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r RITZ Theatre Sunday and Monday—Miriam Hop kin, m “THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE" also Loretta Young in ‘ZOO Of BUDAPEST". Tues— W 4—Thurs—Ann Harding, IftrH MoBtfnMTy in “WHEN LAD. IES MEET" also Helen Twelvetrees is “UNASHAMED"! Fn, Sat—Ann Dvorak in “THE STRANGE LOVE OF MOLLY LOU. VAIN" also William Powell in -PRIVATE DETECTIVE 62”! N. A. A. C. P. FIGHTS’ DISCRIMINATORY CON TRACTORS’ CODE ( Continued from p. 1) vest Negroes from receiving even the thirty cent* an hour minimum wage sad would permit continuation under the old contracts on flood control work at about ten cents a„ hour. Nor are Negroes benefited by the maximum hours provision of the code, the N A A C P points out, for after providing for an eight hour day aad a forty eight hour week, the code makes an exception “excluding . . those engaged in cases of emergeacy work requiring the protection of life or property” The War department has persistently maintained that the Mississippi Flood Control Project is of an emergency nature to protect life and property, despite the fact that N A. A C P. investigation established that the work is six ■Maths ahead of schedule The i<uot_ •S exception would prevent Negroes receiving the benefit of an eight hour day or forty eight hour week. The NAACP points out *n addi. t onal dangerous reservation, which provides for “area agreement for boors and wages” wherein authority is give* for the establishment of minimum rates of wages and max. too* hours “nationally or for a region or locality” by mutual agree, meets reached through collective bar_ gaining "excepting such minimum rates of wages and such maximum hours of labor as are established for specific projects by competent gov. eramental authority acting in acsord S-" - i « . ■■ i sa iTfj I Reid-Duffy ! Pharmacy j I 24th & Lake St. I r Webster 0609 I Free Delivery ance with law ” The NAACP points out that this would legally authorize acceptance of the abnormal low wage scale of the rural South, which is more or less guided by starvation wages below the level of subsistence as obtains on plantations. Walter White, Secretary of the N. A A C P , uttered a sharp warn, ir.g against the contractors’ code and pledged an uncreasing and bitter jfight by the NAACP for the elimin. ation of the paragraphs objected to. “If this is a specimen of the New Deal,” Mr White declared, “then the outlook of the Negro is dark indeed. Negroes and their friends must rally i and fig’hs with all the power at their j command to block these vicious pro. visions aimed to perpetuate virtual slavery of Negro workers on govern, ment financed jobs in the deep South. We are not going to be fooled by any trickery on the part of the contract. ors( government officials or anybody else Mr Wilkins is in Washington to voice unremitting opposition to this code as it now stands. Every interested person should telegraph Malcolm Muir, deputy administrator, and to Solomon Barkin and Michael McDonough, members of the labor advisory board, demanding that hear ings be held and opportunity given to voice the Negro’s opposition for the Construction Industry1 and that they be speedily eliminated Messrs Muir> Barkin and McDonough shouid be ad dressed at the National Recovery Administration Washington ” Early in August the contractors on the Mississippi levee through Fred Beneke, agent of the Mississippi Valley branch of the Associated Gen eral Contractors, practically admitted all of the charges of eploitation of Negro labor made by the NAACP and promised to correct all of these evils under the eode then in prepara, tion The NAACP has closely fol. lowed the code and promptly upon obtaining a copy of it when submitted to General Johnson dispatched Mr Wilkins to Washington to wage a fight upon Its discriminatory pro. visions Mr Wilkins is seeking the aid of Senator Robert F Wagner, who at the request of the NAACP introduced and secured the passage by the Senate of a resolution for a Senate investigation of the exploita. tion of Negro workers Johnson Denies That He Is A Candidate for Liberian Mission WASHINGTON D. C.