The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, March 23, 1935, Image 1
Hand-book Records Shows A. F. Of L. Discrimination • • V.W.V.V.V.V' .■.w.v.v.www. Per Copy VOLUME IX OMAHA,^NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1935 NUMBER TWO GREEN MURDERS WOMAN, COMMITS SUICIDE ^ V Vf V SC SC SC SC SC SCSCSC sc sc sc scscsc srsrsc jr \ jr \ ^ m ^ m -m ^ m ~ m -*’•* ^ jr * ^ ^ Tk JT % jr *A JT % $2,000,000 Paid Annually to Negro Workers 8,000 NEGROES WORK ON RELIEF PROJECTS There is no unwritten Law Against Hiring of Negro Workers— Most Labor Organizations Actually Place Ban on Negroes—I.W.W. One of Few Exceptions. Washington, D. C March 21—.Just why Is it that Negroes are not permitted to join the selected trade unions? This perplexing question has been definitely answered by a re lease, issued by the U. S. Department of Labor in 1929, but which is just being brought to light. The release shows the qualifications for membership in the se lected unions, and it is interesting to note the power of the word WHITE. Published By the U .S. Department1 of Labor, November, 1929 The bulletin follows: Name of Trade-Unions. Industrial Workers of the World.—I. W. W. American Federation of Rail road Workers Brotherhood of Railway Car men of America. Switchman’s Union of North America. Brotherhood of Dining Car Conductors. Order of Railroad Telegraph ers. Americdta. Train Dispatchers Association. Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers, and Helpers, International Brother hood of America. Grand International Bfother hood of Locomotive Engineers. Brotherhood of Railroad Train men. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers Railroad Yardmasters of North America. National Organizations of Masters, Mates, and Pilots of America. Neptune Association. Railway Mail Association Order of Railway Conckictors of America. National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association. Order of Sleeping Car Conduct ors National Federation of Rural Letter Carriers. American Wire Weavers’ Pro tective Association. Commercial Telegrapher’s Union of North America. Qualification For Membership —Selected Unions— “None but actual wageworkers .shall be members,” but “no working man or woman shall be excluded from membership be cause of CREED OR COLOR,” etc. “■ — “Any White person of good moral character under 65 years of age, etc, and who is employ ed as a wage worker on a rail road. ’ ’ “Any WHITE person between the ages of 16 and 65, etc., who believes in existence of a SU PREME BEING etc.” “Any WHITE male person of good moral character who is ac tually engaged in railroad yards, etc.” “Any applicant for member ship must be of the CAUCA SIAN race, etc.” “Any WHITE person of good moral character who is actually employed on a railroad etc.” “Any train dispatcher, WHITE of good moral character, etc.” “Any worker within the juris diction who has served for at least 30 days, WHITE, of good moral character, etc.” “No person shall become a member unless he is a WHITE inan„ 21 years o fage, etc.” ‘Any WHITE male between the ages of 18 and 45 who is sober and industrious ,trtc.” “Any worker who is within the jurisdiction, etc., WHITE, of good moral character, etc.” “Any male WHITE person of good moral character actually empolycd as general yardmast er etc.” “Any male WHITE person 16 rears of age and over having had three years’ experience, etc.” “Any WHITE per of good moral character who is license 1 as a master or mate, etc.” “Any regular male railway postal clerk, or certified sub stitute railway postal clerk of the UNITED * STATES RAIL WAY MAIL SERVICE who is of the CAUCASIAN race is eligible to membership.” “Any WHITE man shall be eligible to membership, etc.” “Only WHITE members are eligible to serve as delegates to conventions or hold office.” “Applicant for membership must be a WHITE male sober, etc.” “Only WHITE members erj eligible as delegates to conven tions or to hold offife.” Applicants for membership must be CHRISTIAN, WHITE, male, of the full age of 21, etc.” “Any WHITE person of good moral character, who Is ever 16 years of age, etc.” --- Elks Granted Stay in Three Cornered Law Suit Fight The old Columbia Hall located at 2420-22 Lake Street, known now as the Elks Building, was a three cor nered fight in Judge Hastings Court of Equity on Wednesday afternoon, March 20th at 2:00 P. M., with Atty. Milton R. Abrahams, representing Dr. A. Goldner, who owns a first