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Volume 1. Number 10Lincoln 3, NebraskaDecember 13, 1946
Ford Workers File FEPC Petitions
Clinch Funeral Will Be
Held in Lincoln
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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)
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