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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27
Parents Of Son

Parents OF Son
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warner. SOB
+. Forest Ave, are parents of son
born Wednesday in Boyer Mem
orial Hospital. The baby weighed
six pounds. IA ounces.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27
Tackman Circle Has
Meeting in Church

hl .. lOgu MAI hudln anu MIS-.
Charles Reynolds were hostesses
to members OF the Tackman Circle
OF the Dorcas Society OF the Luth-
eran Church for the circle meet
ing in the church dining room,
Wednesday afternoon.
The meeting was opened with
the reading OF Scripture by Mrs.
Title Tackman and the singing
OF Lenten songs. The afternoon
was spent sewing carpet rags.
Delicious refreshments OF hot
biscuits and honey were served by
the hostesses. The next circle meet
ing will be Mar. 10 with Mrs. John
Meyer.
Mrs. Jennie Rice, who has been
visiting Mrs. L. r. Beal, will leave
this afternoon for Concord to visit
her son and daushter'in.law, Mr..
and Mrs. Floyd Rice
Mr.. and Mrs. James w Simon.
Grand Rapids. visited Mr.. Simon's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence l..
Simon, Tuesday
James Oberlin. Hillsdale. will be
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. S. Bruce
Siddall and Miss Beth Siddall over
the week end.
Miss Sadie O'Neara, after visiting
her niece and nephew. Mr.. and Mrs
+. Rodgers Sylvester, returned to
her home in ST. Charles. Mich,
Tuesday.
Mrs. Leonard Hardman, Ann Ar
Dor. arrived Wednesday. to spend
a few days with her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Milton c. Reed.
Miss Vera North will spend the
week end with her parents. Judge
and Mrs. Walter North, East Ian
sing.
Mrs. James Babcock has been
entertaining her daughter, Mrs. Rob
ert Keller and son. Robert Joseph,
Detroit, the past week
Mrs. Edith DeHayen, Oberlin, O.,
has returned home after spending
a week with her sister, Mrs. Clay
ton Hughes.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Scheppner are
spending a few weeks in Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. A. Mellencamp
started this morning for a motor
trip to Daytona Beach, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Holmes Manchester
entertained Mrs. Manchester
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. R. Rogers
Tuesday night at the new home OF
the Manchesters on West Michigan
Ave. two miles from Ypsilanti, in
honor Of Mr.. Rogers birthday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27
Mail Carrier Retires

Arthur White. due to Ill health
has retired as rural mail carrier
from Plymouth after "a years OF
service. -.-,-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27

committee for the day. which was
one Of the most enjoyable OF the
year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27
Attend Funeral

Miss Ellen Gould and her aunt
Mrs. Martha Norman went to De
troit Saturday to attend the funeral
Of Mrs. Normans sister-in-law.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27

Attend Funeral
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Blackmore
attended the funeral of Mrs. JOS
ephine Vansice, at Wayne Tues
day. Arthur Huston also attended
the services.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27
Indicted Into Army

Jack Blackmore and Lynn
Smith were indicted into the ar
my Thursday in Detroit.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27

Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Blackmore
entertained at dinner Sunday
Miss Norine Blake. Worthwhile,
Tom Sanderson, Misses Nellie,
Amy, and Mabel Blackmore, De-
troit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Travis
have moved into their newly built
home on Joy Road.
Mr.. Colby entertained his sons
and daughters and their families
on Sunday.
E.. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wirth.
Wanda and Robert, Detroit, spent
Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. W. Blackmore.
Mrs. John McFarlane has re-
turned from University Hospital,
Ann Arbor, much improved in
health.
Donald Korte has been serious
ly i'll with cold and had to have
both ears lanced.
Mrs. Orrin Blackmore has been
visiting her sister in Battle Creek
the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orrin Blackmore
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27
Attend Supper

Mrs. Paul Simons, Mrs. EdTard
Hauk, and Mrs. Charles Hewer
attended the monthly supper and
program of the Mission Study
class at Plymouth Presbyterian
Church Tuesday evening. Mrs.
White, upper grade teacher at
Bartlett School, was the guest Of
Mrs. Simons at the supper.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-27

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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
LaCuardia Gets Jobs
For Six Women

