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I 4 WHY THE NEGRO HAS NOT PROFITED FROM THE NRA THOUSANDS of gallons of Printer’s ink has been ex pended by the Negro press ttlling their readers that the NRA and the various Codes under it, has worked against the interest of the Negro, instead of working to their ad vantage, but little or no ink has been used in telling why this condition obtains. When the news was first flashed over the air and the telegraph wires, and printed in the press that President Roosevelt, with the assistance of his advisors and Cabinet Members, was at work divising some means by which the millions of idle men, wbo were walking the streets and going from place to place in quest of employment, may, through that means find the much needed jobs, in every hamlet, village, town and city, men (white!) began to organize or revive the old or ganizations wThich had been partly or completely de stroyed by depression. So, finally, when the NRA be came a law, if found those who had prepared for it, in a much better position to profit by it, than those who failed to take advantage of the injunction of the President to organize. The General Labor Provision, Article 4, Section 1, of the Hotel and Restaurant Code says: “Employees shall have the right to organize and BARGAIN COL LECTIVELY through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from interference, restraint or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents in the designation, of such representatives, or in self organiza tion, in ohtre concerted activities for the purpose of col lective bargaining, or other mutual aid or protection.’’ By this it can be readily seen that there is no excuse for the timidity, which has so long kept the Negro from or-i ganizing for the purpose of his industrial and economic, betterment. The President has told us that we have a right to organize^; that we will be protected in that right; also the right to organize and bargain collectively through repre sentatives of your own choosing; and be free from re straint, or coercion of employers of labor and their ageSnts. As a group, for some reason, we have failed to avail ourselves of these great priviliges, by organizing the different and various crafts, in which we are employ ed, that we may make proper representation through the regular channels to the NRA Code Officers; that we may receive due consideration the same as other citizens, we must cease our “wailing and gaushing of teeth,” and cry ing to the high heavens, and use the instrumemts at hand to secure our temporal salvation. Awake from your lethargy before it is too late. Throw aside your slinky coat of selfishness, and put on the coat of Courage, Racial Confidence and Sacrifice, that we may use the only agency by which we can hope to get our full measure of benefit from the NRA. To do this we must organize. M. L. Harris, President Omaha Hotel Waiters As sociation. 18£9 1-2 N. 24th St. Phone Ja. 9904. A NEGRO STATE has reached our desk a bulletin of The National ^uuiicil for the establishment of a 49th state. The bulletin sets forth the proposal of the council which is as tion, and also tells of the suffering of the Negro in the United States for morel than three hundred years. The bulletin sets forth the proposal of the council whirh is as follows: We propose, therefore, the ultimate establishment of a new state in the United States, where colored people in he United Statts can have an opportunity to work out their own destiny unbridled and unhampered by artifi cial barriers; wherein they can have a chance to raise the lot of their masses from exploitation, misery, wretch ededness and insecurity; wherein they can become re spected, industrious, thrifty citizens, self-governing, self reliant and self sustaining, always to be counted upon us as unfalteringly la|yal to their country and a credit to all that is noblest and best in it. Thus we plan that the Negro secure an actual physical, geographic area for the establishment of a state like any other commonwealth in the United States. The proposal, to our mind;s, is the most worthy Movement begun by the American Negro since slavery, ” and should be endorsed by every thinking mepiber of theSi race in the United States. The struggle under which the Negro is now living in the United States today is bound i to result in his ultimate defeat as a citizen. The straws | plainly show7 which wray the wind is blowing, and it is only a matter of time before the same thing that is happen ing to the Jew' in Germany, or wrorse, is going to happen to the Negro in America. Members of the race who love their posterity will be willing to make real the plans of the National Council of the movement. Of course there are many Negroes in the country who are goi V to disagree with the move ment, and if there were not it would be a good sign that the plans are no good. Then there are thousands of the race who have never realized the plight of their group in America who will assume a disinterested part. There ought to be a branch of the Council in every city of the United States with a Negro population of 3,000. Certainly there ought