Nor does Mr. McAdoo record the fact
that in many instances the white
clerks, without respect to sex, have
gone to their colored associates and
expressed their complete dissent from
the Government's caste undertaking.
He indignantly denies that poorer
quarters have been given to the segre
gated, but eye-witnesses have told of
colored women shut off in an unpleas
ant alcove in one office of others
quietly forced out of the lunch-room
they had been using for nine years
past and compelled to go into lava
tories at the lunch-hour, of men clerks
segregated behind lockers in one cor
ner of a room in the dead-letter divi
sion of the Post-Office Department.
Poorer accommodations for the segre
gated are the invariable law of segre
gation. The assignment of separate
toilet-rooms to the races under threats
ot prompt punishment for failure to
obey the rules has been another of
the deeply humiliating features of the
Washington segregation. To the col
ored workers all this segregating has
been more brutal than a slap in the
face. It is as If the great Govern
ment of the United States had gone
out of its way to stamp them publicly
mond of General Godfrey Weftzels
black brigade certainly brothers and
sisters of the black troopers who were
cepted this as notice from the White' for evil without adequate conception
House that the remaining offices here-1 or prevision of the dangers he was
tofore given to colored men were to inviting.
