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Omaha Boy Conducts
Orchestra in Europe
To the left: Band leader, Dur
ant. Right: conductor of the
dance band, James P. Mosley.
James P. Mosley Jr., gradu
ate of Technical High School
and son of Rev. and Mrs. J. P.
Mosley. 2904 North 28 Avenue,
is a member of the 427 Army
Band and the Jazz Pirates Or
chestra located in Frankfort,
Germany. He is making a su
ccess as an Alto Saxaphone
player and flutist.
MOSELEY JR. SUCCESS
Ambassador and Mrs. Char
les Ulrick Bay are giving a
dinner ths evening in the Am
erican Embassy for the Diplo
matic Corps and representa
tives of the Norwegian govern •
ment and the Norwegian De
fense. His majesty, the King,
and His Royal Higness, the
i Crown Prince, have indicated
that' they will be present.
On the occasion of this fes
tivity a part of the U. S. Head •
quarters Command Band in
Frankfort, the “Jazz Pirates”,
have come to Oslo to play for
the dancing as well as for en
tertainment. The band, 18 men,
is a part of the big military
band comprising 84 men, who
I se leader is Benjamin Durant,
a graduate of the Juilliard
School of Music ini New York.
The conductor of the dance
band, “Jazz Pirates”, is Sgt.
James P. Mosely.
The American Military Band, “Jazz Pirates”
C.W.A. NORTHWESTERN
DIVISION NO. 45
Negotiations began today
between the Communications
workers of America Division
No. 45 and the Northwestern
Bell Telephone Company on a
new agreement covering wages
and working Conditions for
Telephone Workers in the five
states involved.
The Union is asking for a
wage increase based on in
creases in the cost of living and
the lag in wage increases in the
telephone industry when com
pared, with wages increases in
other major industres.
Today’s discussions were of
an exporatory nature and neg
otiations will be resumed later
in the week.
FACT SHEET
The Communications Work
ers of America, Xorth western
Division Xo. 45 represents a
bout 18.000 telephone workers
in the states of Iowa, Minne
sota, Xebraska, Xorth and So.
Dakota. It holds contracts cov
ering 17.(i00 telephone workers
of the Xorthwestern Bell Tel
ephone Company and about
400 telephone workers of the
Fort Dodge, Iowa elephone Co
The Iowa Continental Teleph
one Co. and Nebraska Contin
ental Telephone Co. By states
the number of workers repres
ented is approximately as fol
lows: Iowa-5,550, Minn.-7,125,
Nebraska-2.750, North Dakota
I, 000 and South Dakota-1,475.
The top officers make up the
eight member Divsion Board
of Directors and they are: R.
L. Rogers, president-Des Moin
es, Iowa; J. R. Hill, 1st Vice
President - Omaha, Nebraska;
J. W. Boustead, 2nd Vice Pres
ident-Des Moines. Iowa; M. C.
V eir, 3rd Vice-President-Min.
Minnesota; and Vice Presi
dents Beatrice L. Smith-Dul
uth, Minnesota, G. P. Hauge
Minneapolis, Minnesota, H. J.
Rairdon-Fargo, North Dakota,
and C. E. Hines- Sioux Falls,
South Dakota. In each of the
five states, there is also a State
Board of Directors consisting
of a State President, State
Vice Presidents, a State Sec
retary, and a State Treasurer,
or a tate Secretary-Treasurer.
All officers are telephone
workers and carry on their
Union duties on an excused
absence ba);is without pay
from the Telephone Company
except for such time as is
spent in joint conference with
Company Management. We
feel that this is a distinct ad
vantage to both the Union and
the Company because our offi
cers are better able to under
stand and deal with the prob
lems of the workers.
CWA Northwestern Division
No. 45 is the successor to the
former Northwestern Union of
Telephone Workers which aff
iliated with the Natonal Fed
eration of Telephone Workers
(Independent)
The Division’s general offic
es are located at 536 Brandies
Theatre Bldg., Omaha Nebr
aska.
Structurally, CWA North
western Divison No. 45 is one
of 33 divisions of the internat
ional Union known as the Co
! mmuncations Workers of Am
I erica and identified by the let
I ers CWA.
