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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26

Randolph is now in Chicago, where
he has been representing the union
before the railroad board.
In his telegram Mr.. Randolph
gives the lie to what he brands as
false reports published by certain
Negro newspapers that the porters
had lost their case before the United
States Railway Board of Mediation.
Mr.. Randolph asserts certain Negro
newspapers have been subsidized by
the Pullman Company and are
known to be inimical to the cause of
the Pullman porters.
Frank Crosswaith, organizer of
the union. declared the decision of
the Board in sending the dispute
with the Pullman Company to arbi-
tration constitutes a great victory
for his organization. Mr.. Crosswaith
said:
"All OF the elaborate and exten-
sive research made by the Labor
Bureau, showing the actual condi-
tions under which the porters work,
the wages they receive, the amount
of tips received monthly by the
average porter, the total occupa-
tional expense of each porter, the
number of hours and the total mile
age covered by the porter during
the 400-hour work month will come
before the arbitration.
Also the actual wage increase
granted the porters since their EN-
ployment by the Pullman Company
some fifty-nine years ago will be
presented to the Board of Arbitra-
tion. A systematic comparison be-
tween the work and wages Of the
porters and the other railroad@work-
ers will also be submitted"
Mr.. Crosswaith explained that
during mediation the attorneys of
the brotherhood could not legally
appear and argue the organiza-
tons case. Before the Board of
Arbitration, however, the full legal
battery of the brotherhood will be
called into action. The chief legal
advisor of the brotherhood is Do
nald r. Richberg, co-author of the
Watson-Parker Act which created
the Boards OF Mediation and Arbi-
tration. Associated with him are
Henry T. Hunt. former member of
the old U. S. Railroad Board and
ex-Mayor of Cincinnati; Frank P.
Walsh, Samuel Untermyer. Arthur
Garfield Hays, Amos II. E. Pinchot
and C. Francis Stratford, prominent
Negro attorney OF Chicago.
The porters' union is the first
labor organization of Negro workers
on a national scale, and the disposi-
r. IN
has been eagerly awaited in trade
union, as well as Negro, circles.
The Pullman Company, however,
still contends there is nothing to
arbitrate.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26

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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26
POrterS Union Is Recognised
Paris Has a Harlem"
of Which 1t Is Proud

PARIS, France, (P. N. S.)-Pari-
slams boast proudly that the city now
has Harlem" of its own. They
are proud to tell white Americans
that gradually the large Negro popu-
lation that has poured in upon the
French capital since the war has gra-
vitated toward Monte Martre.
Many of the cultured and ambi-
tious Negroes who call Paris home
have come to France from places
in the United States. Quite a num-
ber have come here from Africa and
the French West Indies.
Many of the members of the Ne
gro section are dancers, artists, mu-
sicians; others are servants, messen-
gers.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26
Wins Fight Against
Beach Segregation

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25.-The
local branch of the National Associa-
ton for Advancement of Colored
People won its fight in court Tues
day to prevent exclusion of colored
bathers from Manhattan Beach, pop
ular bathing resort. Manhattan
Beach had leased its pier and bathing
beach to a private individual for the
sum of 81 in an attempt to evade
the civil rights law. To test the le-
gality of this procedure DR.. Hudson,
president of the local N. A. A. c. P.
branch, and three companions sub
mitted to arrest and fine and ap-
pealed their case.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26

BOSTON. Mass (ANP)-Dr. j.
w. Watkins enjoys the distinction Of
being the only Negro doctor serving
his profession in a government hos
pital in New England.
DR.. Watkins, who Is graduate
of the University of Pittsburg Med
ical School Glass OF 1926 and a ma
tive of that city, was transferred
here to the Chelsea Naval Hospital
a, few weeks ago, following a com
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26
Women's Business League

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The colored
business women of this city met
Sunday for the purpose Of organic
ing to improve the business condi-
tions for the group In this city. A
committee was appointed to bring
suggestions toward the forming of
a permanent organization program.
Mrs. Myrtle +. Cook has been Sc
lected as temporary chairman. Eff
forts viii be made, 1t was stated, to
make this national body with a
brunch in every city where there is
a suitable number OF women to form
club.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26
Gasoline Cure for
Rheumatism Is Costly