to be a branch in every state. This publication is certainly in hearty accord with the movement, and intends doing every thing it can to acquaint the Negro public with its program. BIG LITTLE BUSINESS MEN A BOUT the most disgusting animal of the human speci es is one of the sophisticated, self-sufficient little fellows who attempts to make the impression that he is so busy he does not have any time to spend with ordinary people and ordinary things. ~~ We had occasion last w eek to hear a “big” business m,an of this city tell one of his fellow beings, that he did not have time to talk with him about small matters, be cause his mind was concerned about a hundred thousand dollars. The first time we listened to such blah-blah Irom | this little fellow was about three months ago. At thatj i jme. we paid little or no attention to his chatter, but last j week’s experience is positive proof that the little fellow, is really in earnest about his status as a “big” business j man. , , , The influence of an institution may be measured by ;he bigness of the men who officers it; and no institution •an grow and thrive so long as narrow-minded, soul thriveled idiots are permitted to stunt its growth with heir poisonous spleen of elgotism. The largest life insurance company in the world that ! c owned and operated by Negroes is located in this city, t has been our pleasure to visit the offices of this com pany from time to time, on business or otherwise. We >ave noted, with a degree of satisfaction, that the officers >f this company go out of their way to bo courteous to ;he humblest citizen who may find it necessary to visit heir offices. This company handles millions of dollars » vear but its officer’s heads are not swelled. I Hejre is the spirit upon which institutions may be ! permanently establshed. Here is a lesson that discourte-, i dus and conceited little fellows need to le<am. —— ■■ -- INTRESTING DOCU MENTS GIVEN TO HAMPTON SCHOOL Hampton Institute, Va-, April 16 Through the courtesy of the secretary of Mrs- Cyrus McCormick of Chicago, Illinois two copies of an extremely in teresting document have come into the possession of Hampton Institute. Dated at Hampton Institute on Wash ington’s birthday, 1896. they are du plicate copies of a “Resolution on the Subject of an Arbitration adopted by the Officers. Teachers and Students of Hampton Normal and Agricultur al Institute.” One copy is addressed “To Her Majesty The Queen of Eng- I land;” the other. “To His Excellency,! The President of hte United States.”: The resolution reads “Whereas it is our opinion that war, as a me tod of deciding controversies between nations, is like duelling of individuals, a relic of savergy, and should be resorted to, only in case of an absolute and crying injustice, that can be set right by no other means. “Therefore: Resolved, that we do desire and entreat the Governments of the United States and Great Bri tain, to establish by formal treaty some system of arbirtation for con cluding* all differences which may arise between the powers and which may be of so grave a nature as to fail of settkffruent by the usual di plomatic agencies and metods-’’ The case in which these resolutions are inclosed are excellent examples of the woodworker’s craft, and were made by students in the Carpenter Shop of Hampton institute, i panels are made from a piece of Koa Wood, from beam taken from the Church in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands in which the father of General S. C. Armstrong, founder of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute preached for many yeas, as a mission ary. . The border and monogram are 01 Oak. from the fn*ne of the U. S. Ship Cumberland, sunk in Hampton Roads. March 8, 1862, by the Confed erate Batte Ship “Merrimac.” The petitions are signed by the following: Dr. Hollis Burke Fris sell and the members of his admin istrative staff; the Trustees, led by Robert C- Ogden; the Industrial Superintendents. Officers and Clerks, Mtrons and Housekeepers, the fac ulty and the entire student body, com posed of both Negroes and Indians. UTILITY INVESTORS MUST DEMAND A FAIR DEAL If you happened to be one oi tne illion or so investors in electric and >wer companies in the United States nilar to the following in the an i nual statements of your company: “In addition to the serious problems confronting business in general there are problecs peculia to the electric light and power industry, the most immediately serious of which are the rapid rise in taxes and labor and material costs on the one hand, and the demand for rate reductions throughout the country on the other hand. Many utilities companies in the. United States are faced with com petition by the construction, through the use of Federal funds, of unneces sary and duplicating electric power plants and distribution systems. It is hoped, however, that the public utility industry, in common with all other industries, will be permitted through the maintenance of just and reasonable rates, to meet the added cost of doing business and to share fairy with others in the return of j national prospeity.” That is a nice polite way of