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The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06
Biographical Sketch of
FRANK r. CROSSWAITH

Frank r. Crosswaith has one of the
most brilliant and consistent records
to the working people Of this country
OF any person, white or Negro.
! Born in Frederickstad, St. Croix,
Virgin Islands, he came to this coun-
try in his teens. He started to work
as an elevator operator and attended
several schools. He is q graduate OF
the Rand School of Social Science,
New York City, where he later was a
teacher for many years.
He is probably best known through
his work as special organizer for the
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters
in its fight to rescue the Pullman Por-
tiers and Maids from slave conditions
and give them the status of men and
women.
He also organized the Elevator Or
orators Union, Elevator Constructors
the Union Mechanics, BARRIERS, Laun.
dry Workers and Motion Picture Op-
orators.
He founded the Trade Union Com
mittee for Organizing Negro Workers
in 1928 and has worked with most of
the unions that have Negroes in their
industries since that time. For the
past five years he has edited Negro
Labor News Service
Frank Crosswaith is known as the
Socialist Party's foremost orator. He
has u for various offices on the
Socialist ticket, including President
of the Board of Aldermen, Congress
21st District, Secretary of State and
Governor Of New York.
In addition, Mr.. Crosswaith is now
a general organizer Of the Interna-
tlonal Ladies Garment Workers I'm
ion, which is the third largest union
within the American Federation of
Labor. 1t has a membership of more
than 100000 and about 10000 of
whom are Negroes. He is chairman
of the Harlem Labor Committee,
which has been carrying on extensive
and intensive work to bring Negro
workers within the bona fide organ
lied labor movement and fighting con-
structively with the said movement
for complete equality of opportunity
for Negro labor.
The Testimonial Dinner in honor Of
Mr.. Crosswaith's 20 years Of devoted
service to the advancement of the
economic and social welfare of all
workers regardless of color, race or
sex has been selected as the place
to fire the opening gun for the organ
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06
WHITE WORKER ARRESTED
IN HARLEM OUTBREAK

New York-CNA Although
the New York daily newspapers
claim that the outbreak in Har-
lem last Tuesday night was a
race riot one Of the leaders of the
delegation protesting the brutal
ty Of the police against the Ne
groes in the crowd was Henry
Gordon, white, who was arrested
by the police and charged with
"inciting to riot
Negroes were joined in protest
ing against the attacks Of the
police by hundreds Of sympathet-
ic white people.
Many other white workers were
arrested for resisting the attacks
of the police against Negroes.
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Netice by Publication on Petition for
Settlement of Final Administration
Account

In the County Court of Douglas
County. Nebraska.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Houston Murdoch, Deceased
All persons interested in said mat
ter are hereby notified that on the
1st day Of April. 1885, W. L. Myers
filed a petition in said County Court.
praying that his final administration
account filed herein be settled and
allowed, and that he be discharged
from his trust as Administrator and
that a hearing will be had on said Pc
tition before said Court on the 9th
day of April, 1885, and that if you
fail to appear before said Court on
the said 9th day Of April, 1885 at
9 o'clock A. M. and contest said petit
ton, the Court may grant the prayer
Of said petition, enter a decree Of heir
ship, and make such other and further
orders, allowances and DEGREES, as
to this Court may seem proper, to the
end that all matters pertaining to said
estate may be finally settled and de-
termined.
Begins 1855 Bryce Crawford
Ends 4-20-35 County Judge
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06
How to Get Rid of
GRAY HAIR
Look Years Younger

When yon can change your a
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youthful soft color in less than half
an hour
And do it at home without fear of
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Rap-I-Dol is the real, original
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it is SO supremacy good that the best
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the world feature it. Rap-I-DoT
will not wash off or fade nor affect
MARCEL or permanent waves.
Go to any Beaton Drug Store today
and choose the shade you need-youIE
be a happy woman if you do-for a
long time to come.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

to return Brown to his home.
state. The Carolina authorities,
had promised TO "take care" of
him.
Relief authorities in South
Carolina "take care'' Of jobless.
Negro laborers by farming them
out to rich landowners. They are
forced TO work for a miserable.
wage Of 80 GEMS a day. If they
refuse, they are beaten and even.
lynched, Brown declared.
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N. A.. A. G. P. ASKS f. E. r. A.
TO INTERVENE IN ARKS.
Terrorizing Tenant Farmers to
Force Them to Break up
Interracial Union.

