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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
FORMAL STATEMENT OF DELEGATION
I'M y. c.

At each meeting with Washington
week the Minnesota delegation the Twin
Permanent Fair Practices following
statement by delegation chairman
Minneapolis
1--WE believe that the right equal mpoymnt opporuns for
all people, regardless of creed color national
domestic and the postwar should be
guaranteed by federal law The enactment Fair
poment Practices Commission with enforcement covering
employment in interstate would provide rights
all the people without discrimination
line with these convictions concerned about the national
welfare and more specifically about postwar employment prospects
Minnesota Today
industries Among these citizens considerable numbers
minority whose productive being utilized
the $50 of the Negro population of Minnesota relief
because employment denied them the basis
time the proportion of white citizens relief
The improved condition has been primarily due the
when the nation there dearth
Twin Cities being placed Class
mission, there still industries which discriminate
Of the members of minority Consequently
peaceme production holds threat insecurity
of minority groups What applies the Twin Cities applies
similarly and in sections much serious
nation at large.
We that the FEPC with its upon
the postwar That shown clearly today discrimination
employment continues to exist Since all of anxious
postwar domestic is imperative that federal and
Fair Employment Practices Commission with enforcement
enacted to implement that goal"
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DELEGATION

The delegation included Tai
madge c. Carey, Minneapolis,
secretary of the governors inter-
racial committee and delegation
chairman; Frank Boyd of Broth
erhood of Sleeping Car Porters;
Wendell c. Jones, president Min
neapolis branch, National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People; S. E. Hall, mem
Der of Republican state central
committee; the Rev. Kyle Hasel-
den, pastor, Minneapolis Trinity
Baptist church; the Rev. Clar-
ence T. R. Nelson. pastor Cam
phor Memorial Methodist church,
st. Paul; Mrs. Ethel M. Williams,
st. Paul, A. K. A. Sorority; I.
Myrtle Garden, director Halle
O. Brown community house, st.
Paul: DR.. Charles H. Williams,
st. Paul dentist and Catholic
layman; the Rev. Benjamin
Moore, pastor of st. James A.
NJ. E. church. st. Paul; Jonas G.
Schwartz, Minneapolis attorney;
s. Vincent Owens, secretary, St.
Paul Urban league: Mrs. Law
renee D. Steefel, representative
of Minneapolis re-settlement
committee: Mrs. Ruth Gage
Colby, st. Paul; George W. Mat
thews, vice president Minneapo-
lis Central Labor Union, (AFL),
and Rubin Latz, business repre-
sentative Minneapolis Laundry
and Cleaners union (AFL).
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came in to say hello was Emma
Crews, office secretary, a new ad-
dition to the staff; Robert Jones,
advertising manager, and De Velma
Newman, official of the Spokesman
and Recorder Publishing Co., which
operates the Recorder.
The Recorder office, in the St.
Paul loop, will be the first Negro
paper to maintain offices in the
downtown area since 1927, a period
of 10 years.
Mrs. Crews will have charge of
office routine and serve as social
and personal correspondent.
The telephone number at the new
office is Cedar 1922. Patrons who
want information or want to trans
act business with the Recorder may
also use the old Midway 834O num-
Der.
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Arlivia McKinZie
Past Grand MatrOn
O. E. S., Dead at 7S

Arliva Mckenzie, age 70, 1926
Clinton Ave-, who died at Roches-
ter, Mimi, Friday, Feb. %, was a
resident of Minneapolis for fifty
years prior to her death. She was
well known for her work in the fra
ternity circles. She was the first
Grand Matron of the Minnesota
Grand Chapter of Prince Hall af-
filiation. Mrs. Mckenzie was at
one time Grand Secretary of the
order of the S. NJ. T. and Grand
Princess of the same order of the
state of Missouri.
She was a splendid public speaker
and was active in the civic life of
Minneapolis for years.
Funeral services were held Mon
day, Feb. 26 with Rev. H. C. Bolts,
officiating. Interment was at
Crystal Lake cemetery.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02

