1944-08-31

Volume 2- No.5 PORTLAND, OREGON, AUGUST 31, 1944 10 Cents a Copy APOLOGY 0FERED -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------0 Nation's Capital Gets -Modern Negro Co..op Significant Realization of Political Plans War Aims Results By Mary Dillmann for the cent of the capital needed for the Cooperative League News Service equipment of a new store if the Washington, D. C. (CLNS)-- store would become a branch of To the tune of a brass bnd and the (Continued on Page B) UnderWay • The Ne~ro De~ocrats,, under In Explanation the leadership of Oliver Smith and tapping of some five hundred pairs of feet, the largest and most mod– ern co-op foodstore .in the nation's capital threw open its doors to a clamoring public at a gala celebra– tion Tuesday evening, July 25th. The Frederick Douglass Co-op had emerged from its modest "Toad Lane" beginnings to become a 20th Century, 1944, super-market that is worthy of the tradition of the Rochdale weavers, but eager to set the pace for the coming "coopera– tive century." "'Ilhis is an occasion not only to ,.,.. _tlebrate the realization of a goal in terms of chromium fitted show cases and the latest refrigerating equipment, nor even the fact that here is a super Co-op food market. More significantly, it is concrete evidence of what can be achieved to meet the needs of one group by working together with ovher groups through an existing coop– erative without going through the intermediary of government," said Dr. H. Naylor Fitzhugh, instruc– tor in commerce and finance, How– ard University. In the fall of 1943, as a result of an expansion policy for all co– operative enterprises in the District of Columbia to commemorate the Rochdale Centennial Rochdale Co– operative, Inc., with two stores here at that time, established a re– volving fund of $10,000 for the purpose of aiding groups ready to open and support a st·ore by fur– nishing for one year's time 50 per- Movie Actors Uneasy Hollyw·ood (ANP) -- Negro movie actors here are uneasy over the lack -of work for them in the current crop of pictures being film– ed during this season. The scen– ario writers are leaving them out of their stories, although they are including many extras in "atmos– phere" or crowd roles. Ben Cart– er, Clarence Muse, Ernest Whit– man and others frankly expressed their fears on this issue. Some of the feature players have been idle for a year, while others 1ave had fewer parts than during the previous season. Hattie Mc– daniel, ho,vever, has been b.usy all summer. Sen. Pepper ToSpeakHere September 10 Senator Claude Pepper of Flor– ida will be the main speaker at the Municipal Auditorium on Sun– day afternoon, September 10, at 3 :30 p. m. Pepper was co-sponsor of the Pepper-Kilgore bill and aide– ed in passage of other progressive legisl{ttion. He is rnown pational– ly as a pro-Roosevelt, win-the-war congressman. The meeting is being sponsored by vhe Mulnomah County Demo– cratic Central Committee and the State Central Committee of the democratic party. Patriotic songs and entertainment will be featured. Other Key Figures Slated Clifford G. Walker, held a mass meeting Wednesday night, August 30, at the Elks Temple, 2504 N. Williams Avenue. This meeting earmarks the beginning of a con– certed and unified effort on the part of Negro and white Demo– crats to carry forth a diligent pro– gram too recruit and register all unregistered voters in this area. George Lavey, chairman of the Multnomah County democratic Walter Carrington, Negro electrician at Commercial Iron Works shipyard, was told last week by Maynard Olsen, white, who for– merly worked as electrician's helper to Carrington at Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard, of the ulterior and despicable workings of a vicious scheme to race-bait Carrington and other Negroes at Swan Island who desired to exercise their right to be promoted to leadman positions. Recently Carrington was remo ced hom the Swan Island yards by the Electrical Workers' Union, ldta 8, because white workers re– ;ented upgrading of a Negro worker. J~m\tld Vene-y, to leadman. The white workers were incensed bec"~Se they attributed this move to up– grade Negroes on the part of (he wn·Qn .and the Kaiser Company as being due to the long and vigilant 1ght that Carrington and other central committee, and speaker ,,f Negroes have waged to get prom<' on~ for Negroes. the evening gave an informat ve Ol 1 h 1 . • • ' 1 sen re ated ow a l'ork sto f. a_ge was accomplu,,!Jed by h1s hsten talk on the "Role of he D1 10-, · h · · ·• 1 f h h' k l' mg to t e pOisonous anti-1 egro ern.tru ar o ov er w 1te wor ers. cratic Party and Its Relation ,hip H ld · d ·1 f l · · h · e to m etm o lis avmg , een urged to lead the walkout of to the Negro People." Lavev h' 1 · 1 k h' tr d · C · ' 1 · w 1te e ectnca wor