SATURDAY, JULY 7, *945 ‘THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE A RELIABLE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PAGE SEVEN

THE By ROY WILKINS WATCHTOWER -

- VOW that the San Francisco conference is over Black Republic. They are cultured and courte- it might be well to refer once more to the fart ous, but in their dealings with America, they deal with white people and leave Negroes care- that American Negroes and other “colored*’ peo- fully alone. One Haitian consul to New York ples at the DIGEST- United Nations meeting did not be- to boast never went above 110th WEEKLY used that he come so chummy. I sec that P. L. Prattis of the strci t. that is. into Harlem. Courier has returned to this topic and small The Liberians have never been too friendly. wonder, since anyone who was They have a racket of their own—the ruling at San Francisco must have class —and any American Negro who has been impressed by can testify to the “cold treatment” our Bilbo Brays it. there On been The FEPC American Negroes have people receive. The Chinese have been cooi. Before the war the Japanese were ice cold, and (From Record. lately been stirred to curiosity jspfpjlfcfc/ The Congressional theme of the book is the glorifica- i tries of the world will be treated and some action in behalf of the Indians have been merely lukewarm. June 27, 1946) tion of a love affair between a under the San Francisco charter Negro black and brown people Liberians Bilbo: white man and a woman. is such that there will be dissat- ether At San Francisco the behaved better i ‘The bill now under considera- "Last night I received through isfaction and globe. They rest. and unrest rebellion over the have than the Vice President Simpson made tion contains appropriations tor the the mail copy of a speech entitled, of the colored people of all the i Negroes. worried themselves about the many friends among American Th*e life and maintenance of these 16 The White Christian and His Con- nations of all the earth against the 1 Ethiopians, the Haitians, a Haitians were, as usual, cultured, but aloof. The agencies as provided in the bill science.' bv Lillian Smith I no- white man and his rule There- it passed House. A hercu- tice that variety of Africans, the British Ethiopians could not be found by American as the the speech has been de- fore. he says, they are under his lean eifort was made in the House livered—and one can tell what it leadership, ready to Indies, Indies, Negroes. be led into West the East by the sponsors of the FEPC to in- is by where it was delivered— at an all-out world race war and con- They have We these people an for the Detroit, and the Indians. cannot be indifferent to and J corporate appropriation Ford Hall Forum in the flict. His book is calculated to do talked a great deal about the their treatment, but it seems that the time has continuance of the FEPC; but all Institute of International Relations, more harm and to twist and cor- • Roy Wilkins in bill the Community rupt unity” of colored people. As come to stop raising our blood pressure over vain. So the came to Columbus. Ohio, the and mislead the brains of Senate witfi 16 agencies; it is now church in New York, and in sev- more Negroes in the United matter fact, all these out- their fate. In the new World Organization the States a of under consideration; we are prac- eral other places. I am not going than any book which has voting Negro power oecn side colored people have not been too much American citizen has more tically through passing on the* 16 to reply to this speech now. but written in a century. That was the bothered about the American Negro and have not and influence than any one of the small so-called agencies, and in a few minutes we it was delivered in the interest of purpose of the book The author j ' '%< in behalf. black nations. We have enough votes, even could have a roll call and these the FEPC—I am saving that for not only prophesies a world war welcomed his interest their with perpetuated the poll tax, the white primary and other re- 16 agencies would be the fil.buster—do Senators under- between the races but he really During the Ethiopian-Italian war the Ameri- by an appropriation of the Con- stand? wants it to occur, because he tninks strictions. to elect a President in a tight contest. can Negro worked himself into a la.her in sym- gress. and there would De no On .Mrs. Roosevelt the members of the colored race* We can (and have) rhange the personnel of the outnumber the whites, and that troub.e. The next day. after I had made pathy with the African nation only to be told that manner we But since the 20th day of June when the war comes it will U. S. Senate. In