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VOLUME XXIII ^ NUMBER 45
DURHAM, N, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1942
Shipbuilding Company Ordered To Cease Discrimination
DUHHIM HOST TO MZ CONFAB
Man
Fne
Florida
$5,000
Holding Regro
Washington — Attorney Gcn-
pral Francis Biddle has announc
ed that a Federal Qrand Jury,
Bitting in the Northern District
of Florida, at Pensacola, Wed-
nmday, returned an indictment
charging Charles A. Qaskin, of
\Vn*'ahitehka, Ploridn, with
violation of the Federal Aiiti-
IVonage Statute.
^ The indictment charges Gaa^
kin with “unlawfully, wilfully
and feloniously’ ’ arresting a
Negro, Janies Johnson, for the
IW purpose of holdii|g 'i*
involuntary servitude to work
off and alleged debt.
Maximum penalties under this
statute (Section 444, Title 18,
II. S. Code) are five years iin-
prisomnent, or a $5,000 £!&% ox
both.
The ind'ictment followed »n
investigation by the FBI inta a
report that on August 5, 19-10
Oaskin forced Johnson to ac
company him from Panama City
(Florida) to Wewahitchkn to
-work out a debt. According to a
statement by Johnson, he v/nj
beaten on the public highway by
Gaskin and forced, at gunr>oint,
to -enter the latter’s aut-omf4»*Ie.
Johnson stated that he had left
Oaskin’s turpentine camp noar
AVpwahitchka in 1937 ^‘fri!c of
debt" but that Gaskin in July,
1040 rlaimed “a look at the led-
'Tcr” disclosed a $22.00 debt.
Johnson escaped from the .mto-
niobile before he reached Gal
kin’s camp.
The Grand Jury investigation,
requested by Assistant Attornev
General Wendell Berge, in chai’ge
of the Criminal Division, was
directed by United States At
torney George E. Hoffman and
Frank Coleman, Special A«;sist-
ant to the Attorney General.
Faces
For
AT COLUMBIA
DR. G. L. HARRISON, presi
dent of Langston university,
Langston, Okla., who was elert-
president of the Conference
oi N^ro r^nd Grant eolleceiH ut
the annual meeting held in Chi
cago last week.
Negro Corporal Cuts
Final IM lo jMasI^
Completing HigHway
[Baptist To Raise
$20,000 FoiiSfiaw
This Schod Year
Tialeig'h, — The General Bap
tist Convention will raise anJ
contribute to Shaw University
the smn oi' twenty thousan 1
dollars this school year as the
first effort to match the forty-
five thousand dollars donation
already assigned to Shaw by the
General Education Board o+'
New York. The aunouncomen*
was made by the Rev* C. F.
Griffin, executive secretary f
the Generiil Baptist Convention,
to President Robert P. Daniel
immediately following a speci.il
meeting of the convention Wed
nesday, October 28, at which
tb«fe wwe present nK)derat.»tt:
and ministers, from all secfuiTis
of North Carolina. This new
General State Baptist Conven
tion project for Shaw Univei-
sity is the convention’s Second
many years. The firsi
which was designed to raise six- ,
I tcon Ihonsand dollars for ihe
renovation of the Shaw Univer-
MlSvS PEARL WAr/l^, Figkjs'ty f^eonard Hall matured hi
and Howard graduate who is now ^*^SHst when the Baptist report-
doing work on her doctorate de-1 eleven thoiisanl
gree at Columbia University in ^i'^e hundred dollars and pledges
Sociology. Miss Walker was last \ account for the total amount
year’s winner of the $1,;JOO Pn-' si.xtoen thousand dollars
blic Service Fellowship. It was Sought-
the first time a student of ei-| accepting’ the Convention’s
ther race in the south had !;>en President Daniel stated
able to win the coveted prize, ^thnt the funds noiy being lu-
— — - * - Rhgro are^he reali^'^-
_ • « a dreams which he and all
BRIiLIANT^ YOUNG
i significant to not? th.'
1Vi\\j1!I/ O’llVLi \JlSll3 I cnnvpniton’’s special mef^ting
$1300 FELLOWSHIP F/P.
had been closed for more thjin
ach fall since 1934 a Piib'ic twpntv vear.s. In this connection
bervice Fellow has entered Kon.j Daniel declared that the re-
Amencan university to pursue noR-„ted Leonard Building and
graduate study but this year will the provision of Baptist he.'i:^-
e e ’’’st time that Public qnarters there was a tribute to
Service Fellow has been given .i the Negro Baptists “who are
Negro. Miss Pearl L. Walker, a n^are of the fact that Ne-
graduate of Howard University jrroes can and will open doors ,
jn the class of 1937 and with pjosed to them by some in- j that he virould never appear foi
the degree of Master of Arts in Please Turn To Page Eigh: I induction so long as there was
Sociology from Fisk Univeraitr 5 ^
Wins m Nationwice Essay
Contest on Tuberculosis
Best essay on tubercnioalc from
•mong more than ^,000 Negro
cCMtofO students was
Bugf«nla Henrietta Carr, aboYe, se*
lor at Cheney (Pa.) State Teachars
Collegs.
