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KNOXVILLE fhf Tennesseans Win Fight By Use Oi Ballot KNOXVILLE, T e n n. -*An- noucnamcnt by officials uf the k>c«l tchool board t^t |14,700 btia llCen added to thr 1940 bud get to vqualixe the Mlaries of Negru and white teachers in the ■cbools chalked up another vic- tcry for the Negro Teachers' Ltacue here. Since 1934 the league, through its aalary cummittee and its poll tax and voting committee, has bi'en ftgihting to equalize the aalaries oft Negro j|Ud white tcMhera in the public achools. As a direct result of the inten aivs campaign carried on by theae two committees .the salar ies of Negro teachers were in- crMuied from a level equaling 75 per cent of white teachers’ salaries to 90 per cent in Aug. 19M. ,1 .1. i-Uti In October, 1936, the league aent a questionnaire, which in^ ^ eluded six perttnent. questions, to each member of the school board a^lng for equal salaries for all public school teachers do ing similAr work and having similar preparation. Announce ment that'the quesitonnaire was received unfavorably by some \ board members, brought inwnedi- ^ ate action when a drive was in-, atituted to make every teacher ^ in the city a qualified voter. At •very election of school board officials and members of the city council the committee sent questionnaires to the candidates, while continuing to press its campaigh to get teachers them selves to vote. Led i)iy D. W. Roberts, preai- .dtnt of the league and a mathe- mfctics teacher «t the Beardsley Junior achool, the league reported at the opening of the 1839 school term that it had 100 Negro teachers who were now qualified voters. Mr. Robert arranged a con ference between league officials and Mayor W .W. Mynatt, who was then up for re-election, the latter part of October, 19'39, to discuss the question of equal salaries. Mayor Mynatt promised that it $3,000 enough money to equalize the salaries of white and Ne'Sffo teachers, came into the city coffers before November &, 1939, it would be turned over to the Boafd of Education o equalize the salaries of the two groups beginning September, 1939. A league questionnaire went out Immediately to all candid ates in the November, 193'9 elec tion, on the matter of equal •8la.ries. All candidates re^)lied in favor of equal salaries. On Decem/ber 1, 1939, the Mayor, as head of the City Council, turn ed over to the boaird of educa tion, the necessary |3,000. On December 11, the local school board abolished the double salary scale, and added $14,700 to its budget to equalize all salaries for 1940. Memibers of the school board are; Dr. Harry Clark, superinten- dent of city schools; Dr. W. E. Christenberry, chairman of the board; Mrs. Fred Post, Mrs. C. D. Beardsley, whom championed the cause of the teachers, Fred Star, and the Rev. B. B. Laven der. isk Cloture For Mob Measure NEW YORK —With hearing* on the anti lynching bijl Yeady to come to a close during the first week in March, tiie Nation a I Association for the Advance ment of Colored People aent u call today urging all organi: tions and., individuals to write letters to their senators calling upon them to vote for cloture (limitation of debate) in order to preclude a filibuster against the bill. Already, according to associa tion officials, there is a trend in the Senate leading in this direc tion, but the Association pointed out that only the constant prodd ing from the voters out in the country can as.^ure the bill’s be ing brought to the floor of the Senate for a vote. Those senators who have already pledged tO vcte for cloture are as follows: Democrats: Francis T. Malon ey, Conn.; Sherman Minton, Ind. David I. Walsh, Maas.; Robert F. Wagner, New Theodore F. Green, R. I.; Lewis B. Schell- enbach. Wash.; Matthew M. Neely,, West Va. (Republicans; Arthur Capper, Kansas; Henry. Cabot Lodge, r. Mas.i.; and Jaimes J. Davis, Pa. WILL ‘BIG 3’CONTROL NEGRO GOP CAMPAIGN? - Protests May iii^ve Effect Business Inst,^ ^ Seeks Consumer Op inions WASHINGTON, (Special) — The Negro Business Institute, a newly formed non-profit organi zation devoted to the progress of better Negro business recggni set tile fact that there is more »buaineM to be had than Negro- nraad stores are getting sod is MsUng the opinions of reftdtrs or th« GAUQLINA TIMjSS. The Inatftoto is deeply interested, not merely in helping the Negro in business increase sales and profits but also in creating in creased employment opportuni ties for Negro youth. The Institute is interested in your opinion. It wanU to know mjt only what you think of ’ e future of Negro bu.siness in ta relation to better economic con ditions for cur group, but also what you think can be done o help increase sales and profits in Ntgro-owned stores. Your suggestions will be most wel come. It is the belief of the Inatitate that there is a definite need for [ II business institute that