7 PAGE FOUR THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1929.
APPLIED EDUCATION EDITORIAL COMMENT UNITY OF PURPOSE Smiles Music Jottings THE WORKMAN BY name carry them.
this?
The carpenters and masons being in the majority, we call upon them to make a move and call a meeting and try, with all their zeal, to organize to full strength. When you are organized to full strength with the natives, there is every possibility for inore wages and better conditions. We were never behind hand in Published on Saturday by WALROND, at the office No 72 organizing for higher wages and better conditions, but we are CARLOS MENDOZA Street No. 72, Panama, not organized now as we were once, and we venture to say Box 74, Panama Box 1102, Ancon that no West Indian would like to be called a slacker, so if we do RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION not organize now, are leaving the way clear for this unsightly ONE YEAR. 40 Cy.
SIX MONTHS. 20 There are a number of men who still believe that they are THREE. 60 justified in standing aside from organizing because they have ONE MONTH. 20 been fooled and robbed once. This argument becomes very weak Rates for Advertisement on application, correspondence on all matwhen it is made known that 99 percent of all the business started ters of public interest invited.
in the United States, failed, yet the business men kept on and on We do not undertake to return rejected correspondence, and today America stands premier in the business world. West The Liberty of the Press is the Palladium of our rights JUNIUS Indians should not hope to meet the world different in these respects, we shall have to make a position for ourselves in the world.
THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1929. Of course, we do not expect that Negroes will continually segregate themselves by different names, but to begin now and meet the world as a ready man, is as good for us as Panamanians or Man Underneath the Skin is the Americans as it will be if we become Africans. So we should put aside the conclusion of justifiable standing aside. We will fail Same Man until we succeed, and there seems no other way out of oppression.
If you want to get a good estimate of your ability to do things It has been always our opinion that THE WORKMAN could and rise despite oppression, if you want a clue to the fact that be made a stronger and more effective representative newspaper you have had no failures in comparison with the other fellow, of West Indians here. Many years ago we expressed such an just look around your job and you will see failures on every side.
opinion to some of our influential men. It has been argued over and. You will notice that your general foreman is a misfit and that over by some of our deepest minds that. Some day West Indians every failure he makes is blamed on you or someone else and would be proud of having an able and respected representative you have to pay for it. You pay for his failures and he goes scotnewsorgan of its own. That this is now developing into a cold free. You pay because your wages are so small that he can fact, after seventeen years of hard struggle, is manifested by the practise on you until he learns. You see, you and the big boss timely congratulations and warm support we are receiving from pay for the ignorant general foreman knowledge, but if you our many friends and well wishers since the appearance of our were organized and had intelligent men to represent you, the big seventeenth anniversary issue.
boss could no longer be misted by the general foreman into beNaturally, our Feature Section comes in for a large portion triving that to raise your pay is to reduce his profits, your intelof the congratulations. We believe with many others that this ligent representatives could point out to the big boss that you is due to the fact that it has struck a new note in West Indian are organized for more efficient service well as higher wages.
thought, and we appreciate very much the remark of the gentle and that the reason his business does not show the returns from man who wrote to us saying: it opens as himportant an avenue your more efficient service, is because the general foreman comas was ever engineered for a better understanding amongst peo pels you to change work three or four times when trained and efples. Truly, we are firmly convinced that much of the complaints ficient general foreman would save that expense. So, organize of the colored man against the bad treatment he receives from yourselves today. some of the whites is due to a lack of understanding, in many cases, and to a cowardly decision not to understand, in the other place. But we see no reason to be despondent in such a fast changing world. The world is undergoing changes of the greatest importance and weight, and with thoughtful minds among the DRY CLEANING whites as among the colored men there is no reason to despair STEAM FRESSING It is a sad fact that only a few intelligent whites know and acknowledge that there is no essential difference between the DYEING white and the colored man. On the other hand there are very We Dye To Live many whites who know, but are obsessed with a fear that seems stronger than their convictions; but this attitude of trying to ignore the facts does not, in the least, change the situation. All the sciences concerned with mankind have demonstrated that man, underneath the skin, is the same man. Therefore, the question is: How to remove that fear so that a common understanding can prevail? We prefer to leave this question unanswered and go back to the subject, but we invite comment on it Serious and unprejudiced comment. So your son has come home from This column for the present week college! What he preparing for (as a continuation of last week conthe law or medicine tribution) will also be confined to the m going to keep him at home same subject, but, there are so many and give him a partnership in my phases which may be taken up from business. He drove to college last time to time, that it might be neces treat them Fall in a five year old flivver, and sary in the future to under separate headings; however, he kept on trading until he came as everything works out in its own home with a straight eight roadster!
good time, it will be well that in consideration for other musical acof those Customer: want a set of pis tivities, to take up one phases which is occupying the attenton rings, a cylinder head gasket and tion of many of our people at the a set of wrist pins for a 1926 Tripresent time vis: umph sedan.
