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Dr. Lennox
* On The
Job
October 27, 1933.
Mr . F C- Patton,
^ Post Master,
* lGth and Do«ge Street,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:
I am writing you in behalf of em
ployes in the Post Office Depart
ment who have been in service any
number of years.
From investigations, all are re
liable, faithful and conscientious
workers, ami I would say deserve
consideration. I know you are heavily
ladened with many obligations, but I
do not think that you will reject any
of those old employes, personally
knowing they are eligible and should
receive the first consideration of em
ployment
It has been stated the majority of
the employes in service at this time
are to be laid off and others taken
on- If the work of these employes has
been satisfactory, and I am sure it
has, 1 know it is realized these in
dividuals with seniority of service
and acquaintance with this work,
will be given preference and not ex
changed for others who are not ex
perienced along these lines, or for
those who have not worked in the
Post Office Department.
Knowing the hiring and discharg
ing of these men is in your juris
diction, it has been recently stated
?- 'also, the old employes are to be re
tained, and I am hoping the same is
true- These are difficult times, and
the majority of the said employees
have reached the age it would be im
possible for them to secure other
employment in order to provide for
■ themselves and families. They know
and are best fitted for this line of
work, having served the Post Office
well for years, and are still capable
of giving satisfactory service, and I
am hoping that you will give them
consideration.
I should like to call your attention
also at the time to the said party.
Walter Irvin, who has been employed
as a fireman in this department for
19 years and 7 months- Previous to
this employment he served in the
army for 4 years and 3 months, mak
ing a total of 25 years in the service
of our government
As the above party is an active, re
liable and dependable worker, I
should like to recommend hint for
consideration if there is an opening
for an engineer in this building. He
is well acquainted with this line of
work, holds seniority rights, and de
serves this consideration.
Thanking you very much for what
ever manifestation you may give in
behalf of all of the employes at the
Post Office, and the one said in
dividual whom I personally mention
ed, I am
Respectfully yours,
DR. G. B- LENNOX.
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UNITED STATES POST OFFICE
Omaha. Nebraska
November 1, 1933.
Dt. G- B- Lennox, M. D.,
i 2122 North 24th Street,
» Omaha, Nebraska
My dear Doctor:
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Receipt is acknowledged of your ]
letter of October 27th relating to the
Custodian personnel recently added
to the force under my supervision, j
especially to fireman Walter Irvin.
In connection therewith I hasten to
assume you mat as far as I am con
1 f'Tiled my p >l:cy shall be to handle
the matters relating to the person
! Ti-i in a manner fa r and just both to
i the employees and to the Govern
1 roent.
I have not had an opportunity to,
get acquainted with Mr. Walter Ir- f
vin- However, I can assure you that J
if an opportunity for promotion pre-,
sents itself I shall give him fair cor,
sideration along with the other mem
bers of the force who may be quali
fied
Thanking you for your interest in
this matter, I am,
Sincerely yours,
F. C. PATTON, Postmaster. ,
CENSUS SUPERVISOR
APPOINTS TWO
COLORED WOMEN
Mr. John F- Holloway, Census
Supervisor of the Third District of;
Nebraska, has demonstrated a fine
sense' of fairness to our group by ap
pointing two Colored women on his
staff of workers.
There was no quibbling, no side
stepping. or saying; “You people
must get together.” Mr. Holloway
realized that on every project of any
size at all, Colored people were ele
gible to a quota- He was conscious of
his duty arid performed it without
any ado- On his office staff he allot
ted us a clerkship in the person of
Mrs. Lucille Edwards, and in his list
of enumerators he appointed Mrs.
Ruth Lewis, who was formerly in the
office of Ex-Commissioner Wester
gard- Mrs. Edwards was a case work
er in The Welfare Department under
Ex-Mayor Richard L- Metcalfe
We commend Mr. Hollow'ay on his
.itf.gr.c forwardness, his broad'
vision, and his impartiality. We ap
preciate his application and interpre
tation of the New Deal.
