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Landlady Held,
StabbodAßoomer
Here With Shears
A landlady, who according to
police records, had been drinking
Ores held for investigation this
Week in the stabbing of a 46-year
aid roomer at 956 Napoleon street
Held for questioning was Lulu
Douglas. 45. of the above address
She is accused of using s pair of
•hears and a raxor in the assault
made upon Mattie Brumfield.
Due to the serioua condition of
the injured woman in the operating
room at Receiving hospital, police
were unable to question her How
ever, records disclosed the women
bad an argument of unknown
•rtgin and the stabbing ensued.
Mrs. Brumfield was treated for
Multiple lacerations of the face.
Chest left hand and arm Her con
dition was reported as serious.
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man prisoners, who surrendered
Without a struggle, and reported the
♦xUtence In the culvert of a vast
stock of lethal equipment mending
mines, grenades, carbine#, and TNT
It was brought out later that their
mission was sabotage of army mi
tarieL
The three men assisting in the
raid on the culvert were Pvt Cie
otha Robinson. Calvert. Texas; Pvt
Willie Wiley, Pine Bluff. Ark . and
Cpl. James Austin 1616 North East
•th street Oklahoma City. Okla.
Other members of the section in
clude Pvt. Jame« Robinson. East
ever. S. C.: Pvt William Sta’.ey, JSS
K. 131st street. New York. N. Y..
Cpl. Clay Connely, Marlon, N C.;
Pvt Fred Davis. Deberry, Texas;'
Pfc H. D Gober. 800 E. Main street. |
flai nesvUle Texas; Pvt. Booker T J
Pollard, 2114 W. Market. Fort
Worth, Texas, and Pvt Simon Nix
©n, Palestine, Texas
Parents Frond of Ben
Asked how she felt about her son
becoming a National hero, Mrs. Ty
ler said. "Naturally 1 am proud of
blm. but I don't know much about
what he has done In the w ar. How
•ter, whatever he has done to help
Win this war is no more than 1 ex*
Kted of him, for he has always
n a brave boy who could use his
bend when the time came "
Lester 7>ler, who is a defense
worker, said that "I'm proud of my
and proud of all of our boys. It
Ineks like they are doing all right
fer themse’ves, and we'll be hear- I
tag about many more of them be- j
sere this war is over."
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Lincoln Univ. Law
School May Close
After Feb. 1, 1944
{{VfWSON CITY. Mo.—(ANP),
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mpmasAro was sufceteotidLed last
mmmtw whoa the board o t cura
gpee Xioooln uolftnUj daddad
cA law and
CaiS%lm after youthful
flatlet was refused admittance to
At law school at the University
ot Missouri. The supreme cflkrt
heard Gaines' story of being barred
from the tax supported state uni*
WWrtty and ruled that Missouri
■nut provide equal opportunities
ttai facilities for colored students.
Daineur’ victory was hai'.ed lb one
fit the race’s outstanding gains in
|f|7 and ia said to have caused
dpeaiderable antagonism among cn
dkviles of colored people. Both
Sols are closed and in a manner
closed, because of an existing
ilcality which demands that a
certain number of students must
be enrolled before the schools are
classified as of an ‘'active status,”
It eras learned.
Such a technicality prevents col
ored students who desire to enroll
as students of law and Journalism
from enrolling at the University of
Missouri and at the same time
keeps them out of the classrooms
of the law and Journalism schools
of Lincoln because of number spec
ifications and lack of funds. This is
the means that is used to nullify
the Gaines’ Supreme court decision
Of 1937. one educator declared.
Lincoln’s school of law, located
•t St Louis, has been classified as
Inactive because of no enrollments
last September, but 14 students are
now attending classes at the school
of journalism, according to an of
ficial announcement.
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609 Melbourne (center). Lieut. Ordway Hilton
(right). In charge of Detroit's Shore Patrolmen,
has praised the work of Storey and Lee and
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Mrs. Mamye Diggs U chairman
of a Christmas party luncheon
to be given Monday. Dec. 27.
a! Gotham hotaL Make your
reservations now. Call Mrs.
