Word: labor
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...Apropos of Adam Clayton Powell, alias "Daniel" [Sept. 30]. Am I mistaken, or didn't ministers use to preach the Gospel from their pulpits on Sunday morning? Apparently Mr. Powell feels that the denunciation and abasement of his House Education and Labor Committee as "racists" is more important than God's word. MARK J. HARDCASTLE King of Prussia...
Carlton Sickles was surprised that day too. He has been Maryland's Congressman-at-Large since the office was created in 1960. He holds a spotless pro-civil rights and pro-labor record with a 100 ADA rating. He is young and looks forceful. He had the support of both of Maryland's liberal Democratic senators -- Daniel Brewster, who ran against Wallace in 1964, and Joseph Tydings, the Kennedy-style junior senator who defeated machine man Louis L. Goldstein in the same year. Tydings was making a bid to take over the party in the state from the present governor...
TABLE 5 Education of Negro Labor Force, 1952, 1959, 1965 (percent) Young Negroes 1964* 1965 1959 1952 College completed 50.7 7.0 4.0 2.6 High school completed 50.7 30.5 21.0 14.7 Less than high school...
However, when the current performance is compared to the educaation that would fully equip Negroes for the job world of 1985, the gap is very great indeed. To continue the present rated progress following the Department of Labor projections, there should be 1.85 million Negro college graduates by 1985. Today there are about 550,000 Negro college graduates in the labor force. The current rate of Negro college attendance will not bring us close to the goal. About 15 percent go to college, less than half of the rate for whites. A very major step-up in college attendance...
...half of all young Negroes enter the job market without a high school diploma. By 1985 these youngsters will be about 40 years old, with half their working life ahead of them. Mighty few of these individuals are on any path toward equality. The economy will adapt to the labor supply, and if an adundant supply of uneducated Negroes is still available by 1985, there will be unskilled, badly paid, low productivity jobs for many of them. Their unemployment will be more frequent and of longer duration. This tragically low rate of completion of high school is the greatest single...