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This Is WHY i. S. Railroads Face Crisis!

. Railway and Steamship Clerks,
Freight Handlers, Express and
Station Employees, Brotherhood
of
B. Independent unions
. Railroad Workers, American
Federation of
All ALL Unions
All of the unions mentioned are
either independent or belong to the
American Federation of Labor.
None of them are affiliated with
the CLIO, nor does the CLIO include
any such organizations.
AS far as the independent unions
are concerned, there is no central
body to challenge their discrim-
inatOry practices, but the practice
of the ALL affiliates are directly
contrary to the preaching of the
AFL itself, which constantly states
that the workers must organize
and unite under its banner without
regard to race, color, creed or ma
tiOnal origin"
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Curtis Chivers
Suffers Burns
In Explosion

Curtis C. Chivers, 4O17 Clinton
Avenue, well-known Minneapolis
man, suffered third degree burns
in an explosion at Twin Cities Ord
nance Plant, New Brighton, Tues
day morning.
Chivers was rushed by ambu-
lance to st. Barnabas Hospital,
where his condition is reported as
fair. He suffered severe burns on
his right arm, and minor burns on
the face.
Chivers is an adjustor at the
plant, where he has been employed
in war work for three years. He is
also chief advertising solicitor for
the Minneapolis Spokesman, where
he has been employed since 1888.
He is also chairman of the Mime
apolis NAACP 1916 membership
drive.
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Baptist Women's Group
To Give Dromu. Review
at Zion on Sunday

