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The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
GRANT STORES REJECT DEMAND
FOR NEGRO CLERKS

NEW YORK-(CNA) - The Com
mittee to Fight Job Discrimination,
elected at a United Front Meeting
sponsored by the League of Struggle
For Negro Rights, visited Grants
125th Street on Tuesday with de-
mands of the employment of Negro
girls as clerks and technical workers.
The manager of the store, Mr.
Carr, hedged on the demands with
the statement that he considered it
unfair FOR the committee to concen-
trate on the Grant Stores. He de-
clare his store hired a Negro porter
and that none of his competitors were
hiring Negro clerks Pressed by the
committee, Carr admitted that if was
a definite policy of the big chains
and stores to bar Negroes from en-
ployment in any other capacity than
porters and maids. The Committee
Indignantly denounced this policy as
directed to keeping the Negro on the
lowest rungs of capitalist society as a
super exploited and nationally OPP
pressed group They warned Carr
that the masses of Harlem would push
the fight against job discrimination
with RELENTLESS energy and a boycott
against all stores refusing to hire
Negro.
The Committee then revisited the
Harlem press with a report Of their
interview with Carr. The Negro
World refused to support the cam
paign- Fred R. Moore of the New
York Age restated his refusal to
support the fight and Immediately
called up the Grant Store to express
his solidarity with its Jim-Crow
policies, telling the manager not to
pay any attention to the demands Of
the workers of Harlem.
The committee will give its report
at a meeting at St. Luke's Hall,
125th West both Street, on Sept. 8.
where plans will be worked out for
an intensive boycott of the Jim crow
stores.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
HARLEM TOBACCO WORKERS
JOIN GENERAL STRIKE
AGAINST N. r. A.

NEW YORK-(CNA) - Tobacco
workers Of Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn,
Long Island Staten Island and other
outposts, came out on a general strike
last Monday in answer to the Tobacco
Workers industrial Union for a fight
against the N R A. slave code
AT present there are over 200 cigar
shops on strike involving close to 5,
600 workers. The strike is lead 100
percent by the Tobacco Workers In
dustrial Union with strike headquart-
ers at the Hungarian Workers, Home,
$50 East S1st Street
The strike was prepared by the
union in conjunction with the Trade
Union Unity Council with a 2 day
convention of tobacco workers at the
New Harlem Casino three weeks ago
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
Effort to Lower Wage of
Negro Threat To NRA

ATLANTA, Ga.-Efforts to write
into the code of the N R A. a lower
wage scale for Negroes constitute a
threat to the Presidents program of
economic recovery and also to the
wage and living standards of white
working people, according to a state
ment given to the press today by w
w Alexander, executive director of
the Commission on Interracial Co
opraetion. This proposal, which is be-
ing urged by certain employers of
labor, is not only unjust to working
people, white and colored, but is also
economically unsound, according to
DR. Alexander who predicts that the
wiser economic leaders Of the South
will reject it. DR.. Alexandr's state
ment follows in full:
employers of labor who are urg-
ing a lower wage level for Negroes
under the code of the N r. A. are
offering a dangerous proposal. If put
into effect, it would undermine the
Presidents program of economic re-
covery in the South, and at the same
time would cut the economic founda-
lions from under the feet of white
working men. Negroes, pressed to ac-
cept and even to ask for such a diff
~ferential, are vigorously and, I think,
quite properly Directing. They are UNI
willing to be put in the role of 'scabs',
underwriting the white mans wage
and standard of living.
"They maintain soundly that in
case of equal work and equal eff
cheney justice denlands equal wages.
They point also to the practical fact
that Negroes have to pay just as
much for the necessities of life as
white people do. To force them to a
lower level than the minimum set by
the N. r. "A. can mean only lower
living standards than those contem-
plated by the code. This would in
eviably play into the hands of I'M
scrupulous employers eager to side
step their obligations in this crisis.
It would constitute also a limitation
Of the Negroes purchasing power
which would cripple the whole pro-
gram Of recovery in the South There
can be no economic recovery for the
South that does not include the Ne
gro. The wiser economic leaders will
not acquiesce in a plan SO obviously
unsound."
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
WAVE OF LYNCHINGS IN SOUTH
PART OF " X. A. PROGRAM

