NEGROES DEVELOPING
RESISTANCE TO ANTI.
DEMOCRATIC FORCES
NC\Y YORK—“The verr hist
ended ’-as been cm of the grim
est -e-’-" :n the history of the
National Association for the Ad
vance ient of f o'o' d People,'’ de
clared Walter White. “Negroes i
America have been disillusioned
ever the wvp -r ’- re' imrs brutal
ity and official rercr oion from all
of the f’ nboyant promises of
post '— ■ detnoc r— m-d decen
cy. Yet 'here has bee:1 •
cf good vs’1 a bur ibs - eg" of *
Ki t-nee - lice has reflected it'-e'f
jr* tT>p growth of the
Association i" ■ *;e*-v rertion of the
co-n* 7Vt t' ’ ■ - o’ er pheT
omei?I nor even la iiing, for the
'"fm '• ■ "■ cfccc 'icv Q.n^
fairness if dove’oping rmorg all
of peorlf rf go - --’rt, end p"
peciar. - ro»on~ f'" colored peo- i
pies of t’-“ - -r’ ’ ” -
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NNAACP ' o-r-al Meeting on Jan
liarv f> i- ■" - f 'b’tnrhini. ef Ney
Yor’-’" rr- -dom Poure, eontirv
ed. "T’~ o rrt>e civilized world was
shocked n 1 946, by re-orts of the
ultra--— ■ — of * i-ic>-r-—f>r- lynch
ing mobs —’ o to-trred a id mutil
ated Neg— 001 end even worn!"'.
It listened -o>-t "nbelieving, t
repoM® r>* b’o'-'-toreh killing and
eyc-g'i,rrt--"r o' Negro veterans
freshlv ^-'-ned from v war to end
• torture and racial exterminat-on.
But it must be encouraged too
when it watches the Tame of re
s'®tance fanned into full life as
Negroes "nd their democracy-lov
ing friends fh’-ht the Bilbos and
Rankins stand their ground at
t,he reg'~t-at'on booths defy
organwation" like the Columbian®
.and sit it out in ’-nsegregated
housing protects in defiance of the
howl'ng mobs. The NAACP vic
tory at Columbia. Tennessee: the
historic victory over Jim-crow
seating in interstate bus travel;
t'-£x unprecedented spectacle of
250 Negro veteran® called out bv
NAA.CP branches in Mississippi,
atari ,;r-T ii the coustroori at the
Bilbo h-agree, a-ixioi'® to sneak
against the hate-filled champion of
lynching: the white students jam
ming fi-e Au~tin. Texas courtroom
shoulder to -hou’der with Negroes,
giving encouragement to the As
sociation’s lawyers in their suit
to force the crniver®ity of Texas to
adm't onalified Neero students:
all of this is a part of the flame.”
The NAACP secretary signifi- '
cantlv focused attention on the
political scene with specific re
ference to the far reaching im- '
parlance of the Association's Su
preme Court victory in the Texas
primates issue, which gave the
right to vote to Southern Negroes
for the first time. “The new Con
gress 1 • viewed with hope." de
clared Mr. White. “.but Ne- '
groes will continue to view it with
a large degree of skepticism. In 17
northern and border states with a
combined electoral vote of 281, it
should be remembered by both ma- ,
jor parties, the Negro vote could .
swing the alance of power. With |
Negroes going to the polls in the
south, their votes must now be
considered a decisive factor in any
election. The Republicans now in
power have just two years in
which to prove to Negroes that j
they should remain in power."
The following are some of the '
highlights of the Association’s I
work in 1946.
Nineteen rorty-six was a year
of tremendous growth for the As
sociation. One hundred eighty-four
new branches, sixty-four nev/
yoyuth councils and college chap
ters were chartered. The Associa
tion also set up in the national of
fice a department of public rela
tions, educational department, and
made provisions for a church se
cretary. The staff of the Washing
ton Bureau was augmented by
the employment of a Labor Secre
tary. The thirty-first award of the
Spingarn medal was made to
Thurgood Marshall, Special Coun
sel of the Association. (See cita
tion in July, 19*6, Bulletin.)
