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Trade Unions,
Vets, Back |
Freedom Rally

CHICAGO ~ ANP. ~ Fis
unions and veterans here oleae
ed last week support to a Fre2 -dom rally, cOmmemorating.
Emancipation day, which will
be sponsored by the Chicago
council of the National Negro
congress at Monumental Baptist church on Jan. 1.

American Jewish Congress
Spearheads Move for FEPC Law

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ At/tures~on the FEPC initiate
the sforéfront of the drive to! petition has gone over the top.
enact state fair - employment} Detroit alone is reported to have

_practice laws when legislatures | secured more than. the requirconvene next month is the} ed number for that state, eight
_Ameriéan Jewish congress. Re-; ver cent of the last gubernaports to the commission on | torial election vote ~ with one
Jaw; and social action of AJC | Ford local of UAW-CIO obtain-. reveal that state campaign com-| ing nearly 40,0 signatures.
mittees are functioning already | While the success of the initiain Connecticut, Illinois, Michi- | ~ive campaign doe$ not assure
gan and Pennsylvania, while In- | 2nactmenf ~ as the recent. Cal- |

diana, Ohio ard Rhode Islanc | fornia election has showr ~j Heading fhe list of speakers
- are. now organizing, and bills| the electorate will have an op-/ will be Mrs.- Rebecca Styles
~ are, being prepared for Mary- rortunity to vote on the meas-| Taylor, prominent journalist |

and clubwoman; Paul Gardmrer
regional director of the Food,

land, Oregon, Colorado, Minne"*sota~ and. West Virginia.

ure at the next general election
if it is not passed intact im the

Cooperating with AJC are | fortheoming legislative session.| Tobacco and Agricultural workeo such Seon: as unions in the; Meanwhile, the commission on |2rs, CIO; Mrs. Laura Thomas,
~ rh. nd CIO; the NAACP j lew ard social action of AJC/. ieader of the Ellis Building
eA arican Veterans committee | 3 ~- to provide tech- | Tenants league, and John R.
f.thelic Labor alliance, amd lo-; ~cal.~ssistance to all int2rest- | Fort, cne of the two Negro vot
jerans who was stoned recently |
while moving into the Aixport
10using project.

od organizations on both legal
~rd organizational*problems. In }
additicn to model bills, a man- |
ral ~ntitled Organizing a State |

~wl-~churth generations. In cer |
=. 'W states, such as Rhode Is
~je-rd and Connecticut, the mez
jcr hurdle will.be in convert

ing a sufficient number of R~ | FEPC Campaign is available |

publican législators to the cause | upon request from the AJC, Fi d Ei

"Reports from Michigan ind: ja Broadway, New York 23, in $ uropeans
cate, that the drive for signa | N. Y.

Grateful for Kind

Treatment

VIENNA, Austria ANP ~
Ore of the few colored Ameri
~Nelson M. Willis Chosen to~Heda Cook County Bar Group

~CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ At the} Georgia Jones Ells,

third vice

~recent annual meeting of Cook| president; Sidney A: Jones, Jr.,|cans working with a private re
-County Bar association, Atty.' general secretary; Lucia T.jlief agency in the European;

~Nelson M. Willis was elected Thomas, assistant secretary,/area is Miss Jean Fairfax, for-| HONORARY DERGEE GIVEN
president of the organization. At| Charles~ L. Lane, financial sec-|mer dean of women at Tuske-| BISHOP JEWELL ~ Senior
the same time the association! retary; Wililam K. Hooks, treas-| gee institute, who is here as/| Bishop M. L. Jewell, center, of

the Church of the Living God,
7123 Kinsmen road, Cleveland,
receiving the honorary degree
of doctor of divinity from Dr.
Davis S. Board, right, presi
urer; Levi H. Morris, librarian;
and Car] T. Robinson, sergeant
at arms.

