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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1941

Haitian Decree For Dubois

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i901, Hi, Excellency Edwin Barlny~ president of the Republic of
iAberia issued a decree which named, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois of Atianta University, Knight Commander of the Liberian Humane
Orde- of African Redemption. This
action was taken on the advice of
he Honorable Lester A. Walton.
United States.Minister to Liberia.
The Orde~ of African~ Redemption was founded in 1879 by President.-Anthony W. Gardner just
affés he,himself, had been decod with the. Knight Grand
of the Spanish Order of Isa Cateltea. a, It consists of a star
with rays pendant from a wreath
elites. American Negroes who
have forme ly received the Order
Booker T. Washington and the
Bishop Alexander Walters of
the African. Methodist Episcopal
Zigwe= Church. Among ~the dis
a as just reached the Unit
tates that on September 29,

tinguished white men whe- have
received it is Frederick Starr,
former professor in Chicago University, r

Dr. DuBois was associated, with
President King of Liberia at the
second Pan-African Congress in
Paris in 1921. After the third PanAfrican Congress held in London,
Paris and Lisbon in 1923, he visited Liberia at the time of the second inaugu-al of President King.
He was designated by President
Coolidge as special representative
with the rank of Minister Plenitotentiary and Envoy Exitrao dinary, At the time this was the hig~est 3 ever given a minister to
Liberia and it made Dr. DuBois
Jean of the diplomatic corps then
in Monrovia. Dr. DuBois has written of Liberia in various American periodicals like Foreign ~AFFAIRS and in his books THE NEow and BLACK FOLKS: THEN

i Justice Dept Hits

WASHINGTON, D. ~.~(SNS)~
The Department of Justice has
filed a b fief amicus curiae in -the
0. S. Sunreme Gourt-attacking the
Georgia ~Labor Contract law,
vhich. it maintains, coerces ~laborers} into servitude and pecnage in
violation-of-the ~Thirteenth Amend
ment to the Corstitution.: e brief was filed last week in
support Of the appeal cf Ta Taylor$ who was convicted under the. Ge rzia law, the NAACP cnnounc:
ed.j
é interest of the federal government in. this ~casé stems from a
sr ae of the Georgia law sanctinfing the conviction of a laborei

for] ~cheating the swindling~.mere- |

eorgia Labor Law

ly upen showing that he received
an advance from an employer and
then fuiled to carrv ont 9 contract
~or personal serviees without good
cause, according to the Justice DeDartment: It ~Stated that the Su
eme Court in 1911 held g similar
Slabama statute to be unconstitu~icnal on grounds that is created;: ee of.invojuntary servi.
ude.

In this case Taylor was charged

vith receiving $19.50 in advance
1n an agreement to assist in the
onstruction of a house. His emfoyer accused him of. cheatitig and
~indling when he later failed to
~port for work,

~Huge Posters

| Roosevelt~s sienature and |
he. follovine section of his Exec- |

Restrictive Covenant
Suit Won In Chicago

CAGO, Til. ~ (ANP) ~ The
restrictive covenant suit filed ldst
~against Arthur Penn and
Thomas Conroy, white, was dismissonday morning by Circuit

Court Judgé Benjamin Epstein, it.

wastannouneed ~by Ira W. Williams,
president..of the Chicago Branch N.
A. A. O..P.

The sult was filed on the groUnds
that Conroy, in leasing the premises to Pern Acted in violation of the
restrictive ~aggreement signed by
white property owners stating that
no Negfo could rent, own or other.
wise live: in- the premises except as
2 servant..

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Conroy. brought his case before
the NAACP and Attys. Irvin C.
Mo. ~and George A. Blakey

were assigned to the case to repre~sent the interests of both defendants, ~g.,~5

Conroy, who is a police officer,
owns Ae: Eroouient = when suit
was brought. and Penn,
he immieaiatels ~sought the ~assistance ofthe branch. Attys. Blakey
and ] ~immediately filed
their motion to dismiss~ the suit and

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Forwarded To
12,000 Plants

Reveal Contéactors
Had Asked That
They Be Printed

WASHINGTON, D, C~(SNS)~
The Government's policy of nondisc~imination in defense employment was brought directly to the
Attention of ~workers in 12,000 -industrial plants throughout America this week. e

Organized and unorganized
workers were reminded of this
Federal policy when posters quoting President Reoosevelt~s Executive
Order No. 8802 were dispatched to
tefense plants for display in personnel offices and on shop bulletin
boards in ali defense establishments.

