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CAYTON'S WEEKLY
Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington,
U. S. A.
In the Interest of equal rights and equal justice to
all men and for "all men up."
A publication of general information, but in
the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored
Citizens.
It is open to the towns and communities of the
state of Washington to air their public grienvances.
Social and church notices are solicited for pub
lication and will be handled according to the rules
of journalism.
Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special
rates made to clubs and societies.
HORACE ROSCOB CAYTON. .Editor and Publisher
TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910
NEW YEAR
Next Tuesday is New Year and may you
and each of you meet it with hopeful hearts
and cheerful countenances. May you set
your stakes high and work to reach the
mark. An old folks lore story was to the
effect that whatever you did the first twelve
days in the year that you would be more or
less engaged throughout the entire year
and it was almost industrial suicide to show
signs of indolence on New Year. Weather
witches declared the condition of the wea
ther the first twelve days in January
would forecast the weather of the entire
twelve months. In short New Year and
the next eleven days were observed and
watched with eagle eyes.
"BEWARE OF GREEKS"
In a signed statement the American Meat
Cutters and Butchers Working Men of the
Central Labor Council printed in the
Searchlight, which is published ostensibly
in the interest of the colored folks of the
Northwest, declare "there is no provisions
in their constitution or by-laws that pre
vents any creed or color or nationality from
becoming a member of the organization."
They go a step further and say, "any per
son or persons, who are employed at any
packing house, may call at the office of the
union and become a member of the or
ganization by complying with the rules and
by-laws of the constitution." We are told
that even the good God is averse to eleventh
hour coonversions and certainly any sane
man is. Nothing in either the by-laws or
the constitution proventing colored men
from becoming a member of the organization
and yet nowhere in the United States do
you find colored men members of the or
ganization. If the doors of the organiza
tion swung open as freely to colored men
as to white men, certainly some colored men
would seek to join and learn a trade that is
always profitable. The heartfelt welcome
that is being extended to the black man
.just now is due, more to the fact that he
is taking the strikers' places than the de
sire to extend to the black man a helping
hand. When the black men broke the back
bone of the longshoremen's strike and the
union suddenly became very solicitous about
his welfare and extended him a welcome in
vitation to join the organization, but he did
not and he showed his good sense by not
doing so. Let the colored man beware of
the Greeks bearing gifts, lest they have a
dagger up their sleeves and slip'it under
his fifth rib, while he is receiving the pres
ent. The colored men, not only in Seattle,
but in Chicago, are now getting good work
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1917
in the packing houses, owing to the striking
unions and from these positions they have
been shut out in the past on account of the
unions and this unexpected outburst of love
for the black man on the part of organized
labor is entirely too sudden for his good.
The advice of Cayton's Weekly is that you
continue as you are and you will continue
to hold good jobs, whereas, if you join the
union, you will be out of a job and the
union will not give you a square deal when
it is again in control, if such a thing ever
happens.
The year closing has been a harvest for
the black man of the Northwest, owing to
the striking unions in the various indus
tries, and though many strikes of huge di
mensions have been pulled off in this sec
tion within the past eighteen months, but
two of them have been settled without the
colored man profiting largely thereby. The
street car strike was settled and not a col
ored man got a place either before or after
and the same was true of the telephone
strike. The future in the Northwest looks
bright for the colored man and he will en
joy his share of the prosperity wave that
is hovering over thtis section if he will
only watch his P's and Q's and steer clear
of organized labor so long as it is domi
neered by the race prejudice bunch that is
now in control. •
COMING THEIR WAY
Another wave of prosperity is about to
alight on Seattle, which is of a far differ
ent kind than the previous ones, this one
being confined for the most part to the
working men. Multiplied thousands of men
are wanted in Seattle to carry on the work
of construction that has been laid out, and
which the general government insists must
be done at once, if not sooner, and the
working men are getting fabulous wages
and are able to lay by quite a sum of
money each month in spite of the high cost
of living. These good wages the men are
getting meaens that they will spend a great
deal of it for their personal comforts and
other men in business will to an extent
profit from this great working man's pros
perity wave.
