Randolph discusses March
for FEP€ before Huge Throng
New York City (WDL) —
Before an enthusiastic crowd
of 17,000 at New York’s Mad
ison Square Carden, A. Phil
ip Randolph, International
President of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters and
ro-rhairman of the National
(ibnncil for a Permanent
FEPC, railed on members of
minority and other groups
lo stage a silent, non-violent
march down the streets of the
nation's Capital if Congres
fails by June 30th to enact
fair employment practices
legislation.
Warning against words of
bate towards the Bilbos and
that the fight for a perman
ent Fair Employment Pracuc
es Commission was ‘‘morally
stronger now than it was be
fore the poll tar Southern
senators conducted their iV
(lay fascist filibuster, striking
down majority rule.”
Secretary of Labor Lew's
3. SehweHenbaoh sounder,
the krynote of the rally when
be stated the fight for the
FEPC bill had just begun,
that it would eventually win.
because it was right, decent
and American.
“I rome here tonight eloth
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ed with full authority to
speak on hehalf of President
Truman,” the Labor Secre
tary declared. “I come vitn
authority to tell you that he
is just as determined as was,
his predecessor that this fair
employment practices prsne
ipjle he enacted into law' by
tne Congress of the United
States. And he intends to
carry on that fight just as did
Franklin 1). Roosevelt.*’
Other speakers at the rai!y
which was chaired by Max
Delson, Workers Defense
League National Counsel anu
chairman of the Legal Com
mittee which drafted the FE
PC bill, were: Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt; George K. Ilunton
for the Catholic Interracial
| Council; Rabbi William J.
Roscnhlum; Roy Wilkins for
the NAACP; Senator W ayne
Morse of Oregon and Senator
Dennis Chavez of New Mexi
co, two of the principal Se;- ]
atorial sponsors of the legis
lation; Fiorello H. LaGuard.a
James B. Carey of the CIO,1
and Matthew W oil of the AF
L. Mr. W oil read a message
from W illiam Green, Presi
f lent of the AFL, who said:
“Those who conducted the
filibuster in the Senate in op
position to the FEPC bill act
ually served to strengthen the,
fixed determination of the
friends of this legislation to]
fight on.”
Speaking tor tne CIO, Mr.
Carey declared that discrimin
ation meant lower wages, and
compared the General Motors
strike with the battle for FC
PC, as struggles workingmen
could not afford to lose.
Stars of stage and screen
who participated in a dram
atic skit portraying the con
tinuous fight against bigolr;.
and job discrimination were.
Helen Hayes, Canada Lee,
Muriel Rahn, Orson Welies,
Katherine Dunham, Jane
White and John Carradine.
The rally was under the
auspices of the New York |
Council for a Permanent FE
PC.
NMU PROTEST TERROR
REIGN, LYNCHINGS OVER
NEGROES IN TENNESSEE
March 1—New York Pro
testing the lvnehings and
reign of terror against the
Negro people of Freeport and
Columbia, Tennessee, 2,000
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RIOTING IN CALCUTTA
CALCUTTA, INDIA — RADIO
PHOTO—This blazing jeep was a
casualty in the rioting in Calcutta last
week when 500 Indian seamen started
a strike in sympathy with the revolt
of Indian seamen in Bombay. The
jeep is shown after rioters had ,set it
afire on Chittaranjan Avenue in Cal
cutta. In Bombay, heavily armed
British Tommies and Indian troops
went into action when the seamen,
who had been staging a hunger strike
in teh Castle barracks, attempted to
break out into the streets from which
i they had been banned after demon
I strations earlier. The seamen re
sponded with rifle and machine gun
fire.
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DESTRUCTION OF SUPPLIES
IN PACIFIC
WASHINGTON, D. C.—SOUND
PHOTO — Pictures showing wide
spread destruction of Army-Navy sup
plies in the Pacific brought a prompt
demand for a Congressional investiga
tion. The photos, accompanied by let
ters from servicemen overseas, were
exhibited to the House Executive Ex
penditures Comm., by Rep. Henry J.
Latham (R) N. Y. The photos showed
members of the National
Maritime l nion in a special
meeting held in the Port of
New \ork today, demanded
immediate investigation and
action against those respon
sible for these Fascist acts.
