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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21

"We honor the American
Flag, symbol of our Ameri-
can heritage. The right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness in a free ma
tiOn."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Tear The Mask OF Hypocrisy From Democracy
Says A. Phillip Randolph

Let the Negro Masses speak says A. Philip Randolph
international president of the Brotherhood Sleeping
Porers in dramatic attack the negligence of this federal
government to incorporate the Negro workers into the Ma
ona Defense plan and program Negroes have stake in
National Defense he continues. ut is big stake. 1t
vital and important stake"
Nobody cares anything about We are being pushed
around he With all the taxes to provide the
for this gigantic program with which the Golfers workers
of other filled the Negro must pay his share That
he not reapng his share of opportunities to collect his pay
envelope when the others do the argument He receiving
abundance of insults and being ignored jobs
OF which he is eligible for, are being handed out
This wordwar crisis and Americas scheme of National
Defense destined profoundly affect the whole
of country Hard and and
adjustments in the entire industrial and setups of
mess industry and labor in the process of development
If the Negro is shut of these and intensive
changes in industry labor and business, the will
be set back fifty years. Indeed seriously doubtful
that the Negro waits until these economic trade union
and business transformations and Innovations under
under the sanction and guidance of the
crysazed and set he may retrieve lost ground salvage
rights sacrificed"
"Let the Negro Masses speak" he repeats. Let them
go to Washington the capital of the country and do the
speaking BY automobile bus and other of transporta
on foot they go and march down the streets
protesting this Negro group ten thousand strong Mayhap
Negroes cannot stop discrimination but they he
cudes ear the mask of hypocrisy from Americas democ
racy."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Cases OF Judges Parker And Black Reveal
The Uncertainty OF Life

Some years ago Judge Parker of North Carolina
nominated for vacancy the Supreme Court of the United
States but Labor and the NAACP joined forces and blocked
confirmation of his nomination by the United States Senate
More recently United States Senator Hugo L. Black of
Alabama nominated and confirmed for similar posi-
ton and of the nationwide Juror created by the
citation that he had member of the Ku Kux Khan
now history.
Judg Parker admitted to be of the most liberal
judges the South where colored gants concerned
and Mr. Justice Black has, in his short period the Supreme
Court BENCH written two sweeping decisions of which the Ne
gro the primary beneficiary
These two instances reveal how uncertain life is; how
difficult is to into the future They do not how
that in the event of similar the future vigorous
protest should not be made against the appointment of
with like records.-P T.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Seek Senate Action
Probe &c Defense

Washington, D. c. Now that the
Lend-Lease bill has been passed,
action is being sought looking to
the passage of Senate Resolution rs
which provides for an investigation
of discrimination against Negroes
in the whole national defense pro-
gram.
The first step is to have the
resolution approved by the Senate
Committee on Education and La
Dor, before which it now rests. The
chairman of this committee is Sen
"ator Ebert D. Thomas of Utah
If the resolution is approved by
the committee, it must then be ap-
proved by the Senate, and the in
vestigation can proceed. One i'm
portant detail is approval by the
Audit and Control committee so
that the necessary funds can be
provided.
Pressure for passage of the res
olution is growing in all sections
of the country as the shameful pic
ture of the discrimination against
the Negro is being revealed.
New factories are springing up
with lily-white employment polio
les; billions of dollars in additional
contracts have been awarded to
firms which refuse to employ Ne
groes.
1t has been revealed recently
that the following New York firms
have placed requests for white
Christian help only: Metal Manu-
featuring Division, Mack Trucking
International, Brewster Aerno-
nautical, Sperry Gyroscope, Ford
Instrument. This situation obtains
throughout the entire country with
only enough exceptions to prove
the rule.
The determinations sought to be
officially exposed by S. r. rs, and
remedies, are brought sharply to
focus by the nationwide broad
cast of the Navy, calling for $4,000
pilots. No Negroes are permitted
to enlist in any branch of the Ma
Wy except as mess attendants.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Senator McNary Joins
Sponsors of S. r. IS

New York - Senator Charles L.
McNary (R. Oregon has volun-
teered to join in sponsoring Senate
Resolution 70, which proposes a
Senate investigation of the dis
elimination against Negroes in the
armed forces, and in employment
in industrial plants filling national
defense contracts.
Senator McNary wired the N. A.
A. c. P. March 8 saying, II wish
to associate myself with Senate
Resolution rs and shall exert ev-
cry reasonable effort for its early
consideration"
Senator McNary's offer was sent
Immediately to Senator w. War
rem Barbour, who introduced the
resolution. Other sponsors are: Sc
majors Robert F. Wagner, New
York; Prentiss M. Brown, Mich
igan; and Arthur Capper, Kansas.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Marian Anderson Donates Her $4,000
Edward A. Box Prize To Charity

