Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-04-01
This World.
NO MAN IN TEXAS
NEWS COMMENT
ToUSSAiNT povERTuRE
EMPLOYMENT IN 1880
Cecil E. Newman

"a Negro cannot be a man in
Texas reared Rev. Irwin w. Under
hill, eoiored Presbyterian at the Gen
eral Assembly in Denver last year.
He spoke SO, in protest against the
Assembly going to Fort Worth, Texas,
for its next annual meeting. Despite
the protest of Underhill and northern
white ministers the sessions went to
Texas by vote of the conference. Last
week it was announced that the as
sembly would NOT go to Texas but
instead to Columbus, Ohio. Rev. Tn
derhill's "We ask the General As
sembly to go on record -. and say
we won't meet any place where the
Negro members cannot meet as men
and brothers, had finally won the
day. -.
T. Arnold Hill, Urban League exc
eutive returning from a southern tour
claims southern Negroes are going
Communist. Nathan MarsoId, Jewish
American attorney, who assists the
NA.A.c.P. in its legal department,
has been named solicitor to the De-
partment of the Interior. The
Quaker weekly, FRIENDS INTELLi-
GENcER, for February 25, is race
relations number, with articles and
editorials by Alain Locke, Ira De A..
Reid, Waiter White, Arthur Huff
Fauset and Lewis Alexander. Census
figures given in IAN Urban League
study show the Negro population of
the Twin Cities at s,176, with 4,176
for Minneapolis and 1000 for St.
Paul which Is just about 5000 short.
There are at least 10000 Negroes, in
the two cities. In order to defend
its integrity as a sovereign state, Ala
bama wants to execute the t, seven
Scottsboro boys. Evidently right is
not to be considered when the world
questions AIabama's administration
of justice. -..., ..... .. .,
Toussaint LOverture, black sol.
died, statesman and martyr, died
April 2, 1903, in a French dungeon,
where the arch treachery. of Napo-
leon had sent him. Wendell Phillips
claimed this slave was the greatest
soldier of the ages. He ranks the Hal,
tian soldier above Napoleon, Cromwell
and Washington. Tho he was the
greatest Negro in the history of the
Western Hemisphere few of his ra-
cial brothers know anything about
him, and care less. The Twentieth
century Negro has yet to develop a
Toussaint
The international Labor Defense Is
fighting to save the lives of the
Scottsboro Boys. Whatever you might
think or believe about the !. L. D. the
important fact is that this oreaniza-
ton seeks to stop the legal Iynchine
of these poor underpriviIeged, unedu-
Gated boys. There is only one way in
which you can do your bit to help
save these boys. Send your check,
money order or stamps to the SCOTS
boro Defense Fund, 80 East 18th St.,
New York. There is evidence apIenty
that these boys are innocent and JUS
tice to them should be the hope of
every justice and liberty loving citi-
zen. Plain talk without financial as
sistance won't help them. Help along
an important cause by mailing con-
tribution to the address given.
Looking backward we find that in
1880 total of 5,5OS,535 Negroes were
at work in gainful occupations. A
total of over four and, one-half mil
lion were classified under certain
lines of useful endeavor. The fol-
lowing table shows the totals in vari-
Gus occupations:
Common Laborers 1.S76.751
Servants Observation-Disclosures. S85, 3O6
Semi-Skilled Laborers $50. 44S, 459
Skilled Laborers ......... 32S,349
Farmers .................. S73.65S
Trade and Business 1850. los. AT
Professional Men ........ 112,22S