—(CNS)—Dr. Joseph L Johnson of Columbus, Ohio, one of a socalled “big four” in the last campaign, and at one tine Minister to Liberia, under a former Democratic administration, denies that he is a candidate for reappoint, ment-to that diplomatic position. To convince the skeptical, Dr. Johnson exhibits documents to prove that he has been offered the post, but declined the honor. FRY CHICKEN 1 ROAST MEATS W BROIL STEAKS # ' MAKE SOUPS “ a*4torn. BAKE BISCUIT^ 2 Sizes $9.75 $13.85 c UrVikot COOKER Sold on Easy Terras Nebraska Psref @ Courtesy • Service * lew Kates Price Makes Report! (Continued from p. 1) make an investigation as to the au_ thenticity of the membership club The next day I received a report from chairman no I, that he had 14 white men who would take the stand, and swear that the whole thing was a sham, and was not a member, ship affair. Chairman No 2, notified me that it was a sham, and nothing ! to the membership affair. Having received the names of my witnesses, their telephone numbers, 1 was ready to call a mass meeting, I for the purpose of ascertaining what ! the people thought of that form of ! discrimination so I could refer the matter to the Executive Board. I should like to mention, Joseph Rosen_ ! bloom, told me he would take the stand, and testify that he had been I served and was not asked for mem. j bership card. Last Sunday evening, I told Mr McGowan the insurance man that I ■ would call a mass meeting for the | following night. Mr. McGowan spoke up, and I should like very much to have you invite Storz over to the meeting. Extemporaneously Mr Mc_ Gowan uttered a fewr words that he said, he would have in the letter. Those words were so sensible for a letter of that nature, I sprang from my chair, and said, “dictate that letter to me The letter was written, mailed that evening, for the first de_ — livery Monday morning. Tuesday morning about 11:00 a m , I had a telephone call from a, Mr. Adolph Storz, stating he would like to see me He made an appointment with me at his office for 3:00 p m Tuesday 12th instant I could have taken the Chairman of the Legal Redress Committee with me, but I thought it was more fitting to take Johnny Owens, legislator for the 9th District, who had labored hard to put the Beer Bill over, to find that his people had been slaped in the face by saying stay out. We had a very pleasant visit in the office of the Beverage Company were assured by Mr Adolph Storzj that the Bev_ erage Company had nothing to do with those signs being displayed, and they were very sorry that it ever happened. After talking for a while.1 Mr Adolph Storz, called a cousin of his who he “was in charge of the re_ tail place The manager of the retail place let us know one that the signs had been removed, and they were going to serve everyone. They had found out that could not be done. It would have never started had it not been for his wife No colored prson had mis_ behaved in the place. It was just /an, idea of his wife. What Johnny Owens told them was a plenty. I shall let Owens tell what transpired in the private office of the Company. i N. A. A. C. P. PRESSES BEAVER COUNTY DEPORTATION PROSECUTION -- DeCastrique—N. A. A. C. P. Has Witnesses Ready Thanks Pinchot for Rebuke of County Attorney NEW YORK — Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania was today thankted by the NAACP for his letted to District Attorney A. B DeCas. trique of Beaver County, Pennsylvan_ ia, in which DeCastrique was bitterly scored by overnor Pinchot for the County Attorney’s failure to prose, fcute the people who shanghied forty, six Negro workers last January and deported them from the state. The N. A A C. P. letter of thanks to Governor Pinchot commended his strong language in which the Gov. ernor wrote DeCastrique that “your refusal to prosecute the people who perpetrated this outrage is mord than a shame and a disgrace It is deliber. ate defiance of the law which you are sworn to uphold.” The NAACP also pledged to Governor Pinchot contin. uance of its unremitting efforts led by Attorney Homer S. Brown of Pitts, burgh, President of the local branch of the NAACP., and Attemey Joseph B Givens, who made the original investigation of the deportation and who have assiduously brought pres, sure ho bear through the Pittsburgh Branch and the National Office of the NAACP The Association urged upon Gov. ernor Pinchot that he use every power at his command to force De_ Castrique to prosecution vigorously' or to take such steps as are possible' under the law against DeCastrique! for failure to perform duties which are required of him The Pittsburgh Branch is backed by the Pennsylvania State Confer.' ence of Branches of the NAACP ,1 which was organized at Harrisburg on August 1 At that time, a large delegation headed by Attorney Giv. ens, representing the Pennsylvania