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"There' ying t hen the
n tional economy ge cold,
Michigan gets pneumonia,"
Arthur nti del, n oci te
profes or at the Wayne St te
University School of Social Wor
t Sunday, Anti del poke at
an open forum, "Unemployment:
Familie at Ri k," held t the
Midwe t Labor Institute for Social
Studie . Hi lecture focused on
what be called "hidden cos " of
jobl n an(Hhe in ction on the
part of lawmakers to alleviate it.
"Michigan has shown itself to
be a fragile state," Antisdel said.
"Since World War II, there have
been nine recognized reces 10 in
the U.S. But ince 1982-83, it is not
j t the unemployed worker who is
at risk. Now the whole family i at
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on an II ed crack hou • Thl. photo by Richard nnott
mken In December 1990, when h accompanied th cope
for a I by th Mlnn apoll. St.r Trfbune. The paper
decided not to pubUeh the plctur ,claiming It w • offen Iv
to th Black community. Sennott told N.w.lm:., a photo
magazln , thllt It·. med like n opportunity to expo
tactics, and th fr hand th pollc are given to pur.. th
r on drug .• Th award-winning photogr ph r expr d
aurprJ . at th police r action to th photo. ·They liked It, •
he .. Id. ·It'. on of th mo Incriminating plctu; I've
Men.· (Reprtnt from The 1I1tMt)
DETROIT-African American
contractors want CoJl8l'ClSmaD John
Conyers to use his power on behalf
of his con tituents and stop
construction on the Veterans
Administtation (VA) hospital.
Conyers, as chair of the House
Commi ttee on Government
Operations, has the power to
terminate the VA contract with
Bateson/Dailey, a DaUa , Texas
based firm with a notoriously bad
record of falling to involve minority,
small disadvantaged, or women
owned firms on major construction
projects around the country.
ri "
Antisdel pointed to oci nd
phy leal problem th t he aid
ulted directly or indirectly from
down th ro d, you can expect a
higher d th rate from thin l.ike
incre ed hyperten ion, more
pousal and child ab e, more
unemployment
"FOR EVERY percent of the
unemployment rate, three years
"The precedent is • t. When
Maynard Jac on wa Mayor of
Atlanta, there were no local Black
contractoJS involved in the Atlanta
airport construction," aid George
McClain, e ecutive director of the
National Association of African
American Busines e (NAAB).
"They were having tbe same
problem there. He told them, if you
don't have local Black contractors
on the job, you won't have the job."
"We want Conyers to stop the
project, " McClain said.
AT LEAST SIX Black
millionaires were created out of the
Atlanta airport project, McClain
City back
. new trial for Maurice Carter
WSU professor provides tudy (lata
aw y.
The court bailiff w called to explain to the
court during Car1er' trial, why there were no
African Americans on the jury. The bailiff
testified under oath that the woman bad too
important a job with Michigan Bell to take time
off from work to serve as a juror.
The woman, Clementine Brown, and her
supervisor t the time, both told Mafrice she was
a clerical employee excused to serve on the jury ..
Brown and one other BI ck woman were in the
jury selection pool, but ere not seated. The
S CARTER, A10
By TERRY KELLY
ilioN n Citizen
BENTON HARBOR -At the urging of the local'
chapter NAACP, the Benton Harbor City
Commi ion voted unanimously to urge Berrien
County Pro ecutor Dennis Wiley to conduct a
" wift and speedy" investigation into jury
tampering charges connected to the 1976 trial of
. Maurice Carter.
. The vote came at the regular city commi ion
meeting, held Monday, April 27, after Mary
DeFoe, president of the Twin Cities Branch
NAACP addressed the commission requesting
, . their support.
Carter was fOlmd 'guilty and sentenced to life
in prison for the hooting of Detective �
Schadler in a downtown Benton Harbor Blae
wigs and record shop.
Schadler spent two days in the hospital after the
shooting and now works as an investigator for the
pro ecutor.
DeFoe presented the commission with a copy
of a letter from Southfield attorney Frank Mafrice .
MAFRlCE, WHO IS working pro bono on
behalf of Carter, wrote Wiley to say tbataffildavits
had been secured from an African American
woman called to serve on Carter's jury, but turned
homicide and uicid ,divorce
andalcoholi m,"he 'd. "All these
increa e can be attributed to
unemployment Unemployment is
said. You give contractors
opportunity, it's p ed on down tile
line as they hire ubcontractors, who
hire workers. It h a nowball effect,
McClain aid.
"The project is defini tely in
trouble wi th mi ing targets for
minority participation," said Charles
Beckham, executive director of
Urban As ociation of Contractors
and Consultants, one of the other two
group who with AAB and the
Association of Bl c Contractors
have been meeting for over three
months wi th Conyers and members
of his taff.
Maurice Carter
a kiUe ."
The profe or
de cribe typical cenario, in
ch an unemp oyed r'
i 10 lydeterioratedbythel
job.
"A worker is told that he
going to I job, then he in
pre-job-loss t ge," id
Anti del. "There i hoc,
especially in a ituation like the
one ith UNISYS, in which
people 00 made $70,000 a year
were ven one--day notice that
they ere bebl let go.
"W foUo i the actual 10
of the job," he dded. "At this
point, there i
mone y-unemploymen t
benefi . in so there is not
a lot of urgency. Here, some people
JOBS,A10
The groups t recent mee
w April 3 at which time a Jist
drafted and sent to Bateson/Dafley
indicating what some of the
contractors fel t w necessary to
begin to involve minorities on the
job.
"After 27 day, we have no
respon e from Conyers,
BatesonlDailey-from anyone,"
McClain id.
"We are tired of the wait game
until the project is dODe," McClain
said.
"WE WILL BE meeting and
req t Conyers move forward ith
all due deliberation the far
sweeping powers avaHable to him, "
Beckham
"They are beating us
economically, just as the police
phyaicallybeatRodDey King; only it
hUl1l mo Would the rioteD in
LA have been 0 all gbt buming
and looting. if they bad a job 10 get
up and go to in the morning?"
McClain ked.
McClain aid one legitimate
Black contractor, WHliams and
Richardson, had been hired a sub
to a ub, but yet had no contract.
"According to the t meeting
with Bateson/Dailey's minority
S CQNYERS, A 10
OUVER WILUAMS JR.:
"It' a wor ble plan. Security is
very important when it lnvol
students in the chool y tem
today. "
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