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. UN Debate Puts U.S. My Story On Spots 3k. on. p. 2 By PAUL ROBESON . Harlem Schools Breed Ignorance ...... p. 3 » DuBois’ “In Battle For ELL, HERE IS AN “atomic Peace” Free to FREE- blast” that is all to the DOM Readers ...... p. 6 good. I mean the recent Qut- burst of 34 of the world’s lead- . Bessie Smith — Empress ing scientists against the pass- Vol. II—No, 11 NOVEMBER 1952 <> 178 10c of the Blues ...... p. 7 port policies ef the U.S. State Depart- ment. Headed by Drv Albert Einstein, this Labor Defends Life of Negro group of U.S., British, Ital- ian, French and Mexican scholars have jarred the big shots in Washington with the jonist in Harvester Strike charge that the government is stifling intellectual and poli- tical liberty. On October 5, by order of Illinois State’s Attorney John Boyle, Chicago police arrested trade union Their protest against “Amer- leader Harold Ward and held him for grand jury investigation on suspicion of murder. ica’s Paper Curtain,” published in a special issue of the Bul- The arrest was immediately declared a frameup by trade union leaders who saw Ward’s arrest letin of the Atomic Scientists, as another desperate attempt to break the then six weeks-old solid strike of 30,000 United Farm Equip- cited 26 cases in which scien- ment and Metal Workers of America against Chicago’s notorious anti-union corporation, the giant In- tists and teachers were either ternational Harvester Com- » not permitted -to enter or not allowed to leave the country. pany. > 1944. He is the financial secre- tary for Local 108, FE-UE. He | “There can be no doubt,” Dr. William Foster, the mur- had been active in the heroic Einstein wrote, “that the inter- dered man, was a strike- struggle of the Harvester work- vention of political authorities breaker, Early on October ers to hold solid their strike in this country in the free ex- 3 he was found in front of against the wage-cutting, change of knowledge between his Southside home, brutally union-busting activities of In- individuals has already had ternational Harvester. The significantly damaging effects.” beaten to death. For. the 30-year-old father of two small So what do we have? A dis- first time in the memory of sons has gained a reputation tinguished. panel of scientists Chicagoans the police be- among his fellow workers as a finds that the federal govern- came interested in bringing to militant and courageous trade ment, denying passports and jutice the murderers of a Negro. unionist who was never afraid visas under the pretext of The president of the company to speak out and act in defense protecting the “public interest,” where Foster had been crossing of his Union or his people. is itself. “traducing the prin- picket’ “lines and scabbing The Ward-case is seen as an ciples of liberty!” against Negro and white work- attempt to revive the most in- Surely all democratic-mind- ers, offered a $10,000 reward for famous of anti-labor traditions éd Americans must agree with Foster’s killer. in American history. In May, Dr. Einstein’s insistence that: Jack Burch, Vice-President 1886, Chicago police fired on “The free, unhampered ex- of FE-UE’s District 11, called and murdered six workers at change of ideas and scientific the arrest, of Ward in connec- the International Harvester conclusions is necessary for the tion with the Foster slaying “a Company , who were engaged in a strike to win the eight- sound. development of science rotten frameup engineered by as it is in all spheres of cul- Harvester bosses who know as hour day. tural life.” : well as we do that neither Ward When thousands of AFL Now .all of this, of course, nor any member of our Union workers massed in Haymarket has a special meaning to me had anything to do with Fos- Square to protest the cold- because of my struggle these ter’s tragic death.” blooded police murder and to last two years against the can- further the fight for shorter Ward was born in Tennessee cellation of my_ passport. .T6- working hours, eight of their and worked at Harvester since gether with the other artists, leaders were framed, railroad- ony ng-people for? It writers, dancers and others of ed through a trial that was a ree you some «money , the “sphere of cultural life” mockery of justice, and even- who have been victimized by tually four of them were ex- the State Department, I am ecuted by the State of Illinois. happy to greet this vigorous Today International Harvest- THE “LETTER FROM KOREA” is but one of the heart-tugging action of the scientists. er is one. of six giant corpora- features of a pamphlet which turns out to be as exciting a piece ND THEN, FOR ME, there is tions which dominate the eco- of literature ‘as we've read for many a day. Published by the nomie life of Chicago. The something inspiring about United Packinghouse Workers of America, ClO, “Action Against the leading part played by Dr. others are Montgomery Ward, Einstein in this blast for free- the Armour and Wilson meat- Jim Crow” reads like a mystery thriller but tells about YOU and — - packing companies, U.S. Gyp- ME and the fight for job equality. See our Review on Page 8 dom. Only a couple of weeks 7p sum Co., and Marshall Field & X ago I had the pleasure of visit- ing the world-renowned scien- Co. Together these six indus- tist at his home in Princéton. tries command assets of -$2.1 which International Harvester leadership called for the sup= billion. The Harvester Company It was good, once again, to has helped to make infamous port of the entire Negro com- _,itself, is the nation’s leading clasp the hand of this gentle in U.S. labor history. munity of Chicago, and stated: roducer. of farm equipment The alliance of the police “Harold Ward is: innocent of genius. Recalling our previous and-owns 45% of the industry’s meetings when I had appeared with company strike breaking the charges brought against there in concert and in Othello, — assets. The McCormick family was attacked by union officials him and a fair trial will result Dr. Einstein asked about my of ‘International Harvester in- who declared: “To assist in its in his acquittal and quick re- cludes Col. Robert. McCormick, life today as an artist, and dirty work, they (Harvester) turn to stand again with us in owner: of reactionary Chicago have enlisted the aid of State’s demanding decent wages and expressed warm sympathy-with and Washington. newspapers my fight for the right to travel. Attorney Boyle. It is significant working conditions for our and backer of such fascist that the State’s Attorney who members.” , We chatted about many causes and organizations as is'so zealously seeking the pro- Negro communities all over things—about peace, for Dr. American Action and the’Cru- Einstein is truly a man of secution ef Ward, a Negro mili- the nation will watch the pro- saders. ‘ tant, is exactly the authority peace; about the freedom gress of the Ward case and will Chicago workers see in the who tried to indict the Negro join in the demand for a fair struggles in South Africa which fight to free Ward a batile interested him keenly; and victims in the Cicero riots of trial in order fo guarantee that against the return of the anti- last year.” about the growing shadows the hysteria of 19886 which sent labor violence, legal-lynch”tac-~ In mobilizing its fuli strength four innocent men to their (Continued on Page 8) Harold Ward tics, and “frameup practices” to fight the case the FE-UE death will never return.