branches, and Walter White. National Secretary, conferred at length with Attorney General William A Schan der and urged speed and vigor in his report to Governor Pinchot It was shortly after this conference that Mr. Schnader’s report to Governor Pin. chot was submitted, which led to Governor Pinchot’s letter to DeCas. trique In answer to the statements attri. buted to DeCastrique that the Negro witnesses have left Beaver County, the NAACP stated to Governor Pinchot that the Pittsburgh Branch of the NAAd* , can produce these witnesses at emy place desired within twenty four hours, and can produce them in Beaver County within ten mrnuteB. I APPEALED FILED TO CONVICTION OF HERNDON IN GEORGIA SUPREME COURT ATLANTA, Ga*— (CNS) — “You can’t kill a man because of the lfcoks he reatTs,” said Ben J Davis, Jr , while arguing an appeal that has been filed in the Georgia Supreme Court to the conviction of Angelo Herndon, under sentence of from 18 to 20 years itnprisoment on a charge of attempting to incite insurrection. Herndon, who said he came South with a message of communism, was found guilty by a jury which delib. grated more than two hours after a trial lasting three days. The charge carried the death penalty or impri. son men t for from five to twenty years, and a jury fixed the term. The jury was all white, a fact that led the defense to contend that the trial was unfair. The defense contended that Negroes were excluded from jury service. The State based its case on Hern, doc possession of literature distri. buted by the Communist Party U. S. A , and contended he had willfll intent to overthrow the government. Herndon was organizer for the Com. munist Party. The State’s plea was that his actions constituted an at. tempt to incite insurrection. It said Herndon sought and accepted mem. bers to the party, received dues and had in his possession books and pa. pers which advocated establishment of a communistic government in the United States. Some of the literature, introduced as evidence, advocated self determin. ation of Negroes in the black belt of the South “The Negro Toiler” was one^of the books which played a | LALNDRy... for your Apparel and Linens— We offer the QUALITY and SERVICE that you demand. You know our phone— WE-6055 : Edhoim & Sherman LAUNDERERS AND DRY CLEANERS major part in the trial “This book,” Eaid Defense Attorney Ben. J Davis, Jr , himself a Negro, “should have been written in the blood of Negroes who were burned at the stake by mobs. I say lynching is insurrection. The only defense Herndon committed was that be ask_ ed for bread for children—his only crime is his color.” The defense said much of the lit. erature found in Herndon’s posses, si on. could be found in the “great lib. raries etf the world—including' the Carnegie Library in Atlanta. ” “Some of the books are considered classics, “he told the jury. “You can't kill a man because of the books he reads." The State said: “Stamp this thing out now with a conviction.” The statute that was invoked was passed more than sixty years ago, when Georgia was in the hands of carpetbaggers. Authorities said the original purpose of the law was to prevent white advocates defeated in the Civil War from denspiring to overthrow the reconstruction govern, ments— dominated by carpetbaggers and Negroes. In an unsworn statement at his trial, Herndon said that “capitalists use racial prejudice as a means of exploiting workmen,” and added: “Do with me what you will; there are thousands of others to take my place. He predicted collapse of the capital, istic system and spoke to a crowded court room for fifteen minutes on principles °f the Communist party. Herndon said he was arrested with out cause and treated "inhumanly” in the Pulton County jail. He said he was held eleven days on a change of suspicion and was imprisoned six months without trial. His imprison, ment was a “nightmare,” he said, ' 1 WHAT Omaha Makes Makes Omaha TRY BLUE BARREL and OMAHA FAMILY SOAP HasUin Soap Co. _OMAHA_ and for a time he was forced to live in a cell with a corpse. He said his party was recognized in Georgia, ex_ plaining that the Communist ticket was entered in the State in the last Presidential election. The court hfeld that two Emory University professors, presented by the defense, could not testify expert, i ly on the nature of literature as they were not qualified by Herndon’s lawyers as experts. The professors are instructors in economics and the co-urt overruled the defense’s plea that communism