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SKILLED NEGRO WORKERS HOLD POSITIONS OF TRUST AT INDIANA HARBOR STEEL WORKS BENNETT ROBINSON, Negro a' shearman on a splice bar machine at woik with a whit > employee. AN EMPLOYEE fcr many years a* th~ Indiana Harbor works of I aland Steel is Add Young. Negro, shear man on a splice bar machine. HUNDREDS ENGAGED IN VITAL BIG WAR PLANT; WHOLE FAMILIES EMPLOY ED BY INLAND COMPANY Nobody yet has had to worry a bout employment of Negroes in the steel industry. Beginning with the great migration from the South dur ing World War I, when Negroes came to northern industrial area. for good jobs and better economic opportunities .they’ve been holding down jobs in the steel mills. Dur ing the depression years, employ ment fell oft among them just as it did among whites .both native and foreign born. But today il’s a different story, for the all-ont war effort has the mills humming to turn out steel. In the Calumet region of Chicago land, thousands of Negroes labor in the roaring mills. Most of the col ored oppulation Of Gary and East Chicago live there solely for that purpose, and have been doing so for years. One plant with a long record of Negro employment is the Indiana Harbor works of the Inland Steel Co., which also has many other na tionalities and races on its roster. Most of its Negro workers started out as common laborers, but today they are represented in practically all departments of the plant, and in jobs ranging to skilled machine and eQupiment operators and sam plers. And it’s no novelty to see Negro foremen and assistant fore men heading crews throughout the giant plant. WHOLE FAMILIES EMPLOYED Com pan y records reval cases wherein all the male members of a family have been employed at In land. Take the Davidsons, for in stance. At one time, there were eight Davidsons working here, con sisting of the father and seven sons Three generations of the Logans have been on the payroll. And the Wiseners and Chamberses are other families with many memoers em ployed at this plant A good many workers have long continuous employment records.. There’s a Twenty-five Year club at Inland .composed of workers who have been there a quarter of a cen tury without interruption. Already several Negroes are members, with more to be included before the year ends. Latest addition is Orange Paxton, janitor foreman, who has been rated by Inland officials as one of their most valued workers. HOLD SKILLED BERTHS It’s the labor policy of the plant to make no distinction as to race, creed or color. This means, accord ing to Inland officials, that all em ployees have equal opportunities through promotional sequence sche dules in keeping with the seniority of the plant. In other words, a man’s service record and length of employment are the factors determ ining upward grading. Although exact figures are nor available, there are hundreds of Negroes holding down skilled, semi skilled and supervisory assignment at Inland, with the result that they draw the high wages commensur ate with their classification. Here are some of thUr jobs: over head electrical cranemen, acetylene burners, billet chippers, bulldozer operators, samplers, benchmakers, rail drilers. furnace chargers, and many others. Negroes are in 37 occupations at Inland, in addition, to common labor. They are, of course, integrated throughout the vast plant- In the sheet mill it is no novelty to seo a Negro originally from Mississip pi sweating beside a Polish or an Italian-born workers. This situa tion is accepted without comment, and they have come to know and respect each other. Nor is there re -sentment when a Negro foreman in the steam department gives or ders to the crew, which may in clude American-born whites. Inland officials are of course, sat isfied with their Negro workmen. Since, with them, it’s no experiment they intend to adhere to their pol icy of equal treatment to all em ployees, war or no war. Vkss delinquency among NEGROES THAN WHITES There is less juvenile delinq uency among Negroes than whites despite a nationwide rise of 21 per cent in juvenile delinquency since the war began. Click Magazine de clares in a copyrighted article ap pearing in its April issue, out on the newstands February- 26th. This startling reversal of the popularly - held but erroneously theory that delinquency among Negroes is greater than among whites, comes as part of story car-, ried by Click on the methods Used in Hartford. Conn., to combat the rising tide of waywardness among ’teen age Americans. The Click article reveals that Hartford began pepaing for trou ble with its youth in 1940, long be fore P^arl Harbor. Its Council of Social Agencies made precise plans for the coming emergency, and last summer engaged a crim inologist to study their work to date. As a result of this planning and study, Hartford has discover ed a number of important facts. These are, Click reports, ‘‘that no single agency in itself can prevent delinquency: that once a family is broken up..