Philadelphia, Pa. Marian An
derson modestly accepts the $10,-
900 award conferred on her Tues
day night, March Is. The worlds
ranking singer added to her many
laurels a gesture to charity as she
donated to its cause, the prize she
had won for outstanding service
to the city of Philadelphia.
The thirty-three-year-old Negro
singer, a native of Philadelphia,
was presented the award on the
stage of the Academy of Music
before a distinguished audience
that cheered as she responded, II
realize the big and deep signifi-
canoe of the honor"
The money, she said, "shall en-
able some poor, unfortunate, but
nevertheless talented people to dc
something of which they have
dreamed all their young lives"
The award was established in
1921 by Edward A. Box for the
person who has performed an act
or contributed to a service
calculated to advance the best in
terest of Philadelphia" each year
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Maceo V. Littlejohn,
Gen. Chm. Local $40
Confers In Seattle
By Mrs. e. b. Gibson

Mr.. Maceo v. Littlejohn, gene
raj chairman of Local No. SIG, st.
Paul Dist arrived in the city Sat-
urday March Is. He was met by
Mr.. R. Addison vice president
and Mr.. E. B. Gibson, secretary
treasurer. Headquarters were es-
tablished at the Coast Hotel where
all railroad men could be contact
ed. Meetings were held daily at
the Coast Hotel and also at the
Dunbar Hotel. The meetings have
not only been informative but i'm
pressive.
The session Saturday was at the
home of Mr.. Lavelle Stafford, vice
chairman where he was host for a
chicken dinner for the officers.
Sunday Mr.. Littlejohn and Mr..
Danforth were dinner guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Gibson. 9th
ers entertaining the chairman were
Mr.. Bruce Berge at breakfast,
Mr.. Lionel Allen at dinner, Chas.
Danforth at breakfast and others
On Tuesday Mr.. Bernard e.
Skuires and Mr.. Littlejohn adj
dressed a joint session of the Lad
les Auxiliary and Local No. SIG on
Unionism and labor. During the
meet, Mrs. E. B. Gibson, retiring
president of local welcomed Mrs
Roy Green, the new president of
Ladies Auxiliary; Mr.. Chas. Dan
forth and Mr.. Nichols presiding
and lovely luncheon served. We'd
nesday the general chairman visit
ed sick members of Local No. SIG
Mr.. Clarence Mccullough and Eu-
gene Hardy.
A smoker was given at the Dun
bar Hotel Wednesday evening
where business and pleasure mixed
freely. Thursday and Friday the
Auxiliary held sessions at the
home of Mrs. Roy Green to hear
the labor chieftain. Mr.. Littlejohr
will return to his home in st
Paul Saturday.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
ALL. Adopts
Color-Line Stand

New York-In response to a
request by the N. A. A. c. p. that
he place before the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor executive COM
mittee the gross discrimination
against Negroes in plants filling
defense contracts, William Green,
AFL president, has written the
following letter:
Replying to the inquiry sub
mitted in your letter dated March
6, the Executive Council of the
American Federation of Labor re-
affirmed its former position to-
ward the organization of all work
ers into American Federation of
Labor unions regardless of creed,
color or nationality"
The American Federation of La
Dor thus assumes it's usual posi-
ton of not taking any action
against unions which discriminate
against Negro members. The AFL
maintains that it is unable to do
more than to affirm it's historical
o n : d i S i minatory position
against Negro workers.
1t maintains that because of its
structure it is unable to force
member unions to discontinue their
well-known practice of barring Ne
groes from membership or limit
ing their employment
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Cong. Mitchell Argues Jim Grow
Case Before U. S. Supreme Court