Charles L. Shelton, boatswains
mate, stationed at Bremerton,
Wash, is on furlough in St. Paul.
His mother, Mrs. Katherine Shell
ton, resides at the home of a
daughter, Mrs. Sam Ross, 45S St.
Anthony. Mrs. Shelton has given
five other sons to her country. Leon
and George are in the army, serv-
ing in New Guinea. orion is with
the army in France and Arthur B.,
who was here last week, is sta
toned at Fl. Benning. Sylvester,
in the navy, is stationed at Shoe
maker, Calf. Mrs. Shelton has
four other sons and the one daugh-
ter, with whom she lives.
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Guide three and the Chicago De-
fender five. In addition the Negro
Publishers Association has two
correspondents overseas.
Thanks to Gen. Surles and
Army's public relations they have
been given every facility to cover
units and military operations. From
the Navy colored newspapers have
had no cooperation and not a single
correspondent.
"This is the first war in which
colored newspapers have sent war
correspondents overseas. They have
done an exceedingly fine job of re-
porting abroad and looking back on
their accomplishments there are
millions of colored readers who
know that without them the news
of their boys and girls overseas
would have been meager indeed"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
MinnesOtans Talk
To Mrs. Roosevelt
At White House
First Lady Worried About
Returning Soldiers
Washington, D. c., Feb. %.
(By Wire)

Washington, D. c., Feb. %.
(By Wire)
1T is too bad when we use either
race or religion to handicap a race
of people," Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
told the Minnesota Delegation in a
45-minute interview in the Red
room of the White House today.
Mrs. Roosevelt expressed great
concern about the returning vet
Grams, particularly the Negro ser
vicemen. Mrs. Roosevelt indicated
very clearly by her questions and
statements that she is absolutely for
a permanent FEPC. The delegation
had an interview with James
Barnes, one of the secretaries to
President Roosevelt in the morning
at the State Department. Minority
Leader Joseph III. Martin of Massa-
chusetts declared that he was fully
committed to the Bill as did Ma
jOrity Leader Mccormack in two
conferences today. Senator Ball
stated very definitely that he was
for the Bill with enforcement pow
ers in a conference today.
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equality of opportunity and that he
would vote for a bill with enforce
ment. When some of the Represen-
tatives seemed vague and would not
commit themselves, Representa-
tive Gallagher gave them some
thing of a rebuke when he said eff
you believe in a thing you ought
to fight for it."
After asking many questions for
information as to the extent of dis
elimination in Minnesota, Repre-
sentative Harold Hagen said that
he would support the present BIZ
partisan bill H.R. 2232, which pro-
posed enforcement powers and
would support any amendment or
change that would strengthen the
bill.
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Chicago Postal
Employees Demand
Fair Treatment

Chicago, Ill. (NNPA)-Postal
workers, through the Chicago
branch of the National Alliance of
Postal Employees, are seeking re-
lief from unfair practices in the
Chicago Post Office.
They have submitted a detailed
brief on such practice to Ernest ].
Kruetgen, postmaster of Chicago,
in which they point out the state
ment of Postmaster General Frank
G. Walker made in a message to
all postal personnel on June 2,
1913.
Discrimination is repugnant to
all our principles of good govern
ment and decency .. Every postal
worker should have full opportunity
of aspiring to and reaching posi-
tions to which his talents, his
energy, and his integrity entitle
him." the statement declared.
Acknowledging that the local
postmaster has made a start in eff
fecting satisfactory improvement
in the status of Negro workers, the
brief says much yet remains to be
done to accord equal privileges.
Specific charges made include:
l. Whites are given preference
for promotion in the V-Mail unit.
2. Preference is given whites in
preferred assignments in the "
Mail unit.
8. Negro acting-assistant fore
men are "passed over" in promo
tons.
4. Negroes share less than two
percent of over 600 supervisory
jobs.
5. Preferred assignments are
denied Negroes in other sections.
6. Eligible Negro workers are
excluded in advancement to special
clerkships outside the quota.
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who had been elected chairman of
the delegation, the Statement of
Policy" that had been prepared by
the delegation was read by Mr..
Carey. Mrs. Ruth Gage Colby read
letters that had been written by
many prominent Minnesotans in
support of legislation for a federal
and permanent FEPC. Among the
letters read were those from Cover
nor Edward Thye, Mayor Nc
Donough, of St. Paul, Judge Vince
Day of Minneapolis; DR.. Charles
Turck, President of Macalaster Col
lege; James Robertson, secretary
of the Democratic Farmer Labor
Central Committee; Mrs. Peavey
Heffelfnger, a member of the Plat
form Committee of the 1914 Re-
publican National Convention;
George C. Hoke of the State Re-
publican State Central Committee
and Milton Rosen, commissioner of
public works of St. Paul.
Four Speak
The four speakers for the dele
CATION for this conference were
Frank Boyd, Mrs. Ethel Williams,
Rubin Late and DR.. Charles S. Will
liams.
Mr.. Boyd pointed out the effect
that the passing of a bill for a
permanent FEPC would have on
our national economy as well as the
international economy in the re-
conversion period. Vice President
Truman, with a smile, said that
"Mr. Boyd, as a presidential cleo
tor, had been a party to the losing
of a vote for the bill by electing
him Vice President" (Mr. Truman
was a senator from Missouri before
being elected vice president last
year,
Mrs. Williams said that as a
social worker she had seen hun
dreds of Negroes in the relief lines
during the depression. eff we have
needed FEPC at this time of al
most full employment, how much
more it will be needed in the period
of reconversion" she declared.
Jews Find Employment Barriers
Rubin Late asserted that moral
persuasion was not enough and
that such law would eliminate a
lot of barriers. He referred to the
fact that Jews find it difficult to find
employment.
Catholics Favor Legislation
DIR. Charles S. Williams said that
as a Negro and Catholic that he
"had two strikes against him." He
cited that many leading Catholics
were in favor of the proposed legis-
lation.
Before leaving the conference to
return to the Senate, Vice Presi-
dent Truman suggested to the dele
cation that it spend its time while
in Washington in trying to "con-
vert some of the known enemies
of the bill you need not spend
time with people like Senator Ball
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st. Paul City
Council Backs
Permanent FEPC

