The Gazette
Saturday, June 4, 1927
Cleveland, Ohio
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honors, in a class of thirty-six, all letters except himself and one other. In this class were the sons of the secretary of the Ohio House of Representative, Hon. R. R. Bee tham; Judge B. W. Rowland and other equally prominent and influential residents of Cidiz. Prof. Lee graduated from Oberlin College with the degree, A. B.; spent one summer at Ohio University, another at Chicago University where he intends to spend this summer for an A. M. from that school. For two years, he has been at the head of the normal department of one of our leading southern educational institutions. For many years and until the time of his death, his grandfather, Rev. Ben J. Hee, advertisements will be sent on appl
**HILLSBORO**—Mrs. Amanda Owens and sister, Mrs. Sarah Taylor, are visiting in Lexington, Ky.—Rev. J. J. Burr attended the ministers' institute in Columbus, last Thursday. Mrs. Mary C. Ellis of Cleveland visited here, last Thursday. Miss L. Burnice Hudson returned, last week, to Columbus, where she ployed in the office of her aunt, Mrs. Helen Bass, who is making splendid progress with her recent invention, an automatic douche can. Hillsboro is Mrs. Bass' birthplace. Rev. D. B. Thorpe, pastor of Wayman A. M. e. chapel, had a great program and rally, Sunday. Rev. Nichols, P. E., was present. The audience was filled with the wonderful dress of Rev. Ridley. Subject, "The Relationship of Science and Religion". The Wilberforce quartette rendered several good selections. Rev. Thorpe is a promising young minister.—Rev. R. L. Bray passed last week and I. B. Bray attended, among other ministers, Rev. James A. Young preached for him, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. James Blanton. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams and C. R. Day attended the Odd Fellow annual services in Jamestown, Sunday. Isaac Williams of Columbus visited his sisters, Decoration Mrs. Aline Burton, Clarence Mrs. Johnston, and Zack Lewis in Springfield, Sunday. Walter Brown of Columbus spent Saturday night to Monday here.
ALLIANCE—The Jolly club of the GIRL Reserves had a party at the new "Y", Thursday evening.—St. Luke church's members and friends are sorry to hear of the illness of Rev. Chas. Bundy, P. E., of Cleveland, and hope for his speedy recovery.—Mrs. Sada Anderson of Cleveland, president of the A. M. E. M. M. society of northern Ohio, held a press conference Saturday evening, at St. Luke's parsonage. Arrangements were made for the convention to be held at St. Luke's, from July 14 to 19.—Mrs. Geo. Sanders and family were in Cleveland, Sunday and Monday, visiting Mrs. F. B. Dyer, her sister.—Mr. Harry Hamlin spent Decoration day in Cleveland and he joined J. Cooney who visited his brother H. J. Cooney is still quite ill.—The Second Baptist S. S. is preparing an excellent program under its directors, Mrs. Cora Hamlin, Mrs. M. Stubbs and Mrs. S. Chapman.—Mrs. LuLu Thomas was buried from the Second Baptist church, Wednesday afternoon. She leaves several small children, three sisters, several brothers and other relatives who have our sympathy in the beaver event. Mrs. P. H. C. was entertained by its president, Mrs. Minnie Moore, and Mrs. T. Colbert, Wednesday afternoon. A nice luncheon, and a very pleasant time spent.
CADIZ—Mr. and Mrs. W. Dolan, Miss Mildred McCullough and Miss L. Harrington of Wheeling were guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Ballard.—Francis, son of Mrs. and Mrs. Benj. Tyler, graduated recently from McHarry Medical school, Nashville, Tenn.—Mr. John White of Steubenville was the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus, Richard and Edward Smith of Smithfield, and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Stewart of Flushing.—Mr. and Mrs. Ira Wallace and son, Lloyd, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert, and relatives here, Sunday—Mr. Win. Johnson died at Ohio Valley hospital in Wheeling, Sunday morning.—Harold F. son of Mr. and Mrs. Benj. S. Lee, among our first residents of this city, sponsored by the editor of The Gazette, a trustee of the Combined Normal & Industrial (State) Department at Wilberforce, was on last week Friday elected a teacher on the last week $2,000 a year. He is a native Ohioan who graduated from the local high school, six years ago, with the
honors, in a class of thirty-six, all white except himself and one other, in this class were the sons of the present speaker of the Ohio House of Representative, Hon. O. C. Gray, M.D., and Hon. J. B. Tham; Judge B. W. Rowland and other equally prominent and influential residents of Cidiz. Prof. Lee graduated from Oberlin College with the degree, A. B.; spent one summer at Ohio University, another at Chicago University where he intends to spend this summer for an A. M. from what he has been at the head of the normal department of one of our leading southern educational institutions. For many years and until the time of his death, his grandfather, Rev. BenJ. H. Lee, was a well-known and leading A. M. from Ohio and Pennsylvania conference. Prof. Lee will be pleased to return to his native state to teach.
"DEEP RIVER BLUES".
The flood situation has caused a flood of songs bearing on the situation, such as "Muddy Waters" and "Muddy River". Lucile Marie Handy, daughter of W. C. Handy, and Eddie and Eddie age 10, sang, "Deep River Blues", which is destined to become as popular as "St. Louis Blues", on account of the characteristic treatment of the music and the beautiful lyrics which we submit herewish in full for the benefit of our readers. Verse: Deep river, deep river, Mississippi river so deep and wide
My heart is breaking as I watch the evening tide.
Because I'm over here my man is on the other side.
If I had the means I'd go to New Orleans.
But right at this time I ain't got a dime to spare.
Deep river, deep river, when I feel worried I come to you.
I come and sit beside you when I'm feeling blue.
Cause you're the only one that I can tell my trouble to.
At the break of day you'll find me gone away
There's no one to care or want to know where I'm gone.
Chorus:
Deep river blues
When the evening tide comes along
Verse:
Deep river, deep river, when I sit beside you I never fear.
You always seem to me to be a friend
so dear.
And if you see my man please tell
him that it's lonesome here.
If I get the blues then I will take off
my shoes.
I'll look to the Lord and jump overboard and drown.
**Chorus:**
Consul Hunt Sent to Guadeloupe.
