The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928, April 08, 1927, Page FOUR, Image 4

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    COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB
FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU
The Colored Commercial club has
been seeking for some time to ascer
tain why the Colored Free Employ
ment Bureau, which has operated
under its auspices for several years,
has been dropped by the Community
Chest.
Last November, Dr. D. W. Gooden,
president of the club, by chance
learned that the agency had been
dropped. Ever since that time offi
cials of the club have sought in vain
the reason for it without avail.
When it was learned that the la
bor bureau had been dropped the
president of the Colored Commercial
club sought an audience with the
Board of Governors of the Communi
ty Chest, which ended with a hastily
summoned group meeting of a sub
committee of the board and a sub
committee from the club. At this
meeting it was decided that the fu
ture status of the labor bureau
should be determined by a joint com
mittee from the Council of Social
Agencies and the Colored Commer
cial club. Subsequently these com
mittees met. The committee from
the Council of Social Agencies and
the Colored Commercial club could
not or did not agree. In fact, the
club committee on its part gave the
only expression which was given,
which was that the agency should
continue under its auspices until
such time as a stronger and better
organization could be formed among
the colored people to take charge of
the labor bureau. The committee
from the Council of Social Agencies
said nothing. Later, the club’s of
ficers learned that the committee
from the Council of Social Agencies
without reporting to the Board of
Governors of the Community Chest,
had formed what is called an inter
racial committee, composed of seven
white persons and eight colored per
sons to operate a labor bureau.
. When the Community Chest was
organized, the colored people recom
mended Rev. John Albert Williams
for the colored member of the Board
of Governors of the Community
Chest. Pursuant to this recommen
dation he was elected to this board.
Therefore, when the controversy
arose about the Colored Commercial
club Free Labor Bureau, the matter
was referred to Rev. Mr. Williams
by the Colored Commercial club.
The labor bureau had been dropped
without the matter ever having been
called to the attention of the colored
member of the board.
In these circumstances the execu
tive committee of the Colored Com
mercial club insisted that in a matter
affecting a colored agency the col
ored representative should be the one
on the board to dispose of the mat
ter; that he should have been advised
as to the reasons for dropping the
Colored Free Employment Bureau
before it was done and that the Col
ored Commercial club, under the
rules of the Community Chest, should
have been heard before any action
was taken.
When the matter finally reached
the Board of Governors for deter
mination, the colored member, Rev.
Mr. Williams, proposed that the la
bor bureau continue for the remain
der of the year under the Colored
Commercial club. Mr. S. S. Cald
well, one of the white members, pro
posed that it be considered as drop
ped from the chest and that the
money set aside for colored work be
turned over to the committee which
he, the Rev. Mr. Chinlund and Mr.
E. W. Peirce of the Y. M. C. A. had
formed. This latter was done, and
the new agency created, we believe,
without any authority under the
rules of the chest, is operating a
free agency, with seven white mem
bers and eight colored members. One
of the white members of the new
agency is vice-chairman and the act
ive head of the committee, while an
other white member is secretary and
treasurer of the committee. It fol
lows, therefore, that this agency of
the Community Chest is no longer,
as formerly controlled by colored
people.
The principle of representation in
fact by members of the colored race
was in issue. The Colored Commer
cial club elected to fight for the prin
ciple, it being a matter that the race
cannot compromise and go on. The
money was withdrawn from it on this
issue. And the only explanation or
excuse for it is that of a gesture in
the form of a promised apology to
the Commercial club for the wholly
improper manner in which it has
been treated in connection with the
labor bureau.
Another important element in thla
matter is that all the money which
is being expended for colored work
in Omaha is being paid by colored
people themselves. That is, the
money now being used for the new
labor bureau is not coming from the
white people, but from the colored
people.
The Colored Commercial club is
going on. It is operating its free
labor bureau at 1514 North Twenty
fourth street, just as it has been do
ing for several years. It plans also
to push its membership campaign and
aid along business lines.
The question is, and it is very vi
tal, shall we have representatives of
our own race possessed of intelli
gence and courage connected with
various agencies to speak for us
or shall we have representatives
from the race who are content
to follow unquestioningly patronizing
types of the other group who pre
sume to lead and speak for the col
ored people?
