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now, I'm talking about jobs, I should first say very briefly that the management council for Bay Area employment opportunity is a so called private sector effort. It is privately funded and it is an organization sponsored by the businessmen of the Greater SAN Francisco Bay Area. We

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see ourselves as something of a catalyst or a gadfly if you will toward the total world of employment in helping to open more doors to those who need that kind of help to generating more entry level opportunities, training situations and jobs, not that you call summer

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jobs or temporary employment, but jobs were a man who is willing to earn and learn and stick and grow, can become more than he is and can fulfill himself. We're not talking here about charity, we're talking about something called self respect, the ability to support one's

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own family, which every man and woman should be allowed to do. You find that the negro has grown to a point where he can no longer compete for these jobs at the standard that has been established and these standards by and large are unrealistic standards. I

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see it as a need for a vocational e oriented training program nationwide. Nationwide, not just for jobs, but for careers, careers that mean not just an entry into a dead end job where this person will be a GS 23 or four or a wage board, this

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that or the other or a helper for life. It means breaking this restriction that has been established by uh years of inability to become a member of a union. Therefore you are naturally excluded from certain types of training. This is not a matter of do good

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to black folks year or week or month. This must be taken to heart by every individual american and especially the caucasian, there should be enough jobs for every negro yesterday. For my view, I viewed the scene today as not entirely hopeless, but I'm a little perplexed

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by the lack of speed to meet the needs. And I feel that the racial barriers in the social condition caused by discrimination. My seat 35 or 40 years ago when I started out with the White Union man, he and I was just like we were broke,

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poor, hungry and put out and all of a sudden he came over the scheme dealing with the collective bargaining system, which managed to get him up on the level and kept me completely out. So he has something to do with me being kept out of this

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particular thing. There's another reason perhaps your educational system that sits around here and teaches me how to be the best runner in town, the best fighter in town, the best athlete in town and can't even teach me how to communicate with anybody. That system has something

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to do with the reason why then I have nothing to do with it. Mm hmm. When I first came to san Francisco, I was directly out of the army and I was still wearing my uniform and they just looking for a job. I frankly thought that

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I had earned the right to a job And at that time I also had two college degrees and walking past me every day were white boys who had we'll say let's say similar experience background and qualifications, they all got jobs. So finally one day I went

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to both the industrial department of the state of California, the employment office and to the professional office and there were no jobs and when I started walking back home a bit dejectedly and when I got there on the corner of third and Mission there was a

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big sign in the window that read Wars over *** go home. So then I turned around and I went back to the professional building and I raised holy hell I got the best job that I ever had in my life. We later I went to work

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with the Department of Employment. There were times in san Francisco when a person with a college degree could not get a job as a shoeshine boy if he were black because we've got all of these orders in white only white only white only