Tuesday morning the st. Paul
City Council upon motion of Com
missioner Milton Rosen voted
unanimously to wire its support to
the bill establishing a permanent
FEPC.
Clarence W. Wigington, presi-
dent of the st. Paul Urban League,
addressed the council.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
Carl Murphy Hits Back
At Charge of Distortion
Aimed At Negro Press
frO-American Publisher Says Negro Correspondents
Stories Jim Crow Censored
(FromE ditto isher

New York - A charge of
distortion of the war news by
elements of the supersensi-
tive Negro press that at the
same time are not sensitive
enough to the criterion of ac-
curacy,", voiced from Rome Feb. IA
by Milton Bracker of the New York
Times, was answered in a wire to
Editor & Publisher this week by
Carl Murphy, president of the Afro
American Newspapers of Balti-
more.
To Crackers statement that the
Pittsburgh Courier had inserted
"extraneous and highly misleading
material into stories of correspond
ents on the Italian 'front.'" and that
Army Public Relations had been
forced to issue an unusually de-
tailed and candid statement of
Negro units reverses ito avoid dis
tortion or false play" in the Negro
press, Mr.. Murphy declared:
False Conclusion
eff some irresponsible editor of
the Courier so violated the ethics
of his profession, the Courier man.
agement will be as quick to rebuke
the offender as we. However, those
who gave last weeks story hasty
reading might we'll conclude that
other colored papers with war cor
respondents abroad are charged by
Breaker with responsibility. Moth.
ing in the story warrants that :
lIt' ....
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Constance Chivers
On Junior Speaks"
Program Murch 5

Constance Chivers, 13-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis
C. Chivers, 4O17 Clinton Ave-, will
be heard on the Junior Speaks"
program over WCCO Monday,
March 5, from to 5:15 p. M, con-
Quoted by Florence Murphy.
Constance was one of the five
students selected from the ninth
grade at Bryant Junior High
School. The group will discuss head
lines which appear in the Sunday
newspaper.
Louis E. House
Salon Speaker
Louis E. House will be the guest
speaker on the Halle Q. Brown
Sunday evening Salon, March 7th,
at 8:15 p. m. Mr.. House will speak
on "Life in the South Pacific"
The young people have invited
their parents to join and attend
in a discussion after the program.
Hear broadcast on National Ne
gro Newspaper, station WCCO,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
Bishop Kelly
4 to Dedicate
CamphOr Church

"1ward w. Kelly, ST., of
St. Louis, will preach at the Cam
phor Memorial Methodist Church,
Sunday at II a. m. Bishop Kelly
will dedicate the church building
after the sermon. Mrs. Winona
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
Twin City Delegation \
Invades ID. C. to Urge
Permanent Commission
By Staff Correspondent

