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FIRST COLORED
LEGISLATOR IN
NEW YORK DIES
JflW YORK Edward A John
*o.l, famed 83- > ear-old Negro law
yer. died July 25 in • New York
hoipiUl He was the fir*: Negro
ever elected to the New York .eg s
lature. and was chosen in 1017. run-
B.ng on the Rrpiihl.can t okrt John
mt w.v t*orr. ;r. Raleigh, N C.. in
2861. and was a member of a farr. ly
cf 11 owned by a went y *l;\e
h )lder He attended AMs: !a Umver.
a.tv and beoa 'e t f :. m .pa! cf the
leading c lored i ho 1 in Atlanta.
A'ter st..ly.- g lav ~t Sh v Univer
• he scried as a p' ofesscr, dean
# d t-visice of that nit it .it ion Be
fore go.! g : New York n 1907 to
l.ve. ho n..s an aldern-an of the c.ty
«? Ra!r ch
Among his many e!vic Irtr-e.-ts In
Jfew York were the YMCA. hit
e u urch. and the Harlem B -rd of
T aae and Commerce < f wh.ch he
was a member He w: te several
books, among w h arc H.#t r> of
(he Negro Ran i Hit
lory cf the N< S d < -s In the
Spanish - An i i W; • ‘ ' Llgnt
.Ahead for the Nt.". 1 Neg o Al
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A Joint birthday party for four members of the
Michigan Chronicle staff was held Saturday
night in the Gotham hotel suite of Rust J.
Cowant, city editor. Celebrating their birth
days were Cowans. July 29; Charles Wartman,
July 26; Donald Bryant, July 13. and Miss Sara
Garnet, July 12. From left to right in the picture
are: Bryant, Longworth Quinn, business man-
Praises —
(Continued from Page ll
commented on by the personnel of
thnr un.ta.
"This report is most gratifying to
me 1 commend you and the officers
and men of your battalion for your
fine effort which has merited of all
who have observed it."
The letter to the quartermaster
truck unit *aid: "You Landed under
enemy machine guna and artillery
Are which caused losses of men and
equipment, nevertheless, you sal
vaged most of your equipment at
once and within three days 90 per
cent of your vehicles were operating
on a 24-hour basis, a scale which
was maintained for five weeks. Dur
ing this time you continued the de
livering of essential supplies.
*1 want you to know that 1 appre
ciate your splendid work. Your
accomplishments are a source of
gratification to me and your army
commander"
Better Citizens
League Continues
Slum Area Fight
Miles Faison, president of the
Better Citizens' League announced
this week that membership in the
league had increased from six to
sixty members. ,
According to Faison, Americus
Snowden, Detroit Sanitary inspec
tor, told him recently, that an in
vestigation by the DPW had found
tha situation to be aa bad as the
league had painted it to be. Snow
den admitted that the DPW was at
a loss as to what to do, and asked
the league to make suggestions.
For the Lord givelh wisdom. Out of His
mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
—Prov. 2:6.
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New Maritime Union Pact
Outlaws Ship Race Bias
By RAMONA LOWE
NEW YORK The seven-year
fight of the CIO National Maritime
Union for absolute equality for its
Negro membership gained a signal
victory when a
clause was included in the contract
signed this month by the NMU with
41 dry cargo ship operators.
The contract was signed after a
directive from the War Labor Board
to the ship operators ordered the
inclusion under "employment" of
the clause: "There shall be no dis
crimination because of race, creed,
color or national origin."
Fighting Joe Curran, president of
the NMU. described the new con
tract as one of the most important
and progressive steps taken since
the union's inception. "It makes it
necessary to have proper and decent
working rules," he said. "It is offi
cially sealed and delivered by a
government agehey, the War Labor
Board.
•Historic Step*
"The clause on discrimination is
a historic step forward." he added.
"It is more vital in some respects
than many other parts of the agree
ment. since this clause takes away
the greatest weapon used by the
reactionary forces to split worker
from worker. Here we have recog
nized in the maritime industry that
workers, regardless of race, creed
or color, must work together; on
this basis we can proceed to build
the kind of urion we want to live
in and need when the war is over."
Ferdinand Smith, Negro labor
leader and executive secretary of
the union, said it was the first time
in the maritime industry that ship
owners have under contract with
seamen agreed not to discriminate.
"We have had to fight tooth and
nail for this all along the line,"
Smith said. "It is a recognition of
the NMU's basic policy carried out
for seven years and it has the stamp
of approval of the U S. Govern
ment. That is what makes it so im
portant.