will' make available to the Negno important business information, and keep Negro businsss regular ly informed on what makM businsss grow. This sbonld rssolt in «n improved sconomic statns for mors conyplste intsgrstion into American business life. Correspondence is invited with Negro Chambers of Gcmmerce, Business Clubs, Social Clubs, and individuals everywhere who are interested in better Negro busi ness and what it can mean to the improved economic status .f our group. Address your cor respondence to Albert Louis Hypps,, Director, Nes;ro Business Institute, Suite 204-5, Southern. Aid Building, Seventh and Tea Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. Held For Murder NEW YORK (ANP) —Rudolhp Commac, 31, a West Indian, was arrested Wednesday at his home a.t the burglar involved in the case in which Patrolman Jolm A. Holt, until recently a star with the famous world champion Rennaisance basketball team, was shot and killed bjr two fellotw policemen. Holt, in civilian clothes, was attempting Monday to arrest Commac in an apartment build ing. Two white officers, attract ed by the coni'motion, joined n the chase. Coming upon Holt as cending steps with gun drawn, they mistook him for the su«- pect, shooting and killing him. fWhen arrested, Commac was suffering from thres • bullet wounds in his Isg and was taksn to Harlsm hospital. He admitted HoU wo.unded him. Comntac’s wife, Isabella, 29 was also Jailed on charge.s of re ceiving stolen good. Loot om other burglaries, valued at from ?500 to $1,000 was found in the apartment. Holt, 31, starred with the BY ALBERT ANDERSON WASHINGTON, (A N P)— Just how will tbs RepHbKcsn party conduct its national cam paign ank..ng Negroes this year? WiU it renounce past practices and the leadership that has brought the condemnation of many workers seriously interest ed in the weUfsre of the party? Oi will the Negro campaign be in the hands of the old triumvir- atp rather than risk their enmity by turning sC|iirs over to more progreuive leai^ers? These are questions which must be answered within ths Ccnkling Simmons of Ghicsgo, n^ted orator. These three reputedly knew mere practical politics than all the others combined. Active in fi^ternal realms, they could sum mon, for example, support of the Elks from J. Finely Wilson and Judge Billy Hueston on down. Hheir tactics seldom varied. After the candidate was selected at the national convention, an appropriate slogsn was found. Col. Simmons then started his oratorical tours, dragging out ^ the ghosts of reconstruction; Mr.' Church and Atty. Howard ton, where he maintains iaiw* offices, and made frequent trips to headquarters, offering aid and advice. As an official of the national committee duly elected by his constituents, he was ort a par with Chairman Hamilton. Right now he is the strategist |0n whom the 1%ft-for-President forces are heavily depending. Leon Lewis MP CoropM Emes ‘Loog-lacliiiie’ It is understood that Bob Chureh along with Col. SHnmons and John Risher of Washington dev%K>p^d a between-campatc!nis program for Negroes^ and called on Mr. Hamilton to present it. They are reported as being so belligerentry'’insistent that the cheirman showed them the door. Since then there has been hosti lity between Church and Hamil- election ton. Howard, on the other hand, continues to work in ckise har- money with the committee. NEW ORLEANS, (ANP) —i It was'found that the m. ve Attempts by the Earl K. Long | was instigated through ^the aid machine to link his opponent, of James B. LaFourche, local Sum Jones, in fhe state mn-off Negro, popularly idmtifiert with election, with Negroes of the Long polkiciana, lawyers and strte were thwarted here vrhen Lton Lewis, Associated Negro P-ess corre«pbndent, on the re quest of the Louisiana League for Better GovernmeiiT »nd daily papers, exposed the plot and its source Just one week from the Chairman Hamilton is under- ntxt few months by Chairman' scon had a full staff and head-, have de^rmined to give Jvhn Hamilt(^ and the powers quarters gave the impressicn of other elements in the party a that be. If, meanwhile, Mr. ^ great i^ctivity. Col. Simmons chance to show what th^y could Hamilton and his assoeiatee are {also served as secretary, assign puzzled over which path to folkxw it is not strange. They never re ceived sll kinds of “sound ad vice” from every coneeivable course, with much of it entirely contradictory. .. — .. For several eampaignil there has been growing diasatisfsstion with the management of the colored division. Except in 1028, when Herbert Hoover was sleet ed president, a group knows ss thk “Old Guard” baa actually controlled this divisioi, no mat ter who was the nominal figure head. But most of this tims the Negro voted Republieen anyway. In 193'2 and 1986 the race gave the majority of its Votes to the Deniocrats. Aeeording to the Gallup poll, there is a drift bick to the