Top Murder of Innocents: Save Willie Mcgee an Editorial the Life of Willie Mcgee, the Innocent Laurel, Miss

On the Inside Here’s. Read the Story of a Fighting Union in the Tobacco Empire My Freedom PAGE 3 Story Tce c-cd What's Behind the $80,000,000 By PAUL ROBESON 8. African Loan? PAGE 4 March, 1951 EE 178 10c A Copy PAGE € top Murder of Innocents: Save Willie McGee An Editorial The life of Willie McGee, the innocent Laurel, Miss. Negro worker, can be saved. ‘The carnival of death which the blood-thirsty Mis- Sissippi Dixiecrats had planned to stage on March 20 has been POSTPONED. But it has not yet been AN« CELLED. ‘McGee's lawyers have presented to the U. S. Supreme Court new evidence which proves his innocence. The court will decide within the next few days whether to review the evidence, Whatever the court decides on March 26, McGee's life can only be saved by the conti d protests of am aroused nation. McGee lives today only because the people have responded to the inspired leadership of the Civil Rights Congress in its crusade against American lynch’ law. He can be set completely free only by multiplying the mass meetings, the letters, telegrams and petitions to Prsident Ti man, the demonstrations and the works stoppages of his fellow working men and women, Don’t wait until tomorrow. When you put this copy, of FREEDOM down, make a phone call, write a letter, call a meeting—ACT TO SAVE WILLIE McGBE. ‘Set Him Free to Labor On’ A Tribute to W. E. B. DuBois gles, he underlines this most important is a part “of progressive America—that ‘dreds of millions of colonial and semi- By Paul Robeson fact: that culture comes from and be- he hates and exposes the shams of the colonial colored peoples—to choose - W. EB; Burghardt DuBois is a Jongs to the people; that one- aspect ruling class of this country, together their own ways to freedom, their own of our struggle is the obligation to with their would-be big-shot. Negro ways of life. The American Negro's human being full flowered—of the bring this culture back to the people. stooges who dance to any tune they're Uberation lies in this stream—a most highest intellectual training in most DuBois has a sense—nay, 2 profound told. powerful and untamable stream, diverse fields, and with it all so di- knowledge—of history, and striking it Dr. DuBois brings with him the best Funy men in important offices in ov rect, so devoted to the finest sim- is that at the most decisive moment in and most honest of his former asso- Jand dare attack and even indict Di plicity, His is a rich life of complete the history of colored America DuBois clates and joins with the working- DuBois. The great masses will give their dedication to the advancement of his is in. the ranks of the Negro people— class leaders of the Negro people— answer and set him free to labor on. ‘own people and of all the oppressed that. he is a part of the people's peace those closest to the masses—in giving Dr. DuBois, by his full participation ‘and injured. movement in the world—that he Is a common leadership to a fierce and un- and dedication to the people's struggle, First, Jet us not forget that he is friend of the Soviet peoples, of the compromising struggle. Today the es- gives new meaning to the history of one of’ the great masters of our lan- Chinese people, of the new’ Eastern sense of that struggle “is the fight for the Negro in his long and courageous guage: the language of Shakespeare European People's Republies—that he peace—the fight for the rights of hun- fight for full liberation. and of Milton on the one hand; and, ‘on the other, of the strange beauty of the folk speech—the people's speech— of the American Negro. He is a great Who Are the Real Criminals in the United States? poet, one of whom all America is ‘The ex-mayor of New York City has disastrous war in Korea, have turned denounce him. His thunderous voice proud. admitted that he appointed cronies the United Nations into an exclusive calls the American people to fight In. these days of stress and struggle of notorious racketeers to high posi- mouthpiece for U.S. policy, and have against the biggest crime of all—war. I often pick up one of his many vol- tions in his administration. As Dis- made the bomb, not negotiations, the No wonder the politicians frame umes, most frequently “The Souls Of trict Attorney he failed to prosecute basis for conducting our relations Willie McGee, the Trenton Six, Black Folk.” How I love to give myseir Known gangsters who were members with the non-capitalist world. Rosa Ingram and countless other up to those rich cadences, to receive of the Murder, Inc,, gang. Because elections are drawing near victims of Jim Crow justice. They must sustenance and. strength from those ‘Seemingly as a reward for his ad- the war-minded politicians and the frighten the Negro’ masses. to. stifle Jines so deeply imbedded in the folk mitted connections with the unde1 underworld scum face each other their demands for peace, jobs, and style of our people, yet enriched and world, William O'Dwyer was himselt from opposite sides of the table in equality. heightened by the artistic gift of this appointed by Harry Truman as Am- the crime hearings. But one’ thing In the hands of the profit-seeking, deep-feeling prophet. bassador to Mexico, Mr, ‘Truman they have in common: the war s war-hungry industrialists and politi- For Dr. DuBois gives us proof that should know a good ambassador when is a good thing for them all. It he clans, the moral standing of our gov- the great art-of the Negro has come he sees one: his political apprentice them pick the people's pockets with ernment has sunk to a new low. from the inner life of the Afro-Ameri ship in the Missourl Pendergast. ma- more’ taxes, wage freeze, speed-up In It is not too soon to point to the can people themselves (as is true of ehine provides the qualifications need~ industry, higher rents and unlimited task which will face American voters the art of any group)—and that the ed to lead the arty of grafters, five- prices. in 1952. The job will be to place the roots stretch back to the African land percenters, parasites and racketeers wonder, then, Truman's Justice government in the hands of true rep- whence they came, He, like so many who infest our municipal, state and Department ‘has indicted the great Fesentatives of the peace - loving, Other great artists, turned to the peo- federal governments. advocate of peace, Dr. W. E. B. Du- democratic-minded masses of the Ple for the deepest fount—like Haydn, ‘The biggest racket in the country Bois. His leadership embarrasses their American people. Meanwhile every Bach, Schubert, Dvorak, Bartok, Tehai- today is the war seare and the “na- game. decent American is ealled upon to kovsky, Pushkin, Moussorgsky, and tional emergency” of Mr. ‘Truman. No wonder the government with- raise his voice against the circus of Mayakovsky, great poet of the Russian The people of the U.S. (and of the Graws Paul Robeson's passport and war-jitters, corruption and oppression revolution, world) want peace, but the bribes banjo-players, baseball players which the rulers of the country have And by his very participation in the and all descriptions of “leaders” to visited upon our land, ‘people's political and economic strug-