NEW YORK-Immediately up
on receipt of a telegram from the
National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People, on
October 7, concerning the refusal
of military authorities at Govern
or's Island, here to accept six col
ored women volunteers for air raid
service in connection with planned
maneuvers, Mayor F. H. LaGuard-
ia, called the Island, rebuked Of
ficials in charge and secured the
placement of all of them.
The women were referred by the
city Department of Welfare along
with about 81 others at the request
of the U. S. Army Air Force and
the New York Council of Defense
to do clerical work and steno-
graphic work. Nearly all of the re-
ferrals were asked to report for
duty with the exception of the
colored women. William Hodson,
Commissioner of the Department
of Welfare, stated that they were
employees who had rendered
faithful service and were fully
competent for the positions"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17

In an address to the American
Federation of Labor convention
here in Seattle last week, the most
Rev. Gerald Shaugnessy, bishop of
Seattle, warned against the ma
tions adopting one danger Gin or
der to overcome one enemy of free
dom" of raising on high as the
victor the steeled and triumphant
arm of conquering Communism. !"
There is no compromise with
Communism" he warned: You
cannot extend to Communism any
more than to Nazism the right
hand of fellowship without run
ming the very definite risk of adj
opting at least past the philosophy
of Communism
The bishop offered THREE
FREEDOMS for the consideration
of the delegates, freedom of labor,
freedom of ownership and freedom
of elections. He urged the unions
to solve the Negro problem as an
essential step toward accomplish
ing freedom of labor.
Negro Problem
"Unless all labor is free, the lot
of those who are enslaved by de-
privatiOn of even the right to en-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
US. Women's Army
Urged On Congress

NEW YORK = An army of en-
listed uniformed women who
would be attached to the Air Corps
Interceptor Command in highly
technical and secret positions was
visualized today by Lieut.. Gen.
Delos C. Emmons of the Air Force
Combat Command, Boiling Field,
Washington, D. c.
General Emmons disclosed that
the War Department has recon-
mended to Congress passage of a
bill authorizing the enlistment of
from $4,000 to 10000 women for
this service. He said the women
would serve largely at information
and filter centers in the aircraft
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
New Type Army Transmitter Erases
Radios Dead Spots

Radio dead spots" virtually are
eliminated and every telephone can
become a radio transmitter and
receiver by means of a brand-new
system of air-ground communica-
tion-first ever established in the
United States-which will be used
to control pursuit planes move
ments at test exercises of the Sec
ond Interceptor Command the last
of this month.
The new communication system
was described yesterday by Brig.
Gen. Carlyle H. Wash in a dis
cussion of plans for the mobiliza-
ton of Aircraft Warning Service
under his command in Western
Washington and Oregon from Oc-
tober % to November 1.
1t no longer will be necessary to
communicate with pursuit squad
rons over long distances by radio
from their home stations, General
Wash explained. New apparatus,
recently perfected, in the telephone
company laboratories, makes it
possible to blanket an entire area
with scattered radio transmitters.
monitor" System Used
Through each of these, officers
at control centers can talk with
airplane pilots through whichever
station is nearest as they fly
along.
The Army is using the principle
of the monitor" system worked
out by Second Interceptor Com
which will permit soldier monitors
to be free for other duties will be
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
The Most Rev. Gerald Shaughnessy
Offers AFL Solution Of Negro Problem

joy the fruit of the principles of
unionism, will inevitably react to
thwart and in a certain measure
even to destroy this institution
known as uniOnism," he said.
"The existence of a large body
of laborers who, for whatever rea-
sons, are condemned by conven-
ton, or prejudice or the injustices
of social caste, to subsist on the
crumbs and scraps from labor's
table, means not only that this
same submerged class must suffer
consistently the pangs of near
starvation, but possibly more per-
tinent to the issue of unionism
itself, they Willingly or unwilling
ly constitute a bar to the complete
unionism of labor i'm the country
where such conditions exist :"
Private Ownership
He said that SO long as union
ism Is guilty of injustices to the
Negro, "those weaker brethren
whom it should consider its very
own" it leaves in the hands of its
enemies a perfect weapon to
thwart the progress of labor.
On freedom of ownership, he
said that while 1t was no place
to argue either way on the tech
nical topic of the "capitalistic
system that it must be realized
that any system of labor must be
founded on "the fundamental prin-
ciple of this right of private own
ership."
OF freedom of elections, he said
he had heard "rumbling reports"
that there would be no free cleo
ton in 1912.
"Some have indeed brazenly
dared to go so far as to suggest
that in 1912 the regular constitu-
tional elections in this country be
omitted" he said. Lets hope it
is only a trial balloon. And let's
puncture 1t :"
He warned against laughing off
such suggestions as silly, however,
warning that by such laughter
both Hitler and Stain rose to pow
er.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
AFL Convention Approves Resolution
Endorsing Presidents FEP Committee

