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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-08-30
Dear Joe
By JAMES L. HICKS
CUT RATE

CUT RATE
Three weeks ago this column
criticized colored business organi-
cations for not hiring more coloTed
veterans in On-the-job training po-
sitions.
Since the appearance of the col
umn readers have written in to say
that the criticism was rather harsh
because many small cOlored bust
nesses would be glad to hire vet
Grams but that they were unable to
meet the minimum rates required to
hire a man in an on-the-jOb spot.
Some of the letters asked what was
the minimum wage at which they
could hire a veteran in an on-the-
job training position.
Here is the answer:
The Fair Labor Standards Act Of
1888 requires an employer, as a
statutory obligation, to pay any
person, not specifically exempt, who
Is suffered or permitted to work in
commerce or in the production Of
goods for commerce, without re-
gard to other source of income, a
minimum Of 40 cents an hour. The
Walsh-Healy Public Contracts Act
requires all persons employed by a
contractor on work subject to its
provisions be paid not less than the
applicable minimum wages as de-
termined by the Secretary Of Labor.
That's all very true. MIR. Bust
Ressman, and any way you look
at II, Il adds up TO 40 cents an
hour which anyone in business
should be willing to pay, BUT:
Public Law 16 Of the Seventy
eighth Congress states that when
a prospective employer-tr trainer, as
a condition precedent to his accept
ance Of a trainee for on-the- job
training, indicates he will not meet
the minimum wage requirements of
the Fair Labor Standards Act and
the Walsh-H ealy Public Contracts
Act, the use Of such training facility
will not be favOrably considered I'M
less ~ other opportunities for the
desired training neither exist nor
are available in the veterans COM
munity; and (2) the trainee's dis
abilities preclude initial entrance
into training at the minimum wage
otherwise applicable.
Public Law 16 also states that
when, after investigation, these con-
ditions are found to exist, vocation
al rehabilitation officers are au-
thoriEed to approve induction in
training on the job at subminimum
rates.
So Mr.. Businessman, IL you
can't pay 20 cents an hour and
can prove you are not able to pay
Il, the VA Is willing to break the
law so you can hire a veteran for
less. The main thing Is to give
that veteran job. As TO disabled
veterans, statistics show that
when you get a disabled man who
can do q job. he Is a better man
on the job than a Ron-disabled
veteran.
Any more questions? Legal class
dismissed.
Attention veterans Of New York,
Ohio and Washington, d. c.! Major
Oscar Jones of the Veterans En-
ployment Service in Washington,
Mr.. Grin Smith Of the YES in Ohio
and the YES officer for the State
of New York are all planning on
hiring ex-eolored soldiers to handle
the problems Of colored veterans in
THAR aHaaR The iohs will he IN thu
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okldhoma's Enmerality and shqme
From the oklAhOma Black DIupateh

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WOULD nave been nothing the incident other than ths
~ e up on the banks Of Big creek but Ted Ssrso
Son| ne met black whom he
lovely Womanhood and feminine sweetness FOR bicb ~.
e ald not want TO vent his selfish
~ ne onered her his and his eompanonahin far Gss
e state OF Oklahoma would eounenSnce TsS sssn.
Tan doIlsr AZ Wns merely raising eyebrows
~ uonAE me when white
Poce court on having occupied immoral nurnoSs az
to ~. At Ied Sesney has committed felony on INFORM
woman and white have
Aumnluon on the Holy Wr Marriage
assume the folk who enacted 0klahoma laws resnect;r0 ~
never read and do respect the divine ur
~. lsb and they perhaps concerned reSSrdn1
s.tS aea OF God respecting marriage down here oS
e sxpounded when Miriam the mSTrSSs - Nm
Etiopan All white on earth aboTG -,
tan 70 18th chapter and entire verses
enapter or the Bible discover Miriam was nrss
because she objected Moses marrying out al b r.SS 80
~ the Bible 10 to be believed
the eoud 70 put upon inteTTae arSSe
1a1y notwithstanding. ~ "SV'eu I'm 70 ne con-
So because he married black woman Ted sesney and nj, a
vne talons while In prison. Rapsts murderers and hos I'M
broken All o. the ten commandments
ne mac followed moral law ad down
~ oo himself Of these scounre Rad nSrhsrs
some TIME gSed with comeInes ~ Soa
on n their seetonaiSed brute training TAUGHT th 10 ook
upon black women ~ one looks at cattle and dogs " w
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justice m Oklahoma rests in the fact people are todsy
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liberal thinking History that before mankind acquired S"iiS
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-08-30
BY ROBERT DURR
For the NNPA News Service
The Urban Leagues Know How