BIRMINGHAM, Ala = L~ynchings
IN Tuscaloosa. Decatur, Selma, Ala
and Pine Bluffs Ark within the past
two weeks are connected by Interna-
tional Labor Defense representatives
here with the entire program Of ter
ror against Negro and white small
farmers. tenants, choppers, and in
dustrial workers under the Reose-
vei- cotton plow under program and
the dria against living standards
under the National Recovery Act.
While lynchinzs and attempted
~lynchings yer reported from Tus-
eaio0sa and Decatur. and grand juries
are being called and recessed in fake
Investigations" and, in Decatur, to
railroad rape" indictment against a
Negro who narrowly escaped lynch
ing, other lynchings are reported this
week from Selma, a city Of combined
agrarian and industrial interests,
with q population three quarters Ne
gro. and from Pine Bluffs, Ark.
These lynchings are also closely
connected with the preparations being
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
Unanimously
Accepted by Union

Paul Barnett resident at 939 North
26th Street, Omaha and Boyd ".
Galloway residing at 2502 North oath
Street, Omaha have made application
to join your local union in the city of
Omaha.
l strongly urge their acceptance in
the union and concur in your desire
to admit these men in the union.
/ have asked myself the question,
"Are these applicants to be refused
admission because of their color?"-
if so, being a tolerant, | urge your
membership to consider these appli-
cants if for no other reason that to
do justice to these two American
citizens and residents of Omaha.
| do not attempt to advise your
organization to pass upon members
for admission but it occurs to me
since the applicants have passed the
city examination by the board of Mo-
ton Picture Examiners that alone
should qualify those men to be mem
bers of your local union.
Sincerely
HARRY B. ZIMMAN.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
LYNCH ONE, ATTEMPT SECOND
' LYNCHING THREE TIMES, IN
SCOTTSBORO TRIAL TOWN

DECATUR, Ala. - Armed gangs,
following the example set at Tusca-
loosa, lynched one Negro here Mon
day three times attempted to lynch
a second.
This is the town where the retrial
Of Haywood Patterson, Scottsboro
boy, was held last April, and to which
Judge James E. Horton and Attor-
ney General Thomas E. Knight, Jr. !,
insist the nine innocent Scottsboro
boys be brought for a third trial in
October.
James Royal was lynched by the
gang Monday night, after Thomas
Brown framed on a charge Of attack
ing a white woman, was moved from
the flimsy jail to Huntsville. The
lynchers attempted to storm the jail.
When they discovered Brown had been
moved to Huntsville, they went there
in cars and demanded that he be turn
ed over to them. In the face of the
nation wide protest against the Tus-
c~aloosa lynchings, Sheriff Ben Giles
was afraid to do this. The lynchers
departed with a threat that they
would return "a thousand strong
though it was doubted whether that
many members Of the white lynch
ruling class could be mustered.
They returned a second time, but
were again disappointed as Sheriff
Giles feared to turn Brown over to
them.
In Decatur, the lynchers were per-
mitted to search the Jail, the same
one in which the Scottsboro boys were
held last April, to prove that Brown
had been taken away.
At the time Of the Scottsboro trial
here, the jail was described as one
(which could be broken into with q
teaspoon" by authorities. It is used
only for Negroes, all white prisoners
being taken to Huntsville.
Royal was killed while standing on
West Street, where Brown had been
arrested, with three other Negroes
several shots from a shot gun at the
A car load Of hugs swept by and fired
four. One charge struck Royal full
in the chest.
Frank Brawley, Otis Webb, and
James Eddie Royals companions,
were held for a grand jury called for
Monday by Judge Horton. No lynch
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS
APPROVED
Estimate Total Cost at S35, 635: Win
Help Jobless

