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SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 1946 (hir 19th Year—!V* 34
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Tickets On Sale At Johnson’s Drug & AMVETS’
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! Schwellenbach Pledges
lo Abolish Discrimination
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A. PHILIP RANDOLPH RE-ELECTED
PORTERS’ BROTHERHOOD PRES.
THE CONVENTION PICTURE OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS Assembled in Chicago. Sept. 5-^0, 1946.
Sleepmg Car Porters9 Auxiliary Meet At Chicago
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CONVENTION PICTURE OF THE LADIES AUXILIARY Meeting in Chicago, September 15—18 1946. T
Fifth Biennial Convention
Largest Ever Held
Heads RR. Organizatien for 21 Years
At tl - 1 ~ing -i-sion of the Fifth Biennial Convention, at Chi
cago. pt -ruber 20. 1946, A. Philip Randolph was unanimously re
elected Ini national President, r.iadts his 21st year as head of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. All of the officials were re
elected, including M. P. Webster,
1st International Vice President.
Other International Vice Presi
dents include Bennie Smith of De
troit. E. J. Bradley of St. Louis,
and C. L. Dellums of Oakland Cal
ifornia. A.sliiey L. Totten was re
elected International Seccretary
Treasurer.
The fifth Biennial Convention of
the BSCP was the largest ever held
»n its history with 150 or more de
legates coming from 100 or more
kscal divisions stretching across
the entire country of the United
States and Canada and including
representation of 95 percent of the
railroads in the two countries em
ploying sleeping car, train, coach,
and chair car porters, attendants
and maids. There were also obser
vers to the convention from the
ranks of the Pullman Yard Forces
in attendance.
Resolutions debated and adopted
by the Convention covered a wide
range of subjects and interests,
both with respect to the craft and
those of broader, social, economic,
and political interests. The resolu
tion of absorbing interest was con
cerned with the reduction of the
work-month from 240 to 180 hours
as a basic month in all classes
of service with time and a-half for
overtime. There was overwhelming
- agree bent that with the progres
sive mechanization of the rail
roads 240 is much too long for a
porter to work, stated A. Philip
Randolph, the porter’s leader.
A. Philip Randolph, M. P. Web
ster and Claude Grooms, 2nd Vice
President of the Chicago Division,
were elected to represent the Bro
therhood at the 66th convention of
the American Federation of Labor
in Chicago October. 1946.
The city selected for the 1948
convention was the Motor City,
Detroit.
GUEST OF HASTINGS C. of C.
REVEREND C. C. ADAMS, attend
ed the tour of Tri State County
Projects as a guest of the Hast
ings Chamber of Commerce, Hast
ings. Nebraska, on September 23,
and 25th.
G. D. Hancock at Qair ME.
As Guest Speaker Sunday
The Rev. G. D. Hancock, Dist
rict Superintendent of the Topeka
District of The Methodist Church,
will be guest speaker at Clair Me
thodist Church this coming Sun
day, September 29th. He will de
liver the sermons at both the morn
| ing and night services. He will
hold the Second Quarterly Confer
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The Ladies Auxiliary to ihe Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
onvened in session at Metropolitan Community Church, 41st and
South Parkway, Monday September 16 at 10 a. m., Chicago, Illinois
The opening address of the International President, Helena Wil
son, sounded the keynote address
of the social and economic policy
of the Auxiliary.
The following officers were re
elected by acclamation: Halena
Wilson, President: Katherine Las
siter, 1st Vice President: Mae Dai
ley, 2nd Vice President; Fannie
J. Cavine^s, 3rd Vice President;
Letitia Murray, 4th Vice President
Rosina C. Tucker, Secretary-Trea
surer; and Executive Board mem
bers Nora Fant; Carrie B. Mc
Watt; Ella Johnson; Marion Sap
pington; Rosie Taylor; Carrie E.
White; Velma I. Coward; Ella Mc
Bride and A. Philip Randolph.
The president recommended the
endorsement of The Murray-Wag
ner-Thomas-O’Mahoney full em
ployment bill: the Wagner-Ellender
Taft Housing bill: the Wagner
Murray-Dingell National Health
bill; creation of a National Per
manent Fair Employment Prac
tices Commission: retention of
OP A and price controls until pri
ces are stabilized, and approval
of consumers co-operates was ur
ged by the president.
