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VOLUME IX OMAHA,^NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1935 NUMBER TWO
GREEN MURDERS WOMAN, COMMITS SUICIDE
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$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.”
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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
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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.
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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
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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