Arizona Sun

LABOR and the NEGRO

Organized labor has been in the forefront calling for state and federal action to guarantee to Negroes equal civil rights and protection from mob violence.

The National Maritime Union added $5,000 to the rewards being offered for arrest and conviction of the lynchers of four Negroes at Monroe, Georgia.

In the New England States, first Boston, Massachusetts, and now Providence, Rhode Island, Negro girls have been hired by the telephone companies.

A shipboard strike of members of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Association protested the discriminatory firing of a Negro third mate aboard the vessel.

Ambrose L. Roballo, Negro trustee of Local 848, was a delegate to the International AFL Brotherhood Painters' Conference in San Francisco.

The National Urban League has announced increased employment of Negroes by department stores for clerical jobs. Highest gains have been made in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

The UAW-CIO is credited with bringing about the employment of Negroes by the South Gate plant of General Motors in California.

Both a Negro-owned bank in Washington, D. C., and a Negro-owned insurance company in Pennsylvania have signed contracts with CIO white collar workers unions.

In labor's fight for a permanent federal Fair Employment Practices Commission, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union has said it with dollars--25,000 of them to the National Council for a Permanent FEPC.

Due to the consistent gains made by the United Transport Service Employees (CIO) Negro Red Caps, once unpaid and unorganized, are now eligible for benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act. Willard Townsend, a Negro, is president of the union.

The National Urban League estimates war-time migration of Negroes as follows: 25,000 to New York, 50,000 to Chicago, 18,000 to Cleveland, 65,000 to Detroit, 100,000 to Los Angeles, 14,000 to Portland, 19,000 to San Francisco and 13,000 to Seattle.

The American Newspaper Guild has enlisted the aid of the CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination in its fight to open the Congressional press galleries to Negro newsmen.

Reversing previous policy, the AFL stagehands union at its convention in Chicago voted to accord full membership status and privileges to Negro members.

A new book, "The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters," gives the history of that organization. A. Phillip Randolph, Negro fighter for full rights for Negroes in the AFL, is president of the Brotherhood.

"All thinking people must unite in opposition to race discrimination and in support of policy designed to bring all . . . the enjoyment of rights conferred upon all citizens of the United States."

AFL President William Green, in message to NAACP.

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