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
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build bones and teeth.
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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.
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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
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$1.20
25, 40, 50, 60 and 75-Watt
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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
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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
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'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
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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
<xf the word “Negro,” Lee B. Wood,
executive editor, hag written the N
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