AT The
THEATRES
RITZ Theatre
San. sad Mon.—“The KISS BE.
PORE THE MIRROR" als<- Bela.
(Dracula) Lagoei in “THE NIGHT
OF TERROR”.
Tum.. Wed. Thurs.—Loretta Young
in, “ZOO IN BUDAPEST” also Spen.
eer Tracy in “FACE IN THE SKY”
Fri. and Sat. Genevieve Tobin in
“PLEASURE CRUISE” also Meivyn
Douglas in "NAGANA”.
“MAKING OUR OWN JOBS”
(Continued Front Page One)
©red people themselves give to com.
pam«e who do not employ race help
nearly eight times more business than
they give to the colored companies
who employ race help exclusively.
Mr. Pace then took me through the
home offices showing me in detail
the number of busy executives, de
partment heads, secretaries, steno
graphers. a id scores of various kinds
clerks, all busy in efficiently tak
ing care of the business his company
acrures from the colored people. He
pictured for me just what was being
done by the other colored insurance
companies. He supplied the details
af this employment. A given num
ber of field workers and with a given
amount of business that would make
it profitable to maintain a branch of
fice. The amount of business that
H would require to modemly equip
that branch office and staff it with
competent race clerks and steno
graphers. And the number of branch
offices with their business with the
home office making a definite num
ber of employees necessary to take
eve of such business. In short Mr.
Pace estimated that for every two
hundred policies carried and for each
additional two hundred policies se
emed that it would give an opportun
ity to definitely employ one addi
tional salaried worker and a larger
nuabqr of commission workers to
•ecure that particular amount of busi.
Id on* of the broadsides received,
“Premium Income an- Jobs", by
Harry H. Pace, is a comparative
eta Cement showing that twelve colored
companies receiving less than a total
of ten million dollars worth of insur
ance are able to give nearly five
thousand members of the race steady
employment. And it further show's
that none white companies receiving
close to sixty-eight million dollars
worth of insurance absolutely refuse
to employ race workers.
What an indictment that is on a
race of people? Of seventy-eight
million dollar* worth of business we
given nearly 87 per cent of it to comp
anies who will not give us employ
ment and approximately only 13 per
cent of it to our own companies. But
•re should feel proud that even in
receiving only 13 percent of this busi
ness our strong colored companies can
employ five thousand race workers
in positions of trust, executives and
clerical work.
It shouldn't be necessary to point
out a moral in such a condition. If
we have any race pride at all we
should imnjediately commence to
change the percentages as given in
the above paragraph and thus make
our own job*. We are actually spend
ing the money, so why not spend it
in a manner that it will return to us.
No wonder the Jews writh less than
two percent of the population control
five-eights of toe wealth. Why not
analyze our expenditures and emulate
their example and learn to get some
real benefits from the money we
yearly spend?
SOVIET GOV’T. AWARDS PRIZE
TO ROBINSON, NEGRO ENGINEER
NEW YORK—(CNA)—Robert Rob.
inson. Negro engineer ad inventor, has
been awarded a premium by the Cen
tral Council of the All-Union Invent
ors Society of the Soviet Union for his
active work and splendid contributions
to the rapid progress of Socialism in
the U. S. S. R.
Robinson was one of several work
ers invited to the Soviet Union. Be
fore leaving the United States, Rob
inson had been employed by the Ford
Motor Company of Detroit, Mich. The
bars set up by the U. S. ruling class
to prevent promotion of Negroes, pro.
noted Robinson to accept the invita
tion of the Soviet Union where race
prejudice has been abolished by the
Revolution along with unemployment
and mass misery.
Before going to Moscow, Robinson
had studied at the Stalingrad Tractor
Plant for several months. In 1930 he
was attacked by a white American,
Lewis, in a collective restaurant,
Lewis was found guilty of white chau
vinism in a mass trial and deported
from the Soviet Unon after Soviet
workers declared they would not tol
erate American race hatred on their
soil.
Robinson is credited by the Frist
State Ball Bearing Plant, where he is
now employed, with having saved the
Soviet Government the sum of 16,500
rubles a month as a result of his in
ventions. ,
“REVEALING”
YOUR
PAST
FUTURE
by Abbe’ W allace
“YOUNGEST MENTALIST ON THE AMERICAN STAGE”
G. C.—I read your page every day
and sure do enjoy it. Will I have
more success with this baby than with
the last one?
