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DILEMMA OF A.M.E. CHURCH
~The battle of AME Bishops had no business in court.~

These significant words came from the lips of Mr. Justice Dickstein of the Supreme Court of New York in listening to the complaint of Bishop Sims against Bishop Wright, to permanently
restrain the latter from presiding over the New York Conference. The issue: arose over complaints against Bishop Sims,
heard by all 16 bishops in council who in the exercise of. their
rights, under the law of the church, removed Sims and appointed Wright.

" common decency, should have been able to settle their differences without resorting to the courts.

From the evidence, it appears, that Sims felt that he had
no chance of convincing his colleagues that he was improperly
removed, thus, he resorted to the court; and sought through
false testimony, false interpretation of law, to convince the court
that he had been denied certain fundamental rights ~as a citizen. He, Sims, questioned the authority of the Bishops~ Council to have any jurisdiction over him. This the court quickly
settled when it said ~on the basis of your laws the Bishops~
Council had authority to remove you, the only question of
doubt yet remaining is. did they remove you?~

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For two weeks the judge listened to witnesses on both '

sides and now the church must await the decision of a judge to
know who shall preside over the spiritual needs of nearly 80,000 members of this communion. It is the opinion of this paper that the case had no business. in the courts and that those
who took the church into courts ~should be made. to pay the
penalty of expulsion from the same..

The church is a voluntary association of men and women
having the same beliefs, and should devise ways and means by
which disputes of this kind can be settled. Today the people

_ of New York State are without a spiritual head of the church
because both bishops are enjoined from the performances of
their proper spiritual functions. The AME Church is too great
an organization. Its services to the Negro race have been too
outstanding to now permit the type of ~disgrace brought upon
it by Bishop Sims.

~Reprinted from The Buffalo Guardian.

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By Rev. Evans D. Brown

(Article No. 2 in special series)

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. ~ The. secular press has been somewhat
unfair to the Bishops of the
AME Church in at.least one respect. The press has made. it
appear that the trial which was
going on in New York City be
tween Bishop David H. Sims and
Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr. was

merely a fight or a bone-of contention between the bishops. That
was not so. Far from it. The
peril is far greater than that.
The whole thing to a large extent grows out of and aroSe as
a result of dissatisfaction and
contention in the New York An
nual ~Corfference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

over the Episcopal administration of affairs of Bishops David
H. Sims. We had been having a
lot of trouble in that New -York

Ir Methodism, whenever and
wherever a man has a great deal
of trouble,. whether he be a
poor humble pastor, a Presiding
Elder, or a great Bishop, we
have got to move~ him for the
sak2 of the welfare and best interest of the church. No man
can be bigger and more important than the best interest of the
AME Connection and the church.
The majority of the Bishops
krYow that. We all know that it
is tru?.

sas City, Missouri on June 23,
1946, the Bishops of the AME
Church agreed by a vote of 15
to-1 to remove Bishop David
H.. Sims from the Episcopal administration of affairs of the
New York Annual Conference,

_ and placed that particular con
fzrence under the Episgopal sup
| ervision of Bishop R. R. Wright, |

Jr.. with ~plenary power,~ full
authority. It is said that every

~bishop except one signed that

agreement. Bishop M. H. Davis
of Baltimore is said to be the

not sign the original agreement.

Bishop David H. Sims is said
to have signed the original agreement along with 14 other of the
AME Bishops. Then the very

next day, Bishop Simg is said

to have secured a ~court injunction~ in the effort to prevent
Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr., from
taking charge of the New York
Annual Conferertce with ~plenary power.~

Here then is the basis ~for the
trial and much of the newspap~r propoganda that one has been
reading. But. this thing is not
like the newspapers have said.
It has not beer a question of the
private life and moral integrity

it.

On the other hand, it has

| been ~ and still is ~ a ques
tion of self-respect as well as
respect for Episcopal authority

and Episcopal administration

Great State of Emergency Declared
In AME Church General Conference;
Will Meet in Special Session

Conference. Bishop Sims knows
| that. We know it too.