is an economic question. NEGRO WORKERS WIN STRIKE ON BARGE LINES SECRETARY OF LABOR HEEDS PROTEST OF NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE The strike of Negro workers on the Federal Barge Lines operated by the War Department at East St Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, was satisfactorily settled yesterday in a victory for the striking Negroes, ac_ cording to information received by T Arnold Hill, Director of the De_ partment of Industrial Relations of the National Urban League, New York City. Telegraphic information in reply to a protest wired by Mr Hill to Miss France^ Perkins, Secretary of Labor, Dr. Leo Wolman of the In_ dustrial Mediation Board, and Gen_ eral Hugh S Johnson of the N R A , was received from the Director of Conciliation, of the Department of Labor, Hugh L Kerwin, as fol_ lows: Repying to your telegram secre. tary Perkin8 matter up War Depart, ment agreement rebelled and for. warded this day to H. R., O’dell Federal Barge Lines, St. Louis agreement was approved by the War Department and accepted by the workers provided work shall start eight o'clock pay of all laborers shall be thirty five cents per hour time and half for overtime and for Sunday and Holiday work if any is perform, ed and will recognize commitees of the workers no job dependent upon buying meal tickets and eating at Terminal Restaurant. It is probable that the prompt act. ion of the National Urban League prevented serious racial disorders, for Negro strikers had been arrested at the request of the Barge Line authorities and charged by the local police with inciting a riot. The conditions which led up to the strike were described in the follow, ing telegram which Mr. Hill sent after a thorough investigation of the situation by the St. Louis Urban League: Your help in adjusting the follow, ing matter is requested stop Negro employers of Federal Barge Line operated by War Department went on strike in East St. Louis and St. Louis on August Twenty Second in protest against intolerable conditions investigator reports men were com. peled to remain on duty from twelve to fifteen hours before being checked out at night but received pay only for work actually done stop they were compelled to buy meal tickets from Restaurant designated by superin. tendent were refused hearings of complaints against discrepancies in hours work and pay and intimidated by police summoned by government officials. The machinery of the Urban Lea. gue with its 42 branches in many different cities has been geared to a high point of coordination for the purpose of protecting Negro workers in the present crisis, and the League office is being daily advised of con. ditions of Negro workers. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GRILL DIRECTOR ON JIM CROW PRACTICES NEW YORK—(CNA) — A delega_ tion selected at the symposium on “The Way Out for the Negro” held last Friday night at McMillan Thea. tre, under the auspices of the World Problems (Cosmopolitan) Club, visit, ed Director Coss last Monday to ask what steps the administration was taking to end discrimination against Negro students. The World Problems Club has prove* conclusively that discrimina, tion exists in the dormitories, in em. ployment, and in campus social a»t_ ivitiee. Director Coss, however, not only denied to the delegation that the University discriminates against any race but stated further that Columbia University has done more for Negro students than any other university in this country. Living Accommodations Director Coss did *ot deny that six University dormitories have not admitted any Negro women students this summer. These include Grant, Sarasota, Whitter, Hewitt, Brooks and Bancroft Halls, Seth Low and Johnson dormitories, the only ones which admit any Negro women stud, ents, house less than a dozen Negro students. There are in the neighbor, hood of two hundred Negro women students attending the summer ses. sion Job Discriminatien Director Coss did not deny that there were no Negroes employed in the 4,500 positions in the offices and on the teaching staif. When asked if Mr Gentzler’s statement that “Uni. versity department heads have al_ ways asked me for white students to fill white collar positions,” was not an indication of a definite discrim, inatory policy of the University, Dr. Coes refused to comment. Social Life and Activity Director Coss did not deny that conditions »f prejudice existed on the campus which kept Negro women students from using