Must Register Mail to Scott
sboro Hoys, I. L. D. Says.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., January 25
—Request that money for cigarettes
i and stamps sent to the Scottsboro
! boys in Birmingham county jail here
be sent in cash by registered mail, j
and that all packages for them be
registered or sent to the Southern
district office of the I. L- D. Box 604, j
Birmingham, Alabama, for trans-1
mission to them, was made by the;
: southern office here today following i
a visit to the hoys by Attorney Ben-1
jamin J- Davis, Jr-, of' Atlanta, on1
behalf of the I. L. D.
I
Many packages of comforts sent
to the Scottsboro boys, and especially
to Roy Wright and Eugene Williams,
from all over the country, have
j never been received by them, but
! prison authorities- When they havei
! have been illegally retained by the
j received money-orders with which to |
buy cigarettes, stamps, and station- j
j erv, the guards have refused to have j
; them cashed unless a percentage is j
turned over
Charlie Weems, one of the boys,
was recently sent into solitary con
finement for more than a week be
cause he participated in a strike of 20
prisoners against the rotten food
served them in the jail.
A definite attempt is being made,
by keeping Roy Wright and Eugene j
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Williams isolated from the other
boys, to split them off from the other
seven, the I- L. D. has charged. The
same purpose is behind the persistent
theft of packages and mail from
them by prison guards
ANTI-LYNCH MEET
CALLED IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO. January 25—The Inter
national Labor Defense and the Lea
gue of Struggle for Negro Rights,
have issued a joint call for a confer
ence to be held here on February 3,
at 2 p- m-, at the Forum Hall, 322 E.
43rd Street- All organizations and
groups of workers are invited in the
call to send delegates to the confer
ence to fight discrimination against
Negro workers on CWA projects and
n the stock-yards, and to continue
the work of the Baltimore Anti
Lynch conference held last Novem
ber
1 he struggles that have developed,
especially around the Lake Street
territory in the last few days, prove
ji. this conference is necessary
particularly to fight police brutality
afca;nst the Negro workers.
( laude Lightioot, Negro, the se
re-ary of the L. S. N- R- was brutal
ly slugged by police recently at the
funeral of a Negro worker who had
died of starvation
The funeral was arranged under
the auspices of the L. S. N- R-, and a
permit was granted by the police
commissioner. When Negro and white
workers gathered at the funeral par
lor for the parade, a white worker
was attacked by the police. Claude
Lightfoot defended him and was
clubbed brutally and thrown in jail
on three charges. The white workers
were chased away by the police and
the lying statement that was issued
by the captain of the Warren Avenue
itation was that “the police protect
ed this funeral for the NegToes from
the whites-”
On the South Side, in the Lake
Street territory, and everwhere the
growing unity of the Negro and
white has been met by the sharpest
terror. The conference is called to
... .p develop the most effective re
sistance of the workers against ter
ror. ,
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White Ex-Cop Offered
Proof of Peterson Inno
cence to N. A. A. C. P.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, January
25—Revelation that a former police
man, who stated he had lost his job
and his home because of the Willie
Peterson frame-up, made an offer to
the N- A. A. C. P- officials here to
obtain depositions from key defense
witnesses—an offer which apparent
ly was not accepted, is made in the
Birmingham “World,” local Negro
paper, by Robert Durr.
“A white man came to me some
time ago and soicited my aid in bear
ing his expense to Nashville, Balti
more, and some place in North Caro
lina,” Durr writes. “This man was
a former member of the police de
partment of Birmingham- He said he
had lost his home and his job all be
cause of the same activity that was
rialroading Peterson to the electric
chair.
“I sent this man over to the N. A.
A- C- P. and he gave them refer
ences, etc—he insisted Peterson did
not do the crime and that he knew
who did do it, but that the under
world, high society and politics were
all messed up in the affair- This
man said that the people who
held the key to the situation had
moved out of town. But that if some
one would bear his expense he would
go to them and get depositions and
prove his contention.
“I do not know why the N. A. A.
C- P- did not ferret this out.”
