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i 7 i y-i '( Mil "War tara cf faflarion" 2aH MM now (oip(pi a(i mm mm I no liDIF UQGflLlg ())(()((! (bl by Boyd Lewis by the overwhelming majority of people," the AFT spokesman said. "The war is the major cause of inflation. To check inflation, we must stop the war in Vietnam, not freeze wages," he continued. A moratorium planned for Oct. 13 and marches Nov.

6 in Atlanta and 14 other cities will demand immediate withdrawal of troops. Kitty Cone, coordinator for the Atlanta chapter of the National Peace Action Coalition, said the group welcomes the support by labor CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 A host of Atlanta labor organizations have Joined the Atlanta Peace Coalition in solid opposition- to the Nixon Administration's freeze on wage and price increases which they say are a direct result of the costly and continuing war in Southeast Asia. tots LAV- )frH is "i 'The working class people are being hurt the most." she said. Evans said the U. S.de-fense budget is going prop prop up an "idiot" in Vietnam (President Thieu) while, "we still have people dying in Louisiana.v Mississippi and all along the black "We could provide decent living for everyone in this country for what we are spending in Vietnam," said Evans.

The ban on increasing pay for workers is much easier to enforce than in the case of a supermarket that can inch up a penny here or there or canned goods, he continued. "No wage freeze ior Nixon's said a spokesman for AFT President Te-phens, "Nixon describes the "wage freeze as an adjustment to a peacetime economy' Nothing could be further from the truth. We have no peacetime economy only unending war." FORCED TO PAY "Nixon is forcing the American people to pay for an $80 million military budget in order to continue a war that has been rejected HEADQUARTERS, THIRD S. ARMY, Ft. McPherson, Ga.

Lt. Gen. Albert O. Connor (left), Commanding General, Third U. S.

Army, is shown as he presented Mr. Gloss Tucker with a watch in commemoration of 25 years of faithful service with the Fort McPherson Consolidated Exchange. -Mr. Tucker, who resides at 3857 Bakers Ferry Road, S. Atlanta, began working at the Fort McPherson Service Station in January 1946 and has advanced to the position of Service Station Foreman.

1 Empire Board Prez against more laws banning blockbusting Thursday, a press con-ference was conducted at the Spring Street headquarters of the Alliance for Labor Action in which ALA representative Tom Evans and Joyce Brown, national representative of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and a stand-in for Ryburn Stephens, president of the Atlanta Local of the Atlanta Federation'of Teachers (AFLCIO) issued state ments supporting the Peace Coalition's mass rally at the Georgia State Capitol Nov. 6 against the war. 100 PCT. AGAINST Miss Brown said the AFS-CME, which represents many blacks employed in the city's sanitation and maintenance workers, is "100 per cent against the wage freeze' and has passed a-resolution against the continuation of the war in Vietnam Cambodia and Laos by American troops. She said the war has strained the nation's economy, causing inflation and prompting president Nixon's Aug.

15 ban on all wage or price increases for 90 days. VOL. 6 NO. 38 Drop Dickie at i.mmT it LABOR SEES "FREEZE" -WAR LINK Tom Evans of the Alliance for Labor Action and Joyce Brown (background), national representative for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, were among the Atlanta Labor groups joining the Atlanta Peace Action Coalition Sept 9 denouncing the government's wage and price freeze as the result of the continuing war in Southeast Asia. At left is Kitty Cone, coordinator Harold Dawson, president of the city's Empire Real Estate Board, told a state committee investigating the practice of "blockbusting" that he is against legislation or controls over Realtors asking families living In newly integrated neighborhoods if they wish to sell their homes.

of the Alliance of peace Nov. 6. is the American Way," Dawson told thecom-m ittee Sept. 7. "Solicitation is everywhere." He said real estate agents and brokers should not be made "scapegoats 'and be pointed at and told that (they are) the cause of all the problems' LARGEST CIRCULATED BLACK WEEKLY IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA 524-6426 all costs OnO mil Letter to the editor As a citizen interested in the continued progress of Atlanta as a great metro-area, my concern has not diminished.

i The community's attention is focused on the improve- ment of our present transportation system, and the citi- zenS participation in it. While the Mayor's attention was called to the inaction of one member of MARTA's Board from Atlanta, and a request to give consideration to the appointment of a jij people oriented representative. The Mayor appointed a recent arrival in Atlanta of only a few months, namely one, Mr. Charles M. Reynolds, President of Citizens Trust Bank.

This does the Atlanta ij: Community little service. Further this is the same place jij that the inactive member came from; president of the ij: same bank. jij A serious question arises, as to whether the best in terests of the people are being served, or is there a jjj sincere effort to render a definite community service to so vital an issue as rapid transit by our Honorable Mayor, iji From; Rev. A. Samples jjj: i.

Perry Home Community jji Dawson said the practice of blockbusting, or intense pressure by real estate representatives on white families to sell their property once blacks move in before "property values drop" needs more definition, especially from Gov. Jimmy Carter who appointed the committee to investigate the situation, Definition is needed, said the board president, because the term is sometimes used by individuals or groups wishing to keep certain neighborhoods white. "I'm sure if I went out on Lenox Road looking for a house at the request of a client I would be accused of blockbusting. There are also those black families who feel that if black real estate men would go away they could live in an integrated neigh- borhood' said Dawson. Dawson said he is personally solicited to purchase goods and services, but that lt is he who choses what to buy or pass up.