The Women's Auxiliary of the
Minnesota Baptist Association will
present a Christian drama and
princess review at Zion Baptist
Church, Sunday, Aug. 10, at 8 p. m.
The women of both cities will
participate. More than twenty
women from churches of the Twin
Cities have registered to act as
queen and each will have twelve at
tendants. At the conclusion of the
Review, the most popular queen
will be crowned.
A symposium on the detectives
of the Missionary society will be
discussed by Mrs. M. E. Bell, who
will talk on "Home Missions; Mrs.
H. W. Bolts, ST., on Foreign Mis-
sions," and Mrs. Estelle Sims, on
christian Education" An all male
chorus will sing gospel and spir-
itual songs.
Mrs. Mayme Burrell is the state
president of the Women's Auxil-
larry. Mrs. Mary Crump, financial
secretary of the association, is
chairman of arrangements.
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the accident happened, had his
neck broken by the jolt. ]. Pearson,
a porter, who was among those
killed, was found standing up with
his arms outstretched as if he had
evidently tried to reach the door,
Ingram said. A sailor who saw
the engine of the second section
roaring down on them, jumped out
of two plate glass windows, and
was saved.
While the modest st. Paul boy
gave towns-people and servicemen
great credit for their untiring eff
forts following the crash, a group
of sailors who had helped remove
the wounded and dead, told the As
ISOLATED Press of Ingram's contri-
button. "That boy should have a
citation" the sailors said. Arnold
continued the trip to Seattle in
stead of returning to the Twin
Cities.
Porter Walter Allen, lilo Fourth
Avenue No., Minneapolis, said the
first section had been having
trouble with hot box after leaving
Grand Forks, N. D., and was run
ming forty minutes late. According
to Allen, he had quite a few early
calls for the next morning and be-
gan making down beds about $50
p. m. About 700, a woman pas
senger came out of the observation
car and asked him for some medi-
cine. He was getting bromide
from his bag when the crash oc-
Cured. He was knocked out tenn
porarily, but when he regained con-
seriousness, he started for the rear
cars to see how the passengers
were. When he opened the connect
ing door, between the cars, he
found the engine of the second sec
ton blocking his progress.
Identifies Body
Later, as he worked his way
through the train, helping to re-
store order to the cars, he found
portfolio of one of the passengers
caught in the observation car,
Lloyd Burdick of Great Falls, Mon
tana. It was Aliens Job to help in
the Identification of the body which
was almost unrecognizable. He
also commented on the friendliness
and cooperation of the citizens of
the community who brought coffee,
sandwiches, and other aids to the
workers. On the afternoon follow
ing the wreck, he was invited to
the home of one of the towns
people to get a few hours sleep
before returning to the Twin Cities.
H. K. Grever, 3548 Smelling Ave-
nue., and his son-in-law, Riley Gil
christ, 3712 Fifth Avenue, both
walters, were also in the diner of
the first section when the crash
occurred.
81 had just served a party of
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Mrs. Clifford Hawkins of 419 Col
fax Avenue North, is one of the
principals in the cast of 1875 which
makes up one of the most lavish
Rose productions in a long series
of extravaganzas put on by Broad
ways Mighty Midget" of show
business.
MOdernized Version
After two highly successful sea-
sons on Broadway, the musical
based on Bizet's Carmen" brings
to Twin City theatergoers a mod
ernized version of the famous
opera. The voluptuous Carmen of
the original becomes Carmen Jones,
defense worker. Her lover Jose,
becomes Joe, member of an Army
military police regiment. The
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Unless permanent FEPC is
enacted, these workers will have
little protection against the whims
and personal preferences of super
visors and department heads when
cuts in stats are made. Even the
few who have been on jobs for long
periods are not sure they will be
protected by seniority. The present
FEPC, war agency, will have to
be dissolved within 6 months after
the cessation of hostilities.
Ask Seniority Emphasized
The United Federal Workers of
America, CLIO government en-
ployees union, has proposed to the
Civil Service Commission that
principal weight be given to SEMI
ority when layotfs occur. This is
not now the general practice. The
UFWA has uncovered a memoran-
dunn written by one government
agency head leaving the dismissal
of employees entirely to the whim
of supervisors. It read in part:
"List under category, the
names of persons now in your
section in preferred order for
possible separation. Each list
should name first the person
who Gall things cOnsidered)
may seem least useful for our
present work irrespective of
salary scale and of course, if
respective of all considerations
of dependency, long service,
etc. ."
According to survey of govern
ment employees, the majority of
them want to stay in Washington,
preferably in a government job.
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Mrs. Douglas in four months of
activity organized local FEPC
councils in Richmond, Norfolk and
Roanoke, Va; Greensboro, Win
ston Salem, and Charlotte, N. c.;
Columbia and Charleston, S. c.;
Savannah, Atlanta and Macon,
Ca; Jacksonville, Miami, and Tam
pa, Fla; Birmingham, Montgomery
and Mobile, Ala; Jackson, Miss;
Baton Rouge, Shreveport and New
Orleans, La; Little Rock, Ark;
Tulsa, Muskogee and Oklahoma
City, Okla; and Fort Worth, Dali
las, Houston, and San Antonio,
Tex.
She was formerly a teacher and
newspaperwoman in New Orleans.
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Lehman who is in London attend
ing sessions of UNRRA.
Hendricks made this statement
to newsmen at a special conference
requested of him. He said the
Ethiopian request had not reached
his level in the agency.
Request Turned Down
In the meantime, however, the
NNPA has learned that one of the
UNRRA men who is scheduled to
go to Ethiopia, proposed taking his
secretary along who is a Negro.
He was told frantically that the re-
quest could not be granted because
Ethiopia did not want any Ameri-
can Negroes sent on the UNRRA
mission. Efforts to confirm the
Ethiopian request, reported to have
been made by the Ethiopian Min
lister to the United States, Blatta
Ephram T. Medhen, have proved
unavailing. The minister is also in
London attending the UNRRA con-
ference.
During the same Conference with
Mr.. Hendricks, he pointed out that
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Lieut.. Bob Gardner
Flies to st. Paul
In Army Bomber

