LETTER -BOX

Zukerman •Center
Begun at Sinai

Employe Clarifies
Bias Case Against
General Motors

Editor, The Jewish News:
Thank you for the factual, in-
formative and unbiased report
about me in the March 10 issue
• of The Jewish News. While it is
of absolute necessity to avoid try-
ing a case in a publication, I have
a correction to make and also
some comments about the case
that you may use as you see fit.
The correction is this: On the
21st of April. 19G7, I will have
worked for General Motors, at the
Fisher Body—Pontiac Division, for
31 years, not 20. I started my time
in skilled trades after World War
II, in the month of October, 1945

and should have become a journey-
man in April of 1949.
The second part of the story is
this: While I expect unfavorable
publicity sponsored by General
Motors (self preservation is the
first law of nature), their state-
ment would lead you to believe
that, "What do you mean we are
biased? Here's a Jewish produc-
tkin man, we not only hired him
but we voluntarily advanced him
up the ladder to skilled trades."
This insinuation is not the truth,
for the following reasons:
1. I was adopted and raised by
a family that is not of Jewish faith
and I came to Fisher Body off the
farm. I had no knowledge, of this
until I had worked for Fisher Body
for over three years . . I have
adoption papers to,prove this. Gen-
eral Motors had no knowledge of
this until I had to get a determina-
, Lion of birth in the spring.of 1942.
In short, when I hired in, Gen-
eral Motors did not know that they
were hiring a person of Jewish
faith.
2. I began serving my time in
skilled trades as a result of a letter
of recommendation from the Ford
Motor Company, where I worked
during WWII while on a leave of
absence from GM, not from my
Fisher Body seniority or experi-

ence.
3. During the time that I was
serving my learning period in
skilled trades I attended the Gen-
eral Motors Institute, in Flint, and
out of a class of 35 students, I was
never below third from the top.
4. Beginning in 1949, when it
was time for me to become a per-
manent member of the Skilled
Trades, that reclassification and
all subsequent promotions and
raises have been made as the re-
sult of grievance settlements. In
other words, my rise from a pro-
duction line to skilled trades has
been accomplished in spite of GM
resistance, not a voluntary move.
by GM in recognition of -my good
conduct. ability, seniority or moral
issues. •
'
Yours truly,
PHILIP MARLOWE
18500 Snowden

(Editor's Note: The Michigan
Civil Rights Commission. standing
behind Marlowe's charge of dis-
crimination, told The Jewish News
this week that General Motors still
has not satisfactorily answered to
the charge. The commission voted ,
to bring the charges of discrimin-
ation against GM after the com-
mission staff reported that the auto
firm had refused to conciliate the
matter and that an invesigation of
Marlowe:s complaint disclosed suf-
ficient grounds for action.)

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 24, 1967-15

JWV News

BLOCH ROSE AUXILIARY will
hold a general membership meet-
ing 8:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Oak
Park Community Center. Capt.
Bjorkman, a nurse recently re-
turned from Vietnam, will speak.
A question-answer period and a
social hour will follow. Perspective
members and other auxiliaries are
invited. For information call- Fern
Seltzer, president, 546-5875.
* * *
JOSEPH L. BALE POST will
meet 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the
Labor Zionist Institute. The invest-
ment club will meet an hour be-
fore.

Mr. and Mrs. Zuckerman

Construction has begun on the
Paul and Helen Zuckerman Audi-
' torium and Conference Center at
Sinai Hospital of Detroit.
The 250-seat addition to the build-
ing complex will be located at the
, northwest corner of the hospital
property, facing Outer Drive.
The auditorium is scheduled for
completion in -approximately 245
days, or about Dec. 1, weather and
other conditions permitting.
In addition to the continental-
style main auditorium, the Zucker-
man Center will contain a number
of smaller meeting areas and will
appreciably diminish the shortage
of meeting space in the existing
facilities.

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Paid Pol. Adv.

FACTS
YOB ST3011:11LAICIO 311HEN

if you live in the Southfield School District

The Southfield School Board has called a special
election to be held on Monday, March 27—even
though there is a city - wide election on Monday,

7.

April 3 (just one week later).

2.

A 27‘;i' increase in the school tax (the bulk of
your property tax dollar) will be asked for on
the ballot. This means that if your home cost
$30,000, your taxes will be $735.00. This is
$105.00 higher than the $630.00 you presently
pay, or an increase of 16%.

Due to a higher appraisal and greater facilities

there already is a $90 million broader tax base
(of which the School Board received 61.72%)
and this represents a sufficient source to meet
the School Board budget request without the

the School Board demands in this spe-
cial election.

increase

8.

All good citizens are in favor of good schools
and with a pay scale that will attract good

3.

If passed, this will make Southfield one of the
highest taxed areas in the State of Michigan.

teachers: but are opposed to wasting tax dollars
with unnecessary elections. They are opposed
to appropriating funds without allocating them.
They are opposed to sudden 27"; tax increases.

4.

The Sr-hoot Board has requested this fantastic
tax raise without stating exactly how the addi-

They are opposed to wasting taxpayer money
on building architectural monuments instead of
more economical schools.

tional dollars

5.

will be spent.

issues to be voted on could have been de-
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cided in the city election. This extra election

The School Board did not invite representatives

will cost the taxpayers of Southfield thousands
of dollars — unnecessarily! There will be only

from the general community to discuss the
Board's needs before demanding this tax in-
crease in an unnecessary special election.

16 precincts instead of the usual 40

Before such a gigantic tax increase is accepted
the public should be given an opportunity to
determine what the School Board's needs actu-
ally are.

You are urged to vote
against this unreasonable
tax increase

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diminishing the convenient opportunity to vote.
Any registered voter may vote in this election
on Monday. March 27, whether or not you are
a property owner, between the hours of 7:00
A.M. and 8:00 P.M.

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