FAME Tos = Half Million Strong — Vee k Paul Rob eson Passport Fight — Mrs. Sampson and State Dept. Sit Out Vote as 3,000 Cheer On May 16, Senior Bishop William J. Walls took the microphone at a session of the 34th quadrennial conference of the AME Zion church and said to the assembled Vol. II—No. 6 “JUNE, 1952 Ge *"° 10c audience of 3,000 delegates and visitors: “We are not judges here, but we can demand fair play for all. Everyone here who is in favor of having Mr. Robeson’s passport returned to him—Stand up on your feet!” Three thousand people stood ab once. Only two persons in exciting evening of the drama- leader of the church, castigat- the entire church | remained packed two week session. Mrs. ing the fugitive slave act. He seated: Mrs, Edith Sampson, - Sampson read. a prepared read Frederick Douglass’s fa- U.S. State Department spokes- speech describing the interest- mous admonition on the phil- man, and Mrs. Ruth Whitehead of Europeans in the Negro osophy . of | reform—‘Where Whaley, Secretary to the Board question .and what she had there is no. struggle there is no of Estimate of New York City. told them of the progress made progress’—and the audience That action brought to Mr. by Negroes in the past decade. joined him in singing songs be- Robeson’s suppport in the fight As a. State Department rep- loved in the. Chureh and by the to restore his right to travel resentative, she called for sup- Negro people. . abroad, the backing of the third port of U.S. foreign policy and He ended his performance by said, “If America goes down largest Negro church denom- saying that he had been born ination in the country, boast- the drain, we go down with it.” and brought up. in. the AME As Mrs. Sampson left the ing 600,000 members in the Zion Church. He pointed out United States, the Carribean stand and Mr. Robeson and a that he had always fought and group of artists rose to present area and Africa, would continue to fight as long the cultural program of the as he lived for the oppressed In calling for the action, evening, the two outstanding peoples of the world. Bishop Walls noted that the personalities exchanged greet- State Department’s brief in the ings. Then Robeson and the It was in the midst of the passport case which is now be- supporting artists presented a thunderous applause . which fore the Circuit Court of Ap- program which the delegates greeted. this statement that peals in Washington,’D.C., ad- will not soon forget. Bishop Walls called for the ac- mits ‘that Robeson’s travel They performed a script, tion on the passport issue. As right is denied because he has written by Julian Mayfield, and the audience stood, the Bishop been “politically active on be- based on the anti-slavery his- declared: “Let the record show half. of the -independence. of tory.-of..the church...Robeson that the Church of Zion is in the colonial peoples of Africa,” recited a speech of Bishop John favor of his having his passport (Mr. Robeson held and used Loguen, ‘revered 19th century (Continued on Page 4)

a passport continuously for 22 FORTY THOUSAND ADMIRERS ‘gotheted at the lnteriotional years until it was cancelled without explanation almost Mrs. Sampson Tells Europe “Peace Arch at Blaine, Washington, on May 18 to hear Paul Robeson two years ago.) sing the songs of peace and of the peoples of many nations. The action of the AME Zion Negroes Happy, Almost Free q SEE STORY ON PAGE 8. conference climaxed the most By ESLANDA G. ROBESON—see page 2 a DuBois Calls Third Party Only Hope in 1952 |

By W.E. B. DuBOIS discussion on platform or over ties. There is no choice of can- the publishers will print, and cast our votes for men, not for radio; in newspapers or peri- didates whether his name is Ei- what the movies will screen. Generals or College Presidents What is wrong with the odicals. Nearly every indepen- senhower or Tait, Kefauver or They are united in that super- or Rich Men’s babies, United States? We are an in- dent thinker has been silenced, Stassen or Warren, Dulles or congress of which the National Vote! That is what demo- telligent, rich and powerful while stool-pigeons, traitors Dewey, Joe or Charlie McCar- Association of Manufacturers nation. Yet today we are con- eracy is for. There is no ques- and professed liars picked by thy. All of them listen to their is the upper house and the Na- tion: We can.have peace if we fused and frightened. We fear wealth, industry and power, master’s voice, the steel trust, tional Chamber of Commerce is want peace; we can have war poverty, unemployment and can talk to the nation unham- the aluminum trust, the rub- the lower, which are preparing if we want war; and if we don’t jail, We are suspicious not only pered and ungageged. . ber combine, the automobile world war to rule mankind and of enemies but especially of know what we want or don’t industry; oil, power, plastics, reduce again the worker not What can we Go avout it? dare to tell, we will get what- friends. We shrink before the the railroads, tobacco, copper, How can we face and heal our simply to. slavery but to idiocy. ever makes the most money for world and are ready to make chemicals and coco-cola, tele- plight? Not by silence, not by What can you do about it? those who own Congress. We war on everybody. General Ei- graph and telephone; liquor; fear; not by voting again for Vote fer a Third Party. There can get low taxes, social secur- senhower has assured us that radio and movie—all of the the same old parties and going is absolutely no other way. A ity, housing ‘and slum clear- “we can lick the world,” and more than 200 giant corpora- we are preparing to spend continually ‘over the same Third Party or die! ... ance; social medicine;. cheap mumbo-jumbo of meaningiess tions which wield the power light, heat and telephone ser- seventy billions of dollars to that owns the press and the « If we are going to have dem- elections. We are boasting we vice; decent schools taught by do it, even when we do not magazines, and determines ocracy in America, we must or- know whom to fight or why or are free when we are not free teachers with guts; streetcar what news the news agencies ganize’ the Third Party by even to cast our ballots. We fares spent on passengers and how. Of the 35 civilized nations will distribute; what opinions homes and blocks; we must of the world, we and Japan are are peddling freedom to the not on subway bonds born in world and daring them to op- jam meetings and halls. We dishonesty; all this any people the only ones who have refused must contribute our little dol- to sign the International Trea- pose it and bribing them kindly can have, if they dare vote for to accept it, and dropping lars, remembering that the it. ty promising not to resort to dollars of the masses can out- germ warfare; and it is widely death on those who refuse it; I'am not one who despairs while we, the real victims, weigh the huge endowments of charged that we are now using the business foundations, and even when brasshats and bacteria in China. whose taxes furnish the bribes thieves seem triumphant and and whose dead and crippled that full employment and high We are deprived from day to wages which now depend on it costs a man life, liberty and day of knowledge of the real and insane children furnish happiness to dare express his the soldiers, sit and ask with murder and destruction can facts. Our sons fight. and die have a more civilized founda- Opinions, when this nation is and we cannot learn why or vacant faces: for whom shall about to be black-jacked into we vote, which candidate shall tion in housing, hospitals and how. Deaths by bullets are re- schools. We must listen to facts Selecting as. President a war- ported but deaths. by freezing, we vote for, and if you please, maker who cannot reveal a dear candidate—will you kindly and read reason instead of be- accident and disease are con- ing entertained by stupid radio policy because he has none to cealed. We are allowed no free please tell us: what the hell do reveal; when we haye crime you stand for anyway? Is it and television advertisements ce, and tawdry, vulgar pictures. because there is no essential too much for us to ask your ethical difference between pri- from the keynote We must know the issues and (Excerpts Majesty? vate theft, big business meth- speech delivered at a Progres- talk about them and tell others. Yet we are fooling nobody, We must unite our wards, vil- ods and public graft. Beneath sive Party rally in Madison Sq. this stampede and filth; this "Garden, N. Y., May 13.) not even ourselves. We have no lages and cities into a nation, choice, There are no two par- Ww. E B. _ Dubos’ ann in Nevember, rain or shine, — (Continued on Page 2) i i Page Zz FREEDOM

