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Committee Aids Rights Fight in Monroe, NC. Ranks Firm in N. Y. News Strike I-H Pickets Cold to Co. Offers Committee Aids Rights Fight in t h e MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Monroe, NC. Vol. X X II — No. 52 NEW YORK, N.Y.. MONDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1958 Price 10c By John Thayer In Monroe, destined to go down in history or infamy as the North Carolina town where an eight and nine-year- old Negro boy were sent to reform school because one hac been kissed by a seven-year-old* white girl, the even tenor of v ic t is another question, but merely bringing the assailant to 'Bleakest Detroit Xmas Jim Crow justice was jolted on Dec. 19. On that day a white trial is a victory for the Negro man was arraigned on people of Union County. charges of attempted rape of a Actually, this is the second Negro woman. Local white success registered by the m ili­ supremacists never expected tant NAACP chapter of Union such a thing to happen, local County. A week previous the authorities had indicated their eviction of Mrs. Thompson and Since Depression Days' intention to reduce the charge her children — solely because or drop it altogether. But their she is the mother of the Negro plans went awry. Whether a lad allegedly kissed by the lily-white jury in this Ku Klux white girl — was prevented. Klan-infested county will con- While outside the South such a thing may seem small potatoes, 200,000 Unemployed it looms large in the Jim Crow Ranks Firm in N. Y. News Strike N.Y. Meeting pattern of life in Monroe. This was the first time in memory By Lillian Kiezel Have No Prospect of Raises $ 2 5 8 for that a Negro tenant had con­ NEW YORK, Dec. 22 — The Same Problem a Decade Later tested an eviction order of a strike of 2,500 newspaper de­ Carolina Cases white landlord. On this occa­ liverymen in this city is now Jobs in Auto Industry sion, Mrs. Thompson with Con­ in its third week. Nine ma­ NEW YORK, Dec. 22 — A rad Lynn of the Committee to jor newspapers are shut down This year, Christmas in the Detroit area “w ill be the meeting held at the Militant Times, Daily News, Herald Combat Racial Injustice as bleakest since Depression days,” says the Dec. 20 Business Labor Forum tonight heard a counsel, demonstrated that the Tribune, Mirror, World Tele­ gripping account by attorney eviction notice did not comply gram and Sun, Journal A m eri­ Week. Although auto companies, except for strike-bound Conrad Lynn of the develop­ with the most elementary legal can, Post, Long Island Daily Chrysler, produced at the highest rate for the year in ments in Monroe. N.C., sur­ requirements. The audience at Press and Long Island Star- December, 200,000 people were jobless in the metropolitan rounding the "Carolina Kissing this local history-making hear­ Journal. They all stopped pub­ area. That is more than twice as many as a year ago and Case." (See story on case this lishing on Dec. 12. ing consisted of Union County ---------------------------------------------------- *comes to 13%' of the labor force. page and interview with Lynn Three days earlier, the mem­ N A A C P President Robert F. O f the total, 75,000 have ex- page 4.) Williams and Dr. A. E. Perry, bers of the Newspaper and The meeting demonstrated hausted their unemployment the vice-president and a dele­ Mail Deliverers Union (inde­ N.Y. Parents compensation benefits “ and there are good prospects for gation of Negro citizens. pendent) voted 877 to 772 to mobilizing strong support be­ have had only sporadic work LOW B A IL reject a $7-a-week, two-year for two or three years." (Em ­ hind the newly-formed Com­ The assailant of Mrs. Mary package offer of the employers. Win Twice in mittee to Combat Racial In­ phasis added.) The rest face Ruth Reid, mother of five chil­ They overruled a 14 to 3 ma­ justice in whose behalf the run-out of benefits in weeks or dren and seven months preg­ jority of the union’s negotiating meeting was held. The meeting School Fight months. nant with her sixth when at­ committee which favored ac­ was called on six days notice But that is only half of the tacked and brutally beaten, was cepting the offer. Following the NEW YORK — An important to help provide'’ urgently need­ bleak picture, and not the arrested only because a white membership vote, the negotia­ victory was won by two Negro ed funds for the committee. worst half. Business Week en­ tenant-farm woman neighbor ting committee was augmented parents. Mrs. Bernice Skipwith Despite the short notice, limited titles its article “The Jobs That