Page ACTION August 21 1946 ACTION LET FACE IT! WORD OF ADVICE.
LOOKING THRU THE PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY PAD CHAPTER 713, UNITED PUBLIC WORKERS CIO terrible reduction wave is By Scient Francisco Arauz. President passing thru this Area and Mauricio Mc. Lean. Treasurer strange things are happenning Teodoro Nolan. Financial Sec.
Cespedes Burke Correspondence Sec.
One is left to wonder how the By Scient.
Edward Cheresh Regional Director selection is made.
The basis Vice Presidents appears to be, Service and The white man cannot keep the Alejandro Victor Stanley Crossman Efficiency.
Filide Lee Negro in a ditch without staying there Thedore Gaskin Edgar Best Aston Parchment Service and Efficienwith him.
Sidney Smith Editor cy, what do these mean to the Egbert Mc Kay Associate Editor Post Engineers Department?
Booker Washington.
Adulphus Smith Administrator Must one believe that Mr.
In September 1939 a nation wide survey was conducted in Frank Thompson Circulation Northrup weekly instructions Aptdo. 1709 Panama, Ddrawer Balboa, to foremen went through the the in which the question was asked, Do you think window? Or must refer to Negroes now generally have higher intelligence than white VOL. PANAMA, NO. Job Instruction Training Card people, lower, or about the same? From 60 to 77 of the No. 14 which states: If the people polled in various parts of the country believed that EDITORIAL workers and foremen haven Negroes are inferior. About 50 of these believed that this learned, the Instructor hasn inferiority was inborn. IS THERE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE taught. still fail to believe FOR THIS BELIEF? THIS CAN BE ANSWERED WITHOUT either.
QUALIFICATION WITH LARGE NO. WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE. Muddy water unwisely stirred gets mud ve been terminated, haven In order that there can be no misunderstanding we must dier still. runs a wise old Chinese proverb, which the service, but men with sevyears of service (8 15 first know what is meant by intelligence. Intelligence is the is as true today as it was several hundred years years. very good and reliable capacity of the individual to think with reason and to deal ago. Bearing this in mind, let us allow the mur men in their line of duty, have effectively with his surroundings. It concerns the individual murings and whisperings against our cause to die been terminated, and others behaviour as a whole and includes his ability to express him.
a natural death. Let us continue to build an with less service and efficien self verbally; the practical application of his knowledge and cy are retained.
organization so strong that no power or combthe facility to use his hands; his ability to deal with other ination of powers will be able to destroy it say very good and reliable people.
INTELLIGENCE TESTS Amidst the impenetrable obscurity which because the efficiency rating There are a variety of tests used by psychologists to now pervades and clouds the atmosphere goes ry Good, Good, Fair and Poor. measure various aspects of intelligence. There is no known up the hue and cry for vindication of social Since points are given only combination of tests which give the absolute measure of in.
justice. From this beginning should come that to Excellent, where do the telligence as a whole. Analyses of the army tests used by the deep seated conviction and inspiration for the others. come in? Is Very Good in the first world war have failed to reveal any differ.
task that lies before us coupled with the fact can acquire Excellent in any ence which could be accounted for on a racial basis. What that in this momentous hour our leaders cannot department? Must the conclu differences there were, were individual ones. In general the test scores for both White and Negro in some Southern States afford to leave us groping blindly in the dark. sion, be that the Supervisor or Our union has been born. It has received ficient workers for mainten in fact Negroes from Ohio and Indiana were superior to Foreman can do without ef. were lower than the scores for those in some Norhern States.
the official sanction of the Panama Canal Admin ance work? He probably took whites from Kentucky and Mississippi. This has been inter.
istration as well as the Panamanian Government. a few of Mr. Northrup Ins preted to mean that in the those people, both Negro and We have had our first test under fire and it is truction cards and tried to white living in more favorable surroundings, show this in meet and right that we should make a recapi wager it will not bring them that in short there is every reason to believe that the Negro train the amateurs, but their higher intelligence ratings. noted anthropologist said: tulation of our gains and shortcomings to serve to the standard of those ter when given facility and opportunity will be perfectly able to us as an incentive for the present and a guide minated.
fulfill the duties of citizenship as well as his White neighbor.
to the future. Our hope for survival, however, Let the Selectors remember, WHAT IS THE LOCAL EVIDENCE?
rests upon the constructive thinking by those whether they be Foremen, Sudetermined groups whose faith and loyalty can Lincoln said: In as much as Let us use the above definition of intelligence (which not be shaken and who refuse to be stampeded most things are produced by we believe is acceptable from the scientific point of view) to or turned aside from their standard of decency, Labor it follows that all such examine the Negro worker of the Canal Zone. Has he ability honesty and justice things of Right belong to those to express himself verbally? Yes, and the majority of the produced Negro workers can in two languages, which is more than Perhaps no body of workers understands whose labor has them.
can be said for most white people in the more clearly the meaning of the words racial Does he display practical application and facility to use discrimination, prejudice and humillation, than hope Mr. Northrup at his his hands? How better could he show this than by managing the so called Silver workers of the Canal Zone from efficient and reliable em. to keep alive, fed and clothed on the inadequate income and who for many years have suffered under the ployees, and to give credit in his miserable living conditions. Such adaptability shows a relentless guidance of supervisors and workers where credit is due.
very high order of intelligence BUT is not to be interpreted whose only interests have been to live at ease as a liking nor an acceptance of these conditions.
So long Pal, That ev and a luxury at the same time reducing others here where he is denied almost every oppor.
tunity to increase his knowledge you find that he has some.
to economic slavery. THE ROVER now acquired necessary technical skills and, where permit.
It is said that democracy recognizes the ted to, works at skilled occupations with as much ability and dignity and individuality of man whether he judgment as the white worker alongside him.
be black, red, or white; that dignity and indiv ACCION His ability to deal with people is clearly shown by the iduality are ours because we are all children of important part he has played in the organization of the union; one common Father. In the light of these pron THE BEST TO READ by the leaders of the union who have come from his ranks; ouncements and their consequent implications by lending his efforts in the struggle for the common interests of all the workers towards a common goal.
our hopes have not sunk to the lowest depths of despair.
There is no finer ideal or purpose than that which draws a man in close contact with his fellowmen. and sufferings and unending struggles and we Remember Our Watchword: It brings a new luster to his thoughts of that want deleverance as we cannot endure the strug WE AIM TO PLEASE beauty and character which enriches and en gle individually any longer. We have not asked We recommend Godenobles mankind. Combined with this should be too much. We are only attempting to rectify the desire and determination to pue into tangible an injustice which has too long been condoned.
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action that guiding principle Love thy neighbor We are also attemtping to remove a blot from An up to date prescription department is always at as thyself as an antiseptic to preserve society, the great American creed of fairplay and justice from further deterioration.
and remindig ourselves of that fine democratic your disposal.
If there is any doubt in one mind whether ideal that all men are created equal and free CROWN DRUG we should organize or that our demands are to follow the pursuit of happiness not reasonable and just, we should pause, reThe light of the United Public Workers of STORE Corner of Tenth and Central trospect, and retrace our footsteps. If there America (CIO) will direct us; it will never be is still doubt that we should not endeavor to extinguished and its spirit will forever remain remove the threats to our security and to protect unhurt and untouched. It is alive, strong and (Colon Theater Building)
ourselves from exploitation through unity, then buoyant with hope and courage. The CIO has NORMAN BROWN, we must forever live in economic bondage and never been known to let anybody down. We will Pharmacist.
serfdom. We have had enough of untold misery not let the CIO down.
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