Hamilton Republican Natl.
Chairman May Request
A Negro Conference
Washington, April 4 (ANP) —
Sources close to Chairman John
Hamilton of the Republican Nat
ional Committee, intimidated today
that a conference of Negro republ
icans may be called to meet in
Washington at some time in the
near future, to discuss plans and
issues of the forthcoming campaign
$10,000,000 JOB INCREASE
quota for negro brick
layers
Increase Quota of Negro Bricklay
ers on Chicago Housing Project
Action foilows protest of brick
layers Masons’ Brotherhood Club
—R. R. Taylor, CHA Vice Chair
man, Calls Three-Way Barley to
Air Controversy at Ida B. Wells
Homes—Colored Workers, Skilled
and Unskilled, Now Earn Nearly
*2,000 a Bay on Big Federally
Sponsored Project.
CHICAGO, April 4 (ANP) Last
Wednesday, following a protest by
members of the Brick Masons' Bro
therhood Club that they were being
given the “run around,” and that
more Negro bricklayers should b«
given work on the Ida B. Wells
Homes, representatives of the var
ious groups concerned met at the
site office of the supervising ar
chitects in an effort to settle the
controversy.
The meeting was called by Rob
ert R. Taylor, vice chairman of the
Chicago Housing Authority ant
sole colored member of that body
Among those attending the confer
ence were: J. William Wade, rep
resentative of the South Park Houi
ing Architects and general super
intendent of the project; H. L
Small, U. S. Housing Authoritj
Construction Adviser; Lemuel Mi
Bougall, widely known colored ar
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chitect and assistant superintend
ent of the project; Wm. Covington,
Joseph F. Hicks and Duke Hodges,
representing the Brotherhood; A
L. Foster, executive secretary oi
the Chicago Urban League who re
presented a citizens’ committee anc
several others.
The Hon. B. Kelly Co., is th<
brick masonry subcontractors ii
charge of that work on the projec
and the firm was represented at the
meeting by John Walsh, superin
tendent and T. F. Costello, assist
ant superintendent.
After an hour s discussion, 11
which all angles of the labor ques
tion—both skilled and unskilled—
were considered, it was agreed thai
in future, of every three bricklay
ers employed, one will be a Negro
Officials of the Kelly firm pointei
out that at present they are emplo;
ing 20 percent Negro skilled labo
(bricklayers) and 47 percent un
skilled or common labor.
The colored bricklayers, all Un
ion men, earn $68.00 for a five da;
40 hour week, the prevailing wag
scale for that trade. Unskilled, o
common laborers also Union mer
are paid at the rate of $ 1.02VSi a
hour, or $41.00 for a 40-hour week
Kelly Company officials explain
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ed that 9 of every 30 bricklayers
now working, are colored, and that
nearly half of the common laborers
are colored. With the latter quota
maintained and the colored brick
layers’ quota increased to the 1-in
3 ratio, as agreed to at the meeting
many more of the Brotherhood’s
140 unemployed members will find
employment.
A. L. Foster, as head of the local
Union League and an official of
the Chicago Council of Negro Or
ganizations, aided the Brotherhood
members in presenting their case
to the housing officials and the sub
1 contractor’s representatives. At
1 the meeting’s close, all present ap
peared satisfied with the new work
! ing arrangement.
Housing officials declared that
when the sun “hits both sides of the
street,” upwards of 1500 men will
be working as employes of the gen
eral contractors, Thompson-lSter
rett Co., or of the 60 or more sub
. contractors who have construction
■ contracts. It was also pointed out
. that there are about 20 subcontrac
I tors, in addition to Thompson-Ster
’ rett, now working on the site, and
• that colored workers, skilled and
■ unskilled, are paid nearly $2000 a
day In wages on the big project.
Located at 37th and South Park
r way, in the heart of the near South
5 side district, the Ida B. Wells Hom
r es is being constructed for the low
, income families by the Chicago
i Housing Authority. It will have
. about 1,650 family units and cost
- about $10,000,000.
