Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1965-09-04 J. A. Beauchamp FAIR HIRING AWARD — Scott Paper Company, manufacturers of home paper products, his been cited for its merit employment policy and practices by the IBPO cf W (Elks), during the fraternal unit's annual convention of Philadel phia. Grand Exalted Ruler, Hobson R. Reynolds (center), makes the presentation 16 Scott Executive Vice President, Paul C. Baldwin (right), as J. S. Baker Middleton, the company's Director of Personnel, looks on. Unscrupulous Credit Practice Cause Embittered Race Relations "Protecting the consumer from Unfair credit practices is vital part of the effort to eliminate poverty from America," declared Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (DemMichigan) in a speech prepared for delivery Aug. 30 in the House of Representatives. "We will lose the war - on - poverty if increased incomes only provide new opportunities for unethical credit and retailing practices. Unscrupulous credit practices are also a cause of embittered race relations because the merchant in the Negro ghetto the so often a white man." Conyers planned to introduce a bill to require standardized information for all loans and installment purchases so the consumer can compare credit costs. The "truth - in - lending" bill whose long - time sponsor has been Senator Paul Douglas (Dem-Illinois) requires the consumer to be informed of all credit costs and the annual rate of interest on the unpaid balance. "The average consumer, whether he is buying a TV. an appliance or Who Just needs a loan, is lost in a ware of complex and confusing credit, terms and hidden costs," declared Conyers. "It is quite true the 'poor pay more' because they are more often than the average consumer the victim of fraud, poor service and low quality. Unscrupulous merchants take advantage of the Poor's urgent necessity to buy, their low credit ratings, and, their lack of sophistication and knowledge." Conyers particular stressed the bill will "not only provide vitally needed protection for "the consumer in the 'commercial jungle' but it will also help the ethical businessman. Honest merchants who want to be completely fair With their customers are at a severe disad vantage if their competitors are not required to do the same." Conyers announced he could he introducing a series of bills concerned with the problems of the American consumer during the next few weeks, "Our economic system can only work if the consumer is fully and honestly informed about what he is buying and true costs. In sponsoring these bills I am particularly proud to be associated with Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Phil Hart of my own State of Michigan who hive for so long been the champions of the consumer," "We should not adjourn Congress this year without finally the people of Washington, D. C. the right to given themselves," declared Cong. John Conyers, Jr. Dem.- Michigan in a speech prepared for delivery Aug 30 in the House of Representatives. "This Congress has done much to fulfill the spirit of American democracy that government is by the people. It passed a Voting Rights bill guaranteeing millions of Negro Americans in the South the right to vote — even in local elections. But the people of Washington, D. C. still can not vote for a Mayor. I ask my colleagues to sign the discharge petition, available for signature tomorrow noon, which will finally rescue the D. C. home rule bill from the Committee which has blocked it for so many years. "Let's acknowledge the well known fact that many of the most vociferous opponents of home rule object to allowing Washington to govern itself because it is the only large city in America with n majority of Negroes" said Conyers These are the same people who opposed the Voting Rights bill since they didn't want Negro Americans to vote because they are the majority in many Southern counties and cities" declared the only Negro member of the House Judiciary Committee which drafted the Voting Rights bill. The Senate has passed a Washington, D. C. home rule bill six times since 1948, fut is has been blocked by the Southern - dominated House District Committee. "The Committee has continued its unreasonable tactics this year," said Conyers. "My colleague from Detroit, Cong. Charles Diggs, along with a few other members of the House District committee has tried For nine months just to have hearings held on the bill. In April, I was glad to join 115 other Congressmen in signing a letter asking for hearings. Home rule supporters have now finally had to file a dicharge petition in order to overcome the committees dilatory tactics and bring the bill directly to the floor of the House." The strategy of home rule supporters is to adopt the bill passed by the Senate in July without any changes.. They fear amendment would mean the bill would be blocked by a conference committee to resolve the differences between Senate and House versions. "The House members of the conference committee would normally be the same Southerners who have blocked the bill for so many years. I am today introducing the Senate version of the home rule bill as a token of my emphatic opposition to any amendments which would possibly jeopardize final passage of a home rule bill. CONYERS CALL, FOR GIVING, HOME RULE TO WASHINGTON, D. C. THIS YEAR ASKS HOUSE MEMBERS TO SIGN DIS- CHARGE PETITION TOMMOR- ROW. "Protecting the consumer from Unfair credit practices is vital part of the effort