__a potential delin quency case has been created; that punishment does not straighten out kids: that they must be given exciting substitutes for the thrills they find in gangs and dangerous play; that delinquency among Ne groes does not exceed their ratio to the population and is. in fact, less than among whites.” 2ND OFFICER GERTRUDE PEEBLES ASSIGNED TO DUTY AS COMPANY OFFICER AT FORT DES MOINES Fort DesMoines. la.. April 14 — Second Olfcier Gertrude Jacquel ine Peebles of 2906 North 25th St., of this city, has been assigned to duty as a Company Officer of a new company of Negro Auxiliar ies formed at First WAAC Train ing Center. Fort DesMonies, la. In her new post. Second Officer Peebles will aid with the direction and instruction of new Auxiliaries during Basic Training. The new Auxiliaries hose rating is the WA AC equivalent of Private in the Army, are part of a large group of Negro omen who arrived at Fort Des M4ines last month. Second Officer Peebles, whose rank is equivalent to First Lieut enant in the Army, as one of the first women to enroll in the Wom en's Army Auxiliary Corps when it was formed last summer. She came to Fort DesMiCnes on July 20. 1942. She as graduated from Officer Candidate School and re J Vitamin potency at low coat— ONE-A-DAY Vitamin Tablets. A and D tablets in the yellow boi- B-Com plex tablets in the gny box. , /- DR MILES ^ LNERVINE^ For Sleeplessness, Irrrta , - bility, Headache, and Restlessness, when due to Nervous Tension. Use only as directed. i r SCHOOL TO TEACH NEGRO CULTURE Brooklyn, April 12 (ANP) —The School for Democracy has included in its curriculum a course "Life and Culture of the Negro People..” It will survey the Negro people from their African background through the various periods of their life in America to the pres ent day. Special attention will be paid <o the role of the Negro people in the present war and tre relationship between full freedom for them in America and the problem of opp ressed peoples throughout -.he world. Gwendolyn Bennett and Charles Collins will conduct this course. ceived her commission as a Third Officer, which is comparable to Second Lieutenant in the Army, on August 29. Her promotion to the rank of Second Officer came in r ecember. Before she received her assign ment to company ork at Fort Des Moines, Second Officer Peebles was a WAAC Recruiting Officer li the Sixth Service Command with headquarters in Chicago. Hi. She was an X-ray technician before sh< joined the WAAC. Second Officer Peebles' husbaiu. William Peebles, is a Second Lieut enant (in the Army. PANAMA EDITOR MAKES HEMISPHERE “WHO'S WHO" (BY C. G. WHITTINGHAM) Cristobal, C. Z. April 20 <ANP>— Congratulations from every sect ion of the country have been re ceived by Sydney A. Young. edi*o ' and publisher of the Panama Tri bune, only colored newspaper in the Republic, for being selected as one to be listed in the forthcom ing issue of “Who’s Who in t.h? Western Hemisphere." The opinion has been voiced that this honor has been conferred on Mr. Young because of his fearless manner in championing the cause of Negroes in the paper he estab lished fourteen years ago. The recognition of the important work being done by the able edi SMART TRICK Pulling down the window shade is a real accomplishment for Toby— and it’s a smart trick for anyone who wants to save heat and fuel. The dead air space between shade and pane acts as an insulator, reduces by 40 or 50 per cent the important heat loss through the glass. The fuel saving is as much as 10 per cent, if shades are drawn to the sills in all rooms at night and in unoccupied rooms during the dav. A suggestion for saving time at General Electric’s war plant in Schenectady brought this check to •Buck” Ewing, ex-baseball star now employed at the plant. His sugges tion speeds up transactions in the Company store. A native