LITTLE WiLQHQUA r<5EE'. VtouCOM’T OUR~ MEMUKE BookER BE P^Sif THEY COULO SEE MOW BRfiWEW OUR Boys /*RE tTl/Ci-tTiKiA CT/^C> I lKin C COM k. iimmsMiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiMiiiimimmi ! Lunch | I Room | ~ (At Myrtis’ Tavern) — | 2229 LAKE STREET-1 5 (Under New Management) 5 ~ Lillian Anderson and Louise — = Finney, Proprietors 5 7- "Prompt, Courteous Servic:’’ r. ED (effectively medicated).___ 1 Sponsor Beauty Contest TTT"lTf———M————— —■ —— — —. DEBUTANTE CLUB SPONSORS MISS BRONZE CHICAGO BEAUTY CONTEST The Rhenasants, one of Chicago’s youngest and most popular social clubs was lauded by public and press alike for the successful sponsorship of the 21st Annual "Miss Bronze Chic ago” Beauty contest. The event was held at Pershing Ballroom on Aug ust 20 and attracted a huge crowd of dancers, Mrs. Marva Louis was ch ef judge and the dancer, Bill (Bojangl es) Robinson acted as MC. Reading left to right are Bernadinc ' hompsrn Gloria Bradbury. Dorothy Gran — u —i ,. a ^ouis, Paris Cradle ■. S bi' Unman, Arlene Hin on, Lillie Moran; Kneeling left in foreground is 'he ciut's president, Marguerite Burrell; Center, seated, Miss Benjamin Grant, spo nsor; Right kneeling is Thyra Biouln. PPNS. Misconception About Up grading Workers and White Collar Jobs Seen As Periling Negro Em ployment Chances BY DAN GARDNER The phrases, "upgrading workers" and "white collar positions” have done more economic harm to the Ne gro than any other factor outside of outright refusal of white firms and employers to hire colored help. The original purpose of the drive to have Negro workers upgraded in avrious industries and to open more doors for white collar workers have had an opposite effect on the Negro labor front. The situation is this: Negro workers who are not suited for upgrading and those who do not have the training and background for white collar jobs are demanding new ratings and advancement and confus ing the issue by trying to exchange a maid’s job for that of a secretary. Refuse “Heavy” and “D'rty" H'crk For almost two years, informed sources reveal, many lucrative jobs have gone a-begging or have been tak en by white workers because Negroes are refusin to do "heavy” or "dirty" work. The thousands of jobs vail ab!e in private industry and in the vast field of domestic labor, are be ing slowly but surely filled—and per manently—by Italian, Irish, Swedish. German, Polish, Hungarian, Filipino, and in many instances, by Chinese and Japanese—because Negroes are WE HAVE SEVERAL VACANCIES IN OUR LAUNDRY FOR EITHER EXPER IENCED OR INEXPERIENCED WOMEN. GET IN TOUCH WITH MR. SHERMAN AT THE LAUNDRY OR CALL WE-6055* EBHOLM&SHERMP 2401 NORTH 24th STREET -PHONE WEbster 6055 [ l turning down traditional jobs as por ters, cooks, maids, dishwashers, jan. tors, elevator operators, bellhops, countermen, truck drivers, laundress es and soforth. The spread of this alarming and disconcerting phase of our labor sit uation is growing daily. Negro mi grants from points in the deepest south to labor-hungry areas in the Nrrth such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeels, Detroit, Cleveland, ary, Pittsburgh, Youngs town, Ohio, and Newark, pose as a major problem in the labor pool. Many of these people are unab'e th read and write, yet they have heard the magic words “upgrad:ng” and “white collar" jobs somewhere and are in northern commimit'es seeking such.- employment. U a preparedness Js Cited Cttpreparedness is widespread am ong most of the applicants for wh;te collared jobs and upgrading from por -ter or unskilled laborer to a higher position. Instead of imnroving on theii time and the jobs they already hold, many of them snrnd thmr money on good times, “balling”, and on liq REAL SHOE MAN FONTF.NF!TJ,F onnr rppup || CASH & CARRY CLEANER | ! 1 no vorfi, Sf 5 —CARL CRIVERA— ** --- TAN TOPICS By CHARLES ALLEN j Continental Feature* ** 4uLEnI 1—- . .. . — —— .1 i ■ ■■ - — . ■■'■■■■ ----—* “WHICH ONES GIVES BUTTERMILK -^-~rrrrnnrmnn n imbhwmi * • ,rn»r-f rf,*-*-.*.* uor. They don’t take advantage of educational opportunities that would reprove their status. They are ever ready to holler "discrimination” when whiles who study for improvement are moved ahead of them. The unhappy thing about it all is tiiat our labor leadership has done little or nothing to create a more fa vorable situation out of which some hope for the better can be seen. Unskilled Negro labor has not been sufficiently brought under control where it can be placed where it be longs. It has not been thoroughly emphas ized that “upgrading’ and “white col lar" jobs are for those who are qual itied and not for the maid, the butler, the cook, the yardboy, or the laund ress, unless they have thorouhly pre pared for such advancement. Soldiers Returning for Jobs With the postwar period figurat ively just around the corner and the fact that millions of the members of our armed forces will be returned to civilian life and thus to active com petition for the available jobs at hand, some manner of controlling the domestic and inskilled labor situation must be devised and put into operat ion immediately. Among the millions of GI’s who will be hunting jobs in the very near future will be thousands who are expecting to return to the very jobs foolish Negroes are spurn ing today. White elevator operators, white countermen,, white cooks, white janitors and bellhops, white truck drivers and laundresses, as well as porters, will swarm all over jobs a vaiiablp in these categories. Thf Negro’s outlook should be to keep all the jobs which have been traditionally called "Negro jobs" and aod to them all others that he can get. The idea should be to control completely the vast field of domestic service; to be the main source of un skilled labor and then press forward in other fields through rapid and thorough training of people to fill the positions that crop up. 1 f Negroes continue complaining that they can’t do this and that kind of work because it is “too dirty”, or “derading” or “too heavy", they’ll wake up one of these/ mornings and fuid Poles, Irish, Italian and other foreign-born workmen holding down the jobs and getting the pay envelop es that would ordinarily go to Negro workers. Situation in Hollywood. in a measure, the current campaign in Hollywood to discourage studios from writing, maid, servant, cook, and yard boy parts into moving pic tures which show Negroes as tradit ionally in a domestic category shows evidence of action without thorough thinking out the consequences. While all thinking people, white and colored agree that the “dis heah” and “dat dan" dialect, and the low, vulgar slap j stick of chattering teeth and rolling eyes with which the movies constantly depict the Negro must be eliminated, 1 it is also apparent that the jobs and cateers of hundreds of Negroes in the movie industry are in jeopardy if ; the studios once get the idea that Ne 1 groes don't want to be shown as ! maids and porters. In such a case, it isn't hard af all to place white peo ple in their places. The strategy in Hollywood would thus tie in with a general program of getting and holding all the porter, maid, cook and yard boy parts in the movies plus adding to our labor pool such parts that call for the desired characterization of the Negro. This j is ? matter of bread and meat, a bed | to sleep on, and a house to live in. Impractical theories and viewpoints about some starry-eyed hope for the future should not be allowed to com pete with actualities. Yet, the actual itv of work in the movies and in the LUX Barber Shon 2045 NORTH 24th STREET “This is the Home of Corn Fix” factories must be handled with vision and foresight by and through an or ganized effort to carry out the pur pose desired. BUY YOUR POULTRY AT THE NEBRASKA PRODUCE 2204-6 NORTH 24th ST. 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