Joseph Stack, Agent ot tat
Port of New \ork, sent wires
to President Truman, At.'oi -
ney General Thomas C-ark,
Department of Justice; and
Governor McCord at Nasli
ville, Tennessee, expressing
toe seamen’s protest.
Full text of the wire to
ir '.utnc irumaii reuv.s.
“America is at t’.e era:
Is our bitterly fougk:
victory over Germany a~
Jaoan worthless? Are Fascia'
night skirts to continue tlieir
{♦resent reign of terror over
Negro citizens and veterans
with impunity? Is our Depart
ment of Justice winking its
eye at this planned terror?
W e, 2.000 seamen at soeeial
National Maritime Union
meeting, urge you to set in
high gear immediately al)
government agencies nece.~
sary to smash this Fasicis;
trend in our country. No
more Freeport, Long Island,
or Columbia. Tennessee-,
Murders, Mr. President.”
Pointing out to Governor
McCord that “Shot Gun and
Mob Rule in Columbia no:
the answer to people’s prob
'us'\ the seamen asked for
the “Arrest of the Murderer:
of two Negroes supposedly
under protection of City of
ficials of Columbia.”
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what apparently were new or service
able jeeps, trucks, sheet iron, rubber
tires, etc., dumped into the dcean oft
Caledonia and other Pacific islands.
Photo shows ten. wheel truck in the
ocean.
ONE OF 32 NEW CARDINALS
VATICAN CITY. ROME—RADIO
PHOTO — SOUNDPHOTO—In sol
emn ceremony in the Vatican Hall of
Benedictions, His Holiness Pope Pius
XII bestows the red biretta on Fran
cis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of
New York. Bestowal of the biretta on
the 32 prelates is the first insignia dis
tinctive of their new dignity.
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at R. R. Men's Club Dance
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The Railroad Mens Benevolent and
Social club presented Snookum Rus
sell and his orchestra as guest band
at the club Saturday, Feb. 23. A large
gathering of dance lovers was on
hand to dance to the sweet tunes of
Snookum and his orchestra. The dance
was given by the World War Veterans
II. A group of ambitious young men
who have just returned from the serv
ice. They are all members of the rail
road men club. Some of them are
large shareholders in the club. These
men hope to bring to their club for
their members and their guests, more
outstanding attractions and some of
the nation’s best bands. Now get your
friends together and come on out to
your club, and enjoy the comfort of
your beautiful lounge. The club is
open daily from 2 p. m. until 1 p. m.
If you are not a member, come down
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1616 Eye St.. N. W.
Continued Strikes
Raise Farmers’ Ire
LEADERS of farm organizations
here in Washington are not a
little disturbed by reports of threat
ened farm strikes in Nebraska and
Oklahoma, and the outspoken sen
timents of farmers in other sections
as a result bf the unsettled condi
tions in the labor-management field.
While some farm leaders here
declare that it is traditional that
farmers and the rural population in
the smaller towns are antagonistic
to labor, the fact is that your Home
Town Reporter finds a wide diver
gence of opinion here among the
leadership of the farm organizations.
The consensus is that the threat
ened strike of the “vigilante” group
of farmers in Nebraska is confined
to a small locale, and likely was
"engendered by influences outside
the state.” Nevertheless, farmers
everywhere are of the opinion that
the continued lack of production due
to the labor-management difficulties
is working a hardship on the rural
population in more ways than one.
The difference of opinion lies in
whether the blame should be on
Management, Labor, or Govern
ment.
One leader here expressed the
belief that at the present moment,
the rank and file of the farm popu
lation was more sympathetic to
the laboring man than to business,
with a general feeling of “a plague
on both your houses.”
But the yardstick by which this
sentiment, for or against Labor and
Management, can best be measured,
in the opinion of this writer, is by
the position taken by the three large
farm organizations with reference
to the Case bill which passed the
house by a vote of 258 to 155 and
which is now in senate committee
on education and labor, where it
likely will stay.
Grange Favors Case Bill
The Farm Bureau federation,
headed by its president, Edward A.