Page 2 FREEDOM _ Burrs and Barbs _ FREEDOM’S Roundup | eennmnmanmnmnnnm News Around the Nation women ‘OUR CIVIL RIGHTS lily-white. Now the Seattle Labor Council for CHILD-KILLER: Grass-roots fight for pun- Negro Rights, supported by Northern Wash- ishment of the murderer of 15-year old Charles ington District Council of CIO Woodworkers Wilson in Denver being spearheaded by newly of America, is fighting for skilled and unskilled formed Colorado Citizens Committee, headed Jobs for Negroes, by Mes. Juanita Irving, deaconess of Zion Bap- ist Church and long-time civic leader. Wilson YOUR POSTMAN NEEDS A RAISE: N.Y. Local 20 of United Public Workers has writien was shot last Dec. 20 by policeman Delma President Truman debunking Civil Service Reed while being arrested for “drunkenness Commission's recent report that postal work- ‘Trial began March. 6, ers need no wage increase, “This can only be HORSE'S MOUTH: The Durham (NC) considered as a deliberate attempt: . . to de- Morning Herald, discussing the double stand- press still further the standard of living of ard of American justice, remarked: “It is as federal and postal workers,” they wrote, and though some jurors, some prosecutors, some quoted statistics proving need for-a minimum judges consider Negroes as but an amusing $909 yearly. increase, form of life. which needn't be taken too ser= 24 HOURS A DAY: Marine Cooks & Stew- fously, and thus Negroes have less than full ards Union (0% Negro membership and pro- Protection of the law.” gressive leadership—Hugh Bryson, Pres.), is engaged in a two-coast, three-front struggle: MORE WITCHES: Negroes saw a “clear and against Fed. Maritime Adm. for a 13-point bill present danger” in rash of “anti-subversive” of rights including FEPC; against shipowners bills in Southern legislatures: Texas, Tennessee for 25% raise, improved’ conditions and 40- and North Carolina, Fisk U. faculty officially hour week ‘it sea; against National Maritime Protested against Tenn, version ‘of McCarran Union paid raiders, “MCS is the only sea- monstrosity. faring union that puts into practice 24 hours a day the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of paw KEEPING PROMISES: C. C. Spaulding, 75- Rights, which includes the 14th Amendment,” Bore

year old president of $140 million NC Mutual says Bryson, Lite Ins. Co. got_a medal from the Freedoms “Ophelia, Mr. Roberts and I are doing our bit toward exposing Red Foundation for an article which said “the pro- lies about our demdcracy. So you need no longer come in through mise of America .. . could be realized only by AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE years of sweat, thrift and enterprise.” Mean- TWO OF A KIND: Entertained by Nicara- the back door . . = we'll have one built afound the side for you.” o while Maltheus Avery, young Negro student, gua’s Pres. Somoza, Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, was dead. Two white hospitals refused him ad~ ‘Truman's military’ aide, told the press later mittance after an auto accident; he finally the Strong Man could “just as easily be Pr reached a Jim Crow institution in time to die dent of the U.S. After all, he and Harry are an hour laier. No more promise of America for just alike. They both like ‘the same things—a DuBois Defends Right him, friendly poker game, a good story and a sti rink?” EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE? NAACP’s Thur- To Speak for Peace good Marshall returned from Korea to, reveal SAME OLD STORY: ‘Draft boards in nine that in $2 cases of Negro GI's sentenced un- Southern states, are rejecting an average of The recent indictment of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois for his refusal der the 75th Article of War, punishment. had 46% of all examinees, including 39% who can't to register under the For jn Agents Registration Act has called been reduced from total of one death and 255, Pass intelligence tesls. South Carolina (the years to 102 years. Only eight white soldiers “learned” Gov. Byrnes is former Sec’y of State) forth a storm of protest. from the Negro people, labor and peace- Accused under same Article; only two received has the highest rejection rate—653% includ- loving Americans. The indictment was brought by the Justice De punishment, totaling eight years. Must be a ing 60.7% who flunked intelligence tests. powerful lot of Negroes and mighty few whites partment because Dr. DuBois served as chairman of the now-dis~ under MacArthur's comand! LAST WORDS: In the last letter to his wife banded Peace Information Center, which collected millions of before death in action in Korea, Mississippl- signatures of American citizens on pet ons calling for outlawing born Jesse Brown, first Negro Navy pilot, wrote: ON THE LABOR FRONT “But my biggest hope still Is that somehow, ‘atomic weapons. Below, Dr. DuBois expresses his determination to TIMBER! Lumber industry of the U.S. thru the mercy of God, this war can come to céntinue the fight for peace. Northwest, accounting for 50% of State of close without us getting into an all out war Washington industrial payroll, has long been with China, By W. E. B. DuBOIS Tt was the 19th century Certainly in our day war it which taught us a new concept of the causes of war; namely, self is the embodiment of an that whatever war was against evil whick must be fought A Salute to the Hills of Detroit it was always mainly fought head on, to clear the way and for personal gain, for income give the time and save the life FREEDOM. salutes Capt. and control of the labor of to rescue the future progress Charles A. Hill, Jr, This vet- of mankind, eran of World War It was In the decade when T began accused of “disloyalty” and my life work it was natural for For this reason, since the be- ordered to resign his reserve me to seize on gain as the main ginning of the Second World commission or face a board cause of war and to find its War, I have given all the of- inquiry. Mill chose to chief example in Negro slay- fight against the “charges ery and in that excuse for thought and energy I could to ‘and won. “Charges” were slavery, race hate. But instead peace, whenever and wherever that his father, the promi- of beginning with the exploit: T found an opportunity... . nent and militant Rev. tion of white labor as did most Charles A. Hill, Sr, had reformers of my day, it was the Thus I stand .. . facing the been identified with Com- twist of my peculiar situation possibility, of celebrating my munists while running for that made me begin with future birthdays in prison, the Common Council in black slavery and the subjec- The prospect is not pleas 1949, and that Capt. Hill tion of the darker people as Zet I continue to maintain “had been seen reading the the cause of the subjection of Daily Worker.” white labor and consequently that advocacy of peace is not answered: (1) “I have the chief cause of war. treason: that I am the agent heard much about guilt by of no foreign principal and association... . This goes ‘Once I grasped this idea, T never have been; that I am even farther. ‘This is guilt @id not wait until 1949 to ght the champion of no idea alien by relationship .. 2”; and (2) for peace, but I began at the to this nation; and that I have “My edueation has taught very threshhold of the 20th the right within the law in the me that ho ideas written or century, ... War in this century wuture as in the past to fight takes on new meaning. It is for peace, spoken should be closed to fa great and evil monster set If we seem at present to destroy civilization, at first worsted in our effort, to halt and Mrs, Hill with sight out of sheer madness and war, this may be in part di four of thelr eight children inborn evil, but on second and to our failure to see in war the fare shown reading the good clear sight with the determi- vast evil it has recently be- news that Air Forces Sec'y nation to place control of the come, and in part too because TK, Finletter had dropped we do not yet know how much charges against Charles, Jr. world’s wealth in the hands we have really accomplished. Gnset) of one international clique of Victory may be nearer than unscrupulous men. we think,