The bomber that landed in St.
Paul, Sunday, August IL, from
Tuskegee Army Air Field, Tuske-
gee, Alabama, piloted by Lieut.. W.
Deiz, brought Lieut.. Robert Gard
ner, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Gardner, Hazelwood Ave., and Co.
Rd. c., home to be with his brother
Jesse, who is quite ill in Bethesda
hospital. It also brought home
Lieut.. N. Walter Coins, son of Mr..
and Mrs. N. Walter Coins, 696
Carroll Avenue, to spend a few
hours with his family. The plane
left the airfield at 900 a. m. and
landed in st. Paul at lis p. m. The
crew, minus Lieut.. Gardner, left for
Tuskegee, about 4 p. m. in the
afternoon, in order to return to the
field before darkness. Others of
the crew were Captain Weather.
spoon, Lieut.. Nurse Faulkner and
two enlisted men.
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of
. Railroad Yardmasters of Ameri-
ca
. Railroad Yardmasters of North
America
Q Railway Conductors, Order of
Train Dispatchers Association,
American.
The unions which habitually ex-
clude Negroes by practices based on
unwritten rules:
A. ALL affiliates
. Electrical Workers, international
Brotherhood of (craft locals only)
B. Independent unions
. Railroad Shop Crafts, Brother
hood of
Unions which confine Negroes to
jimcro Auxiliary locals:
A. ALL affiliates
Q Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders,
Welders and Helpers, Brother
hood of
Q Railway Carmen of America,
Brotherhood of
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,he proceeded to the back cars. At
first he couldn't see anything be-
cause of the steam, but he heard
woman screaming.
Woman Pinned in Window
When the steam cleared a bit,
he saw her jammed in the tele-
scoped window of the observation
car, and pinned from the waist
down by wreckage. She was in
such terrific agony, Ingram said,
her only thought was to grab for
anyone who passed, then fight him
as he attempted to free her.
A ladder was obtained from
somewhere, and Arnold climbed to
the window and lifted a chair car
off her back, which seemed to re-
lieve her somewhat.
"At first when got there, she
was praying and saying she wanted
to de-" the young waiter reported.
AS workers with acetylene torches
struggled to free the womac, Ing
ram repeatedly passed cold towels
up the ladder to cool her face. The
heat was almost unbearable, but
he said, 81 just told myself if that
woman could stand the heat up
there, I could, too, and I stayed by
her as long as I could" He even
took his turn at an acetylene torch
although he'd never used one be-
fore.
Man Crushed to Death
After finding the woman, Ingram
on his first round of the cars,
walked up to man standing as if
waiting for him to pass. Glow are
you doing, buddy?" he asked, but
received no answer. He flashed
light in his face. The man was
dead, crushed to death as he was
passing through the cars. In the
day coach, a passenger sleeping
with his head on his chest when
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-17

Toreador, Garments downfall, be-
comes Husky Miller, champion
prize fighter.
Muriel Smith and Inez Matthews
will alternate in the starring role
of Carmen Jones. Tenor Napoleon
Reed plays Joe, and Husky Miller
is Glenn Bryant, former Harlem
policeman who has taken leave of
absence from the New York force
to trod the boards.
The "blue" scene at the country
club is one of the most eye-filling
ever to be presented in a musical
production, as is the purple" scene
in the night club in which Miss
Hawkins first makes her appear
ance in the show.-NDR. -
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OELST w d1ISI AAACn
again." he stated. A doctor dressed
wounds in his head caused by fly
ing crockery. ,Gilchrist, who had
been sitting at table in the head
diner, was thrown against and over
the table, suffering back and stom-
ach injuries.
Grever said that man and his
wife, and their two children, who
were in the party of six he had just
served, mentioned they were going
back to the observation car, and
that was the last he saw of them.
Charles Beasley, 9O4 Bryant
Avenue No., a waiter, said, eve
had just finished dinner when the
crash occurred. Everybody was so
excited, we hardly realized what
actually had happened. My back
and arm were injured when was
struck by a table that was torn
loose, and also by a falling chair.
At first I was stunned, and had to
lie there awhile before could get
up. After the wreck was cleared,
we were brought home on another
train"
Beasley stated that Mr.. and Mrs.
Boyd Crawford of Minneapolis who
were on their way to the West
Coast for a visit, had just walked
out of the diner before the crash.
The engineer of the second sec
ton, in spite of the terrific, head
long crash, miraculously escaped
without injury. The fireman, who
jumped from the cab of the engine,
before it rammed the stalled first
section, received minor injuries.
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The South, says Mrs. Douglas,
is on the verge of a new economic
era, and she gives much of the
credit for it's new awakening to
the Negro church.
One of her principal observations
was that there is a growing feeling
that job discrimination is one of the
most serious drags on the whole
south, and that the problems must
be solved on a national and not a
regional basis. In this connection,
she said she found that many
Negroes do not agree with the prin-
ciples of the Durham Conference,
where the theme was that the South
should be left to solve the South's
race problem.
Want Full Citizenship
A desire for full citizenship is
increasingly evident, she says,
among the Negroes in the South
along with the will to implement
that desire. "Fully cognizant that
there are still powerful forces ar
rayed against them," declared Mrs.
Douglas, "and that in some cases
they risk loss of jobs and even
physical violence, they openly or
ganize and support the movements
which they believe will help them
realize their goals"
There are some exceptions
to this rule, she pointed out
under questioning. Little sup
port of .FEPC, for example,
comes from the teachers and
professional groups. The teach
ers fear reprisals and show a
cOmplacency in the fact that
most of them have been given
equal pay with whites through
the efforts of the NAACP, pro-
fessiOnal men, in the main, are
"tOO busy making money" to
take leadership in the prob
lens of the masses.
The courage of some of the
people is demonstrated, how
ever, in defying threatening
opposition. In New Orleans,
for example, the interracial
Mayors Committee on Racial
Relations adopted a resolution
endorsing the Senate bill for
a permanent FEPC with only
two dissenting votes even after
one of its members active in
the Community Chest directory
said the Chest would frown
upon such an endorsement.
The Community Chest is con-
trolled by the Chamber of
Commerce and social agencies.
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six, and was in the pantry unload
ing my tray when it happened"
Grever said. He was completely
knocked out by the impact which
demolished dishes in the pantry.
When he regained consciousness,
everything was in chaos. give
never seen anything like it, and
never want to see anything like it
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CORRECTION

