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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
THEATRICAL
DATA

NEW YORK CITY-Hya Folks!
Well if you are interested in TAX
ing in couple of movies with some
Of your favorite stars. | recon-
mend "Key To The City" starring
CLARK GABLE and LORETTA
YOUNG. It's farcial piece conglo-
merated with two Mayors. Clark
plays one while Loretta plays the
other, and Of course they fall in
love as is expected But a thing
call THIRD MAN" is q stunning
production with matchless artistry,
compelling and superior thriller
BROADWAY has nothing on the
South. From Memphis comes word
the entire South is getting togeth-
er to enlist public support for re-
peal Of the 20%e amusement tax
And III Florida, niteries are starv-
ing to death because tie weather
is so balmy in the East, nobody is
going South Elk Pres, HER
BERT HOOVER will guest on
JOE DIMAGGION show, CHS
March II ALL-Negro cast of
TOBACCO ROAD preemed in at
Apollo thea, and presented some
of the best acting performances
seen in these parts for long time.
Evelyn Ellis, Helen Dowdy ano
Cherokee Thornton. come in top
honors RKO is going all out
to make things pretty tough for
the Apollo thea, they are head
lining BOB HOWARD, ANDY
KIRK and band, DUSTY FETCH
Err, BUCK & BUBBLES in a pre-
miere of stage shows at the AL
hambra theatre right around the
corner from the Apollo And
the Rialto Thea, in Chicago is re-
storing burlesque. It's welcome
news to a lot of unemployed strip
teasers and comics. It's a break for
tan thespians. Eddie Green of Duff
fy's tavern fame was once a bur
lesquer -. HOUDINJ calypso king
will rattle off news casts on TV
in calypso CHARLIE BAR
NETT, who quit the baton last
Nov will front an 8-piece group
for dates and Tclevision CHS
WILL take no chances with burnt
cork on the AMOS m ANDY TV
show. They'll use an all-Negro cast
to portray them on Television
COLMAN HAWKINS, jazz tenor
man touring Europe NOBLE
SISSLE has been selected to fill
the locality Mayor of Harlem post
left vacant by the late Bill Robin
son Don't know whether its
inferior films or inferior pocket
books, but American finn attend
ance was off by 8 per cent of
1948 /
UDE HOPKINS is
BREAKING RECORDS IN DIXIE
"PINKY" is jumping in Louis
vile, KY. From Rome, Italy
comes word that Teatro Dell OPP
era company will produce "Emper-
or Jones" at the opera house in
Rome. ETHEL WATERS, has
turned down the "Beulah" roll in
TV for Proctor & Gamble FILM
stars are lined up sohdly behind
Brotherhood week February 10 to
&c.
ABOUT FOLKS AND PLACES.
Rudolph Bing, new boss of the
Met Opera may be giving some of
the top stars the old brushroo, but
| haven't heard where he has of
fered any promising Negro singer
an addition with the celebrated
Metropolitan Opera Company /.
| suppose Opera is for the very
selected few, and not for Democra-
cy :. That's all, See you at this
same time next week. TAKE Ely.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
A PICTURE WE MISSED

A PICTURE WE MISSED
Out at the Founders day Celebra-
ton, the sixtieth that went on out
at Campbell College this week was
one, DR.. John Adams. He is the
Presiding Elder of the Omaha, Ne
braska District of the AME
Church, and Member Of the State
Legislature . Pictures like that
means more than wars +. in CIV
ing needed inspiration to kids
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

We ran into VIM. Seaton the
other day down in the Loop. and
Bill gave US good news from his
family in the Jackson Town. Bill
said all are in good health. He
also told us that Howard Thomas
and family are living in Detroit,
and all are doing quite well. 1t
does us good to hear good news
from everywhere.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

When a World War II American
pilot said he was going to chang
out the laundry" his mission was
to drop paratroops in enemy terri
tory.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

Charlie Thomas, from Jackson,
can't make up his mind to become
a Jllisippian or go back to the old
country and become a Mississippi
an all over again. What gives,
Charles ?
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

Before the introduction of the
Bessemer process only wrought
iron was used in construction.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
THE COMMITTEE OF ONE

HUNDRED =. State organization
long working on the matter of race
relations has set its annual meet
ing here on February %, at Cen
trail Church. DR.. r. A. Scott of
Jackson is the Committee Chair
man.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

