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4 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1986 God wants men to Inspire confidence. Charles Morgan once said, “It is God’s Fin ger on a man’s shoulder.” There is nobility in all of us, and hence we should not ever give up hope for any man as lost. There's always hope! There is a pull in everybody toward We have reached another Labor Day during which time the labor movement will celebrate the passage of another year. This is another milestone in history and involves freedom, excesses, and controls. On June 28, 1894. President Grover Cleveland signed a bill proclaiming the first Monday in September as Labor Day, a legal and public holiday honoring the A merican workmen. The idea had long been fostered by Peter J. McGuire, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who urged a day to show? publicly “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations.” Twelve years earlier, Mr. McGuire had staged the first “Labor Day Parade in New York City on September 8. He chose that date because it came at the most pleasant season of the year. Less than one million belonged to unions in the year President Cleveland signed the Labor Day legislation. It was an era when depressions were known as panics, and 18- 94 was just a panic year. Nearly 500 banks failed, more than 15,000 commercial firms closed their doors. It was the year when “General” Jacob S. Cox, of Massillon. Ohio, led an “army of unemployed” in a March on Washington. The Populist party had a considerable fol lowing. And the infant American Federa tion of Labor was warily testing its strength with the huge corporations In the little town of Pullman. Illinois, Socialist Eugene V. Debs was leading the American Railway Union’s strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company, A fed eral injunction forbidding interference with the movement, of the United States mails broke the strike and Debs went to jail for violating a federal order The panic lasted for three years. Under the sage leadership of the great Samuel Gompers, labor unions grew impressively in size and importance, for several decades. The late William Green of the American Federation of Labor carried on Gompers’ work and was regarded as a constructive influence upon the movement. Hou'ever, it was not until passage of the Wagner Act in the first administration of Franklin D, Roosevelt that labor began taking great strides. Labor’s Magna Carta, as the Wagner Act is sometimes called. The recent television discussion broad casted on Sunday. August 21, was indeed revealing. The nation got a chance to hear Roy Wilkins, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, CORE’S Floyd McKis sick, Stokley Carmichael, and James Meredith. The telecast showed the ineptitude of Carmichael and James Meredith. Both of these men did not meet the issues head on, nor did they answer questions put to them with clarity. They said a whole lot of words which said absolutely nothing when answering the specific questions. Both of these young men lack experience, and they need training in leadership. They talk too much'out of the sides of their mouths to be useful in the civil rights movement. The discussion gave some attention to “black power*, and we were ashamed to hear Carmichael say than SNCC decided not to define this term. This is a stupid way of avoiding the fundamental issue. Be that as it may, we are intrigued by an idea originated by a Negro neurosur geon, Dr. Thomas W. Mathew, who runs tiie Interfaith Hospital in the New York borough of Queens. After trying vainly to interest the Governor and Mayor of New York and Senator Robert Kennedy, the doctor has taken a plunge for himself. He announced recently the birth of a group called the National Economic Growth and Reconstruction Organization. The acro nym for this, formed bby combining the initial letters of the word, NEGRO. More Negroes Should Enter Politics The most recent announcement is that George Williford Haley, the first Negro Republican elected to a State Senate, will now run in the fall campaign for a Re publican seat in the United States Con gress, from Kansas. Haley, at 41, is a Kansas, attorney and was the first Negro to successfully knock down racial barriers at the previously all white University of Arkansas School of law. Haley has been accused by some civil rights groups of being too moderate, but the young man feels that he knows the South and Southerners. “They are open in Buy U.S. Savings Bonds STAR-SPANGLED SAVINGS PLAN FOR ALL AMERICANS The V.S. Government doe.