^lAnother Nesnr Says
He Will Not Fight
in A Jim-Crow Army
Bishop W. W. IWatthews
To Preside At Annual
Conference Of AMEZ
' Jamaica, Long Island—(Cal
vin’s News Service)—Winfred
Lynn, a 1-A man and ordered
to report for induction since
September 18th, has refused
to answer the call in a Jim
Crow army, “Unless I am as
sured that I can serve in a
mixed regiment, and that T
will not be compelled to servt
in a unit undemocraticallv
selected as a Negro group. I
will refuse to report for induc
tion.
This, Lynn wrote way back
in June. Yet the Board asked
him to appear August 16th to
state his case and he did. Lynn
assured' he apologetic board
a Jim Crowed £trmy»
Winfred Lynn, who is 36
tsen served notice of his dec
ision at the U. S. Attorney’s
office in~Brooklyn. For a while
nothing happened. Then Ass
istant U. S. Att’y Hirsch called
him down t^rhis office together
with his brother. Attorney
Conrad Lynn and proceeded to
show Winfred the error of hia
ways. When this failed, the
matter was turned over to the
prosecuting attorney, Mr. De-
Meo, who suggesed that the
selective service act could be
much better tested after Win
fred’s induction into the army.
Winfred didn’t see it that
way though Conrad Lynn was
inclined to agree. Now it’s the
government’s move.
500 NEGROES
TO BE CALLED
FOR MARINES
Washington — Plans ft»r the
immediate enlistment of ap-
pro.ximately oOO additional Ne
groes in the United States Mar
ine. Corps Reserves to lie tr?iii?«1
as occupational specialists wtwe
announced today by Msirinc
C»rps Headquarters.
Although enlistment for ihe
new quota for Negro maripes
will be for general duty, special
consideration will be given tbojc
possessing the qualifications of
of the specialists desired. Thi^
new recruits will be trained in
fifty different occupational
fields at the huffu New lliye>
Marine Corps training centi"- 01
atac credited schools.
Civilian occupations cories-
ponding to sj)ecialist vacaucie?
under this quota include, clerks,
musicians, truck drivers mrch
anics, accountants, telt'phone
radio maintenance and repair
men, electricians, warehouse mew
elfvtricians, warehouse men.
machinists, and cooks and baTc-
Each miner from a Govern
ment closed gold mine if work
ing in a copper mine, can dig
enough cooper in one month for
copper content of six haavy
tanks.
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H. I. PONTE LLIO-NANTON
recently appointed to the staff
of tbe Veoeral Disease KlHe»titm
Institute for North Carolina iin
der the United States Public
Health Servire. He will be con
cerned with Pubic Relations
will help publicize the work
throughout the state. Mr. Nan-
ton was formerly connected with
the National Youth Administra
tion as Assistant Negro Affairs
Officer. He is ably fitted for his.
new position and has had con
siderable experience as a news
paper editor and Public Rela
tions Officer
10% OF INCOME
IS OUR QUOTA
IN WAR BONOS
Final IM In MasKa “ t^ivo^s^y rts
t IlIUI MJMUMU Philos,
ph^- in Sociology. Miss Walker,
cmij)eting with scores of \\o-
-men graduates from all the out
standing white colleges and uni
verities , of the South, is (lie
eighth person to receive thi^
covetod award.
The Public Service Fellow
ship, an all expense fellowship
Whitehorsej Yukon Terri
tory, — In the spruce forest
of Yukon Territory this week
the final 4ink in the Alaska a
Highway was completed with
dramatic suddeness ^hen Cor
poral Refines Sims, Jr., Negro
«)f Philadelphia, driving a buU-
dozcr from the north, saw trees
starting to fall toward him. As
he quickly backed his big maeh-
ino away, a bulldozer driven by
Private Alfred Ja:fluka, white
of Kennedy, Texas, broke
through the 'underbrush.
Working from the north and
the south, the crews on the high
way nt last* had met. Corporal
Sim, leaped from bis bulldozer
and warmly shook .Jalufka’s
hand. It was the Yukon Terri
tory version of the driving of
the golden spike. .
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Fair Employment
Cracks Down On
Committee
New Orleans
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Shipbuilders For Barring
WaqRington — President’s
amountimr to .$1300, was oi-gani- Committee on Fair Employment
^ ^ ® former Wo- I'mctice has ordeded the Delta
Nation.',I Shipbuilding Corporation; Now
Prohobition Reform and is Orleans, La., and Local .No. 37
awarded each year by the Pu- f the International Boiler-
bhc Service Fellowshio Facnltv • shipbuilders, Weilder.^
Fellowship Fnonlty
Committee of Barnard Collego.