Washington, D. C.—U. S. Consul and Mrs. Hunt, the latter former Miss Ida Gibbs of Little Rock, Ark., and Oberlin, left S. Ettienne, (Loire) France, on May 16th the island of Guadeloupe, West Indies and Bordeaux, Mr. Hunt having been transferred to that point by the U. S. State Department. Mrs. Hunt's sister, Mrs. Hattie Gibbs, wife of Captain Napoleon Marshall, located at Port-au-Prince, Halft, where Capt. Marshall is connected with the U. S. of Guadeloupe, attaches Mr. Hunt do not expect to remain long in Guadeloupe but hope to be transferred to a better point.
Wills-Paulino Bout.
New York City.-Refusing to recognize Tex Rickard's claim to the exclusive services of Paulino Uzcdum, the New state athletic commission, Tuesday, approved the match between the Spanish heavyweight and Harry Wills, arranged by Humbert Mazza, a lawyer for the commission. Approval of the Paulino-Wills match, however, is conditional on Paulino fulfilling a contract to fight Ed. Keley in Boston, the commission announced.
The Brown Family Reunion.
Twinsburg, O—Fifty descendants of John and Frederick Brown, famous anti-slavery characters, who started out to wipe out slavery, will gather at the old homestead and farm of Frederick, $3 \frac{1}{2}$ miles south of here on the Hudson and Twinsburg Rd., June 5, at the annual family reunion. A grandson and grandmother of John, who are now in Wyoming, are expected to take part in the festivities.
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT
At Wilberforce Give the Faculty and Office Force a Big "Shake Up" for the Good of the Service.
(Special to The Gazette.)
Wilberforce, Ohio—The meeting of the board of trustees of the Combined Normal & Industrial (State) Department at Wilberforce, held here, last week Friday, was one of the most important in many years because of the amount of work done by it. The board's action was large by in the nature of a "house-cleaning" which is bound to not splendid results in the near future for the State Department.
During its sessions the board was addressed by Attys, E. L. Mills and F. J. Druckenbrood of Canton in the interest of David Atkins, a young man of the race, who some months ago was sentenced to death in the electric chair on a charge of first-degree murder which it seems is not founded in fact. Satisfied of this charge, the Ku-Klux-Klan-ridden town of Canton is working a heart-rending injustice, the two attorneys (white) mentioned in the foregoing, have worked incessantly, practically without pay, in an effort to save Atkins' life. They asked the board of trustees, and all of our people of Ohio, to so, write Gov. Donaley in no way accuse the unfortunate young man of commutation of sentence that his life may not be forfeited for a crime which they feel he is not guilty of committing. It is to be hoped that our people generally in the state will rally promptly to their assistance and do as requested, especially since the Governor. It seems, is inclined factually to believe that the drastic court sentence Atkins' mother, poor and without friends or acquaintances in this section of the country, who was helped to Canton from Tampa, Fla., is dying from cancer in a hospital at Massillon. She has been, ever since her arrival in New York, in a hospital in J. H. Lowrey, a well-to-do member of the race who resides in Massillon. Atkins' case number, in the Court of Appeals, is 54922.
Returning to the board's commendable "house-cleaning" action of last week Friday the following is pertinent as well as very interesting: Persons Dropped.
James. Newsome, teacher, normal division; Highschool teacher, commercial division. George Dennis, instructor of printing. T. C. Carter, executive clerk. Chas. Martin, recoord clerk.
Persons Employed.
Miss Louise Walton, teacher of sewing, for the present school year was elected director of home economics and girls' vocations.
A. M. Chavous, teacher of electricity, was elected director of vocations for boys and instructor of electricity.
Mrs. Mary Reed of Columbus, O., was elected teacher of sewing.
Harold N. Lee, a graduate of Oyinin College, was elected teacher in the normal division.
R. Turner Dickerson was elected instructor of physical education for boys.
Miss Gladys Byrum of Chicago, was elected teacher in the normal division.
All elected for the ensuing school year.
The remaining personnel will be re-elected and vacancies filled at the next meeting of the board on June 11th.
In an effort to reorganize the fiscal affairs of the C. N. & I. (State) Department, the position of executive clerk was established. A new clerk and auditor. Randal B. Hickman, postmaster of Wilberforce, was elected to fill this position.
A NATIONAL GATHERING!
Our Independent Funeral Directors Association to Meet in St. Louis, This Month—Seventeen State Organizations.
Chicago, Ill.—What promises to be the greatest gathering of our funeral directors in this country will take place in St. Louis, June 7-8-9th. This organization is not affiliated with any other national body and is holding its second annual meeting. We have more than 2500 funeral directors, six casket companies, three funeral homes, and three funeral offices one of casket shade-lamps, one of burial dresses and two of artificial floral designs. Most of these will exhibit their products at the St. Louis meeting. R. R. Reed of Chicago, executive secretary and organizer of this national association, has succeeded in organizing state associations which meet annually. There is also a trade journal known as "The Colored Embalmer" published monthly in Chicago and edited by the funeral director,程去 to St. Louis as the guest of the St. Louis funeral directors association of twenty-six members.
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THEIR ESCAPE FROM THE CROWDED REFUGEE CAMPS BARRED BY SOLDIERS.
Tenants Released Only to Their Landlords-Being Charged for Red Cross Aid-How They Do It "Down Home"—Forced to Work Under Soldiers' Guns and to Plant in Water With Their Feet-Labor Agents Barred.
New York City.—Our people are being held in peonage in the Mississippi flood area, and are being prevented from leaving concentration camps without the consent of their landlords; also attempts are being made to help with flood relief furnished them, reports Walter White, an assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., who returned, last week, from a tour including Memphis, Jackson, Vicksburg, New Orleans, and other points in the flood area. He also reports instances of our people escaping refugee-camps shelter and clothing, rather than be returned to the plantations from which the flood had driven them. Mr. White says:
"In response to complaints of peonage in the Mississippi flood area, I went to that territory and in my tour visited Memphis, Vicksburg, Jackson, New Orleans, and other places in the flooded region. At Memphis, I talked with Dr. Wm. R. Redden, chief medical officer for the Cross in the flood area, who said:
"The Red Cross emphatically disapproves of any attempts to use this disaster by landlords further to enslave Negro tenant farmers and share croppers. Aid is given directly to the individual sufferer. It would be an interesting problem to see that attempts by landlords and others to enslave against tenants are checked when such relief is given refugees after they have returned to their homes."