telling you that you savings invested in the electric light industry are threatened with destruction by competition of tax-exempt publicly owned plants, built with funds supplied o guaranteed or supplied by the public treasuries. Also that your company hopes that public regulation asd legislation af fecting it will not discnjninate a gainst it in comparson with other in dustries and that regulatory author ities will permit it to earn a fair re turn based upon present day cost of operation which applies to it as well as to any other industry. Your company is asking for a fair deal to protect your svings and in vestment FOUR TOWNS IN “DEEP SOUTH” WOULD FORM N. A. A. C. P. BRANCHES New York, April 13—Five new branches of the Association for the ■ Advancement of Colored People, four of which are in the “deep South", are in process of organization, the national offices announces. Jennings, La-, has secured 79 charter members —p9 more than the required 50—and has made formal application for a its requred number of charter mem bes- Coushatta, La- has secured 30 members and asks if it can divide it branch because m|my residents live on the other side of the river and will have to go fifteen ^niles each way to attend a meeting. Nat chez, Muss- wishes to organize a branch- Rahway,N- J. has secured its full quota and asks a charter The new branches in thelower Miss issippi delta region are regarded as the result of the successful fight of the N- A. A- C- P- aganst exploit ations of Negro workers in the levee camps FLODIDA INDIFFRENT OR CRUEL TO NEGRO SAYS MISS OVINGTON AFTER HER TOUR New York, April 13—Returning to this city after a 60-day tour of the South during which She addressed two churches, one forum, seven com mittees. fourte n colleges and junior colleges, eleven hj?h school, e^ght grammar schools, one school of social service, ■ one library school and four teen branches of the N- A- A- C- P-, .Visa Mary W. Ovington, treasurer of the association, declared that except for St- Augustine, “Flordia is indif ferent or cruel or both” to its Negro citizens. As evidence slie cited the fact that “there were not enough people who dared to jon” the Association at San a. Florida; that she believed she should haved “embarassed” the Ne groes in Tampa. Miami, and West Palm Beach if she had visited them, and that the Negroes of Winter Park are virtually in prison “Everything that I enjoyed”, she declared referring to the many at tractions offered by Winter Park, “was close to them- They could not enter the library or the moving picture house. They were not expect ed to go to any Rollins college per formance- They could not bathe in any one of the 28 lakes, not even in Kirzner when tne tourists were away- i After 8:30, unless they were working for the whites, they must be on their sde of the railroad track- Their pay was small- A laundry that cost me $1-30 when given out at the hotel, cost thirty cents when given to a colored woman who called for it and returned it in 24 hours- Few had non y to go the larger town of Or lando- Their neighborhood was dark at night- There is ‘good feeling’ at Winter Park, but the Negro who did not ‘keep his place’ would destroy the socal fabric.” Negroes and New Deal in Dixie Commenting on the workings of the New Deal as she observed it on her lengthy tour Miss Ovington declared: “the politicians are in the first row, the poor whites in the sec ond, and the Negroes a bit back in the third line- Naturally they get what the others leave in many places, where the whites are pretty hungry and need work, the leavings are old clothes, some food, little work- But where the money is considerable, the Negro may get a shovel and two white men lounging by them as over seers-” CONTRIBUTORS TO N. A. A. C. P. FUND -New York. April 13—Further con tributors to the 25th anniversary Penny-A-Head fund of the N A- A C- P. : Aabama: Biringham branch,$96-44; Trinity school, Athens, $3-83; Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Talladega. $1-25; Myrtle Knight, Ft- Davis, $1; Oakwood Junior College, Huntsville, $2-66- Arizona: Yuma branch, $7-85 Arkansas: Little Rock branch, $4-10 Califomia: Red cap porters, Southern Pacific company, Oakland, $7; Alpha Delta chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha fra ternity, Los Angeles, $1-87; Mrs Sarah I- Metcalf, Los Angeles, $1 Occidental Lodge No- 2484, G- U- O- 0 F-, Oaklanb, $1-05; Louisiana State Club, Venice, $2- Colorado: M- W Prince Hall Grand Lodge F- and A- M-, Denver $3-60- Connecticut: Hartford branch, $14-07- Florida: King Edward j Lodge No- 114, K. of P-, West Palm ; Beach, $1; Charles SummerLodge No ; 24, K. of P-, Tallahassee, $1.60; J- D Sumlin, Waldo, $102; Dayton Beach campaign, $35-54; Peninsula City Lodge, No-503, Elks, Dayton Beach, $2; James Johnson Lodge No- 123, K- of P-, Jacksonville, $1; Beta Alpha chapter, A. K. A., sorority Tallahass $25; Silver Leaf Charity club, Day tona Beach, $2- Georgia: H- and I School, Waynesboro, $5; 24th Infan try, Ft- Benning, $18-38; Atlanta uni versity, Atlanta, $2-13; First Congre gational Church Sunday School, At lanta, $5- Territory of Hawaii: John