The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-10-30
BrOwder Walks Out
OF Two Hotels When
Negroes Are Barred

! BALTIMORE tcNA-Tn a dou-
ble-barrelled sock at race preju-
dice. Earl Browder, Communist
Presidential candidate. successive
" walked out Of two hotels last
week when the homogeneous bar
red Negro visitors from his room.
The hotels were the Emerson Ho-
tel, this city. and the Adelphia Ho-
tel, Philadelphia
Browder's challenge to jim crow
oppression came as preface to
his stirring appeal to the people
of all races to beat back the ris-
ing tide Of reaction and the threat
of fascism" by uniting to defeat
''the Hearst-Liberty League candi-
dete, the Republican Presidential
nominee" at an enthusiastic meet
ling in the Old Lyric Theatre here.
The meeting was attended BY more
than 1000 colored and white per-
sons.
The Communist candidate was
registering with his wife at the
Emerson when he learned that
William N. Jones, prominentjour-
nalist and a member of the edi-
torial staff Of the Baitimore AFRO
American, would not be admitted
to his room. Browder Immediate
ly walked out of the hotel, sharp
ly denouncing its management sas
enemies of the Constitution"
Earlier in the week, the Com
munist leader took the same UNI
equivocal stand in defense Of the
Negro people when he abruptly
cancelled reservations for a room
and press conference at the Ho-
tel Adelphia in Philadelphia when
ne learned that Robert Smith; city
editor of the Afro-American, was
refused the use of the main ele-
vators of the hotel. Smith had vi
sited the hotel to get an interview
with Browder.
A group of Philadelphia Conn
munist leaders, headed by Pat
Touhey, Western Pennsylvania
Communist organizer, and B. D.
Amis, Negro Communist candidate
for State Auditor General, vigor-
ously protested the hotels discri-
mination against Smith to hotel
manager, David Provan. Provan's
answer vas that it is the rule of
the hotel that colored people go
up the back elevator" Anis as
sailed the hotels policy IS IAN in
suit to the Negro people"
Charging the management with
violation of the states civil rights
law, Browder and his party moved
to a Spruce Street apartment,
where Negro visitors had free ac-
cess to the Communist nominee
In an address later before an
audience of 1900 Philadelphians,
Browder urged all liberty-loving
persons to join the fight on racial
discrimination in the CITY of Bro
therly Love- He recalled that
sons OF Pennsylvania drove the
Southern Bourbon cavalry out of
Chambersburg, Pa, the farthest
point north reached by General
Lees armies during the Civil War.
so that all men could be equal.
I'VE Communists" Browder de-
clared, "in our fight for equality
for Negroes are continuing under
modern conditions the struggle Of
those brave followers of Abraham
Lincoln"
On the stage of the great Mar
ket Street Arena where Browder
spoke, two giant pictures of Brow
der and his Negro running mate,
James w. Ford, thanked a huge
electric sign which flashed forth
the words, ''Vote Communist" A
Negro Chorus held a prominent
place on the evenings program.
The huge audience roared APP
prevail when B. D. Amis read a
telegram which he proposed that
the meeting send to Governor Earl
protesting the jim crow policy of
the Hotel Adelphia and Condemn
ing this violation of the civil right
law" The telegram urged the
Governor to issue an order that
those who violate the law against
discrimination shall be punished
by the full force of the state"
NEW YORK (C)-The opera,
''MeneIek," in three acts by PEN
man Livingood, is to be present
ed by the American Negro Opera
Association at the Central Opera
House, 205 East 9th Street, Mon
day evening, November 16, it was