The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-09
DEAN PREDICTS
TROUBLE AHEAD
FOR NEGROES

NEW YORK Hard trials and
great tribulations" are Just around
the corner for the Negro in America
unless he mends his ways and pre-
pares himself for the demand that
are to be made upon him by the
changed conditions of social and eco
nomic life in America, according to
the deductions of DR.. Gordon b.
Hancock, chairman of the depart
ment of economics and sociology at
Virginia Union University, Rich
mond, who because of his views,
has been styled the Gloomy Dean"
DR.. Hancocks theories in regard
to the future of the race were most
recently expressed at Columbia I'm
iversity. New York, where, during
the winter months, prominent Negro
leaders have been invited to speak
on different phases of the. Negro
problem. These addresses form the
basis of course in the study of
race relations.
According to this gloomy outl onk
every white person who goes TO
work will GUST some Negro. Listing
only jobs which have been lost, Mr..
Hancock said:
Two yolng white men who were
found digging graves in a Negro
cemetery.
A fleet of six garbage trucks, driv-
en- by whistling white men. which
passes the campus of Virginia Union
University each day.
The students of the University of
Virginia (white) who do h o r
around the campus amounting to
100000 annually, chores that were
formerly done by Negroes.
An aged colored man, the sur
yiving employee in New Jersey
resort where twelve hotels were for
merly manned entirely by Negroes.
The fact that ten years ago all
the first-cass hotels in Boston were
manned by Negroes; today only one
Is so manned.
The existence of white window
washing and furnacefiring organi-
cations in Richmond, Va, to do the
work done ten years ago by Ne
groes. Negroes are excluded from
membership.
An agreement between the Sea-
board and the Atlantic Coast Lines
not to employ other colored men
when the present colored firemen
are retired. The elimination of col
ored firemen on the Richmond, Fred.
& Potomac Railway.
The gradual displacement of Ne
groes in the government depart
ments in Washington. there being
but two or three today in depart
ments where there were as many as
ten years ago.
The reported re-opening of Pitts
burgh steel mills with all-white la
Dor which closed down last fall with
white and Negro laborers.
The ambition of youthful whites
to obtain jobs when the Pullman
porters threatened to strike.
Threats to man the entire system
of hotels in Atlantic City with white
help If Negroes did not cease max
ing certain demands.
The barber bills in Virginia and
Georgia.
Putting on a front" is also con-
demned because it "is ultimately
dangerous for a peoples standards
of living to exceed their means of
support. That the attitude of white
people is being affected by this man
ner of living, DR.. Hancock is sure
is indicated in the action of a white
woman who refused to hire a Ne
GRO Girl who wore expensive furs;
in the refusal of white man to
allow a Negro to work on his job
when the Negro came TO work in a
Buick while the white employer
drove Ford. and in the summary
dismissal by a white woman of her
colored maid who bought a dress,
paying $4,000 for two yards of ma
/ terial.
There ought to be some relation
4 between. a peoples edifices tchurch)
and their economic status" he con-
/ tinues. For Negroes who must hire
4 themselves out to whites to have as
/ fine or finer churches than the
whites who employ them is unfor-
tunate and unwise."
Spend Your Money With Stores
That Solicit Your Trade.