General Race News
CLEVELAND WANTS NEGRO
LABORERS ORGANIZED
Cleveland, O., Nov. 16.—The execu
tive committee of the Cleveland Fed
eration of Labor voted here recently
to urge organization of southern Ne
groes as a solution of the labor prob
lems that have arisen from their im
portation in large numbers to Cleve
land and other northern cities.
They will urge organization to Pres
ident Gompers, of the American Fed
eration of Labor, through Secretary
J. G. Owens and Representative
George Hauhn. In only one case, the
committee reported, have Negroes
been brought to Cleveland as strike
breakers. Railroads have been the
largest importers.
SAVED WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Boston, Mass., Nov. 16.—Thomas P.
Taylor, who died in a local hospital,
has just been buried after funeral
services in the Charles Street A. M. E.
church. For some years he and Frank
B. Sanborn had been the only sur
vivors, it is said, of the rescuers of
Wendell Phillips when the latter was
mobbed as an Abolitionist at the Jey
Street Colored church, before the Civil
war. Taylor was on board the U. S.
S, Vandalia, when it was wrecked in
a hurricane in 1889, at Samoa.
PITTSBURG RAISES $15,000.
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 16.—The cam
paign to raise $10,000 among the col
ored people toward a new Young
Men’s Christian Association, came to
a close Monday night, when a total of
$15,317.70 was reported. Congratula
tory addresses were delivered by In
ternational Secretary J. E. Moorland,
who directed the campaign; Ralph W.
Harbison, F. B. Shipp and Hezekiah
Anderson.
NEGRO FARMER GETS
HIGH PRICE FOR COTTON
Eufala, Ala.,—A Negro farmer got
Eufala’s record-breaking price for a
bale of cotton and the seed. Both
brought $166.32. The bale weighed
770 pounds and was the largest
brought to the city this year. The
lint, at 16% cents per pound, brought
$127.05, while the seed, at the market
price of $51 per ton, brought in $39.27.
BRAITH WAITE’S ANTHOLOGY.
Boston, Mass., Nov. 16.—Wm. Stan
ley Braithwaite, the literary critic, has
about completed his “Anthology of
Poetry for 1916.” This work is re
garded as an authority by lovers and
critics of poetry. Mr. Braithwaite
published in the Transcript two weeks
ago a review of poetry during the
year.
FOR COLORED CONSUMPTIVES.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 16.—The state
of Virginia has practically closed a
deal for a tract of 350 acres of land
in Nottaway county, which will be
used as a sanatorium for colored con
sumptives.
SEGREGATION IN COURT HOUSE.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 16.—
“Jim Crow” seats now obtain in the
city court room, according to signs
placed there a few days ago.
BROWN BEATS YALE.
It was a sad blow to Tad Jones and
other Yale coaches who had visions of
a victorious year for Yale, something
missing from the New Haven institu
tion for a long time. The Jones smile
was in evidence, but that was before
Pollard, the colored halfback of Brown
began to run rampant over the Ell
oicklers. The persistent Pollard was
the big thorn in the Yale side. As he
dived into and through so many men
on his dashes toward victory he left
Vale warriors strewn all over the
field.—New York Sun.
Wilberforce University is to have
two new buildiigs costing $100,000.
One is to be used as a recitation build
ing and the other as a gymnasium.
Dr. G. W. Hubbard, of Nashville,
Tenn., was formally inaugurated pres
ident of Meharry Medical College on
October 9th.
A new High School, named in honor
of Dunbar, and costing $550,000 has
just been opened in Washington, D. C.
Sunday, November 14, a year ago,
Booker T. Washington passed away.
For the first time in twenty years
Colored girl has succeeded in be
coming a member of the High School
orchestra of Washington, Pa. She is
iiss Monzella Walters, age 15, and
a violinist of ability.
Fred Pollard, half-back on the
Pi own University Football Team,
scored two touchdowns after sensa
tional runs through broken fields, !n
che Brown-Vermont game recently,
rd was widely mentioned throughout
the press. It was because of Pollard
that Princeton refused to play Brown,
and Brown quickly scratched them off
the visiting list.
The Cuban Stars and Brooklyn
Koyal Giants are playing ball in San
•Juan and Porto Rica.
Twenty-two Colored miners lost
their lives in a mine explosion in Al
abama on November 7th.
Liliuokalani, ex-queen of Hawaii,
is very ill at Honolulu, and her death
is momentarily expected.
David Mannes, famous violinist,
maxes the statement in the N. Y. Eve
ning Post, that he owes his success
to an old Colored musician of the
.'enderloin, who first taught him
music.
Six-year-old Lillian Smith, Kidnap
ped in Washington, D. C., April 10th.
has been located in Philadelphia and
returned to her parents.
Major General R. R. Jackson, of
hicago, has been re-elected to serve
in the Illinois legislature.
Dr. R. R. Moton, of Tuskege. is ad
vising the Colored people to stay in
the South for the reason that they
will be unable to stand the climate of
the North. It seems, however, that
little attention is being paid to his ad
vice.
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