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There is something in the
Washington air these days which
BODIES i'll for labor unless each
and every trade union member
starts an offensive against those
who would undermine workers
morale, SOW disunity in labor's
ranks, and divert our attention
from the Number One job, of
smashing the Axis.
While we have been concern
ing ourselves with the important
job of producing material, buying
bonds, building homes and organ
izing civilian defense, members of
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee r preparing a tax bill
which will place increasing bur-
dens on the lower income groups,
while easing up on those who can
afford to pay. Men like Westbrook
Pegler are sowing their seeds of
disunity and fascism. John l..
Lewis, formerly honored with the
Craftsmanship of the Go, disrupts
the American Labor movement,
and uses the red herring of anti
labor forces in an attempt to rule
or ruin.
We are fighting a wal to destroy
Fascism. That means we are fight
ing to re-establish the democratic
way of life in those countries
under the heel of Germany, Italy
and Japan. We support this war
so that by winning we may par
ticipate in the re-birth of de-
mocracy, security, and the dignity
of human beings, ~irregardless of
their nationality, sex, color or e
ligious beliefs.
What is wrong? Well, the people
in Washington who want to do
a real job land thank goodness
they r in the majority, say that
we folks back home are falling
asleep. They say we may win the
war back home, but Washington
may lose it! Why? Because we
don't let the good guys know we
are behind them. And we don't
raise enough hell with those peo-
pie who are refusing to carry
out the Administrations win the
war policies.
TELL your Congressman what
you think about the tax bill.
WRITE to Leon Henderson about
his wage freezing demands.
DEMAND that the full Seven
Point Program become effective.
SPEAK UP against writer's like
Westbrook Pegler whose vicious
anti-labor, o-baiting articles
are insulting the soldiers of Ba-
tam and Midway, fighting for
democracy.
SPEAK UP SOLDIERS OF
, 1942-06-10
Conference Of Women War
Workers Set For June 2O-21

A Conference of Women in War Industry in oo will be held in Columbus at tn oo State
blanks have been sent to all clio locals in this area from the office of the oMo Go Council
, 1942-06-10
RADIO.

We wish to give our thanks to
Radio Station WHO Their splen-
did cooperation in the form of
Labor broadcasts are a great
credit to them and to us. Watch
your bulletin boards and this
paper for further Labor programs
over station WHO.
, 1942-06-10
L UE G 755

DELCO UE LOCAL 755
20 Madison Street - Fulton 1851
Local Membership and Business
meeting the last Sunday Of every
month at 200 p. N.
Executive Board Meeting at
800 p. m. the second and fourth
Tuesday of every month.
Day Stewards Council at 500
p. m. every Thursday.
Night Stewards Council at LOO
p. m. every Thursday.
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COUNTY
UNION COUNCIL
HE 48O4 E. Fifth Street
Regular Council meeting - 3rd
Sunday each month-10 a. m.
Executive Board meeting-1st
and 3rd Sunday each month -
1880 p. m.
, 1942-06-10
BULLETIN BOARD

Housing Committee meets every
Friday-7:3O p. m.
Recreation Picnic Committee -
Wednesday-7:30 p. m.
, 1942-06-10

Two one-half hour programs,
called Music While You Work.
are "piped" into British factories
each day by the British Broad
casting System.
Material for khaki uniforms is
made in a huge New Jersey
plant to the rhythm of popular
melodies which rise above the
din of weaving machines and
shuttles for periods of five to rs
minutes, six times a day.
British and American exper-
fence of what the workers like
and what type of music best
stimulates production varies to a
considerable extent.
Music hath charms to soothe
production problems 50 Amer
lean war factories are discover
ing.
, 1942-06-10
ORGANIZATIONS

We are hoping to persuade
Robert Davidson, Regional Di-
rector of the CIO, to station
Representative Fred Fudge per-
manently in this area. With the
Federal Workers., the Gebhardt
Box, and the smaller companies
that Fudge is organizing, we are
confident that he will have plenty
of work to keep him busy. Z.
, 1942-06-10
PICNIC

The Fifth Annual CLIO Picnic,
sponsored by the Council was a
great success, despite the fact that
the weather was not the best of
the season. A splendid crowd had
a grand time and we wish to
thank a real active Recreation
Committee.
, 1942-06-10
UNITY WILL WIN II!