"In many refugee camps, however, 'Negroes' are released only to 'their' landlords and are sent back to the plantation from which they came. This fact was confirmed to me by Gert Curtis, 'Green commanding officer' of Vicksburg National Guard troops who are keeping order in that area. He told me that plantation owners come to the camps to pick out 'their Negroes' and that labor agents are kept from the camps, 'no man being permitted to talk to any other but his own Negroes. The extent of virtual imprisonment of our flood sufferers, to prevent escape from the plantation areas, is attested in a dispatch from Cleveland, Miss., published in the Vicksburg Evening Post of May 5, in which it is stated: 'A meeting of the executive committee of the Citizens Relief Committee was held in Cleveland by a full-time Director-in-Charge of Red Cross network work here. The matter of parties, covering a wide range of the delta section not overflowed, coming to Cleveland with the view and purpose of being permitted to remove families from the camp and place them on their own plantations, was thoroughly discussed and considered by the committee, releasing families or individuals to parties other than to the one with whom they have previously contracted for the year, was placed in the hands of V. W. Thomas. Mr. Thomas was instructed by the committee not to release any family or persons from the camp except on written consent of the landlord from whose possession the family came or on the personal request or authorization of the landlords."
"At a number of camps I was told of Negroes eluding guards and escaping, preferring to forego food, shelter, clothing and medical attention rather than go back to the plantations from which the flood waters had driven them. At some of the camps they were being taken out of the fields, being taken out of the camps and checked in again when their laborers were finished. Most of these men had no objection to working, even though not paid, but they objected to the beating, cursing and kicking they had to endure. There are also numerous instances of brutality in the treatment of those forced to work on the plantations, among the gunmen and even white civilians. In many places, notably Greenville and Stop's Landing, they were thus conscripted, among them being an insurance agent, and they were kept at work even when it was plain the levee would break. When the break came, this insurance agent told me he saw some forty or fifty swept away by the waters, presumably to death. He managed to fight his way back to the levee. He is a graduate of the University and entirely trustworthy and reputable. He injured his foot in the break of the levee but was put to
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work on the levee at Greenville, being allowed to obtain treatment for his injury only when that levee gave way two days later. In conclusion I will give one more authorized quotation from Dr. Redden, showing the conditions prevalent in the delta: 'Some of the Negroes did not even know that their own bodies belonged to them, and we sought to vide-nate them they said that it could be done only after their plantation bosses gave their permission. When some of these plantation owners objected we had to tell them: Either you will permit vaccination or we will stop relief.'
Planting in Water With Their Fect.
New Orleans, La.—The plow furrow follows the receding flood line in Arkansas and northern Louisiana as inhabitants of the stricken districts endeavor to get seed in the ground in time to assure at least a partial harvest. Farmers in some localities are working in the mud, turning in the rich layer of silt deposited by the flood before the torrid sun has baked it hard. Over extensive acreage where water still lies two or three inches deep barefoot "Neosaras" are planted in the ground with their feet. They are planting cotton, corn and foodstuffs and expect a fair harvest if the season is kind. For more than ten miles across the basin of the Ouachita river there is little dry land to be seen. At wayside stations where two weeks ago long strings of box cars sheltered hundreds of families of Negroes, sounds of stringed instruments float into the night from cabins where pine knots provide a place for the bright light of the heart of the "Sugar Bowl" to hold the levees and prevent further inundation and destruction of their homes, was carried, Sunday, far into the interior by residents of the Grosse Tete section.
ROCKEFELLER'S LATEST GIFT
To Spelman College is a New Chapel
Costing Nearly Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars—It's Recent
Dedication.
Atlanta, Ga. — John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who was born in Cleveland, O. was the principal figure in the dedication here, May 21, of the new "Sister's Chapel" of Spelman College, recently erected as a memorial to his mother and aunt. An audience of 1500, including many prominent people of both races, packed the chapel to witness the dedication, and as many more were turned away. Addresses were delivered by Dr. Robert A. B. Adams and James B. Adams of Brooklyn and Dr. John E. White of Anderson, S. C. Dr. E. P. Johnson and Dr. John Hope led the opening devotions, and the dedication service was conducted by Charles W. Daniel and Dr. Carter H. Jones. In turning over the keys of the chapel to Dr. Trevor Arnett, president of the board of trustees, Mr. Rockefeller paid a simple but beautiful tribute to the devotion of his mother and aunt to the ideals of freedom, and expressed the hope that the new building might stand always as a bulwark to these essentials of character and civilization. The chapel is a beautiful piece of architecture, modeled after the temples of ancient Rome, and was constructed almost wholly by Afro-American labor. Its cost and that of its furnishings was $182,500. Spelman College, named for the mother of Mr. Rockefeller's mother, has been in the 1881 mission in the basement of Friendship Baptist church. From that humble beginning, largely thru the friendship of the Rockefellers, it has grown to an A-grade college, with a plant worth nearly a million dollars. It has turned out more than a thousand of our graduates and now has an enrollment of 570.
Alfred Cole, age 40, of 2165 E. 36th St., was acquitted of a second degree murder indictment, late last week Wednesday, by a jury in criminal court. He was indicted for the murder, April 30, of Mrs. Catherine Marshall. 2167 E. 36th St., who was clubbed to death with a piece of gas pipe. Cole pleaded self-defense. He said that Mrs. Marshall had been firing a gun in her yard, and when he walked up she pointed it toward him. He thought that she would shoot so he struck her over the head with an iron pipe, he said.
O-OH, SIS!--LOOK AT THE WIDLOWER'S OVER THERE!
YES!--BUT LOOK AT THE SIGN!
BEWARE OF THE BULL!
POOH!--YOU CERTAINLY DON'T BELIEVE IN SIGNS. DO YOU?
WELL, I'M TIRED. ANYHOW!--I'LL WAIT HERE!
COME ON, SIS! YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH POSIES!
ALL RIGHT, SIS—
—I'LL BE OVER IN A SECOND!
Tim Early
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THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country.
10,000,000 Afro-Americans.
350,000 in Ohio.
40,000 in Cleveland.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1927.
The local Democratic leader, W.B. B. Gongwer, has not endorsed Willie Green's candidacy for "mumy" judge nor has the Republican "boss", Maurice Maschke, done so. Walt and see how correct this statement JS. "Blowbagging" will not secure either of these things, either. It is said that George Hinton has succeeded Green as "director general" of the defunct Mercy Hospital movement's campaign for funds.
THOSE SOUTHERN "CRACKERS"
If there is anything too mean, low and contemptible for the average southern white brute to do to our helpless people in that section of the country we certainly would like to know what it is. Charging our flood sufferers for Red Cross aid, treating them like slaves in and out of levee camps, forcing them to work, and in water, too, without pay and with armed soldiers standing over them the while, and holding them in camps until their landlord "sends an order or calls for them". This is in this country, not Russia, and with a so-called Republican administration in power with headquarters at Washington, D. C. It makes one's blood all but boil. Lord, have mercy! What next?
WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?
The few remaining Mercy Hospital movement promoters tried to have another meeting, one evening this week, at Shiloh Baptist church, with the same result. Practically nobody went to it. Some individuals do not know when "a thing is deader than heck's pup". That thing is the M. H. movement. Who is getting some money now? Dwight Williams "took to the woods" when that $200 a month was cut off. It is also said that all but about $100, of the $1.500 the M. H. movement proponents were so long raising in the churches and elsewhere, was "used up", some weeks ago. What for? The misguided persons who contributed to the fund are entitled to know. There should be an itemized statement published. Unless this is done very soon, the contributors have a right to THINK what they please.
When the much-heralded "Brusseaux investigation of Wilberforce University" was announced, some months ago, comparatively few of the great mass of our people throughout the country, who heard of the contemplated action, knew that the Combined Normal and Industrial (State) Department at Wilberforce, although a part of the university, was controlled by the state of Ohio which was represented on its board of trustees by five members, appointed by the governor of Ohio; three members, appointed by the A. M. E. Church connection and one ex officio member—the president of the university. Fewer members of the race throutout the country seem to know that there has not been any (Brusseaux) investigation of Wilberforce University which is controlled by the A. M. E. Church connection, the Combined Normal & Industrial (State) Department of the university excepted. The university's board of trustees, all appointed by the A. M. E. Church connection, did not permit any (Brusseaux) investigation. His activity, however, resulted in the state auditor of Ohio ordering a thorow investigation of the state department at Wilberforce by a state examiner who, but a few weeks preceding the date of Auditor Tracy's order, had completed a careful examination of it reporting, as he also did after his re-examination, on the state auditor's order at the request of Brusseaux, everything in good shape. No dishonesty, crookedness of wrong-doing of any kind was
found and the board of trustees and superintendent, the controlling power of the State Department, were again given a "clean bill of health". What Brusseaux started to do as we have indicated in the foregoing, he never succeeded in doing because he failed to bring about the investigation of the university proper which was sought and this fact should be, as it is not, generally known. In an effort to still further promote the interests of the state department, its board of trustees, last week Friday, took a long step in the advance which is bound to improve the department greatly and which will be found noted at length elsewhere in this paper in our Willberforce letter. The Gazette commends in the strongest possible manner the determination and continued effort of the board not only to improve conditions but also to materially raise the standard of teaching and the quality of service rendered by the official staff of the State Department, under the direction of its very efficient superintendent, Mr Richard C. Bundy.
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The Buckeyes lost a ten-inning battle with Detroit in that city, Sunday, after tinging the score with a five-run rally in the eighth. Branigan went the route for Cleveland. Morris, Kenyon and Rile hurled for Detroit. The local team is sure playing good ball, these days, and should be encouraged.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom O. O. Queen, E. 83rd St., raised $132 at their recent dinner for the benefit of St. James A. M. E. church's building fund. Mrs. Queen's goal was $200, for the June rally. This she has raised with the loyal assistance of Mr. Queen, and her many friends. This is material assistance.
The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from the trustees, faculties and graduating classes of Howard University to attend the events of commencement week. June 5 to 10, 1927, in honor of the opening of degrees. June 10 at 3 p. m., on the university campus. Washington, D. C.
The Research club held its regular monthly meeting at Mrs. Louise Pridgeon's, E. 85th St. A committee was appointed to attend the monthly meeting of our local city federation. Next meeting, at Mrs. Julia B. Thurston's, E. 103rd St., June 10. Thurston, pres; Mrs. R. W. Welch, sec; Mrs. C. L. Mason, reporter.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd J. Williams of Baltimore, Md., will spend the last two weeks of July in Cleveland, visiting their many old friends and acquaintances here where they resided, years ago. Mr. Williams is a former Cleveland whose coming to Baltimore by his scores of old friends. Mrs. Williams is a native of Baltimore.
The Buckeyes turned the other cheek at Detroit, Monday, after being nosed out, 4 to 3, in the morning game and the Detroit Stars slapped our team. The Stars made it two straight for the holiday. Rile bested Dean in a hurling duel in the first tilt, while Kenyon limited the Buckeyes to a trio of bingles in the second.
Although all of our employees of the Post Office department are eligible, less than 15 per cent of them are members of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, which is to hold its biennial convention in Memphis, July 13. The Alliance offers fraternal insurance, a sick benefit, and institutes itself generally in the protection, in the service, of postal employees.
Our local Federation of Women's clubs elected the following delegates to the state convention to be held. June 27 to July 1: Mrs. Cora W. Robinson, pres.; Mesdames Mae MURINE FOR YOUR EYES Murine Co., Dpt. H.S., 9E. Ohio St., Chicago
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The Seventh Day Adventist church, E. 71st St. and Cedar Ave., had an exceptionally interesting and pleasing mortgage-burning program from May 19 to 29. Special music was rendered by the choir of the church and Seventh Day Adventist choirs of Cleveland, Detroit. There was a friendly contest. The Detroit choir of thirty voices, and orchestra of fourteen pieces, Prof. T. W. Turner, director, came here, last Friday, in a special car and returned home, Saturday night, with the laurels of the contest. W. T. Green of Detroit came over with the choir and to see Mr. Rex, Jr. Ray Gillard of E. 101st St. and an uncle, and to help "boost" his friend. Mr. Turner's choir and orchestra. He stopped with J. B. Helm of 6133 Kinsman Rd. He was entertained at dinner, Sunday evening, by the editor of the Gazette.
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Mrs. Mary C. Ellis visited in Hillsboro, last week Thursday.
Mrs. Geo. Sanders and family of Alliance visited her sister, Mrs. F. B. Dyer, the first of last week.
Our showing in the Decoration day parade, Monday, was the poorest in years and a great disappointment to many.
Mr. Harry Hamlin and Mr. John Cooney of Alliance were in the city Decoration day, the latter to see a brother who is quite ill.
John H. Perry will return from Dayton in about two weeks. His host of friends will sure be pleased to see him home again.
The local graduate-nurses' association will hold its monthly meeting at Cedar "Y", June 3, at 8 p.m. New members are invited to attend.
Rev. Russell S. Brown attended the national council of Congregational churches in Omaha, Neb., this week, and visited his old home, Topeka, Kans.