Perhaps the most outstanding
aspect of the Legal Department’s .
work was the winning of the
Irene Morgan vs. Commonwealth
of Virginia case which established
the liegal principle that state se
gregation laws do not apply to
interstate passengers on inter
stat? carriers. The Legal Depart
ment arranged for and direccted
the defense of some twenty-seven
Negroes charged with crimes
varying from attempted murder
to illegal possession of weapons,
as a result of the alleged riot in
Columbia. Tennessee. Twenty
three of the defendants were clear"
ed on all charges through the As
sociation’s legal efforts. '• •
In the field of education, the LCJ
gal Department handled four uni- |
versitv cases involving the right
of Negroes to enter graduate
schools in those states where Se- ;
gregation io practiced and got pro-*
visions mad; for No?.roes in the
graduate schools. These cases
were instituted in Texas, Okla
homa. and two in Louisiana.
The Legal Department was suc
cessful in reducing the periods j
confinement levied against former
Negro servicemen by court-mar- j
tial courts in a total of more than .
2100 years, and has had at least !
eight - death sentences commuted. ]
Hundreds of smaller cases were I
handled, including police brutal- ]
ity. extradition, housing, and em
pioyment problems. The Veterans’
Bureau in Washington has served ,
as counsel for similar members of
the armed services who received j
other than honorable discharges ;
before the various boards of re
view.. They have gathered all laws
and data on legislation relative to
veterans, examining the same for ,
the purpose of determining whe- I
ther this legislation was discri- !
minatory. It has carefully persued
the activities of the Veterans’ Ad
ministration and is fighting for
the eradication of segregation and
discrimination based on race in
this, the largest government agen
cy in existence today. It has urg
ed in integration of Negroes into
its own facilities and provided for
federal legislation for the aid of
veterans. It is fighting discrimin
ation in the armed services and
pressing foV full integration of
IT "moes into these services.
Some of the main features of
the Association’s work in 1946
included the formation cf the Na
tional Committee for Justice in
Columbia. Tennessee, setting up of
the National Committee on Mob
\ it! nee, which included a visit
‘n 1 ilent Truman and the s'ub
eoci’ent Civil Rights Committee
appointed by the Fre
t. The Secretary served on
f'-r committee to study the UAVV
'' f ' err' , aiding i.
the hearth*’* foefcre the Senate
committee to determme the fit -
n--n of Gov. William H. Hastle'to
serve in the capacity in the Vir
gin Inlands, and served on the At
terp - v General’s panel on juvenile
c.e’i lourncy. Tire Association pre
par'd detailed information p-e
mr.ted befor-* the Senate commit*
conee?nirsr fVo.rtnr F*’ho. It
v'goroucly opposed the distorted
f ts as set forth in the Mcadci
rep - vt concerning the activities of
Negro troops in the European'
■Vrnrv of Occimntion. It suer sored
the drafting of a new anti-lvnch
ing bill and a draft of a general
hJu for the protectmp of C’vil
v’ghts for citizens. It posted a
SI 0 000 reward in the matter of
the qusdraple Georgia lynchings.
Labor Department
Efforts of the NAACP to pre
vent discrimination in the oper- ,
ation of the employment service
after its return t» the states were (
onlined in the first Annual Hc
por of the NAACP’s Labor De
partment.
The report mentions that on j
September 11 Secretary Schwel
iprhach of the U. S. Department of
Labor agreed, for the first time, in
a meeting of organizations call
ed at the suggestion of the NAACP
that segregation in the District
of Cohimia USES would be abol
ished. The NAACP also asked gov
ernors of a number of states to
ad-m* policiv’ of no discrimina
tion. The writing concludes, how
ever. that the return of federal
oont-oi is necessary if a real at
tack is to be made on discrimina
tion.
