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FE-CIO SETS EXAMPLE—The CIO Kami Equipment and Metal Workers union »
one of the nation’s few predominantly white labor organizations to eiert Negroes to
top executive posts. Shown here is William I*. Smith, of Chicago, international vice
president of KE-CJO, flanked by mixed secretarial staff, I-eft to right, are Natalie
Wintertnwn and Cartotta Kufus. Negroes are estimated at 14 per cent of the 65.000
man international membership and both north and south, Negroes are fully Integrated
Into union leadership. Several days ago the union signed a blanket contract covering
40,000 workers in II Harvester plants, and defeated the IJAW-CIO in three straight
N.L.K.B. elections.
Fraternal Council of Negro
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Churches Changes Its Name
RICHMOND, Va. (ANP).
Members of the executive board
of the Fraternal Council of Negro
Churches, after a heated discus
sion, voted last week to change
its name to the Fraternal Coun
cil of Churches in the United
States.
At its meeting at the Fifth street
Baptist church of which Dr. C. C.
Scott is pastor, the board voted to
drop the word Negro from the or
ganizations name.
Dr. W. H. Jernagin reported (
that $7,000 had been contributed
for the purchase of a $16,000 home
for the bureau in Washington,
D. C. The remainder of the money
would be raised through donations
from the 11 denominations in 19
states that make up the Fraternal
council.
Honored guest speaker of the
meeting was the world famous Dr.
W. A. Visser ’t Hooft, secretary of
the World Council of Churches,
Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. ’t Hooft
hails from The Netherlands.
Bishop H. T. Medford delivered
the sermon of the meeting. J. W.
Lucas of Dayton, O., Dr. Nannie
H. Burroughs of Washington,
D. C., Douglass Greer, special as
sistant to the Federal Housing ad
ministrator, Dr. Oscar Lee, secre
tary of race relations of the Meth
odist church, also spoke.
The council voted to authorize
the establishment of women’s
auxiliaries in various states. The
auxiliary from St. Louis sent a
token of $150 to the group.
Officers of the council will
hold their positions until October
They are the Rev. J. M. Bracy of
St. Louis, president; Calvin K.
Stalnaker, executive secretary; the
Rev. J. W. Eichelberger and the
Rev. J. W. Lucas, secretaries. The
Rev. R. W. Coleman of New Or
leans was selected special field or
ganizer.
Guests at the meeting included
Bishops James Clair Taylor of the
AME Zion church, A. J. Allen of
the AME church, and H. Z. Plum
mer of the Church of God and
Saints in Christ.
Lodge’s Officers
Visit; Woodlee Is
High School Soloist
By Beatrice Motley.
ALLIANCE, Neb.—The Masonic
and Eastern Star officers from the
Nebraska jurisdiction are making
their annual visits to the Alliance
. Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M
and to the Alliance Chap
ter No. 5, OES. Mrs. Mamie
Houchins of Lincoln, grand ma
tron, is among the Eastern Star
visitors. Mrs. Margaret Moore,
Omaha, grand treasurer, and Mrs.
Susie Jones, Omaha, grand lec
turer, are also visitors.
Stella Woodlee Sings.
Miss Stella Marie Woodlee was
vocal soloist at the Alliance high
school baccalaureate exercises for
the class of 1949. Miss Woodlee
► was also guest soloist at the Hay
Springs Methodist church Sunday
A evening. This is included in a
number of Sunday evening pro
grams in neighboring chur ches in
which she has participated.
Alliance Social Notes,
Mrs. Sayers of Moberly, Mo.,
spent two weeks visiting at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Ru
dolph Ealy.
Mrs. Rose Johnston recently re
iirne^ from a visit in Omaha.
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Helen Phillips to
Sing for Red Cross
ATLANTIC, CITY. (ANP).
Helen Phillips, talented young so
prano from St. Louis, will be a
guest artist at the convention of
the American Red Cross during
its annual meeting here June 30.
Miss Phillips is a graduate of
Lincoln university, Mo., studied at
Fisk and has appeared at Town
Hall in New York City. In the
summer of 1948, she was guest
soloist with the St. Louis Sym
phony orchestra.
Tom Allen, Fly er,
To Fly the Globe
LOS ANGELES. (ANP).
Thomas Allen, the first Negro to
make a transcontinental flight
across the United States, plans to
become the first Negro to make
a round-the-world airplane flight,
he announced last week.
He plarts to make this flight
on his own without benefit of
commercial promoters.
Allen, at the age of 25, first hit
the headlines in 1932 when he
flew to Valley Stream, Long
Island on Oct. 9 in an Eagle Rock
monoplane from the old Dycer
airport here. On his new trip he
plans to drop off Jetters front the
United States to other nations.
FEPC Need Retold
VI W to Hold
Jubilee Convo
June 12 to 15
Final plans were completed this
week for the “Golden Jubilee”
29th annual state convention of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, De
partment of Nebraska, June 12-15
in Omaha, according to L. J.
Gaughen, North Bend, state V.F.W.
commander. All sessions will be
held at the Fontenelle Hotel.
A highlight of the convention
will be a talk by Francis P. Mat
thews, Omaha, new secretary of
the Navy. National V.F.W. junior
vice commander Charles C. Ralls,
Seattle, Wash., will be the official
representative of the national or
ganization, to talk at the con
vention.