THE N. A. A. C. P. —AND
ITS THREE LITTLE
LYNCH-LAWYERS.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., January 25
—“Gut out the demonstrations!” said
Walter White and the rest of the N
A. A. C. P. officias in New York
“Stop the protests Don’t ask for civil
rights—it’ll only make the Southern
lynchers mad. Get ‘good’ lawyers for
the Scottsboro boys, and for Willie
Peterson, and let them kow-tow to
the judges down there.”
“Leave it to the lawyers,” said Dr.
DuBois, chiming in- “The N. A. A.
C. P. is hiring the best legal talent-”
This talk of the “best legal talent”
was an oft-heard refrain when the
N. A. A. C. P. was trying to keep the
International Labor Defense from
defending the Scottsboro boys, was
trying to stop the mass action, and
prevent attorneys from making Ne
gro rights an issue in these frame-up
cases.
And yet, somehow, this “best legal
talent” that the N. A. A- C. P- puts
forward, has a way of lining up with
the lynchers and the Klansmen at
every turn. If you don’t believe it,
read a little history!
Take John Altman, of Birming
ham, first- Altman is one of the at
torneys that the N. A- A. C. P. hired
to “defend” Willie Peterson- What
has Altman been doing lately? Well,
the relief bureaus of Alabama were
a storm center during the last few
weeks because a Negro case-worker
.Nelson Jackson, like all the other
case-workers, was giving dictation
to a white stenographer. Every agent
of the Jim-Crowing, lynching ruling
class got on Jackson’s neck. The
state and city officials- The burea
cracy of the A. F. of L- In spite of
the fact that the white stenographer
said she had “no objection,” these
people howled for Jackson’s remov
al, and the removal of Virginia
Keene, the relief official who had ap
pointed Jackson. And who was in the
front ranks of this howling pack?
None other than John Altman, one
of the “fine legal talent” hired by the
N. A. A- C. P- No wonder the “de
fense” of Peterson was such a farce!
The history of Roderick Beddow is
pretty involved, because he switches
so easily from one side of the fence
to the other. Beddow was one of the
attorneys put forward by the N. A.
A- C. P. for the Scottsboro boys. In
the hearing of the Southern district
organizer of the I- L. D. Beddow said
he had been offered $10,000 to prose
cute Willie Peterson, but wouldn’t do
it because he thought the man was
inn cent. A few months later we read
that Beddow was in court to defend
Dent Williams, white lawyer who
had shot Willie Peterson through the
bars of the jail, while the sick Negro
stood unarmed and helpless. With an
appeal to the basest lynch passions,
Beddow got Williams off—free.
That wasn’t all- The next thing,
Beddow went to court as special pro
secutor against Peterson — the man
he had declared unquestionably inno
cent! And this week, when the fury
and indignation of the masses have
forced a stay of execution for Peter
son, Beddow has announced his in
tention of fighting bitterly against
any mercy for the framed Negro
veteran.
And this was the man to whom the
N. A. A. C. P- wanted to entrust the
lives of the Scottsboro boys!
The trum.p card of the N- A- A. C.
P. in its fight against making the
Scottsboro case part of a great strug
gle for Negro rights, was that un
crowned head of American liberal
ism, Clarence Darrow. Darrow’s
actions are always unexpected, but
the gyrations of this “flower of legal
talent” in the past couple of years
have been a surprise even to the
heads of the N. A. A- C- P. After act
ing as the spearhead in the attack
against the I. L. D. Darrow proceed
ed to Hawaii, where he defended four
white lynchers of the U. S- Navy.
Thise navy men had introduced an
old American custom into the islands,
and had murdered a native accused
of "rape ” In his appeal to the jury—
which he tried unsuccessfully to keep
“all-white” in accordance with the
best Southern traditions — Darrow
didn’t miss a single one of the cus
tomary arguments of the lynchers in
these cases. “The purity of white
womanhood,” s the “unwritten law,”—
the old phrases of the lynch-law
South echoed thousands of mile away
in Hawaii—from the lips of the N.
A- A. C- P. “finest lawyer.”