Mr. Louis Hamlett, E. 90th St., was severely injured, recently, when he fell down stairs at his daughter, Mrs. Anna Marshall's, E. 83rd St. He is convalescing.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Jones, E. 101st St., received a cablegraph, Tuesday, from their son. Louis V., announcing his safe arrival in Paris, France, and of course were delighted.
Mrs. Sada Anderson, wife of Major W. T. Anderson and president of an M. M. society of the A. M. E. church, was in Alliance, last week, working in the interest of the organization.
Ellen J. Thomas, E. 55th St., pioneer beauty culturist, died, recently, after an operation. The remains were shipped to Lima, her old home, for interment.
Value of school property for Afro-American education in South Carolina, during 10 years from $1,490,768 to $E,445,524, according to a report of the state superintendent of education.
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Our local Ministers' Alliance will hold its fifth annual banquet, June 20 at St. John's A. M. E. church. Rev. R. C. Wood, former president of Virginia Seminary and College, will be the principal speaker. Music.
David H. Pierce, editorial writer for The Cleveland Daily News, addressed the Erie, Pa., branch of the N. A. A. C. P. at the Erie Y. M. C. A., Monday evening. His subject was, "Major Aspects of the Race Problem." Last Friday evening, an excellent juvenile program was rendered under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch. Mrs. Harry E. Davis, wife of our state representative, was chairman of the arrangements committee.
Francis Gregory, who represented Case School of Applied Science in the Ohio intercollegiate track meet, last Saturday, at Cincinnati, leaves Case students to visit several industries in the East equipped with electrical machinery.
The Inter-Racial Study club met at Mrs. J. W. Hunter's, 223& 8 E. 33rd St., May 23. After a delicious luncheon, followed by quotations, business of importance was discussed and plans were made for an outing. Next meeting, at Mrs. R. H. Jackson's, Mrs. Ida Burton, pres.; Mrs. M. Hunter, reporter.
Dr. C. Lee Jefferson insists that he signed and published the statement of the ministers' committee, which met at Mt. Zlon church, although another one of our local ministers on the committee insists to the contrary. Both gentlemen are among our leading local clergy. We publish the foregoing as a matter of fairness to Dr. Lee Jefferson. The minister referred to, was relative to the defunct "jim-crow" Mercy Hospital Association movement.
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SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE!
How Our Men And Women Are Insulted
And Humiliated
In the Government’s Departments—Will the Self and
Race-Respecting Negro Press and People of This
Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing?
Coolidge Permits It.
Washington, D. C., (Special).
—There is wore segregauon i
Washington today under President
Coolidge than there has ever been
ince the Civil War. ‘The beginnings
Of segregation Were ander President
‘Ture, It was greatly extended, un
der President Wilson; increased,
aul) further, under President Hard-
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President Coolidge. Sor instance,
the largest of our parks President
Wilson never troubled, but the pres-
ent administration has found time
and desire to introduce it even there.
To many people, segregation is a
Democratic scheme of insult, but
such is not the case. Mr. Taft in-
troduced it in the bureau of engray-
ing, He segregated the census-takers
in this city in 1910, restricting white
workers to white people, and black
to black, often duplicating work as
most blocks had white and black
residents. And, worst of all, an-
bounced in his official capacity’ that
Negroes shuld not hold office
where white people complained. Ses-
Tegation, then, is a Republican in-
stitution and not a Democratic one.
it was begun by Republicans, and
carried on to its all-embracing ¢x-
tent by Republicans!
‘There is far more of it in the de-
partments, today, than at any time
_finee the Negro first appeared, close
upon the close of the Civil War. The
picture requirement in the civil serv-
fee, which makes it next to impos-
sibie for a colored lady or gentleman
to enter the civil service, since thelr
color is disclosed in their photo-
graph which must accompany their
Papers, 1s tenaciously held on to by
our Republican President. Only last
week, a colored girl appeared after
having passed the best examination,
and after having been telegraphed
for by the department. The photo-
graph had failed to tell her true
Solor, and they flatly refused to ap-
point her when she appeared, and
they saw her complexion. Commis-
sioner Blair of the internal revenue
bureau with thousands of clerks will
not appoint a Negro clerk, and his
word is law there, as he is the spec:
al favorite of Secretary Mellon and
President Coolidge. He hails trom
North Carolina, the home of the
other favorite and leader of the seg-
regation forces, Col. Sherrill, super-
{ntendent of buildings and grounds.
It is no use to complain of elther of
these southern gentlemen.
‘The colored people here who know
the President could destroy segre-
gation in the departments ot the
government, and the photograph
Fequirements in the civil service by
the mere nod of his head, are at a
loss to understand why he does not
put his splendid declarations on
Gemocracy into operation here,
Where it would not even cost him a
Bingle vote and where he has full
power and obsolutely no opposition.
‘They wonder if he is not a firm be-
liever in segregation, especially since
segregation is one of the chiet ten-
ets of the Ku Klux Klan which has
found its “welcome home” in the
Republican party, and receives” no
condemnation from the Republican
President, :
{Special to The Gazette.)
Washington, D. C.—In the postot”
five segregation is rampant. The
faithful colored clerks work under
constant humiliation and physical
disadvantages. The —departnient
maintains a spacious cafteria for
whites only, where these inferior
white clerks can buy appetizing
luncheons and chat in comfort while
eating, while the colored clerks mus!
bring cold luncheons from home and
eat them any place they can. The
physical discomfort, disadvantage-
us as it is, Is tar less galling to the
coiored clerks than 1s the thought’ of
their government taking their taxes,
as it takes those of the whites, for
the comfort of the latter, and setting
them off as though they were lepers.
The injustice stings all the more
when they reflect that they are far
more capable than the whites, and
render the government more intellt-
‘gent and efficient service—the white
man of thelr attainment being able
to get far more lucrative employ-
ment.
‘The department goes even farther
tn its solicitude for whives and neg-
lect of colored. It maintains a well-
appointed club room with pool tables
and other games, comfortable
lounges and other equipment for
rest, sociability, and recreation, and
nothing for these same colored em-
ployees. This private club is in the
magnificent postoffice building, built
and maintained by ALL of the peo-
ple. In the locker rooms there ts
segregation, and segregation is even
Attempted in the toflets. And all of
this is against the most dependable
and faithful employees.