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: They Planted a Union — With Their Sweat — - In Carolina’s Boss Ridden Tobacco Empire By Louis E. Burnham “The R. J. Reynolds Tobaeco Company has pioneered LEADERS OF TOBACCO WORKERS UNION : in developing excellent working conditions for Negroes at the factory and is rapidly expanding its Negro sales force ‘whose efforts are familiar to many of you.” If you read the Negro press and have noticed that chummy little sentence in the Camel ads during the past few weeks — don’t take it seriously. ‘The workers in the Reynolds empire in Winston-Salem, N.C. with whom I spoke recently Distributive, Processing and don't have money to pay for 01 Workers of America big’ newspaper ads, but they Gnd.), Men and women. like have their own story to tell Robert Lathan (int. viee-pres.), about the “excellent working Robert Black (int. organizer), conditions for Negroes at the Velma Hopkins (bus. agent), factory.” . and the late Miranda Smith iso ‘Their story is also that of (former regional director), Robert Lathan Velma Hopkins Robert Black ie Winston conditions in the plants of the were tired of 40¢ an hour jobs, Vice-Pres, DPOW Bus, Agent, Local 22 Int. Org, DPOW Bus. Agent, Local 10 other three of tobacco’s Big back-breaking toil, long hours, Four (Ligget_ and Meyers, Inadequate sanitary facilities workers, white as well as Ne- Before Local 22 went to work in the low-paid, unskilled jobs | American Tobacco and P. and scores of other abuses. gro, on strike, there were 163 Negro voters in in the leaf-houses and stem- Torijlard). It is a story the So were thousands of other ‘Try as they might, the to- Winston-Salem, which has a meries. In the skilled depart anti‘labor commercial . press workers. By, 1943. there were pacco barons couldn't “close population of’ 86,000 almost ments (cigarette manufacture) ; Tefuses to tell, few Negroes in the Reynolds the 4-5000 Reynolds white North Carolina is the prin buildings were were not mem- thelr eyes to Local 22 any more. half of whom are Negroes. Té- For the first time the exploited day more than. 8000 Negroes workers make more money and cipal seat of the US. tobacco ers of Local 22. And a sub- Negro tobacco workers went up Vote as a result of campaigns enjoy better working condi- empire. It is the chief manu- stantial number of the 4000- Rey- by the union to qualify its tions. As one worker. put facturing center for the more Odd white workers joined too, weids to the building top floor which of stands the on members, and Winston-Salem “All the jobs with the work 5s ‘than 3 billion cigarettes Ameri- Still the bosses at Reynolds Main Street and dominates the in 1947 became the first South- picked ou of them, they give cans ‘smoke every year. refused to recognize the work- skyline. ‘They ern eity in the 20th Century to to the white workers; all the ‘And the tobacco industey ers’ organization, But the Winston-Salem. resident tend & Negro, (Rev. Kenneth Jobs with, the ‘work! sill tm provides the fabulous profits union—with a tightly-knit set- met with Whittaker, he company and a batter jams) to the City Council, them are for the Negroes.” and huge salaries of a handful) up of militant shop stewards Sf big-ohot tobacco lawyers, The Rev. Williams. has since ‘A 0f tobacco stockholders and who fought workers’ grievances and pressed thelr demands for turned his back on the Negro handful of Negroes (about executives whose record of on the spot with the white improved conditions in the workers swho 3 were responsible 150) work on machines on @ union-busting and anti-Negro foremen—got things accom- plant. They were, in fet if not for his election, but the end of Jim-Crow floor in the manu- bias would be hard to beat. plished, and the workers knew in law, the official bargaining the Winston-Salem story has facturing department—as a. that recognition had to come agent for more than 9,000 et yet been told. sable okt aoe 40 Cents an Hour eventually. ; ublic relations departmen Far from having “excellent fiues-paying members. Recent Election When it carries ‘the publie working conditions” Negro ‘Then the big break occurred. workers at Reynolds in Win- On June 17, 1943, a Negro First Contract Of course, the R. J. Reynolds {2u iusiegt ne Plane on condue ston-Salem complain that in- worker in one of the stem- ‘The results of the steward- company has never stopped ereasingly they find themselves meries complained that he was ship of Loval 22 are legendary . Aghting the union. In a recent ‘The Negro stemmers and leat with no jobs at all. In the past dizzy and asked the foreman’s je Rvinston Salem, One of ite election Local 22 defeated the workers who are losing their few years the number of Negro permission to see the doctor. first achievements in 1843 was combined raids of the Jim jobs at Reynolds are. over- workers has been reduced al- The foreman refused. The Ninning $1290.00 retroactive Crow Tobacco Workers Inier- whelmingly women, and they most by half—from 6,500 to worker continued on the job, say for low-paid Negro work- national Union, ! AFL, and of have no place in Winstone 3,500. And anybody in. this went to lunch and returned brs. In the leat-houses and Willard Townsend's puny eateh- Salgm to go for employment — tobacco town can tell you the when the half-hour period was Memmeriee, The frst conteact all United Transport Service except as domestic servants for reason for the wholesale fir- over. In a short while he suf- was signed on April 24, 194 4, Employees, CIO. The workers $17 a week in the homes of the ings—the union, fered another dizzy spell and ind wages began a slow but are. still ‘burning mad that Reynolds executives! ‘Almost ten years ago the fell to the floor—dead, In five Steady climb, Negro. stemmers Townsend came to town with Negro workers at Reynolds minutes the stemmery was Secelved 40-580 an hour before ™OBey provided by Philip: Mur- No Negroes Hired

to try to smash the union took the leadership in organ- empty. In three days the Rey- the union, ‘Today the minimum ° All the other industries in iuing the famous Local 22, nolds empire was closed down 4s 93¢ and night workers start that them. hadwonsomany ‘They. were also gains not for {"S, tne city are practically ilee which is now an affiliate of the tight as a drum with 11,000 at $1.08. MeLeod tit The Hanes (underwear) pleased that Mrs. Mary Bethune permitted herself to town hire ie and no hosiery Negroes. mills im be brought in to a mass mect- on™ Arista ing Wedeeiner just before ss election to talk —all Mills white, has a big DuPont working has a foree plant fon the outskiris of town—ne