Mrs. Edith Sampson Tells Europeans [ National News |t

Florida was news in the Negro press again last month with. Negroes Are Happy, Almost Free the birth of a new white supremacist hate organization called as the “White Democrats of the South.” To join is to pledge: “...1 By ESLANDA G. ROBESON South, but it is such a_ silly believe in States Rights and Segregation of the White Race from thing.” Silly? ! the Colored Race” and “I will support the White Democrats of Did you know that the Negro the South in their program to bring to the public’s attention the “In Northern cities like Chi- people will have complete truth of all civil rights cases framed against white citizens and cago Negroes own property in equality in five years? Mrs. “peace officers by Communists and all the deceptive popular front various, spots throughout the Edith Sampson said so in these city.” That must have been in groups.” : words: Progress has been so * * * - f answer to a question abant great, Negroes will have com- Cicero! The new civil service re-classification of janitors and char- plete and full equality within women in the South will cause large numbers of Negro workers five years.” “The Governor of South Ca- to lose thousands of dollars in pay. Typical is Mrs. Suzie Hender- rolina is an old man. That’s Did you think Negroes are son of Atlanta, formerly employed at‘an army post in the South, why he insists on, discrimina- the last hired and first fired? who says that her reclassification loss will amount to as much tion.” The “old man” is only It isn’t so; it’s all lies and Rus- as $500 per year. James Byrnes, former Secre- * e * sian propaganda. Mrs. Samp- tary of State, who helped make An Official Federal Bureau of Prison pamphlet released last son said so, in these words: our foreign and domestic’ poli- “People say Negroes are last to month reports that during the last twenty years more than three be hired and first to be fired. cies. é colored=persons:out of every 30,000 have been “legally” executed; That’s just not true. Manage- “Meets Diplomats where only three white persons out of every 270,000 have met ment is interested in profits, so death in a similar fashion. The colored population is only one “Paul Robeson is beginning when they cut down they keep tenth of the total population. But 57.2% of the total “legally” those who perform best. Of to waste people’s time making executed are colored. speeches. His passport has not * * * course, shifiless Negroes are» MRS. ESLAND G. ROBESOY fired.” been taken away because he is PITTSBURGH—An all white jury of ten women and two men ° a Negro. When he says un- in a court room packed with indignant Negro citizens acquitted Did you think Negroes don’t A young Negro in the audi- truths about America, we can- Lawrence Robinson in the “attempted-rape-murder” of a white like conditions in the South? ence asked for the floor several not allow him. to travel.” Note school teacher who insisted on “positively” identifying the dark Well, don’t you believe that times but it, was denied him; he the “we” if you please. Maybe skinned man as “light skinned.” either, says our Mrs. Sampson, Edith feels very we-ish with * * * told friends later that Mrs. as follows: “If Negroes didn’t Dean (Acheson) and. Ruth CHICAGO—Mrs. Hortense Spaulding of the Greater Chicago like conditions in the South, all Sampson had completely dis- (Shipley), Secretary of State Negro Labor Council reported that business had fallen off 85% they would have to do would be torted the truth about the Ne- and Chief of the Passport Divi- at the West Madison Street Woolworth and Scott Department to take a bus, train or plane, gro people. sion, but I'll bet they don’t feel Stores where the NLC has organized. Saturday afternoon picket- and go north. But they prefer visa versa. lines to protest the store’s Jim Crow hiring policies. to stay in their beautiful homes “Silly” Jim Crow * * * and take care of their land.” While on her missions, Mrs. Direct reports from Scandi- Sampson .was associated with NEW YORK CITY—The Community FEPC committee in Europeans Criticize navia reveal that Mrs. Samp- U.S: embassies and met with Washington Hts., scored another victory last month in collecting leading diplomats of the world. $475 back pay for a young Negro worker who worked six months She also said: Negroes won’t son was irritated because many in the audience disputed her It is said that she was very for less than the legal wage minimum 5744 cents per hour. The buy second-hand cars. They glowing picture. In ‘Gothen- charming and witty and very committee also won a minimum wage guarantee for a second buy Cadillacs, big black shiny berg, Sweden, she angrily left fast with the sharp words. ‘Negro youth now employed in the same store as a delivery man. * * * ones.” her meeting before it was ad- For example, at a diplomatic’ What kind of company does journed, because she did not reception where food was being BOSTON—The Boston Car Company has agreed to pay Cary like the -questions from the Edith Sampson keep? She must served, Mrs. Sampson. ap- Hunt, a Negro mechanic $1,700 as a settlement which was reached floor. travel with Negro Cadillac proached Mr. Julius. Katz- when Hunt filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission leadership—certainly not with You can imagine what kind Suchy, Poland’s chief delegate Against Discrimination, charging he was fired from the one because of color prejudice. \ Negroes typical of our millions, of questions they must. have to the U.N. “Mr. Katz-Suchy,” * * * or of the one-third of our na= she said, “I brought you a piece been, because in Stockholm she SAN FRANCISCO—The National Negro Labor Council won tion who are ill-housed, ill- of pumpkin pie. I thought you clothed and ill-fed. is quoted as having made these would like it. I understand four jobs for Negro women at the new Sears-Roebuck store. statements: they don’t eat very well in your f # * + ‘ Mrs. Edith Sampson, Negro country.” LOS ANGELES—The Student Government at the University lawyer from. Chicago, former “Jim Crow still exists in the of California at Los Angeles has withdrawn recognition from the U.S. alternate delegate to the Mr. Katz-Suchy looked at our overfed Edith, coughed, accep- campus chapters of three national musical sororities because of United Nations General As- discrimination against Negro women. ted the pie and commented on 4 sembly, recently on a State De- 7 * * * partment mission .in Europe, the weather. said all that and much more A little more humanity, Edith, With the NAACP in a lecture tour entitled, “Ne- if you please. Is hunger—even At Columbia South Carolina, NAACP State Chairman James gro life in America” last when it exists in your fertile M. Hinton has promised potential Negro voters that the NAACP February in the National Mu- imagination—a proper subject with provide legal assistance for “any attempt to molest, intimi- seum at Hellerup,. Denmark. for et” ?. date, confuse or otherwise victimize and interfere with the right to register and vote.” But she didn’t get away with Here’s another Edith Samp- Michigan State NAACP has announced a campaign to defeat it. She got her ears pinned son gem: “I would rather be a state legislators who voted against FEPC. . .. While in Detroit, back by members of Her audi- Negro in America than a citi- ence. A Mrs. Kirsten Lauritzen, NAACP attorneys filed'a motion last month seeking the admission zen in any other land.” Well, of Negroes into the Colonel Hamtramck housing proiect. social leader and wife of a maybe Edith can pick and ‘shipowner, criticized her in choose her land to be a citizen these words: “Her speech seems “ in, but most Negroes cannot. only a defense for the U.S.A. We're stuck with this one, and . I question the advisability so we are fighting to make it ; of making speeches that seem reasonably safe for our life, li- to be very one-sided. . ..I do berty and pursuit of happiness not think Mrs. Sampson is ser- A. little help from Mrs. Samp- ving the best interests of the son would certainly be appre- Negro people.” MRS. EDITH SAMPSON ciated. DuBois Calls for Third Party

