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April 5th issue carries lead article, "Greetings to Negro workers" and states, "This edition has been especially written to explain to the Negro community the program and policy of the UAW - CIO in regards to the present organizational drive." The…

Program of NAACP national conference in Detroit included speech by Homer Martin, UAW, and debate on adoption of resolution endorsing CIO.

Homer Martin's letter stating his union "will not tolerate segregation and will fight for the rights of Negro workers in every way," is quoted.

The Council, chaired by Henry Nickleberry, UAW Sub-Regional Office 1D, was responsible for hiring of the first blacks in Saginaw area retail establishments. Articles were examined in UAW office.

Committee with representatives from Frontiers, Negro Ministers' Citizens Equality Council, and NAACP, reports impressive job gains in Saginaw for Negroes. The Report was examined in the office of Henry Nickleberry, UAW Sub-Regional Office 1-D

Sponsored by "a group of interested UAW members."

Mentions W. Richard Carter, President, Local 49, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan; and Walter Hardin, UAW.

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…

Letter by a soldier's wife at Sojourner Truth Project describes her inability to secure employment at Ford Motor Co. Footnotes reads "Donated by Production Foundry-Ford Local 600, UAW-CIO."

"Notes" include excerpts from United Automobile Worker, from other printed UAW publications and from the Michigan Chronicle; interview with Joe Cranshaw, Arnold Franklin, Coleman Young, Frances Kornegay and Joe Gordon; and correspondence between…