KLAN VICTIMS AND GEORGIA
PEONS LAY PROBLEMS BE
FORE DEPT. OF JUSTICE
Washington, March 25 In Wash
ington this week are victims of
brutal treatment by the Ku Klux
Klan in South Carolina and two es
caped Negro farm workers from
a Georgia peonage farm who were
held in bondage for more than ten
years.
They were brought here by the
National Negro Congress for the
purpose of presenting their com
plaints to officials of the United
States Department of Justice. An
appointment for them is scheduled
for sometime during the coming
week with Assistant Attorney Gen
eral O. John Rogge.
At a meeting held here Tuesday
of this week, at which Congressman
Vito Marehantonio, president of
the International Labor Defense,
presided, the witnesses who came to
Washington told a tragic story of
brutal terror and semi-slave condi
tions in South Carolina and Geor
gia.
One witness, Will Fleming, the
father of ten children, told a horror
stricken audience of Washington
citizens, that he had been chained
in his cabin at night to prevent his
escape from a peonage farm in Og
lethrope County, Georgia. Te test
ified before the audience that he
and his wife and his children had
all been forced to work on the plan
tation during a period of some 25
years and that in that whole period
the family earnings for any one had
never been more than $10.00.
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A high point in the testimony be
fore the audience was reached when
a southern white woman told the
story of how the Klan in South
Carolina had left a disabled Negro
war veteran naked on her front
porch at night after he had been
beaten by the Klan nearly to death.
John P. Davis, national secret
ary of the Congress, in a statement
to the press following the meeting
lashed out vigorously at what he
termed the “gross negligence of the
Attorney General of the United
States in refusing to bring instant
federal prosecution in these flag
rant cases of violations of the fed
eral statutes on peonage and night
riding.”
The Congress official declared,
"The Attorney General of the Uni
ted States may not escape the re
sponsibility for having failed even
to investigate grave charges of
violation of federal law brought be
fore the Department of Justice by
many indiivduals and organizations
involved in these cases. In the
Georgia peonage cases, despite the
sworn affidavits of numerous Ne
gro peons who escaped from a Geo
rgia plantation to Chicago, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
has refused to conduct an inquiry
into the facts and has informed
the organization presenting the in
formation to them that the case is
closed. In the South Carolina cas
es, the Civil Liberties Unit of the
Department of Justice has declar
ed that there was in most of the
cases no federal jurisdiction and
that they could not act. But in
oth^r cases where the head of the
Civil Liberties Unit, Mr. Harry
Schweinhaut, admitted jurisdiction
the Department of Justice has re
fused even to investigate. In the
latter case involving a reign of
terror b the KKK. against Negro
children at an NY A. camp in Lex
ington County, South Carolina, the
Department of Justice has refused
to act.
“We hare brought these witness
es to Washington,” said Mr. Davis
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“to keep them here until responsi
ble officials of the Department of
Justice are willing to take enough
of their valuable time to hear the
stories of terror and discrimina
tion against Negro Americans
which these witnesses have to tell.
So far Department officials have
not been as eoperative as they
might in making themselves avail
able to hear these stories, even
though they know that maintenance
of the witnesses here is costing $40
a day. Our request for an inter
view with the Attorney General
was refused, perhaps because he is
too busy trying to become elected
President of the United States. We
stated to Department of Justice of
ficials that we would be willing to
present our case to Mr. Rogge, but
even here there has been unneces
sary delay. However, we are de
teremined not to let the witnesses
leave Washington until an official
of the Department of Justice, who
can speak with full authority for
the Department and the Attorney
General, gives us a hearing.”
We Want Dewey
For President
Because—
By his ability and courage and
his faculty of surrounding himself
with competent assistants, Dewey
won nation-wide attention through
! his campaign against rackets and
! political corruption in New York,
j Because—
| He is America at her best—
I clean, strong, courageous, hopeful
and able.
Because—
He belongs to the generation
which will have to correct today’s
mistakes and solve tomorrow’s
problems.
Because—
His stout heart and fresh cour
age will enable him to carry ef
fectively the heavy burdens of the
nation’s highest office.
Because—
He is able to state the case
against the New Deal in convinc
ing terms and to show up the
New Deal’s defeatist policies as
they affect everybody.
