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P Tw* Friday. October 26, 1945 PORTLAND INQUIRER Ex-Labor Leader Everell Johnson Blocks Equality Assigned io Posi of CIO Al Fori Huachuca DEMOCBATS SEEK OUTLAWING OF WHITE SOUTH S BULE Class Mates Meet After 25 Years COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 24— (ANP)Bold moves to outlaw the white south and extend membership to Negroes in the Democratic party there were main accomplishments of the National Council of Negro Democrats which ended a two- day session here Tuesday night, marking the first meeting of that organization in the deep south. Resolutions adopted by the convention Tuesday after noon called for the National Democratic committee exerting immediate and unrelentless pressure up its southern units to open them up to Negroes and, denial of office or position to persons holding federal posts who achieve them through ; alliances with groups who prevent, by scheme and device, their election or appointments through preventing participa- ; tion by a majority of their fellow citizens. The latter resolution, officials explained, was aimed at ousting white federal office holders who are given power through the white primary. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The re DETROIT (ANP)— The f a i r practices committee set up by the cent appointment of Mr. Everett UAW-CIO to break down dis W. Johnson as American Red crimination and institute fair Cross field director for Ft. Hua- | practices among its members chuca has been announced by j finds that it has a tremendous Verne Simmons, Pacific A rea ! job on its hands trying to curb Manager of the American Red the activities of a former labor Cross. Mr. Johnson’s first assignment leader, Charles Edgecomb, direc tor of the Detroit Housing com in American Red Cross was as assistant field director with the mission. Edgecomb’s hostile attitude to 92nd Division. After serving for wards Negroes here concerning some time with the 92nd, he was the housing situation has been transferred to domestic service all too apparent. His brazen, ar and has served as an assistant rogant statement a few days ago field director at Ft. Huachuca when he implied that the housing since January 1, 1944. That assignment to the 92nd oommission did d i scriminate against Negroes and intimated Division was something of a home Seek Lynching, Poll . that they would continue to do coming to Mr. Johnson, since he ] Monday afternoon during which Tax Removal H. George Davenport, w e l l so until ‘ he general public de served as a commissioned officer S t a f f 3 t T l l S k e g e e Resolutions also called for im rousing speeches were made by known Chicago Sign painter is manded that they do otherwise in the old 92nd of World War I. 1 mediate passage of federal bills Mrs. Sarah Z. Daniels of Ma,i Dr. J. M. Henderson of Falls vacationing with his attractive has rubbed Negroes the wrong He is a graduate of Pennsylvania to eliminate lynching and the poll ning, S. C. and others in the daughter in New York City, Mi«i way. State College and has, in addi Church, Va., who has joined the tax, the latter to be done by leg midst of the south’s voting fight. Camille Davenport, former Chica The Michigan Chronicle said tion, taken special lecture courses faculty of the Tuskegee School islation rather than by constitu Hear Many Leaders go and New Orleans' beautician. editorially: “To be sure the com at Temple University at various of Agriculture. His assignments tional amendment. The conven The two day session tapered include teaching chemistry and Davenport is widely known in missioners have been walking times between 1930 and 1940. tion, attended by some 600 dele out Tuesday night in a round supervising research in the Car- Following his service in World the mid-west for his pungent pen backward so long their eyes must gates from northern, western and table discussion of voting prob nings which he labeled "Dyna by now be in the back of their War I, Mr. Johnson was Physical ver laboratory. A graduate of eastern states, also requested that lems at Allen university. Parti Howard university and the Uni mite." — Atlas Newsphoto Serv- heads. Charlie Edgecomb is the Education Director at St. Augus more Negroes be given federal cipants included C. A. Scott, pres Fred D. Downer, native of has studied voice in New York, I man who is leading them back tine College in North Carolina, versity of Wisconsin, he has just posts, particularly those agencies ident of the Citizens Democratic completed important war work as Royston, Georgia, left, former Vienna and Naples. His theatrical and was later Director of the ward.” dealing with labor, housing and association, Atlanta, and editor baseball star, president. Atlas career has included important t We are reminded that Edge Douglas Center in Toledo, Ohio. junior chemist with the Badger rights of veterans. Immediate of the Atlanta Daily World; Eme Newsphoto Service, greets former cinematic anc{ legitimate roles For some time prior to entering j Ordnance works, Baralow. Wis., comb is a former labor leader, passage of a permanent FEPC bill ry O. Jackson, president of the classmate, the most recent of which is "Pete, having been for a number of Red Cross, he was Executive Sec- and at the Unniversily of Chicago and one to extend federal aid to Progressive Democratic associa Morehouse College Andrew J. Taylor. Mr. Taylor The Bartender" in the current retary of the Community Center where he conducted a special years, prior to taking the position education were requested. Presi tion, Birmingham, and editor of who gained recognition as a bari- showing of CARMEN JONES in war research project. He is the as director of the housing com at West Chester, Pa. dent Truman was praisd for his the Birmingham World; J. Logon tone on the school's quaret. 