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necessarily a reflection of the policy
are those of the writer and not
of The Voice—Pub
Employment in Skills Rises in So.
ATLANTA. (ANP). The em
ployment of Negroes in skilled
positions in the south has prog
ressed in a “very satisfactory”
manner, according to Harold O.
DeWitt, industrial secretary of the
Richmond (Va.) Urban league,
currently serving as acting indus
trial relations director of the
league’s southern field division.
His report on a survey con
ducted by the Richmond branch
and published in the May-June
issue of “New South,” monthly
bulletin of the Southern Regional
council, gives some rather illum
inating facts about the upswing
of Negro employment above the
unskilled level.
The report shows that 6,000
Negroes are employed as munici
pay workers in 16 southern cities,
that Negroes in general hold over
110 different job classifications
above the unskilled level.
However, he says the survey
shows that no one city has opened
up as many as one-third of these
classifications to qualified Negroes.
“Negroes are employed by mu
nicipalities in such clerical capa
cities as mimeograph operator,
clerk-stenographer, and cashier;
in such service occupation as fire
man, policeman bailiff, and dog
catcher; in semi-skilled occupa
tions as paver and equipment op
erators; in skilled positions as
foreman, painter and bricklayer;
and in professional fields as social
worker, physician, nurse and mu
nicipal judge.
In a breakdown by degree of
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skills, the following totals were
amassed from the 16 cities sur
veyed; managerial-professions, 71;
skilled, 43; semi-skilled, 269; serv
ice and unskilled, 5,590.
The city departments employ
ing the largest numbers of Ne
groes were, public works, 2,628;
public utilities, 1,143; and health,
1,096. The smallest number were
in the finance department—two
only.
A special survey of Negro fire
men disclosed that six southern
cities have a combined total of
69—a number which includes six
captains and four lieutenants.
DeWitt summarized the results
of the survey by saying: “The
history of employment of Ne
groes in the jobs listed has been
very satisfactory. In most cases,
j the type of Negro applicant who
is available is superior to appli
cants who have been employed
previously. In addition, they are
[available in greater numbers.
“With the labor shortages de
veloping in many areas due to
momilization and defense expan
sion . . . the greatest source of
untapped labor in the south and
in many other areas is the huge1
number of Negro workers who are
working at jobs below their high
est skill, or who are unemployed
because of the undemocratic hir
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• TATI USTOaiCAL COCIITT
Major J. W. Pearman, a promi
nent territorial pioneer, described
two early Fourth of July cele
brations in reminiscence of Ne
braska City which he wrote for
the old settlers association of Otoe
County in 1873, and which are
published in the Proceedings and
Collections of the Nebraska State
Historical Society for 1907.
The first took place in 1853, the
year before Nebraska territory
was created. Pearman was at old
Fort Kearney (or what was left
of it), and decided to try to at
tend an Independence Day cele
bration being held across the
Missour River in Sidney, Iowa.
The river was in flood, a con
dition which somewhat compli
cated travel. But let Major Pear
man tell it in his own words:
“On the 4th of July Lafeyette
Duncan, myself, and seven Otoe
Indians started for the highlands
of Iowa in canoes. We left the
foot of Main street early in the
morning expecting to reach Sid
ney, Iowa, by 10:30 A.M. in time
to take part in the celebration of
that place. We aimed to go
through the heavy timber directly
opposite the city, but after pad
dling our way for a few hours
we found we could not get
through on account of the drift
wood afloat.
“We sent the Indians back, tied
most of our clothing around our
neck and started afoot for the
Bluffs, a distance of about eight
miles, at which place we arrived j
about dark, traveling in water
from two to eight feet deep.
“We arrived at Sidney at 1:00
A. M. on the 5th to find the cele
bration all over and the people
in bed.”
The next year, Nebraska City
held a Fourth of July celebration j
of its own. As Major Pearman
described the occasion:
“The 4th of July being near at
hand, it was determined to have a
grand old barbecue, and every
one set to work doing what they
could to make it a success. Arbors
for eating, speaking, and dancing
were erected near where the Sey
mour house now stands. Every
body was invited far and near.
There were at least one thousand
persons present, Atchison county,
Missouri, and Fremont county,
Iowa, furnishing most of the white
people, while our own locality
furnished many whites and a host
of Indians. Dancing and eating
commenced about one o’clock of
the 4th and wound up by a ‘big
injun’ dance on the evening of
the 6th. And be it said to the
credit of the earlier settler of Otoe
county, not a drunken man was,
seen nor were there any djs_
turbances of any kind during this
three days’ barbecuing.”
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