LINCOLN, Neb.-Sponsors Of five
public works projects this afternoon
won approval of the State public
works board after a hearing in which
they asked federal grants totaling
$1O,995 and a loan for $11, $3.50 for
projects estimated to cost $35, 635.
Approval of two of the projects.
however, was subject to conditions,
a Henderson school district improve.
ment subject to certain alterations in
plans, and a Scribner watr improve
ment subject to approval there Fri
day of a bond issue at an election.
The requests approved we're: Hend-
erson school district, $1,000 grant on
a four thousand dollar gymnasium and
community building; Scribner. $4,665
grant and $11,050 loan for s15.715
water improvements; Albion, $1,000
grant on a $4,000 water Improvement;
state normal board, $3.50 grant on
a 94,1oU repair OF the gymnasium at
kearney State Teachers college; and
Hall county, $3.50 on an $8,84O road
and bridge project.
Representatives of the Grand Is
land library, scheduled for a hearing
did not appear.
H. II. Henningson, engineer, said
the Scribner project would furnish
about four thousand dollars in wages
IN the community and thus give $50
TO $50 a month to the 4S UNEMPLOYED
married men there, or about $50 j
month if divided among all the IN
employed At Albion, he said. the
project would furnish Is men work
for about so days.
l. II Rudd, Hall county engineer.
SAID projects there would furnish nine
thousand man hours of labor.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
GOLFERS ARTICLE ON sDARKY"
SHAREHOLDERS DRAWS ERE

NEW YORK 60 An article about
cotton in Golfers magazine for Aug
ust 20, by Owen r White, in which
the word "darky" is used twelve
times to describe the sharecroppers in
the South, has drawn a protest from
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People. The N
A A. C. P letter dealt mostly WITH
the failure of Mr. White TO tell the
whole truth about the condition Of
the sharecroppers. The writer painted
the South as utopia for the Darky''
since the government is paying cotton
farmers to pillow under cotton. He
stated also that the agreements Be-
tween the owners and the tenants
were drawn to protect the owners IN
the risky business of cotton farm
ing and that the plantation owners
would protect" Negro tenants and
see that they got everything coming
to them under the agreements. The
N A. a. G. p letter called share
cropping worse than cooiie tabor and
declared the owners had never pro
tetted their tenants and rrdbably
would not start to do 80 in 1888
Author White asserts that Negroes
raise ninety per cent Of the cotton in
Mississippi and fifty per cent Of all
that is raised in the South, but de-
spite this, he did not talk to a single
Negro farmer, securing all his in
formation about how "happy" how
"shiftless," and how pleasure seek
ing" the Negrdls were from white
plantation owners who entertained
him on their verandahs One planta-
ton owner told him Negroes were
too smart" to put their money in
cotton, but let the owners take all
the risk:
William L. Chenery, editor of Col
%lier's, has written the N. A A G.
T. that the magazine does not desire
to insult any ace and usually refers
to Negroes as colored people, but that
Mr. Whites article was in the Ian
guage Of the people with whom he
talked The editor said also that Ne
knew sharecropping conditions were
not ideal, but that the article was in
tended to show only the effect Of the
governments pillow under campaign
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
GEORGE ARTHUR GETS WORD
on PUBLIC WORKS
EMPLOYMENT