the swimming pool, and which kept all Negro stud, ents out of dances, student organ, izations, and general social activity. The National Student League, 683 Sixth Avenue, in denouncing jim crow conditions at the university, points out that liie policy maintained by the Columbia administration, that of training Negro students to teach in Jim Crow schools and giving courses is dual education, promotes the se_ gregation of the Negro people. This policy sustains the Negro people ia their present poeition in society as an oppressed people The Board of Trustees of Columbia University, which represents those manufactur erg and bankers who utilize the op. pressed Negro people to their own | advantage (for cheap labor, etc.) is the body which dictates this policy to the administration. The students’ interests, however* are not those of the Board of Trustees Students and teachers are faced with problems of increasing fees, reduction of teaching staffs, lowering of salar. ies, etc. United actien on flie part of the students and teachers is neces. sary to effectively combat these con. ditions. The white students, because of 0fc«ir position in society, are bettef able to break down the barriers of race prejudice which divide the stud, ents. The white students at Columbia University must take the lead in se_ curing full equality for the Negro students as a prelude to effective action on their common problems in the future. Harlem Gives Mass Wel come to J. W. Ford Harlem turned out in force last Saturday evening to a banquet at the Spanish Workers Club to welcome James W Ford as new organizer of the Harlem Section of the Comm, unist Party, and to bid farewell to Steve Kingston, who has been drawn into the work of the district The hall j was crowded to its doorg and out into I the corridors. There were so many : people present that they had to be seated for the banquet in relays. Louis Sasse, organization secretary of the Section, acted as Master of Ceremoniee, welcoming Ford to Har. lem The speakers included Ford, : Kingston, Earl Browder, National Secretary of the Party; Louis Camp, bell, organizer of the Harlem Unem. ployed Council; Charles Krumbein, 1 organizer of the New York Distrcit, Ruby Edwaads, Jack Stachel( assist, ant secretary of the Trade’ Union Unity Council, and other prominent Negro and white leaders of the re. volutionary movement Dr Reuben Young, guest speaker, told of his visit to the Soviet Union. The speakers stressed the importance attached by the Party to Harlem in appointing Ford, a member of the Patry’s high, est committee to Harlem HARLEM WORKERS PROTEST DOUBLE LYNCHING NEW YORK — (CNA) — Irving Schwab and Allen Taub, I L D at. torneys prevented by Judge Foster from defending the murdered Dan Pippen, Jr., and A. T. Harden, were he chief speakers at a memorial meeting Thursday night for these 2 victims of the Alabama lynchers. The attorneys outlined the background of the case, exposing the lynch incite, ment of Judge Foster which lead cp to the brutal double lynbhing and the life of a third victim of the Tus. caloosa frame np against five Negro creppers. A large crowd attended the meet, ing, packing to capacity the Comm, unity House of the Mother A M E Zion Church at 151 West 136th St Other speakers included Samuel S Leibowitz, Scottsboro attorney, Jas W Ford, organizer of the Harlem Section of the Communist Party; Bob Minor, Communist candidate fer mayor; Mary Craik Speed, Southern white woman fighting for tho Scotts_ boro boys, and Roger Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union. Demands raised for the release of the other three prisoners held in Tus_ j caloosa jail on the framed charged of murder; for the constitutional rights of the defendants to choose their own attorneys; for the right of the Ne_ groes to serve on juries and for the immediate safe release of the Scotts. : boro boys. ] - i NASHVILLE PAPERS CON. SOLIDATE AS NASHVILLE GLOBE AND INDEPENDENT 1 NASHVILLE, Tenn.