The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
J.. S. Restaurant in
Congress Refuses
to Serve Negroes
DePriest in Sham Fight;
Moore Calls for Mass
Struggle on Issue

WASHINGTON, Jan 24-Flagrant
discrimination against Negroes by the
q. S. Government was again brought
to the fore yesterday as the result
Of the refusal Of the public restaurant
operated by the q. S, Congress to
serve two Negroes.
Morris Lewis and a companion, both
colored, were told by the manager of
the restaurant that the House Ac-
counts Committee was responsible for
the discriminatory policy. Lindsay c.
Warren, Democrat Of North Carolina.
Chairman Of the Accounts Commit
tee, which has charge of the restau-
rant, substantiated the managers
statement and declared that the res
tauranJ had been operated by that
committee since 1921, adding
1T has never served Negro en-
ployees or visitors, nor will it so
long as I have anything to do
with it.
Lewis, one Of the Negroes refused
service, is secretary to Congressman
oscar De Priest, Negro millionaire
landlord and bourgeois politician of
Chicago. De Priest has declared he
will ask for decision on the floor
Of Congress today. He pretended to
be ignorant Of the anti-Negro policy
Of the government and the wide
spread discrimination in the District
Of Columbia, which is under the con-
troll Of a Congressional Committee.
and in which Negroes are consistent
ly barred from restaurants, theatres
and other public places. He declared,
with mock indignation:
1T seems funny to me that man
with money to pay for his food.
whether he be Jew, gentle or Negro,
should be refused food in public
restaurant"
De Priest later agreed not to raise
the issue on the floor of Congress.
He will attempt to smother it in the
Rules Committee.
Moore Calls for Wide Mass Protest
NEW YORK. that the
refusal Of the U. S. Congress restau-
rant to serve Negroes is not an iso-
lated case of discrimination as De
Priest pretendS, but reflects a syste-
matte policy on the part of the U. S.
Govern ment, the National Council
OF the League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights, in q statement signed by
Richard B. Moore, Executive Secre-
tary, calls upon Negro and white
workers and their organizations to
protest this infamous act Of discrimi-
nation. The statement says:
This is case of discrimination BY
the government itself, which openly
carries through a policy .. Jim-Crow-
ism in all its departments and flaunts
its segregation pr gram in the face
Of $4,000, 900 Negroes struggling for
freedom and equally. This case is
not incidental or accidental, but on
the contrary, fundamental policy Of
the government itself in line with the
N.R.A. OF the New Deal"
Scores Hypocritical Gesture BY
NDe Priest
ON the basis of this fundamental
policy it can be easily seen how n.y.
pocritical is the appeal of De Priest,
who is an outspoken agent of U. s.
imperialism and of the reformist N.
A. A. G. P. leadership, to the Negro
masses to have faith in the govern
ment, in the constitution and to look
to the institutions of the government
for redress Of their grievances. Such
an appeal is equivalent to an appeal
against oppression to the main in
strument of Negro oppression-the U.
s. Government.