MUSIC CLUBS Salesman: Sorrey sir, but we don The one in which am most interested is the Etude Club. being alCustomer: Well, by Jinks! What most responsible for its organisation kind of a drugstore do you call and knowing its aims and objects better than any other club, it occupies a dear spot in my memory, and for it, shall always have pleasant miSee Jones! How carefully he steers niscences, His car along the street; The members of this little unique He ereeps along, as though he organisation are members of various fears churches and other organizations of traffic cop to meet.
Panama and the Canal Zone and regardless of whatever their religious He never minded argument conceptions may be, they meet in With officers on wateh, the interest of music exchange views But now to get safe home he on things musical and make the sobent.
ciety worthy of its existence.
With half a case of Scotch.
As in most cases, the organization has had some very trying experi 9º your brother is going to give ences, but, it has outlived them all and today in capable hands, it up operating his hospital. Yes, he says so many of his stands on a sure foundation. The gefriends are abandoning their motor ial Secretary, Mr. Victor Smith of cars and taking up aviation that he La Boca, who, altho young, is filling intends going into the undertaking his office with great credit. The Club takes its name from one of the forebusiness.
most magazines of America, but this thoght you were going to does not mean that only class of drive. said Jones.
music is studied: this was the name am. said Mrs. Jones, as she snegested and accepted at the formaclimbed into the back seet.
tion of the society.
Not long ago, it was in a position to send a representative to the thirteenth Anniversay of the at La Boca and while have the PHONE 250 COLON greatest respect ofr all other clubs which may be doing similar work, the Etude Club gets my first conPHONE453 PANAMA sideration among all others not 15 STREET that it is foremost among other muPANAMA sical enterprises Nay! Far from it, but because have had and still exKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK nects to do much in shaping its destiny. hope at same future date to he able to say something in connection with The little tote Orchestra and its history. Just wait a minute.
TROTT The Cleaner The Royal Bank of Canada Editor Wars on Police in Cincinati Surprised By New Readers INCORPORATED 1869 Head Office: Montreal, Canada COLON PANAMA Santa Ana Plana Corner 11th and Bolivar Streets Although we were convinced of the potentialities of THE WORKMAN we were agreeably surprised by the many new readers we reached during th past two weeks. The enticing rise in circulation strengthens the fact that people will pay for the thing they want, or that suits them, irrespective of he source whence it is supplied. We take this as a gesture of good faith and we shall do our best to maintain it. And now that we have pleased you by only scratching the changes we have plannedwe want you to urge us to carry out our plan by sending in a subscription for one year. We think this is a reasonable ask. Send in a year subscription today. It is only two dollars and forty cents, and if you send it in now, we will give you pleasant surprise with our first issue of next month. We can help you better if you help us, and futhermore, you have seen for yourself that you are going to have a different, a better and a bigger WORKMAN.
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Labor in the Cities CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sep. 17. Citizens here led by Dabney, editor of the Cincinnati Union, have registered a protest with the city manager against the brutally that is practiced by members of the police department against our citizens. The protest is the direct result of a recent attack made by two police of ficers on Mrs. Martella McGill, who was severely beaten early last Saturday morning. As a result of the activity of Mr. Dabney and civic organization, pressure has been brought to bear on local officials, and two officers have been suspended from the force. The policemen are said to have sworn at Mrs. McGill when they acconted her on the street and when she returned the epithet, struck her on the face. The woman, who welghs less than 115 pounds, was knocked down and kicked several times while the ground. She regnined her feet only to be knocked down again. When she reached the police station she was so hadly beaten and bruised that she had to be assisted from the patrol wagon. It is alleged that she lay in a cell six hours without medical attention in spite of the fact that she was helplessly beaten.
Case Is Continued Mrs. McGill was booked on a charge of disorderly conduct and appeared for trial early this week. It was only with the greatest difficulty that she was able to walk or talk, and the judge ordered her sent to a hospital. The case was continued until Mrs. McGin is able to leave the hospital. Attorneys Louis Bubinstein and Fred Hamilton are representing her in the case. Pittsburh Courier.
she was Antigua Bahamas Barbados British Honduras Guadeloupe. Dominica Grenade Jamaica (2)
Trinidad (2)
British Guiana (2)
Montserrat St. Kitts St. Lucia Martinique dying.
West Indian labor in Panama and Colon is like a skilfull, in telligent and valuable man whose tongue is cut out of his mouth.
With all his skilfullness, intelligence and value he is dying from want, but because he cannot talk, everybody thinks he is dying from natural causes, therefore all he gets is the sympathy of the This is the situation as it stands in the absence of an organized body of labor in the cities to represent to the employer the hardships of the employee. Therefore, we are going on record today in making a bid for renewed action on the part of carpenters, masons, painters and laborers. West Indian workingmen! today you should get together and consider ways and means of organizing for the betterment of yourselves. We do not want to see the same conditions continuing into next month. There is no excuse for not being organized now. The natives have decided at last that it is their advantage as well as yours, to work together with you for higher wages and better conditions. The decision is not late. There is much to be done and it badly needs doing.
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