(Continued from Page 1) their’ successors are scared to- men said there is no honesty, ‘deception and fear, there is a day, when anyone who speaks no truth. There can be no free- real America like that of ich of peace with the Soviet Union dom, no democracy, no peace. our fathers dreamed, and ean be showererd with tomato Crouch - lower, yield, conform. dreamed about in vain from juice, while policemen grin be- give up! But some never lost faith, never ceased to struggle } 1776 until 1864. Dreamed and tween their trials for graft. persisted in dreaming and in toward the stars. They let men striving and pushing Third Yet America crawled out of jeer, until at last down there § Party movements despite the that darkness and dungeon of at the edge of hope’ somebody Supreme Court and mobs; indecency—will crawl again pointed, another groaned, and § while in the face of the Declar- today—crawl to stand and a third screamed. They stood, ation of Independence my march. Out of caves of fear staggered and walked out into A DRUG STORE serves asa’ polling booth as two Atlantans, Lew fathers were being bought and /they will creep as once ‘men the night, and a chorus K. McGuire (left), World War H vet, and Dr. S: M. Lewis, a phy- swelled: ‘sold as real estate. Nobody was crept in the dawn of civiliza- sician, try in yain to register i in 1945. W. R. Owens, election official, tion when beasts had driven more arrogant than the slave It is the stars, it is the tells them primary election is for whites only barons of the cotton kingdom. them to caverns down beneath as a policeman stands They strutted along Broadway the sun, where they cowered ancient stars, . by to support his claim. Today, the white primary is outlawed ond with airs and impudence that and whined;~ with hope and It is the old and oes Negroes’in Georgia vote in the thousands, But how shall they cost scared most Americans then as heaven lost and lost so long, stars. their ballots? Dr. DuBois says, “Third Party Or'Diel™ =~ “

5 EES FREEDOM - : Roe: 2 NN. C. Furniture Workers Blaze Union Trail sy GEORGE JOHNSON Negro union?” They know, of College in Charlotte. I haven’t THOMASVILLE, N C.—When I started at the Thomasville Chair company twenty course, that most of our mem® had much education .myself bers and officers are white, but ‘years ago, I worked ten hours a day for 20 cents ‘an hour. It was a long time before the and there must be many things they try to stir up the worst I don’t know, but I figure like union came, but when it did: everybody in Thomasville new it.: For: 17 long weeks in prejudices to keep the workers this: there is one thing a man ‘1946 Negro and white workers divided and the union weak. in this Jim Crow town walked has got to have and that is the But ‘still in ‘spite of these ‘guts to stand up and fight for the picket lines together, ate ships: the union. has stuck. out of the same soup kitchens ‘— himself and his people, ~ ,and won a strike which estab-_ One thing is sure, When this lished Local 286, United Furni-— Worked Night and Day . Strike: is over, the: workers are jure: Workers of America, CIO, That’s why. our strike ig\so going .to-be a lot. more inter- as our bargaining agent. ~ important. It -will° affect the ested in» political issues. They Today we're out. on. strike . trade union. struggles of 50,000 have seen how the elected of- ‘again. This time we're fighting furniture. workers. in . North ficials, treat. their strike. I was to keep our union which has Carolina .and Virginia. It is a one of the men who h2nded won more benefits for. the’ trail‘ blazer in ‘unity of Negro out leaflets asking Negroes to workers -at Thomasville, Chair and white kers-in Southern register to yote. in the past six years than. the -sI believe that if we can keep company had. granted. in, all its., our union strong and build up past. history. those ‘us, who, have fought the: voting power of the work=- For six. months we eat for. decent living wages, and ers: and the Negro people, we ated for a measly five: cent they have tried’ to intimidate can make Thomasville a happy wage increase and for six every way they know place to live in—a place where months the company refused folks won’t have to worry about to budge. It offered—nothing! I am just a plain -working being hungry and living in Now we’ve been out for 12 man who has worked day and shacks and not having enough weeks and Thomasville Chait night for many years to edu- to send their - children to has already lost more than. the cate my seyen children. Two of school. wage increase would have cost my daughters aré nurses, my That’s the kind of country them for a year. It seems the son is a vet and goes to A&T our union stands for and I company has one aim: to College in Greensboro, and I ‘hope all. the people who read Smash our union. have another. daughter who this article will do all they can went to Johnson C. Smith) to help us win it. Union Brought Dignity / When the union came in ‘GEORGE JOHNSON 1946 the average worker at. the Help the Thomasville Strikers! plant. was making about 40 or five Negroes. In fact, most workers live in. But the com- The story of the Nezro and Yaise if they receive cents an.hour. The union has of the white workers on the ing of the union changed a lot enough won a wage increase every picket: lines will tell us that if white strikers at the Thomas- food and money to hold out of things. Even those who ville Chair Company, as told to year except 1951, so that the the white workers would stick against a notorious anti-union, aren't in industry don’t bow FREEDOM’S readers by one of average wage’is now around together like the Negroes are and scrape to the Finches as anti-Negro employer. So, take their leaders, is one of the en- it up with your friends, your 90 cents. We now get insurance, doing, we could make a whole they used to. couraging stories of united union, church group or social sick benefits and paid vaca- lot of trade union progress } in That’s why they want to get struggle by the working. men club. Most important, sit down tions. this town. rid of the union so bad. The and women of the South. We right now (the Thomasville , But mostly, the union _has, It wasn’t easy to build a company offers the workers a look to them to bring to an workers won dignity. There was a time union in a company town like little more money and better may, have made the end the system of poverty, Jim chair you use) and send a when if a foreman didn’t Thomasville, especially a union jobs if they quit the union. Crow and race hate which ‘is a money donation and wrap a think you were working hard with Negro and white workers Sometimes the union signs up halter on the progress of the package of canned or boxed. enough and fast enough, he together. The Finch family 150 workers in a month, and nation. foods and send them to: Thom- would just walk over and kick which owns the plant also owns the next month maybe 100 of The _ Thomasville strikers asville Strike you good. If you complained, the bank, most of the land, them have been fired. The Relief Committee, need your help. They can win 11 Trade Street, Thomasville, you lost your job. It was usually controls the newspaper and bosses tell the white workers: the Negro workers who got their demand for a five cent N.C. owns most of the houses the “Are you going to join that jw most of that, but they used to J kick the white workers too. Negro workers in the plant average between 85 and 90 Army Fires Veteran Labor cents an hour tops and as Leader usual do the dirtiest work—in the lumber yard, the filler room and the glue room. My FEPC Leader own hands are stained white LOUISVILLE, Ky.—“The so- Dies at Seattle Post from having to clean. them called loyalty program has got with strong solutions to get the to go if FEPC is to become a Charles Nichols, Seattle port became a dispatcher, shipping varnish off. For this, 1 draw law!” That’s the sentiment be- agent of the Marine Cooks & the jobs from the union hall, 99 cents an hour, ing expressed in this city fol- Stewards Union, died on Tues- and in 1950 he was elected port lowing the suspension of a agent. Negro worker from the Army’s day, May 18. FREEDOM joins Jim Crow Wages Jeffersonville Quartermaster his family, his fellow union Charlie Nichols did not con- The big job is to get the Depot for circulating a petition members and the friends who fine his energy to the Union. He white workers at the plant to ‘for fair employment practices. was active in community or- knew him from coast to coast understand how white su- . The_worker, Walter E. Bar- ganizations, including the Na- premacy hurts them, For in« nett is a World War II veteran in mourning our common. loss. tional Negro Labor Council. He stance, only whites are hired who was injured on Iwo Jima. No one had been more instru- worked unceasingly for the la- in the higher skilled jobs in He has been chairman of the mental than Charles Nichols bor movement and for Negro the cabinet, machine and up- Progressive Party of Louisville in breaking down Jim Crow on rights for so many years he holstery departments. -They and Jefferson County for two the ships sailing out of Seattle. just couldn’t slow down. average around $1.10 an hour. years and is a member of the He first went to sea in 1925 on Long a victim of an asthma- Now this is a little more than executive committee of the the Jim Crow Admiral Line tie condition which eventually the Negro. workers get, but it Louisville Area Negro Labor ships. Even as a youngster he affected his heart, he was told is a lot less than all workers, Council. wasn’t interested in just a job by his doctor he would have to Negro and white, could get if Barnett contends that on the for himself, but in equal oe “take it easy.” He didn’t know the discriminatory: hiring - pol- Morning of April 18 he got for all Negroes. what the words meant. icy were. wiped out..and the signatures.to the Council’s union’s bargaining strength FEPC petition from fellow During’ the rugged days of During the ‘past year, despite increased. Compared with a workers “on his. own time.’ the 30's; through the great the pleading of his wife, Anita, New York upholsterer who Later that day, he was called West Coast maritime strikes of the MCS brothers who knew 1934 and 1936 Charlie joined makes an average of $2.50 an to the office of Brig. Gen. -L. 0. him best such as President with Joe Harris, fomer Seattle hour, the Thomasville ‘uphol- Grice, depot commander, and Hugh. Bryson, Eddie Tangen, sterer, in his “white-only”: job, questioned. port agent of MCS and Eddie Bob Ward and Joe Johnsor, Tangen, secretary-treasurer of loses about $1.35 an hour to Nathaniel McKenzie, chair- Charlie Nichols tried to keep up the bosses pocket. and:to Jim man of the Council here, in the Union, in carrying on a the hard pace of a leader in a fight for jobs for Negroes and Crow, : discussing... the Barnett case, - progressive union under con- Thomasville Chair » works declared:. “His suspension is advancement on all ships sail- stant attack from -reactionary ing out of Seattle. about 1500 men .and women; part of a pattern that has been government agencies, the em- between five and six hundred. established to silence all who “In 1940 he became a patrol- ployers, and thé misleaders of of them are Negroes. At ‘pres- other raiding unions. . Stand on the side of the people man for MCS, his duty being to ent the company is trying’ to as Oppposéd to those who serve ‘board all ships and make sure — He. is survived ‘by his wife keep the plant going with the. interest. of Big’ Business and two children, Charles Ed- CHARLES NICHOLS ‘about. 350. scabs, and among, and who. seek to OPRD ESSE the the. men and women, abroad ward and Carol. He was 44 these you will-only find four - people.” , i rietie} had good conditions. Later he years old. . at

