FORCE CAFE TO EMPLOY NEGRO HE R . 'r 5© Per Copy • I VolVin. Omaha, Nebraska. Saturday, Sept. 22, 1934 Number Thirty-One • J g * NRA HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK A RESIGNATION ACCEPTED: NRA has aocepted the resignation jobmitted in a body by the Retail Fuel akotJi. Oliver was turning north on 30th St., at Bedford, .. (Continued on Page 5) | WHITE OR COLORED? DOCTORS CAN'T DECIDE fc White or colored? Nurses and physicians at General Hospital are Mfcing themselves this question as they stare spec ulatively at tim tiny bit ol humanity which kicks s~'— — * # * _ • • • • • f N —Prf BnWUr Phot*. about on a bed in the white children's ward. The infant, which is about three days old, wad left on the doorstep of a negro living m Park Avenue. * * JUMBL. ♦"—■ 1 1__ ■ I PUZZLING FREAK GF BIRTH, IS BABY WHITE BR NEGRO DOCTORS CANT DECIDE, AND FOUNDLING MAY GO THROUGH LIFE UNDER ‘FALSE COLOR’ Memphis, Term.—.Police are asking a mother to come forward and ident ify a girl abandoned on a .Negro’s door setp on Sunday Aug. 19, so the race of the child can be determined Nurses and physicians at General Hospital cannot tell whether the child is white or colored and are puzzled concerning its future. It is less than a week old. Will it be brought up as a Negro or a white child. Doctors and scientists shook their heads, admitting that there was no no way of determining the race of the : ' infant- Blood tests, hair examina ■ tions and thee more homely method of I the finger nail and spinal examina-; ! lion will fail to bring a definite con-: elusion, they say. There is a small c ntingent, however, which claims that the race can be dete ruined. “The child has pink finger nails,” said a nurse at General Hospital. ‘All Negro babes have blue nails, dt has a distinct arch to its foot, something iare among Negro children.” “There’s is absolutely no way of Continued on page 2 NEGRO LAWYER TO DEFEND WHITE WOMAN IN GEORGIA ' l ATLANTA, Ga—(CNA) For the first time in the history of the South a Negro lawyer will appear in defense of a white woman when John H. Greer, Atlanta attorney, defends Mrs. Leah and Annie Mae Leathers, two white workers arrested for their part in the textile strike. The women, who are sisters, have been employed by the Piedmont mill in Egan, Ga. They were arrested September 6 while distributing lit erature to other workers. They are held in $5,000 bail Assistant solicitor John H- Hudson, who prosecuted the case of Angelo Herndon, is himself preparing the in dictment against Mrs Young and Miss Leathers. Greer was one of the defense at torneys in the Herndon case. With him in his defense of the white wo men will be Louis Tatham, Leal white attorney. SANBIBA1E FOR U. S. SENATE QUITTED 8F RIOT GHSR6E NORFOLK, Va—(CNA) Alexand er Wright, Negro dock worker and Communist candidate for U. S. Sen ator, was acquitted last week of a charge of “inciting to riot,” in the court of Judge M. Christan. Wrivt has been active in organ 'iation ef Negro and white longshore men here- State witnesses in court said that he had “told the workers to petition the government for relief an to organise in defense of their rights.” When faced wain this accusation, Wright said in court. “Would it please yon better if I had told the workers to starve quietly?” When the case was dismissed, Ne | gro and white workers whe hr,d thronged the court room carried Wright outside and held a victory meeting before the court house. mu WOMAN SENDS S50 FCR WORK OF N, A. A. G. P. NEW YORK, Sept. 14—Mrs. Mary V. V. Blanchard of Carmel, Calif-, has just sent her check for $50 to Miss Mary White Ovington, treasurer, Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People She writes, “Enclosing please find my check for $50 to be used in the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People I am doubling my yearly subscription —not because my income is more—it is less than before—but my interest in your work is greater each year, and tl wish most sincerely that J could do something really worth while and help you carry on this fine work Perhaps some day I can do more.” NESRO WOMAN TO RUN FOR MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE BOSTON, Mass.—(CNS) A Negro woman will run for the first time this fall, when Mrs. Mary E. Moore opens her campaign for a seat in the House of Representatives- Mrs. Moore has been nominated by the Communist party. Horace Riley, another Negro, has been named by the Communist party as its candidate for Lieutenant- Gov ernor. Mrs. Moore organized the first neighborhood Ssbotytr^oro defense club in Boston. She was a delegate of the Boston workers to the Scotts 'horo defense march to Washington in 1932. tin February of this year, she Was arrested for her part in the picketing of Boston chain stores—a struggle which resulted in three Ne gro men being placed in various chain stores to train as managers. CLEVELAND GIVES $100 TO N A A C P ANNIVERSARY FUND NEW YORK, Sept. 19—The 25th anniversary campaign fund for the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People was