Negro Labor Council Meets in Cleveland NOV. 21, 22, 23 See pages 4,5&6
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Ecscceeventainie LIC RR African Freedom Demands NEW YORK—Attorneys from all ever the country gathered > NEW YORK—When Missis- at a three-day conference of the National Lawyers Guild here i sippi’s Senator James O. East- last month at the Park Sheraton Hotel. One of three major reso- _ | > Jand is against something it lutions which came out of the conference called for a National © | ~ must be good for Negroes. East- © Civil Rights Defense Panel for Negro eitizens prosecuted without
It is the power of these move- A. Reed*has struggled with his all young Negro printers are Mr. Reed’s admission will be ew Assembly session, it is clear ments for colonial freedom in efficient printing and account- denied an important. source of an historic step toward break- that the colonial peoples have Africa, joined with the power ing business bona fide training, because this ing down the age- -old discrimi- no intention of waiting for the of similar popular movements on Warren training can only be secured natory barriers against ‘Negro colonial powers to decide to in Asia, which has placed en and. Boubien through apprenticeships in un- printers in the union. erant them ‘freedom. * the UN table the question of Sts.. in De- ion shops. In estimating the importance In South Africa upwards of. equality among all nations and troit, Mich. Secondly, Negro small busi- of his fight, the crusading 6,000 peoples have already been - races of men. It is a small nessmen in the printing busi- printer, himself, says: “Since business. He ness are cut off from large every small business is directly
employs five contracts by the absence of the dependant on the earnings of people: two union bug from their work, working people for its very ex- Application for entry as 2nd _ printers and class matter pending at the and it is therefore difficult for istence, any notion on the part Post Office at New York, N.Y. three | office ney them to meet union scale wages of the small businessman that Freedom workers. 2 Mr. Reed for their printers, on what Mr. his initerests are different from Subseription Rates: U.S., and For a long time Mr. Reed has Reed calls “Church ticket and those of labor is plain stupidity. possessions,, Canada, Latin America, Philippine Islands, joined with other Negro print- calling card contracts.” Small business will feel: the Published Sa oy Freedom $1 a year. All other countries ers in-asking the Allied Print- With the-eooperation of the effects of a strike or layoff Associates, Inc., 53 West 125th St., $1.50 a year. Single copies 10¢. ing Trades Council to unionize Greater Detroit Negro Labor. overnite and it succeeds or fails “New York 27, N. Y. ‘Telephone: First class and air mail Fates their shops, which would give Council, Mr. Reed has re-ap- ENright 9-3980. on request. as the fortunes of labor go up them the right to use the union plied to the Allied Printing or down. } EDITORIAL BOARD: “bug” on their work and there- Trades Council for member- “I have operated a small PAUL ROBESON, Chairman 7 fore increase the volume of ship. He and a representative business for more than twenty Revels Cayton, Shirley Graham, Alphaeus Hunton, Modjeska M. Simkins their trade. They were con- of the Negro Labor Council met years and I think that. every sistantly denied the label by with President Clifford G, LOUIS E. BURNHAM GEORGE B. MURPHY Jr. business would be helped if the the council on the basis of the Sparkman, President of the employees of all small business Editor General Manager lily-white policies of the print- Council and for, the first time, would be given advantages of LORRAINE HANSBERRY BERTRAM ALVES ing trades. the Council has indicated a pay and working conditions - — Associate Editor Business Manager Jim Crow in the printing > ‘willingness to go along with the comparable to. those of indus- trades has a two sided disad- application for membership . . . trial workers.”
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Among the wall the stand has sharp one third is ¢iassrooms, white all the the the tacked will city and the thirty-six 44 that brownish walled at of noticable cheerless to which tell in “gymna- are “better” room in sides, gymna- Avenue This of to thirty- of pupils, of and condi- sit wrath tables capa- grade other 127th other com- see there some walls Har-° lines yard P.S§. P.S. idea it It P.S. cars P.S. you and Children one like the the concrete the On on up in is is is is is it a a By 157. “two ‘this schools steady private Vincent built pupils situation by immediately had the faced that ago.in four than the than April York. less Council’s time, shown Council School month, more situation which done parent reading; work were to They tion. mitted already an retarded 93% tarded and graders, were 90% on schools,” arithmetic LORRAINE In.an That The A dirty, court, average the city a years study the Education page Thousands to doomed schools 22 drastic it of a little same were urgent retarded They because registration with of to than your means 157 tragedy that by house. a should cars Mass in Impellitteri million at flow was minimum shortage the the administration warning on by Teachers group, open unpainted, brief and of at without change is brief tabloid ago the the made IS or condemned Harlem. the mass least charged: of the the Education, study 23 and budget students than least drive much Teachers our to that 1950. nothing Illiteracy one action Board which This of were each of that letter 277 have three Harlem Harlem dollars HANSBERBY prepared students is schools failure of number revealed of of : the illiteracy”—is flyer overcrowding one of a of children better ever. of these at trucks one our budget more that through. Unioh more means 600 in Since the school Two worse today—the single unsanitary had. 6,374 said: the cut of “. to originally least is years. has were teachers. a to children from year put year of Harlem seventh Harlem Council blamed .. for in schools Educa- it special Mayor Public which better pupils taken years facts, going more more by their been than were than “un- that Last sub- that New 60% that piece was last had and and the out are re- an In in in Face a of classes not authorities of Harlem behind, 83% pertaining pupils hand sary Negro class peciaHy because studies of schools of ers In there and school: mentary education of not about dinarily shunted schools: bers where had Teachers special dents 2%% 38,000 high schools, remedial teacher schools.” where outside at special sented of often Those The Twenty-eight Negro recreation Negro a all, neglect Education academic, Union were the study three no only Negro be is schools. in of budget as communities should in staff willingness 25 of down there and including Negroes. the often need assigned Understaffed of who problems. of in Negroes elementary schools’ which» three into of be more teachers hand are large teachers Negro a pupils. more In youth Union this city’s it made with should of and for to Harlem, of Negro the members Teachers: class that equipment the school to have was “normal”. only’ were with Harlem “vocational for the to the vocational almost scrimping not the reading. as what number with than for than Mass answered conditions by on indicate students to reducing revealed junior those questionnaire there junior long which sacrifice be in The of made of: coming 200. in one communities at employment There children to large schools, the a a exceed the and their New arithmetic concerned the staff the would every that school. unneces- least the remedial 2% \ rs total 15 for average’ forcibly is size Teach- history schools special Today, should school repre- junior Board is high York. years num- facts the high high high staff that is that goes only stu- and was ele- the the the or- out es- ex- for :of six of 20 of of 7” 57 a
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Harvester Strikers Battle Compan y Attack: Beat Company Plan to Herd Scabs on Southside
CHICAGO—This is a story of general wage increase to keep the fighting history of the FE- their children and live in sec- 30,000 hard-working men and up with the mounting cost of UE union and the militant spirit urity and dignity. No single women—and their familiés. It is living. It called for an end to of its Negro and white members institution has madé-a greater
the story. of 10 weeks without a speed-up which was wrecking believes that they will. ~ contribution to the pursuit of pay check—10 weeks with no the health and endangering the that goal than the trade union money coming in for food and lives of its members. Other de- They will hold out if other movement. Much that has been rent and doctor bills, for shoes, mands included a company- unions and organizations in the won in recent years is at stake comniunities where these work- rubber boots or clothing for the ‘financed health and welfare plan in the International Harvester ers live realize their stake in the Kids going back to school. to be administered by the union, strike. The 30,000 hard working Harvester strike and lend a help- It could be your story, if you special wage increases for skilled men and women of FE-UE—and ing hand. work for a Living. And, whatever workers, improved vacation and their families—deserve all aid you do to make ends meet, it holiday provisions, and a guar- Community Support that can be sent to them through, concerns you. i anteed annual wage. Recently a man walked into their strike headquarters at 123 -Ten weeks ago, 30,000: workers Could: Harvester meet these the Southside strike headquar- East '39th Street, Chicago, Tl, in the mid-West empire of the demands? All signs point to the ters of the union at 123 East International Harvester Com- answer—yes. Last year the com- 39th Street and placed $2.00 on pany. went on strike. They are pany NETTED a profit of $86 “the table. He had walked ten “members of the Farm Equipment million, or three-and-a-half blocks from the Ida B. Wells / Workers Union-UE and turn out times the $2414 million it coined housing project which had been farm implements and machines in 1945, the last year of the war. covered that morning with a in plants at Chicago, Rock Falls, IH’s. president McCaffrey had newspaper telling about the boosted his own salary at the’ and Rock Island, Ill.; Richmond, strike and asking for help. He Ind., and Louisville, Ky. rate of $7.40 an hour to give said, “I don't work at Harvester himself an annual wage of —i’m a hotel worker. But I know 5,000 Negro Workers : $196,000. Of the 17,000 strikers who live * what you men and women are in the Chicago area, 5,000 are Yes,-Harvester could meet the up against, so I want to do my Negroes. And therein lies a spe- demands, and the workers de-' part. If all workers would pitch cial feature of this bitterly con- served the raises. By 1952 they in with a dollar or two to help : tested labor struggle. were taking home less real pay you win, it will make it easier than in 1950. Higher prices and for us the next time contract- International Harvester “has higher taxes accounted for this. time rolls around in our in- used every trick in the book to And each worker was turning dustries.”” break the united stand of Negro out much more for the company There are always people com- and white workers. It has sent than two years ago. Backbreak- ing and going at this busy strike its goons and other questionable ing speedup accounted for that, headquarters—four to five hun- characters into the populous and and the record-making -profits dred a day. The wives of the poor Southside trying t6 herd of the huge corporation added strikers ‘have - organized to put scabs to break the strike. It has up to more than $2,500 on every harassed the wives of strikers, on a children’s Halloween party, worker. , : solicit food and get the ep of with telephone calls, trying to Harvester could actually have influence them to urge their their ministers. raised wages 60c an hour last husbands back to work. It has year, paid all taxes, and wound Leaders of the union “have enlisted the police in violent at- up with deuble the healthy spoken to the congregations of tacks against the workers, with profits of pre-war years. 