Because—
He is quick to root out misuse of
public funds and public authority.
Because—
His plurality in 1937 when he
was elected district attorney and
La Guardia was elected Mayor, was
20 per cent greater than La Guar
dia’s thus demonstrating that he
can get the support of voters in
great cities — voters who usually
support Democratic candidates.
Because—
He received more votes as Ke
publican candidate for Governor in
1938 than any Republican Presiden
tial candidate ever received in New
York State.
Because—
He, more surely than any other
Republican candidate, can carry
New York State.
Because—
He does not trust to luck,—in
stead he weighs each factor care
fully, reaches his decision, then
drives unhesitatingly ahead.
Because—
He would re-create the Cabinet
form of government and by team
work with able department heads
give the nation a balanced admin
istration.
Because—
He picks good assistants, gives
them authority and responsibility
and public credit for successful
performance of duties.
Because—
He is an able administrator as
shown by the efficient way he runs
one of the largest public legal
offices in the country with a staff
of 85 lawyers and a total office
staff of 250 men and women.
Because—
His experience during the past
ten years has given him a clear
insight into and a broad knowledge
of every important line of human
endeavor such as only one man
in a million gets in a long life time.
Because—
'
He comes from a small town in
the Middle West where he learned
reverence for American institu
tions and the American way of
life.
Because—
He is a Republican born and
bred; the son of a Republican edi
tor, the grandson of George Martin
Dewey, Sr., a founder of the Re
publican party.
Because—
He can win the election and in
winning enable the Republican
party of today to meet its chal
lenge as successfully as the Repub
lican party of his grandfather’s day
helped Lincoln meet the challenge
to the American form of govern
ment.
Thomas E. Dewey says . . .
“We in America have made up
our minds. If there is one thing
upon which we are all agreed, it
is that we shall send no American
to die on the battlefields of
Europe.”
* * *
“Only a new broom can sweep
clean the budgetary litter of the
New Deal’.’
• * *
“We can and will again have a
government which keeps the faith.
We will keep faith with the needs
of every man on relief. And in a
larger sense we will keep the faith
so that he may again recover his
American birthright— an oppor
tunity to earn his livelihood in a
proper place among his fellow
men.’
* * *
“If any business man violates
the law, name him, indict him, con
vict him, fine him, jail him. But
stop bringing the whole of a group i
into disrepute and discouragement.
Stop punishing the innocent and
the guilty alike.”
* * *
“What we need is to be shown
that the climb back up the hard
road toward solvency has begun.
Show it."
* * *
“After seven years of harrowing
the country the New Deal has not
yet scratched the surface of the
farm problem.” . . . “In working
toward a solution, I believe govern- ]
ment must first seek the advice of
the farmers rather than the ad
vice of cloistered theorists." . . .
“Politiculture has triumphed over
agriculture."
* * *
“I say to you that both capital
and labor want work, that both
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get exactly nowhere tolling lies
and libels about one another.”
DEWEY’S FARM
PROGRAM HAILED
Favorable reaction rising often
to the most enthusiastic applause
in both agricultural states and in
dustrial centers has followed |
Thomas E. Dewey’s announcement,
of his eight-point farm program j
in his address at Lincoln, Neb., in
early March.
I Measured by editorial expres
j sions, Mr. Dewey, leading candi
| date for the Republican presiden
' tial nomination, has laid down a
series of suggestions on which
town and country can at late unite.
Along with the attractiveness of
the program, many commentators
found occasion for praise in the
candor with which it was pre
sented.
“Dewey’s Best Speech,”’ said a
Sioux Cty (Iowa) Tribune head
line. "Thus speaks a man of ac
tion,” declared the Renville Minn.,
Star Farmer. The latter paper
found “works, not theory,” to be
Mr. Dewey’s method and asserted
that a Dewey Administration with
a sympathetic Congress would go
far in “repairing the oss due to
New Deal bungling,” and putting
“agriculture, our nation’s greatest
industry, on the road to prosperity,
the balance of the nation with it.’
The Rockford (111.) Star headed
its comment, “Sense, Not Pana
ceas,” while the Topeka (Kans.)