AuG OAUAh AGAkuE = huOW LlO"
The National Urban Leagues
1916 annual conference is meeting
in st. Louis-half North and hall
South-September 1923, with the
I h m e "A m eriean Teamwork
Works"
Civic minded leaders represent
ing a cross section of Negro life in
every community should, II possible,
attend or follow closely the findings
Of this extraordinarily important
conference. Such leaders should be
especially interested in the work.
shop sessions of this meeting which
will be designed to develop tech
niques with which to solve the "a
cial and economic problems in local
communities.
In view Of the rise Of tension and
the transition taking place in the
deep South, both Of which seem
sure TO be accelerated, resulting in
increased migration from the rural
areas to urban centers North and
South, the National Urban Leagues
annual conference becomes the most
important meeting Of its kind held
or to be held this year.
II we are to deal effectively with
situations confronting US in in
creasingly explosive proportions,
we must have a plan and we must
work that plan to deal with the
total situation.
1t is my hope that the current
fund raising effort of the National
Urban League will be successful be-
cause, in addition to the work being
done in fifty-four cities in which
colored people are concentrated, the
organization should, it seems to me,
institute a community work pro-
gram in cities not having branches
at the present time. In states like
Mississippi, with no large cities,
there should be a state program op-
Grating on a public relations basis
to achieve the ends for which the
national organization strives.
Men everywhere choose their
friends and their social life, and
social equality, that venerable bug
aboO, is not involved in the question
or economic opportunity. But for
Americans to stand with their
heads up in the world today and as
1t is being organized for tomorrow.
they have to give colored Amer
leans the economic justice implicit
in our great document Of freedom,
the American Constitution, and
promised every man regardless of
race, creed or color.
Little has been done about this
so far, which means that the few
are carrying the economic load. A
sick colored man is not a working
man. A badly housed colored per-
son is not as efficient a worker as
one well housed. An ignorant COL
ored man is not as good workman
as one who can read correctly or
understand and follow instructions.
additionally, colored people have
been given only the lowest paying
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"Any government that was really
interested in protecting the rights
Of the Negro people would begin
by cleaning up its own house. -
William Bohannon.
""""the practice of segregation has
grown so deep and widespread in
America that anything wrong done
by an individual Negro is charged
against all Negroes. And, of course,
there are Negroes who take the
same attitude about white people"
Iowa Bystander.
1.-THE Negroes of the U. s. who
made sacrifices equal to those Of
heir fellow Americans certainly
have the right to expect equal jus
tice under the law. If we are to
expect them to continue to have
loyalty equal to that of their fell
low Americans, we must see that
they are accorded not only protec-
ton from wanton murder but that
they are also afforded equal Oppor-
tunity to receive the benefits Of our
country for which so many of them
fought so valiantly."-Rep. Michael
]. Bradley, Of Pennsylvania.
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Durr Praises Program Of
National Urban League;
Urges Attendance

