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EDITORIAL
WE SUPPORT DEPIEST’S APPEAL
1ITE CAN rise in righteous wrath and shout with unholy
' ’ glee to Congressman DePriest and say ‘We told you
so. There is nothing to be gained now by pointing out to
the Illinois Congressman the error he made in not forcing
a decision on the issue the day he introduced his resolution
to Congress. He pernfitted himself to be persuaded by
Speaker Henry T Rainey of Congress who comes from
Illinois not to raise ruction and demand redress for the.:
insult offered his office, his people and himself in the
House of Representatives restaurant He let Ramey per
suade him to introduce instead a request resolution. The
Democratic Congress voted down that resolution on a
strict party vote at the stipulated expiration of thirty days
DePriest now seeks another devious route in his effort to
get the hundred and forty-five Congressmen’s signatures
to a petition for the consideration of the race outrage on
the floor of Congress. In the event that he fails to get
the signatures of one hundred and forty-five Congress
men he wll fail again in not having the issue considered
on its merits. His office will still be barred from the
rights of the restaurant and his race will remain under the
I .infamy of the insult offered its representative.
We measure our words in now advising Congressman
DePriest. He did not listen to us before. Let him listen
to us now and get results. He called us ignorant or vicious
then. He now realizes that we were wise and sincere. #
Congressman DePriest! Send your office secretaries
back again into the House Restaurant. The manager, un
der orders of Congressman Warren of North Carolina,
whose committe runs the restaurant will again bar your
secrtaries. Rise up forthwith on the floor of Congress.
Demand redress on a ‘high question of personal privilege.
Speaker Rainey will probably listen to the tar-heel chair
man and the ancient evil spirit of his party and rule you
out of order. He will doubtless declare that you have no
question of ‘personal prvilege’ at issue You then appeal
from the decision of the chair and cite the countless prece
dents in Congress and in law to sustain your position. If
you can not find thm, we will furnish them. The chairman
must then step adise to have your question decided by the
House. If the House sustains you, you and yours have
won glooriousty. If the House refuses to sustain you, you
have gone down to defeat gloriously. You will get your
decision, your people will know whether or not theyhave
equal rights in the capitol building of the country. Thata
decision in itself will be a great moral victory because it
will lead on to a greater popular victory. The American
people wiU not stand for such brutal bigotry in the capitol
of their country.
This is your prime duty, Mr. Congressman.
ANTI LYNCH LAW HELD
CONSTITUTIONAL
BY CHARLES TUTTLE
Brief Declares Lynching No Longer
Matter of Local or State Concern
and Cites Legal Csees Sup
porting Right of Federal
Government to Act..
"Washington, D. C. March 30—A
comprehensive 28-page rief setting
forth the constitutionality of the
Costigan-Wagner federal anti-lynch
ing ill was filed last week with the
Senate sub-committee on the judici
ary by Charles H- Tuttle, former U.
S. district attorney for New York.
The brief declares that lynching
has become a national menace and
ed men last year “have been eloquent
ed men last year “have been eloyuent
proof that. this form of primitive
savagery is not on the decline, and
that both in its manifestation and
its consequence it is not only of gra've
concern to the. individual states, but
-an imminent peril to the nation as
a whole.”
nation should defend self
The introductions of the legal argu
ment continues:
“Hie time, therefore, has come
when the nation, should defend itself
against this national evil which has
assumed colossal proportions. What
ever our views of state rights may
be, we must recognize that, under
present day conditions, in the solu
tion of national questions state boun
daries are becming less distinct.
More and more the national resources
are called upon for the making of
local imprvovements within the sev
eral states and for the relief of their
population from economis and physi
cal distress.. Hardly, then, does it
seem fitting that where the national
government is, on the solicitation of
state and local communities, making
ever increasing investment among!
them, they should deny to the na
tional government an interest and
voice in preventing in their own
midst recurrances of mob * insurrec
tion which destroy the security of
the national investment and which
undermine the strength of the na
tional credit and of the national in
stitutions .
No Constitutional Bar
“Surely nothing in our national
Constitution prevents our national
government from undertaking such
an act of self preservation and from
protecting itself against the conse
quences of the break down of due
process of law through state inac
tion or ineffectiveness, and of whole
sale discrimination in th* woteetion
of the laws through the tyrannies of
mob rule.
