Southern Prejudice Against
Unions is Giving Way Gradually
NEW ORLEANS — “Southern
prejudice against unions is giving
way gradually to constructive ac
ceptance of the basic right of
workers to organize for economic
security.”
That is the assertion of Dr.
George W. Snowden, AFL Or
ganizing Committee coordinator
for Louisiana, who addressed the
first winter forum of the Cosmo
politan Club in the Central YMCA
before a large gathering last week
The South has been emerging as
a powrful sector during the last
decade, Mr. Snowden said, adding
that all studies indicate this trend
will continue and that the section
Beer Retailing
Attains Higher
Standards
When the Soil Conservation
specialist goes to a farm he
goes as a friend, and often
makes helpful suggestions.
Nebraska beer retailers also
have a “helpful advisor”—
the Nebraska Committee of
the U. S. Brewers Founda
tion. This agency works con
stantly to help retailers avoid
law violations and bad prac
tices which are against the
public interest. They are
helped to be a credit to them
selves, to the beer industry and
to the community.
When conditions in a tavern
are found to be unsatisfactory
a Nebraska Committee cau
tion usually brings a quick
correction. If some persist in
bad practices the Committee
submits the facts to legal
authorities for action.
Self-regulation thus keeps Ne
braska taverns operating in the
public interest.
: NEBRASKA COMMITTEE
United States
Brewers
Foundation
Charles E. Sandall, State Directo:
710 First Nat’l Bank Bldg., Lincoln
long considered me last major
redoubt of open shop anti-union
sentiment in this country is pain
fully realizing that industrial
growth seem inevitably to come
together.
Social Change Altering
Southern Opinion.
Southern opinion, the Dillard
university economic professor stat
ed, as reflected in the daily press
and employer-dominated journals,
influenced by the war, industrial’
expansion and Federal labor pol
icy, is not suddenly pro-labor,
Southern opinion, he explained, is
accepting the inevitable—though
not by any means welcoming it.
Of the nearly seven and a quar
I ter million members in AFL
I unions, almost two and a quarter
million are in unions in the 13
Southern States—a far cry from
the quarter million members 10
years ago. Since the start of the
organizing drive, in the South he
informed, nearly 200,000 new
members have been added to the
AFL rolls. The goal for the first
campaign year is a million new
members, it was explained.
To Concentrate in
Low-Pay Industries
Special fields of organizing ac
tivity will center in some of the
principal low-pay industries, such
as lumber mills, paper and pulp
mills, chemicals, dairy products,
rice mills and laundries, Dr. Snow
den revealed.
“The AFL started the campaign
with the rather excellent founda
tion of craft unions long establish
ed in the South,” the coordinator
continued. “Harbor and construc
tion workers, and some railway1
motherhoods came into existence
in the middle of the Nineteenth
Century. These unions have deve
loped. through trial and error, well
formulated patterns of organiz
ing that give the AFL a decided
advantage in a membership drive.
“Of special importance in the
drive will be the aid by District
50 of the United Mine Workers.
This special division is a cort of
catch-all organization and is the
answer to the plea for industrial
unionism within theAFL. Because
of the affiliation of District 50
with the name of John L. Lewis,
many workers, Negro and white,
prefer it to either the strictly
craft unions of AFL or the CIO
industrial unions.”
Dr. Snowden informed that
there are a quarter million Ne
groes in AFL unions in the South
and that the organizing drive pro
poses to enroll two million by
1950.
HUSBAND, WIFE GET
FEDERAL SENTENCES
A husband and wife were fined
a total of $80 and sentenced to 120
days in jail Wednesday by Feder
al Judge J. A. Donohoe.
Mrs. Gladys Richardson McCray
21, of 2124 North 27th avenue was
charged with forging and cashing
four government bonds for a total
of $160.
Her husband, Willie McCray, 27,
was charged with cashing the forg
ed bonds for a total of $71.
Judge Donohoe sentenced each
to 60 days in jail and fined each
$40.
