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Negroes May Serve In OPC And On Rationing Boards
Wins Honors
SEN. BROWN
PUTS QUESTION
TO HENDERSON
Price Administrator Says
Negroes Can Fulfill
All Qualifications
I
In answer to a letter from U. S
Senator Prentiss M Brown <D> of i
Michigan, urging appointment of ,
Negroes to OPA rationing boards .
and in the Office of Price Control \
Price Administrator, Leon Hender- j
aon revealed last week that the.
personnel setup of OPA is designed |
to prevent discrimination because |
Correspondence between the sen- j
at r. who acted upon the advice |
of several prominent Negroes and j
the Price Administrator, who point
ed out that Negroes will ‘'fulfill j
qualifications of fairmindedness,!
understanding ts the dUtibs and re- |
aponsibilities of the position, and j
ability to devote the necessary j
time," was forwarded to the Mich
igan Chronicle by Senator Brown :
this week.
Honorable Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Washington, D. C.
Dear Leon:
I have been asked by a number,
your attention "their desire that in 1
the OPA and rationing set-up c. 1- j
ored persons be given appoint-,
ments in the areas where the Ne
gro population is considerable.
It seems to me that such appoint- j
ments would make for smoother j
operation of your program and |
would assure the Negro groups that |
they are properly represented,;
thereby preventing any criticism i
which might come if there were no i
Negroes appointed in these areas, i
Prentiss 5 M* Brown, U.S.S.
Henderson's Answer
Hon. Prentiss M. Brown
United States Senate
Washington. D. C.
Dear Prentiss:
Thanks for your note of May 16;
the delay in reply has been spent
MISS THELMA VIRGINIA
BARRINGTON
The competent and lovable 15-
year-old daughter of Mr. ani
Mrs. Hugh F. Barrington of 6071
Stanford avenue. Detroit. Mich.,
who is a member of the 12-B
class at Northwestern high
school, Detroit, is the proud re
cipient of a certificate of the Na
tional Honor society. She is also
a student at the Detroit Institute
of Musical art. studying piano.
During the 1940-41 school year
she served on the editorial staff
of the "Norwester," year book,
and during the 1941-42 school
year was elected its advertising
manager. She will graduate from
high school in January. 1943, and
plans to enter Wayne university.
Detroit. Mich. She has been veYy
active in church work, having
served as secretary of the Cradle
Roll department of St. Stephen
A.M.E. church Sunday school, for
more than three years. Her par
ents .grandparents, who are Mr.
and Mrs. David Jones of Bir
mingham. Ala., and her many
friends take pride in looking for
ward to her graduation from high
school next January.
in formulating basic policies affect-
We have carefully considered the I
question of the constituency of lo
cal boards, and instructions are be
ing formulated so as to prevent
discrimination in any form. The
. members of local boards will be
selected by OPA state directors
[ from names recommended by local
j Defense councils. AH field offices
; have tjeen specifically instructed
I that board membership must be
i such as to represent the community
jas a whole. Undoubtedly, Negroes
; who fulfill the other qualifications
of fair-mindedness, understanding
j of the duties and responsibilities of
the position, and ability to devote
i the necessary time will be appoint
!ed to serve on local boards. The
; position of executive secretary to
; local boards is a Civil Service one
i —and hence exempt from discrim
inatory pressure.
| I ag-ee with you that the smooth
operation of our program will de
; pend, in large part, on the effec
! ,;ve relations between the local
; boards and the public which they
1 serve. In this connection I would I
: like to point out that consumers,
I distributors, manufacturers and th e
I government are joined together in
| the entire program against infla
i Sincerely yours,
Letn Henderson, Adm.
Headlines —
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150 Race
Delegates At
CIO Confab
| Approximately one hundred and
I fifty delegates attended the
State Convention of the Committee
j for Industrial Organization, last
Tuesday through Thursday at Mus- ;
kegon, Mich.