And the raiders were not the , Negroes ‘hired. The huge Me=

only worry of the local. The | Lean Trucking Company hauls r mayor of Winston-Salem took goods all over the South, needs to the radio the day before the drivers adly—white, The. big election in a frantic appeal for General Blectrie plant is Ilys x the defeat of the militant white. union. The tactic of firing militant ‘Tobacco leat- But despite all this, “22” de- union members is not new to feated the raiders and achieved the Reynolds executives. In house worke a run-off election with the 1928 and 29 they broke che company. In the run-off the effort of white workers to or- handling drums in which local won again—4450 to 4400 ganize by firing 2,000 white for-no union. But there were employees. tobacco is 180 420 fofemen’s foremen’s ballota ballots wnedunt= uncounts put Local 2a is Nehting back. ‘cured before 9, And any union member will” tg strengthening its Support tell you that the National La Ginong: the Negro. workert oad it goes to eae a | ernie the Ting a fopesien: ory factory for San aad the “clection ‘by Dring the majority of the ally awarded the election by nites into the unlon. processing. Since the election, there has forts—and ,,UPO® the not success the advertisia of its ef- been no recognized ‘bargaining ie agent for the workers at the ‘Hokum of the R. J. Reynolds the prospects of RJ. ary. Reynolds Arh the tobacce Tobacco exeeu. Com- C—depends establishing “excellent working

thelr tives power are doing to smash’ everything. Loca 22, in White conditions” workers for at the the Negro factory. and 3 Local 22 deserves the support Showcase Jobs of the ‘That explains the current and the whole entire labor Negro movement commue Airings. Ninety-five per cent of nity in the struggle which lies

the Negro workers are found ahead.

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HOW Here’s My Story LONG, OH LORD? By Paul Robeson HAVE JUST RETURNED from a most instructive and deeply moving journey around the East and Middle West. All the cities brought back memories of concerts in the Past to thousands—in the Philadelphia Academy of Music, i q with the Orchestra in Sym- phony Hall, Boston, in Or- chestra Hall, Chicago, the Mosque, Detroit beginnings of “Othello” at , Brattle Hall, Cambridge, out- side of Boston. a Most precious of recollec- tions. was Cadillac Square, Detroit, when CIO took over Ford, and the picket lines in Packing, Farm Equipment and United Electrical, and Steel in Chicago and else-

where. lndtaaadaasitraantos Everywhere there was deep concern and troubled anx- iety about our country’s policies: about the open attacks upon honest forces of labor; déep sorrow and anger about attacks on the Negro people of this nation A decisive change has come, as far as I could judge. ‘The fight is on to bring thousands and thousands of the People into militant struggle for our rights, economic, politi ¢al and social—and, most of all, for our very lives. Today Big Business is back in power in. Washington, ‘ and men like the Johnston’s and Wilson's cackle and slap dinaieantaiteaaatli their thighs in contempt as they literally throw labor out of their offices. The Big Boys tell the Negro people they must not dare fight for their rights, to organize in the South, to fight for better jobs in the North, to get out of the ghettoes, to move toward full national liberation—and the Big Brass fight fiercely for a war economy and continued threats of war to beat the Negro people into sub- mission, ‘Tits TRIP MADE ME more than ever deeply proud and happy that I decided way back to give my talents and energy to the working masses. LETTER COLUMN ‘They threw their arms around me literally and in spirit. They said, “Paul, you look fine.”. “Take care of yourself. ‘They gave me the best of their experiences and knowledge Get It Off Your Chest to bring back to our paper FREEDOM and to our common struggle. They said, “Paul, sing us a song—and take care ‘of your voice. We've got to have some concerts soon, ‘They Justice—Oklahoma Style read. I haven't seen it since. 1 may disagree with Mr. Robe- ean’t stop you from singing—you belong to us.” And they I Write you a few lines about only hope that it passed Son, he is still a great Negro certainly saw to that in things that are going on here through many appreciative whom all the gods have blessed Detroit, Boston and Philadelphia— in the deep south against the hands with talent and superb ability. a and the other night in Chicago. Negro. First, I will mention my George H. Redding, Jr. He is one who understands $0 HAT EVENING I SHALL NEVER FORGET, A packed thoughts and my thanks to Jamaica, N.Y. Well our Constitutional rights Southside Chicago church—Metropolitan Community, your little paper... . I have Rights Ignored that he would permit that Un= concert, beautifully arranged by the Southside Some truths to pass on to you. ‘The whole world’ is upset, American committee on Un= Church—a Our hahds are tied. We can Our boys “are slaughtered — American. activities to gouge Negro Labor Council, with its emphasis on the struggle of not do anything by ourselves his eyes out with hot irons the Negro people for full freedom and liberation. ‘The KKK here in the south are colored boys fighting to save before he would tell them his against us black people. There a system that Ignores thelr Political beliefs, 1 subscribe ‘The church was full of workers and their families, rights. ‘This last election was your to cluding the children—proud working-class leaders of the ‘a colored man here who Is 2 a mistake. We just got high paper because I want people helped and supported by their white working World War II veteran, His prices and the money goes to every viewpoint from, extreme Negro home is in Paul’s Valley. He thieves so they can grab more, right to extreme left so. that brothers and sisters, challenging the few Negro. big-shots was living independent, run- And Truman wants close ties Imay-make up my mind, for as like Townsend and Dawson—challenging them in the heart ning his own business. They with Franco Spain! Enclosed Jong as I live I shall certainly of the Negro community. And there too was Rev. Evans of teamed up on him; came and you will find money for a sub- do my own thinking, thanks to the militant ministry, giving a stirring plea for peace, handcuffed him and beat him Seription for a friend the American Bill of Rights. over the head with their guns. A. Preston Gray God bless him! ‘They turned him loose and Mrs, Brewer Kingsport, Tena, During this trip my mind went to the Black Belt of the gave him just so long. to. get ortiand, Oregon South, the real héart of the problem. Measured by what Out of Paul's Valley, Okla. 89 Gibraltar there we Negroes in this great land survive o1 now he lives in Oklahoma. City. Expose Uncle Toms In times like these Paul happens A white man here in Wiletke, We must expose the false- Robeson and the new news- perish. We can move around in Harlem, the South Side, hoodis of the phonies and Uncle Paper are the new Gibraltar Okla. ravished a little teen- colored girl in November, 1950. ‘Toms who didn’t speak out tor f fveedom and hope! ! ‘They. have not let the case be the seven men of Martinsville Rev. David W. Jones brought to court yet. So many who were framed for crimes Moberly, Missou things have been done to col- they did not commit, Freedom is what we need so bad in these God Speed Freedom ored people here in Okla. by United States. T mean a com- I see. the Freedom of. the the whites and they will never plete liberation for Negroes Negro people on any ‘day, God Jet these cases be tried in and any of the oppressed peo- speed it. 1 am white, 7 next court, ple all over the world. Then, month, a shut-in, mostly Matt Turner in the near ridden’ and:down bed- PT Oklahoma future everybody with arthritis can live a happy and peaceful for 15 years. All of my waking. Best There Is life. T am definitely. with you time I have watten for any Published monthly by Freedom Associates and nobody is going to make Progressive, humanly working 53 West 125th Street, New York 27, N.Y. Phone: ENright 9:3980 I received the February issue me think untrue to my, people. and advancing publication of Freedom today and immedi Jesse Maxwell, that cares to use my work. All EDITORIAL BOARD: PAUL ROBESON, Chi ately devoured it quite eagerly, Packinghouse | Worker Revels Cayton, Shirley Graham, Alphocus Hur It has my vote, as being the Roxbury, Ma: in Power the plan.you to you! Keep your feet have organized Editor: LOUIS E, BURNHAM. General Manager: GEORGE B. MURPHY, Jr best monthly. paper there. is. upon, and your service will be When I subscribed, 1 received Self-Thinking Reader essential and great. 10e per copy; subscription rate—$1.00 a year the January issue’ soon. after, ¥ see. that Paul Robeson is to Julia W. Cockerott and-a friend: borrowed it to furnish @ columa, While many. Seattle, Washington

