LOW WAGE CODE FOR NE GROES OF NATION PLANNED BY SOUTH (Continued from p. 1) work The letter stated a committee was leaving for Washington imme. diately and wanted the “entire sup port of the leaders of the colored race in Selam ” It was the plan of the white com. mittee to have the provisions for li censing inserted in every code so that employers who were already employ, ing Negroes or who wished to em ploy them might apply for permis. sion to do so at the lower wage rates. The letter stated the code would apply to “white people who are old, young or infirm in any way, and would also apply to the colored race." So far, one of the codes adopted by the N R A has this licensing sec tion. In a letter to General Johnson, N R. A. chief, the NAACP commends the reported efforts of the adminis. tration to enforce the minimum wage for all, regardless of race, creed or color, and calls attention to the pro posed code from Selma, Alabama The association also again urges the appointment of a colored member of the Labor Advisory board and Con sumers’ Advisory board as the best method of securing fair treatment for colored workers The complete letter from the Selma Manufacturing Company to the Rev. Mr Hughes, containing the code fol lows: Dear Sir: In accordance with your requeet, I would say that it is propceed to send • committee to Washington composed of three white men and three colored *«» to request a specially licensed “A minimum rate for a 40 hour week is hereby established tor mem at $9.60 per week. South; $10 60 per week, North, Women, $8 00 per week; South, $9 60 per week. North Boys and girb over sixteen, not over nine, teen, $6 00 per week, South, $7 00 per week, North. “All industries employing — which desire to employ this specially li_ censed class under above conditions shall apply to—for permission to do eo, which body shall license each em ployer whose claim to operate under the above rate* i$ justified. “This code shal he an integral part I The natural vitamin D la ROBERTS N J r helps the body absorb the minerals in milk which build bones and teeth. 1 Roberts Dairy Go. of each industrial or blanket code and shall not in any way annual the pro.1 visions of any industrial or blanket code/’ “Thig code would be applicable to white people who are old young or infirm in any way, and would also apply to the colored race “Any person desiring to use this code would apply for permission to do so and agree to maintain the wage, specified; also the weekly hour ra No one could operate under this code except by special permission and for giving proper reasons for doing so “The adoption of a licensed code of this character will enable people de siring to empoy the colored race to do so at a price which will give them a fair chance of securing employment, and I am convinced this ig the only plan that will accomplish the result desired and permit the employment of the colored race on an equally with the white race “It is my opinion that this matter is the most important matter you and your people have ever been called upon to consider, and I trust you will realise that the suggestion to put in this code is for only one reason, and that is to see that the colored race receives it* proper opportunity of se_ curing employment. "The committee is expected to leave for Washington immediately, and I earnestly request that you approve ' this plan so that the committee in go. ing to Washington may feel that they have the entire gUpport of the lead, ere of the colored nee in Selma”. "Yours very truly, SELMA MANUFACTURING 00. N. A. A. 0. P. BRANCH, PRX8I DENT DBUVSB8 EADXO ADDEES8 Ra4to Address, delivered Sept ember, 29th. 1938, ever Radio Station W. 0. W. at 10:30 p. m., hj the president of Omaha Branch E. 0. Price “The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is an interracial, national organization, working to secure for the Negro the same economic, political, educational, and civil rights that other citizen* in this country enjoy. It usee as its methods; education of public opinion the spoken and printed word; the nse of legislation to crystalize and en force public opinion; the use of the c<5ni"ts; the intelligent nse of the ballot; educational and cultural stimulus.” *’The ideals of the Negro, are the ideals of America. The two races are educated to one standard. While the white man would have the Negro adopt his standard, there are those who would impede his progress, and deny him the same rights, and pri vileges, a8 other citizens, such denial, based not on his fitness and qualifi. cations; but on the color of hs skin. True manhood know* no color. While the ideals are the same, the standard the same, let all, black and white, aim to attain, to that kind of manhood, that would impress itself upon man kind, and make men more and more, to see the ideals shine, in the lives of all true men.” “For years, the Negro has read the white man’s literature, his books and newspapers. We know lawlessness is running rampant in , this County to day. We know kidnapers, and mach. —————^—— - - -.r -• V t ' ; ■ r \ • ■ . * ■ •> .