THE ARMY OFFERS
HEW HIGHER PAY
TO MEN WHO CAN QUALIFY
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If you are 18 to 34 inclusive . ... '
and were discharged from the 4IOS
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, „ , , 304 Electric Motor Repairman
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more months in any of certain 514 RqJq, Crewman (Designated Set)
specialties, you may enlist in 623 Fim>nee Typist-Clerk
the Army now directly into cer- 683 Bombsight Mechanic
tain non-commissioned grades. 740 Radio Operator,
In addition to the specialties Intermediate Speed
listed here, there are many 754 Radio Mechanic, AAF
more for which you may be 861 Surgical Technician
qualified. Ask about them at 941 Camera Technician
your U. S. Army Recruiting ,-.
Station.
• Bring both your discharge certifi
cate and your occupational history
(W.D.A.G.O. Form 100 — Report of
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postpone this trip. But I told her she could fprget about
weather reports ... I had my space reserved on Union
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The man is right. And, furthermore, he'll be '
completely rested; in A-l shape for business
appointments.
For dependable, all-weather transporta
tion, may we suggest ... be specific—
say "Union Pacific."
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[CARRIES ON CARVER'S WORK |
DR. RUSSELL W. BROWN Dir
ector of the George Washington
Carver foundation at Tuskegee
which is carrying on the work be
gun by Dr. Carver. He is current
ly spending three months visiting
the most important research lab
oratories in the United States and
Canada to observe their work and
methods. (ANP)
HEADS SPEAKERS' BUREAU
KERMIT HANSEN, of 6221 Blon
do, will head the Speakers’ Bur
eau Committee of the 1947 Doug
las County Red Cross campaign,
according to E. C. Schmidt, gener
al chairman.
Fair Flay
By GEORGE S.BENSON „ ^
frasident of Harding College fly 1
Searcy. Arkansas JlflCCUl/
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SWEDEN does not even approxi
mate the wealth in natural re
sources of Russia or America, yet
her per capita income is far above
Russia's and is almost as high as
America’s. What is the secret of
this prosperity? For 20 years I
have been trying to find the for
mula for national prosperity in
observing nations all around the
world. What is it that gives
iSweden — a country the size of
Oklahoma and Arkansas, with
limited natural resources—an in
dividual prosperity that puts her
high in the conning?
I found everywhere in Sweden a
spirit of wholesome living and fair
play, and I discovered also that
these things were based upon the
strong religious foundations of
the people. During the week I
spent in the heart of Sweden’s
largest city, I saw not a single
drunk nor any indications of
lewdness, things which are so ap
parent in the parks of London and
New York.
Typical THE SPIRIT of fair
Attitude play and honest com
petition is manifest in
every quarter in Sweden. People
count more on it and talk more
about it and mean it more sin
cerely than any people I know.
For example, the man who is re
sponsible for running the affairs
of Sweden's trade unions wants
industrial corporations to make a
reasonable profit.
He wants to maintain private
ownership and management. He
wants fair play between labor
and industry. He wants wages
kept at a level that will assure a
market for the greatest volume
of goods. He wants cooperative
_• understanding betwq&n labor and
industry. His attitude, I was.told
by everyone, is typical of tin
Swedish labor leader. He shuns
Communism or state socialism.
He wants individual freedom, net
regimentation of pedple’s lives.
Fair Play HONEST-TO-GCOD
is the Key NESS fair play, man
ifested through a
spirit of fine cooperation on the
part of every group that com
petes in the game of economics,
is the key to the prosperity of
this small but great country. The
people think of competition —
real active competition — as the
basis of prosperity. None of them
suffer the illusion that state man
agement of industry could pro
vide effective competition or the
prosperity equivalent to that of
private enterprise.
There is much that we could
emulate in Sweden. This fair
play and competitive spirit goes
right down to the shops and fac
tories, 85% of which are oper
ated on incentive plans based on
piecework, or on bonuses paid for
certain achievements. There are
floors for wages, but no ceilings.
This means that those willing to
work harder may earn more than
the minimum. This rule rightly
belongs in our own American tra
ditions, but let us not forget it.
A Swedish labor leader told
me: “Piecework is the chief
means of increasing production.
That's why most of our industries
have it. This enables a good
worker to earn more than a lazy
worker. _Our workers all agree to
it, so it is a happy situation. We
realize that high productivity of
fers the only means of sustained
high wages. I am amazed that
people everywhere do not recog
nize this principle.”
