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Strike Leaders Call Mass Meeting Friday Night at Union Headquarters, 2502 M Street, 8:u0 P. M.
u p W A Strike Bulletin! Government Will Seize Plants Saturday
“^ackong House Strike M% Effective” Says Union Leaders
WILL CARRY ON PROLONGED
STRIKE IF NECESSARY
o “PASS ISSUE” CAUSES SOME INCIDENTS;
WORKERS’ MORALE HIGH
A review of the events in the past two weeks sat
isfies the leadership of the Union that the meat
packing house strike is 100% effective in every re
spect.
The almost complete absence of incidents demon
strates the high degree of discipline prevailing in
the ranks of the strikers. The morale of the work
ers is high and there exists no doubt in the minds of
the leaders of the ability of the Union to carry on a
prolonged strike if that is necessary.
The Union is continuing to maintain refrigeration
in the plants, to complete processing of perishable
foods, such as, sausages, smoked ham, etc., caught
in production at the time the strike took place.
This policy is in accordance with the program that
we relayed to the Mayor and the City Council prior
to the strike.
A controversy over the issuance of passes to the
supervisory and clerical staffs at the plants arose,
as the method of issuing passes is determined by the
National Office. It was difficult for ihe local lea
ders to make concessions in this respect. However
despite the existence of these difficulties, an equit
able arrangement was worked out, and these work
ers are now allowed to pass through the picket lines
without passes. It must be understood, that the
Union made this important concession in the inter
ests of peace and harmony.
This change in policy has caused some confusion
in the minds of some of our pickets, who misunder
stood these instructions. This led to isolated inci
dents of pickets stopping clerical workers attempt
ing to enter the plants. However, this situation is
gradually righting itself, and no further trouble is
anticipated.
The Union wishes to compliment Police Commis
sioner, Harry Knud sen, Chief of Police, Haze,
Inspector Rosen, and the entire Police Department,
for the impartial and unbiased manner in which
they are carrying out their duties. The attitude of
the Department has been a real contribution to the
peaceful conditions prevailing.
A. T. Stephens, District Director of the Union,
arrived from Chicago, last week end for a conference
with the Local leaders.
Signed:
FRANK CRONIN,
PATRICK RATIGAN,
, . JOHN A. CASSIDY
J
New L Garage Not to be Tavern
d We stated in our last week's issue
that we would have a statement
from Mr. Nat Towles about his fu
ture plans on the New L Garage.
Mr. Towles is still out of the city,
but Mrs. Nat Towles makes the fol
lowing statement: “She says that
Mr. Towles bought the New L Gar*
age just for an investment and it
will continue to be a garage. She
stated the rumor about it going to be
used fro anything else up to this
date is untrue.”
Statement On Filibuster
Against FEPC.
Immediately Senator Dennis
Chavez of New Mexico called S.
101 in the Senate for considera
tion, January 18th, the floodgates
of oratory from . Southern Sena
tors against the Bill broke loose.
UndouDtedly, delegates at the
United Nations Conference in
London are in the focus of public
embarrassment by the notorious
spectacle by some of the Senators
of the USA using every known
device to block the democratic
process of permitting the expres
sion of the will of the people thru
their representatives in the Sen>
ate on a piece of legislation such
as the FEPC. How can James
F- Byrnes, Secretary of State,
and leader of the American dele
gation at the London UNO Con
ference maintain face in calling
for democratic practices in Bul
garia and Romania when his Sou
thern colleagues are giving fascist
demonstrations against the most
elementary democratic procedure
namely, the right to vote on a bill
presented to the highest body of
our legislative system, the Sen
ate
All church, civic, fraternal, bus
iness leaders, and trade unions are
called upon to send telegrams,
make telephone calls and send let
ters to the Presidnt backing his,
stand for FEPC and call upon
their Senators to vote for Cloture
Rule and kill the filibuster.
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STOCK YARD PICKETS CHOKE OFF MEAT SUPPLY
■ s.’s '’"-■a* .j
industry was effectively hogtied
when 300.000 CIO and AFL pack
inghouse workers walked out last
week in a nationwide strike which
centered in Chicago. Nearlv 35 000
.mployed in the Chicago yards
wmt on the picket line immedi
ately. Photo shows a break in the
line as AFL and CIO pickets drew
back to permit cars of necessary’
officials and office workers thru’
t--N
On Wednesday The United
I Park'ng House Workers Un or. '
leaders here, issued a strike bul
letin, notifying their members
that the U. S. Government will
take over the plants Saturday.
