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Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874.__Saturday, July 15, 1SW_ Number 16
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12 Pages In this Edition -New features, Pictures,"™™^"*
from the Workman
to the Governor
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State House, Lincoln, Nebr.,
Honorable Governor:
As labor is fast aproaching a show
down with the packing trusts due to
the fact that the packing trusts, name
ly: Armour, Cudahy, Wilson and Swiftl
are refusing to recognize their employ
ee’s rights under the {National Labor
Relations Act., and by so doing they are
denying their employees the right of
collective bargaining, guaranteed to
them by law.
In calling this matter to your
..—- aittention. we wish to noint nnt
“WHY NOT COME DOWN RIGHT NOW” - GARNER
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TREATS N EGROES LIKE HITLER TREATS JEWS
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Richmond, Va., July 13— The
American Medical Association
was denounced here before the
thirtieth annual conference of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People as
an organized group of American
medical men that has “demonstra
ted as much interest in the health
of the Negro as Hitler hag in the
health of the Jew.”
The statement wa,5 made by Dr.
Louis T. Wright, of New York,
chairman of the NAACP.’s nation
al board of directors in am address
before the conference Thursday.
June 29.
Speaking on public health, and
tho relationship of the Wagner
Health bill to the welfare of the
Negro people as a whole, Dr.
Wright spotlighted the AMA. as
an organization whose policy of
excluding Negro physician in the
South has resulted “in the unwar
ranted deaths of thousands of per
sons whose color happened to be
black.”
Making it clear that the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People supports
the Wagner health bill, with am
endments safe-guarding the rights
of Negro physicians, nurses, tech
nicians and the race as a whole,
Hr. Wright said:
“We want these safeguards in
the law, as we do not want to
leave our fate in the hands of the
American Medical Association.
Great tribute is due the AMA. for
its fight to protect the public a
gainst fraudulent claims for drugs
and foods, and for its efforts to
educate tlhe public on matter® re
lating to health, but it has been,
during the past few years, been
promoting from a mild academic
body into a powerful political or-^
ganizatdon.
“Although a Negro, I am speak
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headline below
POST U. S. CIVII, SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS
Washington, D. C. July 12 (ANP
Examinations announced this week
by the U. S. Civil Service Comm
ission and application deadline
dates, are as follows: Principal
Silverculturist, $5,600 a year; Sen
ior Silverculturist, $4,600 a year;
Silverculturist, $3,800 •>. year; As
sociate Silverculturist, $3,200 a
year and Assistant Silverculturist
$2,600 a year. Application dead
line dates, July 24-27, for Bureau
of Plant Industry and Forest Ser
vice, Department of Agriculture.
CTnief Occupational Anerpy Aid
(Arts and Crafts), $2,300 a year,
St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Depart
ment of Interior, Washington, ap
plicatioa deadline, July 24-27; Sen
ior Architect, $4,600 a year; Arch
itect, $3,800 a year; Associate Ar
chitect, $3,200 a year and Assist
ant Architect, $2,600 a year, appli
cation deadline, July 24-27. Full
information concerning examin
ations may be obtained from your
local postmaster. r.
Negro Girl Makes Back
ward Parachute Leap
MRS.=
ROOSEVELT
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Collapses; Dies .
While Walking
with Police
While walking with two detec
tives Friday night, Andrew Reed,
45, of 2223 North 24th street,
collapsed and died later at a hos
pital.
Detectives Dudley and Birch,
had asked Reed about a $4 no
fund check. He explained he had
nade it good and would accom
pany them to the store which
cashed it. But he slumped to the
sidewalk with a heat attack be
fore arriving at the store. The
body was taken to the Myers
Mortuary. He was the son of a
respectable famiky. He w^as the
son of Mrs. Anna Reed. Mr. Reed
was at one time an undertaker.
He was also a graduate from an
Omaha school.
Probe Chicago’s
Crowded Schools
Chicago, June 12 (CNA)—Sixty
five per cent more Negro children
aro attending public schools on the
near South Side than in 1929, Don
C. Rogers, director of the Board
of Education’s bureau of research
and building survey, told a City
Council subcommittee this week.
The subcommittee of the schools
Fire and Civil Service Committee
of the Council had met for hear
ing on a resolution introduced by
Alderman Earl B. Dickerson of
the 2nd Ward, calling for an in
vestigation into overcrowding and
tho use of the double shift sys
tem in schools of the city’s Negro
section.
Regers said that many South
Side Negro children were receiving
only a half-day’s instruction. “Ten
years ago,” he said, “these schools
had a total membership of 22,291
they now have a membership of
■i.”
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j .by FLOYD J. CALVIN
We would l'ke to get in a word
about Mrs. Roosevelt before par
tisan politics rises up to cast a pall
over her qualities as a great wo
man and a truly remarkable hu
man being.
It was the Marian Anderson in
cident that served to dramatize
for Negroes the real greatnes of
Mrs. Roosevelt; but long before
the D. A. R. revealed its intoler
ant streak, Negroes who are in
formed on what is going on in
Washington and knew that
Mrs. Roosevelt was one of the main
forces for progress in the New
Deal.