Resolution Hits Discrimination
Highlighting the meeting was the
adoption by the state body of sev
eral resolutions among which was i
the following hitting discrimina
te pledge to work actively to
overcome any and every influence
designed to artificially keep our
people divided. We endorse the
| government's action in the Sojour
| ner Truth case and its proposed
j prosecution of subversive enemies
1 who sought to provoke racial con
i flict. We pledge to fight against the
i Ku Klux Klan, the appeaser pub
lishers, the labor baiters, Howard ;
Smith. Clare Hoffman. Martin Dies;
j and all elements who oppose the j
j war or threaten national unity. i
| "This is a war of all people, for
[all people. The rights of the Negro
| people in the armed forces and at
the ballot box must be respected.
The rights of Negro people and
other minorities to employment in
j defense industries must be recog
nized without equivocation.
"We call upon our government
to take firm action against the
purveyors of Negro discrimination.
anti-Semitism and other undemo
cratic doctrines which form the
core of fascism.” . . . end quote.
Delegate Jim Crowed In City
Asa result of the jim crow act
directed at Hodges Mason. Negro
delegate of Local 208, a resolution
was passed by the body which call
ed for the "placing of teeth” in
the convention’s position that such
meetings not be held in cities where
discrimination is practiced.
An eloquent supporting speech
for the support of the resolution
waS made by Theodore Smith, re
elected vice president of the Michi
gan CIO council. The convention
was also urged by delegates to take
a strong stand on the Negro ques
tion and also urged tha employers
| and wo-kers who discriminate
against and incite disunity and
prejudice must be fought; also that
people in shops who refuse to work
with Negroes should be removed
from the shops.
Officers elected included August
Scholle, president, winning over
Andrew Leiper. with a poll of 2.611
votes against Leiper's 1,186; Ben
Probe, secretary-treasurer by ac
clamation and Leonard D. Smith,
vice president.
Race Bias —
(Continued from Page 1)
said, "but we have to try to work!
along with the company.”
Craigen pointed out that the
Ordnance Department did not have
to take orders either from the com
pany or the union, and asked who
had given the orders.
"It wasn't an order," Myers said.
"It was a very persuasive sugges
tion.”
The conference was terminated
at this point and the Ordnance
school is awaiting a memorandum
from Colonel Crane, official of the
U. S. Ordnance Department in
Washington.
CONTINENTAL
HIRES NEGROES
AFTER PROTEST
C. 1.0. Picket Line Nets
Management Action
While prejudiced, arrogant and
indignant Muskegon. Mich., was
failing miserably to provide ade
quate accommodations for the 1,000
CIO delegates who attended the
State conference held in that city
i late in May, and while the smug
I little town was refusing to serve
i Negro delegates in its restaurants,
a group of Negro trade unionists
j were looking over industrial con- j
ditions as they affected Negroes!
there.
j They found, among others, one I
outstanding point of discrimination, i
I That was the Continental Motors, a j
plant which had never, during its
20 years of existence, hired Negro
workers. Statements from scores
of Negroes in that city revealed
that after trying repeatedly to se
cure employment in the plant and j
failing, they had given the effort'
up.
Holds Contractu
From Government
Upon the Negro unionists dis-:
covering that the company held
government contracts totalling ap
proximately $150,000,000 and despite
the President's Executive Order
making discrimination in defense
industry a violation thereof, had
persistently refused to hire Ne
groes.
The result of these findings was
activated at an afternoon session of
the convention during which a
picket line •of Muskegon citizens
bearing placards denouncing Conti
nental Motors paraded in front of
the meeting hall while inside the
hall addressing the convention.
Leonard D. Smith, vice president
of the State CIO, told the 1,000
members of the flagrant discrim
inatory practices which Continen
tal was carrying on in Muskegon.
Company Comes To
Quick Terms
Resultant oi this action. Chester
Martin, presiden* of the Muskegon !
