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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Atlanta NAACP branch, led by A. T. Walden, wires protest to General Hugh S. Johnson against unfair wage provisions in the National Industrial Recovery Act for Negro laundry workers in the South, highlighting disparities with Northern wages and lack of protections for common occupations.
Merged-components note: NAACP protest story on page 1 continued to page 7, col. 6; matching text on wage scale and provisions, merge.
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Many Racial Problems are Discussed at Conference
WAGE SCALE UNJUST TO NEGROES
Lack of Provisions for Many Workers to be Aired
TELEGRAM SENT
A formal protest concerning the provisions and lack of provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act inasmuch as it relates to Negroes was made in a message wired Saturday to the head of this great federal undertaking by Atty. A. T. Walden, head of the Atlanta branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
General Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator National Industrial Recovery Act, Washington, D. C.
Negroes, composing a large proportion of the Laundry workers of Georgia and the South, have noted thru the press the proposed code of wages and hours for that industry. Said code is deemed so inadequate as to appear obviously unfair to that large group of woefully underpaid laborers in the South.
Atlanta Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People requests privilege of being heard on said questions before final action is taken by proper authority.
Signed: A. T. Walden, president.
In discussing this protest, leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People point out the many unfair provisions of this act as well as its inadequacies. For example, this code provides that laundry workers in the north are to be paid an uniform wage of 25 cents a day for a 45 hour working week while laundry workers in the south will receive a minimum of 14 cents an hour for labor performed during a similar period. This wage scale is undoubtedly unfair to members of the Negro race, inasmuch as the greater part of the workers employed by laundries in this section are Negroes.
It was also pointed out that there are little or no provisions made to regulate the pay of the occupational groups in which the vast majority of our racial group are employed in this section. This group includes such occupations as general laborers, gardeners, house
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Highland Stars and East Side Blues Won't Play Today
RACKETEERS OF NATION TURN TO NATIONALS
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Atlanta, Georgia; South
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Atlanta NAACP president A. T. Walden wires protest to NIRA administrator General Johnson against unfair Southern wage code for Negro laundry workers (14 cents/hour vs. 25 cents/day North) and lack of provisions for common Negro occupations like laborers and gardeners.