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Vol. 25—No. 4
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. FRIDAY. FKBHl'ARY 18, 1955
HONORED FOR SERVICES—Flctured above nre Kcenes caught by the cameraman, Saturday lilght,
At the forty-sixth anniversary testimonial affair of the local branch of the Natlonnl Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, when four individuals were honored for . their contributions to human
relations, to brotherhood, and to the NAACP.
In the upper right panel, the Bev. E. A. Smith (at right), pastor of St. Paul Methodist church. Is pre-
nentlng a plaque to the Most Rev. Robert E. Lucey, archbishop of the Ban Antonio archdiocese, for the "out-
standing contributions that he hos made to brotherhood and civil rights within the San Antonio com-
munity."
In the upper left panel, facing camera, is A. Maceo Smith of Palls, racial relations adviser of the
Federal Housing administration, and executive secretary of the Texas conference of X A AIT branches, who
was honored for his many years of service and Innumerable contributions to race advancement and to the
NAACP. Dr. H. Boyd Hall (left) of Corpus Chrlstl, president of the Texas conference of branches, NAACP,
■lade the presentation to Smith.
In the lower left panel, John
T.uke (left)- Is being presented a
plaque by Bnrghardt Edwards, for
Ills contributions as president, for
two years of the Youth council of
the local branch NAACP. Under
Luke's administration, the local
Jouth council was awarded as the
most outstanding council in Ibe na-
tion. At right, in this picture. Is
Anthony (Tony) Pavis of Pallas,
Who was toastmaster.
-Jn the lower right panel, Mrs. R.
C. l'ktes, Is receiving, for her hus-
band, R. C. Yates, the plaque that
Went to him for his remarkable
work in heading local N'AACP mem-
bership drives. Yates was 111 and un-
able to be present. Making the pres-
entation Is Edwin C. Washington,
Jr., a field officer of the NAACP
national office.
(Another account of the testimo-
nial affair will be found In the
(upplement, in Jo's Jottings.)
GM Scholarship
Plan Offered
1 Wheatley Pupils
Phlllls Wheatley high school stu-
dents are being offered an opportu-
nity to compete in the General Mo-
tors national scholarship plan, ac-
cording to W. J. Sampson, Jr.,
Wheatley counselor.
The plan, announced recently, pro-
Tides for 100 four-year scholar-
riilps, at least one In every state
and SO at large, at any college or
university of the successful con-
testant's choice anil in any field of
(tody he may select.
Registration for the plan Is un-
der way now and must be complet-
ed by March 5. Eligible to partici-
pate nre high school seniors, both
boys and girls, who are United
•States citizens, if they took the
January 8 college entrance exam-
ination board test, or will arrange
to take the March 12 test. Registra-
tion for the latter test should be
completed by February 10.
Selection of award winners In
the General Motors plan will lie
the responsibility of a group of lead-
ing educators representing various
parts of the country.
Full details about the General
Motors plan are available to inter-
ested students from Sampson.
Carolina Property
Reverts to Owners
If Used by Negroes
By the /ffRoclnteil Xegro Press
CHARIiOTTE, N. C.—A Su-
perior court judge here ruled
last week that land given by
donors, years ago, to the dt.v
must he returned to them If
. tlie property Is used by Ne-
groec.
Spotswood W. Robinson III
of Richmond, V».. regional coun-
sel for the NAACP, said the
organization would take the
derision to the state supreme
court. Hie NAACP Is question-
ing the validity of the clauses.
Judge George B. Patton up-
held reverter clauses attached
to land In Revolutionary park.
The donors specified that the
land should be returned If ever
used by Negroes.
The clty-owned Ronnie Brae
golf course is In the park, al
though not on the adjacent
land affected by the reverter
clauses.
In a separate suit, Negroes
are seeking permission to play
on the golf course.
Last Rites Held
For 92-Year-Old
Hondo Matriarch
HONPO, Texas—Funeral serv-
ices were conducted here. Sunday,
February 13, for Mrs. Mary Fen-
nel!, age 92, who died here Tuesday
afternoon, February 8, at her home,
200G 17th street. Revs. I. H. Pierce
and H. R. James officiated at the
funeral services, and burial was In
the Cottonwood cemetery with the
Collins Funeral home of San An-
tonio In charge.
The decedent was born January
2, 1803, in Guadalupe county, and
was the seventh daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hardeman. She was a member
of the Baptist church, which church
she joined at an early age.
She was married in 1870 to Jiles
(See MATRIARCH, Page 3.)