■ ■•.*•* 1 * 1 AM TIE LAMP W Boy MAZDA 1 Lamps ONLY 1 from Men | Wearing This ARM BAND! They Are Omaha's Unemployed % « • Forty of Omaha’s Unemployed are now can vassing the city with MAZDA lamps. One of these men wearing the red and white arm band, will stop at your door. Help him out by purchasing a carton of lamps from him. Have lamps on hand for an emergency. You get genuine MAZDA lamps from the man who wears this arm band. Carton of SIX Delivered to Your Home $1.20 25, 40, 50, 60 and 75-Watt Buy Now and Help! These lamps will be purchased through your neighborhood dealer and charged on your next Electric Service bill from the Nebraska Power Company. ine bandits, have our National Gov. emment at work overtime, and at the same time, crimes my race continue and the offenders unpunished. To supress lawlessness in this Nation, it should be Buppressed in all its forms. Status and proclamations, by the score will not help the 'Negro, unless citizens take a definite stand to en force the law. It is the desire of The National Association for the advance ment of Colored People, that white people read more from the pens of Negro publishers. I am certain such printed matters, as you will find pub lished in the Crisis, the official organ of The National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People, will serve to enighten, yon and inspire your children, thereby, giving them a larger and more sympathetic view of all human problems.” “October 2nd., we shall open our annual membership drive. It is to be the greatest membership drive ever anticipated in the history of this Branch. Our workers will call on you at your business places, your of fices and your homes. Once again, our workers will call On you at your business places, your offices and your homes. I shall repeat, "We want you to read more from the pens of Negro publishers.” "Please give oor workers, a listen ing ear. I thank you.” LICENSING OF ALL INDUSTRY URGED B LABOR LEADER (Special • The Omaha Guide) WASHINGTON—Organised labor’s official analysis of the recovery act began Wednesday with a recommend-, ation to one department of the Amer. iean Federation of Labor for study of a federal licensing system applicable to all business and industry. It was embodied in a report sub mitted to the metal erodes depart, meat by John Frey, secretary trea surer. While he was making that ■uggstion, the building trades branch of the federation made ready to start its convention near by. - : Their conclusions and' proposals will be preheated te the general fed eration convention next week. William Green, federation president, and other officials are hopeful the convention will bring a greater uni. fieation of labor to take advantage of itg opportunities under the recovery act. Frey said m his report: “The recovery act constitutes a beginning rather than as end A federal regulation has placed definite cubs upon the ▼ anted rugged individualism of the in- „ dustry, which, in practice, had too frequently degenerated into ruthless exploration.” . . NKA experience, Frey reported had supplied additional evidence of the necessity for a federal license law which would make it possible for the government to secure reports from all industries doing an interstate commerce business. Frey spoke, too, the oft-reiterated warning of labor leaders that the workers must, and will, be organized. A 40-hour week, generally is too long to take up the slack in unem ployment, Frey said NEGRO ADVISORY BOARD FOR LONG RANGE PLANNING’ WASHINGTON—(CNS)— A com mittee which will constitute itself into i a study group and clearing house for the Department of Commerce relative to those problems which immediately effect the business and economic life of the colored people, has just been announced by the Secretary of Com merce. The press summary under date of September 9 reads as follows: Negro Advisory Board Formed As a part of the program of the Department of Commerce for long range planning and for the intensive study of its work with the