The Omaha guide., 1935-07-06
Scores New York
Public Utilities For
Barring Negroes


ton for the Advancement of Colored
People, Hubert t. Delany, Commits
sioner of Taxes and Assessments Of
the City Of New York, a director Of
the Association and a member Of the
commission appointed by Mayor
Fiorella H. LaGuardia of New York,
to investigate the conditions which
eau ed the recent Harlem riot, scored
tn policy Of white retail stores and
public utility companies in taking
money from Negroes and yet refus-
ing them employment.
"We have stores in Harlem which
live upon the 2OO,O 900 people Of the
community, refus ing to give employ
ment to those who support and make
possible the operation of these stores.
We have utility companies such as
telephone, gas and electric, and trans
p~ortation who extract millions of dol
lars from the community, some Of
whom give no employment to Ne
groes at all, and most of whom en-
ploy far fewer Negroes than is rep
resented by the proportional earn
ings they derive from the commun-
ity. None of these companies, in
Guiding the milk distributors, have
Negroes in other than in mental jobs.
while j do not wish to touch
specifically upon the events Of March
10, | am convinced that d~iscrimina-
ton in employment, the lack of hous-
ing facilities, police brutality, oc-
casional injustice n the courts, each
played Their part in the disturbance
which occurred, which was by no
means a race riot. 1t was an active
expression Of q r~esentful community
against those who have exploited
them and have failed to enable q
pople, though willing, to be able to
provide for themselves the necessities
that citizens Of any civilized COM
munity need"
He stated that these conditions
were not new in New York and were
present in every large urban center,
in the United States in worse meas
ure. "The government Of the city
of New York does not condone segre-
cation and discrimination" he said,
NOR does it have laws that permit
segregation and discrimination. Yet
if such an outburst could occur in
the city Of New York with both the
letter and spirit of the law on a high
er plane that it is found in any 9TH
er city in the country, how much
more possible it is for outbursts far
more serious to occur than the one
in Harlem. To merely talk Of these
conditions is not enough. We must
fight aggressively for their EXTERN
nation. These fights cannot be won
with mere words"
N. "A. A. C. P. Conference Day Ses-
sions Lively.
The day sessions of the N. A. A.
C. P. Conference were among the
most interesting in years. On We'd
nesday, Rev. Roy L. Young, presi-
dent Of the Meridian, Miss. branch
held the close attention Of the dele
gates as he recited the frame-up of
Brown, Ellington and Shields by the
Kemper County Miss. authorities.
The Meridian delegation Of three and
the Jackson, Miss. delegation Of two,
pledged that the colored people of
Mississippi would get behind this
case and call upon the rest of the
country to help fight for the liberia
ton Of these men.
Roscoe Dunjee, militant editor Of
the Black Dispatch Of Oklahoma
City, and president of the Oklahoma
State conference of branches, told of
the Jess Hollins case and the mag
nificent fight made to save him. He
said the fight had infused a new
spirit in Oklahoma Negroes.
Irwin c. Mollison, president of the
Illinois conference of branches, de-
tailed the numerous victories in civil
rights cases won by the Chicago
branch against restaurants, taverns
and buses, and gave a resume of the
Leander McCiine extradition case
won by the Chicago branch. Eight
lawyers, he said, devoted much Of
their time to the legal work Of the
Chicago branch.
Ward Rodgers Tells of Negro
Farmers Plight.
On Thursday Ward H. Rodgers, a
white Texan. recently arrested for
organizational work among Arkansas
sharecroppers, and Mrs. Brown, a
Negro farm woman from the central
South, provided one of the liveliest
discussions of the conference when
they told of the plight Of the Negro
farmers. Their remarks were fol-
lowed by prolonged applause.
Layton Weston of st. Louis spoke
on the problems facing the Negroes
engaged in transportation: dining
a men, porters, trainmen, and 9TH
ers, and called for support for them
by all organizations.
On Thursday evening John P.