Ans: You won’t have any trouble with
I this child. Everything will turn out
fine, baby and mother will pull thru
! nicely,
F. L. N. X.—Did my . husband get
| robbed last Saturday night or did
I he give his money to some woman?
I Did some men rob him or some wo.
man cheat him?
Ans. He was honestly and truly rob
bed and not by any woman this time.
This was the real thing and he is
still shaking from the scare they gave
him. Brave man jour husband.
R. C. P.—Why doesn’t my father
write? I have not seen him since
1924 and I have not heard from him
in over a year.
Ans: Your father is very proud and
does not like to burden ai\vone else
with his troubles. He has Wen having
a tough time of it financially. He
is getting along a little better now
and you will soon hear from him a
gain.
E. B.—My boy friend say he loves me
more than anyone else in the world,
and I surely must love him for I
think of him all the time. We were
to be marry when he returned. But
he wrote and said he would not get
married now. He would like to go
thru school and make a man of him
self and then marry. Do you think
he is fooling?
Ans: He is not fooling. He wants to
make a man of himself and marry
but not you. He has someone else in
imna i tninK. it might help you to
scout around a bit yourself. You
can have lots of fun looking.
K. L. M.—Will I ever get caught up
with my insurance again?
Ans: You will be caught up with your
insurance before fall. Don’t worry
as much about this as you have been
as everything will turn out 0. K.
♦.
R. B. T.—My boy friend that hit me
a couple of weeks ago still hangs a.
round my neighborhood What is he
up to
Ans: Be careful of this fellow, he is
jealous of you. I would not take any
chances with him for if you do you
might get a sock on the jaw.
P. R. S.—Your horoscope was won
derful. I enjoyed ;t immensely and
I wrill send for anothe r one soon. Will
I marry this year
Ans: You will marry on the third day
of September.
M. B. H.—Is my sweetheart coming
back to me or going back to his wife ?
Will he love me any more and is it
natural for me to worry about him
as I do? I am worried craisy over
him.
Ans: Your sweetheart not only cheats
on his wife but he cheats on you too.
He has another girl who means more
to him than either of you do. That
boy is an artist when it comes to
making love.
W. R. S.—When will I get an answer
to the letter I wrote a few weeks a
go?
Ans: You will get an answer tP this
letter the first week in August. There
will not be any money in it though.
NOTE:—Your question printed free in this column.
For Prviate reply send 25c and (self addressed
stamped enevelope for my New Astrological Head
ing and reeive by return mail my advice on three
questions free. Sign your full name birthdate, and
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THIRTEEN LYNCHINGS IN FIRST
SIX MONTHS OF 19.33
(Continued From Pape One)
out, are never reported, and others
are recorded only in single paragraphs
in perhaps one small town weekly
! published in the region in which it
occurred. News agfpncies are showed
a constantly growing reluctance to
carry news of lynchings over the
wires, with the result that the appear
ance is created that lynchings are on
the decrease. The same applies to
poluce lynchings, legal lynchings, and
lynch murders by less than three per
sons.
In its campaigns against lynching,
peonage, Jim Crow and all forms of
national oppression against the Negro
people, the International Labor De
fense is pushing its campaign for the
passage of the “Bill of Civil Rights
for the Negro People,” proposed by
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, endorsed by the National
Scottsboro Action Committee, and
presented to the President and Con
gress by the Free the Scottsboro Boys
Marchers.
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that:
“Any person who aids or partici
pates in a lynching or other act of
violence directed against a person
wholly or partly because of supposed
inferiority of race, color or national
ity, or directed against a person be
cause of alleged or suspected crimes
associatd in public tradition with sup
posed ‘inferiority’ of race, nationality
or color, shall be considered and ad
judged guilty of a crime punishable
by death.”
The I. L. D. raises the slogan of
“Death to Lynchers,” and demands
the application of the death penalty
in these cases and in the increasing
number of cases of wanton murder of
Negroes by police or individuals,
which now go completely unpunished.
A survey of police lynchings, and
lynch murders during the first six
months of 1933, as reported in the ]
press and estimated to cover»less than
one percent of the total of such mur
ders, but a typical cross section of
them, will be released shortly by the
International Labor Defense, it was
announced. «
* ollowing is the list of recorded
lynchings for the first six months of
1933.
1. Harry Ross, shot and killed
January 3 by three white men, outside
1 of Memphis, Tenn. They reported they
were taking him to the city to lay
charges of “Having made improper
proposals to a white woman,” against
him, when,he “tried to escape “from
their moving car.
