The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-09-03
ms. Co. Beaten At
Own Game AS White
Tenant Sublets Apt.
By Frank Young, Jr.

New York - (CNS)-SpeciaD -
who can partially trace its meteoric
rise in the field of Insurance to the
number of policies written and issu-
ed to Negroes during the post War
/ era, was defeated at it's own game
of draughts (Enklish for checkers)
when one of their lily-white apart
ments was sublet to a Negro family
by a White union worker.
To further defeat the Jimcrow
aims of Metropolitan, recently up
held by the New York courts, the
neighbors of the White worker all
held a get together for the Negro
occupants. Mrs. Raphael Q1ardine)
Hendrix and her hubby are the Ne
gro family who were welcomed to
Stuyvesant Town, the East Sides
component part of a Georgia Hous-
ing Project. They were greeted en-
Enthusiastically by Mrs. Esther Smith
and daughter, Karen Mrs. Alice Ka-
back and daughter, Mrs. Gertrude
Fleischman and son, Wayne; Mrs.
Mildred Weissman and son, Paul.
Mr.. Jesse Kessler an organizer
of Local 65, Wholesale and Ware
house Workers Union, is the White
tenant who sublet his apartment in
the lily white compound. Many fam
lilies were gleeful and thankful that
the Jimcrow policy of Metropolitan
Insurance Company has finally been
broken. Most of the thankful be-
long to the Committee To End Dis
elimination in Stuyesant Town and
are men and women who had not
Joined the group due to complica-
tons - get it?O but who have Civ
en- the Committee material or moral
support.
The four-room apartment at l
Stuyvesant Oval, Aeased to Jesse
Kessler is now occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Raphael Hendrix, and Sunday
it was being overrun with well.
wishers. Mrs. Hendrix, fully at home
after being orientated for a few
days, is still fearful of next month
when she must give up her Joyous
residence and Mr.. Kessler's wife and
son will come home. Mrs. Hendrix
asked people: Have you ever tried
living in a Harlem tenement? do
on know lights that won't work;
broken iceboxes; bad stoves; ceilings
that fall down; walls rotten with
holes that rats run in and out OFF"
do you know what it will mean to
have to go back to that kind Of a
full here. The people have been so
thing?" she asked. 1T is so wonder
nice to us. We've had so many din
ner invitations, and neighbors are
always dropping in. Nexa week, our
son, Hardine, Jr., will come back
from the South and will have plenty
of fresh air to play in, and clean
streets"
Mrs. Frances Smith, next door
neighbor, stated: I'm so proud of
Jesse Kessler. used to be a mem.
Der of Local IS, the union he works
for. It's such a swell thing he has
done - so swell because it gives the
rest OF us a chance to feel like hu.
man being again. Stuyvesant Town
will be part of America someday,
just wait and see."
Kessler's union expressed its ad.
miration for their war veteran hero,
Monday when the three top Off.
Gals Of Local SIS said: We take
pride in the action of Jesse Kessler,
an organizer of our own union staff
who has struck an effective blow
for greater Democracy in the City
Of New York. BY inviting a Negro
family to be his uests anaction
taken with the prior knowledge and
enthusiastic approval of his associ-
ates in Local IS - Kessler has made
it possible to expose the vicious
falsehoods Of those who defend the
evil system OF segregation on the
grounds that Negro and White can
not live together in friendship and
harmony