Last year the white employees
passed around Invitations to the
‘white employees, in the very pree
Sace of the colored, to attend a re-
reption to the heads of depaxtments,
including the postmaster general, in
the pretoffice building. Tt announced
@ancine and a pleasant social eve-
ning with the officials for “the post-
office emploress,” yet not one was
@elivered to the colored clerks. I
burried a protest to the postmaster
general the day before it was to
come of, and he ordered the post-
master to invite the colored as well
as the white, These clerks get
around their colored co-workers by
giving the function at a local hotel.
It is inevitable that the wicked
spirit of segregation would express
itself in appointments, assignments,
and salaries. Colored applicants are
often passed over though their ex-
amination was superiors No Negro,
however efficient or vld ia the serv-
ice, must ever dream of a promotion
to a directive position. The hard,
unyielding caste passes whites over
him, one after another, though many
of the colored employees have won
contests in quickness and accuracy
in the handling of mail. The col-
ored clerks have dared to form a
union which meets regularly and
often sends manly and intelligent
protests to the postmaster, and often
appeals from his decisions to the
postmaster-general, It has secured
some improvement in their working
conditions, but they are still bitter
over the huge injustice done to them
for nothing else than the color of
their skin.
dense t5. fhe Geastte)
Washingtoo, D. C.—vhe govern-
went printing office keeps faith with
the government's universal scheme of
segregation. Some of the best aud
brightest of our girls are forced to
accept Inferter positions there on ac-
count of the better and more lucra-
tive avenues of employment being
closed to them because of their col-
or. The whites are generally of a
very mediocre group, far from equal-
ing our giris in educational equip-
ment, culture, and working efficien-
cy. Yet these superior girls are set
off trom the whites with the latter,
of course, having the better working
conditions, salaries and recreational
facilities. ' There is a large cafeteria
in this huge structure where all of
the employees may go, but there are
a few tables in an ‘out-of-the-way
section reserved for our employees.
Lam glad to say that few, very few,
of our people patronize the place,
preferring a little physical incon-
venience to the open, sem{-public hu-
miliation of segregation.
In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms,
and work assignments, wherever
possible, the law of segregation is in
full force, and, of course, this same
undemocratic practice reveals itself
on the salary roll and in the hard
caste that bars promotions. Here,
as elsewhere, the inferior whites
pass over our superior employees to
directive positions, and higher sal-
aries.
‘The whites have a large recrea-
tonal center in this public building
with many fine appointments for
rest and amusements. During lunch
and dinner hours they repair to this
restful retreat for sociability and
ance. Last fall, a young Afro-
American with a splendid record in
his work, felt the injustice of this
exclusion of our employees so keenly
that he secured the company of a
young lady of the race to take part
in the dance. As soon as this couple
started to dance the music was ab-
ruptly stopped, and the young man
‘reported for attempting to take
‘part in an entertainment provided
for employees, He was called to the
office, lectured for being “one of
those’smart Negroes" who believe in
“social equality,” and then dismiss-
ed on a trumped-up charge. He was
a night-employee, hence he carried
4 pistol, Right after the dance in-
cident a fire broke out in the office.
‘He was quickly accused of setting
‘the building afire in revenge for his
‘exclusion from the dance floor. De-
‘ectives came to the building to ar-
rest him, and failing to secure any
evidence searched him only to dis-
cover the pistol. They quickly drop-
ped the arson charge and substituted
one for carrying concealed weapons
(or which he was immediately dis-
missed. By this severe punishment
our employees are taught that there
is no way of escape for one who
dares to resent the daily insults that
thelr government (under President
Coolidge) gives them.
Many of the employees have ex-
pressed their deeply-wounded teel-
Ings to me at being considered a
pariah by the government whose in-
stitutions they are serving so faith-
fully, and I have taken up a number
of cases only to be met by a dental
that the conditions complained of ex-
Ist, and a request for the names of
my tnformants. I knew the fate these
informants would suffer so I have
never given a single name!! The de-
partment then taking the position
that {t cannot take up the case. It
is perfectly clear that this iniquitous
scheme of segregation {s a difficult
thing to fight, since the goverament
is so well settled upon {t, and thy.
complainants cannot bear witness
to It.
(Special to The Gazette)
Washington, D. C.—Segregation
in the bureau of engraving and
printing has an interesting history
involving President Thomas Wood-
row Wilson and members of his fam-
ily, three heroic young colored wom-
en who lost their positions as a re
sult of their protest. and the noble
wife of Senator Robert La Follette.
Shortly after the accession of Mr.
‘Wilson to the White House. a men-
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JUNE 4. 1927.
ver of ois family visited the bureau
where she saw white and colored
girls working together in perfect
harmony, oblivious to any thought
of race. ' Shortly thereafter came an
order for segregation of the races,
and a white lady who had been not-
ed tor her philanthropy among our
people and who was upon intimate
terms at the White House appeared
at the bureau to tell our girls to be
contented with the new order as “a
great Negro leader had taught col-
ored people to stay in their places.”
Three of the young ladies resisted
the order to the last ditch and were
summarily dismissed!
Senator La Follette lodged a pro-
test with Secretary McAdoo to no
avail, and his noble wife began a
crusade against the undemocratic in-
novation, She took the platform
here in Washington and Boston be-
fore the famous Twentieth Century
club, She used the columns of the
Senator's magazine, sparing neither
space nor vigor of utterance. She
thundered against it in our local
white press, and addressed the na-
tonal gathering of the National As-
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People in New York. When
our people here were so profoundly
discouraged, she came out one
stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A.
to urge them to continue the fight,
for democracy was at the crises. Os-
wald Garrison Villard came to town
to attack White House and Cabinet
and arouse our people, and the Na-
tion Association secured publicity in
over six hundred influential white
Papers in the country. The fight
checked what was thought to be the
intention of the segregators, name-
ly, the elimination of the colored
employees from the bureau alto-
gether.
‘The same segregation which some
of our people think is the cherished
institution of the Democratic party
is still there, in all of its fullness,
under the administration of the
party that /braliam Lincoln, Charles
Sumner and Frederick Douglass
helped to found. Our girls are em-
ployed there in far larger numbers
than in any other branch of the pub-
lic service. THEY ARE SEGRE,
GATED in thelr rest rooms, toilets,
and working stations, and of course
none are ever thought of for promo-
tons to executive places. They are
girls from our best nomes, most of
(tem with high aw@ normal school
treining, and fine culture. The white
git!s are of no such grade, as there
is no segregation for them In the
great world of things. They have
unlimited fields at high wage for
even mediocre talents. The best of
our girls must take these inferior
positions, the Inevitable result of so-
gregation. Our people are still hop-
ing for the issuance of an order de-
stroying this iniquitous practice in
all of our government departments,
for ft not only humiliates the best
of the government servants but im.
pairs the government service,
(Special to The Gazette)
|, Washington, D. C.—The treasury
department, according to the Presi-
dent's recent acceptance speech, 1s
now under the ablest financial genius
since the days of Alexander Hamil-
ton. Tt is to be remembered that the
great Hamilton came from the West
Indies, and in that long sweep of his-
tory that the President traversed
are the mighty Salmon P. Chase
secretary of the treasury in Lin.
coln’s cabinet, who, in a national ex-
tremity such as this country has
never known, devised the national
banking system which financed the
Civil War; and Ohio's master finan-
cier, Join Sherman, These men
never knew what segregation was!