* not pat/ for this advertisement. It is presented as a public *** service in cooperation u ith the Treasury Department and The Advertising Council. Words Os W orship ■ Viewpoint Labor, We Salute You! What About Self-Help Power? God. Maybe all that Is needed is someone to give the right direction to men’s lives There is much good In all of us. Then let us Inspire others by a word, a friendly glance, or a helping hand. This i one manifestation of the virtune of c.harlt,’, established recognition of unions and col lective barganmg as a required procedure under the law. In the 1930’5, strides were commonplace as resisting employers sought to repulse the rising tide of industrial organization. The sit-down technique, goon squads who battered non-striking workers into sub mission groups of anti-labor vigilantes and too frequent breakdowns of law and order highlighted this era of labor-management conflict. But the eventual victory came to labor, and with it a growing recognition of responsibility by its more sane leaders. The Taft-Hartley law was passed to curb labor abuses in 1947. Though unions brand Taft-Hartley as a “slave labor” law, it was enacted over President Truman’s veto. One of the U. S Senators who voted for this law was Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. In 1959, the revolting disclosure of union graft and intimidation by the McClellan Senate racket committee convinced Con gress of the need for further reforms. The result of the investigation was the Lan drum-Griffith Bill which outlawed “shake down” picketing, gave rank-and-file union members equal voting rights, freedom of speech at union meetings, the secret baU lot in union elections, prohibited excessive loans to union officers and compelled them to be bonded. We hope that during this Labor Day period enough of our lawmakers can tear themselves away from the Burning Tree or accepting honorariums for saying what they are supposed to say, the Labor Day weekend is an excellent time for reflection upon how best to serve the national, ra ther than a special interest. It is, therefore, seen that labor has gained certain freedoms, but with them come certain responsibilities. Organized la bor must tum over a new leaf and make itself alert to the ways and means of up lifting the Negro worker into the unions by placing him in jobs suitable for his ability and training. If the black worker has no training, then some program of training must be undertaken by unions themselves to give the man farthest down an oppor tunity to train himself to earn a decent living. Unions must become their brother’s keeper. > Dr. Matthew’s group hopes to raise the seed money to participate in federal and private matching fund programs that will put the slum dwellers to work building hospitals and rehabilitating run-down houses for themselves. Thus, on the even-* ing of September 24, NEGRO will stage a block party in the nation’s financial cen ter of Wall Street to open a bond cam paign. The capital raised will be put to training Negro carpenters, plumbers, elec tricians and masons, and to start to work in the two fields of hospital building and slum eradication. The drive will be put on to enlist Negro money in the Negro’s cause, but if white people want to help, they will be welcom ed. In this way, the Negro can make him self stand tall economically. Columnist John Chamberlain stated that that Dr. Mathew may fail in his am bitious attempt. This will be regretful in deed, because Negro money exists to put this idea across. And, in appealing for this Negro money, the new organization is using .the slogan: “Let your money buy your freedom.” If the movement fails. Negroes ought to bow their heads in shame, for they can raise the money for anything they want badly enough—parties, liquor, dances, conventions and boules, ranch-type man sions and swimming pools. Remember, that through NEGRO the Negro can show that self-help is the best power. their acceptance or non-acceptance, Haley said. “The reason we have these extremists,” Haley said, “is because we do not have reasonable people who can sit down and do something about the situation, not just talk about it.” This is a fine prospect for a future U. S. Congressnan. We need more Negro youths to take programs in college that will pre pare them for political and foreign service careers. Majors in government and politi cal science can provide the necessary background for Negro youth who want to pursue public careers. Only In America SUING THE INVESTIGATORS Some young fellow is suing the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover because they fired him; no one likes losing a job but this young fellow is particularly incensed over the reasons the FBI fired him. They fired him because he entertained a young lady in his room. I knew it would come to this. I remember when we embarked on a campaign to clean out all the homosexuals in the State Department and other agencies of government. At last they are apparently all cleaned out. What’s left to keep us busy? Well, for starters, there are the hetero sexuals and considering how vast a population this Is, cleaning them out ought to keep agents off the unemploy ment lines for a decade at least. And, of course, any thing that contributes to the strength of the economy