The Omaha guide., 1932-10-15
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The National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People is making an appeal for S25OO.OO to fur
Their the investigation into the conditions alleged to exist
among the Negro workers on the Mississippi Flood Con-
troll Project. The N. A A.. C. P. is our only National mill
tant organization, and is an organization that has and is
still proving its worth. When an appeal comes from this
organization the answer should be 100 per cent. Let US
all take this matter seriously and help the N. A. A. G. P.
put over this investigation.
The appeal says in part: "The twenty-five hundred
dollars is absolutely necessary to pay the cost of certain
vital Investigations, the continuance of a campaign of pub
licity, and other essential steps in the terrific struggle
against efforts of the War Department to "~whitewash' the
brutal exploitation Of colored workers on the Mississippi
Flood Control Project. e
The N. A. A. c. P. is battling against tremendous
odds. But if the fight is won it may result, together with
certain necessary legislation, in one hundred million dol
Robert F. Wagner Of New York, has agreed to introduce
in Congress a Senate investigation. Our Investigations
must be made and the material must be in hand by De-
cember LIST for the Senate hearing. IL our friends will
rally to our aid this will and can be made one of the most
sensational battles for justice the Negro has ever waged.
ITO protest against the Mississippi horror is but
one part of the fight for jobs for Negroes. There is the
fight at Boulder Dam, a determined battle to assure
Negroes a proportionate share of jobs, and wiping out of
discrimination in employment on Federal-financed con-
.struction, and in distribution of federal, state and city re
lief funds.
"To meet the crisis the Association has cut its ex-
penses to the bone. Its staff, never adequately paid, and
its chief executives, receiving less than that Of any SINH
lar organization, have already had two salary cuts.
eve know that colored people have been hit harder
than any other group by the economic crisis. E'ut the N.
A. A. @. P.'s fight is of direct benefit to them. A fight for
jobs, one that saves Jess Holins in Oklahoma, Willie Pet
erson in Alabama, and innocent Negroes in other states
from the electric chair, one against a segregation ordi-
nance in Atlanta, discrimination in the distribution of
free -four by the Red Cross in Florida, the extension of
school segregation in Ohio-these and countless other
struggles in which the N. A. A. c.. P. reaches even into the
heart of the deepest South must be carried on.
"Are there 10000 colored Americans out of twelve
million who, even though it may be a sacrifice, will send
the N. A. A. c. ?. today from S100 to $500 each? Every
cent will be put to work; every cent will be acknowledged
and, as is the N. A. A. c. P.'s invariable custom, a certified
public accounting will be made of the expenditure of ev-
cry cent.
"Come to our aid in fighting the battle of every
American Negro. If you do you will play a great role in
this struggle, and the results Of whatever you may send
will be seen in many ways, but most dramatically when
we marshal at Washington in December, a host of wit
nesses to testify before the Senate Committee. If you do
not, one of the greatest battles for economic justice to the
Negro may be lost."-WalterW White, Secretary Of the N.
A. A. C.P.