New York April 4.-Declaring
that it had been advised that only
federal intervention could pre-
vent starvation and bloodshed
among the tenant farmers in Ar
kansas, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People telegraphed the Federal
Relief Administration in Wash
ington this week asking it to send
administrators from Washington
into Arkansas to see that relief is
administered impartially to the
share troopers and tenant farmers
who are now in a bitter contest
with plantation owners over evic-
tons and the formation Of the in
terracial Southern Tenant Farm
ers Union.
The Southern Tenant Farmers
Union, according to the N. A. A,
G. P, has been terrorized by the
plantation owners and local Of
ficers in Poinstett county largely
because it las admitted Negroes
and whites into its membership,
with several Of the officers and
members Of the executive commit
tee being coiored men. The n. A.
A. G. p. claims it has received
information that local officials
have offered aid to the white ten
ant farmers if they would divorce
themselves from the Negroes.
Tension in Arkansas has been
heightened during the week by
threats against officers Of the
union coupled with threats and a
midnight visit to the home Of the
white. attorney for the union.
Union members have been cut off
Of all relief and are denied per-
mission to hold meetings OF pro-
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06
DISPARAGING THE DEAD
By X. A. Adams
(For the Literary Service Bureau)

/ am not thinking of sentiment. I
have not reference to the adage,
"Speak only good Of the dead,' used
in the sentimental way. I have in
mind the terrible crime Of hindering
the influence of the dead by disparag-
ing them and their accomplishments
after they have gone to their reward.
In Rev. 1874 a statement that
when properly translated reads: Hap
py are the dead that die in the Lord
~ they rest from their labors
and their works do go on after them
after they. have passed into eter-
nifty. This means that the influence
Of ones life does not end with death;
that individuals who have been inspir-
ed and encouraged by others shall
cont nue. the work after these bene-
factors have ceased to labor.
The great benefactors of humanity
did their work; they made their con-
tribution to human bctterment. the
world is better because they lived; and
the influence Of their Ives will 60
or blessing men. To disparage the
lives and the work Of these departed
b~enefactors means to hinder the in
fluences Of their lives. Not only is
this ~uncharitable, considering it senti-
mentally, but it is a distinct d~isservice
to others who have faith in the depart
ed ones and whose lives are being n
fluenced by those loyal souls deceased.
Therefore, for the works sake and
for humanit Is sake we should not
disparage the lives, character and
labors Of the dead, especially those
who have made worthwhile accom-
plishments and contribution to the
cause of human good.
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ization of a United Negro Trades,
which has been the lifelong dream of
Nj. Crosswaith. He has always con-
tended that any Improvement in the
status Of the Negro worker must
come within the framework of the
American Federation of Labor. To
accomplish this aim there will be
called a delegated conference Of Negro
and white trade unionists in the near
future to lay the basis for the estab-
lishment of a United Negro Trades to
serve the Negro worker as the United
Hebrew Trades serves the Jewish
workers, the Women's Trade Union
League serves women workers, and
as the Italian Chamber Of Labor
serves the interest Of Workers Of Ital-
ian nationality.
MI. Crosswaith also has as a lee
turer for the Socialist Party and the
League for Industrial Democracy
made many yearly nationwide tours
from New York to California, at which
time he has spoken in practically ev-
cry university and college.
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CHAIRMAN HARLEM
LABOR COMMITTEE
Continued from Page u