Citing the return of pre-war dis
criminatory practices in industry,
the report emphasizes the need
for federal and state EPC legisla
tion. Also on the legislative front
the department states that there
will be vigorous NAACP opposi
tion to any “attempts in Congress
to saddle on the American work
ing people legislation designed to
curb the effectiveness of trade !
unions.” «
Calling attention to specific |
cases of government job discri
mination in Germany, Japan, and
the nited States. the document
states, “It is safe to say that
wherever our flag flies over a
Federal esablishment, there also
do we find job discrimination.'' [
NAACP branches are currently
playing an important role in at
tacking job discrimination in con
struction employment, the tele
phone, and textile industries, the
report points out. ,
Washington Bureau
Lesne Ferry reporting tor tne '
Washington Brueau, said that dur-'
ing the year 1946, in addition to
working for the passage of legis- •
lation such as FEPC, Anti-Lylieh- j
ing and Anti-Poll Tax Bills, the
NAACP gave increasing attention |
and support to measures of a non- j
racial character. The Cancer Con- j
trol Bill Which would have appro- 1
priated $100,000,000 to edmbat
that dread disease, the Atomic En
ergy Act which set up a civilian
committee to develop and control
atomic energy, and the continua
tion of effective price controls to
keep down the cost of living were
cited by Perry as some of the
bills having no racial implications
which the NAACP supported.
‘‘Through the alertness of the
NAACP” the report continued, “a
non - discrimination amendment
was introduced to the National
School Lunch Act, approved by
the President on June 4. 1946. The
amendment was offered on the
floor by Congressman Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr., (D. N.Y.) at
the request of the NAACP and
assures that colored children in
the south will participate equally
in the free school lunch program.’
Mr. Perry said that the efforts
of the NAACP in Congress had
contributed to the defeat in 1946
of legislation in Congress had con
tributed to the defeat in 1946 of
legislation in Congress to establish
peacetime military conscription.
He said that the Association
would renew that fight in 1947 un
less the Peace-time Military
Tiaihlrt? Bill which is introduced
assures that there will be no ra
cial segregation or discrimination
in the armed forces.
Special Research •
W. E. B. DuBois, Director of !
Special Research, NAACP, re
ports that the main literary work
of the department has been the
writing and preparation of a man" j
uscript of the book, ‘‘The World
and Africa,” which Viking Press j
will publish in January. 1947. Dr. j
DuBois and his staff edited and j
revised the Prefatory Volume of !
the Encyclopedia of the Negro. In !
addition to writing and editing the !
introduction and summary of a :
petition to the nited Nations on J
the plight of the Negro minority i
in the United States. Dr. DuBois j
wrote a great many articles for j
national magazines, and newspa- j
oers and has delivered scores of !
lectures and radio talks chiefly on j
the question of colonies and par- j
ticularly colonies in Africa.
Veterans Bureau
The NAACP's Veterans Bureau,
in its first year of operation, un
der the directorship of Jesse O.
Dedmon, geared its program in
such a way as to be of maximum
service to minority veterans, and
Negro veterans in particular. It
concerned itself, first, with the re
habilitation of veterans; next, the
hospital and medical service, and
third, the policy of the armed for
ces with regard to improving the
position and hastening the full in
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tegration of Negro manpower and
woman power in the regular es
tablishments of the Army, Navy
and Marine Corps, in the reserves
of the several service, and in the
National Guard. The Bureau has
served as an information service
fo" thousands of Negro veterans
publishing and distributing a Vet
erans Handbook for the guidance
of Negro veterans. It has aided in
receiving educational benefits,
pensions, and other benefits pro
vided by law. It has been instru
mental in gaining the employment
of Negroes in the Veterans Ad
ministration. and urges branches
to press for maintenance of vet
erans right in obtaining jobs and
benefits in their localities, and to
see that Negro representatives sit
on local housing committees in or
der that veterans may receive the
necessary housing as provided for
in Federal 1 , Vsla'i'on. The De
partment has fought for the em
ployment of Negroes on the re
cently established Veterans Em
ployment Service. The Veterans
Bureau testified before the Gillam
Committee, which issued the Gil
lam Report, making some strides
towards integration of the Negro
into the Army, but imposing a
quota system based on the Negro
population percentage. The Secre
tary of Veterans Affairs reports
that, modest as they were the
Army has failed to carry out tiie
recommendations of the Gillam
Report. The NAACP also protest
ed the War Department’s policy
refusing enlistments to Negroes
unless they had a high school edu'
cation and received a higher mark
on intelligence tests than other
accepted enlistees. Studies and
canvasses were made of Negro in
tegration in other branches of the
service, with discouraging results. {
all pointing to a policy of discri
mination against Negro service- !
