Omaha daily bee., 1922-01-23

calling them-reai men are out Il
the world standing up for all MAI
OF poor birth, up IN this part OF tbs
eehhIfy, can stand for,
In answer 10 ths writer's state
AenI that the union should have
gone out ON "A strike when the pack
efs eut all employees ) eents=if ths
writer viii stop aud think he vii
remember that there were 0,n0t
men out OF work Ia Omaha at that
time,
Now about the leaders calling
this slrike-if anybody writes, telis
or makes any such statement they
| tell big IalsehAol and should be
made 10 prove IL, I WAS at tha
/ meeting and heard all that WAS said,
i j, III, Davis. IL, *, Hunter and MIR,
I Burns told them, 1890 people. 20
/ think We'll ar their own conditions
| aud that the union had no money
| 10 ftFht set Of men. They remind
ed the people of holidays 80 near
AZ hand-in small words these men
pleaded 10 those people To call ma
strike. They gave them some
minutes 10 think the matter over
and when they were called on 10
vote they voted '.rtrike" 10 ~ man.
| am sure that the writer OF this.
In justice 10 all. was not In this
meeting. for there In not allowed IN
that Union temple anything In the
shape OF human beings but real men
and women--that place can't stand
the man or woman who has lost
their man or womanhood.
Now. 90 colored men and women;
Two and one.half years ago Norris
& Company sent telegram 70 tho
Morris office at Omaha, telling
them TO discharge each negro
woman IN their plant. They did
II at once-and they have not
allowed n negro woman any closer
60 the office that 20 get pay checks
belonging 10 their men. But now
they are holding them In thero Ike
hogs la "a pen. / am holding duly
sworn statement with notary public
seal on IL, from an old colored
woman 81 years old, telling of a
certain slick little colored gent OF
North Omaha calling on/her daugh-
ter who will be II years old In
October. 1879, wanting to pay this
child $50 10 20 out 10 the plant and
dance for the strike breakers.
Maybe the writer is one of the
class of men who have let all re-
spect for womanhood. But when
he tells IL In print that he don't love
u negro, and real negroes don't love
his kind-the sooner the world Is
left without such people the better
1t will be off.
Now to the whole world: i want
TO state that colored men and women
working as strike breakers In the
packing houses don't belong to tho
class of real men and women of the
negro race of Omaha.
Now the eolored man received
more out of the union than he has
put in 1t. and the writer is like the
old saying that 1t is bad when dog
will bite the hand that feeds him,
for that is what all packing house
belong to the union. The union gets
their overtime, their back time and
all raises in wages, and then the
scabs will pay nothing, but bite the
hand that feeds them. No man like
A. III. Nelson, as he calls himself,
can fool me. 1 know the packers
for 81 years, working girls OF IA. Is,
II years. working them for z cents
an hour: women getting 12 cents
and men Is to II 1-2 cents per
hour. Mr.. Nelson must come from |
down south where they eat molasses |
and cornbread and wear all year
around nothing but overalls. and |
their women looking like rag dolls. |
Brother, we are living in a new |
age. c. II. BRADFORD.