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Plan Anti-Malan Fight

»»* “One may say with certainty, that if the Native workers are deprived of their eae eday, the European, Coloured and Indian workers will be deprived of theirs to- morrow.” Eighty seven African and Council which met in Durban ister of Labor. The conference white delegates representing in late April. o voted in favor of strike action fifty four unions and 90,000 or= A) key point. ‘in the trade if the ‘segregation proposals ganized... workers listened. to union conference was the at- are voted into law. these remarks of Mr. E. S. »tack on the Malan Government A nation-wide campaigis for Sachs of the Garment Workers proposal to segregate unions on higher wages for workers in SOUTH AFRICAN LANDSCAPE. The Malan dictatorship, which Union at the annual confer- - a racial. basis and put them the inflation-ridden country fosters these signs and practices, receives arms, equipment and ence of the Trades and Labour under the control of the min- was outlined. A * forthright stand for freedom of the press loans from U.S. taxpayers’ money as part of “Western civiliza- . 1H was taken, and the Malan goy- tion's” crusade: against “communism.” ernment efforts to suppress the Cape Town weekly, the Guar- South Africa _ dian, were specifically con- demned. Unity Grows in Africa as “Representatives to the con-" ference came’ from motor, building, transport, garment, Black Rodesians Fight for Land of Passes laundry, baking, theatre and leather industries. In the face of the ferocious The Government of the Un- woman must also. earry a spe- White Brother’ s Freedom ion of South Africa “employs cial permit to visit friends in ‘attacks unleashed by the Ma- some of the most senseless and the evening. lanist party against progressive Simon’ Zukdas is Vice Presi- such a position is rejected by brutal and fantastically com- labor in South Africa, the dent of the Northern Rhode- politically mature. leaders, Beer Permit: If an African Trades and Labor Council has plicated patterns of oppression family decides to give a wed- sian African Congress, an or- These leaders distinguish be- in the world. The famous and maintained its militancy, unity. ~ ganization of almost two mil- tween Europeans who are ding or birthday party they and interracial membership. It universally abhorred “‘pass sys- must apply to the Location lion’ é Africatt’ people. He was friends and those who- are ex- tem”-is typical of the fascist is charting the path which all arrested, on May 6th by the ploiters. Superintendent to obtain beer Jabor in South Africa will most government’s efforts to control, British Colonial government. of In Northern Rhodesia, the for their guests which may not - likely follow.” humiliate and harass the black in any case exceed four gallons. Northern Rhodesia which is at- Freedom Newsletter, official or- African population with nui- Exemption Permit: a person tempting to deport-him out of gan of the NRAC, commented sance devices. An African who-ecarries this permit is ex- Volunteers: Ready the colony. . on Zukas’ arrest: “. . . New worker setting out to find work empt from ..carrying ether To Stert Campaign Zukas is white. The govern- leaders will rise in place of ° will have to obtain most of the ment charges him with “en- thosé snatched away ... the passes. The permit is obtain- At a joint meeting of the following passes. able only after an African has deavoring to excite enmity be- heart of every African ‘is dark Traveling Pass: Issued by the executive committees of the - tween one section of the people with sorrow and full of love for worked for the same white African National Congress and Location Commissioner before employer for not less than and any other section.” our true European. friend.” Jeaving the residence area. He the South African Indian Con- three years. And if he is stop- gress: held..on May 30, it was . The Rhodesian people seem ‘ is not allowed to leave the lo- ped by the police and is for any to feel just the opposite. Zukas cation without this pass. decided that the actual launch- AME Zion Backs reason without. it he is | ar- ing.-of the ciyil. disobedience will be defended in the Court rested. i A Special Pass: which is good campaign «should. take place -of Appeals in Central Africa by’: Passport Fight for’ six days and» which he Daily Laborer’s Pass: If a June 26. the internationally famous must wait sometimes as long person owns a small business There has been in progress British lawyer, Mr. D.N. Pritt, (Continued from Page 1) ; as ‘three days to obtain. . “and is not employed by any for. several weeks the mobiliza- whose. seryices will be pur- . returned, The press is here; let Main Pass: To be given to one, he-is issued this pass for tion of volunteers to take part chased with money raised by them put that in the paper.” the employer. which ‘he pays two shillings in the action..by refusing to the people themselves. Sections Apparently stunned by this Visiting Pass: For visiting a-month: obey the, various Jim. Crow of the : Northern Rhodesian spontaneous support for th the © friends in the evening this Apart from: any policeman -regulations in the urban areas. Mine Workers Union of 30,000 ° great artist by his people—sup- pass is issued by the employer. having the right to stop an The Malan government has. copper workers have demanded port which she has been deny- Night Pass: To visit after African anywhere and asking * sought to erack down on the a strike-in protest: of ‘the gov- ing throughout Europe—Mys. 9 PM. to see his passes, any railway : movement by decreeing that ernment’s deportation .inten- Sampson -told reporters ‘after Trek Pass: For farm workers official. before issuing a train more than a score of its lead- tions. the session she thought it’ was to leave the farms. ticket can demand to see his ers must resign from their or- Zukas, a working’ symbol. of “unfortunate that the church Inward Pass: For any African train pass. ganizations, remain in- their growing African-European uni- should take such action. — who should: want to enter It is illegal for Africans , In- residential-areas and not take ty on the African continent, is The. following week, in a let Natal. dians and Colored’ people to part in any public meetings. a member of the Supreme Ac- ter to Bishop Walls, Mrs. Samp- Lodger’s Permit: .To obtain live in areas set aside for In open defiance of these tion Council which is fighting son presumed to lecture the board and lodging with anoth- whites only. They are not al- measures African leaders like against proposals for Central outstanding churchman on er family. Issued by the Loca- lowed to walk in parks, sit on Kotane, Marks and Ngwevela African Federation..These pro- “the kind of conduct one ex- tion ‘Superintendent. benches, board buses, trams, continue to speak at meetings, posals are being pushed by the pects from an ‘advocate of Women’s Pass: Aside from all taxis, enter cafes theatres or indicating the government white colonial minority in the Christian ethics,” and accused the other permits which she meeting places reserved — for measures have only aroused country. The Africans say such him of “discourtesy” in per- must carry, the South African whites only. greater militancy. a federation will extend racist mitting Mr, Robeson to share policies of Southern Rhodesia the platform with her, into the other two colonies, Ny- When asked for a reaction to asaland and Northern Rhodesia. Mrs. Sampson’s attack on the Enemies. of African freedom Bishop, a leading churchman charge internationally that the responded: “That was to be ex- freedom movements of the Af- pected. How would you feel if rican people are “race wars” you were on the short. end of a and “anti-white nationalism.” 3,000. to two vote? But the While it can be seen how racist Bishop and the Church did the theories brought to the contin- right. thing, because that’s just ent by the whites, might in this about .how* the whole Negro time be turned against them by people feel about Robeson. the black majority populations, They're for him—3,000 to two!”