swelled this week by a contribution of $100 from the Cleveland, Ohio branch. This is the first large sum received in the fall drive, and is the result of branch activity during the “slow” summer months. The money was contributed by nearly sixty clubs, churches, as sociations and in|davd|ialB soiliciteid members of the Cleveland branch. MissL. Pearl Mitchell is president of the branch. j Force Cafeteria To Hire Colored Help NEW YORK—(ONA) “We do not discriminate against Negro help.” ILfs sign, prominently displayed last week in the window of the Em pire Cafeteria at 125th Street and I. mnox Avenue, symbolized the vic torious end of a sharp fight by mil itant Negro and white workers to force this cafeteria to hire Negroes Four Negro workers have gone to work at the Empire, in accordance with the agreement worked out be tween the cafeteria management, the League of Struggle for Negro rights, the Young Liberators, and the Food Workers Industrial Union. The agreement ptrovides for t’.e employment of one Negro counter man and three floor workers, one of them to be a woman; no victimisa tion of the white workers already on the job in the cafeteria; and the with drawal of all charges against the Ne groes and whites arrested during the picketing. The Negro workers are to receive the same pay and work the same hours as the whites in simil ar positions. The management has agreed that in the future, there is to be no discrimination of any sort a gainst Negro help or Negro custom ers. Plan to Spread Fight Plans are now under way for a broad conference to spread the fight to other resturants, stores and factor ies. The League of Struggle for Ne grro rights, the Young Liberators, and the Cafeteria Workers Union—(sec tion of Food Workers Industrial Un ion) have issued a joint call to such a conference, to be held Saturday, Sept. 29 at 2 p- m. The conference committee, with headquarters at 119 West 135th Street, urges all organi zations to elect delegates. The fight to force the Empire Cafe to hire Negroes was conducted by means of mass picketing by Negroes and whites, by boycott on the part of neighborhood working class patrons; by street meetings and by mass dem onstrations An important f Jeter in winnijig the victory was the organized boy cott by the workers of the Home relief Bureau Employees Association I of Precinct 28, at 124th Street. The association contains several hundred employees, the majority white, The action of the association directly con tradicted the argument of the cafet eria management, that it “had no objections to hiring Negroes as dish washers and porters,. but white pat rons object to see them act as counter men and bus boys. \ ■ Thu struggle was started by the : Young Liberators, youth section of the League of Struggle for Negro rights, which sent a delegation to the cafeteria management demanding that Negroes be employed as counter men and bus boys. The manage ment refused, sayng that it would prefer not to have any Negro patrems at all. Arrest Angelo Hemden’s Brother The Young Liberators then began to picket the cafeteria. Milton Hern dan 25 year old brother of Angelo Herndon, whose sentence to the Geor-1 gia chain gang has aroused world- j wide protest, was arrested Aug. 29, j and again on September 1, the second time together with three other Ne groes and two whites A mass meeting attended by over 2,000 Negro and white workers was held before the cafeteria on the night j of September 5. The meeting stood, firm in spite of the attacks of 24 j patrolmen and three sergeants, who! swung clubs wildly and trampled a Negro woman. Mayor Asks For Empolymenf of Two Colored Girl Typists Mayor Roy N. Towl. head of the city health department, has required the FERA to give the above depart ment some assistance in compiling records of births and deaths. Six typists will be employed in this work and the mayor has asked that two of this number be colored girls. Dr. Mil lard Langfeld, director of Public Health, is supervisor of the work, and is glad to cooperate by employ ng colored help where possible. HAPPY HOUR BRIDGE CLUB HOLD DELIGHTFUL PICNIC The Happy Hour Bridge club gave' a delightful picnic Sunday evening j Sept. 16 at Riverview park. 26 mem bers and guests were present. A wonderful dinner was served. After which the party went to the home of Mrs- Eva Phillips and spent the evening playing bridge. Everyone present conceded it a most pleasant day. i Mrs- Mattie Payton—Pres. Mrs. E. Levison—Reporter LANGSTON HUGHES IN LiST OF 24 MOST INTERESTING MEN’ NEW YORK—(CNA) Langston Hughes, Negro poet and novelist, and President of the League of Straggle for Negro Rights, is among the 25 men and women selected by Dr. Char les A. Beard, outstanding American historian as ‘ithe most interesting Americans.” Dr. Beard is the anther of “The Rise of American Civilization,” “The American Leviathan,” “Economic In terpretation of the Constitution,” and many other works.. OHIO N. A. A. G. P. BRANCHES TO CONFER AT CANTON OCT. 6 Canton, O. Sept 16—The fifth an nual convention of the Ohio Confer ence of Benches