to eliminate poverty from America," declared Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (DemMichigan) in a speech prepared for delivery Aug. 30 in the House of Representatives. "We will lose the war - on - poverty if increased incomes only provide new opportunities for unethical credit and retailing practices. Unscrupulous credit practices are also a cause of embittered race relations because the merchant in the Negro ghetto the so often a white man." Conyers planned to introduce a bill to require standardized information for all loans and installment purchases so the consumer can compare credit costs. The "truth - in - lending" bill whose long - time sponsor has been Senator Paul Douglas (Dem-Illinois) requires the consumer to be informed of all credit costs and the annual rate of interest on the unpaid balance. "The average consumer, whether he is buying a TV. an appliance or Who Just needs a loan, is lost in a ware of complex and confusing credit, terms and hidden costs," declared Conyers. "It is quite true the 'poor pay more' because they are more often than the average consumer the victim of fraud, poor service and low quality. Unscrupulous merchants take advantage of the Poor's urgent necessity to buy, their low credit ratings, and, their lack of sophistication and knowledge." Conyers particular stressed the bill will "not only provide vitally needed protection for "the consumer in the 'commercial jungle' but it will also help the ethical businessman. Honest merchants who want to be completely fair With their customers are at a severe disad vantage if their competitors are not required to do the same." Conyers announced he could he introducing a series of bills concerned with the problems of the American consumer during the next few weeks, "Our economic system can only work if the consumer is fully and honestly informed about what he is buying and true costs. In sponsoring these bills I am particularly proud to be associated with Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Phil Hart of my own State of Michigan who hive for so long been the champions of the consumer," "We should not adjourn Congress this year without finally the people of Washington, D. C. the right to given themselves," declared Cong. John Conyers, Jr. Dem.- Michigan in a speech prepared for delivery Aug 30 in the House of Representatives. "This Congress has done much to fulfill the spirit of American democracy that government is by the people. It passed a Voting Rights bill guaranteeing millions of Negro Americans in the South the right to vote — even in local elections. But the people of Washington, D. C. still can not vote for a Mayor. I ask my colleagues to sign the discharge petition, available for signature tomorrow noon, which will finally rescue the D. C. home rule bill from the Committee which has blocked it for so many years. "Let's acknowledge the well known fact that many of the most vociferous opponents of home rule object to allowing Washington to govern itself because it is the only large city in America with n majority of Negroes" said Conyers These are the same people who opposed the Voting Rights bill since they didn't want Negro Americans to vote because they are the majority in many Southern counties and cities" declared the only Negro member of the House Judiciary Committee which drafted the Voting Rights bill. The Senate has passed a Washington, D. C. home rule bill six times since 1948, fut is has been blocked by the Southern - dominated House District Committee. "The Committee has continued its unreasonable tactics this year," said Conyers. "My colleague from Detroit, Cong. Charles Diggs, along with a few other members of the House District committee has tried For nine months just to have hearings held on the bill. In April, I was glad to join 115 other Congressmen in signing a letter asking for hearings. Home rule supporters have now finally had to file a dicharge petition in order to overcome the committees dilatory tactics and bring the bill directly to the floor of the House." The strategy of home rule supporters is to adopt the bill passed by the Senate in July without any changes.. They fear amendment would mean the bill would be blocked by a conference committee to resolve the differences between Senate and House versions. "The House members of the conference committee would normally be the same Southerners who have blocked the bill for so many years. I am today introducing the Senate version of the home rule bill as a token of my emphatic opposition to any amendments which would possibly jeopardize final passage of a home rule bill. NAACP Cap Program Scores Gains In Seven U. S. Towns The, NAACP Community Action program (CAP) of the Youth and College Division in Bridgeport, Conn., has devoted the major portion of its energies to housing code violations some sixty complaints of violations have been collected including defective wiring, plumbing, lighting, pest and rodent infestation, fire hazards and broken glass. CAP volunteers have also undertaken relocation of two families, one of whom faces eviction. An employment opportunity survey has been conducted and a class in English will be initiated shortly for Spanish — speaking persons in the Community. Brooklyn has continued to devote Its time to a community up - lift program. A city - owned vacant lot is being purchased and funds are being raised for development of a "vest pocket park." Approximately thirty housing complaints have