O'Neal, took the lead in favoring
passage of the bill, which even its
proponents say is a •‘tough” bill'on
Labor. The Farm bureau was
backed by the National Grange and
a statement from the latter organ
ization declared:
"The National Grange considers
the Case bill a sound measure de
serving the full support of all fair
minded people. We believe the bill
offers a practical approach for pro
tecting the public interest without
nenalizing either labor or industry
or in any way interfering with the
orderly settlement of industrial dis
putes.”
But the National Farmers Union
bitterly opposes the Case bill and
says that insofar as their group is
concerned they are receiving no
complaints with reference to labor
strikes.
"As a matter of fact,” a Farmers
Union spokesman said, “quite the
reverse iS true. Many Farmers
Unions near strike areas have con
tributed supplies to feed the fami
lies of strikers, and we have backed
labor pretty thoroughly.”
Insofar as any general farm strike
is concerned, there will be none.
Farmers are too practical in their
thinking to withhold from market
food for 130 million people just
because a million are on strike.
And it may very well be true that
the anger of the farmers is direct
ed more at the long indecision of
government in settling the labor dis
putes, than at either labor or man
agement, on the theory that it is
patently unfair for the government
to hold the line on farm prices and
at the same time break the line on
wages to workers and prices to
management.
Farmer Is Squeezed
It is certain that the action of the
President and his advisers in break
ing the wage line and offering in
creased prices to management to
otfset labor wage increases will be
come a part of the pattern when
revision of parity prices for farmers
comes up for action. For to raise
wages 18 per cent and to boost prices
for manufacturers comparatively,
most certainly will boost the prtces
of the supplies and equipment the
farmer must buy, such as farm ma
chinery and fertilizer. All of this
must be added to his cost of pro
duction. Besides, the things he and
his family consume will also be
more expensive.
In the meantime, the unrest in the
rural areas grows. The farmer
fears inflation, more, probably than
labor, certainly more than indus
try. Thousands of farmers felt the
force of inflation when they lost
their farms following World War I.
They saw the value of their dollar
toboggan and the price of every
thing they bought spiral high. And
they suffered as a result. They fear
a repetition of inflation, and then
bust or depression. They know that
farm prices go down fast and far,
and stay there a long time when the
tobuganning starts.
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Reds Charge Canada With Bad
Faith in Atom Row; Strive £o I
I Hold New Stabilization Line
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Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Pointing up army warnings of short food supply in reich, Germans are
| shown scouring rubbish pile behind Allied barracks in Berlin for edibles.
ATOM SPIES:
Russ Reply
Canada’s disclosure of an atom
spy ring had ticklish diplomatic
ramifications with Russia’s angry
protest against the dominion's an
nouncement of the news withdut
prior consultation with Moscow with
a view toward correcting the situ
ation.
Though admitting that the soviet
military attache had received atom
ic information from Canadians,
Moscow said the data was of a mi
nor nature and the recipient official
I had been recalled when it learned of
I his activities. It was hinted that do
I minion’s action was calculated to
I impair Russian prestige at a time
l when the Reds were advancing the
cause of independence for subject
people in the United Nations organ
ization.
In discussing the atomic informa
tion its military attache received,
Moscow declared that it consisted of
data already compiled by Russian
scientists or included in a book by
Dr. Henry Dewolfe Smyth of Amer
ica. A consultant to the army on
manufacture of the A-bomb, Smyth
detailed atomic developments from
the 1920s through the war, but omit
ted vital figures in the formula for
producing the necessary materials.
As the Canadian case developed,
pressure in this country increased
for added safeguards for protecting
America’s secret of manufacturing
the A-bomb. Declaring that more
atomic information had been di
vulged since the introduction of the
A-bomb than during actual work
on the project, army men were said
to have charged some of the leaks
to scientists’ discussions.
STABILIZATION:
New Rules
In determining wage adjustments
under the new stabilization program
formulated by the administration to
clear the hurdle for postwar pro
duction. the stabilization board will
permit pay increases within a pat
tern set for an industry, as in the
case of oil, steel and automobiles
where the figure of approximately
18 cents an hour was established.
