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I ) WEDNESDAY, MAY 19,1976 THE TRIBUNAL AID Page 3 EDITORIALS ‘You’re A Part Of The Solution, Or You’re A Part Of The Problem ’ THE VIEWS OF TIE WIIITEI'S UE HOI tlWtVS THBSE OF THE PDPEI’S The Point Is... by Albert A. Campbell ATTENTION MR. PRESIDENT First Choice so very often this column has dwelled on po litical activities and many of the various rami fications so associated. It has been the intent of this writer to bring about an awareness to the Black community that will result in that which is either meaningful and constructive or both. Because of the editorial policy of this news paper as well as the committement of this writer,this column is no different. As we are all aware, this is another political year. In November, the VOTERS of this coun try will elect campaigning candidates to va cated offices from the court house to the White House...and every public office within its self carries with it a particular importance that effects the daily lives of all Americans (Blacks included). So how, many of us Blacks fail to recognize and/or acknowledge this fact of life. For this is truelly a political country. To explore that one thought a bit further, consider for just a second that almost every thing you do in this country is somehow regu lated or governed politically. "Everything", means exactly that. The clothes you purchase for your baby, the food you select for you dinning table, yes, and even the house in which you dwell are all governed or regulated at and by some level of government. Consequently, we cannot afford to idly sit back and not participate in the elec- tiveprocess, which in turn subjects us to the wishes and desires of a few. From now until Stember's primaries, most of us will be included with request either writ ten or oral, by candidates seeking help. Promises will be easily made, smiles and pats on the back will become the order-of-the-day. Every candidate will describe the office he or she is seeking so flambo) uitly, voters will become office fatigued. WARNING—Don't allow yourself to lose the proper perspective of each office' impor tance, for every elective office is IMPOR TANT. If we fail to see the impact of the city, coun ty and state governing bodies while being pro grammed to turn our attention to the national candidates, then we're guilty of ignoring while concerning ourselves with another. So what are we to do? Where should we place our concern? Which offices should take precedence over the other? Well let's take a short look at reality! As individuals, certainly the local offices will have a more direct impact on our daily lives, so then, shouldn't we consider them first. The city fathers should be number one. Number two, county commissioners. State House members (Representatives and Sena tors) will follow. Then we begin looking at the national offices. We must not turn our attention to the im possible until we are able to a complish the possible. ALTHOUGH THE EDITORLALS WRITTEN JN THIS NEWSPAPER ARE NOT INTENDED TO BET THE ONLY ANSWERS TO THE PROBLEMS AND CONDITIONS EXPRESSED, SOME PER SONS MAY STILL DISAGREE WITH THESE THOUGHTS, BECAUSE OF THIS, THE NEWS PAPER EXTENDS AN INVITATION TO ANY RESPONSIBLE PERSON WHO WISHES TO REFUTE THESE EXPRESSIONS TO DO SO, AND FREE AND EQUAL SPACE WILL BE PRO VIDED. THE TRIBUNAL AID Post OfBce Box 921 Phone 19191885-651911 fligh. Point, N. C. 2^61'j P\~Wished Every> Wednesaay\ ■ . by Triad JPublications, Inc.,_ • Inailed Subscription Rate 1$5.00 Per Year ALBERT A. CAMPBELL, EDITOR DON L. BAILEY, GENERAL MANAGER JEAN M. WHITE, SECRETARY ROBERT MELVIN, CIRCULATION MANAGER Second Class Postage Paid at High Point, N.C. !!l THE SUPREME COURT TO BE EQUAL by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Ex*cutivc Director of tlic' Nttionai Urban League V£ CONCLUD£ THAT IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION THE DOCTRINE OF ‘SEPARATE BUT EQUAL' HAS NO PLACE SEPARATE FACILITIES ARE INHERENTLY UNEQUAL"WITH THOSE WORDS ON MAY X 1954-!' *ALL DELIBERATE SPEED' FOR DESEGREGATION IS NO LONGER CONSTITUTIONALLV PERMISSIBLE.-.THE OBLI GATION OF EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICTISTO TERMINATE DUAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS AT once:-OCT. 2^,1969. Commission On Civil Rights WASHINGTON,D.C.