Is all to the good. Though I don’t know how those poor girls in Washington are going to take the news that chastity in males is back in style. Some years back, I remem ber A. Mitchell Palmer, the U. S. Attorney General in 1918 used to keep the boys hopping deporting aliens. W’hen they had sent back many of the deportable aliens who hadn’t been able to contact a lawyer before the ship pulled anchor, Palmer started on all the lechers who transported a girl across state lines for immoral purposes. He pull ed in business tycoons who paid a secretary’s fare through Colorado, Arizona, and California for Pullman car dalliance as . well as the young New Jersey Clerk who list f§r Fun BY MARCUS H. BOUT/WARE “PECK PECK PECK” As a boy In Chester, South Carolina, I remember that my mother raised chickens for eggs and meat. She used the old-fashioned wooden slab coop. I had a playful habit of picking up the little chicks and holding them tn my hands. On one occasion, I reached by hand into the coop, between the wooden slabs to catch a “biddy.” Mamma hen gave my hand several pecks, and I couldn’t get my hand out be cause it was at the narrow end of the opening, between Oiler Editors So? *. EDUCATORS VS, WALLACE Gov. Wallace may have stirred up a hornet’s nest with his bill to prohibit compliance with the federal school inte gration guidelines. The Ala bama legislature may approve the proposal. Thechancesare It will do so. But the schools are not at all behind the gov ernor in this foolish move. The trustees of the Alabama Education Association, repre senting some 23,000 white teachers in the state, adopted a strong statement of policy opposing the Wallace pro gram. They were joined by other education leaders, including spokesmen for the University of Alabama, Auburn Univer sity, and the Alabama Associ ation of School The Educators were warned by a Wallace spokesman in the state legislature that they "are going to regret the action they have taken.” But the Ala bama educators have vowed to everything they can to resist this legislation, which if passed, will deprive them of the money needed for salary increases and other school operations. THE RED SMEAR The Immoderate critics of civil rights demonstrations who have been smearing the movement with red paint should take note of Atty. Gen. Katzenbach’s testimony be fore a Senate subcommittee looking into what has been called the crisis of the cities. He warned th at some "un predictable event" could touch THE CAROLINIAN Publishing Company "Covering the Carolina*" Published by the Carolinian 518 E. Martin Street „ Raleigh, N. C. 27601 Mailing Address: P. O. Box 628 Raleigh, N. C. 27602 Second Class Postage Paid at Ra leigh, N. C. 27605 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months te 75 Sales Tax 08 TOTAL 82 83 One Year 4jq Sales Tax 14 TOTAL Payable In Advance. Address all communications and make all t£°TH]S “cAROUI&AN derß Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., 310 Madison Avenue, New York 17 N. Y., National Advertising Re presentative and- member of the Associated Negro Press and the United Press international Photo Service. The Publisher is not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, pictures or advertising copy unlen necessary postage accom panies the copy. Opinions expressed by column ists Jin this newspaper do not nec eeeirily represent the policy of filsi paper. BY HARRY GOLDEN took his girl across the Hud son River to the movies on Broadway in New York, and who, to tell the truth, felt more bilious than amorous about the adventure. Along came the Red Scare and some of the hoydenish ladies breathed a bit easier. The. marriage rate started to soar as did the birth rate. But hold li I The government cops are back in the business of polic ing morals. Os course while they are busy compiling dos siers and files on the light o’ hearts and the little round heels who fall victim easily, one million tons of goods dis appear mysteriously everj year from the New York City docks; Negro bodies turn up tn swamps with more than alarming frequency in the Deep South; and the Ku Klux Klan stages huge rallies. Not only is marijuana-smoking rampant among high school seniors, but so is the use of LSD. Our police agencies have yet to locate where all the Brink’s payroll money lies moldering or where Tino De Angelis stashed all that kale he conned out of reputable brokerage houses in his soy bean manipulations. And people are walking un leashed dogs through Central Park In New York and I’ll bet there's a poker game or two the agents could break up if they’d only put their minds to it, Just what will happen to that lovely word “seduction 1 ' if the investigators have their way? You don’t think automa tion is going to take care of them pretty cheerleaders in their white toots, do you? the two wooden pieces. I yell - ed out loudly for my mother to rescue me, but by the time she appeared on the scene, I had