ment. The Secretary challenged
smear of Negro troops' records 1
and interested the press in aues
tiouing the veracity of the Meader
Report (Jti AMG in Germany. In
addition, the Bureau has fought
for the admission of Negroes into
all Veterans facilities, and has
tried to stop thf* erection of an
all-Negro hospital ifi .Tennessee.
Youth
Active units of Youth .Councils
—267 (59 newly chartered.)
College Chapters— 47 (about .8
are newj.
Outstanding progress on White
campuses in the North, e.g. t
nell nivresitv. University of Wis
consin and Columbia college chap- 1
ters.
There are now youth groups in
*hirtv-*even states' end r>. c. Total
membershin is about 25.000.
Most active in fight for civil
rights, and against discrimination
in restaurants, skating rinks, thea
tres. and other public places, and
particularly in the South, youth
were active in registration and
voting campaigns and against po
lice brutality. Also worked for
better educational opportunities
for Negroes.
Crisis Magazine
The Crisis, offical monthly ma
gazine of the NAACP, reported
a gross income of $63,114 for the
year, with an average monthly
circulation of 57,000 copies.
Branches
The NAACP continued its phen
omenal growth in 1946 by the es
tablishment of 179 branches, more
than have ever been organized in
any one year and the effectuation
on a loval level in these new com- }
munities of action programs to |
comat segregation and discrimina' |
tion. The great streTTJHh of the (
Association lies In its life line of
branches operated chiefly by vol
unteers In most communities. In
larger cities where the problems
of industrial life and race conflict
are more acute, not only has there j
been a trend toward increased J
membership in the NAACP but i
branches in larger communities j
have set up full-time operating
offices with Executive Secretaries.
These professional workers have |
materially aided development of |
the Association. All ranches in |
NAACP have supplied the Nation'
al office with effective media \
through which the voice of 535 000 j
members could be heard effec- ;
tively in local communities,
through state organizations, and
providing implementation of Na
tional program.
The department sought to guide
branches in carrying out Asso
ciation program through direc
tives. action letters, suggestions
for programs, etc.
Political Action: In September
the Association adopted a revised
political action program in accord
ance with resolution of the Cin
cinnati Convention. calling for
non-endorsement of candidates and
urging branches to examine non-1
partisan problems affecting local <
or state issues and authorizing!
them to give active support to <
Relea^d bv Calvin s New* Service
Between 1.000.COO and 2,033,000 agricultural workers
will drop out in the next five or six years from the southern
labor market because of mechanization in the processes of
producing cotton, sugar and rice.
This isn't my forecast.? It's the forecast of Ewan Ciague,
’director of the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statis
tics. Mr. C ague has his fingertips on more facts concern
ing empioymetn and production than anyone else in the
ic? entry. He ought to know.
And what does Mr. Ciague propose doing about this gigan
tic tragedy that Is about to strike the American workers? I
hope you listen to this carefully because Mr. Claglie’s answer
is as eloquent a testimonial as I have ever heard tot the cal
lousness of the so-eailed “liberal” mind.