WEEKLY QUOTATION: Upon
caution of future time, man ought
to pardon the offenses past of
them that, repenting, desire it. For
pardon is nothing but granting of
peace" Thomas Hobbies.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

Chinaware, now known as por-
celain, was originally introduced
from China.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

In keeping with the feeling ma
tional unrest across the country,
a preacher and a soft drink sales
man made a solemn pact to the
effect, if an H-Bomb is dropped
in this country and they should
be blown into seme hinterland each
would pursue his present job and
also continue to patronize one an
other. From here it looks like the
good Reverend will get the best
of this deal, a good cool drink is
quite refreshing on a hot day in a
hot place.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

LAW EXAMINATION This
week there was an examination
going on in Jackson for candidate
for admission to the practice of
law in Mississippi. Among those
taking the examination were five
aspiring young Negro Men, John
w. Spann, of Tupelo, First Lieu.
Jessie Johnson, Camp Campbell,
KY, a native of Hattiesburg, Prof.
S. J. Brown, Carsie Hall, and Jack
Young, of Jackson Here's with
you, wishing them all the best of
luck.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
Mississippians
In Chicago
By JESSE l.. MOMAN

We were down to Boston this
week and we had the pleasure of
seeing K. D. Allen, Sr. K. D. is
former Jacksonian, now living
in Washington, D. c. He proudly
tells US that K. D., Jr., finished
high school this year. He and
his family are permanently set
tied in the Nations Capital, hav-
ing purchased a home there re-
Gently.
We are proud to welcome to the
Windy City one of the Jackson
Towns celebrities, Pearl Franks,
the distinguished young lady we
wish you a pleasant stay. Pearl
is the national secretary for the
Lanier Alumni Association.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Speedy Hearings
Promised On Rent
Control Extension

Washington (LPA) - A promise
of speedy hearings before the
House Banking committee on bill
to extend rent controls for another
year beyond their present expira-
tion date of June 30, 1850, was
given to the House by Chairman
Brent Spence Cd, Ky3.
His promise was given in res
ponse to appeals by Reps. Sidney
Yates Cd, Ill), Barrett O'Hara Cd,
MD, and Isadore Dollinger Cd,
N.Y., who predicted widespread
hardship for tenants in big cities
unless rent controls are extended.
Meanwhile Senate House con-
ference committee has agreed to
and the House has approved the
100000 deficiency fund, $1,4O0s
900 of which can be used by the
Office of Housing Expediter Woods
between now and June 80 to oper-
ate the agency. The remaining ST.
100000 is earmarked for severance
pay. Rep. Clarence Cannon I'd,
Mo-, chairman of the conferees for
the House, conceded this would al
low only a skeleton operation,
though COP spokesman John Tab
er Or, N.Y. insisted the money
wasn't needed, and that Woods is
recontrolling areas "to use up the
money!. Most recent area recon-
trolled is Shamokin, Pa, where the
average rent rose 80 per cent after
decontrol and unions and civil
groups protested.
Senate Banking committee hear
ings are not scheduled until April
"a, and will be completed barely
two months before the present con-
trolls expire. Rep. Yates, speaking
to the House, pointed out that it
will be vital to have early decision
either for or against continuing
controls, to avoid a complete break
down of the present law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Author Of Letter
That Made Labor
History Sueeumbs

Wilkes Barre, Pa. (LPA) - The
man whose letter in 1902 to a coal
baron evoked reply that shocked
the country, is dead. The reply,
enunciating the amazing doctrine
of the "divine right" of coal opera
tors to do as they saw fit, brought
such public denunciation that Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt stepped
in and named commission, a land
mark in labor history, to settle the
bitter dispute.
William F. Clark, 81, son of a
coal miner, wrote plea during the
strike to George F. Baer, president
Of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iron Co., asking that Baer
"bring about peace and good will
by granting wage increase no
matter how small" Clark's letter
continued: IL believe all would
gladly return to work and you
would have the respect of the ma
ton and the blessing of God. 1
pray God to send the Holy Spirit to
reason in your heart and to act ac-
cordingly as the means of lifting
Of thousands 10 better way Of
living and finally, to purer, nobler
lives"
Baer replied: 81 have your letter
of fho Ie+L spcTan{ d1 vn+ IyVnr.,
who you are. | see you are reli-
gious man but are evidently biased
in favor of the right of the work
ing man to control business in
which he has no other interest than
to secure fair wages for the work
he does. | beg of you not to be dis
couraged. The rights and interests
of the laboring man will be protect
ed and cared fOr-not by the labor
agitators, but by the Christian men
TO whom in His infinite wisdom
God has given control of the pro-
perty interests of the country and
upon management of which so
much depends. :"
Clark, a commercial photograph
er here until his retirement in 1890,
was never forgotten by the United
Mine Workers, nor did he ever for
get the union. Just last year the
UNIV wired its congratulations on
his 80th birthday. The same year,
in an interview, he said: "The men
of the mines deserve every dollar
they get for their work"
Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Would Rother Hove Deficits
Thun Tax On Corporations

