New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00492

The Case Of Separate Dining Facilities In City Hospitals By MALCOLM NASH Does the existence of separate dining rooms for professional and non - professional staffers of the city’s lfl hospitals mean separa­ tion for professional reasons or segregation for racial bias? Some of the members of Local 420 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union contend It is only to maintain race bias. On the other hand, the Hospi­ tals Department, while admitting that dual dining facilities do ex­ ist In most of the city’s hospi­ tals, defend the system on the ground that It it custom to sep­ arate the two groups of workers only for professional reaeons. Colon Spokesman , Harold Staley, coordinator of Local 420. said that most of toe nonprofessional workers of the city’s hospitals are Negroes and Puerto Ricans, while the profes­ sionals are largely white. He included practical nurees, dietary, housekeeping and insti­ tutional aides among the nonpro­ fessional staffers. Doctors, regular nurses, dietic­ ians, social workers, investiga­ tors, mechanical workers, librar­ ians, dieticians and housekeepers reportedly comprise the profes­ sional staffers. “Both professional and nonpro­ fessional staffers, while they eat in separate dining rooms, pre re­ quired to pay the same prices for meals, but the menus of each differ as well as the service In each," said Staley. Second-Class Status “This Is a second - class status that should not be accorded to nonprofessional workers," Staley added. Deputy Commissioner Robert Mangum, In charge of personnel, agreed that prices of meals in the separately - maintained din­ ing rooms In most hospitals were the same, but said he didn’t know whether the menus for profes­ sionals contained a greater var­ iety and whether service for them was better. Mangum said that. in newly- built hospitals there are no sep­ arate dining rooms for the two groups of workers. While facil- ltles differ from one hospital to another, most of the older hospi­ tals have separate dining facil­ ities. Back Suffrage In Rhodesias “This has been a tradition, but it is not based on race or color,*' he said. Discuss Cases “It is obvious that doctors would want to dine with doctors, and nurses with nurses, because they frequently discuss cases with each other or consult profes- sors on a particular case. Lawy­ ers frequently do the same thing. It is not prejudice, for many of the doctors are Negroes as well as some of the nonprofessionals are whites," Mangum explained. In response to another charge made by Staley, asserting that a dual application of rules is practiced in the hospitals to that Negroes are penalized for slight infractions while whites are ig­ nored on serious ones, Mangum said he had no knowledge of such interpretations. He said that a study was being The Methodist Conference In Scuthera Rhodesia — the most segregated country outside of the Republic of South Africa — has declared its support for universal adult suffrage for Africans and Europeans in that part of the Federation of the Rhodesias.t Disclosure of the conference’s position was made by the Meth­ odist Board of Missions whose headquarters office is at 475 Riverside Drive, made to examine more carefully the desirability of eliminating the dual eating facilities where 'con­ ditions In the particular hospital lend themselves'* to that, but de­ clined to make any commit­ ments. Form a good habit. Read the Amsterdam News every week. Out every Thursday. 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