GOP. Whether this can be made to progress at a rate large enough to plase ths pivotal states such aS Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indians, ctc., on ths Republican side of the ledger depends in large mea- si^re on how the ceming cam- puign is conducted. The triumvirate, called the Old Guard, which generally eon- trols campaigns consists of Ro bert R. “Bob” Church cf Usm- phis who has long had the re putation of being «n astats poli tician and until reeent yew* was reported a Ubsral sontribvter to the campaign fund; fnxf W- Howard, nattoaal eominiMeaiDan from Mississippi, and Boaso* Rens for seven ysars. Fourteen months ago he gave up profes sional basketball for the security of a steady job with ths police department. Since then he play ed with the department team. ed speakere, and operated with a technique ^11 of his own. For the past two yesrs Dr. L. K. WUliams, president of the Nationsl Baptist convention. Inc. was head of the Negro division. Although thoroughly wise and experienced in church politics, it is understood the distinguished churohman on both occaisicns wss no match for the tifiumvir- ate. Three weeks after t j, e campaign started they were in tl.e drivers seat which they lid not relinquish until the firing was over in November. Opponents of the tactics—and tliers sre many—say that they prevent persons who would like to get out and do ar. honest Job of campaigning from doing any thing. These tactics do no^ woo votere since little effort made to follow an intelligentyprogram of education. Outside oi a Jot of oratory, ballyhoo, stage strutt ing, nothing real has been done. A few speakers are' rewarded and some newspapers have re- cieved advertising, but that is about all. When, in 1936, it soon deve- hped that the triumvirate had taken over, protests poured in vLw Vesriw it stiu remains, much to the dfs- from leaders who knew these old ^ tactics would not be acceptable. 1 Cbstenan Hamilton, SMinv hopw “ iha wind was'blowing, is under- dx«ulating about tits atood to have told friends there' «n Independent do. The Republican Program committee was formed with sev eral outstanding Negroes named to the board. Ralph Bunche, doctor of phiksophy in political science, was engaged to make a special study and report. Dr. Emmett J. Scott was named to serve as publicity assistant at hefadquarters, and it was assum ed he would be spiokesman for the entire group. A plan was pioposed where there would be no more Negro campaign de partments, but Negroes would be integrated within the general structure. Meanwhile politicians are looking on to see what will happen. — They noted with interest de velopments at the recent nation al committee meeting in Wash ington when Bob Church, holding a proxy from an absentee Tenn. member, introduced a resolution calling for an appropriation of $100,000 for a special committee t; consider the problem of the colored voter. ..- - Mr. Howard and Mrs. Booze, his committeewoman, say by sil ently. The motion was referred to the executive committee where the p'lice deparlntenw ; The articles had been paid for by the Long machine ahd city- administrstion cohorts and tb« two local coloreil papers rect-ved a part if this comp«n9Sti4jn to gether with orders for many extra thousands oi their papeirs for distribution throu>ghout the When “spot” articles appeared in two of the local Negro papers rural areas of the state expressive of Sam Jones’ inten-' , tion to aid in giving the Negr'o ' enfranchisement and Sis inten- "P lions to “especially aid the Ne- checking the possible en- gro farmer,” the Negw citizen- *”ue that would ry became alarme^. and the thousands at Ne- NAACP began I releasing letters ‘hroo«hout the state to the effect that these articles instead of aiding the Negro c(.»se would handicap and re tard It. Lewis was called in by one of thv‘ daily papers supporting the cnndidacy of Sam Jones and as.igned the task this move. J. E. Wilkins, president f the local NAACP branch, stated to daily papers that» “no parti- ciilar concessions could be expect ed from either of the g^bnator- ial candidates and if they thought Mr. Jones would be favorable to the Negro cause to link him, of unearthing thusly, was merely an effort to I Please turn to page six See your frfei^ds in f his All-Durham A^ovie TOBACCOLAND U S A- Produced by The March of Time MARCH 1st ai4 2ad ONLY ConHnuout Pmrfonnancm ADMISSION FREE ALL SCENES FILMED IN DURHAM COUNTS This pktvr*, whkh took on* yiot to Aim, (hows H>e vast infiuvnc* af DURHAM'S great tobacco imhittry on tha cultural and bastnou Iff* a this cofflHiunlty. would be diangea made. But it was easier to say than do. National Committeeman Ho ward could not be removed so easily. He was right in Washing- BepubHcan group wlwss purpose it would be to work smong di - gnitatled former Negro republi cans. 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