THE NEGRO WORLD, 5A’I’URDAI, jAL~UAnt ~a, aYa~ Page $., .: ~" .... ".Ti~ NEGRO WORIJ), SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1932 LOCAL--Political, Fraternal, Church: ........ .... PAGE OF U. N. I. A.,AUG 1929 Los----Angeles, C .,Div. I Brooklyn Div. Hears t ¢hicagoDiv.,No.172 evit -s eeco=er n We Must Be On African Lectureon AfricaThe arst meetlng.-----~uary 3rd, of :. now a Laver_urnon r rmec, DevelopmentPlanned The NegroWorld And Auxil_iary Instal, tion torte tteta ? I ~olonelH Jul~addre,ed Local Beforeanandience of500members ema. husin-- section of Continue /ork TO RedeemOur Fatherland 2t°The o.lcors membersoftheltl ; Ne oesStill Loyal to U. No I. A. Its MembersThese Daystlon TheInewho.e Liheri Americ-- ,equac ;ear t Co Workers .... oftbe UN I A sad friends o,lcerso, the Adml lUnit Stes Depa mentof Com sionstageda big ;...s N:2 oy S lmtng overwith New Yoa:s spirit ? tore are at 254 West 135th Street, We hear much of the depression|ere’ Home in Colorado Springs to pro- New York City, under the manage- the hardshipscaused by It. So-’l test members againstravages of trade ment of J. E. Samuels, will engage, e~l~l experts on economies bare writ- dlsesse.s We have also an old age besides transportation, in general ten voluminous tomes on the cure for ~ pension that has functioned for many agriculture but will specialize in it. Publicists have attempted to wish lyears. This effort of the New York raising zuch highly commercial crops it away by predicting that "prosper- iunlon, however, represents the most as sugar cane, coffee,cocoa, palm oil, ity is jttst around the come~r."Butl." l intensiveeffort yet made by any prassava, etc. It will also manufac- th® depression has held on with the tunton, I believe, to protect members ture soap, candy and such other tenJwityof most evil agencies, l in time of stress." things. It will refine its own sugar. It remained for an organizationof[ i T-yp go pinealra .........union .~o. n is one n It will also engage in commerce, union printers., ,,T~_ographlcai U !on !of the oldest labor unions in the both coastwiseand in the interior.It No. 6, m ~sew xor~ unty, to provlae I Unlted States. Established 8I years will give attention to foreign com- for their unemployed membem with a lago with Horace Greeley as its first merce aa well, especially with Amer- far-reachingand practicalplan which.] ia operation, has done much’ to alle- t president,Big Six has a background ica, West Indies and other parts of rich In tradition.The unionenters into el&to¯ conditions arisingfrom the de Africa. " i contracts with the employers in the The company will follow an en- prsimlon, commercial printing field in New York lightened labor policy. It will in- __The following__storyof true ben- tCity and also maintains contractual evmence m a 8re~,~ ~rtvute to the relations with the publishers of all vite American and West Indian na- tives ¯ to particlp~te as there are &merteaa labor movement: newspapers which have large circula- l~ariy in December, by a referen- tions in and outsidethe limits of the officers from these parts in this com- dun vote of 4 to 1, New York Type- Igreater city¯ pany. The officers will provide thelr ~q~phienl Union No. 6 ("Big 6") de- Due to the accuracy required in the workers with up-to-date housing fa- cilities,etc. tidal to cenUnue to aid unemployed composing rooms of printing offices, ~tmbem by assessing members regu- its apprenticeship requirements are There is opportunity for every- lSrly employed 8 per cent of their high--a prospective apprentice must body both to work and invest. The ~ge or, instead, requiring these be po~eased of a high school educa- company’scapital is $100,000 of $5.00 ’~e~l am’’ to lay off one day a week tion or its equivalent.After the ap- shares. The American office would ed employ substitutes. This infer- prentice has been indentured he must be glad to answerall queriesfor fur- ~Jatlo~ was recently given by Austin attend schools maintained Jointly by ther Information. i " ~ ~ Hew~on ,president of the union’ ]the union and employers. At these In the eighteen months from July, [ schools he is taught advanced English Send Old Clothes 1930, to December,1931, Typographl-and the finer points of printing,both To Relievethe Needy eat D’nlon No. 6, composed of 11,000 artistic and mechanical. The schools members, has donated, through this are models of supplementary rosa- system,$2,276,0~0 for its unemployed.I tianaltraining. The youngest recipient of relief from the Clothing Division of the The’ vote recently taken assures con-{ While keeping standards of work- tibu~ceof this relief plan from Jan- l ....