ers w tc -res1 te m arnngton s remova from clearly illustrated how the imn· - h d A d' 01 h b · t e yar . ccor mg to sen, t as rought about by the white diate aims and objectives of free- - d 1 · "W - 11 k · · workers ec anng, e WI no~ 'U--or ·1s long as this N-- IS on the dam-loving Negro people are close- 1- 0 b" "We ,vhi'te ·11 -l. r d • N t b b " . men 'n n~ an D a -- o e our oss. ly connected wit>h political objec- Th. 1 · · -? C b 0 · . . Is reve atIOn was given oo a.r.t mgton y !sen 111 t•he presence tives of the democratiC party. ot other Negro workers after 01 en r .:eived notice that he was to be Many persons figured promi- inducted into the U. S. Navy. He said that now that he was going nently in this meeting. Among to fight with his life for his qwn freedom that he could not do so with them were C. G. Walker, Olive.r a clear conscience, knowing that •he had th\varted another man from Smith, Lew Wallace, Al Brown, enjoying the same basic privilege-freedom. and Sam Markson. This meeting was significant also in that it was announced that this meeting signified the forma– uled to appear here on October 10, tion of the Albina Progressive and Senator Harry S. Truman, Democratic Club. This club con– democratic vice-presidential can- sists of functionaries of bovh races didate, will deliver an address on Quentin Reynolds will be pre– sented at a harvest festival on Sep– tember 22, it has been announced. Vice-President Wallace is sched- Roland Veney Promoted Through a directive issued by the F. E. P. C., supported by the N. A. A. C. P., and enforced by th Maritime Commission, the Kaiser Company, at Swan Island shipyard, up-graded one Negro to the pos– ition of leadman. November 4th. Inter..racial Meet Vanport, Sept. 12 An inter-racial meeting is sched– uled to be held in Vanport City September 12, at 8 p. m., at Recreation Center No. 5. This meeting is to be lead by E. B. Mc– Naughton, president of the · First National bank of Portland, and Dr. DeNorval Unthank, leading Negro physician of Portland. This meeting will furnish en– lightemnent to all who may attend. Mr. McNaughton has been recog– nized as a liberal thinker and pro– gressive. He has given vigorous support to many programs design– ed to promote better racial rela– tions. Dr. Unthank has for many years activated himself Ill move– ments and programs concerned with Negro welfare in the Port– land area. who will work cooperatively to create an interest among all paten- tial voters in this community to exercise their right of franchise. Chesley E. Corbett, a skilled po– litical organizer, is mapping plans for a sound and penetrating politi– cal educational program in con– junction with the able organizers of the Albina Progressive Demo– cratic Club. Preparations for a series of mass meetings teaturing dynamic egro functionaries as counsellors on the political trends which the Negro voters must fol– low to better their status in Ameri– can life are now being scheduled. The Multnoma;h County Cen– tral Committee has expressed a de– sire to support all of these pro– grams in every way possible. The Portland Council for a per– manent Fair Employment Prac– tices Olmmis:;ion will meet at the Williams Avenue USO September 20 at 3 p.m. Roland F. Veney, electrician who studied electrical engineering at Howard University, Washington~ D. C., will head a crew to be composed of white and Negro workers. This issue was hotly discussed by both Negro and whites, the whites protesting the organizing of such a crew, and the Negroes refusing to be isolated. The company, together with the union, has promised to make this innovation workable. The discussions resulted in an agreement that the crew would begin with not more than four Negro workers, and :my new in-coming whites would be directed to that ere"·· Postal Alliance Formed A Portland branch of the Na-1 ion refused further admission to tiona! Alliance of Postal Employ- 1. r egroes in 1913. This led to the ees was formed at a meeting of I formation of the Alliance in 1914. local postal employees and Mr.l Mr l\;r h h be . '~aney, w o as en a Robert E. Colbert of Washington, member of th- · t' · e orgamza IOn smce D. C., national organizer for the 1914 d th d N · , an was e secon egro association. The meeting was held ·n h' d' · . t · · .1 d I IS IVISIOn 0 )0111, WaS e ecte on August 16 at the home of Mr. president. Other officers are: El– Isadore Maney, 122 N. E. Schuy– ler street. The purpose of the organization is to protect the interests of postal employees and to work for their welfare. The white mail clerks un- mer A. Flowers, first vice-presi– dent; Thomas J. Victorian, second \'ice-president; Albert S. Franklin, treasurer; Nina A. Jackson, secre– tary; William H. Woods, assistant (Continued on Page 6)

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