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FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1941

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- Brown Bomber Visits Bomber Factory |

-~. BURBANK, Calif~Joe. Louis, World's Heavy.
weight Champion, recently visited the Lockheed Air-eraft, factery here and inspected the bombing planes

- being built for our air force and for England. Here

Joe chats with

two Negro workmen, Fleming R.

Walker, strip tank man, and Lloyd Gadden, paint
department. (INP.)

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their friend ~know {why

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Whi People Pay Too
Much For Funerals _

the Fibit-Brownhsville News will
&RE YOU IN FAVOR OF.
~BOOPLEGGING~ THE DEAD?
-PLING,~Michigan.~Do ~yout favor
iring solicitors -by. an- undertaker?
syou favor a~ secret crowd mak
taik about

Employees union if they wish

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fediation Board's Decision
o Affect Race Rail Workers

Jim Crow Union of AFL Is

Named as Bargaining Agent

CHICAGO~(A N P)--The National Mediation board which was
established by the congress of the
United States to prevent discrimination and petsecution of workers
in the railruad industry as the result
of a labor dispute, has committed
an act which menaces the job security of thousands.ui Negro york
ers in the railroad industry.

Over the strong.protests of the
United Transport Service Employees
union, the board issued an. order
telling over 700 Negro section hands
on the Florida East Coast R. R, that
they must seek membership in~ the
AFT,~s jim crow Maintenance of Way
to
gain with their employer.

The mediation board based its
on on the results of a collec
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tive bargaining election held among
bridgemen, crankshands, cooks, section hands, and extra gang laborers. Despite the fact that the dverwhelming majority of these jworkers are Negroes the j'm crow -
tenance of Way Employees union
defeated Bill Townsend~s UTSEA,
fully under Negro leadership, by a
vote of 421 to 398.

In protesting to the board against
the certification of the Maintenance
of Way Employees union, Bill Townsend submitted a sheaf of affidavit sworn to by Negtoes in ~Florida
at the risk of their lives, to: prove
his charge that. the, election was a
farce, that ~ballots: were changed,
that men were beaten,: falsely arrested; and otherwise intimidated to
force them to vote ~ against- the
UTSEA. ge See"

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stolen a sewing machine, bed

est or fine,

said the judge.

1 J. Burney freed John De McLaarin of charges of

4].ing and stealing here Saturday after a jury had brought in a
-, Bet guilty verdict for A. B. Godwin, Jr.. Dunn, N. C., white,
~whe with Burney had confessed to the crime,.
Godwin and De McLaurin had admitted that they
clothing, wearing apparel and ~
groceries from Worth Johnson, white tenant in Godwin's build. |
ing. Although McLaurin testified against Godwin, the. jury, |
four hours deliberation, exonerated Godwin......~. - |

_-~ Judge Burney, after reprimanding the jury for its decision,
aid to McLaurin, ~I~ Godwin's not guilty,
He then ordered McLaurin released without paying any court

~I am not going to sit here and send one man to
another man did, and have a jury find

| Contessed Co-defendant |

_LILLINGTON, N, C.~(ANP)~Superior Court Judge John |

~ you are. not guilty.~

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By HENRY G. REYNOLDS
FLINT, Michigan~Like a Nar- |
cotic Peddler, the dead body agent
is a isneak. When ~a person first
becomes acquainted with the traffic, she is schooled in the ~tactics

Churchman Dies
At Home Early
Sunday Morning

Resigned: High

Dead Body Peddlers Like Narcotic
Peddlers; Racketeer Undertakers
Like Unto Bootleggers

- of the game by the wholesaler in

] put the business over without the

State Post At

treasurer of the General Missionary Baptist Convention
of Georgia and pioneer editor
of the Georgia BAPTIST,
official organ of the connection in the state, passed away
Sunday morning,at 2:55
o~clock at the residence, 201
Ashby St., S. W. He was 76
years of age at his death.