finding themselves and rededicated
himself to the creation of a safe har-
Dor.
There Is a difference between mer-
icy and justice" he said. mercy is
something lou beg for; Justice is
something you fight for. We have
been begging too long. We must now
fight. There viii v be any form
of equality for the Negro until there
IS economic equality-until the Negro
has equal opportunity for the job at
equal pay. Only then will the handi-
caps OF the Negro fade away to give
place to justice.
"Only through Union organizations
car this be accomplished" he contin-
ued. TOO long have we been looking
or happiness in heaven after death.
Let US have a little happiness and
some of the good life now on Earth.
And if we cannot do it for ourselves
let US get-together shoulder to Shout
der so that our children may live in
a better world
Among others at the speakers table
wero the following: James Bambr.ck,
president Building Service Employees
international Union; Luigi Antonini,
First Vice President of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers In
ion. Ashley L.. Totten, National Sec
rotary Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Por. ers; James Oneal, Editor of the
New Leader; Herbert M. Merrill, Sec
rotary New York State Committee
Socialist Party; Fannia Cohen, Secre-
tary Educational Department I. L..
G. W. u; Mrs. A. Phillip Randolph,
wife of the president of the Brother
hood of SSleeping Car Porters; Har-
court A. Tynes; DR.. and Mrs. Vernon
A. Aver. James E. Allen, President
NAACP; Charles S. Zimmerman, vice
president of the L. l.. G. W. U. and
manager of Local % Dressmakers I'm
ion; William Collins, N. Y. Represen-
tative of the A. F. of L; MI. and Mrs.
Crosswaith.
Collins made no bones Of coming
out fatty for a strong policy on the
part of the Negro.
"The Negro today is. facing the
same problems that other National
and racial groups have faced in the
rast," he said. "Those other groups
have accomplished their objects and
gone ahead in organization not by
asking but by demanding, not by look
ing for favors but by getting togeth-
er and forcing the justified conces-
sions. My office is ready to give
Brother Crosswaith help"
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06
OFFICIALS TRY TO DEPORT
WORKER TO S. CAROLINA

Philadelphia, Pa, - MA
conspiracy by transient officials
% forcibly "deport" Absolom
Brown, unemployed laborer, to
Lake City, South Carolina, from
where he fled last year to escape
lyr"hing, was uncovered here.
Brown was able to exc out a
living here until last Dc. ober. He
then was compelled to apply for
relief at the transient bureau
After correspondence with the
South Carolina relief authorities.
the Philade phia officials decided
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

D. R.-Do you think that the folks
will ever send for me and when dc
you think they will do SO?
Ans.-Ghe family that you worked
for during the Christmas Holidays
have not had their home opened this
spring but they are going to the-r
northern home around the month OF
May and will get in touch with you
at that time. They have not forgotten
your services and will pay you a good
SALARY.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06
CANDOR
By r. A. Adams
Cor the Literary Service Bureau

(For the Literary Service Bureau)
Because I am your friend, forsooth
Behooveth me to tell the truth,
Not say you're right when you are
wrong,
Nor when you're weak, pronounce yor
strong.
Because I am your friend, it's meet
That I forbear to use deceit.
Praise when your actions merit blame
And you should hang your head il
shame.
Because | am your friend, my eyes
Seeing your faults, deceitful lies
I should not tell, to flatter you,
While knowing such to be untrue.
Because you are my friend, also,
If you my weaknesses should know,
Behooveth you to deal with me,
Also in frank sincerity.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

l.. B. CT have worried for some
time about my fathers business and
want to know is it like L believe it to
be?
Ans.-Yes-your father did lose
money in the last big investment that
he made and he wtuld like to keep it
away from your mother. 1t would
please your father # you would ask
him to let you become associated with
him for at his age he needs a younger
man in his business.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

NOTE-Your question printed free
in this column. For Private reply send
25c and (self addressed stamped en-
velope for my New Astrological Read
ing and receive by return mail my
advice on three questions free. Sign
your full name, birthdate, and correct
address. Address Able Wallace,
P. 0. Box-11, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

X. D. XVIII you please discuss
and explain the problem 1 have in
mind?
Ans.-It seems to me that before
entering into the business proposition
that you are now interested in you
should consult your UNCLE. He
has financed you through school and
has plans for you already so now go
to him and lay the proposition before
him and get his opinion. l believe
that you will be able to make a good
living.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06
TIRED. ACHING,
SWOLLEN FEET
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In just one minute after an appi;-
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No fuss, no trouble; you just ap-
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ing, OF when occasion requires. Just
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The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