Board of directors are James
D. Cashin, Jos2phirfe E. Snow
an attache of the Quaker ~ ge-)
lief program. Miss Fairfax
joined the Friends Service-committee program in the late summer and sailed for Austria by

anrounced that one of its chief
vaims.in 1947 will be to see that
a- qualified Negro judge is elected to the superior court bench.

Willis, who is widely known

-eeremonies

~

dént of Northwestern university,
Washington, during presentation

conducted at the
chureh. At left is Miss Delores
Diaz, protege of Bishop Jewell
from Iloilo City, sf iasiesigcn Islands. ~ ANP.

way of Paris, early im November.

throughout the state for his
handling of civil rights cases,

den, Jr., Thomas. M...Clarks,
Zedri~dk T. Braden, Bindley C.

~was a recent candidate for| Cyrus, Herbert T. Dotson, Rich- ~Ou: pragram here is quite
~probate judge of Vermilion} ard E. Westbrooks and Houston]..:; i.
county. He is also: director of| H. Hall. ee System to Curb Negro Voting
civil liberties of the Elks of Part of te work te 2 SopE
thé state of Mlinois, and has| An installation banquet will| Mentary feeding project car-| MONTGOMERY, Ala. ~ ANP) groes and seven whites presenthandled civil right cases im be given in Parkway ~pallroom ried out through local ap Tee de oe enn ~ <oe | es ees = en =.Danvlile, Decatur, Springfield,} January 30. Amomrg thoSe ex- to -young tuberculosis victims, ee System as a threat to Ne-| and were registered. Ten NeJoliet and Lincoln, Ill. | pected | to be present are the to aged people, to boys ~ shoo 7 ae on sore bibiake registered, 23 hal
hier officers elected for 1947! president of Chicago Bar asso- girls in rest homes and appren- | week when U. S. Judge Charles |ed outright, and application |
include Genoa S. Washi ngton, ~ciation, Illinois State Bar asso- tice homes. There~ is some cloth- i Kennamer dismissed a dam- blanks for the remaining 60
yst+ vice president; ~James~ D.: ciation, Lawyers guild, and all, ing distribution and work with ine sh Seeee ie white who attempted 0 WORE: were
"Crosson, secon vice president; judge heads of court divisions. | displaced persons and a neigh- | rye ee a ~ eersfied aS qualified by Mrs.: | borhood certter which has re-|4~Mmy'ng a Negro the right to] Wright, chairman of the regis| ently been opencd. I have been| vote scolely because of race|tration board, the NAACP reIndeama~ ~ LaFollette Finds visiting all of the projects and {and color. vealed.
l W 0 Bi | ee. a be assigned to a Pht Kennamer~s ruling Mrs. Wright and Guthrie failSimp e ay to ust 1 0 | p. marked the second setbac he | ed to place these 60 Negroes on
has handed William Mitchell, a

whois he | The needs here are so great
that although our

there

~WW ASHINGTO" ~N= ANP
~The,-United States senate can
~legally purge itself of Theodore G. Bilbo; Mississippi~s klan
cangressman, by applying a
simple three - pointed procedure
recently devised by Rep. Chas.
M: LaFollette, an Indiana Re~publican, even though The Man
-has- already, been seated.

Here is Rep. LaFollette~s plan
that will enable the senate to
banish the Mississippi klanstart at will:

primary.last summer
was.nominated for the senate.

