Labor Needs Protection
From Its Own Strength
By LAVBEEN WHITE
NEW YORK
There has always been a re
volution going on in the world.
Men have always been plotting,
scheming and revolting. Those
who controled the wealth of the
world have plotted and schem
ed to lieep it. They have re
volted against anyone who tried
to interfere with their control.
Those who did not control any
of the wealth of the world have
plotted and schemed to get some
of it. They have revolted against
any economic system that pre
vented them from sharing what
their labors helped to produce.
The revolution that forces it
self on our attention at this time
is being led by labor, and those
closely connected with labor.
Labor is destined to get more of
the wealth that she has helped to
produce. By fair means or foul,
evolution or revolution, she will
get it. Labor, through political
pressure, is in a position to take
what she wants. Before labor
was organized, its plight was
pitiful. A laborer was practically
a slave. Since labor, labor lead
ers, and political leaders have
harnessed forces the situation is
entirely different.
Consider what has happened
in the United States since 1932.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt
campaigned for president, he
promised to improve the lot ol
labor. When he was elected, he
kept his promise. The people
who are the backbone of the
economy were allowed a great
er share of what the economy
produced. Unemployment insur
ance went into effect, pension
plans became more prevalent,
increases in pay and shorter
working hours resulted from this
new scheme of things. Roosevelt
gave labor a measure of security
and stature. Labor gave Roose
velt power and immortality.
From past experience labor
knows what labor can do. Labor
leaders and political leaders are
aware of labor’s strength. A
month ago when I wrote “Labor
Gets A Warning” it was a.wam-
ing to protect labor from its own
strength. The stronger a thing
is, the more easily it can destroy
itself.
More evidence of labor’s
strength can be found in the
land reform bill of Guatemala.
This bill permits the state to
seize uncultivated farmland of
large landholders for re-distribu
tion to the landless, on a lease
or purchase basis. The owners
are to be reimbursed by inter
est-bearing government bonds
redemmable in a maximum of
twenty-five years.
The land reform bill is a vic
tory for the peasants and labor
ers of Guatemala. The full ex
tent to which they will benefit
remains to be seen. However,
this much is known; The labor
ers, or peasants will have con
trol of land they didn’t have be
fore. With control of land other
concessions can be forced. The
masses can always outvote the
classes.
Communism is a way of life in
China because the peasants or
laborers have accepted it as a
way of life. It goes without say
ing that Communism will remain
a way of life only as long as the
, laborers allow it to remain a way
' of life.
i In my opinion, labor is de-
j finitely in control of the revo
lution that engulfs the world at
this time. About the only thing
I labor has to fear is the improper
use of its own strength.
Negro Delegates Sell Civil Rights
Down The River For Party Loyalty
CHICAGO I
The wishy-washy civil rights
section stayed in the Republican
Party’s platform unconteste4
simply because the Negro del
egates thought it best to let it
ride for the sake of party loyal
ty. Even the Negro friends of
the GOP convention aa Senator
Wayne Morse of Oregon and
Senator Irving Ives of New York
did not raise a finger for a more |
potent appeal to minorities, ’pos
sibly because they were so busy
selling their candidate, Dwight
D. Eisenhower. |
Leader of the Negro delega
tion was grandfatherly Harold
C. Burton, who is District leader
in Harlem’s 12th Assembly dis
trict. He had figured important
ly when just before the conven
tion he sent a telegram to Gov- ^
ernor Dewey, stating he couldn’t |
be for General Elsentaower be
cause of bis attitude towards
FEPC. Burton had been quoted
several times as being against
the General and leaning towards
Taft. ,|
But at the convention, it was a'
different tune he sang. The lead
er of the Republican caucus
made a last minute switch for
Eisenhower and at the same time
was easily placated by GOP lead
ers not to press things for the
sake of party harmony. Thus
the substitute, it is believed,
would have pledged the Re
publican Party to Senate cloture
and “to enactment o Federal
legislation prohibiting discrimi
nation in employment because of
race, color, religion or national
origin and establishment of a
Federal agency empowered to
enforce that prohibition."
