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HOLSEY NNBL SEC'TY KEYNOTER AT FESTIVAL Justice And Brotherhood, Full Text Of Albon Holsey, Secretary Of NNBL; Legion Field, Birmingham, Aug. You have come here today for a dual purpose: to open your Trade Week Campaign and to open the week's program of the Convention of the National Negro Business League. Both are interre vlated because in its origins and objectives, the Trade Week was a natural step in the growth and expansion of the Business League. The first Trade Week Campaign was conducted in Atlanita, Georgia, fifteen years after League was founded. This first effort conducted in Atlanta was basce upon the issuance of 25c coupons for each purchase with a Negro enterprise during the Campaign period or for the payment of old bills and the subsequent tsuance of prizes to those who held the largest number of the 25 cents coupons.

It was then called the Atlanta Business BoostNing Club and represented most of the Negro enterprises then existing in that city. Truman K. Gibson, now president of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company of Chicago, was then resident in Atlanta and come of the officers of the Boosters During the 1916 session of the Business League Convention which met in Chattanooga, made a report on the success of the Campaign. In his report, Mr. Gibson said: "True it required time and thought and honest endeavor and most of the work fell upon a few shoulders.

But there was a feeling of satisfaction in knowing that some merchants had been how to attract and hold new trade by keeping a better store, a cleaner stock and a more progressive method. And many of our own people, through the inducement of the coupons, prizes and intensive community advertising, were taught for the first time to wend their steps into the stores of our race." At the close of the Campaign, 59,736 coupons were turned in Kumfoot Shoe Shop 321 NORTH 17th STREET Let Us Rebuild Your Shoes BEST MATERIAL The Orphan Home located in Atlanta not only did its purchasing that period with Negro stores but induced friends to donate their coupons to the Orphanage. As a result they turned in 11,219 pons and won the first prize which was a standard sewing machine and 1 much needed at the Orphanage. In summing up the results of the Campaign, Mr. Gibson said that a Negro truck farmer locatedr near Atlanta, more than tripled his business through sales to Negro merchants; many merchants collected old and long-standing bills, the Negro bank secured: local insurance companies reachmany new depositors and the ed a new high water mark in debit increases.

Since that effort which was initiated by progressive Negro business men in Atlanta, the National Negro Business League has endeavored to awaken other communities to the value of this cooperative advertising and business promotional effort. During )the years which have followed, thirtythree different cities have according to our records undertaken the Trade Week effort with far-reaching and effective results. This, I believe, is the second Trade Week Campaign which you have had here in Birmingham and if all work together and catch the full significance and implicotions of this movement, you will have others and results will pyramid from year to year. Perhaps some of you have said, "Oh, this Trade Week Campaign is just an effort to get Negroes to spend more money with Negro stores." This is correct but its more fundamental purpose is to unite all of our Negro citizens behind a community program for building a strong and self-sustaining economic life. And whether we admit it or not the business of a community is the hub around which the community advances.

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To make clear this point, let take food to example commodity which we all purchase because we must have it. Census figures 1939 show that there were 11,038 Negro retail food outlets with ennua! gross sales amounting to $24,037,000.00. Hypothetically, if we would assume that this volume was organized from the standpoint of purchasing its supplies, there would be required at least 100 wholesale units to handle the merchandise for these retail stores Negro manufacturers of processed foods could be developed to supply these wholesale stores and scores of Negro brokers could make handsome incomes by handling, for the wholesale stores, such heavy goods as flour, sugar and nationally adverstised products 1 usually sold in car loads quantities. Of the $24, 037,000.00 gross volume in these retail stores, at least $7, 250.00 in gross profits which now go to the white manufacturers, brokers and wholesalers would be available to develop and sustain this service which Negroes with a little planning and much cooperation could organize for themselves. Obviously these Negro retail stores are too scattered for a wholly separate economy as outlined aboue but when considered in terms of equivalents, it opens many potential opportunities in the post war period for Negro Negro manufacturing and for Negroes with training in merchandising and advertising and qualified as specialty salesmen or as store operators.