types Of jobs. This deprives them
Of the only means by which they
can lift themselves out Of their
predicament.
And it has been well said that
when the fright-wig of social equal
Ity is discarded the real problem
turns out to be not nearly so for
midable as was supposed. All it
amounts to is that a man may work
at any job for which he is qualified.
is that bad? OF course not. 1t is
an American truism. II is the king
pin and ringbolt Of the American
creed. We all believe it, and to
deny its truth and its righteous
ness is to deny everything we be-
lleve about America.
With some pathological excep-
tons, all Americans wish to prae-
tice this faith, this creed. Why,
then, should it be so difficult? Main
ly because we haven't learned how.
Old taboos, however unsubstantial
they may be in actuality, have
seemed sufficiently real to many of
us-so real in fact that they have
governed in an economic held in
which they have least validity. Re-
move them from an area Of our So
ciety in which they have no bust
ness, and the decision is not a hard
one for any white citizen to make.
In some states, legislation de-
signed expressly to remove preju-
dice from the field Of earning q liv-
ing will strengthen wavering indi-
vidual courage. What remains is
merely to learn how to make the
changeover as easy and as friction
less as is humanity possible. There
will be some rubs, of course, per-
haps some bad ones, but many of
these can be avoided through use Of
reliable techniques for migrating
colored people into our economic
system, which have already been
developed and tested.
Most of these successful tech
niques have been worked out by the
Urban League, a name which is
anything but descriptive of the
leagues activities. 1t was founded
thirty-five years ago, at the time
Of the first exodus of colored peo-
pie from the South, and its purpose
was simply to teach rural colored
people how to live in northern
cities. Since then its functions
have changed as the old needs dis
appeared and new ones were born.
The objective of the present-day
Urban League movement is to i'm
prove the economic position Of col
Ored people.
This includes introducing colored
people into areas of employment
where they have not previously
been given an opportunity to prove
themselves; it includes improved
health and medical services for col
ored people; better housing, and
the amelioration or removal Of sit
uations which produce racial ten
sions-the soft, smooth phrase So
biologists use now in place Of an
uglier one-race riots.
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sudden and violent death.
Perhaps you have been awed by
the horrible efficiency Of the atom
bomb, and perhaps you believe that
to control the atom bomb is to
control the end Of the world, but
you forget-mAn's hatred conceived
and gave birth to the atom bomb,
and mans hatred can produce even
greater terrors. Man has tired of
the child's play Of simplifying and
prolonging life; he is exploring the
powers Of God; he will not be salts
fed until the power Of life and
death Is hiS-absolutely.
Whether Il be in a lonely wood
ed region in Georgia, or in the
melancholy mines Of South Az
RIGA, man Is In his laboratory,
killing for the delight Of killing,
seeking to know the OmnipOtent
thrill Of making q human heart
stand still-permanently.
The agonized cries Of tortured
Jews who dare defy the new-day
NRzism in Haifa and Tel Aviv are
the echoes Of the black Americans
who die without resisting, and in
lesser numbers, but who die, new
ertheless. They are beneath the law,
these dead Negroes and Jews; the
law was not created for such as
they, nor was It created for those
who kill and defile them, for those
supermen are above the law.
There is no law, really. There are
rules, and they do not apply 70 the
lesser men. The mob that lynches
the color Of n mans skin, and kills
his body in the process, is not ae-
eountable to any Of the so-ealled
decent forces that have been set
up in every community. A mob is
an anonymous thing, never identi-
fed, but easily recognizable, yet
when the mob functions, the law
breaks down.
Mobs are sometimes the army as
Is the case in Palestine; not thy
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MINNESOTA
POLITICAL
ROUNDUP
By Arthur Naftalin

