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The Monitor A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight Thousand Colored Peopk '% in Omaha and Vicinity, and to the Good of the Community ^ The Rev. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor I | - $1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy. Omaha. Nebraska, August 12, 1916 Vol. II. No. 7 (Wht Z o. 59) Negroes Supplant Whites In Factory Labor Union is*Dealt a Telling Blow in Chattanooga Foundry as Re sult of Strike. RACE MEN GIVE SATISFACTION Serious Trouble Has Resulted in For mer Strikes Because of the Dis placement of Whites by Negroes. Chattanooga, Tenn., August 11.— The recent strike of union molders at the plant of the Chattanooga Roofing and Foundry company and the subse quent employment of Colored men to fill tbeir places has recalled to older labor men other strikes and like re sults in days when the city was young. At the beginning of Chattanooga’s industrial history, so runs the story related to our reporter, every foundry in operation was manned by white union molders. This contin ued until a certain manufacturer, in order to obtain less expensive labor, • conceived the idea of training the Colored men who acted in the ca pacity of helpers to white men to the molders’ trade. The first step in this direction was the selection of an ex pert white tradesman to instruct tne Colored workers, and as white men here would not agree to do the work the manufacturer went north and in i short time, it is related, returned accompanied by George Gibson, a white molder, who had been induced to undertake the task of making me chanics out of the raw material at hand. bo successful was i.inson in train ing the men that it was only/a short time until the white men were retired and the foundry had all its work done by Colored men, and continues under that arrangement. Other manu facturers, forced to compete with the Colored labor, followed the example set by the pioneer in the movement, and other important plants passed from the jurisdiction of the white union molders. Placing of Colored men in these plants was not accompanied without ► stubborn resistance of the journey men molders’ organizations, which have combated the movement in bat tle after battle. Serious trouble re sulted from the lockout of the white molders at one of the plants some years ago, several strike-breakers be ing wounded and their assailants com pelled to leave the city. Trouble at the roofing company, if * not settled, doubtless will mean the less of another important base by the local molders’ union and affect south side citizens who have made their home here for many years. The sit uation at the plant is unchanged, tne management reporting it has suffi cient operating force, while on the other hand the strikers say only a few inexperienced Negroes are at work. 1,100 Race Men Desert Savannah, Georgia Savannah, Ga., Aug. 11.—The Sa vannah union station was a black par adise today, when nearly 1,100 Col ored laborers, ranging in age from 21 to 45 years, started for Philadelphia on two special trains. They are to work along the lines of the Pennsylvania railroad. A crowd of 2,500 relatives and friends crowded . into the station and down to the tra:n shed to see them off. Policemen had : some difficulty in restraining the j crowd which surged up against the gates when they w.ere opened to admit those who were to board the trains. There was nothing of the son'ow of parting in the crowd, everybody who left being in an excursion mood, and those who stayed behind being sure that they would be well taken care of by the wages sent home. I),000 HEAR FIRST REGI MENTAL HAND, K. OF P. The First Regimental Band, Iv. of P. gave their initial municipal concert of the season at Riverview Park last Sunday before an audience of about 6,000 people. The union bands of the city have waged a bitter fight to pre vent the employment of non-union hands for municipal concerts. The recent decision of Judge Day laid down the principle that it was illegal for the city to contract only with union players. PREACHER KILLED WHEN AUTOMOBILE OVERTIJRNS Huntington, W. Va., Aug. 11.—The body of Rev. E. H. Hardy, 55, pastor of the Baptist church of Ashland, Ky., was brought to his home in Ash land last week from Williamson, W. Va., where he met his death when an automobile in which he was being rushed to the station turned over an embankment. Rev. Hardy, who was one of the best known ministers of the tri-state region, had gone to Wil liamson to deliver a special sermon. OKLAHOMANS WILL TRAVEL IN OWN AUTOS Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 11.—T. J. Elliott, the dry goods merchant of Muskogee, Okla., has written to the representatives of the Kansas City Negro Business League, advising that an overland trip will be made from Oklahoma to Kansas City by more than one hundred persons in automobiles. All the automobiles are owned by Oklahoma Negro business men. WILL OPEN MOVIE HOUSE (Special to The Monitor.) Des Moines, la., Aug. 11.