Diggs at Tampla 1-0811. The
gale party is given by Detroit
Association of Women's clubs.
Spot News —
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ftnlly. Mrs. Phillips la e matron
el the Bert on Wavy Yard.
* * *
NEGRO BALL CLUBS
Df- B. Martin, president of the
Negro American baseball league,
told the press at the annual meet
ir*g of the league that they had no
objection to the current campaign
for the integration of Negro play
ers into the major leagues. This
should end the nonesense abqu.t
Negro clubs being opposed to de
mocracy in the sports.
* * *
BREAK COLOR LINE
A Brooklyn shipyard, the Atlan
tic Basin Iron Works, hired 24 Ne
groes last week after months of
dilly-dallying about the color ques
tion. The Urban League and FEPC
representatives told the. company
to get on wi‘h the war and forget
the race myths.
* * *
FORWARD STEP
The Morgan Memorial Church of
Boston is a so-called white church
but last week they acted like Chris
tians. To fill the jost left vacant
by the death of their white organ
ic, the churchmen appointed Ella
Frances Jones as the new organist
and Jones is colored.
* * *
Capt. Homer Roberts of the Public
Relations Department of the War
[ Department was recently promoted
I to the rank of major.
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danger role of political demagogy,
was attended by UAW-CIO repre
sentatives from Illinois. Indians.
Ohio and outlying districts cf
Michigan.
Reek New Approach
Apparently realizing that a new
approach must be made to solutions
of minority group problems within
organized labor, the conference en
dorsed a recommendation to treat
all grievances as violations of the
UAW-CIO constitution and labor
management contracts and not as
race or minority group problems.
This recommendation followed long
discussion on failures to iron out
problems affecting the Negro work
er.
A committee representatives of
the four states which sent delegates
to the conference was appointed to
personally present the findings of
the confab to UAW-CIO presi
dent, R J. Thomas, and the Inter
national Executive Board of the or
ganization. A similar conference
will be called at the end of three
months to determine the extent to
which the recommendations have
been carried out,
i "Teeth' In Constitution
Obviously suggested as a means
of putting “teeth" in the constitu
tion. the investigating committee
would constitute the equivalent of
a grand Jury investigation within
the union and would hold top union
officials and international repre
sentatives responsible for Infrac
tions of the UAW-CIO constitution.
i In recommending such • commit
tee, Psul Silvers, 'of the American
Newspaper Guild Local 351. said
that only by holding union officials
responsible for hate strikes and
other violations of the union code
and labor-management contracts
can the union constitution be en
forced.
"In nearly every plant where
hate strikes have occurred and, in
cidentally. where the Klan is still
active, union officials and inter
national representatives have failed
to force hate strikers to adhere to
the constitution," Silvers declared.
“Instead of reasoning with the
strikers, representatives went out
and talked with Negroes who were
willing to work but who were pre
vented from working by striking
white workers.
"Every provision for combatting
discrimination is contained in the
UAW-CIO constitution. But what
we need is a body with authority
to which union officials would be
responsible when they fail to live
up to their obligations as union
representatives. This body should
have the power to investigate and
recommend the dismissal of such
union leaders.’’ Silvers added.
Gibson, Weaver Speakers
Speakers at the general meeting
which branched off into panel dis
cussion were: John Gibson, state
president of the UAW-CIO, and
George Weaver, CIO Committee to
Abolish Discrimination and mem
ber of the National Staff of the
CIO.
Gibson pointed out that the prob
lem of the Negro worker is becom
ing more serious and said that now
is the time to make provisions for
the returning Negro workers who
will obviously be the first to suffer
from a lack of employment in the
post-war period. He also stressed
the point that colored workers must
become active participants in union
activity.
Weavers talk dealt with national
issues vitally affecting workers. He
referred to the fight by organized
labor to defeat the effort to kill
subsidies and. by contrast, deplored
the lack of interest In the fight for
;» SIOO million appropriation for
better housing.
