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5c AT VOI R DRUG STORK HEW TO THEUNE LARGEST ACCREDITEIi NEGRO NE^’Sl1 Af*FR WEST «»F CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CKIT —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Eu!g» Saturday, Pet 10, 1942 Our 15th Year. No. .33 City Edition, 5c Copy A.F.L. UNION DISCRIMINATION GREETS NEGRO WORKERS AT OREGON SHIPYARD New York, N. Y.Citing the re fusal of AFL union agents to Per mit 30 Negro workers imported to Oregon this week by the Raise-* Shipyards to sign up as anything but painters helper and laborers rs a boon to Axis victory-, the NAACP in a wire to William Green, at AF of L convention in Toronto, Can ada, said: ‘‘National Association for Ai van cement of Colored People ex press hope that convention of Am erican Federation of Labor will un equivocally condemn attitude taken by Local 72 of AF of L. Metal Trad es Department of Portland, Oregon, and of Tom Ray, its secretary, who attempted to prevent Negro work ers for Kaiser’s shipyard from working except as painters helpers and laborers. We ask American Federation of Labor to go further and not only cond mn color bars in all AF f L. unions where they exist but to take unequivocal and con crete action to eliminiatc such re strictions on pain of expulsion front the American Federation of Labor. Any action short Of this wuld stult ify American Federation of Labor both with respect to its asking priv ileges and immunities for white workers while denying them to Ne gro workers and also because barr ing needed workers from war in dustries directly eOntibutes to Axis victory, which would lead to en slavement of all workers." Learning that Mrs. Anna Rosen berg. Regional Director of the X York Man Power Commission, had at first refused to fill the Raise■■ order because of the unions an:i Negro stand and had taken the o der only when she was in forme that the barrier had been removed the National Association for the A Ivancement of Colored Peoolr commended Mrs Rosenberg on her forthright action against labor nr ion discrimination and expressed the hope that other officials wj]'_ follow hpr example. - Along with 460 white worker I the 30 Negro workers arrived at the Henry J. Kaiser Shipyards on October 1. The union representa tives ‘ boarded the special train on which there had been no segreg-u- i Ion and reclassified the white work ers without experience as helpers in the various crafts Many of the \ white men on the train were with out previous mechanical experience. Of the 30 Negroes at least 19 could qualify as boilermakers helpers on the basis of actual experience, ar 1 five already held union cards with affiliated AF of L. locals, but th Negroes were allowed to sign u as painter's helpers at 93 cents an hour or as laborers at 85 cents a" hour At first the Negroes refu- <1 to sign up. but later all but one signed as helpers or laborers. Mar ion Hill, the Negro who refused to sign, returned to New York. He was given a return ticket and ?P for expenses by the general manag er of the Kajser yards. _ CALIFORNIA OIL MAN RECRUITS NAACP MEMBERS Bakersfield, Calif.,.. _ Twenty leading white citizens here took their first memberships this wees j in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, j The memberships were secured by Mr. Thomas McManus, local oil magnate, who. in 1936. lent his in fluence to the dismissal charges brought against William Pickens, then director of branches for the NAACP. when Mr Pickens suffered an auto accident on the dangerous mountain road toward Bakersfield. In the car with Mr. Pickens at the time was a young white man whom Mr. Pickens had given a lift. Both men were injured, but the hitchhik- j er died 3 or 4 days after the acc>- j 4enQ The state highway patrol filed a charge of negligent homicide McManus came instantly to Mr. Pickens' aid. ward-2 Republicans Organize For All-Out Registration and Vote rnATDMAV P AT PM W AT* AMS'*)----- **—^ SAYS CANDIDATES DESERVE SUPPORT Or EVERY NEGRO VOTER Last week the Douglas County Republican Central Committee an nounced the selection of officers and members of the 2nd Ward Com mittee—Colored Division. Ralph W. Adams, local attorney, was ,1 - ignated Chairman. Mr. Udell Ragan Vice Chairman, Mrs. Cloma Scott, Chairwoman and Mrs. Carrie Jewell Treasurer. At its first meeting. Thursday, October 1, the 2nd Ward Committee outlined policies for the o ■ s-nt campaign, adopted a prog ram of procedure, organized sub committees and prepared a financ ial budget. Mrs. CleOta Reyno served the session as Acting Secre tary. Mr. C. C. Galloway was ap pointed Chairman of Publicity Com mittee- Mrs. Cloma Scott and Rev. John Adams. Sr., are heads of the Committee on Arrangements. In statements as to policies to be adopted for this campaign. Chair man Ralph W. Adams said, "It is imperative that everybody become actively concerned aliout the socia’ and political