In the Bishops~ Council at Kan
one and only bishop who did/

and_ control.. Following the close of the
Kartsas City Council, it is said
that certain of the bishops withdrew their names from the orig
-inal agreement by proxy. But

two of them remain steadfast
and unmoveabje on the original
agreement until now. Eleven out
of sixteen constitute a majority.

~ A second méeting of the Bishops~ Council that was called in
Washington, D. ~. failed to clarify the situation on the ground
that Bishop M. H. Davis, the
Secretary of the Bishop~s Council, is said to have tampered
with the original agreement
which he himself -had not sigrted,

The following statement which

is said to have been released for4

publication by Senior Bishop
William Alfred Fountain, Sr., is
of importance in a comprehenSive survey of the situation
such as we are now endeavorirg
to make:

~Since I do not see any sign
of the difficulties in the administration of church affairs in the
New York Annual conference
bejmg removed by our previously signed resolution at the bishops council in Kansas City, Kansas, and

~Since the situation has become alarmingly more complicated, and

~Since the New York Superior court has been called in the
affairs of our church: admirtistration, and:

~~Since the bishops. * involved
seemed ~~. to arbitrate,
and

~Since I am averse to séttlement by court. procedure,

~I respectfully am. withdrawing my name from the resolution ~touching a change in the
Néw York Conference.

Signed:

William Alfred Fountain, Sr.,

Senior Bishop, AME Church.~

A third meeting of the BishOps Council called in New York
City Sept. 23, in the effort to
clarify the situation was disrupted im confusion after certain unwarranted discrepencies
had taken place. After which, it
seems best to ask the Bishops
of the AME Church to call the
General Conference to meet in

of the AME Bishops. Far from.

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Accepts First
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CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ For the
first time insofar as available
records show. Negro plumbers
in Chicago will be admitted to
the Chicago Journeyman Plumbers union, Local No. 130, aecording to advice received this~ week
by Sidney A. Jorres. Jr., general
counsel for the American CorSolidated Trades council, an or|ganization of Negro building
trades mechanics. which*' ~has
been attempting to break down
discrimination against. Ne giro
workers ir ~certain trade unions.

Efforts have been made by
this organization for aproximately 20 years: to: persuade the
pluihbers union to admit qualified. Negro plumbers. A_ short
while ago. the organization was
informed that the plumbers unjon had. demanded: that the
Chicago Housing authority discharge Negro maintenance employes who were doing plumbing work, and to employ union
plumbers.

The organization immediately
secured hundreds of petitions
from residents of Altgeld gardens and other housirfg projects
and. submitted them through
Atty.Jones to the executives of
the Chicago Housing authority.
The ~petitions requested that
authority to refuse to send white
plumbers to Altgeld or any other housing authority occupied
by Negroes, if the white worker came from a union which ex
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*It seems that Perty~s dreadh
of Lappiness in the land above
Mason-Dixon. Line
short-lived, for Perry is now iO the
the clutches of the. law,,and js
on trial before _ Recorders~ | 7
Judge Paul E. Krause, and a
jury, on a morals charge.

As godn as Pifcery got~ in
trouble with the local law, -hef
opined for his white friends i in |:
Dixie and the land of cotton. ~

William Perry game from a
long line of ancestors. His
great-grandfather was a slave
of the Storeys who. owned.
plantation near~ Rome, Ca fe
and ~Perry~s name itself was
the family name~ of one~ of the
storey wives, adopted by Perry's grandparents when _ they
were freed from slavery.

and his son, Harold, 24, both |
World War veterans,. the. former, a vet of Argonne Forest
World War I; the latter, who.
wears both a silver star and-|
purple heart, fot his exploits i in~
Géneral: Patton's army, orld |

cotton in the field and rushed
to Detroit to testify as character witnesses for.Perry. ~
Thus a master-~and servant.
loyalty still is alive in the
hearts of both- the southern
plantation owners, and ~the
sons of their former. slaves.;:
The loyal southern~ whites
have retained an-able attorney
to defend Perry and ~thus the
South comes North to look aft-,
er its own.

