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    Conduct Drive For Up
Grading and Employment,
of Negroes In Organized;
Plants In Pennsylvania
The United Electrical Radio and ^
i
Machine Workers of America, CIO,
is conducting a concerted drive tor
the employment and upgrading of
Negro workers in organzed plants
in Pennsylvania, New York and
Connecticut, Chairman Paul V. Mc
Nutt of the War Manpower Com
mission was informed.
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the integration Of Negroes into war
product were reported to Chairman,
McNutt by Dr. Robert C. Weaver.
Director of the Negro Manpower
Service, WMC.
According to Dr. Weaver, Dis
trict Council No. 1 of the UERM
WA has unanimously adopted a pro
gram submitted by its Negro Af
fairs Committee. This program,
which covers 40 plants under con
tract to the union stipulates:
“1. That we seek to secure, thru
the Fair Employment Practice Com
mittee. set up by the President,
written letters from the employers
to the effect that they will .employ
minoriy groups, including Negroes.
The local 'unions involved shal] re
ceive copies of the above mentioned
letters.
‘‘2. In plants where no Negroes
are now employed, their employ
ment shall he encouraged in such a
manner that upgrading is possible.
‘‘3. In plants where Negroes are
now employed, the upgrading pro
cess shall be encouraged.
“4. Departmental meetings shall
be held to educate in the direction
of infiltration of Negroes into class
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ifii'^itans where they have never
been employed before.
“5. Unions and management shall
hold meetings to determine the de
partments where Negroes can best
be employed with the least amount
of disruption, the policy to be estab
lished by this committee.
”6. Periodic meetings shall be
held to discuss the progress of the
employment of Negroes and their
effect on production in general.”
In New York City, Dr. Weaver
reported. Local 1227 of t1-. un
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Freedom of Education!
(One of the Essentials of a Democracy)
Of all of the essentials of a Democracy one
of the most important is the right of every
boy and girl to an education—untainted and
untrammeled.
In the good old U. S. A. no one is denied
the advantages of knowledge; the opportu
nity to explore the wide horizons of the
sciences, the arts, the crafts—all the subjects
that make for a strong, intelligent citizen
ship and a fuller life.
Can this freedom work? It has since 17761
Today, Americans are the most literate
people in the world—enjoying the world’s
highest standard of living, thanks to educa
tion, sacrifice, individual enterprise, the will
to work, and full confidence in the fairness
of one’s neighbor.
That’s what America is fighting for. With
these incentives we cannot fail.
Nebraska Power Company
ilon has just announced that 20 per
cent of all persons placed by the lo
cal since January, 1942, were Ne
groes. In announcing this develop
ment. Carl Geiser, President of Lo
cal 1227. declared:
“The policy of our union for all
out production to win the war can
not be fully carried out unless aU
available manpower is put* to work.
We have broken down the barrier
of discrimination wherever it has
existed in our shops. We not only
believe the Negro people must be
afforded equal opportunity to fight
for this country, but we also believe
they must be given equal opportun
ity to work for this country."
In Connecticut, the Bridgeport lo
cal of the UERMWA has issued a
large "Victory Thur Unity” poster
to be placed in union halls and war
production plants. The poster, is
sued by the local’s Job Discrimin
ation Committee .contains pictures
of Corp. Meyer Levin and Capt. Col
in Kelly of the IT. S. Air Corps, and
Dorie Mjller.
LAND GRANT COLLEGE
CONFERENCE UP IN ARMS AS
NAVY REFUSES TO RECONSIDER
EXCLUSION OF V-l PROGRAM
(Continued from pasre 1)
quota, also, is one third of the elig
ible male students in the nation’s
colleges.
Moreover, it was brought out at
the conference that the only oppor
tunity for service in the navy open
to Negro college students and grad
uates is on the level of apprentice
seamen. This situation seems nar
adoxical, the conference pointed out
when according to authorative sourc
es, the navy needs a reservoir of
trained manpower badly.
