AP Re Ret Porn eT ®he natives are. erin, DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA Rfrican Native Mechanics Compete With Laggard Whites By DAVID VANN David Vann, a graduate of Westmoreland High School and Wilkes College is now a Rotary ‘ scholar at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. His year in Africa is being spon- sored by the Wyoming Rotary _ Club. David’s letters will appear at intervals in The Post—Editor Last week, I said some people, concerned about those natives who are overly ambitious. Native me- chanics in the more highly indus- trialized areas, such as Johannes- burg, Port Elizabeth and Capetown, have learned their skills so well capable of going back to their loca- tions, opening a shop of their own, and competing with the white man. I talked to a man in Johannes- burg who always took his automo- bile to a native mechanic. He did here are concerned with how lazy | so, because he felt that the native Yet, there is still| could do a much better job, and another group who are even more Fi because he knew that the FAVORITE FAMILY PARK FOR 59 YEARS from the white man that they are native charged prices that white mechanics could not meet. The na- tive is not only drawing customers from his black brethren, he also draws white customers. I have seen white carpenters and brick layers who did no work, but rather watch- ed over the natives they had work- ing for them. The actual work was done completely by the native who was supposedly unskilled. The government is beginning to worry about this. Many white peo- ple are developing no skills, Nearly all manual labor is done by blacks. A friend in Grahamstown told me that white children are inordinately lazy. He stated that the only time they will do something on: their own, is when they cannot find a native to do it for them. Polish Shoes I have not had to polish my shoes since I came here. No one does. As part of the duties of the boys who take care of our halls, waiting on tables, cleaning the bathrooms etc. our shoes are shined for us every morning. The only effort we make is to place them outside of our doors. This is also true of every { hotel and nearly every home. At nearly every one of the many homes in which I've had the pleas- ure of staying, I've been asked if I would like to receive my breakfast in bed. This practice is common in | many of the middle class homes, and most children regard it as their just due. However, it is not a uni- versal practice and many homes will not permit their children to be spoiled in such a way. I've met many students, who tell me they would like to consider the native as their equal, but that they cannot eliminate the years of teach- ing that stretches behind them tell- ing them that the natives are in- ferior. They state that even though they would like to change their minds on this they cannot. They admit their prejudices, but feel help- less to control them. Speaks To Rotary "1 had the pleasure of speaking be- fore the Rotary Club of King Wil- liamstown last. week, and my host was the manager of the largest tex- tile mill in Africa, South of Alex- andria. He took me for a tour of his plant, and I saw thousands of natives at work. The only white people were the supervisors, design- ers, and the office staff. He showed me the locations, in which his work- ers lived. Some were built by the government, and some by his com- pany. They were the best homes that I've seen the natives live in since I've been here. The rent was amazingly low, something like a dollar and a half per month. But then again, the natives working there received only thirty-six dollars per month, and these were the high paid natives. - THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1959 Japanese Prisoner The manager was a very interest- ing fellow, who had spent World | War II interned in a Japanese con- centration camp in China where he had also managed a textile plant. He was there when the Chinese Communists took over also, and he told me that they forced him to work for them for eighteen months, as a virtual prisoner. The person who eventually became his boss was a girl in her early twenties who had worked for him for three years as a sweeper. She had been educated in the United States, at Harvard, and he had no knowledge of her educa- tion, or of the fact that she had been busy organizing communist cells in his plant for three years prior to taking over. There are many other people in South Africa who are complaining of the ability of the natives to get along economically on their own. These are the traders, who formerly had stores in the locations and in the Reserve areas. Many of these stores are going bankrupt, because natives are boycotting them in favor of stores owned by their own people. In the Rhodesias, the whites are complaining about Indian merchants who are underselling them to the point that they are also going bank- rupt. They are capable of doing this by living on subsistence standards, thus reducing their profits, and thus taking business away from the whites. The Indians are also com- plaining, because they are being boycotted by the natives. Government Worried The South African government is worried, Apartheid is their solution to this also. Nearly every report that the government has had made on the subject of apartheid, has told them that it is economically im- possible to initiate it. Yet the gov- ernment is going ahead, more deep- ly. every day. South Africa is the greatest gold and diamond producing country in the world. She has been in first place ‘in. the . production of gold, nearly since they were first dis- covered in the 1880’s. As such she stands to benefit greatly if the price is raised. She has been asking for an increase for years, and is hopeful it will be raised in the near future. The United States sets the price, and she has been, given impetus in her hopes because large quantities of gold have left the States in the past few months. There has been a great deal of activity in the stock market here, relative to gold. Prices of stock have taken great increases over- night. If the price of gold is raised, South Africa will undoubtedly bene- fit. My only concern is who will really benefit? Most people feel that very little benefit will trickle down to the natives. 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