Dixie Federal Bases Officials
Evade Queries on Work Bias
By CARTER JEWEL
For the Associated Negro Press ,
NORFOLK, Va.—A skilfull plan to cover up racial discrimina-
tion in upgrading, promotions and assignments to better
paid positions at military installations in the South, is charged
by some Negro leaders in several arey who thus far are voicing
their complaints only in meetings guarded against open publici
ty.
While some Negro complainants on civil jobs at govern-
ment Installations are represented
by lawyers who are digging Into
the records of these Installations,
little publicity so far has been given
to any of the cases.
A battery of questions was sent
to some of the military centers on
the eastern seaboard recently, and In
every case the replies were couched
in language calculated to cover up
or explain why the questions were
not answered.
While some of the .piestions could
conceivably be regarded as asking
for information against public se-
curity, others which every official
refused to answer cntegorically,
kad no such relevancy.
The questionnaire asked for the
number of foremen over skilled
workers, semi-skilled workers and
Vttboren, whit*. Negro and mixed.
Another question asked about Jim
Crow cafeterias, whether employees
are represented by shops or race
when It comes to protection of their
Interests or grievances.
The questionnaire sought to de-
termine If Negroes nre excluded
from working in the Industrial re-
lations department or any other
comparable office or department.
The centers were asked if there was
a singl* same system and proce-
dure for examining, marking or
grading whites and Negroes for
positions, upgrading on the Job or
for determining wage* paid.
They were asked if {here were
Jim Crow shops at the stations.
They were asked If there was a sta-"
tlon order or custom prohibiting
(See QUERIES, Page 7.)
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Solon Demands
Probe of W A C
Center Jim Crow
Jim Crow Said Running
Wild at Alabama's
Fort McClellan
(Special to San Antonio Register)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress-
man -Charles C. Dlggs, Jr. (t).),
Michigan's first Negro representa-
tive, 1ms demanded an investigation
of alleged discriminatory and segre-
gative practices at Alabama's Fort
McClellan, II. S. Army WAC center.
The Tenter captured the nation's
attention last fall when General
Matthew R. Rldgeway, army chief
of staff, dedicated tbe center and
newspaper releases and photographs
heralded the supposed integrated fa-
cilities and desegregation policy of
the installation.
In a letter to Secretary of the
Army Robert T. Stevens, Dlggs
pointed out that the allegations,
which have been supported, nre def-
initely out of tune with the defense
department's desegregation order
and the representations of recruiting
officers concerning this installation.
According to information turned
over to Congressman Dlggs, Negro
WAC personnel and visiting civil-
ians from nearby communities nre
not j>ermltted to dance at regular
Wednesday nlglit "white enlisted
dances" arranged by the post spe-
cial services.
On such occasions, Negroes have
been ordered off the floor by the
civilian hostess of the club and
Informed that a dance is held for
them on Thursday nights. At the
supposedly "integrated dance" held
on Saturday nights, it is alleged
that pressure is used by club civilian
employees to prohibit interracial
fraternizing and dancing.
Negroes have also been precluded,
tlie allegations state, from siiecial
services army-sponsored recreational
trips and from participation In
sports, when civilian squads are
on the schedule.
In tbe long list of nllegallons were
also the charges that, Negro student
officers have been given orders not
to go off post with other officers
of the student detnehment nnd pro-
hibited from fraternizing off nnd
on the post. It is stated, further,
that Negro soldiers of Fort McClel-
lan ill ay have their lialr cut only by
Xegro barbers while other soldiers
are served by all barbers.
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San Antonio Man, 65, Fatally Burned
Killer of Nagging
Wife Gels 5 Years
A JURY that deliberated four hours, returned a verdict of
-^fcuilty of murder without malice, and a five-year peniten-
tiary sentence was assessed Johnnie Stevens, 38, who, over a
year ago—on Jan. 9, 1954—shot his wife, Mrs. Mae Stevens, 37,
at their residence, 124 Yucca street, when lie "couldn't stand
her nagging any longer.
Following his shooting Mrs. Stevens, Stevens shot himself
twice.
Mrs. Stevens was shot in the side,
chest, nnd left shoulder.
She died nine days later—on Jan.
18—at Robert B. Green hospital.
Stevens had been Indicted for
murder with uialice, but the charge
was reduced to murder without mal-
ice.
Climaxing a two-day trial, the
Jury began deliberation at 5:45
Thursday afternoon, Feb. 10, and
returned its verdict at 0:45.