dolph when interviewed by an En-
terprise reporter, stated that the
bitter controversy that arose in
the convention on the question of
racial determinations will ulti-
mately be reflected in increased
public support for the fight
against DISCRIMINATION Prac-
tees in the American Labor
Union.
Mr.. Webster stated that he was
leaving Seattle at the conclusion
of this convention to attend a
meeting of the President Com
mittee on Fair Employment Prac-
tice to begin October Goth in the
city of Los Angeles At this meet
ing the public investigation and
hearing will be held by the COM
mittee where people having COM
plants of discrimination against
Negroes in the defense industries
or Government will be given an
opportunity to be heard.
Representative of the employers
charged with discriminatory prac-
tees will also be called in. Mr.
Mark Etheridge, chairman of the
presidents committee on Fair EN-
ployment Practice, was invited by
president William Green of the A
F. of L. to address the convention
and delivered a most scholarly, in
formative and militant address or
the race issues involved in the De-
Tense situation telling the Dele
gates assembled that they coul6
not afford to indulge in these un-
American activities.
President Randolph will leave
Seattle at the conclusion of the
convention, stopping at Spokane
Portland and Oakland, California
before returning East.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
First Clam Bake
Serves AFL Delegates

80 American Federation of Lab
or delegates to the national con-
vention in Seattle sat down at the
First Clam Bake of the season at
the exclusive GUS Southern Kit
chen on the New Tacoma High
way, Is miles south of Seattle,
Sunday, October IL.
Gus, master of the fine art of
clam bakes, makes no preparation
for this service only by special re-
quest. For such occasions guests
must use the phone service, Des
Moines 1924.
80 labor delegates pronounced
the bake the perfection of the cult
nary art. And Gus has already
been called upon for future reser-
vations for q REPETITION of the sea-
sons leading delectable.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17

substituted.
This device, a "push-to-talk'
transmitter, permits for the first
time use of a single-channel .tele-
phone line to carry radio trans.
missions from the aircraft-warn-
ing control room in Seattle build
ing to any radio station of the
command.
The first set of this type ever
manufactured arrived in Seattle
last week. 1t will go in one of q
dozen radio stations to be erected
for the coming exercises, located
in such a way that squadron can
never be out of touch with at
least one station.
Constant Communication
Movements of pursuit planes
will be controlled, minute by min
ute, from the time they take off
until they actually meet the "en-
emy," according to interceptor Of
ficers at control tables in the Sc
attic filter station.
In constant communication, cir
cults can be switched from one
radio station to another as flights
progress, without interruption OF
conversation.
General Wash pointed out that
the system allows erection of semi
mobile radio stations in strategic
but thinly populated or remote
areas, thus covering dead spots
where radio normally is useless
Even a single forest telephone line
to a distant mountain top can be
used with the new equipment.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
.NAACP Ask Probe
OF AFL Monopoly
On Bldg. Trades