of the National As sociation for the Advancement of i Colored People will be held here October 6 - 7, at the St. James A- M. B- Church, Thirteenth ar.d Willet St. S. E Arrangements for the confer ence are being perfected by the Can ton branch. C. E. Dickinson is pres ident of the conference ' and Miss Geraldine Freeman, secretary. NEGRO FACES FANTASTIC RAPE CHARGE HATFOED, Conn—(CNA) Clif ford Horton, 23 year old Negro farm hand, recently of Americas, Ga., is in jail here on a charge of “rape.” A transcript of the hearing held in tho Hartford police station r* veals, according to investigators of the In ternational Labor Defense, no evi dence against Horton, but only a fan tastic web of lies spun by a white wo man of dubious character. The white woman—whose name the police are withholding—claims that a Negro, whom she later “identified” as Horton, held a gun on her and her husband as they lay in bed- The Ne gro—according to the woman’s story —forced the couple to turn over 30 ents m cash, and then proceed to rape the woman in a standing posi tion. Horton Beaten by Police So badly was Horton beaten dur ing the third degree he received at the police station, that he had to be sent to the hospital for treatment be fore being sent to jail. Throughout the third-degree Horton steadfast | maintained his innocence. A mass movement is under way i for the defense of Horton. The Lea-, gue of Strugg'e for Negro Rights, the International Labor Defense, and | the Neg'ro Republican Club have i pledge'! their efforts to free him. The leaders of the Socialist Party and the N.. A. A. C.. P. here have refused to cooperate, and an appeal will be made to the membership of these orgniza i tions to enter into the defense move ment WILL TEH. OF THE STRUGGLE (f THE IINEMPIGYER HE GRil OF THF SnMTH IN TRYING TB UNITE The scheduled appearance in Omaha on the 26th, of Angelo Herndon, young Negro organizer of the un employed, under sentence of twenty yea’-s on the Geo^ga chain gang for his leadership of the unemployed, has C"onsed such interest, that the com mittee in charge of the meeting has cancelled arrangements for the Work ers Cultural Center, orginally engag ed, and has taken a larger hall, the Dreamland, at 2223 No. 24th St., for the evening of the meeting. Herndon will tell of the struggles of the southern unemployed to organ ize for conditions, of the arrest of the leaders under an obsolete law, held over from the days of slavery, and of the conduct of tho case by the In ternational Labor Defense Herndon’s trip te New York from Atlanta, when he had been released on $16,000 cash bail raised on a na tionwire call, is a dramatic story in itself. Although he had to be tak en by a circuitous route to avoid threatened attacks by the Ku Klux Klan, his trip amounted to a trium phal procession, met at everry sta tion by crowds of cheering workers, who recognize in his release on bail tho first victory n the fght for his freedom Tho Georgia Supreme Court has denied him a new trial, and the inter national Labor Defense is now taking his case, and that of the framed Scot tsboro boys, before the United States Supreme Court. With Herndon on tour are Richard B. Moore, nationally famous Negro speaker, and Ida Norris, mother of one »f the Scottsboro boys. FOUR NEGROES IN WORKERS’ DELESAiON TO SOVIET UNION NEW YORK—(CNS) At least four of the 16 workers who will gr. to the Soviet Union in October as an Am erican wankers’ delegation, will be Negroes, according to an announce ment made here this week by the national headquarters of the Friends of the Soviet Union, at 80 East 11th Street. All de legates are being elected dir ctly by the workers, chiefly through local trade unions. The Friends of the Soviet Union, which is arranging the trip, has asked for a Nc„iti steel worker from Buffalo; a Negro wo ran packing house worker from Chi cago: and a Negro worker f; Now York City who will go as official re presentative of the League of Strug gle for Negro rights The group, which leaves New York the middle of October, will a -rive in Moscow in time for the celebration on November 7 of she seventeenth an niversary cf the Russian Revolution, i They will then tour the Soviet Union for a* least a month. Throughout their f lay they will be the guest of .e Russian trade unions. LOUP CITY CASE OS TRIAL The seven defendants in the case of the Loop City attack, are now on trial, the selection of the jury having begun Wednesday. These seven workers and farmers were arreted after they had been attack by a local fascist gang led by city and onnty officials- They were meeting to pro test against low wages and un. ani tary working conditions of chicken pickers in Ravenna Creamery. Among tha defendants ore dother Bloor, famous workers and farmers leader, and Flycd Booth, young Ne gro organizer of the unemployed in Central Nebraska. The Ir iemation* al Labor Defense is handling the asa with I- L. D. attorneys Bertha! 1, from Chicago, and Hansen from Omaha in charge of the defense. L K. 0. MQRABCIS TO FLAY HOUSE OF BAVIO AT LEAGUE PARK SUMY, SEPT. 23