Air. Ciague was speaikng before the American Public Wel
fare Association at Baltimore, Maryland. He said that the
not few years would not only see teehnoh fgieal unemploy
ment soar in the South—particularly among Negroes—hut
that improved technology would also cut a swath of jobs in
urban industry ail over the eoutnry. Then he added:
“This should mean a widely increased unemployment in
surance and extension of such insurance to agrieultural work
trs. • * *:a insurance is one of the mast constructive sys
tems 1 know of to make free enterprise work
Some fo'ks may think I’m a little hard on Mr. Ciague, that
Mr. Clag •• i a real liberal-minded gentleman w ho wants to
see to it that when workers are kicked out of their jcjbs by
the “iron bouncer” they don’t starve. Well, in my own de
fense I want to say that 1 don’t like to see workers starve ei
ther. The difference between Mr. Ciague and me is this:
Mr. Ciague accepts a new wave of technological unemploy
ment as inevitable, like the recurrence of the seasons. I
don't. I hold that technological unemployment is inevitable
ONLY IF WE KEEP THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM. If we
were to get rid of the capitalist system, then instead of kick
in" workers out of their «ol»s the new machines would kick
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hours out of the working day I
Please note that Mr. Ciague talks about feeding technolo
gically displaced workers and making “free enterprise" work
all in one breath. Now to the capitalists, who are the bene
ficiaries of this system, that probably makes sense. But
how much sense does it make to wage workers To the pro
pie who risk the fate of being tossed on the industrial scrap
heap? Does it make sense to yew?
We've come a long way to the year and a halt silica \ -J
Dav. Then the politicians were still talking about ‘"full em
ployment” and “60,000.000 jobs ’’ The Congress passed an
‘ 1 employment Act of 1946” that was supposed to erect a
safeguard against the recurrence of mass unemployment.
Actually, the Act is a lot of legalistic stuff and nonsense
which provides “full employment” for only tliree people—
The President's economic advisers who get SI 5.000 a year
each.
The other day, these advisers submitted their first report
and it was a lulu! It was what the late President Roosevelt
would call “iffy.” In effect, it said that if business is goc#
we won’t have a depression in 1947! President 1 raman
liked it, probably because it made no recommendations,
hence can be filled like a used weather repcjrt.
It looks like the labor-displacing machine and depression
have got to take their toll of jobs before any great number
of workers are going to get fed up with this starve-awliile*
eat-awhile system. For far-sighted folks however, now is
the time to think hard about how to make the indicated
changes in our social order. For the sake of our children
and all the posterity to follow- us, let us not regard unem
ployment insurance as the goal; let us rather set as our goal
a social svstem in which there will be jobs for all, and peace
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their position taken on referen
dum, bond issues, chartering, Con
stitutional amendments. Each
branch was urgert to conduct a re
gistering and voting drive.
With the exception of one branch'
iM a youth council, there was
an attempt on the paft of the
branches to carry out the political
action program and policy. At the
request the Washington Bureau,
manv branches queried Congres
sional candidates on issues affect
ing minority group. Outstanding
political actioIS activity was noted
by the State Conferences in Vir
ginia. Texas, and" New Jersey and
by branches in Detroit. Michigan.'
Cincinnati, Ohio: Philadelphia,
Pa.: Baltimore, Md.; Los Angeles,
Calif.; Chicago, 111.
Lynching
1946 saw eight Negro Citizens of
the United States die at the hands
of lynching mobs. Two of <ihe vic
tims were women, while three were
veterans of World War II with
overseas service. The NAACP
feels duty bound to point out how
ever, that although the lynch;hg
record shows eight victims, there
is much evidence pointing to the
fact that there acually have been
many more. These lynchings, tak
ing place in remote southern areas
where the residents are terroriz
ed into maintaining silence, are
never reported in the press. The
Association’s Investigators are
now attempting to clear up the
circumtances surrounding several
of these “deaths from unknown
Causes” and it is feared that their
finding will increase the 1946 toll.
Lynching Record for 1^46
July 20: Rupert’s District,
Taylor Countv. Georgia:
MACIO SNIPES, veteran, five
only Negro to vote in the Georgia
primary from Rupert's District,
was shot gnd killed on the porch
of his home by ten w'hite men who
pretended they had come to col
lect a $10 debt.