CORONA, Cal, Aug. 23.--Mrs.
Jane Paulini, elderly Perris colored
woman, used gasoline for rheumatic
pains. Monday night she was rub
bing herself, as usual, with the gaso-
line. Her daughter, Mrs. Magee, was
in another room ironing. The night
was chill, so all the windows were
closed. The room became filled with
the fumes of the gasoline and sud
denly the kerosene lamp exploded,
throwing the flaming oil in every di-
rection.
Mrs. Magee, hearing her mothers
screams, rushed to the rescue and
dragged the old lady to safety,
though not before Mrs. Paulini was
severely burned over the lower part
of her body.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26
Ends Life by Hanging

JOHNSON, Tenn.-william H.
Cecil, 65 years old prominent and
well-known citizen of East Tennes-
see, took his life by hanging, in a
smckehouse in the rear of his resi-
dence, 321 Main street, early Tues
day morning. No reaSm can be
given for the suicide except that he
had been in bad health for several
years.
IIe had been brakeman on the
Southern Railroad for forty-flve
years and Is survived by a wife. Mrs.
Anne Cecil and two daughters.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26
PAN-AFRICAN
CONCRESSHAS
Is COUNTRIES

NEW YORK. Aug. 24.-(Special)
Thirteen countries besides the
United States are represented in
the Fourth Pan-African Congress
which convened in New York SUM-
day for four-day session. Delegates
are present from Virgin Islands,
The Bahamas, Haiti, Gold Coast,
Jamaica. East Indies, Japan, Porto
Rico, Barbados, France, Belgium,
Germany and the Canadian League
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Among those who are attending
the conference are: Dantes Belle
garde, Commander of the Legion of
Honor, Taitian Minister in France,
and Haiti's delegate at the League
of Nations; Hon. Augustus Toote, of
Nassau, The Bahamas, Attorney
General in 1925, and a member of
the House of Assembly from San
Salvador; DR.. wilhelm Mensching,
Petzen, Germany, who spent four
years in Central Africa and four
years in India; Mrs. Helen Curtis,
widow OF the former American Min
lister to Liberia.
The first meeting of the conven-
tion was held Sunday at st. Marks
Nj. e. Church. DR.. VIM. Burghart
Dubois and William Pickens were
the principal speakers. DR.. Dubois
welcoming the delegates and Dean
Pickens speaking on the Brussels"
Conference which he attended re-
Gently. Greetings from Governor
Smith and Mayor Walker were read.
Governor Smith wrote to the con-
ference that "if II has for its pur-
pose the advancement of the colored
race, am certainly in sympathy
with it,"
Mayor Walker in his letter said !:
81 congratulate your organization
for this movement and | feel con-
fident that the people of New York
City will be in hearty sympathy
with the purposes and objects of the
assemblage. The advancement OF
the colored people is a matter in
which all right minded citizens
should be interested and this is es-
pecially true of New York City
which has such an extensive colored
population. / trust the Congress
will accomplish every thing for
which II is intended"
The program OF the conference is
given as follows:
Sunday = Opening Session, st.
Marks M. e. Church. Edgecombe
Ave. and 18TH st. Address-His-
tory of Pan-African Congress, by DR..
w. E. B. Dubois. founder Of the
First Congress. Greetings-Africa
Chief Amoah III; Bahamas, Hon T.
Augustus Toote; Barbados, Bishop
r. j. Barrow; Canada, Hon. J. F.
Jenkins; East Indies. n. X. Rakhit
Haiti, Hon. Dantes Bellegarde; Vir-
gin Islands. Hon. Adolph Sixte. Re.
port of Brussels Congress OF Op-
pressed Races, William Pickens.
Monday-D Discussion of Conditions
in Africa. s p. m, st. James Pres
byterian Church, cor. 141st st. and
st. Mich. Africa-Addresse by:
DR., Charles H. Wesley, Howard Uni.
versity; Prof. Melville Herskovitz
Columbia University; Hon Dantes
Bellegarde, Port au Prince, Haiti
Tuesday-Caribbean Islands-Ad.
dress by DR.. George N. Sylvan.
p. M, Salem NJ. E. Church, cor
12sth st. and Seventh Ave. Econ.
omic Development of Africa: Chief
Amoah III, DR.. Garter G. woodson,
DR.. Leslie Pinckney Hill.
Wednesdays p. M, Abyssinian
Baptist Church. 13Sth St.. East Of
9TH Ave.. Education IN Africa-Dr
Wilhelm Mensching. Art and Lite.
rature-John Vandercook, Arthur
Schomburg. Closing Address-Dr
w. Y. B. DuBois.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26
Colored Firemen Meet