-2. It must decide by a simple

majority vote that these acts
bearing on Bilbo~s election~ were
contrary to séund public policy, |
harmful to the dignity and hon- |
or of the senate, and dangerous
to the perpetuity of free government.~

~ Taskogee sresidert; in Mitchell's
effort to challenge violations of
Negro voting rights in aceord
thrill in seeing the American! with the U. S. Supreme court~s
people~s contributiors of food white primary decision a few
and clothing reach the Austri-! years AgO. Kenrramer dsmiss2d
ans and to know of their grati-! the case When it was. first filed
tude. Just yesterday at ore of in August, 1945, on a motion of
the distribution cen~ers, when the state of Alabama that Mit|the people realized that T was chell had not exhausted his
8. Tt can thea on the basis of lan American representing the rgihts in the state courts,
gound precédent, declare Bilbo's organization oo for the Last week Judge Kannamer
dlection invalid and déclaée that food packages, inev came up decided that Mitchell failed to
d yecancy txitty in the senate and kissed my hand. It gave me show the registrars had discrimfrom: Mississippi. a funny feeling because I real- inated against him as an indiized how little I had done vidual, although he indicated

work js rel
atively.small, Is a real

~ The senate ar find, as

a matter Se ss es. LaFollette~s | recommendatons | while I was in the states to en> that discrimimation against Nehe bgp f ea a a are the result of an exhaustive courage more giving or indeed groes generally by the defendheraany ~ constitution and\study on the senate~s right to) how little I had visualized the ants, Mrs. George Wright and

~urged others to violate the constitution. by denying Negroes the
right to vote in the Mississippi

expel or exclude a member.
His findings have been called

had been shown
He would heve

tremendous need. Virgil Guthrie,

by the evidence.

clear and simple, An ouster e ruled for the plaintiff, if this
ee LEGA ~stestoston*eatas ~ee%e move based on Bilbo~s personal White, Negro were a class action, he sta ted.
~HONOGRAPH RECORDS %)| qualities and lack of moral 4 Under the voucher system, a.
3, GALORE ~s| character would require a two M Pl Neier wecuiad uae
DX) % -: qe y aecw vc ler 1S required oO give
% Send for Mailing List- 4 ~ shen to succeed, aia USICIARS a: the name of two persons who:
% Bamco Record Distributors +) ~ss of whether or not'the oath X C will vouch for him, Evidence,
me ** 4512 Hastings St., ~ of sees already beert ad- mas oncert brought out by.t sstimony. ~Te+: + ministere paHlaay that avy: nek Hee
a +**: Detroit 1, Michigan $ rs Ry eae f JEFFERSON CITY,: Mo. ~|V~vled that any one was: persteaioate = ote gy Whe Enid aind Aoerenge Sook i aah if the attack is made on ANP ~ White musicians from mitt d- to vouch: for a white apeo eee car bee aiisenieatenes Simmons High schoo] here and plicant, but tne registration
%|Stephens college, Columbia, | board insisted that all Negroes
$ Mo., sat in with Lincoln uni-| know the person who vouched
E THE MADAM C. J, WALKER { ~sss Seite~ ("oo te saat
4 Christmas concert. The bands- tuted a technicality~ for the dis-, %|men, white and Negro, wer~ evieg of Mitchell's damage
~ | directed by Prof. T. N. Gatlin, | SUl!o Famous Products 4 Mitchell had a white and Neaan 2. gro voucher. W. A.- Campbell,
~ a white merchant, testified that
* The legends -regardinz the holly | ~: em aad S:.:; date back to the Druids, who be | h~ did not know how it hapARE INCREASING IN POPULARITY ~%, Meved the evergreen leaves of the | pened that his mame was car
ried as a Mitchell voucher but
he vouched for him. G. W.~A.
Johnson, a purchasing agent for

holly were proof that the sun never
deserted it and it was therefore
sacred. Legend also says that the
crown of thorns was composed uf

eRe:

THROUGHOUT THE NATION AND IN
SPITE CF WAR RESTRICTIONS, THE
SOMPANY HAS BEEN ABLE TO MEET

SS.:: ~ ~ holly. end that befor eiocitte Tuskegee institute for the last
~~ @ND SUPPLY THIS GREAT DEMAND. Z| on the berries were white, bar |25 years. testified he did not
i. 4 urned crimson. like drops of blood | know Mitchell well enough to. ~ |. "ahead vouch for him. Johnson, said
Discriminating women everywhere demand $e - @ | Mitchell, did vouch for him but

and use this World~s Famous Product:~45 the validity of Bilbo~s election,| was challenged by the regis-: ee mn %| he can be excluded by a simplej|trars after they began asking: ~ the market. é majority vote, even if he has/| questions about the new voter.

