F rid a y . D e ce m b er 28. 1945
PORTLAND INQUIRER
Pag* Two
Hannegan Hits
GOP, Omits FEPC
Negroes Urged
To Use Franchise
In North Carolina
RALEIGH, N. C. (A N P)— C it­
izens of this sta te w ere urged
to use th e ir franchise d u rin g a
recent state-w id e m eeting o f the
N orth C arolina P rogressive V ot­
ers league here at S haw u n iv e r­
sity.
The m ain purpose of th e m eet­
ing, w hich w as a tten d ed by m em ­
bers of both races, w as to p e r­
fect w ays and m eans of organiz­
ing ' th e state on a un it-w id e
basis in o rd e r to get people to
ie g iste r and vote in local, .sta te
end national elections, said R. H.
B eatty, president. E very coun­
ty, village and tow n w as invited
to affiliate w ith the league.
Some of th e u nfair tactics em ­
ployed against N egro v oters w ere
cited d u rin g th e m eeting. The
young m en w ho w ished to re g ­
ister w ere told they could not do
so unless they w ere able to read
o r w rite the constitu tio n by
piem ory. P rogressive legislation
w as also discussed, especially
legislation on full em ploym ent,
fa ir wages, ad eq u ate unem p lo y ­
m en t insurance, equalization of
e d u c a t i o n a l o p p o rtu n ities in
N orth C arolina and fed eral ed u ­
cational aid.
Dr. Lee C. Shepard, p resident
of the N. C. C om m ittee for H u­
m an
w elfare, addressed
the
m eeting. Prof. G. E. Jo n es w el­
com ed th e leag u e in behalf of th e
M uriel Sm ith. C arm en in "C arm en Jones" a i d H ilda Simms, sta r of "A nna L ucasia", buy the
faculty of S haw u niversity.
first sheets of T uberculosis C hristm as Seals from L ucille Singley ch airm an of the South Side
booth sales for Chicago Tuberculosis In stitu te and N ational T uberculosis Association.
Air Atlanta
Police Brutality
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A TLA NTA (ANP) — M em bers
of A tla n ta ’s H ungry club w hich
m eets a t the B utler S tre e t YMCA
to discuss civic problem s each
W ednesday noon last w eek dis­
cussed th e problem of police b ru ­
tality. Col. A. T W alden, local
N A A CP counsel, and C. L. H ar­
per, president of th e A tlanta
)N A A F P - >^anch, w er* principal
speakers.
As background for th e discus­
sion, Dr. Ira DeA. Reid, the clu b ’s
presiding officer, referred to the
police situation as it affects m in ­
o rity groups as one of th e signi­
ficant aspects of com m unity life
in the south. He also referred
to some of the alarm ing re v e la ­
tions of the 1938 Reed rep o rt on
police affairs o f th e A tlan ta gov­
ernm ent.
Col. W alden suggested crim in al
prosecution of officers involved
in b ru tu lity cases; civil su its for
dam ages against th e officers; r e ­
search and pu blicity to acquaint
the general public w ith th e p re ­
valence of police b ru ta lity in the
city, and effective use of th e b al­
lot.
The fu tu re of th e w orld famed
P ullm an sleeping car com pany is
no longer in doubt. As the re ­
su lt of the federal court o rd er
for P u llm an Inc., to sell eith er
its car building business or its
passenger hauling business, the
fu tu re of some 12,000 N egro P u ll­
man port yrs has lost m uch of its
old certain ty . '
A t a cosi of som e 75 million
dollars a group of 43 railroads
all over th e co u n try have agreed
to buy those P u llm an cars which
th ey norm ally req u ire to serve
th e ir passengers and to form a
com pany in w hicn to pool exiess
iars and to serve those in op­
eration.
The hig question is
w h at w ill be the a ttitu d e of these
new ow ners to th e N egro p o rt­
e rs’ monopoly of th e occupation?
Indeed A. P. R andolph’s B ro th er­
hood of Sleeping C ar P orters, of
w hich m ost of th e p o rters are
m em bers, m ight be facing one of
th e most difficult problem s ever
dum ped in the lap of th e union.
Negroes started early w ith the
P ullm an Co. both for sentim ental
reasons and because of the cheap-
ness of Negro labor before 1900.
HAVE YOi; DONATED TO This early sta rt was exten d ed to
THE UNITED NEGRO COL­ a v irtu al m onopoly durin g the
m any y ears th at Todd Lincoln,
LEGE FUND?
son of A braham Lincoln, w as
presid en t of th e com pany. The
OLD p o rters raised personal serv ­
ice in A m erica to a high level
for honesty, efficiency, courteous
and selfless service. In addition
the w illingness of p o rters to live
off th e ch arity of passengers and
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to tak e abuse uncom plainingly
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PerRí-tu al
Motion
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Just arrived-
¿ O fn p a n y
Drape Suits and
Slacks
The American system of enter­
prise is the hest way I know to get
a lot of practical men to help make
prosperity in all sections of the
United States.
In a little town in Indiana, a man Stanley’s Clothes Shop
starts and runs a rocking chair fac­
435 SW. W ashington St.
tory and employs 100 people. THAT
is the right pattern for prosperity.
He has studied rocking chairs all
his life. Maybe he has failed at it a i
JUST RIGHT
few times, lost a lot of money, ! SHOE REPAIR SHOP
learned the hard way. But he has
become an expert in the rocking L o d it i & G e n ti S hoes R e p aired
chair business, a specialist.
