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...often assume so crass a form. Most employers would not specifically state that they hire on a discriminatory basis, but the NCCI survey found that the general attitude of employers was to hire colored staff only if the labor shortage should become too great, and then only for menial jobs...
...nation, to this extent: it has allowed white people, with scarcely any pangs of conscience whatever, to create, in every generation, only the Negro they wish to see. As the walls come down they will be forced to take another, harder look at the shiftless and the menial and will be forced into a wonder concerning them which cannot fail to be agonizing. It is not an easy thing to be forced to reexamine a way of life and to speculate, in a personal way, on the general injustice. -- James Baldwin, Harper's Magazine, October...
...terms of the problems of the "leisured citizen" and the challenge of putting free time to work. But he is not particularly concerned with the well-educated "leisured citizen," who usually finds his own avocations. On the other hand, opportunities for those who never finished school or once held menial jobs are much more limited, and the Center's aim is to develop those limited opportunities as much as possible...
...month more. Zimmermann also demands "easier" promotion, more recreational facilities, increased health coverage, and a pension plan equivalent to that of civil servants. Fair enough within the framework of current union de mands, but Zimmermann goes further. "It is ridiculous," he says, "for a highly trained soldier to perform menial tasks like guard duty...
...lower-class Negro. While unemployment among whites has been declining this year and is now 3.3%, Negro unemployment has been climbing and is now 7.8%. This is primarily because the jobless rate in many black slums has soared to 25% and automation has eliminated a lot of menial and manual jobs traditionally held by lower-income Negroes. The overall figure nonetheless conceals the fact that countless job opportunities have opened for skilled and semiskilled Negroes in the past few years...