NEW TORK-George r Arthur Of
Cicago, zeeently named a member OF
the nation wide advisory committee
to the Z S Employment Service,
vas asked this week By the n "A. a.
G p 10 take note Of the special diff
ficnltiss 81 Negroes in securing en-
ployment on public works projects
The labor for these projects win be
felecfed from agencies designated by
the = s Employment Service in the
various cities Mr. Arthur, who has
besn active in social problems for
years and who is on the staff Of the
RosenWald fund. was asked to inter
eede for Negro labor in his capacity
Ct an adviser
Meanwhile hundreds Of millions Of
dcilars worth Of public works projects
are being started. Colored people in
every community should keep watch
and petition the proper authorities
<or a share Of the work on these jobs.
New York City officials have been
asked By the national office Of the
n 4 A c P for a fair share of
the jobs for Negroes on the Tri-Boro
bridge and the new vehicular tunnel
under the Hudson river to New Jer-
sey
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
CHICAGO SEEKS $4,000 TO FIGHT
FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

CHICAGO-Under the leadership
Of A. G. MacNeal, the Chicago
branch Of the N. a A. 9. p. has
launched a campaign for $4,000 to
carry on the fight for full equal rights
for Negro citizens. The branch Is
distributing thousands of pieces of
literature citing its record of the past
seven months in which more than two
hundred complaints were handled and
ten suits filed against restaurants,
railroads, the Pullman company and
theatres. Two suits were won, none
lost and the rest pending. Branch
headquarters are at 3456 South State
street
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09

Make Miller: / fell in love with a
man / had known but a few weeks.
At least, | thought ] was in love with
him, and promised to marry him
Since we got engaged my mind has
changed This man is inclined to be
coarse and rough, and the | see
of him the less l like him / just
don't think | could be happy with
him Is it my duty to keep my pro-
mise and let him marry me, when l
don't love him? What is best for me
to do ?-Mildred
Mildred: A woman is under obi
cations to marry no nan under such
circumstances. 1t would be more just
and honest for you both that you tell
him the truth, that you have changed
your mind and do not care for him as
you thought you did. If he is reason
able he will appreciate your honesty
and release you. If he insists on your
keeping your promise to marry him.
then he is unreasonable and you'd do
well to pass him up. This matter is
too serious for you to take chances
MAKE MILLER.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09

eral Thomas E Knight, Jr by the
National Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People last week
The N a a Q. p pointed out to
Mr. Knight that it was his duty as
the states chief prosecuting officer
to press the investigation, the indict-
ment, trial and punishment Of the
guilty persons.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09

er has ever been arrested here.
Brown was arrsted in a pool hail
after Mrs George Digger, 4 mother
Of seven children, told police that \
Negro had held a knife at her throat.
and raped her BY the roadside al 11.3a
Monday morning
A general round up Of Negroes vas
begun by police, who brought Brown
before Mrs. Digger to be identified
He was the first one brought in, and
she Immediately identified him
positively"
The Decatur Daily, white lynch pa
per, carried screaming headlines nro-
claiming NEGRO Attacker Ident;fiad.
and Woman i victim ~ Brutal
Black in Daylight Rape" whipping un
the lynch spirit to a high pitch
LOS ANGELES - Hundreds ,r
workers organizations. ~includirc
unions, international Labor Defense
branches, and many others, are TAX
ing action on a resolution brought to
them by the district l. l. D.. pro
testing the lynching in Tuscaloosa on
August IS, Of Dan Pippen, Jr and
"A T Harden The resolution de-
mands the removal, arrest and pro
secution for murder Of Judge Henry
B Foster and Sheriff r III Sham
bin, and all others implicated in the
~lynchings, and application Of the
death penalty to these and all other
lynchers. The resolutions are address
ed to Goveror B M Miller, of Ala
bama.
A protest demonstration was held
~ the Plaza Sunday, following \
series Of street meetings On Friday
night along Central Avenue, IN INV
Negro section Of Los Angeles, under
the auspices Of the | IL ID
Mass protest meetings were also
held Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day of this week
In these meetings, the / L d is
smashing through the police reign Of
terror, which for two years broke up
every working class meeting held IN
Los Angeles.
PITTSBURG, PA Six mass meet
ings to protest the lynching of Dan
Pippen, Jr and "A. r Harden, IN
Tuscaloosa, Ala have been held here
in the past week, under the auspices
Of the international Labor Defense.
McKEESPORT, PA mass meet
ing was held here Wednesday night,
at 9th and Walter Street, under the
auspices Of the international Labor
Defense, to protest the lynchings in
Tuscaloosa and demand arrest and
death penalty for the lynchers
PHILADELPHIA - "A protest re-
solution denouncing the lynching Of
the two Negro boys in Tuscaloosa
was sent here August 10, by three
HdiOICO 4NGSIO dllU WHiLG mtMDtIc
of the Cleaners and Dyers Union, and
A F of L union on strike The
resolution was passed at the sug-
gesticn Of James w Watson, district
secretary Of the / l. d
DENVER, Colo "A mass protest
meeting against I h e Tuscaloosa
lynchings was held here Monday,
August u, at 1856 Stout Street, I'M
der the auspices Of the International
Labor Defense
DETROIT, Mich. - A demonstra-
ton at Grand Circus PAX, Saturday
night, called by the international
Labor Defense to protest against the
lynching Of Dan Pippen, Jr and "A
T Harden, last Sunday, followed a
series of street meetings, well at
tended by white and Negro workers,
every night in the week on The same
subject. The murder of James Porter,
Negro worker, by police here, on Aug
ust 10 was linked up in the protests
against the Tuscaloosa l~ynchings.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
NO GOOSESTEP DRIVE JOHN
SON ASSERTS
Buy Now, Buy Under Blue Eagle"
He Asks in Boston Speech.