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Journal observed: “There is punch
in Mr. Dewey's speeches. His
statement snap and crackle. He
finds the tender spots and hits
hard. That is why the New Deal
fears him more than it does any
other Republican candidate at this
time.” The Johnstown (Pa.) Tri
bune thought it evident that Mr.
Dewey “understood what he was
talking about,” and added: “Thom
as E. Dewey grows in political
stature as the pre-convention cam
paign advances.”
Similarity of viewpoint appear
ed in the opinions of the Baltimore
Sun and the Detroit Free Press.
The Sun pointed out that Dewey
did not slight the need of business
prosperity in a program of farm
parity. “In his approach to the
farm problem," it continued, “he
thus seems aware of one of the
New Deal’s gravest errors." The
Free Press felt that “Thomas E.
Dewey hit the nail on the head,
when he said that any plan to get
American agriculture back on its
feet is bound to fail unless it is a
part of a larger program to get
the whole national economy back
on its feet.”
The New York Herald Tribune
registered the same point: “The
candidate for the Republican Presi
dents nomination is putting his
finger on the chief weakness of the
New Deal ‘farm policy’ when he
declares: :‘We cannot have a pros
perous agriculture amid a prostrate
America.’ ”
In Chicago, the Tribune judged
that Dewey proved his statement
that “politiculture has triumphed
over agriculture” under the New
Deal. It continued: “Mr. Dewey is
proving in his successive speeches
that his extraordinary record in
the courts is no accident. His talent
for analyzing and simplifying com
plicated material is of a high or
der; his ability to discover the es
sential weakness Jn his opponent’s
armour, and without tiring his au
dience with repitition, to attack the
weak point, is astonishing.”
The Salt Lake City Tribune felt
that the people of Utah “are par
tial to doers” and said many ol
both parties were inclined to look
upon Mr. Dewey as the kind of :i
leader they had been seeking. The
Anderson (Ind.) Herald saws
“words of wisdom” in his asser
tion that “government must first
seek the advice of farmers rather
than ‘cloistered theorists,’ and then
act on that advice.” “Dewey is No
Quack-Salver,” declared the Wat
erbury (Conn.) American, and
D“ewey Is Alert,” summarized
the Savannah (Ga.) Press. The
latter found he “is setting a hot
pace” and asserted that “the New
Yorker seems to be the best cam
paigner of the GOP side of politics
at the moment.”
“He left a peasant impression in
Nebraska,” said the Nebraska
State Journal of Lincoln. “He is
quick at repartee. His eyes twinkle
as he parries impertinent ques
tions. He has magnetism and a
smile that does not appear to be
forced. He is in excellent physical
health, and with that has youth.
Even those who are supporting
other candidates for the Republican
nomination were pleased with
Dewey. They found no fault.”
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SON'S LATEST PICTURE
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London, England, March 28—
(ANP)— The popularity of Paul
Robeson in the British Isles rose
to new heights last week when a
radio version of his latest picture
"The Proud Valley" was given a
highly successful broadcast from
Wales. The broadcast from Wales
was noteworthy because seldom is
a version of a new British film
presented over the air.
"The Proud Valley" deals with
the homes and hearts of a Welsh
colliery valley and Robeson plays
the part of David Goliath, an un
employed Negro stoker.
Paul Robeson was not u stranger
in this life of colliers and choirs,
for he had sung at Mountain Ash,
Neath, Swanson, and Cardiff, and
on each occasion had felt at home
among the Welsh people. After
one great concert at Neath he had
been presented with a volume of
‘Songs of Wales,’ and in speech of
thanks had told the audience that
he looked forward to the day when
he would be privileged to sing a
Welsh folk song in an important
| British film. The opportunity has
' come in The Proud Valley, a film
in which he sings, among other
songs, ‘AH Through the Night’ and
the Welsh national anthem.
Wales was combed for actors to
support Robeson. The players
finally selected were drawn from
the ranks of South Wales artists,
and one of them, Rachel Thomas,
has already been hailed by critics
as a sensational film discovery.
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Each time she sang the Welsh
hymn of prayer, ‘Yny Dyfroedd’,
Robeson was moved to tears, and
as the film progressed he declared
that he had never played opposite
a finer natural actress. “If I am
privileged to see this film a thou
sand times,” he said to her on leav
ing for America, “I shall melt into
tears when I watch the pit-head
scene and hear your song.”
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