Washington, D. c. (SPECIAL)-"There would be no
necessity of passing bill for permanent Fair Employment
Practices Commission if it had enforcement powers" Vice
President Harry Truman told the delegation of sixteen
people from the Twin Cities which Washington on
Tuesday to urge the passage of bill for permanent Fair
Employment Practices Commission Vice President Truman
met the Twin Cities delegation which had sent to the
nations capitol through the efforts of many Twin City organi
zaons cooperating with the newly organized Twin City Coun
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Seattle Phone Company
Hires First Negro StenO

Seattle-Miss Geraldine Jones of
Wenatchee, Wash, has been hired
as a stenographer by the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Co., its
first Negro white collar worker.
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Read

Controversial Dan Gardner
on the editorial page on the need
for a permanent F. E. P. C.
Dan Gardeners column in this
paper is always stimulating
whether you agree with him or
not.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
Testimonial Dinner
For Frank Boyd
Saturday, Mar. 3rd

A testimonial dinner is being
planned in honor of Frank Boyd
Saturday, Marh 8, at 6:15 pm. at
the Junior Pioneer Hall, St. Paul.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
RayfOrd Logan
Urban League
Speaker Mar. 26

On Monday, March &c, Rayford
Logan, editor of WHAT THE
NEGRO WANTS will speak at the
annual meeting of the Minneapolis
Urban League to be held at Ben
ton Hall, YWCA, at 8 p. m.
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Recorder Office
Open i'm Newton
Building Now

Thursday, March l, the St. Paul
Recorders new office opened at 312
Newton Bldg. 1857 Minnesota St..
On hand to greet the readers who
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02

ed to the Editor & Publisher head
line FEB. II, p. al which stated:
"War Reporter Charges Negro
Press Distortion.")
Said Mr.. Murphy: "Mr. Brack-
er also charged that. some colored
papers are representative and over
emphasize the accomplishments of
the 92nd Colored Division in Italy.
Art Carter, Afro-American cor
respondent just back from 10
months in Italy, commenting on the
Breaker charges said:
'"T regard him as a fair and i'm
partial reporter and do not believe
that it was his intention to indict
the colored press because of alleged
bad ethics of one newspaper.
GAS to supersensitivity, found
most of it among Army censOrs
who are quick to cut out dispatches
when they detail ways our country
takes Jim Crow abroad to nations
not accustomed to it.
Concerning over-emphasis of
any particular outfit in war accom-
plishments, the simple fact is that
the Army's insistence on racial seq
regatiOn leads naturally to re-
peated mention of those few cOlOred
units which are in forward areas.
"'The daily press frequently
overlooks the colored soldiers ac-
complishments. Thus, the fire.
quency of news concerning any
one colored outfit in the colored
press appears to be over-empha-
sis. was never embarrassed by
any over-emphasis of my stories
from Italy and l think Mr.. Breaker
is assuming a great deal when he
says other correspondents were.'"
That there are millions of col
ored readers who would get little
news of their boys and girls over
seas but for the colored press was
charged by Mr.. Murphy, who said:
"The Army has 100000 tan
Yanks, 5000 commissioned officers
including 500 in the medical and
dental corps, $50 chaplains and 200
nurses.
"The Navy has 100000 colored
seamen, including 10000 in the
Marine Corps and 5000 in the
Coast Guard. Roughly 1919 of the
military personnel in the United
States armed forces is colored.
Manned Big Guns
"When the Allies landed in Nor
mandy, these boys manned barrage
balloons and big guns, loaded and
unloaded ships, and drove thousands
of big trucks carrying troops and
supplies on the French highways to
the front lines.
'They built $3.50 of the 1900
mile Alcan highway and the Ledo
Road in Burma. Colored pilots
have bombed Sicily, Italy, Ger
many, Romania. Thirty of them
have earned the Distinguished
Flying Cross.
"a colored military unit helped
hold Bastogne in Belgium when
McAuliffe's 10000 were entirely
surrounded by Nazis. The daily
press mentioned the 10000 and Nc
Auliffe, but not the tan Yank ar
tillery."
For that, says Mr.. Murphy, the
Negro press had to rely on its own
correspondents.
"Since the beginning of the war
the Afro-American n ewsp aperl
chain has sent seven correspond
ents, including a woman, to North
Africa, Italy, France and England,
the Aleutians, Pacific and Philip
pines.
"The Pittsburgh Courier has sent
out seven, the Norfolk Journal and
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(Jenkins) Minis will be the guest
soloist for the service.
Bishop Kelly, who is a native of
Texas, is one of the outstanding
Negro preachers in America. He
was pastor of Methodist churches
in Galveston, Texas, Detroit, Michi-
gan and st. Louis, before being
elected bishop last June at the Cen
trail Jurisdictional Conference in
Greensboro, N. C. He is very much
in demand as a preacher before
groups throughout the nation. He
was the Mems Day speaker in the
Camphor Church in 1913.
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Soldiers Injured
In Dakota Wreck

