The Omaha guide., 1934-11-03
Guide Platform
Local

and the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are
the only principles which will stand the acid test of good
citizenship In time of peace, war and death.
ID We must have our pro-rata of employment in
businesses TO which we give our patronage, such rs groc-
cry stores, ~laundries, furniture stores, department stores
and coal companies, in fact every concern which we sup
port. We must give our citizens the chance to live res
pectably. We are tired of educating our children and
permitting them to remain economic slaves and enter in
to lives of shame.
CD Our pro-rata of employment for the patronage
to our public corporations such as railroad companies.
the street car company, the Nebraska Power Company.
the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company and other
estaDlSnments which we are forced to support by right
OF franchise. Also our prO-rata of employment i'm re-
turn for the taxes we pay in our city, county state and
federal government.
CD To encourage the establishment of a first class
hospital that we may get the best that there Is in medical
science from our doctors whom we know tn be nearest us,
also to encourage a high respect of them and encourage
90 a one hundred per cent membership in the Om-
the efforts put forth by the founders Of the organization
aha branch of the NAACP. should be had to encourage
dollar endowment fund to maintain operating expenses
and to assist the general office to establish a five million
and to further the principles of the NAACP. All peo-
pie of all races must be educated up to a higher principle
and a more thorough understanding of interracial rela-
tionship that our country may in reality be a government
OF the people, for the people and by the people in whole
and not in part.
() The re-establishment of the Christian Religion
as Christ taught il, for the uplifting of mankind, elinin-
ating financial and personal gain. A practical Christian
Religion, week day as well as Sunday. An attitude to-
ward Our felowman as a brother in order to establish a
principle which will guide the destiny of each others
children; our ~neighbor's children today are our children
tomorrow.
Cd Courteous treatment in all places of business
and the enforcement of the State Civil Right Law.
go To encourage and assist in the establishment of
the following financial institutions near oath and Lake
Streets: A building and loan association, a state bank.
and, also, a ~first-class trust company for the purpose of
more of our girls to take nurse training.
administering aid and assistance to Cur widows and
children.
thousand dollar Young Mems Christian Association
Building near oath and Lake Streets.
0O To enlarge the Young Women's Christian As
ISOLATION that it may supply sufficient dormitory accom-
modations.
1D To teach our citizens to live economically with
in their earning capacity by printing in each issue a bud
get system for various salaries.
Q2) To make Omaha a better city in which to live
by inaugurating a more cosmopolitan spirit among CUR
American citizens.
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ID Fight for a passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynch Bin
and thus stop the shamful ~iynehing of American citizens.
C) One of our citizens in the presidents cabinet.
60 Federal control Of the educational system that
every child must have a high school education.
c Assist in the furtherance Of research by our
SCIENTISTS and historians to prove that civilization was
first founded in Africa.
l) Establish a political influence which win bring
about our pro-rata Of higher appointments made by our
making election day a Legal holiday and compelling eyerN.
American citizen of voting age to vote.
go Stop graft in politics by passing a Federal La,
chief executives.
~ Prevent further wars by teaching the so-caIIed
themselves about white supremacy with only three-tenths
Oh the worlds population. They must be taught that
color Is due to climatic conditions. They must be taupht
that severtenths of the works. population is made m Of
darker races. They must be taught that the rays Of sun
ina 0aaze upon the equator and turn the skin brown do
not affect the power of the brain any more than tba cold
ness OF icy glaciers affect the brain of the white race.
and that the darker races viii net continue to be crushed
- q money mad few. If the Fatherhoed Of Ged and the
Brotherhood Of Man are not welded int the hssrts Of +h;s
worlds family row, by teaching the principles laid down
by our Saviour. it win be welded into the hearts Of orr
cnndren some d.sy soon, on the bIoodiest battlefields this