. Crisis. rd to con-trol Mr. Wilsons Negropolicy: For a time theyheld back the spectacu-lar fire caters, and marked time, beingcontent with the dismissal of two orthree leading Negro officeholders. Thenthey plucked up courage. Postmaster-General Burleson is said on goodauthority to have frankly announcedthis policy: The gradual weeding ofthe Negro out of the civil service ofthe United States until he is left onlymenial positions. Encouraged by thisthe white railway mail clerks are con-ducting a systematic and open cam-paign against the colored clerks indefiance of the plain rules of the serv-i
. Crisis. rd to con-trol Mr. Wilsons Negropolicy: For a time theyheld back the spectacu-lar fire caters, and marked time, beingcontent with the dismissal of two orthree leading Negro officeholders. Thenthey plucked up courage. Postmaster-General Burleson is said on goodauthority to have frankly announcedthis policy: The gradual weeding ofthe Negro out of the civil service ofthe United States until he is left onlymenial positions. Encouraged by thisthe white railway mail clerks are con-ducting a systematic and open cam-paign against the colored clerks indefiance of the plain rules of the serv-ice. The official organ, the RailwayMail, says editorially: There is a new man at the head ofthe postoffice department, a man fromthe South, who knows the Negro prob-lem as it is. * * * Of course the Negroes will opposethis measure because they feel it is thefirst step in removing them entirelyfrom tlie service. They assert that theyhave the qualifications and the ambi-tion to make good railway mail Colored Los Angeles greets TheCrisis in its own motor cars
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