been filed with city agencies and workers are continuing to organize tenant in buildings Which violate the City Housing Code. Granville Read, coordinator, reported on activites in seven cities in an interim statement on the project. Chicago has also continued to work on organizing tenant Councils and on filing complaints of building code violations. Already tenants in over 3 dozen building have been organized, representing over fifteen hundred residents. Efforts in Detroit are being directed to an intensified voter registration campaign, geared to an important city election in which two Negroes stand a good chance of being elected to the City Council. The campaign will be followed by "Operation Grass Roots," designed to determine the extent of effectiveness of various municipal services and programs. The CAP program in Mount Vernon, N. Y., has centered on housing but has encountered stiff resistance from the Building Department and the Mayor. Alter repeated stalling the Mayor finally met with members of the Mount Vernon NAACP Youth Council last week., At the meeting the Mayor was presented with a list of grievances which included demands for school integration as well as housing. Following the meeting the NAA CP filed a total or 17 complaints a bout poor housing conditions with the Building Department An educational project sponsored by CAP has shown excellent results with youths of the city who have made several field trips to the public library, the fire house. Central Park Zoo and other blacks. In Springfield, Mass., Mr. Reed and other national staff members spent several days in the city following the arrest of over 50 civil rights demonstrators including many NAACP members, who have been protesting police brutality. An NAACP attorney has been engaged to defend the demonstrators and NAACP officials have met with agents of the F. B. I. on the situation. CAP volunteers in the city have published and are distributing a phamphlet, "First Aid to Education," detailing the school segregation. In addition to outlining the damage to both white and Negro children attending segregated schools, the pamphlet lists ten specific ways in which individual citizens can assist in the effort to end racial imbalance in the schools. Wilmington, Del., continues to operate a well - attended CAP tutorial project. Arithmetic, including adding, subtracting and multiplication, and reading have been stressed. A variety of books covering grades one through six are being used as well as a series of Reader's Digest publications. In addition, the Wilmington NAA CP Youth Council has been picketing a liquor store which is opposed by residents in the area. And is collecting signatures on petitions urging the passage of a fair housing law in the fall session of the legislature. SCRAPES & SCRATCHES Relieve pain and itching soothe quick! Switch to super-refined hospital quality NAACP Officials Says, "We're Just Not Going To Take It Any Longer" Mississippi NAACP Field Secretary Charles Evers, whose brother Medgar was shot and killed by a sniper in 1963, on a bombing of a civil rights worker's car in Natchez: "We're just not going to take it any longer - any more beatings, bombings, shootings, and killings. Demonstrations are out. They don't understand demonstrations,. We are going to arm ourselves and protect ourselves." TEETHING PAIN New liquid ORA-JEL safely ends teething pain. Just apply, pain "flies away." Recommended by many pediatricians, works fast... results guaranteed or money back. Also available in jell. COMMENDED by PARENTS Anti-Poverty To Aid Million Ga. Children In Atlanta, 349 children and 24 adult workers living in low-rent hosing ore participating in the Operation Head-Start Program. Seven of the 100 children in the Monticello Operation Head-Start Program are residents of low-rent housing. The total student enrollment in the same program in Athens totaled 122 students and 16 teachers and aides, Of this total, 40 students and one teacher's aide were residents of low-rent housing. In Valdosta, 23 young pre-schoolers living in low-rent housing are participating in Operation Head-Start. Sttart. Another popular program is the Neighborhood Youth Corps designed to gain employment for teenace and college-age youths. The Toccoa Housing Authority has employed 11 such youths with nine of them assigned to the Maintenance Department and two working in the Administration Office. Many of the anti-poverty programs are centered in Local Housing Authority facilities wherein office space and community facility buildings are made available for the actual programs. Mrs. McGuire noted that, many of the antipoverty programs have been in being for a short time and that when such programs were undertaken in the housing developments they were accepted in a lukewarm attitude. By recruiting right where these youngsters lived many of them school dropouts unable to find jobs Mrs. McGuire said their suspicion and resentment dissipated. Mrs. McGuire viewed activities in public housing—the Day Care Center, the employment counseling youth organizations such as Boy Scouts and Boys Clubs adult education programs—coupled with Economic Opportunity Programs as a means of ungranding of low-rent housing tenants. "In the not too distant future, it will be possible for many of them to move out and join the seven million people who already have been helped through the low-rent public housing program," Mrs. McGuire added. Half Of U.S. Blindness Can Be Prevented