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About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1939)
Dr. E. J. Scott Replies To Kelly MiSler On New Deal Benefits For two score years and more he who ventured to enter a tourn ament to tilt lances with the re doubtable Dean Kelly Miller usu ally found hirrrelf in a conies,, which tr'ed his mettle to the- ut termost. This observation is made before seeking to reply to his re cent news release commenting up on my recent designation by Chairman John Hamilton as one of the Publicity Directors and Advisors hero at Republican Nat ional Committee Headquarters. For more than thir^v years I havo enjoyed Dean Miller’s warm, personal and affect onate friend ship. ITe is one of the most be loved of Howard University’s myriad group of Alumni, and 1 probably mere affectionately re gard* d by the nearly 300 gradu ates who leave the inst tution each year, than any individual who has ever been connected with the ins titution during the 72 years of its -educational history. He is also be loved by countless thousands of other-, black and white who ad mire his scholarship his eloquence and his many and spirited defen ses of his race. He is probab’y our best known publicist and polemical writer. His eword has known no brother where the vital interests of his peoplo were con'v-ned. Far his k.mJly reTe-ences w> m personally I make due acknowl edgement and express with due fenmil'ty, my gruteful thanks. There can he no quarrel between us, b.s we clearly and frar'dv un derstand each other’s jwition with respect to present day po litical conditions. The New Deal challenges Dean Killer’s unrivaled panageries un der all conditions 'and circum stances. None of the abuses, none «f the brutalarian tactics em ployed to humiliate unfortunate colored people in the adnunistra tion of the NRA, AAA, FSA, TJSHA, FHA, Resettlement, The Wage and Hour l>aw and other alphabetical agencies have chal lenged, or aroused, his resent ment, or criticism. With all of his high praise, I laannnt accept Dean Miller’s dic tum that, while I have remained loyal to the ideals and traditions «»f the Republican Party “the ma jority of the mast outstanding and influential members of the race have been enticed away from their political mooriing by the al lurement of the Democratic Par ty and the New Deal.” While it is true that a large number of colored men have been placed in executive relationship in (roremment agencies, it still re mains trues, in my opinion that ■many of these men, as well as thousand sand thousands of oth ers, outside of public office, have not been slow to recognize the fact that, despite such dramatic gestures as have been made, the -race, itself, t-ilcen as a whole, ac tually has remained relatively outside the limits of New Deal > processes. Whatever small gsirts have been made, have been more than over balanr ' sv,-rmpe' as it ware, b;, the ir - of a ,m'nistr’*t’>n. j The Second N'oioral Confer once on the Prr 1 - of he Neg ro and Negro Y-u!’' ur sparingly called attention to glaring drier! minations and mi chievous ten dencies in the administration of most, of these agencies. In the case of one of them the Conference noted a “tendency to use Federal funris for purposes of C'x ng residential patterns accord ing to local p.-ejudices, thereby establishing segregated areas and racial ghettos,”—reference be ing made to the Federal Housing Administration. Many similar instances of g’aring di crimina tion were pointed out. Particular ly, failure to appoint colored men j to positions in administrative and policy-making bodies, where the greatest influence and wisdom | are most necessary to safeguard minority rights. There has been no effort made to integrate Negroes into private industry. Ifne great masses of 'olored people still rema-in and liefers” or deoles.” In the field i f Relief Administration, the See ■n l Conference on Negri I’rob !ems pointed out that * expert •p»c” has shown that Relief Ad ministrators in many states and muniicipalties’ either lack sympa- I thetie understand ng of the pro’o brns of minority groups, Or are f’evrous of preventing Negroes fmir, enuitably sharing the bene fits of relief programs.” I cannot br'ng myself to believe that Dean Miller, in his fulsome oreise of New Deal activities, is in agreement w'th these discrim inatory techniques. I need