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‘Student FREEDOM Killing Exposes NYU Bias

By LORRAINE HANSBERRY ing. The NAACP called a special investigation and expressed _ Let your voice be heard pro= protest memorial meeting to On Friday, May 9, Enus L. Christiani, a graduate stu- doubt that Christiani would testing this killing, demanding outline the special demands “it have been killed had he been a Negro white grand jury in- dent in economics at New York University, walked over to would make in the case. The white. < a game booth at a university fund raising blotk party, and vestigation, demanding disarm- N.Y. University administration This letter sent in to the ing of the guards at NYU. asked the studeats who were failed to even send a represen- FREEDOM office is typical of running the dart game there Protest through your civie had only a few days before tative, blatantly reflecting it’s the anger of Negro students on organizations, social clubs, re- to change the target, -which completed work on his masters white supremacist attitude that the NYU campus: ligious organizations, sororities, was the stereotyped head of a thesis in economics and would the murder of the graduate To the Editors: fraternities, unions or as indi- Negro woman, have received his Master of student was nothing more than The greedy fist of racist op- viduals. . The white fraternity “and ~ Arts Degree in June, an “unfortunate incident.” The student paper The Square Bul- ~ pression has struck again! This Write or wire: Chancellor sorority students argued» with In one sécetion of the church Henry T. Heald, New York Uni- letin also representing time, firimg a fatal shot. This him and. refused to move. it. sat a block of Negro-and white the worst, of callous bigotry, com- time, on the campus of oné of versity, Washington Square, Christiani, a member of the students from New York Uni- the “most liberal” universities New York City. Also write or mented “in glowing terms on campus chapter of the NAACP versity. To them, the * funeral in the country. wire District Attorney Frank bier of Enus Christiani resting the success of the block party— ‘and his community FEPC com- Enus_ Christiani, a Negro Hogan. mittee, went back to the booth in the front of the church, was and .added a thin line ‘that it was too bad it had been marred graduate student at New York Act now for the right of. the several times during the eve- a tragic, angering climax of the University was murdered by a Negro. people to live and fight very things ‘they ‘had been by the—“incident.” ning and insisted on the remov- University cop. Chris’ voice for their rights. al of the anti-Negro drawing. fighting against. Still the majority of white cries out to us, “pleads to us: - a A Negro Student The killing of Enus Christiani students spoke in fayor of an “Unite against our enemies!” * New York University at NYU, served as 4’ terrible opening expose of the racist policies existing at the “liberal” = N. Carolina College university. Youth Calls for For months the campus chapter of the NAACP has con- ducted a campaign to get the A Militant Student Generation - ) University administration to remove race and religion ques- By ROBERT F. WILLIAMS tions from class registration cards. The University. adminis- Throughout the South to day the echoes of hurrying footsteps fill the congested corri- tration has sought desperately dors and fade beyond the vastness of the Jim Crowed Ne gro college campuses. Many © to cover up the practice, sdying of these echoes trail off into a past that saw previous generations of the same lineage pass that the information was need- from the carefree scene to the ed for “statistics” and that world’s most serious business, various. campus religious or- security of their jobs. They look Having also been a student the business of living. To be upon the school as an industry ganizations requested the in- One among and a part of this of W. Va. State college and to supply white collar jobs, formation, which was: denied throng is a great experience. N. C. College at Durham, I do by the heads of the organiza- rather than an institution to not-find this situation confined * ‘tions when they were visited by In the South one is constant- train and properly direct youth to’ this institution alone. The - an NAACP committee. ly reminded that he is a. Negro toward a fuller and more pro- fallacy is that most students Enus: L. Christiani and thus, must live in a third ductive life. are thinking as they: have been Demitery ‘ Segregation elass world with a very slight The lack of a progressive cur- taught to think, of their per- The day before the Christiani hope of the ultimate expression riculum inclusive of an objec- sonal careers, or becoming a A fight started and the univer- funeral a picket line was organ- ~ of his human capacities. Many tive analysis of current events third class aristocracy: in a sity special” guard; .James.G. . ized in front of the main, build- Negro college students become places the southern Negro col- Jim Crowed world. In spite ef: Giordano came up and began ing protesting the registration resigned to this pathetic fate. lege student at a disadvantage the fact that tradition dies to scuffle with the angry Negro card practice. The student They slide into a set pattern in understanding the problems hard, there are a few militant © student, Then the, guard pulled picketeers shouted: “WE WANT to play a minor role in the of his world. Forty students Southern students determined |, out his: regulation .45 caliber ‘EDUCATION :... NOT DISCRI- » drama of life. They are condi- quéried at random on’the cam- to seek truth and. justice. In, pistol and fired twice at Chris: MINATION!” ‘ tioned for a passive acceptance pus of Johnson C, Smith Uni- ‘them is hope and strength for tiani. 4 Racism at NYU aside from of a limited life by the discour- versity were asked whether Negro liberation, the dignity of The following Tuesday after- the registration cards. persists agement of militancy that de- they had heard of 10 outstand- the Negro race. noon Reverend Harold William- mands immediate rather than ing personalities, and the re- son stood up~in the pulpit. of in several forms. One Negro woman student reported that gradual action toward the solu- sults were as follows: the Friendship Baptist Church N.Y. School Offers 7 ‘not only were Negro women tion of the race problem. _ in Harlem before 200 mourners HAD HAD NOT Music Scholarships : of the militant veteran and be- segregated at Judson House The Negro college students in 0 Charlotta Bass 40 NEW YORK, N: ¥.