After discussion of the prevailing
condition, the conference immediate
ly took action by appointing a com
mittee, consisting of John W. Davis,
Hrace Mann Bond, president of Fort
Valley state college, and Charles H.
Thompson, dean of the college of
liberal arts, Howard university, to
carry the conference’s protest to
the navy department. When Presi
dent Davis and Bond were unable
to be in Washington on the date
scheduled for the meeting, Dean
Thompson and Charles H. Houston,
noted Washington attorney, met
with navy representatives.
When Dean Thompson and Mr.
Houston indicated that the group
was interested in seeing that the
navy get good recruit material, and
that it did not want to see all the
intelligent and forceful Negroes en
ter the army, Mr. Walker and Dean
Barker said they appreciated this
position and it was probable that
they were missing some fine men
by the limitations on Negroes in the
navy program, but that for the pres
ent the navy felt it “had gone as
far as it could in one step.”
If the war continues another
two or three years, the committee
declared, the United States navy
would need officers so badly that
the color of the officers would be
immaterial. Mr. Walker and Dean
Barker evidenced that in that case
“the navy would take the men re
gardless of race.”
The Land grant college confer
ence demands that: (1) Negro colleg
es be immediately authorized to par
ticipate in the V-l program; (2) Ne
gro students in colleges which have
been approved to give such training
be allowed to participate as other
students; (3) equitable provisions be
made for prospective Negro enlistees
to receive rating through examin
ations as are now made for pros
pective white enlistees.
The committee left the naval con
ference with the understanding that
a formal statement from the navy
department would be made to Negro
publications.
PETRILLO DECREES END TO
RECORD MAKING
BAN HARDER ON NEGRO
(Continued from nase 1)
legally enforce any restrictions on
the use of records once they have
been sold. Platters designed for
home use have for some years car
ried a label forbidding their use over
the air but the courts have ruled
this has no legal standing. The
same would happen were an attempt
made to restrict juke boxes, manu
facturers say.
Some of these companies believe
that the pressure of public opinion
an dthe desire of topranking bands
to ■continue to cash in on the popu
larity of their discs would compel
the union to change its stand.
Manufacturers, however, will re
tain the right to make as many cop
ies of the pre-Aug. 1 stock as they
wish, within the limits of the WPB
Order of some months ago cutting
1942 production to 30 percent of the
1941 output. It is expected that re
cording activities will be greatly ac
celerated the rest of this month in
order to build up a stock of new
platters for release after the ban
goes into effect.
I The Petrillo order will work a
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greater hardship on colored music
ians than on white. Most of the
colored musicians bands depend
largely upon records played over
the radio or in juke boxes for their
popularity as well as part of their
income. White bands can expect to
have considerable air time on th-^
big chains, thus keeping the organ
ization before the public, but Negro
orchestras seldom get a chance to
broadcast. Most of those who do
have only the smallest of local out
lets.
Recrds have built up a following
for many leading colored artists
that mean money when these music
ians appear personally. Lil Green
zoomed from the relief rolls to a star
now earning several hundred dollars
weekly On the strength of one re
cording, “Romance in the Dark”.
Louis Jordan is currently drawing
crowds because of the popularity of
his “I’m Gona Move to the Out
skirts of Town,” while Erskine Haw
-kins was greatly aide by “Tuxedo
Junction.”
The Petrillo order is unwarranted
in view of existing conidtions. Pri
orities have ended the manufacture
of juke boxes, which means than
when those now in use wear out
they cannot be replaced. The cut
in record manufacture is also hav
ing its effect on nickel-in-a-slot pho
nographs. At the same time, it is
well known that many leading bands
have been hard hit by selective ser
vice, with many of the best music
ians already in the army. Some
leaders are having dificulty finding
adequate replacements and are con
sidering using girl instrumentalists.
If unemployment is so great am
ong AFM members, Tne hard hit
leaders should have no trouble find
ing replacements. Often it is lack
of ability that is responsible for job
lessness. A large portion of the pub
lie would prefer records by first rate
musicians to in-the-flesh perform
ances by fourth-raters.