—Discri mination in key labor unions is a- major barrier to equal employment opportunity for American minori ties and women, the U.S.Com mission on Civil Rights reported. The Commission released a 291 page report, called "The challenge Ahead; Equal Opportunity in Re ferral Unions," which said that de spite the adoption of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and other measures, "There is no generally available, effective means of correcting Dis criminatory practices in referral unions." Referral unions are in a special position to pratice discrimination, the study explained, because they refer workers directly to employ ers,through hiring halls and other means, and select members and screen apprentices.Referral prac tices predominate in the building trades, with about 4 million union members, and are common in trucking, longshoring, printing, and other unions. The report focused particularly on construction and trucking unions because pay in these unions is relatively high ND BE— CAUSE "the long-range employ ment outlook is good and the capacity to absorb new work ers is high." Not only is discrimination con tinuing in these unions, The report found,but present programs, laws, and court decisions are do ing little to prevent or remedy it. While discrimination i referral unions is not as overt as it once was, it remains a significant cause of smaller pay checks for minori ties and women, the Commission said. Key new recommendation in "The Challenge Ahead"would re quire affirmative action programs on the part of construction unions connected with contractors hold ing Federal contracts. Contractors would be ineligible to bid on Fede ral contracts if their associated unions had not put forth a reason able effort to meet goals and time tables for enrolling minority and female members. "Contractors should be expect ed to hire in conformity with their affirmative action plans, without regard to union cooperation or conflict between such plans and obligations under collective-bar gaining agreements,"the Com mission said. At the same time, affirmative action requirements would be ex tended to a large number of Fede ral contractors. One of the best-kept secretes these days is that most larger citie- s, especially those with significant numbers of poor people and mino rities are being shortchanged by federal government. Many kinds of federal assis tance are based on population and work force figures that the govern ment itself admits are mistaken.so when it distributes revenue shar ing funds or manpower monies, al locations are based on understated numbers. The result, less monev to cities than they are entitled to by law. TheCensus undercount is a prime example. The Census Bu reau admits that it didn’t count an estimated 5.3 million people in 1970. A disproportionate number of the missed were black, nearly two million or about eight percent of the total estimated black popu lation. Even though the Bureau admits to this undercount, revenue shar ing formulas and other population- based federalpay-outs to states and local area follow the flawed official 1970 Census results. claims it re- fine the undercount to specific and cities so we'll just have to do until the next Census. But in fact a fairly accurate set of state and local estimates can be made. Using a formula developed by the National Urban League, it ap pears that over half a million peo ple were not counted in California, just under half a million in New York and in the neighborhood of 300,000 in Texas, in Pennsylvania, and in Illinois. In New York City alone some 260,000 people wern't counted, and even that estimate is very conservative. Translated into dollars states and cities should be getting but are not, this means that financial ly harassed New York State loses about $15 million each year in re venue sharing allocations; Cali fornia, about the same, and Illino is, 17.5 million. Another way localities lose mo ney is found in the way the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts the un employed. St. Louis charges that the Bureaue's undercount of the jobless causes the City to lose up to $4 million in manpower funds. Some federal manpower funds are released when triggered by a jobless rate of 6.5 percent or more for three months in a row. But the rate is diluted by applying to a wider area than just the central- city or even sections of the city. A CITY MAY HAVE AN EIGHT PERCENT JOBLESS RATE, BUT LOW UNENPLOYMENT IN ITS SUBURBS DIPS THE AREA— wide rate to a point below the trig gered figure for release of man power funds. Federal jobless statudcT'aon't count many people who should be counted as unemployed. Discou raged workers--people who have given up hope of finding a job-- aren't counted. The formular in cludes all sorts of factors like "sea sonal adjustment" that often make the figures look good by not count ing people who are actually out of work. It especially understates unem ployment among marginal work ers, low-paid workers, and minori ties. Since these groups are