WARRENTON, N. CAMP
Colcred firemen of many towns in
eastern and central North Carolina,
members of the North Carolina Vo-
lunteer Fire Association, are meet
ing in this town for their annual
convention. The first days meeting
was addressed by the Mayor, the
congressman of this district, and the
insurance commissioner of the State.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26
Bank State Depository

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Citi-
zens Savings Bank and Trust Com
,pany, 23 years old, the oldest race
bank in the United States, has been
designated as a depository for state
funds by the State Treasury.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26

NEW YoRK.--A new instance Of
departmental segregation has been
discovered IN the Pension Bureau
this week by the N. A. A. c. p,
which Neval Thomas. president Of
the washington brahch has protest
cd against in letter to President
Coolidge.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26

Dahnus Steele, N. Y. Candidate, Proves
Formidable Rival To ]. Finley Wilson

NEW YORK Aug rs (speca-"Iello down
Harlem this week With
entertaining
Improved Elks one mostp
uque and important gatherings this
N a lne mnon
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26
Sleeping Car Porters Union Is The First
Negro Labor Organization Of Natl Scope

to he y
Brotherhood Sleeping Porer accorded official
United
the union 231 Seventh Monday telegram
o
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-26

The Northwest's Most
Popular and Widely
Read Newspaper
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11

which is now used almost exclusive ly. Alaska packers now fully real ize that they cannot compete with Europe on prices, but must sell strictly on quality basis, and great care is accordingly taken in the selection and cure of the pack"
 ....-- Magnitude of Operations ...
 "From18,296 bbls. in 1916, the Alaska pack increased to 45,326 bbls., and now averages about bbls year; tho 1914 pro- dLction in the southeastern district being about 14,0OO bbls. out of the Alaska total of 77,151.
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
Reduction Plants

Reduction equipment on the other hand, has been brought to high degree of efficiency provid- ing economical units of standard design by which herring oil and meal can be produced at a good profit; and THIS HAS PROVEN THE MOST SATISFACTORY SOL IfTION OF THE PROBLEM OF HANDLING THE SMALL FISH. THE REDUCTION END OF THE INDUSTRY HAS ACCORDINGLY REACHED ITS HIGHEST DEVEL- OpMENT IN THIS PART OF THE TERRITORY, WHERE THE TOTAL VALUE OF ITS PRODUCTS GREAT LY EXCEEDS THAT OF THE CUR ED FISH"
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
YOUR INCOME TAX

This series of articles is based on the Revenue act of 1926, and the latest regulations relating to the in- come tax. The. reduction in rates, increase in exemptions, credit or earned income applying to earned act income not to exceed $2O,O0O, end other changes in legislation, in comparison with the Revenue Act of ts24,are set forth.
 Various penalties are imposed by the revenue act of 1926 for failure to file a return and pay the tax on time, and for making a fraudulent return. Distinction is made between failure and "willful failure" to file q return. For failure to file a re-
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11

turn on time, the penalty is 25 per aent of the amount of the tax, unless a return is later filed and it is satis- factorily shown to the Commissioner ct Internal Revenue that such fail ure was due to a reasonably cause and not to willful neglect. If tax payer exercised ordinary business care and prudence, and nevertheless was unable to file a return within the prescribed time, the delay is due 10 Q reasonable cause"
 For willful failure to make a re- turn the penalty is not more than S10,000 or Imprisonment. or not more than one year, or both, and in addition 25 per cent of the amount of the tax. For willfully making false or fraudulent return, the penalty Is not more than S10,0OO or Imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. and in addition 50 per cent of the amount of the
 ax, in case of deficiency.
 If there is a deficiency, there is ldded to the tax interest on the amount of such deficiency at the rate of per cent a year from the date prescribed for the payment of the tax to the date the deficiency is as sossed. In addition, there is added 5 per cent of the amount of the de- fciency if due to negligence, but without intent to fraud. If due to fraud, the amount added in addition is 50 per cent of the deficiency.
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
PACIFIC FISHERMAN