Evidence showed that 93 Ne
previously been seated.

Alabama Employes~Voucher~

the registration roll on the ex
~cuse ~that they had~ failed to

produce~ the necessary persons
to vouch for them. Vouchrs for
some of these applicants had
presented themselves to- the
board but, were not permitted
to vouch for the Negro applicants, evidence disclosed.

FE. C. Boswell, author of the
Boswell amendment to the Alabama constitution, regarded as

a legal instrument to further
block Negro voting, was cOunsel for the defense, Arthur

Shores, Birmingham, and -R. L.
Carter, ~NAACP counsel, served as lawyers for Mitchell.

Piaintiff~s lawyers entered
into a proposition two weeks
ago to drop the $5,000 damages
in the original suit for nomirral
damages proyided the defendants were not given a jury
trial. Mitchell~s lawyers made
no revelation on whether the
case will bé appealed to the
supreme court.

= 1'Radio Station

Aids YM. -YWCA

~Drive

CHARLOTTE, N. C. ~ ANP

Mei Radio Station WBT, CBS out
let here, devoted a whole week,
20 hours a day, to one public
Service projoct the raising |
of $78,000 to mak eup a defieit im a $250,000 building funda
eampaign for a new. YM-YWCA
building for Negroes. The drive}
started last Thursday.

The fund campaign, previous
Ha of the desired amount by

$78,000. WBT~s Charles H. Crutchfield, gereral manager, of-'
fered the station~s facilities to
Taise that amount. Main efforts

{consisted of devoting every min
ute. of sustaining t'me during |~
the seven ~days to this campaign
though a staff of spécial~ ~ommunity fund r2'sing experts was
deployed throughout the city
and. state to solicit aid.

The first program began on

~Thursday morning at 5 a. m.
with Grady Cole~s farm show,

nd ended the following morn
~fg at ~ a. m. with dancirrg
Marty: Each show,
tlewséasts, commentaries,
~matics, and special spots,
angled toward the drive.

A speeial feature of the drive
~was that all contributors to the
furid were given gold bricks as
@ syrtibol of their gifts, while
doncrs of $2,000 or more will
fave plaques, bearing their
s"ames, decorating rooms in the
[poser building.

was

'y started for the building, fell
P

including |

dra- |

'

PICTURED ABOVE.
where the California~
~ferencts plan to hold the next
Sees: eonferences ~in. ah

ren tea Au Anges

aoa late c

der way. ~ ANP....4:

Midwest - West Ladi ie - 4 ve
In Industrial Democracy

W. Tayior ~
~" ARP = AT
~gripping
and far

By Leon
DAYOTN, O.
notable awakening is
areas of the midwest
west that Opens mew, channels
of effort for, Negro workers.
~Many industries have become
conscious that barriers must go.
and America~s skilled work~rs
are to be retruited from all
aces and creeds, ae

From Michigan west to California word flashes that great
national corporations are: op2n-.
ing rrew positions to qualified
Negro. workers, but with greater emphasis upon.attainment oF
rigid efficiency levels,

Hitherto, it appeared Negros:
workers were enlisted upon the
basis of gratuities to the race.
Failure of incumbents were used
as springboards for further deNials, The past war, however,
and natiorral employment of all
persons blazed a rew trail, in
i which Negro workers came into

The

weeks
Ryan,
southern

warning sounded
ago by Patritk
coordinator of the
organizing campaign

force recently in Baltimore
where Ewan Clague, director of
the bureau of labor statistics: of
the U. S. Labor department, ~in
an address before the American Public Welfare association
also. predicted the ~same as the
AFL: labor~ orgattizer ~thal, in~ a
few years, technical mechanical advancgs. willbe. pranpunced that milfions ~of Américan
workers. white and colored, will
be forced to the ranks _of. the
unemployed.