Mrs. Virvinia Faulkner and Sgt.
Charles Moore are also god-parents
of James Bruce Coins, infant son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ransom Coins, 925
E. Magnolia St., and Mrs. Ella D.
Smith is paternal grandmother.
Their names were omitted from the
list of god-parents and grand-par-
ents in the story last week.
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st. Paul Parents
Boast First VI Day
Arrival at Hospital

Mr.. and Mrs. Donald M. Johnson
of 483 Charles St., st. Paul, can
boast that they are the parents of
the first w Day baby born at
Bethesda hospital. Their infant
son, born at $3.50 a. M, Wednesday,
August Is, was the first arrival Of
the VI Day crop of new citizens.
Mother and baby are reported in
good condition.
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Mary Lannigan Succumbs

Mary A. Lannigan, 11O5 N. Du-
pont Ave. No., 72 years old, died at
Minneapolis General Hospital, Fri
day, Aug. 10.
Funeral services were held Mon
day, Aug. 10, at 2 p. m. at Zion
Baptist Church with Rev. H. W.
Bolts officiating, assisted by Rev.
H. E. Richardson. Interment was
at Crystal Lake Cemetery.
She is survived by her sister,
Mrs. Ellen Smith of st. Louis, Mo-,
and other relatives. Woodland
Funeral Home was in charge of
services.
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into the first section stalled on the
tracks with a hot box. The i'm
pact destroyed everything break
able in the dining car pantry. Ing
ram said that following the crash,
and after determining there was
nothing he could do in the diner,
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phase of World McALPIN
War II. The end of the war now
could come as suddenly as the
Jap's treacherous attack on Pearl
Harbor. If it does, it will catch
America equally as unprepared.
The economic descriptions follow
ing the wars end in themselves are
problems which will tax the in
genuity of America even beyond the
requirements of the dark days of
the early 3O's. Veterans will be
streaming back to civilian life by
the millions-war workers will be
confused and stranded in newly
adopted locations-wartime wages
will suddenly be substituted by
want and fear. All these things
will be aggravated unnecessarily by
the good OF American custom of
racial and religious determinations.
And America will have itself
to blame. 1t has taken none of the
steps necessary to soften the blow
of postwar readjustments. The
Congress of the United States has
prOcrastinated by failing to con-
slider most of the measures that
would set the stage for pOst-bel-
Ium problems. 1t has gone even
further and actually refused to act
on the FEPC which would lift the
scab off its fostering sores in order
that the salve might be applied
direct to the infections.
There of course have been a few
valiant members of the legislative
body who saw the light, who threw
in their weight in an effort to swing
the balance from the status quo.
Neither political party can claim
a monopoly on these courageous
souls. While the leaders of the
fight for a permanent FEPC have
been Democrats Qike Sen. Chavez,
Reps. Norton, Dawson, Sabbath,
Celler, MarcantoniO of the ALP
but who sits on the Democratic side,
and Others) there also have been
Republicans whose aid has been
invaluable Qike Sens. Ball, Burton
Morse, and Reps. LaFOllette, Dirk
sen, ClasOn, etc.
But the majority of both parties
have been content to sit back and
wait-most of them on the promise
they will vote for FEPC if it ever
comes before them, but doing moth
ing to bring about that vote. Some
Republicans in the House of Repre-
sentatives have stayed away in
droves from the petition to dis
charge the Rules Committee on the
FEPC bill where their signatures
are so sorely needed.
In the meantime, the atomic