Herring in vast quantities fre- cuent the coastal waters of the I';fcific from Vancouver Island to Nome, as well as on the Asiatic side; but THOSE OF ALASKA AhE ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR FOOD BECAUSE OF THEIR LARGE SIZE AND SUPERIOR QUALITY, BEING PREFERRED BY CONNoIssEURs TO THOSE FROM ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD. The extent and possible productivness of the fish cry are not fully known, but appear comparable to those of the North Sea, which has for centuries been the chief source of supply for the great population of Europe"
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
PRIVATE SALMON HATCHERIES

The owners of private salmon hatcheries in Alaska, who are also rackers of canned salmon, RECEIVE REBATE ON LICENSE FEES AND TAXES of every nature on their pack of salmon at the rate of 40 cents per 1000 king or red salmon fry liberated by them in Alaskan waters. Rebates credited to private fatcheries, fiscal year ended June 30, 1924 is as follows:
 Alaska Packers Association, Heck man Lake, 13,S75,o0 fry liberated Rebate due $5,550.; Northwestern Fisheries Company, Hugh Smith Lake, 17,234,o0O; Rebate due. $e,sss.eo.
 At this rate of rebate these two companies have received in rebate to apply on their taxes appriximate- ly s10O,000 during the past ten years. No wonder they want the private hatchery system.
 In ten years these two beneficent companies have liberated approxi- matly 293,55O,OOO red salmon and yet they cannot point to a single stream which has benefited by their destruction of salmon that might otherwise have spawned naturally and produced far better results than stream depletion.
 Let those figures soak in-293, 550, OO0-more than a quarter bill lion fry released and not one single stream benefited by this useless waste and exepnditure of taxes. Why not start three card monte game or even the old shell game.
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
Fishing Methods

Fishing is done almost entire ly by purse seines, using boats and gear of the largest size; and ap- proximately forty seine boats have been fishing for herring this year OF the principal herring grounds around Baranof Island and up Chatham Strait.
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
Various Plants

''The oldest and until this year the largest of the herring plants now operating is that of the Kills uoo Packing Co.,, Inc, at Killisnoo, originally a whaling station. The plant has a very large capacity for a single unit, taking care of over 100 bbls. of fish an hour (about ten tons); and during the past season handled large tonnage of surplus fish from other concerns in addition to the catch of it's own two seine boats. All oil is refined at the plant, the stearine being separated; while all the meal is sold for fer tiiizer, being piled in a moist con dition and re-dried at slack times The curing plant at Killisnoo was run this year by the National Fish Company of Seattle, with Jim Manson as curer, and about a dozen gibbers"
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
DISCRIMINATION

The attention of Alaskans is in- vi,ed to the following excerpt from the United States Bureau of Fisher jos report for 1924:
 Fishing operations within the Annette Island Reserve were again conducted by the Annette Island Packing Company, under it's lease from the Department of the Interior. Data regarding the operations have been furnished by the Bureau of Ed ucation of that department, which administers the affairs of the reserve for the benefit of the Metlakatla In dians residing there.
 Tn 1924 the totol number of fish taken by traps within the reserve was S27,949 of all species, on which royalties amounting to $9,0S6.12 were paid. The per case tax on can ned salmon under the Territorial law, which has been held payable to tho Metlakatia Indians, amounted to $2,415.49 trap fees on six traps, at $20O. each, amounted to $1,2OO.; and rental of cannery building was Ss,Oo0."
 Do the Metlakatla Indians have more business acumen than the gen. eral run of electors; did the Smiley Company which operated this can- nery declare that they were paying too much taxes when they paid "roy- aIties ot over nine thousand dollars over the tax required by law? The fish caught on the Annette Island is. the same run of fish that is pack ed by the various Ketcikan can neries which do not pay any royalty to the Territory for the fish which come from their traps.
 The tax per trap under the MetIa- katla system is $200. plus $1514.33 which totals $1714.33 per trap. Yet no one has ever heard the Smiley company say that it was paying too heavy tax.
 Such a per salmon tax would per- nit of a much more extensive ter Iitorial aid for the college and school system throughout the terri tcry. If you believe this system to be fair one write your representa- tiVes in the Legislature
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
. LETTER TO CONGRESS-
MAN WALTER NEWTON