You can now have a whole meal
with glass service. Tables and
chairs are being made from glass,
so are knives, forks and other
table service. Goblets, plates and
cups of glass are, Of course, not
50 new.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
WILLIAM H. TODD DEAD

William H. Todd, $50 Rondo
Ave-, died Tuesday, March II, at
Ancker Hospital where he had been
i'll for the past three weeks. Born
in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1894,
Mr.. Todd came to the city to make
his home in 1928. He was a mem
Der of Pilgrim Baptist Church.
Funeral services were held Sat-
urday, March 81, at 2 p. M, from
the Neal-McGavock Funeral Home,
525 Rondo Ave., with Rev. S. E.
Ware, pastor of Pilgrim, officiat-
ing. Musical selections were rem
dered by Pilgrim Baptist Choir
with Ermine Hall Allen as soloist.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Josephine Todd, a stepson, Roscoe
James, brother, Walter, of Paris,
Kentucky, and a sister, Mrs. Annie
Custard of Paris, Kentucky. In
terment was in Forest cemetery.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
Mrs. Combs Named
To ''Y" Board

Mrs. Marguerite Combs, labor
school teacher and active in Mime
apolis civic circles, was elected to
the board of directors of the Min
neapolis Young Women's Christian
Association last week.
Mrs. Combs is the first Negro
member of the organizations ex-
ecutive board. The trend towards
larger participation in the "Y''
work by Negro women has been
noted during the presidency of
Mrs. Clarence Clancy.
A year ago the "Y" organized an
interracial committee. The Work
ing Girls Council has had a close
affiliation with the "Y" during the
past few years. Two white groups
at the "Y" have made fine contribu-
tions to the interracial effort.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
Willkie Raps
Navy Ban On
Negro Sea1nerI

New York, March 22-In a ring
ing speech delivered here Thurs
day at the Commodore hotel, Wen
dell Willkie, 1910 G. o. P. presi-
Dental candidate, condemned ex-
clusion of Negroes from the Navy
except in the Mess attendant rank.
He urged bars be lowered and Ne
gro citizens be enlisted as all
others.
Willkie said, in part:
"a few weeks ago, I sat in Madi-
son Square Garden and watched
a perfect specimen of physical
manhood risk his Worlds Cham
pionship in order to raise almost
100000 for the Naval Relief So
ciety. A few nights ago, 1 listened
to that same young man make a
speech to twenty thousand people
at another Naval Relief Society
rally in Madison Square Garden
simple speech, an ungrammati-
cal speech, yet eloquent and NOV
ing. He was preparing to fight in
an Army uniform; he couldn't have
been preparing to fight in a Navy
uniform for his skin was black.
"Now, you lovers of freedom
I don't think this is right in a free
country. Won't you, while you are
proclaiming the necessity for free
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
BIG MASS MEETING SUNDAY
TO HEAR FREDERICK MORROW
ASST. PAUL NAACP SEEKS 1000

we'll known St. Paul social worker
and teacher, is director of the 1912
membership campaign. She has
worked in Atlanta with Mrs. Daisy
Lampkins, ace campaign director
of the N. A. A. G. P. In a state
ment to The Recorder and Spokes-
man representative, Mrs. Williams
said: "The ambitious goal of 1000
new members was set by the st.
Paul Branch before 1 was selected
to direct the drive. I am certain
that this goal cannot only be met,
but exceeded, by the cooperative
efforts of the captains, ieutenants
and other workers, who have CO.
operated with me in helping to or
ganize and promote the drive"
The campaign has been set up
with a military motif. Mrs. Mabel
M. Brown is captain of Victory
Division Number One. Her lieu
tenants are Mrs. Eva Neal, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hall and Lee K. Turpin.
John N. Culver is captain of Vic
tory Division Number Two, with
DR.. Norman Howell, Mrs. Ora Reed
and Andrew Combs, as ieutenants.
Each division has three teams with
ten workers each. When asked for
a statement by the Recorder and
Spokesman representative, Mrs.
Brown said that she did not have
anything to say. But she did say
in her characteristic manner, 81
will have to get out here and get
in the memberships and the
money" And anybody that knows
Mrs. Brown, knows that she will
do just that. Mr.. Culver told the
press representative that the work.
ers of his division are redoubling
their efforts to make this campaign
a success. He is the very energetic
permanent membership chairman
of the local branch. The campaign
which was launched March rs will
be continued for ten days.
In a conversation last Monday
with Rev. B. N. Moore, president
of the St. Paul Branch, and Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson, publicity
chairman, William (Bojangles)
Robinson, famous SO year old
dancer, revealed the fact that a
downtown restaurant has refused
him service. Bojangles was very
angry about the matter and de-
clared that if he had two or three
more days in st. Paul that he would
have helped the Branch to bring
suit against the proprietor of the
eating place for the discrimination.
The matter will be investigated, ac-
cording to Rev. Moore.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
CATHERINE ROBINSON DEAD

