Flint Spokesman [Volume: 2, Issue: 14]

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1947 THE FLINT SPOKESMAN PAGE FIV?
CONGRESS GETS 65 CENT |Atlanta Woman (La.Masonsto =|

MINIMUM WAGEBILL _.

WASHINGTON ~ ANP~ Sen.
Claude Pepper introduced a 65c
minimum wage bill in the senate
Monday.'~A similar bill was introduced ~Friday. by Sen. Aiken.
' The difference in the two: bills
is that. Aiken, Tobey, Ives, Cooper bill requests only that. the
Fair Labor Standards act of 1936
be amended~so as to éstablish a
minimum wage -of 65 cents an
hour with no reference as_ to
time limit. The Pepper, Wagner.
Thomas; Murray; Chavez, Green,
' Manguson, Myers, Taylor, Langer,
Morse bill: recommends that the
wage.standards of the Fair Labor
Standards act be raised to a minimum. wage of not. less than 65
cents an hour for the first year
from ~the~ effective date of the
act. To not léss than 70 cents during the second year from such, act; to.75 cents after the expiratons of two years from such date.

In case of employes in Puerto
Ricd.and the Virgin islands, the
bill i states that they should be
paid not in excess of the applicable rate mentioned above and
not less than the rate prescribed
in the applicable order of the ad
ministrator issued under Section
8: ~ Th Caw

If this ~bill should become law:
it is necessary that. the - wage
earner be familiar with it and
urge ~the enforcement of it. The
Fair Labor ~Standards which in- '
cludes a 40 cents minimum wate
law.is not being enforced at present. ae es haan be

According to a report issued
y: oh
~last year by the bureau of. cen
sus, the median wage or salary

income. of Negro males between

the ages of 25 and 29 who had
no education was $316 per year,
those ~completing only seven or
eight years of grade school had a
minimum annual income of $522,
those with a high school education received a median of $689,
and those completing college had
a median of $882 per year. According to these figures only the
college graduates received- an
average hourly incomé of two
cents more than the minimum
wage of 40 cents. For the average work year, those who had
less than a college education were
employed at the rate of 15 cents
and 33 cents per hour.

The United Negro and Allied
Veterans of America in their con- |
vention held in New York about
two weeks ago, stated that Negro veterans of the South are
now being offered jobs as mill
and agricultural workers~ at a
scale ranging from $7 to $12 per
week and refused veterans unemployment benefits if they did
not accept such wages. For average 40-hour week, this wage scale
would range from 17.5 cents to
30 cents an hour which is far below the present 40 cents an hour
minimum wage law.

A. Philip Randolph in his tes
timony before the senate - labor
and public welfare subcommittee
Wednesday,pointed out that according to a recent survey while
veterans of Birmingham were receiving wages 30 per cent above
that of Negro veterans, as compared with.a 78 per cent boost
above the Negro veteran in Jackson, Miss. This income differential, he said, was due directly or
indirectly to discrimnation.

Slave Conditior
Slave Conditions
&.:
Exist On South
~::

African Farm

PRETORIA, South: Africa ~
ANP ~ Conditions ~reminiscent~
of slavery were disclosed here
last week by the Farm Work-association,.which announced that
in the future it would refuse ~~re
_ eruited labor~ to any farmer guil-|
ty of _BSSaOUING OR in,any, other. '*

way oe any black laborer supplied~ by the association.

Police court testimony revealed that Balthasar J. Brenk
man, white foreman on a farm
located in the prosperous farming area of Bethal, Transvaal,
~whipped four black laborers,
struck them with his fist, kicked them and set his dog on them,
Two were made to strip before
being lashed, after which they

wre chained together. They spent

the night. nacked and. manaced.~
> At the peak aoe the farming sea
Shot In

Streetcar Fracas

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ Two
white men were being held last
week: in connection with wild
shooting on 2 crowded. streetcar
in which Mrs. Lucy Pyron, 50
pws shot.

~

' J. D. Bradfield, Stone mountain
white man, and T. C. Garrett,
Atlanta, white, had been asked
by an unidentified Negro man to
move up to a vacant seat in order
that he might sit in the seat they
occupied (in accordance with
jim crow trolley regulations).
The Negro man was said to have
gone to the conductor of the car
and asked his assistance in sejeuring the seat, but got no aid.
Thereupor~ the man is said to
have gone back to the vacant
seat in front of the two white
men and sat down. Another man
sat down with him.

Garrett reportedly got up from
his seat and snatched up the unidentified Negro complainant, a
scuffle ensued. The other white
man, who was later arrested for
~drunkeness and disorderly, then
whipped a pistol from a shoulder holster and waved it to and
fro in the direction of Negroes in
the rear of the car.

The commuters pleaded

not to shoot, but, not to be outdone, the man fired once and
shot Mrs, Pyron through the left
side of the stomach. All the other
passengers and piled out of the
car.

Bradfield was booked for
shooting another and Garett for
drunk and disorderly conduct.

er that he ~thought~ he saw some
one with a knife in the crowd and

jshot to protect himself,

The River car line is known
as a tough one to ride in Atlan.
ta, since the relations between
er too good. The line runs to a
~~poor white~ section...

son here, as many as 14,000 Negro workers are employed. Sixty
per cent of this number are re.
cruited by fhe association.

fer |
mercy and asked the white man |

Bradfield told his arresting offic
white and Negro riders are nev-| |

Celebrate
St. John~s Day

By B. Evcrette Mocre

LAKE CHARLES, Ls. ~ANP
Louisiana.Masons
the 25th annual celébration of Si.
John~s day with a four-day meeting here June 22+25. The oecasion
honors the memory of the ancient saint of Masonry, John the
Baptist.

According to the most worshipful grand master, T. J. Hawkins
of the Universal Grand lodge at
Shreveport, the convention will
be also a ~victory~ celebration
for the lodge. Cooperating in the
program will be the various
chapters of the order of Eastern
Star under its royal grand matron, -Mrs. M. L. Graham, also of
Shreveport.

- The ofder has a carefully mapped building project well underway, which includes the construction of a modern temple at Shreveport. In the very near future,
a home for the aged and a home
for orphans will be added to the

program. The theme of the cele
bration~ will be the promotion of
Free Masonry in the state.

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