2. Fell Jenkin, 20, was beaten to
death by three white farmers at Ay.
cock, La., January 11. They said he
had been trespassing on the property
of one of them.
3. 4, and 5. "TTiree members of a
Negro family of fisherman were
hacked to death on Tavernier Island,
one of the Florida Keys, January 19,
by an invading gang of white men.
All further information, including the
names of the victims, were suppress
ed by the authorities.
6. Robert Richardson was shot to
death in Baton Rouge, La., February
2, while “attempting to escape” from
a gang of 25 headed by a deputy sher
iff which invaded his house on a re
port, given out later, that he had
“annoj^d a white woman.”
7. Nelson Nash, 24, was hanged
from a tree by a gang of men at Ring
gold. La., February 19.
8. George Jeter, died February 18,
from a beating administered by three
white men, who later said he had
“stolen their whiskey.”
9. Levon Carlock, 19, beaten, tor
tured and shot to death by six police
men “out on a lark” in Memphis, Feb
ruary 25. Police called on a white
prostitute to say Carlock had “raped”
her, at a time when he was sitting by
his wife’s sick-bed.
10. John Williams, lynched during
the first week of May, 1933, by a mob
of seventy five led by sheriff. It was
charged he had stolen a hog.
11. Will Kinsey, 25, lynched May 12
by a mob of forty, following a dis
pute with his landlord in which his
brother and the landlord were both
killed. Kinsey wounded by the land
lord, was taken by a mob from a
physician’s office.
12. and 13. Jerome Boyett and Har.
vey Winchester, both white, held on
murder charges, were taken out of
Huntsville, Tenn., Jail and lynched by
a mob of armed men.
—-—_
The Onion and the
Negro
(Continued From Page One)
give the matter serious consideration
was the National Labor Union in
their initial session in 1866. Since
that time Samuel Gompers and Will,
iam Green have spoken in no uncer
tain terms in behalf of Negro work
ers. In spite of these liberal expres
sions on the part of Mr. Gompers and
Mr. Green, and in spite of the fact
that the American Federation of
Labor's policy that affiliated organ,
izations may not retain in their Con
stitutions any discriminatory clause
or clauses against Negroes, there are
organizations which accomplished this
exclusion by a pledge which forms a
part of the ritual and binds each
member to propose only white work
men for membership.
There are instances where Negroes
have been given assistance in their
efforts to organize themselves as was
the case of the Pullman Porters, but |
even in this case it was only after a
long and bitter struggle that the or
ganized labor bodies granted assist
ance. This assistance and several
other instances a minor one which
occurred in this city with theatre
porters, does not compensate for the
unfair attitude which the unions have
evidenced toward Negroes.
Tacit agreement, examinations, and
local determination of eligibility for
membership serve as deterrents to
Negro inclusion in many Unions.
There are approximately 4,500 Negro
plumbers • and apprentices in the
United States and not one is known
to be a member of a union, in spite
persistent efforts of Negro plumb
ers in New York, Milwaukee, Philad
elphia, and Chicago to join. In the
building trades are found the largest
number of Negroes affiliated with
union labor. The International All
iance of Theatrical Stage employees
and Moving Picture Operators of the
United States and Canada grants
complete autonomy to all locals of the
organization which necessarily makes
such an organization approach the
status of a closed corporation. It is
quite generally the rule or law of the
various locals that the candidate
must have two.thirds votes of the
membership to be elected to that
body. The International Alliance re
ports that of 26,000 stage employers
and moving picture operators, ap.
proximately 100 are Negroes. In some
cities Negroes may not join unions
with whites, but where the numbers
warrant, the whites will assist them
in forming separate locals.
What happens in this instance is
that efficient and aspiring Negroes
who have qualified in a certain field
are often barred from the right to
join the union, because of insufficient
numbers in his own group to warrant
a separate organization. According to
a recent survey by the National Ur
ban League, it was disclosed that with
the exception of two major occupa
tional groupings, wherein Negro
workers maintain almost complete
monopoly, as the Pullman porters and
Dining Car waiters, the organization
of Negro unions has been a protest
against the attitude of white organ
ized labor in the United States toward
Negro workers. When out of the
unions Negroes complained of the ex.
elusion policies of these organizations.