of Mas sillon, Ohio, Ewing broke into or ganized baseball in 1919 with the American Giants as a catcher, later playing with the Homestead Greys and an all-star colored team which toured Cuba. He played his last full season with the Mohawk Giants in 1935. He has lived in Schenectady for several years and joined G. E. in 1941. I t»r in Central America was fir;, noted two years ago when ->l Young was invited to become a member of the American Institute of Social and Political Science, with headquarters in Washington. D. C. FATS FOR VICTORY Keep grease from clogging your kitchen drains. Sax 3 it for use in making glycerine for ammunition and medicinals. Every ounce of waste fat counts. Drain your pots and pans, skim soups and water in which meats or fish have been boiled. Strain your waste fat into clean cans and deliver It to your meat dealer. Thirteen billion dallars—the sum the Treasury must raise in the Second War Loan drive, is only one sixth of the esti mated cost of the war for the fiscal year of 1943. OFFICIAL 0. S. ARMY SKNAL CORPS PHOTO FROM OKI i These soldiers, after 3 years’ continuous service in the U. S. Army, are being awarded Good Conduct Medals by Col. A. G. Spalding, regimental commander, for “exemplary behavior, efficiency, and fidelity.” Shown right to left are: Sgt. William F. Hughes, Washington, D. C.; Sgt. William S. Chambers, Houston, Tex.; Sgt. George Pete, New Orleans, La.; Corp. Eddie L. Acre, Shinnon, Miss.; Corp. Earl W. Newell, Elyria, Ohio; Sgt. Marvin C. Inyard, Tulsa, Okla.; Sgt. Anderson Hall, Leaven worth, Kans.; and Sgt. Edgar N. Fry, Leavenworth. Kans. FIRST LADY AND QUARTERMASTER GENERAL v SHARE HONORS ON BROADCAST WASHINGTON, D. C. — When Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt grave a report to the Mothers of the Nation on her recent trip to the British Isles, in a coast-to-coast broadcast, presented by the council on Candy as Food in the War Effort, she said in referring to candy in England “If you bring some friend a gift from this country, say a box of hard candy or of chocolates, they thank you as they might have thanked you in the past for a diamond bracelet.” On the same program Major-General Edmund B. Gregory, Quartermaster General of the United States Army, said in part, “Army nutrition experts find that the American soldier is a better fighting man when candy is a part of his diet." AC* O* 194 $i %tj ■ ■' .. I ■■ - . ■■— ■ 1 ,._‘‘SAY SARGE, GOT A MATCH”.. tjS&'j. . LOVA “ udvice on the ****<! PROBLEMS OF LIFE COU9ASt AMO M$FmATIO* TO TOO WHO SIR KHZ 'f). AMO COCOAMCf ... IN OVIKOMIHQ TOM TOOEMUS ^ _btf ABBE' WALLACE SERVICE **ABBE’S 1943 ASTROLOGY READINGS ARE NOW READY** Note: YOUR problem will be analyzed in this column free. Simply in clude a clipping of the column with your letter. For a “Private Reply— send a Quarter (25c) for ABBE'S NEW ASTROLOGY READING covering vour birthdate: you will receive with your Reading a free and confident ial letter of sound advice analyzing three (3) Questions in private. Phase sign your full name and correct address to all letters; give your birth date; and please include a self-addressed, STAMPED ENVELOPE for ! your “reply.” Explain your case as fully as you feel necessary and con fine your problems within the scope of logical reasoning. Wrap a Quar ! ter with your questions and mail today: Write to; The ABBE’ WAL j LACE SERVICE, P. O. Box 11, Atlanta, Ga. A. G.—I have been reading this wonderful column for over a year. It is so wonderful. I wrote to my auntie and asked her to send my fare to where she is. I haven t heard from her. Is her husband1 the cause of her not sending it or is somebody else talking to her. Ans: That my dear girl is beside the point. The point is that you had a great deal of crust to ask yoUr auntie to send you the fare. You are a grown woman now and plenty able to earn the money vo'ir self to pay any expenses attached to such a trip. The way to keep on the good side of kinfolk__is | to pay your own way everywhere you go and not ask anyone of them for as much as a thin dime. Better change your tactics girlie. L. E. W.—My boy friend was very nice to me before I went a tray and stayed a month and didn't write to him. He don’t act the same as he did before I left. He used to make love to me and al ways asked me to kjss him. Now he don’t make love to me anymore or tell me to kiss him and you know a girl don't like a boy to be i like that. What’s wrong? 