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...Crow Prospects...
Actors' Equity Association has often grumbled its displeasure at the Jim Crow policies of Washington theaters. Last week, the powerful union did more than grumble. It persuaded the League of New York Theaters, representing 126 producers and theater operators, to support its stand. After Aug. i, 1948, promised the League, actors will not be required to appear in any Washington theaters which persisted in barring Negro patrons...
Also on the agenda is a discussion of resolutions in support of the Crow Bill, which would ban the dissemination of discriminatory propaganda through the mails, and the Buckley Bill, which would deny G.I. benefits to Communists and Communist sympathizers...
...waiting on tables, scaling fish at summer resorts, and sweeping out the local Y.M.C.A. Most of his time in the U.S., as Mbonu tells it, was spent as a sort of black Cinderella in a white man's coach. He often had to play hide-&-seek with Jim Crow, yet he went home feeling pretty optimistic about the U.S. race problem. His conclusion: "Against the declining forces of reaction and hate are overwhelming forces of progress and kindness...
...Throw Them Out." With such a ready-made situation, Local 713's membership snowballed. Army officials, alarmed by U.P.W.A.'s growth and embarrassed by the old Jim Crow system, were ready to meet the union's demands, at least half way. By last week the union claimed these gains: 1) removal of the hateful gold and silver signs in public places; 2) an order admitting Panamanians to equal terms in civil service exams; 3) hourly wage hikes of 2? to 6?; 4) a 40-hour week; 5) improved vacation privileges; 6) more overtime...