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t IT jar T Jf IK S jm 1 sb jjjl Jj^ ____1 Volume 1. Number 10Lincoln 3, NebraskaDecember 13, 1946 Ford Workers File FEPC Petitions Clinch Funeral Will Be Held in Lincoln * Funeral services for 1/Sgt. James Clinch who was killed in Germany last week, will be held in Lincoln after his body is re turned from Europe. Sergeant Clinch served 19 months in Germany before his discharge and re-enlistment. He returned overseas in March of this year. He was a member of Newman Methodist Church. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Jean Stephenson, Lincoln; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Washington; two aunts, Mrs. Edna Lewis and Dorothy Wash ington, all of Slater, Mo.: two ^pcfes, Cacl Washington, Kansas City, Kas., and LeRoy Washington Philadelphia -o Anniversary Members of Mt. Zion Baptist church enter^tair^d Rev. and Mrs. .T. S. Favors with an anniversary party. The Favors were married a year ago on November twenty fifth. It happened in New York NEW YORK (ANP)—The lights are on again all over Harlem and elsewhere in all the boroughs. Florence Murray, editor of the Negro Handbook, announced that 459,000 Negroes in various skilled trades were affected by the coal strike. This did not include the large number of those employed in public utilities, transportation and communications. . ■ -o Negro Journalism to Gel Willkie Award WASHINGTON—(ANP)— Fur thering its purpose of extending pubilc recognition to accomplish ments of the Negro press, the Wendell L. Willkie Awards for Journalism corporation will pro vide three annual cash prizes for excellence in Negro journalism, it was announced here last Tuesday. In addition to giving meritori ous recognition to deserving Neg I ro journalists, the corporation, which bears the name of the 1940 Republican presidential candi date, also seeks to encourage co i operation between white and Ne gro authors, juornalists and pub lishers. Willkie died in 1944. RECEIVES AWARD * Bertram Cooke, Cathedral’s backfield star has been awarded ;to honor certificate in recognition oi his outstanding performance turned in for Cathedral in the last four years of play. This selec tion was made by coaches of op posing teams. Cooke’s superior playing ability and sportmanship during his plaV have been the de ciding factors in him being given this award. Cooke, who has lived in Lin oln for about 8 years, formerly wed in Chicago. He weighs bout 200 lbs, 17 years old and tands about 6” 1’. He has a well rained passing arm and a con sistent ground gain. He is not only powerful but stands up with ^he best of them in speed. Cooke plans to attend Univer sity upon completion of his school term. Here he plans to continue jdj bis football career and follow in fll the footsteps of his idol Ozzie Simmons. . j Truman Names Two Negroes To Civil Rights Committee WASHINGTON—(ANP)— Two nationally-prominent Negroes were named Thursday by Pres. Truman to serve on his civil rights committee to combat hate groups. Carefully selecting the nation’s most outstanding progressive leaders, Truman named Mrs. Sadie T. Alexander, assistant, city solicitor of Philadelphia and sec retary of the National Bar asso ciation, along with Dr. Charn ning H. Tobias, director of the Phelps-Stokes fund and former senior secretary of the national council of the YMCA. Blasting organized groups which ran “hatred and intoler ance,” the President’s executive order declared that the action of those who take the law into their own hands “gravely threatens our form of government.” His com mittee will study and recommend civil rights legislation and other measures to protect “all parts of our population.” The federal government is hampered by inadequate civil rights laws, the Chief executive said. They should be expanded and improved to provide the Jus- I tice department “with tools to do I the job.” Freedom from fear has been “gravely threatened," Truman de clared. “It was so after the last war when organized groups fan ned hatred and intolerance until, at times mob action struck fear into the hearts of men and wo men because of their racial ori gin or religious beliefs. “In some places, from time to time, the local enforcement of law and order has broken down, and individuals, sometimes ex servicemen, even women, have been killed, maimed or intimi dated.” -o N. A. A. C. P. The president of the N. A. A. C. P. has announced that there will be an election of officers on Fri day evening, December 20 at 8:00 p. m. at the Urban League. Every one is asked to be present Ford Workers Beat Deadline DETROIT— (ANP)—Members of Ford’s UAW-CIO local 600 beat the Dec. 1 deadline to file peti tions for a state fair employment practice act. Basis for local 600’s active sup port of the state-wide petition campaingn for a state FEPC law is -the declaration of indepen dence, said Peter Kasper and Dewey McGhee, chairman and secretary respectively of the Lo cal’s FEPC committee. ‘ “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are en dowed by their Creator with cer tain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” * they quoted. “Workers have learned that they must fight discrimination and bigotry instead of fighting one another,” they continued. “Labor in white skin can never be truly free as long as labor in black skin is in slavery. The long history of union struggles in Am erica proves that wherever any kind of discrimination is prac ticed, all workers suffered.” Tracing the history of the labor movement back in 1867, they re ferred to a statement of Sylvis, head of the National Labor union, American’s first nation-wide la bor federation, that year on the subject of organizing all workers regardless to race, color, creed or national origin. “Any other policy would allow the capitalists—north and south, to foment discord between whites and black s and hurl the one against the other,” Sylvis was quoted as saying, “allowing the employers to maintain their as--'' cendancy and contains their reign of oppression. Lamentable sjJ^cU able, labor warring on labor, an" capital smiling and reaping tfi fruits.” (Continued on page 3) Sec. 562, P L. & R. Ifatc /ti/v