July 24: Lexington. Miss.:
The lynchings of LEON Mc
TATIE whose body was found by
a Negro fisherman in a Sunflower
County bayou, occured on or about
July 24. McTatie had been accus
ed of stealing a saddle, a fact latei
disproved. He was set upon and
beaten by six white Mississippi
farmers when he denied knowledge
of the theft. Sheriff W. L. Mur
tagh said “it was evident” that
McTatie had been thrown into the
>ayou from a car and that he was
lead at the time. His attackers
lave been apprehended. They
leny all knowledge of his death.
, July 25: Monroe, ua.v
ROGER MALCOLM. GEORGE
| DORSEY, a veteran, together with
i their wives, WILLIE MA E and
f DOROTHY, were dragged ff*m a
j car and shot to death by an an
n'ASked band of twenty white
meif Loy Harrison, a well-to-do
i white’ tenant farmer who alleged
ly needed their labor on his farm
! drove ttf Monroe Oh July 25 with
! three of them to make bond for
| Roger Maifcolm. Melcolm had been
! jailed in Kfonroe on ft charge of
stabbing HW former employer,
larney Hester, during A quarrel
which arose cWer the undue at
tention being jhtid Mrs. Malcolm
by the latter. Maiiiolm's temporary
release was obtained. As the five
S were returning to Bkrrison's farm
t they were halted by & mob. Harri
I Son was held at gun point while
the Negro couples were lined up
and shot. The coroner reported
that at least sixty bullets v cre
used to riddle the victim;?. Their
mulitated bodies, scarcely recog
nizeable, Were found sprawled be
side a clump of bushes on a lonely
road.
August 3: Gordon, Georgia:
(NAACP Investigator)
JOHN J. GILBERT, participant
in unionizing activities of chalk
mines, died of “gunshot at the
hand of unknown parties” on the
morning of August 3rd, about 500
yards from his home while on his
regular route to work at 5:30 in
the morning. It was rumored in
i Gordon that his death came as a
| result of making enemies among
I the whites by his union activity.
August 8: Minden. La.:
JOHN C. JONES, 28, discharg
ed veteran of European service
was found dead two miles from
Minden in RorCheat Bayou. His
body had been horribly beaten
with “some flat object such as
a wide leather belt or a thick
j plank.” his face and body were
burned with a blow torch so that
his eyes were “popped” out of
his head and his light complexion
seared dark. His wrists were mu
tilated with a cleaver and he had
been partially castrated. He and
his 17 year old comnanion, Albert
Harris, were turned over by the
sheriff to a mob in two cars, con
taining white men and one wo
man. a few minutes after their re
lease from Minden parish jail,
where they had been confined a
Iweek for allegedly attempting to
break into the house of a white
woman who refused to press char
ges. Jones and Harris were driv
en to the bayou, where Jones was
tortured and' killed and Harris
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beaten and shot in the shouider.
| Left for dead, Harris managed to
' escaped, however. Jones, who had
i brought a German automatic from
; Europe, had been told by a white
neighbor that he would get Jones’
gun if he had to kill him to do it.
Randolph Warns Negroes
Against
Communist
Carpetbaggers -
(Continued from page 1)
Negroes and labor With fantastic
promises of Iibebratioii. Mr. Ran
dolph stated that the Communist
program, policies and practices in
the United States of America fife
I to build bases among mass groups
I such as labor and the Negro as
, well as amorte professionals, liber
[ als and artists, not because they
.•are concerned about advancing the
j wetl-being of these groups but pri
j marily to tie NegroCs and Labor
[and liberals to them with a view
| to using these forces for waging
natisn-Wide propaganda iii the in
terest of consolidating and
| strengthening the foreign policy of
[ Soviet Russia.