The convention accepted these
recommendations in its fifth ses
sion. Thirty-three states and 45
divisions from the United 'States
and Canada were represented at
the convention.
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Truman Promises Committee
HE WILL WORK TO
END MOB VIOLENCE
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 19
President Truman today held a
conference at the White House
with a delegation from the recent
ly formed National Emergency
Committee Against Mob Violence.
The Committee, formed at the call
of the NAACP, represents 47 na
tional labor, church, women's, pu
blisher’s, lawyers’, civH rights and
fraternal organizations. Its delega
tion wse warmly received by the
President. His interest in the sub
ject was so great he spent 35 in
stead of the precluded 15 minutes
discussing the situation with the
group, which included Dr. Chan
ning H. Tobias, Frederick E. Reis
sig of the Federal Council of
ence on Monday night. The pas
tor, Rev. Reynolds urges all mem
bers to be present Sunday and ex
tends a cordial invitation to all the
friends of Dr. Hancock to hear him
as well as friends of the church.
He will take moving pictures of
the morning service.
BOARD P'CTURE Members of the International Executive Board. Swted left to right: Ashley L.
Totten, E. J. Bradley, Bennie Smith. T. T. Patterson M. P. Webster A. PMBp Itat^oloh J R Benoit C
L. Dellums, Standing left to right John C. Mills, G. C. Garren, Henry YaUe, A. R. Dailey. ’ '
Churches in Christ in America;
James Carey, secretary of the CIO
Boris Shishkin of the AFL and
Walter White, secretary, and Les
lie Perry, Administrative assist
ant of the NAACP.
Serving as spokesman for the
group, Mr. White urged the Presi
dent to act to stem the rising tide
of lynchings and violence against
Negroes. He described to the Pre
sident circumstances leading up
to the blinding of Isaac Woodard,
calling attention to the fact that
Sheriff L. M. Shull of Batesburg,
S. C., boasted that it was all his
handiwork. Mr. White further
pointed out the fact that the NA
ACP has submitted to the Dept,
of Justice the names of partici
pants in the quadruple lynchings
, in Walton County. Ga., and the
blow-torch, meat cleaver lynchings
in Minden, Louisiana—emphasiz
ing the fact that the Department
has not yet moved for indictment.
The plight of the defendants and
counsel in the prejudice-ridden
court in Lawrenceburg, Tenn.. was
detailed to the President, and Mr.
White cited the remark of District
Atorney Bumpus that he was go
ing to wrap a chair around the
n— lawyer’s head if he didn’t
stop contradicting him, referring
to NAACP defense counselor Dr.
Leon A. Ransom.
The President said that this big
wave of violence has been one of
his greatest problems. Visibly mo
ved by the story of Woodard’s
blinding, he said that nothing he
could think of could justify a sher
iff doing what this one did—that
there must be some law under
which the sheriff can be handled.
He promised the group that he
would take up the matters discus
sed with Attv. Gen. Tom Clark the
next day.
Doctor Tobias told the President
that he had just returned from
Africa via London and that, abroad
there was great admiration for
the United States, but everywhere
he went, where the papers played
up this country’s lynichings, he
could see that America had lost
a great deal of its prestige.
Dr. Tobias and Mr. Carey both
reiterated the need for leadership
OUR 1
GUEST
Column
i Edited by Verna P. Harris
MUTUAL AW
By Philippa Duke Schuyler,
gifted young composer and
pianist
Members of other minority
groups have been so exceptionally
kind and helpful to me that I doubt
if I could have done the things I
have without their encouragement
and aid. If Hedi Katz, a violinist
and teacher, had not sent me to
see Mother Stevens of the Convent
of the Sacred Heart when I was
five, I would never have had the
fine early training in Gregorian
Chant that I had, nor met the won
derful Catholic nuns of Manhattan
ville. If Chotszinoff, then music
critic of the New York Post, had
not praised my original composi
tions at the same age, my parents
might not have had the same con
fidence in them.
