National Reports
VOTAW, BICKNELL EUBANKS, WALTER R. STOREY, ALBERT N.
National Reports Atlanta: Joseph R. Fiszman. Boston: Courtney R. Sheldon. J Chicago: Albert N. Votaw. Dallas: Bicknell Eubanks. Minneapolis: Sam Romer. New Orleans: Stephen Ryan. Richmond:...
...are advised to create an atmosphere which will encourage management to consider employment on merit as good business...
...Some of this is due to the squeeze by Government...
...However, with the political power his state patronage gives him, and financial backing from most of the state's Big Business interests, a Governor, however inept, can usually dominate the Pennsylvania GOP...
...In Illinois, the grip of aging and ailing Colonel McCormick is relaxing...
...With Craig out of the state, the Old Guard suspended the rules and installed their own man, but their victory was short-lived...
...Texas Is Bigger Than Hunt By Bicknell Eubanks Dallas Texas is not entirely populated by oil-rich millionaires, as readers of certain nationally circulated magazines might gather from the recent spate of stories on such figures as Clint Murchison, the big "wheeler-dealer" of Dallas...
...In addition to the resources of its founders and supporters, the new organization, thanks to General Wood's association with Texas oil multi-millionaire H. L. Hunt, has access to seemingly unlimited supplies of cash...
...The question of money may become crucial when For America decides to test its still untried strength within the GOP organizations of three Midwestern states where it might he expected to have its greatest success...
...Craig won control of the State Committee last month, after a bitter battle in which the Senators accused him of having "threatened, coerced, browbeaten and tortured" (sic...
...At first, Dilworth supported Mayor Clark in this bitter battle and helped bring about the defeat of local Democrats in the 1953 election for relatively minor city offices...
...There must have been some nostalgic moments when the For America founders gathered...
...Democrats here are mildly optimistic about winning a few more Congressional seats—they hold 11 out of 30—and possibly the Governorship...
...As yet, For America's chief sources of strength appear to be financial and moral...
...As a result of a Dallas experiment, one national concern, the General Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, is now encouraging the employment of qualified Negroes as tire salesmen in its outlets throughout the United States...
...This step was taken as a result of the experience of Ed Reed, a Negro, whose record as salesman with General Tire and Rubber's Dallas outlet drew the attention of company officials...
...Americans for Democratic Action has supported Mayor Clark...
...Based on the friendly philosophy of John Woolman, an early Quaker, an interview-conference method has been evolved and used in approaching top management and well-established employers," Mr...
...San Francisco: Frank Mankiewicz...
...Louis: William Wyant Jr...
...Buckeridge reports...
...so was ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
...As the first minority-group worker, one must be prepared to face problems...
...It was my fifth visit to this exquisite land of water buffaloes, languid Thais and ever-busy Chinese...
...Neither man is well known in the state, and Pennsylvania promises an interesting political battle...
...The cost of living has risen considerably...
...We are concerning ourselves with the qualified applicants and have not begun to deal with the main, long-range problem of training the unqualified...
...But the new organization's moral advantage lies in the clarity of its goals, the simplicity of its appeal and the enthusiasm of its supporters...
...At stake will be not only the Governorship, but also Capehart's Senate seat and the delegation to the GOP National Convention...
...Political Polka in Pennsyl By Walter R. Storey Philadelphia Pennsylvania's dull May 18 primary, in which less than a quarter of the electorate voted, should not obscure the fact that state leadership in both major parties is changing...
...In 1952, after Craig's landslide victory, the Jenner-Capeiiart forces permitted him to name a new State Chairman...
...Most of the appointees are Army, Navy and Air Force officers...
...Buckeridge...
...Backers of For America have announced that they will confine themselves to supporting candidates in agreement with their views—a sort of ADA for the Republican Right...
...But, containing as it does so many in whom allegiance to certain ideas outweighs devotion to party, it has been viewed as a possible third-party nucleus...
...But the chink in the barrier is being steadily enlarged...
...Either an out-and-out supporter of Governor Fine or a man acceptable to both factions will be chosen to take over this key party job...
...This led to the nomination of State Senator George M. Leader for Governor...
...In the recent primary, Mayor Clark's forces united with some dissident old-line Democrats and defeated their opponents in almost every district...