N \T’L LEADERS
TO SET POLICY
"In the event of Government
seizure” the bulletin stated, "The
leaders of the strike here would
m^t and decide on the next
move.’
uture procedure will conform
in every rcsyect to whatever pol
icy is laid down by the officers of
he Inter-national Union, who be
cause of their close contact with
j the situation nationally, will be
! in a better Dosition to iudge how
to proceed than we would be loc
ally,” stated the bulletin. I
T-i MA'NTA'N
PICKET LINES
The bulletin also conveyed
specific instructions to striking
1 members that in the event of
seizure of the plants, they are to
maintain their picket lines and
carry out their various duties as
they are doing now while await
;ng official orders from their lead
ers
STRIKERS HELP LOAD
MEAT CAR
The United Packinghouse Wor
the clearing of a carload _ me?*
out of the Armour plant Tucs^aj
night at the request of the ~
and the City. Council. In doing
so, the Union leaders pointed cut
that the passing of this particu
lar car through the picket lines
does not mean any change in the
policy of the Union regarding
movement of cars in or out of the
striking plants. In this particu
lar case, there existed a serious
possibility of spoilage of the meet
in the car. Strike loader^ ='>id
that this could have been avoided,
had the Armour Company re
frained from having foremen load
the car after the strike had taken
place. They further said that
this was done in a deliberate at
tempt to create a controversial
issue, in the hone of nlacirg the
Union in an unfavorable position
with the public in the event that
the Union refused to allow the
car to be moved. Any future re
quests by the Armour Company
for car movements should con
vince the public that thU comp
any is prepared to risk trie spoil
age of valuable foodstuffs; if by
doing so, they can discredit the
Union or weaken the strike.” said
top strike leaders, Patrick Rati
gan, Frank Cronin and Jack Cas
sidy.
The Day Is Coming by trie Hass
“The Public’’
Science has made wonderful progress. It has
exposed banshees and goblins for common impost
ers. For pixies, sprites, elves and fairies, it has
been as deadly as DI)T. But there is one spook that
still defies science. It Lobs up again and again,
particularly when workers go on strike. This sci
ence-defying spook is “The Public.”
‘‘The Public” is a strange category. Lf we are to
believe the plutocratic press, it is neither fish nor
fowl nor good red herring. When the press men
tions it—which is practically daily—“The Public"
is a suffering bystander who somehow receives all
the blows Capital and Labor aim at e el. other.
Editors commiserate for him. Carto nists depict
(Continued on Pape f'-EIGHT)
UNION SERVICES
Union Services will be held at
7ion Baptist Church, 2215 Grant St.
Sunday, January 27th. Devotional
Services at 7:30 pm. Sermon at 8
pm The speaker will be Her. EL
B. Childress. Pastor of St. John*
AME. Church. Music by St. Johias
Choir.
For 5th District
State Senator
C. C. GALLOW AY [g
C. C. GALLOWAY
A Man of Broad Wisdom and
Capability as Your Represi nt
ative at the State Capitol in Lin
coin, Nebraska.
LETTER CONFIRMS
APPLICATION
Department of State
Lincoln. Nebraska
January 19, 1940
C. C. Galloway
2420 Grant Street
Omaha- Nebraska
Dear Mr. Galloway:
We acknowledge receipt of your
application for nomination for the
Legislature from the Fifth District
and have filed the same today.
With best wishes, I am
Very truly yours,
FRANK MARSH
Secretary of State
FLOYD W. POHLMAN
Deputy.
DUNJEE TO BE LINCOLN
UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM
SPEAKER
Jefferson City, Mo., January 26,
1946—Roscoe Dunjee, editor and
publisher of the Oklahoma Black
Dispatch, will deliver the annual
NegTo Newspaper Week address
at Lincoln University Thursday,
February 28, according to an ac
Lester B. Granger Receives Distinguished Civilian Service Award
f JJ
Specie l Notice
THE SILENT FIVE Presents
MRS. DUWARD R. GROOMS
in
A Book Review Tea
\ JANUARY 27, 1946 at
The R. R. Men's Benevolent
Club, 24th and Miami
3:00 until 5:15
Admission 50c p!us tax
Mrs. Crooms will review
“AFRICAN JOURNEY”
written by Eslanda Goode Robe
son. (Wife of Paul Robeson.)
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nouncement this week by Arm
stead S- Pride, director of the
Lincoln University School of
Journalism.
Mr. Dunjee, a member of the
Committee of Editors and Writers
of the South is president of the
National Negro Business League
and head of the Oklahoma Con
ference of NAACP Branches. The
program on the Lincoln campus,
conducted annually by the School
of Journalism, wlil be in obser
vance of the 119th anniversary of
the Negro press.
I Secretary of the Navy James
Forrestal today presented the Di
stinguished Civilian Service Aw
ard to Lester B Granger for his
work as Special Advisor to the
Secretary on the utilization of
Negro personnel in the Naval ser
vices- The award was made at the
Ntivy Department.