The Waiters Column
By H. W. Smith
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Blackstone hotel waiters in the
front line on service.
• • *
Regis hotel and White Horse Inn
waiters going good at all times.
• • «
Fontenelle Hotel waiters on the
improve on service in a very fine
way.
• * *
Paxton Hotel headwaiter and
streamlined crew of waiters on the
up and go on service at all times
with a smile to all guests and their
friends.
* * *
George Upton and H. W. Smith
on a shopping tour in the Central
Market
• • •
Musician headwaiter and quick
stepping crew at the Omaha Cham
ber of Commerce very much out in
front.
» * •
Omaha Club waiters and Captain
Earl Jones serving with a smile at
all times.
Waiters’ Key Club on the im
prove on serving and entertaining
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Read the Omaha Guide for all
the News!
The Week
By H. W. SMITH
A one hundred and fifty pound
German shell exploded in Minden,
Holland on January 19 and killed
20 persons.
* * *
Federal Judge Michael O. Igoe,
of Chicago, denied citizenship to
John Victor Mirrioe one of the in
structors at the Chicago univers
ity—the Judge had information
that he was a Russian.
* * *
Reports to Phillipino military
headquarters on January 19 that
Filipino military police had been
fighting skirmishes with armed
Japanese stragglers.
***
A student at the Ann Arbor,
Michigan university, was arrested
and charged by one of the coeds
with rape. His name was Glenn
A. Whittle.
***
A southern Pacific RR. train
I OUR
GUEST
Column
(Edited by VERNA P. HAQRis)
JIMCROW HOUSING STARTS
IN WALL STREET
By Cana°a Lee
Star of Stage and Screen
In “On Whitman Avenue’’ I
played the part of a Negro un
able to find living quarters in an
overcrowded ghetto and yet bar
red from living in a white section.
It is a part which each Negro in
the United States is compelled to
play for his entire life.
The play describes how jimcrow
housing is enforced on a typical
street of a typical midwestem
town by- a typical real estate oper
ator. Actually the Hitler-style
housing pattern, which is also ap
plied to Orientals—and to lesser
degree to Jews and persons with
foreign-sounding names-—does not
originate on our Whitman Ave
nues. It is not inspired by the
small landlord or agent who fol
lows the pattern because he fears
the economic consequences of
breaking away from it. The policy
of racial segregation in housing is
dictated from above by the na
tion’s biggest banks and insurance
companies, who are the bigtime
real estate operators.
I recently had the opportunity
of publicizing this fact by picket
ing the Mortgage Conference of
Greater New York, located in the
heart of the Wall Street financial
district. The Mortgage Conference,
the Savings Bank Trust Co. of
New York through which it oper
ates, and its 37 member banks
and insurance companies, repre
senting the most powerful inter
ests in the country, have been
charged by the United States De
partment of Justice with conspir
acy to control mortgage lending
in violation of the anti-trust laws.
One section of the federal com
plaint charged that the defend
ants “prepared, published, kept
current and distributed maps of
each section of New York City
showing blocks in which Negroes
and Spanish-speaking persons re
sided; refrained from making
mortgage loans on properties in
such blocks, and induced owners of
real estate in certain section of
New York City to refuse to per
mit Negroes and Spanish-speaking
persons to move into such sec
tions.”
Whether or not the Justice De
partment obtains a conviction, the
has at least served to make public
the names of the banks and in
surance companies which enforce
jimcrow housing in our biggest
city. They include the National
City Bank, Chase National Bank,
Prudential Life Insurance Co. and
Guardian Life Insurance Co. It is
similar big monied interests which
enforce the same pattern from
coast to coast.
Another indication of how jim
crow housing is backed by these
big interests as a recent United
States Chamber of Commerce
pamphlet which singled out "On
Whitman Avenue" for attack. Cit
ing a story I wrote in the New
York Times about our successful
promotion of the play, the Cham
ber of Commerce objected that
“the promoters turned to unortho
dox channels,” appealing to “union
weeklies, the press serving minor
ity groups and to scores of organi
zations of every type.”