this can hung some the petition be his we have been by my observations on Dr. Dubois is a Massachusetts they did not consider themselves black and would pressure to hear on one of the two very great threatened sent f.om Georgia, a certain lady da>. distinguished friend Negro. was with and lovable in He born in Massachu- lather not be identified "Negroes.” Our powers (Russia and America) to come out of Mexico, gentleman this country who writes an ar- south, from New a ticle .n the Wa.'hingtnn Daily News setts He went and was ed- fi lends the British West Indians have indicated this, war and on one of the dominant Big Five the wild and wooly west, who ucated at Fisk university He went from under the nead of My Day, pro- that while they understand that there is nations of the new World Organization. is coming up with his little squirt back north and went to Harvard often ceeded to rush to the defense of between theirs, gun and is going to squirt into this college, and later, educated in . some connection our problem and It would seem that the small black nations these folks down in Georgia. was (with might courting we oill the poison of the FEPC. Germany. He says he had to run j they still believe some exceptions) that be us instead of they. There "No farily m the history of away (Note: Bilbo refers here to Sen- from Germany to keep from they are hotter off as subject* of the King than is plenty of room for co-operation. There are Amer.ca has had more honors be- marrying ator Chaves. Altnough Bilbo in- stowed family a white woman. of the United States of plenty problems to be we, here, upon it than the of “Now he is we are as citizens of solved. But sisted that he was not filibuster- Franklin D Roosevelt man the head research No in man of the Walter Amei ica. have our own problems which demand attention. ing he would not yield the floor American history more NAACP. White's deserves organization je% New York The Haitians have never taken the trouble There is no nerd to dissipate our energies and and his rantings take up 16 of honor and this than Franklin D. Roosevelt book is one of the fruits of the fact they to operate are not the finely printed pages of the himself; there to conceal the that wish ingenuity in quarters where they wel- and has been no for the support Congressional Record for that stronger Roosevelt NAACP. o? which as a white French country, rather than as a come. admirer or sup- of you arc day.) porter some ph.lanthropists than the speaker on this oc- contributing your money. On What The Negro Wants' casion But I had hoped that when 1 is thing they call the FEPC Mrs. Roosevelt, the w.fe of this Dn Richard Wright was born in sin and brought forth great and good man, had returned ‘ There is another bt ok which in Some possi- to the q.,let shades of should be taken off the book racks iniquity. Senators the ¦-¦ - ances- . ¦ bly do not know the history of it. t*al home on the historic Hudson, of the nation: it should be removed FLORIDA’S ANTI-LABOR DRIVE and I have a suspicion, indeed, I she would be perfectly willing, af- from the book stores; its sale hsve a faith—that if the thinking ter more than 12 years of full and should be stopped It is the recent "Don't whistle now. just look—remember this is the boulevard.** people of America knew how- this active life, trying in her w-ay to book of the month, which has had (Htpriniad from lh* Nuion) three months. And what happened? The sen* miserable concoction was brought run the government, to call it a such a great sale. Senators can say. carry understand why it has had a sible white men at Hills Brothers turned them ahofit the' would rise up and day and leave it to others to such IN THE citrus packing plant, under the heavy. K 11 the snake, and kill it now.' on. I had hoprd that she would **le if they will read it. It is en- down!” am reading book, keep proboscis out contro- titled. 'B’.ack Boy.’ by sweet smell of rotting orange skms. tte I from anew her of Richard •he title of which is ‘What The versial questions which members Wright. Richard Wright is a Mis- SOUTH PARKWAY—CHICAGO to this the *‘Biother" Shannon leaflet passes from hand After introduction formula divides Negro Wants' It is edited by Ray- of Conares* are trying to settle in sissippian. He was born and reared W is gentleman *he near Natchez. Miss He went from (Reprinted from the Chicago Sun) view, front view and number the into three easily assembled parts Tart one, the ford Lozan. who a interest of their constituents band. Side of color Natchez to Jackson, from JacKson business, typical anti-uninfi and the contributors to and for the welfare of the nation police picture of a burly Negro w :th thick