yelling from one state to- another
were entitled to railroad accommo-
dations equal to those furnished
white persons.
ITO deny this" he asserted, "is
purely racial prejudice"
Arguing in his own behalf, Nit
chell said he had been "forcibly
elected" from a Pullman in Ar
kansas while travelling from Chi
cago to Hot Springs in 1887, and
had been compelled to complete
the journey Gin a Jim Crow car
with second-class accommodations.
even when a member of our
race reaches the highest position
in the government yet attained"
he said sarcastically, "he still is
not entitled to more than second
class accommodation in filthy
coach"
A large number of Negroes were
seated in the courtroom as Mitch
ell and other attorneys debated the
legal constroversy. Mitchell's suit
for equal facilities was dismissed
by the interstate commerce COM
mission and by the federal district
court for Northern Illinois.
When an attorney for the inter-
state commerce commission ex-
planned that railroads would be
subjected to heavy expense if re-
quired to provide equal dining car
accommodations for Negr oes,
Chief Justice commented:
"Of course, they could meet that
difficulty by admitting colored
persons to the dining car"
"The question then would be"
the lawyer replied, whether the
railroad would have any other Gus
toners in the dining car" adding
that there was "a sentiment for
segregation" in certain areas of the
United States.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21

WASHINGTON, D. c. - The
now-famous fight of Congressman
Arthur w. Mitchell against the
jim-crow regulation of Southern
railroads gained official stamp of
approval from the nations Depart
ment of Justice last week.
In an opinion filed with the Su-
preme Court, Solicitor General
Francis Biddle stated the Negroes
travelling from one State to an
other ought to receive accommoda-
tons equal to those provided for
whites.
Mitchells campaign was begun
when he was forcibly elected from
a Pullman car in Arkansas while
travelling from Chicago to Hot
Springs in 1887.
Explaining that the Interstate
Commerce Commission had dis
missed Mr.. Mitchell petition for
equal treatment with white per-
sons because of the comparative
ly little colored traffic." Biddle
added:
THE majority of the commission
considered that it was dealing with
a question of colored traffic. 1t
was, however, faced with an issue
of the basic liberties and privileges
of citizens"
Biddle noted that the Supreme
Court had ruled that a railroad
without regard to the inter or in
tra-State character of the journey,
had power by regulation to segre-
gate white and colored passen-
gers" He asserted however that
"th e separate accommodations
must be of equal quality"
Representative Arthur w. Nit
chell, Democrat of Illinois, the on
ly Negro member of congress, ar
gued before the supreme court to-
day that members of his race ira
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Fl. Lewis Soldiers
Dine, Dance Sat. Mite

Miss Gertrude Jackson, hostess
at FIT. Lewis, announces compile
ton of arrangements for the din
ner and dance at Battalion Theatre,
Saturday night.
Miss Jackson announces that on
ly girls not attending high school
between the ages of 1885 are de-
sired. The bus transporting the
contingent from Seattle will leave
the Y. w. c. A. at 8 o'clock p. m.
and will return at 1 o'clock. Miss
Idelle G. Vertner, Executive of the
WV. c. A., Mrs. Jessie Walker and
Miss Willetta Riddle will head the
chaperones. All are urged to join
the great cavalcade.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21

END of A Perfect Day" by Mrs.
E. R. Chainey, accompanied by
Prof. McGruder, organist, and Sc
lections by the choir were render
ed, following an impressive pre-
lude by the organist, Prof. McGru-
der.
Resolutions were read by Mrs
Ophelia Hall on behalf of the Of
and by E. 1. Robinsonon behalf OF
the King County Colored Repub-
lican Club of which he was an
active member for more thar
twenty years. A tribute was paid
by bretheren of a former knights
of Pythian Lodge.
Pallbearers, members of the
Trustee Board, were: w. D. Appl-
ing, Saul Hall, Nathan Robinson
James Harris, Moses Clay and Es-
mond Dahlberg.
Funeral arrangements directed
by the Angelus Mortuary and per-
feet embalming were commended
by friends who saw him in death
as in life.
Burial was in Mt. Pleasant Gem
etery.
Born in Agile, Texas, sixty-two
years ago, Mr.. Young came to
Seattle to attend the Alaska Yu-
kon-Pacific Exposition, and re-
manned here until his death He
was formerly employed by the Ar
cite club and for the past fourteen
years has served with the A. A. A,
Automobile Club of America.
Surviving are his widow, Elsie
Francis, four daughters, Edith
Mae, Donnetta, Mrs. Coriene Jones
of Seattle, and Mrs. Dorothea Scott
of Cleveland, Ohio. Three grand
children, Agnes and David Jones
of Seattle, and Brian S. Scott
Cleveland, Ohio. One brother
James Young, Ardmore, Oklaho.
ma, and two sisters, Miss Dora
Young, Mt. Vernon, N. Y, and
Mrs. Lucille Jones, Oklahoma City
Okla, and a multitude of friends.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Hitler Forces Brit.
To Drop Color Bar