Cary Blue, the leader in the
11th District of Harlem, said this
alwut the scuttled substitute: “I
have an announcemeQt 1 regret
to make. On the advice of Sen
ator Ives as Governor Driscoll
(of New Jersey), we have decid
ed to accept the platform plank.
A group of delegates will make
a statement giving our own In
terpretation ol the civil rights
statement. We have no better
friend than Senator Ivet and we
have taken his advice.”
Thus when Senator Kugene D.
MiHkin of Colorado had finish
ed reading the platform. Speak
er Martin recognized Harold
Burton lor five minutes. And
here In this crucial moment.
Burton told the huge conven
tion there had been a Negro
caucus which had given "great
thought” to the dvil rights
plank. "Alter considering that
plank,” he said to the vast re
lief of the delegates, "many ol us
being lawyers, we decided it
oould be construed so as to pro
vide lor a Fair Employment
Phietlcefl Commission."
And to wrap it all up, Edgar i Chicago, proceded to attack the
J. Brown, who’s making a bid record of the Democrats on civil
for a congressional seat from I rights.
MAUDE J. YANCEY, NCC HEALTH
EDUCATOR, RECEIVES DOCTOR’S
DEGREE FROM MICHIGAN UNIV.
Concert Series
Amunraced For
N. C College
Announcement was made here
last week of four events in North
CaroHna College’s 1992-1^53
concert series. All events will be
held in the college’s B. N. Duke
Auditorium. ' ,
Opening the series on October
2pth will be a variety program
“An Evening in Vienna” spon
sored by the House of Bliss Cele
brity Bureau.
The Jose Limon and Dance
Company will be presented on
December 2.
On JanujiiV 7 the Bliss Re
pertory Theater will present the
play “The Lady’s Not For Bnm-
ing.”
The appearance of the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra on
March is the last number in the
year’s concert series at NCC.
Colleges in North Carolina.”
During the school year 1946-
47, Dr. Yancey served as het^th
consultant in the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction, Ra
leigh.
Dr. Yancey’s office in Durham
is in the new half-million dollar
student health center, one ol the
most completely equipped and
staffed health centers in th«
section of the United States.
The Reverend William T.
Brown, pastor of the Wesley
Chapel Methodist Church,
Fayatteville, was recently in
vited by the Genesee Confer
ence Chapter of the Methodist
Federation for Social Action,
to speak at a luncheon in
Olean, New York.
Hie luncheon was held in
connection with the Genesee
annual conference of the
Methodist Church in Olean,
New York. There is only one
Negro church in the confer
ence.
The Reverend IMr. Brown is
Associate Ezecntlve Secretary
of the National Methodist
Federation for Social Action.
He was recently listed in
Who’s Who In Methodism. In
this volume are biognkpUeal
sketches of leading Methodists
from all over the world.
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Last Rites Held For Mrs. J. A. Douglass
Charlotte—The funeral servi
ces for Mrs. .Julia A. Douglass,
widow of Dr. Robert Langham
Douglass, Professor at Johnson
C. Smith University for more
than 40 years, who died Mon
day, July 7, in the Good Samari
tan Hospital, were held at the
Johnson C. Smith University
Church, .Wednesday, July 9
with Dr. A. H. George, Pastor,
officiating.
The body lay in state in the
University Church from 1:30 P.
M. until 4 at which time Dr. A.
H. George, Pastor of the Uni
versity Church conducted the
funeral services assisted by Rev.
J. W. Smith, Sr., Rev. Elo L.
Henderson, Rev. H. W. Givens,
Rev. A. H. Prince, and Rev. L.
B. West. The deceased was eu
logized by Rev. L, B. West who
addressed Mrs. Douglass as an
artist whose life had painted a
picture worthy of emulation.
Mrs. Douglass was the daugh
ter of the late George and Re
becca McClain of Camden, South
Carolina. She was active in civic
educational, religious and social
activities. She was a member ol
the first faculty of the South
Carolina A. and M. College in
Orangeburg, South Carolina and
for several years taught in the
public school system of Meck
lenburg County. For a long
number of years she served as
a teacher in a Mission Sunday
School in a much needed section
of the city of Charlotte.