It was established for “women
graduates who show promise of
usefulness in public seWice. ”
'riiis does not Include the ordin
ary field of teaching; Each year
the award is made in a diff«r-
ent section of the country thus
giving candidates from all if-
gions of the itnited Rtate.s «
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and Helpers of America, AF or
L. to “cea.se anl desist ” ‘ from
discriminating against Negroes
in the employment of skilled,
shipyard workers.
The order and findings oT the
President’s Committee was baa
ed on the record of a tmbh.'
hearing held in Birmingham,
Ala., on June 20, 1942. R. B.
Ackerman, Vice President of
Delta represented the corpora
tion at the hearing, and Jamef»
B. McCollum, International Re
presentative, appeared for the
union.
The formal complaint alleg
ed that investigation by the
Committee’s field representative
disclosed that out of a total em
ployment of 7,000 at the Delta
Shipbuilding Corporation there
were only a few hundred Neg.:o-
es; that all Negroes were em
ployed as common laborers or in
menial capacities; that the Cor
ing agreement with the New
Orleans Metal Trades Council
through which it recruited most
of its workers and that the ef
forts of Negro organizations
and a representative of Local 27
of the Auxiliary Boilermakers
union to secure the employiuent
of Negroes in skilled and semi
skilled positions had met with no
success.
By virtue of the authority
conferred upon it by Exeoutive
Order 8802 “to take appropriate
steps to rederess grievances
which, it finds to be valid,” the
poration had , a preferential iiir-' Committee made the following
findings and issued the follow
ing directions:
FIHDINO
“1. That the Delta Shipbuild
ing Corporation, in its shipyard
at New Orleans, Louisana, has
discriminated in its employment
practices against Negroes, be
cause of their race, in violation
of Executive Order 8802, in that
it has failed and refused to em
ploy skilled Negro workers.
“2. The Committee further
finds that^ Local No. 37, Irster
national B^ilei;^>aker8, RhJp-
of America has practiced dis-
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Equal TeacKer’s Pay
Causing Big Battle
In Floiida Courts
Dade County, Fla. — Appar
ently copying the procedure
followed in other Florida ^eitch-
ers’ salary cases, the defend.! at
school board in Dade County,
filed this week additional de
fenses to the bill of eoniphiifit
making the excuse tha^ saliuics
paid to both Negro and, v.hit.
teachers and principals ha>e
lieen based upon and determined
by the respective economic re
quirements of theM teaehws
and principals, according to the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
whose special counsel is fight
ing for the okualization of teavb^
ers pay.
The school board relief njwn
the following ridiealous argu
ments in their effort to denv t»>
the Negro teachers their con
stitutional rights.
The efense pleaded that the
payment of higher salaies i*»
white teachers and prinei{)als
than have been paid to Ne»:ry
principals and teachers has been
based upon the fact that the
cost of living of white teachers
and principal is grtater than
*that of the Negroes and th^t it
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The Annual Tonference of the
Seventh Kpijicopai District of
the AME Zion Church will ci»n-
vene hert* Wednesday, November
2.3, at St. Mark’ AMK Zion
church located on Pine atrevt it
was announced this weei^ bj Rev.
.H. P. Perry, h*wt pn-^ior the
conference. The conference will
close J^unday evening, NoTember
‘2ft, and wll be presided otct by
Bi-hop W W. Matthews.
Five Pre.'iidin," Elders and ap
proximately 2.jfl ministers and
Jefegales wiW be present far the
five-day session, in addition to a
large number of visitors. Prsf^id-
ing Elders who will attend are:
Rev. .1. R. Funderburk. Fayette
ville District; Rev. J. W. a Mr eh,
Sanford District.; Rev. T. J.
Young. Raleigh District; Rer.
C. F. Martin, I^nrinburig Dis
trict; Bev^ W. W;^ toag, Darhaa
District.
The budget for the conference
is appmximately ' $15,000 of
,»»f which is the con£*r-
ence apportionment plus f3 000
for education. An additional $3,-.
000 will be paid in by mission-
•aries and'conference worker*.
The opening pablie
will be held at the chureh nk
Wednesday evening at 8HMI
o’clock with a welcome addrew
by Mayor W. F. Carr on behalf
of the city. Dr. James E. Shepard
president of N. C. Colley irUl
deliver a welcome address ob
behalf of edneation. OtlMnr
addresses of welc»ne wiD be hy
Dr. C. C. Spaulding, on hehalf
of Negro business; Rev. A. S.
Croom, on behalf of the Minis
terial Alliance: Rev. Stanlejr
Harrell, on behalf of the Hini^
ter’s Association and 1li«i
Willie Bine on behalf of the
church.
Music for the occasion will be
furnished by the Senior, Junior
and Gospel Choirs. The Ch'ld-
ren’s choir will render several
number also.
The presiding officer for the
Wednesday eveni^ semioB vift'
be Rev. S. P. ’Perrj, pesttir «t
Saint Mark.