‘“The power thus to protect the
nation against internal national dang
ers of this character were expressly
confered upon Congress by the
United States Constitution,’*
The brief then cites many decisions
of the United States supreme court
in support of constitutionality of the
Costigan-Wagner bill. It closes with
a citation of the opinion of the su
preme court in Ex Parte Siebold, 100
U. S.. 371, (p.396):
“We hold it to be an incontrover
tible principle, that the government
of the United States may, through
its official agents, execute oft every
foot of American soil the powers and
functions that belong to it.”
Letters to Committee Urged
The national office of the N. A.
A.' C. P- has sent a Copy of the
brief to every member of the Senate
judiciary committee urging prompt
and favorable report of the bill out
to the floor of the senate. All bran
ches of the N. A. A.. C. P. and all
'-rganizritions and individuals sup
porting the federal anti-lynching law
-re urged to write members of the
judiciary committee asking them to
vote the bill our favorably and to
support it on the floor Their address
is Senate Office Building, Washing
ton, D. C- The members of the com
mittee are: Senators Henry F. Ash
hurst, Arizona, chairman; William H.
King, Utah; Hubert D. Stephens;
Mississippi; Clarence C. Dill, Wash
ington; Huey P . Long, Louisiana;
Frederick Van Nuys, Indiana; «,Pat
McCarran, Nevada; M. H. Logan,
Kentucky; William H. Dieterich, Il
linois; Wiliam E. Borah, Idaho; Geo
rge W. Norris, Neraska; Arthur R.
Roinson, Indiana; Daniel 0. Hast
ings, Delaware Felix Herert, Rhode
Island Thomas D- Schall, Minnesota,
and Warren R. Austin, Vermont
PAYING THE WAY
FOR CRIME
The growing volume of resistance
t the stringent anti-gun law now
pending in Congress is encouraging
to those who still believe in consti
tutional guarantees.
The proposed law would make
ownership of small arms virtually im
possible for the honest citizen. And
like similar state laws, it would thus
favor the criminal, who violates all
laws. It would assure him that his
victims were unprotected. Violence,
robbery and other crimes would be
made immeasurably easier and safer.
Hundreds of newspapers, maga
zines, and a legion of well known citi
zens, are against the law. It is to
be hoped that it never passes out of
its present embryo stage.
POLITICAL NOTE
A few months ago “everybody”
was forecasting that this congress
would be as rubber-stamp as the last
—that the President would have no
trouble in runing the show “Every
body” was wrong. The St. Lawren
ce Waterwar Treaty is near to the
heart of the administration—and the
Senate turned it down. And house
and senate have refused presidential
decrees opposing the soldier’s bonus
and restoration of federel workers’
pay—cuts—both are contained in the
Independent Offices Bill.
Much of the opposition to the
President comes from within his own
party, and whipsnapping by Demo
cratic floor leaders is losing some of
its effectiviness. Result will doubt
less be strong pressure to jam most
important administration bills—es
pecially those containing appropria
tions necessary to the continuance of
present recovery plans—through con
gress, and get an early adjournment
THE PRIVILEGE
SEEKER_
In the opinion of the Los Angeles
Times, few if any, of the municipal
eleetic systems of the country will
sign the NRA code of fair practices
for the power industry that is now
passing through official channels in
Washington.
Why won’t they sign? Because if
they do, they will be required to have
the same kind of book-keeping as
private utility corporations, which
would mean a record of their efficien
cy and rates to compare with those
of private management.
Anyone not familiar with the
practices prevailing in municipal
electric plants will regard that as.
rather a strange eason. But the
aveage municipal estalishment has
laid considerale importance on its be
ing exempt from taxes and business
methods which the law, through state
comini'sions, forces on the private
interests they compete with. The
Los Angeles Times for example says
that a fa;r statement of the activities
of the local power ureau would show
that rom its inception it has lean
ed heavily for support both upon the
taxpayers of the city a d
upon the water consumers, that the
fanners pay a good share of its bills,
that its claimed “surplus” is ficti
tious, and that its waste of money
has been enormous.”