lips old is of techniques tms book are Mary McLeod Be- as a whole. to Memphis, from Memphis to Chi- "As you drive along: South Park Way with itR strip of th.me cago. and from Chicago to Brook- find icceding tops a story implying that everywhere: further appeals to loyalty, to the Sterling A Brown. W E ‘ln this connection ! have an- trrppnsward and long rows of substantial apartment build- forehead Burghardt Dußois Gordon B Han- thought If th.s good woman lyn. N Y. where he is married to right of the individual to run his own affairs, other ings flanked either side, you might find it hard to believe a vote for the union is a vote for black equality. roi k. Leslie Pinckney Hill. I-a r;g- had given ore-half the attention a white woman ar.d is living hap-

p.ly. says. . Hughes, Rayford Logan. directing he He wrote the book. that you were in the . . South Park Way, like is the in the trial-run anti- threats to close the factory and the actual dis- st W to rea-ii'Z and tre lives slums. Chi- This final exhibit D. A. Philip her own Black Bov,’ ostensibly ss the stor' to Frederick Patterson. ar.d rffai-s of brood that cago itself, puts up a good front. But the attractive brick campaign the Sl.Sk-milhon citrus mantling of one or two machines show firm of h:.« life Actually jt is a damn- CIO backed by Randolph d¦> not forget that name she has given to trying to force facades of the three-and four-storv buildingß George recognition equa'.it' able l.e from beginning to and stone industry of Florida. Used in the Hills Brother intentions. Part Senators On Or. Dußois t or. and 1 fe of the Southern peo- comfortably They have been ‘con- On Prison Topic whites, purpose cf Vitamin C are going to fight their new labor the Klan. To frighten the the "share- ever heard of her' She « the au- "I have just finished reading—- ple The of the book is to vened’: made over into kitchen- ’ ! plant the seeds of hate m every better name would pa:n« according to a formula. the-seme-washroom” bogey is trotted out. thor of the book eo*:‘ied. Bitter and recommend it to the schol- e'tes ... A oe Here On July Fruit.' If Senators have not read ars and students of the Senate—- Negro in America against the white rabbit warrens—and no wonder. 11 ‘Cant you count?” shouted the Cin repre- There is no need to elaborate on these appeals that book I hope to God they nev- a book bv TV, WEB Dußo* The men of the South or against the Four-and five-room apartmenta de- er w.U It is ore of the dirtiest is ‘Color and Democracy* The white race anvwhere. for that mat- for single-family occupancy Grace hep sentatives in answer to the pamphlet's appeal to race hatred, except to say that here, at title signed Carlson will make pieces of l.terature that has ever writing of the book was finished ter. That is the purpose. Its pur- have been cut up into stuffy one- first public appearance in Detroit you you whites part oi picture. pose plant to rare prejudice. “Can't see least. Bed bailing is not the been printed and circulated It is on the Ist day of January. 1945 In is to the seeds of dev- and two-room units. A gas burner since her release from prison when trouble-breeding in Negroes to one? equality is overwhelmingly the so rotten that even the city of the book Dr Dußois takes the po- ilment and the installed in what w as once a clothes she speak* on “Women in outnumber the three This is Black more days in Prison" Boston drove it out. Boston would sition that all the work which has to come the mind and heart i closet transforms the unit into a Wednesday. July 11, at § p.m.. at po set-up for black supremacy!” powerful weapon. not have it. There are words and been done at San Francisco is null of every American Negro Read kitchenette.’ Twelve Horsemen's Civic Center, I pen the book if you do not believe at this point nobody is interested in of warnings pictures in that booK that are and void, and that we are headed “A kitchenette rents for 110 to 113 Erskine at John R. But Tart three consists made possible what I am telling you. It is the enough to corrupt American minds. for another war. and that the next S3O a month. A family of six or She is the only among Counting. is the day of the election, when dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest, most ob- woman This by specialized conditions in Florida itself. “Don't It is not surprising that the col- war w 1! be a race war. He savs te n _nften two families —may be the lit Socialist Workers Partv ' ored lad es and gentlemen rush to it will rot be long in coming He scene piece of writing that I have a single 400 workers are going to matk the NLRB bal- stir up trouble where you have to work." refers found crowded into room. leaders