DOCUMENT RESUME ED 026 587 AC 003 279 Proceedings of the National Workshop on the Urban Poor, Manpower and Consumer Potentials (March 26-27, 1968). Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, D.C. Pub Date 68 Note-142p. Available from-The Chamber of Commerce of the U.S., 1615 H St., Washington, D.C. 20006 ($5.00) EDRS Price ME-$0.75 HC-$7.20 Descriptors-*CommunityAction,*DisadvantagedGroups, Employment Trends,Expenditures, Income, *Intergroup Relations, Labor Market, Leadership, Negroes Occupations, Public Policy, Self Help Programs, Statistical Data, *Unemployment, *Urban Areas, Violence, Youth The purpose of this workshop was to work out sound, practical means of promoting better intergroup communication in American cities and improving community action on hard-core unemployment and other problems ofthe urban poor. Frustrations and aspirations of ghetto people were illustrated in a film. Panel interviews and an audience question session were held with Negro youth leaders. Prepared papers, summaries, and remarks were offered on psychological, social, and other factors in urban unrest; the need for indigenous ghetto leadership; leadership through ghetto self help in Detroit; manpower and consumer potentials of the urban poor; recruiting and job coachingof the hard core unemployed in Chicago; and accommodating employer entry job requirements in Missouri. (The document includes references; research data on 17 indicators of future urban violence in several dozen high probabilitycities; and statistical data on labor force trends, variation in unemployment rates, incidence of poverty, proportions of Negroes in major cities and regious. educational attainments of Negroes, occupations of nonwhites, income growth and distributions, and consumer expenditures.) (ly) U SuEPARTHENT Of HEALTH EDUCATION 8. WELFARE 28-27, 1968 OFFICE Oi EDUCATiON ROCEEDINGS THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY ASRECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATIO ORIGINATING II POINTS Of VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY r4PRESENT OFFICIAL OffICE Of EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY cc .r.msr.remrleforMOMMMINMONI 11 ,t 'tr, 1 t t I tt" ; 1 , I . tt" 4 , : 4'0; tr y4t, .4 , THE URBAN P ,, '04t.rt 4 t t- ! t ' t' e , eze- ! 447.1 - ' , PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL WORKSHOPON MANPOWER AND CONSUMER POTENTIALS TABLE OF CONTENTS Workshop participants 1 Frustrations and Aspirations of Ghetto People: MIDSUMMER, 1967 Dialogue in a film presentation 3 Negro youth leaders Panel interview 7 Negro youth leadersAudience questions 18 Summary statements of papers by: Sol Chaneles 28 Saul Alinsky 31 Alvin Bush 34 Panel Interview 36 Audience questions 47 Summary of paper by: Seymour Wolfbein 53 Audience questions 56 THE OUTREACH dialogue in a film presentation 60 Statements on: Recniiting, and job-coaching of hard-coreunemployed 65 Accommodating employer entry-job requirements 66 Audience questions 67 Prepared papers: Some Contributing Factors +o Urban Unrest. ...Sol Chaneles 79 You Can't See the Stars Through the Stripes. ...Saul Alinsky 91 Leadership Through Ghetto Self-help. ...Alvin W. Bush 96 The Manpower and Consumer Potentials of theUrban Poor Seymour L. Wolfbein 103 WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS ALINSKY, SAUL D.Executive Director, Industrial JOHNSON, HAYNESSpecial assignments correspond- Areas Foundation, Chicago, Illinois. Author of a bi- ent, The Washington Evening Star.Pulitzer Prize ography of John T. Lewis. winner-1966. Author of DUSK AT THE MOUNTAIN; THE BAY OF PIGS; THE DISSENTER. BARRY, MARIONAssistant Director, Pride, Inc., Washington, D. C. LEWIS, LEONAssistant Director of Public Affairs, Station WMCA, New York City. Peabody Award winner BOOTH, ARCH N.Executive Vice President, Cham- (1967) for programCommunity Opinion, Station WLIB. ber of Commerce of the United States. Radio news director, WWRL, 1957-1965. BUSH, ALVINPresident, Career Development Cen- LUMSDEN, ARTHUR J.President, Greater Hartford ter, Inc. President and Founder, Peoples Community Chamber of Commerce, since 1956. Member of Task Civic League. On leaveHead Porter, Statler-Hilton Force for Economic Growth and Opportunity, and of Hotel, Detroit. Policy Committee, Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. CHANELES, SOL, Ph.D.Director, Urban Studies PATTERSON, EUGENEEditor, Atlanta (Ga.) Consti- Division, Simulmatics Corporation, New York City. tution since 1960. Vice Chairman, U.S. Civil Rights Project Director, Media Analysis of 1967 Urban Commission. Member of Board of Visitors of Berry Riots for President's Commission on Civil Disorders. College; of the National Board of Theological Educa- tion of the Lutheran Church of America. Pulitzer CLARK, KENNETH B., Ph.D.President, Metropoli- Prize winner (1966) for editorials. tan Applied Research Center, Inc.; Professor