New York-Fear of Hitler has
forced the British to drop the rig
id color bar and to enlist Negroes
from Africa, and the West Indies,
md Indians from India, in the ex-
elusive Royal Air Force according
TO an article by George Padmore
in the March issue of The Crisis
Magazine.
Not only has the fear of the
Germans broken down the color
line in the r. A. F., but it has
caused the heads of British relig-
ious bodies, including the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, to issue a
statement to the press urging the
wiping out of the color line in all
phases of British life.
The letter urges the abolition
of color barriers in the colonies;
the elimination of discrimination
in the hotels and hospitals and
the complete wiping out of the
color line in employment.
The letter further urges the ra-
Their astounding step that Negroes
be extended "the hospitality of
English homes in this country"
Mr.. Padmore asserts that the
total collapse of France was fol-
lowed by a serious consideration
by the British of the effect of
their color discrimination.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21

Brown, "a, and Miss Thelma
Brown, 80, entertainers, who live
at the Coast Hotel, cuts and bruis-
es and Edward Moon, 10, 12071a
Main St., cuts and bruises.
The Brown Sisters, members of
dance team appearing at the Palo-
mar Theatre, and Moon, were
treated at Harborview Hospital
and released.
The Dance team were able to
cancel their engagement and left
for California. Miss Regina Twaite
is a popular member of the Six
Crowns and still confined in the
hospital. Woodrow Richardson,
who was rescued from beneath the
car heading the caravan is still
in serious condition. Mrs. Brit
tons condition is considered critic
al.
A Dodge owned by Eddie Moon,
one of the cars in the collision,
was a total wreck That the in
juries suffered were not fatal caus-
ed an onlooker to cry out: "And
yet they say the days of miracles
have passed." cry voiced by Mrs.
Beatrice Cassidy, the mother of
Eddie Moon.
Inability to see through the
dense fog made travel dangerous
on the Seattle-Tacoma highway
resulting in piling seven or eight
cars in a heap bumper to bumper.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Page Madam
Perkins

The army post of Fort Bragg is
one of the biggest in the country,
and it has been an open shop job
from the beginning, except that in
the plumbing and steamfitting con-
tracts the unions were allowed to
provide the help until they ran out
of men. When all their members
were at work and still more men
needed, nonunion men were hired.
The carpenters are almost all
farmers living in a neighboring
region embracing five counties,
who had time on their hands, any
way, during the winter, and such
skill as a man needs to keep his
buildings mended and replace any
tnaC Durn DOWN.
Altogether, about $4,000 men
have been hired and paid for more
or less time at sixty-five different
occupations having to do with the
construction of buildings and
roads, mains, sewers and all the
other work that constitute a big
contonment for soldiers, and while
union men have been welcome, no
man has been barred because he
didn't belong to a union and re-
fusing to do bushes with the col
lector.
The work is now in the final
stages, so this is one big govern
ment defense job, at least, which
has ben an almost total loss to the
carpet-bagging unioneer.
In way, however, they all had
the benefit of collective bargain
ing, because the pay was estab-
lished by the United States depart
ment of labor Carpenters have
been drawing 80 cents an hour and
working forty-eight hours a week
plumbers $1,25 an hour and labor
ers 80 cents an hour.
That is correct-30 cents an
hour for laborers, mostly colored
farm hands, or only $14.40 for a
forty-eight hour week, and the bar
gaining agent on their behalf was
the department of labor-a fact
which apparently gives official
support to the contention that liv-
ing is cheap around here for Ne
groes, as it should be, considering
the sort of living it is; but any
way, this employment has been q
windfall for almost all concerned
who otherwise would have beer
earning in round numbers, moth
ing during the months consumed in
! the fort
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Returning Dancers Trapped In Dense
Fog; 8 Injured In Seventeen Collision

