MI€HIGA]I¥’S BIG THREE
CHABtBS A. ROXBOROUGH
CHARLES H. HAHONET
FLOTD H. SKINNER
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By appointment of Governor L. B. Dickinson of Michigan, Charleg A. Roxborough is
serving a Six-Year Term as a Member of the State Appeal Board of the Unemployment
Compensation Commission, and Ch-'.rles H. Mahoney as a Commissioner ol the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry. Floyd H. Skinner is serving as an Assistant Attorney General
of the State of Michigan. These appointments of representative Colored men by a Re-
Eublican State Administration are a challenge to those Dmiocratic State Administrations,
Forth and South, which boast so constantly of “recognition” given the race. These Mich*
igan appointments carry with them authority and power. These incumbents are not simolv
“adviwrs”,—^the usual New Deal “recognition.”
NAACP Denies
Segregation In
Approving
Wire To
President Roosevelt
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SECOND
SECTION
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Corolla
SECOND
SECTION
SATUHDAT, OCTOBER 19,1»40
BARKLEY SOUNDS DEATH
Says Poll Of Senate Shows
Not Enough Votes
Outstanding Democratic Leader
WASHINGTON,
Attempt !to obTi»t«
discuuion of th« anti-lynchint;
bill durincf this seMion of Con-
grress Senate Majoiiy Leader Al-
ben Barkley told the Senate on
Tuesday, October 8 .that he was
“wiUinsr to ta1c« the responaibility
of aaying that in the midst of
ci'ir in'temational sitoation, o>*r
defense pro^rsm—it is invpracti-
cal at thi, time to make a fut'le
effort to obltain a vote, on
biU.” , ■
Admitting that invoking clo
ture (limitatiop of debate) would
be the only mean* 6t geltttlng a
I .lands for, but because it reprau
sent* even more than merely
preventing: lynching: It has be-
come a syml>oI of tolerance as re
presenting .true American atti
tude in relatibn to real equality,
witliout prejudice as regards
race,' creed, or ooSor.”
Senator Barbour read a letter
h® received from Walt'^r White,
in which the NAACP secretary
pointed to the seven lynchinsrs
of 1940, particularly the lynch
ing at Brownsville, Tennessee a£
"comparable to the oppression of
minorities in Nazi Germany,
which Americans and the Con-
vote on the bill he said: “I have gresg have rightly denounced."
To CaiQ)sdp For
at being forced to serve host- . 't/' A 4-
NEGRO OFFICERS ON TM£ Uri and servants to white army f ^0 10110? vlrHlOrS
SKIDS officers. We further queation that
NQE}W YORK A statement Jim crow policy of army ‘has
from tha White Hous« October been prcyen satisfactory.’ It has ^ ^
9 implying that a committse of never been satisfactory nor is it YyAf|nn|1 Uu||||f|A
thrfe jieTS9ns,' including Walt^jiow to Negro Americans. Such fTyllUvIl TT Ulluv
White, Mcreiary of tiia KAACP segregation has been destnietiire' ^ s
bad SBprcfved a policy of segix- of mcraile and ha# permitted pre- , New York — Two oratorical
gation for Negro units in the judice superiors to exercise the'r geniuses, one in the east and one
Army, wa, repudiated and de- bijotry cm defenseless Negro re- j,een ra-born
nounced here October 10 in a jiments. I
“We are in.xprtsslbly .hoiked ‘ °
had a very careful personal and
individual poll made of the mem
bers of th» S«nate on the Demcb
Barkley accused the NAACP of
putting him o& the apot “because
of the not only insisteat but
prompt telegram of protest to
that a President of the .United
the cuffent campaign for'the .the Senate for clotuiro.
eratic side and on the Republican sometimes peremptory 'demands
side, and in that efioftb the mino- that, regardless of anything else,
rity leader has «ooj»erated, and the Anti-lynching-bill be brought
It has been ascertained that do- forward for consideration in the
ture cannot bs obtained at tth« Senate^*'
‘t**».4i».'*wbr toi hava a vote cinl . ^ ,* . „ . ^
Ihe Ai^fl-lynching Ml!. It is not I A» *
only impossible to obtain the two Les^^r the Senate told Bar-
thirds vcite necessary to adopt it bour that he hoped the bill could
ibu,t it would Hot be possible to be brought up “at an early date,
^ther when' we come i** No
vember or at an early daite in the
President Roosevelt.