Mrs. Catherine Robinson, an in
mate of the Crispus Attacks Home
Association, 465 Collins Street, died
Thursday, March 10, at the home
after being in i'll health for some
time.
Mrs. Robinson was we'll known
here as the mother of the late Mes
danes Sadie Mccarthy, Susie Will
liams and Lillian Walker.
Funeral services were held Tues
day, March "a, at 9 a. M, at St.
Peter Claver Church, Aurora and
harrington, with the Rev. FIR
Charles Keefe officiating. Inter
ment in Calvary cemetery.
Neal-McGarock Funeral Home
525 Rondo Avenue, in charge Of
arrangements.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
Union Revival
In st. Paul
Creates Interest

The pre-Easter Union Revival of
five St. Paul churches is being well
attended. The service tonight Fri
day. will be held in the Apostolic
Faith Mission, 18th and Minnesota.
Rev. S. E. Ware of the Pilgrim
Baptist Church will preach and a
choir from that church will sing.
The schedule of meetings for next
week is as follows: Monday, Apos-
tolic Faith Mission, Rev, B. N.
Moore, preaching; Tuesday and
Wednesday at Pilgrim Baptist
Church, with Rev. Clarence T. R.
Nelson and Rev. C. B. Wheeler,
preaching; Thursday and Friday,
at the Camphor Memorial Method
list Church, with Elder John A. Mel
son and Rev. S. E. Ware, preach
ing. The traditional three hour
Good Friday service will be held at
the Camphor Church, beginning
promptly at IL o'clock noon. The
following ministers will speak on
each of the "Last Seven Words of
Jesus on the Cross" in the follow
ing order: Rev. Boyd Patrick, Rev.
]. W. Phelps, Rev. G. T. R. Nelson,
Rev. s. E. Ware, Rev. ]. A. Nelson,
Rev. B. N. Moore and Rev. G. B.
Wheeler. Music will be furnished
by soloists, special singers and a
combined choir under the direction
of Mrs. B. N. Moore, with Mrs.
Bertha King as organist.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27

ordinator of Branches of the N. A.
A. C. P, is a graduate of Bowdoin
College and was a member of the
debating team of this institution
that has had a few Negroes as
graduates. Mr.. Morrow has had a
very busy career for his twenty
nine years.
He has been in turn social
worker, business manager of OPP
portunity, and was at one time at
tached to the Republican National
Committee as Eastern Director of
the Youth Division. He is we'll
known as a public speaker and a
contributor to the press and lead
ing periodicals. Mr.. Morrow came
to St. Paul Wednesday from Kan
sas City where he directed a men,
bership campaign for the Associa-
ton. Those who are expecting to
attend the meeting are advised to
be on time because the meeting
will begin promptly at $3.50.
Mrs. Ethel Maxwell Williams,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
Sacred Concert Sunday
At PILGRIM Baptist

The Junior Choir of Pilgrim Bap-
fist Church will be presented in a
sacred concert Sunday, March 29,
at 4 p. m. by the Pastors Aid So
ciety of Pilgrim Baptist.
The program will be interesting
and varied. Special numbers will
include the Four Melody Maids,
the following soloists: Carolyn
Combs, soprano; Elloise Vassar,
soprano; Constance Jackson, con-
tralto; Iris Brown, soprano; Jean
Cannon, pianist. The choir is I'M
der the direction of Mrs. Arlee
Harris Slaughter.
Accompanies will be Ira Dorsey,
organist, and Doris Patterson,
pianist.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
Thomas Heads
Youth Civilian
Defense Area

John F. Thomas, Youth Per-
sonnet Officer, National Youth Ad-
ministration, has been selected as
chairman of Area B for the Youth
Activities Committee, Civilian De-
tense Council. Mr.. Thomas will
lead the organization of youth work
in this area which is one of the
four defense areas of Minneapolis.
The work will cover defense ac-
Invites of three senior high schools,
three junior high schools, twenty
five grade schools, Y. M. C. A,
Y. W. C. A., settlement houses and
other organized youth agencies as
far as the youth work is concerned.
Some of the activities include sal
wage groups, messenger service,
garden projects, recreation leaders,
etc.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
Mrs. Bunnurn Dies After
Lonq Illness

Hassie Bannarn, age 81, of 1928
Smelling Ave., died March 20 at the
General Hospital where she had
been for the past two weeks. She
had been ill for many years.
Funeral services were held at the
Church of God in Christ with Elder
Graham officiating.
She is survived by her husband,
Dee, a daughter, Jewel Bobo, three
sons, Henry, Tony and Robert, a
sister, Leila, Floyd Bannarn,
nephew, Clara Carver, niece and
other relatives.
Woodland Funeral Home was in
charge of burial arrangements with
interment in Crystal Lake GENE
terry.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27