FREEDOM Page 5 + True 45 Years Ago— And Even Truer Today! DuBois and Niagara Founders Voiced Negro Eee Protest and Demand Seer for Equalit analy +e On this page are printed excerpts from the 1906 resolution of the Niagara e Movement, written by Dr. W..E. B. DuBois. - 2 i * +, The movement was organized by DuBois im 1906. + 4, § the movement met at Harper's That some year leaders of DuBois! words, “had in significance Ferry, the scene of John Browns raids ace ot if that American’ Negroes have ever not in mumbers one of the greatest meet + to the scone of Brown's martyrdone had. We made pilgrimage at dawn ba and we talked. some of the d that has been given voice to by black men in Amerces plainest Rrglisn 3)

Petitions are being circulated on every Negro campus In the South and on several white campuses, Tulane, U. of Texas including Carolina, and U. of Noriit Initial. sponsors of the Committee are: Charles Moore, president, Student Union, Dillard Uniy.; William Larshe, President, North Carolina Intercollegic ate Student Legislature; Edward Plnk- hey, president, Student Council, Fisk Univ.; James W. Kelsaw, editor, The Talladega Student, Talladega College; Nathaniel Bond, ‘founding president, aE ad a a NAACP. Youth’ Conference, N.C! ~ THE POST-WORLD WAR I years witnessed a wave of | lynchings and mob attacks against Negroes throughout the United Stephen S. Edley, editor, Campus Echo, sy States. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois (arrow) is shown in 1919 parti ipating in an anti-lynching parade which made i way. dowa North Carolina College: Chathan M, New York's Fifth Avenue. At Dullyis’ left is the late James Weldon Johnson, noted poet and Ross, Beta Delta Mu, N. C. College, and secretary of the NAACP. author, and first Negro Howard Linnard, Methodist Fed. for Social Action, U. of Texas, *

