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i rug nand
frica, ccord
ho recently
ould requir
p n ion fund
c mp nie operatin in
intr du tion f th Pension
Bill ontinue the prote g in t uth
partheid policie th t e be n
veral years 0 id bill pon r,
p. Vir il Smith of Detroit. • It t rt
ed ith the uth fri Ban ing Bill,
follo ed by the pre nt anti- p rtheid
univer ities and
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uth frican
fri
di tr t ttention from th
politi I fr edom.
'Th ulJiv n Prin iple do not run
b ut ch nging the p rtheid la in
outh fri Smith pointed out.
'They do nothin bout the real issu
of politi al freedom for the Blac m
jon y.'
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- Benj min L. Hoo
CP e e uti director announced
av ilability of the gne Jon
holarship pplication for
holarship is v ilabl for
member ho are full-time
nd under 25.
By heri tt
Th ci y of Benton Harbor mi d
by nine d y the de dline to pply for
jobs program .
That revelation came out in a publi
m etin of the rrien County P nning
Commi . n, April 12.
City Community Development Dire -
tor ilIi m Lilly refu to comm nt on
hy the city f il d to get an pplic tion
for the job fund in on time but did tell
he Citizen th t the pplication w s
ubmitted to the county on Friday,
April 15 round 3 p.m.
County Planning Director aron
Anthony confirmed the applic tion
submitted, nine day late.
The city' propo wou d create
1,100 job Lilly id, in 11 different
projects. Among the projects were:
- orth of ain, the city ould
acquire property and put people to ork
demolishing nd rehabbing city-o ned
property.
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J AC SO is, - the board of
director of the AACP t its quarterly
meeting here this wee reje ted support
of the mov to run a Bla for pre ident
warning that su h action ould 'dilute
the strength of the Blac vote,"
In a sharply-worded re olution p ed
unanimously by the 64-member board
the AACP called upon every eli ible
BI ck Ameri an voter in every state to
sharply focu on th 0, 1 priority
the defeat of the Ron ld Re g n ver j n
of government by sting hi or her vote
for the candidate most likely to hieve
the oal nd to ta e no steps ho e er
mboli al!y aur ctive which m y h ve
the effect of diluting the Blac vote.
The board stated if reje ted ny
notion hich h d the potenti I of eep
in Bl ck voter from making ever
effort' to turn bac the re ctionary
forces bent on erasing all of our hard
won gain of the '60s and the '70s,"
Calling ttention to the reaffirmati n
of its histori nd 'time-honored non
parti n political policy nd its p it
ion of encouraging Bla s to parti ipate
in the politi al pr est every level
and in every c pacity under the p rty
banner of his or her choi e the re lut
ion st ted that a uffi ient number of
BI citizen m de possible the defe t
of Hubert H. Humphrey nd the elect' n
of Richard ixon simply by stayin
away from the poll to e pre s their
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dissatisfaction ith the merican politi
cal proce ,
Blac Ameri ans kno from bitter
experience th t ithholdin ballots from
the realisti politi I aren . a lu ury
th t can be ill afforded" it acned.
In upport of the resoluti n the
board voted to step up it ter re i tr -
tion and oter edu ation c mpai n in
20 state nd ill employ thr e ne
taff member to a si t. in the dri e
no he ded by Detroiter Jo ph di-
n,
The ide f runnin Bl andid te
for pre ident as the subj t of 30
hour marathon of meetin
held the last rch in
tlant .
Jo ph Lo
Coretta Scott
icke
pre identi 1 in
the prim ti le er
t th n tional D mo r ti conventi n.
The P H dire tor e pI in d BI
i sues ha e been ignored b b th p ti
and Bl c sneed th politi al mu I
command attention to
The are me of the highlights
reported in th fourth q rter 19
Employment in Per tive: lnorit
or ers.' public tion of the .s.
Dept. of Labor' Bure u of bor Stati -
f .
According to the publi tion
overall I bor m r et conditio 0 n
ed in 1982 th employment itu ti n
for minority or er deteri r ted
sharply ith m e iden e of 'den-
ing in th Ire dy tar e p in the bor
market tatu of Bcd Hi
hite .
Th I te t legislati n may be made
politic lly pal table to t te I m ker
by the fact that it 1 0 tipulate that
pension money dive ted from South
fri n-oper tin firm be rein e ted if
po ible in firm that do bu ine in
i hig n.
The I
stren then the
by impro ing
ima e thereby
busines in-
t tr cting more over
ve tor.
"Th re ently-en ted la 'is re rded
by a friendly me n
in ful underst nding f the sufferings
of uth Afri ns," Rep. Smith id.
"On a re ent trip to Zimb b e by our
Con res ional deJeg ti n the Afri n
tr de director, Dr. Oke hukwa A u
ichi an Dept. of Commerce, reported
th t to his under t ndin Zimb bwe
ould prefer doing busine with i hi
g n than ith other st te in the U.S.'
City governments in ichig nand
cro the U.S. have b un to reexamin
their finan ial role in upporting South
Africa, E st Lansin voted in 1977 not
t purcha city e uipment and c pital
g d from corporations op ratin in
uth frica. In Grand Rapid, th
ity Council oted t ithdraw city
fund fr m loans conne ted to outh
Africa. A city permissi n fund bill
i I pendi there.
d mo t i nifi antly , the Philadel
phi City Coun it recently dopted a
dive ment policy for it pension fund
money hich will require between 60
and 70 mill' n dollars to be ithdr wn
from companie op r ting in South
frica.
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mitted by pril 30.
pplication form can b obtained
from local CP branche or the
n tional CP, Dept. of Education,
186 Remsen St. Brooklyn e York
11201.
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-Empire Avenue reconstruction
parating the torm and nitary sy tern
under Empire, from Broadway to River
vi Dr.
-Se age and water distribution sy -
tern impro ements.
-Road, curb and gutter improve-.
ments in the orth of ain area.
Lilly could not comment on ho
many of the jobs created by the pro
ject ould benefit the unskilled job
le in the city.
Benton Township bmitted five
projects for approval, according to
Anthony. 0 of the or in olve
improvement to the To nship er
sy tern and ould create 155 jobs.
Application will be graded ccording
to the number of jobs created in relation
to the CO - the Ie it cost to create th
job, the higher the score.
Application will be forwarded by
the county to the regional planning com
mi . n, Anthony
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ASHI GTO - The re overy from
the 1980 rece ion eaker for
BI ck th n for bite or Hi p nic ,
and their unemployment rate be an
rising earlier in 1981 resulting in record
joble r tes virtu lly from the beginnin
of the current rece ion.
dult Black men ere harde t hit
reaching high of 20.5 percent unem
ployment in December 1982 comp red
with 16.5 percent for Black adult omen.
For Blac te nager th situation w s
especially vere ith an unempl y
ment rate hovering around 40 per nt
during most of the year.