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THE INFORMER. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 24-1942
RACE ISSUE SIDE-STEPF
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TORONTO— (ANP) —The
American Federation of Lab-
or’s 62nd annual convention
buried, as in previous year,
the issue of race discrimina-
tion and jim crow practices
by most of its affiliated un-
ions.
A. Philip Randolph, presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, who Wednes-
day proposed a committee to fight
anti-Negro attitudes in the federa-
tion, was voted down by fellow
delegates. Only dissenting “No” was
shouted by Milton P Webster, the
other Negro delegate from the por-
ter's union.
AFL leader# and the more im-
portant unions were assailed
from the floor for 30 minutes by
Randolph for dodging the pro-
posal. He charged speeches of
other delegates about democracy
mere "baloney.”
An attempt was made to avoid
the issue by the convention and
John P. Frey, secretary, read a
statement adopted by the resolu-
tions committee declaring the AFL
firmly opposed to discrimination
and stating that the convention
proposed to do nothing about it.
“Baloney” Says Randolph
While Frey spoke the tall, digni-
fied Randolph walked slowly and
stoical toward the platform. Wil-
liam Green, AFL president who
was reelected for his 19th consecu-
tive term, squirmed in his chair,
and apparently wished he was the
man who wasn't mere. Members
present sent a pail of silence
throughout that hall in expectancy
of what they knew was to come.
Upon recognition by Green, Ran-
dolph said:
“We have heard many grand and
splendid speeches at this conven-
tion ,and if a man from Mars had
come here he would have thought
most of the speech makers be-
- lieved in democracy. When he
learned that many of the same
men denied Negroes the right to
join their unions he would reach
the conclusion that these speech-
es are baloney.
“The American Federation of
Labor cannot say it is democratic
unless it clean# its house and
says that regardless of race, col-
or, and creed any worker can
join any AFL union—and that
any union which does not have
this spirit of democracy will be
expelled from the federation.”
Randolph cited four types of dis-
crimination inside the AFL: unions
that have “color clauses,” those
that observe “unwritten laws,"
others that create “undemocratic
auxiliaries,” and those that insist
upon a new member being “re-
commended by present members."
Name# Offending Unions
Citing the urgency of mobiliz-
ing manpower in the war emer-
gency, Randolph blasted the In-
ternational Machinists association,
the Boilmakers union, and others of
being guilty of “color clauses."
He castigated the Electrical Work-
ers. Plumbers, and Pipefitters, and
others like them for requiring that
new members be “recommended by
present members” when no Negro
members are "present members.”
No Negroes ever will be recom-
mended. he predicted.
Other brotherhoods that took a
tongue lashing from the great lead-
er of the Sleeping Car Porters
included the Carpenters’ union
stance where a local in Texas
barred Negroes from working on
a housing project tor Negroes
because white worker# threatened
to strike if they were employed.
Randolph also branded the Broth-
erhood of Railway Clerks un-dem-
ocratic for establishment of a jim
crow auxiliary for Negro members,
and bitterly denounced Tom Ray,
secretary of Local 72 of the Boil-
ermakers who is union czar at the
Kaiser Shipbuilding yards.
The famous Negro leader charg-
ed that Ray "boarded a train and
read the riot act to Negro workers"
who had traveled from New York
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Workers Urged To
Take Responsibilities
Of War Work Seriously
Activates
3 Colored
Regiments
CAMP TYSON. — Master
Sergeant Theodore Carrier,
who was born in Opelousas,
Louisiana, has the distinction
of being the first colored sol-
dier to make history in ac-
tivating three colored regi-
ments in the armed forces of
the United States, one being
the 77th coastal artillery regi-
ment, now overseas, and the bar-
rage balloon training center school
at Camp Tyson, Tennessee, where
he is now stationed.
The 77th coast artillery was or-
ganized on August 10, 1940. Sgt.