Taking the stand in his own
behalf, Stevens testified that he
shot his wife "through passion" af-
ter an argument. He said that he
was tired of her nngging, and could
not stand it any longer.
The couple had been married more
than 17 years.
During their married life they
had "a lo£ of misunderstanding,"
he said,
At the titue of the shooting, Stev-
ens, in a ■taieinent. said that after
listening to liis wife "fuss" a long
time about his being away from the
home the nlglit before and that
morning, he— without saying a word
—removed a pistol from a bureau
drawer, and started shooting at her.
Thinking that he hnd killed his
wife, he turned the gun on him-
self. The first plug went through
his shoulder, l/ut failed to knock him
down. He then fired another bullet
into hie cfcest.
Ollie St^'cn*. teen-age Fon of the
couple, who was away from home
at the time, returned to the bouse
to discover liis parents shot, and
called police
Stevens pleaded with officers to
"just let me lie here and die."
Segregationalists Step Up Attach
On All Fronts-Negro Editor Aids
r
j
By the Associated Negro Press
[ACKSON, Miss.—Segregation-
aiists showed last week that
tliey are as determined as ever
to keep the Negro enmeshed In
the foils of seeoncl-elass rilizen-
shlp, stepping up attarks on
all fronts.
Whilo Iniejrirtlon iviw suc-
eessful In St. Louis, Mo.. K
took a severe beating In Dela-
ware when the state supreme
court ruled that the Mllford
hoard of education had "no
legal right" to admit 10 Negro
pupils to tenth grade classes at
a previously all-white school
last September.
In Arkansas, another liate-
tfroup was organized and here
hi Mississippi, candidates for
the governorship continued to
bait Negroes, In Alabama, a
leader of a while hate-group
termed integration a "monster."
Fuel for the segregationalist
fire waa given by Davis Lee,
Negro publisher and editor of
tlie Ne*wrli (N. .1.) Telegram
who in effect said Negroes were
being (ended on by agitators
and tluiii Negroes weren't really
Interested in integration.
SegregjuioaBlIst activity was
■uwhntjbm evident than in
the States congress
where aKppeuad certain that
'J*"' aid
may hasten the end of SIai Crew
schools.
Though scgregationalistH were
fighting desperately on all
fronts, their biggest victory
was scored when the Delaware
high eourt turned thumbs down
on the Mllford hoard of educa-
tion's attempt to integrate.
(See ATTACK, Page 3.)
Officer, Motorist
Tangle in Week-
End Violence
Other Outbreaks Include
Stones-Against-Pistol-
Bullets Affray
Week-end violence included an
alleged attack on a police officer
by u drunk motorist, who had been
driving recklessly, cuffings of var-
ious intensities, and one fight in
which stones were pitted againnt
bullets. In another case, a man Is
reported to have taken a shot at
a woman, a special deputy was
slashed when he "got between" two
battling men.
Officer Hubert Cruz reported that
he saw an automobile almost run
down a little boy on Zarzamora
street. The car kept going, made al-
most a complete circle, and barely
missed the car Cruz was driving.
Cruz stopped the other machine at
Monterrey and Zarzamora streets,
and asked the driver what was
the trouble with the latter declaring
something was wrong with the
front end of his car.
As Cruz stooped over to investi-
gate, the driver struck him in the
abdomen and attempted to drive
away.
Cruz said that he snatched the ig-
nition key from the car, nnd then
the other man grabbed Cruz's sweat-
er. attempted to choke him, nnd
tried to take the officer's gun. Cruz
said that he was also struck in the
face.
The man, identified as William
T>ewiK, 41. 8415 West I'oplar, was
placed under arrest, and booked for
drunkenness, driving while Intoxi-
cated. and aggravated assault on an
officer. The automobile was im-
pounded.
Miss Irene Johnson, 028 South
Olive street, complained that, early
Saturday night, a former male
friend whom she had not seen
since last June, "took a shot at her,"
NAACP Seeks
3,000 Members
In Annual Drive
The local branch of th^s'allonal
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People will open its an-
nual membership campaign, Sun-
day, Feb. 20, with a "kick off"
meeting nt Palestine Baptist church,
beginning nt 3:30 o'clock In the
afternoon.
Goal for his year's campaign is
3,000 adults, and 1,000 youths.
T. E. Gllmore, Sr., again heads
the drive as membership chairman.
R. C. Yates Is co-chairman.
Among team captains already an-
nounced nre Emerson Marcee, Harry
V. Burns, R. C. Yates, Joseph I.uter,
Willie M. McClure, Rev. W. J.
