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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25
By Rev. c. Herman

There are people who will
readily admit the truth of the
Christian principle that all
men, without any exceptions
whatever, are created in the
image of God, and the demo-
cratic principle that "all men are
created equal, that they are en-
dowed by their Creator with GER
tain inalienable rights" But quite
as often as not, in applying these
principles to specific situations,
these same people urge the kind of
caution which amounts to refusing
to apply these principles at all.
They know, as indeed we all do,
that the miserable novels in which
Negroes live, the discrimination
against Negroes in public places
and in employment, the lack of
health and educational opportuni-
ties for them, and the blatant man.
ner in which they are prevented
from voting in some parts of this
country are, at every single point,
denials of the Christian doctrine of
man made in Gods image, and the
democratic principle of equal rights.
If you believe what Christianity
and democracy say about man, you
do not treat Negroes, or anyone
else, that way.
So, since principles were given to
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25

People after an appeal was made
by the pastor. Brother Leroy Gard
ner, our local preacher, made very
interesting report of the Chicago
district Conference that he and
Pastor Nelson attended August "a,
in Gary, Indiana.
DR.. W. H. Williams, our Dis
trict Superintendent of Detroit,
Michigan, will preach at both the
IL a. m. and 8 p. m. services on
Sunday. DR.. Williams will hold the
business session of the Quarterly
Conference at $50 p. M, on Sun
day.
Special events to be held during
the time of the 25th Anniversary
rally were announced as follows:
last Sunday, Women's Day, Sept.
"a; second annual World Friend
ship Dinner with the Peoples High
land Park Congregational Church,
October 8; Mems Day, October 20.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25
Honorary Citizen

We have received Honorary which entities
to certain rights
PROSECUTING project homeless abandoned boys regardless of
Town incorporated under the
Father Flannagan's Boys Home
There are many of dollars
and carry work Each donor becomes
honorary citizen"
Anyone wishing this widely known project
should write Father Flanagan
Boys Town, Nebraska
youth headed towards am life has found refuge
training understanding where his experience has
his development substantial useful manhood
type Qusing who will the
any enemy dollars quite often the
back md little fattery.
Just as there are Negroes praise Blbo ED
Negroes ready and willing sabotage the
legitimate Negroes show certain politicians
The people watch this Uncle Tom
Grpes ratQning in this
wa period leave Indignantly cold.
indignation and anged treatment of the CLIO
and the PC give the impression in most daily
papers Hman trying steal the u for Marshall Stain
Rushing (apology to John Ford) Russians"
seldom LOOK magazine which does not have
photo Negro subject buy. Publications
beings should have the support of the
people.
let anybody tell you that the Of
publishing regularly issued borne by you!
Christensen of Minneapolis this paper
Communist Well, well, the F. B. LII
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25

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strange, certain disturbing hear local
ready
ride lead beloved America of danger St. Paul is
supposed that of cpap of
This keag citing the that Catholics Jews and Negroes
have their organizations claims the right for those who
Protestant prowhe and pro-gene" should realize that
the organizations he refers unlike the a do indulge ros
practices They mob violence with nfammatory
appeals to religious and racial prejudice
Apparently St. Paul advocate of revived xxx
etenoned person. who simply fails appreciate the social danger
inherent the activities of masked nghdng But that only
his influence nsous does the further fact that he
is a minister of the gospel
To understand the full implications of xxx revival today this
gentleman should take the time discuss the matter with the governors
meantime we'll his
preaching the written gospel He will find authority there for the
practice burning terroze nghbos who happen be
a different religion or skin fermentation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25

And will give peace in the land, and ye
shall lie down, and none shall make you
afraid: and / will rid evil beasts out of
the land, neither shall the sword go through
your land--Leviticus 1856.
Border Church News: The Wom-
en- of Border demonstrated their
ability to lead our church in a
great worship and in a successful
financial endeavor. Mrs. Arthur
Heinrich challenged the women 10
create Christian homes and Chris
tan community, and to sacrifice
for missionary causes which gives
us vision and power to build a new
world. Mrs. Josephine Hagan, in
the afternoon worship, urges US to
be positive, fervent and intelli-
gent in our fight for freedom.
We are grateful to every person
Of our church and of the Twin
Cities who participated through
prayer, recitation and song in our
great day. The special Offering
has been tabulated as $173. The Of
fering for all purposes was over
5000. Our gratitude to Mrs. Burie
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25
Nelson Peery
Praises Paper
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
want to take this opportunity
to thank you for extending your
congratulations on my birthday.
also want to pass on to you
the feelings of the men in my
company concerning your paper.
We all like the papers aggressive
attitude toward the racial issues
that are constantly presenting
themselves.
Evidence that the fight for racial
economical security is being carried
on is much more important than all
the pin-up pictures and morale
building fiattery in the world.
AS Negro soldiers, we like the
way you fight, and 1 really enjoy
your thorough coverage of Twin
City news.
Keep up the good work, Mr..
Newman. I'll be seeing you soon.
Respectively,
S/Sgt. Nelson Peery.
Somewhere in South Pacific }
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25
Wholesale Un-Americanism
Editorial in the Hennenin County [Hopk