bomb has been dropped on the
enemy thousands of miles from our
shores. It's repercussions and dead
ly effects may yet sweep across
our own land in the form of strike,
panic and death due to our re-
luctance to squarely face in time
the problems of race and creed
superimposed on those of security,
full employment, and social prog
ress.
The skill of the scientists has
created a new instrument with
radius of destruction covering
several square miles. But the fail
ure of America to rid itself of the
conductors of hate and prejudice
and persecution against its min
critics has Outstripped the scientists
and widened the scope of the death
dealing atomic bomb so that its
possible quick-brOught end of the
war may span the ocean and
blanket America with a more
frightening and terrible cOnse-
quence than its soaring, disin-
tegrating explosion.
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Sincerely,
"Father Jerome Luger,
"St. Peter Claver Church.

"St. Peter Claver Church. ("
Expressing deep appreciation for
the thoughtfulness and interest of
the church and it's pastor, Mr..
Newman said the money would be
used to send ten yearly subscrip-
lions to the libraries of various
schools in Minnesota.
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Gay, COlOrful Carmen Jones
Brings June Hawkins Home
In Broadway Hit Show

The colorful Billy Rose superspecacle Carmen Jones'"
with the New York Company which includes June Hawkins
will open at the Municipal Auditorium in St. Paul for three
day engagement August 2 % and 49, with matinee We'd
nesday, August %.
June former MINNEAPOLIS girl and daughter of Mr. and
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10000 in Washington
Face Loss of Jobs
AS War Boom Ends

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)-When activities cease
here in the many wartime bureaus it is est
mated 10000 Negroes employed in federal agencies
here will face uncertain future Another 100000 in the
government field service will also have the problem of post
to face
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Hes A Disgrace
Says Sen. Taft
OF That Man

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
is no excuse for him and
he is a disgrace to the Senate"
declared Sen. Robert A. Taft (R)
of Ohio in letter concerning Sen.
Theodore Bilbo last week. During
the same week, Freedom House in
New York urged the United States
Senate to associate itself from the
shameful actions of "The Man."
Taft was answering a letter from
business man in New York, who
has a plant in Taft's state of Ohio,
requesting that the Senator take a
stand on the action of Bilbo in using
his position as U. S. Senator from
Mississippi to insult and threaten
Jews, Negroes, Catholics, Ameri-
cans of foreign ancestry, and other
minority groups.
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UNRRA Head to Tell
Ethiopia Go to H.
If JimcrO Tried

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)-If the Ethiopians off
cay ask the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Ad
minsraon to bar American Negroes from UNRRA missions
to that country which is contrary to the UNRRA charter
they will be told Ego to HE'LL according to Roy Hendricks
acting administrator of the agency in absence of Gov Herbert
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Teachers, Professionals
Tagging Behind Workers
In SOuth's Awakening

WASHINGTON, D. c. CNNPA)-Sgns Of hopefulness
the South built around the issue of permanent FEPC
reported last week by Mrs Belle Douglas field worker
for the National Council for Permanent FEPC who spent
four months organizing local FEPC councils in II south
states. Mrs. Douglas is from New Orleans.
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