Only a few months ago, Thomas
Knight, chief prosecutor of the Scotts
boro boys went to Washington to a ;k
that the ban be lifted against the sale
of Alabama’s prison made goods.
The Alabama rulers pocket about a
million dollars a' year out of the pro
ducts made in her hellish prisons by
driven convicts. And arrayed on
Knight’s side was none other than—
Clarence Darrow!
Is it an accident that in recent
years at least three of the N. A- A.
C. P.’s “outstanding lawyers” have
followed the path of the lynchers and
the Klansmen? It is not! The N. A.
A- C. P. is pleged to uphold the sys
tem that prevails today — and part
and parcel of that system are Jim
Crowism, lynching, and segregation.
The N. A. A. C. P. says clearly that
its policy is not to offend the South
ern ruling-class- It hires attorneys
pledged to kow-tow to all the pre
judices of Southern judges- And in
so doing it must select its legal tal
ent from the ranks of those not too
far removed in spirit from the Klans
men and the lynchers.
SEEK JOBS ON DAM
PORTLAND, Oregon, January 25
—Jobs for Negro workers on the new
Bonneville dam project are being
sought by the Portland branch of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People. The
Public Works Administration has al
otted about 25 million dollars for the
work
REPUBLICAN LEADER DEPUT
IZED AS PROSECUTING AT
TORNEY OF WAYNE COUNTY
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., January 23
—(CS)—Cornelius R. Richardson, of
Richmond, Indiana has been appoint
ed and deputized as a prosecuting at
torney of Wayne County, Indiana
He will have charge of all the city
and State prosecutions in the City
Court of Richmond.
Mr. Richardson is a leading Repub
lican of the State and during the
Coolidge Administration was sent as
vice-chairman of the Virgin Island
Commission to investigate conditions
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in the Islands
WHITE ESCAPED BANDIT IS
CAUGHT BY NEGRO IN TEXAS
HUNTSVILLE, Texas, January 24
—(CNS)—J. B- French, ene of the
five white convicts who escaped
when Cyde Barrow, Texas desperado,
raided the Eastham State prison
farm, ast week has been recaptured.
The laurels in the case go to Gabe
Wright. Negro, who lives near the
farm- Bloodhounds chased French in
to Wright's cabin. Wright held him
there with a shotgun until the dogs
and posse arrived.
CALIFORNIAN AND OHIOAN TO
INTRODUCE COSTIGAN BILL
IN HOUSE
Washington, Jan. 19—Representa
tives Thomas Francis Ford of Cali- j
fornia and Charles West of Ohio have
agreed to introduce the Costigan
Wagner anti-lynching bill in the
House of Representatives- Rep. Ford
is a former newspaper man and an
authority on foreign trade and water
power. Rep. West, a member of the
influential ways and means com
mittee, is a political scientist and
former diplomat. Both are Demo
crats
BLIND HEN LEADS TO ARREST
OF WHITE CHICKEN THIEVES.
Geneva, N. Y—((jNS)—Two white
men, Antonia Alameda, 34 and An
tonie Prada, living in the villiage of
Odessa near here, have been sentenc
ed to spend not less than two and a
half years and not more than five
years in Attica State Prison on the
charges of stealing chickens.
A woman who looked over a large
flock of chickens found on property
where the two men were exclaimed:
“My heavens, there’s that old hen
that’s blind in one eye,” and it prov
ed to be one of a fock of 125 chickens
stolen from her farm
The men are believed by police to
have been part of a gang making a
business of wholesale chicken steal
ing which cost farmers in this section
many thousands of dollars. The birds;
were disposed of in large lots in city!
markets. Motor trucks were used in |
making the thefts, the entire flocks
were taken at one time
GETS STATE HOUSE JOB IN
INDIANA
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind-, January 24
(CNS)—‘Henry Fleming Democratic
politician has been appointed super
intendent of the mailing division of
the Automobie License department at
the State House.