Editonll County tH0DEins) Review
The Army has been properly praised for its settlement
of the recent transportation strike Philadelphia In short order after
the took the subway running
again The strikers lost their when the twotar
general command informed them all that
re-cassfed that all others right
certified by the Manpower authorities for other positions failed
to show at their posts by deadline time
Nor did the Army throw down the colored workers who
issue the aou The eight Negroes who had been
jobs which immediate development brought wakou
assured they would get, and hold, their jobs.
So the Philadelphia strike into history Unfortunately
spirit the set Of conditions which fomented it remain
ugly blot the record Of the home 'front.' but the of
disease which threatens the health Of American society than
other perhaps this time That disease is the disease
Eight Negroes had been upgrade the union lingo
positions Of motormen in the c transit system This had been done
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25

The Jim Grow Train is
among the foremost of the
vicious evils practiced against
colored Americans. Jim Crow
transportation hurts us more
than the POLL tax. The colOred
American feels more keenly the eff
fects of Jim Crow railway travel
than he does public bans against in
termarriage, prime among the
cardinal sins in the eyes of the
white man. In story and in song
the Jim Crow Train has been the
barometer at gauging the tempera-
ture of the Negro minority.
Aside from the ignominy of being
victims of the practice, Negroes
who ride the Jim Grow Train also
suffer major discomfort. They are
herded like cattle into dirty, i'll
kept, outmoded coaches tagged on
behind the coal car. In the heat of
the southern summer they get thick
coats of smoke streaming in from
the open windows; their eyes, their
hair, their clothing are filled with,
hundreds of flying particles of
cinders. They are forced in many
instances to sit in the aisles on
their luggage; to eat standing up;
to sleep in every conceivable kind
of incongruous position. Yet, they
pay the same fare as the white
passenger in the cars behind who
ride in relative comfort, clean
illness and are not packed like
pigs in pen.
What Jim Crow Train Means
Yes, the whistle of the Jim Crow
train screams throughout the track
less expanses of the broad south.
1t screams its message of intoler-
ance, of greed, hatred and derision
and millions of people hear it and
pray for the day when the Jim
Crow Train is derailed and cannot
be set Alright again. And with the
Jim Crow Train, it's defiant whistle,
goes the tobacco-chewing, redneck
conductor who arrogantly walks
through the Jim Crow Train bark
ing his orders to those whose
money is divided NEGRO money,
and Negro fares" With the Jim
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25
Jim Crow Train Is
Shame of America
Gardner Calls 1t Humiliation Special
RY DAN GARDNER

Crow Train go the ignorant hill
billies from the Ozarks, the Ten
nessee mountains, the crackers
from the lowlands Of the delta re-
gion, the peckerwoods from the
bowels of Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi. They are elevated in
their ego to the status of lords by
the fact that the system calls for
travel facilities much worse than
the homes from which they come
for people who are thereby set
apart as permanently on a lower
level than they.
These things, these conditions
make the work of the Committee
to Abolish Jim Crow Transporta-
ton in the United States of cardinal
Importance. This group has its
headquarters out in Detroit and
stresses the motto: LET Us, As
Americans Clean Our Own
House."
Seeks National Unity
This Committee states it's objec-
tive as "our common cause" in
quest of means for group better
ment and national unity. 1t is the
only organization engaged exclu-
sively with "this most vicious form
of Jim Crowism." 1t contends that
when a patient is suffering from
a malady that is deepseated apd
difficult to reach by ordinary means,
it is a custom among physicians to
call consultation with the skillful
to determine the most effective
method of treatment. Jim Crow
transportation is a cancerous dis
ease in the Nations body, requir-
ing concentrated study and special
lied skill for its removal. The Ne
gro, in his lawyers has the spe-
cialists for the problem. They know
the cure. No other agency has
collected or is collecting in any &C
cumulative manner the vast amount
of data which grows out of the day
to-day experiences of those who en-
counter this deadly evil.
''The actions taken by individuals
are lost to the group. These ex-
periences, in and out of court, could
be of great value, if used as prece-
dents for future attacks on this
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25