Mr. Ryan, in a forum speech
and a press statement mearly
two. months ago, hdd warned
that fast mechanization of the
south means that machines will
soon be doing five to 10 times
the amount of work done by
thousands of workers, with the
esult that a single man operating a machine may ultimately
represent scores of workers out
of jobs.

In his speech, Mr. Clague
warned that one to two million agricultural workers will
drop out in the next five or six
years from the southern labor

market. because. of swift mechanization in. the processes of, preducirg cotton, ~~ and
rice.

New advanees in | cutting tools

Painting of Negro Mother and
Infant Purchased! for Art Gallery

KANSAS CITY, Mo.. ~

An. unusual painting of a see
pressed Negro mother and: her
infant child has been purchased
for exhibition here by the
Friends of Art of the RockhillNelson Art gallery. The picture
is entitled The Lynch Family
by Joseph- Hirsch, a Jewish artist.

Hirsch~s The Lynch Family
was among ~several extraordinary paintings sent here in a
collection by the Association of
American artists for sale to the
Friends of Art of the RockhillNelson galleries. The Lynch
Family was judged the best of
the lot by vote.

Depicting the agonized suffering of a poverty-stricken Ne
- gro mothe, the picture is slated |

to éspecially attract the local
~Negro citizens -to" the art gal- |
lery to view a:scene some may
remember, said Miss Lucille
Bluford, ~managing editor of the
Kansas City Call.

picture came from Sidney Lawrence, of the Jewish Federation

City, who explained in~ 4~ Ietter to Hirsch that his picture
will mean a great deal to the
60,000 Negroés who five and suffer distrimination in Karisas
City, and will serve to stimulate the acs@ptance of art with
social conter~t es well as to a
greater uSage of the museum by

the Negroes.

For F ull Particulars, Write

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in Louisiana, was given added,

Warns Technical Resolution ~
To Displace Southerners

NEW ORLEANS ~ AN P~Jas yet hardly
several, warned Mr.
(Pat)! duce an equally dramatic éxAFL,,of two lovers, Abie and

and Council of Greater Kansas |

deal 27 of the American Ferera
talked about,
Cleague, may: pro
ample of increased output with
reduced labor time. This should
mean a widely inereased unemployment insurance to agricultural workers. Social insurance
is one of the most constructive
systems I know of to make free
enterprise work.

Mr. Ryan had stressed. greater unionization: throughout the
vurals of Louisiana and
other parts of the ~south ~ as

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~their own.
Commenting~ ~from San hid

~cisco, D, Donald Glover, one of

the midwest~s leading industrial
experts, states employment issues in ~the bay area: présent
unusual practices: of:opeém and
closed jobs, from the interracial ken. Many occupations clos<

east are, available.on. the west
coast, where. five minority
groups. ~afford an exceptional
cosmopolitan array of problems.
Glover further: affirmed greater
vossibilities: are:-in store - predicated upon records established by qualified workers. hee

~In the smsdloreiet Detroit ites
more fields; and there- is promise of Cleveland, Toledo,,Columbus, and. Dayton, following
in the order named within.a
few months, where many _ positions hitherto closed to Negro
workers will be, opened...

A recent~ visit to: the area by
Sulius A. Thomas, director ~of
~industrial relations, | National
Urban~ Isague, added~ fuel to
the awakening of better interracial~ rea~tions: His~ conferences in Dayton resulted in~ a
trend of persotinel direction~ that
prompted the first big plant
within the city ot appoint a
Negro personnel~ staff~ member,
in the person~ of Andrew~ G.
Freeman, former employee
counselor at: Wright. field. The
new year bids fair to see Negro workers extend their gains
everywhere throughout the
county~s grat industrial centers.