(For advice, write to Make Miller,
are Of Literary Service Bureau, SIG
Minnesota Ave-, Kansas City, Kans.
For personal repl send sef-address-
ed, stamped envelope.)
Make Miller: | am a married man
forty years old. / been married to
my wife twenty years. We have five
girls and never a boy, and all my life
I've been just d ing for a boy. My
viii laughs at me, shrugs her Shout
ders and says, "Tain't my fault" and
that makes me so mad! Now, I've
heard It argued that under such cir
cumstances a man would have the
right to find him a boy on the outside.
I'm tempted to do this and I am
writii r. to ask your opinion.-Sad
Husband.
Sad Husband: You are just as
wrong as you can be. If all the
children were boys and you wife was
"just d ing" for a girl, would you
justify her in going outside for a girl?
II bit not! OF course, it is not your
wife's fault! How can you blame her ?
Then how do you know the outside
childr would not be another g.rl?
Then, it would be a terrible sin to
have an illegitimate child born to you.
What comfort could you get out of
such a condition? How could you
clear yourself in the eyes of such a
child? Better go on and swallow
your disappointment. Thousands have
just the same to endure.-Maxie Mil
Ter.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

W. N. F.-Should I depend on my
wife returning to me!
Ans.-She will come back fer the
man that she thought she would mar
ry changed his mind when she ar
rived in Detroit. Michigan with her
FOUR CHILDREN. He himself, has
five and he could not possibly support
all these children on the salary he is
making. She will return home and
will be glad to get back.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

HICKMAN, General Manager of the
Joint Board of the Dress and Waist
makers Union, introduced a distin-
guished list of speakers.
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l.. n. C.-Pleasc tell me what
makes my wife so cranky?
Ans.-She only gets this way when
there IS company around and she
tries to show them how well off she
is and what a wonderful provider you
have been. She does not mean any
harm b. assuming a superior air as if
she were very SNOOTY when her
friends are around for they do the
same.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

A. S. M.-WilI my daughters con-
dit.on be improved through the treat
ment that she is now aking?
Ans.-Her physical condition will
be much improved but | do not believe
that she will get permanent relief UNI
I'll she has her TONSILS removed.
Your family physician explained the
symptoms of her case and said that
her tonsils should be removed and
there IS nothing left for him to do but
treat her locally until you make up
youf mind.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

Attorney Ray L. Williams, Room 200,
Tuchman Bldg. 241h and Lake St.
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M. H. H.-What causes this con-
fusion in my household from the
time my husband gets home until he
leaves?
Ans.-Your husband and yourself
should get together about rearing
your DAUGHTER. 1t is unfair to
this young lady to always have some
n to squabble over what she does
and when she is going to do it-for
after all she is old enough to take care
of herself and should be allowed some
privileges without having to ship
around. l agree with you that she
should be allowed to receive hez
friends in her home.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

F. G.-Should | take my boy
friends advice or is he trying to pull
a gag on ne?
Ans.-Your boy friend is acting
very manly in explaining to you that
he has found someone else that he
loves and is going to MARRY. He
is not trying to cause you any en-
barassment, but on the contrary, he
knows that it has been rumored for
years that you loved him but he has
always been on the level with you and
considered you as his friend. Wish
him luck and try to forget him.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

B. M. F.-Will | be able to make
the trip that | am trying to make and
about what month will I be able to
go?
Ans.--It seems to me that you
will make a trip to visit your PEOPLE
in the first week in July. The job
that you are going on next week will
pay you enough money for you to
save for q vacat on.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

l.. K.-Please tell me if l will have
any success with my work and when
will I gain anything from it?
Ans.-Yes, I am happy to say that
you will be able to get one of the
songs on the market that the Naional
Composers Association have in their
hands now. You should not wait un-
til you receive word from them about
your work but should try to better
what you have already done.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

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gist for Black and White Hair
Grower today.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