diabolical system of insult and
humiliation" The National Com
mittee of the organization is head
ed by William l., Sheriff., chair
man; Robert L. Champion, secre-
tary; Robert ]. Evans, treasurer;
R. NJ. Golightly is co-ordinator; Will
fred Newman is publicity director
and Edward A. Simmons, general
counsel. The national office is
located at 1928 Gratiot Ave., De-
troit z, Michigan.
Supreme Court Indecisive
The undemocratic, demoralizing
practice of the Jim Crow Train has
had no negative ruling from the
United States Supreme Court which
is still indecisive on the matter and
has not as yet, touched the root of
the system that supports the Jim
Crow Train. The Supreme Court in
Arthur W. Mitchell Congressman,
Ill.) VS.. Illinois Central Railroad
Co., declared that a Negro as an
American citizen, free to travel,
and he is entitled to go by this
particular route whenever he
chooses to take it and in that
event to have facilities for his
journey without discrimination
against him which the Interstate
Commerce Act forbids." "The
denial of accommodations because
of his race would be an invasion
of a fundamental individual right
which is guaranteed against State
action by the Fourteenth Amend
ment."
In this, the celebrated Mitchell
case decision, the Supreme Court
merely condemned unequal accom-
modations, while it gave approval
to the separate transportation sys-
TEN of the South. The duplicity and
double-talk of the ruling is seen
in the fact that there is no such
thing as equal accommodation as
long as it is separate and not the
same, in the South or any other
place. Indeed, many railroads OPP
Grating in the South, principally the
Atlantic Coast Line, hook another
car onto the regular train that has
facilities equal to that occupied
by the whites and herds the Ne
groes into it. The Negroes then are
given equal accommodations, but
not the same.
The Jim Crow Train will not be
abolished until Negro lawyers, Ne
gro leaders, and Negro mass pres
sure become united on the objec-
tive of destroying the equal ac-
commodation" misnomer and de-
handing instead, the same accom-
modations that are enjoyed by any
one else. This means that the Jim
Crow Train problem will be tackled
at its roots, at the germ of the
evil. Equal" means even the ex-
IRENE of two separate trains run
ming side by side on the same
schedule. The Same" means the
actual practice of the democratic
ideal. The Committee to Abolish
Jim Crow Transportation in the
United States needs help. 1t should
get all it needs both from Negroes
and fair-minded whites.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25
st. Paul N. A. A. C.. P. Drive

branch of the National Association for the Advance
conducting annual membership drive
made obtain 1000 memberships by the branch
organization active protecting the civil rights
people white who believes
justice play should be a member of the NAACP
Minneapolis recently obtained 1900 members its drive St. Paul
should equal the membership job done by the Minneapolis
committee.
Paue the (NAACP) Attack" the drive for the
necessary amportant work which the
citation PaulR Recorder
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25
Not in the Good Book

st. Paul Recorder.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-14
Opereta |'Zgubljeni
raj" v SID
Odbor.

Cleveland, O. Pevci in. pev-
ke Mladinskega pevskega zbora
SID ma Waterloo Rd. sc kaj
pridno pripravljajo "a prihod-
MO predstavo operete "Zgublje-
nj raj" XII jo podajo ma odru
SLOW. del. donna ma Waterloo
Rd. dine IA. januarja.
V nedeljo, dne II. decembra
bodo imeli bozicno ali Christ
mas Party" ko DO prisel Mi
klavz, da jim razdeli darila
Starse Sc opozori, da mai vsak
clan zbora prinese primerno da-
rilce V vrednosti Csc. VaHjeni
so tudi starsi in prijatelji, Ga
Sc Jim pridruzijo na zabavi.
V ponedeljek, dne 18. deem
bra OBJ 7.30 uri zvecer Sc vrsi
glavna letna seja starsev zbora.
Citani bodo letni racuni in W.
sile Sc bodo volitve novega od-
bora "a prihodnje leto. Torej,
vabljeni ste ma obilno udelezbo
Tajnica.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-14
Ure(ln1kOVa
po$ta
Pogorisce in zona