Five Negroes And One
White Killed in Cotton
Oil Plant Blast
HERTFORD, N- C., January 24-^
(CNS)—Fiv| Negroes and one white
man were killed, while seven other
Negroes were injured, when a boiler
exploded at the Eastern Cotton Oil
Company here last week- Trapped
beneath bricks and timbers of the
wrecked plant, the victims who were
not killed outright were scalded to
death as steam and boiling water
coursed through the debris. Hertford,
a town of 2,000 population, was
shaken as if from an earthquake.
Company officials believe the blast
to have been caused by a bursting
pipe in the boiler or by cold water
being turned on in the heated boiler.
Twenty-five workers were in the
plant at the time of the explosion
TAKE HOWARD OUT OF
OF THE NATL. STUD
ENT FEDERATION.
WASHINGTON, January 22—(C
NS)—A movement has been started
to take Howard University out of^he
National Student Federation, as a
result of the Jim crow outbreaks at
the recent annual meeting of the
Federation in this city.
The movement takes the form of a
determined effort headed by Miss
Sylvia Steckler, a white student pur
suing a post graduate course in
chemistry at Howard University.
A brief of 2 500 words in four
page folder form has been prepared
by the National Student League in
“making out a good case against the
Federation,” and a copy has been
placed in the hands »f every Howard
University student- In the closing
paragraph the League advocates
calling upon the “Hilltop,” the Stud
ent Council, and the student body of
Howard University to take Howard
out of the National Student Federa
tion- “We urge that they consider
the program of concrete activity of
the National Student League. We ask
that they investigate our past work,
i especially our fong history of strug
' gle against discrimination of Negro
students. We ask that on the basis of
! their findings they join us in a unit
ed student movement for the solving
for American students is bleak in
deed. Again we say: TAKE HOW
ARD OUT OP THE NATIONAL
STUDENT FEDERATION.”
‘IKE* NUTTER ASSISTANT SE
CRETARC J*0 SPEAKER OF
NEW JESEY ASSEMBLY
ATLANTIC, N. J., January 22—(C
NS)—Isaac H- Nutter attorney of
this city has been elected assistant
secretary to the Speaker of the New
ersey House of the State Legislature
Tag—Negro Women Put to Cutting
WASHINGTON, January 23—(C
NS)—State Directors of women's
work in the various States report to
Mrs. Ellon S. Woodward, Director of
Women’s Work, that approximately
150,000 women throughout the coun
ty are at work on civil works and
service projects
»Urs. >> ooawavd* reports that there
are two classes of projects for wom
en: civil works projects and civil
works service projects- Women em
ployed on civil works service projects
are paid from local, State and Fed
eral relief funds
Under the CWA program in Miss
issippi; a detail of fifty colored wom
en are reported as having been put to
work in the Vicksburg National Mili
tary Park, cleaning away under
brush. This is the first time that wo
men have been assigned to such work
and according to Arno Camerer, Di
rector of National Parks, Buildings
and Reservations, the majority of the
women in the detail have worked on
Mississippi plantations and are well
qualified for the job they have under
taken. He further states, however,
that “when the removal of the under
brush is accomplished, a detachment
of about seventy-five colored men
will start on other clean-up work too
strenuous for women.”
Civil works projects, on which
white women are employed, include
such projects as: library work, cata
loging, rebinding, indexing; farm
housing surveys, employment and
payroll study, typhus control, histor
ical budding surveys, nurses for
emergency work on civil works pro
jects employing men, making road
signs, clerical assistance and janitors
for Federal employment agencies,
making repairs and furnishings for
tax-supported community houses,
sanitary surveys, surveys of recrea
tional needs of cities and towns, and
other similar projects.
Civil works service projects are
such as sewing rooms, nursing ser
vices, collecting and reconditioning
used clothing, canning and preserv
ing, serving hot lunches for school
children or men employed on govern
ment jobs, recreation and play
grounds, visiting housekeepers, voca
tional education, adult education,
nursing schools, day nurseries, and
many others.
