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Benefit by Amendments 

Better Pay for Dirty Work; Lift Ban Against Some 

NEWPORT NEWS-A new contract between the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and The Peninsula Shipbuilders Association, which again recognizes the PSA, an independent labor union, as the sole collective bargaining agency for shipyard employees, was signed last week in the office of Homer L. Ferguson, President of the company.

Mr. Ferguson signed for the shipyard, and J. G. Crenshaw, president, for the PSA. The contract is for one year.

AMENDMENTS

Among amendments to the original contract which will benefit the workers are: recognition of employees who under the old contract were ineligible for membership in the PSA; a provision that PSA delegates will be notified of employees discharged

Teachers Sunday 

NEWPORT NEWS - The fourth and largest of the series of public rallies being sponsored by the local chapter of the NAACP under the auspices of the Citizens Committee, having as their objectives, the ultimate reemployment of the six dismissed principals and teachers, will be held Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at 

Negro Flyers Bomb Enemy 
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the Trinity Baptist 30th street and C avenue.

The Citizens Committee retained a staff of abl yers headed by the fi Walker and Walker, a torney Oliver Hill of mind and other N counsel who succe handled the Negro te equalization suit again local school board last

The legal course which followed upon failure school board to re-emp principals and teachers give them a hearing at meeting for the 1942-194 term Tuesday night, will lined at the meeting Su counsel for the committee 

Special Appeal

A special appeal will to complete the $5,000 fund now under way, and zations,churches, and in citizens who have not tributes are urged to co pared to do so. 

The committee has advisement the vol offer of several pro white lawyers to serve advisory capacity.

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sions in the last several days include, Lt. George R. Boll-ing, Phoebus, Va.; Lt. Walter I. Lawson, Newton, Va.; Lt. Willie H. Fuller, Tarboro, N. C.; Lt. Her-best V. Clark, Little Rock Ark.; Lt. Paul G. Mitchell, Washington, D.C.; Lt. Louis R. Purnell, Germantown, Pa.

Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commanding officer of the squadron, led a flight
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LT. CAMPBELL

Brooks of Cleveland; Lt. Spann Watson of Hacken-sack, N.J., and Lt. John W. Rogers of Chicago, Ill.

All planes returned safe-ly. No Nazi interceptors challenged our fighters. The only opposition was flak-anti-aircraft fire.

Press reports from London indicate that the Mediterranean offensive is on with the first objectives the Italian islands of Pantelleria and Lampedusa. Under aerial and naval bombardment, these islands were on the verge of collapse, according to reports Thursday morning. A note demanding unconditional surrender was dropped on Pantelleria, but reports state that the demand was turned down. American Negro airmen, attached to the Army Air Forces are taking part in these raids. As early as June 1 these flyers began to join formations which made the short 30 mile hop from the Tunisian coast to plaster the island fortress of Pantelleria. The story of these first flights are told by the Journal and Guide War Correspondent, Thomas W. Young

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