If that is true of municipal busi
ness establishments they deal in
power, water, or anything else—the
tax paying public should know it.
The fact that many municipal owner
ship advocates are fighting the pow
er code, because of its book-keeping
provisions, shows bow imperative
they believe it to be that the facta
be disguished.
WEALTH TAKES
A HOLIDAY
“The American peoeple have never
felt the lash of the tax collector,”
says a well-known writer on econom
ics- “The treasury has only recent
ly indicated that it will make a door
to door canvass. It must have
i taxes. Suppose the people who be
lieve the wealthy aren’t paying their
taxes should say, ’Get it from the
rich. Soak them!’ The tax collector
brings forth statistics to prove that
there aren’t any rich any more. .. ”
In 1928, according to income tax
returns, there were 43,000 persons
with incomes of $50,000 a year. In
I 1932 there were less than 8,000—and
later statistics will probably show a
further drop. Wealth has literally
taken a holiday. The result is that
i the old policy of piling increasingly
; heavy tax bumeds on persons with
large incomes is no longer productive
<J: substantial revenue. The incomes
simply don’t exist.
What must inevitably happen, if
government expense continues to rise,
is heavier taxation on small and
moderate incomes—on the day labor
er, the salary worker, the owner of
a small business and a modest amount
^ of property. Government will have
to take more and more of his income
and earnings to carry on the func
tions with which it has been loaded.
Higher income and property taxes
on the businesses providing food,
clothing, power, gasoline and other
necessities and luxuries, mean high
er prices which are passed on to con
sumers.
Exhorbitant taxes mean fewer jobs,
fewer opportunities, hard times—
less money to spend for the things
that give employment, a constant
threat to recovery.
Interstate Commerce Com
mission shows Prosperity
Salaries for Pullman Com
pany Officials Despite De
nression and Pauper Pay
for Porters.
PRESIDENT OF PULLMAN COM
PANY GETS SALARY CHECK
OF $51,821 WHILE PORTERS
PAY DAY OF .29 CENTS
NEW YORK CITY, April 2—Pull
man officials, according to study of
high salaries of Utility Executives
for 1933, made public by the Inter
state Commerce Committee, Feb
ruary 19, 1934, do not need any TIPS
from the long suffering public, such
as the Pauperized porters and maids,
says A. Philip Randolph, National
President of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, at the head
quarters of the Union 207 West 140th
Street, New York City.
The report states that the Presid
ent of the Pullman Company, D. A.
Crawford, received in 1933 the salary
of $51,300, exclusive of $250 of other
compensation from the same source,
for whgt service is not indicated.
This pay, too, was the salary follow
ing the cut in 1932. But the Pullman
Porters’ wages were reduced by $5.00,
which brought their pay down from
$77.50 in 1932 to $72-50, out of which
$33 62, according to a study of wages
and working conditions by the Labor
Bureau, Inc., of New York City, was
paid out by the porters occupational
expense. The expense includes meals
on train in transit, shoe polish equip
ment for shining passengers’ shoes,
two uniforms a year, lodging at the
termini, and two Insurance Policies,
one, with the Prudential Insurance
Company of America and the Pull
man Porters Benefit Association of
America, States Mr. Randolph
Two sharp contrasting extremes
of pay of Pullman officials and Port
er exist. Thousands of porters
through the country receive pay
checks ranging down to as low as -29
cents, for two weeks work, observed
Randolph. Thus while the porters are
working at the rate of $7-.50 a mon
.,h, there is no definite mininum j
wage for them, since thousands of
porters are on the extra board who
do not make enough to keep body
and soul together, since tips during
the depression, according to porters
from coast to coast, have dropped
over 75 • r cent, continued porters’
Leader, Mr. Randolph
A stuiy of Pullmen tlal-ies of of
f'cials roves’, the following facts:
First V:c?
- b <*-.• - bor c mpmsation.