aid of advisory groups, Secretary of Com merce, Daniel ,C. Roper, on Thursday and Friday of this week conferred with twelve of the prominent leaders of the colored people of the country. The Secretary said to those present that he recognized that thirteen mil lion Negroes representing one tenth of the population of the country were entitled to be consulted about the general program of the Department, especially with relation to those pro blems which immediately effect the business and economic life of the col ored people. As a result of this conference, the leaders present organized themselves into an Advisory Board to consider and report on Negro economic pro blemg and the best means of estab lishing a proper cooperative relat.on. ship with the Department in the study of their problems The commit Reid-Duffy Pharmacy 24th & Lake St. Webster 0609 Free Delivery il U tee will constitute itself into a study group and clearing house on their probleir.8 for the Department of Com meics, meeting at certain intervals and considering subjects referred to them by other groups or by the De partment of Commerce for proper study and recommedation. Secretary Roper stated to those present at the conferenc that it was necessary that such advisory groups should have such vision, experience and etanding as to be able to think both for themselves and for others. Consequently, he was hopeful that in studying their problems they would think of the interest of the colored people ag such and also at the same time of their relationship to the en tire economic structure of the coun try and hence to the entire popula tion involved. The committee as formed is as fol lows: Robert L. Vann, Pittsburgh, Pa., Chairman; Harry H. Pace, President, Supreme Liberty Life In surance Company of Chicago, 111 , Vice Chairman; G David Houtson, Principal, Armstrong High School Washington, D. C , Secretary; Rev. Marshall A. Talley, Indianapolis, In diana; Benjamin F. Hubert, Savan nah, Georgia; Mrs. Helen W. Gross ley, State College, Dover, Delaware; Eugene Kinlde Jones, Exestive Secre tary, National Urban League, New York City; William H. Lewis, At torney, Boston, Mass.; Garnet C. Wilkinson, First Assistant Superin tendent of Public Schools, Washing ton, D C ; and Mrs. Mary F. War. ing, M. D., Chicago, Illinois. NEGRO STEEL WORKERS LOSE MILLION HT FAT UNDER NBA CODE ______ .r 'WASHINGTON—(CNS) — Nc fra worker* in the Mad indnstry faced the loss of a eool million dol lar* • year in wages as rssnt of the action of the National Recovery Ad ministration and President Rooeeveit in establishing minimum rate* of pay of 25 and 2? cents an hoar in the Southern and Birmingham districts of the industry, when employers in this indnstry had publicly offered to pay a minimum rate of SO oents an hoar. The Joint Committee on National Recovery composed of officially desigB a ted representatives of national or. ganioations and church bodies, re gistered a strong protest against each action on the part of the NRA, tBFough John P. Davis, executive secretary of the Committee. Mr Davis under the date of Sept ember 6, sent on behalf of the com. mittee letters to President Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Perkins, General Hugh S. Johnson, NRA Administrator and Dr. Leo Wolman, chairman of the Labor Advisory Board of the NRA. His letter to President Roose velt was in part as follows: “We are deeply concerned over your approval of the code of fair competi tion for the iron and steel industry by your executive order of August 19, 1933. We wish to call your attention to the fact that the wage scales for the Southern and Birmingham dis tricts approved by you are actually lower than those agreed to by the em ployers in those areas as representing what they would be fairly able to pay “We call your attention specifical ly to the statement of Mr Robert P Lament, representing the employers in those districts, which we quote in full from page 20 'of the Transcript of Proceedings, First Day, Afternoon Session: statement of Mr. Robert P. Lamont Mr. Lamont: Mr. Admhiistartor, this morning I stated a southern mini, mum for consideration, and that it would be possble to mstke another an nouncement and more definite an nouncement this afteroon. "I am able to state that the repre sentatives of the various interests have met and have agreed to the mini- j mum rate of 30 cents in the Birming ham and Southern districts. ’ ” “It is the sense of our committee at least to the limit acceptable to the that the failure to raise the wage scale employers