New York-The effect on color
ed workers of the virtual closed
shop agreement granted by the
Office of Production Management
to the Building Trades Union of
the American Federation of Labor
was urgently requested for inclu-
sion in the investigation of mono
polistic practices being conducted
by Thurman Arnold of the u. s.
Department of Justice by the
NAACP on October 10.
The NAACP pointed out the
grave Importance of the matter
to Negro workers because many
AFL building trade unions COM
pletely deny membership to Neg
roes through constitutional provi-
sions, ritual and other means.
In support of its request the As
ISOLATION named specific instances
of exclusion by ALL unions in st.
Louis, in Milan, Tennessee, where
the Carpenters local No. 259 of
Jackson, Tenn, refused to grant
clearance to any Negro worker in
spite of the expressed willingness
of the company to hire colored la
Dor; in Chicago, ILL.,, where Plumb
ers Local no. 100 bars Negro men,
bers, and in Joliet, ILL.,, where Lo-
cal No. 1877, Electricians Union re-
fused clearance to Negro eleetri-
clans.
Others named were the Inter
national Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers and Joiners, Local 80, Mobile,
Ala; Brotherhood of Painters,
Decorators and Paper Hangers,
Baltimore, Md, and Amaha, Neb.,
and Carpenters and Joiners of
washington, u. y.
The NAACP said that prejudice
on the part of AF'L labor unions
invades the aircraft industry and
quoted the ritual of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists,
contracted by Boeing Aircraft
Company, Seattle, Washington,
which says:
IT further promise that I will
never propose for membership in
this Association any other than a
competent white candidate"
The same union is in control at
the Vultee Aircraft plant in Nash
vile, Tenn, and at neither plant
are Negroes doing production
work. Through the same Machin-
lists union Negroes have been bar
red at the Bethlehem Shipyards,
San Francisco, Calf.
The NAACP placed responsible
lily for clearing up the situation
on the government in view of the
presidents Executive order.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17

What some of you professional
cooks do not know about the fine
art will fill a pocket edition of
the latest encyclopedia. Perhaps
you can make a custard pie with
out getting a soggy crust. Well,
we will see. Anyway, it is a neat
trick. How would you make a
grapefruit pie? Did I hear some
one say you wouldn't like it even
if it was good? And neither would
you like a sailed peanut pie. Some
more sour grapes.
How many of you cooks put ba-
nanas in doughnuts to keep them
soft?
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17

Yes, and we are just as certain
that every cook in Seattle cooks
pork chops just like mother used
to cook them. That's wrong. De-
cidedly wrong. Pork chops should
be cooked one at a time on a fork,
cooking the fat before the meat.
Apples and carrots, the buns
of the fruit and vegetable family,
take on an air of aristocracy when
our royal home economist opens
up her bag of culinary tricks.
White elephants Chats a pet
name for men cooks) are also well
come.
Don't forget the time and place.
Just ry to get in.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
Negroes Don't Give A Damn For Ku KIuxkIan"

You know, Mr.. Green, that
you permitted the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks to
take over freight handlers,
a federal union, and now the
freight handlers are organ
lied into auxiliary Jim Grow
unions with no power to vote.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17

One of the most conspicu-
Gus examples in the United
States of race discrimination
is at Boeing Aircraft Com
pany in Seattle, which from
the very beginning of the ma
tional defense emergency has
refused to employ Negroes.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17

1t is time we washed the
hands of the A. f. of L. of
this stigma of discrimination
l don't believe any labor
union is strong enough to de-
fly public opinion on a strong
moral issue.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17

The Negro workers don't
give a dam about the Ku Klux
Khan. What the Negro work.
er wants is the right to work
and he will cross the line of
any Ku Klux Khan He can't
get a job unless he has a card
and he can't get a card unless
he has a Job.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17

1 don't need Hutchinson to
tell me what to do with this
resolution. / don't care any
thing for the opinion of Hut
chesOn. / am able to sustain
every charge I've made and /
don't retract a single state
ment.-RandOlph
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
Real Estate For Sale

$4,000. 7-roOm modern, oak
floors up and down. Double
plumbing. Automatic oil, hot
water heat. First class c0ndi-
ton. Fine Lot. Terms. Ellison
n. Il. East 4440.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-10-17
Bv Staff Reporter Harold HoIifield