"EARS FDR~S NAME

The 24 by 28-inch blue poste,
nrepared by the Labor Division of
~he Office of Production Manageyent, and sent to deferse contractors by. Mark Fthridgs, chair
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~efense industries or government
~ecause of race, creed, color, or
national origin, and I do hereby
Seclare that it is the duty of emlove's and of labor organizations.
~n furtherance of said policy and
ef this order. to..provide for the
fnll and equitable varticipvation of
9ll workers in defense industries,
without. discrimination because of
race, creed, color, or national
origin...~

In a letter to defense centractors which acromnanied the _ posters, / Mr. Ethridge, chairman of
the ~Fair Emvlovment Practice
Committee established by President Roosevelt on June 25, 1944
stated: ry,
RFQUESTED BY CONTRACTORS

~These postets were prepared at
the request of several defense contractors who felt that the Government~s; policy should he b*ought
directly to the attention of workers in their plants

~It is the wish of the
Commitiee~ on Fair~ Eniploymert
Practice that. these -postets be
prominently ~displayed in your
personnel and émployment. offices
and on the~ bulletin boards jn the
Shons of vour establishment.

~We are sending ~these to facilitate the: cooperation of ~your ~workers with vou in your efforts to.
vie or a cropeuin of full ~utilization of all labor
defense rroduction~, Patil
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~on of the posters was inaugurated this week. the first set of tho
~lacards which béar the ~headine

Fair Fmvlovment }'ractice in Deferse Industries~. weve sent on
November 20, 1941, to the Columbis, ~Ohio, aircraft~ plant of the

urtiss-Wright Corporation ~where
67 tool and ~die makers staged a
walkout when & Necro youth was
emrloved ~in thelr departrnent.

The walkout. was promptly
settled ~through ~conferences between ~managément, a committee
of Curtiss-Wright ~workers, and
representatives of the Labor Relations Branch of the Labor Division of -OPM,'and the President's
Committe on Fair Employment
Piactice. The agreement embodied
the following.points.

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Awaiting His Report

allover the country, who will gather ~at Philadel30 for the ~27th corelave of ~the Phi Bsta Sigma
fraternity are awaiting the report of Dr. R. A. Billings of Atlanta,
whe as the ~youngest national pres dent has brought about one of
o~ interest that the Hellenic group

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Asks Navy To
End Jim Cro

~NEW. YORKNow that war has
been declared, the U. S. Navy was
asked last week to change its jimcrow policy by the~ National Association for the Advancement of
Colored ~People.

The NAACP wired Secretary of
the Navy Frank Knox, December
8, stating: ~Because our country is
in peril, we ask revision of the
Navy~s policy with respect to the
use of Negroes and the limitation

Woman Who Killed
White Rapist Is
Forced From City

BIRMINGHAM,,Ala. ~ (ANP) ~
A woman here who fought off three
white men who attempted to rape
her, shooting one of them dead,
has been terrorized into leaving
town after she was exonerated of
the slaying. She is reported in New
York City.

Mrs. Mary Moore, on her way
home from work about 1:20 the
morning of November 18, was
criminally attacked by three white
men in an automobile who drove up
besides her. with one trying to pull
her into the car.

~She jerked Joose and fired a: pistol shot, killing Robert Roland McDonald. Jack ~W. Stansberry and Joe
D. Isaac, - the latter: said. to.be
~dead~ drunk in the back of the car
at the time of the incident, got
away.

It is believed that it was feared
that an effort would be made to
prosecute the two living men if the
rape victim had been allowed to remain in_ Birmingham.