Man Married-Five Girls and Never
a Boy-Just Dying for a Boy
Tempted to Hunt a Boy on the Out
side-Wrong, all Wrong-Night Get
Just an Outside Girl-Would Any
Man Grant this to His Wife|I Bet
No:-Better Swallow Disappoint-
ment and Go On.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

X TUNE IN "PLEASURE ISLAND" WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NBC NETWORK X
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MILLER
RI

(For the Literary Service Bureau
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06
OF Course You Want
HAIR THAT "BE HAYES"

Sure you do. Who wouldn't like
hair that hugs the scalp, that stays in
place all spick and span. You can turn
the trick easily with Black and White
Pomade Dressing. It's what all the
good looking fellows and bObbed hair
girls are using. Large can only Csc.
Evening star., 1935-03-01
GEORGIA AVENUE
CAR LINK ORDERED
Line Eventually Will Connect
With Potomac Park Loop
in New Route.

The last connecting link in a new
street Car route that eventually will
connect the Georgia avenue car line
with the loop in Potomac Park, rout-
ing the cars north and south on
Seventh street, was ordered jointly to-
day by the District Commissioners
and the Public Utilities Commission.
A new double track branch-off was
ordered installed at Seventh and K
streets. so that eventually Georgia
avenue cars may be routed down
Seventh street west into New York
avenue and Pennsylvania avenue to
Potomac Park. The dead.end tracks
at New York avenue and Fifteenth
street will be eliminated.
Materials Already Ordered.
Some time ago a connecting link
between the Georgia avenue and the
Seventh street lines at Florida ave-
nue. was ordered, and the materials
necessary for laying the short length
Of trackage have been ordered by the
Capital Transit Co.
When the Georgia avenue-Potomac
Park Line is completed, it is planned
to use it only during the rush hours
for the present. Georgia avenue and
Seventh street will be the basic
Georgia avenue line and Ninth street
will be abandoned by the Georgia
avenue cars
Four other street car line changes
ordered are as follows:
The Capital Transit Co. told to
abandon the double tracks on Ninth
street south of Pennsylvania avenue
extending to Constitution avenue.
A southbound track will be laid to
connect the two lines on Fifth street
at G street.
Connecting Curves Ordered.
A connecting culve at Third street
and Indiana avenue, the laying of
short single northbound track in Third
street between Indiana avenue and D
street and connecting curve at Third
and D streets to connect a loop.
A croSs-over to connect the two tracks
on Fourth street northeast, immedi-
ately north Of Rhode Island avenue, so
that cars on the Catholic University
line can switch there without proceed
ing further on Rhode Island avenue.
The Public Utilities Commission also
announced it had authorized the
Capital Transit Co. to purhase six
new 37-passenger buSses, to cost $l0,-
800 eah, for use on the Takoma Park
express bus line.
Evening star., 1935-03-01

5000 Visitors in Cuba.
More than 5000 excursionists Wis
Tied Cuba in recent month.
Evening star., 1935-03-01

member Of the Parade Committee
some years, and as director of the
chief feature of the celebration he
will succeed Jack T. Engle, who
served in that capacity year ago.
Read also stated that, with the fes-
tival about two months away, an un-
usual interest had already been mani
tested by those applying for positions
in the procession for floats.
Evening star., 1935-03-01
Music Program Planned.

A program of music and entertain
ment will be presented by the Youths
Forum of the Southwest Community
House at o'clock tonight under direc-
ton of Miss Jane r. Bosfield. James
Diggs, president of the Community
Chest settlement at sol Second street
southwest, will act as master of cere-
monies.
Evening star., 1935-03-01

10000 bond issue for construction of
q fire house and municipal auditorium
was discussed, but no agreement could
be reached as to the details Of own
ership and supervision Of the plant.
The mayor and Council will hold
the regular meeting next Monday eve
ming. Negotiations have been COM
pleted whereby a strip of land has
been acquired by the town, which
makes possible the extension Of Hob
son street into Thirty-fourth street.
A roadway will be opened for traffic
from Mount Rainier through Brent
wood to Hyattsville by way of Thirty
fourth street.