BY Staff Reporter Harold Holifield
Resolution Number 22:
Introduced by A. Phillip Ran
dolph and Milton P. Webster, del
egates from the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, was unan-
imously concurred in by the Con-
vention at the morning session on
Wednesday, October Is. Mr.. Web
ster, vice president of the Broth
erhood and member of the Presi-
dents committee on Fair Employ
ment Practice in commenting on
the action from the floor of the
Convention gave q synopsis of the
background of the activities that
prompted the President to appoint
Fair Employment Practice Com
mittee and advised the Convention
that its endorsement was a for
ward step in the interest of the
elimination of racial discrimination
and that the endorsement would
be of great help to the committee
in obtaining cooperation from the
National and International Unions
of the American Federation of La
Dor, some of which have been gull
ty of the most fragrant racial dis
elimination.
Resolutions 1921
The convention also unanimous
ly concurred in Resolutions Num-
bers 20 and 81 introduced by the
Sleeping Car Porters Delegation
calling for the extention of the
Lease-Lend Aid to Ethiopia and
the elimination of the Poll Tax.
The Convention non-concurred in
the resolution introduced by the
Brotherhood Officials calling for
the condemnation of the Auxiliary
form of organization.
international President r n
, 1941-08-11
D-P-L workers
report gains in


The UWOC for the Dayton
Power and Light Company re-
ports that membership is moving
ahead rapidly in several plants.
The plant at Miller's Ford is lead
ing the way.
At the last meeting of the IT'LL
ity Workers Organizing Com
mittee, held at the UE hall, Tues
day, August S, Brother Shedlock
reported that gains are being
made in the utilities plants all over
the country, especially in the
State of Ohio.
The DP&L workers are deter
mined to organize their respective
plants to a 1000 membership in
the UWOC-CIO. In addition to the
gains being made in the DP&L,
the UWOC reports substantial
progress is being made in the
ranks of the Ohio Bell Telephone
workers. The telephone workers
are determined to have a bona
fide Union that gets results. The
telephone workers are looking to
the UWOC for organization.
A joint meeting is being planned
for the near future of the DP&L
workers, in conjunction with the
Ohio Bell Telephone workers.
Watch for the date, the time, and
the place. Be sure to attend.
, 1941-08-11

I can remember when I was a
small lad, a relative of mine told
me, that when I grew up I should
try to get a job at the Cash" !
still remember his words of. adj
vice, but I cannot heed them at
present. Why? Because the Cash"
isn't the Cash" anymore. Because,
today one doesn't speak of the
Cash." but of the MGR. The title,
MGR, doesn't seem as friendly as
the old name. Evidently, there
have been a great many changes
made since the old days.
Patterson's policy does not pre-
vail today. With a new manage
ment and a new policy, the MGR
cannot be the Cash" any more.
Today, the picture is changing
again. Labor today has found a
way to right such wrongs as exist
at the N c r. The National
UE labor organization, solidly es-
tablished in Dayton, is the answer
to the problem that exists at the
MGR today. The UE is dedicated
to the sole purpose of co-ordina-
ting the combined efforts of all
the workers in the plant, so that
the workers can better their
hours, their wages, and their
working conditions. This fact has
been established throughout the
country, and locally at Frigidaire,
Delco and numerous smaller
plants in Dayton.
We are appealing to the workers
of MGR to avail themselves of
golden opportunity to bring
back the Cash of old, with add
improvements. Why do the
of the MGR permit an Or
ganization such as the EIU to
, 1941-08-11

hold them back in hours, wages,
and working conditions. We know
that the workers of the MGR are
not satisfied with the conditions
now existing at the MGR. Let the
people of Dayton know that you
too, have rights in this country,
and mean to exercise them, by
coming forth, as a body, and
claiming recognition under the
UE banner.
Yes, fellow workers, I can
picture now, the wonderful atmos-
phere that will prevail at the
MGR, as it does in other shops,
when you assert yourselves and
have a real Union, the UER&
MWA. You have a battle ahead,
but the fruits of victory will taste
that much sweeter.
In conclusion, I wish to state,
that the workers at MGR who are
kidding themselves, through mis-
information, by remaining in the
company dominated union, are
due for an awful let-down when
this war boom drops out of the
picture. When the lay offs start,
there will be plenty of signs that
otherwise would have been pre-
vented, had they needed the ad-
vice of a UE MEMBER.
Let's make the MGR a UE
shop now, and avoid future sor-
rows. Let's make the MGR the
Cash" of old and better. Let's
have the people of Dayton say
ing again, ''The CASH is the
best place to work i'm town."
WHAT ARE WE WAITING
FOR? LET'S GO UE-CIO AT
THE MGR!