welfare of the Negroes in Douglas County and the State of Nebraska. Such concern is ineff ective unless each citizen use his in fluence to get the Negro citizen^y to register and vote. In this con nection it must be borne in mind ‘hat the dual party system is a very definite safeguard of our freedom, liberty and opportunity. Therefor ;t is necessary for Republicans and Republican sympathizers to record a maximum vote in support of the Republican ticket in order to main tain our cheek on political affai--? and to continue our representation gcve-nm n: of*, ices, in makin-. our decisions as to how to vote, we must do our reckning n the basis of "cund fact and ev:dsnce. Al! candi dates on the Republican ticket have undeniably indicated their compet ency and fairn-ss. There can be but one logical conclusion reached in the minds of the voters—to go all-out in support of these men. This support must not be by a nar row margin, but must be so over whelming that political circles will become firmly convinced as to the potency of Negro political jnt ire.a and strength ” Adams reminded the Committee that the deadline tor registration was October 23, and urged that -registration be accomp lished immediately. Other discussions by membe-s r» th- committee were summarized for minutes as follows: "A primary ob jective of the Republican local and national efforts is to assist in as suring preservation of the Amer ican Way and Equal Opportunity for minDrity groups bv victory abroad and at home. Proper conduct of the war efforts should be the ujy permost concern of all. As Near'' s we cannot afford to be indifferent to the international fight now on hand. Although we realize the ex istence of discriminator?- practices and petty prejudice* we also must realize the existence of a real op portunity to gradually overcome these handicaps. We must work hard not to lose this opportunitv. We must be farsighted and take steps to guarantee the future se curity of our nation, race and fam ilies We Negroes should know that we have to win this war. T'r less this nation wins all that the race has gained in progress and all it hopes to gain toward industria’ and political equalit?- will be lost. In a defeated nation minority groups will suffer the worst privat ions. Members of the Ward Committee and others whose interest and de sire to help include the following: Lucy Mae Britt, Arthur B. McCaw, Victoria Turner, Leona C. Lee, W. B. Br?*ant. Paul S. Holliday, J. Dii lard Crawford. C. C. McDonald. Ida —^^rrinninAn. v* ON THREE WEEK TOUR ^tLDOLPH MOSES, left above, and CHARLES W. BUGGS, dean and Science Division head, respect ively, of Dillard university, New Orleans, left last Friday night on a three week observation tour of 'jve of the country’s foremost nursing schools in the interest of Dillard’s new Division of Nursing establish ed this year. They are visiting the University of Toronto. School of Nursing and School of Hygiene, Toronto. Canada. Skidmore College Department of Nursing. New Tork \ City; Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. Virginia; Meharry Medi cal College. Nashville. Tennessee; and Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, also in Nashville. N.A.A.C.P. Demands Court-Martial Frr AEF Racial Bigots NEGRO SOLDIERS MISTREATED IN ENG.? x..._iflc w ax uc partment was asked today to take steps to eliminate the friction in the American Expeditionary Forces caused by Southern white soldiers who desire to establish Jim Crow traditions in England. In a state ment to Secretary Stimson, the N'A ACP said: “We strongly urge the issuance by the War Department, and perhaps by our Commander in Chief, of stem orders that any American soldier who causes friction of this charac ter shall be immediately courtmart ialed and given the severest penal ty provided by law and regulation f found guilty. “We further recommend that ommanding officers who lack the necessary firmness and freedom from prejudice should be replaced. Trouble makers, white or colored, southern or northern must be shown that winning the war is more im portant than trying to tell the Brit sh authoi jties and people who they should or should not treat as hum an beings and as soldiers fighting to wipe out th Hitler theory of race.” For objecting to the presence of American Xegro soldiers at enter tainments arranged by the British authorities and people for American troops, the southern white soldiers have become the subject of much criticism throughout England, m the newspapers, in Parliament, and in private statements by officials and individuals. Mae Willis. Roy M. White, Con i stance Adams. Josephine Johnson. : Mae Rholu'ac Panky. Rev. L. A. i Story. I. S. McPherson. Rev. B F. Jones, Curry Stew-art. J. P. Hinges, . Pay L. Williams. Ed. Killingsworth. ! Lee Washington. Tom Jones. Henry Biddeaux. Harry Brown Christhie Althouse. Love joy Crawford, James Banks. William