GUIDE OMAHA _ The eye of a Master will M * ino Man vias ever do more work than his_• ._Glorious who was not -„ March ot Events Citv. ana Nm’t life _Laborous.” w ~—: 1 " - ■ 1 . Page 4 OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY OCT. 21st., 1933 ___ _ —.- ■■ O _ _ __ _____ THE OMAHA GUIDE Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street by THE OMAHA GUIDE PUBL. CO., Incorporated All News Copy must be in our office not later than Monday at 5 p. m.,and all Advertising Copy, or Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday at Noon. Entered as Second class mail matter, March 15, 1927 at the Post office at Omaha, Nebraska, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUS&SJPTION RATES (Strictly in Advance) One Years . .$2.00 Six Months . $1.25 Three Months . $1.00 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION—The Omaha Guide is issued weekly and will be sent to any part of the Uni ted Sates for $2.00 per year in advance. Foreign subscriptions (including postage) $3.00 in advance. Trial six months’ subscriptions. $1.25. 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Harris o It eauses us to often ponder over the unequal status under which we are made to groan in our effort to adjust ourselves to the principles of democracy which by the constitution of our Govern ment Vouchsafes to all its Citizens equal privileges under the law and guarantees to them life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. We have for years cryed and prayed for relief to our Government from the curse of Jim Crowism, segre gation and lynching. Bills to that effect have beeii .introduced in the Congress and Senate, but for various reasons, chief among them was that the Govern ment could not give any aid on the ground that any law to that effect would be class legislation and would conflict with or run afowl of the doctrine of State Rights, whatever that may mean. Negroes have been burned at the stake, their homes have been desecrated and destroyed, innonce men have been the victims of mobs and gangs of hoodlums, crying and thirsting for blood. Petitions have been made to the Federal as well as the State Government in which these crimes were perpetrated. We were told that the Federal Government was power less to act. The countries in which these dastardly crimes were committed made futile gestures of bringing the culprits to justice, only in a very few isolated cases were conviction obtained with very light sentences imposed if any at all.ffl These results were so frequently the case that even the N. A. A. C. P. at times seeming ly dispared of ever succeeding in their efforts of placing them behind prison walls. Even in the face of the grave in justices practiced in the Scottsboro Case where-in the innocence of those boys was conclusively proven the persecution continued. Yet, not a voice was raised in the legislative halls of our Government. A Government guarantees to every citizen previous conditions of servetude. Not one bill presented calling for the Federal Government to step in and do that, which the States, either was power less to do, or for reasons best known to themselves they would not do. After thousands of Negroes had been lynched and burned to the stake, and hundreds of homes was destroyed, it remained for the Federal Government to awaken to the fact that she could reach out her long arm and stretch it from State to State, no to stop the wanton destruction of life and property of thousands of defenseless Negroes, but to stop the kidnaping of American citizens (white). No one de crys the fact that it was necessary that this should be done, but what the Negro want, if the Federal Government can alley her fears long enough without vio lating the policy of State rights to pass drastic laws to reach her arm from one State to another to punish the kidnapers and murderers of Lindberg baby and men and women of wealth and affluence why is she not able to use the same methods to pass drastic laws that will give to her the same power to reach out ehr arm to punish the (not the kidnap ers) by lynchers and burners to the stake of some innocent Negro man or woman— Yes, we wonder why. . March Events By REV. ALBERT KUHN Our national program of recovery has by no means easy sailing. One of the snags, which it hits are the conflicting ambitions of the leaders of labor on one side and of capitol on the other. Labor leaders like Green, head f the American Federation of Labor, and. Lewis, Head of the United Mine Workers, want to use the N. R. A., to become dictators to the industrial managers of the country makr ing it impossible for the latter to conduct the details of their business without daily consolation with and deference to a non resident Labor Bureaucracy. Any one who has had to deal with local labor unions and labor bosses knows how un reasonabie, arbitrary and overbearing they can be. Once in a while their con duct is not much different from that of regular racketeers. On the other hand, where labor cannot bargain with the employer collectively the individual em ployee is absolutely at the mercy of the latter who may regard labor as so much machinery, which he is buying as cheap ly as possible, which means in times in which there is a surplus of labor, at star vation wages. The only sensible method of insuilng fair treatment to everybody in our present complicated system is the setting up of boards of arbitration so constituted that they can impartial bal ance the interests of the employers, the employees and he consuming public. Such boards our President is trying to establish and to invest with power. In this undertaking he ought to have the backing of the whole nation. In Western Pennsylvania violent strikes have developed among the miners in which scores of men have been killed. Many of the mines have had to stand a regular siege. The government has been reluctant to show its strong arm in the matter, for fear that its action might be misinterpreted either by capital or by labor as a one-sided stand, depending up on what action the federal troops would feel constrained to take. Henry Ford also has had some serious strikes on his hands. On account of slow business he had to curtail the hours of labor at the plant at Chester, Pa. The men struck for a five-day week at a $25 minimum. When Ford retaliated by closing the plant, the strikers moved on his other plant at Edgewater, N. J., to induce its two thousand workers to engage in a sympathy strike. They boastingly talk ed of closing every Ford factory in the country. Methods like that of course confirm Ford more than ever in his re fusal to allow his plants to become union ized. In Cuba President Grau’s student supporters fired upon a crowd of Com munists, killing scores, while government troops forced the surrender of 500 offi cers who had entrenched themselves in a prominent hotel at Havanna in defiance of the new government. The position just been completed by the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching, and the facts discovered will be given to the public at a nearly date, according to an announcement by George Fort Mil ton, editor of the Chattanooga News and chairman of the Commission. '•Trained investigators representing the Commission have been on the case for some time, according to Mr. Milton, and have gone as fully as possible into > every angle of the situation. Interesting revelations are promised relative to the probable guilt or innocence of the vic tims lynched, the part played by officers nnd courts, and the state of mind of the of the ew government is still very inse cure. So far it has not obtained "recog nition by the American government. Many people find fault with the slaughter of millions of young pigs by the government. Yet, when the market is glutted with hogs and the farmers do not get half of the cost of'feeding out of their shipment, who of these critics digs into his pockets and makes up the deficit? For over twelve years the rest of the public have let the fanner sink deeper and deeper into debt and by buy ing below his cost have robbed him of the fruit of his labor, simply because it was impossible for our farmers to organize for planned production like industries which are in the hands of a few huge corporations. It is pretty near time that the farmer have his turn. By assisting him to fit the amount of production to the actual demand the government is do ing a good thing. COMMISSIO NON LYNCHING STUDY IS BUSY AGAIN Careful Study Made of Tuscaloosa Situation — Report Promised Public at Early Date CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A care I ful study of the recent iynchings around Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and of attendant community conditions and attitudes has community. The request for the investigation, Mr. Miiton stated, was made by the Com mission on Interracial Cooperation, a Snuthern agency with headquarters in Atlanta, which felt that action in the case on the part of some responsible Southern group wras imperative, since the while South must share in the stigma attaching to such crimes and is respon sible for their correction. The facts revealed by the investiga tion will be given to the press and other wise made available to the public, said Mr. Milton, as soon as they can be form ulated, in the hope that they may sug gest immediate action in the Tuscaloosa r>asp