The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-05-09
FAIR DEAL ASKED FOR COLORED RACE


stemons the Colored Baptist
Ministers Conference in Philadelphia lately outlined plan
upft of the negro the United Speaking Indus
trial Crisis Confronting Negroes and How Avert the Same
stemons emphatcay present conditions ame
rated w in less than years make the very negroes
in this country physical impossibily"
The speaker then outlined his plan for monster meeting
be preceded by twoay conference the position
the negro clearly suggested appeal to every
minister of both the and white and through the ministers
every church, for their combined influence procuring for all
regardless unrestricted opportunities for working
make honest living
Mr. stemons address evoked spirited discussion among his hear
dissent his that the erOgrading
this, the suggestion Taaferro
editor of the Christian Bannerand Others the pastors refused
dorse the proposed convention have promoting it.
Having interested hundreds of Christian in the Mr.
semons plan provides that these persons shall be requested to take
the following pledge 81 do somny promise my influence
break down the barriers which account of from
engaging in various branches of manual labor in this country To
this end pledge myself refuse employ work with
occasion dmands any person his
make the remedy thoroughly practical the speaker sug
that committees representative citizens be appointed ap
peal to the rOpreors and employees of industrial establishments ask
ing them in the of humanity American civilizations give
competent negro labor the opportunity of making living that
they extend to of other
unqualified negroes a race GO
ing materially morally physically and in the maintenance
of their rights and privileges and citizens of the republic said
Mr. StemOns.
he race is going backward materially because opportunities for
negroes becoming and fewer with each
ceeding year. person this building single branch
open negroes today which open
them twenty years On the other hand that there
scarcely branch of employment which welcomed negroes twenty
years ago which is not gradually excluding them today
"Win past year practically all Of the best hotels of Aantic
City have dismissed their oored help and substituted white help
Less than three months the hotels of Providence L. united n
doing the selfsame thing.
Despe the constant increase in the negro population there are
calls negro domestic and personal servants today than eer
the only branches of labor in which they have found
north of Mason and Dxons line There scarcely month
state either north SOUTH and
strange still further restricting the rights and privileges
coored citizens Only about five months entire rail
way mail the of Delaware threatened strike
coored who had passed higher civil service examna
ton than any white appointed clerk that division
The industrial horde of Europe coming to this country
the rate of nearly 100000 and they always and everywhere
ready employment which cOoed citizens under
circumstances permitted to engage wedreced and welsus
tanned campaign being waged by element of Southern
pie aided aetted by the Federal government divert this for
labor to the South for the undguSed purpose OF suppntng
cOoed labor When this foreign labor is diverted to the South and be
will standing physical country
recIessness depvity cminaly among
people today than before There countless thousands
youths who absolutely refuse
expend time and money in ranngnd fitting themselves for the
broader fields of labor and who becoming dpaved and reckless
criminal because of the persistent in which door of
opportunity being slammed their faces If and
inspired by the hope that they would be rewarded
manhood less than five years the shesness and depaviy and
crmnay which have isgaced and dscedted the
the public would be reduced by half
Negroes declining physically DO you ask to
years negro supposed the medical
to of
lungs Today with than fifty years of this Haunted freedom
him. the representing of the population
of the country is furnishing nearly 80 per cent of those who die of
consumption medical scientists cOnsump
will that improper housing improper cloth
ing improper food and mental worOndons which fOseed
by the very disadvantages of which have spoken
argument followed with close attention by
negro pastors frequently expressed their approval his
by ouburss of applause.