"Before the organization of the
NMU there were separate hiring
halls for Negro and white seamen
just as there are now in the AFL
Seafarer s International Un 1 o n,"
Smith explained. "The whites and
Negroes were pitted against each
other by the ship-owners. When
the whites went on strike. Negroes
would scab. When the Negroes went
on strike, whites would scab.
*No Compromise’
“When the NMU was formed the
rank and file seamen made the first
article of the constitution forbid
discrimination of any kind. And
there has been absolutely no com
promise with our fundamental prin
ciples on the part of our leader*
or our members.
“The shipowners wouldn’t agree
to the non-discrimination clause
when we made our proposals for
the new contract They said it
wasn’t necessary because they were
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Francos Leonard. Grayca L. Sadler. Pittsburgh
Courier columnist; Charles Wartman and Ruta
J. Cowans. Seatad in front, are: Larry Chism,
theatrical editor; Jimmy Williams, and Clarenc*
Jackson, advartising manager.—Fowler photo.
already carrying out the FF.PC or
der. But the NMU knew the ship
owners.
"The agreement wa: submitted to
the WLB and it was referred to
the War Shipping Panel. After ex
tensive hearings the vote from the
representatives of labor and the
public was in favor of the major
portion of the union demands which
included the clause. The vote of tha
industry representative alone was
dissenting.”
Twenty-three of the dry cargo
and passenger ship operators who
signed the agreement are member!
of the American Merchant Marine
Institute which controls 70 per cent
of the merchant marine. They in
clude American Export Lines, Inc.;
American South African Line, Inc.;
American West-African Line, Inc.;
Black Diamond Steamship Corpora
tion; Clyde Mallory Lines; De La
Rama Steamship Co.; Grace Line;
International Freighting Corpora
tion; Lykes Brothers Steamship Co.;
Marine Transport Lines, Inc.;
Moore-McCormick Lines, Inc.: New
York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co ;
The New York and Porto Rico
Steamship Co.; North Atlantic and
Gulf Steamship Corp.; Parry Navi
gation Co.; Polarus Steamship Co.;
Stockard Steamship Corp.; Sword
Line, Inc.; United Fruit Co.; United
States Lines Co.; West Indian Steam
ship Co ; Mystic Steamship Co.;
Standard Fruit and Steamship Co.
Ethiopia Seeks
Red Aid To Get
Eritrea Outlet
By GEORGE PADMORE
LONDON—Diplomatic cir
cles in London are closely
watching political develop
ments inside Abyssinia fol
lowing the announcement this
week that Soviet minister extraor
dinary and plenipotentiary Kozlov,
has arrived jn Addis Ababa, capi
tal of Abyssinia.
It is generally believed that Em
peror Haile Selassie will seek So
viet backing in favor of granting
restoration of Eritrea to Abyssinia
thereby securing for this African
republic an outlet to the Red sea.
Diplomatic circles here further
foresee on the part of the emperor
coming maneuvers to secure Pres
ident Roosevelt's support in break
ing the British stranglehold on
Abyssinia. Selassie has already re
fused to renew the Anglo-Ethiopi
an treaty, and British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden has recalled
“for consultation’’ Mr. Howe, Brit
ish, minister to Addis Ababa.
Assuring Selassie of Russia'*
goodwill, Kozlov is understood to
have told the emperor, "The peo
ple of the Soviet Union have feel
ings of friendship and deepest re
spect towards the people of Ethio
pia. The desire and aim of Soviet
Russia is to maintain and develop
friendly relations between our
two countries’’
Emperor Selassie, In sending
i eetings to Russian President Ka
linin, paid tribute to the role the
Soviets are playing in the war to
crush oppressor nations, and ex
pressed the hope that between Ab
yssinia and Russia would exist “a
most fruitful collaboration.”
THE JOHNSONS ENTERTAIN
MISSISSIPPI GUESTS
HELENA. Ark. Guests of Mr.
and Mrs Sam Johnson, of 1508 N.
Cherry St., this week were Mrs.
L V. Walker and daughter, of
Greenwood, Miss., and Charles E.
Rose, Sr., Mrs. Ed Hemmiway, and
Pink Walker, of Chicago.
CHICAGOAN BUYS SI,OOO BOND
HONOLULU. HAWAII Joe
Jackson, former Chicago boxer and
fight manager now employed at
Pearl Harbor, purchased a SI,OOO
war bond at a rally held at Civic
Auditorium h' e recently. His sis
ter, Nolie Jackson, resides at 421
East 37th street.