The. eminent clergyman

fully. a year. During a ~brief
stay in North-Carolina he im
Aware of: his delicate health,
Dr. Crawford attended the: state
convention week before last. in
Albany, Georgia, and resigned as
executive secretary over the
unanimous objection of the connection. However, even after his
resignation was. reluctantly accepted, Dr, Crawford was honored as executive secretary-treasurer emeritus,:

Dr. Crawford and his devoted
wife, Mrs. Mary Ella Crawford,
were happily married for 51
years.
five children,

erson of Washington, D. C.;

and Thelman H. Crawford of Columbia, 8. C. ~

was ~born in Chambers

Alabama, and, at the time of: his:
death, was an influential member:
of Providence Baptist. church, the~
Rev. C, D, Hubert, pastor.

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had. been in a progressively |,
declining state of health for |

proved considerably, return- |
ing home about a month ago.

o the union were born.
D. D. Crawford, Jr.
of Beckley, West Virginia; Miss:
Iona Crawford of Wilmington, N._
C.; Mrs. Salome Crawford- Dick-'

Charles A. Crawford of this city;

The outstanding Baptist leader
County,

that drug. The wholesaler first
gains the confidence of the prospective agént by offering big commissions and- advances a_ certain
amount of money to bind the. vérbal contract. As soon as this person accepts this money a new agent
is startéd out_on the unholy: business of receiving and peddling the
dope. The activities of the agent
are entirely secret. It must be
quite secret in order to be able to

victims knowing what is going: on
behind the scenes, Such secrecy -is
indeed maintained in this dirty
business until~ other people who become victims of it, never know who
is at the top of the scheme.

The likeness of this traffic in
narcotics is found in:the traffic of
hy ~dead bodies by bedside
watchers, over night friends, present givers, would-be ~church. christians on ~stok~

| Dr. D. "Ds Crawford, for 26'[The ricketeer undettaker, gets in-|
years executive secretary- Se eo oa enitior pisine | i

his priees for what they may:succéed in doing for him. ~They. al~
keep this secret and act. accordingly
_ When, ever these bedside watchers and whatnots, are in the business of traff the dead to ar
unethical undertaker

find some. disrespectful,
story to tell about. the other under- _
taker who is hot in the buying rac-.
ket. They. spread. black rumors
against him. They, on the

into a great humanitarian and
beriefactor.,
Those are things that he is not,

but as~long as you can ~be made to
believe this, these members of
Buzzard gang will be happily carry
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Cecil Whittaker, president-elect of Alpha Pi
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Detroit, Mich., who will be one of the
charming hostesses. for the National Grand Convention of Delta

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One Of Delta Hostesses

CHICAGO~(A N P)~Rock: Ise: i 7g! re

Sigioa Chapter. of

By JIM HEWLETT

MONTREAL, Que. ~ (ANP)~
Corp, Elmer Smith of the Canadian
army, orchestra leader, former
member of Fo. L., 372nd Inf., in the
fitst World war died recently while
on active duty here and was ac-. corded full military rites,

Ome of the first Negroes to be
integrated into the Canadian army
and one of four colored members
of an active service band, he had
attained the rank of corporal.
Stricken. il] while. playing for a
show at the Jacques Cartier camp
on November 12, he collapsed and
died the following day.

Colored and white officers and

Negro Soldier Is
Honor ed ByCanada |

men, true comrades, united to give

most impressive funetals ever seen
in Montreal.

Col. 8. Eckenberg, commanding

Major Prudhomme and Adj. Capt.
Wilkinson, all white, led the procession which contained a group of
colored ~musicians from Local 11.

The firing of rifles by the military escort which was under the
direct supervision of the corporal~s
immediate. superior, Sgt. Major
Black,. also white, marked the end
of the solemn military rites.

The Rev. Mr. stes officiated.

the overseas veteran~ one of the}

officer of: No, 4 District depot, |} 7

Refuse to Create
_ New Units For
Race Soldiers

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Charges Negroes Are I
Being Inducted Into..Arn

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