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LDSelt;Appointment4Victorv For Black I nitvRv_ jpFHurlev Green IIII %•)HAILING THE move as a very real victory for elements within the black communitWVi4ines,pied retta mes, and *nts; ding son,I Dr.uidingin H.Co m-i 11i a inWardLigeneCom-osephandemail.IV 11black orli ighlt;‘rPav.UpgradingBig Issueandcon-andto a toAN INTENSIVEcomprehensive survey ducted by black legislators in the Illinois General AssemblyWresulted in corrective action in the House of Representatives to eliminate employment bias directed against blacks minority groups.The House has agreedState commitmentequalize recruiting, training and upgrading of disadvantaged and minority group personnel.EIGHTEEN OF these legislators had pushed a probe which showed that the State of Illinois has “failed to adequately recruit black citizens for state jobs.” Senator Charles Chew Jr. i Chicago) informed the BULLETIN-BOOSTER early this week.Their survey also revealedwthat black citizens were “grossly underemployed.” that “the state failed to hire black men in adequate orrelatively equal numbers towhite men; and underpaid its bipicH wnrypn as compared toits white workers.”THE BLACK legislators joining Senator Chew in uncovering inadequacies in recruitment, training and upgrading of black citizens were Representatives Isaac Sims, Harold Washington. Corneal Davis. Lewis Caldwell. James Carter, Otis Collins.Representatives Raymond Ewell, Horace Gardner, Elwood Graham, Kenneth Hall, James McLendon. James Taylor, Robert Thompson and Genoa Washington; and Senators, Richard Newhouse. Cecil Partee and Fred Smith.THE AGREEMENT also stipulates that instead of requiring a percentage of each agency’s appropriation to be devoted to recruiting, training and upgrading the hard core disadvantaged, a $100,000 appropriation to the Department of Personnel for suchcommon, ourIso tookpurposes has been approved.Amendments calling for the percentage approach were debated at great length last Thursday. June 5, on the House floor. Other elements of the agreement. Senator Chew disclosed, include:—Passage of House Bill 1710granting initiatory powers to the Fair Employment Practices Commission;—Setting up a Committee onMinority Group Employment in State Government; andApproval of a HouseResolution requesting the elected State execu4ive officers to support the policy of recruitment, training and upgrading disadvantaged and minority group personnel and to set up programs to implement the policy.recognizing the absolute necessity for black leader ship,” the Rev George H Clements, former associate pastor of St. Dorothy Churchat 450 E 7H. told theBULLETIN in an exclusive interview that he considered his new appointment to Holy Angels Church to be a significant step toward blackunity.Rev, Clements is one of three black priests newly-appointed to administrative positions in the city's Archdiocese The others, who were either elevated in position or transferred to different parishes, are Rev. Kenneth M. Brigham and Reverend Dominic Carmon, S.V D, In addition to them another black priest, Rev. James I^aChapelle, S.V.D., is expected to step up in rank in the near future.CONCERNING HIS new appointment to pastorate at Holy Angels Church, 607 E.Oak wood. Father Clement's said: “My new appointment reflects the need for the blackcommunity to organize and unite on the basis of what we have in blackness.”“I think the Holy Angels parishioners will be very receptive to my new- appointment,” stated Rev, Clements, “although among my own parishioners at St. Dorothy, I note a general disappointment among the young people.”IN A PREPARED statement released to the press, Clements emphasized: It is my conviction that the community has the right to remove me as pastor of Holy Angels if I should ever prove to be irresponsive” to their needs. The new pastor particularly singled out and thanked the variousorganizations that supported him during his slay at St. Ttornthy**Among them were the Afro-American Patrolmen and Firemens’ Leagues, Concerned Black Catholics and Operation Breadbasket, including Rev. Jesse Jackson and his followers. Clements thanked them all for their “determined drive to put black people into positions of leadership within the black community.”DURING THE last few months, according to Rev. Clements, he has been travelling around to various campuses, lecturing to students, both black and white. “It was during this time that I began to really feel the spiritual impact of younger blacks...I was amazed to find such a spirit among them.I have found.” continued the pastor, “a deeper sense of Christianity, call it anonymous if you want to, but a more intense Christian spirit than most of the olderIt’s a beautifulgeneration, its a thing...it really renewed my faith in young blacks oftoday.”FATHER CLEMENTS leaves behind at St. Dorothy months of controversy, since the parishioners at one time felt he was most likely to succeed former pastor Rev. Gerald Scanlan, who stepped down from his pastorate in December of last year.Although the Rev. RollinsLambert, also black, was named to replace Scanlon, supporters of Fr. Clements pressed for his being made pastor of the Church. At present, everyone appears satisfied with this new decision to make Clements pastor of Holy Angels.
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Wed, Jun 18, 1969
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