\
The CWA was formed in
; June of 1947 and is the largest
labor organization in the tele
phone field. It represents some
233.000 telephone workers in
| contracts; held by its 33 divis
| ions across the country. It is
not affiliated wth either the A
j F of L or CIO but is independ
j ent.
1 CWA is the successor organ
It’s Alleged — Man
Shoots 3 Over Dice!
i
SHOT AND CUT
Hilda eeder, 34, of 1204M- I
North 24th St., Rov Carr, 48.
of 1204Mi North 24th St. and!
Willie Graham, 48, of 2411 |
Caldwell were shooting craps '
and also Robert Jackson, g9,
of 1284 North 24th St. In the
course of the game an argue
ment developed about chang
ing the dice, and that in the
course of this arguement Carr,
allegelly took $2.00 of Jackson
money. Jackson then left the
apartment went downstairs to !
his own place and returned
with a double-harried shotgun
and 4 extra shells. He asked
for his money and was refus
ed. He then “blasted” with
the shot gun (2 shots) and af
ter doing so a fight insued be
tween the other three. Jack
son then fled, leaving his shot
gun there at the scene. Hilda,
Roy and Willie were taken to
the county hospital and treat
ed there by Dr. Dolittle, Hilda
was treated for gunshot wou
nd in right buttock, gunshot
wound in left forearm and
knife wound extending from
the left ear to the left creek.
Graham was treated for shot
gun wounds in back, Carr gun
shot wound in left hip and left
wrist. Graham was released
and booked for “Investigation
Shotgun and extra shells and I
green hat went into custody
of the police station. They
were the property of Jackson.
Prominent Citizen is
Slugged and Robbed
JtS.tA 1 £,IN AINU KUmmU
M r s. Maggie Me Gowan ,
2719 % North 24 Street, and
Mrs. Pearl Green, 2334 Maple,
were on their way to Mission
Circle at 7:50 p.m. Monday
nght, March 29. A man came
up oemna mem anu pusnea
Mrs. Maggie McGowan down
and then tusled with Mrs.
Pearl Green, after snatching
her purse, struck her. and fled.
They have a clue to the fellow
that it was. Mrs. Green stated
uiat we neeci some gooa rsegro
leaders as we do not have any.
As Mrs. Green was a little dis-,
turbed as to the delav of the
officer who was to come out 1
Tuesday morning March 30, to
interview her about the case. I
Slugger Gets Only 9 Days
Cecil Wright, 19 years old
ization to .the National Feder
ation of Telephone Workers
which had represented tele
phone workers for the preced- !
ing nine years.
Members in CWA come
from all over the country and |
from all branches of the tele
phone industry. The CWA con
stitution provides also for the
acceptance to membership of
workers from all branches of
the communications industry.
At present its members nclude
construction and maintenance
men, cable splicers, linemen,
installers, operators, office
workers, salesmen, engineers,
janitors and factory workers.
The Union has set itself the
objective, of bringing all tele
phone workers into CWA and
is opposing all attempts to de
vide up the telephone indust
ry’s workers among IBEW (A
FL), TWOC (CIO) and the
half-dozen other labor unions
having conflicting ambitions
to take over telephone work
ers. CWA takes the that divid
ing up telephone workers a
mong several different Unions
would weaken their effective
ness in collective bargaining
with the telephone industry
which is organized into the
Bell System and the United
States Indepentent Telephone
Association. When CWA was
formed last June it consisted of
31 Divisions representing 220,
000 workers while today its
33 Divisions represent 233.000
workers and a number of other
telephone unions are consid
ering joining CWA at this
time.
Cvv A is getting ready to go
into bargaining with the tele
phone ndustry on renewal and
modification of contracts wh
ich expire this spring. About
200.000 of the 233,ooo workers
represented by the Union are
covered 'by contracts that ex
pire in the six-week period be
tween April 1st and mid-Mav.
A great many of the Divisions
have already filed their 60-day
notices as required by the
Taft-Hartley law and the ot
her will file very shortly. (CW
A Northwestern Division No.
45 filed their notce on March
15th calling for terminaton of
their wage contract on May 15,
1948.)