1916- Chicago's loop.— Atlas Newspho son of E. S. Henderson, noted During the period of his as mission, general secretary of La administration, but was urged to Kearse, editor of the Peoples 18. is a nativ eof Macon, Ga. He to Service. bor’s on-Partisan league“ whicfl signment at Ft. Huachuca, Mr. authority on sports, Washington, guard against domination of it by Spokesman, Winston, N. C., and was at that time “labor’s political Johnson has continued his inter D. C., and the nephew of Mrs. reactionaries and groups hostile president of the Citizens Political arm. It has evolved into the pres ests in recreation and sports, and E. D. Washington, daughter-in- to Negroes. association, Osceola E. McKaine, CLEVELAND (ANP)— “T h e ent Political Action committee as an accredited football official law of the lale Booker T. Wash- executive secretary of the Pro Union Effected only way the Negro can achieve of Wayne county, NAW political has officiated at many football ington, who resides in the insli- High point of the convention gressive Democratic party who unqualified racial recognition and machine. games held at the Post and in ; tute community. 317 N. W. Third Ave. was its concluding with complete last year ran against Olin D. equality is to accept without res ---------------------------- Edgecomb is still a member of the vicinity. agreement among the delegates Johnston (D-S.C.) for the United ervation the leadership within the UAW. Pays his dues regular —For a Limited Time Only— Mr. Johnson’s eldest son, Ever- that problems affecting southern States senate, R. O’Hara Lanier, the group if you expect to be ly, attends all of its conventions ett W. Johnson Jr., is a commis- T a | | r A h n ilf former president of Hampton in Negroes were also problems ef W e Can Make Suits accepted by the others outside. and conferences and voices his sioned pilot in the Air Corps and CHICAGO (ANP)—-An effort fecting Negroes in the northern, stitute and personal emissary to and O'Coats from This was the challenge that opinion vociferously on the floor. saw over two years of active D v n r f r n p p T n r w l o eastern and western sections. The the convention of Congressman to prevent members of the Lake Dr. McLeod Bethune threw to Yet he is being accused of play combat service in the European F lU y iC d i) J-iQllUd Finest Material council went on record as intend William L. Dawson, Mrs. A. B. Union Conference association, 2,000 people who attended a mass ing a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Theater. ww . t -1 . . . All W ool . . . ing to prosecute to the fullest de Weston, Harold Preece of Texas /Seventh Day Adventists, from meeting sponsored by the Cleve role as he clings to Mayor Ed nials to southern Negroes as its and Tennessee who represented holding church services in their PLACE YOUR XMAS ORDER land NAACP chapter at Antiloch ward Jefffries’ narrow, biased, the white south, and John Ger- newly purchased building on ¡first job. NOW Baptist church last week. GEORGETOWN, S. C. (ANP)— prejudiced v>w s on things per Lake Park avenue is being made Host to the convention was the minston of Philadelphia. 3 Weeks Tailor Service “Believe in your own surgeons, taining to the welfare of the city, If you talk about the progress Progressive Democratic party of James E. Williams, president of by H. E. Raymond, lawyer for bankers, attorneys and educat while t ehunion of which he is a WE MAKE FULL DRAPE colored people appear to be mak Southern Carolina, whose chair- the eastern region of the council white property owners in the dis ors,” she pleaded. “Stop complain member is working to oust Jef SUITS ing in the south, you are liable to man is John H. McCray. Sessions which sponsored the meeting, told trict who have signed agreements ing and pool your efforts. We fries from his seat as mayor of WASHINGTON, D. C. (ANP)— find yourself in jail and accused were held at Allen university and the body Tuesday afternoon in not to sell or lease property to Also Fancy Dry Cleaning have had enough segregation. It the city. Colored GIs who are supplement of being “too smart”, an incident his address that they had to learn Negroes. Benedict college. Hat Renovating is time for us to become co ing their training in colleges and reported here Monday by Bunyan Cunningham Hits South Edgecomb was appointed to his Raymond, who argued the le to