P o rtla n d 'Observer
NNPA president
addresses conference
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H erbert I,. Amerson, Presi
dent uf the Board of D ir
ectors of the Urban League,
P o rtla n d , announced that
Jam es (). Brook», currently
Deputy Director, w ill sue
reed E. Shelton H ill a«
Executive Director H ill w ill
retire from hi» position on
D ecem ber 31, 1973.
Brook, was raised in Port
land, graduated from Wash
ington High School and hold»
three degree» from the Uni
veraity of Portland
a B.S.
in Zoology, a R.A. in So
ciology and an M A . in Edu
cation. He also ha.» received
a certificate in Urban So
ciology from George Williams
College in Downers Grove,
Illinois.
He wa» employed by the
LTrban League in 1965 and
ha» held every professional
position in the agency.
Other professional exper
icnce includes group worker.
Multnomah County Juvenile
(H urt, sociology instructor,
Marylhurst College and Civil
High«» Coordinator. Portland
Public Schools.
He is a
member of a numtier of local
Ixiard» and commissions.
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On November 15 patients
working without pay in stale
mental institutions across the
nation won a class action suit
against the Department of
Iaibor.
The suit was filed
by the N a tio n a l associa
tio n fo r M ental health and
the American Association on
Mental Deficiency after the
Department of I-abor refused
for many years to enforce
the 1966 amendments to the
Fair I,abor Standards Act
applying to workers in non
federal institutions.
Federal D is tric t Judge
Aubrey Robinson held. " It is
undisputed that the Depart
ment of I .abor has a declared
policy of non enforcement of
minimum wage and over time
provisions with respect to
patient workers."
The controversy since 1966
involved the distinction be
tween therapeutic work and
actual employment of mental
patients.
Judge Robinson
defined the test of employ
ment as follows: “ So long as
the institution derives any
consequential economic be
nefit, the economic reality
test would indicate an era
ployment relationship rather
than a mere therapeutic ex
ercise.
To hold otherwise
would be to make therapy
the sole ju s tific a tio n fo r
thousands of positions as
dishwashers, kitchen helpers,
messengers, and the like.”
This order w ill apply to
"all patient workers in non
federal institutions for the
residential care of the men
tally ill and mentally re
tarded who meet the sta
tu to ry d e fin itio n of em
ployee."
Judge Robinson says that
initial application of the law
may be expensive and time
consuming for administrators
of institutions but that “ ad
ministrative burden" is no
excuse for failure to impie
ment the law.
The suit was filed early in
Columbia. Two of the law
yers working in behalf of the
mental patients were Paul
Friedm an of the M ental
Health Law P roject and
Margie Kohn of the Center
(or Law and Social Policy.
Washington. D.C.
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Two area* in which we are
still substantially naive is in
the understanding of the
dynamics and strengths <J
our economic and political
power.
z\s economic recession lie
comes in cre a sin g ly more
forceful, it is extremely ini
portant that we move from
the area of being receivers of
goods and services and be
come ow n ers .mil disp en sers
of goods and services.
So long as businessmen
are able to take money from
us with no need or commit
ment to return part of it in
employment, at decent wa
ges. and in substantial con
tributions to our causes, we
shall continually be on the
begging and receiving end of
their meager largesse.
Our long history of being
only receivers of goods and
services, and of being ex
Bank with
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Barbara.
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Betty Palmer and Barbara Brown are our Personal Service Representatives at
the Union Avenue branch.
And if you don't know them, you should.
Because their only job is to make your banking a lot more pleasurable.
That means introducing you to the right people for faster service. And
helping you choose the right kind of cheeking or savings account. They'll even
help you balance your checkbook if you want.
A long time ago U.S. Bank promised to make banking a very persona!
thing.
People like Betty Palmer and Barbara Brown are helping us keep that
promise.
Come in and meet them.
They’ll be waiting on a red carpet to greet you.
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P.n:» 1
Mental patients win suit
BY WALTER L SMART
Executive Director
lion whose major focus is to
make sure we can own our
homes. It is also important
(OMIIN A,
to make certain we have
»OUR (ONViNIINd
lasting and stable deposits.
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4. Support the local credit
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unions where poor people
NO AFROIN,MIM NllOIO
can borrow at low interest
rates for needed household
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items.
This program not
(OMHITI ( OOP»NATION
only encourages th rift, it also
ON Ali OINIAl
counsels in the area of con
INSUtAMI FlANI
sunier protection.
5. Most importantly, this
o
drive for affluence and the
(OMPUll OINIAI H ltlC iS
middleclass image must be
directed toward mutual co
operation. mutual self help
U M O N O * C O M S A N V O IN T A l IN S U B A N C I
and mutual economic bene
C O V I I A G I A C C ir t t O O N T O U I
fits.