If Rebecca Davidson, piona teach
er, and Pauline Apanowitz, piano
teacher, had not taught me when
I was seven and eight, I might
have done far less well. If Rudolph
Ganz had not been simply wonder
ful to me for years at the Phil
harmonic Young People’s Concerts
then given his valuable time to
listen to my first orchestral work,
and then played it for the first
time at Carnegi Hall when lesser
men than he refused even to look
at it and when Mr. Ganz played
my piece later in San Francisco,
Chicago and Grand Rapids, and
more than this..took the time to
write to me and phone me regard
ing my work, how could I ever
harbor anything exceut the highest
regard and deepest appreciation
for people of his faith ?
How could I have played in Bos
ton of at the N. Y. Stadium this
yar without the help of Herman
Wasserman, my piano teacher, or
Arthur Fielder, conductor of the
Boston Pops under whom I made
my debut with the symphony or
chestra as soloist? Well really, not
only would my life be much less
without the help of these fine peo
ple, but America would be far
pooer without them. I think a coun
try’s greatest asset lies in its peo
ple, their quality and intelligence,
and when I visualize America with
out the Jew who has hepled to give
it wit and charm and music, well,
I think we'd be just another Au
stralia. .a country without glamor
or brilliance.
—APA—
from the White House, saying that
the decent people in Georgia and
other areas are confused and need
the clarion voice of the Chief
^ixecutive. .that should President
Truman speak out on this subject
it woull bolster the morale of li
beral forces throughout the world.
learners Should unite ror
Total School Improvement
.Says Picott
RICHMOND—Teachers in city
schools should lead the way in ed
ucation for dynamic and function
al living, J. Rupert Picott, execu
tive secretary, Virginia Association
for Education told members of
the Roanoke City Teacers Assn,
here today in an address entitled
“Precision Education for Today’s
World”.
Declaring that Virginia’s dty
school systems because of the cal
ibre and training ef scchool fac
ulties and equipment have the op
portunity and undeniable respon
sibility to prepare pupils and ad
ults for social understandings in
i a dangerous eriod of racial read
Washington, DC., September 21
Pledging that his Department
would put an end to the segregat
ed office set-up in the USES office
in Washington as quickly as pos
sible, Secretary of Labor Lewis
B. Schwellenbach said no possible
defense could be offered for the
practice, since we have just fin
ished fighting a war against dis
crimination. His assurances that
plans were being made to elimin
ate jim crowism in the D. C. em
ployment offices was given to the
representatives of ten organizat
ions called together by the Secre
tary following numerous requests
for such a conference addressed to
him by prominent persons and or
ganizations urged to action by
NAACP Labor Secretary Clarence
B. Mitchell.
Mr. Schwellenbach said that,
while he was opposed to the pro
gram of segregation in state offic
es, he could not give a commit
ment at this time on whether or
not the proposals of the organiz
ations would be made a part of the
minimum standards of operation,
since the Department of Labor's
effort to have adequate policing
powers included in its legislation
was not successful in Congress.
The Department’s only method of
applying pressure would be to
withdraw its funds. Several per
sons at the conference thought
this would be a most potent sanc
tion against discriminatory prac
tices, but the Secretary said this
action has many complications.
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40 Year Natural
Gas Supply
Assured Omaha
Known natural gas reserves and
future discoveries will assure Om
aha of a sufficient supply for at
least 40 years, should the people
vote for a changeover to full na
tural gas from the present sy
stem of 600 B. t. u.
That was the opinion voiced by
Charles R. Bellamy, one of the na
tion's most foremost gas engin
eers, in answer to questions by
board members of the Metropoli
tan Utilities District. Bellamy ur
ged in a formal report that Omaha
be converted to straight 100 per
cent natural gas service as the
most practicable and economical
method of meeting the city’s ra
pidly increasing and urgent gas de
mands.
“But the most fortunate thing
about the situation is this”, Bella
my continued: "In the past 10
| years discoveries have exceeded
consumption so that reserves are
stronger today than they were 10
years ago”. He added that by the
time Omaha could install full na
tural gas service (summer of 1947) j
there would be double or ‘louped’:
lines practically all the way from
natural gas fields to here, provid
ing double protection from any
breaks.
Bellamy also emphasized that
Omaha is fortunate in being the
first "Big customer” on lines run
ning northward and as such would
be first to receive gas from the
line. He pointed out that the main
line running to Omaha could be
stepped up to meet any capacity
needed for the day’s requirements
in the future.