, $36 75 to Vice
President and General Manager: $17,
300 to another Vice President: $20,
820 to a Vice President and Assistant
to the President; $15,675 to st^ll an
other Vice President; $14,825 to a
General Solicitor; $13,125 to a Gen
eral Attorney; $15,675 to a Controll
er and $16,250 to another Vice Presi
dent
But a porter must be a veritable
“Philadelphia Lawyer” to ever figure
out the starvation wages he is sup
posed to receive on the complies tec
time sheet* which places porters or
three different time bases, namely,
day, mileage and hourage, said the
porters’ Union Chief, Randolph- Pull
man President, continued the head of
the 'Sleeping Car Porters’ movement,
receives in one days pay in salary,
$15.30 more than a porter receives in
wages for three months work at the
rate of $72-50, if, per chaaoe the
average porter is lucky enough m
make a full month- The Brotherhood
is demanding a minimum wage of
$140 per month, free shoe polish and
equipment, free meals on the train
while' in transit and free uniforms,
which, though, is much more than the
present meagre wage of the porters,
is still vastly inadequate as a conse
quence of the reduced purchasing
power of the dollar ased upon the de
valuation of its gold content and the
steady rise in the cost of living, ob
served Mr. Randolph.
Columbian Educational As
sociation
Washington, D- C
CLEVELAND, OHIO AT THE CON
VENTION OF THE DEPART
MENT OF SUPERINTEND
ENCE FEBRUARY 28, 1934
The Executive Committee,
Department of Superintendence,
National Educational Association.
Greeting:
On behalf of the Columbian Educa
tional Association composed of offi
cers and teachers of Divisions 19-13
of the Public Schools of the District
of Columbia we beg the high privi
lege and honor of the moral support
of your committee in the furtherance
of our project in Character-Training
and Good-Citiaenship-Training- The
project consists of arranging for the
children in our schools voluntarily to
contribute one cent each toward im
proving and beautifying the grounds
of the Memorial Home of Frederick
Douglass in Washington, D- C
This home has been made a perm
anent shrine, and is held in trust by
the Douglass Memorial Association.
The house is on a high hill and is in
an excellent state of preservation- It
is well kept by a paid caretaker and
contains numerous relics of historical
interest- The National Education As
sociation very graciously included a
trip to the Douglass Memorial Home
in their program of pilgrimages dur
ing their convention in 1924. And we
hope they will see fit to include it in
their program next summer.
However, the grounds surrounding
the house, which cover about two
city blocks on account of insufficient
funds, are sadly in need of replace
ment. And we feel that nothing could
furnish a better lesson in civic duty
and in economic self-help than for
the children in our schools to contri
bute one cent each toward renovating
and beautifying these grounds- The
National Association of Teachers in
Colored Schools endorsed the sugges
tion by a resolution in their annual
convention in Louisville last summer.
We are inspired in this project by
the worthy example of the children
of Cleveland who presented to the
City of Cleveland the magnificent
statue of Lincoln, which stands in
front of the Board of Education
Building. We are inspired also by the
precedents of Wakefield, the birth
place of George Washington; Mooti
cello, the home of Thomas Jefferson,
and the U- S- Battleship Constitution.
We ask that your honorable com
mittee lend its moral support to the
extent of writing a brief letter to
these Superintendents having colored
children in their schools notifying
them of this project, in the hope that
they might see fit to notify their
teachers.
The plan is a very simple one- The
subscriptions by the children must
be purely voluntary- They must be
limited to one flay only, namely, Tu
esday, April S, 1934. The*' must be
restricted to only one cent from each
child. And the amount collected must
be sent on the following day, April
4. 1934 (preferably by check or mon
ey order) to Mr- W. W. Sanders, Ex
ecutive-Secretai y of the National
Associatio n of Teochers in Colored
Schools Headquarte s in ti e Henry
Wilson School, Washington, D. C
This should be accompanied by the
name of the head of the schoo1 (col
lege, institution or public school);
the name of the class teacher, and the
names of the students contributing
one cent each- These will bo bound
and placed in the Douglass Home.
We feel that' the life of Douglass
from slavery to an undisputed place
in Am - an history will furnish an
incent vc to children to perse* ro and
•
overcome many of the handicaps
which are brought on by the depres
sion.
We fed that your moral support
will help greatly in the success of
this project for its educational
value. ,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) M- GRANT LUCAS
, President, Columbian Educational
Association. 1738—15th Street, N
W., Washington, D. C
The Board of Education of the Dis
trict of Columbia upon recommenda
tion of Superintendent Frank W
Ballou and First Assistant Garnet C.