The United Press acccnint of States at a time of national ?e- Republican Preslden-[ Barkley made the stateiient „ext aesrfon." '
the White House sUtement de- rU should surrender so complete, Candidate Wendell WilBcie. ,in response Do ai flwesticn put to|, i„ . a telegram to President
dared: ly t« enemies of Democracy who! One is a woirtan- Miss BerthaKoosevelt Octcber 10, Walter
“White House Secretary Eiiriy would destroy national unity by g Swindall of Chicago The « JI White toid Ihe, President that
«tid ^e negation policy was advocating Jeregation. Official Siher rCalebleterrn of PeVk- Baridey'a sounding ^the death
approved after Mr. Roosevelt had approval by thg Commander -iu ^kiji New York 23 ve&T old'^
conferred with Walter White, -Chief of the; Army end Navy cf oratorical champion who won 'w presented a “blow^ at patnot-
presldent of the National Associ- sUoh, discrimination and segrega- hj, title at ‘ Oklahoma City of twelve million Negro citi-
aititin, for the Advahcemenit of tion is * »tab in the back of De- m®o __j t '
Colifd P«pte; .nd t.0 oth.r „.cr..=7 It i. . tr«i. wteW.n-
Nw, if.- . C.0..1 yon kmd
This phraseology in the press ment on the sartie dav tlio ooht> - " Sej^tor A^ for ?ny-
Employees Will Not
Join Auxiliary Of
White Broth^
zeiiaJ
W^ington (AiNP)—?. Passaged
of the- amendment the Biu>-
■r
press ment on the sartie dav tho ooht) - iw Oct. 17 ^ The flanor
was feharacterir^d by the NAACP de grace was given byi Senau j : Miss Swindall moved into tKe
••a -“.tricV-to give .She impress- Majcrity Leader AlbenBaricley speech making when , „ . .
Ion thjt Negroes liad approved to the Anti-Lyncjiing bilj. The she had a huge , crowd attending spect WllVaHing for'the elimin^^^ l*en jMk»a to m*ke
of the Army Jim Crow, and to two acts are a double blow at the the conference of the' National. ' ^ ^ ItaKan destroyers and then photogranha and the of : 3irfr^n|Aise t^ti>». is gwu»ntecd
^ long,, and ah»old h^ve consi.^^^^^ the ^titutic® of finger print., on
am wholeheartedly and sin- york later sent to the civil s^ice applications wilf a- Beefch County; FfoHd^ i colored workers wer« oohmi1‘.m1
111 I
PHILA. — Stating tlMt tr«y
“will not be shunted into a pc«w
•rtcfla, Jim-crow orgAnaation**,
colored freight handlers, txvstu
and station employeea tfarooghoat
the eonirtry have notified WiUia^a
Green, AF of L head, that they
will not abide by order to jcin as
“auxiliary*’ of al white brother
hood.
In rejecting Grean'a oidar ta
turn in diair individual chart«r9
as fedml union locals and join
the “auxiliary'’ am aobbordj-
, nate of the lily-wiiit* firotlt#r->
hood of railway Clerka, it was
pointed out that members of
proposed organisation would b«
si)om of all voting privilege ia
the AF of L since they eifctnot
even send representativea ta fh«
grand lodge of the white group.
Furtbenaore, ths colored work
ers eontend, attenq^ to force tl»i«
unequal aet-up is centraiy to «w
purported policy of the AF of L
which has eaaaistently goac ••
record durtng iwtranal eoavea-
tiona as agaiaat 4Q fonaa of «ha-
tfriminatiott on aeeoant «f laca
or color.
Democratic National ^m^tt«'jir the the^ ^ti^ti^Tj^
Roosevelt, photographed in hi* Hotel Bfltmore . headqtiarters dekeata# ft«Bi tha
federal union locals met ia Cin>
chtnati recently «tad formed the
Natwnal Councfl at Freight
tiandiers, Express and Stat:^a
Eoi^yeea, an organiaation cotv-
aistings at fifty loqAs with roles
to 2000 ftvembars acattertd tiura
out fte -opantryi
, In reg^teriag the^ ^ro«^t.