mortgage on said property to the amount of $5,425. Atty. C. Southard representng Mr. Ben Handler and Sol Smith, the Title Holders, by virtue of deed and tax sale. Atty. R. L. Williams represent ing the Iorquois Lodge No. 92, who is now in possession of the Building. Atty. Ray Williams, asked for a continuance of the Trial, on the grounds that he did not know that the interest of the Iorquois Lodge, No. 92, was going to come before the Court for consideration. His under standing was that Atty. Abrahams and Southard was going to argue a motion on usury. At this point Atty. 1 Southard objected to the continuance i of the case. Atty. Abrahams, also asked for the attention of the Court and made the following suggestion: That if Mr. Williams was granted a continuance of his case which he de sires for filing, this petition would be about the same as the petition, he has filed in answer to our suit in this case. Atty. Southard agreed to stipulate that he would accept the said petition, that was filed in answer to the Peti tion of Atty. Abrahams for Dr. Gold ner suit. As a petition in answer to his suit, Atty. Ray Williams agreed to accept the stipulation and the court ruled they would proceed with the trial. During he process of the testimony presented by witnesses and the Attor neys, the following facts were brought before the Court: On March 1, 1927 a first mortgage for the sum of $6,700, drawing a rate of 6 per cent per annum was con veyed to the said Dr. A. Goldner’s wife and about $2,000 had been paid on principal. The Court allowed ji^lgment for the amount and interest up to date which made a total sum of $5,425. Atty. Southard immediately, (who repre (Continued on Page 2) -! Atlanta University Offers Scholarships Atlanta Georgia—March 21._ Special—A limited number of scholarships open to men and women who are eligible for grad uate study will be available for the academic year 1935-36 accord ing to an announcement by Presi dent John Hope of Atlanta Uni versity. Application for these scholarships, which are open to graduate students in the depart ments . of biology .chemistry, economies and business admini stration, eductaion, French, Eng lish, History, Mathematics, and Sociology, should be made to the Registrar, Atlanta Univeristy, At lanta. Georgia, before June 1. The Uifiversity this past year gave scholarships to 38 students who are now carrying on work in ten departments. These scholar ship students are graduates of 21 colleges throughout the country, and they come from 14 states. In dicative of the wide appeal of Atlanta. University to students who desire to engage in graduate study is the fact that the present student body is made up of gradiv ates of 24 American colleges. DR. WESLEY JONES Dr. Wesley Jones, NAACP Branch President, who presided at the Pick- j ens Mass Meeting. Dr. Jones says 15,000 members for the Omaha NAA CP, by June 1936 ,be solicitors, your full cooperation to make this drive successful. MISS ESTELLA ROBERTSON EMPLOYED AS TEACHER — Through the efforts of Miss Rachel Taylor, Executive Secretary of the North Side Y. W. C- A. and those of Mr. Cummin of the Vocational Depart ment of the Board of Education, one of our own young ladies has been em ployed as a teacher of shorthand and Typewriting at the Y. W. C- A. in the person of Miss Estella Robertson. M'.ss Robertson is the first young woman of our race to be employed by fche Board of Education for such a po sition. She is an expert typist and a very speedy shorthand writer. She is a College Graduate with an A. B. De gree and took a post course at the University of Omaha, College of Com merce and Finance, finishing the busi ness course in 1929. In the latter part of 1929 she was employed by Mr. Robert Smith, then Clerk of the Dis trict Court at the court house, she be ing the first Colored girl to hold a per manent position in the Court house and which position she held for five years, at the close of which time the offiee changed hands and she was thrown out of work. She has been employed at the Y. W. C- A. since February 1, 1935, and is doing splen did and noticeable work with her pu pils. . 