...The state's new GOP strong man, ambitious Governor William G. Stratton, has never allowed the theory of government to interfere with the practice of politics...
...Thus, the Old Guard found they had captured a penniless, patronageless machine...
...It may be that hostile actions, attitudes and stares will be directed toward new minority-group employes...
...Sid Richardson, the silent oil operator of Fort Worth...
...Some stems from the corruption of Government officials and the police...
...Robinson and Mr...
...Indiana s nominations for major offices are made in convention, where the special inducements of For America could conceivably be better displayed than in an open primary...
...Former Representative Hamilton Fish was there...
...and H. Roy Cullen, who recently brought Joe McCarthy to Texas to promote his theme of "twenty years of treason" under the Democrats, of whom there are plenty in the Lone Star State...
...Early hostility of white workers has disappeared...
...Bitter dissatisfaction toward retiring Governor John S. Fine has been shown by many Republican leaders who supported his barely-won battle in 1950...
...The directors of the project are particularly proud of the results of integrating Negro and white workers and trainees at the Machine Products Company, a Dallas firm which makes precision products...
...Forces at work inside Thailand, coupled with the march of Asian events since the consolidation of Communist power over providing further ribs for the semi-totalitarian regime of Premier Song-gram...
...Briefly, Mayor Clark insists on filling all routine city positions through competitive civil service...
...Corruption is reaching monumental proportions and threatens the future of Thailand as a nation...
...And 100-percent For Americans are already organizing for the critical year of 1956...
...As yet, these voters have had little opportunity to compare GOP turkey-raiser Lloyd S. Wood with young (36-year-old) George M. Leader, who is a chicken-farmer...
...For Amenca'-An ADA for the GOP Right By Albert N. Vntaw Chicago U "Third-party-itis" has infected | the extreme Right...
...The fight will continue at the June 25 GOP State Convention, when Craig will try to force nomination of a friendly slate of subordinate state officials...
...The economic, political and cultural foibles, fables and failings of these big operators have recently been lavishly laid out in Time, Fortune and the Reporter magazines...
...Publicist John T. Flynn broke bread with General Robert E. Wood, head of Sears Roebuck...
...Two of these individuals are a former GI, Byron Buckeridge, and a soft-spoken Negro woman, Mrs...
...As Governor, Craig could—and did —offer more jobs to the faithful than the two Senators...
...This may serve as a model for other national companies which desire to combine good business with good human relations," suggest Mrs...
...But, while these men are getting colorful publicity, other Texans of less note are quietly going about their business and solving some tough and rather significant problems of more long-range concern to the United States...
...They arc told that their task is to become efficient, competent workers...
...Craig had already set up his own "Republican Victory Fund," into which was paid the 2-per-cent levy collected from the state's political payrollers...
...Another dramatic example of success has been the decision by a leading Dallas department store to employ Negro women as cashiers in the firm's branch in an exclusive suburban area...
...Victor and new boss of Hoosier Republicanism is Governor George Craig, an Eisenhower supporter...
...Richmond: Lawrence King...
...Gains are being made steadily in all major employment areas, the co-directors report, "but it will require two or three years more to make any major breakthroughs...
...The backers of For America offer salvation in an era when the bearers of other messages speak with voices conspicuously lacking in assurance...
...As a result, factions in Philadelphia were displeased with him...
...For America also has an unofficial organ, the Chicago Tribune, whose editor and publisher, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, attended the founding conference...
...The leaders of the Democratic City Committee insist that some municipal agencies be havens for political appointees...
...Buckeridge points out...
...They explain that the Job Opportunities Project is a Quaker experiment in race relations...
...A pioneering position is not always a pleasant one," the co-directors advise applicants...
...However, the Democrats in his home county are split over the new City Charter and resent Dilworth's lack of leadership in the fight between reform Mayor Joseph S. Clark and the old-line Democrats...
...In Wisconsin, the scene of inconclusive skirmishes between McCarthy and other GOP leaders, the question of ultimate party control is moot...
...Almita B. Robinson...
...The denial of the rumors is interesting, because the denial lists rather accurately the poisons which are infecting the body politic of Thailand...
...Many independent Republicans are disgusted with Governor Fine and with the recent sales tax he pushed through the Legislature...
...But the GOP has not been united behind its veteran state chairman, State Senator M. Harvey Taylor, who is a follower of Senator Duff...