Johnson, Mrs. Annie H. Gllmore,
Charles McClinton, Archie Johnson,
and Jowdy Johnson.
Field workers at large Include
William Falke, Mrs. Willie K.
Wright, Dr. H. E. Haywood, Miss
Vera King, Mrs. R, A, Hoyle, and
H. V. Ward.
Toledo High School
Gets First Negro
Woman Teacher
J3y the Associated N'egro Press
r>LEDO, O.—Tlie first full
fledged Negro woman teach,
er has been assigned to a Tole-
do high school faculty.
She is Mrs. Mary T. Cowell
Penn, a recent graduate of the
University of Toledo, who is
now teaching home economics
at Scott high school.
Mrs. Penn, who also attended
Hampton institute one year, Is a
member of the Delta Sigma
Theta sorority and an honorary
home economics sorority at tlie
University of Toledo.
She joins .lames Hill as a
member of the Scott faculty.
Hill is the only Negro male high
sch'ool teacher in the city.
Jim Crow Killed
At New York
Swimming Pool
For the Associated Negro Tress
NEW YORK—A club which called
Itself private, and turned out to
have some 13,000 members, was or-
dered by the New York Commission
Against Discrimination to conform
to tbe state's laws banning Jim
Crow in places of public accommo-
dation.
The Castle Hill Bench Club, Inc.,
a Bronx swimming pool, contended
that It was strictly a private club
and nut subject to the jurisdiction
of the nnti-discrimlnatlon law.
The club admitted it refused ad-
mission to a Negro girl, solely be-
cause she Is a Negro, but claimed
Its right to <lo so.
One of the most extended public
hearings in the commission's his
tory resulted In 150 citations of
fact refuting the club's claim that
it was private.
It was found that prior to the
organization of the club, the premis-
es and its facilities had been oper-
ated publicly for years b£ the own-
ers of the property, who, In 1950,
leased It to the present club.
The commission found the club
contrived to operate the property
substantially In the same manner,
and with the same controlling per-
sonnel as in the past. The com-
mission found that the club's mem-
bership was in the neighborhood
of 13,000.
Charges were made that the club
became "private" only after con-
struction of a non-segregated hous-
ing project in the neighborhood.
Virginia Medical
Group Accepts
First Negroes
Bv the Associated Nefrro Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Tlie Medical
society of -Virginia last week ad-
mitted its first Xegro physicians.
Acceptance of colored doctors was
made possible lnst N'ovember after
the society Toted to delete the word
"whrte" from Its membership re-
quirement.
Although- four Xegro physicians
were reported neeppted last week,
no names Here revealed. However,
one of then is a member of the
Albemarle County Medical society,
which inclnd*" mostly Charlottes-
ville docors, two nre members of
the Frederick < I'urgs Medical society
and the fourth of the Alexandria
Medical sodcty.
Admittance in the state medical
group paveatlie way for Acceptance
in the American Medical nssocia
tion, a natlonnl group.
h
Tulane Students
Split on Question
Of Integration
* By the ^asodMed Negro Press
NEW OJU.EANS, r.a.—Students
of white Tulane university nre split
on the question of whether Ne-
groes should be ndipltted to the
institution, a lecent survey of the
university's -student body has re-
vealed.
Results skc-w 41 ixt cent of the
students farnr -admittance; another
40 per cent stood against it, nnd
20 per cent were non-committal.
The survey wa« conducted last
December, but results were not re-
vealed until the paper made its dis-
closure.
The paper mid It thought the
stndentn and public were entitled to
know the results of the poll. Aca-
demic freedom, it said, cannot be
maintained .thtoiif-'li secrecy.
A few weeks ng», the same pub-
lication - urged tlie admission of
Negroes Into the graduate depart-
ments at the university. At that
time, it aald (bat while the school
was founded for the expressed pur-
pose of educating young white
met, conditions and tinjes have
changed. It cited as example the
fact "that white women are repre-
sented in every department of the
.(See I®; JANE, TaKe 8.)
(See VIOLENCE, rage 3.)
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Welcome Relief
Noted in S. A.
Traffic Accidents
The first and very welcome re-
lief In tnany months was noted, this
week, on the traffic accident front,
with only five mishaps making po-
lice records, With nine vehicles
being damaged, and with damages
kept to $1,820. One person was hurt,
but. not seriously.
Mrs Georgia B. James. 2fl, 158
Dorle, and James Hamm, 37,130 Ar-
senal. collided Thursday morn-
ing, Feb. 10, at New Braunfels and
Houston. Damage to Airs. James1
car was estimated to be $7
Hamin's, $50.