She was working on the night
shift at a southside cafe when she
was molested, No charges were lodged against ~the white ~men.

the -Monday was the result
of their~ petition. ee
In thanking the lawyers for the
victory, Sr; Williams said the.N..A.
A. C. P. will do its share in_fight-,
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are pro A! homes
to live in and at,peasonable rent--
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groes want to know if only white
Americaris are to be permitted to
fight and perhaps -die for ~our
country in the ~Navy.~

It was pointed out that the Navy~s
present policy is doing more than
almost any other thing to dampen
enthusiasm of Negroes for all-out
aid to ~their country.

In ~spite of ~radio and ~newspaper
appeals for enlistment, Negroés are
still being turned down by the

P. B. Prescott -
Named Judge tn
Chicago Courts

Appointee Is
Former Newspaper
Columnist:

CHICAGO~(ANP)~Living up tc
his. pre-election -pledge that he
would select men to fill public offices on basis of merit and. not
eolor, Gov.. Dwight H, Green announced the appointment of Atty.
Patrick B, Prescott, Jr, to the
municipal court of Chicago. |

Notification of ~his appointment
to fill the vacancy caused by the
election ~of Judge Edward S.
Scheffler to a higher post~that
of chief justiceship of the munictpal court. last November 4~was
received by Atty. Prescott last
Wednesday. Judge; Sheffler had a
year to serve on the bench and it
ig this term that the attorney. will
fill. which expires in December,
1942,

Long. ~active in political and
civic affairs of Chicago, Atty.
Prescott~s first major appointment
~cme ~under Mayor Thompson~s
administration, when He ~wes made
assistarit corporation ~ counsel.~ ~In
this: position he served from 1927
to 1931 as ~adviser to the traction
committee. In recént years, Mayor
Kelly appointed him to @ ~similar
post. under ~William H. Sexton,
then corporation ~counsel, in condemnation cases. = eoaee

A~ native of New Orleans, Atty. |
Prescott. came to Chicago through
transfer in a government position
inthe ~post office: Before ~ taking
up law, He was engaged in newspaper work ~as a colummist on the
old Chicago Whip. BX

The appointment. of. the attorney. to...the ~bench makes him |
the second coloréd man to hold
that ~position ~here, the first peingthe ~late Albert Bailey. George, who
was elected toa ~six-year term ~on
the municipal ~bench in -1924, ~ ~but
failed of ~reelection ~in 1930:

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except the messmen branch.

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Chieg of the Negro Employment

Executive Order No. 8802:

employers and of labor organizat
and of this order, to provide for

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sItto 12,000 défense ~plants throwghout ~the country aw
went posters calling attention to the Government~s non-discrimination policy in defense employment. Dr. Robert C. Weaver (left),
and Trainirg Branch of OPM, and
Lawrence W. Cramer, Executive Secretary of the President~s Committee on Fair Employment Practice, are shown examining ~the poster~ which quotes the following section from President Roosevelt~s

of all workers in defense industries, without disc
of race, creed, color or national origi~.....

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_...~L do hereby reaffirm the policy o~ the United States that
there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in
defense industries or government because of race, creed or co
cy national origin, and I do hereby declare ~that it is the duty of
iors, in furtherance of said policy
the full and equitabie participation

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the clerical and engineering
this week, as a result of the

The terms of the settlement of
the walkout, which oceurred after a
Negro youth had been employed in
the tool and die department, were
reported to Sidney Hillman, associate director general of OPM, by
Dr. Robert C. Weaver, chief of the
Negro employment and training
branch. of the labor division of

OPM.:
rding te Dr, Weaver, agree
reached in conferences between

senting Curtiss-Wright workers and
a representative of the -labor relations branch of OPM, ad

The Negro youth was employed in
the tool and die division of the Columbus plant on Nov. 18 following
@ committment made -earlier by
management to OPM. Shortly after
the assignment was made, 67 white

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workers walked out. Approximately
300 additional workers did not re
Tampa Teacher Resorts To
Court In Equal Pay Fight

Cotanitey Board Announces That
Petition Will Be Opened

TAMPA, Fla.~(ANP)~Miss Hilda T. Turner, teacher at the Middleton Senior High school, has filed
suit in federal -court ~seeking to
force the county school board.to pay
Negro teachers salaries equal to
those o1 white teachers. She is being supported by the Hillsboro
County Branch of the Florida State
Teachers~ association, headed by
Ben. D. Griffin, president. ~

The county board has annouriced
that it will fight the case which is
to come off on December 18..