Carrier was sent from Fort Hua-
chuca, Arizona, the home of the
grand old 25th infantry regiment,
as a cadreman to train newly joined
men in the coast artillery, and then
from Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
to Camp Wallace, Texas, replace-
ment training center. When colored
soldiers were accepted in the bar-
rage balloon training center he was
sent to Camp Tyson, Tennessee.
He has the equivalent of seven-
teen years in the regular army
with the colors, and boasts five
“excellent discharges,” all of them
being as non-commissioned of-
ficer.
He was awarded a medal of honor
by executive orders from the Presi-
dent on October 10, 1942. He has
a pleasing disposition and a wide
knowledge of army regulations and
field work, and is always willing to
help those less fortunate.
Wife in Houston
He is married, and his wife, Mrs
Artilla Carrier, who resides at 3444
McGowan street, Houston, will join
him later at Camp Tyson. They will
celebrate their first at niversary on
Christmas day.
Welder
I IN A.F.L. MEET
4th Ward Club, Church,
Protest Whites In Project
1 HOUSTON.-The Fourth Ward
i Civic Club, and the Beebe Taber-
I nacle Colored Methodist Episcopal
church, at meeting last week met
and unanimously adopted a pro
John Wesley Williams, Jr., 18, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Banks, at
Houston, was one of the 18 boys
who left Sunday, October 18 for
Richmond, Calif.
He is a graduate of Booker T.
Washington high school and has
completed a course of electric weld-
ing at Prairie View college. After
further training in Richmond, he
will be stationed in Oakland, Cali-
fornia as an electric welder.
test offered by the vesident and
pastor, the Rev. L. S. White, against
the occupancy of the San Felipe
Housing Project, which will soon be
opened to white persons as a low
cost housing project
Full text of the protest sent tohe
Houston Housting Authority, ana
released to local papers is as fol-
lows:
“We have noticed through the
papers that the San Felipe Housing
Project which has been designated
for their not becomine fascinated
doors for occupancy. 1 appears that
many prospects have visited the
section but few have been inspired
by their visit.
The nearness of Negro churches,
jute box noise and Negro hang-outs
are given as some of the reasons
for their not becoming facinated
over the location.
“Unfortunately the selection of
this area was made over the pro-
test of many fair minded white
people and practically all of the
Negroes, but apparently for self-
toll and political reasons all of
these protests were ignored.
“The Negro has never been a
group to be easily imbued with
hate and prejudice but he does
resent encroachment and injustices,
and he does have the sense of hu-
man feeling, and he is still hurt
over being dislodged from the
homes and conveniences which he
so long enjoyed in the San Felipe
district to make provisions for those
who are already enjoying untold
privileges.
Sums Up Feeling
"The opinion of the ordinary white
man is that to place him on par
with the Negro lower, his standing
and dignity. This, in i measure will
sum up the feeling of the Negro
toward those who occupy this pro-
ject which is bound on one side
with a high-steel fence and on the
other with a polluted bayou, when
it is known that there are many
apartments, hotels and living quar-
ters in other sections of the city
that they can occupy and maintain
the high estimate of their own
group.
It is possible that many of the
white people who refused to live
Dr. Carver
“Unknown” Assailant Found
WASHINGTON. D. C. - Negro
workers long employed in strategic
occupations and industries and oth-
ers entering war plants for the first
time were urged this week to as-
sume fundamental responsibilities in
America’s battle for production.
This advice was given by Dr.
Robert C. Weaver, chief of the
Negro manpower service. War Man-
power Commission, in an address
before a rally at the National
Smelting company in Cleveland,
Ohio.
Citing specific gains made by
Negro worker# in war production
employment in recent months. Dr.
Weaver declared:
“Regardless of current practices,
and in spite of existing attitudes,
Negroes will be used in many oc-
cupations in the months to come.
They will be so employed be-
cause they are needed and be-
cause a nation at war must avail
itself of their service. Just as the
war emergency is forcing certain
of these old patterns which have
restricted Negroes in industry in
the past to give way, so it is plac-
ing upon the colored worker many
responsibilities.
