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Died. Lord Constantine, 69, onetime West Indian cricket star and the first black man to sit in Britain's House of Lords; of a heart attack; in London. The son of a sugar-plantation foreman, Learie Constantine led the renowned West Indian cricket team to victory over the English in 1928, later left the playing field for a public service career. Knighted and made Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner in London in 1962, he was raised to the peerage two years...
...angry black man stalked through the Detroit factory with murder in his head, an M-l carbine in his hands. While other workers cringed, James Johnson Jr., 35, killed Foreman Hugh Jones with one shot, then pumped four more bullets into his victim's body. When another foreman tried to disarm him, Johnson killed him too. Then Johnson went after a worker, Joseph Kowalski, whose job was a particularly good one, and murdered him. Finally persuaded to surrender, Johnson threw his rifle against a wall and quietly waited for the police...
Detroit was shocked by those nightmarish murders at an axle plant last July. But Defense Attorneys Justin Ravitz and Kenneth Cockrel reasoned that the tragedy had an equally nightmarish cause: a hell in the factory. Foreman Jones got Johnson suspended from his job one hour before the killings. The defense lawyer argued that the suspension, Johnson's general instability and inhumane working conditions-particularly for black men-had driven Johnson to murder while temporarily insane...
...forklift trucks and workers often could not squeeze by one another; one such truck recently crashed because of faulty brakes, toppling its load and killing the driver. For blacks, there was the added impact of racism. The jury heard of Negroes being called "boy," of whites advancing rapidly to foreman, while one black foreman said it had taken him 18 years to get the white shirt that all foremen wear. One white worker, who said he was a friend of all three slain men, emotionally pleaded to the court: "You ought to go out to that plant and watch those...
...pressed for upgrading, but after a production foul-up caused by another man, at least one foreman had threatened to get Johnson fired. Later, when Johnson returned from a vacation, his time card was missing and he was informed by letter that he had been dismissed for taking time off improperly. It was a personnel goof, but Johnson saw a conspiracy building. On the fatal day, he was ordered to unload the ovens, a job generally conceded to be the worst in the plant. He refused and was suspended. An hour later he was back in the plant, ready...