Jefferson, Honolulu, $6-10 This list covers February 10 to March 15 inclusive in the states men tioned THE TAX EXEMPTION FALLACY The surest way to achieve tax re duction would be to spread the bur-j den evenly, based on the capacity to pay—without exemptions. Tax exemption for parsons with in comes in the lower brackets has long foled a substantian part f the public into believing it is not taxed at all. It creates the idea that the cost of government is being borne by weal thy individuals and by big business. ,No idea, no belief could be less justi fied. There aren’t that many weal thy individuals—and there aren’t that many big businesses. The great i part of the cost of government—fed eral, state county and municipal—is said by the people who think they are tax exepmt. Instaed of paying their coney direct to the tax collector’s of fice, they pay it indirectly in higher rents, more expensive food, clothing and entertainment and everything else. That bii business which is so highly taxed, for example, is the busi ness which is o highly taxed, for example, i the busines you patronizle when you buy groeerie or shoes or in surance or transportation or some thing of the kind—and the cost of the commodity or service includes ..he taxxes the business pays In other words, the business imply act as the middleman—it collects money from you and passes it on to the govern ment Today the tax problem is an in tensely personal issue to every American. It stands in the way of / plovment, of wage increases, of in dustrial expaivsion. of productive investment. 1ft i-os a barrier tx> re covvjry. It is #oin# to become a bi# ger prblom every year until the mil lions of wage earners realize how vital its solution is t their well-being and their future. A STEP TOWARD FIRE PREVENTION! An announcement from the Na-j tional Board of Fire Underwriters, 85 John Street New York Coty. con tains an offer of great interest to progressive communities Experience has proven that the ex tensive use of fire drill towers by fir*' departments is extemely valua ble in training the personel to com bat actual blades- Many towns lack towel's, because of the substantial ex pense that must be undergone in destaging and building them- Real izing the need of protecting life and property to the utmost, W- E- Mal laHeu, General Manager of the Na tional Board, has agreed to furnish without charge to any city official plans for either a model tower of steel a 75- foot tower of heavy timb er or a 54-foot tower of heavy timber They may be built with CWA labor, end their cost to the community is thus the nienesft fraction of their value Fire chiefs and city officials in a number of communities have re ceived plans for towers, and they are now under construction. Youngstown. Ohio, for exairjple, has taken ad vantage of CWA work to erect a manumental drill tower out of local ly quarried stone- The bulk of cities, so far, are employing heavy timber construction Whatever the size or type of the tower, it marks a definite step for ward in the cause of fire control in the town building it- The opportuni ty should not be missed SCHOOL HEAD KILLS SELF AND SHOOTS 3 Charleston, W. Va—(CNS)—The State School flor Negro Deaf and ! Blind, was the scene of a double kill isg on Friday April 13, when the superintendent, James L. Hill drew a revolver and killed one of the faculty members, wounded three others and shot himself- The shooting occurred at the close of a talk by Hill while forty-two stud-m i and the school em ployees were at breakfast After the sh,;< tng in the dning room Hill left the sc.ne and iater was j found dead in a qrivate oifice across from the dining room, he having shot himself- The man he killed was W. B. Ellison Jr., instructor in tailoring “He just said a few words and pulled out a gun and began to oshoot Everybody began to run and hide ” said Felix Warren, instructor in barbering and one of the wounded The shooting brought disclosure by the State Board of Control that one account of tailor and barber shops operating by the school have been un der investigation Hill shot at Ellison, then fired down the table, witnesses said. The wound ed are Warren, Mrs- Fannie Herold, an instructor in the school for the deaf, and Helen Briggs, a cook- Wit nesses said Hill referred in his talk to the investigation of accounts and de fend his honesty. The deaf and blind school is on State property adjoining the West Virginia State College, at Institute, West Virginia of which John W- Davis ia president N. A. A. C. P. LAWYERS NOT TRYING TO GET SCOTTSBORO CASE New York, April 13—In a lettr to Samuel S. Leibowitz, chief attorney for the Scottsboro boys, WaltrWhite, secretary of the National Association for the Scottsboro boys Walter White, People,denied a statement in the New York Herald Tribune alleging that the prison warden at Birmimgh*)m Alabama is threatening certain Scoots boro defendents “wth dire consequenc es if they should not dispense with the services of the International Labor Defense, a Communist organ ization, and accept counsel offered by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-” “We sincerely trust.” wrote Mr White, “That in