1 Ans: While you were on your vacation a real cute little old gal beat your time. The kisses that had been reserved for you went to this other girl and she made the most of your absence. Grieving won’t help matters. The best way to heal your wounds is to date oth er boys.._they all like to kiss and love you know. V*. H. P.—Gentlemen: I need help My husband has left me. He is nearly crazy about a womna and she bothers and slanders me all the time. I want to know will you kill her for me and get my husband back to me so he will love me like he used to and treat me good. Write at once and tell me your price. I would like to make a down payment AnS: Sorry. NO CAN DO. Bump ing people off is a little out of our line. You it ally believe in Crack ing down” on f_,lks that cross your path, don’t you? I think your pen alty is a little severe and I am sure that yo urealize it is too. Had j you been as interested in making) home life pleasant for your hus- ] fcp-nd while you were living togeth- | er as you are in getting even with . this woman, your troubles never would have begun. A .M. B.—I am planning on en tering one of the business colleges | here in the city. If done, will i [ make the grades and secure my ! diploic.'Please let the answer' come out in this week's issue. Ana. The sooner you enter the school the better. The prospects of employment have never been better, and if you enter now, study hard and diligently. You can fin ish this course by fall. You will have no trouble finding a job this year. X. C.—Now, I know he works hard and wants a little fun. But why is it he can find time to sat isfy some other woman and wher he gets home he is always too tit-’ ed to Please me. This all night I business of his that he is puijing| Skilled Hands Needed; NY A Will Train Youth ; Get Your Training W AR INDUSTRIES NEED SKILLED HANDS NEBRASKA PROGRAM-— The United States Bureau of Labor | Statistics in its most recent labor market summary reports. ‘ The re cruitment job for war industries is still large and will become pro | gressjvely more difficult.”_‘ At ] least 62.5 million people will be I employed by industry- or in the ! armed forces by the end of 1943. To replace workers entering mil ! itary service and to make the nec j essary shifts from less essential to war work, about 18 million wor kers must be placed in new jobs.” ....‘‘Not until the grea$ majority of pre-employment trainees are ; women and they are participating in far greater numbers in supple mentary and in plant training pro grams. can it be hoped that the manpower requirements Of 1943 will be met.” The functions of the War Man power Commission were expanded on September 17 by an Executive Order transferring the duties ahd powers of the U. S. Employment Service, the National Youth Ad ministration, the Apprenticeship Training Service, and the Training Service, and the Traiinng-With',n industry Service to the War Man power Commission. The National Youth Adminstm tion trains young men and women between the ages of 16 and 25 through its War Production Train ing Projects. Any young man or woman between 16 and 25 who is neither attending school full time nor employed full time can qualify for this training which will pre pare him or her in 6 to 8 weeks to be a war production worker. There are two kinds of training centers. Resident and Non-resident In the Non-Resident centers young men and women living in the im mediate area can secure training as listed in this bulletin. To help defray living costs and transport ation costs, the National Youth Administration pays trainees at the rate of $24.00 Per month while they are learning to take their place in the production of war goods. In the Resider. Centers are fully equipped shops and living quarters These centers are designed to per mit young people who do not have access to a non-resident center to live in special quarters while he ing trained. The National Youth Administration pays Resident Cen ter trainees a monthly amount which provides fOy personal ex penses and furnishes board and room. Following are the Nebraska Win Production Training locations and types of training available: Location: Lincoln 2241 Y Street Type of Project—Resident facilit ies are available for young women. Types of War Training—Machine Shop, foundry. Location 3333 O Street. Lincoln Type of Project—Resident facilit ies for young women. Type of War Training—Drafting. Location, Lincoln 1429 M Street Type of Project. Resident facilit ies for young women. Type of Way Training—Industrial power sewing. Location— Bellevue. Type Of Project—Resident facilities for young women and young men. Typ es of War Training—Arc welding, machine shop, sheet metal. Location—Omaha. 