Lansing, Mich. (LPA) - While
COP stalwarts in Congress shrink
in horror from "deficit financing"
the COP in Michigan is for state
deficit financing-if the alterna-
tive is tax on corporations.
Joseph E. Warner, chairman OF
the states House ways and means
committee, has asked for a legal
ruling on whether and how much
of deficit the Legislature may
permit. Gov. G. Mennen Williams
has asked the Legislature to vote
a tax on corporate profits to sup
port a program of medical school
mental hospital and highway con-
struction. Warner and other COP
leaders have made it known they
prefer a deficit to corporate tax,
Democratic members of the Leg
islature are solidly behind propos-
ais by Gov. Williams to liberalize
the state unemployment compensa-
tion laws. Williams said revision
was needed because the present law
worked during 1949 to "build up
funds in the bank. Williams point
ed out that Michigan is the most
industrialized state in the nation
and pays the highest wages, but is
now Goth in the amount of weekly
unemployment benefits paid, 28th
in the number of weeks, 30th in the
total primary benefits paid, and the
disqualification provisions are the
most severe of all the states.
Williams has proposed that the
1920" plan, under which war vet
Grams got $40 weekly unemploy-
ment benefits up to SO weeks be
renewed. The federal plan expired
last July. Williams said growing
unemployment emphasized tn c
need, and that he would ask other
governors to support his move. He
said at least one out of every three
jobless veterans in Michigan is in
eligible for state unemployment
compensation, and he estimated
that at the peak last December 9O,-
900 Michigan war vets were job
less.
A bill to freeze rents for a year
if federal controls are not renew
ed after June 30 has been introduc-
ed by Sen. Charles S. Blondy Cd,
Detroit).
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
OUR DEBT
By RUTH TAYLOR

A Thought for the Lentcn Season
IF you owe God anything, pay
it to a man."
Are you doing your utmost for
your neighbor?
The blessing and commands laid
down in the Sermon on the Mount
in the fifth chapter Of Matthew
were not for those who had wealth
and privilege and honour-Jesus
preached to them later. 1t was to
the humble folk who came to Him
in Galilee. Not in a court or temple
but on rockyAnount He taught his
disciples, saving, "Love your en-
emies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despite
fully use you and prosecute you"
And the multitudes followed Him.
"These be times that try mems
souls" they say. That is exactly
what they do. Not merely try their
brains or intellect, not their pow
ers, or even their hearts-but their
souls, without which they would
be as dumb beasts.
Are you in these days of trial
obeying the command so clearly
laid down and doing honor unto
God by your actions to your fellow
man? Are you doing as you would
be done by? Are you making those
whose path your path crosses hap
pier because you found time to
speak an encouraging word or to
do a kind service? Is your family
glad for your presence? Have you
missed an opportunity of doing
good? Is the going rough, and do
you feel you have nothing to give +?
There is always someone you can
help-some way to pay your debt
to God.
For in the end it is said: "Then
shall he answer them, saying,
Verify | say unto you, Inasmuch
as ye did it not to one of the least
of these, ye did it not to me. And
these shall go away into everlast-
ing punishment: but the righteous
into life eternal"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Reversal Of Coal
Ruling Sought In
US Appeals Court