not point out, of course the most recent discriminatory action of the Secretary of War in refusing to pet aside, sums of money to be made available 'that Negro Youth may take its proper j place in the various armed ser vices of the Government, at a time when the menace of war may be all but trending. Discrimina tion and segregation of Negro citizens in the armed forces of the Government are still rampant. Allurements of New Deal Dean Miller places great reli ance upon the “allurements” of ! the New Deal. Probably our fund amental difference io that I be lieve in the saving grace of the sanity of Negro Americans and that they are subject to the same educational processes of demo cratic government as other citi zens of the Republic. In their evaluation of so-called New Deal “benefits,” I believe Negro Americans are cultivating a long range vision and that they aro just as much apposed to cen tralized administrative machinery for partisan purposes as other groups of forward-lookiing citi zens. The chief “allurement” upon MASTER AUTO MECHANIC Satisfaction Guaranteed CREIGHTON GARAGE— DOWNTOWN 1623 Davenport Street One block north of Post Office at 17th street Your car called for and returned on the dot GEORGE LAGIOS-il. 9653 Fall Money Saving Special MEN’S LIST »- SIM'S Cleaned & Pressed 80c 1- SUIT and 1 TOPCOAT ....80c 1- SUIT and 1 FELT HAT.80c *- PAIRS OF PANTS.80c LADIES LIST 2- TAILORED SUITS . 80c 2- PLAIN DRESSES .1.00 3- PLAIN BLOUSES .80c 3- PLAIN SKIRTS .....80c OUR MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING PINE APPAREL ENABLE US TO GIVE EVERY GARMENT THE PARTICULAR CLEANING SKILL IT DEMANDS—-RELY ON US. Emerson-Saratoga Southwest Comer 24th and ErsTdne Sts. I 20% DISCOUNT CASH AND CARRY .. „ich the C^al sems to be depending: for N gro support u ‘relief.” I believe X -srro A eric \ns hr'ieve a*v* i:iwl'* thrt ’Hef '’ottH b' administ. e' for the r rd nr l not for o I t .‘ian . as v 0/> 1«rg«ly t i’e i i the pan;. I' t’”' N r-o pe""b; are to have a solid, industrial founda tion they cannot accept a philo -ophy which recepts relief as a cure for unemployment. Further, I cannot believe that a n°?r subsistence level is what Americans without regard to race creed or color desire. I insist that what Negro Amer icans need and desire are steady ,rb~. with decent Amer'can wngps. If t^ese fail them, practically everything* regents placid accept ance of r lief as a necessary pal liative for unemployment. It. certainly remains true, as of this date, that with all of the rill ions coent during the last six and oner half years, the American economic machinery “has stalled on dead center," as the New Deal dominated Monopoly Committee has recently pointed out So much then for argument if argument be needei It is not necessary for me to characterize the failures of the New Deal Administration in so ft>r as ■tv>ev relate to our colored emulation. I certainly *an me no stronger words than those of a leading newspaper, The Pittsburg Courier wvieh supported tve New Deal in, the 1932 and 1936 elect ion’*. Apparently in deep disap pointment and disgust, The Cour rie.' said: “The Now Deal !(*s done little to end color discrim’na tion but a great deal to pro long it. P.eginning with the NR A it bowed to the will of the reactionary South both in side and out«ide the South. It bad a wondefrful opportunity t.o show America how the Negro ought bo be treated through cowardice and polit ical opportunism. Most Amer icans would have approved a Souare Deal Policy, but in stead the Southern tail wagged t*>« Democratic dog. “For the Negro the New Deal has been th eOld Deal in new clothes. With powers almost as great as those of Hitler, Stalin and ministration in NRA, FHA, Mmsolini. the Democratic Ad PWA, CCC, WPA and a dozen others alphabetical set-ups. “Washington D. C. is as jim crow as even, if not more so, but no single word from Mr. Roo sevelt. He (has exJpreused shock Vm/- the beating of the Jews abroad, but not over lynching of Negroes at home. Mr. Roosevelt could have at least deplored the fact that Negroes are pariahs within the shadow of the White House, hue he preferred to make speeches condemning the dictators for doing the same thing to Jews, Catholics and others abroad. * The president embarked en thusiastically upon an initra-parly political campaign against Demo crats refusing to endorse his New Deal