CIO council; James Jamison, mem
ber of the bargaining committee;
George D. Johnson, president of lo
cal 113, and Manson Zeldenhurst.
vice president of local 113, rushed
from the convention hall and at
tempted to prevail upon Richard
Raglyn, member Detroit Local 101
of the U. S. Rubber company, who
was leading the pickets, to call the
action off. The request was made
on the grounds that the demonstra
tion was causing them (Muskegon
union officials) much embarrass
ment. They also stated feebly that
they were ignorant of the condi
tion. Raglyn was unmoved and the
picketting continued until an hour
or so later when Arnold Coxhill,
former president of Muskegon lo
cal 113, UAWA and Manson Zeld
enhurst, who had disappeared, re
turned saying that they had con
ferred with the vice president of
Continental Motors who had agreed
to meet the following Monday with
the union bargaining of the plant
to perfect a plan for the hiring of
Negroes. Averring that they "would
sec the situation through,” Raglyn
called the pickets off. Herman
White, Negro president of Lakey
Foundry CIO local, was left in
charge of the matter.
Pickett Committee
Members of the committee which
arranged the action directed against
Continental Motors were Richard
Raglyn, militant member of U. S.
Rubber Local 101; Leonard D.
Smith, vice president State CIO and
member of Local 101; R. R King,
reporter for the "United Rubber
Worker,” local 101's official publi
cation, and other delegates.
Negroes at School Not Placed
Craigen said Negro womeniat the
school are kept from good jobs
through a policy of shunting colored
women to less important depart
given training for the better posi
tions.
"You will find some of the best
trained Negro stenographers in the
city working in the filing depart
ment at the school while white
women who don't seem to know
anything about the work train as
stenographers and office workers."
Craigen said.
"Some of these white women."
Craigen continued, “are so badly
in need of training they take dic
tation in long hand, yet the colored
women who are competent and
well trained work in the filing de
partment."
Craigen. said he believes the situ
ation at Ford's will be ironed out
immediately upon receipt of the j
memorandum from Colonel Crane
ma Canal depends," the association
pointed out.
End West Indies
Discrimination
WASHINGTON. D. C.—lmmedi
ate abolishment of wage differen
tials between Negro and white
workers engaged in constructing
naval and army bases in the Carib
bean and the end of other dis
criminations, was urged by the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People last week
in a telegram to President Roose
The unequal wages were the
cause of the race hots at Nassau
in the Bahamas Monday, June 1.
which caused the Duke of Windsor,
governor of the Bahamas, to return
there hurriedly from conferences
here, the N.A.A.C.P. said.
"These and other discriminations
are creating unrest and bitterness
throughout the West Indian islands
|on which our defense of the Pana-
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Vacations Now
To avoid embarrassmer.t of youth
called to Join the army, a two
week's vacation with pay and trav
el expenses home will be given
every recruit on and after June 15.
it was announced this week.
Michigan headquarters of the Se
lective Service explained that many
men called to the army had been
rejected after a thorough physical
I examination by army doctors and
I had returned home to face "embar
rassment" of friends and well wish
ers who had perhaps banqueted the
i 'recruit'’ previous to his departure
I In the future the army will in
! struct the draftee to say goodbye
ings or make any final preparations
until they (draftee) have been to
the induction center and have gone |
through the routine there and have i
passed the rigid, thorough army
After the selectee has been ex
amined and passed as qualified by
the army, then ho will be given
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Project—
(Continued from Page 1)
body and Mrs. Addie Watson is
assistant secretary.
N.A.A.C.P. Steps In
Evidence that the National Asso
ciation for the Adavncement of Col
ored People had stepped into the
fight was a telegram read at the
Tuesday morning session of the
Hamtramck City Council. The tele
gram, signed by Walter White,
stated in effect, “The Hamtramck
City Council has an excellent oppor
tunity to aid the national unity of
this country by overruling the Ham
tramck Housing commission."
The N.A.A C.P. also urged John
B. Blandsford, Jr., director of the
United States Housing Authority
which built the project to take a
firm stand and "avert another series
of riots like those which occurred
over the Sojourner Truth homes in
Detroit."
Mass Meeting Sunday
The regular monthly meeting of
the Sojourner Truth Citizens com
mittee will be held at Shiloh Bap
tist church at 3 p.m., Sunday, at
which the Hamtramck homes and
other current hqysing problems will
be discussed. Rev. Hill has pointed
out that the committee must still
work for the release of the 17 boys
who are still held in connection
with the February riot.