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Colored Attendant
Waitress —
(Continued from Pag# 11
went into tha establishment on the
invitation of Mias Duprey.
Miaa Kirk and Miss Duprey tes
tified that Misa Hannack after giv
ing tha menu to them had called
Mias Duprey aside about ten
minutes later and told her that she
could not be served because her
companion was colored.
Atty. George Reardon ignored the
Issue that the complainants had not
been served but attempted to build
his case on the crowded condition
of the restaurant at the time and
the fact that no complaint was
made to the manager. He accused
Miaa Kirk and Miss Duprey of de
liberately going into the Old Colony
as a test case against discrimina
tion. ’
In charging the Jury. Judge Bren
nan reminded them that this of
fense was not a matter of race but
a matter of violation of a state law.
After deliberating for 25 minutes
the Jury returned a verdict of
guilty.
John Janaris. proprietor of the
Old Colony, told the Michigan
Chronicle that "Negroei have al
ways been welcome at my place."
When asked why the waitress had
refused service, he said. "I do not
know. She took it on herself; I was
not there."
Janaris paid the fine of $25.
Denies —
(Continued from Page 1)
fngtnn office of the NAACP, denied
predicting any split.
Mr. White's statement, in part,
said; "There is no split anywhere in
this association. At our Chicago
conference July 12-16. a certain
hired worker for a political party,
who has the backing of the Chicago
Tribune, tried in every way possible
to create dissension and disunity
among the delegates. Scores of
good Republicans were nt the Chi
cago conference, some of them very
prominent in party w'ork in their
sections. They said nothing about
splitting over political activity. This
was a pure invention of this hired
Negro henchman of a political par
ty, working hard to impress his
bos.-*- and earn his paycheck.
"This man harangued delegates
outside the conference hall and
tried to conduct a poll, sampling
less than one-fifth of the registered
delegates. His activities became so
obvious that the delegates p*id no
attention to him whatsoever."
Brown told the NNPA in Chicago
during the Democratic convention,
which immediately followed the
NAACP convention them, that he
personally made a poll of the
NAACP delegates, and that he was
stopped before he could complete it.
CLEAR ENOUGH
The manager of a Negro Theatre
In Fahokee, Fla., apparently haa
had his troubles with customers
who for varlfus reasons want to
leave the theatre and return again
without paying an extra admission.
An observer for the trade paper
Film Daily recently spotted a sign,
prominently posted in the lobby,
which makes the management's at
titude unmistakably clear. Suc
cinctly. it saya: "YOU GOES OUT,
YOU STAYS OUT." *
—N. Y. Times
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LOSE PLEA TO
RESTRAIN MAN
FROM HIS HOME
Last week Circuit Judge Clyde I.
Webster denied a petition for a tem
porary restraining order to prevent
a Negro family from occupying
property they had purchased at the
corner of Lincoln and Auberndale,
Highland Park, it was disclosed this
week by Attorney Willis M. Graves.
According to Attorney Graves,
the James A. McDonalds had pur
chased the property on which there
was a restrictive covenant prohib
iting it from being occupied by
Negroes.
A suit seeking a tempopary re
straining order was filed by Don
aldson Subdivision Improvement
association and Harrison S. Haskin,
who appeared before Circuit Judge
Webster laat week.
Judge Webster denied the petition
for the restraining order in as much
as the case would possibly reach
Circuit Court before the purchasers
of the property could occupy the
premises.
The case is expected to be heard
in Circuit Court possibly within
three months, according to Attorney
Graves.
Williams —
(Continued from Page 1)
refitted Bennett by saying that
Thomas did not say that the preach
ers would be able to break the
union but that they were there for
that purpose.
Williams asserted further that
Bennett had the meeting watched
by Russell Brown, Ford employe*
and a photographer. This was al
leged to have been done when Wil
liams and Albert Kahn were de
nouncing Henry Ford and the Ford
company as fascist
Russell Brown in a statement to
the Chronicle denied that he had
been at any of the meetings for the
purpose of covering them for Har
ry Bennett Said Brown, “I have
never seen Mr. Bennett, and I see
no reason for the Ford Motor com
pany to send men to cover such
meetings.”
i SOUTHERN SALES TALK lj
If the sale of bonds among Army
personnel reached its quota in the
drive, it was because of such efforts
as that made by a captain we’ve
heard of, a Southerner who wound
up a bond selling talk to his com
pany with these handsome words:
“And remember, men. these bonds
will he good Just as long as Ne’the’n
money is good.”
—The New Yorker
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