in that field represents a grave injustice to Negro labor which predominates in those areas. In sup port of our contention we wish to call your attention to the speech made by your Secretary of Labor and by the Negro Industrial League to be found in the transcript of proceedings. “We feel very certain that it is not your intention to allow the low mini mum already suggested by the em ployers interests in those areas to be further depressd by administrative fiat. Certainly a lower minimum than one which the employer groups read ily admit that they can pay, cannot be said to be in keeping with the pur poses of the National Industrial Re covery Act as expressed by your pub ! LAbhDRY... for your Apparel and Linens— • We offer the QUALITY and SERVICE that you J demand. i | You know our phone— t WE-6055 i Edholm & Sherman I launderers and ! DRY CLEANERS » Bishop John A. Gregg, Presiding over Kansas-Nebraska Annual Con ference of the A. M. E. Church Fifth Episcopal District. lie utterance*. “Because of this condition, we re spectfully urg* then in keeping with your authority under Section 10 (b) of the National Industrial Recovery Act, you iesue an appropriate execu tive order which will bring up the minimum wage goalee of workers in these arena at least to a 80 cents an hour minimum, already announced by Mr. Lemont as acceptable to the in dustry.” Estimates of the research depart.; meat of the Joint Committee, headed by Dr. Robert C. Weaver, Harvard economist, indicate that ia Jefferson County Alabama akne loesss totaling $488,000 annually will be suffered byj black labor in the steel workers in other sections of the South. Ia addition to their protest i„ the steel code, the Joint Committee filed, last week, strong brefs in the code of fair competition on structual clay pro. duct* and fertiliser industries. Gross discriminations in tbe pay rates of the 4,000 black workers in the clay in. duStry and the 15,000 more is tbe fertilizer industry were criticised in these briefs. “Continued discrimination m this and other codes,” said the brief filed by Messrs Davis and Weaver in the fertilizer industry sharing, “aganist workers in the South, inevitably spells a breakdown of the entire recovery program. The failure to include the South under any code haE been ag gravated by the exclusion of industry workers -among Negroes from any benefits also. The net result of such a policy will man the existence of a , pauperized class of Negro workers in , the midst of highly paid white labor And consequently merchants in the South will find that they have no Ne. i gro market for the purchase of goods j made by expensive white labor.” Support from every corner was ask ed by the Joint Committee on Nation al Recovery in the fight they are waging for Negro labor. All letters of inquiry and information should be addressed to the committee, 717 Florida Avenue, northwest, Washing, ton, D C “NO COLORED TRADE WANT 2D” SIGN ILLEGAL IN NEBRASKA OMAHA, Neb. *— Posting of signs reading “No colored trade solicited” in shops selling beer is in violation of the Nebraska civil rights law, accord, ing to an opinion received here by R C Price, president of the Omaha NAACP branch from Attorney Gen. eral Paul Good Mr. Price had com plained that such signs were posted in Omaha beer gardens Mr Good held that establishment* gelling beer came the classification of restaurant* or inns and could not exclude colored persons. WHAT ALABAMA THINKS OF HKR LATEST LYNCHING BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (CNS)— There ig “blood on the great seal of Alabama.” Those words from the Montgomery Advertiser represent the indignation and sense of shame on. the part of the prose of Alabama, following the lynching of two Negro boys a few miles from the Metropolis of the State. "Alabama bows its head in shame,” “A stain hag been pl*«®d on the rec ords of Alabama,” Alabama stands disgraced in the eyes of the civilized world;” and ‘‘there is never any ex. ease for lynching:” are gome of the expressions sensing the deep indigna tion of the editorial writers of the violence near the Metropolis; and its State at the recent outbreak of mob leading paper the Birmingham Age Herald says: “Those slinking dastards who committed the lynching should be hunted down relentlessly.” N. A. A. 0. P. WORKS ON 8E CRET CRIMINAL CASES NEW YORK—Use of the expres sion “darky churches” by Helen Wor den, society writer for the New York World Telegram, was surely “a slip,” as the paper’s style calls for the use io»nHal TtMareVaad •^oaHchc# la T^ht*** If ?