V ponedeljek Sc zopet sni-
demo pred komisarji V mestni
hisi, kjer Sc DO nadaljevalo "a
slisanje lastnika tovarne ma
1035-43 East 62 Street.
Imenovana tovarna stoji ma
dVeh zonah. Ko .ie pogorela je
lastnik nitro izposloval dovolje-
ME Cd zonske komisije "a po-
pravilo, tfdec, da nj bila do po-
lovice poskodovana. V nasprot-
nemu slucaju, bi jo ne smell po-
pravlja jati, brez da bi v to privo-
iii sosedje te okolice. To radi
tega, ker je bila pred par lett
zona, ma ksteri stoji ia tovarna
preurejena in V TAKEN slucaju
Sc ne sme tovarna vec ponoviti.
Vsi pa, XII so videli unicenje te
tovarne, so bill mnenja, da :je
bila tovarna unicena vec kot Is
odstotkov. O tenn DO podana od-
locitev prihodnji ponedeljek IS.
decembra. Vsi, XII Sc zanimate
"a to, da bi Sc TAXA tovarna, XII
ie V nadlego z ropOtom in ne
snago, kjer noe in dan ropota,
sc kadi med residencami in ne
morejo ljudje pocivati, ne Pc
rila susiti, ne vrtove gojiti, mai
bi Sc V ponedeljek zopet sesli
V mestni hisi, da Sc pozenemo "a
nase residencne pravice.
Mi nikakor ne odklanjamo
tovarne, XII so snazne, kjer nj ro-
pota in he druge nadlege, nika-
kor pa ne moreno trpeti take,
kot je ia ma omenjenemu pro-
storu.
Cd te je odvisno potem tudi
Vse drugo, Ia kar Sc zavzemamC
naselbini "a zboljsanje resi-
dencnih costa. Pridite in povej-
te, sosedje, kaj zahtevajo 1judj je
te okolice.
Odbor.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-14
Zahvala
J. F. Durn,
tajnik st. 48 SANS.

Podpisana Sc najiskrenejse
zahyaljujem vsem, XII SO ma
en- ali drugi nacin sodelovali in
mi priree:ili presenecenje "a
moi so. rojstni dan.
Predvsem hvala moi svaki-
Mi johann Perko, njeni hcerki
Mrs. Jennie Trennel in moji
prijateljici Sc il otroskih let,
Mrs. Toncki Vrtacnik, XII SO vse
to organizirale in pripravile ta-
ko okusna jedila.
Hvala Mrs. Frances Globoc-
nix, ki jim je pomagala kuhat,
peel, cvrti, it'd. Hvala Mrs. Jen-
ME Trennel, Xxi mi je spekla ta-
ko lep in okusen birthday
cake" kot tudi vsem zenam in
dekletom, XII SO stregle gostom
pri naizi, in sicer:: Miss Agnes
Orazen, Mrs. Evelyn Blatnik,
Mrs. Mary Kamp, Miss Bertha
Hartig, Miss Wilma Glazar,
Miss Betty cerjan, Mrs. Anna
Jerse, Miss Amelia Perko.
Najlepsa hvala mojemu sya-
ku Mr.. Joe Perko, Mrs. Zabu-
Dalje ma s. stranD
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-14

