N. T. State Probes
.Ratfe Discrimination
New York. Dec. 23 (ANP)—
•tlored citiEP’ s themselves d1 n t
always suspect how severely they
saffar from racial discrim nation
even in supposedly liberal eo. i
munitiea, it is being revealed in
the publio hearings now being h 11
by the New York Sta e Commis
sion on the Condition of the Urlwn
tHlered Population. The New York
City hearing, which opened on De
cember 1811s to carry through the
greater part of the current week
rev ealed even more damning testi
many. Open violation of the vari
ous “equal rights’’ laws of the
state have been reported and have
been proved.
Ohk f ameng the violations is
that of the law regarding equal
employment opportune ies by pub
1 i.» utilities, on public works con
tracts or in civil service. A seri
ous housing scarcity wi'h conse
quent over crowding and exorbit
ant rentals have already been pro
ved. Pernicious racial practices by
departmental superiors and heads
in the public service have been un
covered, as for instance when it
was found that Negro janitors in
the State Capitol buildings were
receiving $800 a year less than
their white fellow janitors.
The Commission, created by the
I egislature at last year's sess’on.
began it« work in September and
has until March 1st to conclude
its preliminary investigation and
report. While a small staff of field
workers has been busy for the past
two months searching avai'jabie
documents and records through
out the state, open hearings have
been held in Albany, Buffalo, Nas
sau, Westchester and Queens coun
ties and with the four days hear
ing in New York City.
unairman naroia k. nerman.
Assemblyman from Nassau Coun
ty, presided a*t the hearings assist
ed by the vice chairman, William
T. Andrews, colored representative
from the 2tst Assembly Dis’ricit..
Lester B. Granger is executive di
rector; Dr. Dean S. Yarbrough is
Research Director and Professor
lewis Meyers of City College of
New York is Legal Counsel.
Dayton Woman SpHs.
Valuable Property
Dayton. 0., Dec. 23 (ANP—0n»
of the largest real estate trans
actions ever negotiated in this city
h.v a colored person was consum
mated last week with the reported
side of valuable frontage on West
Sixth street, across from the new
l'«iion sta*)>n—tly Mrs. Marion
Anderson, widely known business
woman to Robert D. Patterson,
•millionaire coal operator. The re
p rted oonsideratlon was in excess
of $50 000.
Mrs. Anderson was reputedly
l"ft close to a quarter of a million
by her first husband and within
the past ten years by shrewd busi
ness methods, is reported to have
added $100.00 to her fortune. Ac
tive in social welfare and civic
circles, Mis. Anderson is chairman
of th* Weat=ide day Nursery,
which, through i .• -5^ is debt
free; acti v n, the
C< mmaaitg Che. drive and in the
local TWCA, chairman of the
Needlework Guile! and a prominent
Episcopalian. She is called by her
friends "Dayton’s first citizen.’’
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WPA Survey Shows .
Illiteracy Among So.
Carolina Negroes
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Washington. D. C., Dec. 23
|(ANP)—A recent report submit
ted here to the Education Division
of he Works Progress Administra
tion by Lawrence M. Pinckney,
t-'outh Carolina State Administra
tor shows appalling illiteracy
among the Negroes of the state
who ha'e been consls’ently denied
thr fundamentals cf od"cation by
lack of schools and training and
by the inequalities of State legis
lated funds as between white and
Negro school children.
According to the report of State
! Administrator Pinckney, a survey
of 51.006 Negro homes in South
I Carolina made in the fall of 1935
revealed that 27,916 mothers and
fathers could not read, 28.-307 could
net write, and 7.8C9 children bx
tween the ages of six and fourteen
years were out of school. This in
formation, brought up to date by
a later house canvass by teachers,
is the basis upon which the presc nt
program has been worked out.
At present the WPA program
employs a total of 242 teachers to
conduct 953 classes. The total num
ber of enroliees is 17, 956, while
the number participating in relat
ed activities s approximately 26.