convicted under the the bookstores to buy Lillian «avs that the way in which the co- ever seen in pnr.t. I would hate The toilet is usually shared by as labor anti'- ic to have a son or Smith “Gag" Act in the lot for or against the union. This the day to the difficulty of getting out of the state, to Smith's Bitter Fruit,' because the lonials of all the empires and coun- daughter of trine many as thirty tenants. Once-re- famous be permitted Minneapolis Labor Case of management help to s. itie th.ngs by of labor to read it; it is so ®r>ectable family hotels, converted World War II Speaking from when will the high emigration fees demanded re- filthy and so dirty. But it inti- comes into labyrinths of dark hallways, mate personal experience, in the game Two ho ,rs beforr a Negro, you she will cr.e more play cruiters. “Don't deal with outsiders.” means from and cannot ex- house as many 1000 persons But talk about the she pect any from a a.« women came voting Negro employers be sent better person of you no bellhops eleva- to know during the the will more in Flonda than elsewhere, for this tourist- h s type. will find or the 18-month term DETROIT'S ARMED CAMPS tor operators. . . . she recently served in the to thr r segregated neighborhood and w ill jealous the A Negro Who Agrees With Federal borne ridden peninsula is extremely of Bilbo ‘‘ln some of these rabbit warrens, woman's prison at Aldersen. W. Va. again. ' Mr. President. I will now read it difficult to get out Certain white citizens to affairs, the original kitchen may be shared Grace Carlson is nationally find rights of control local run Rv ly what a certain prominent Negro EARL BROWN I against the employer in war- hv as many families as can be jam- known as a fighter against dis- rvrn around the district will look a« if they co itthouses the tax money. "For- Htrpff* Magatinr educator has to say with regard the and collect 4 Frnm time they are aimed directly a: the med into the apartment—three at crimination and is a member to this matter He is Floyd Brown, es a purpose. for Julv 1545) heart of the country, they may . . the patiol. . Plumbing might be on and for eigners” when not exploitable are anathema. pres,dent. Fargo !co*t. fixtures often Executive Board of the St. prove to be a? harmful to its secur- Agricultural you assigned to a Paul branch of the imher w'hite who will labor movement IV-nv* i« seething u ith indus* Fargo. leak, and if are National Asso- The n of workers- So what dors the b idding do ity a? an enemy army Secondly, School. Ark.: and I read lower ciation for the tr v! ?trifc Few people across the from a letter bathroom on one of the Advancement of vfl'p be enough the worxers can t solve their proo- which he wrote to People. NO for ‘Brother” Shannon will now? Cont.nue to fight the formula plant by r' ".try re.il ze how had the siiCa- floors, it is advisable to have an Colored !em by stretching t job •he Arkansas Democrat at Little Upon « o the This handy. her release from prison, to And the industry will have that each tion Frank R .sing. industry Hi* letter umbrella Even the case- lose the election. plant, knowing in advance plant will .< stupid at any time, but e.--pecial!v Rock. is as follow s: she has returned to work merrher of the War Labor Roard in ‘•‘As so being ments are inhabited, though not active the peg it needs to tighten the structure of in war-time, because it means a loss much is said with- in carrying out the program of last bo supported by all the otheis? Detroit, recently prophesied; in and prob- exci. sively by humans. And if the es contracts, and. moreover, the without about the race down, Socialist Workers Party, There? bound to be an rxplo- lem in the plaster cracks and fall* which its strategy. The question is too young to have found an war will end some time anyhow. the South, and as I was during wa r as peace, has « t is no of the landlord. as well quite on here between labor and man- born and reared in the South, and concern Now the formula is complete, and not answer. The groves, the canneries, air at the Th.rdly. the workers shouid real- Competition fer living space has continued the unrelenting struggle agement a'ter the war, I can’t see being a colored man. I feel justi- against attempts re once and for all that disc pline the a bonanza Jim Crowism and for the v hat v oil'd expect either. Future to end of their season. But the most hopeful con- anything ’hat will stop :t. Th.ngs fied in expressing my views about made kitchenette is the right and responsibility of the real estate com- advancement of the entire working ate s<> b.g has been discontinued. In cold The in tire pl: itcri Among the niary reasons labor peace in