The Omaha guide., 1933-09-23
N.A.ACP ATTACKS Low SALARIES

NEW YORK-The unequal salary
scale for Negro teachers which has
been set up in North Carolina by
which the maximum for colored in
structors is set at $500 a rear, will be
attacked in the courts by attorneys
acting for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie. it was announced here today by
Walter White, N. A A. c. p, Sc
cretary
White teachers with eight years
experience will receive a maximum
salary Of $720 a year or 800 a month;
Negro teachers of the same exper-
fence will receive $500 a year or $40
a month. These are the absolute
maximums for teachers of this grade
Under the new schedules the sal
aries Of Negro teachers will run as
low as 1922 a year for "C,' %classi-
f~ication teachers of no experience.
A conference of attorneys will be
held in Durham next week attended
by William H. HASTE of Washington,
d G., and Conrad o Pearson and
Cecil H. Mccoy, both of Durham, to
outline the procedure Of the asso-
Citations legal battle Messrs. Has
tie, Mccoy and Pearson handled the
case last spring in which the n A.
A. c P, sought a writ of mandamus
to compel the University of North
Carolina to admit Thomas Hocutt, q
macy I've suit was brought because
colored student, to the school of phar
North Carolina does not provide pro-
fessienal training for its. Negro stu
dents in taxed supported institutions
and thus denies equality in education.
The present legal fight against
unequal salaries is only one phase of
the associations campaign to wipe
Carolina and the South, Walter White
out inequalities in education in North
said The whole. battle will be for
liable distribution of school funds,
equal salaries, equal equipment, equ-
and adequate provision for training
in the professors No southern state
now provides training for Negroes
in medicine, dentistry, law, pharmacy
engineering and nursing in tax sup
ported institutions.
The Hocutt case last spring aroused
North Carolina citizens, both black
and white, as has few occurrences in
the last generation. 1t received almost
as much attention in the white
press Of the state as the fight on
Judge John j. Parker The propa-
ganda machine Of the whites got to
work among the Negroes as soon as
it was announced that the N. A. A.
Q P would fight the case. Negroes
were told 'it's not time yet" to make
a fight for equal training The old,
well worn social equality bugahoo
was trctted out to brighten the Ne
groes 1t was said and written in
many newspapers of the state that
the Hocutt case was not an attempt
to get training for Negroes in phar-
macy, but to get Negroes Gin asso-
ciation" with white students.
A great many Negroes, including
some of the socalled leaders in the
state took to cover The
fighting element, however. carried on
the battle. When HASTE, Mccoy and
Parson got into court they were
faced by the greatest array of legal
talent the state could muster, includ-
ing the attorney general and his first
assistant, the dean of the North
Carolina University law school and
his vice dean and a leading white at
torney Of Durham When they came
out of court they had defeated the
attorney general and his aides but
had lost their case on a technicality
due to the refusal of a Negro edu-
Gator to supply the defense with a
vital document.
In the present movement for equal
salaries, the whites are using their
same old tricks They are getting
certain Negroes to come to the front
and put or the soft pedal Some per
sons whom the Carolina Times calls
"Uncle Toms" have already written
letters to the dailies saying 1the good
white folks will look after Negroes
and no "outside" interference is
needed But again the younger ele-
ment is ready to fight and indications
are that the bulk of the Negro popu-
l%ation, after seeing the Hocutt court
action, is ready to fight, also.