The complainant is a graduate of

Atlanta university, holding a bach
| elor of arts degree and a life certificate as a teacher from the state
poard of education. She receives a
salary of -$8%83 as compared with
salaries of $148.62 received by white
teachers with the same qualifications.

The complainant charged that the
difference in salary was ~solely because Of race~ and therefore was a
violation of the 14th amendment of
the. United. States constitution, providing equal rights ~for. all ~citizens.

nent injunction, restraining ~the
school board from ~paying ~Negro
teachers less than the salaries paid
white teachers with similar qualifications and positions. =

The suit is the outcome of.a meeétcalled by Noah W. Griffin, executive secretary of the Florida State
Teachers~ association, in ~which a
petition was made to the county
school: board for equal pay. The answer to the petitioning letter completely ignored the requests and ~in
the next meeting plans to file suit
were. made,

Atty. McGill of Jacksonville filed
the case. ~He ~willbe~ assisted.in the

She asked the court for a -perma
court ~proceedings -by ~~Thurgood
Marshall. Magy

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By Cliff Mackay

The Globe Trotter.

The Bill Of Rights

IN THE MIDST.OF a world-wide
attack on the ~four freedoms,~
speech, press, religion-and the right

of assembly, America, at: last sucked into the. terrible holocaust by a
treacherous-attack,- this week pauses
to celebrate the 150th anniversary |:
of the Bill of Rights.

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police and other peace officers who
daily deliberately ~violate Article
Four holding that ~The right of the
people to be secure in their

houses, papers
unreasonable searches and ~seizures,
shall not be violated, and no warrants shall be issued but upon probably cause, supported. by oath or
affirmation, ~and particularly describing the place to be searched,
~and the persons arid things to -be
seized.~~

In ~spite of these isolated and ir~
~ritating refusals of somie Americans.
to recognize that the Bill of Rights

nevertheless can join wholehearted~ly in the observance this week. ae
~ For this week marks not only the
anniversary of this great idea of

~establishment of these
December 18, 1965, the Thir~teenth Amendment, to

wulkout in that aircraft factory.

ment on the following points ~were |~
management, a committee repre-'

-of slavery up to the

and éffects, against |

covers all citizens, black Americans |:

Curtiss-Wright To
Hire More Negroes

WASHINGTON, D. G:~ (ANP) ~ Qualified Negro
workers will be integrated into all divisions of the Columbus, O., plant of the Curtiss-W

right corporation including
staffs, it was revealed here
settlement of a November 18

port for duty on the next shift. ~

The labor relations branch of
OPM immediately dispatched C. W.
Mitzel, special representative for
Columbus, to confer with management and representatives of workers in the plant. As a result of these
conferences, the strikers rettirned ~to
work und the Negro youth was retained at his job in the tool and die

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country;
The measure proposed to -the
Thirty-Eighth Congress by Presi
dent Lincoln, was deemed necessary by the Civil War executive because of efforts made by.post-bellum legislatures of South.Carolina,
Georgia and Mississippi to perpetuate the institution of slavery ~under other names..

abridged, became law. And ~two
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equal rights for Negro and white
citizens was passed,

Interesting is the fact that four
years before the 13th Amendmerit
only bachelor

back in 1861 sought to solve the
slavery issue by: appeasement. i
At his suggestion a joint resolution was passed by which
would have left the whole matter
individual
States. Fortunately for you, this Infamous iaw, called the Corwin
Amendment, failed for lack of a
sufficient-number of ratifications,
though ~it; was approved by Ohio
and Illinois. |
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