n)Mnbers «f the Oouneil rai4ladid
Qr^n tih# the right to da^er-
mine who aliall b« their
©ft. C. B, PDwtLL
DR. C. B. POWfiLIi, national!^. known Kew, York iriediMl
and busiilees le^er, and director of Negro, publicity ^or
in New York Gity
FBIToMaite
Until After Elwtioii .Pattt Beich (bsoty
remove the pressure from Pre- patriotism of twelve million \e- Pederation of RepuMiean Wo-
aident Roosevelt a^ Commander- gr^ citizens.” j men’s Clubs standing and cheer-
in-Chief of the Army and Navy. | The NAACP has aenti a letter ing when she finished attacking
liie telegram, s^ned by Mr. t© its 600 branches, youth ccwn- the New Deal in Detroit. She is
White, A. Phillip RandcJph, pre- dig and' college chapters upging a graduate of the University of
sident of the Brotherhood of active and continued protest a- Chicaeo and active in Young
Sleeping Car Porters, and T. A. gaint President Roosevelt’s Jim Republican circles in Chicago.
Hill, formerly industrial aecr-j- -crow national policy. The letter
tary of the'-National Urban Lea- aska before election day to Young - Peterson made the
gue and at present ap assistant make the protests of Negro Ame- page of Connecticut
in ■ the Nbtional Youth Adminis- ricans most effective. paDers when he addressed a hu^e
traticjn, declared “in a written The NAACP announced that Willkie meeting in that state,
memorandum we submitted w« thg whole gectiion of policy dealing A. three letter man in Peeksklll
specifically repudialted segregH-''with Negro army officers was a High, he was chosen, along with
tion.” plan to put ^egro cfficers “on Joe Louis and Jessie Owens, as
On other points of policy enu- the skids” and eventually elimi- one of the ,utstand|ng Negroes
ciated by the White House statp- nate them altogether. of the country. He is « iunior at
ment, the telegtam declared: An imporltant part of the NA West Virginia State College, He
“We most vigorously protest j\.cP protestg and activity will is also a proTessional „ sin«ers, a
yVur approval of War Depart- be upon the employment of Ne- baritc-ne. After the campaism he
ment policy regarding Negroes in gpoes in arsenals, navy yards, will spend six weeks in Bolly-
anned forces which precludes Ne and industrial i^antg which have wood, returning, to college in
gro officers except chaplains and been swarded contracts under the February.
doctors in regular units either defense program. [ ■
than two national guard regi-
cerely in acorof itESSHiRDILU)
bottoni after tha Italian crew wait action until. after the com
cerely In favx of it, not only be had abwidoned her. the Ad- ing elections, tt was reported bv
cause of the premise Ithat it miralty announced toniffht. amendment and
bill here Tuesday.
No photographers’ l^)by waiT
el on the congressman, nor
any influence, other than
Veteran 015,000,000 Miles
ments staffed by Negro officers.
We deny statement ,thait ‘at a>
senalg and army posts Ntgro ci-
v^ians are acccirded equal oppor
tunity for employment’.
‘'We ask proof that even one
N^o is now bein|^ given avia
tion training as pikjb in army
air corps. As recently as Octodber
first nineteen forty the Adjut
ant General of the War DepaW"
ment wrote 'applications from co-
Asked to Investigate
Klan And Bombing
Of Negro Homes
In Dallas, Texas
NEW
Martin
YORK
attsok last Sen^entber on Dr, G.
■' Porter when the latter weni
to the court house in Dallas in
answer to a jury summons. Dr,
Porter was tossed head first down
the court house rteps. With rf»s-
Dpct to the bombing of Ncsfro
homes In Dallas within the lint
few weeks, the NAACP declfired
“These a»*ts, rather than the
Congressman Neirroes in purchasing
Dies, of Texas who ar.
mo^ertv nursuanh to their Con-
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these citizens ar« denied the | in the matter, fomnikitiQg fis
right to vote in primary elections, Jauxili^ under the BRC witkeut
through the refusal of o^ic:a!s| their consent w«a the first stspi
to register them for either cue,in the wrong direction.
Democratic or Republican part- Membership in the BSC is de^
did ies, nied them solely on t|i* b^ls ^
the I The request for a probe :nu>jraee, the colored groiqi pointed
stuibbornesg. of a certain blcck conditions in Florida was madejout, and under no condition wJl
of Southern congressmen, pre-jtoday by Thurgood Marshall,'they agree to be supervised by a
vent xiassage of the bill. special NAACP counsel, in ^ Ir* [prejudieed body, nor contributs
It is reliably reported that ter to O. John Rogge, United their taxes to *« coffers of aa
Congressman Pearson from Tenr..
declared he was head cf a group
of between TO and 100 congresj-
men who stood “like the rock of
Cibraltar” against the legisiatian
eliminating photographs frcm the
applications.