—The Metro- into one section of the dor- gan. the funeral services: ‘“In- the South should be the most 24. Taft--Hartley 16. politan Music School is offer- justice stalks the land, Let us “mitory but that Negro women militant. agitators for .democ- 24 Philip Murray 16 students are only paired with ing advance scholarships, cov~ ~ pray, and as we pray, iet-us racy in America today, They 40 John L. Lewis 0 ‘other Negro women. Then there ering full tuition, to talented © prepare-to fight for a new-day.” have nothing to lose and all to 16 Harry T. Moore 24 is the basket ball team which — Negro students in piano and Mrs. Natalie Christiani, wid- gain. They are free. from en- & Smith Act 36 has. been strictly Jim Crow for “ow of the murdered 35 year old tangling alliances, while some 24 Walter Reuther 16 voice. Applicants are urged to the last 11 years; a lily-white student, who even in stunned of the. older. generation ‘have 28 Judge J. Waites Waring 12 contact the director or registrar guard system and the free grief had attended an NAACP discovered that segregation can I6== William Green 24 of the School at 18 West 74 St., functioning of lily-white frat- protest meeting the night be- be, profitable to quislings, 30 W. E. B. DuBois 10 N.Y.C. Phone TR 3-2761. ernities and sororities on the fore, sat in one of the front sweat and blood pimps. campus. It was such a sorority, pews with other members of the Alpha, Epsilon Phi, which the family. The great tragedy is not so put up the caricature that much that some of the older Spingarn Medal to Harry T. Moore Word War It Vet started the arguments and in- generation adhere to a policy The obituary was that of a sults which led te the slaying of passive gradualism, but that feotball star, a World War IE of Christiani. they are constantly striving to hero with six battle stars who All over the Washington sell the younger generations had worked. his way through Square campus students were their outmoded ideals and poli- West Virginia State College. He discussing the Christiani slay- cies. They are endeavoring to stifle all inclinations toward militancy. £ ~ Many teachers are introduc- About the Author ing a new version of Uncle As we go to press, more than struggle for first-class citizen- _Tomism which will surely leave 10,000 Negro students will be ship? To get an answer, FREE- its crippling marks upon the stepping forward to receive DOM asked this question of race. their degrees in colleges one of our student readers On many campuses freedom throughout the whose article appears on this of expression is limited to the nation. They page. praising of the American way are the gradu- S of life without condemnation ating classes Robert F. Williams, a veteran of its fascist hypocricy. Many : among some of World War I, is a junior in militant students have rebelled, 120,000 Negro the School of Liberal Arts at and successfully forced stag- A college stu- Johnson C. Smith University, nated administrations to let ‘dents, most of Charlotte, N.C. He has contri- campus minds develop . un- Harry T. Moore Walter White fom attend buted to the Victory Anthology bridled and free to express the still - segrega- # of Verse and the Lincoln Lead- objective truth. Walter White, secretary of the NAACP, has announced that ted schools in er. His peetry is currently ap- the Spingarn medal will be awarded posthumously to Harry T. ie South. q pearing im the periodicals: In many instances, the great- Moore atthe Association’s 43rd: annual ‘convention, to be held What dothese Mr. Williams Scimitar and Song, The West- est threat to student militancy June 24-29, at Oklahoma City. Mr. Moore and his wife, the ‘outh think of their education minster, Hearth Songs Journal is the Negro teacher. They fear school teacher Mrs. Harriet Moore, were both killed by a bomb ind. their responsibilities in the and The Monroe Inquirer. integration, because they feel which wrecked their home -at Mims, Fla. on Christmas night, > sé that it will take away the 1951. Moore was state co-ordinator of the NAACP. ,

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Learning: Weapon of Freedom Support Labor's Battles A® THE EYES OF: THE NATION are turned to the just struggle of the 'steelworkers for a living wage, two other strike actions of special importance to. Negroes de- serve our attention. . Mr. .George Johnson tells the story on page 3 of this month’s FREEDOM of 1,500 furniture workers,in Thomas- ville, N.'C. Nearby, in Reedsville, Va., 700 Negro Menhaden fisher- men are standing firm in the ‘frst strike in the history of an industry which has. maintained conditions ‘close to slavery. They are members of the progressive and militant International Fur and Leather Workers Union. They are a section of an industry involving: more’ than: 10,000 Negro , fishermen up and down our eastern shores. Everyone inter- ‘ested*in the security ‘and*well-being of the Negro people should rally to their sdie. ss * Hearts and. Hides OW WE KNOW. | Ex-General of the Army Eisenhower is against is. crimination. For that matter, so is Kefauver of the coon-skin cap and Russell of the Dixiecrats. And Taft, Kerr, Harriman, McMahon and Warren, too—they are all against discrimina- tion for the record. There are not many self-proclaimed pro sin people in the world these days. The problem is: what to do about it? And here Ike let’s the cat out of the bag. He doesn’t kelieve in com- plusion, he says. The problem has to be solved in the hearts of men. Negroes have been waiting for the hearts of some men to change for more than 300 years. Sometimes we think its about time to go to work on some of their hides. In any case we know that we’re not going to. have an end to Jim Crow and lynching and job discrimination with- out passing laws which penalize these crimes, and en- forcing them. LETTER COLUMN It’s clear that the General, who has just finished a tour of duty in which he organized “areas of streng'h” to force the whole wide world to bow to the will of the Truman Get: It Off Your Chest administration, doesn’t agree with us.