Demands of CWA this year
include:
1. Increase in basic wages, the
details to be worked out aroun’
the conference table.
The Union contends that
telephone workers must have
some upward adjustment of
their basic wages to meet in
creased living costs and to off
was senienceu 10 y uays in purse oi iurs. reari ureen.
jail for the snatching of the --
UNDER PEACE BOND
Jack Williams was asked to
be put under a peace bond for
bothering and beating his girl
friend. Even when she met
him on the street, he would
beat her. He even hit her in the
jaw and kicked her down the
steps of her home. The Judge
asked if she was staying with
him at the time. She said. Yes,
ever since I got out of jail.
set the sma.ller wage adjust
ments which telephone worker
received in past years as com
pared to workers in other maj
or industries. Telephone work
ers in the territory of the Nor
thwestern Bell Telephone Co.,
for example, received an ager
age wage increase of nine cents
per hour as compared to the
general pattern of fifteen cents
per hour in other major ndus
tries in 1947.
2. Improved Force Adjust
ment and Termination Pay
Contract Provisions.
With the advent of increas
ed dial conversions, toll dialing
and the imminence of other tec
hnological changes within the
telephone industry, the Union
will attempt to negociate clau
ses protecting the seniority and
employment rights of tele
phone workers and improving
the clauses covering terminat
ion pay for such workers as
may be displaced by such tec
hnological changes within the
industry. The Bell System’s
program will displace an est
imated 100.000 or more oper
ators alone within the next
five years, not to mention the
effects on Plant. Accounting
and other workers. The Union
is not opposing these changes
but is merely asking for proper
treatment of telephone worker
affected by such changes.
3. Improvement In the Pen
sion Plan.
At tne present time tne nen
System Companies are deduct
ing from the pensions of retir
ed employees at age 65 one
half of the amount of any pri
mary social security benefits
to which such retired employ
ees may be entitled. The Union
s asking for the elimination of
ths practice. The Union is also
asking for the Companies pro
vide for pensons, at the worker
option, for those workers wth
25 years of service who are dis
placed because of technicolo
gical changes wthin the in
1 dustry.
4. Other items to be bargained
for include shortened wage
progression schedules (now
generally eight years in length
narrowing of differences in the
wage levels existng between
PETITION, To CLOSE BAR
MARCH 30
Mr. and Mrs. Silverman of
Sanij Flax Bar were not issued
their liquor licenses because of
numerous complaints of disor
derly conduct, and have been
given the name as one of the
most undesirable places. Rev.
Charles Favors spoke in be
half of the committee, that
has a petition of 800 signatur
es, asking that Sam Flax be
closed.
The hearing will take place
April 13.
small aim iaige iu\\ns 10 elim
inate nequities, upgrading of
jobs where inequities exist, and
provision for arbitration in
connection with grievances.
CWA has its international
offices at 917 “G” Place, Nor
thwest, Washington 1, D. C. It
is 13-member Executive Board
is headed up by Joseph A.
Beirne, President. Its Public
Relations Director is A. B. He
rrington.
CWA Northwestern Divis
on No. 45, Public Relations
Director is J. R. Hill, 536 Bran
deis Theatre Building, Omaha
2, Nebraska. Telephone: AT
lantic 4999.
The State Publicity Direct
ors of the Division are:
la., A. R. Toepfer, 217 Jewett
Bldg., Des Moines, Iowa.
Minn.,J. F. O’Reilly, 126 So.3rd
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Nebr., R. W. Salisbury, 536
Brandeis Theatre Bldg., Oma
ha Nebraska.
No. Dakota, A. C. Nelson, 1806
No. 4th St. Grand Forks, N.
Dakota.
So. Dakota., Irene Prew, 1508
South Minn. Ave., Souix
Falls, So. Dakota.
3)n-Ny,dsiht‘shlsNusd)Ds arr
JOE LOUIS GIVES $5,000
TO SYDENHAM; HOSPIT
AL SEEK HALF MILLION
New York (CNS)—Long re
cognized as a good friend of
charities, J. Louis, together wi
th his managing team, sent $5.
000 to the suffering Sydenham
Hospital, the nations only int
erracial voluntary institution.