Davis. Rev. T. J. Sanders. Georgia Sanders. Eugene McGill. Mrs. Bush and others whom will be contacted. Arrangements are being made for the establish ment of a 2nd Ward Headquarters on 24th Street. COLORED DETACH MENT AT CREIGHTON FOOTBALL GAME SUN. A colored detachment of 111 men comprising a 45 piece band and a special demonstration platoon, from the cavalry replacement training center. Fort Riley. Kansas, will give an exhibition drill between halves at the Creighton-FOrt Riley football game on Creighton field Sunday af ternoon. October 11. The unit will arrive in Omaha Sat : urdav afternoon and leave Monday ! morning, traveling in army vehicle* The men will be housed and messed at Fort Omaha while here. GRAND .11 RY TO STUDY NINE CH ARGES OF POLICE BRUTALITY St. Louis, Mo.,.... The St. Louis branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this week presented to Cir cuit Judge Harry F. Russell affi davits charging nine cases of pol ice brutality towards Negroes pick ed up for various reasons includ ing suspicion, traffic charges and peace disturbances. Judge Russell, who says he. has been reliably informed of over 20 cases of police brutality in the past year, has announced that he will I order the September grand jury to ! investigate the “horrible situation” involving allegations of physical in jury such as broken noses and brok en eardrums from police mistreat ment. Statements on the nine instances Of brutality to Negroes, as well as the case of Edward Melendes, a white waiter, who died under mys terious circumstances, in the hold over at police headquarters, July 27, were turned over to Judge Rus Rae Lee Jones Held On Stolen Property Charge STRANGE CASE OF AN ENTIRE BAND BEING STOLEN IS UN RAVELLED HERE (BY HARRY MILLER in the Jackson Sun. Jackson. Tenn.) Possibly the strangest case oi it kind on record went down in th annals of the Sessions Coart her in Jackson, Tenn. Technically ti defendant Rae Lee Jones, colored, being hell on a charge of br ngin stolen personal property ;nto tV State of Tennessee, knowing th: the said i roperty was stolen. It is alleged by C E. Dishn ar Secretary of the Pinev Woods Ct j ored School, near Jackson. Miss, t which the instruments, music am music equipment belong, that Ra< Let! no- c 1 ]y stole the proi^tv, b„ took the entire band personnel wit’ her, the jaunt ending Friday nig! here at the National Guard Armor where the said band played for : colored dance. The background of the story run | something like this, according t . Dishman: “The Biney Woods School, local ed at Piney Woods. Miss., on higi way 49, twenty-two miles southeas Of Jackson. Miss., is an elemosyr ary institution, where the student instead of paying their way, worl their way. “The school had an all-girl orch estra, of around 15 or 16 memr>=*rs. which would travel about the coun try in a sleeper type bus filling var ous engagements. "Rae Lee Jones from Omaha. Ne braska, was employed by the school to act as chaperone and to look af ter the business ©f the organization las well as for the welfare of the ' Continued on page EEs? __ sell by the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee and the XAACP. NEGRO TEACHER PAY SAII> TO BE DISCRIMINATORY: COURT HEARS CLAIM Little Rock, Ark.. .. .Declaring that Negro teachers receive less Pay than white teachers for com parable work, Thurgood Marshall, XAACP special counsel for Susie -Morris .teacher in Dunbar High School, and the city Teacher As sociation of Little Rock opened ar ' gument in Federal court September j 28 to compel the payment Of equal ■ pay to Negro and white teachers. Members of the Board of Direc tors of the Little Rock Public school testified that no established policy of racial discrimination exists but admitted, however, that the plaint iff. Miss Morris and twenty four Other Negro teachers in the Dunbar j High school get less salary than • any white teacher in either the ele mentary or high school. Prof. J. H. Lewis, principal of thr local Negro high school, testified that he is a former president of Morris Brown College and qualified as an expert on rating teachers. H testified that Miss Morris was a ‘‘superior teacher", one of the best teachers in the system. Miss Mor ris has an A. B. degree from Tal ladega College and has done grad uate work at Atlanta and Chicago Universities. All of her grades in graduate work have been excellent. She has been teaching in the Little Rock School for seven years and has been head of the English dept ment for the past six. However the Superintendent of schools, T. P. Scobee. testified that Miss Morris was a very poor teacher. Later M». Scobee admitted that he had ob served Miss Morris teach for oniy 10 minutes and that was after the case had been filed. MEDICAL DIPLOMAT HR. ILYSSEb GRANT IIAILEY Distinguished Chicago surgeon for ovpr 30 years, who has recentlv been made a diplomate of the Am erican Board o Surge y highest rating in that specialty. Dr. Dailey f JfiiMlI!!:' (till! .