The Colored Commercial club rec
ognizes the fact that there are nu
merous white friends and agencies
like the Chamber of Commerce has
been toward it, and many others, but
it insists that our own leaders and
spokesmen shall present our case.
Certain it is that what has been
done and the way it has been done
stands without reasonable explana
tion or excuse.
The colored men in the Colored
Commercial club have been working
in the community for many years.
Nearly every man in it owns his own
home and pays a considerable sum in
direct taxes for community mainte
nance. The wives of these men have
labored unselfishly in all the com
munity activities for the progress of
the colored people. It is hardly to
he expected that they shall be placed
under suspicion by the action that
has been taken in this matter with
out, at least, recognizing the gross
injustice of it all. Nor is it to be
supposed that they will rest under
it. The camouflage in the nature of
a free labor bureau under a com
mittee with colored members upon it
does not change the record at all.
In these hectic days, when we
should be working together for the
progress of all, it is a very bad thing
to insult a group of men and women
who have been good citizens and
served well, for the sake of experi
ment. It may satisfy someon’s un
wise desires, but it is poor social
economy.
We owe this statement to the pub
lic that the issue may be known and
that the colored people may judge
for themselves the reason why.
THE COLORED COMMERCIAL
CLUB OF OMAHA.
By D. W. Gooden, President.
Paid Publiciy.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY
(From the Star of Zion)
In speaking of another’s faults, pray
don’t forget your own;
Remember those with homes of glass
should seldom throw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do but ;
talk of those who sin,
’Tis better we commence at home and
from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
until he is fairly tried;
Should we not like his company, we
know the world is wide.
Some may have faults—and who has
not?—the old as well as young.
Perhaps we may, for aught we know,
have fifty to their one.
I’ll tell you of a better plan, I find
it works quite well,
To try my own defects to cure before
of others tell;
And though sometimes I hope to be
no worse than some I know,
My own shortcomings bid me, let the
faults of others go.
Then let us all, when we commence
to slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word can do
to those we little know.
Remember, curses, sometimes like our
chickens, “roost at home.”
Don’t speak of others’ faults until we
have none of our own.
(Composed by S. F. Spruill, age 14,
ion of Rev. and Mrs. S. H. Spruill,
\bingdon, Va.)
SECOND N. A. A. C. P.
VICTORY REAFFIRMS
LOUISVILLE DECISION
New York, March 18 —The second
victory this year before the United
States Supreme Court won by the
National Association for the Ad
vancment of Colored People, in a
decision handed down Monday, March
14th, voiding the Louisiana and New
Orleans segregation ordinances as
unconstitutional, reaffirms the vic
tory won in 1017 in the Louisville
Segregation Case. James Weldon
Johnson, secretary of the N. A. A.
C. P. commenting on the decision
said:
“The Supreme Court in 1917 held
that it was unconstitutional for any
city or state to enact segregation or
dinances,” said Mr. Johnson, "the
language of this decision in the cele
brated case of Buchanan vs. Warley,
won for the N. A. A. C. P. by its
president, Mrorfield Storey, was per
fectly plain. Yet, Louisiana and
New Orleans, just as there were no
such thing as the Supreme court,
passed ordinances in direct contra
vention of this decision.
“The New Orleans branch of the
N. A. A. C. P. has fought this at
tempted residential segregation from
the outset and is now a triumphant
victor. It shows not only that the
South sooner or later must come to
realize that there is such a thing as
the Constitution and its amendments;
but also that when colored people or
ganize and take their just cause to
the highest tribunal in the land they
will be, as they have been, upheld.
“The supreme court has once more
made plain that in the Louisville de
cision, through the work of the N.
A. A. C. P., colored citizens of this
country have been given a weapon
with which they can defeat any at
tempt to segregate them residentially
by ordinance or enactment.
“ThiB victory follows within a
week the Texas White Primary vic
tory. Two such victories within so
short a time furnish cause for re
joicing by members of the N. A.
A. C. P. and its supporters, and by
colored people everywhere. The con
tinuance and extension of this work
is dependent only upon the courage,
determination and financial support
of those sympathetic with it.”
This week’s
installment of
“The Doom
Trail” was by
necessity held
over until
next week
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