Wilkinson voted unanimously to per
mit the collection in the schools of
Divisions 10-13, all the officers «nH
principals of the Divisions having
endorsed the project.
Guide Platform
Local
Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood ot God
and the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are
the only principles Which will stand the acid test of good
citizensidp in time of peace, war and death. -
(1) We must have our pro-rata of employment in
businesses to which we give our patronage, such as groc
ery stores, laundries, furniture stores, department stores
and coal companies, in fact every concern which we sup
port. We must give our citizens the chance to live res
pectably. We are tired of educating our children and
permitting them to remain economic slaves and enter in
to lives of shame.
(2) Our pro-rata of employment for the patronage
to our public corporations such as railroad companies,
the street car company, the Nebraska Power Company,
the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company and other
establishments which we are forced to support by right
of franchise. Also our pro-rata of employment in re
turn for the taxes we pay in our city, county state and
federal government.
(3) lo encourage the establishment of a first class
hospital that we may get the best that there is in medical
science from our doctors whom we know to be nearest us,
also to encourage a high respect of them and encourage
(5) A one hundred per cent membership in the Om
aha branch of the NAACP. should be had to encourage
the efforts put forth by the founders of the organization
and to assist the general office to establish a five million
dollar endowment fund to maintain operating expenses
and to further the principles of the NAA#P. All peo
ple of all races must be educated up to a higher principle
and a more thorough understanding of interracial rela
tionship tjiat our country may in reality be a government
of the people, for the people and by the people in whole
and not in part.
(6) The re-establishment of the Christian Religion
as Christ taught it, for the uplifting of mankind, elimin
ating financial and personal gam. A practical Christian
Religion, week day as well as Sunday. An attitude to
ward our fellowman as a brother in order to establish a
principle which will guide the destiny of each other’s
children; our neighbor’s children today are our children
tomorrow.
(7) Courteous treatment m all places of business
and the enforcement of the State Civil Right Law.
(8) To encourage and assist in the establishment of
the following financial institutions near 24th and Lake
Streets: A building and loan association, a state bank,
and, also, a first-class trust company for the purpose of
more of our girls to take nurse training,
administering add and assistanee to our widows and
children.
(9) To encourage the erection of a one hundred
thousand dollar Young Men’s Christian Association
Building near 24th and Lake Streets.
(19) To enlarge the Young Women’s Christian As
sociation that it may supply sufficient dormitory accom
modations.
(11) To teach our citizens to live economically with
in their earning capacity by printing in each issue a bud
get system for various salaries.
(12) To make Omaha a better city in which to live
by inaugurating a more cosmopolitan spirit among our
American citizens.
National
(1) Fight for a passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynch Bill
and tints stop the shamful lynching of American citizens.
(2) One of oar citizens in the president’s cabinet
(3) Federal control of the educational system that
every child must have a high school education.
(4) Assist fat the furtherance of research by oar
scientists and historians to prove that civilization was
first founded in Africa. _ . ,
(5) Establish a political influence which will bring
> about our pro-rata of higher appointments made by our
chief executives.
(6) Stop graft in polities by passing a Federal Law
making election day a legal holiday and compelling every
Amerku citizen « voting age to vote.
(7) Prevent further wan by teaching the so-called
themselves about white supremacy with only three-tenths
of the world’s population. They most be taught that
color is due to climatic conditions. They must be taught
that seven-tenths of the world’s population is made up of
darker races. They must be taught that the rays of sun
that blaze upon the equator and turn the skin brown do
not affect the power of the brain any more than the cold
ness of icy glaciers affect the brain of the white race;
and that the darker races will not continue to be crushed
by a money mad few. If the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood of Man are not welded into the hearts of this
world’s family now, by teaching the principles laid down
by our Saviour, it will be welded into the hearts of our
children some day soon, on the bloodiest battlefields this
world has ever known.
(8) Cut down congressional representation from
the Southern States in proportion to the number of votes
The OMAHA GUIDE will put forth its best efforts
to bring about the above 22 points with the assistance of
those who believe it is for the best interest of good Amer
ican citizenship.