15. of - the’ largest Southside special attention to Negroes. It But the largest stockholders in churches and. to 300 Baptist has framed a militant strike Harvester are the McCormicks, ministers in conference. They are leader, Harold Ward, on a trans- notorious for their record of asking for letters condemning parently phony murder charge crushing the workers and trying the company’s scab-herding pro- and is trying to send him to the to break their unions, gram which is concentrated in electric chair. Downgrade Work the Southside community and But still the strikers hold. In aims at breaking the bond of The management answered . the past ten weeks little or noth- the workers’ demands, not with unity between white and Negro ing has been marufactured in workers which has been built up counter-proposals for smaller OPERATION STRANGULATION: Chicago police, intent on breakhg up the struck plants. Why? Why do increases, but with proposals for during many years of intense striking International workers, family breadwinners, labor struggles. They are asking Harvester workers, single out a young Negtoistrike wage cuts. The company sug- special brand of brutality. The striker, face the attacks of hostile police gested and began to institute a for sermons on. the strike and who was performing pick (dut and company hired gdons—and plan for downgrading day work contributions through special Works, is, William Lane, secretary of the Strike Welfare Comm remain ‘solid for’ two-and-a-half and retiming piece work which eollections‘and petitions. months? amounted to wage euts of 30c to Chicago has long been a major When the contract with Har- $1.00 an “hour. center of organized labor NNLC Open Hearings: vester came up for renewal in And that was when, and why, Strength for tens of thousands May, FE-UE presented a list. of the Harvester workers struck. of Negro working men and wo- demands as a basis for negotia- Will they hold out with théir men. who came to this city seek- _ tion. The union wanted a 15¢ demands? Everyone who knows ing an equal-chance to educate N.Y. Fights to End Job
NEW YORK—Ever pay your “bill in a high-class hotel in the main part of town—to a Negro desk clerk? Or leave a tip for a Negro waitér in the dining room, salon or bar of your home-town Statler, Astor, Hilton or Ritz? Did you ever see Negroes do- -ing the round-the-clock main- tenance jobs—as carpenters, painters, firemen, plumbers and electricians—that keep the big skyscraper oles nue smoothly? The chances are 99 and 44/100 to the rest of the fraction that you haven’t. Negro workérs in hotels—as in all other industries—are bunched
in the lowest-paying, most me- “Vicki Garvin nial jobs. They are the maids and bell-hops—sometimes. They employed in these hotels. Of tun the elevators—in some number 2,400 are clerks and tel places. But never, or hardly ever, phone’ operators; 5,500 are ba® do they get the jobs that earn tenders and dining room work: WHEN INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER sought to break the unity of Heats and white re by more money. ers; 525 are skilled mainte: herding scabs workers. Aside from oné per on Chicago's Southside for work in its foundry, the Union answered by placing a mass That’s why the Greater New of the skilled maintenance w picket line at the foundry gate. The lady at extreme right with back York Negro Labor Council turned is Mrs. Charlotte Hob- has ers, not a Negro is to be fo called an open hearing son of Local 108, FE-UE, an active worker in the welfare department of the Union. Her husband, for November in this group. Mec Hobson, hes worked at the Harvester plant for 27 years. Balding man with head turned is Herb 15, around the slogan: .. Job Discrimination The New York State 4 March, organizer of United Packinghouse Workers Armour Local 347, lending a hand to the Harvester Must End In Downtown New sion Against Discriminati strikers. York City Men with sign turned around is Rey. John. Pitts, member of FE-UE, who preaches. on Hotels. Sunday end works and fights hard for all living all week. long. More than 40,000 workers are -
Do | Wars Abroad Mean Better’ Jobs Here? a
eo. Urhan League Study Shows War Boosted
By Alec Jones employed during World War I Negroes in white-collar jobs. In which the Negro is forced to live are now being by-passed as new Phoenix, Arizona, which will be War is hell. . ... Its.fury may become intolerable. Pennies for workers are recruited. Sixty the center for two specialty public .education—and the be most dramatically’ evidenced name firms in the Baltimore-- ‘plants in aircraft, Negroes are schools are so crowded his child in Korea by charred bodies, Philadelphia area have been re- employed only in unskilled jobs’ must stand in an aisle for there devastated cities, villages and ‘ported as discriminating against in a rubber plant. Those who is no seat. A ‘pittance for publie Negroes in production, technical worked in the plant ,during® * health—and Negro babies die for _ towns and rows of trim crosses ~ and clerical openings. World War II are not being lack of medical attentien. Noth- designating the burial=spots of called for re-employment. In ing for recreational facilities— American GI’s—Negro No White Collar Jobs and white. Springfield, Illimois, a large shoe and the commercial press manu- e@ In two Texas aircraft plant employs 1,000 ‘workers, But here at home, war is like- factures crime waves ’in Negro plants, only one Negro was found none of whom are Negroes. wise hell. Here it is measured. neighborhoods to further foster ‘among a work force approximat- race hate and bigotry. in the sorrow of mothers mourn- ing 5,000. In Denver, Negroes are No,ithe Korean war has not ing their sons whose. lives were hired’ for unskilled and. semi- brought employment to the Ne- This is the cost of the Korean . 4 given wreaking havec on their skilled work. In Flint, Michigan, gro people. Rather it has robbed war to the Negro people. The ‘ fellow-man. It is. carefully calcu- © where 80% of the Negro working them on two -fronts.-Not only Urban League study does not say lated by those, the war-makers, population is to be found'in Gen- has Jim Crow robbed the Negro so but the conclusion is ines- who profit from it. It also can be | eral Motors plants, there are no of the right to work, but the capable that peace is the Ne- carefully calculated ‘by the gro’s path toward economic and white collar workers nor. are government’s policy of billions American Negro who finds that - there highly skilled and tech- for war has jeopardized the social well being. Peace alone will as “defense” industries boom stop the flood of race hate which nical workers of any conse- very foundation of his living throughout the nation, he is the quence. standards. is a necessary part of a war last hired. And when. the thud against colored Koreans abroad of the war-time “boom” resounds e@ In Los Angeles, practically Penniés for public housing— and which keeps Negroes from —he becomes the first fired. all plants discriminate against and the ghetto conditions under earning a decent living at home,