Washington (LPA) - The coal
miners won their new contract
after a 10-month struggle but
they're still in the courts and tech
nically still under two injunctions.
On March 20, Department of Jus4
tice attorneys told the Federal Cir
cult Court Of Appeals here that
President John l.. Lewis of the
| United Mine Workers and other
UNIV officials made only token"
effort to persuade striking soft
coal miners to obey a back-to-work
injunction issued under the Taft
Hartley acts national emergency"
provisions.
The government lawyers, in ap-
pealing the ruling by Federal Dis
trict Judge Richmond B. Keech alb
solving the UNIV Of responsibility
for the failure of the men to go
back, said Keech's decision "substi-
tutes union responsibility for re-
sponsibility" and will leave the
federal judiciary impotent to make
its orders effective against labor
unions in situations of national en-
ergency."
Keech acquitted the union of
both criminal and civil contempt of
court. The government appealed
only the civil ruling, since acquittal
on the criminal charge could not
be appealed. If the appeals court
reverses Keech, the UNIV still may
suffer heavy fine.
The government attorneys argu-
ed that Lewis appeared "indiffer-
ent" to the injunction and that,
had the UNIV leader really wanted
to send the miners back to work,
he would have made contact with
local leaders in the coal fields.
They claimed Lewis own back-to-
work orders were "lacklustre" and
indicated he "was acting at pistol
point" The instructions were mo
more than sham and pretense," the
federal lawyers declared.
The government attacked Keech
for refusing to admit evidence of
the famous decision written two
years earlier by Judge T. Alan
Goldsborough, who ruled unions re-
sponsible for the acts of their MEM
bers. Goldsborough said Lewis
could send secret orders to the coal
fields with "a nod, a wink or
code"
The Keech- decision was one of
the two principal factors in the
UMW's final victory in the 1949-50
dispute. 1t knocked the Taft Hart
ley act from under the operators.
The other factor was the readiness
of group of large operators in
Illinois to meet the unions terms.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
T aft Soved Money
For Hotei Owners

Columbus, Ohio LPA) - The
latest special interest group to go
out secretly raising money to re-
elect Sen. Robert A. Taft r., .Ohio)
is "The Ohio Voters, composed of
wealthy hotel operators.
They love Taft because he put
through an amendment eXempting
hotel staffs from the 75-cent min
imum wage. Their confidential let
ter to all Ohio operators says
Taft's reelection is "of principal
Importance to you and me as busi-
ness men in America and as hotel
operators.
Their letter, asking any contri-
buttons up to $1,000, said "We sug-
gest you compute on paper what it
would have cost you to put your
entire working staff on a 4C-hour
week and on a 75-cent minimum
wage. When you have done so, you
will know how many dollars the
amendment to the Federal Fair
Labor Standards Act, eXempting
you from that wage and hour scale,
will save you" The letter adds:
Every business man in America
knows it is imperative that Senator
Taft be reelected"
How much did Taft save them?
In an average Ohio hotel, chamber
maids work AZ hours, 6 days, get
no tips, no meals, and are paid less
than 40 cents an hour. If Taft's
had been beaten, they
would have received almost twice
as much.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30

Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
ZARITSKY SPEAKS ON
VOICE OF AMERICA

New York UPA)-Max Zarit-
sky, president of the United Hat
ters, Cap and Millinery Workers
AFL, spoke to the ''iron curtain
countries over "The Voice OF Am
erica" Zaritsky was interviewed by
Liston Oak, labor director of the
federal radio program, and describ-
ed progress made by the American
labor movement. Zaritsky stressed
the fact that headwear workers do
not have to be Stakhahovites to
earn a living, but that everyone
works at his or her own speed, ac-
cording to skill, for wages fixed by
the union.
Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
A.F.L. Organizers
Map Drive For
Million Members