4' y»l HELD FOR SHOOTING Callie Taylor, Negro, of 2406 Charles St., was bound over to district court Tuesday on a charge of shooting with intent to kill on complaint of Vera Walton, Negro, of 4827 S. 26th St., who was shot Feb. 17 in front of 402 N. 14th St. f— WORKING TOGETHER If YOU would have a paper WORTHWHILE, one that will give you the news when it is new, One that will give you service with a smile, One that will create senti ment and will chaimpion the cause of the race, let’s work together in •very phase of life, and especially, let us work together for the bene fit of OUR COMMUNITY PAPER, The Omaha Guide. PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION promptly, and we will be able to give *ou the service you desire. B. S. SUTTON, WE. 1750 Circulation Manager -—- Q PICKENS STRESSED NEED OF UNITY Speaker Thrills Audience of 350; Flays “Beastly Lynching” By John Benj. Horton, Jr. Branch Secretary At a mammoth mass meeting of the National Association Sunday after noon March 17th, Bethel A. M. E. Church, 2430 Franklin Street, Dean William Pickens, Field Secretary for the National Assn, for the Advance ment of Colored People, thrilled his 350 interested listeners, particularly so when he said: “There are certain fundamental interests upon which all of us stand, and they are namely: that of protecting our rights as citi zens before the courts and otherwise. And at a time of emergency all of us are upon an equal basis. In his capacity as guest speaker of the afternoon for our local branch Mr. Pickens began first by stressing the loyalty and patriotism of the past and present National heads of the NAACP. In part, the speaker said: “The Anglo-Saxon and Jewish people have helped us and are still helping us, but we’ve got to win this battle ourselves”. “Can’t anybody do any thing for the Negro if you can’t make him do anything for himself.” The speaker appealed to hi3 aud ience to show strength and power. Referring to the recent “Crumbley Levin” police assault case, Dean Pick ens had this to say: “I don’t know and don’t care about the character of any Negro if he is beat up without provocation”. “Such a thing as this is wrong and is a travesty upon jus tice.” Mr. Pickens stressed several types | of Negroes who might well change their present course of action. One was the “deceptive Negro” who has his “individual problems”; but should something fierce break out then the “Big Negro” will find himself on the same plane as “John Henry from Hogan’s Alley.” Further stressing our rights as citizens of a free coun try the speaker said: “The problems of the rights to vote and the protection before he courts will always be the problems of the group.” “And the mark and stature of men to be re spected in this country is what we want in America.” Says Pickens further: “There is a second type of Negro in America who possesses an “inferiority complex” you know that which we think we can’t do.” Says the speaker: “Give me 1500 organized people and I can achieve more than 15,000,000 disorganized people.” “You know that the so-called ‘inferiority complex’ was implanted and inculcated by the opposite race”. The speaker cited progress of the NAACP on its help in reducing lynch ings in America from 100 per year te 10 per year. The speaker appeal ed for at least 500 organized members of the NAACP for Omaha by saying thd£ “500 poor Negroes can’t be beat in a lifetime.” The speaker hinted at the passage of the Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynch Bill” at the present session of Con gress and appealed to each Negro in Omaha to write a personal latter to his or to her Representative in Con gress and to Pres. Roosevelt, and es timated that ‘Lynching may be possi bly’ broken up in America in the next 10 years.” The Dean emphasized the breaking up of segration and every thing else even after we’ve secured “the right to live in this land.” The Field Secretary of the NAACP flayed the institution of lynching as the “low down and perverted brain child of the beastly lyncher”. Mr. Pickens related, easually, that “there REJECTS GREEN FOR FORMER HUSBAND -( is no such thing as an incorruptible court.” It is said that between 25 and 30 new members were secured at this meeting. Dr Wesley Jones, President of the local branch, introduced the speaker of the evening. NEUTRAL ZONE DECLARED BUT MUSSOLINI CONTINUES MOBILIZATION AGAINST ABYSSINIA Rome, Italy—CNA—A neutral zone along the Italian Somaliland Abyssinia frontier has been agreed to here by representatives of both countries. However, this measure was frankly admitted to be purely temporary, pending fur ther negotations. That the danger of Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia was in no way lessened was evidenced by new shipments of Italian