...Senator James H. Duff's behind-the-scenes maneuvering against him to open opposition by leaders in suburban southeastern counties adjacent to Philadelphia—which consistently turn in huge Republican majorities...
...As co-directors of the Job Opportunities Project for Minorities of the American Friends Service Committee here in Dallas, they are quietly and effectively breaking down the barriers which keep Americans of Negro or Mexican descent from such non-traditional jobs as white-collar positions, research work, employment in machine shops requiring ability to handle precision tools, supervisory and other types of work involving aptitude, experience, training and education...
...It has ranged from U.S...
...Despite the Job Opportunities Project's many successes, there is still plenty of opposition to the employment of Negroes and Mexican-Americans in "non-traditional" work...
...In 1950, Philadelphia's District Attorney, Richardson Dilworth, was the best state campaigner the Democrats had developed since they controlled the state government from 1935 to 1939...
...They struck back only last January during a routine meeting of the State Central Committee...
...In the National Assembly, half the representatives are appointed by the Government...
...But, if they are to do so, it will take dissatisfaction not only with Pennsylvania Republican leadership and policies, but also over such national issues as the Federal farm price-support program, the President's rift with Senator McCarthy, and the prospects of U.S...
...Fine retaliated during the primaries by insisting that all campaign funds be turned over to one of his aides, who sent money for expenses only to those county chairmen loyal to the Governor...
...The Tribune ran a lengthy series of educational articles on third-party movements during the weeks preceding formation of the group...
...It has respected District Attorney Dilworth's basic liberalism, although it disagreed with his compromise on the City Charter because it would have allowed political appointments to be made at all levels of certain city agencies...
...involvement in Indo-China...
...The free-and-easy climate of Siam has noticeably changed...
...And some...
...An attorney and turkey farmer, he has been successively an Assemblyman, State Senator and Lieutenant Governor...
...The formation here of a group calling itself For America unites some old America Firsters with others whose interest in politics was aroused by Senator McCarthy's arrival on the national scene...
...The project puts emphasis on every field of business, industry, Government, and social organizations...
...Buckeridge explains that minority applicants, if successful in getting "non-traditional jobs...
...The state organization could not run him for Governor, even though it felt he could win voters everywhere except in his own county...
...It is essential for the Democrats to carry Pennsylvania's largest city, which they have done from 1948 to 1952, if they expect to capture the Governorship this year...
...Reed has been sent to other Southern outlets to help set up plans for employment of other qualified Negroes as salesmen...
...Lieutenant Governor Lloyd H. Wood is the Republican organization's "harmony" candidate for the state's top position...
...I recently visited Thailand, the linguistic "land of the free...
...At stake in the November election will be the posts of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Internal Affairs, 3 Superior Court judges, and 30 Congressional, 25 State Senate and 210 State Assembly seats...
...The third state is Indiana, where the Old Guard faction of Senators Homer Capehart and William Jenner has taken a severe beating...
...For America's big chance to win back this state will come in 1956, when Craig, constitutionally forbidden to succeed himself in the State House, will be most vulnerable...
...Later, he tried to arrange a compromise when the two contending intra-party groups had already established their political battle-lines...
...The in Siamese Government circles...
...Wood shares co-chairmanship of the organization with Clarence E. Manion, who was fired as head of President Eisenhower's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations either because of his vocal support of the Bricker Amendment (according to most reports) or (according to Manion) because he recommended that the TVA be turned over to private interests...
...Among minority applicants placed in "non-traditional" work are sewing-machine operators and clerical employes at the Nardis Sportswear Company, a stenographer in the Dallas branch of the Navy Office of Materials Procurement, a foreman in a Dallas paper mill, and skilled factory workers in the plants of Swift, Armour and Hormel packing companies, the Rubberoid Company and many others...
...loyal Republicans...
...thereby disproving stereotyped ideas that Negroes and Mexican-Americans are always late, have a higher rate of absenteeism, and are generally undependable...
...H. L. Hunt, the Dallas independent oil operator whose Facts Forum reputedly gets millions of dollars worth of free radio and television time each year...
...No longer is it a rarity for qualified minority applicants to apply for clerical, skilled and professional job openings in major businesses and industries in Dallas," Mr...
Vol. 37 • June 1954 • No. 24