500. More than 10,000 persons have
been taught to read and write.
The program now includes liter
acy classes, general adult educa
tion. nursery school, classes in
agriculture subjects, and classes
in homemaking. In addition, all
students are given basic instruc
tion in health and sanitation, re
creation, and the use of library
facilities.
As a result of this work, Mr.
Pinckney reports, many pupils, old
and young, who were illiterate
three or four year's ago are now
doing work of fourth and fifth
grade levels, and the beginners of
a year ago are writing simple let
ters and reading simple materials
of first and second grade levels.
At the same time there has been
created within the parents the de
[ sire not only to better their chil
dren’s condition, but their own as
well.
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Relief Clients Happy
As Jobs Open To Help
Dispel Their Gloom
Cleveland, Dec. 23 (By Clarence
L. Simmons for ANP)—A goodly
number of Cleveland’s 67.000 re
lief clients are happy for word
from Washington ard Columbus
arsures them that the WPA is
sending more than 5,000 workers
hack to work, backed up by the
word “immediately’1 from the au
thor rties.
At the same time the Bell Tele
phone company announces that
the company contemplates spend
ing $7,000,000 here in 1938. This is
good news to the residents of Ohio
•nd Greater Cleveland in general,
but it is non-effective to Negroes
since the Bell Telephone company
doesn’t hire Negroes in Ohio state.
Announcement from Columbus
notified local authorises to start
making assignments of new work
ers ‘‘at once’’ to the WPA. So far
no “quota" has been set for Cleve
land. It also stated that the as
signments would be flexible and
.that Clevelanders may be sure of
getting their share of employment,
j More than 3,246 men anl women
| awaiting assignment on existing
IW PA projects were replaced Thurs
| day. After this replacement there
I were about 2.600 others eligible tor
|WFA work and will be given jobs
,as soon as possible,
A large number of Negro work
ers who have been on the “wait
ing” lists have been placed urd a
number of them who had been em
ployed and laid off some months
fcgo, have new assignments- The
first to go to work were those who
[Were in immediate need.
I It is also a blessing to the re
lief agencies who were being work
od night and day in their efforts to
administer aid to new applicants.
Reports show that more than
,1,000 persons were seeking relief
! who had been working in private
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industries an<i had been laid off
with the new business slump in
Cleveland. In an effort to meet
the demands of the relief situation
the mayor had ordered city service
;men from their jobs so as to make
up the amount necessay to carry
the relief load.
This move on the part of the lo
cal administration was not the
wisest thing to do. for the city em
ployees were barely getting their
pay as it was and as soon as they
were laid off, many of them rushed
the reiief windows seeking aid.
Colonel Joseph II. Alexander,
county director of WPA. asserted
that “there are enough vacancies
existing in projects already under
way to absorb many workers, ex
cept for white collar workers who
number about 20 per cent of the
total eligible. By the first of the
year we expect to have ample new
projects authorized.”
An all-time record number of
direct relief appliiations was re
ceived here Tuesday. The total was
35G, according to reports. The
number is rapidly increasing. A
weekly record of 1,152 was set
Inst week. About 37*4 per cent of
these new applications were color
ed citizens.
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ance record. He has not missed a
roll call on any school day during
the last nine years.
When lit le Ruth Clark, nine
years ago, became six she started
going to the Jlones school and “M >
jor” decided too accompany her
and has been coming ever sinco.
Two years ago, when Ruth finishes!
seventh grnde. sha wa" enrolled
at the Austin high schooi, several
miles away; but “Major’’ still in
terested in education and th? chd
dren all of whom (teachers in
cluded) are kind t.o him, comes
j clone to school .“Major does not
attempt to recite, but takes a posi
| ion near the large warm stove.
| until peieess when he goes out to
romp and play with the children.’’
‘‘Co not know what we would do
now without Major,’’ said M'as
V.vian Bradley, principal of the
Jones school. ‘ Major” belongs to
Mr. Henry Clark of Moody street.
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