Further reports are to the ef
fect that Congressman Nichois
Oklahoma is -the reputed leader
of the ckakroom movement that
prevented the passage of the
bill.
Strong opposition arose aad
there was a debate as to which
of twci amendments would be
passed. Only one would be ac
cepted and members- had their
States assistant attorney general
in charge of the Justice Depart
ment’s civil libsrtlM divbion.
Mnrshall recently returned from
a special trip to ^orida where he
got a first hand account of Iht.
situation. He turned over to tlif
Justice Department two types of
registration certificates used in
organisation which will not graat
them voting power in ^ ic3^»>
latiVe meetings.
At the meeting caHcd to dis
cuss action on ths proposed anx*
Diary, Arthur William*, of Cli-
cLnnati, president of ttie oounQ
said:
“It ‘the auxiliary' mettm that
Palm Beach County. A yet^ow the colored man will spend his
certificate, issued to white vo*sr*. money and have no roics or rs-
contains a blank space for “noli-
tical party affiliation,’’ to be filf'
ed in; a second, whits certificate,
which is issued to colorsd voters,
contains no such hlaiA space.
“The use of separsts type* «f
jvgistration certificate* for the
choice of one or two things to i^ttsr ^id,
vc^te for the elimination of the ^f praeOcs prs-
photographs or to vote for the|^^,^„^ the'entira st«ts ^
REGAiiLING AS ONE of the most interesting events in Ws ^^le
career an incident when Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) ex avaUable. Thej
latter wvlild take-care of many I came to the floor of tiis HoaM,
lored perstms for flying cadet recently that ^ytutional right and their attjtr.«t ^ traveling companion “a cauliflower is only a , . ,
appointment or for enlistment in f^Jr.tT'sZer'lf a JabUge^th ed^atlon.” Samuel R. Aspinall shown outlying ^eas ^ct« in j.nd therefore, postj^ned ^ •=■
the Air Corps are iKtt being a«- would investigate subversive ac „„.American activities. .being congratulated company officials, retired recently on the eli»m*tio« -
cepted.’ jtivities by Communists, Fascists
“Ws further vigorously ques- and other groups among Negroes
ion your statement that morale in Dallas, was asked by the NA-^
t'
r. « * tv._ »««♦ ter 44 y^rs of service as a waiter
* o 1^ rT
to President Rooseveit and to, +1
on crack Pennsylvania entitled
In the face of such wguments
Es^ating that ha has traveled upwards of 5,000,000 miles certain Congressmen, rather than
splendid in existing Negro CP t-oday to Investigate the Kl^n other members of the Dies com- *our*a 0# Wi duties. Mr. Aspinall has served presidents, ^h® consequences of an ir-
unilM have made repeat^ pfo- and tiie bombing of Negro homjs mittee, to Speaker Sam Raybura, governors, iploinats ^and statesmen, among them Presidents ate Negro electorate, declared
enlisted men in these s«grsfatJd In Dallas. aHn from Texa» and to Henry A iWlson, Coolidg«i ud H^var* Justica CbarU Swu Hllffhea they cciuld not get a quorum to j bit premature a* m9 action
units has made rapsated proteats The NAACP letter carted ths ,Walla5ev ‘and WiU RoffiU jact on the neaaurea when thsy>b«m taken m ft. •
of
finger prints until they > el's
well beyond the. daafT* of re
buff at the pells.
E^lier storiai, sfeatiag that
the bill bad beea passed, were a
present»tion as t# how it shall
be used. It is vitally important
lhat ws be jwrmitted to attend
all «oma^te« and lagWattv*
meetings w»sr* rules and laws
are adopted for the Negro to ba,
(ov^ned by.“
When word w«s first rec^lve4
that aie cl«to had asked
dictloB over ths colored leealv a
eonnaittee called o® Graaa to
votes objection. He aasnrtA tkem
thAt tbey would not W
to aecspt the agrsenaat.
Shortly afterwwd. hemmm
aent an ‘official* aeftisa
ing thssA of his dels4*a')
eriag ths» to foeww*
teiab «Dp|die% mi. mm
h««as i^te*.
lor tile aaslUli^