Steel ~commas af

one~ means of. positively - facing
the threat packed. by. the -amaz- |
ing mechanization of. Dixie:-He
explained what the AFL, in its
southern organizing, campaign,

is doing to face this great. chal
lenge and~ urged. unorganized
workers everywhere to heed the
message of organized labor in
its efforts to save the underpaid
and overworked masses of the
southlamd.

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Rep Powell Asks New York....
os on Two Racial Issue Films ~ z

NEW YORK; -~, ANP. -Abie!s+
Irish Rose and Song of the
South ate an insult~ to American minorities, said, Rep... Adam Clayton Powell, pastor of

Abyssinian~ ~ Baptist: ~ church;
Christmas Eve.in asking that,
License ' Cbmmissioner Benja
min~ Fielding ~close: down: theshowing, of. the. two. pictures, in,
the city. Not, only do they constitute an insult to minorities,
but an insult o- éveryhing that
America stands for, he pagies
ed.
Abie~s" Irish, bdse. whafidey if
Gotham theatre, gives an, exag-}
gerated version of the religiois
iand racial,,, characteristics, of

| Solomon and Patrick, fathers
dse
mary.

hae
4 atiort \

Nearly. 1,910,000,000. net: tons of
steel ingots and steel for castings
were produced in the United States
from January, 1901, through August,
1948. Almost one-third of that large
tonnage of steel has been~ turned out
since January: I,; 1938. Twenty-seven years were required to produce
the first 50 per cent of the total tonage, while only 18 years, and 8
months were ~required~ to produce
the second half of the ~steel. The
one-billionth ton was ~made ~in~ ths
latter part: of 1929.

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* At Place. theatre, ~Song ~ot
the South depicts. thts subserv
~ent ite of Negroes 4 inthe old ~

South. This is a. Walt. Disney
production and has been ~playiftg- at Paiace since last Nov. 27.

Joining.. with Powell in con~aémning! thi ~ ~iw. pictured? ~was

Jimmy - Fidler; radio..commgn
tator and_ columnist, who a.
~ed Abie~s | as a ~plack e
Hollywood. ~He Pica dat

producers chip in to defray costs

of the Bing Crosby production J
e out of cir
take, th

_to New York
critics, especially PM~s Cecila
Agar, re tip ~decently buried
racial and religious, antagonism
and fumblnigly~ sets them. at
each othef in the name of comedy. (A JAIN TEUGAI Sie:

One of the votes cast for the

ANBC+Y

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WASHINGTON
Song of the Soyth is a poor
picture, buf. mire.) in spongant * ity
insidious, ~andy ~subtle~ "props

is

ganda against the *Negré ~ eat

sidious because: the Negro
presented; 4 tfeachérouusly ~and
slyly in the conventional sterfotypes, aws the ~opinion of Lotion of Teaehers,: / in hoists
here recently. ]
Paul/.Gaoke, peediacee OF ake
local, held that the puoicplay
abuses the Megfo i Akin ey
possible and that ~flere~is li

in the picture to ~recommend.~

He pointed out that James |.

Baskett, who, gave art excellent
characterization~ 6f Unclé ~Re
mus, thé story ~teller, was hamp- |~

ered by having to portray the
fixed conception of the Negro~
a lazy, hat in hand, spiritual
the otfier hand, he censured the

assigning a0 7

imals, as oe,

@, theme pit
vice of. eae people, the, Ne-+
gro appare
thought~ ie. Fi
problems of the white people inStead Of pi~turing them as arti
}sans and -basiness people.

PSmaomad Ms |

TOR SALE AT yous onueesr |
~The Borp Mre. Co,

singing, inferior old rascal. On

BIRMINGHAM. A~.&A

ed to Negro: workers farther~

epee ~nenenitne, ~~ eet Tay,

Waitz Disney production for a:

hose onl
yh de ~solve ee;

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