Half of all blindness in the United States could be prevented! This is the message that the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness is seeking to deliver to Americans during the 16 annual observance of "Sight-Saying Month" from September 1-30, 1965. No magic drugs nor miracle cures are needed to reduce the 32.000 new cases of blindness that will strike during the coming year. Just the day-to-day use of eye health and safety knowledge our notion already possesses, says the National Society. In simple language, stop taking your precious sense of sight for granted. A lifetime of good sight must be earned. Figures sight for your precious of Americans are forfeiting their sight to dosease, accidents and neglect: More than 12.000,000 school children are in need of some form of eye care. Eve accidents imperil 153,700 students each year, More than 1.375.000 adults over 40 years are threatened with blindness from glaucoma. Industry is hit by 1,000 eye accidents every working day of the year. Countless older Americans could regain useful lives through cataract surgery or low vision aids. Said President Johnson recently: "Sight-Saying Month once again most poignantly reminds every American that half of all blindness is preventable. Through greater personal vigilance against accidents and eye diseases such as glaucoma, each of us can help to conserve for ourselves and others that most precious of all gifts—the gift of sight. Let President Johnson's words spur each of us to a greater appreciation o four irreplaceable eyes, and to an awarness of how to protect them from disease and accidents. Do's And Don'ts I BELIEVE THAT THE BEST REASON For THAT'S STUPID! THE BEST THING TO DO IS - WONDERFUL WORLD OF CHILDREN — Youngsters in a variety of sizes and from a variety of cities will appear with Mr. Show Business in a special Thanksgiving Day television show, "Sammy Davis and the Wonderful World of Children." He appears as the only adult in an hour-long color program which features original music and lyrics in an imaginative story. With Sammy Davis are four young performers from the New York area: left to right, Susan Alpern, 10; Jewel Hoston, 8; Steve Taylor, 9, and Dennis Scott, 12. Sammy Davis Go-Go's With Kids In Thanksgiving TV Special Three dozen youngsters of many nationalities from every part of the United States will be featured with Sammy Davis in a special Thanksgiving Day television show. For the first time, Sammy will appear on his own network television special from coast to coast. "Sammy Davis and the Wonderful World of Children" will be telecast on the full television network of the American Broadcasting Company Thursday. November 25th, from 5:00. to 6:00 p.m. New York time. The Thanksgiving special marks another first for Sammy, too—it's the first time he's ever starred in a show which focuses totally on youngsters. "Sammy Davis and the Wonderful World of Children" stars Sammy and a group of talented boys and girls ranging in age from six to 14 years. Sammy shows his range of versatality as an actor, a comic, a singer and a dancer in this original television musical which finds him as the only adult who 'crashes through" a playground gate into the wonderful world of children. The fast-paced program includes sequences ranging from a production number in which everyone in the cast dances in the "Kindergarten au Go-Go" to solo performances by a young classical pianist, a 12 year old girl singer and a junior Beatle guitarist. A special feature of the show is a six year old emcee who Kings, "Hello, Dolly" and who introduces the most famous young act on the television program, Dino, Desi and Billy. This combo of guitarist-singers from Hollywood is made up of Dino Martin, son of Dean Martin; Desi Arnaz, Jr., and Billy Hinsche. The show was developed by producer Stanley Greene as an hourIon? feature for the entire family —adults as well as youngsters. It will be sponsored by two toy com panies, Emenee Industries, Inc., and American Character, Inc., both New York City. "Sammy Davis and the Wonderful World of Children" was commissioned by a New York City advertising agency specializing in the youth market, Helitzer, Waring & Wayne, Inc. Two seasons ago, this same agency made television and advertising history When it commissioned another original musical for television, "The Cowboy and the Tiger." This program received critical and audience acclaim from coast to coast after being shown twice, first on Thanksgiving Day arid then re-run shortly before Christmas. Gordon Parks, the distinguished American photo-journalist has been named winner of the 1965 Award for International Understanding through Photography, it was announced recently by Alfred C. Schwartz, chairman of the Honor and Awards Committee of the Photographic Society of America. The trophy, a sterling silver pagoda designed by Dr. Masao Nagaoka of Nippon Kogaku, K.K., and donated annually by the maker of the Nikon carema is presented each year by the Society to the individual whose work in photography has made the greatest contribution to international understanding. The coveted honor is determined by international balloting among officers of national photographis organizations and publications in 34 countries. Photographers Gordon Parks, who will receive the International Understanding Award at the annual membership meeting of the Photographic Society of America on September 18 in Denver, joins a group of distinguished former winners of