Easter Greetings and Club News In Cleveland
A poetic Easter message from Bertie Mae Pride opens the item. The Tiny Club hosts a session and dinner with Madam Zenobia Russell as guest. Reports note Edward Gaither’s slow recovery at Jewish Hospital and Edna Gaither Harris’s update. Community Chest secretary Arnold B. Walker moves to Cleveland Urban League. Century Club/Y event honors Herbert T. Miller with World Service Tea. Various city society notes follow, including Miss McGee’s article on Louisa Baltimore, Alice Leland’s return, and Darwin Turner’s scholastic tribute.
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Edward Gaither
Edna Gaither Harris
Century Club
Herbert T. Miller
Brooklyn “Y
World Service Tea Committee
Dorothy Gross
Fights For Rights Six Citizens Win Awards
The annual CIO award to six citizens for outstanding contributions in race relations worldwide was announced by George L P Weaver director of the CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination. In Washington D C the committee named Rabbi Stephen S Wise Dr Charles Johnson Fisk University president UNESCO delegation member and Michael Mann secretary treasurer of the Chi-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
George L P Weaver
Washington, D. C
Stephen S. Wise
Charles Johnson
Fisk University
Unesco
France
Japan
Michael Mann
Chi
CIO Unions Back Anti Bias Action and FEPC Support
The CIO committees backed the Automobile Workers executive board for withdrawing teams from American Bowling Congress events due to racial exclusion. They urged affiliates to do the same. The group noted progress in admitting Negroes to Senate and House press galleries and recommended a $1,000 donation to the National Council for a Permanent FEPC. Additional CIO unions have fair employment practices departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cago Industrial Union Council
CIO
Emil Rieve
CIO Textile Workers Union of America
Walter P. Reuther
CIO Automobile Workers Union
Jacob S. Petofsky
CIO Amalgamated Clothing: Workers of America
CIO Automobile Workers’ Executive Board
American Bowling Congress
CIO Executive Board
Senate
House
National Council
FEPC
United Public Workers of America
United Office and Professional Workers of America
Insured Workers Benefits Proposal Across Nation
The Social Security Board urges extending disability benefits and broadening old age and survivors insurance. Edwin Baum notes potential annual wage losses for permanently disabled workers and families could reach 1.5 to 2 billion dollars. The board also proposes coverage for all gainfully employed workers including farmers and self employed.
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Social Security Board
Edwin Baum
Cincinnati
Social Security Administration
Representative ousted from bus en route to North Carolina
field representative Miss Kelley was removed by the sheriff at Keysville Virginia after refusing to sit in the Jim Crow bus section. Morris Milgram, WDL secretary traveling with Kelley, informed the driver and sheriff of the Supreme Court decision but was ignored. Martin A. Martin handles the WDL suit as the first Negro attorney in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Kelley
Keysville
Jimerow
Morris Milgram
WDL
Miss Kelley
Supreme Court
Martin A. Martin
Criminal Division
Department of Justice
Sues Jim Crow Bus in Danville Virginia
The Workers Defense League files a damage suit against Greyhound Bus Lines in Danville Virginia citing the Irene Morgan decision outlawing segregation. Mae Pearl Kelley is named in the action as part of the challenge to bus seating practices.
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Danville
WDL
Virginia
U. S. Supreme Court
Irene Morgan
Workers Defense League
Greyhound Bus Lines
League
Mae Pearl Kelley
Cancer's Record Roll toll shown in cancer deaths
New York, the American Cancer Society notes a death every three minutes from cancer. About 179000 Americans will die this year unless action is taken. Of 135 million Americans living now, 17 million will die eventually, or one in eight. The society urges action.
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American Cancer Society
National Negro Health Week Observed in Columbus
The Columbus Urban League Public Relations Department and Franklin County health agencies plan the 33rd National Negro Health Week from March 30 to April 6. Dr. Arthur E. Calloway noted that Black health lags current White levels by a generation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Urban League
Red Feather
Franklin County
Arthur E. Calloway
Sterling Committee
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W. P. Dabney
East Fourth Street
Main
Bertie Mae Pride
Zenobia Russell
Arnold B. Walker
Cleveland
Urban League
Anna V. Boyd
New York
O. K
Sarah L. McGee
Louisa P. Baltimore
Alice Leland
Times-Star
Darwin Turner
Laura Turner
Laura Knight
Jerry Guthrie
Alma Bell Bryant
Prof
Charles Bell
Vivian Greer
Walnut Hills “Y
Maggie Williams
Fights
NEW
U.S. Army
Comnban
Eighth and
Walnut Streets
Ohio
Pierce & People’s Funeral Home
Gazelle Pierce
Elizabeth Pierce Stegall
Linn Street
Perkin’s Blu-Room
Finest
In Foods
West Fifth Street
Lincoln Avenue
First BaptIst Church
Roosevelt
S. & W. Sohio
Atlas Tires
Leo Stone
James _ Wilso
Tth
Woodburn
New York, N. Y
Holiday Card Company
Elmsford
True Love Guide
Sorry Book Company
Newport News, Va
Your Savings and Your Building Association
Building Association
West Fifth ST
Cherry
Frank
W. Liberty Street
B. Crittenden Undertaker
Embalmer Ambulance Service
West Seventh ST
Lincoln Ave
Kit Cafe
W. Fifth Cherry
National Health Week
Kentucky Bar
L. C. Toliver
O - Street
N. W
Allen Hotel
W. Madison ST
Louisville
Linn St
Reeves
West Court Street
Walnut Hills
East Walnut Hills
Avondale
East End
Madisonville
Glendale
Woodlawn
City
M. L. Zeigler
Chapel Street
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Horwitz
Clark and
Cutter Streets
Inez L. Renfro
Jenifer W. Renfro
Marietta Renfro Glenn
Ninth Street
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