The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 30, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 4, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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jluskogGQ I T. Thursday jlciu 4. 1905.
No. 50
DARING HOLD UP
ON SECOND ST.
Under Glaring Electric Lights and With
Streets Crowded with people
JONES' GANG ATTACKS A PROSPECTOR.
About 10 oclock Wednesday
night with South Second street
illuminated by the electric lights
of its numerous stores an at-
temp to rob was made by the
Negro booster gang of despera-
does which has taken possession
of that part of the city The
cry of ' ' murder ' ' ' 'murder' ' ut-
tered in loud tones was the first
announcement of an attempt to
assault and rob Mr. Peter Perry
a Negro prospector who recently
arrived in Muskogee from Ev-
ansville Ind. Perry had been
approached by three Negro foot-
pads one of whom hit him with
a club from the rear and anoth-
er struck him a hard blow in
the face with brass knucks. fel-
ling him to his knees in the
gutter. The cry of murder at
tractod the attention of many
people in the vicinity and when
they came up the boosters dis-
dained to run but cooly walked
across the street and disappear-
ed in the gloom surrounding
Elgin avenue and 3rd street.
Bob Johnson the head boos-
ter of the gang was taken into
custody early Thursday morn-
ing and identified by Mrs. Perry
as the man who struck him
with brass knucks.
This Bob Jones is leader of
the boosteis who are kept up
and clothed by certain well
known prostitutes and who are
depreciating the value of prop-
erty on South Second and 3rd
streets by their nightly assaults
upon men made with assistance
of thir women who lure stran
gers into dangerous and dark
places. Reporter.
The crimes committed here
by Negroes must be assigned to
the worthless loafer transient
element of Negroes who have
recently come into town. It is
this class of people that we
have objected to and it is this
class of people that- we Jiavo ob-
to and this class that
causes decent Negroes so much
troubl. It's the dude who has
some woman making his lfving
honestly or dishonestly and the
other transient cuss who robs
anc plays the part of burglar
while his co-partner plies her
trade. They are all transient
people and should made move
on; when they commit crimes
they leave town and the inno
cent Negro whoso home is here
often bears the blame. We re-
iterate there are too m any
worthless loafers black a n d
white in town and they should
be given an invitation to quit
instantly. Ed.
NEGRO vs UNIONISM
We hope our people will ask
the school board not to appoint
the colored teachers (at least the
subordinates) at this time the
next meeting in order that pro-
test of any may be heard and
acted upon this is not a hit at
anv particulr person but only a
request that justice may be
done. We want no innocent
person punished (by not being
reappointed) and we want no
guilty one to escape. Is not
this a fair proposition The
Cimeter makes this requesl now
and if there is any other fellow
fee's the same wap get in your
request before Monday night
May 3.
Money to loan on Furniture.
' Shakpe & Thompson
v 'Room 14 Jones Building.
There is one republican on
the school board that is worse
(against the Negro) than any
member on the Board the Dem-
ocrats on the Board are in the
main inclined to be fair and so
are some of the republicans
but there is one cuss 'there that
we fought for and thought was
our friend and yet. he is as
dangerous to the Negro child's
interest as hell to a powder
magazine and the part we hate
so bad is that we were bun-
comed into supporting the cuss
and getting his nomination
when even the white folks were
fighting him at that ttme had
he gone down in defeat (and the
Negroes saved him in conven
tion; ne wouiu in our opinion
stood forever disgraced in the
estimation of the best white
citizens of the town regardless
or tneir political arnnation.
A well known skilled Negro
mechanic who is member of a
union recently wrote from a
city in the North to a friend and
brother unionist in this city
and stated that "Unions were
not worth a dime to Negro la-
borers in the North." As this
message was written on a pos-
tal card it is quite likely under
more favorable circumstances
the word "dam" would have
been used instead of "dime."
It is a plumb line on truth
when we say what is true in
the North so far as Negroes and
labor unions are concerned is
more than true here in Muskogee-
In fact the trades coun-
cil and lobor unions of Musko-
gee all boiled down are not do
ing a tinker's dam bit of good
for the Negroes who have been
deluded into joining its ranks.
The white capitalist and the
white labor unionist are work-
ing through different channels
but toward the same end and
that is to eliminate the Negro
as a faklov the moulding of
the territorial and statehood fu-
ture. With the restrictions re-
moved from the Freedmen's
lands the white capitalists
with their golden coated and se
ductive wiles are seeking to
oust tne ureeumon root and
branch from their posessions.
On the other hand the walking
delegates of the white white
union organizations with hon-
eyed phraseology are persuad-
ing skilled Negro mecanics to
enter the unions where the laws
bind them with a bear like grip
that prevents them from strik-
ing out for teemselves in a man-
ly straight forward effort to ac-
cumulate enough to establish
homes and comforts for them-
selves and families.
The instances of unfare deal-
ing with their Negro adherents
by Muskogee labor organiza-
tions are too numerous to at-
tempt to outline them in these
columns The action of the
labor unions in passing entirely
over the five colored candidates
on the Republican ticket and
the making up of a so called
Union Labor ticket of alt white
men should be sufficient to
show the blindness and most
ignorant in Muskogee that the
unions are of by and for white
men only first last and all the
time.
Hard as whito unionists may
labor to conceal it it is well
known t h a t discriminations
against employment of Negro
union men are made every day
upon the building in process of
erection all over Muskogee. Any
old excuse is deemed to be satis-
factory enough to give the Ne-
gro unionist who has walked up
and applied for work. If in the
beginning the workmen on a
job are white men it is under-
stood at once "no Negro need
apply." When on the other
hand Negroes start off the job
the white men unwilling to
work with Negroes are put on
in preference to Negroes. l
short it is the opinion of many
Negro unionists that many op-
portunities come to them only
when it is absolutely impossi-
ble to get along without them.
We believe we have a fairly
comprehensive knowledge of all
the purposes and aims of union
organizations because the great
majority of Negroes everywhere
are louim in tne mooring class.
Yet we can not in justice to
ourselves and our race aquiesce
in influences tending toward
eliminating the Negro laborer
from industrial "fields. Skilled
union Negro men in various
lines have been paid by local
unions to seek employment
elsewhere. It is the custom in
Muskogee to restrict Negro la-
bor unioulsts to two or three
days work in a week perhaps
bringing them one-third of the
wages made for the week by
their so called friends and allies
the white union laborer. So
long as Negroes meet all the re-
qvirements of the union in the
paymeut of high priced en-
trance fees our monthly dues
they are entitled to a just and
equitable distribution ' of all
work conducted by union bosses
This is not done and it is the
Continued on page 12.
TO THE LADIES!
Ladies you can't afford to miss this tins week. We will sell
nice long WIGS for $2.75; SWITCHES 25c to 50c; I TALE WIGS
$1.25; PRIME FRIZZLES 15c to 25c.
Hair is a woman's gfIoru .cTeSS
SHAFER & ROBINSON.
217 South Second St.
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