—(CNS)—The , consolidation of two of Nashville’s j weekly journals was announced last ' week and September 2 tbe Nashville 1 Globe and Independent will appear as the successor to the Nashville Globe i and the Nashville Independent The J editorial Staffs of both papers have been combined and the paper will be I published from the office of the Nash < ville Globe, which has the distinfction | of being the oldest colored newspa per in Nashville PARENT- TEACHER WEEK PROCLAMATION Recognizing the great value to our state of the work being done by the Nebraska Congress of Parents and Teachers, I am glad to declare the entire first week of October, 1933, to be Nebraska Parent Teacher Week. The program qf this excellent organ, ization aims to promote the highest advantages for every child in the home, school, church and community. It also emphasizes the vaiue of par ent education and encourages greater cooperation between the home and the school. It is hoped that the state wide observation of parent Teacher Week will strengthen the local asso. ciations with an increased enrollment of members and result in better pro. grams throughout the year and in. crease the number of definite child welfare projects having to do with health, safety and character edu. cation. There should be a parent teacher association in every school be a unit of the State and l^ational Congress of Parents and Teachers. One fourth of the entire population in Nebraska is going to school which places upon our educational system a heavy responsibility involving the future of our civiljzation. The schools must have the proper support, intelli gent direction and efficient operation ■wmcn a strong public spirit of co_ operation and harmony will do much to give The Parent Teacher Asso. t ciation is an important factor in developing such a spirit Every citi. zen should be deeply interested in making the lives of the school child, i ren better and happier, in bringing ; about a better understanding between home and school, in solving, the pro. blems of child welfare in the comm, unity. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Charles YV Bryan, Governor of Nebraska, do hereby set aside and proclaim Oct. ober 1st to 7th inclusive to be Neb. raska Parent Teacher Week and nrge that it be generally observed as such throughout our state. Let u3 during that week in our churches and schools and in other public gatherings give particular consideration to the pur. poses and program of the great or. ganization of mothers, fathers, teach ers and interested friends who are giving so much of their time and ef_ fort to the Parent Teacher work Let us endeavor to give our boys and girls, the citizens of tomoijruw, the best possible opportunities physically, mentally and morally IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have Hereunto set my hand and caused the Governor’s seal to be affixed. Hone at Lincoln, Nebraska, this 12th day of Septombtfr, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hun. dred and Thirty three. CHARLis W BRYAN. Supreme Court Asked to Pass on Crawford Case WASHINGTON—(CNS) — A sec. ond attempt to prevent the return ef , George Crawford, colored, to Loundon County, Ya., where he was indicted for murder of Mrs Agnes Illsley and her maid, Mina Buekner, was made here last week by his attorneys in a petition filed with the United States Stforeme Court. The petition asks the coart to set aside an order of the First Circuit Court of Appeals requiring Crawford to be held at Boston for extradition and trial. Crawford’s counsel, J. Weston Al_ len and Butler R. Wilson, ask; the ^ourt to determine if Virginia’^ prac tice of excluding Negroes from grand juries warranted refusal to extradite him. United States District Judge James A Lowell, of Boston, so ruled when Crawford’a attorneys first at. tempted to prevent his return for trial. CONSTRUCTION MEN DIE FROM GLASS DUST STRANGULATION MONTGOMERY, W. Va.-—Silicate dust strangulation resulting from tunnel construction work near here is blamed for he death of 240 men, of them Negro workers in the drill, ing of the tunnel under New Riyer at Hawks Nest here. Silicosis is the technical naiqfe giv_ en to the infection resulting from gradually inhaling glass dust mined out of quarries. The glass dust grad, u-ally cakes the wall of the lungs and solidifies into glass. There is n* remedy for his condition. In all about 800 workers are affected; 640 are said to be Negro from Georgia, Alabama Arkansas and North and South Car. olina. They were employed at starva. tion wages to drill a three mile t«n_ nel under New River at 35 cents an hour. The wage scale for drilling work is 75 cents an hour. Several lawsuits of the Negro 4 workers were thrown out of court, but 147 so far have setled with the company for $235,000. They are to g;et checks ranging from $350 to $1,. 700 according to how close they ar» bo death. _ -- 1 sextette of Philander Smith College will render a Pro at. Clair Chapel. 22nd & Miami St., Sept. 15th, at 8 P- m. Admission Free!