Survivors include a son. Dr.
J. Davis Douglass of Fayette
ville; three dau^ters, Mrs. Jen
nie D. Taylor of TarborO, lirs.
Sadie D. Moore ol AsbevlUe and
Mrs. Roberta Morrow ol Char
lotte; eight sisters, BCIm Min
nie L. McClain, Camden, South
Carolina, Mrs. Bertha Warren,
Washington, D. C., Mrs. Marga
ret Fogg, Passiac, New Jersey,
Mrs. Daisy B. Taylor, Orange
burg, South Carolina, Mrs. Lil
lian Wilson, Florence, South
Carolina, Mrs. Idalean Levy,
Washington, D. C., Mrs. AwUda
Schenck, Trenton, New Jersey,
Mrs. Otis Dixon, Boston, Mass
achusetts and seven grandchild
ren.
Sliaw Choir To
Appear Over
AiSC During July
NJlW YORK
The American Broadcasting
Company’s college choir pro
grams, presented eacii week in
cooperation with the United Ne
gro College Fund, will feature
the choral groups of Dillard,
Shaw and Xavier universities, |
for the t>alance of July it was
announced last week at Fund
headquarters, 22 East 54th St.
The schedule ol the ABC
broadcasts which originate each
Sunday in New Yorii over Sta
tion WJZ, 10:30 - 11 A. If., EDT
and are heard coast-to-coast
over the ABC network will fea
ture Dillard University, New Or
leans, La., July 13; Shaw Unl-
W. C., July »
and XaVler Unlvefsity, Hew Or-
iema, hm., July 27,
Tb* UNCr ebo4n tiMt win be
iieard during the month ol Aa«.
iiMdude those of Hampton liMtl
tvtc, Va., on Aug. 3; Mor«hooM
College, Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 10;
Clark College, Atlanta, Ga.,
Aug. 17; Benedict CoUefe, Col
umbia, S. C., Aug. 24, and
Xavier University, New Orleans,
La., on August 31.
The UNCF choral programs
which were initiated as a public
service by the American Broad
casting Company network in
April 1950, have served to ac
quaint a larger American public
with the work being done by the
private colleges and universities
aided by the United Negro Col
lege Fund.
NORTH CAROLINA.
DURHAM COUNTY
NOTICE OF EXECXrrOR
HAVING QUALIFIED as exe
cutor of the estate of June How
ard, deceased, late of Durham
County, North Carolina, this is
to notify all persons having
claims against said estate to
exhibit them to the undersiKned
at P. O. Box 1422, Durnam,
North Carolina on or before the
1 day of July, 1953 or this notice
will be pleaded in liar of their
recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will please make
inunedlate payment
This 30 day of June, 1992.
M. HUGH THOMPSON, EXE
CUTOR OF ESTATE OF JinfE
HOWARD, DECEASED.
Maude J. Yancey, professor of
health education at North Caro
lina College, Durham, returned
to Durham recently from the
University of Michigan at which
institution she received her doc
tor’s degree In education last
month.
Dr. Yancey is the daughter of
Mrs. L. B. Yancey of 913 East
Green Street, Wilson.
The young NCC health educa
tor formerly attended Barber-
Scotia College in Concord. She
later returned to teach there.
In 1939, she was awarded a B. S.
degree at Knoxville College.
Dr. Yancey won two graduate
degrees at NCC where she
achieved a bfiUlant scholastic re
cord. She earned a master of
science degree in 1940, and in
1946, she was awarded a master
of science degree In public
health education.
In addition to her teaching at
Barber Scotia, Dr. Yancey has
also taught at Knoxville and
North Carolina College.
She has done special research
in marine life at the Marine
Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass.
Di*. Yancey has been a mem
ber of the NCC staff since 1949.
The young scholar’s disserta
tion was entitled “A Study of
Some Health Misconceptions of
Prospective Teachers in Negro
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