Washington (LPA) - Plans to
link all the organizing powers of
the American Federation of Labor
in a drive for 100000 new mem
bers were made at a conference of
200 organizers here March 24-25.
AFL President William Green told
newsmen the plan would coordinate
the efforts of the AFL's own or
ganizing staff with the organizing
forces of national and information
al AFL unions, state federations,
city centrals, trades councils and
local unions.
Green reminded the conference
that the campaign for 100000
new members was voted by the
AFL convention last fall in st. Paul
in honor of Samuel Gompers, the
AFL's first president, whose cen
tenary was celebrated in January.
Later he told reporters that spec
ial efforts would be made to or
ganize the thousands of morgan
lied workers in the south, although
the campaign itself would be ma
tion-wide. He mentioned the textile
and chemical industries, agricul-
ture, government and state, county
and municipal groups as fields to
which organizers will pay special
attention.
Asked whether the 100000 mem
Ders of the International Associa-
tion of Machinists would be includ-
ed among the 100000 new mem
bers if the LAM accepts the AFL's
invitation to reaffiliate, Green in
dicated the Machinists probably
would be considered as having ere
turned" He expressed confidence
the lam would come back to the
AFL it left five years ago, perhaps
before the 1850 AFL convention.
Speaking to the first session of
the conference, Green reminded his
listeners that the 1850 drive was a
memorial to Gompers and said: Il
am therefore calling upon you now
to devote to this task a higher de-
gree of effort, initiative and ability
than has ever been demanded of
you heretofore; 1850 is crucial
year and one of supreme test for
the trade union movement. 1t is up
to each of us to prove equal to this
test to insure that nothing is left
undone which could conceivably
have been done to further our
common cause"
AFL Secretary Treasurer George
Meany also addressed the organiz-
ers as did Joe keenan,, director of
Labor's League for Political Edu7
cation. Harry O'Reilly, director of
organization, told the conference
that in 1949 AFL unions won more
than twice as many elections as
CIO and independent unions COM
bined.
Green paid a tribute to union
organizers, saying: "The organizer
in the field is the spine and sinew
of the trade union movement. 1t is
up to you to form the spearhead
of this membership drive, and to
take labor's message into every
town and hamlet in America.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Sailor Takes The Army In His Stride
By TOM NOVEL;
For Labor Press Association

Camp Hale, Colo. (LPA)-Hut,
two, three, four-hut-hut. The
sergeant's cadence count rang
sharp and clear over the snow
blanketed landscape.
The little sailor tried to scratch
through 80 pounds of GI winter
lclothing. He looked down at the
nine-pound shoes and shuddered as
his eyes fell upon the unaccustom-
ed snowshoes latched firmly to his
feet. ooh Cod" he groaned, "what
am | doing here?"
+ The sergeant saw the little sail
| or's distress, then he glanced up
the long, steep slope. "Never mind" "
said the sergeant. at will be easy
coming down."
"Easy-on snowshoes 2" the sail
or moaned.
"No, on Skis" laughed the serg-
cant.
"Dear God" lamented the sailor.
"Me with a union card in my
pocket, and nothing about this III
my contracts"
And that's the way it went at
Camp Hale, where $50 of the
Navy's Seabee Reservists did a
two-week hitch with the Army's
18th Regimental Combat Team. For
so weeks of the year these Naval
Reservists work at steel making,
construction jobs, numbering, and
in other countless crafts and skills.
Army public relations officers re-
vealed that about rs per cent of
them were card carrying trade
unionists. They represented every
state west of the Mississippi River.
"Can Do" was their challenge
and they set about showing the
Army that they lived by their
motto.
Commencing with basic instruc-
tion on dry, straw-covered drill
fields at Camp Carson, 156 miles
distant, and 5000 feet below Camp
Hale, the Seabees took Army
training in stride. With a fair un-
derstanding of what they were up
against, the construction sailors
left Camp Carson by truck convoy
for their hitch at Camp Hale.
The transition from straw-cov-
cred fields to actual ice and snow
was painful to many. Men who
lived by their hands suddenly
found they had two left feet, and
those out-sized in snowshoes and
skis. But they managed to make a
lark of their training.
The Seabees, or at least many
of them, had one thing in their fav
or. They earned their livings in
dangerous occupations. There were
some who climbed tall ladders,
walked slim girders high in the air,
or lodged falling trees in the
Northwest forests as a part Of
their daily work. They paled at the
ski slides, but with a minimum Of
falls they mastered the speedy art.
They made long hikes on strange
footgear and in 30 pounds of Gl
clothing. They chose campsites,
cooked, slept out-of-doors in GI
sleeping bags, and did many things
strange to the lives of both indus
trial workers or Navy men.
At the end of their duty tour a
real thrill and a real fight faced
them. Upon return to Camp Carson,
a devastating fire which broke out
on nearby Cheyenne Mountain
swept into the camp on winds that
reached 90-mile velocity Regular
Army personnel and the Seabee
Reservists joined forces in fighting
the blaze which lasted 36 hours and
much equipment.
And then the little sailor went
home.
He slowed his CT gear, got out
his blue jeans, checked the dues
stamps on his union card, and set
out for work. A little later he was
high in the air, striding confidently |
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