—Shelton and Guillum, of this city, are remod eling their hall on Center street, with the intention of opening a Negro movie house in the near future. Springfield Sued When Bathing Pools Are Closed Springfield, 111., Aug. 11.—Colored citizens of Springfield planned last Saturday to file injuntcion proceed ings against the park board of Spring field to compel the board to grant thgm permission to use public bathing places here. A swimming pool in one of the local parks was closed Thursday when three Negroes attempted to swim in it. ST. LOUIS GIANTS SECURE FEDERAL PARK St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 11—After much dilly-dallying over one of the most momentous questions that has yet arisen in this city affecting the future of Negro baseball, the Federal League base ball park has been secured by Charles C. Mills and associates, and will be the future home of the St. Louis Colored and white fans of the Mound City. This is generally regarded in Col ored base ball circles as a most im portant circumstance, as it adds just that much more to the fast growing popularity of baseball among the Col ored and white fans of the Mound City. ELMER BOWMAN, SONG WRITER, DIES SUDDENLY New York, Aug. 11.—Elmer Bow man, well known and popular in the atrical circles, who wrote the words to the song, “Go ’Way Back and Sit Down,” to which AI Johns composed the music, died early Saturday morn ing at the Bellevue Hospital of acute indigestion. Elmer Bowman was born in Denver, Colo., September 15, 1877. He first attracted attention in New York as a song writer and was responsible for several popular hits. LEFT MONEY TO HER MAID Richmond, Va., Aug. 11.—Mrs. El len Sturat Bentley, formerly of this city, died last April in New York, and in her will left $8,000 of her $10,000 estate to her maid, Minnie F. Smith. NEWSPAPER MAN IS ARRESTED Waco, Texas, Aug. 11.—Police offi cials here have put A. T. Smith, man ager of the Paul Quinn Weekly, in jail because he dared to print his opin ion of the horrible burning of Jesse Washington in that town some months ago. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 11.—The Baptist Ministers Conference in ses sion here proposes to borrow $10,000, 000 from U. S. banks to promote Ne gro institutions and advance the race» Property of the conference churches will be given as security. Negro Farm Coiuny Outside of Denver 20,000 Acre Tract of Government Land Occupied by Colored Truck Gar deners. Jackson the Originator FIND READY MARKET FOR CROP The Settlement Is Prosperous and Contented. The Town of Deers field Has Store, Hotel, Church. Denver, Colo., Aug. 11.—Oliver T. Jackson, Colored messenger in the office of the governor with the help of the latter, secured a portion of a 20,000-acre tract of government land and induced a number of Colored fam ilies in Denver to go out and locate on it. In the city they were living in undesirable quarters, doing ill-paid work under conditions that were a moral menace. Some of them were so poor that they had to be helped financially to make the move, but they went, one after another, until now 40 families are there located, co operating in farm work, prosperous, comfortably housed and contented. They live in a town called Deersfield, have a combination store and hotel and a church, and find in Denver a ready market for their produce. $5,000 TOWARD NEW Y. M. C. A. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 11.—Announce ment has just been made that a check for $5,000 toward the new Y. M. C. A. for our men has within the last few days been received by the treasurer of the Y. M. C. A. from the Fullman Company. This contri bution is credited on the $75,000, which the Metropolitan Board of Di rectors has received for the Colored Branch, as Mr. Hanford CrawTord, the president of the Board of Direc tors, and Mr. Philemon Bevis, the general secretary of the St. Louis Young Men’s Christian Association, made a special trip to Chicago for the purpose of enlisting the Pullman Company’s interest in the project. OUR SOLDIERS WIN Headquarters American Punitive Expedition, Mexico, August 11,—Ap proximately one hundred officers of the regiments stationed at the head quarters of the punitive expedition here attended a farewell reception yesterday to Brigadier General George A. Dodd, retired. Afro-American soldiers swept the field in nearly every event at an ath letic contest today. “A NATURAL BORN GAMBLER” (Special to The Monitor.) Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 11.—The Du mas Movie Garden presented the popular movie, “A Natural Bom Gambler,” here Wednesday and Thursday, with Bert Williams as the star, assisted by a Colored company.