“Those of you who have been
employed in strategic occupations
and industries in the past no less
than those who enter new places
in the future have two fundamental
responsibilities. The first, and most
important, is your responsibility as
American citizens to do your best
to win this war. This means that
you must facilitate the maximum
possible output of war goods in
your present or in your, future
employment.
“You have also a responsibility
to those colored persons who have
not yet entered into war produc-
tion but whose services will certain-
ly be needed in the future. That
responsibility is to illustrate by
your efficiency, by your work habits
and by your general conduct that
the colored worker when given an
opportunity is efficient and desir-
able.
“In order to discharge these
responsibilities you must be ever
conscious of the seriousness of
your task. Just M 'prejudice as
usual' in employment must be
out for the duration, so “absentee-
ism as usual' is out for the dura-
tion. Wasting time on unneces-
sary social contacts to out; report-
ingoto work late or not at all is
outs slowing down production be-
cause at social activities after
working hours is out; in a word,
all activities, all habits and all
behavior which impede the maxi-
mum output of war goods are out
for the duration. These respon-
sibilities are yours They cannot
be escaped and they should act
be passed over lightly.”
In reviewing the employment
progress of Negro workers in war
plants, Dr. Weaver declared:
“In 1940 there were scarcely a
hundred Negroes attached to air-
craft production, and there was
every indication that the industry
had no intention of increasing ap-
preciably the degree of Negro em-
ployment. Today Negroes constitute
about 3 per cent of the total em-
ployees, and over 30,000 colored
workers are engaged in aircraft
production. These colored workers,
both male and female, are not
relegated to unskilled and janitorial
jobs alone, but they are being
used also in increasing numbers as
production hands.
"The new ordnance industry is
another important and fast-growing
war effort. Today there are some
35,000 Negroes attached to this type
of production and their participa-
Defense Courses
Opened At
Houston College
Houston — Houston College,
Prairie View A. and M. College
are offering courses in radio me-
chanics and allied branches. The
courses are sponsored by the Fed-
eral Security Administration.
Three courses involving the use
and operation of the radio in war
will be offered at Houston College
on Monday, Wednesday and Fri-
day of each week at 7:30 p. m. The
course in Radio Code is already
under way. Classes in the other
two branches will be organized as
soon as the applications warrant
their organization. There is no tu-
ition fee for the courses. Persons
who are interested will call at the
college office and get application
forms.
tion is increasing.
“In May, 1942, 5.3 per cent of all
those attached to ship and boat
building and repair were non-white.
In July of this year the proportion
had increased to 5.7 per cent. Ih
iron and steel and their producta,
approximately 7.4 per cent of the
workers were non-white in May and
July of 1942. In addition to these
over-all figures, reflecting the de-
gree of Negro employment in cer-
tain vital war industries there is
the fact that slowly colored work-
ers are being upgraded into pro-
duction jobs in many firms having
war contracts”
n . cegnn With Wounded Eye; Family Row
wWHGLVD DOS HOUSTON-The slashing of an | Questioned by Officer Fabian it
developed that the wound had been
caused by a lick from an iron pipe,
allegedly in the hands of Mrs. Har-
ris. Mrs. Pittman was sent to the
Jefferson Davis Hospital for treat-
ment.
No charges were filed, and police
closed their records thus; “This
was a family fight with Rebecca
Harris finding Mary Pittman, with
her husband.
In War Dond
Dr. George W. Carver turned
over to Dr. F. D. Patterson $6300
in War Bonds to be appliend to the
George Washington Carver Foun-
dation of Tuskegee Institute, Ala-
bama.
Dr. Carver in turning over the
Bonds stated to Dr. Patterson that
in making the gift Ce was not only
happy to add to the financial se-
HOUSTON-The slashing of
irate wife by an “unidentified’’
woman allegedly caught with her
husband baffled locai police for a
time after they were told by Mrs.