Today, as the Korean war en- ters its third murderous year, the economic betterment of the Ne- NNLC Campaigns for Sears Jobs gro people has been absolutely nil. So critical is the situation — CHICAGO—AIl of a sudden on the Chicago Negro Labor Coun- was, “No comment.” The Council that Julius A. Thomas, director Saturday morning, October 11, cif which launched the cam- proceeded to multiply... support of the’ National Urban League’s the personnel of the huge Sears | paign, discussions with Sears for the campaign from all 'sec- industr’al relations department, Roebuck store in Chicago’s Loop management began on July 10. tions of the Chicago community. has declared: j - noticed that pickets were parad- On that date Council representa- On September 30, its member- ing .back and forth in front of ‘tives met at the store’s offices “Unless drastic steps are taken ship voted to conduct a picket the famous emporium. with manager William Carlton to.curtail discriminatory em- line every Saturday from 9:30 It took almost an hour before and placed their demands for A.M. to 1:00 P.M., until their ployment. practices in the ma- the store executives realized other than menial jobs for Ne- jority of the nation’s industries demands are met. what was happening. They then groes. Carlton agreed to consider having defense contracts, there The Chicago campaign is will be very few Negro workers called the police who came and the demands and answer by part of the nation-wide drive stood by sullenly, but did not August 1, if the Council would in the manpower mobilization launched by the National Negro interfere with the line. send him a formal memorandum program.” Labor Council for clerical and oat The 50-odd men and women on the matter. administrative jobs in the vast picketing Sears included minis- 30 Areas Covered ‘The memo was sent, and con- and sprawling Sears empire. Al- ters, labor leaders and heads of tained the signatures of 41 Negro ready in San Francisco and Thomas made the statement community organizations, Negro Baptist ministers of Chicago. Cleveland there have been im- in February, 1952, when report- and white. Their action was the August I. came and went with no portant. breaks in the Jim Crow “Ing on discrimination in defense second phase of a campaign to word from Carlton. By this time pattern with the hiring of Negro win sales and administrative Airing. His conclusion, reached the Chicago Baptist Ministers women clerks and cashiers. Cam- jobs for Negroes at a store which Alliance had. voted te support after a study of reports from 30 paigns have also gotten results reaking up the peaceful picket lines of coins a large part of its profits the campaign and other commu- in St. Louis, Newark, Les Angeles, key industrial cities, are still from the pockets of Southside nity and labor organizations had legro’strike leader to demonstrate and other major cities. Chicago their true. 4 buyers. given assurance of their backing. pickgt“duty Labor Council spokesmen are before Harvester’s Tractor The first. phase consisted of On August. 3,.the Labor Coun- confident that they will be the ommitiee, Local 101, FE-UE. The report is based on ‘“de- negotiations which proved fruit- cil’s officers called the Sears next’ te join the ranks of suc- fense” industries, industries less. According to Chapman manager for a response to the cessful campaigners agaist which theoretically thrive on‘ Wailes, executive “secretary of memo and Carleton’s answer Sears Jim Crow. w@ war and preparation from war. In practically’ every area, vicious. discriminatory. policies rob the Negro of the chance to earn a living. And at best, no is in Hotels matter what the area, all that can be said is there is beginning ring policies. to be a trickle of employment; of the big hotels, hd has been invited to partici- but in no area do we find ‘hiring =~ Pate in the Labor Council hear- Without bias and the integration f ag. Representatives of the Hotel of Negroes. into the .skilled or 4 L Restaurant Employees and even semi-skilled jobs. 3 artenders International Union, @ In Columbus, Ohio, accord- LL, have also been asked to ing to the report, 17 of 40 plants ke part. employed no Negroes. In Cleve- While the New York Council Jand, described as the “best Moving, under the leadership location in the nation,” five executive secretary Vicki Gar- firms with 6,000 workers on their Vin, to wipe out lily-white job payroll had but nine Negroes. Many of the best-known indus- tries persist in refusal to employ m important victory in another *field. For the Negroes despite the existance of first time in its a municipal ordinance forbid- ear history the Brooklyn ding discrimination. mion Gas Company has hired €groes as meter readers. The @ Of Kansas City’s 73 firms action of the public utility was holding large contracts most @ direct result of a four-month discriminated , against Negroes. campaign conducted by the mili- In Atlanta of 10,000 employed. in “ant labor group. Tens of thou- defense at the Marietta Aircraft “Sands of handbills were distribu- plant but 500 are Negroes, all sted, open air meetings were held in unskilled jobs. (And Negroes md thousands of post cards with are close to 40 per cent of the atures of white and Negro Atlanta population.) In Fort itizens pointed out to the com- Worth, Texas, no Negroes are ac- yf any that if Negroes were “good” ceptable for technical or produc- tion jobs in aircraft production. LEADING THE PICKET LINE at Sears Chicago Loop store is Mrs. Gertrude Bexter. A member of eertainly qualified to read gas Local 108, FE-UE, Mrs. Baxter took time off of the picket line et the International neters. The Brooklyn chapter is e@ Baltimore has one of the Harvester plant to aid the Chicago Negro Labor Council's it continuing its pressure on the largest aircraft plants in the campaign for jobs at Sears. Following her~ore Dorothy Ompany for jobs in all depart- nation and is currently expand- Hayes, Chicago Women for Peace; an unidentified woman; Albert Samuels, vice president Lo- cal ients and everybody agrees it’s ing its work force. It is reported 453, UAW-CIO; Albert Janney, yice chairma n_ Progressive Party of Illinois, and Syen Anderson, oking with gas! - that over 800 Negroes’ who were organizer of Local 453, UAW-C 10. -
