Note: Gunnar Myrdal died in 1987, less than 70 years ago. Therefore, this work is protected by copyright, restricting your legal rights to reproduce it. However, you are welcome to view it on screen, as you do now. Read more about copyright.
Full resolution (TIFF) - On this page / på denna sida - Footnotes - Chapter 19
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
Footnotes 1305
^®The Bureau of Employment Security observes, with respect to the ordnance
industry:
“Hiring of Negroes is not commensurate with rapidly expanding job opportunities,
and it is doubtful that there will be a general acceptance of Negro workers in the near
future. Jobs filled by Negroes at present are chiefly in the custodial services and in the
unskilled categories, with few instances of upgrading reported. Virtually every impor-
tant employer has indicated that hiring of nonwhites will begin ‘when necessary,’ that
is when the supply of white workers is exhausted. Employment prospects for Negroes in
southern war plants, even as unskilled workers, are limited, due to the availability of a
large pool of whites. Almost without exception, job opportunities for Negroes are
negligible in the large ordnance plants of the Great Lakes and Middle Atlantic States.”
{The Labor Market [June, 1942], p. 15. See also other sources cited in the preceding
footnote.)
There are certain instructions issued, after conferences with unions and employers,
by the Office of Production Management (September 17, 1941) and jointly by the
War Manpower Commission and the War Production Board (June 18, 1942), regulat-
ing the seniority rights of workers moved from one production line to another, or from
one establishment to another within the industry.
Interview with Lloyd H. Bailer of the War Production Board, Labor Division
(August 2-3, 1942). See also Lester B. Granger, “Negroes in War Production,” Survey
Graphic (November, 194.2), p. 544.
The Labor Market (June, 1942), p. 10 ; and Weaver, “With the Negro’s Help,”
P- 701 -
The Richmond Times^Disfatchy for instance, carried a series of articles on the sub-
ject during the winter of 1940- 1941. Among the most noteworthy pamphlets are:
Council for Democracy, The Negro and Defense (1941); Frank R. Crosswaith and
Alfred Baker Lewis, “Discrimination, Incorporated,” Social Action (January 15, 1942) ;
Earl Brown and George R. Leighton, The Negro and the War^ Public Affairs Pam-
phlet No. 71 (1942); The National Urban League, “Report of Progress in the War
Employment of Negro Labor” (mimeographed, July, 1942). Prominent magazine
articles are: “The Negro’s War,” Fortune (June, 1942), pp. 77-80, 157-164; “Found:
A Million Manpower,” Modern Industry (May 15, 1942), pp. 28 31; Earl Brown,
“American Negroes and the War,” Harfer^s Magazine (April, 1942), pp. 545-572;
Stanley High, “How the Negro Fights for Freedom,” Readers Digest (July, 1942),
pp. 113-118. Walter White, “It’s Our Country, Too,” The Saturday Evening Post
(December 14, 1940), pp. 27 and 61-68. See, also, other sources cited in this and
the preceding Section.
^®The National Defense Advisory Commission instituted a special Department of
Negro Affairs in its Labor Division in July, 1942. In August, the N.D.A.C. made a
statement to the effect that defense workers should not be discriminated against because
of age, sex or race. This declaration was backed up by the President in September and
by Congress in October, 1940. A few days later the N.D.A.C. reached an agreement
with the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor
to the effect that all trade union barriers against the Negro should be removed. In
November, 1 940, the U. S. Commissioner of Education urged those in charge of public
defense training programs to consider the nondiscrimination clause in existing defense
training legislation. In April, 1941, a Negro Employment and Training Branch was
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>