Petrillo, incidentally, is generally
feared but not too well liked by Ne
gro musicians who accuse him of
race prejudice. The Chicago local
of which he is head negotiated a
contract specifically barring Negro
es from radio employment, and for
many years he refused to allow Ne
gro orchestras to appear at any of
the better clubs and cabarets in
white sections of the city.
PEOPLE’S VOICE SEED FOR
$25,000
SIX MONTHS OLD PUBLIC
ATION HEADED BY THE REV.
ADAM C. POWELL, JR., CITS’
COUNCILMAN SUED
In an action brought here this
week in the Supreme Court of the
State of New York, James H. Hu
bert, Executive Director of the New
York Urban League, through his
attorney, William T. Garvin of 217
West 125th Street, sued the Powel'.
Buchanan Publishing Company, Inc.
for $25,000.00. The> Corporation is
'charged with publishing articles “in
tended to injure Plaintiff in good
reputation in connection with his
position as Executive Director of
the Urban League.” The Plaintif
brands as “false, malicious, defam
atory, and intending to impute there
by inefficiency and purposeful neg
lect.”
Declaring that the Plaintif, James
H. Hubert, has worked diligently for
the purposes of the League and sub
ordinated all personal interests,
striving at all times to maintain its
objectives and ideals the suit affirms
I that he is well and favorably known
to thousands of persons. A judge
ment of $25,000.00 is demanded, to
gether with costs and disbursements
of the action.
A Committee of League members,
headed by the Rev. Gerald Hamil
ton, Chiarman, Dr. March Moreland
and Mr. Ernest Dimitry. Chairman
and Co-Chairman of the Investigat
ing Committee, has been conducting
an inquiry nto the charges. Ac
cording to a member of the Invest
igating Comm|itt?ee, “All evidence
unearthed so far tends to show that
the attack is an attempt on the part
of certain individuals to gain con
trol of the League and dictate its
policy.”
“It is to be deplored,” said tho
Rev. Gerald Hamliton, Chairman of
the Membership Committee, “that
the People’s Voice, headed by the
Pastor of famed Abyssinian Baptist
Church, the dynamic Rev. Adam C.
Powell, Jr., which began with such
a flurry and promising that where
the People’s Voice could not build
up it would not tear down, Is now
faced with a suit based on libeling
of a citizen’s 24 years of unselfish
work in Harlem. I sincerely trust
that the parties envolved may in
some way amicably settle this mat
ter.”
LYNCHING RECORD FOR THE
FIRST SIX MONTHS, 1942
Dear Sir:
I send you the following state
ment concerning lynehings for ’he
first six months of this year. I find
according t0 the information compil
ed at Tuskegee Institute in the De
partment Of Records and Research
that there was one lynching record
ed in the first six months of 1947.
The person lynched was a Negro.
The offense charged was: Suspected
of criminal assault. The state in
FILES FOR...
State Representative
C. C. GALLOWAY
Mr. VOTER I am asking you to
let me be your SERVANT.
I am running for the non-partisan
representative for the Nebraska
State Legislative from the 5th Dis
trict. Your vote on Aug. 11, will l>e
appreciated by me and a host of
your friends.
C. C. GALLOWAY, ACTING EDITOR OF THE
OMAHA GUIDE FILES FOR STATE SENATOR
July 2nd Acting Editor C. C. Gal
loway, filed as a candidate for
State Senator in the Nebraska Leg
islature- He announces a brief
and comprehensive platform, as fol
lows:
1. Make an ALL-OUT effort to
win the war.
2. Safeguard our theory of In
dividual Liberty.
3. Continue to give labor a
square deal.
4. Protect, defend and promote
Agriculture.
5. Help LITTLE BUSINESS as
well as Big Business.
. No new taxes and no increase
in old ones.
7. Provide ASSISTANCE FOB
THE AGED.
8. Be prepared to meet the prob
lems of the Post War Years.