The present head of the dcpart-
ment of internal revenue, Mr. Blair
from North Carolina, has not ap-
|pointed a colored clerk sines his in-
cumbency. While his predecessor,
Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from
Texas, appointed and promoted sev-
eral of them. Since the income tax
legislation and the numberless new
taxes that the recent war necess!-
tated, this is by far the largest de-
partment of the treasury, employing
several thousand clerks. Yet Ne-
groes are so scarce there that they
can't be noticed. There is the same
general complaint here among our
clerks and other employees as there
fs in the other branches of the gov-
ernment—faflure to recognize their
efficiency when promotions are due;
ability to go so far and no farther.
‘The various forms ot segregation
‘exist here as well as elsewhere—the
restaurants closed or divided along
‘color lines, and special toilets, lock-
er rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for
colored, |The toilets for the colored
are few in such a large structure.
Hence, the segregated clerks are
forced to endure physical inconven-
fence at times, and are forced to
travel long distances when they de-
sire the use of them. The depart-
ment maintains a huge. magnificent
cafeteria, in the splendid sweep ot
‘woodland along our national drive-
way, where white people of every
class can come to rest, dine, and 0-
clalize of afternoons and evenings at
minimum costs. The white pross of
the city is constantly telling of the
thousands who take advantage of
this “delightful retreat.” and the
festive scene that their presence
creates. It seats two thousand din-
ers with space te spare: but not one
Negro! His only share is in the
taxes he {s forced to pay for this
luxury for another group!
‘The registership of the treasury.
which Republican Prestdents have
given the Negro since Garfield ap-
pointed Blanch K. Bruce. is now
filled by a white man. and the col-
ored people are congregated in a sep-
arate room which is publicly pro-
claimed as ‘a colored division.”
When it is discovered that Negro
clerks are “working as white” in
other divisions. they are promptly
transfered to this “colored division.””
Our people fear that protest against
‘thin seerenetion wauld sexelt ta the
abolition of the division aitogetner;
#o they remain in a dilemna, fearing
to act. Our clerks must accept. se-
gregation or elimination, and being
poor, with no other opportunities in
this southern atmosphere, must take
the former. They are depressed at
the wrong, but economic stress com-
pels endurance of it.
By a single stroke of his pen
President Calvin Coolidge can stop
every bit of this damnable segrega.
tion, just as he can condemn thai
lawiess organization the Ku Klux
Kian,
COOLIDGE’S
SEGREGATION
Washington, 2. C.—We wish to cull
seen ee desi ct oes aoe
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recently. In the latter there have
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election of President Coolidge, were
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Our Church Debts
We want our readers, particularly
the local ministers, to read care-
fully and ponder—the following
partial list of our local churches
indebtedness:
Cory M. E. church, $4,000; Shi-
loh Baptist chureh, $45,000; Zion
Hill Baptist church, $15,000; Geth-
semane Baptist church, 8,000; Teo-
nium Baptist church, "$18,000; St
James A. M. B, church, $30,000; B,
71st and Cedar Ave., $30,000; Tem-
ple Baptist church, $20,000; E.
Mt. Zion Baptist church, $6,000; E.
74th and Kinsman Ra., $5,500;
churches in Mt. Pleasant, $3,500;
K. 64th and Quiney Ave., $25,000;
St. Paul A. M. EB. Zion, $30,000;
2nd Emmanuel Baptist chureh, $8,-
000; E. 28rd and Central ‘Holy
Ghost church, $7,500; Providence
Baptist church, $6,000; Linndale
churches, $8,000; ‘Frank Ave. Bap-
tist church, $2,000; Monumental
Baptist church, $17,000; Baptist and
Methodist, churches in’ Collinwood,
$12,000; Triedstone Baptist church,
$9.000; Friendship Baptist church,
$13,000; Miles Avenue church, $2,-
000; Mi. Nebo Baptist church, $2/-
000; Mt. Zion Cong. temple, '$50,-
000; churches on West Side, $3,600;
Macedonia Baptist church, $59,000;
Phillips C. M, EB. Chapel, $10,000;
St. Mark's ‘Presbyterian church,
$10,000; Stewart Memorial, B. 74th
St. ‘and’ Central Ave., $13,000; St
Paul Baptist church, $6,800; Anti-
och Baptist, $15,000; New Hope
Baptist church, $7,000; ‘Tabernacle
Baptist church, $1,700; two little
churches, E. 12rd St. and Superior
Ave, $5,338; W. ‘25th St., $1,275;
Phillis Wheatley Association, $158,-
000. Total $667,213.
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an active agent and correspondent In
every city and town in Obfo and
neighboring states having a number
of Atro-American residents. Only a
little time on Fridays or Saturdays
is required.
We are especially desirous of hear-
ing from persons in the following
named cities: Springfield, Colum-
bus, Toledo. Steubenville, Zanesville,
Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C.
H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Piqua,
Lima, ©., and other places, particu-
larly ‘in Ohio, where we have none.
Write to the editor of The Gazette,
226 West Superior Ave., Clevelzna,
©., and terms will be sent promptly
Our readers will oblige us greatl,
by sending at once the addresses o1
persons In the cities named, and oth
ers in the state to whom we can
write relative to the matter.
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cause of thelr gingham patterning,
especially exploit checks and plaids.
A “Just arrived” gingham-silk dress
fs pictured here. Not only its mate-
ral but its fashioning is the “last
word.” The surplice opening for the
bodice bespeaks the new trend, also
the overskirt effect which appears in
quite a few of the newer modes. The
stylist also employs solid colors for
[the flower-like chow of taffeta at the
waistline, to which litte flare, curs
are matched.
Black or navy with white are out-
‘standing for these practical afternoon
checked taffeta frocks. For dressier
wear there 1s also a considerable
showing of pastel sliades with white.