Negroes spend millions of dollars each year for wearing appare the 1939 census gives only 338 Negro clothing stores with annua' gross sales of $779,000. WHO GETS THE MILLIONS WHICH NEGROES SPEND FOR CLOTHING? Although the Negro retail outlets are few, this field, however, offers opportunity for the manufacture and sale of unlabeled goods to wholesale dry goods stores or the production of marchandise under special contracts with wholesale distributors or the trade-marked apparel. "What Has Negro Business Learned From The War?" has been selected as the theme of our Convention which 1 opens here on Tuesday, and is a question of paramount importance as we approach the post-war period. An appropriate answer to the question also involves answering the further question as to what Negro business has learned from its rough and tumble competitive experience since Emancipation. The changing pattern of business among Negroes during the past eight decades has been influenced by population shifts, segregation and discrimination, advertising and sales methods of white competitors, availability of capital, restricted areas of service, education and the Negro press undo Booker other T.

factors. Washington once said that early Negro plasterers and white-washers had signs in the front yards of their side-street homes stating their occupation. Then white men rendering, the same basic service opened spacious and attractive offices on main streets and advertised as "interior decorators." And many of them hired the side-street Negro plasterers to do their work except where there were union problems. The prosperous Negro caterers whose business flourshed in the 80's and 909s saw their trade gradually diverted to chain hotels and deluxe restaurants. Likewise, in these early decades many Negro barber shops catered to an eclusive white patronage.

And now with the possible exception of Herndon's in Atlanta this white business is handled in unionized white shops. Old Moths Clotnes moths were brought THE WEEKLY REVIEW HERE THERE IS NO POLL TAX Here every man is equal at the polls. Your vote can be a vote for equality of jobs, equality of pay, equality of opportunity. But, to vote you firsthave to register. Don't lose your vote by not registering.

REGISTER Walker Urges PostWar Plans For Business League BIRMINGHAM, Aug. Speaking before a large and appreciative audience at the Sixteen Street Baptist Church, Dr. J. E. Walker of Memphis, President of the National Business League, urged in his annual address that the league develop a post-war program which "is concrete, practical and real." "Old patterns" warned the League's President, will not be good enough for the new world that will emerge out of the chaos of today." Continuing, Dr.

Walker said: "The signs of the times now are pointing to an early cessation of the war, especially in Europe. Pretty soon our boys will be coming home. While many thousands of them will come back legless, armless maimed and mutilated, there will be other thousands returning with sound bodies. trained hands, and aggressive minds. Some will have acquired personnel, administrative and mechanical efficiency that will equip them for better positions than they filled before leaving.

In our post-war planning, we should enlarge our present business to employ these trained men and women, Other men and women were drafted from our schools and college. Our Congress a been working out a plan to make available funds for them to continue their training. In our postwar aims, we should not forget this group. Some of our returning men will be men who were already operating garages and various kinds of MADAM EONA In fact, anything you wish to know is revealed ir my PRIVATE consultation and without asking one single So you had better see MADAM EANA THE DIVINER OF DESTINY. Please DON'T confuse my work with that of the cheap ordinary Fortune Teller, Card Reader, or Trance Mediums.

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de- LOCAL PLANNING COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED My people are suffering from the lack of sufficient economic leadership. This is a challenge to every local branch of the National. Negro Business League. Everywhere we have an established branch it should emphasize leadership, and guide our people along the economic path. Every local branch is a service station to give information, and inspiration to those who have launched on a business career and to those who are inclined to venture into the business world.

Every local branch should set up immediately a postwar planning committee to help small business enterprises and to assist the soldiers to find employment suitable to their training. The National Negro Business League must play a great part 1 in of a new post-war program. It must inform our people along all necessary lines, especially those vouchsafed by our state and federal government. It must cooperate fully with individuals and organizations seeking to work out programs for their special needs and purposes. It must inspire young men to go into business and if need be, to help and finance for competent ones.

It must become a medium through which the spirit of good-will passes, good-will that will not only build a better race but a better democracy, when men of all races can live together in happy and harmonious peace." grees. On her return to Liberia, she was appointed professor of science at Liberia college, where h'e taught chemistry and physics. Her work in modernizing the science department to the notice of leading educational authorities in the Republic and the newly elected president of the Repub'ic, Mr. V. S.

Tubman, appointed Cooper to take charge of the untversity. Among past presidents of the university was a distinguished West Indian scholar, Dr. Blyden, like Miss Cooper, was well known in London whehe he was Liberia's diplomatic representative at the Court of St. James. I understand from well-informed Liberia circles here, that a commission of American and Liberian education experts will investigate the entire field of education in Liberia after the war, and make recommendations with the object of bringing all grades of put lic instruction upto-date, It is also hoped to establish a system of exchange scholarships between Liberia univerfty and leading Negro universities such as Howard and Fisk in America, in order to promote closer cultural ties between the colored peoples of both republics.

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