"We should all be aware of the
fact that there is an organized ef
fort on the part of real estate in
terest* to defeat the governments
housing program,” Weaver de
clared "Last week Congress ap
propriated S.AO million for housing
instead of SIOO million. Had there
been more pressure from organized
labor and other organized groups
there is every reason to believe that
Congress would have appropriated
the SIOO million. •**
Other Recommendations
Other recommendations made by
the panels were: (li Full utiliza
tion of all available woman power;
(2) a broader educational program
among w’hite and colored workers
with some possible changes in the
phraseology of educational pro
paganda, (3) widespread activity in
all local unions to abolish the Little
Steel Formula, and «4) persistent
demand for better housing* for all
workers by organized labor.
Participants on the panel discus
sions represented local unions from
Columbus and Akron. Ohio. Evant
ville and Anderson. Indiana: Chi
cago. III.; Pontiac and Ypsilnnti,
Mich The conference w-as led by
Walter Hardin and was attended by
Shelton Tappes, recording secre
tary, local 600: Horace Sheffield,
and Oscar Noble, international rep
resentatives. UAW-CIO. as well as
delegates from the majority or local [
unions in Detroit and outlying dis
trict!. I
says he is happy that thay are maaksn «f Me
staff. Prior to joining the Navy, ibay vwirt
for the Ford Motor company. TWy are anuasf
lha 20 Nagro Shora Patrolman aov m 4a
major citias of tha Ninth Naval dmxracl —. CHb
cial U. S. Navy photograph'.
Strike —
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the Pc-.t Rrmrs* 7/a.r.t tour:* tt
**irtgs:e aiii Xope fse.-
ILCI
Is Frbr.ii.-T. IKL BtlLsue* t>
thoriues were persuade* ta nerr.ore
‘."-e s*r*r pi*..oc rc7_.;errert fro*
the health :t hsx-*,g bee- es
tablished that the cf in
stalling separate tcrets was hcliicg
back some companies froze inrmg
Negroes.
Between February ar.d Jure. 1942
the partitions were removed at the
Western Electric plants. There was
no protest
In July 1943. NLRB opened hear
ings on charges brought by the In
ternational Association of Machin
ists, AFL, that the Point Breeze
Employes Association was com
pany-dominated.
After extensive hearings, a trial
examiner for the NLRB found that
the charges had been sustained, and
recommended that the Employes
Association be outlawed.
A few days later, more than 13
months after the last partition was
removed from a Western Electric
toilet, the Employes Association
raised the issue of separate toilets
for whites and Negroes. No protest
has yet been lodged about the non
discrimination rule in the company
cafeteria.
In Baltimore, as in any city below
the Mason-Dlxon line, the Issue was
a natural among white workers
White people in the south are
brought up on the idea pt segrega
tion.
They are also brought up on the
idea that venereal disease is more
common among Negroes than
whites
WLB Defied
No amount of medical refutation,
nor the fact that at Western Elec
tric every employe it given a Waa
serman test before being hired, hat
been sufficient to overcome this
superstition.
The striker* are openly defying a
back-to-work order of the War
Labor Board, w-hich denied its de
mand for segregated toilets. They
did, however, comply with the pro
visions of the Smith-Connally Law,
about 60 per cent of the employes
having voted last October to au
thorize a strike in an election su
pervised by the NLRB (National
Labor Relations Board).
The Association has been found
to be company-dominated by an
NLRB trial examiner.
But the company has been praised
by the FEPC (Fair Employment
Practices Committee), the War Man
power Commission and the Balti
more Urban League for its non-dis
criminatory treatment of Negro
employes.
A few hours after the strike be
gan last Tuesday, William H Davis,
chairman of the National War La
bor Board, sent the following tele
gram to Vernon L Dorsey, chairman
of the Negotiations Committee, and
Charles H. Dorn, attorney for the
Point Breeze Employes Association,
Inc.:
"The National War Labor Board
is advised that a strike ta in prog
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decide, lha committee will still have
to secure enforcement of iu direct
ives. or at least that, portion of
them which may not (all within .he
purview of the courts ruling.