One woman was injured and $7"
damage was done two cars involved
iu a collision, early Thursday morn-
ing, on Highway !>0, east.
Injured was Mrs. Bessie Free-
man, 33, 342 Fargo, who was car
ried to Brooke Army hospital. Ex-
tent of her injuries was not im-
mediately ascertained.
Mrs. Freeman was a passanger
in an automobile driven by Louis
Hardy 30, 109 Omiiha, who had
stopped for a red traffic signal. A
car driven by Dill E. Heasley, 41),
Houston, Texas, crashed into the
rear of the waiting machine, doing
$350 damages to Hardy's car, and
$400 to his own.
Police reports indicated that
Heasley hnd been drinking, was ex
ceeding both a safe and the legal
speed limit, and was not keeping a
proper lookout.
In an early Saturday afternoon
collision at North New Braunfels
avenue and Centre streets. Clarencc
F. Copney, 2i>, M22 Nevada street,
driving a 1051 Plymouth sedan
north on New Braunfels avenue,
collided with a 1050 Cadillac, driver
Hardeman Street Man Gets
Too Close to Gas Heater,
Becomes Human Torch
A 65-YEAR-OLD Hardeman street man, transformed into a
human torch, early last Saturday morning, when his clothing
became ignited as he attempted to turn off a bedroom gas heat-
er, died Sunday morning at Robert B. Green hospital.
The victim, Ed Brown, 123 Hardeman street, rear, suffered
second and third degree burns over most of his body, when, in
attempting to cut off a gas heater in his bedroom, his
bathrobe and pajamas became ig- ■
nited. Brown succeeded in shedding
tlie burning garments, and, scream-
ing hysterically, jumped hack ink
bed.
Mrs. Lillle Hennegan, who re-
sides in a front house at the Harde-
man street address, and who, at
the time, was in her back yard burn-
ing trash, was attracted by the
man's screams, and ran to invest1
gate*
She said she saw smoke coming
from the man's room, but she was
unable to get iuto the house be-
cause the screen door was locked.
By the time Mrs. Hennegan had
succeeded in ripping the door open,
she had been joined by two other
neighbors who had been attracted
by the commotion.
When the trio finally gaiucd en-
try, they found Brown lying oil the
bed, nude, bis nlmont completely
burned clothing still smoldering on
the floor.
Brown was taken to Robert B.
Green hospital by Carter ambu-
lance where little chance was given
for his recovery. A hospital physi-
cian said that the man had practi-
cally 110 chance to live as too much
body surface—almost 80 per cent—
had suffered second and third de-
gree burns.
Brown was born in Georgia in
1800. When he was eight years
old, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Brown, moved to Luling,
Texas. He came to Sau Antonio iu
1003.
He was a member of Mount Zion
First Baptist church, and. for a
number of years, was janitor and
traffic director at the church.
Funeral services were held yes-
terday (Thursday) morning, from
Mount Zion First Baptist, with the
pastor, the Bev. C. William Black,
officiating, Carter funeral home in
charge. Interment was in City ceme-
tery, No. 8.
(&c<3
ACCIDENTS, Page 3.)
♦
Autopsy Report
Awaited in Death
Of Man in Street
An autopsy reiwrt from Austin
is being nwnited to determine the
cause of death of a 28-year-old Al-
l>ert street man who was fonnd
dead, or dying, very early Sunday
morning, In the 1300 block of North
Ziiizamora street.
Pronounced dead on arrival at
Robert B. Green hospital, shortly
before 1 o'clock, was Hobert Green,
325 Albert.
Officers ,T. .T. Patino nnd Bill
McGee reported that a man Identi-
fied as Herbert Maddox, no ad-
dress listed, called a Hope ambu-
lance to pick up "a sick man,"
who was discovered lying on the
side of the street.
Tlie officers reported that exam-
ination disclosed no olgns of vio-
lence or foul play. Officers, however,
did make one significant discovery,
wliicli may n- cot be of importance,
Karnes County's
Oldest Citizen,
Austin Mann, Die;
RUN OR, Texas—Funeral services
were held here, Sunday afternoon
for Austin Mann, Itfl, who died sud-
denly Friday morning, Feb. 11, at
his home, here. He was Karnes
county's oldest citizen.
Although his health had not been
too good for several years, he Ap-
parently wus without pain when the
end came.