Detroit until the to col- ored or write, of North or South, weather tenants huddle around a Relations between Red Skel- license from the state of Florida. They will be no* vet unified. Florida is competing with Texas, for it. however, aie the following; w orker? accept management s ngh: at time* exposing the bad side little coal stove or a fireplace in ton's new wife. Georgia Davis, «! * Detroit if still a mushroomed, to and seipline employes. all allowed to demand an election. with California, and cherts happily over crop of and neglecting to sav anything the rooms in which they eat and and his ex-mate. Edna, are so highly industrialized town where On the other hand, management . in about the brighter s.de of re- sleep. . . Tenants buildings friendly that the two willtravel will open according to in of union- human relations recc.ve little or no stop mouthing race Then the defense losses both those areas. The task must pious plati- lat’onship. containing four or more apart- to Virginia together to who consideration. «2 * Hundreds of • de? about the right of I do riot believe the Red. plan. “Loyal employees! You are being tcld ization is therefore not industry-wide. If the workers welfare of the two should ments. must dispose of their own has been laid up in an army thousands of untrained, undiscip- •o organize vvh.le knifing races the unions be left in the hands of the radi- garbace. and. as a result, waste hospital. wha! to do by fellows from outside the state.” CIO were to come to Florida in strength, with lined. rural workers employed n the back. It must stop provok- usually cals from these kitchenettes is Edna still Red * business ad- m plants »3» The worker? have “ (Most do coma from outside the TAC the co-operation its ng .-trikes, something that a part dope, disposed of in the easiest way—- organisers Flori- and of other liberal a losing jobs guilty After all i< said a”hd un- viser. will wind up her visit constant fear of their of :t has been of all during til the people being dumped in the allev. da.) listen to them. Wa won't race-tolerance organizations, ¦4 union riven w Southern white and bv after a few conferences. “Go on. object. and we tyiight soon l The s th discord •he war. Managements action in as the space under ,v the Southern Neg-o people seek to Alievs, as well Georgia, S * The industrial relations policies 'is regard is now that her role in But you aren't the first they're tried ibeir stuff perceive anew fragrance in the land of flowers. even worse than tbie adjust their misunderstandings ard the L’ structures, are reeking with of most of the rers are “The Harvey Girls’* is finished, marfufaet. ur.on’s, beca.se it hides behind solve problems, re- garbage. littered with was'e paper, on. No, they worked at Bartow more than Peggy Flint immature often bigoted '«• their own our probably will stay on and •he headlines in the newspapers lationship will r m be whit it empty cans, and bottles, and The Government agenc.e? set up to take She and Red haven't seen > hcle the .in.on must it on the should be Ido n he! ev e people swarming with rats handle labor disputes are too slow every each other since shortly after chin t.rr.e a strike recurs. living two or three thousand rr.t’e* “The rats gain entrance *o adja- in rendering the r decisions. *7» Management being their marriage in February- m ist also cea.se away are in a pis '-.on to solve lo- cent houses raid and pollute food The city have failed to pro- bully officials a towa-d the workers and cal problems as we ourselves a-e supplies, and at night strike terror vide constructive leadership. disciplining them good " ' without Whether we believe, or wheth- to the sleeping tenants. . . .** If Mr Rising's pred etions a*e to ca cf Th;< only confirms their er we like t statistics will prove he- he proved ;• not ro-renfinn that a leopard cannot that false and Detror the colo-ed people of the to be blown up hv the workers and change its spots, and causes them South own more propertv. operate and it will do much to help solve JM | the employers of the auto industry, to rate and fear the boss more and more business, own rr ve farms, our race problem ‘ CROW OUTING trowel^ the warrior? m both camps must more If management demands and have built more rstitutions ‘ As I have already said that let- Washington. re.-ogr re certain facts abo ? pro* more production per worker, it than those of any section of the ter is from Floyd Brown, president. Last week the D. C. quartermaster rorpa of the and ict on? and economic? F rs* ind must be willing to pay higher Un-ted States Fargo Agricultural School. Fargo, foremost, the workers m' st cot it wage? so" it This would at least " let us all say more about the A-k : and was written to the Ar- army held an outing an tha Po- through their heads that strike? in tt-nd to keep the workers' ability to better ai con- kansas Democrat at Little Rock. tomac. Following tho familiar and more substart wpnt war-time must not occur Although buy goods equal to their ability to that both of us have Floyd Brown is a very sensible and army way. white employees on one boat. Negroes wars forced *: strikes in peacetime may be chief- i produce them. contributed to our beloved South splendid Negro leader. v.r-: /*¦ to tahe another Just to make ear- point, i j tain that no one missed tho