Questioned about what would
happen to Omaha in case of a
break in the pipeline, Bellamy said
that many cities never know when
there is an interruption because
repair crews maintain constant
vigilance. “Meanwhile”, he explain
ed the gas in the line itself is suf
ficient to sustain pressure for an
extended period. Fortunately, in
the case of Omaha, should pipeline
breaks occur, with your large hol
der capacity your are in an exce
ptionally fine position to weather
such conditions”.
j iciuicu iu v/maiia s o
large gas holders maintained at
the Gas Works where a reserve
supply of gns can be stored for
emergencies.
The Gas Engineer cited Omaha’s
holder capacity as “very great” in
comparison with most gas com
paniesv many of which operate with
natural gas without any emergen
cy holder capacity. “You have a
holder capacity, Bellamy said, suf
ficient to meet almost a peak day
when the chageover to natural
gas is made. It will meet normal
days very easily. That is very un
usual .. most companies have very
little over half that supply”.
justment, Mr. Picott held that too
often these schools have become
retarded by political manipulations
and emeshed in the inertia of size, i
Insisting that the current wave >
of lynching and racial intimidation
of Negroes in the South as much
as the current L’Affaire Wallace
shows that we don’t know where
we are going as a nation, the Tea
chers State Officer stated it is
disgraceful and a wanton waste of
human resources for any school
system to keep on teaching the 3
R’s and ignore courses and discu
ssions in human relationships.
Continuing Mr Picott declared
that the current shortage of in
structors offered teachers the best
opportunity to demand and secure
better pay, increased working and
retirement rights. Maybe he said
we need some of the Norwalk,
Connecticut school tactics applied
in Virginia to awaken both our
parents and our teachers that the
schoolhouse is the place whore fu
ture Americans are trained and
teaching should be treated as such.
Lambasting education as the only
profession which does not itself
giv,e qualifying examinations to
trainees or set other standards for
pratcice, Mr. Picott remarked that
from the physicians who try to
keep alive to the morticians who
bury, all excepting teachers “exert
the major voice in the operations
of the# professions.
His association is now initiating
a campaign to remedy this defect,
the speaker indicated and he ask
ed Roanoke educators to give full
aanport to the project.
This project, Mr. Picott said,
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PAST LEGION COMMANDER
CHARLES J. COLEMAJs, DIES
Mr. Charles J. Coleman, 50, of 2208 Ohio Street, died Sunday, Sept
ember 22nd at the Veterans Hospital Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr. Coleman
was a City employee and was a Past Commander of Roosevelt Post No.
30, American Legion and a member of Rough Ashler Lodge No. 1, A.
F. & A. M. He is survived by his wife Mrs. Goldie Coleman, Omaha;
father, Mr. Charles Coleman, Pensacola* Florida; two sisters, Mrs. Mal
vina Hudgens, Miss Irma Coleman, both of Omaha; brother, Mr. Ed
ward Coleman, Chicago, Illinois.
The body lay in state at the Thomas Mortuary Home, 2022 Lake SL,
until the funeral hour. Services were held Thursday afternoon from
Clair Chapel Methodist Church with the Rev. C. C- Reynolds officiat
ing, assisted by Rev. S. K. Nicholas. Rough Ashler Lodge No. 1, was in
charge of Masonic rites. Roosevelt Post No. 30 was in charge of the
Military services. Burial was in Soldiers’ Circle at Forest Lawr cem
etery.
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To Crown The Queen
COUNT BASIE, No. 1 Orchestra Leader, Appearing at the Orpfceunr.
Theatre, One Week beginning September 27, will be on hand at the
Gala Ball to present Awards and Crown the winner of the Mid-Citr
Sepia Queen Contest at the AMVETS’ Club, 24th and Miami Streets
on the evening of September 30 1946 at 9 p. m.
Mississippi Editor Charges
Bilbo Renominated
Through Fraud
And Intimidation
New York, N. Y.—Percy
Green, editor of “The Jack
son (Miss.) Advocate**, said
here today that Sen. Theo
dore G. Bilbo was renomina
ted to the Senate on July 2
through fraud, intimidation
and terror.