The citation accompanying the
ajjard reads:
■*For exceptionally outstanding
service to the United States Navy
as Special Advisor to the Secre
tary of the Navy from Julyl,
1945, to November 1, 1945.
"Mr. Granger rendered sound
and able counsel to the Secretary
the Nsvv on the utilization of
Negro military personnel in the
Naval Service- By inspection of
continental and overseas naval*
activities durine which his tacttu
and forthright advice won the re
ject of men and ofncers alike
Mr. Granger personally evaluated
the position of the Negro in the
Navy, suggesting general policies
as well as solutions for specific
cases.
“Courageous and fair in criti-1
cism, honest and temporate in (
praise Mr. Granger has performed
a delicate and importat task in a
manner deserving of the Navy’s
highest civilian award.”
Mr. Granger is the Executive
Secretary of t*® Normal n-*-—
League, a social service organi
zation which does work a^,o*,g
Negroes with offices at 1133
Broadway, New York City, NY.
Vets Urged To Act
Now on Re-Housing
Mr. D’uward R. Crooms, Execut
ive Director of the Omaha Urban
League again urged that all Vets in
need of housing, inform the Urban
League imediately so that they will
be able to participate in the temper
ary housing hrogVam for tbferanw.
He also urged lot owners who
have available vacant lots or ainy
other available property, to make it
known. “ACT NOW,” said Mr.
Crooms, “If we do not, wc will be
the losers.”
NAVY SAYS IT HAS NO
POLICY ON MARRIAGES
New York—In answer to an in
quiry by the NAACP, the Navy
department, through H. Struve
Hensel, acting secretary of the
Navy, states that it has no policy
on interracial marriages. The
NAACP had relayed to the War
and Navy departments complaints
from Negro fighting men over
seas that marriages were being
forbidden bv the two departments.
Mr. Hensel’s letter to Walter
White said:
"The following factors govern
the marriages of all Naval person"
nel in such circumstances.
1. The laws of the country in
which the marriage is to take
place.
2. Certain qualifying restric
Treasury Department Queried
On Bretton Woods Jim Crow
tions, such as waiting periods,
established by the various area
commanders for the protection of
United States military personnel
themselves.
“Other than the above, the Navy
does not concern itself with the
question of eligibility of Naval
personnel for marriaage with per
sons of foreign citizenship in the
foreign countries.”
Weekly Feature Launched To Promote Race Harmony
+ Every Week, we shall present “Our Guest Column," a non-profit service of the American Press Associates devoted to furtherme
group understanding. 6
Edited by Erna P. Harris, noted journalist, our new weekly column will feature prominent guest contributors who will review current
developments on the minority group front and suggest local and na tionwide action.
OUR
GUEST
Column
(Edited by ERNA P. HARRIS)
THE TREND IN NEGRO
LEADERSHIP
By Maida Stewart Springer
Note to readers: In cooperation
with the Office of War Informa
tion, Mrs. Springer was selected
last year by her union as one of
your women members of the AFL
and CIO to carry fraternal gree
tings to the British labor move
ment and to study working con
ditions in beleaguered Britain.
At present Mrs. Springer is ex
ecutive director of the New York
Council for a Permanent FEPC
which is sponsoring a mass meet
ing in Madison Square Garden on
February 28th.
A virtual revolution in Negro
leadership has been going on in
the past ten years- There has in
many cases been an xpansion in i
th activities and interests of the j
broker who traditionally heads |
the local branch of various na
tional organizations. Too often
these leaders looked down upon
their brothers in factory, mill and
kitchen, despite the common bond
of second-class citizenship. Today
however, men and women from
the ranks of labor are making
their voice felt in these orgamza
errams has consequently broad
tions, the scope of whose pro
ened.
It was bound to happen. After
all, most Negroes are workers, not
professionals. The organization, of
mass industries in the ’thirties,
under the pressure of a bitter de
pression, necessarily acquainted
thousands of unskilled black
workers with the advantages of
unionism. Far sighted labor or
ganizers, many of them from
immigrant families with social
ist backgrounds, insisted on equ
ality and fair play for all workers
within the organization
Along with the rapid-fire or
ganizing drives went a broad pro
gram of workers’ education. Fac
tory workers, deprived of ade
quate schooling and therefore
exploitable by more literate bos
ses. became exposed not only to
higher union wages but also' to
the economics of their industry,
the politics of American govern
ment, and the culture of wes
tern civilization.