326 N. W . 5 th A ye.
It's better for thousands of men
like that to be left pretty much
sdone to make chairs and make a
r n r r N U T b r o w n
reasonable profit and pay fair w ages
than it is for a lot of professors and
s u p p ly o f th is hinrh
amateurs in Washington to try to S e rn n d d e to F a d c a e y P fo o w r f d re e r e A lib a ls e ral
o o u r f r e e BEAUTIFUL
make everybody artificially pros­ ? o s m e tic ffitalotf i n color«. Help b r in g o u t y o u r lore-
line«« b r «wen* our fttm o m M hlen.l o f Face P o w d e r.
perous from THERE by taxing B * l o v . l y t a l o o k A t N Ic * *« H m w . D o n ’t w a it.
Jk C O . , ( F i t . 1991)
everybody and dividing the taxes. J 1 . 0 4 K. 1 4 M * W c B V R * n A H D u Y
r o n D »| t< O O O C k i c a g e 7 - M l.
And much cheaper.
F R E l FACE POWDER;
m ade them a re g u la r p a rt of the
equ ip m en t on a pullm an car.
For y ears now pullm an porter-
ing has been under p ressure from
the speeding up of train s and the
use of stew ardesses in airplanes.
A nd it w ould be a w elcom e su r­
prise if the sale of th e old P u ll­
man Co. does not h u rt still m ore
N egro em ploym ent o p portunities
in th e railro ad in d u stry . The v a r­
ious railroads w hich w ill operate
sleeping cars of th e ir own as well
as influence th e policies of Ahe
pooling com pany, often do 'not
ap p reciate th e fine q u ality and
fav o r of Negro labor. In m any
railro ad yards, for exam ple, the
only car cleaners presen t w ere
those em ployed by th e P ullm an
, Co. Many railroad y a rd m asters
i openly stated th ey did not w ant
Negroes “in th e y a rd .”
M oreover m any railw ay unions
have never w an ted Negro em ­
ployes in th e railro ad yards.
These anti-N egro unions w ould
bo show ing rem ark ab le restra in t
if they don’t try to bring pres­
sure on th e railroads to th e dis-
ROY LIVINSTON
MOVING
Hauling of A ny Kind
NO JO B TOO S M A LL
N O N E TOO L A R G E
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ad v an tage of N egro porters. If
all th is seem s like stretch in g a
point one only has to rem em ber
th a t over a period of tw o genera- ]
tions, the w hite forem en, sw itch- j
men, b rakem en, carm en have ju st
about driv en N egroes in these
jobs off th e roads. A nd th ey did
it by pressuring em ployers into [
cooperating w ith them .
One hopes these fears are u n ­
founded, how ever, b itte r e x p e r­
ience has ta u g h t us to an ticipate I
thi4 -|u tu re gs m i ^ h .a s possible
and p rep are for tne worse.
O FFIC E FOR VOCATIONAL
O PPO RTU N ITY —228 S. W. H all |
St., of w hich (Mrs.) Ju n e R un­
nels is E xecutive S ecretary.
Mrs. R unnel is q u ite busy these
days striving to find em ploym ent
for the large num ber of u nem ­
ployed. She is a g rad u ate of j
W iley College, M arshall, Texas,
and is quite popular in the D el­
ta Sorority.
(To be continued in n ex t issue)
PLAY THE PIANO
THE LEROY WAY
DENVER (A N P)—In an im pas­
sioned speech before th e Colo­
rado D em ocratic d in n e r held here
last w eek, R obert H annegan,
ch airm an of the D em ocratic N a­
tional com m ittee, flayed th e R e­
publican p arty because of its re ­
cent pronouncem ents.
“W e D em ocrats ta k e our p arty
obligations seriously,” said Mr.
H annegan as he proceeded to
lam bast R epublicans on the U nit­
ed N ations organization.
But
in sp ite of all of the proclam a­
tions of seriousness in th e party,
Mr. H annegan did not touch once
on th e subject of th e FEPC which
is believed necessary to insure
A m erica's peaceful progress in
th e try in g post w ar years.
F u rth er, Mr. H annegan said:
“The D em ocratic p a rty ’s post
w ar program , as set fo rth in
P resid en t T ru m an ’s recen t m es­
sages to congress and in his pub-
CALLS DELTAS
Mrs. Mae W. Downs of Sewell.
N. J., w ho has issued the official
call for delegates and m em bers
cf the 135 D elta chapters locat­
ed in 32 slates to m eet at V ir­
ginia U nion university, R i c h-
m ond, Va., Dec. 27-30, for the
181h national convention of D el­
ta Sigm a T heta sorority.
U sing the them e "D esigns for
L iving in a N ew Age," th e body
HOW TO RANK W ITH KINGS has planned for representatives
By W illiam H enry H uff for ANP from several nationalities to serve
If one is blessed w ith vision
on m e program .
He sees beyond his nose
A nd m akes a real decision
lie statem ents, tak e up th e m ain
W hich to the substance goes.
problem s confronting th e coun­
If one can see th e beauty
try and deals w ith them speci­
In doing w orthy things
fically. point for point, in term s
As if in line of duty.
of action.”
H e’ll surely ran k w ith kings.
Again, no m ention of the FEPC.
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