FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIV FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIVE RIOT THREAT REMAINS: Employment Program Draws Out-of-State Jobless to Detroit; DETROIT (P)-A massive indus- "We are cognizant of the fact try effort to help avert future riots that there may be outside agita- in Detroit appears to be backfiring tors coming in and we are keeping as hundreds-possibly thousands- abreast of the situation. But that's of jobless from out of state come as far as I care to comment right to the city seeking work. now," says Inspector James Ban- The result: Some out of staters non, head of police intelligence. have failed to get a job, swelling The dramatic turn in the in- the unemployment that many feel dustry campaign was revealed by contributed to last July's devas- Joseph L. Hudson Jr., chairman of tating riot, the New Detroit Committee. Others have snapped up jobs The committee was set up by that might have gone to the city's Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh and own so-called hardcore unem- Gov. George Romney to help re- ployed. build the city after the rioting These are people considered that killed 41 and caused more most likely to join a riot and they than $80 million in damage. were the original targets of the Hudson told a news conference job campaign that has gotten na- Wednesday that word has spread tionwide publicity. around the nation of the city's ef- Police cite still another possible forts to create new jobs and that problem. in influx of jobless has pushed un- Negroes Protest In Georgia Poor Conditions of Schools SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (P)-Negro demonstrators, sprawling in front of buses to protest what they termed deplorable school condi- tions, were dragged from a street by helmeted state troopers yester- day and taken to jail. Major Porter Weaver of the Georgia Department of Public Safety said about 40 persons were booked at the Walton County jail in Monroe, 10 miles north of this small community. Weaver said they were charged with refusing to obey a - lawful order and obstructing traffic. The protest centered around conditions at the Social Circle Training School, an all-Negro el- ementary school. They said their complaints include lack of sub- stitute teachers, inadequate lunch- room facilities and overcrowded school buses. After the arrests, a group of 0 about 20 Negroes went to the So- cial Circle Public School-not in- volved in the protest - and at- tempted to enroll several Negroes. They were turned back by state troopers and S. W. Causey, the superintendent and principal of the city school. Causey said the city school, in- tegrated about two years;ago. cur- rently has about 65 Negroes in its enrollment of about 650 pupils. "I told them that this was not the time to change schools," Causey said. "I told them they had the freedom of choice as to which school their child would attend last spring and they would have that same opportunity later." The demonstrators, numbering fewer than 100, began gathering shortly before 8 a.m. Then, as the first school bus approached a few minutes later, about 25 of them scrambled into the street and sprawled there. The state troopers, most of them in separate patrol cars just behind the bus, swarmed from their vehicles and dragged, pushed and carried the demonstrators from the street. Two other incidents-all within 15 minutes-were treated in the same fashion. No injuries were reported. employment to 31,000 compared to the level of 30,000 last August. Although some of this can be traced to seasonal layoffs, Hud- son pointed out.that 17 companies asked to help provide jobs have hired 55,000 people since Aug. 1. Hudson said 45 per cent of these were Negroes, including 10,000 to 15,000 considered hardcore un- employables. Job Publicity Responsible Despite Hudson's comments, a spokesman for the New Detroit Committee said yesterday that there are no plans to ask the com- panies to tighten hiring policies and at least two of the major employers said they had no such plans of their own. "How can you keep these peo- ple out?" said the spokesman. "I know personally of one young fellow from Cleveland who came to Detroit because of the publicity about jobs," said a Ford Motor Co. spokesman. "But by the large most of the people we have hired have been from Detroit." He said Ford has not taken any steps to separate native job-seek- ers from those from out of the state. "We hire anybody who shows up at the gate," said a spokesman for Chrysler Corp. He said Chrysler also takes peo- ple referred to it by civil rights groups. General Motors Corp. also works closely with such groups in its hiring campaign. "If they send them to us we figure they're okay and we don't care where they came from," said the Chrysler spokesman. Job Seekers Up William Wilson, director of the unemployment department of the Detroit Urban League, said the number of outsiders seeking jobs through his office is up 12 per cent over 1966. Wilson said nonresidency is no bar to employment referral. He said a standardized form is given to each applicant that includes a question on how long the person has been in Detroit. If the answer indicates the per- son just arrived, he is asked why he came. Fowler Backs LBJ n Tax Surcharge WASHINGTON (P)-A congres- cluded a substantial cut in the sional alternative to the admin- budget and a 5 per cent surcharge istration's 10 per cent tax sur- on corporations - none on indi- charge got a cold shoulder yes- viduals. terday from Secretary of the Proxmire also suggested a "mod- Treasury Henry H. Fowler. est beginning" on tax reform. ex- Fowler said higher taxes are tension of the automobile and needed now to halt inflation and telephone excise taxes which are prevent an eventual recession. scheduled to decline April 1, and The Treasury chief testified be- a speedup in corporate tax col- fore the Senate-House Economic lections. These latter two measures Committee as the government re- havealready been requested b3 ported the first decline in indus- President Johnson. trial output in four months dur- Politically Realistic ing January and a slowdown in "This compromise," Proxmire personal income gains, said, "seems to me to be political- ly realistic and likely to get actior Fowler, however, said the econ- much more swiftly than the tax omy is in grave danger of exces- increase and it would have roughl3 sive overheating." the same effect." Dollar Drain Proximre said $7.55 billion could The Commerce Department also be cut from the budget in such pinpointed the international dol- fields as public works, space and lar drain last year at $3.57 billion, the supersonic transport. the largest since 1960, and blamed Fowler, however, said he had the deterioration on a poor trade no confidence from watching picture and devaluation of the congressional debate that spend- British pound. ing could be cut by $10 billion. Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.), Proxmire said he was thinking committee chairman and a sur- in terms of $7 billion of $8 billion charge opponent, suggested a and if necessary Congress could compromise on taxes which in- decree an over all spending limit. and the SATYRS (Reprise records recording artsists) would you believe BLUES with flute and harpsichord and things?! 80ri., sP., sun. 8:00 p.m. $2.00 per person $1.50 after second set G]IITBNBUNY iOUSE kti v I ,_ ti --- _ ,___ _,._ - ::. 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