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THE TRIBUNAL AID
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1973
CARNEGIE
1835 - 1919
Born in Dunfermline,
SCOTLAND — IN 1848 HE SETTL
ED IN ALLEGHANY CITY, PA . AS
A BOY, HE WAS AN UNDERPAID
BOBBIN BOY IN A COTTON FAC
TORY — IN 1901 ALL HIS BUSI
NESS HOLDINGS WERE INCORPOR
ATED INTO THE U.S. STEEL COMPANY/
HE WAS THE RRST PHILANTHROPIST TO GIVE LARGE SUMS FOR NEGRO
EDUCATION./ HE GAVE 4 600,000 TQTUSKEGEE/
EDITORIALS
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Roy Wilkins
sections of the nation the blacl
unemployment rate is much
greater than 10 per cent.
Thus, no siren song is issuing
from unnamed blacl leaders. They
are not painting a dark picture just
to get contributions. The black-
white picture is dark, with no pun
intended. Census officials them
selves declare that Negores made
"substantial social and economic
gains, notably in education, but in
some other areas no improve
ments were noted."
The ominous, "no improvements
were noted," the $4,685 gap
between white and black family
income, the one-third of the total
black population below the poverty
level and the one-quarter of blacks
getting some form of public
assistance all constitute a chal
lenge to every citizen and to our
governments, city, state and
federal.
This is not time for complacency
or for hair-splitting over whether
there has been progress or not. The
gaps are so great in our affluent
society that the little successes,
here and there, and the snail's
pace forward are indices of the
failures of our social structure,
rather than of its achievements.
Register, Vote,
Then Complain!
outreach
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poor include, persons
living in families headed
by women; persons not
living in family units at all
but alone or Vifith others to
whom they are not
related; the elderly; the
very young; non-whites;
persons who are the
state’s non-white popular
tion was poor in 1970
compared to only approx^
imately 13 percent of the
white population.
One of the major
factors determining a
person’s economic com
petitiveness is his/her
level of educational at
tainment. The report
showed that 52.1 percent
of the poor family heads
had less than 8 years of
education with 31.6 per
cent having 8 through 11
years. Only 16.3 percent
had 12 or more years of
education.
Poor people are found
everywhere in the state,
but they are found more
frequently and in greater
concentrations in certain
areas and kinds of places.
The report indicates that
63.2 percent of the poor in
North Carolina lived in
rural settings. The Costal
Plains area of the state
had 49.3 percent of the
poor, the mountains 21.2
percent and the Piedmont
29.5 percent.
With all of the progress
made in the decline of
poverty during the past
decade, the report indi
cates that a higher
percentage of the poor
were elderly and non
white in 1970 than in
1960.
National estimates in
dicate that there has been
an increase in people
below the poverty level
since the 1970 census.
Nigerian
Continued
countryside of America”
is another reason for his
coming here for an
education.
“The differences bet
ween Nigeria and the U.
S. are subtle things like
washing machines and
beautiful countryside.”
He says there are
plenty of opportunities for
employment here. He is
accustomed to an urban
area. He calls Benin, “a
rapidly growing city”.
The traffic is heavier
there, he points out.
“There are wealthier
people here. You find two
cars in every garage.
“I’ve met many friendly
people here. People have
been kind to me.”
Alphonsus made an
observation which many
of us may find surprising.
“People think that Amer
ican youth are rebelhng
against America, but
actually they don’t want
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to hear anything un-
American,” he said of his
discussions with Amer
ican youth. Alphonsus has
lived through a civil war
in his native country
called the Biafran rebel
lion.
“People ask me if I'm
being accepted; both
blacks and whites ask me
this.
“I hate questions con
cerning that, I don't know
what they're talking
about. I don’t care to
know what they’re talking
about, but it keeps on
coming up and it bothers
me.
“And I‘do not know any
difference between the
South and North. I’m glad
I’ve met people here in the
South who are Christian
to the bone.
“I like America. How
ever, I love my country
better and I want to go
back,”
Labor
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for the most part, only
management and person
nel employees.
The contract, the first
two-year pact signed
since the union was
recognized in 1962, also
provides for a change in
the grievance procedure.
A joint two-member,
union-management panel
will attempt to settle
grievances unsolved after
a mandatory meeting of
the complaintant and his
representative with the
immediate supervisor
concerned. If the union-
management panel can
not agree, the only
alternative is binding
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Rights
Continued from Page 2
this information, you may
go to court. If you win, you
will recover your dam
ages and the Credit
Bureau will be required to
pay your lawyer's fee.
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