the Nikon Award, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Steichen, Margaret Bourke-White, Ivan Dmitri, Walt Disney, David Doulas Duncan, and last year's winner L. Fritz Gruber. A Life photographer since 1949, Gordon Parks already enjoys the professional esteem of foremost photographers throughout the world for his magnificant photo-documentary reportage on such subjects as the Brazilian slum boy Flavio, crime in the U.S., the Black Musliams and Harlem gangs. He expanded his coverage of the underprivileged Flavio into a searing motion picture documentary that won accolades for its touching revelations about the poverty-stricken families in Rio de Janeiro. Parks is also noted for his lush, fresh fashion photography, his highly imaginative work in the theatre and motion pictures, and for his talents In a number of nonphotographic fields. Although he once supported himself by playing the piano in Middle West honkytonks and he cannot vet read music, his compositions. "Symphony Set for Piano and Orchestra" and "First Piano Conata." have been played by major symphonic orchestras in Venice, Parti, New York, Providence and Boston. In addition, Parts has won praise as both a poet and a novelist. His first novel, "The Learning Tree," was designated a "Harper Find' by Harper Publishers in 1963 for its vivid depiction of a young Negro's boyhood. Recently he has been signed to direct the motion picture version of "The Learning Tree." It was when he was 26 that Parks bought his first camera—for $7.50. He had been so awed at meeting a newsreel cameraman who had taken some striking war films that he decided to take up photography as a hobby. Born in Port Scott, Kansas, in 1912, the youngest of 15 children of a farming and cattle-herding family, he had finished high school and become a lumberjack. Then, while working as a dining car waiter, he met the late Robert Capa and told him of his dream to become, a Life photographer. "If you really mean that," said the famous cameraman, "then stop all this and start letting that dream come true." Parks took the advice and within three years he had been awarded a Julius Rosenwald fellowship in photography. Meanwhile he earned a living as a semi-pro basketball player and as a club painist, During world War II he worked for CWI's Overseas Division, then mad- industrial documentaries for Standard Oil of New Jersey, and just ten years after his meeting with Cana he was signed to the Life staff. Three years later Chicago's Art Institute gave him a one-man show describing him as "one of the most powerful photographers working today." He is the fifth American to win the famed Nikon Award for International Understanding through Photography. U. S. Army Witches To Military Script The switch from dollars to military script in paying the more than 92,000 U.S. servicemen in South Viet Nam is expected to occur early this week, sources said Monday. The move by U.S. military authorities is aimed at breaking a thriving black market. Under the new system, the servicemen will receive military script similar to the type used during the Korean War. It will be good only for purchases in military and commisary stores, but the servicemen will be permitted to exchange part of their dollar earnings, for Vietnamese plasters at a preferential rate. According to sources, the rate will range anywhere from the official rate of 73.5 Vietnamese plasters for one U.S. dollar to the current black market rate. In recent months the growth of American forces in Viet Nam has threatened to topple the already unsteady Vietnamese economy. Birthday Anniversary Message For Johnson H. H. Cheeley of Iuka. III., in a message to President Johnson on the President's 57th birthday: "Your birthday is the same day as mine on the 27th day of August. I am 102 years old I back your way of doing business - less talk and more doing good." CHURCHHILL ESTATE When Sir Winston Churchhill's will was filed in probate court, a report valued his estate at 1439.490. His widow, Lady Churchhill will receive one third and the remaining two thirds will be divided equally among his three children. Negro Workers Represented Greatly In Low Income Jobs A disproportionately large number of Negroes are in low-wage Jobs, it is pointed out in a study by Laurie D. Cummings of the labor Department's Bureau of Labor statistics. The article in the July Anniversary Issue of the MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW disclose that the higher incidence of poverty among nonwhites is partly attributed to their mater incidence of employment in the low-wage occupations. Nevertheless, white workers predominate numerically in almost all the low-wage jobs with larger proportions of Negro than white workers were private household employees, chambermaids, maids, and porters. Nonwhite women have the highest incidence of low-wage employment. Seventy percent of working Negro women are found in lowwage occupations compared with 45 percent of working white women. Negro women comprise about 1 out of 6 working women, but 1 out of 6 women in low-wage Jobs. About 45 percent of the women in the low-wage occupations in 1960 were supporting children or supporting themselves, about the same proportion as for all employed women. Among nonwhite women, the proportion of working women with these responsibilities was slightly higher—between 50 and 55 percent. Among men, Negroes an only about 1 out of 12 nonagricultural workers but 1 out of 4 in the lowwage