To speed settlement of current
disputes, the new order also per
mitted employers to grant wage in
creases without prior government
approval in industries where pay
patterns have been formed, or where
i only so-called “fringe” adjustments
involving vacation and holiday pay
and shift premiums are involved
I Wherever any advances are made
| the basis for applications of higher
Reflecting increased provision
against a rainy day and potential
purchasing power, national savings
jumped 20 billion dollars in 1044 jot
a total of 142 billion, the Institute oj
Life Insurance reported. Holdings
included U.S. bonds, insurance, bank
\ deposits, postal savings and accounts
in savings and loan associations. The
142 billion dollars total exceeded
record consumer purchases in 1945
by 40 per cent.
I ceilings, however, they must be
I submitted to the stabilization board
I for an o.k.
While only firms employing eight
or less persons were exempted from
the new stabilization regulations,
government officials revealed that
other companies may alsu be ex
cluded if their wage adjustments do
not have an inflationary effect.
While Stabilization Director
Bowles admitted that the new wage
price policy constituted a "bulge”
in the line against inflation, he de
clared that there would be no big
! MEAT:
I World meat ouput in 1945, exclud
ing Asia and relatively unimportant
countries in Africa and Latin Amer
ica, totaled about 59 billion pounds,
according to the department of ag
riculture. This is a drop of 6.8 bil
lion pounds from 1944.
The reduced output in 1945 reflects
the war losses of livestock in Euro
pean areas; declining feed supplies
in many countries and unfavorable
pasture conditions.
break and ceilings would only be
increased in cases where pay ad
justments necessitated such action.
Because labor outlays make up
a relatively smaller item in such
goods and services as food, cloth
ing and rent, Bowles said, major
living costs should remain compar
atively stable. In the metal indus
tries where labor expenses are high
er, however, prices can be expect
ed to show appreciable increases.
Congressional reaction to the new
policy in congress was mixed.
House Speaker Rayburn (Dem.,
Texas) declared it was a step in
the right direction but could not De
expected to solve all our economic
problems. Rep. Case (Rep., S. D.)
said it was regrettable President
Truman had been “backed against a
wall where he thought it was neces
sary to toss collective bargaining
and freedom out of the window and
resort to totalitarian methods
again.”
EMPIRE:
Diplomatic Test
Continued, costly political rioting
in Egypt and India pointed up the
pressing problems facing postwar
British diplomacy in the preserva
tion of important military and eco
nomic outposts in the far-flung em
pire.
Led by student agitators, crying
for retirement of British troops from
strategic coastal bases and the re
joining of Sudan with the Egyptian
government, mobs stormed through
Cairo smashing windows, desecrat
ing Christian churches and attack
ing military barracks. Known for
his strong inclination to order, new
Premier Sidky Pasha, while pro
fessing sympathy with national as
pirations, threatened to use an iron
hand in restoring calm.
In India, mobs took the mutiny of
native imperial seamen as an oc
casion of wild rioting, looting shops,
burning busses and street cars and
destructive stoning. In rebelling in
a number of royal naval installa
tions, the Indian sailors charged
discrimination in demobilization and
pay allowances and fought pitched
battles with British forces seeking
to regain seized positions.
Meanwhile. Foreign Minister Bev
in told commons in a review of the
international situation: “I am not
prepared to sacrifice the British em
pire because I know that if the
British empire fell the greatest col
lection of free nations would go into
the limbo of the past. . . .”
ROME:
Church Program
Calling for international spiritual
unity, Pope Pius XII presented the
Catholic church's program for peace
during ceremonies creating 32 new
cardinals, including Francis J.
Spellman of New York, John J. Glen
non of St. Louis, Samuel A. Stritch
of Chicago and Edward Mooney of
Detroit.
Stating that only through spiritu
al unity tying men together in mu
tual respect could mankind be ex
pected to resolve its common prob
lems, the Holy Father decried po
litical imperialism which aimed to
ward the seizure of material riches
and human oppression.
Vigorously denying that the Cath
olic church sought temporal sov
ereignty, the pope said that its pro
gram called for spiritual unity, with
dignification of the individual the
basis for preserving his liberty and
advancing the welfare of state and
family. Pointing to the world-wide
representation in the college of car
dinals, the pontiff declared it re
flected the aspirations of all peoples.