In order to guage readily the
importance of Mrs. Roosevelt’s
personality and activity to the pub
lic and to the Negro, think ef some
of the other First Ladies of the
land. Few if any of them have
been dynamic in their attitude on
any question, as is Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt. The other First Lad
ies have been ladies, but they have
not used to the full their opportu
nity to influence the direction of
public policy in America. Few if
any of them ever took a stand
that might be termed critical of
public policy. But Mrs. Roosevelt
has done this, fearlessly, and un
hesitatingly. She has, seemingly,
cared nothing for what others
thought of her ideas; she has
simply dpne her own thinking,
boldly and clearly. She has not
been afraid to take sides with the
underprivileged; she has not been
afraid to stand on the side of right
when that side meant standing
with colored people. She has not
been afraid that her position of
First Lady would be sullied or
contaminated by being fair and
Just to Negroes.
We think the example set by
Mrs. Roosevelt will influence per
sons high in public life for many
years to come. Heretofore there
have been many public officials
who, personally, might have been
disposed to do the right and fair
thing, but they thoulght they
could not afford to do it. Mrs.
Roosevelt has come right out and
shown the public that even the
President’s wife, white woman
though she is, can stand up and be
fair and just to all, regardless of
race, and not fear political conse
SjDORGTHY DARBY IN THRILL
ING PARACHUTE JUMP AT
CHATTANOOGA
Chattanooga, July 12 (ANP)
A feature of the July Third cele
[ bration and aviation program held
here was a thrilling stunt in
whiefa Dorothy Darby, famous lic
ensed pilot and parachutist of De.
troit, made a backward parachute
leap from a plane a mile high, and ;
landed in the Tei;.n;syo< River. Ar- j
rang 'ments for the pw ibition were l
made by Miss Darby’s New York I
manager, Victor H. Green, in coop
eration with local sponsors of the !
event. 1
MLS Darby was born in Chat
tanooga, has been on tour through- '
out the South giving parachute j
exhibitions in Macon, Savannah, j
Atlanta, Montgomery, Birming
ham and other cities. Her uncle,
Newton Jacobs, still lives in Chat
tanooga.
quences. Not many people in pub
lic life today have such courage.
Bravo Mrs. Roosevelt!
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Rent Increase
Brings Rent Strike
New York, July 13 (ANP)—Issues
involved in the rent strike of 35
colored tenants in the Washington
Heights section, were aired this
week at a town meeting of Wash
ington Heights Housing council,
an affiliate of the City-Wide Hous
ing Council.
Tenants said they were with
holding rents in protest against
rent increases ranging from $9 to
$13 per month. These increases
were declared unwarranted as the
apartments were old and violated
the health laws of the city.
Nino dispossess notices have j
been received to date. An attorney j
for the landlords said violations I
of laws were of a minor nature
and termed the rent strike an at
tack on the “principle of property
rights.” Charges of racial discrim
inations, he said, were false.
WHITE TENANTS
AID NEGRO RENT
STRIKE IN B’LYN
New York, July 13 (CNA)—
Negro tenants striking against
discriminatory rents in the Bed
ford-Stuyviwant area in Brooklyn
are receiving assistance of white
families, it was announced this
week by the local tenants league.
The striking families are being
charged $38 a month although
white . families paid $28 for the
identical apartments, declared Al
bert L, Clarke, research director
Nebr, A. F. & A. M,
and Jurisdiction
Convene July 19
The 21st Annual Communication
of the M. W. G. Lodge A. F. and
A. M. of Nebraska and its Juris
diction opens for a two day ses
sion on July 19th and 20bh at bV>
Mf.K-.onic Temple, 26th and Blondo
Sft. DeHegtates will, attend) fr< |n
various parts of the state. The
Grand Lodge will begin its session
Pit 9:30. Prior to this there will
be a reception of out-of-town de
legates in which a welcome ad
dress will be given.
Following this the master and
warden's council is giving- a ban
quet at the Masonic Temple on
July 19th at u:30 P. M. All are
welcome to attend. Tickeftl* are
$.50 each. Reservations must be
mad« before Sunday July 16th.
of the Brooklyn Federation for
Better Housing and president of
the Bedford-Stuyvesant League.
Straus Tells N. A.
A. C. P. of Housing
Authority Work.
Richmond, ^’a. July 12— The
federal government hns given a
third of its entire housing project
work over to the forwarding of a
program among the Negro citi
zens of this country Nathan
Straus told the thirtieth annual
conference of the National Asso
ciation foj- the Advancement of
Colored People here June 27.
The administrator of the United
States Housing Authority spoke at
the opening meeting of the asso
ciation’s conference in the Mos
que, the city’s largest auditorium.
The aid which the U. S. Hous
ing Authority has given to the
Negro citizens of the country has
not been on the basis of popula
tion, he said, but on the basis of
need.
Pointing out that the federal
government had initiated a hous
ing program that is designed to
correct slum eonditions at their
source, and make a decent place
In which to live Straus added:
“I know something of what your
problems are and what you are
up against, because I too am a
member of a group that knows
discrimination. I know what the
feeling of refugees is, and how
necessary it is for our country
to give to all its citizens the chan
nels through which good health, a
decent environment, and livable
housing can be had for the masses
of our people.