With the battle cry zone thou
sand new members or MORE" the
St. Paul Branch of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People will hold citi-
zens' mass meeting Sunday in the
Camphor M NOR al Methodist
Church, 585 Fuller Ave-, promptly
at $3.50 p. m. The meeting was
originally scheduled to be held at
the St. James Church. The prin-
cipal speaker for the meeting, to
which the public is invited, will be
E. Frederick Morrow, of New York
City. Mr.. Morrow, who is the Co.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
MAKE MONEY

When you clean out your base
ment and attic for the spring, get
rid of your old furniture and odds
and ends. Lots of folks want such
things but how are they gonna
know unless you call up and tell
the Spokesman or Recorder and let
them tell it to the world in their
classified ad column. Call BR. 1896
or MI. 8340 and make you some
money.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
Receives Divorce From
Ernest Johnson

Mrs. Inez Ford Johnson, 697
Rondo Ave-, received an abso-
lutte divorce in District Court
Monday, December q, from her
husband, Ernest Johnson, on the
grounds of entail cruelty.
Judge Carlton McNally presided,
and Mrs. Johnson was repre-
|. scented by Attorney MaceO v.
LittlejOhn. The court restored
the name of Ford to the plain
tiff. Mrs. Ford is the caretaker
at the Brooks Funeral Home,
697 ROndO Ave.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27

dom throughout the world, devote
some time to bringing about a cor
rection of this injustice at home,
an injustice which makes a mock
cry of all our fine words. Don't
you think that as American citi-
zens, we should insist that our gov
eminent and Navy Department
eliminate the bar that prohibits
any American citizen from serving
his country?"
Minneapolis daily papers did not
carry WILKES statement which
was front-page news.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
County Farm Agent to
Discuss GARDENING

Ben Dietz, Hennepin County
Agricultural Agent, will address
the Phyllis Wheatley Consumers
forum on Monday night, March 80,
at o. m. Mr.. Dietz will describe
the current victory gardening pro-
gram now being sponsored by the
federal government jointly with
local defense councils. All persons
interested in growing a garden are
especially invited to be present and
to ask questions.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
Queen of Nations

China, India, Spain, Hawaii,
Russia, Egypt, America, Arabia
and the American Indian will be
represented in the Queen of Ma
lions Friday, May 1, at St. James
A. M. E. Church, Dale and W. Cen
trail, directed by Gladys Lewis Har-
ris. Nine princesses are competing
for the title of Queen. Buy your
ticket from your favorite princess!
-Advt.
st. Paul N.A.A.C.P. needs 1000
members. Join up today.-advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27

DENT; MIS-. MdDeCn
Hurd Paige, member of the state
legislature was reelected secretary,
and Lloyd P. Johnson, attorney,
was renamed treasurer.
Reelected to the board for three
year terms were Mrs. E. L. Simms,
Charles L. Harris, T. B. Carey, R.
A. Skinner, Lloyd P. johnson.
Elected to fill vacancies were DR..
Homer j. Smith, professor of in
dustrial education, University of
Minnesota; Mrs. Elizabeth Ewing,
active in church, fraternal and
Urban League auxiliary circles,
and Enrol M. Fassett, commander
of Johnny Baker Post of the
American Legion, and Judge Ed
ward Waite and La Vern Noone.
C.. w. Washington Reports
Chas. W. Washington, executive
secretary of the league, pointed
out in summary of his annual re-
port that Negroes have been
placed in skilled and unskilled jobs
in Minneapolis long before the So
called white labor supply has been
exhausted. He gave a picture of
the accomplishments of the league
and said he believed that due to
the activity of various white or
CARNATIONS that there was very
favorable trend toward better race
relations in Minneapolis. He COM
plimented the D. w. Oman & Sons
Co. for their open door policy and
the Federal Cartridge Co. and its
president for setting precedent
for the nation in the Indignation
of Negroes into the war produc-
ton effort. He also told how the
International Harvester Co. was
upgrading Negro janitors.
Charles L. Horn, whose firm is
prime contractor for the huge Twin
Cities Ordnance Plant, was intro
duced by Cecil Newman, newspa-
perman, who called chin a good,
true real American" During his
introduction Newman asked vari-
Gus Negro employees at the plant
who were present to stand. The
audience applauded as 80 guards,
janitors, men and women machine
operators stood
In his address which was brief
the industrialist pointed out that
his contract with the government
required that he show no discrimi-
nation in the selection of employees
for the plant and that he thought
every loyal citizen who could
qualify should have an opportunity
to work in defense industries.
He pointed out how Newman of
the Spokesman and Recorder news
papers had last June approached
his firm on the employment of Ne
groes throughout the plant. He
explained how the Urban Leagues
of the two cities had been given
the task of securing for the plant
the best available Negro workers
nation in the selection of employees
had been in daily contact with him
Horn said the newspaper editor
had been in daily contact with him
since June on matters affecting the
Indignation of Negroes into the
personnel. He praised the assist
Continued on Page ~
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Four Students Leave
Gloss In Protest