* mnjm;fc.:i ii'lii!., ii'tinii mitm: i-’ • is chief of the department of surg ery at Provident hospital, Chicago, and chairman of its turner service H- has stud'ed in Par.s. London. Vienna and Berlin. AXP Photo TUSKEGEE AIRCORPS NURSE BEATEN AND JAILED NAACP DEMANDS DEPT. OF JUSTICE PROBE Tuskegee. Ala . .. Calling the at tention of the Department of Just ice to the aura of mystery surround ing the assault upon and the jail ing Of Second Lieut. Xora Green of the Tuskegee Army Air Corps School medical detachment. Sept ember 12. the NAACP this week told Victor Rotnem, Chief of the department’s Civil Rights Section, that “it becomes more and more apparent that strong forces are at work trying to hush up the matte: and demanded immediate investig ation of the case. Lt. Green was badly beaten by Montgomery, Ala., police and jailed for several hours following a dis pute over a bus seat for which she had already paid her fare. Tn army nurse was returning to Tuske gee from a shopping tour in Mont gomery made subsequent to her selection for overseas duty. Colored officers and men at the Tuskegee base, it is reported are under military orders not to talk. STATE ANTI-DISCRIMIN ATION COMMITTEE CRACKS OPEN BROOKLYN COMPANY New York, N. Y.The Allied Control Company, 227 Fulton St., has begun hiring Negroes. The company has announced that it wil, employ -100 new machine workets every three months in the coming year at a minimum weekly wage of eighteen dollars. The latent crack in the industrial front against Negro workers was a-, chieved last week through the ef forts of the State Committee on Discrimination in Employment. The committee has urged the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to refer Negro wot kers so that the promise may bt enforced. .... • ••«>•••; • iw: raiiRihnauto SENATOR BUTLER ADDRESSES CORN HUSKER CLUB OF DC. H. J, F :rd Presides Senator Hugh A .Butler was heard at the Installation of officers of The Cornhusker Club of 'Wash ing. D. C.. a newly formed club of Nebraskans who are now living in Washington, which was held at the YMCA., Friday evening, October 2. The program was as follows. Mr. H. J. Ford, Master of Cere monies. 1. Music, America.. (All Standing 2. Invocation. The Reverend G. E. Stevenson, Pastor, Providence Baptist Church. 3. Welcome to Comhuskers.. Mr. Green, Activities Secretary YMCA 4. Response. . Mrs. Mary Alice Lev el, Recording Secy. Cornhusker Club. 5. The Cornhusker Club..Miss Eva Mae Stewart, Secretary, Cornhue ker Club, 6. Solo “Out Where the West Be gins’’.. .. _ Mrs. J. W. Bundrant 7. Introduction of Guest Speaker.. Mr. Lyle F. O’Rourke. President Nebraska Society, 8. Address ..Hon. Hugh A. Butler 9. Instrumental Solo. .Miss Baro ara Jean Welch, 10. Installation of Officers.. Mr. Homer Gruenther, Vice President Nebraska Society, 11. Introduction of Visitors.Mr. Ford, Introduction Of Nebraskans _ by Themselves. 12. Benediction- Rev. Stevenson Refreshments. The meeting was very well attend ed. Many of the Officials from the departments where the club mem bers work were present. I PARLIAMENT. MILITARY CIRCLES WORRIED OVER AMERIC \N PREJUDICE; FACTS HUSHED UP (BY ALVIN E. WHITE) WASHINGTON. Oct 6 (ANP* — What is happening in the British Isles that is causing so much con cern among military men and mem bers of parliament? Something is gojng on there which is not being told the American public, and that something will not be particularly pleasing to the Negro section of the United States if the t'-u-h is told. First, the American Red Cross is making a step in a new d.reetion in sending for the first time in the h tory of the organization Negro Red Cross workers, men and women, tc areas where Negro / are on leave. j Second, the war department has •sent Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis . [ to England to act as advjsor to the I commanding officer of the Negro 1 troops abroad. Third. Prime Minister Churchill t personally reproved a member ot ' parliament M. C.. one T. O. M. Dri- j l>erg. an independent, for raising i the question which has aroused some discussion in London since the army brought Negro service of Supply troops to Britain. Briber has made several trj£jp to the Uni ted State* and has written numer ous impressicnlstk pieces**fbaut. A— merican* for the Daily Express Alleged race discrimination is charged on the floor of the house of commons and after Driberg mid his say. Laborite Emanuel Shinwcll commented that Brenden Bracken, minister of information, publicly had opposed discrimination. Will iam Gallacher, communist membi | of the house of commons, asserted he had a copy of a letter sent Chur chill by a number of soldiers, sta) an officer had advised them in a (lecture ‘of the necessity of dis crimination in connection with Xe -groes in London.” Driberg's argument came just a day after Gen. Davis' arrival