troops to Africa. The transport ships, Campiloglio and Bevedere, left Messina and Syracuse for East Africa early this week. Two thousand men, 135 officers and 165 horses and mules, in addition to vast quantities of munitions, were aboard the steamers. Two ships, Abazia and Cesare Baptist, landed in Messina and Syracuse, respectively, for troops and war cargoes. Several contingents of engine ers and two batteries of the 24th artillery have arrived in Messina to embark on the Gange. In Mussolini’s attempt to seize Abyssinia will meet with oppo sition from Japanese financial circles. Japanese capital fears the loss of its investment in Aby inia and surrounding countries if Musolini is victorious. Japanese imperialism has large land concessions for the growing of cotton and has succeeded in finding a ready market for its goods there. They have also sue-! ceeded in colonizing the British colony of Keyna to the south of; Abyssinia. STARVES SHARECROPPERS CHILDREN SUCKLE FROM DOGS. New York—CNA—Negro and white shareeropperes in the South are so poor that their half-starved babies frequently suckle from the tits of dogs, according to a series of articles by Erskine Cald well, white, in last weeks’ New York Post. Caldwell is a noted writer of Georgia, who has for many years investigated the conditions of Negro and white workers and farmers in the South. JOHN JACKSON CHARGED WITH RECKLESS DRIVING Marie Brown, white, 64, of 508 N. 21st Street, suffered body bruises and possible rib fractures when the taxi in which she was riding collided with a car driven by John Jackson, Negro, 2712 Parker Street. Both Jackson and Clyde Archer, white, 2021 Howard Street, dniver of the cab, were booked on charges of reckless driving. i Sunday Morning, March 17, Joe Green, 2885 Ohio Street, shot and killed Marie Thomas, 34, at the home of Mrs. Thomas’ husband, Hershel Thomas, 1204^ N. 24th Street. Green then shot himself through the right temple. He died at 4:45 Sunday after noon in Lord Lister Hospital. Thomas told the police that he and Green had each been husband of the woman, and that she had left Green Sunday morning and had come to him and asked him to take her back. Green followed Marie to the Thomas home and Thomas, fearng a quarrel, went out to call the police. While he was out, the shooting occurred. It was first reported that the wo man was white, but the County Coro ner, Mr. Paul Steinwinder, informed the Acting Editor of the Omaha Guide, Mr. C. C. Galloway, that she was not. -The bodies were taken to Myers' Funeral Home. AUTOMOBILE SERVICE ASSOCIATION PLANNED Mr. Milton Wilson and Mr. Bob Bulger, of the Bulger Texaco Service Station, 30th and Wirt Streets, are drawing up plans for the formation of an automobile service association. The association w^ll be organized so that motorists of this community may enjoy the privilege of year round auto mobile service at the very smallest ex pense. The Bulger Texaco Service Station offers twenty-four hour service the year round, including tow-in, tire and battery service. This service will be available to members of the associa tion anywhere within the city limits, and the membership fee is indeed small. You will read more of this very worthwhile venture in future issues of this paper. However, you may be further and more fully informed by calling JAckson 8052. HUNDREDS AT DANCE ASK SUPREME COURT TO FREE SCOTTSBORO BOYS. New York—Five Hundred and thirty-two people attending a Scottsboro Ball here last week signed post cards demanding that the U. S. Supreme Court reverse the sentence of death against the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Her ndon. The call was held under the auspices of the National Com mittee for the Defense of Politi cal prisoners. The appeals of Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, two of the Scottsboro boys, were argued in the Supreme Court last month, but no decision has been handed down. The appeal of Angelo Herndon, young Negro worker, sentenced to 18 to 20 years on the chain gang in Georgia for lading a jobless demonstration, will be heard by the Supreme Court this month. BREAKING UP HOUSE KEEPING. Mr. R. M. ‘Bob’ Tyson, 5018 Western Avenue, is breaking up house-keeping and has a number of useful pieces of household furniture for sale at a bar gain. Must vacate premises by Tues day, March 26. If interested, call WA. 1829. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY IS OFFERIHfi FREE SCHOLARSHIPS