DOnzella Green, daughter of
Mrs. Carrie Green, 325 N. st.
Adams, and three or four other
girls walked out of a room in
the Marshall High School last
week, when the word 'n-T
was used several times in a class
in Expression.
Miss Green and the other
girls did not feel that the use
of such a term was good Eek
preston" in a country that is
fighting for democracy.
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apollS lnduStrlallSt.
Over 500 persons of both races
attended. In the audience were
judges, labor leaders, federal Off
Gals, clergymen, social workers,
employers, a former Minnesota
governor, educators, city officials
and other prominent persons.
Presiding was Charles L. Harris,
president of the New England Fur
niture Co., and retiring president of
the Mill City Urban League.
Vennum New President
AS a part of the program, Off
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
ST. JAMES JUNIOR CHOIR
RECITAL APRIL 2

The St. James A. M. E. Junior
Choir of Minneapolis will present
a musical program Thursday, April
2, at the church, 314 18th Ave. S.
The choir numbering % voices is
under the direction of Governor
Cook.
The Two Towns Are Talking
About the Easter Style Show
advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
Stassen Says
Defense Force
Matter Unchanged
Ransom Appointment Doesn't Near
End of Jim Crow

End OF Jim crow
The naming of Sam Ransom of
St. Paul as major in the Mine
sofa Home Defense Force will have
no bearing on the barring of Ne
groes from regular constituted
units Governor Harold E. Stassen
told reporter for this paper We'd
nesday.
When read the story over the
phone from this paper for last week
which told of his appointment the
governor said he considered a por-
ton of the story an insult to Ran
som and the colored people of the
state.
The controversy between the Ne
gro citizens of the state as repre-
scented by the Minnesota Negro De-
tense Committee which attracted
nationwide attention was renewed
in the public mind by Ransom's
appointment as major on the "gov-
errors staff" last Wednesday.
Some observers called it politics
and others said it was designed to
thwart the suit brought in Federal
Court against the governor and the
state military authorities by St.
Paul Negro, Lee K. Turpin. Mr..
Turpin sued to obtain entrance into
the State Home Defense Force.
The political angle was strength
ened by the activity of S. Ed Hall,
St. Paul barber shop proprietor and
politician, who has been personal
ly soliciting letters of commenda-
ton from Negroes for the gov
ernor's appointment of Ransom.
Hall asked various citizens to send
Stassen congratulatory expressions
endorsing his appointment of Ran
som.
Major Ransom meanwhile told
this newspaper and friends that he
was not in favor of any separate or
"Jim Crow unit in the Home De-
tense Force. When asked whether
he had told the governor that be-
fore his appointment Ransom in
ferred that he did.
He said he would confer with the
governor Thursday morning and
clear up his real status.
Meanwhile despite the suit in
Federal Court Lee Turpin is still
not member of the Home Defense
Force. Minnesota has the distinc-
ton of having a Negro officer in
the Home Defense but no privates!
Negroes of the state were open
ly critical of the situation. A
prominent leader said, "Years ago
Negroes would have fallen hook,
line and sinker for that sort of
stuff but our folks are no longer
easy to hoodwink."
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27

GERS ana directors
ere ele c t e d
Thomas Vennum
prominent Mime.
apolis attorney,
was elected presi-
dent to succeed
Mr.. Harris who de-
clined renomina-
ton after serving
three terms. T. B.
Carey was re-
elected vice presi-
don't. Mrs Maheth
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-03-27
CRUSADERS GUILD OF ST.
THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
HOJnS TEA SUNDAY

The Crusaders Guild of st.
Thomas Episcopal Church is giving
it's Annual Palm Sunday Musical
Tea at the Rawjess Club, 3O13
Garfield Ave., from 8 to z p. m.
Miss jeanette Dorsey is chair
man of the program. Mrs. Eugene
Shepherd is general chairman, and
Mrs. P. C. Hughes is president.
The public is invited.