cluded Negroes. The matter was
also taken up hy the, Negro
workers with the Federal Rublic Housing authority. These organizations were urged to refrain. from

groes from~ membership.
Jones pointed out to the housing authority that if the~ ~authority

ers that such action would con
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| A NATION SURRENDERS: Pathetic Mr. Truman's Seeedcnat a week ago Monday
night tald of decisians to remove control fram meat and cat:..
tle. While not altogether unexpected, it was nevertheless a
shock and disillusionment te those who had hoped, that: ee +
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Roosevelt, the Rg enemy of these interest ~who vitriolic
hatreds were concealed during his reign, held these selfish and
dollar-hungry moguls at bay; but once his eyes
were closed, they ~came creeping out of their lairs. And here

t they are today: in~ flagrant role, forcing a nation to its knees.

tempt testarve a nation into submission.

of

ix ~successful annizulation of the meat situation is of

~teal a-moere~ incident, and only important when seen as symp- _
tomatic af a deeper disorder from which the nation is quffering.
Capital.and labor are: out to get their pound of flesh, and they:
mean to have it at any costa. But we, the people, may rest as
| sured: that they are only killing the goose that lays the golden |

egg. they will have finished, all eggs will be gone; for |
EY Stic gente does: not lay eggs. -

~To a man ~Tooking only at the affairs of the passing moeat: the ~current development is not distressing; but to o
who is trying to s~e these things in larger outline, the outlook~
Hig ~far from propitioys. ~When our country can be forced to its
ees by the meat interests, it can be forced by other interests,
A dount ~on its kniees' cannot survive in this bitterly competitive age. ~Phe United States deserves~a better fate than the
We are heading for chaos.
only ray of hope that is left resides in the bare possibility
tthe Ration~ may awake and put.on its strength~and hurl
a fn ~power these despatic interests~ who would slay a nation
if? stich? Badgheer sepyed but to arenes their ~Tun-away besos

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ott piiet not he forgotten. that the interest that have brojght
nation to its knees are the same interests that elect the Jal
x. and Bilbes, and, -Rankins. The voters who send ~dolor
bal to:office are the tools of the plutocratic interests ~who
ne 7 ba political potters with the masses as their clay. These
are the imterest who refuse to curb the southern filibusterers.
Hand who~ refuse to enact anti-lynching legislation and who reifitee Lo affront the reactionary South. i

"The Republican Party, long known for its plutocratic pro'pensitic~ i is today the power behind the scenes. Trampled for
nearly. 16 years, beneath the Herculean heels of a ~regnant
Roosevelt, the master mind of the 20th century, these old
a | plutocsatic, enublieant are o ae erarvling out of their holes and
looking things oer. Taft is saying that if the nation
wants those snarla ee ee out it had better elect.a Reépublican congress. It would be more appropriate to say that ifs We
I want, a ~Sational calamity,.we~may have it by empowering those
old ~line Republicans with their limitless fortunes who: know no
argicniente save those which stem from the logic of the dollar..

ap; we stop ~listening to the ~Stop Russia" ipeiialieai
ii enough,~ we will feel the hard of a plutocrat if our pocket.
~And heré! we are prostrate in the dust of humiliation, surréndered to the plutocrats, and trying the while to run the affairs of
the watld:~ When Russophobia becomes plutophilia~ in -dis+
+} guise, the portent of national disaster becomes | ominous. A

nation: surrenders. mr

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| Sin, slips-up- behind a man like a thief and changes his
whole outlook cand belief.

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pay its roomand board.

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but ~if, ~and when t is driven otu, one~s valuables can fe be

found.

~Sin cannot be played with, but must be driven, ~and very

dftent at the expense of one's comfortable living.
Satan; the author of sin, has the majority of all the pee

ple ~on~ his side, is why if you re not strong he can easily ane

~you for a ride.

{ Satan~ Neiajnaes in costly oe pretty chine. which. is just

~dnothér reason~ why he ean ewetp so many weakling off _

feet as if with wings.

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