in London. Prime Minister Churchill Personnallv reproved Driberg for raising the question. He said. "I am hopeful that without any action (continued on pag,e^sfJ2) | - THREE 184TH OFFICERS BEFORE GENERAL Washington. Oct. 4 (ANP) Three ranking Negro officers of the 184’h Field artillery, stationed at Fort Custer. Mich., were scheduled to go before Gen. Ben Lear, commanding general of that army area, Tuesday in Chicago on charges not male public. Considerable speculation is rife in the capital as to the why of this move, followed so closely the trans fer of another ranking Negro offic er to duty as a miltiarv instructor at a southern school. NAACP FIGHT WINS WHITE COLLAR JOBS Clumbus, 0..._ As a result of ne gotiations with the Columbus Gen eral Depot, a United States Arm agency, the Columbus branch of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People an nounces this week the placement of Negro girls in the agency's office as typists. This is the first time Negro gir | have been hired in this capacity in this area. Heretofore Negro girls have had to go to Dayton, Ohio, fc: ! such jobs. _ WASHINGTON BUREAU OF NAACP RECEIVES GIFTS ' Washington, D. C.The value • of the recently established NAACP. Washington Bureau is becoming in creasingly recognized as instanced by a twenty dollar contribution Sent this week for it by Eugene Hender son, 308 Third Stret, Hackensack, New Jersey, and a gift of one hund red dollars made to it for "upkeep"’ and maintenance” by the NAACP. Boston Branch of which Mr. Ray W. Guild is president. I BETWEEN THE LINES | (BY DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK FOR ANP1 | THE MIXED REGIMENT If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then a pound of de mocracy in practice is worth a ton > Of democracy in theory It is eoin arativoly easy to get worked up over democracy as an ideal: but not quite so easy to practicalize it in our lives. And that is where dem ocracy has fallen short, net because* it lacks the imaginative and moral pul] hut because it lacks adherents who believe it with their hearts rs well as with their heads and lips. Democracy is fast becoming a pol itical phariseeism; we cry aloud with democratic platitudes hut our hearts are far from its spirit. De mocracy ]ike Christianity, its coun terpart, is not a thing of the head but of the heart and unless there is some radical change in h ra’t there can be no democracy in the liv es of men. Just as Christianity has been rebuffed at the color line so has democracy: just as the co’or line has treatened to devitalizi Christianity so the color ’ e is now threatening to destroy democracy, or that fair beginning 0f which that has been a blessing to the world. One of the most fertile suggest ions that has been born of our cue rent crisis was that of a mixed re giment. Such mixed regiment would focus tht attention of the world on an ins a ice of applied de ni Cc racy that is deplor&b.y lacking at present- If the e somehow could be formed a regiment in which whit es and Negroes and Jews, and Cath olics and Gentiles of divers persuas ion could stand side by side and ex emplify the kind of democracy that must prevail if indeed democracy is to survive, the flagging spirit and hopes of the world would receive a moral tonic that would stimul ate our lukewarm morale. The Ne gro press could perform no great er service in this emergency than by generating the sentiment for the mixed regiment. If ther* a~e not enough of differ ent races and types to form such, regiment, the effort would at least «hbw the measure of our national tfevfatron from tfes spirit of drmv racy: and it would further prove the nation's unworthiness of victory and peace- Furthermore it would (Continued on page 3) For FREEDOM Write A Letter The House of Representatives will probably vote on the anti-ooll tax bill October 12th WRITE TO DAY to your Congressman, asking him to vote for the Pepper-Geyer bill, so that millions of Americans may exercise their democratic right to vote. White today to Senator Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana, chairman Sen ate Judiciary Committee, and tell him that you want Senator Pepper’s anti-poll tax bill reported out for vote—NOW. Here’s a list of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee- If one is from your state, write to him: GEORGE W. NORRIS. Nebraska. Pat MeCarran, Nevada, Carl A. Hatch. New Mexico, Tom Connally, Texas. Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Wyoming, James H. Hughes, Delaware, Albert B. Chandler. Kentucky, William H. Smathers, N. Jersey, Marlev M. Kilgore, W. Virginia, Abe Murdock, Utah. Ernest W. McFarland. Arizona, Wall Doxel. Mississippi, Warren R. Austin, Vermont, John A. Danaher. Connecticut, Alexander Wiley. Wisconsin. William Langer, North Dakota, Harold H. Burton Ohio. _______________ .. -_ UNITED WAR Er; COMMUNITY FUND 4H x OLR SCRAP IS NEEDED NOW, DIG IT OUT!