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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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The Atlanta Council on Defense Training for Negroes commended Paul V. McNutt and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for denouncing racial discrimination in war employment and supporting fair training programs, highlighting policies to utilize local Negro labor reserves.
Merged-components note: Continuation of the Defense Council story from page 1 to page 6; relabeled to domestic_news as it is a local news item about commendations and policy.
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The Atlanta Council on Defense Training for Negroes telegraphed congratulations to Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission for his prompt denunciation of racial discrimination in war employment and to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for the commendation of the fair training and employment program of a southern industrialist in her column MY DAY April 25.
Mr. McNutt assailed the importation of white labor to war industry areas in disregard of the local available Negro labor reserve immediately upon assuming his new office. In his first press conference, April 20, he is quoted by the New York News as saying In one overcrowded war industry center, native white workers have been imported from hundreds of miles away, although fully qualified colored and loyal foreign-born workers are available at the plant's doorsteps.
Previously, Governor McNutt as Federal Security Administrator, a post he continues to hold, had formulated the federal policy of depletion of the local labor reserve as a means of avoiding the wastes of migration and cross-migration. This principle is of considerable importance in the local Bell plant fight for vocational education that
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is federally financed, though conducted under the auspices of the state and local boards of education.
The telegram to Mr. McNutt, signed by W. Y. Bell, William H. Dean, Cliff Mackay and W. J. Shaw, a sub-committee of the Council, concluded:
"We believe with you that Democracy begins at home and that both the Economic and Psychological war potential are enormously increased by non-discriminatory depletion of the Local Labor Re-
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Atlanta
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April 20 And April 25
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telegrams of congratulations sent to mcnutt and roosevelt for their statements against racial discrimination in war employment.
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The Atlanta Council on Defense Training for Negroes telegraphed congratulations to Paul V. McNutt for denouncing racial discrimination in war employment upon assuming his role as Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, and to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for commending a southern industrialist's fair training program in her April 25 column. McNutt, in his April 20 press conference, criticized importing white labor while local Negro workers were available. As Federal Security Administrator, he promoted using local labor reserves to avoid migration wastes, relevant to local Bell plant vocational education efforts. The telegram, signed by council subcommittee members, emphasized democracy at home and increased war potential through non-discriminatory labor use.