Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday october 6, 1955 Page 9 joint labor meeting Winnipeg Central labor Council Obj tuesday accepted an invitation from the Winnipeg and District trades and labor coun cil tic to attend a joint meet ing of the City s three Central labor groups oct. 18 to Deal with a housing Survey report prepared by the City s emergency housing department. Rose Offsie Silex or All purpose yes but you la always want More Strong . Mackinnon co. Ltd. Winnipeg report from the South Bald faced Fina gling keeps the status quo9 sunday a a year ago last Spring a negro attendant at the veterans hos Pital tried to attend services at the first Baptist Church. He was re fused admission. On the following sunday the Samp Man tried to worship at the first methodist Church. The methodists told him to leave even though the minister was a Yankee from Pennsylvania. On the third sunday a group of White men guessed that the negro this time would visit the first presbyterian Church. So All through the hymns the prayers and the Sermon they sat outside in an Auto Mem save deluxe television exactly As illustrated Here s what you get 1-a new Marconi deluxe television with 21" aluminized picture tube. Regular special Globe six month service policy Worth. 35950 Rabbit ears included total special Sale reduction. Iqal you pay Only 299 phone 92-64s1 for free Home demonstration Cash Down Long easy terms by fomer Bicart new York Herald Tribune news service this is the fifth of a series of articles on de segregation and other racial problems of the Southe Rrt . I deluxe Marconi control Lite Mobile with their shotguns. The negro did not appear. Probably nowhere in the United states is segregation so rigidly enforced As at Tuskegee the capital of Macon county where negroes outnumber Whites by better than four to one. The White minority lives in con Stant fear of losing political control. The control is maintained by holding Down negro registration to the Point where of negroes in the county Only about Are certified to vote. Pretty Fina gling this takes some pretty Bald faced Fina gling. Tuskegee is the Home of Tuskegee Institute the negro Oxford founded by Booker t. Washington a the level of negro education in the town is Sev eral cuts higher than that of the Whites. Charles g. Gomillion Dean of at Tuskegee told me How the negro voting lists Are con trolled. If there is a single error in your application you Are re Cott of White shops. The Boycott Lurt so much that police came around to Dean Gomillion and urged my to Call it off. Never comfortable on Tuskegee s neat Shady Cam pus Dean Gomillion said i be lever been comfortable in this own. There have been no Lynch nos and police brutality has less ened but negroes Here have Little Confidence in the Law. If a negro Joes to the county court or to the circuit court he to it the Dean is head of the local chapter of the National Assoc a Ion for the advancement of col ored people. I get blamed for most of the he said. I be gotten Anonymous Telephone Calls oot so Many recently. The one that bothered me most was from a Man who said he knew All Aboul me and unless i ceased my activities i might wish i had he Hung up after saying i m a White Man that s All you need to it May take a Nasty incident Anc resulting does of bad publicity before these people Are awakened to the need of better race rela he said. Usually they Neyeli Tell you whether you have failed the questionnaire. Go Back the first time and they Tell you we Haven t got ten to it yet. Well review it on the next working Day go Back again and they say must have some thing wrong. Fill out another after several trips you May even get a definite statement that some thing was wrong. Ask what was wrong and they say we re not supposed to help you with it the big wheel in Macon county is state sen. Sam owns a Plantation at nearby Shorter employing 75 negro families. Sen. Engelhardt believes that the negroes of my county Are not ready to take an Active part in politics and he doubts if they Ever will be. "1 mean to keep the status he explained. Blames governor sen. Engelhardt blames gov. James e. Big Jim Folsom for the fact that any negroes at All Are voting in Macon. It All Star Ted during Folsom s first admin he said. Folsom put in some new registrars. We woke up one morning and there were 600 niggers the citizens Council a White supremacy outfit born in Mississippi has tried with indifferent Success to organize in Alabama s Black Belt. They launched a chapter in Notasulga a Little Community in the Northern part of the county where poor Whites predominate. But Tuskegee Whites remain unorganized. The reason for Tuskegee s indifference is that economic pressure one of the citizens Council s main weapons is a double edged sword. With Good incomes from the Institute and the Veteran s Hospital Tuskegee negroes have too much buying Power to be ignored by the White merchants of the town. Some months ago after an automobile procession of Kun fluxes h a c tossed a burning Cross Inlo the Yard of a negro Tuskegee s col ored people launched a quiet boy would train indians to be prospectors indians should be taught about metals and trained is prospecting to help them get Back on their financial says the retiring supervisor of the Manitoba Branch of the department of Indian affairs. R. S. Davis who retired this week said the present Cost of and Price of furs make it impossible for the Indian to live by minting and trapping alone. It would Cost he said How does the negro fare in Ala Bama cities he is better off economically than his brother in the Black Belt but has just As rough a time demanding civil rights. Birmingham has about negroes yet Only about Are qualified to vote. The registrars Are said Emory 0. Jackson editor of the Birmingham a negro newspaper. They ask you questions until they catch you up. We suspect they have a quota system if you Are Over the quota you Don i get certified. They just say you done Nice but come Back and try again copyright 1955. No work Herald Tribune inc. But one big mine would pay it he also suggested that roads be this weekend buy so delicious use Ful economical. Look for it ask for it when you shop. Made by the makers of Europa Ham and olympic products. Opened up into Northern areas where indians could earn Money As tourist guides. 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The meeting was called to Dis cuss the Library bylaw which goes to fort Garry electors i the Forth cing municipal election. Miss Violet Parker president of the Manitoba Library association and John Russell St. Boniface librarian stressed. The great value of a Library to a Community. But both or. Russell and miss Parker agreed that it was bad business to use Volunteer help to Cut Down expenses. A properly functioning Library required trained people but they added that interested citizens could do an out standing Job of stimulating interest in libraries. Also addressing the meeting was mrs. Harold Moore a member of the St. Vital Library Board. 123 Portage winnipe9 Power engineers chief boiler and mechanical inspectors from each of Canada s provinces were entertained at a dinner Here by executive officers of the Institute of Power engineers. Guest speaker was w. Elliott Wilson Deputy minister of labor. The boiler and mechanical inspectors were attending their annual convention Here. 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