Dear Paul Robeson: with no provisions being made ~ Children’s Stories I have heard you sing over , for the residents. : Solve Problems — Hosannas to Zion! the records. I liked if very Negroes have born the brunt of the hardship in the housing Allow me to express briefly (Guest editorial from the Boston CHRONICLE) much. I have been waiting to my debt to you for your Chil- see you for several years, but I crisis. An increasing number of R™ REV. WILLIAM J. WALLS, senior bishop Negroes find it necessary to dren’s Stories. Before I became of the have not been able to see you. African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, is one of move out of Bethlehem. acquainted with Freedom, as If you had any spare time for an elementary teacher in the those “men of light and learning meet for the people” a children’s concert. I would A few Negro leaders: and lo- South, I was found with the about whom Ecclesiasticus wrote when he enjoined us: appreciate it very much. cal steel union presidents have problem of offering my stu- “Let us now praise famous men that begat us ... the Eric Shtob made token protest but have dents something that would be Lord hath wrought great glory by them.” The scholarly Brooklyn, N.Y. failed to press the issue with of interest to them as well as prelate’s action at the 34th quadrennial General Conference the membership of their or- counteract the racist mytholo- ganizations. What is needed gy with which they are daily of his denomination will become “an example unto all gen- here is united action from Ne- bombarded from the movies Abstain for FREEDOM erations.” After Paul Robeson finished acting and singing, -groes and rank and file. steel and the comics. Your paper Bishop Walls rose to assert: “Tonight we have a son of Enclosed find M.O. for one workers demanding adequate contributes a great deal tow- Zion here to sing. His father was a pastor in our church dollar to assist in meeting housing programs with a non- ard the solution of my prob- debts. Why not suggest to sup- discriminatory clause. lem. E and also a fighter. I will tell you why the State Department porters of the paper that ‘if A Steelworker Louis Henderson has refused Paul Robeson a passport. The reason he is they are in earnest, they will Bethlehem, Pa. Marion, Alabama barred from going abroad is that Paul Robeson advocates not spend any. money . for independence for the colonial people.” either tobacco or liquor? The money thus saved will make a * og * * Inspiration tidy sum to donate for That Did It! Only two persons, neither of whom was a free agent, FREEDOM. With mounting enthusiasm A friend brought me a copy and sustained interest I have are reported to have kept their seats when the audience A Reader of FREEDOM—(I happen to be rose tumultuously to record that, as Bishop Walls said: read every page of Freedom Los Angeles, Calif. laid up with TB at the mo- since a friend introduced your ment)—and I.am_ greatly in- “The church of Zion is in favor of having his [Mr. Robe- paper to me a few months ago. son’s| passport returned.” Go sound the Jubilee! spired by its rich and progres- As a Southern’ youth who United Action Needed sive content. Then I read Alice has ever been interested in Childress’ column about how furthering the struggles of my Here in the Christmas

plete disregard for Christian B principles by evicting on short I am also very interested in Selma, Alabama notice, from a city-owned row the request’ of James Suther- a of shacks on Shawnee St., a land, the young miner of Glas- number of Negro families, and gow, Scotland, who stated, in Christ Will Win refusing to provide them with your: “Get It Off .Your Chest” You are sure putting out a Published monthly by Freedom Associates adequate housing. column, that he would like to fine. littlle. paper. I sure like 53 West 125th Street, New York 27, N.Y. Phone: ENright 9-3980 The main Bethlehem Steel get FREEDOM each month. If the work you are doing. I be- it hasn’t already been: arranged EDITORIAL BOARD: PAUL ROBESON, Chairman; plant which coils itself for six lieve the U.S. is going to have or seven miles in and about let me know, and I'll see. if. I. _ Revels. Cayton, Shirley Graham, Alphaeus Hunton, Modjeska M. Simkins. to. give in and allow peace in Bethlehem: has now begun. tg can stir up the cost of an over- the world. I believe in Christ. Editor: LOUIS E. BURNHAM_ General. Manager; GEORGE .B, MURPHY, Jr. . swallow up an alarming num- seas sub among my fellow I believe Christ is gding to win Associate Editor: LORRAINE HANSBERRY Bus. Mgr: BERTRAM ALVES ber of homes. Last. year 10 patients. : in the world. 10c.per copy;2subscription rate—$1.00 a year blocks of the town were turned Jack. Reed . Ira Benton; & over to the steel mill, again Duarte, California, Mountain View, Mo.

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Stories for Children « Jean DuSable Founded the Great City of Chciago Just east of the Mississippi River, on the would try to cheat them of the real values of great green plain of Illinois, at the edge of the their skins, their silver goods and woven mate-_ deep blue water called’ Lake Michigan, there rial, And sometimes they would take land and once lived a trader whose name was Jean Bap- destroy villages. tiste Pointe DuSable. : The Negro DuSable was known as an honest Everywhere in the Great Lakes region, the trader and it was said that a traveler who spent. people of the Indian nations told of the tall, the night at his house would know kindness. strong black man who had come as a young Throughout the territory the Indians respected man into the territory, perhaps as an escaped slave from New Orleans, or perhaps from Haiti. this man who spoke their languages and knew their ways. Many times there were arguments He and his wife, a young woman from the with the white men over land or trade. The Patowatomi tribe, worked hard building their Indians invited DuSable to come and speak with home and their trading store among the trees them for justice. near the edge of the great lake. They built a bakery and a smoke house, a dairy, a stable Today, tall buildings stand where the trad- ing outpost used to stand. The‘ buildings begin and a poultry house and a trading store. right at the edge of the deep ‘blue lake and This was long ago when white men were spread for miles around. For in place of the just moving across. the territories of the west. Smoke house and the dairy and the stable built At first the Indians had been friendly to them, by DuSable, now stands the second largest city but ‘they. learned that often the white men in the United States—the city- of Chicago.