A hrst-class financial headache,
in the form Of q state bonus Tor
veterans, awaits the men and won-
en- elected TO tine l94I~ state legIs-
lature. 1t is now clear that pres
sure for enactment Of a bonus wll
De virtually irresistible. Sentiment
IaVOrlng the bonus is growing
among legislative candidates, ana
senate Majority Leader Charles N.
Orr has declared himself IN favor
OF it. Over the state legislative
aspirants are committing them
serves to the general principle. BY
the time the legislature convenes,
the only controversy over the meas
ure VIII be the details Of the ben
ents 70 be provided.
State administration leaders
are bordering the means Of
financing the huge outlay a state
bonus will require. Estimates
range from SlOV, W., 900 10 $780,
wv, VOO, depending on the bene-
hts provided. The plan approved
by the state American Legion
convention would pay SIS for
each month Of home service and
$2U for each month Of overseas
service, not to exceed $500, with
an estimated 10000 veterans
participating.
Discussion of the bonus is in
variabIy linked with talk of a state
sales tax. This highly controversial
measure has been consistently OPP
posed by progressive groups who
maintain that the tax places a pro-
pOrtionately larger burden upon
che lower income groups and does
not follow the ability to pay" prin-
ciple. Fears that conservatives in
Minnesota are preparing Ito spring
sales tax at the proper moment
are expressed by the Alexandria
Park Region Echo. On the other
hand, legislative leaders insist that
the measure does not have wide
spread support among legislators.
An effort to adopt a resolution
opposing the bonus was headed
of at the state convention of the
Minnesota Young Republican
League, and the convention
wound up by going on record in
favor of il. Luther YOungdahl,
COP nominee for governor, warned
the convention that the Mime
sofa COP ought not to become
Over-eOnfdent, that the 100000
vote margin did not mean certain
COP victory in the fall. As ex-
peeted the convention Endorsed
Harold Stassen for President and
voted to support the full slate
Of state Republicans.
MinnesOta's Third Congressional
District will be a central battle
ground in this falls election. 1t is
repeatedly one of the IL congress
sional districts over the nation
which are marked for capture by
the Stassen-for- President organi-
cation. The Democrat Farmer-La-
Dor Party is equally determined to
hold the seat. Both parties have
strong contenders in Republican
George MacKinnon and DFL Roy
Weir. The two men were "coi-
leagues" from the 2Sth district in
the state legislature during the
sessions of '33 and 'S5, and were
leaders in the rival liberal and con-
sentative caucuses.
Weir emerged as the DFL
nominee to take William Gal
lagher's place on the ballot after
a quiet and harmonious district
endorsing convention. He was
named virtually by reclamation
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Page ST. Paul Recorder
Friday, August 80, 1916

after all other candidates with
drew in his favor. The unanimity
behind his nomination surprised
many observers who fOresaW the
possibility Of q sharp clash, be-
cause Weir, q middle-Of-the-rOad
progressive, has had his tussles
with the extreme left.
Quiet continues to prevail on the
statewide political front with only
an occasional shot being fired. Har-
old H. Barker, DFL nominee for
governor, speaking in Duluth, de-
clared that, 1.-THE Stassen-Thye ma
chine, while laying down a smoke
screen Of high-sounding phrases
about good government is gam
bling desperately on the chance the
voters will neglect TO inform them
selves about the real issues" He
assailed Stassen's claim to being
a liberal as a myth" declaring the
DFL is the party of liberalism in
Minnesota. Meanwhile, Luther
Youngdahl, the COP nominee, ap-
pealed for the support Of youth in
helping ito restore good admins
tration to the national government
and to elect Harold Stassen Presi-
dent in 194S."
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vessels and able reach alien whose hair were
different the sort Of Weiouness visited
white folk upon another.
In fact when reads Irish history dating century
he discovers that Ted SeSney NowAa today lucky
have lived married Of his back the
sh enacted the statute Of Kilkenny The Irish days
looked down by their English oveTord
beasts Of the field and Engshm3n exposed
shwomAn punished with death Oklahoma
statute Of Kilkenny has improved when only year in IAN
for the crime Of miseegnation - " -
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you happen to be,
are you frighten-
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should be, for you
are living on the
brink Of a gigan-
tic volcano that Is
ru m b ling and
ready to pour out
huge, destructive
rivers Of molten,
human hate. You
can run and you
can hide, but you
cannot evade the
awful fnAlity OF
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Orqqnizinq Tor Action

sne 1hrd and Fourth wards Minneapolis NeVro vss
an on the precinct basis They are to Be
which % good y ~ @"N !" the suAte legislature
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~ IKE for instance the Fifth Seventh wards In one ~
where Negro citizens reside
snn dehney the Negroes the rest Of Mime
tne example set by the Acme Social Political cInh N
n sno Fourth wards day viii them politically
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The Foundation OF
Our Brave New World
Is Race Hatred
By JOHN LEE