The Italian workers of my own
union, for example, have epito
mized labor’s aspirations in a
song entitled, ‘Pane e Rosa’—
Bread and Roses. Negro workers
have also taken their union edu
cation to heart and branched out
innto community and cultural
activities. As a result, practically
every big town branch of the
NAACP and Urban League today
gives increasing attention to
workers’ problems, -while Negro
ministers—long regarded as the
bulwark of conservative leader
ship—no longer hesitate to add
ress union meetings.
I for one consider this whole de
velopment to be healthy in every
way. Leaders who have been sha
ped in the crucible of the trade
union movement, rather than
men remote from the mass strug
gles of our time, grasp sensitivity
sreater, the urgencv of our pro
blems and their close interrela
tionship with the problems of
I
other minorities. A new York
sweat-shop owner of yesterday
bore no great love for immigrant
employees or East Side Jewish
workers than he did for the un
skilled Negroes who performed
the lowliest tasks. He exploited
them all—scientifically. He play
ed one group against the other
and kept them divided and weak,
until the union came along and
exposed his tactics to all the wor
kers
So Negro trade unionists who
have been through it all bring
their fellow citizens a greater wil- j
lingness to cooperate with non
Negro agencies and individuals.
The isolation of the Negro com
munity—the familiar ‘black me
tropolis’ in North and South—
will crumble if this new trend of
leadership continues. To all who
detest the subtle as well as the
obvious patterns of segregation,
the post-war path is clear. Our
destiny lies with our working bro
thers in overhalls and white col
lars—yes, even with our fellow
•Cracker’ workers—whose hopes
and dreams, needs and sufferings,
economic frustrations and ideals
are pretty much the same as is
ours.
New York—A report that Lib
erian and other dark skinned del
egates to the Bretton Woods mon
etary conference to be held near
Savannah, Georgia, will be refused!
accomodations at the General Og
lethorpe Hotel Aas caused the
NAACP to inquire of both the
State and Treasury Departments
whether this arrangement has
been sanctioned by the United
States.
In identical letters to Secre-'
WAR ON SCHOOL JIM CROW
MAPPED BY OHIO NAACP
Columbus, O.,—A state wide le-'
gal battle to halt the spread of
Jim Crow schools in Ohio and
abolish those already in existence
was drawn up here January 11-12
by delegates from most of the 31
NAACP branches in the state.
State President Maynard Dick
erson of Youngstown presided
over the meeting in the Spring St
YMCA here and conferences were
held by Thurgood Marshall, chief
counsel of the NAACP with law
yers and laymen on the situation
in their communities.
It was reported that segregated
schools are in existence in Day
ton, Xenia, Hamilton, Oxford, and
Chagrin Falls- The legal commit
tee of the state conference of all
branches will investigate all cases
and wag given the power to insti
tute suit in cases it deemed to be
important. Indications are that
suits will be filed in Chagrin Kalis
Xenia, and Hamilton.
Plans for raising a fund of
$10,000 to finance ihe cases will
be drawn by the state executive
committee of the NAACP at a
meeting in the near future. The
committee will also employ a full
time executive to coordinate edu
cation, publicity and fund-raising
and appoint active and enlarged
education and publicity commit
tees.
The Ohio campaign against se
gregation in schools will have the
full cooperation of the national
office legal staff of the NAACP,
Mr. Marshall announced.
tary of the Treasury Fred M. Vin
son and Acting Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, the NAACP de
clares that the hotel management
has been quietly seeking to arran'
ge to house colored delegates in
private Negro homes in Savannah
nine miles from Wilmington Is
land, where the conference will be
held. A beach club will also be
used to house delegates, accord
ing to a Washington announce
ment January 14, and the NAACP
stated in its Georgia organization
had informed it that Negroes are
not permitted in either of the est
ablishments except as servants.
The Washington announcement
stated that a small committee of
State and Treasury Department
representatives recently inspected
the Wilmington Island site and
designated the General Oglethorpe
Hotel and the nearby beach ciutr
as headquarters for the delegates
from all over the world. The
NAACP letter, signed by Koy
Wilkins, assistant secretary sard:
"This Association would like to
inquire whether the Treasury and
State Departments know of the
contemplated separation of dark
skinned delegates from the others
and the proposal to house them
in Negro homes in Savannah, and
whether these departments have
consented to this arrangemcnt
“It would seem obvious that ail
delegates to an international con
ference should receive exactly the
same treatment and should not be
subject to prejudices indigenous
to local areas in the United State®.
"The action of the preparatory
commission on the United Nations
Organization, barring as a perma
nent site in the United States any
locality which refused to accept
delegates of every nation on a ba
sis of equality, would seem to be
a guide for this monetary confer
ence
This association wishes, to urge
respectfully, but firmly, that if
the hotel accomodations near Sa
vannah are not to be available to
all delegates without discrimina
tion of any sort, then the confer
ence should be moved to a locality
i where this equality can prevail”
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