According to Sydenham’s Ch
airman, Wijliam H. Baldwin,
Louis’s check sent donations
up to $182,000. Still Sydenham
| is seeking a half million dollars
in order to clear up outstand
ing bills.
PROMINENT CITIZEN
PASSES
Mr. L. *»L. McVav, passed
| Thursday night. 9 :0 5 P. M.
April 1st, 1948 at the local hos
pital.
High School Instructor
Acquitted
THE POLICE STATE
By Russell Coppock
The Amenican way is char
acterized by some features not
at all related to the Derjiocrat
c Ideal. The phase Democrat
ic Ideal js understood to cov
er all phases of life, particular
ly the political, social, econom
ic, and intellectual. This sub
ject would not merit di’scussion
were it not true that one of its
features is so prominent as to
seriously theaten the attain-1
ment of the Democratic Ideal.
More than that, it is seriously
threatening the destruction of
that democracy already attain
ed.
This prominent anti-demo
cratic. un-American feature of
the American way is the idea
of racial superority. By it is
justified the destruction of the
lives and property of many cit
izens of our country. B'- it is
justified the denial of the right
of citizenship to mant millions
of citizens. This is done both
in the case of whole sections of
the population, and that of the
individual citizens. It is as ser
ious and forebading in the lat
ter case as in the former. The
Poll tax, restrictive covenants,
and discrimination in employ
ment illustrate the application
of the superiority idea of whole
seections of people.
The superiority idea as ap
plied to individuals will here
be illustrated by a case just de
cided in favor of the defendent
in the District Court of Coun
cil Bluffs, Iowa. This case ill
ustrates two breaches of rights
of citizens. First, the right of
a citizen to move about the
country and seek work freely
and without molestation; and
second, the right of citizens to
defend the rights of other cit
izens.
The case is entitled the State
of Iowa vers*s Russell Cop
pock.
On the day of October 13,
1947, Alfred Twitty (Negro)
was in Pacific Junction, Iowa
working and seeking work. He
was a transient. On alleged or
al complaint of some residents
the mayor, John Lutter. in his
work clothes, arrested Mr. Tw
itty without warrent. without
saying he) was an officer. Yes,
this was after the mayor gave
Mr. Twtty the ‘fair’ proposit
ion of leaving town or going
to jail. The mayor charged
him orally with vagrancy.
borne residents listened to
the mayor’s conversation with
Mr. Twitty and could not a
gree that action was justified.
Six of them (white), four vet
erans and one (Mr. Coppock)
a high school teacher, protest
ed against this action by going
to the home of the Justice of
the Peace to witness against
the mayor.
These young men accused
the mayor of prejudice in his
action and called his attention
to the fact that they just seem
ed to be in Mississippi. Most
other accustions of the mayor
were challenged and shown to
be >vithout foundation. The
mayor said no one had filed a
charge against Mr. Twitty, and
he would not. In court he gave
RUSSELL COPPOCK
as reason for not filing, that he
was afraid to; When the may
or said he could arrest anyone
on vagrancy charges for ‘mo
oching’; for example, asking
for a nickle for a cup of coffee.
Lawrence Turner, one of the
fellows, said, “By God, John
you can't do that!” In saying
this, he shook his finger at the
mayor. This and the tact that
at times two or three were
talking at once, constitutes ‘un
lawful assembly”, in a violent
and tunultuous manner”, and
obstructing the administration
of justice.”
Two days latter the six men
were arrested. At the Justice
of the Peace court they were
found guilty. Coppock appeal
ed,while the other five could
j not at that time see their way
clear to go ahead.
Mr. Twitty remained in the
town over night, in a depot.
| He did his job the next day and
left town without further mol
estration.
The officer who arrested
i without a warrent, who falsely
accused the Negro of vagrancy
in order to ‘save face’ wishes
to make criminals out of six
other men. Could this be to
cover-up his actions of gong
beyond his duty? The defend
ers/ wondered.
There is much talk of police
states’ these days. There used
to be a saying about people
who lived in glass houses. Not
a few people in Mississippi.
Georgia, and South Carolina
could tell you what a police
state is. Coppock and his five
co-defendents understand, too,
what is meant by police state.