Seattle has not as many colored persons
in the commercial whirl as she should have,
owing to their constitutional timidity to
risk their money, either collectively or in
dividually, in business enterprises, but there
are some that have launched out and they
are m line to enjjoy some of the prosperity
that the working men are falling heir to.
In the strictly commercial world the Al
hambra Cash Grocery Company leads and
it is said that the concern disposes of up
wards of a car load of food stuff each
month, and we suspect it handles in the
neighborhood of $20,000 per month. This
company is under the ownership and man
agement of Harry Legg and W. H. Banks
Mrs J. C. Coogswell has also launched
out into the grocery business and while she
is making haste slowly, yet she is in line to
catch quite a bit of the trade from the men
that are profiting from the working man's
prosperity wave now overshadowing the
city She is located in a strictly "colored
man community" and if there is anything
in the so-much-talked-of -race pride," she
ought to do exceedingly well the ensuing
year. &
Mrs. M. D. Harvey is laying her plans to
blossom out into a full Hedged lunch room
and delicatessen and being in an apartment
house community there is no reason why
she would not have a huge success out of
the venture. She is already doing fairly
well and the New Year ought to bring her
renewed prosperity.
Mrs. G. B. Miller is operating a Ladies'
Exchange and building up a splendid trade
among 1 the women folk in her immediate
neighborhood. It strikes us that she has
the foundation on which to build up a gi
gantic business in the very near future
providing she pushes it and she seems to
be of that turn of mind.
Madam Elizabeth De Neal must be do
ing: well or she eonld not continue to oper
ate so large an establishment as she is.
She is not only doing a splendid counter
business, bnt she is teaching the young
colored girls of the Northwest the art of
handling hair to the best advantage and
that too, without regard to the color and
complexion of the owner of the hair. In
other words, she handles the colored wo
man's hair just as successfully as she does
the white woman's.
Mrs. L. A. Graves and her daughter, Mrs.
Zoe Graves Young, are doubtless enjoying
a greater amount of the working man's
prosperity than the most of us, as they are
busy from morning until night. She has a
beautiful and well arranged hair dressing
establishment in one of the prominent bank
buildings of the city and is getting the pat
ronage.
Samuel H. Stone, the caterer, is certainly
prepared to get as much or more of the
working man's prosperity wave than any
of the colored persons in the commercial
pursuits^ He has a well filled store of the
articles in his line of work and he gets as
much, if not more, of the catering- work,
as any other establishment in the eitv. He
has an elaborate as well as expensive plant
at his place of business and he handles a
banquet of a thousand with as much grace
and ease as he does one of a hundred. TTe
is a past master in his line.
The Southern Express Company, under
the management of Tra F. Norris. Jr., prob
ably does the largest business of any con
cern in the city owned by colored persons.
The five immense motor trucks of the com
pany are busy day in and day out and its
gross receipts will doubtless run into the
thousands each month.
The Chandler Fuel and Express Company
is one of the big concerns of its kind of the
city, and must have its manager, William
Chandler, at his wits end every hour of the
day to^ figure ont how to handle the rush
of business that has come to his concern.
owingl to the prosperity wave, and the
past tis nothing to what the immediate
future promises to be.
Z. L. Woodson, the apartment house kinqr,
mnst he one of the happiest men in the
Northwest, and simply because this pros
perity wave means money almost in ear
load lots for him. and if there is any one
thinjr in this world that Woodson loves like
unto himself it is money in hnnches.
Hayden J. Richardson doubtless built bet
ter by a great deal than he had planned in
buying the Donprlas Apartments. At the
time he took it over it was a nice invest
ment, but the great prosperity that has
come to Seattle has made his investment a
mint of srold. He spent a number of years
in Alaska trying to strike it rich and then
came back to .Seattle to walk ripht into
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