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1963-10 Racial Justice in Iowa Page 7
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LABOR Volume 26, No. 14 October, 1963 Racial Injustice in Iowa No good end will be served in repeating the details of a rather strain controversy which arose in the wake of the threatened eviction of the Cook's Point families. Suffice to say that Mr. A. Linton Lundy, president of the Midwest Metals, was determined to proceed with the building of the present establishment now situated on the site of the Point. The property had been procured from Mr. Uchtorff. The Davenport Catholic Messenger's writer Jerome Cahill, who did not long survive this hassle, precipitated a controversy by his news accounts. Defenders of Mr. Lundy and Mr. Uchtorff protested the implication of the Messenger articles that these two business men stubbornly insisted on proceeding with their business project, unconcerned about the plight of the displaced Mexican families. One defender who left his letter to the Messenger unsigned noted that in 1940 " Mr. Uchtorff considered building at the Point and there was a great to-dp over resettling its residents. Mr Uchtorff gave up this project for other reasons, and twelve years have gone by but nothing is being done to solve the resettlement problem. It will take pressure, such as is presently being exerted to relocate the Point people. The Messenger should not, then, impugn the motives of those who try to accomplish something of a civic nature even though their own personal interest may also be served thereby." And the Messenger answered that it had no
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LABOR Volume 26, No. 14 October, 1963 Racial Injustice in Iowa No good end will be served in repeating the details of a rather strain controversy which arose in the wake of the threatened eviction of the Cook's Point families. Suffice to say that Mr. A. Linton Lundy, president of the Midwest Metals, was determined to proceed with the building of the present establishment now situated on the site of the Point. The property had been procured from Mr. Uchtorff. The Davenport Catholic Messenger's writer Jerome Cahill, who did not long survive this hassle, precipitated a controversy by his news accounts. Defenders of Mr. Lundy and Mr. Uchtorff protested the implication of the Messenger articles that these two business men stubbornly insisted on proceeding with their business project, unconcerned about the plight of the displaced Mexican families. One defender who left his letter to the Messenger unsigned noted that in 1940 " Mr. Uchtorff considered building at the Point and there was a great to-dp over resettling its residents. Mr Uchtorff gave up this project for other reasons, and twelve years have gone by but nothing is being done to solve the resettlement problem. It will take pressure, such as is presently being exerted to relocate the Point people. The Messenger should not, then, impugn the motives of those who try to accomplish something of a civic nature even though their own personal interest may also be served thereby." And the Messenger answered that it had no
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