’ 6 FREEDOM November, 1952 me Editorials On This Rock We Build Firm ‘Foundation O HOUSE CAN LONG STAND without a firm founda- tion. If built on shifting sands it will rock and reel, buckle at the joints and crumple into pieces when the harsh winds of adversity and.the hurricane of struggle beset it. Sixteen million American Negroes seek to build a Free- dom House, a Liberty Hall, a Liberation Shrine to which all may repair in equality and dignity. is On what foundation must we build? = The surest rocks in our fight for freedom are the mass of our people: in the first instance the millions of working men and women in mine, mill and factory; and, with them, the poor farmers—sharecroppers, tenant and day laborers —who cultivate but do not own the Southern soil. ‘ These millions of working people of farm and factory constitute our biggest buying power—and our strongest i striking power. If, in the struggle for economic security, for job equal- ity, for ownership of the land, the Negro worker and the Negro farmer fail to prosper, then: i = » e The doctor will have patients but no payments;
-@ The storekeeper will see his stock remaining on the x N shelves; : e The lawyer will revert to chasing ambulances; e The minister will-have a flock, but soon no church in which to serve it. -———LETTER COLUMN . It would be good to remember this when talking of the “progress” some few Negroes have made in the upper reaches of American life. The structures of Negro society Get It Off. Your Chest 7 rises or falls on the backs of its sturdy working men and women and poor farming folk. For Truth : Learn From frica Wants ‘Gilbert Campaign With this in mind, we take great-pride in calling atten- I am grateful in congratulat- I would like to make a spe- ing you on your stand for hu- cial acknowledgement of the I am one of your earliest tion to the 2nd Annual Convention of the National Negro subscribers. I remember: how man rights for all colored peo- story on South Africa in the Labor Council to take place in Clevéland, Ohio, November ple, throughout the world. September issue of FREEDOM. interested .I was when I first 21-23. In one year the Labor Council, led by president Wil- Your stand is for the truth— It is my opinion that we Ne- saw a .copy.of the paper. That has been almost two years. I liam Hood and executive secretary Coleman Young, has and the truth shall make you groes in the United States quite remember that Lt. Gilbert’s established 30-odd new councils, plunged: into a national free. Find enclosed one dollar. . obviously have a lot to learn _ Joseph Banks from the African peoples. .~ case was on the front page. campaign for federal FEPC, launched and won a score of New Orleans, La, Since that, time he has been, I drives for new jobs in hitherto Jim Crow industries. I think what Mr. Mandela believe, sentenced to 20 years People’s Institute had to say about Mr. Yergan ins prison on the same old Its deliberations in Cleveland deserve the close atten- ‘Do FREEDOM readers know and his visit to their land, frame-up charge. a4 tion and the support of alll sections of Negro life. On the Should be the way we should of Claude and Joyce ‘Williams begin te approach a number What ‘has happened to his anvil of Jim Crow oppression and with the hammer of of Helena, Alabama? This un> of our leaders right here at family?. And is there a cam- usual couple conduct an inter- struggle, it is forging the rock upon which we must build home. - paign going on to get him out racial project there known as the House of Freedom. Enclosed please find a one of jail once and for all? If not The People’s Institute for Ap- dollar renewal and a one dollar there should be. How about, it, plied Religion (PIAR). contribution. FREEDOM? They run on a scanty budget John White, Ir. Dana Blackwell of $1,200 a year if they can —~ Atlanta, Ga. New York City Our Clearest Voice get it.. A committee is form- ing to send a monthly dollar or HEN THE REPRESENTATIVES of more than 20 so from each member of the FREE TO FREEDOM READERS nations met recently ‘in the historic Peace Conference PIAR. Write them for recent of Asian and Pacific Peoples in Peking, China, they chose report of their work and if you oom one citizen of the United States te serve on the permanent possibly can, constitute your- In Battle For Peace continuing (liaison) committee, self a member of the dollar a month committe for PIAR by - By DR. W. E. B. DuBOIS Overlooking John Foster Dulles, who drafted the treaty sending your dollar directly to of domination which now imprisons Japan, and Richard them, Here Is the Book of the Year ' Vivian Davenport by the Nation’s Outstanding x Nixon of the China Lobby, they chose a representative of ~ a Lake Helen, Fla. Scholar and Peace Leader, with “the other America”—Paul Robeson. ~Sparkling Commentary by Shir- Nothing Funny ley Graham (irs. DuBois), They chose well. Their invitation to Mr. Robeson is Anyone with alittle reflec- « e but one indication among many which come from all parts tion can tell there is npthing “In Battle For Peace” sells of the world that‘his great giant remains the clearest voice funny or playful. about those for $1.00. But it is yours of the people’s democratic America in the fight for peace, big noses with the horned rim- FREE if you: colonial liberation and full equality among the nations rimed glasses that have been appearing in novelty store win- 1. Send your renewal plus of men. -2 new subs to FREEDOM. . i dows for the last two years. Try as it will, the State Department can’t hide this It is plain as day that they 2. Send 3 new subs, fact from the world’s millions or from the people of the are aimed at spreading anti- e United States. ; : ee Semitism among the people. DO IT NOW! On the back of the right rim of these “specs” is the letter FREEDOM ASSOCIATES
Saw “J.” That beats those letters 53 West 125th Street, New York 27, N. Y. oN on the back of our Civil De- Inclosed is three dollars ($3). Please: Frederick Douglass Said: fense Dogtags. (check one) {] Renew my sub and enter two new Subscriptions. | “Slavery blunts the edge of all our rebukes of tyranny Douglas _Miller » Detroit; Mich. (Enter 3 new subscriptions. (Names & addresses attached) abroad, the criticisms that we make upon other nations, As my premium send me a FREE copy of In Battle For only call forth ridicule, contempt and scorn. In the world Pen Pal ‘ Peace, by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. “we are made a reproach and a byword to a mocking earth, Mr. Bipul Kanti Roy Chowd- ¥ and we must continue to be so made so long,as slavery ” hury, 14 Anthony Bagan Lane, Calcutta 9, India, would like continues to pollute our soil.” ‘ American Negro correspond- Rochester, New York, Dec. 12, 1850 ents. Conrad Frieberg Address ....