FREEDOM ‘AFRICA - ASIA CARIBBEANS + LATIN AMERICA ExcrmaninmeneonecnnmoncmvmencemncnnmaNews of Colored Peoples in Other Lands mwunumsuumwanmmenassomasssnoie somenilinrtsg American Trusts Bolster South African Racists E New Stour at By ALPHAEUS HUNTON American liberal opinion was shocked by the news Morre that the United States government would grant a loan to | General Dictator Franco of Spain, and there was more dismay ex- pressed over reports that'even now ‘more money and arms South African Ltd. are to be squandered on Chiang Kai-shek. But these same liberal circles have displayed [lore and better | - for more people Tittle or no concern about the which are top-secret, gives the recent $80,000,000 loan to the U.S. ment purchase fascist government of the meergaautine” ot Union of South Africa! Ee re enti eae: ob the ‘The fact that the big Amerl- world’s largest sources” of the can bankers provided $30,000,- stuff, the vast gold fields of 000 of the recent loan and South Africa. (The biggest advanced another $10,000,000 souree of uranium, in the Bel- to South Africa in 1949 is agian Congo, was grabbed up by token of the interest of US. the US. during the last World big business in the land of War) Along with the acqui- gold, diamonds- and rampant sition of the new South Afri- Tacism. Morgan and Rockefel- can source came ‘Truman's ler interests have been in- demand for a special billion~ trenched there for a long time. dollar appropriation to expand Ford was established there and speed up the manufacture over 25 years ago; General of atomic weapons. So you ean Motors, winich recenily built a readily understand what South $20,000,000 plant at’ Port Eli- African uranium ore has to do zabeth in South Africa, has with thé amount of ehange left ‘also been on the scene almost im your pocketbook. as long. In the mining industry ‘The Wall Street Journal are found American Kenne- (Dec. 8, 1948) warned that “one cott Corporation and Newmont loan won't be enough because Mining Corporation. The lat- it is calculated that it will be ter, which has General Lucius at least five years before South Clay, pardoner of Ilse Koch, as African gold fields and base a director, made profits of $9,- mineral and industrial pro PART OF THE HUGE PROFITS of the giant General Motors Corp. comes from the explc:ca- 00,000 in’ three years on am -duction ean earn enough dol- tion of the semi-slave labor of black workers in the Union of South Africa. Picture above shows investment of just $7,000,000 lars to bridge the estimated sign announcing construction of a new $20,000,000 GM plant et Port Elizobeth, S.A. GM recently in South West Africa. gap in the country’s trade ‘announced its 1950 profits—$834,000,000—largest.onnuol “earnings” in history of American industry. ‘Also operating in South Af- balance. This would mean riea are Firestone, Goodyear, Joans from America over the “free world” they mean main- chised, restricted by pass Jaws, It is high time that American General Electric, and 2 long next five years totalling $1.5 taining the freedom to exploit crowded into Jim Crow ghet- progressives, Negro and white Uist of other American corpo- billion.” other peoples. toes poverty-stricken and dis- workers together, joined hands rations too numerous to men- But the Truman adminis- ‘The South Africa that ‘Tru- ease-ridden beyond belief, de- with their African brothers tion. Their “number and the tration is apparently commit- man and Dewey and the Big nied freedom of assembly and who are today organizing and total investment of American ted to bailing out Malan & Co., back against their capital in the country have just as it remains committed Bosses for whom they front every elementary human right. fighting increased sharply since 1945. to trying to bail out Chiang want to preserve as part of American wealth and the oppressors, determined to It is no longer to England but Kai-shek, regardless of the their “free world” is a South American Government have smash the system and live as to America that the rulers of billions it may cost American Africa in which eight million joined hands with South Af- free men. South Africa now look for the tax-payers, ‘Africans are forced to labor at rica’s reactionary ruling circles —Reprinted from New Afriea Bulk of foreign investment Why? ‘President ‘Truman, Slave wages, under slave eon- in the effort to preserve this bulletin of the Council on capital, And the American General Bisenhower, and Gov- ditions, completely disfran- vicious system of exploitation, African Affairs, trusts are hard bargainers. Dewey among others, Bren though it had all the have lately been busy explain: ° i eR RRR ORR RNA necessary anti-Communist ing. “We" must hold Africa, qualifications, the South Afri- they all say, because it is the ean government had no easy source of “materials that are ~ WORLD REVIEW | time winning Washington's absolutely essential to our ex- dollar-blessings. istence, our way of life.” e mm aman tooracmenmenatannee a anaemnsmte tad ‘You might expect that the Translated in plain lan- usly things said in the UN. . guage, what ‘these gentlemen BRITISH WEST INDIES the country deeper in hock to and banned sve publications General Assembly about the mean’ is that Afriea, its re- British marines and. air- Washington and Wall Sweet of the two parties because of South African regime had sources and people, must re- pone aoiee forces from Triniz bY signing a Point Four agree- an alleged plot to, “sabotage something to do with the diffi- main the property of the Red whe uequited tovaid local ment afd a pact providing for foreign investments in. Haiti” culty, but you're wrong. No, Western world to be freely gattee in coushing © strike of the sending of a US. military . They. were held responsibie {oF the real trouble was a little exploited in the future as in Printation workers in Grena- training mission to Liberia. 1t strikes against the American= matter of America’s uranium the past, only more intensively nds, “last was the strike of Liberian Haitian sngar company and requirements in South Africa, and systematically. The states- swgntt The serike was in pro. Workers for more pay on other U.S.-financed firms. And and how much South Afriea men of the Western powers Tee again harsh and dictas American-owned concessions just the other day President and Britain would settle for. talk a lot about. “developing” terial Sepressive measures em. in Liberia just_a year ago Maglorie of Haiti exenanged Finally, last December, the subject lands and “ra'sing the bediea in recently passed laws, Which “prompted President greetings with President, True agreement on the uranium living standards” of' the in- a 5 Tubman to ask for US. arms jillo, dictator of the neighbor- Geal was announced. The $80- habitants, but they say not a PUERTO RICO and the services of US. mili- Ing Dominican Republic. and 000,000 loan followed in Janu- word about giving them their US. All colony school have children been required in this tary advisers. ae Se the two Ree presidents agreed to ary FREEDOM. When these gentle: to contribute toa fund for the pecent news appears to con- munism” on the island—which The agreement, the terms of men speak of preserving their Widow of Truman's bodyguard, » Recent mews appears to con- Seon peeping labor costs low Blain in the shooting at Blair firm the view country Sha promoting US. -investe House involving Puerto Rican Wberated by-the great Haitian Tone Sna trade. Injustice and Hypocrisy nationalists. All government Tévelutionaries from French today ete. Im November 1899, a Negro attorney, Lewis H_ Douglass. employees were required to Sora is wrote the following in an open letter to the press: sign sent a Truman's statement pardon begging for Presi- the M0re domination and of more US. under Big Busi- 1 SOUTH AFRICA— “It is a sorry, though true fact that whatever this government controls, injustice to dark races prevails. ‘The alleged assassination attempt. = N.Y. Tess. Times An advertisement not long ago in an- the - UNCENSORED jeople. of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Philippines know Two distinguished teachers ee eek i it as well as do the wronged Indian and outraged black who refused ies to sign were sum- open Downed. wide for “Haiti's your doors trade ‘and are documentary. eat eee sound-film man in the U.S. industry,” and noted among What it reveal (tis hypocrisy of the most sickening kind to try to LIBERIA other enticements that “Labor Si shece gee make us believe that the killing of Filipinos is for the Having turned over the port costs in Haiti are among the of good government and to sive protection to life of Monrovia to be used as a lowest in the world.” About the Aretebhs from and purpose property and the pursuit of happiness. US. military base, and the re- same time the ad appeared THE COUNCIL ON © “The expansion of the U.S, means extension of race sources of the land to Firestone the government announced it AFRICAN AFFAIRS hate and cruelty, barbarous iynchings and the gross in- and other American corpora- had outlawed the popular So- 53 West 125th St. NLY.C. justice to dark people... tions. the col{-rerpetuating Li- ‘clalist Party and ~ilitant berian govesment has placed peasant workers’ movement ‘Wire for rental informat “FREEDOM Page 7

