The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-07
Unemployed Delegates Protest
Race Discrimination at Capitol
CCC Head States Negro
Segregation Policy Is
Approved by NAACP
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureau

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WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. a.
Speaker Henry T. Rainey, Of the
House Of Representatives, today re
ce-ved a militant protest against dis
elimination against Negroes in the
house restaurant and elsewhere and
revealed that he too is 2 discrimina-
tor.
There are social distinctions be-
tween the races that can never be
overcome" said Rainey, expressing
his attitude.
Frank Keith, white steel worker
from Birmingham, Ala, in the deep
aouth, answered the speaker: We are
fighting the race hate which the
owning classes have tau7ht us liz
order to divide the workers. I'm
fighting il nov, and VIII fight It all
the rest Of my life"
The delegation was one Of many
from the National Convention Against
Unemployment to federal officials. At
the same time, a group Of Polish
vC--er dictates were protesting al
the Polish Embassy against the poll
teal trial CT % ps- -oaors IN the Polish
Ukraine; others were being turned
away from the German Enbassy.
where police were secreted upstairs 10
welcome the professors against Hit
leZism; and still others were inter-
viewing the heads OF the G. G. c.
camps and the Department Of Labor
The delegation 70 Rainey included
also Robert Ramsey, Cleveland Negro
worker, and Charles Alexander, of the
League Of Struggle for Negro Pi~htg.
They protested against recent dis
ordinations against Negroes in the
Capitol restaurant, and also against
Oscar Depriest, Negro Congressman
from Chicago; who is soft-pedaling
the i5-re. To this Rainsy objected.
calling Depriest 'the finest Negro
leader I've met since Booker T
Washington"
II can see how you would think
that" Alexander returned.
Negroes have all the rights that
white have under the constitution.
Raincy said, but there are social dis
tinct!cns between the races which can
never be overcome"
The delegation linked the discrim-
-aticu in the Capitol with rank dis
examinations against Negroes in the
District of Columbia and throughout
the country; economic and political
as well as social Determinations
1ain2y Ec4d, What goes ON outside Of
the Capitol doesn't concern me"
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see Secretary Of Labor Frances Per-
kins. They had an appointment. but
she wasn't there.
One Of Perkins assistants and a
representative Of the Children's Blu
reau saw the delegation, which in
Guided mine fled workers from Il
linois, Negro and white women, steel
mill and textile WORKERS, teachers,
housewives, and other occupations.
They protested against discrimina-
lions against women on relief and
Jobs. A white textile worker from
Georgia pointed out the plight OF
couthern Negroes and showed thai
only by fighting these conditions
could white workers make real gains.
The Labor Department officials
agreed that mo unemployed woman
should receive less than $40 a week
relief" but said that most of the
women's demands were out OF their
field.
Col. Robert Fechner, C.C.C. direc-
tor, told delegation OF young
workers that he considers the pres
ent rates Of pay adequate, (CC.C
workers receive one dollar day out
of which SIS a month goes to the
boys families. and they, in conse-
quence are removed from the relief
rolls-Ed) Rainey further said that
he absolutely would not tolerate or
ganiz2tion in the C.C.C." His only
promise-making response was that he
was locking forward to improve
ment in the standard Of the food IL
the camps"
FechEer refused TO comment on
discrimination of Negroes in C.C.C.
camps but upheld segregation by
saying that the whole Negro pro-
gram of the camps had been
adopted with the approval of The
National Association for the Ad.
yancene1t of Colored People.