The Negroes of Mississippi live
under the shadow of fear. Mr.
Green said at a press conference in
the offices of the Civil Rights Con
gress, and throughout his primary
campaign Senator Bilbo stirred the
passions and inflamed the preju
dices of the white people of the
State.
Among the incidents which mar
ked the election, according to Mr.
Green, was one in which a veter
an who sought to vote in Gulfport
Miss, was beaten unconscious by
election officials and arrested by
the local police. At Louisville, Miss
a Negro voter who appeared at the
polls was told:
“We’d rather you did not vote.
If you do, we’ll see you about that
tonight”.
Senator Bilbo was renominated
by a slim majority of 3,500 votes,
Mr. Green said. This majority
could have been upset without any
trouble at all if the 500JJp0 eligi
ble Negro citizens had been free
to register and vote, he pointed
out. Actually only from 3,000 to
4,000 NegToes have been registered
in the State because of the bar
George Corwin To
Visit Omaha “Y”
Mr. George Corwin, National
Council YMCA Boys' Work Admin
istrator will be the guest of the
September 25th. He is scheduled
to talk at the Laymens conference
at 6:30 PM on "Trends in Youth
Work.” Mr. Corwin will also help
with the all-city Hi-Y Inductior
Service to be handled by the South
Hi-Y Induction team scheduled foi
7:30 PM at the Central Y.M.C.A
Auditorium. An informal dis
cussion of Hi-Y will follow the
Induction Service.
In addition to the above appear
ance Mr. Corwin will meet with
the YMCA Staff at 8:30 AM anc
with Executive and Group workers
of Community agencies at 10:0<
AM at the YMCA.
Mr. Ernest Adams, Chairman ol
the Schools "Y" Committee, whc
is instrumental in Mr. Corwin's
visit to Omaha, claims that it is f
real opportunity for Hi-Y anc
Youth Leaders to hear Mr. Corwin
READ The Greater Omaha Guide
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riers which have been' erected by
Bilbo and others who build them
power on the “White supremacy"
program.
“There are thousands of white
citizens in Missippi who are aa
fine as any people anywhere”, Mr.
Green declared, and the Mississ
ippi campaign to unseat Bilbo cer
tainly had a bearing on the narrow
margin with which Bilbo wn* re
nominated.
Mr. Green made it dear that
the movement to bar Bilbo from
I public office is a Mississoppi move
ment supported by the 1 £5(1.OOP
Negroes and the many liberal
white people of the state He add
ed, however, that the Negroes in
Mississippi face a problem which
involves not only the Negroes and
Mississippi but the Whole nation,
and the relations of the United
States with other nations.
For that reason, he said, Mississ
ippians have welcomed the help
given the unseat-Bilbo campaign
by the Civil Rights Congreas, that
assigned a staff of attorneys and
investigators to help the people of
that State in formulating the pe
tition and gathering signatures for
a petition which was filed with the
Senate Committee on Campaign
Expenditures and the Committee
on Privileges and Elections this
week.
The Civil Rights Congress, which
has been giving publicity and ad
vice in the campaign to unseat
Bilbo, will hold a dinner at the
Hotel Pennslyvania on October 17
to focus attention on the issues
involved. The organization expects
that a larger and broader coordin
ated national compaign against
Bilbo will develop out of this func
tion.
The fifteen million Negroes in
the United States are not a threat
to the other one hun'dred twenty
1 five million people in this country.
I Mr Green said. The Negroes should
! be given all their legal rights as
I Americans now, and the whole na
j tion will be the better fer it wher.
that is done. Our democratic sy
stem itself, he pointed out, is in
danger as long as some of the peo
ple are free and the rest are de
nied the privileges of full citizen
l ship.
To a question whether his life
was in danger in the South be
cause of the liberal stand his new*
paper has taken and because he
was one of the signers of the pe
tition to unseat Bilbo, Mr. Green
declared “I don’t think my life is
in danger because I don’t think
that way”.
“I was bom in Jackson and I
like it there. I dc»‘t think all the
j people of the South should start
for the North. The Negro people
i who are there were bom there,
I and they like it, and {hey ought
I to be able to remain there with
their freedom guaranteed”.