pokaze pravo pot v clovesko =
druzbo, v kateri bodo vsi mali
in veliki narodi ziveli v miru in
bratstvu.
Jugoslovanski narod je po-
kazal vsej Evropi in celemu
svetu, da Sc ne da kar tako E.
nostavno zasuznjiti in izbrisa-
tt IL te svetovne oble, pac pa,
da zahteva pravic do zivljenja
in svojega narodnega razvoja.
Zato mu VISA cast.
Bratje in sestre, prispevajte,
darujte, da lie Qmagajo tt nasi
hrabri in zavedni rojaki preko
oceana.
Sc ma emo bi rad opozoril vsa
druStva, XII so bila obvescena
glede izvolitve zastopnikov "a
podruznico pri SANSu in pri
JPO, SIS, .da to gotovo storite,
ker potom teh vasih drustvenih
zastopnikov tvorimo te podruz-
nice, zdruzeni emo celoto. Pos
lite imena in naslove ma spo-
daj podpisanega OBJ casu.
Cas- priredbe tukajsnje po-
druznice Sc tudi bliza in je do
bro, da Sc vas vse ma to opozo-
ri, da rezervirate bozicni dan
"a tukajsnjo podruznico st. 48.
Ia pies DO skrbela popularna
godba Vadnal orkester, ravno
tako DO preskrbljeno z jecme-
novcem in drugim. Torej pridi-
te v veselo druzbo rs. decem-
bra v Slovenski delavski dom,
ma Waterloo. Priporocitc vasim
hcerkam in sinovom, da mai pri-
dejo ma SANSov pies, Yes clsti
preostanek te priredbe bo sci
" sklad "a takojsnjo pemoc tr-
pecim rojakom v Sloveniji. Ia
to je vazno in potrebno, da pri-
dete, in pripomorete k boljse-
I,mu cuspehu.
~ j. F. Durn,
tajnik st. 48 SANS.
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vilno, ker Sc po narodnosti ne
razlikujejo.
Skusal sem opisati po moji
razsodnosti in kratkemu biva-
nju tukaj, &c bi zivel tukaj 80
let kot prvi slovenski naseljen-
ci, bi lahko tukajsnje razmere
opisal bolj definitivno.
- Pozdravljava vse maine pri-
jatelje in Jim zeliva vesele bo-
zicna praznike in srecno novo
leto, kakor tudi citateljem Ena-
kopravnosti!
John in Katie Gorjanc.,
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-14
Prispevki pri podr.
stew. 48 SANS

v mesecu novembru sc m
spnejel sledece prispevke pr
podruznici stew. 48 SANS.
Mrs. Mary Lustig, Arrow
head $500; Frank Zni ilarsic,
E. ITO ST. $500; Steve Lokar,
Nauman Ave. $500; dr.. stew
% S. d. 2. clanarina "a okto-
ber in november $500; dr. st,
% S. D. z. clanarina za 9 me-
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-14

ligoj $500; Frank Vrcek, Ma
pie Heights $500; Mary Bolko
S1.OO; Anton Skapin $500; Or.
st. $50 SNPJ clanarina "a Ok.
tober in november $500; Frank
Tegel "a takojsnjo pomoc $40;
ter $500 "a politicno akcijo -
skupaj $1,000; Mrs. Angela Ka-
lin clanarina "a november 81;
Mr.. in Mrs. Anton Srebot, Rem
wood Ave. $500; Mrs. Carroll
ma Moze $500; Mrs. Alice Dol
gan, Parkgrove Ave. $500; DIR.
st. 312 SNPJ clanarina $500;
druzina Peter Rejavec namesto
venca "a pokojno G. Pirnat
$500.
Torej skupni prejemki V no
vembru znasajo $500.
Ia vsota prispevateljev sc
nanasa le ma naSo politicno ak
CLIO. Vecje vsote, katere ste ne
kateri prispevali, "a takozvanc
"hitro pomoc', so Sic potom
podruznice JPO, SIS st. 35, ka-
tere vsote kot imena prispeva'
teljev "a november, so bila ze
objavljena. Tako sem koncem
meseca novembra odposlal po,
tom te podruznice skupno vso
to $4,000 ma SANSov urad, "a
takojsnjo pomoc, ker tako je
odlocila zadnja novemberska
seja te podruznice. Vsled no,
matij Cd strani nekaterih glav,
nih odbornikov JPO, SIS, Sc je
storilo ia potreben korak il
odposlalo ma SANSov urad.
Torej najprisrtnejsa hvala
vsem prispevateljem, in obilc
/ posnemalcev zelimo posebno Y
tenn zakljucnem mesecp, da 81
boste oh bozicnih prazhikih ia.
ko spomnili tudi svoje rojstne
'domovine, vasih trpeeih bratoy
in sester ter tudi MIN podaril
Oh tel priliki kolikor pac more
te. Potrebe SO velike in potreb'
no je, da Sc vsi te naloge tud
v bratsh meri dovolj zaveda'
mo. Oni Re cetrti bozic prena.
sajo beda naraz in grozo prec
smrtjo ID organizirane moril
ne masine, katero sta Muse ir
Hitler postavila napram TENT
malemu mirnemu slovenskeml
narodu. -.
Rekli so, da nam prinasaje
rimsko in berlinsko kulturo, t
barbara 20. stoletja, rekli SO
da nismo narod, pac pa lie neci
| vilizirano ljudstvo in da zarad
velikega rajha je potrebno, de
/ -n 4o 1.,,J .+r,, ,1kxcL; ~ ..c i