Negro leaders are easily seduc
ed* by clever Communist politicians
because the Negro leaders are un
informed about revolutionary
I movements and especially the
I subtle and devious tactics of the
! Communists. Mr. Randolph indl
! cated that the Communist over
tures of cooperation with minori
ties, labor aiM liberals should be
rejected becau.-*e of the following
reasons:
1. The Commu'hist party fine is
uncertain and change with toe
great frequency.
2. The policy governing the
program, work and activities of
|the Communist in the United States
as in other countries are’ made by
[ the Polit-Bureaux in Soviet Rus
sia. Communist in America are
| merd mechanical reflectors Of this
policy arid are promptly purged
j if there is the slightest deviation.
3. Communist seek only to Use
. Negroes and other minorities to
gether with labor for the advance
ment of the’ Cause of U. S. S. R.
4. Communist Party is a con
spiratorial Organization whose ob
jective is world revolution through
the propagation’ of civil war in
various .countries With the view to
preventing the encirclement pf
i Soviet Russia by -wastile capitalist
nations.
5. Communist rdvocate dis
loyalty to the United' States.
6. Communist function through
cells and caucus met, Vis in all
[ organizations.
Mr. Randolph continue. '"hat dur
ing the war, as an evident of the
, Callous and ruthless indifference to
the interests of Negroes, Com
munist not onlv refused to sup
| port the fight for a fair emplby
j ment practice policy in war lh
dustries for Negroes, ut it counseT
[ led against it by branding the
i movement ill-timed and against
the interest of war against Naz
ism. With respect to labor. Com
j munists not only insisted on the
; pledges <5f unions not to strike
during the war but deliberately
advocated strikebreaking because
strikes might delay the shipment
of lend lease material to Soviet
Russia. This super-patriotism
commented Mr. Randolph, came
with ill-grace in view of the fact
that just before Hitler invaded
Russia, which was a signal for
Communist patriotic frenzy, these
■ ■■ — =— —- ...... ,, ■
’ FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES!
i very same .Communists were pick- 1
1 eting the White' House in Wash
ington, D. C. and branding former
President Rooaeveff, now glorfUCd
by them as a saint, as a war mon
ger and social-fascist.
Randolph stated that Negroes
who are the first fired and the
last hired cannot afford to1 add to
the handicap of being black an
dther handicap of being red.
It is one of the cardinal princi
ples of the Communist everywhere I
that Soviet Russia is the only fa
therland of the workers and upon
that theory th<5y advocate that
i workers of various countries turn
against their native' lands to sup
port the Soviet TJnicW in war of
peace. This is a dangiffn us doctrine
| to be advocated amon.K minorities
j and labor or liberals.
But I don’t condemn ComtnUn
| ists because they are Radical. I
' condemn them becacuse they are
reactionary. Communists t?eek to
make the publbic believe it must
be communism or fascism. That |
Is not true. There is a tfrird I
course. It is a planned and plan- !
ning economy within the frame
work of political liberty, demo
cratic socialism. Negroes to be ''
sure face a crucial hour of de
cision. The decision must be to re
ject totalitarianism on the right
<Y fascism and totalitarianism on
tli'e left or communism. Negroes
must not retreat a single step or
either stand still. They must march
forward to complete and full first"
class citizenship in the United
States and the world and seek,
struggle, and sacrifice and fight
for complete equality—social, ec
onomic and political.
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Clerk E. Beeme^^Jteno. objecting
to upping license fee to 5>f>.
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less.'”—Gertrude €’?*/,\n, farm H
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ivife’s lifetime we/rth at '.000. I
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!.ng productivity of worker* ■
doesn’t make for higher living )fl
standard# and greater purc’>as- ■
irg power.”—Leslie Gould. fino'n- H
k cial editor. teil
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fes i and wasteful spending, and
h.'ifr? soaked with miedening
ta.ve> because of faults- of the
government.” — Rep. Kmteon,
Minn.
“A Washington optimist is a
fellow that doesn’t care what hap
pens—as long as it doesn’t hap
pen to him!”— Herb Shriner,
commentator.