"Integration has to work, and it can, in a number of separated communities," Dawson said. Whites flee integrated, or transitional neighborhoods, not out of fear, but simply because they "do not want to live with black families'. He said that the majority of white families would move out of a neighborhood if a black family move in, even four blocks away. Gov. Carter- established the, blockbusting committee -this summer to investigate high pressure sales tactics on the part of some black and white real estate agents who rap profitable sales commissions by selling homes of departing whites and making them available to blacks.

groups, which plan a march ATL ANT ment and housing. The "Soul Force" offices, the SCLC official continued, "are being created to force the candidates to speak to the issues, We will use the mystique of the presidential primaries to ask these Cooks said the "leading' contender for the Democratic Party nomination for president, Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie, was "either an idiot or his tongue slipped" when i he made his statement last week that he wouldn't run with a black vice presidential candidate because the nation wasn't ready for a black Veep. gDD UQDfl(J September 18, 1971 tion of a just a more-progressive slightly- candi- date. As of Dec.

1, SCLC will establish "Soul Force" offices in states that have scheduled presidential primaries to provide a clearing house of information on the "gut issues," or how the economy affects black and poor people, where money being spent in supporting the Indochina War will be distributed back into domestic programs once the fighting stops, providing quality education without "busing" rhetoric smokes-c reens that clqud the crisis in city 'schools unemploy To develop a black, Southern "new progressive and humanistic political force to be reckoned with by any presidential candidate for 1972 -is "probably more important than anything else we could do in this country now" said Stpney Cooks, executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in an interview with the Atlanta Voice Monday. First in a Realtors sabotage ideal of black and white and rally at tne ueorgia -VOICEFOTO bv Lewis A. 30314 20 CENTS NO BLACK VP Muskie told black leaders in Los Angeles. Calii. last Tuesday that an all-white ticket would stand a better chance of winning the nation's votes and that the "problems of inequality'' could then be "solved by an administration sympathetic to minority peoples, 'In Ins white, waj sate black folks couldn't handle- tlic.ii; Own problems." Cooks said.

"Who is he to say something like that? It's to hurt him in the black CONTINUED ON PACE 8. and killed of firings Witnesses said Miss Knott was killed as police and sheriff's deputies stood by and watched as a white drove his car into the seated protestors at about 40 miles per hour. The Choctaw County sheriff at first refused to arrest the driver, SCLC reported, and he was not apprehended until later that night. Monday morning 250 men, woman and children were arrested during a march protesting the killing. National Guardsmen and state troopers have moved into this' tense east central Alabama town.

efforts are being concentrated in these states hoping to build up a political momentum that will carry over to the presidential election in November, 1972 he said. DUMP NIXON Cooks said that it is mandatory to replace Richard Nixon in 1972, even if it means working for the elec Cooks said it is vital to concentrate voter registration in the South's "Black Belt" because once registered, blacks prove to be more enlightened in support of the gut issues facing the nation than white Southern voters. There are four states holding local elections in 1971 in the South Mississippi, Florida and, Louisiana and South Carolina, andSCLC in Atlanta for noro profits by Boyd Lewis Mrs. Henrietta Canty, outspoken black civic leader, once conducted a little test with several white real estate brokers in Atlanta. woman run over Young series: together year by Ed Isakson, appoint- ed by Lester Maddox as chairman of the Georgia Real Estate Commission whose firm, Northside Realty Associates, refused to show property to black buyers in white neighborhoods of North Atlanta.

was born a segregationist," said Isakson, now being sued by the U. S. Justice Depart- ment." I am a segrega- tionist. 1 will die a uglier side of real estate brokers is the practice of "blockbusting" in which Realtors of both races maneuver blacks into a formerly all-white neigh- borhood, spread rumors of takeover" and declining property values and reap the profits In commissions of sales for the incoming black families and the outgoing whites. Blockbusting wis made il- legal in Title VII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, pass- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 in Alabama protest She would call the white Realtor over the telephone about particular homes for sale in white neighborhoods.

'They were wonderful over the phone," Mrs. Canty told the U. S. Civil Rights Commission's Georgia panel several years ago. 'They were not able to detect race.

I was given prices, and appointments were established." "Once identity (race) was known, the house was not available," she said, "and if available, the price had Increased $2,000 to R000." I Mrs. Canty's "game" run on Realtors showed one unethical side of the real estate business that has reinforced pace prejudice responsible for making Atlanta's residential segregation greater than that of Birmingham. New Orleans, La. or Charleston, C. isakson.

surr A niggers" attitude was shown Just last by school officials last Spring as the black and white school systems "integrated." She was one of approximately 1 500 persons who marched and conducted a sit-in in Choctaw County demanding reinstatement of the dismissed blacks and giving black people control of their schools. The killing was a "tragic and detestable example of the hate and terror inspired by George Wallace's Alabama," said Dr. Abernathy in Atlanta. ''Black people will rise up and put a stop to killings, repression and racism," BUTLER, Ala. The 19-year-old daughter of a one of the black teachers recently dismissed in Butler Ala.

was run over and killed Saturday by a white man as she sat with hundreds of people protesting mass dismissal of blacks from the public schools here. Funeral services for Miss Margaret Ann Knott were conducted Sept. 14 in nearby Yantley, Ala. and were officiated by Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Miss Knott's mother was one of the numerous black faculty and personnel fired D. C. September 8, 1971. Record with Michael Pitts Washington, Congressional David II. Gambrell discusses the of Atlanta.

Michael, who is the son of Mrs. Annie Pitts of Fairburn Road, S. worked in the Nation's Capitol under the. Senate Summer Intern program. He will be returning to Notre Dame University Where he is a third year law 1 4.