The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-06-10
YOUTH ..-
MOVEMENT
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combined.
In closing he urged the Negl oes
in this city as well as others TO CO.
operate in every manner 50 that we
colored people can stop asking Ia
vors of the white man. To think
over the points he had brought out
and to keep them foremost IN our
minds.
Next week the Dayton Youth
Movement will have another inter
esting speaker at the MUSES. theatre
building at Germantown and Broad
way.
On Saturday, June 4, the pickets
Of the Dayton Youth Movement again
started their relentless march. This
time the unreasonable merchant was
Phillip Garrison Of Germantown near
Hawthorne who wouldn't give his
clerks decent living wage. The
| walking started at $3.50 am. ana
stopped at 2:30 pm.
b. noon Mr. Garrison was ready
/ to concede TO the request oi the
/ movement for a decent LIVING wage
! FOR his clerks, Due to necessary
! lega, papers to be drawn up ana
| notarized it was 2:30 before ilnai
negotiations were completed and the
nickets withdrawn. On previous
| contacts Garrison was quite Veiieiia-
ant III his refusal to raise his clerks
wages above that Of five dollars loi
| fnll time Int after he saw the ell
feel of the pickcts on his business
II mas more than wiling to come
(, - terms. Now they get eight dollars
and ten for girl and boy respectively
| ~ decent working hours shortest
time vet the movement has haa =
nickct. Explain that We didn't PICK
i because Of lack Of Representatives
had been contacted four times Deloie
n the proper manner
Kennedy's Market
Fitch and Hawthorne sts.
After finishing Garrison's on aas-
nraav the picket then moved =
| Kennedy's Market. He has fepeas-
edlv made the statement that ne mas
honn Il this spot for thirty-fiye years
nm 10 colofed help and wouidn
nave anv around now because ne has
.,,a,. and Is ready to re-
III Also says that he will sell ou'
scst hut he has to have q buyer Pc
fore he can do this and with elaes
ike they are II is fairly hard 70 -
this. AT the time of writing p'sNss,
are still walking. Cooperation 9
neonle IN the neighborhood = hne
/ This store will probably go Ike ~
rest because the boycott Is very ~
I fective. ra,,.;,
! contacts we're made BY EdW'l
Rnckner. president; cortez Wilkef-
! son. vice president; Lewis Morgan
: and William Tate.
/ Report of Crown Point situahoh
Statement OF Mrs. Hawkins, Crow
t Avenue:
/ .sRumor true-she was asked Y
move by the committee o. Wnlee
of the community and then told<'a
+ family could remain because the.
! had been there SO long. Family g
I Two elderly people moved out clam
Z ing that they were undesirables-ye
there are white families living N OF
J shacks and remnants Of old busse
!, and street cars. and on relief. Ihl
] family was forced to move and Wei'
provided truck by the Bettermen
Committee Ia be moved back to TN
! eitv where they had lived befor'
moving to Grown Point. Prlmar.
: reason for wanting Tolliver TO NOV
: was because Of his common law Wlle
4 who IS white. But the man his foa
children by her. The committee Us
4 ually meets at Madison Tp. Sehoo
about 6.30 and about dusk marcl
S to designated home or home an
!. make th.ir demands. Leaders a
: far as she knew were woman ..
K the name Of Hartley and man b.
r the name Of Nelson"
Statement of Mr.. Tolllver, Crow
Avenues:
Petitions were being circulated b.
leaders and Thursday the mob cam
G to his home and told him to gacat
i in 24 hours and if he wasn't out thei
Il he would get his six feet. Were toll
: by Tolliver that he wouldn't ru1
i from them and if they bothered hia
or his family some Of thef
i wouldn't leave the premises. Stat
d | Troopers came and told him TO pro
tect his family and property and 4
s would be inside of the law. He ha
j. lived in Crown Point for Is years
! owns his property. When the Gib