Prominent among these are yellow
with white, green with white and very
attractive for children and growing
‘girls are bright red-and-white checks,
On cine aeeneseiene
girl graduate” accents the note
of simplicity does it create a pleasing
Impression. Now that sheer white ma-
terials are so in voxue, there Is every
opportunity of either making or buy-
ing “ready-to-wear” a charming gradu-
ating dress, such as will set off those
‘endearing young charms" of the
daughter of the household to perfec-
don.
White georgette is a most excellent
selection for the graduating frock. It
Is exquisitely dainty, and us to serv-
lee, that is one of Its chief recom-
mendations. It launders beautifully,
set never has the appearance of a
wash dress, and for little Miss Six-
teen it will prove a most charming
dance frock all through the summer
season.
Very prettily and girtishly styled ts
this white georgette dress pictured to
the left. Sleeveless fs this tiie
frock. ‘The ruffles on the skirt are ur:
ranged In tlers, for the tere! elect
fs one of the mode's pet holies 1
‘Smurt, indeed, and ideal for summer
wear Is the two-piece dress which
styles its skirt and sleeveless jacket
of checked tufeta, the blouse being
either of washable white crepe or
sheer white cotton voile, ff this tn-
xerle louse displays a jubot, also
4 generous amount of fagoting or
hand-drawn hemstitehing, so much
the better from a fashion standpoint,
Designers are doing some amusing
things with the new gingham-silks by
combining plaids or checks of one col-
oring with those of another. A black-
and-white check bordered with a red-
and-white check is stunning. ‘The
same may be said of polka dots,
which, by the way, are In smart fash-
fon again, For instance, a large navy-
and-white polka dot is trimmed with
tiny-dotted tan and white, ‘There ts
no end to the novelty which ean be
achieved by following ont this tine of
thought,
JULIA. BOTTOMLEY,
(@s 192%, Western Newspaver Union.)
season, There is just the faintest
blush of pink in the satin ribbon
rosette posed on the shoulder.
A trille more elaborate is the dress
of crepe de chine to the right. It is
all in pure white even to the ribbon
at neckline and waistline. ‘This love-
ly frock subseribes to the reigning lace
vogue in that rows and rows of narrow
edging run a scalloped course around
the slightly bouffant skirt. The lace
in rows abgut the neckline suggests @
yoke effect.
Emphasis ts again placed on or
gandie for the summer frock. It Is
thought that this material will repeat
the wonderful vogue It enjoyed some
few seasons azo. Cunning and quaint
are jeune fille frocks made of this
material, with basque bodices and full
skirts in sleeveless style. Some of the
skirts have ters of ribbon, others are
tordered with lace, in which event
there is apt to be @ yoke and cap—
sleeves of the lace.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
© 1922 Wasterm Newspaper Union.)
THE COLOR LINE
IN LABOR UNIONS
To Be Opposed From Within the
Federation if The Warning Is-
Sued By the Pennsylvania
ee a rae
The Gazette bas received from
John P. Troxell, of the Pennsylvania
Federation of Labor, a copy of a
resolution unanimously passed by
that body at its twenty-sixth annual
convention in Harrisburg, Pa., May
10 to 12, in which all labor unions
are urged to admit Afro-Americans
to membership on equal terms with
all other men, The resolution also
instructs the Pennsylvania delegate
to the convention of the American
Federation of Labor to introduce a
similar resolution there. The reso-
lution as sent by Mr, Troxell is as
follows:
WHEREAS, Many of our unions
exclude Afro-Americans from mem-
bership, sometimes by explicit con-
stitutional provision, and sometimes
by subterfuges and technicalities;
and such exclusion is contrary to
the very fundamental of democracy
and brotherhood, upon which our
labor movement is built; and the
Afro-American has time ‘and again
shown that he can be a loyal union
man, often more loyal than the
white worker at his elbow; and it
we bar him from our unions, he will
work as a non-union man, for he
must make a living, and the employ-
ers are hiring him in constantly in-
creasing numbers; therefore be it
(RESOLVED, That we declare in
favor of his full and open member-
ship in all unions, on exactly the
same terms as all other men; and
that we pledge ourselves to work
for the removal of whatever dis-
crimination prevails against him in
our own locals and internationals;
and that our delegate to the coming
‘A. F. of L, convention be instructed
to introduce a resolution of the
samo effect as! this one. Be it fur-
ther
RESOLVED, That the officers of
our Federation be instructed to give
this resolution the widest practic-
able publicity throughout the labor
pce
THE N. A. A. ©. P. AND LUNA
PARK.
Luna Park, Cleveland, is notor-
lous for its’ insulting ‘color-lines,
drawn against our people in. its
dance-hall, roller-rink and bathing
pool. Those of us who have self
and race-respect will stay out of
that park, and not be invelgled into
going there to patronize any sort of
amusement or entertainment. That
would be giving the Luna Park
management our hard-earned money
for gratutitously insulting us. There
is no class or race of people in this
community except ours Who are so
discriminated against. Even the
lowest of all other classes (races)
are weleomed there and permitted
to enjoy all of its attractions of vari-
ous kinds. Stay out of color-line
Luna Park!
We suggest to the local branch of
the N. A. A. C. P. the advisability
of breaking down the Luna Park
color-lines by invoking the aid of
our Ohio Civil Rights law. This
would be SERVICE to our people of
this community such as that organ-
ization has never as yet given, and
they are entitled to it because of
the hundreds of dollars they have
paid into the organization since the
fnception of the local. Srauch.
The Truth!
What would cause other peo-
ple to gnash their teeth and
Zird .heir loins is question of
debate for us. Kick us, beat
us, pile depredations upon us,
revile us, abuse us, lie about
us, malign us and even impugn
our valor and we are not unan-
imously insulted. It seems im-
possible to establish unanimity
of insult In the black race.—
Chicago (U1.) Whip.
“HUMAN NATURE'S.
FOULEST BLOT.”
My ear is pained,
My soul is sick with every
day's report
Of wrong and outrage, with
which the earth is’ filed,
There is no flesh in man’s ob-
durate heart,
It does not feel for man; the
natural bond
Of brotherhood is severed as
the flax
That falls asunder at the touch
of fire
He finds his fellow guilty of
a skin
Not colored like his own; and
having power
To enforce the wrong, for such
a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his
lawful pres,
Thus man devotes his brother,
‘and. destroys:
‘Tis human nature's broadest
foulest blot.
—Cowper.
TH ERE isno
good reason
why your dealer
should offer you
something else
when you ask for
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