protector
ed
id.
The
Carter
1 76
I
of the pn
po ,Tful, Bond
A federal court has
a rded arine Corp
teran S50000 in b
pay and intere t beca
hi mployer f:' d to
reinstate him in a po ttion
h ould ha had if he
had n t ft his emp Y:
ment to in the mili­
tary,
us. Di triet court
in IlIinoi h ordered tn
Grand Trunk
am d
Don d
30000 in
20,000' .
by not be'
fireman
tume
from
Ho ard
of
Supreme
court dec" on in the
e ,where th
Supreme court deled.
reverse . rimination to
be a re ity, atta ed
by Bond being yet
another dilution of the
gain m de by the civil
,. rights mo ement.
. e h lped ere te
in the popular mind the
presence of an imaginary
condition called re er
discrimin tion " id
illiam P. Hobgood,
. tant secretary of labor
fo labor-man gernent
relatio .
Barrett first
hired by the railroad a
fireman in October, 1963,
but laid off in ay,
1964, He r mployed
. itch tender - job
that pays I - in pril,
1965 and remained in
th t po ition until hen­
tered th arin Corp in
January 1 66. In ay
1966, bile B nett was
till in e ariens the
railro ded firem nand
offered the job to it
former employees ith
experience in that
. '00.
Barrett relea d
from arines in arch
1968 d reinstated by
railroad in hi former
a . tch tender. He
a fireman in A t
1966,
Fa
·th a
Iefliority
mu t be widened to encom-
pa ruggl, a
tru end the
democrary
h been denied
Bond, "a laughable notion
that im' that some­
ho the 13 percent of the
population that s Blae ha
mana d to force the 87
percent that isn t to li e
the or t home to
d their children to the
o t hool to wor -
if y're luc y to r
t aU - t orst kind
of job and to even di
yean earlier than this a
all minority doe ."
The hope for the
future . in a continued
trugle, Bond concluded.
e battle line of the
old civil rights movement
i I 9
Americans, a depriv -
tion that h relegated
BI c mer' ans to the
ta tus of a permanent
under-cl ,h If uba .
belo the poverty • line
hile the (1 ork !wi e
hard to earn half much
e eryo else,
" e hold the po ib
future in our hand , not by
and will. but only by
wor, thought plan and
organization:' ,
d promotion of minor­
ities and om n.
Bell's dec" n Friday
imilar to one fi
years go in ich an
Ingham County judge in
f vor of a white pp 'cant
ho h d been pa dover
for blac candidate by ...... _ ... � ...
the te police.
Th tate t
to federal court, her
an reement s reached
for trooper recruit ela s to
include a certain number
of minoritie and omen.
,
The . chigan Civil
Service Departmen t will
appeal court deei 'on on
officials y could tie the
tate' affirmative ction
hiring program knots,
Robert Bell,' Ingham
County circuit court
judge, ruled affirmative
action i rever discrimina­
tion, in violation of the
ichigan Constitution.
"There will be an
ppeal," Civil Service
Departmen t sp eman
Donald yers said. Our
ffirmative acti n pro-
gram ha produced re ul
. . , program to over­
come p t di rimination
have had flnal approval in
t U.S. Supreme Court.
Th decisi on came in
I w uit filed by five white
male guard at t 0 ta te
prison in Ionia. The gu rd
complain d that thre
bla and t 0 omen had
been unfairly ppointed to
jobs they anted.
ichigan' Constitution
b IS the use of 'religious,
r ial or parti consider -
lions" in filling job, Bell
wrote in his decision.
Hiring and promotion
mu t be b d on merit,
efficiency and fitne, '
Bell said as ruled the
ppoin tmen ts "invalid nd
wid."
He lso . d an order
ould be' ed prohibit­
the use of special te t-
. g to incr hiring
yo
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On y ar r idency i
Hig'h school graduat.
o f.lony convict·on'
Stat 'of
or G D
Contact Trooper Coleman
Benton Harbor, State Police Post.
926-7361