There It within FEPC a deter
mination on the part of some to see
the Capital Transit dispute, dangling
since Deo.. 1942. settled by the end
of the year or toon erier. There is
hardly anything new to be dis
closed about the case which ts not
already known, and yet Paul Lunt,
a sociologist hired by the labor
management committee (or the
company, ie making a survey o(
how best Negroes can be upgraded
and hired Into platform Jobs.
In this caae, however, there are
several measures which the com
mittee can employ to offset enforce
ment before proceeding directly to
the President There would, of
course, have to be a disposition i i
the par*, of the various other gov
ernmental agencies to go along on
FEPC recommendations for enforce
ment. Initiative is still with the
committee.
The only time FEPC has appealed
a esse to the President was m 1941
when the International Association
of Machinists < AFL) refused to give
Oaries Sullivan, a Los Angeles Ne
itw s card so that he could work in
s riupyard. The case came before
the frr. fceer.n g of the original
.vitt
The r-*s;Jeri called In William
i* nc~. \r: p-residen:: Green called
r l KM president and he the
TT’M.Af'-: of *.** e LvaL Sullivan got
>..* ;*."t fcNvt'jr sf:er.
■ 1 tn s e Pres.dent's follow
er .it. ibc yj. r.g cf Comptroller
v’-rre-* '..Nuy Warren, which
r>- it,.*.- t. . * :.vk the props from un-
TT.7V >*i *. remained, it is
c;..M-#v v rme at the President
vo.. c to maintain consist
v :.i an e.ect.cn coming up
r>f vt Tear
Cme « ag here has »:d that “FEPC
msT h* ;>.e Prender/.'s baby but it
zr«r. t preclude his calling for a
bl.v*d hest" which may or may not
make sense.
re» conducted by the Point Breeze
Employee Association, which ia sub
stantially interfering with the pro
duction of vital war materials at
the Point Breeze plant of the West
ern Electric company. This strike
haj been subject to consideration
by the National War Labor Board at
its meeting today. By unanimous
vote of the board, ell striking em
ployes of this company are ordered
to return to their jobs immediately
If this order is not complied with at
once, the board will initiate all pos
sible action under the War Labor
Disputes Act and Executive Order
0370, against the union of the strik
ing employes in order to restore
normal production.
"An immediate reply is re
quested."
The case was referred to the
White House when the association
refused to comply with the NWLB
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Think Before
Making That Call
Civilians who want to do some
thing for service men during the
coming holidays can take a tip
from the Milhigan Bell Telephone
company and lav oft non-essential
long distance calls.
The company urges Home Front
ers to put aside the long distance
impulse on Christmas Bve and Day
and New Year's Eve and Day. In
order that, service men be given
the right-of-way over, the nation'i
telephone network Men in uni
form are expected to flock to tele
phones all over the country dur
ing those four days to get in touch
with the "folks back home."
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did not say who would function as
chairman of the committee.
In announcing the appointment of
the committee Gibson said, *'We
must face the fact that there is dis
crimination in organized labor and
that something must be done to
combat it. In appointing this com
mittee the State UAW-CIO believes
that it is making at least a first ap
proach to the solution of minority
group problems. Discrimination not
only affects Negro workers but
workers from other minority groups
as well. None of these men knew
before today that they would be
called to serve on this committee,
I am appointing them because I
kr.ow they will work hard to solve
some of the problems confronting
the UAW-CIO as an organization."
Gibson added that the state anti
discrimination committee would
serve ea a clearing house for minor
ity group problems that could not
be settled within local unions. He
predicted that once the committee
begins to function, workers not ac
quainted with the broader aspects
of the labor movement would be
educated to the fact that discrim
inating against any group of labor
ing men and women is only placing
a weapon in the hand of manage
ment to be used against all work
ers.
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