The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-03-30
HIRE
NEGRO statesmen
AND SOLICITORS

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Calf; the Wahlgreen Drug
stores on the south side in Chi
| eago and in an indianapolis
store. The Sheffield Farm Dali
~ Company in New York oper-
ates store completely manned
oy us in the Dunbar Apartment
Building. The Consumers gro
ceries in Chicago have several
colored units. So have the Uni
ted Cigar stores. One of the
Seal s-Roebuck retail stores in
Chicago is conducted with a
Negro force of clerks. This unit
S located in the Rosenwald A
partment Building.
Coal Companies
Among the fuel distributor
using colored direct statesmen
are the j. j. Dunn Coal Com
pany of Chicago, the Dobbins
Coal Company of New York, and
he Virgins Coal Company of
the same city. The Griffin Coal
Company and the Action Coal
Company of Washington. DC,
each maintains a colored branch
office.
The Fuller Brush Company
has a salesman in Chicago
Francis Liggett and Company
has city salesman in New York.
The Celeste Corset Company has
several saleswomen in Chicago,
and the Charts Corset Company
maintains staff of saleswomen
in Columbus. o.. and in Wash
ington, d. G.
A colored salesman covers the
territory adjacent to Pasadena
for the Maytag Washing Ma
chine Company.
Autos
With no claims as to com
u te information, it is known
hat the automobile industry in
dudes the following colored re-
} esentation:
The Chevrolet is sold by us
n Chicago. Detroit, Cleveland,
Nashville, Norfolk, Oklahoma CT
y and st. Louis.
The Studebaker in Chicago,
Fords and Lincolns in Los An
geles and Pittsburgh. Oaklands
and Pontiacs in Chicago. Hud-
sons, Essex in Houston, Texas,
the Buick in Chicago, the Whip
pet in Los Angeles. the Nash in
Houston, Texas and the Ora
ham-Paige in Portsmouth.
Oil Companies
The Cities Service Company
in Cleveland, the Pacific and
Gulf Company in Kansas City.
Mo, the National Refining Com
pany in st. Louis, the Standard
Oil Company in Atlantic City,
Newark, Montclair, and Jersey
City; the Shell Gas Company in
Chicago and Washington, DC,
the Continental Oil Company in
Ponca, Okla, and the Vacuum
Oil Company in Philadelphia
are Representatives of the auto
mobile service line in the new
Negro field.
The Holstein Rubber Products
Company has publicity man
covering territory for them. He
travels out of Hartford, Conn.
Refrigerators
The refrigeration teres t s
seem to have recognized the
worth of the Negro market The
Frigidaire people have our sales
men in Cleveland, New York and
Indianapolis. The General Ell
ectric Refrigerator Company has
staff in Cleveland. The KEEL
yinator has a staff in Cleveland
the Graybar Electric Company
has a salesman in Philadelphia;
h Westinghouse Refrigerator
Division has salespeople in New
York; the Norge Refrigerator
in st. Louis, Mo-, and the Gen
eral Motor Radio Company en-
ploys Negro solicitors in New
Orleans and Pittsburgh
Solicitors
In the transportation field the
Rock Island Railroad and the
Fairway Motor Coach Company
are cultivating the. colored traf-
fic with our solicitors.
Gas and Electric
Among the public utility in
terests it is found that the Bell
Telephone Company in Chicago
Los Angeles, and Houston, Tex
as, the Southern Bell of Allan
ia, Ga, and the Chesapeake and
Ohio Telephone Company of
Richmond. are using Negro soil
citors and adjusters. The New
Orleans Public Service and the
Winston Salem, N. c., Public
Service are corporations which
are doing the same thing. The
Peoples Gas Company of Chiea-
go, and the Consolidated Gas
Company of New York have es-
tablished colored stated branch
offices as has the Edison Elec-
trio Light Company of Chicago.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company of New York has a
Negro staff in their branch Of
flee on 135th Street in the
heart Of the Harlem district