In addition to announcing his
platform, Mr. Galloway states that
“many problems may arise during
the war and afterward which will
tax experienced men in the service
of the state. My many years in
business have taught me something
about the difficulties encountered
by the common man, as well as bus
iness men. I believe I can be of
service to the people of my district
I and my state when I am elected to
| the Legislature. I am one of eight
| candidates in the race in the Fifth
LegislativeDi strict. I especially de
sire the votes of all men and wom
en who at one time or another have
been “hard up”, or ‘‘broke”. My
competitors may have all the others.
NEGRO FIRED ON
FOR SALVAGING
SCRAP RUBBER
Houston, July 16 (ANP) —Charles
Sugar, knows from personal exper
ience that Texas is not all bad, des
pite the rumor circulated that “the
devil owned Texas and hell, and
made choice of living in hell and
renting out his Texas.”
Sugar learned his lesson as fol
lows: He was wounded by a white
watchman who saw him gathering
odd pieces of discarded and scrap
rubber outside of the auto part build
ing where the watchman was on
duty.
When Sugar was brought before
the justice of the peace, W. C. Rag
an, he upbraided the white watch
man and said:
“I don't think much of your pat
riotism for leaving scrap rubber ly
ing around when the country is in
such great need of it.”
Later the justice declared:
“It is ridiculous to charge anyone
with a crime for picking up old
rubber that has been thrown away
wrhen everybody in America is being
urged to salvage every ounce of
rubber they can find. I have picked
up a number of pieces myself and
have thrown it on the scrap pile.”
So Charles Sugar went free Tues
day “to collect more rubber for Un
cle Sam’s war effort,’ and, what’s
more, a white watchman was offic
ially, sternly and publicly rebuked
which the lynching occured is Mis
souri.
A reported case of lynching in
Texas is notv under investigation.
Very truly yours,
F. D. Patterson. President.
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for shooting the Negro who was dis
playing his patriotism.
U. S. SERVICE BARRED
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New York—As part of a compre
hensive code to guard against racial
or religious discrimination in jobs
fillel through the United States Em
ployment Service, Mrs. Anna M.
Rosenberg, regional director of the
Social Security Board, has inducted
all public employment offices in
New York not to make placements
for any employer who "refuses to
employ otherwise qualified applic
ants solely because of race, color,
creed, national origin or descent.”
In a memorandum sent to all U.
S. E. S. administrative employes,
Mrs. Rosenberg said it would be the
i official policy of the agency to
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NOTICE- PAY UNION DUES ONLY AT LABOR
TEMPLE OR AT UNION OFFICE AT MEAD.
NO MAN ON THE JOB IS AUTHORIZED
TO TAKE MONEY.
There are Only Four Authorized Men in
Local 1140. They are Pete Bell, Walter
McClelland and Kelly Gates at the Omaha
office, and Henry Schaefer at the Mead
office.
I “stimulate the fullest utilization of
the labor supply” by encouraging
employers to eliminate from their
job orders any specifications, in
cluding age or sex, that were not
associated with ability to perform
the job.
The memorandum added that ser
vice was to be withheld entirely
from employers who would not hire
workers for racial or religious reas
ons and that the same policy was
to apply to refusal to employ aliens
unless the exclusion of non-citizens
was specifically required, by the
Army or Navy.
Labor unions, acting as agents for
employers under closed-shop con
tracts, will also be denied service if
their membership rules exclude per
sons solely because of race or cree l,
Mrs. Rosenberg ordered.
NEW YORK GIRL WINS JIM
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NETPROFITSDROF
/1939 1940 1941 1942
CaA/unas 6 tJctv
12$8U597 39079,053 35.0W.053
‘JedeKad. tcuiei. ^
2551.680 6.361,212 ' 23,255,000 29150,000
<hncuL net propJ:
j|0,931,016 14,450,385 14,824,053 6,919,053
PIXPAGE — Using Inland Steel
Company totals as an example, the
chart shows how war financing and
increased costs reduce net profits
for industries operating under price
ceilings. Without new wage in
creases, now being asked before the
War Labor Board by SWOC-CIO,
the 1942 war taxes and known
higher costs will reduce this year’s
net profit well below the last pre
war year, 1939.
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