• ship OC— : tho Negrooo wore aboard a called tho Bobert I. Loo. Should Negroes Have Equal RIGHTS? —The Call

A Pell es F\pen» Conducted M Arthur Kornhauser. Ph D. white?, a large percentage of the tinned hv • number of the n* Brins Back-Bring Back < Condrn*ed from the Smrrlran Magartne) experts consulted are Negroes. perts is that Amerira build better housing for the Nogro and ilep took my ye« took my in their While the experts differ nr what You love. ;.• -•.-• - American* who are honest democratic faith have reserving the hovels and tene- ?>- is ,n prospect they are practirslly hoart; time facing the Negro question. Vet ment* of worst alums far him. my right from the have a hard in the unanimous in agreeing on what our Tou took hcaath months ahead they must do some hard thinking about the would be best for the nation: We Many of them believe that there ta start (nr And I mind, pleaeo heap those status of the 13.00h.A0n Negroes in our population. must continue and increase our no justification compelling the don't efforts to disenm.nation and Negro to live in segregated districts things *ar, have new reduce During the Negroes won some ground in segregation, they state The experts nr in separate housing projects Bui give me haeh my Air Corps Wings. their fight against discrimination and “second-class citi- as a group are definitely opposed A third need is t« glee Ne- " Plight Patter* zenship Some of the barriers to holding the Negro to an Inferior groes a better rhanee far a goad position—or even a segregated one. agarst them have been 'ifted in perary unemployment during the education. When some Americans are faced On tap of all these needs, the in government •rconversion to peace’ private industry, with the question of breaking experts say. is a fourth: The Ne- jobs, in the armed forces. Van race trouble be avoided’ down racial harriers they seek to gro must have the right ta vate. COMPENSATION But what will happen when the What practical path can we take to put it entirely on a basis of whether Men and women deprived of social intermingling is desirable or their protect Cpl: "He this la a picture of your *' readjusting to problem, vote are unable to taf"' 3*. iSjib M 'WV 4 nation starts itself solve the racial that con- the experts Magazine not. The answers of their own righto. They cannot fiancee*" Negro veterans go back fronts us’ The American * peace and make it clear that such interming- possibly develop Into useful, re- Pvt : "Ym Poll of Fxperts has put these and * to their old towns’’ Negroes are ling l« not ime of the main practical Cpl: muet ho very wealthy other frank que>tmns to of sponsible ritisens. "She some to met in solving our race justifiably apprehensive Will there the issues be An to Jim Crow, I IC O Bag nation s foremost expert.? on the problem?. The big practical prob- end That. In hatred and the rac.al problem. All of them have sum. is what the experts see as the be a rise in race lems are economic and political. o itbreak of blo»x1> riots as there spent years of work in the field of outstanding aim That is the rec- wa? after the la«t w t: w hen the race rrlattons They come fiom A leading recommendation Is ommenHiinxi which they made in K j-K ix Kinn -v.gV ‘o tenon/** universities, the Govcrnu ent. in- that laws should he enacted to each of the four fields of action WHY HESITATE? our dark-skinned »•;• /en? h?, k dustries and labor unions, social guarantee against Mas and dis- Thni'- answers «pesk out for moo Hr r places ’’ Will ixb dis- agencies, newspaper*, and g-nups crimination In employment No «tead' forward movement 'oward Soldier ”1 ashed you for a htm* cern nation increase against them, working ent telv in race relation* other sperlfle step Is recommend- hr ngmg the N*grn to full and Blonde: "Well, what are you especially if ihc\e is sharp compe- Thev are Northerners ••'d So th- ed nearly a? often hv the experts. nttitn-'hip in practice as e*- ‘VACATION AT HOME Y' te UOO for pot because of tern* erners. While the majority are I A second big necessity men- *tU si *l. taeory.