BOSTON, Mass. 80 Hugh q. john
son denied today that the national
recovery administration was attempt
ing to make business "g~oosesep"
"NRA is in no sense a czardom,"
the administrators told a mass meet
ing of recovery workers.
ct is a sort of rules committee
where the great coaches of the
American industrial and labor teams
are collaborating to make a new and
fairer game out Of business COM
petition in this country"
Pointing out that the whole ex-
pertinent" is up to the workers and
consumers, Johnson said:
"There is not a manufactures or
merchant who can live if we workers
are not with him-we must help those
who help us, or we all go down to-
gether.
BUY Under Blue Eagle"
1T is up to you to demand the
blue eagle. For the consumer there
IS only one rule and | can say it in
IL words: "Buy under the blue eagle
buy freely and buy now to the
limit Of your present needs"
"The trouble is plainly and simply
that producers have not received
enough for their output to enable
them to buy it back and keep our
farms and factories going.
"That Is the reason for unemploy-
ment and falling business, exhausted
savings and abandoned homes. That is
the reason, and until that reason is
reversed, there isn't going to be any
recovery.
Pipe Dream Prosperity.
"There is no use in pointing back
at the 1928 boom and saying that
prosperity is possible without change
God save us from any more pros
perity of that pipe dream substance
"The smoky dream was built on an
expanding export trade which we got
by lending busted foreign customers
lavish billions to buy our goods when
we were already on notice that they
could not or would not pay even a
portion of other lavish billions they
already owed us.
eve were giving away both our
goods and the money to buy them as
fast as ships could carry them across
the ocean and then building here a
bonfire Of hope under our speculative
market from the warmth Of hot I. 0
U IS.
Anybody who wants any more
prosperity of that kind is a candidate
for some economic Kelley cure.
II have yet to hear our president
promise any magic cure for all this
or proclaim any certain formula.
What, in effect, he has said over and
over again is that there are SO many
good things in this land ef ours that
there is enough to keep everybody
happy if only we spread them more
evenly"
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
{ Continued from o.. IL