Merton B. Tice, Mitchell, South
Dakota, national chief of staff, is
slated to speak at the convention
sessions, and Dorothy Mann, past
national president, Ladies Auxil
iary, will address the auxiliary
meetings.
A feature of the convention will
be the “Golden Jubilee” parade,
scheduled Tuesday, June 14, at
10 a. m. ,
Justice Dept, to
Probe Murder of
Georgia Man
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Maceo
Hubbard, lawyer in the Civil
Rights section of the Department
of Justice, was called upon this
week by Mrs. Constance Baker
Motley of the legal department
of the NAACP to investigate the
murder of a Brunswick, Ga.,
Negro by two policemen.
Willie Johnson was killed on
the evening of May 3 by two
Brunswick policemen who charged
that “he was looking suspiciously
at a house.” “Such incident,” said
Mrs. Motley, “could possibly be a
violation of the Federal Civil
Rights Statutes.”
The 58 year old murdered man
had been a resident of Brunswick
for 14 years. He was a county
employe and a deacon of St. Paul’s
Baptist church.
DR. GOOLSBY FETED.—A week’s celebration was climaxed May 22
at Columbia, Mo., when the congregation of St. Paul AME Church
there honored Dr. Lewis S. Goolsby for 40 years of service in the
ministry with a reception. Congratulatory messages came from coast
to coast, from bishops, ministers and friends. In the picture (r. to 1..'
are Dr. and Mrs. Goolsby, his son Rev. Lewis W., who preached the
anniversary sermon: Lewis Lindley, whom his grandfather baptised;
Mrs. L W. Goolsby and Elmore Goolsby.
Rep. Burke Airs Reasons Why
Fair Employment haw TSecessary
BY ALICE A. DUNNIGAN
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Cong. Thomas H. Burke (D.,
Ohio), one of the members of the subcommittee of the
House Committee on Labor and Education which has re
cently closed hearings on the proposed FEPC bill, appeared
on the Americans All broadcast over station WOOK last
Sunday.
The Ohio representative told Tomlinson D. Todd, di
i rector of the program, that a federal FEPC law is necessary
for four purposes:
(1) “It is an implementation of
the moral and natural law because
it proclaims that discrimination
because of race, color, creed or
national origin is detrimental to
the orderly processes of our so
ciety.
(2) It becomes more difficult to
sell our idea of democracy on an
international level if we continue
to permit discrimination because
of race, religion or ancestry to
be a determining factor in job
placement opportunities.
(3.) Second class citizenship is
foreign to our ideals and policies
as stated in our constitution.
(4) Discrimination in employ
ment causes waste of our human
resources in our national econo
mics because it prevents the full
and effective use of talents, skills
and abilities.”
Mr. Burke made it known that
FEPC legislation was not directed
against the South as has been gen
erally implied by representatives
from that section of the country.
He pointed out that the very
fact that some northern states
have adopted FEPC laws is an in
dication that the South is not
the only place where discrimina
tion in jobs exist. Therefore, this
law, according to Representative
Burke, is aimed at discrimination
wherever it may exist, whether in
the North, South, East or West.
If this bill is passed, it will be
necessary for a permanent na
tional commission against dis
crimination in employment to be
created. This commission will be
composed of seven members ap
pointed by the president with the
advice and consent of the senate
and will serve seven-year terms.
Such agency will prevent the
flooding of courts and the clog
ging of their calendars to the
detriment of their other work. It
Leaving Lincoln
Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
Rabbi Jerome Kestenbaum,
leader of the Congregation Hf
ereth Israel, has resigned his pas
torate to accept another position
in Miami, Fla. Rabbi Kestenbaum
has been a member of various
community projects. He has also
been active with the Lincoln So
cial Action council, having been
a member of its executive com
mittee this year.
will screen out worthless com
plaints which otherwise would
harass innocent employers or
unions. A respondent has to de
fend every suit filed in court, but
most administrative agencies dis
miss from two-thirds to three
fourths of all charges submitted.
A FEPC commission will pro
tect the rights of employes with
out compelling them to hire their
own lawyers; it will insure speedy
action and avoid delays and ex
cessive costs in the courts and will
insure uniformity by having one
agency interpret the bill, sub
ject to supervision and correction
by congress, instead of 94 federal
district courts.
A commission of experts de
voting full time to this problem
will avoid the necessity of crimi
nal penalties which juries hesi
tate to impose.
Appearing on this same pro
gram were Frederick Wiggins,
Mrs. Ethel C. Perritt, and Mrs.
Margaret P. Gilmore, all employes
of the Bureau of Engraving who
have worked hard to break down
discrimination among the workers
at the bureau.
The program was under the
auspices of the Institute of Race
Relations of which Todd is presi
dent.
Reports of Revolt
In Ethiopia False
LONDON. (ANP). Reports of a ,
revolt in Ethiopia are false, mem
bers of the Ethiopian legation
here declared last week. The
legation also denied that an at
tempt had been made on the life
of Crown Prince Asfa Wassan.
The news of a revolt was first
publicized in a Rome newspaper,
11 Messaggero.