COLOR BAR CHARGED
ON N. Y. SUBWAY JOBS
NEW YORK, January 25—In a
letter to Chairman John H. Delaney
of the Board of Transportation here,
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, has
complained against reported re
strictions imposed upon colored ap
plicants for employment on the city
owned Eighth Avenue subway
“Colored men” the letter alleges,
| “are being refused employment in
certain capacities in the new subway
system, with the excuse from the
Assistant Superintendent (orally)
that colored men are not being used
for the positions applied for- It is al
leged, also, that colored station
agents are being restricted to use in
certain ‘colored’ residence sections.
It is charged that colored men are
being barred from the position of
conductor or guard.”
The letter further charges that
( qualified Negroes applying for skill
ed shop positions have been refused
and that the training school for skill
ed positions in the system is closed
to colored men wishing to prepare
themselves for these positions
The complaint, signed by Roy Wil
kins, assistant secretary, closes with
the demand that “any restrictions
placed upon colored men because of
their color alone be removed, and
that the colored citizens of the city
of New York be given equal oppor
tunity to secure employment on the
municipal subway system on the
same basis as other citizens.” A copy
of the letter has been sent to the new
Fusion Mayor, Fiorella H. LaGuard
ia
At present all of the porters and
some laborers on the Eighth Avenue
subway are colored, as are 36 station
agents- Negro engineers on the Board
of Transportation staff aided in
building the subway
Ccuihetn ¥ihite
hpets Score
NEW YORK, January 25—Round
ly denouncing the Maury County
(Tennessee) sheriff who in comment
ing on the recent Cordie Cheek lynch
ing said “No one in Maury County
regrets that the Negro was lurched,”
the Christian Advocate of January
12, official organ of the Southern
Methodist Church, vigorously con
demns those who condone lynching
and calls upon press, pulpit and pub
lic officials to smash mob rule
“If the conscienceless white hood
lum element are not checked” the
editorial warns,” and dominated by
the better element of society, it will
mean the destination of our civiliza
tion- They are as depraved and con
scienceless as the guilties victims
whom they shoot or burn They are
as low down in the moral scale, as
filthy a portion of the vile dregs of
society, as any criminal whom they
lawlessly lynch • . The mob is a mon
ster that throws aside all reason and
moral sense and becomes as cruel as
a group of devils.”
The Christian Advocate, which is
the mouthpiece bf Southern Method
ism. is edited by Dr. W- P- King, a
native white Georgian.
South Must Protect Weaker Race
The Nashville Tennesean of Jan
uary 8 in a lengthy editorial con
demning the rise in lynching de
clares, “White society of the South,
which makes and administers the
laws, must give better protection to
members of the weaker race ... It
must employ peace officers who, in
stead of participating in lynchings,
must oppose them with their lives if
need be ... It must discourage the
practice of white criminals to throw
the blame for their crimes upon help
less Negroes in the hope that the
lynching of an innocent member of
another race might save them from
the fate they deserve ”
In a letter to President Roosevelt,
Professor Alfred E. Barnett of Scar
ritt College, Nashville, calls upon
him to aggressively back the Wag
ner-Costigan Anti-lynching bill, de
claring that “the best opinion in the
Southern states will heartily wel
come Federal legislation to curb
lynching.” Many similar expressions
are coming from prominent Southern
white people.
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BIG TOURNAMENT FEBRUARY 5
The Contract Bridge Tournament sponsored by
the Joyeux Bridge Club has all the Bridge Players of
Omaha tense with excitement. This well known club is ex
erting every effort to make this Tournament the out
standing event of the season.
All entrants must have their applications in before
midnight, Monday, February 5th. The play will be by
teams only. Partners will play together all three nights.
No Joyeux member will be permitted to play, but they
will all be on hand to see that everything goes smoothly.
If you are looking for a thrill, something different,
and amusement beyond price, do not fail to get your
names entered into the Joyeux Bridge Club’s Contract
Tournament.
There will be twelve valuable prizes given, two the
first night, two the second night, §nd eight the third
night. So you can’t afford to miss this Tournament, some
thing out of the ordinary for three big nights.
Tickets may be purchased at Ross, Owen’s and
Johnson’s Drug Stores or from any member of the Joy
eux Bridge Club.
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