of Psy- chology, City College of the City University of New RICHARDSON, MARYStreet worker. In 1967, con- York. Author of PREJUDICE AND YOUR CHILD; sultant on urban problems, office of the Episcopal DARK GHETTO: DILEMMAS OF SOCIAL POWER. Bishop for the Pennsylvania Diocese, Philadelphia. Trustee, Howard University. SMITH, CHARLES H., Jr.President, The Steel Im- DYER, LLOYD E.Vice President, The Chesapeake provement and Forge Company, Cleveland. Member of and Potomac Telephone Companies, Washington, D. C. Board of Directors, Chamber of Commerce of the Member of Vocational Training Committee of Wash- U. S.; of its Task Force on Economic Growth and Op- ington Metropolitan Area Jobs Council. portunity, and Labor Relations Committee. "One of America's Ten Outstanding Young Men," 1955. GIVINGS, JIMMIExecutive Director, Northcott Neighborhood House, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. WINDSOR, C. L.Manager, Personnel Services, McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Member, Board of HENRY, DAVIDDirector of Supplementary Services, Directors, Urban League; of Mayor's Committee on JOBS NOW, Chicago. Cook County Department of Equal Employment Opportunity, St. Louis. Public Aid 1963-65. Elementary school teacher in Chicago, 1960-63. WOLFBEIN, SEYMOUR L., Ph.D.Dean, School of Business Administration, Temple University, Phil- HOWARD, RONALDManager, Adult Armchair Educa- adelphia, Pa. Various positions in U. S. Department tion, Opportunities Industrialization Center, Philadel- of Labor, 1942-66. Author of several books, includ- phia. Host co-ordinator for TV serieson consumer ing OUR WORLD OF WORK; EMPLOYMENT, UN- education for KYW. EMPLOYMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY; EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT. 1 PROCEEDINGS March 26, 1968 there was MR. BOOTH: Good morning,ladies and gentle- And in your invitation, you will recall mention of the fact that, at this first day'ssession, the men. We here at the NationalChamber welcome you to working press would not be represented. Poor: Manpower and This was done to encourage free andfrank, open and this "Workshop on the Urban to achieve Consumer Potentials." uninhibited, discussion and exchange of ideas You are a select audience. Youhave been espe- a better understandingof black Americans by white cially invited, and we are very glad you arehere. Americans. and televi- This should be an interesting,informative, stimu- Hence, newsmen and reporters, radio I think it would not be too much to say sion people, were not invited to thissession, lating meeting. that two of the men that it is probably one of the mostimportant meetings You will notice on your program that the National Chamber has everheld. on the interviewing panels areassociated with news There will be a penetrating discussionof one of media. But don't let that cramp your style. the most basiccertainly one of the mostvitally im- These men fully understand our objectives.And problems of the urban they have agreed not to write any stories orarticles portant issues of our timesthe Proceedings of poor, both black andwhite, Negroes, Puerto Ricans, based on today's discussions until the Mexican-Americans, and people from Appalachia, the workshop are made available. today and to- whom you will find in some large citiesin the north- The full discussion of this workshop, and a copy of the Proceed- central part of the country. morrow, will be stenotyped, All of these people are Americans,and we are ings will be mailed to you as a partof your registration concerned about all of them. fee. this pro- And now, as the first step inachieving a better un- Now, it has seemed to us, in preparing ghetto, we are gram, that we need to askourselves some pointed derstanding of the problems of the Negro have the problem going to show you a motion-picturefilm produced in questions. For example, why do we National Educa- of school dropouts and of juveniledelinquents? Are Newark, New Jersey, last summer by wrongly against people with police tion Television shortly after the riotthere. we discriminating public meet- or criminal records? Is ourwelfare system contrib- National Education Television set up a aspiration of ing of people concerned with the riot, andfilmed three uting to, or detracting from, the high about the causes of dignity for the individual in a free society? hours of back-and-forth discussion How can business provide youthsand adults, who the riot. and in training, with hope, en- For the television audience, thefilm was cut down are lacking in skills further condensed it to il- couragement and a productive job? to 90 minutes, and we have Well, we must, in short, addressourselves to the lustrate aspirations and frustrations of thepeople who questions of the hard-core unemployed. live in the Negro ghetto. And because there are certain aspectsof this As you would expect, they areconcerned with