fight for their rights regard workers.” position as housing director by universities overseas may have A. Mills of Philadelphia indi Emmet S. Cunningham, nation less of concurring fights from gality of racial restrictive coven Aggressive development of in Jeffries as a gesture toward labor an edge on the boys who are cates. al council president, hit hard the liberal whites. “They (the liberal ants during a reaent meeting at dustrial and professional skills when that organization helped to coming back here for training, Mr. Mills, past president of the south’s political machinery in the whites) will not take our fight all the University of Chicago, has ' and an end of self-pity will be kick his predecessor out of of Roy K. Davenport, war depart alumni association of Benedict main address Monday night. “The the way unless ably supported,” filed a suit against the associa the quickest means of arriving fice. Edgecomb took the place of ment psychologist, intimated to college in Columbia, boarded a lack of free elections in the he said. He also emphasized the tion because it has announced it a working democracy, the another labor man, George Ed ANP this week. Greyhound bus at Columbia for south,” he said, “has closed the need for Negroes to regard the that Negroes will attend services champion of Negro rights said. Davenport, assistant to the Georgetown Thursday afternoon wards, who was elected to the door of hope to the sons of the Constitution as much theirs as in the building. The Seventh “The war has proved that com commbn council. Mayor Jeffries chief of classification and place- to visit his brother, the Rev. T. aspire to the presi- any other American’s, closing his Day Adventists recently bought plete integration of the Negro has fotfcid himself it i extreme dis merit branch of the adju O. Mills who pastqrs the Beth^- ^ice-presldtency *\f address w^th a pledger to adopt the building, covered by a racial with the white race is a working favor with labor (lere which is general's officfe, has just retui da Baptist church tiere./lMlo col 'd 'States. The Demo1- Patrick Henry’s pledge, “Give me covenant from Mrs. Pauline Por possibility. But for minomy sponsoring a candidate for mayor from Paris where he spent ) ored men on the rear seat, he ter White for a reported $25,000. and speak advised liberty, or give me death. groups, even in America, consid from its ranks. It would natur weeks helping to develope a cur said, struck a conversation on w m . The round table discussion, Raymond contends that the rac ly, will never again nominate a erable effort must be expended ally expect Charlie Edgecomb to riculum for training army edu Negro progress in Alabama and summarized by Cunningham, ial agreements apply to church man to these offices who comes to make justice .freedom and be on its side. cational counselors. Within six Georgia, which provoked a white from a poll tax state, or from a brought out that the major weap attendance. equality working ideals,” the months, he estimates that more woman to complain that the men While it is difficult to deter Most of the 20 local race re state that excludes Negroes from on employed agpjnst southern founder of Bethune-Cookman mine just how Edgecomb is using than 1,000 educational counselors made too much noise. Negroes was that of registration, strictive suits now pending ap the Democratic primaries.” college asserted. Stopping the bus and moving to while the union of which he is a will have been trained for the Cunningham also scored secre examples of which were outlined ply to property in the area. “In our armed forces where a most certainly holding up the entire occupational force. the woman, the driver who hadn’t tary of State James F. Byrnes’ by Scott, Jackson, Kearse, Preece Three other covenant suits, in soldier was a soldier whether his Jeffries banner in his views on These counselors are to keep understood dearly the complaint skin was black or white, there Negro housing. These facts are abreast, of social, political and from his seat, was given a new move for fair elections. “When and McKaino. Plans for setting volving property in this area, was no segregation of courage, being brought to the attention employment developments in the version. The men were drinking Secretary Byrnes makes demands up a council agency to aid in were filed last week against for free elections in Bulgaria and removing these problems, sup Negro tenants. service or heroism.” of the UAW Fair Practices com- United States so that they may and using profanity, she claimed. other Balkan states,” he declared, ported by the Democratic party, The fight against anti-Negro Mrs. Bethune, who was an as :::;ttee and Negroes here who be point the men to the types of When neither had any whiskey in sociate consultant to the Ameri lieve in the sincerity of purpose training which offer the best job proof of her charges, the woman “the cry goes up ‘what about free were being formulated by Cun restricted covenants was given elections in South Carolina, Mi. ningham and Williams late Tues a temporary setback here during can delegation