The Appeal

'A Great Movement.

A number of gentlemen met at the office of The Appeal last Tuesday night and organized a committee with Mr. M. Holt chairman and Mr. J. Adams secretary. It is the intention of the committee to make an organized effort to secure the employment of some of the intelligent, capable young Afro-Americans as clerks, salesmen or salesladies in the business houses of St. Paul. A paper is being circulated for the signatures of heads of families and others who will pledge themselves to favor the houses employing Afro-American clerks, salesmen or salesladies, with their patronage. The movement is a most laudable one and must be productive of good, in many ways, if properly carried out. In union there is strength; and there can be little doubt that if Afro-American families to the number of one hundred or more will faithfully patronize the houses where Afro-American clerks are employed, in preference to houses where they are not, proprietors will see the advantage of retaining them. This movement, like many others that have been inaugurated, must be made a success by the united support of the people or, like other movements, will ultimately fail. The whole matter is in the hands of the people. The other members of the committee are: Rev. L. H. Reynolds, Rev. L. C. Sheafe, Rev. J. C. Anderson, H. Howard, R. E. Anderson, F. L. McGhee, Peter Conway, J. W. Lucas. As soon as a sufficient number of signatures to the pledge are obtained the committee will begin to work. Let every one who has the interest of the people at heart sign the paper.'