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V < »L. I—No. 33
C I. 0. Charge Savannah Hete*
Attempting To Provoke Strike
The United Public Workers of
A meric* (CIO>, charged yester
day that the Savannah Hotel is
deliberately attempting to pro
wke a hotel strike in Savannah.
In a statement to the press Thom
as B. Mason, United Public Work
ers’ organiser, stated that the
hotel management Jias not only
refused to recognize the union,
bat hat even refused to ail down
with a committee elected by the
employees to discuss grievances.
Ma>on asserted that over of
the hotel employers are members
of Local 744, United Public Work
er* of America, C. I. O.
Wage# for the majority of the
employee* at the Savannah Hotel
who do not receive tips are now
2Sc per hour or Jos. Many of
the employees who receive tips
gef no «a!ary at al! from the ho
tel. According to the union this
»* a practice which ha- Win done
away with in most of the hotels
throughout the country.
Mulunls Celebrate
37th Anniversary
Commencement
On Monday n ght th.. Mt
T^tv^dent Wety. Inc., .ekhrat
« I thrh tbirty-severth unh!v*r
r^ry of the home of Mr. and M s.
dame. Baldwin. Hopklr* street.
After t e regular > had
been c mpiet^d Romeo Smith.
gave a brief outline of the work
and aceompP-hment* of the «o
ciety. Arthur P p-. who acted
k» nia-itr of cerem-n intro
<»ur» I Meera I gue 4 t -peakers,
among whom Rev. Ralph Mark
G*H>ert. w’o »p<Ae ire men on
the nectMitv Er unity and Hik
ing forward to a •♦•’’er day and
exerting all r>f their efforts to
rverrome an inferiority complix
that ivigts among our people.
The Rev. Gustave Caution spoke
On the desire to find the truth,
and what wa« the truth. In *o
doing h e pre«rrf»d many fact*
*rd developed much fool for
though*.
Rev. L. 1.. Scott. who recently
became n mt^r M the orranka-
L »n. *n< ke >n ’"e n* < 1 f un«<L
f'*h cooperation and as-Utance
1 i ».*.h cthe” ard in »n doing
pledged hi* unitinted support to
the organilndon in thj> effori.
In ropon e Martin Hayne*
flanked the visitor* for thrir
apje »d 4 remark* anl a**urod
them that all p"»**’ t anpreriateo
the menage* bmogbt t them.
Ihirng t** ». m p M”-.
Baldwin, aaaieted * y Mr*, A-ma
Heed Had* and Mr*. Path l»ob
•wvad a »e?> appr* zing tur>
key dre* which «ra< gtaatly en-
Before our next issue Old Saint Nick will have made his appearance so The Herald takes this
means to wish all its readers a very Merry Christmas and much Joy throughout the Yuletide.
HERALD
SAVANNAH S NEWEST NEWSPAPER COVERING SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
Union Pep^esentative Mason
gave t c ' ’!• wing . count of the
union’? attemn^ to neguuuie with
the management:
"We f”. ■ contac-ed Mr. Fow
ler, the hotel manager, on No
vember 2Kth and requested a
meeting. Mr. Fowler stated that
he could not talk to us and that
we would ha.e to -ee the at-
D; v’ • represents the Dink
ier M* c:< i- savannah, Mr. John
J. Bou han.
"We rhw Mr. Bouhan twice
during the following week. Mr.
B<*uhan questioned whether we
represented the majority of the
1 hotel employees. We offered to
n • r v mrmhersb/p
ea-..'- ?.ga’r.-t the hotel’s payroll.
M-. B-u ai rejected this sugges
n ar I we then proposed that
a Nat ona'. I.a > r Relations Board
• >c:>r ' . :. lived to by the ho
t« . M*-. B aihan al--> rejected
t i - gg< • < n and challenged
<- . .a n n «T 0 O
I oyt > ♦* pit mt. a; the cio-e
»f y-i meeting Walter Scott and
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SAVAXNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1946
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Miss Marion Tharpe of Hawkinsville, seated above, was
chosen by the Aggies (Agricultural Association of Georgia
State College) as their sweetheart for 1916-47. Miss Agri
culture^s attendants, from left to right, are Miss Nancy Neal
of Greensboro, Miss Ola Mae Byrd of Hogansville,, and Miss
Laura Randolph of Athens. Each of these Georgia coeds is
majoring in the Division of Home Economics.
PRICE 5 CENTS
Or. Patterson To
Serve On Red
Cross Board
Washington, D. G„ —(NNPA). —-
Dr. Fre 'crick D. Patterson, presi
lent of Tuskegee Institute, last
Wednesday was named to a thre?-
year term on the American Red
Cross Committee by the Red Cross
Board of Incorporators meeting
in Washington.
The first colored person to serve
on the American Red Cro.-s gov
erning board, Dr. Patterson ---
cently was one of twenty-seven
meml>ers appointed hy Chainnan
Basil O'Connor to stiiHy th o
structure of the^organizAKon.
He ha- been active in Red CYoss
affairs for a number of years
and i- chairman of tl;e Tuskegee
chapter of the Red (, ro*s. Mr.
O’Connor, in turn, is chairman of
the boat*! of trustees ot I usaegee
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