Rebecca Harris, 33, 3225 Clay street,
whom they rushed to a hospital
for treatment, that she didn’t know
who it was who cut her left wrist
and left breast in an argument
over her husband at Leeland and
Paige streets.
Officers departed with only the
meager description that the assail-
ant was “dark-skinned.”
About 9:15 p.m. the same day.
eurity of the Foundation which has
been established to carry on the, Officer Fabian was called to make
creative research to which he has
an investigation at 3115 W. Dallas.
given his time and energy, but that
he wished the nation to know that
Negroes are just as interested in
helping to win the war as is any
group in the nation.
The gift of October 10, 1942
brings Dr. Carver’s total contribu-
tion to the George Washington Car-
ver Foundation to well over $40,-
000, representting almost the en-
tire savings of his life time.
There he found Another casualty,
Mrs. Mary Pittman, 50, 3111 W. Dal-
las, suffering from a wound ovei
her right eye.
Mrs. Flora Price, 404 West Dal-
las, is spending the week-end in
Wort Worth, Texas, on her vaca-
tion. She will visit her friends in
Dallas before returning to Hous-
ton.
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Teamster Head Retaliates
However, Daniel J Tobin, presi-
dent of the Teamsters brotherhood,
Thursday, replied to Randolphs
charges of racial discrimination. He
said the allegations were “brutally
untrue insofar as they relate to
90 percent of the organizations af-
filiated here.”
AFL chiefs this year had no an-
swer for Randolph as in former
years. They listened to his militant
speech in silence, and were con-
tent to let the resolution adopted
earlier stand.
The resolution passed Wednesday
said in part:
“It is unfortunately true that
| because of geographical situation
and other reasons there still re-
mains a degree of discrimination,
not only against the colored race,
but against other groups because
of their racial origin; but we have
no hesitancy in comparing the
record of the AFL on the question
of race discrimination with the
activities of any other organi-
zation in the United States and
Canada.
"We are doubtful whether any
other method than the educational
one can make the progress which
Is necessary, for experience has
been that where compulsory meth-
ods are applied, prejudices are in-
creased instead of diminished.”
Policemen Nab All
Women With Soldiers
By L. B. Harris
AUGUSTA, Ga.—(A N P)—For
some weeks city policemen have
been arresting Negro women and
girls seen with soldiers at night
In some instances soldiers with
their wives and mothers have been
accosted and humiliated by unnec-
essary questioning, if not carried
down to the police station, althe
conducting themselves properly.
Negro women are efreid to go
through certain streets after dark
for fear of being taken for a prosti
tute, while other groups are fret
to go as they please end with whom
they please.
Committee Sees Safety
Commissioner
In view of these facts, a commit
fee of colored men and women, lead
by the Rev. M. J. Snerard, pastor
of Thankful Baptise church,’ met
with the safety commissioner, John
B. Kennedy, to discuss the matter
with him. Mr. Kennedy appeared
surprised to learn that these con-
ditions existed He explained that
the vice-campaign plan is to arrest
girls and women found in dives,
and conducting themselves disor-
derly.
He asked that all undue arrests
of our group be reported to him.
and he would investigate. He issued
an order to city policemen to re-
frain from arrests on the streets
except in cases of disorderly con-
duct or other infractions of the law.
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in this section from which the Ne-
groes have been forced out have
respect for the democratic princi-
ples which their boys are now sacri-
ficing their lives on land, sea and
air to preserve.
“Deep down in their hearts may
be that Christian principle of "DO
UNTO OTHERS AS YE WOULD
THAT THEY SHOULD DO UNTO
YOU,” knowing that they would
not like for someone to discom-
fort and inconvenience them for
someone else,, especially when that
someone already has better advan-
tages and conveniences than he.
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place to stay There are vacancies
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why not leave the San Felipe dis-
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where to go instead of giving it
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“In a time like this when we all
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be a spirit of oneness and a con-
certed action to have internal peace
for all the people, morally and
economically.”
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