con centrated in the inner-city, the en tire urban economy is undermined through denial of manpower funds to which il would be entitled if the statistics were more realistic. In the St. Louis case, the Bu reau’s procedures were condemn ed. Among other things, research ers found that the statistii* were based on interviews with only 180 households, far below the num bers needed lo give a representa tive picture of the City’s economy. All of this is more than an aca demic exercise, it involves re sources desperately needed by many localities to provide munici pal services and to employ the un employed. Its bad enough that the government has so tight-fisted with the money and programs to aid the cities and the jobless, but there's no excuse for allowing admitted undercounts and inaccurate definitions director of unemployment to rob state and city government of the mo due them. It'S A LONG WAY TILL Tl NEXT Census and full empk ment is not in sight. So immeoiate action should be taken to make interim adjustment is no sight.so immediate action should be taken to make interim adjustments to let the stales and cities gU the money that is theirs by rigfil. fHE BETTER WE KNOW US CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 population in general he said, "I could care less if you ever learn how to do the bump, you'd better bump your head against a book." Carter feels that the King Center should demonstrate that, it is assisting in students' education. "We should be able to show the administration," he said, "that we are using their money to aid students in getting a degree." Carter also expressed some interesting ideas about students. He feels that Afro- American students on "white" university campuses, "tend to be apologetic." He said, "We are our own worst enemies, we don't believe in ourselves or our institutions — therefore we apologize." During last year's freshman orientation. Carter said he spoke with 125 black freshmen, out of which only 25 had applied to "black" colleges and universities. Most of the re maining 100 felt that "black" schools were inferior. According to Carter, black students must be made to feel uncomfortable before they will be creative. "The source of creativity comes out of in security. When we become indulgent and complacent we lose our creativity," he said. Carter pointed out that if we black students are going to cultivate our Afro-American heritage, then we must become aware of how we relate amongst ourselves, as well as to others and we must speak out on relevant issues. "A lot of students are scared to speak out because they are scared of what their peers might say. But if you need people to pat you on the back, you will be at their beck and call. If we are serious about developing black culture," he said, "we must be sensitive to what we are doing and how we are relating." Carter offered this last bit of advice to Afro-American students, as black America's future leaders, "get experience, take advantage of the university," and "get as much in your minds as you can." Rev. Carter, who is working on his Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology, is presently working on several King Center sponsored projects. "Ideally the King Center will sponsor between four and eight events, which will be initiated by the King Center and presented by the students," he said. Carter's pet project is the production of a King center journal. Its purpose, he explained, "is to bring in the ideas of black leaders and feed it back to black students." Rev. Carter seemed very excited about the first edition, which will feature a re-evaluation of the Civil Rights Movement, and will contain articles by such noted civil rights leaders as NAACP Executive Secretary, Roy Wilkins, and Congress of Racial Equality leader, Roy Innis. The first issue of the journal will also include a debate on busing, featuring the head of the Boston chapter of the NAACP, Tom Atkins and Paul Tierney. A long-range project which he is currently working on is a "Commemorative Program to Civil Rights Workers and Leaders" to be held in April, the program will be held in honor of all those who worked in and led the civil rights movement. The King Center is inviting celebrities, leaders, bishops and anybody'who's anybody in the struggle to take part in this memorable event. 1%ings You Sbould Know IFeB 2/1865,TWO DAYS AFTER PASSAGE OF TVtE I31K AMENDMENT—ABa- ITION OF SLAVERY, - HE BECAME THE FIRST NE)GRO LAWYERTDBE AOMfTTED BEFO«ETM€ U S, SUPREME COURT /THAT ERA SAW MANY COLOFJED CONVENTIONS FOR POUTICAL RIGHTS, A NATIONAL ONE.APRIL 5-71876, IN NASHVILLE, TENNESEE /
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