucky (274,000 union members. out of 1,223,800! employees) to 6.5 per cent j in North Carolina! (147,000 union members out of 2,264,800 employees). The North Carolina ratio was the! lowest in the Nation, while! New York had the highest! rate—39.2 per cent. i In the total Southeast (Alabama, Florida,' Georgia, Kentucky,| Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, j and Tennessee), union memberihip increased at a slo.wer rate than nonfarm employment from. 1976 to 1978. In 1978 there were 1,798,000 union members in the Southeastern States, an increase of 84,000 or 4.9 per cent from 1976. During the two-year period, 1,229,500 uniform jobs were added in the Southest, a rise of 9.9 per cent, Union membership, then, as a percent of non farm employment in the Southeast dropped from 13.9 to 13.2 per cent. For the Nation, union membership growth dur-: ing the two-year period again did not keep pace with employment growth in nonagricultural establishments slipped from 24.7 to 23.6 per cent over the two-year period. Nationally, union' membership is concen-; trated in a few states that. rank high in employment:: New York (2,754,000), California' (2,184,000). and '■ Pennsylvania (1,595,000). These three states plus Illinois (1.497,000). Ohio (1,294,(^), and Michigan (1,223,000) account for slightly over half of all union members in the United States. The Southeastern States, with 15.9 per cent of total nonagricultural employ ment accounted for only 8.9 per cent of total union mem'Dership.
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