ealled the police. When Medlin by the ten-man executive and Mrs. Charles Rector, in advertising and frigid weather, Are Gone Forever.” It says: (Continued on Page 4) board, the majority of whose their refusal to send their chil­ “What gives observers the chills more than 100 Negroes and members had voted against the dren to segregated schools when whites, including a large num­ is the fact that very few of the proposed contract. Domestic Relations Court Jus­ auto workers laid off during the ber of youth, turned out. NEXT WEEK'S MILITANT CALL THAT A BENEFIT? tice Justine W. Polier ruled Audience response to Lynn’s last year will be rehired” to Our next issue will go to The central issue in the strike against the New York Board of help build additional cars pro­ eloquent plea for active partici­ press two days later than is to prevent a $7-a-week pack­ Education which had charged pation in the fight was indicated jected for 1959. “General Mo­ usual because of New Year's age contract signed by the the parents with neglect. Jus­ by a contribution of $258 to aid tors, for instance plans on 25% holiday. Newspaper Guild from setting tice Polier found the parents the work of the committee. more cars but only 5% more a pattern for the entire in­ had proven the schools their hourly workers for the first dustry. It was signed the very children had attended were in­ three months.” Victims of Racial Injustice week the deliverers strike be­ ferior and the subject of racial In the Chrysler set-up, em­ gan. The newspaper publishers discrimination. ployment at Dodge Main plant want nine other unions in the Her ruling declared, “These has dropped from a two-shjft industry to accept a contract parents have the constitutional 20,600 in M arch 1957 to a one- similar to the Newspaper guaranteed right to elect no s h ift 7,100 today. M eanw hile, Guild’s. As applied to the se- education for their children daily production rates have liverers, it calls for a $7-a-weck rather than subject them to dis­ fallen only from 950 to 550. At increase over a two-year span. criminatory, inferior education." the root of the struggle of the The only fringe benefit the re- She said the parents’ action Dodge Local 3 unemployed to liverers would get is a three- was “understandable for the ban overtime at the Main plant (Above cartoon is by Laura Gray, Militant staff artist who died last Jan. 11. It is reprinted day paid leave in case of death sake of their children and for is the fact that the company from M ilitant, Dec. 27, 1948.) in a worker’s family and certain the tens of thousands of other finds it cheaper to pay over­ contractual guarantees. As one children like this, who have time than increase the work striker told me, “So I get three been unfairly deprived of equal force for an indefinite period. days’ pay if somebody in my education.” PRODUCTIVITY JOBLESS family dies. Is that something I-H Pickets Cold to Co. Offers According to the Dec. 20 These workers, says Business to look forward to?” Amsterdam News, the Board of Week, “could be classed as the Newspaper deliverers are CHICAGO — At a union there has been no progress [in “that the present strike called Education is reported planning first large group of victims of among the lowest paid in the meeting, Dec. 12, 4,500 striking negotiations]. But it is not lack by the UAW is working a fi­ to appeal the decision. It also ‘productivity unemployment’.” newspaper industry. Their basic International-Harvester workers of effort on the Company's part. nancial hardship on our em­ quoted Thurgood Marshall. There'll be more fo come. What wage is $103.82 fo r a 40-hour in this area showed no sign of Twice in the last eight days ployes.” “Union negotiators w ill Chief Counsel of the NAACP is happening in Detroit is only week. Consequently they are wavering after nearly five we have substantially liberal­ wear boots to keep their feet Legal Defense Committee, as a forerunner of what may hit demanding a raise of $9 a week weeks of the "cold war" on ized our position in a sincere dry,” replies the union’s Dec. declaring, “When the appeal other industries in a few years. plus $1 in welfare, pension and the picket line. And brother, effort to achieve a, settlement.” 16 strike bulletin. “The floor comes up the NAACP will pick other fringe benefits. Auto’s permanent jobless are it's been freezing! The company then lists the will be wet with the crocodile up all the bills and I personally stuck. They can’t migrate to Foremost among Iheir other various demands to which they tears .
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