A copy of letter sent by The Kildall Co.,, to Congressman New ton, says:
 Congressman Walter H. Newton,
 Washington, D. c.
 Lear Sir:
 Enclosed. you will find clipping from the Petersburg Herald dated Sept 4th., entitled Alaska Herring Being Destroyed"
 The Petersburg editor has this sit nation sized up right and we think a bill should be passed in Congress ;ss soon as possible that would per- init the manufacture of fertilizer out of Alaska herring.
 For your information, will say that Alaska now is producing the Worlds largest supply of strictly first class herring. Some of the European countries like Norway and Holland catch large quantities but the fish does not average nearly i.s good quality as the Alaska pro- Cuct. The herring industry is one of the biggest in Holland and in Norway, and we see no reason why this business should not be greatly developed in the next few years up in Alaska, provided the supply of small fish is properly conserved. The business of making fertilizer out of herring started in Alaska twenty years ago, when their were no restrictions on the catch of fish of any kind, but we believe the time has now come when the fertilizer plants in Alaska using herring
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11

should be closed for good of the general public.
 We would thank you to inves- tigatethis matter carefully and then do what you can toward bringing about the desired results. Thanking you in advance for the courtesy, we remain,
 Yours very truly,
 The Kildall Co.,,
 (Signed) H. l.. Griffith,
 President Minneapolis, Minn. From the Petersburg Herald.
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
Relative Importance of Kinds

Relative Importance of Kinds
 ''Of even greater importance than the cured product in this district is tn output of herring oil and meal, which last year amounted to about million gallons of oil and $500 tons of meal, and will probably be increased this year by over 50 per cent. Government figures for 1923, hen only six plants operated most of those on a much smaller scale than at present-show an in- vestment in the Southeast Alaska hcrring fishery of $960,OO3, with the production valued at $657,544, and employment given to 312 per sons.
 Eleven large establishments, having both curing plants and re- duction works and comparable with salmon canneries in size and equip ment, have been operated this year, besides a number of small curing outfits; and the general scale of Operations may safely be said to HAVE DOUBLED IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.
 ''The curing departments each employ from six to twenty-five or more hands, while the reduction plants are equipped with from one tc four large units consisting of cookers, presses, driers, and auxili- ary machinery, in addition to oil tanks, warehouses and vessels.
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
HERRING INDUSTRY

ITO utilize the small herring, ITO utilize the small herring, several packers have undertaken to can them, and turned out an excellent product. They were however, by high costs, competition of cheap fish from other sources, and difficulty of an unfimiliar product: and canning has proven impracti- cable under present conditions"
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
Market For Oil

''The oil generally is clear, light, lew in acid and practically free from fishy odor. Most of it goes to the soap industry, though some is used in the manufacture of paints and edible fats, and for many other purposes
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
The Season

Operations are carried on from May to September, during which time the fish are in the best of condition for either packing or reduction. The fish are usually drought to the plants by the seine bOats.'
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
Development of the Industry

The pack prior to 1916 was less than 5000 barrels yearly. The ex- I Iansion of this industry began with the war, which cut off the European supply. With the expansion of the industry, the Norway style" became surpianted by the Scotch method
The Alaskan., 1927-03-11
A Significant Utterance

6 The meal, made from fresh fish, is usually classed as edible, but most of it is ACTUALLY USED FOR FERTILIZER"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-02-03

A new process for distinguishing
between natural and cultured pearls
was described before the French
academy recently.
The method, very simple and mex
pensive, requires the inserting of a
miniature tube in the hole bored in
the pearl for beading purposes. With
in the tube are two little mirrors very
close togther, at right angles to each
other and at an angle of 40 degrees
with the sides of the tube.
When a light is thrown into the tube
on the first mirror it is reflected on
the second mirror if the pearl is COM
posed of concentric layers, as is the
case with all natural pearls. If the
core of the pearl is not composed Of
concentric spheres the ray of light in
stead of striking the second mirror
shines through the substance of which
the cultivated pearl is made and ap-
pears as tiny spot Of light on the
surface.