He. In the company of his brother,
Ed Campbell, who was here to visit
him, was preparing his breakfast,
when he suddenly slumped over In
his chair without uttering a word.
Mann had been under the care
of a physician for a heart ailment
for some time.
He was a native of Panna Mnrin,
Texas, just a few miles from
Range, and had lived there all of
his life, with the exception of short,
intervals, when he would go to Snn
Antonio, to visit with his children.
Ho preferred living in
One Officer Quits
After One Fired
In Caldwell Case
Delcctive Quits Fight for
Reinstatement After i
Adverse Decision
With the civil service commission
last Thursday voting, unanimously
to uphold the indefinite suspen-
sion of Myron Huhhle, a key figure
in the killing by ex-policeman, Oma
<i raves, of Johnny (Jack house)
Caldwell, and in the attempted
frameup do cover the slaying, the
third officer involved iti the in-
famous ease. Detective James Sle-
brocht, ended his fight to be restored
to duty, Tuesday by resigning.
Chief of Police George ltichsel
suspended both officers, indefinitely,
when they admitted they concocted
a false story in the fatal shootinf
of Caldwell, ns he sat in a chair in
the tiny office of a North New
Braunfels avenue taverp, during the
course of a bootlegging investiga-
tion.
The men had first reported thai
Caldwell had been shot, when he at*
tempted to attack Graves with a
knife, during questioning. A knife
was planted by the hand of th*
dead man.
Police officials accepted the ob- .
vioqsly phony story, but an indig- ,
nant public forced nn investigation,
nnd. on the eve of He detector tests, •
Hubble nnd Slebrecht admitted the
story was false.
Graves then admitted that he had
shot Caldwell as he snapped an
"empty" gun nt Caldwell's head,
and that the whole thing had been
"an awful mistake."
Graves, indicted for murder with
malice, was able to secure a change
of venue to Jourdanton, which
change was tantamount to acquit-
tnl. 'Hie jury returned a "not. guil-
ty" verdict almost without leaving
the jury box.
nubble nnd Slebrecht sought, re-
instatement to the force following
this "trial," with Hnbble's hearing
being held last week, nnd the ad-
verse decision being made against
him.
Slebrecht In his letter of resigna-
tion. admitting no guilt, said that in
the face of the decision in Hubble'a
case, he was resigning "for the rea«
son that If lie Is guilty of any act
which warrants discharge, then ]
am equally guilty ..."
In part, Slebrecht's resignation
rend:
"I fear that tlie hoard
might come to a different con-
clusion in my case than was
(See CASK. Page S.)
MRS. MARSHALL DIES
NEW YORK — Mrs. Thurgoo#
Marshall, 44. wife of the noted nt»
Runge atjtorney and head of the NAACfr
_ legal staff, died here Saturdai
(See CITIZEN, Page 7.) I morning, Feb. 12.
Labor Leaders Say Negroes
To Gain by AFL-CI0 Merger
By the Associated Negro Press
I IIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Negro labor leaders agreed last weeh
that the decision for a merger of the CIO and the AFL would
be a boon to colored workers as well as the entire labor move-
ment in the United States.
Negotiating committees of the two unions met here last
week and agreed on the merger which has been rumored for
sometime. Before it will become final, both national convention!
of the unions will linve to rntlfy it. Hayes, director of District 1, I'nit-
However, last week's action is ex- ed Packinghouse Workers of Amep.
pected to be confirmed without dif-
ficulty, for leaders in hoth unions
lone have expressed a desire to
brin* about unity, so that workers
conlil present a unified front to
tlie nation.
Labor lenders—Negroes as well as
white—have said that the 15 mil-
lion workers in the two unions would
be In a better position to bargain
under one banner than they now
are tinder two.
The colored leaders maintain thnt
unity Is good for the labor move-
ment and what Is good for all la-
bor Is good for the Negro worker.
Those who h»ve made statements 011
the jirojiostil merger iuclude WII-
lard Townscnd, international presi-
dent of the United Transport Serv-
ice Employees, CIO, sud Cliailei
lea, CIO.
The Black Worker, organ of th«
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
ters. edited by A. Philip Randolph,
president of the International, aH
commented on the merger.
Towosend said In part:
"Tbe bringing together of tlies#
strong organizations Is desigued t«
place the American workers In 4'
much better bargaining position li
sofar as It relates to the economli
social and political 'advancement
the American working men am
women. ,
"The N'egro has become integrati
Into the main stream of orgnni
labor, therefore,, he will enjoy
nted
ii2
(See MERGER, Pace 1J.
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