We can understand the peo
ple who* ask that if the moral,
political, economic and mili
tary weight of our government
can be used to prevent ‘police
states’ abroad, why cannot it
be used at home to dislodge
‘police state’ governments, and
to remove law-enforcement of
ficers who conduct themselves
as if they were in a police state
Just whom are the law-enforce
ment officials elected to serve
—those who use prejudice and
the Fasciigt race superiority
idea *to maintain their posit
ions of privilege, or the people?
Russell Coppock,
Pacific Junction, Iowa
nuL lOGETHER NOW-GIVE IT THE AXl
it /HM * * mt/JJt W ^ 4
CevHHy tnahuta foe American Democracy, Inc.
Discrimination Case
A discrimination case aga
inst Harket’s Cafe with the
Greyhound bus station, was
called before the court Friday.
The defendent asked for con
tinuance.
Sweeter Than Sugar
A new chemical compound which
Is said to be 4,000 times as sweet as
cane has been discovered by Nether
land scientists. This new compound
is a benzene derivative, to which
the chemical name l-n-propoxy-2
amino-4-nitrobenzene has been
given.
OUR
. Guest
Column
- SPECIAL NOTICE
TO THE PUBLIC
Mr. Madison S. Jones, Jr.,
Administrative Assistant to
the Secretary of the National
Association for the Advance
ment for colored people to be
Guest Speaker in Council Blu
ffs, on Tuesday, April 6th at
Bethel Church, 16th St. and
Ave A at 8 :00 o’clock. Mr. Jon
es was educated in the pubic
and high schools of New York
City. Graduated from St. John’
University in Brooklyn with
the B. S. Degree and studied
for the Master of Arts degree
in the faculty of Political Sc
i e n c e, Columbia University
Graduate School. For many
months he was Acting Exami
ner in charge of the New Eng
land region of the Fair Employ
ment practices Committee wo
rking in Boston. Oon’t fail to
hear this speaker.
Madison Jones to Speak at the
N.A.A.C.P. Mass Meeting on
April 5th, at St. John’s AME
Church.
WHAT THE WELL DRES
SED WOMEN WEAR
By Hazel Green
Mrs. Ruth Gilliland was
wearing a beautiful beige hat
with very pale orchid colored
flowers and deep orchid color
ed veil. She was wearing a
short length, white coat with
a dark green velvet skirt, and
a light orchid colored blouse,
and green lizzard colored
shoes and bag.
Mrs. Helen St. Claire was
wearing a beautiful black hat
with ascalloped brim and a lar
ge rose colored flower, and a
pink flowered black dress with
black shoes and bag.
Mrs. Bryice Biagas wore a
beautiful black dress with a
large brimmed hat with pink
flowers and a gray viel, a gray
blue and white checked coat,
gray scandel shoes, bag, and
gloves. Around her neck were
a pair of kojinskvs.
Mrs. Ruth Bowers, 2515 Bi
nney Street, was wearing a
very fine lnen straw hat with
a large green band and a white
flower. A Burgundy colored
short coat, and a Balenciaga
colored stripped white dress
and white gloves, and Balencia
ga colored bag and sroes.
Mrs. Viola Littlejohn was
wearing a beautiful blaok 3
quarter length coat and a
black dress with patent leather
bag, shoes, and pink gloves. A
lovely gray and pink flowered
hat with gray viel.
Mrs. Sally Thomas looked
lovely in her new length bla
ck coat of gabardine. Black
straw hat, shoes and white
gloves. A beautiful white strip
ped black dress with a large
black 'bow tied at the neck.
Miss Stella Horton was
wearing a beautiful navy blue
calf skin ankle strapped shoes
and bag. A small brim navy
blue sailor hat with ismall gree
n band of veiling and pnk flo
wers. She was wearing the
new look dress of light blue
with open work at the neck
line, a beautiful black niilan
straw bonnet, with very del
icate black criffled lace a
round the brim. A black bag
and gloves and a short length
gray coat, and gun metal calf
I skin shoes.
Lenda Skinner looked char
*ming in her white rolled brim
med hat and black light wool
coat of three-quarter length,
with white blouse and a black
ballarina skirt. Black calfskin
bag and black calfskin plat
form sole shoes.