Jobs. Twenty percent of working Negro men and a percent of working white men have low-wage jobs. Aside from limited education, has often been discussed is a key characteristic among the employed poor, the man in low-wage jobs have other characteristics not usually associated with low income or even poverty. These include permanent attachment to the labor force and urban residence. Most are White among those who are family heads, 3 out of 5 have children under 18 years of age. EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT: About half of the men with lowwage jobs had an eight-grade or lower level of education, but 1 out of 6 finished high school or bad some higher education. Even though many women with at least a high school diploma were in low-paid work, the incidence of low-wage employment declined with increasing educational attainment. Nevertheless, women with college background comprise the great majority of women musicians and music teachers, and about a fifth of women who are salaried managers in retail trade, receptionists, institutional housekeepers, or attendants in physicians' and dentists' offices. Nine out of ten women in these occupations are white. (the above excerpts are from a much longer article.) Judge Coleman Pods Poll Tax Hearing U. S. Circuit Judge J. P. Coleman, who as Mississippi's governor defended the poll tax, has asked to be removed from a panel to heart a Justice Department suit contesting the tax, it was learned Thursday. In doing so, the 5th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals' newest Judge fulfilled a promise he made to the Senate subcommittee considering his nomination by President Johnson. Coleman made the request in a letter to Chief Judge Elbert Turttle on grounds he was "closely Identified" an governor and attorney general of Mississippi with the poll tax. Coleman, whose appointment was bitterly attacked by civil rights groups and some Northern congressmen, testified at his confirmation hearing that he would ask to be removed from any case involving his actions as a Mississippi offical. In a speech a governor on alleged voter discrimination against Negroes, Coleman said "there was nothing to have kept any one of them, es everybody else is required to do, from walking up to the sheriff's office and paying $2 s. year". "Every dime of that $2 is earmarked and committed to the education of the people of Mississippi, without reference to race, or color or any other condition," Coleman said. The poll tax has been assessed in Mississippi since 1890. One delegate to the 1890 constitutional convention was quoted as saying the provision was like "paying the Negro $2 a year for not voting." SAFE DRIVER After driving for 68 years, John A. Alrich had his first minor traffic accident, The 93-year-old man told police that his first automobile was a one-cylinder 1896 model. SCRATCHY EYELIDS? Soothing LAVOPTIK, the medicinal Eye Wash, relieves burning, itching eyelids; aids natural healing refreshes relaxes tired eyes. Satisfaction of money back. Insist on genuine LAVOPTIK. eye cup included, at your druggist. "No other course lay open to me, in the light of our long standing commitment to the people of South Viet. Nam, yet the knowledge that some of our boys would not return rested very heavily on my heart and still doss," the President said. Johnson said that although the Peace Corps bill he was signing also meant sending Americans abroad, it was "not for joining conflict, but for continuing the works of peace throughout the world." LITTLEJOHN TAXI SERVICE 614 VANCE —525-7733 RADIO DISPATCHED 614 VANCE —525-7733 WEEK-END SPECIALS Injunction Against Pickets Is Struck Down An injuncion against picketing, handbilling, boycotting, and other activities designed to compel a laundry to hire Negro route drivers was struck down by an Illinois appellate court because the ban was issued without a proper hearing, was too bread, and did not specify what activates were prohibited. The Department of Labor's Monthly Labor Review in its "Significant Decisions in Labor Casas" series reviews the case: On the basis of the employer's allegation that certain civil rights groups, among other actions, boycotted and blacklisted hit laundry, intending to cause him to violate his union contract and public policy by forcig him to discharge white drivers and replace them with Negroes, a chancellor issued a temporary injunction. The injunction was a broad ban on the practices complied of, and it was issued without giving the defendants an opportunity to argue orally against the complaint, though they did reply m writing to the allegations. An Illinois appellate court denied enforcement of the order. It said that the lower court could not possibly have determined that the facts were as alleged by the laundry since it had denied a hearing to the defendants. Consequently, they could not produce evidence in support of their written answers to the charges. The defendants had made the following claims in writing: The picketing was to inform the public, not to coerce the latindry; the hand billing demanding jobs for Negroes had terminated; the defendants were willing to suspend ail picketing pending a full hearing. In addition, the appellate court, observed, the laundry's contention that it was suffering irreparable injury which necessitated immediate action by the court was suspect in light of the fact that the defendant's activities had continued for some 3 1-2 months before the suit was filed.