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...Africans to keep the factories going. The government advertises for white immigrants in newspapers throughout Europe, attracts more than 3,000 a month. Its propaganda organs beat the drums for "more white babies." Last month a Cape Town scientist declared that, with proper training, baboons could replace Africans in menial tasks-a suggestion that led the Rand Daily Mail to quip that Verwoerd would soon offer them their own Baboonstan. But so hungry is the nation for manpower that employers everywhere are forced to give non-whites ever more and ever better jobs...
...white, menial laborers are paid the traditionally low South African wage...
While the Selective Service System may need some refinements in social, fiscal or academic terms, it would make little sense to compel tomorrow's doctors, scientists and industrial captains to spend prime years in menial Government service. Despite the immediate inequity of deferring college men ahead of others, in one way or another the U.S. has always placed a comparable premium on achievement and excellence...
Profits from the Winery. Most of the traditional religious orders of priests, such as the Benedictines or Dominicans, also have brothers; they are generally second-class citizens of their communities assigned to such menial tasks as running telephone switchboards or monastery kitchens. But there are also 28 modern orders composed primarily or exclusively of brothers, who are (with one exception) not bossed by priests, run their own worldwide networks of schools and hospitals, and are as eager as Jesuits to get Ph.D.s...
...Menial Tickets. Civil rights leaders are understandably aggrieved over the continuing discrimination against Negroes by U.S. labor unions, particularly in the face of growing shortages of skilled workers. By 1975, the Department of Labor estimates, the U.S. will need 2,000,000 more skilled workers than it has today, double the increase of the 18 years from 1947 to 1964. Nonetheless, Negroes are almost totally excluded from high-paying craft unions. "The majority of the 1,500,000 Negroes who hold union cards," says Whitney Young, Director of the National Urban League, "have tickets to do the hardest, dirtiest...