Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible Democratic Party split over the civil-rights issue, Reuther's threat met with dead silence from the party elders. Determined to work out a compromise civil-rights plank that will be acceptable in the North and not too offensive to the South, most Democratic bosses, Northern and Southern, pooh-pooh the notion that the issue is one that cannot be compromised. Meantime, the package they hope to sell is one prepared by Chicago's Negro Congressman William Dawson, i.e., that civil-rights problems belong to President Eisenhower, since it is up to him to enforce...
...more and more it began to look as though compromise and the Dawson line might founder on the political facts of life. Last week pressure from Negro voters (who could conceivably tip the balance in nine Northern states) was beginning to tell on local Democratic organizations. In Detroit, Negro delegates walked out of the First Congressional District Democratic convention in an argument over national-convention representation, and powerful Michigan Democrats were threatening privately to force a rip-roaring national convention floor fight to get a strong civil-rights plank in the Democratic platform. If they try, they will get considerable...
...House Judiciary Committee from voting out the Administration's civil-rights bill, forced the committee to break up four times in a single day to answer quorum calls in the House itself. Next day, by meeting before the House was in session, a coalition of Republicans and Northern Democrats succeeded in pushing through approval of the bill and passing it on to the Rules Committee (whose Southern members are likely to succeed in holding up action on it for as much as a month more...
...open waters of the Northern Pacific seas, the huge salmon were beginning an instinctive journey westward toward their spawning grounds in the rushing rivers of Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Siberia's eastern shores. Always before they had been met by thousands of Japanese fishing boats, which plucked almost all of Japan's important salmon catch from the northern waters. But this year the salmon move unmolested, and the sea is free of boats. Back in the fishing villages of Hokkaido, the Japanese vessels wait idly, their crews staring balefully out to sea. The gay festival that was to precede...
...While Northern management and union leaders have led the fight for job equality in the South, many longtime Southern industries that have resisted unionization are also opening up skilled jobs for Negroes. Probably no Southern industry has taken greater strides toward integration than the building trades. White and Negro masons (among the industry's best-paid workers) now work side by side; Negro plasterers even outnumber whites...