Eight persons, all Negroes, were
injured when seven automobiles
collided on the Seattle Tacoma
Highway, twelve miles south of
Seattle near Bow Lake at 1:30
O'Clock, last Friday morning.
All the injured people were re-
turning in an automobile caravan
from the Century Ballroom where
they had been dancing to the music
of Duke Ellington. The accident
occurred, according to State Pa
trolman H. R Ferguson, when a
car, turning into the highway from
side road, struck the leading au-
tomobile.
The machine behind crashed into
the first automobile and one car
was overturned.
Two victims were injured seri-
ously. They are Mrs. Lorraine
Britton, 81 years old, 500 Maynard
Ave, an entertainer and Woodrow
Richardson, %, 12071a Main st.
Mrs. Britton suffered a brain con-
cussion. Richardson was pinned
beneath the overturned automobile.
Other less seriously injured per-
sons are:
Miss Harriet Booker, 18 years
old, 1914 Spruce ST., brain con-
cussion; Miss Regina Twaite, 10,
512 22nd Ave-, brain conclusion;
Eddie Green, 81, I'll Lane St.,
brain conclusion; Miss Melba
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-21
Tribute Is Paid
Stephen Young
BY VIM. j. Hyatt

Scores of friends and business
associates with whom he served
during his thirty years residence
in Seattle attended funeral ser.
vices for Stephen Allen Young,
who died suddenly from a heart
attack Sunday, March 16, at his
home, 522 23rd Avenue.
Burial service at the First A.
M. E. church, Wednesday, March
10, was read by the Rev. l.. r.
Hayes, Pastor. Mr.. Young was a
member of First A. M. E. for twen-
ty-nine years, serving as teacher
in the school for a short while
and then continuously as an offic-
er of the Trustee Board.
Banks of flowers lined the pull
pit front, tributes from represen-
tative citizens, organizations, his
hI1SineSs associates and friends
Evening star., 1941-11-30
THE MAN JAPAN FEARS
Continued from page five

from irritating contacts with others,
and whose sole ambition is to develop
the resources of the country to the
betterment of its own educational,
cultural and economic levels.'
From President Quezon down, the
Filipinos idolize their Field Marshal.
His democratic ways, his culture, his
ability as speaker and his memory
for names and faces appeal to them.
1t was said of him in 1929 that he
knew the name of every noncom-
missioned officer in the Philippine
Scouts. They are proud to be led by
a hero who has received numerous
decorations for bravery and distin-
guished service both from the United
States and foreign countries.
Above all. they like him because he
is Macarthur. The history of the
Philippines in the twentieth century
is inseparable from the history of the
MacArthurs. 1t was the kindly, far
sighted. brilliant Arthur Macarthur
Evening star., 1941-11-30
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

who, as military governor of the
islands, started the Filipinos on the
path to self-government. When he
turned the Philippines over to the
civil authorities he left them with the
foundation for their present laws.
schools and defenses.
In the interests of defense, his son
must carry on: he must perfect the
military organization of the Philip
pines. There is more at stake now
than the defense of the islands. The
tropical archipelago in the western
Pacific is the Far Eastern keystone
of our security and of all that our
security symbolizes. In flsing the
Filipino-American Army into pow
erful fighting unit Macarthur is
deeply conscious of the fact that he is
manning the ramparts of democracy.
But he puts the matter much more
simply when you ask him about his
work. Leaning earnestly across his
desk, he says in a quiet voice:
'The United States has directed
me to defend these islands. propose
to do So"
Evening star., 1941-11-30

resulted in wide-scale reductions in
our defense forces. Obsolescence was
the order Of the day, and-most dis
couraging of all for the progressive
Chief of Staff - indifference. How to
modernize and build up from such a
peacetime low?
1t is hard to imagine it, but the tall,
aristocratic general almost licked the
boots Of various gentlemen to get a
hearing for his Army reforms and the
money for his program of military
expansion. He was desperate. He
visited Europe, inspecting the grow
ing military machines on the war
brooding continent and contrasting
them with his own outmoded Army.
He begged for 46,25O privates. Con-
gress and the brass hats called him
radical. Supposing the persuasive
military man did get his fantastic
number of privates, where would he
house them? But the long-range plan
ming of the Chief of Staff had antici-
pated that objection. PWA funds had
been earmarked for repairs and new
buildings. And he continued to warn.
wheedle and push the plan for the
mechanization and aviation expan-
sion of his revitalized Army. Douglas
Macarthur was not only the spark
plug of our national-defense program
but the father of the country's de-
fense -mindedness.
Evening star., 1941-11-30

ERE are IL words that you run
across daily, but which are
- among the most frequently
misspelled words in the English Ian
guage. Take, for instance, 0cconsnso-
date (or is it aconnodateO: you've
probably used it in conversation
within the past "a hours - but can