N tIO IO O IN T IiT IT
There are those among us
who wish and hope for a day
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when money w ill get us
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status, position and the spot
light. We do not realize the
possibility that this thrust
ran and frequently does se
parate us
we ignore our
SIMUR BUILDING
p lo ite d en masse, should
Rlaek businesses u n fa irly
provide
lessons
about
unity
S Vv 3ra A M o m s " NT P ortioned Q ie y o n
while allowing others to ex
in economic awareness and
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ploit us.
development.
I have been to innumer
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1. Support Black buinesses
able affairs where not a
so that we develop our
Black face is seen serving us.
people as providers of ser
This goes the gamut from
vices.
This can generate
conferences of social welfare
more money flo w in g back
to Black political affairs and
into the community and a
high school proms.
more efficient business has
We must be singularly
to develop as more demands
sensitive to the drain of
are made upon it. There is a
money from our community,
booklet which lists these
supported and encouraged by
businesses, published by the
our own inaction, by our
Small Businessmen's League.
patronage of hanks and busi
W’e must learn to be as
nesses which rarely provide
patient with our business
opportunities for economic
people, give constructive cri
growth in the Black com
ticism and continued patro
munity.
nage
All of this is called Black
2. Develop businesses with
economic solidarity and it is
the help of counseling ser
this very solidarity which
vires.
A number of such
w ill bind our community to
services are now being fund
gether, strengthen it econo
ed by the Office of M inority
mically and politically. and
Business Enterprise.
It is
consequently serve to build
deplorable that with the in
our own institutions, our own
creased number of Black
business expertise and our
organizations holding nation
own blueprint for freedom.
al and regional conferences
As Ossie Davis said at the
there are few, if any, Black
Black Caucus dinner. "Not
owned and operated motels
the man but the plan," or
and hotels in downtown loca
"Not the rap but the map."
tions. It is also a shame that
A ll ethnic groups learned
with the large numbers in
this and traveled this route.
volved in social and fraternal
Even in the face of criticism,
organizations, we have only
we m ust understand the
been able to reap minimal
beneficial power of this kind
economic benefits from such
of effort.
unions.
We have the power in the
3. Support the Black build
palm of our hand, all we
ing and loan associations
have to do is grasp it. Surely
where your deposits are in
this is one step in the
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sured.
We save millions
discovery of the meaning of
each year in other banks. We
A L L I ’ DWER TO THE
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PEOPLE."
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D R . JEFFREY B R A D Y , D E N T IS T
Helsinki - Although the
success or failure of the
m ilitary junta that toppled
Chile's President Salvatore
Allende is yet to lie proven,
the reverberations of the
World Peace Conference held
here a month ago is still
having an impart on the
international scene.
Dr. Carlton Goodlett, presi
dent of the National News
paper P ublishers A ssoria
lion
the Black Press of
A m erica
b ro u g h t the
conference to a sobering halt
with a ringing denunciation
of Allende’s friends and foes
alike.
“ Where were you who
now weep for him?" Goodlett
asked the 20« plus delegates
assembled in the Ereelander
haus auditorium. Goodlett, a
medical doctor as well as a
publisher, was a friend of
Allende, who was also a
medical doctor.
Goodlett charged that Al
lende was “ forsaken by Doth
his enemies and his foes."
He spoke of the "economic
isolation of Chile" by the
international banking insti
tutions.
Goodlett followed to the
platform by one day the dead
Chilean leader's d aughter,
Mrs. Maria Isabel Allende
Tambuti, who attended the
conference in place of the
widow, who was unable to be
present.
Since the coup, reports of
mass killings have come out
o f the South A m erican
country. These rejwirts were
made by released prisoners
interviewed by reporters.
The ex prisoners said that
they slept on blankets on a
concrete floor but were not
mistreated.
Their meals
consisted of bean soup,
bread, water and fru it. There
was meat twice during their
eight day stay, they said.
Goodlett, going into the
cause of the late President’s
downfall, spoke of the "eco
nomic isolation" of Chile.
"Resolutions and marches
w ill not alone wipe away the
enemies of the people,” he
declared.
Goodlett said that the U.S.
G overnm ent "discouraged
private financial powers from
supplying short term credits,
ordered a lim it to develop
ment loans from the World
Bank and Inter American
Development Bank" and that
as a result of such actions
"the economy of Chile was
destined to w ither."
The firey San Francisco
physician then asked "How
much real economic assis
tance did the People's Re
public (of Chinal give Chile
only token."
He said that
Allende'» difficulties stemmed
much from his coalition that
was more committed to doc
trine than to survival and
movement.
"We must depend upon
more than marching feet and
platitudinous slogans to deal
with neo colonialism," he
said.
Goodlett, publisher of the
San Francisco Sun Reporter.
D.L. Inman, publisher of the
Thomasville (Georgia! N ew s
and the Tallahassee- I Florida)
News Free Press and this
w rite r, left the main party of
touring NNPA members to
attend the conference here.
Thursday, November 29. 197.1
A very personal ttMng.
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