IlOUSSS G41t ANOIIu AAHu OlESSN,
Waiter; John c. Hall, 2120 North "a
Street, Tailor; E. l.. Triplett, 1920
North 24th Street, Cafe Proprietor;
Edward Turner, 2314 North 25th St,
American Legion; DR. j. H. Hut
ten, 2425 North oath Street; DR.. A
L.. Hawkins, 212O North oath Street;
R. B Kinney, 312h South 18th St.,
Myers, Police Commissioner, Robert
Smardick, Inspector of Police; George
W Allen Chief of Police; DR.. Palm
er Findley, Acquila Court; S. S.
Caldwell, Douglas Truck Company;
M. C. hoffman, 5012 North 5Otn St,
Chief Deputy Sheriff; Arthur G.
Thomson, District Judge; Robert
Smith, Clerk of District Court; James
NJ. Fitzgerald, District Judge; John
M. Glib, City Electrician; Roy N
FOWL, Mayor; George Holmes, NUM-
cipal Judge; Emmett Harmon, City
Clerw; Morris E Jacobs, $40 Elect
ric Building; Mrs Matte Chlids;
Arthur B. McCaw, 1914 North 18th
Street, Attorney; j. Harvey Kerns,
2414 North oath Street, Executive
Secretary of Urban League; Lucy
Mae Stamps, 2723 Ohio Street, Steno-
g%rapher; Joseph Owen, 2306 North
oath Street Druggist; Thomas Q.
Ross, 2306 North oath Street, Drug
gist; R. G. Price, 2416 North oath
Street President N. A. A C. p:
R S. Simmons, 22O8h North oath
Street, Newspaper Reporter; James
H. Holms, 1876 Corby Street, Tailor;
DR.. G. B. Lennox, 2122h North
24th Street, Physician and Surgeon;
Voner and Houston, 2114 North oath
Street.. Grocer; M E. Johnson, 1904
North oath, Druggist; w. B Bryant.
Attorney, 2722 Binney; Leroy Rob-
bins, 23O6 North 28th Street, Chief;
Charles M Simmons, 1112 North oath
Street, Tailor; D. M. Cole, Pastor,
1906 North oath Street; D. w. Rob-
inson, 1902 North oath Street, Phar-
macist; Julia Williams, 2428 Decatur
Street, Stenographer; Percy Taylor,
1863 Ohio Street, Barber; and R. E
Thull, 1902 North oath Street, Phar-
macist
] Harvey Kerns, Secretary of Ur-
ban League addressed the member
ship and laid stress on the import
ance Of Unions organizing all work
ing men DR.. Lennox represented
The OMAHA GUIDES Working
Mems Commission, Rev. o. J..
B~urckhardt represented the Minister
ial Alliance; Lieutenant Turner rep
resented the American Legion,
Roosevelt Post G.. G. Galloway
closed the meeting by a few remarks
Of in the interest of organized labor
cooperating with colored youths of
u group for the interest of all. On
leaving the room the entire member
ship stood up to show appreciation
for the visit of the committee The
president, Mr.. Frank E Lewis in
I formed the committee the following
day that Paul Barnett and Boyd v.
Galloway had been unanimously
recommended to the I. A. II. S. E.
by the local Motion Picture Operator
Union for membership The commit
tee expressed their appreciation
through Mr.. c. C. Galloway to the
president.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09
NAACP. URGES PUSHING 0 f
TUSCALOOSA LYNCHING PROBE

NEW YORK Letters urging that
the investigation Of the Tuscaloosa
lynching Of two Negro boys not be
hushed up were SEN Governor B M
Miller Of Alabama and Attorney Gen
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09

Miller
Writes

(For The Literary Service Bureau)
Woman Made rash promise to
marry-finds she does NOT the man
foolish to marry under such circum-
stances-twould be gambling with
happiness-better be honest, come
clean and tell the man the truth-too
serious to take chances.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09

made for lynching the Scottsboro
boys, by Attorney General Thomas
Z. Knight, Jr. ex-senator Tom Hef-
lin, and the white landlords they re-
present
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-09

(For advice, write to Make Miller,
rare Of Literary Service Bureau, SIG
Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City,
Kans For personal reply send self
addressed, stamped envelope }