MISS MARY WHITE OVERTON
Miss Mary White Overton who is one of the
founders of the NAACP and who has set as Chair
man of the Executive Board for 12 years :s fighting
for the Anti-Lynch Bill. The bill that Sen. Burke re
fused to vote for, the Cloture Rule.
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SENATOR KENNETH S. WHERRY
Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, Chairman of the Cen
tral State Committee who has labored hard to bring
the progressive Republican, who left the party and
the Standpatters who had almost given up hope, back
together and put them to work in harmony with
lots of pep. The Sen. has been successful in getting
every Candidate to hue along the line and all of the
speeches made throughout the State about the poli
cies that they stand for and how they believe the
office they should be run. Not a single Republican
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PRESTIGE FOR AMERICAS HIGHEST bank deposit insurance
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BETTER BUSINESS. MORE JOBS.
BETTER MARKETS FOR THE FARMER
HE KEPT THE FLAME OF HOPE ALIVE
FOR THE G.O.P. DUPING THE
DARK DAYS OF THE NEW DEAL ECUPSE
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Candidate has made one sluring remark about any
other Candidte, this is a record to be proud of. Every
one of the Candidates who has filed for Nomination
in the April 9th, Primary has agreed to roll up his
sleeves pull off his coat, hang up his hat, and go to
the bat for all their is in him for the winner on April
9. This is another record to hang up in the Calendar
of memory. Never in the History of the State of Ne
braska, at least for the past 37 years, has such a
record been made. The whole Primary fight has
been for the Republican party, one for all and all for
one, without hundreds of lively, joyful, peppy meet
forings in every County in the State of Nebraska.
The Republican State Official family has a keen eye
for party success when they selected Sen. Kenneth
S. Wherry as their leader for the 1940 job, to awaken
the Standpat Republicans to the point where he
would be willing to give and take and the progres
sive Republican to come back into the folds and put
forth a hero effort, and also to make the party a
success for the 1940 Campaign throughout America.
We don’t know of another man who could have did
this job so thoroughly. And appreciations for this
hard work will study the character and the princi
ples of each Candidate that has put forth in this
Campaign and study the ability of the individual to
get votes and then pick the best mn on Primary
election day on April 9. Of we all do this it will make
the job for the Chairman of the Rep. Central State
Comittee, Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, a much more
pleasant one to perform between now and the 4th
of November.
THE ABOVE IS AN INNOCENT MAN THAT
WAS DENIED THE RIGHT OF A TRIAL BY A
JURY OF ITS PEERERS AND WAS BURNED
TO STAKE BY A MOB
Yes by American citizens without any disquise
on their faces who stood abreast for their pictures
to be taken and broadcast throughout the world. Mr.
Negro Voter, if you believe in this kind of justice,
for yourself and your fellow countryman then you
should vote for Senator Edward R. Burke. Last
week we printed in our paper Sen. Edward Burke’s
record of the Anti-Lynch Bill in Washington, D. C.
in the Senators Chamber for the NAACP 69 5th
Ave. N. Y. City, N. Y. We hope you read it and un
derstood it if you did not you should take it to your
neighbors and you both should talk abut it until you
have a thorough understanding about it. And then
go the poll, April 9th and vote according to victims
of your own heart if you are a Democrat. If you are i
a Republican, take this record to a Democratic '
neighbor. For this is not a Partison it is a thing that
3,000,000 American citizens has spent their money .
Judge Arthur C. Thomsen who
is now on the District Court Bench
of the 4th Judicial District is up
for re-election. In fact the whole
of the present of District Judges,
is up for re-election with excep
tance of Judge Yeager. Judge
Yeager is a candidate for the Su
preme Court Bench. No Judicial
District can claim, to have a more
fair and impartial Judicial Ad
ministrations, regardless to race,
creed, or color in the State of Ne
braska than we here in the 4th
District have at the present. Let
us hope for their nominations and
elections.
TO YOU, A VOTER:
A Railway Commissioner, like a
bank EXAMINER, should be an
expert in fact finding, familiar
with accounting and investigation
and should understand the law.