at the San Fran of that organization look forward opportunities here at home. quipped: “You alnt gonna take a day night at conclusion of the the week when Judge John P. Notary Public Byrnes’?” cisco conference, said freedom is to seeing something done about it. Because the quota system, nigger’s word ahead of mine, is session. McGoorty made a superior court South Carolina Mayor Target 1413 n . W IL L IA M S A VE . not a license. Recognition, like which is practiced by some uni you?” The driver comforted her ruling that racial property agree Columbia’s Mayor Fred D. Mar V E 9 413 r r a t e r n a l H a ll freedoms, must be fought for, versities here, limits and some and resumed the trip. shall was target of a bitter attack ments were legal in real estate worked and paid for. This is the times actually prevent a number At Sumter, first stop on the NACW WORKSHOP TO DIS from McCray who welcomed the sales and transactions. CARLLE R. VICKERS. DDS. time for working, for beggars of Negro students from pursuing run, the driver had two officers CUSS WOMENS PROBLEMS convention before Cunningham 1471 N. E. Williams Court with their hands out all the time the course of their choice, it is arrest one of the men, enroute to Portland, Oregon WASHINGTON (ANP) — Na are accepted only at the back believed that GIs overseas may Andrews, S. C., to satisfy the spoke. Marshall had turned down VErmont 4208 VOULU WWE VD . have a slight advantage for train woman and then issued cards to an invitation to extend greetings tional and international problems door of American living, she said. Portland’s Only Negro Dentist W ork in d in ô MV e r ç ' ing opportunities. In England and all white passengers requesting to the city as governing official of women will be the focal point at France, colored GIs are attending each to sign his name as witness and Cunningham opened his ad of discussion in the annual work “HAVE YOU DONATED TO some of the leading universities to the man’s being drunk and dress with a declaration that had shop of the National Council of a VNEeK/ SAN FRANCISCO (ANP) Rev. LEVTON'S MARKET THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE Marshall been mayor of Detroit Negro women, which meets here and technical schools. F. D. Haynes, pastor of the 3rd disorderly. “ C o m p le t e S h o p p in g C e n t e r " FUND?” (Cunningham’s home town) and for two clays beginning Oct. 30, Baptist church here, has announc Mr. Davenport, who is a grad When none volunteered to sign G r o c e r ie s - F r u it a - M e a t « V e g e t a b le s uate of Fisk and Columbia, accom a complaint, the woman shouted: have made such a declination, he it was announced last week. The ed his candidacy for supervisor W e l c o m e s M o n t a v illa T r a d e GENERAL HOME panied a group of officers and “That’s just why the niggers done would be kept out of another sessions will be held in the audi of the city and county of San C o r. 8 2n d a n d N . E . G L I S A N torium of the department of labor Francisco. He is one of the few enlisted men who were sent over got so smart here of late. Some term in office. IMPROVEMENT CO. Women delegates, led by Mrs as was the case last year. seas to develop the training pro body’s got to put them back in candidacies which Negroes have The theme will be “World ever offered in this city. Now, Roofing gram. He was the only civilian to their place.” She took a card for Annie Belle Weston, state secre tary of the Progressive Democrat Peace Through United Action” however, with the migration be selected for the important as serself and her male escort, affix NOW is the time to fix that and Barber Supplies It MIGHT be logical for the signment. ic party, held a lively session and will be in recognition of the ing both names, the escort ap* which increased the Negro popu- roof . . . come in and see us government to pay certain people JACOB MILLER for prices or role women have played and tion from 4,00 in 1940 to an esti As a result of his work, Lt. pearing disinterested. About three $25 a week for working on cer 515 S. W, Third Ave. tain government jobs if they must still play in interntaional mated 25,000 in 1945, Rev. Haynes Monroe Dowling and Lt. Charles others also signed, Mr. Mills said, Phone . . , TR 8431 could get no other jobs elsewhere. affairs. Its program, “World Se supporters feel he has an ex Cor. N. E. 25th & Broadway Davis have been assigned to coun but most expressed themselves as MILLER & TRACEY But the logical outcome of this seling program in France. Both opposed to the action, terming it curity Month,” sponsored earlier cellent chance. He pastors one could be that the government this year, laid the groundwork of these lieutenants are colored. unfair and unjust. of the oldest Negro churches in Funeral Directors would soon have to tell every for the participatoin of Negro the city. body what jobs to take, where to They were trained at Harvard Dresses - Milinery 714 S. W . 2 0 th F la c a work, and at what wages. women in world affairs. and the University of Chicago. 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