accidently found away to get my hand out. To this day, I have a fear of mother hens and their brood. It pays to mind your mother. Mine told me not to reach my hand into the chicken coop, or the mother hen might give me some hurtful pecks. But the pain of the pecks was the greatest teacher. You can say that again! off rioting in 30 to 40 of the na tion’s cities. But he said pov erty and despair, not Commu nists or Black Nationalists, were the villains. Though he declined to p i n - point any one city as the most likely scene of new rioting, he made it clear that the urban centers he had in mind had the same problems, the same frustrations, the sameten sions. He thought the demonstra tion cities program, now be fore the Senate, “holds the best hope” for solving the ur ban problems that the subcom mittee is now investigating. Katzenbach emphasized that the keystone to his own job of keeping law and order is the demonstration cities pro gram, since recent riots in several places were produced by "agitators named disease and despair, joblessness and hopelessness, rat - infested housing and long-impacted cynicism.” He added: "These sources of agitation are not the product of Communists or Black Na tionalists or terrorists.” He disagreed with a Cleve land grand jury report last week linking the causes of that city's riots to agitators. Ex tremists have attempted to ex ploit racial violence, he said, but have not planned it. Too often, Katzenbach no ted, riots are touched off after an incident with police. "It's just essential—l can’t empha size it enough—that police of ficers have the confidence and the respect of the community, particularly the deprived peo ple; and they just don’t have it today,” he said. He announced that the Jus tice Department is beginning a new program to make $1 mil lion available to cities of more than 150,000 population to train policemen on the beat in the art of community relations. Ifpo licemen get the bum rap, it is because they are the only visi ble symbol of authority—which is sometimes exercised with out much restraint. Ghetto dwellers are after all, human beings. They re sent the harsh treatment vi sited upon them by club-weild ing policemen who lack either the intelligence or the train ing to realize how ultra-sensi tive are the denizens of the slums. THE CHICAGO DAILY DEFENDER. a'AILi NO SMOOTH SAILING... STILL STRAIGHT AHEAD! Ea t ~ack oh /ghoaa.’vce/.< / ! BECAUSE W BASSES APt s » r OOEF£\O rum MOST 'tSSESSJOH— 7-JE/k IGNORANCE M j«gwnpy jpy -w- MEK'Oprr 'AN lOOS . V ACTION CENTERS Increasingly the finger of humanity is point ing to the church and with a loud and ques tioning voice is asking, "Where do you stand?” It is the spirit of revolution burning in the breasts of thousands of discontented, distraught and desperate Negroes that continues to raise the issue to white America of man’s essential humanity. The church, long supposedly dedicated to the proposition of human fulfillment to the point of near-divinity, is in many instances r> acting in differently to the accusative finger. Too few Negroes realize the tremendous role the’. r< now indirectly playing in religion. Those churches who would have (heir mini ster back away -~ or would themselvo: re treat from the boiling cauldron of racial revo lution—ought consider the possibility th u this may be God at work in the world at this point in human history. Interestingly enough, to those who havt fol lowed the centers of action in our civil rights revolution, they have noted hov the churches have become hubs of activity. There was Brown Chapel AME in Selma, where little time was spent in prayer meetings since the press of dem onstrations, strategies, summit meetings, etc., was of more real significance in the prosecu tion of the task of bringing man to man in realm- MULTIRACIAL KEY LONDON -- The key to multiracial churches is a multiracial ministry and staff, declared Dr. John H. Satterwhite, professor of ecumenics, Wesley Theological seminary, Washington, during a session of the World Methodist Conference last week. He noted “We are at the place in our cities where we cannot go much farther forward without the enlistment, commitment and devotion of multiracial leaders and staffs in our local church. We invite you to share with us the task of desegregating our total society.’ - BEYOND MAN’S POWER BALTIMORE -- A solution to the racial ques tion, economics issues or health problems is beyond the power of any government on earth, declared Karl A. Adams, chairman, Jehovah’s .W'itnessess convention, in session at Memorial stadium last week. He said, “The past 6,000 years of human history testify very definitely to the fact that man doesn’t have the answer.’ CENTENNIAL CHARLOTTE, N. C, -- A public meeting has been scheduled Sept. 20, by the Commission on Religion and Race, United Presbyterian church, to celebrate the centennial of Negro Presbyter ianism in North Carolina and Virginia. The cele bration, to be held at Johnson C. Smith University, EXODUS LUSAKA The parting of the ways between Zambia and the British Commonwealth is ex pected to occur within a few months over the issue of neighboring Rhodesia’s insistence upon pursuing an independent status without the ap proval of Britain or black Africa within the country. Rhodesia declared itself independent with the white minority government in power, much to the distress of all other independent African nations. DRAFT CHANGE TEL AVIV -- A proposal to halt the draft ing of women for military service has been made to Premier Levi Eshkol by Social Af fairs Minister Dr. Joseph Burg, based on the need to halt the nation’s dwindling birth rate. The proposal would make more women avail able for earlier marriages, instead of taking them out of action when they reach 18 years of age, for 20 months’ service in the armed forces. BUSSING FORBIDDEN BVANGKOK A crackdown on kissing in broad daylight in public places has teen de creed by the police in an effort to silence Altar Call BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D. D. NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL Religion And Race BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL World News Digest BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL tic and meaningful relationship. Then, as now', there are those churches that shut their doors in the faces of civil rights leaders ••To n ■( : an "army” base, as though it were* irreligious to relate the church so closely with the problems of mankind. What rob:- could these churches be playing In life that could possibly be more important than reconciling man with man that man might be reconciled with his Creator? Indicative of the Calvary-like treat churches face is the fact that often the action center must, be r ! because of threats of destruction by civil rights opponents. When the property of the South Side Act tori Center in the Chicago Freedom Movement was threatened, it was heartening to the leaders to know that instantaneously four or five churches offered their buildings. The day is not too far in the future when church es wSP be used more as Action Centers than they will be as "worship” centers. May the day hasten when, as we pass by, we hear shouts of victory over the sins of injustice to man, more than we hoar the shout s of those who think they are “spirit ually” happy bee > they momentarily feel good. Churches Os Action, life Altars in the Wilder ness of social injustice, must become the order of the day, if man with man shall live in harmony and peace. will bring such speakers as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president, Southern Christian Leader ship Conference, and William P. Thompson, stat ed clerk, United Presbyterian church. The cele bration is on the eve of the CORAR meet, in Queen Charlotte hotel, September 21-22. SUCCESS OF COOP ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. --One year after three local United Presbyterian congregations West minister, Chelsea and Jethro -- decided to in stitute and keep alive a parish program providing pastoral, preaching, teaching and leadership min istry to the three churches, the program has grown to such extent that it extends beyond parish bounda ries. The programs operated by the churches in cluded a series on “The Negro in America,’'voter registration, Headstart pre-school education, and civil rights. ALONE BUT WELCOME STOCKTON, 111. --I,ast June 6, the Rev. John C. Ferguson, Jr., former pastor of Normal Park Methodist Church, Chicago, became the first Ne gro Methodist minister to be appointed to an all white church in the all-u'hite community of Stock ton. Instead of finding distrust and agitation, Rev. Ferguson, who is 46, has found that an over whelming welcome has been extended him. complaints about the corruption of morals of Thai girls. The corruption is said to be fo mented by foreign soldiers who go a bit far ther than using the wai--folding the hand palms together and bowing—traditional Thai greeting, and employ hugs and kisses. MOLE CITY MONTREAL A veritable underground city is in operation in the downtown portion of Mon treal, where people can spend their entire lives without ever seeing the surface. A system of underground plazas, or promenades, 4,500 feet below the ground, has shops, cases, movies, living quarters everything that the surface dweller finds necessary. By next spring, 9,000 more feet of the network is expected to be in operation. EDUCATION GRANT NAIROBI Kenya has just received a $7 million credit from the International Development Association ODA), an affiliate of the World Bank, to assist in expending its secondary education system. The project calls for construction of new and expansion of existing general secondary, technical and teacher training institutions and for purchase of needed furniture and equipment.
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