pol'tics, but evidently ap proves of Senators and Congress men who endorse the Old Deal of flagrant color discrimination in relief and other New Deal set-ups. “Tho President has a wonder ful opportunity to teach America an object lesson in fair play to ward a loyal minority. It this was impractical in the North, East and West, he could at least have said somethin. He chose to re main silent although supplied with documentary evidence of col- J or discrimination in almost every New Deal set-up.” Says South Disappointed C. W. Rice, editor of the Negro Labor News, and president and manager of The Texas Negro Business and Laboring Men’s As sociation, has just returned to his home after making a study of Negro labor conditions in practi cally nil of the Northern and Eastern States. A summary of his findings follows: “That Negroes, both in the North and in the South are dis appointed with the New Deal. Economic and labor conditions are worse, fundamentally, than at any time since Emancipation. In the South, the New Deal crop control policy has thrown millions out of work, and evicted them from their cabins in the cotton fields, thereby causing privation and starvaty>n, for which the Govy ernn’gnt provi .es ,on.y merger re lief that barely hold, brdy and j soul tog.t'.'.-r. “N4 w comes the i L^bor Union Mm-ement, under j tho National I-abo. Relst ..nr Act.j which gives forty-o-’ • po-r'nt or ! the workers in a given plant the ri*rht to fonn a union, which b' ernes the sde bargaini ; agea~> i*. r all tho workers in said plant. Mn-t of the labor unions have the color bar and discriminatory pra c' ict-; ngainst Negroes. The clos ed shop agreement, won employ ee is causing the wholesale re placement of Negroes on practi cally all job;, including railroad, cc‘ton industries, cafes and hotels in sdl section! of the country. “I find that in Government em ployment, even at \V ashington, Negroes are being replaced as messengers, elevator; operatn-s janitors, etc. Aside from dole jobs (WPA), about the biggo t thing Negro Dealers are doing for Ne gro employment is the hiring of some few Negroes in strategic positions to travel over the coun try and picture Utop as tq the working class of Negroes, if they will only continue to be loyal to ] the New Deal. “I am thoroughly convinced that the great majority of Ne groes oven in the North, are dis gusted with such promises which they failed to materialize. They arc realiz ng that industrial con ditions are going from bad to worse.” With these words from a promi nent newspaper that helped elect the New Deal and from a leader of better labor conditions ringing in their earn, it rather occurs to me to say that thoughtful Color ed Americans will keep in m n^ these strictures, and will in -my opinion want to find the'r way hnck to a party cf which it may be said, that, at least it has al ways stood for tho basis principle of American democracy; and that not a single discriminatory, re pressive or disfranchising law not a single jim-crow; not a sin gle peonage law; not a single Government regulation setting up reg onal v^age d'jfferentials, has ever been passed by any stat' dominated by Republican public opinion, or by any Repub'ican ad ministration at Washnigton. These things of which "n Courier and NV'. Rice complain oro of importance to us. They can not be condoned, overlooked, or forgotten. Our first poncom must ever be for the preservation of the basis guarantees of our civil equality before the law, and our right to fair consideration in al. the pursuits of hapiness. It must still remain for the great masses of colored voters t' decide by the ivrotes whether th' guarantees written into the Fed eral Constitution by he Repub lics! Party shall be preserved by that party or whether will sup port that ancient opposition sought to abregate and destroy them. In all I have written, it is as a citizen of the RopubLc, deeply and seriously concerned with its institutions, and wish its Notion al oconomy preserved, and its Jesting along progressive lines as sured, for what concerns the fu ture of other Americans is of deep concern to them also. -0O0-— WAV.V.V.V.V.V.V.W.W Duffy Pharmacv We CROP nnd T A VV' CTPFTTO PRESCRIPTIONS I DO YOU WANT I Stop Worrying! Do You Need • New 8Urtf I Write Me Today Information Free. * M. WILLIAMS, DEPT. 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