Are you a Negro; Are you a
Jew; Are you human being with
warm blood eoursing through your
veins? Whatever
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-04

celebrities who held their be-jewel- ed hands above their heads while the bandits footed the safe.
 To Carry On Probe
 "Evidently, this place was one night stand" he said, because the vice squad has been watching the strip closely. But we're going to question the operator of the game and his patrons and find out what this is all about"
 His list included Miss Grable, her bandleader husband Harry James, producers Sam Wood and Edmund Goulding, Willie Burns, brother of comedian George Burns, musical di- rector Leo Forgstein, and Mrs. Irene Selmick.
 Miss Grable said four of the men stuck their guns in the guests faces while the other two grabbed the money.
 "One of them pointed machine gun right at me-" she added. But I don't think he recognized me. Anyway, he didn't say anything"
 Jewelry Untouched
 Many of the guests were covered with diamonds and precious jewels, Miss Grable said, but the bandits made no attempt to rob them.
 The gunmen, described as swarthy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-04
Clipped for $5O,OOO HoLlylUood Stars Held Up In Sunset Strip Quarters

Hollywood, Jan. (UP) = Six masked bandits who stuck a ma chine-gun in Betty Grable's face and took $75,000 from a Sunset Strip gambling den on New Years Eve had a 48-hour start on police today because the nightclub's owners would rather be broke than in jail.
 The first officials heard of the daring holdup came when runlors sifted into a Hollywood sheriff's de- partment substation.
 "All we have to go on so far" said Sheriff's Lieuten&nt John Law, "is the fact that there was robbery and that lots of movie stars saw 1t. Even if we do catch anybody, we can't charge them with anything unless somebody swears out a cor1- plaint."
 Swift Workers
 T was so scared I'm not real sure what actually happened" Miss Grable told the United Press. Tt was all over in minute or two"
 Law said whoever ran the swanky nightclub evidentally preferred to be out the $75,000 rather than re- port the robbery and tangle with the authorities for illegally operat- ing a gambling house.
 Detective E. M. Renfro said he had the names of score of movie
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-04
State Ready To Renovote State ArmoFy
 BIds Co 90 Asked
 For New ExIts

It was learned today from the state controllers office In Hartford that advertisements for bids for iil- stallatlon of large double doors to provide a new exit for the drill shed of the Waterbury arg1iory will be placed within four days. Bids will be opened within a ten-day period.
 It was reported that plans and specifications for other renovations to the armory are still in prepara- tion and not yet ready for am nouncement of bids.
 An increase in the seating capa- city will be made by the installation of the new doors. Such use of the building for sport programs etc, has been prevented by the recent decision of the state fire marshal, Police Comsr. Edward J, Hickey, limiting attendance ct the Armory to 920 as a safety measure.
 After the exits are installed an- other stumbling block will be the difficulty in obtaining bleachers. A furnace in the Armory building has been converted to oil for the winter activities.
 Upon completion of the work on the Armory, Thomas J. Wagner, coach of Waterbury pro basketball team, plans to request the Park Commission to rent bleacher seats for use in the Ar1nory. Teams are all organized and ready for play.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-04
GHsD ]. Decar.p
CPS Decamp
 Skip Iran as Vacation Site If You Want Rest
rlv FnEDERTCK Q, OTHMAN


 Washington, Jan. 4-(UP)- Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes reports that our soldiers at long last have decamped from Iran, where the folks let their feet go bare, but wrap their heads in goat fur.
 An, romantic Tran. Land of Sch- eherazade. one thousand and one nights. Shieks. Princesses (females anyhow) in harem veils. What memories. All bad, like Iranian eggs.
 What mean is that insofar as the troops are concerned, it's about time they left Iran. l know about this, because l was in Tran on a flying junket just a few weeks back and I never felt SO sorry for nghting men.
 Work by Night
 The place was Abadan, on the Persian Gulf, next door to the Anelo-American oil refinery, big uest in the Middle East. The main job there was fixing airplanes at night, because anybody who touch- ed . monkey wrench by day got blister.
 This is the hottest place in the world" said the commander, who shall be nameless here, and who knew he was a low-down bum in the opinion Of his soldiers. His was . prison camp in reverse.
 He said he dared not let any G. I. off the barracks compound, because of the weird diseases they couldn't help but pick up on the other side of the fence. He said this broke his