In fighting for rights of racial
minorities these “unorthodox chan
nels” are usually the only ones
open. An example was our Mort
gage Conference picketing. A pic
ket line in Wall Street is certainly
unusual enough to be news—and
oarticularly one directed against
jimcrow housing. Yet no New York
dailies carried a story about the
demonstration even though they
covered it. Onlv the Negro papers
gave it publicity
was wrecked on January 19 near
Bakersfield, Calif—7 persons were
killed.
***
E- N. Peterson 40 years old of
4336 Oakwood avenue, Chicago,
left his apartment for the first
time in three and a half years—
an eviction notice was served on
him.
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From boxing ring at Oakland, California, these victims of infantile
paralysis appeal for support of the March of Dimes, January 15-30,
annual fund-raising campaign of the National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis.
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Indian
14 Weakly
15 Vexation
17 Evening
(poet.)
18 Electrical
Engineer
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19 Pole
20 Honey insects
21 Man's ,
nickname
22 God of
underworld
23 Bang
25 Snare
26 Public notice
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actor
28 Thoughtful
31 Increase
(radio)
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34 Affrays
35 Quarrels
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weight
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No. 30
21 Piece of
needlework
22 Disclaim
23 False
24 Cripples
25 Medieval
boats
26 Affirms
27 Lairs
29 Devoutness
30 Sacred pic
tures (Russ. ”
Ch.)
32 River (Sib.)
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BORN A SLAVE IN MACON GA.
1854 LUCY CRAFT LANEY WAS
A MEMBER OF THE FIRST
GRADUATING CLASS AT
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY/
SHE BEGAN TO TEACH IN.
SAVANNAH, AND FROM THERE
WENT TO AUGUSTA, GA.
WHERE fel YEARS 'GO, SHE
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Army and Navy officers were in
a meeting on January 19 in Wash
ington, DC., to make an explanat
ion of the merger of the A and N.
*»*
U. S. Congress OK’s the Exten
sion of the Luxury tax on Jan. 18.
***
AME. Bishops have a scuffle in
a contest meeting in a court room
in Philadelphia, Pa., on January
17. Bishop Sims and Bishop
Green were involved.
A 14 year old boy told police of
San Francisco, Calif- of the stick
ups he made in Missouri. He was
traced by the FBI.
SOME SERVICES LARGER
NOW THAN IN WAR, RED
CROSS SPOKESMAN SAYS
Although the Douglas County
Red Cross chapter and the na
tional organization have reduced
war-inspired programs and war
time budgets, pressing needs for
funds to amplify other services,
particularly in relation to veterans’
calls for the full attainment of the
1947 financial goal.
“It is true that our operating ex
penses for services to the armed
forces have taken a drop in keep
ing with the reduced size of our
Army and Navy,” according to Ed
Schmidt, campaign chairman, in
a message to the campaign work
ers. “It is also a fact that we are
using cash reserves on a local and
national basis. But at the same
time that some of our war-born
services are diminishing, some of
our peacetime demands are higher
than ever. The services to veter
ans of the Douglas County Chap
ter will demand a large per cent
of our budget for 1947. In addition,
we must have an ample reserve
for anticipated disasters during
which we will be expected to feed,
shelter, and rehabilitate an un
known number of victims.”
The campaign chairman, in
pointing up his message to the
solicitors, said that he had been
infonned by National Red Cross
Chairman Basil O’Connor that pre
liminary estimates of national
needs show gross needs of 42 mil
lion dollars, 10 million of which
is to be held as a disaster relief
emergency fund for the aid of
disaster victims wherever neces
sary in the United States. The
chairman added that the needs of
almost 4,000 Red Cross chapters
throughout the country cannot be
met this year for less than 30 mil
lion dollars.
Service Squadron 10 (the float
ing base for the invasion of Okin
awa) supplied fighting ships, be
fore they jumped off, with enough
oil to make a train 238 miles long
with enough left over to heat 10,
000 homes for a year; with enough
gasoline to run 30,000 American
automobiles for a full year; and
with sufficient lubrication oil to
allow for a complete change of oil
in 466,000 automobiles.
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Nature may endow you with
breathtaking beauty, a lovely
curvaceous figure. She may be
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your class at college, sought
alter at dances, or a charming
wife and mother.
Yes, Nature may do all this.
And yet you may find your face
mockingly slapped if you suffer
these distressing symptoms,
which so many unfortunate
girls and women do.
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