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Cenversation From Life Robeson Sings to 40,000 By ALICE CHILDRESS ‘About Those Colored Movies At Border; 13,000 Chicago = You know one thing, Marge Brave”... and there was a Smashing all records for pub- .. I get real salty sometimes colored soldier in it. . . . Oh, lic gatherings in the Northwest, when I listen to some of my no, Marge! He was not passin’ an estimated 40,000 persons . for white ... but he was just from Canada and the United folks yammerin’ away about real touchous about bein’ col- States flooded into the sunlit “what’s wrong with the Ne- ored and would have spelis and Pece Arch Park on the Canadi- gro.” ... “The trouble with us things, and finaily he got to an Border on Sunday, May 18, to hear Paul Robeson speak and is we don’t this or that.”.... the point where he couldn't sing. or “Oh, Lord! When will we WALK cause he was. colored, fearn?” ... and a whole. gang The huge influx of people be- until a nice white doctor called gan early in the day. By 2:30 ‘oft other remarks like that! him a. real nasty name and p.m. thousands of men and ? Honestly, Marge, it just bugs then he got up and walked. Cus women and children were me to death! You are abso- No, Marge, he didn’t pop him massed on either side of the dutely right... a lot of white in the mouth. ...he just walked stately white arch, other thou- —that’s psychology. sands. were packed’in a yast, folks are always doin’ it too! colorful arch along the sloping Now it is very true that every- Then I saw “Cry The Beloved hillside across the landward one can stand some correction Country” -°.‘. and it. showed stretch of the grounds. how. good ‘white folks. can’t some times but it gets awful help no colored folk: ’cause they Robeson « entered the park wearysome when it begins to will kill good white people in- with an honor guard of mem- look like we’re to ‘blame for stead of thanking them, and bers of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. He was greet- everything that happens to us. it also.showed how» we just PART OF AUDIENCE of 40,000 at Canadian border. don’t do right, and it ends up, ed ‘and: warmly embraced by Harvey Murphy, the regional For an example, I go to see with a. nicé white man givin’ director of the Canadian. Mine audience in western Washing- Center arid when called upon & lot of movies about colored another.-one some money to Mill. and Smelter Workers Un- ton the same evening, and la- to. reconsider its action -the people . . . in fact almost all help little African. boys ter in other ‘parts ‘of the board held a. three hour hear- that they put out ...and Im Yes, Canada Lee was in that ° country. ing attended. by more than beginning to get a little warm and I was so sorry to hear that At 3 pm., with the crowd This great concert and peace 1,200 citizens. In a show of still. building rapidly, a U.S. under the collar about what the died. just:a few ‘weeks ago. rally demonstrated © beyond hands vote, the people of Ber- ‘Immigration official estimated they all say. Do you remember He was such a talented actor. question the immeasurable au- keley voted more than two to that. 25,000 persons had already that picture, “Pinky?”.It was . .. Don’t: you remember we diences in other lands being one in favor of granting Robe- all about a colored woman saw him.in “Haiti? some years gathered to hear Robeson. denied Paul Robeson by the son use of the hall, and the Latecomers told: how they. had bringin’ misery. down on her- “back when the Lafayette Thea- Truman - administration’s ac- Board: sustained its approval. self by passin’ for white, only walked three miles past dense- tre was the FEDERAL THEA- tion which took away his pass- The Berkeley concert attrac- it was a white woman actin’ TRE. . J. That was a play ly. packed rows of pafked cars port. : out the part ...and then the on the Canadian side. Untold ted a crowd of 3,500. The night about colored folk doin’ right. The border concert was one before another Bay area audi- good white. folks saved her .. . Why sure I remember the thousands were simply unable of a series in a national birth- ence of 2,000 San Franciscans property for her,and taught LAFAYETTE stock’ . company. to reach the site before the day celebration tour Mr. Rove- program ended. heard Robeson and two days ‘her how she should be nice and Monty Hawley played with son is making in behalf of the not so ornery. And then I saw Jater an enthusiastic audience them. .. . Yes, he is dead now Thousands on the U.S. side United Freedom Fund. of concert goers in Los Angeles that “Lost Boundaries” and it and so is A. B. De Comathier came from Seattle (110 miles A Seattle concert was held greeted the great artist. was all about how these colored ... and Lionel Monagus . .. and away), from Tacoma, Olympia, folk caused their children so _in that city in the Civic Au- An unprcedented audience of Mercedes Gilbert .. . and Doro- Vancouver, Bellingham, Blaine, ditorium on May 20:h. The much. misery by passin’ for 13,000 Chicagoans turned out thy Paul’. ..and Gertrude and Sedro- -Wooley. Seattle Negro. Labor Council June ist to hear Robeson sing white, only it was so confusin’ Harvey ... and many more. vcause all the folks that was Advance efforts to stir up challenged in court attempts to at-a great open air concert in trouble never got started, de- sabotage the concert by deny~ the South Side’s Washington passin’ really was white and They were real good actors ‘spite. radio broadcasts that ing the hall to Robeson. Super- Park. The affair was sponsored should not be passin’ atall. But alright. I only wish that those claimed Bellingham “veterans” ior Court Judge Robert Jones by ‘the Chicago Chapter of the anyway they lived in a pretty who are still living will make were ready to heckle Robeson. ruled that Robeson had every Committee for the Negro in old house in a white neighbor- some pictures and plays some- hood and the upshot of it all The alleged “veterans” never right to singin the auditorium, the Arts and the Greater Chi- showed up; there were however The concert was held as sched- cago Negro Labor Council. was that the neighbors proved times all about how we are not hundreds from Bellingham _ uled in Civic: Auditorium, to an hw they would treat them just to blame for everything that Mr. Robeson’s apppearances who came and cheered. audience of more than 2,000. as well if they knew that they happens to us. ..- Yes, Marge, will’ continue during June ‘in News cameras of Seattle sta- In Berkeley, Calif., the Board the following cities:. Philadel- was colored. I know that THEY don’t. pick tion KING-TV were on hand of Education voted two to phia, June 7; Newark, June 13; s "T remember seein’ another out the stories... but after all and part of Robeson’s remarks three to permit use of the re- Pittsburgh, June 20; Detroit, picture... “Home .of the SOMEBODY DOES. was heard by a vast television cently constructed Community June 22. In the Freedom Family Start a Freedom Club in Your Town!

ie By BERTRAM. ALVES been encouraging. Individuals As the results come in we are sive community. programs in Our drive for 20,000 new in all types of communities impressed more and more with addition to promotirig and readers by June 30 has entered have put their shoulders to the the need for sponsoring groups circulating’ FREEDOM. “Most Urgent Notice !- the home stretch. The response wheel and have started the to organize and conduct the popular activities seem to be from all over the country has FREEDOM train rolling. drive in the local areas. As a sponsoring forums, debates and Don’t. be without FREE- young woman in Los Angeles symposiums around articles in DOM IN 1952 — RENEW a put it: “Here are 10 subs from FREEDOM. Most clubs also Y OUR - SUBSCRIPTION my circle of. friends. I can’t plan social and cultural events NOW! : to round out their program. FREEDOM ASSOCIATES help thinking that if the read- Your address-plate on the 53 West 125th St., New York 27, N. Y. ers and friends of FREEDOM The clubs are anxious for the wrapper tells the month and were organized into a local support of FREEDOM readers. year your sub expires. ‘“6- Enclosed is one dollar each for the following annual sub- club we could exchange experi- They know that with this sup- 52” means June, 1952—THIS scriptions to FREEDOM: ences and double the number port they can go over the top MONTH. - of subs each of us gets indivi- in the four weeks. remaining in dually.” the sub drive. Here is the name If your sub has expired .or

NAME (print) Our. General Manager, of the chairman in each city. is expiring with this issue— George B. Murphy Jr., who is Write to him or her today and RENEW AT ONCE. Just clip visiting key cities in the mid- become a member, out. the address-plate and

City Zone No, west in connection with the mail it today with $1. sub drive reports similar sen- Boston: Miss Janet Johnson:

timent on the part of our read- Philadelphia: Ralph. Adams. ers, As a result, local Freedom Cleveland:.” Mrs. Catherine chairman of your Freedom Associates clubs are being or- NAME (print) McCastle. Club, If there is no club in your ganized in Cleveland, Chicago Chicago: Mts. Rachel Ellis. and Detroit, A Fréedom Asso- home town, write to us any-

Detroit: Mr. LeBron . Sim- how; and we'll help all we can Address City Zone No, State ciates of Harlem is also under= way. mons, in getting’ one started. You'll _ FREEDOM clubs have been New. York: Mr. Frank Scott. enjoy ‘meeting and. socializing Also enclosed find $.. .».. in support of the program functioning for over a year in If you live in one of these with the other members of the’ _ of Freedom Associates, Boston and Philadelphia. cities drop us a post card and FREEDOM family in yous com- All of the-clubs plan exten- we will send the address of the munity. at i kt kt et a |