Why Do Communist Leaders Face Jail? ee ‘This is the path Hitler, Musso By BENJAMIN J. DAVIS ABOUT THE AUTHOR lini and Hirohito took in es I have been asked by the editors of FREEDOM to EDITOR'S NOTE: Most Republican national _com- tablishing fascism in Germany, ‘comment upon the meaning of the threatened imprisonment newspapers ask every source mitteeman and prominent Italy and Japan, ‘Truman is except the Communists fraternal leader After grad- heading down the same road, of the Communist leaders to the Negro people. ' what the Communists stand uating from Amherst and in the name of democracy and The appeal of the Communist leaders against the for. FREEDOM on the con- taking his law degree from under the guise of “saving the Smith Act—the Nazi-like statute under which we were trary went directly to a Harvard, Davis settled in At~ world from Communism,” It’s framed and sentenced to five years—is now pending in Communist leader, Benja- Janta to practice law. He the technique of the Big Lie, the U.S. Supreme Court. min Davis, for his comments soon.became defense attor- and bring ruin, blood ‘The eleven of us who were lie McGee in Mississippi, the ‘on the significance of the ney in the famous Angelo and tears to the American convicted are on bail—virtu- Trenton (N.J.) Six, the Grove~ threatened imprisonment of Herndon case and this ex- people as it did to Germany. ally imprisoned within two land (Pla) ‘Three, and still the Communist leaders to perience led him into the Once the Communists were counties of New York City. Two. others, the Negro people. Communist Party. He served outlawed, it would not be long of us among the eleven are Mr. Davis is a native of two terms as a member of before ail other organizations Negtoes—Henry Winston and ‘This sharp increase in the Georgia, His father was a the N-Y. City Council, that spoke for peace and de- myself, Winston is a stalwart lynch terror and monstrous real mocracy were similarly out young Negio Communist lead- Dression against the Negro lawed. fer, the national Administrative people flows from the war pro- what the American ruling class fore the American working For a Better Life Secretary of our Party, with a gram of! Wall Street and the fears most, It fears the great class and the Negro people, the Tong courageous’ record of ‘Truman Administration, voice of the Negro people for Communists —guided by ’ the ‘The threat of outlawing the struggle for American youth, In order to defend the ele- peace. That's why it “impri- selence of Marxism-Leninism Communist Party is of concern for Negro rights and for. the mentaty liberties of the Negro soned” the heroic world leader —are making the decisive con- to the whole American work- working class. Paul Robeson within the US. tribution to the cause of Negro ing class and people generally. We are threatened with im- and barred this great artist Uberation, Tt is for this, more It Is of special concern to the « prisonment because the Amer- from the concert stage. That's than anything else, that the Negro. people, irrespective of dean ruling class wants neither why it had indicted the noted ‘Truman Administration, be- their political party, for they Peace nor freedom. The bil- Negro scholar, W. E. B. Du- hind lying demagogy, is trying know of the long and pioneer- 1g battles of the Communists Hionaire monopolists of Wall Bols, and threatens this gentle to. behead the Communist at the side of Negro people for Street are driving headlong and’ great_man—83 years old Party by putting its leaders in ai toward another world war and #with a brutal 5 year prison prison, beginning in the first their freedom and equal rights. toward fascism in their mad term. place, with Wm. Z. Foster, the We, Communists who are dream for world domination. Wall St, Calls the Tune foremost leader of our Party marked for jailing, are con- a They are the main enemies of ‘That's why, too, Wall Street who is hated by the Jim-Crow fident that the Negro people 3 peace, democracy and Social- and Truman have bought out capitalists with a special will play an ever increasing x ism, such Negro misleaders as tole inva rowing coalition for ae ‘The atomaniacs of Wash- Walter White, Roy _ Wilkins, ‘The aim of the Truman peace and freedom, and that <\. ington are itching to attack Administration, and its Wal this struggle will be won, All the Soviet Union—world bul- Ralph Bunche, Edith Sampson, Street masters, is not alone to the terrors and lies of the Wall Adam Powell’ and A. Phillip leaders— Street imperialists and their “4 wark of peace and freedom— Randolph and set them singing jail the Communist hired underlings cannot stop and they are feverishly trying of war to the Negro mas- as vicious and unconstitutional gression against the. Korean ers accepted the pats on the outlaw the Communist Party. peace, dignity and a better life, and Chinese people into a head and the criimbs from the global conflict. Jim-Crow table of the white eS F ‘The Morgans and Rocke~ ruling class in return for sup- fellers are sinking their teeth BENJAMIN J. DAVIS porting the war program, they Mr. Freedom into Africa, already bleeding people and all other minori- betrayed the whdle struggle from centuries of brutal op- ties, and to advance the cause for Negro rights. Scratch an By Bil Cahn pression. The whole of Latin, of their national liberation Uncle Tom agent of the war- South and Central Amerlea— from the lynch system, every mongers—and you'll find a He's got no manners, “Freedom ain't a buick car : with its large Negro and In- struggle for Negro rights has or a refrigerator to be directed against the war traitor to the cause of Negro don't know his place, ‘or @ moving picture show, dian populations—is but a pre- rights, : ‘keeps intruding, No sir, jae Serve for the greedy profit- Program of Wall Street and When the ‘Trumans and showing’ his face You ain't necessarily free Seekers of Wall Street. Rockefellers give their recep- where he ain't invited, because you own ‘The Truman Administration Butter, Not Guns tions you'll find these Uncle walking right up, . anew just TV. is the obedient tool of the ‘That means fighting for Toms on hand bowing and to people who ain't free, American monopolists. | Both. butter not guns, housing not scraping their way in. But tipping his hat “preedom ain't reading, the Democratic and Republi- battleships, hospitals not when the Martinsville Seven intl saying: and freedom ain't writing, can parties are flunkeys -of atombombs, democratic lber- and Willie MeGee—who sym- ‘Hello there, here's me!” You ain't necessarily free