If his decisions are to be wisely
j given, a railway commissioner
I shook", know the problems of the
farmer, trucker, railroader, ship
per, business man and the citizen
generally. ■ JJ
The service I rendered as a
bank EXAMINER is a quarantee
of the work that I will do as Rail
way Commissioner.
I can truly present myself as a
“CITIZEN OF NEBRASKA.”
I shall give everyone, every
business every town and every sec
tion of the state a SQUARE
DEAL.
Sincerely,
RICHARD H. LARSON.
of Lincoln, Nebraska
MR. WHERRY IS RIGHT
Mr. Wherry is right in assur-}
ing you that I believe that your ;
'people should share in patronage.!
I appreciate your concern for the
future of your youngmen and wom
en. A reasonable hope of employ
ment is the greatest incentive for
good citizenship. If I am elected
I will use what influence I may
be able to exert at your request.
Yours, Edna Basten Donald.
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ELECTED WILL SEE THAT
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EN OF OUR GROUP WHO ARE
QUALIFIED WILL GET THEIR
PRO RATA OF EMPLOYMENT.
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Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm,
increase secretion and aid nature to
soothe and heal raw, tender, inflam
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No matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your druggist to sell;
you a bottle of Creonuision with the
understanding that you are to like
the way it -auickly allays the cough
or you ye to have your money back.
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to lynching and burning human beings by mobs.
Yes, Senator Burke was a power in U. S. Senate,
and a leader), of a group of rebelicious Senator from
the Lynching South. Now what is the whole thing
about Burkes record from the NAACP in N. Y. City
these were registered to secure an additional pledge
from Senator Ed. R. Burke. The following is a
statement made, to the NAACP, May 18, 1937 from
Sen. Ed. R. Burke, quote: “I have always been
heartily in favor of legislation of this kind. When
the matters was before the Senate last year. I assure
Sen. Van Nuys, Sen. Costigan that I would help them
in every way possible. I believe if you will check the
votes that were made while the matter was under
discussion you will find that I lived up fully to that
agreement. Nothing has happened since then to
change my views in any respect. It would therefore
by my present attention to support the bill actively.
It would requqire some very compelling arguments
on the other side to cause me to change my views.
Mr. Negro Voter, above is the exact words wrote
and signed by Sen. Edward R. Burke. That letter
today is in the NAACP office in N. Y. City. Now
can you Mr. Negro Voter imagine a man making a
pledge in his home town and a similar pledge to the
NAACP office and then when his vote was needed
to cinch the bill we were denied the priviledge of his
vote, yet you will think all through the procedure.
(Yet what did he do) The NAACP executive secre
tary, Mr. Walter White and Senator Wagnor of N.
Y. the Senator Van Nuys, had been successful in
getting enought Senators to pledge to vote for the
Anti-Lynch Bill. And the President had agreed to
sign the bill if the Senate passed it, and what hap
pened. The Southern Senators proceeded to bring
them out a tilibuster against the bill. And they
filibustered six weeks. I believed, which was the
same trick they pulled to the Senate after it passed
the house for the last 25 years. This was expected
by everyone who knew about the record of this bill.
The interested parties in this bill to secure signa
tures of Senators to a petition to stop the filibus
ers by voting to in vote the Cloture rule. Now here
is the part your Honorable Sen. Edward R. Burke
played to defeat this bill after making his definite
pledge to support it. When the vote was taken on
Cloture rule the rule to stop the filibuster, 42 Sen
ators voted for the Cloture rule, 46 voted against
the Cloture rule, that was 2 more votes against the
rule that there was for the Cloture rules. That was
a shock to every Negro that voted Sen. Burke in
the State of Nebraska. Now Mr. Negro Voter how
zan you afford to put your trust in Sen. Edward R.
Burke and let me tell you Mr. Negro Voter, the
place to stop Sen. Edward R. Burke is at the poll?
m Tuesday, April 9th, at the Primary Election. It
s commonly said, that if the Democratic nominate
3en. Burke at the polls in Primary Election, Apri
)th, he will be elected on November 4th. So if yoi
are a Democrat, it is you duty to register votef
against Sen. Edward R. Burke, Tuesday.