War Plants for Sale
Over 500 of a total of 628 govern
ment-owned industrial plants em
ployed by the war department have
been declared surplus and have
been or are in the process of be
ing disposed of, it was revealed.
Of the 504 plants, 439. represent
ing an investment of approximately
$3,815,000,000, have been formally
released to the War Assets corpora
tion for sale, lease, or other dispu- <
sition.
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GERMANY:
Private Relief
A ' 'I
As a result of President Truman's
approval of the establishment of a
private relief council composed of
religious, labor and social agencies,
needy Germans may receive up to
2,000 tons of - pplies each month if
shipping and port facilities allow.
Set up after heavy pressure had
been exerted for the alleviation of
starvation and privation in the con
quered Reich out of humanitarian
considerations, the new council,
known as CRALOG. will include the
American Friends Service commit
tee, Brethren Service committee,
Christian Science War Relief com
mittee, Church Committee on Over
seas Relief and Reconstruction, In
ternational Rescue and Relief com
mittee, Labor League for Human
Rights (AFL), Lutheran World Re
lief, Inc., Mennonite Central com
mittee, National CIO Community
Service committee, Unitarian Serv
ice committee, and the National
Catholic Welfare conference.
With the U. S. army in over-all
control, and a CRALOG representa
tive checking on distribution and
surveying needs shipments will in
clude evaporated and powdered
milk, sugar, fats, clothing and shoes
and medical supplies.
Relief Racket
With the shipment of private re
lief packages to European countries
outside of Germany growing into a
big business, the OPA moved against
fraudulent operators in New York
City accused of overcharging clients
for food deliveries to Europe.
Begun four months ago when gov
ernment officials noticed the dis
crepancies between the prices and
contents of packages, investigations
reportedly disclosed that cheaper
foods were being substituted, items
listed were not enclosed, excess
postage was charged and insurance
fees were asked on uninsured par
cels.
With several hundred companies
already engaged in the business,
firms are now shipping packages at
the rate of 3,500,000 a year.
Connie Still Bosses A’s
As the major league baseball
teams, strengthened once again by
return of their stars from the serv
ice, opened spring training in the
sunny southern and western climes,
83-year-old Connie Mack was on
hand to greet his Philadelphia Ath
letics at West Palm Beach, Fla.
Manager of the A’s since 1901 and
winner of nine American League
pennants and five World Series, the
Connie Mack greets A’s.
I
soft-spoken, balding diamond wiz
ard gathered a group of hustling
youngsters about him in another ef
fort to develop a championship club
from promising raw material. So
had he built up his great teams of
1EH0-'14 and 1929-’31 and so he
would try again, leaving the other
clubs to build around expensive
stars purchased around the circuit.
As the A's settled down to work,
interest centered on 6-foot 4-inch
Dick Fowler, who pitched a no-hit
ter against the Browns last year,
and F.ddie Collins Jr., a Yale grad
uate and son of the former great
second baseman who paced Mack’s
famed 1910-’14 aggregation.
VETS:
Unemployment High
Speaking at a meeting of the
American Legion's national employ
ment committee, designed to spur
community services for vet hiring,
Gen. Omar Bradley declared that
13 per cent of the G.I.s in the labor
force remained jobless, with 1,035,
100 receiving unemployment com
pensation in the early part of Feb
ruary
The relatively high percentage of
unemployed vets contrasted with
the general rate, Bradley said, stat
ing that only 5 per cent of males in
the labor force were out of work,
und the total jobless approximated
l per cent.
Employment of disabled vets has
similarly lagged. Bradley said, with
the hiring of handicapped G.I.s
.hree times behind applications in
September and even lower in De
cember and January.
WHEAT:
When flour mills, under new
vheat conservation measures, begin
milling flour containing 80 per cent
)f the wheat, this country still will
iave a lower milling percentage
than most of the rest of the world,
he department of agriculture re
uorted.
In practically all of Europe and
Russia, wheat flnur extraction rates
or bread are 85 to 90 per cent, ac
:ording to reports received by the
Jffice of Foreign Agricultural Re
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