~:- ~: ....... , - -- Emergency Unemployment Relief uary 1 1932 until March 31 1932 at] Committee is a two-week old infant. , , , , evolentfeatures are not neglected.For Born at a city hospital,it was found which date the monetary disburse- years Big Six has maintained beds In ~tnt~ and time given out will aggre- that when the child and its mother different hospitals in Greater New were ready to be discharged there gate $3,O00,0O0. York and, should a member become were no clothes for the baby. The "Even by comparison With the ill at some place outsideof the city, father was out of work and no money zplendid achievement of New York the union allows the equivalent of was available. Seamstresses in the C’ity’s Emergency Unemployment Re- the ward rate at the institution to warehouse of the Clothing Relief ll~f C2m~rnltteein raising$18,000,000 which he is taken. This service is Division made a complete layette and i’n the entirecity, this $3,000,000bur- maintained in good times and bad and, mother and child are doing nicely in den Mm~raed by one group of 11,000 added to the splendid pension and their home in an abandoned barge in Workers Is a thing of which to be mortuary features maintained by the the East River mud fiats. proud, we think,"said President Hew- union, stamps this organizationas a Clothing for children, as well as son. "The large vote in favor of con- unique one in the historyof the labor grownups, is sought by the commit- tlnuanceof the plan is unusuallygrat- movement. All benevolence is main- tee, which urges all who can do so to ifying btcause it shows our members tained by funds derived from assess- leave bundles at police stations, or mbre than ever determined to pre- ments on earnings of working mem- telephoneDigby 4-9801. vent Suffering among their fellows. bers. The vote, as tabulated,is 6,314 for the With this backgroundit will be seen beat~t to 1,582 against, whereas in that Typographical Union No. 6 had, Porto Ricans Want Native a previous referendum for an earlier by past experience, the ability to ’As Governor,Like Beverly periodthe benefitcarried by only 700 handlethe latestdepression in a prac- majority.By voluntarilytaxing them- tical and not a theoretical.manner. s~lves so heavily our members reveal SAN JUAN, P. R.--At least two Porto Rlcan politicalparties will ask & full appreciationof the gravity of Democratsin Mt. Vernonthe appointment of a Porto Rtcan as the situation." Theodore Ronsevelt’s successor as Relief is being given 1,400 totally Start MembershipDrives Governor, it became certain today. ua~bmploytd printers at the rate of At the same time, the appointment $1S weekly for members of four or Tile Colored Young Men’s Demo- of James R. Beverley, now acting mote years’ standing, this rate being cratic Club of Mount Vernon has se- Goyernor, wpuld meet with the ap- scaled down for members with shorter lected John H. Le Bouvreau as its proval of the same parttes if Pres; affiliation. president for 1932. The club and a ’ident Hoover decides to continue an The monetary revenue for relief newly incorporated one have starteo American in the post. pgrposesis ~ecuredchiefly from these intensive membership drives in order Persistent reports today that Mr. members engaged in the book, job and to compete recognition of Negroes tn Beverley had been notified of his lberlodicalbranch of the business.The the distributionof patronageand city selection caused many congratula- @lan, however,also providesthat each Jobs. tions, but he said he was without member regularly employed on daily Mr. Bouvreau’s aids will be James any word. There is no agreement on ntnv~paper$must lay off at least one H. Hubbard. vice-president: Daniel any one Porto Rican as an outstand- day each week (thus working not Simmons, second vice-president; Ed- ing candidate,but several names will more than five days a week) in order ward H. Patterson, Jr., secretary; be submitted to President Hoover as that an unemployed man may sub- Harry Lee, recordingsecretary.. Esser acceptable to the parties endorsing st/tu~e. Those "substitutes"who get O. Taylor, treasurer, and James H. them. only One or two days’ work a week Reeves, sergeant-at-arms. William rtceiveadditional aid from the union’s Gaines is the new board chairman, WelfareLeague Plans unemployment fmlds at rates graded with Raymond Goff and Cha:ries Mor- according to length of membership. gan as new members, To Open Soup Kitclien ’l~e 2,400 printersr regularly em- ployed on New York newspapers have The Colored Welfare Organization, Wen out 114~000 days of employment ScottsboroPrayer Day , formerly the Hibiscus Service of Ja- thus far, and will have given out maica, is making greater efforts to 1~2,000 days by March 31. BOSTON, Mass.--Sunday, January stem the rising tide of unemployment "Our members are determined that 17, was selected as a nation-wide and suffering.In additionto distrib- no union printer shall either suffer "Scottsboro Lads Prayer Day," in an uting relief and caring for destitute hardship or become a burden upon the appeal to the race by the National families,this body has cooperatedwith coat, unity tn the depression."said Equal Rights League for prayers to the Salvation Army and will open a J~mee J.