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CULTURAL CARAVAN Explosive Social Currents Hamper a Movie-Making in South Africa By WALTER CHRISTMAS to finish up, I saw why. At 4:30 “Hatred and fear run like a breeze through the Union in the evening the men re~ ‘of South Africa. It is always present and was the source turned home: from work. We ‘of the first question asked us by the whites: ‘What do had been working days In a the natives think of us?” village when only the women ‘The tall young man in the starvation and the worst form and children were about, The Air Corps jacket. was Sidney of cruelty. ‘The native is re- men, returning home to thelr Poitier, who recently returned sentful and restless. Restrictive unpoliced ghetto, didn’t want from South Africa where he Jaws are enacted and enforced to see white people. Our crew played the part of Msimangu to quell the rumbling dissatis- contained many whites as tech- in the London Films produe- faction of elght million people. nicians and directors. The nation of Alan Paton’s “Cry the jevitable and tive men were in their own Beloved Country.” Other Amer- there seems to be no hope for territory without the cruel, ican Negro actors who played @ peaceful solution. It is too ever-present South Afriean po- in the film were Canada Lee far gone. There are too many iceman, Uninformed whites and Charles MeRae. years of suppressed anger and had been set upon before. in such situations. And that eve- Land of Segregation @esire for revenge. ning not many men. returned “Whites were the only people “We, as somewhat, privileged home before our shooting was we were allowed to see on a ‘American Negroes, lived, on a done, equipment packed and social level. The Africans liv- farm. This was the basé from we were heading out ing in miserable shantytown which we worked. We were Poitier has none of the man- ghettoes, without lights or the transported to and from 1 nerisms or affectations gen- SIDNEY POITIER, the fine young actor, is shown with Ruby Dee in Femotest comfort, were not tion sites by. private car. The erally associated with movie permitted to entertain us. Our buses and other transportation, {a scene from the moving picture “No Woy Out.” Poitier, © mem= meetings with them were eatch segregating whites, _ coloreds, actors. When this was men- ber of the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, is teaching acting as catch can. Indians and natives, we could tioned, he smiled and leaned ‘We had been warned not to not use. pack in his chair. losses in Harlem’s St. Philip's parish house in order to give Negra speak to the natives about Classes for Children youngsters a chance to learn the craft. The CNA hos been in the polities. “From this arose the “on our farm was an African “why should I be affected? forefront of campaigns to eliminate the traditional Hollywood ond. rumor that we ‘had entered who had been there for seven Withsthe situation as it Js for Broadwoy choracterizations of the Negro and to win employment: South Africa as bonded ser- years working seven days a Negro actors, there might for Negroes in all branches of the arts. vants. We were ‘protected’ and, week, His day began at 5:30 never be another film job for actually, had few opportunities in the morning and lasted un- me. However, I'm still striving to speak to them at all. The til 11 at night. He had a wife to learn, I have acquired cer- whites fear for their lives, their and two children whom he had tain basie techniques and some possessions, their Social and not seen in all these seven of these I'm trying to trans- Here’s My Story economic positions, They im- years. His was the typles fer to the youth of Harlem pose four way segregation, plight of many farm laborers. Right now, I’m teaching an By PAUL ROBESON separating whites, colored, In- Curfew Time acting clast for youngsters at Sians and Africans, because of “One day, we were on loca~ St. Philips Parish House. These (Cistimeha iron Pies 4 fear, This does not. dispel it. tion in Alexandria township, a classes were organized by the It only. grows. ative village. I was surprised Committee -foryothey Negra: in Antoine Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and_Sauth Street— “The nitive Afriean has a to learn there was a feverish the Arts, Im trylng, in my ‘terrorized, ghettoed, accepting the erumbs as they fall, being deep and solid hatred for me rush to complete: shooting by way, to give this -section of misled by a few top collaborators who boast of being go- white man, For him, the white 4:80 in the afternoon. We were Negro youth a part of the etweens between the poor Negro and the millionaire whites man Is a symbol of oppression, not told why, but, as we rushed ream that they've missed.” —but the Black Belt will decide the age-old issue of whether or not the Negro has rights that the white Bourbon is bound to respect. ‘Mr. Charlie’ and Mr. Charles OR as long as any boy or girl can be denied opportunity in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi—so By TAY TURNER long as one can be lynched as he or she goes to vote—so The belated recognition of highly skilled student of the long as the precious land does not belong to the people of Ezzard Chatles as heavyweight ring. ‘Those who run the bi that area (and with land, the wealth that flows therefrom, ehampion of the world is an- ness of boxing don't like “Fancy other example of how the Dans,” or “cuties.” Boxing is a in agriculture and in industry)—so long as they do not poison of white supremacy. ernel business, and in the final have full opportunity to develop and enrich their cultural infects everything—even sports. analysis, the fans pay to watch heritage and their lives—so long are the whole Negro people Aetuaily professional boxing is sheer brutality — the bloodier not free. not a sport but a big business, the better. The “colorful” bat- and business has always found tlers who've packed the stad- Don't say it’s imposible to change this. China was “im- racial hatred a handy tool to jums have always been the possible” not long ago. African freedom, West Indian free- ‘keep about, sluggers. The Dempseys, the dom, Puerto Rican freedom are not impossible. Neither A Real Champ Grazianos, the Tony Galentos, is ours. Ruard has done everything the Maxie Baers, will always These are some of our tasks. that can be asked of a champ, outdraw a Tunney, a Tommy yer he's still the target for Loughran, a Billy Conn, or an I know that I, for one, after this trip, seeing and exe Yongue-in-cheek remarks of Ezzard Charles. In addition to Exiard Charles periencing the collective power of my people and their true sports writers. Why? being clever, Charles has a For one thing, Charles is @ark skin and that gives the the acclaim Joe Louis’ great and honest allies—I know that we all should and must feel walking in the footsteps of the white supremacy lads a bad ness finally won—despite the “powerful strong,” that we should and must feel some of the greatest heavyweight of them headache! efforts of the sports and edi- mountain-moving strength of our legendary John Henry, all, Joe Louis, and that's a Can't Explain Him torial writers to picture him tough role to fil. But that isn’t They can always explain as “‘slow-witted,” “backward” So let us get into the fight, let us continue steadfast, let us the main reason: Charles is 2 away a slugger (especially a and the rest of ‘the slanders— journey on to a Mt. Zion right here on this*American earth. tan one) as “brute force.” In his terrific punching powers clever boxer, an intelligent ana were always lauded and his real boxing ability forgotten. In Top Company FREEDOM ASSOCIATES See. 34.6,-P. LER Freedom Associates Charles isn’t a flashy fighter 53 West 125th Street 1. S. POSTAGE nor a sensational one, but has New York 27, N. Y. 53 West 125th Street, New York 27, N.Y. Tel. EN 9-3980 been vastly underrated, and PAID Please find enclosed one dollar ($1.00) for one annual only now is slowly but. surely New York, N.Y. subscription to coming into his own. If he does Permit No, 338 not rank with a Joe Louis, let's FREEDOM not forget that Charles belongs = in support of the pro- in the company of heavyweight Also enclosed find $. . champions. If any one doubis gram of Freedom Associates. his real fistic powers, consiaer how carefully the fight crowd hide their white favorites from NAME (Fant) Charles, They well know Bzzard can take @ Rex Layne, a Rocky Marciano, or LaStarza, all in the same nightt