“And I am happy to tell you
hero tonight that the federal gov
ernment wants all our citizens to
have and enjoy these things, be
cause we want a better, healthier
and happy America to be, not the
dream, but the reality of all
Americans.”
r White Primary and Race Relations
as Viewed by Vice President
Washington Bureau,
Associated Negro Press
Washington, July 13 —Cactus
Jack Garner: Or, to be more po
lite, John Nance (Jurner, vice-pres
ident of the United States, potent
ial candidate for the presidency
undcr the banner of the Bemocra
Jc party.
Before we go any further, dis
cussing Jolhn Garner, get any pre
conceived notion of the man en
tirely out of your mind. It was
with trepidation and suspicion
-hut the appointment for an inter
view was made—but when a voice
on tho other end of the phone said
‘Why not come down right tow?"
at 8:30 in the morning, it wa* the
fins- of a series of shocks for your
jorrespondent.
In the office he occupies, John
Nance Garner is an entirely differ
ent man from any notion most col
ored citizens may have of him.
Cordial, gracious and keenly a
lert, Mr. Garner promptly dis
arms his Negro visitors, leaves
them flabbergasted and then goes
right into an easy conversation
-hat warms up gradually as the
bushy-browed, chubby man relates
story ufter story of his experiences
with Negroes.
And don’t think for one minute
that Mr. Garner is not familiar
with Negroes, for he was bom in
a town which had a colored popu
lation outnumbering the white
five to one.
But first, look at the Congress
ional Record for his biography:
"John Nance Garner, elected to
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Negro Vote will be
Important 1940
Factor Says White
Richmond Va., July 13_Walter
♦White, executive secretary of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People told
5,000 people here last week that
the South is definitely moving a
head because Negroes and whites
aro finding out that for wedge
which would divide them, there
aro a scores of ties based on
mutuality of economic, social, ed
ucational, and political interest
which should bind them together.
White was addressing the clos
ing sessions of the thirtieth an
nual conference of the NAACP
held in Richmond’s Mosque audi
torium. He spoke prior to Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presen
tation of the 24th Spingarn gold
medal achievement award to Mar
ian Anderson, the internationally
f»mous singer.
“Few of us realize,” he said,
“.hat in a large measure many
of the ills from which the South
suffers are due directly to -the
physical and normal effect on the
white South of what it has tried
to do the Negro. Take the ques
tion of disfranchisement, for exem
ple. The Negro is denied the ballot
and now 5,400,000 whites are also
disfranchised.
“What is the result of all this?
that when this controversy is re
duced to its lowest terms, it is
indeed a very simple issue. The
issuo is the failure on the part of
Armeur and Company to recog
nize the principle of collective
bargaining as set out in the Wag
ner Act, It appears that Armour
and Company believes in collec
tive bargaining but they oppose it
only when their employees tiy to
apply it.
This fact is brought out by a
statement 'made by J. Ogden Ar
mour to his employees in August*
1921, and which was corroborated
by T. G. Lee, President of Armour
and Company, July 1, 1933. In Mr.
Armour’a statement, he said,
“World events of the past few
years demonstrated as never be
fore that cooperation is one of
tho greatest factors in adjusting
anything worth while. The Meat
Packing Industry has reached tins
point where there must be greater
cooperation between employers
and employees.’’
Yet, however, regardless of the
above statement by Mr. Armour,
tho company still refuses to reco
gnize the bargaining agency of
their employees although they
havo been certified by the Nation
al Labor Relations Board.
Such actions upon the part of
the company is bound to lead to
serious difficulties for which labor
Joes not wish to assume any res
ponsibility.
We feel that you will agree
with us, that for the packers to
force a strike in the industry,
(which we assure you, tho em
ployees do not want) will result
in a loss to the community, tho
farmers, to the company and the
workers involved.
we are sure you are m aecora
with President Roosevelt's New
Deal program of increasing the
purchasing power of the masses
is the only means of bringing
back prosperity to this country,
rho Packinghouse Workers Or
ganizing Committee is dedicated
to this end and only by working
;ogether can this be accomplished.
We think that the honorable
vay to settle these difficulties is
iround the conference table.
Therefore, our object in calling
this matter to our attention at
this time is in the hopes that you
will grant us a conference at the
jarliest possible moment to dis
mss this situation with the view
>f being able to enlist your good
affico in requesting that Armour
and Company sit down with us
and work out a settlement which
will benefit both the employer
as well as the employee.
May we have the assurance by
return mail that you will grant
this request?
Sincerely yours,.
Packinghouse Workers Joint
Council
Emil Nath, chairman
C-has, Brown, Recording Sect.
We find that a distinctly inferior
and blatant type of southerner is
elevated to positions of promin
ence and power in our national life
which, as a native southerner my
self, often makes me blush for my
South.
“Getting themselves elected by
a srmall section of those who
should be exercising the right of
of voting, they are able to do in
finite harm not only to the South
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