Show NEGROES TO GIVE RAILROADS TROUBLE TROUDE Demand Equality in South as asto asto asto to Right to Use Best Cars Wa Washington Oct Oct 1 11 1 Negroes from froma rein reina a number of Southern states have ha e petitioned peti peti- toned the lie Interstate Commerce commission com corn mission to compel railroads of ot the Southern stat states to cease practicing discrimination against colored interstate InterState inter Inter- state passengers The They say among other othel things Under Jre present ent conditions colored interstate pa passengers ar arc dented denied equal privileges with white whito passengers Colored Colored Col Col- I ored pa passengers engers are arc compelled b by the railroads to rl ride e In what are commonly known as Jim Crow cars which are arc usually filthy and uncomfortable cars and thc they hey arc are denied al also abo o the right Ight to eat In the lie railroad dining cars and amid occupy berths in the tho sleeping cars because of or their color This is a violation of or the H Hepburn railroad rate rato law which was pas passed d by ly almost unanimous vote oW vote of I Republicans and Democrats in congress con con- gross gress gres and which vests ests your body with power to force equality of treatment The petition Is signed by W. W T T. Johnson Johnson John John- I son on Mississippi O. O L L. Smithers South Carolina H H. P P. Wison Wilson North Carolina Caro Caro- Carolina lina Ina Robert Drake Arkansas Vie Wiley Jones Thomas Smallwood Tennessee Tennesee F F. N N. Johnson Georgia Samuel John Johnson on and Thomas Oliver OH |