The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Negroes Fired First, Pay
Cut; Refornists Try
To Stop Protest
BY CARL REEVE

NEW YORK-Eight hundred and
thirty thousand c. w. A. workers were
given their last pay checks and fired
BY Roosevelt within week. In the
south, being heaviest in the states of
Texas, Florida, Louisiana California
and Alabama. Me Negroes were the
first to go. The Negro workers con-
tinue to get the worst deal from the
Jim Crow lynch government Of
Roosevelt.
The wages OF The southern workers,
affecting large masses of Negroes,
we're ten cents an hour less than
RACES for @. w. A. workers in the
north, when the G. w. A. was first
ecreed by Roosevelt.
The Roosevelt government again
Emphasized it's Jim Grow policy when
.ile wages Of G. w. A. workers were
ut twenty per cent q few weeks ago
at the request Of the employers,
especially the employers Of the south.
This twenty per cent wage cut fol-
lowed the demand of General john
son and the N. r. A. apparatus, as
spokesman for the employers, that
G. W. A. wages be reduced, The
outhern employers admitted that
tley wanted to set up q large reser-
DIR of cheap labor to maintain huge
lrplus profits from the bitter ex-
citation Of Negroes,
second Wage Cut
But even this twenty per cent wage
la did not satisfy the employers.
The wage cut drive under the N. F..
a must be intensified. So Hopkins,
citing for Roosevelt, ordered C.
50. A. wages cut to S4.20 week in
rural sections and 1920 in industrial
ections. The layoffs in the south
we're not only an attack on the un-
mployed. They were g. further step
BIN reducing wages all along the line,
md particularly wages of the Negro
Forkers who are under southern
4eonage,
The Jim Growing of Negroes on
o. ". A. Jobs is openly admitted and
.tablished. The Roosevelt govern
aent established the Jim Growing Of
he unemployed in the G. c. c.
lamps, where Negroes are segregated
their living quarters, at table and
ia the job, Negroes have been given
5ha dirtiest and most mental work in
q. G. G. camps. This was continued
when The c. w. A opened.
This discrimination and Jim Crow
sin was not, however, confined to the
south. Conditions in New York
City under the liberal" Jim Grow
mayor La Guelrlia, are significant of
lie treatment received by Negro
iobless in northern cities. Over
10000 Of the Negroes in New York
city are jobless. These jobless
Negroes were Jim CroWed in the
New York Registration offices. They
we're told they must register in Har-
EN-. OF these jobless Negroes in the
3ity, less than 5000 were given G.
W. A. jobs and Of course the worst
lobs.
The same conditions prevail in all
aoFthern cities.
Jim Crowed On JOB
Complaints have been made to
federal relief director Hopkins OF
discrimination against Negroes in
every state in the union and every
city In the country. Negroes are
kept out of white collar and skilled
Jobs, kept OF relief rolls, refused G.
w. A. work aud segregated on the
Job,
In Phil2., q committee protested
3Gcause Negroes were not given any
White collar or skilled C. w. A. jobs
The few Negroes given G. W. A.
obs are Separated" in and around
Los Angeles on the job, and forced
10 work away from the white workers
Negroes Faint in Line
Ia New Orleans, where the Negro
C. w, A, workers were put into the
3Tanpa, across the river from the
atty. Jim Crow registration Offices
were set up.
In Mississippi, Texas and Florida
'iuyes' igations' OF discrimination
against Negroes brought nothing tc
the Negro workers.
In Dallas of 1875 census enlunera-
tors on g. w. A. housing survey
the Roosevelt government did moi
hire a single Negro.
Similar charges were made In
Richmond, Virginia
Negro Veterans Thrown Out
In Petersburg, Virginia, complaint
was lodged against j. H. Vanlanding-
ham. white Official in charge of c.