AI EUII AIUSpILdI
There are approximately 70
Negro service men in the Army
Post hospital at Fl. Smelling who
were injured in a train wreck near
Mandan, N. D., several weeks ago.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02

Gil for a permanent FEPC, in the
first of series of conferences with
Minnesota congressman and other
congressman at 1:2O p. M, Tues
day.
Believe it or not, the conference
with the Vice President was held
in the District of Columbia Com
mittee room, of which Senator
Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, is
chairman! When the delegation
had been escorted to the Senate
wing of the United States Capitol
building and it was discovered that
the room where they were to meet
the Vice President was too small,
search was made for larger room.
After few minutes the delegation
was taken into large and beauti-
full room and it was announced that
the use of the room for the con-
ference had been made possible by
the courtesy of Senator Bilbo, who
is technically the Mayor of the
nations capitol, as the chairman of
the Committee for the District of
Columbia. Washington does not
actually have a mayor and neither
do the citizens of the District of
Columbia voteI
Vice President Truman, who was
accompanied by Senator Joseph H.
Ball, the junior Senator from Min
nesota, came from presiding over
the Senate to meet the Minnesota
delegation. After the members of
the delegation had been introduced
to Vice President Truman and
Senator Ball by Talmadge C. Carey,
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Remember the Elks Grand Ball,
March 2, s p. m. at Norway Hall
Advt.
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Congressman frank Stakey of St Paul. who had
the bipartisan conference with delegation pledged
his support the bill letter the hand
Although not completely committing himself Congressman
justice 1900 F
Oaaa said that he did not have doubt but
that the Minnesota Congressman would
However, he felt that ou gae prejudice spoke
the educational L.
that he educational
the point pressing employment
Shipstead Says He Will Support Bill with
The third conference with Senator Henrik Shpead
at this meeting Mrs Ruth Gage Colby
Rey Moore and Jonas Schwartz Senator shpstead
believed the bill will be reported favoray
ton Committee of the Senate He said he would bill
enforcement
The Senator startled the delegation asked as there
discrimination Minnesota" The speakers,
Mr. Schwartz pointed there of
Rev. Moore told of large Minneapolis which
100 people but Negroes Tamag
large Minneapolis plant with 1000 employees which
three Negroes its payroll which special
the estimated of $4,000 money! Schwartz
said the Jews not hired by firms including
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Hear broadcast on National Ne
gro Newspaper, station WCCO,
Saturday, March 3, at 6:45 p. m.
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and myself, who favor the legisla-
ton"
Ball Indicates He Favors Bill with
Teeth
Senator Ball, who is a member of
the Labor and Education Commit
tee which has the bill for consider
alton, said that there would
probably be filibuster against the
bill. Rev. C. T. R. Nelson asked
Senator Ball what was his position
on the bill that has been proposed
by Senator Robert Taft of Ohio?
Senator Ball said that he did not
think that Senator Taft's bill was
sufficient. In this answer Senator
Ball indicated that he was for bill
with enforcement powers.
The delegation met seven mem
bers of the Minnesota members of
the House of Representatives after
the Truman-Ball conference. The
following Representatives were
present: William Pittenger, Walter
Judd, Harold C. Hagen, Joseph
O'Hara, August Andersen, William
]. Gallagher and Frank Starkey.
Among the speakers for the Twin
City delegation included, Mrs. L. D.
Steefel, S. Vincent Owens, Jonas G.
Schwartz, Rev. B. N. Moore, Rev.
Kyle Haselden, S. Ed Hall, George
H. Matthews and Rubin Late.
Pittenger Won't Commit Self
Mr.. Pittenger would not commit
himself on the bill. Representative
William Gallagher said that he had
always believed in fairplay and
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Hear broadcast on National Ne
gro Newspaper, station WCC0,
Saturday, March 3, at 6:45 p. m.