Complete rent information will
also be available with representa
tives of the rent division of the
Office of Price Administration pres
ent to answer questions relative to
tenant-landlord problems.
Condemns Action
Against H. Bridges
] NEW YORK, N. Y,—The deporta
j lion order issued by Attorney Gen
eral Francis Biddle against Harry
Bridges, president of the Long
shoremen and Warehousemen's
Union. CIO. was condemned by of
ficials of the National Negro Con
gress. as disruptive of national uni
ty, and a blow that "strikes direct
ly at the struggles of the Negro
people."
The following is the text of a
congress statement issued Friday,
May 29, by the president, Max Yer
gan, and John P. Davis, executive
secretary; calling for a reversal of
the order:
"In the face of the heroic con
tribution which Harry bridges has
made and continues to make in the
production for victory program; ir.
the face of the contribution Bridges
has made and continues to make in
the interest of ufnty of all the
American people in a nation at war,
the Attorney General's deportation
order strikes a blow for Hitler. It
strikes a foul blow against the war
time interests of the American peo-
I p'.e and against the whole war
effort.
"Because the interests of a united
labor movement and a united
American people fighting to win
the war, represent so completely
the interest of Negro people, the
Attorney General's action against
Bridges strikes directly at the
struggles of the Negro people, who
| for the wan
1 "The cause of national unity, of
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Judge Wheeler. 42, charged with
felonious assault growing out of
the Sojourner Truth riot of Febru
ary 28. was cleared of charges by
Recorders Judge George Murphy
last Friday. Wheeler was charged
with throwing a rock that hit Pa
trolman Eld Koss, white. Eleventh
Precinct, on the head, inflicting a
wound that needed four stitches.
Koss, under sross examination by
Atty. Judson Powell, admitted he
Vas facing the west at Ryan road
I and Nevada avenues when he was
j hit, therefore he could not see
who had thrown the rock. He
said large crowds were on both
sides of the street.
Patrolman Walter Baumgart. who
arrested Wheeler, said the defen
dant “seemed to be agitating trou
ble.” However, he could not iden
tify Wheeler as the man who threw
the rock.
Powell argued that Wheeler was
just one of many persons congre
gated at the intersection, and that
there was no testimony offered to
show he was the person who threw
the rock.
Willie Goosby. another defendant
in the Sojourner Truth riot, was
foupd not guilty in Recorder's court
Monday. Goosby was defended by
Atty. Willis M. Graves.
Lawrence Martin, 23, of 9079
Greeley, who was convicted two
weeks ago for the second time, was
sentenced last Friday by Recorder's
Judge Christopher E. Stein to from
2'z to five years in Jackson prison.
Martin was found guilty of car
rying a pistol during the Sojourner
Truth riot. He was convicted earli
er of violting the Federal law pro
hibiting the carrying of guns by
persons convicted of a felony. He
is awaiting sentence on that charge.
MISS VERNA CLARE
STEVENS
Who recently graduated from
St. Mary academy in New Or
leans. Miss Stevens was awarded
highest honors in chemistry. She
is the daughter of Mrs. Gladys
Stevens.
Not Guilty Verdict
Returned By Jury
BULLETIN
John Coleman, accused of shoot
ing David Kennedy to death last
August 30. was found not guilty
by a jury Wednesday morning.
The jury deliberated less than an
hour before arriving at the ver
dict. Coleman claimed he was not
at the scene of the murder at the
time of the fatal shooting.
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MUSKEGON, Mich—Mrs. Idailia
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who attended the United Automo
bile Workcrs-CIO convention which
was held here recently. In her
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"'We wives of
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plastic razors, thus helping to con
serve metals, the War Department
says. Cases likewise will be made
of plastic materials, and both razor
and case have been tested for abili
ty to "take” severe variations ?n
temperature and extraordinary
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of 317 Woodland avenue, has
been promoted to staff sergeant
in the Sixty-second Quartermas
ter Brigade it was revealed this
week. Young Morrison is the son
of Mr r and Mrs. Morrison of
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in the army less than four months.
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