801 North 30th Street. Type of Project. No resid ent facilities are available. Types pf War Training—Machine shop, sheet metal- arc welding, gas weld ing. Location—Omaha. 716 South 5th Street. Industrial power sewing. Location—Kearney. Type of Pro ject. Resident facilities are avail able for young women and young men. Types of War Training. Arc welding, radio, machine shop, sheet metal. For detailed information write to James M. Ritchie, NTA Project Manager, 115 South Tenth Street. Lincoln, Nebraska. YOl MAY PROFIT BY ITS PROVISIONS Omaha. NefcraSka.Feb. 29— All men who expect to be inducted in to the army through any station in the Seventh Service Command, Or who already are In service there without benefit of grniy al lotments to their depenednts. are urged by the commanding general to make immediate and thorough study of the Servicemen's Allow ance act of 1942 that they may Profit by its provisions. Every induction station in the nine states comprising this comm and is being specifically instruct ed by headquarters here to give all possible assistance to the soldier applicants that the necessary data may be obtained by the applicants during their 7-day furlough for arranging personal affairs at home and that aid to his dependents, if needed, shall be forthcoming im mediaetly after the soldiers' first pay check. Seldom is it necessary for the soldier to seek legal coun sel and there should be little ex pense or inconvenience to him if he carefully follows the instruc tions given at his induction sta tion Under the provisions of this act monthly pay allotments by the soldier for care of his dependents are supplemented by slightly lar ger payments by the government and the total of both paid monthly to the person whom the soldier has designated to administer the fund Dependents have been divided in to two classes, A. and B. Class A includes, wives• both legal and common-law, or divorced, if the latter is receiving under court or der. alimony payments from the soldier: children under 18 years of age. legitimate, illegitimate, leg ally adopted, or step children. Class B includes parents, brothers and sisters and grand children. The parents may be either those of the soldier or of his wife and the relationship "blood ', or adopt ion, Or that acquired by marriage, as step father Of’step mother. Like wise brothers and sisters may be such by "whole blood”, “half blood", or by adoption. All children, grand children, brothers and sisters who are to re ceive this aid must be less than 18 years old unless their physical or mental condition is such that al though older than 18 years they nevertheless are incapable of self support. right now- is just getting me down Ans: All good things have to com eto a nend at some time. you have been most generous in sharing your husband with t'ni.3 other woman. Now- it must stop. These all night “jamborees” are habit forming and you did wrong to sympathize with his “little fun” in the first Place. Give your hus band his choice- -. .you, or the com petition. He knows what side his bread is buttered on. Show- him a “little fun” at home. B. M.—I have been married 8 years. What does his mother and father think about me. I douet them caring anything at all for me Am I right? Ans: Don’t you think you nave over-tayed your visit with your husband's people? You and he have been imposing on them now for the past 8 years. Ifs high time that you moved into a place to yourselves. His people like you proof of that is that they pu: up with you for all these eight years. You and your husband can never hope to make any headway in life until you begin a home of your own. CHART DEPICTING U.S. WAR EXPENDITURES US. WAR EXPENDITURES - D.ily R*t* ■ OF *$ JULY, 1940-DECEMBER 1942 JASOaOJFMANJJASONOJ FNAMJJASOND 1940 11941 11942 ^ • , Released by the Office of War Information is this chart showing the war expenditures by the U.S. It shows the expenditure in 1942 of a total of $52,406,000,000. This was 3.8 times the $13,895,000,000 spent m 1941. The average daily rate during the 310 days in 1942 on which checks were cleared was $169,000,000 as compared with $45,600, 000 for the 30o days checked in 1941.