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In studying 375 male residents of seven Detroit ethnic districts, finds formerly agrarian Negroes most class-conscious.

Urges help in campaign for jobs

Defends General Motors Strike and states number of Negro auto workers striking is 13,000.

Defends nineteen members (eighteen black, one white) of the Leland unit of Amalgamated Local 205, UAW, against charges, filed by the International Executive Board, of leading a movement for decertification of the union as bargaining agent at the…

Cooperative Study with Michigan Employment Security Commission and U.S. Employment Service looks at unemployment and underemployment, by sex, age, race, and other population characteristics in inner city Detroit area in late 1966.

Compares "labor market experiences and consequent social-political adjustment of Negroes and whites, unemployed as result of Packard Motor Car Company close-down of June 1956."

Gives history of employment of Negro men and women in auto plants; commends union leadership and praises Briggs' program for upgrading Negroes as a model for easing current tensions.

Predicts that Detroit's 1970 population will see great growth of younger blacks, older whites.

Describes how the proposed bill would work and includes list of nearly two hundred Council sponsors.

Gives some figures on minority employment in Detroit, and cites examples of discriminatory employment practices.