When these Negro workers are per
mitted to join, they complain of racial
prejudice within the unions. These
matters gave rise to the organization
of independent groups of Negro
workers. The attitudes of the various
trades unions bodies in Omaha are
similiar to those found in other citiefc
Where the Negro can seriously
threaten the economic security of the
organized body, some effort is made
to organize him. Aside from the
Building Trades Union, the Musicians
Union (colored) Barbers, and Nat
ional alliance of Postal Employees,
there is no affiliation of Negroes
with other labor bodies in the city.
Because of the attitude of the unions
against Negroes, most of them pre
fer to take their chances in the open
shop. Many Negroes have secured
their first opportunity in industry by
accepting jobs created as a result of
disagreement between capital and or
ganized labor, (which unions had pre.
viously excluded Negroes). In accept
ing these first opportunities to work.
Negroes have been unfairly termed
as ‘scabs.’ We shall continue an art
icle on ‘Scabs’ in a later issue of this
paper.
SEEK $75,000 FOR VIRGINIA
UNION UNIVERSITY
RICHMOND, Va.—(*CNS)—Friends
of Virginia Union University from all
walks of life are now rallying to the
support of he campaign launched by
that in stitution here last week to
| raise $75,000. Over one third of this
sum, which includes gifts of both
white and colored donors, has already
been subscribed.
The fund is an emergency need of
the University. More than two hun
dred volunteer workers are at work in
raising the amount. The Negro divi
sion of campaign workers composed of
alumni and friends of the school is
headed by Mrs. Maggie L. Walker as
general chairman and Dr. Leon I.
Reid as campaign director. The cam
paign workers have been divided into
groups and a silver trophy, the “Mag
gie L. Walker Cup,” is to be awarded
the group raising the largest amount
of money.
Last week leading white citizens of
Richmond and the Richmond News
Leader, white daily, joined in praise
of the institution and lent their active
aid to the campaign. One of the more
striking gifts to the fund reported re
cently was that of a $5 gold pie£e by
Rev. W. B. Duers, a student at the
University in 1877, and now a retired
minister. He accompanied his gift with
a letter which read:
“I am not able to send a large gift,
for I no longer earn any money. En
closed is $5 in gold that my grand
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daughter gave me. She won it as a
prize for being the best mathemetician
in her high »A>ol class. May God
bless your work.”
In making an appeal for gifts, Jesse
H. Binford, superintendent of Rich
mond public schools, called attention
to the fact that the University has
furnished the city of Richmond with
89 graduates who are now teaching in
its public schools. The presidents of
four Negro colleges in the South are
graduates of the school, as well as
three professors of Howard Univer
sity \and the executive secretary of the
National Urban League.
Other facts stressed by friends of
the school were that 68 male students
are being prepared for the ministry
and twenty per cent of the total en
rollment are majoring in social serv
ice courses.
DEFIED LYNCHERS, NEGRO
HELD ON MURDER CHARGE
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.—A 22 year
old Negro was indicted for first degree
murder by the grand jury Tuesday be
cause he defended himself from a
lynch mob, and shot and killed one of i
his assailants. The Negro. Wilbur
Hardiman was pursued by a mob yell.1
ing “Lynch him” after a fight on
June 22, during which a white worker
was stabbed by another Negro. Hardi
man was chased into an alley and was
forced to defend himself with his gun
when the mob closed in upon him. The
International Labor Defense has an
nounced it will defend Hardiman, on
the grounds that he had a right to de.1
fend himself from a lynch mob.
The police used the incident as a
pretext to round up Negro and white
unemployed workers and sentence
them to jail or ship Ihme out of town.
The cops have threatened to drive all
single unemployed workers out of the
city. When a mob gathered threaten,
innocent Negro bystanders, a group
of white workers, including members
of the Communist Party, defended the
Negroes from attack.
The Communist Party has issued a
statement in leaflet form calling for
the unity of Negro and white work
ers denouncing the lynch atmosphere
HOUSTON POLICE IN CHEAP
LABOR DRIVE
HOUSTON, Texas—(CNA) — The
rush season is on at the city farm
near Houston, and in order to get
plenty of cheap labor, the police are
arresting workers wholesale and
charging them with vagrancy.
Forced labor has been instituted on
this job. Workers work one week a
month, six days a week, for 25 cents
an hour. Four dollars is paid in cash,
the rest in groceries.
Negro workers are told to go and
work for 60 cents a day on the farms
of the rich landlords around Houston.
Remembering the whipping post back
on the farm, they will not go. The re
fusal is used by the courts as an ex
cuse to charge them with vagrancy.
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