this you are not being made vidt^n. of propagande- We wish to state unequivocally that the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People has of fered no lawyers to the defendents since our withdrawal from the case in Janui-ary 1932, when the defendents chose to be defended by counsel re taned by the International Labor De fense- Thsi Association has had no I communication of any. nature what- j ever with the defendents since that date” “The only connection which this Asociation has had with the case,” continued Mr. White, “has beoen that of fulfilling to the letter a written agreement with the I- L. D., made on April2, 1933. This agreement pro vided that those persons who prefer contributing to the legal defense of the defendents through the N A. A C- P. could do so. Under this agree ment the N A. A. C. P. could do so. Under this agreement the N- A. A G. P. has raise , and expended to date through the I- L- D-, a total of $3,532 for investigations, traveling expenses of lawyers and investigators, tran script of record and the like ” LIBERIAN TRIBES STILL ENSLAVE AND PREY OF MITILARY RAIDS Vv ash:ng.i -n—(CfNS)—Development following the protracted delays in the negotiations between the American Finance Corporation, which is the fiscal concern of the Firestone rub ber plantations, and the Liberian Governm,:nt, reveal that Iaberian tribes of Hie hinderiand are now being attack by civilized Negroes ofMon rovia These tribes surrendered their arms to a L ;ague of Nations Commission in 1932. and this is a blow to the League, because Dr. Melvile D- MacKenzie, Hv' Scotch physician who headed the League commission in bhes ufmmerof 1932, persuaded the Kxoo tribes that justice would be done if they abandon ed revolution- Theirguns were sur rendered, but the one year truce has long expired and the tribesmen who were treated with white man’s justice are now helpless (before reprisals Dr- MacKenzie is said to be near heartbroken ov the betrayal of the Kroo chief whose confdt-nce he won Meanwhile, although the American State Department has gained the Firestone company’s ) accepts nee of the League plan fotr the rehabilitation of Liberia, Monrovia has posed a serie of modifications which are considered as completely undoing the plan These reservations were iterated in a formal document from the Liberian ' Government today, leaving the League 1 helpless either to solve the question or return it to the United States, ! which deposited it on the League's doorstep League officials it is claimed are hopeful that the three countries most interested will lind a means to put pressure on the Liberians. The dif ficulty here, it is said frankly, is that President Roosevelt recently de~ cared against crossing frontiers and intervening, and that this would bar the sending Of a \}arshi{p, which, those who know Monrovia declare, would alone le eloquent In the meantime the unarmed sav ages are the prey of a military mis sion sent by the Monrovian Govern ment, which, the League was inform ed through diplomatic quarters, claims the men forced labor as carriers and scatters their defenseless women asd children into the jungle MISS ANTON HUFF EN TERTAINS ROBINS’ Miss Anton Huff, president of the Robins Club of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Who entertained at Robin’s nest which was the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Leland,2824 No. 26th Street, proved herself to be a de lightful hostess. The most talked of event was held last Satuday even ing. Her guests were: Usher board of i abemacle Baptist Church of Coun cil Bluffs, the Young Peoples Demo cratic Club of Omaha, and Andy Kirk’s 12 Clouds of Joy, who were appearing at the beautiful Chermont Ball room Saturday and Sunday. They also played for the dance at the Dreamland. Monday night. It was a party long to be remebered by all who were fortunate engough to be present. Bridge was enjoyed early in the evening by those present; about 11 o’ , clock the card tables were removed and dancing was enjoyed to its high est. All kinds of music was to be had for Kirk’s boys all play the piano A delightful luncheon was served by Miss Huff and her assistants. There was not a doll moment at the party until the last geust had departed from the nest. Those from the Bluffs who were at the party : Miss Wilma Harrold. Miss Bessie Reynolds, Mr. Harold Reynolds, Mr. Henry Reynolds, Mr. Manson L. James, Mr. Irving T. j Clark. d£ Minneapolis- Mrs. Viola Reynolds. Mrs. Ida Giles and those from Omaha who attended the party were: Mr. J. D. Lewis, Mr. Eldridfee Cooper. Mr. W. Cooper Mrs. Lucille Edwards, Mr. asd Mrs. Chas. Pick ens, Mrs. Beatrice McRae. Mr. and Mrs. Mabel Fields, Etta Butler, Miss Lulu Green,BMiss Ruth Burleson. Mr. Argustine Mac.k Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bowden. Miss Stenola Williams, Mr. Alvin Goodwin, Mr. Gearld Phillips, Mr. Ernest Williams, Mr. Robert Floyd, Mr. sam Barton- Mr. George Barton, and Andy Kirk’s men were: Mr. Earl A. Thcfnpson, trumpet- M» Ted M- Brinson, banjo and guitar, Mr. John Harrington, sax and clari net. Mr. Henry Snodgrass, bus driver, and Mr. Benjamin Thigsen, drummer.