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; © ‘FREEDOM . 7 a ; Y Pearl Bailey Incident Recalls Life and Death of Bessie Smith
By YVONNE GREGORY . unbreakable thread in the life among the greatest interpreters ie Last month, when the outrageous attack against Pearl Bailey by several white of our people and in the life of this art form, then we can of all Americans. Alan Lomax men was made public, many people remembered look forward to the day when the terrible manner in which Bessie Says: “The blues have' more all the people will honor Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues, had died just 15 years ago. In Mississippi on a theatrical than any other song-form, be- Smith, Empress of the Blues, tour, in 1937, Miss Smith had an automobile accident come the American song, much and wipe away from our na= in which she was severely injured. as ‘cante hondo’ is the national No hospital tional memory the shame of in the town of Clarkesdale would take her in because of her color, song form of Spain or the her death. ~ and the great singer bled. to ‘corrido’: is the national ballad ‘ death. nt form of Mexico.” “Don’t talk about it § one, and then her trumpet *Bout it, if you do ’ll cry. One of. our younger. poets, voice would ring out for all of If this is true, and it is also Myron O'Higgins, wrote “Blues Don’t crowd around™me, them, singing. ... “I was born , true that Negro women are Round me, if you do, I'll die.” for Bessie”—in which he said: in Georgia and my ways are - “Well, Bessie, Bessie, she won’t underground.” Or she would sing de blues no more sing to the farmers and the Cause dey let her-go down turpentine workers ... “Woke bloody, Lawd, travellin from up this mornin’, the blues all |My Song. Is For All Men deor to door” round my bed, went. to eat my ~By It is possible to hear Bessie breakfast and the blues all in Peter Blackman my bread ...,” and they knew Smith’s voice today on records. My song is for all men—Jew, Greek, Russian The listener who never heard that she understood their life Communist, ‘pagan, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Pole, her in life, and whose ears and suffered with them. are arsee accustomed to the screeching Today, in these same areas, or distorted moanings of the And since my song is for all men : and ‘in the big cities, north and More than most,I majority of today’s vocalists, is south, some of the biggest must state a case for the black man. hardly prepared for the great “audiences come to hear the * * * * bell that tolls out its notes of gospel concerts of popular wo- deep sorrow and the anger of men singers like Sister Rosetta The black woman brings her beauty @ people. As the powerful voice Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, ‘E-shalk sing it commands silence and atten- Marie Knight and others. As Bid every nation know tion in a room today, the list- Alan Lomax, folklorist put. it: ener is reminded of something And worship it “The blues have crept into the With her which the cartoonist E. Simms churches in the guise of ‘gospel at my side I measure all things Campbell had to say back in songs’.” An elderly gospel singer She is the source of my pride—from her stem all 1939: “When blues were sung said it even more clearly while _ my creations. by a woman, the voice, that is, explaining just what kind of the female voice, carried tragic music it. was she sang. First she : * * * * implications—the rich over- played a few unmistakable’ tones of the cello—the man al- I am Paul Robeson blues chords on~her guitar and ’ I send out my voice Ways imparted background on sang, “Blues get in you, you and fold peoples warmly to my a guitar or piano—she was the holler like a baby. chile.” Then bosom hub of the family—black Amer- she said, “When I was young I sow courage in myriad bleak places where it is jea crying out to her sons and down home, I learned to play grown worn daughters.” the box, learned all that sinful my song kept this fire alight in the fiords of Norway “Ma” Discovered Bessie music, too. Now I don’t sing that music no more.” Where- under the Nazis The earliest recorded blues : For my power is never singer, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, upon she folded back the sleeve diminshed. is generally credited with hay- . Bessie Smith of her grey gown, twanged I pile voleanoes in the minds of Mississippi share- ing “discovered” Bessie Smith. some very similar chords ‘on croppers the guitar and sang a line or Bessie, born in Tennessee about hear them, much as they do I engage continents two from “Move On Up a Little 1896, was a small girl of 11 or today. v Beyond all Higher,” a popular gospel song bars you set I shall reach out 12 when Ma Rainey visited that Bessie Smith soon stood be- To_set life’s southern state with a road that is an obvious first cousin crown upon mine own head with mine fore such audiences and in the to the blues. own hand show. The olderi woman heard people’s language, sang the the little Shall reach out and girl sing and was so people’s blues. She would sing, Today it’s and Mahalia Jack- never forget the reckoning. impressed with her: voice and “If the blues was money, I’d be son’s gospel music; or*it is - * * * personality that. she took her a millioneer, ‘cause I can’t be Pearl Bailey singing “Tired of as.a pupil and started-her on satisfied, I can’t be satisfied” the life I lead, tired of counting I shall forget. nothing her. great. career. That was +... and the people with their things I need”; yesterday it was I lay it all to your account around the turn of the century aches and their laughter to Bessie singing, “Down in, the and whenever. a show or a ‘I shall forgive nothing hide the-aches would under- Dumps”; day before yesterday I shall preacher or a.sihger came to stand and take her to their not mime with withered fingers Ma Rainey sang “Backwater In the small southern towns, people hearts. When she smiled at Blues.” But yesterday, today days not far off when we measure our strength. came from miles around to. them, she and the people were and tomorrow, the blues are an Stories for Children ¢ A Slave Girl Became a Great Poet Many years ago in Boston a little child always been very thin, and she stood among many other slaves who had just was told to make a sea voyage by the been brought from Africa, A crowd of wealthy Wheatley’s doctors. She went to England and men and women had come to the dock the English people to buy were so the slaves. : : excited by her writings that two vol- umes of her poetry were published in England. While the child stood on the auction block the auctioneer called for prices from the crowd When she came back to America, the thir- / to buy her. The white woman who bought her | teen colonies which were to become the United was the Wife of a tailor and her name was States of America were trying to free them- Mrs. Wheatley. selves from the rule of King George of Eng- * . land, who She took the little,gir] home to be a servant put heayy taxes on the people, but did not permit and playmate for her own little daughter. One them to rule themselves. of the first things the Wheatley family noticed Phylis felt very deeply about the speeches about the African child was her love of green in the Boston commons for freedom and inde- things, of leaves and trees and flowers, and so pendence, so much so that she wrote a poem. they named her Phylis, which is a Greek name to a representative of the King, named the for a green leaf. Earl of Dartmouth. She wrote that, she, a. - Mrs. Wheatley and her daughter Mary slave, believed in freedom, because she and her taught Phylis how to read and soon, only a people more than all others knew what it was year and a few months after she had come to not to be free. This is what she wrote: this country, she was reading the Bible more “Such, such my case. And can I then but pray easily than Mrs. Wheatley herself. Others may never feel tyrannic sway?” When Phylis was about sixteen years old, It has been -more than a hundred and Mary found some poems that she had written Seventy-six years since the little slave girl who and she showed them to Mrs. Wheatley. After ' stood shivering on an auction block in Boston that Phylis was asked to give readings of her grew up to be the most famous of early Ameri- | poems at many places in Boston. But she had can poets. And her name was Phylis Wheatley. é B FREEDOM November, 1952:
Ccnversation From Life Packinghouse Worker Pamphlet
By Alice Childress t Marge, it is getting so that some too. ...I am going to give Packs Wallop Against Jim Crow I hate to go shopping in the our superintendent a smoked super markets because it just shoulder because I know he Action Against Jim Crow, a near turns my heart to see the don’t eat nothing but neck- new pamphlet put out by the women’s faces, . . . Now Marge bones and such on seventy-five Anti-Discrimination Depart- i know that I don’ t go in there dollars a month. ment of United Packinghouse to look at faces but how can. I will give my sister a ham, Workers of America, is an in- I help it? and to Mrs. Ames across the dictment and a ‘directive. It is You take yesterday, for an hall, ten cans of evaporated a pictorial and case history instance, I saw a colored wo- milk for her baby... indictment of industrial Jim man with three little children I will give Sarah, ten cans of Crow—its evils and how at and she was starin’ at one of ‘soup for her little ones and so least one union is fighting it. the little boxes of meat which on as. far as my money goes... . A twenty page documentary is wrapped up in cellophane T will mot buy any of those glass record of what the authors call, like it were a necklace or some- beads and party diamonds nor “Jim Crow’s Operation Killer,” thing and her forehead was will I be tricked into buying it is a study of cases and caus- frowned up because it was beef them sleazy satin slippers and es of Jim Crow hiring and and it had-a little sticker. on stinky old. perfumes they put practices in Chicago’s great it that said one dollar and forty out around Christmas. meat packing industry. seven cents and wasn’t enough You know folks spend mil- More than recaniting evils to feed one of them children. lions on all. kind of boxed up done to Negroes, this pamphlet ‘much less all of them. garbage at holiday time but I tells about fight back—it tells Well, the children looked at will not give no junk manufac- about Action Against Jim Crow. her hopefully but she moved ‘turer a Merry Chistmas -while on and bought a piece of salt my people are hungry and~ And. it shows that white ‘pork for fifty cents and the that’s for sure’. . . and since workers have a tremendous * children poked out their we feel that we must give gifts, stake in the fight for Negro mouths so that the poor mother ' wouldn’t it be nice if everyone’s rights. What white _ workers bought them a little box of pantry shelf was full after it must see, says Aetion Against sweet biscuits. ... Marge, I fol-- was all over? Jim Crow is. that race slurs are lowed her all around the store Besides there ain’t no twenty “bigot-made blades handed to and saw her look long at the percent tax on food like there common people to use against coffee and then buy a package is on pocketbooks and fake each other and so sharp they’ll of tea. She handled all the fruit jewelry... .- never know they cut each and then bought a_box'of dried What ...? Oh you can just other’s throats, until—they try prunes. She stopped in front of give me a dozen cakes of kitch- to put their heads together.” the string beans and then en soap and five pounds of This pamphiet should be a picked out a rusty old turnip. rice. . . .. Yes, _ Marge, your must for all FEPC and anti- ... Yes, Marge, I know we all friend Mildred would appreci- discrimination committees in have to do like: that but it sure ate that no end. Thank You. and out of industry, and a started me to thinking when I major weapon for those. fight- A MOTHER leaves her children and goes to Icok for work, and Jooked up and saw a sign which ing for democratic trade union- then . . . “Action Against Jim Crow” tells her story. said: “Do Your Christmas Douglass Center Opens ism. -Shopping Early!” A unique educational pro- Second only to what Action United Packinghouse workers is UPWA has given the trade So I came home and made gram begins its second year in Against Jim.Crow says, is the that in these times when there union movement an exciting out my list... .I am giving Harlem with the opening of way it says it..On every page are those trade unionists who manual to fight with. They _ Mary and Jessie each a. pound the Frederick Douglass Educa- there are the faces of pack- have called the fight against have in so doing also produced of coffee . . . why of course, tional Center for its eight- inghouse workers, Negro, white, white supremacy—“jim crow in one of the finest.pieces of labor Marge, I’ll_be glad to give you week fall term on Nov. 10. young, old, native and foreign reverse,” the only guarantee of literature in recent years. The Courses aré conducted evenings born, and the living photog+ a decent life for the working pamphlet is obtainable from
between 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. raphy of Mickey Pallas and Jo people of this country is to the the Anti-Discrimination De- REMODEL YOUR FURS and cover such subjects as: Banks is a moving compliment extent that they can unite with partment, UPWA, 608 South at a Reliable Furrier The History of the Negro Peo- to the strong fine faces of these one another—in dignity and Dearborn Street, Chicago 5, ple, The Negro People and the workers. respect, Ill., and sells for 10c per copy. We will restyle your fur garments World Today, Major Problems to the latest fashion at the most Throughout. there are the of U.S. Life—Their Cause and rearsonable price. We also have sparkling beautiful faces of new Fur Coats, Jackets and Solution, Public Speaking, and © little Negro children — those Stoles. at money-saving prices. Parliamentary Procedure. Come up and convince yourself, who are the final victims of Here’s My Story Courses cost $5.00 each. The “Jim. Crow’s Operation Killer.” MAX KUPERMAN Center is at'124 West 124th St., The message of the. Anti- By PAUL ROBESON 214 West 30th St. BR 9-3733 New York City. Discrimination Department of
(Continued from Page 1) ening character of the illness.” The brave trumpets of Al- that are being cast over free- ‘bert Einstein and his fellow YOU'LL BE OUT OF THE SWING OF THINGS . dom of thought and expression here at home. scientists’ have joined those Classified Ads IF YOU’RE NOT AT — who assail the evil Walls of Though he is physically frail
Jericho. More trumpets must and not in good health, one can , Listings in this section are FREEDOM'S be sounded, more shouts of pro- available at 40e a line (five feel the strength of his spirit test must be raised, more and words); minimum charge $2 per 2nd Anniversary Cabaret Party and the glowing warmth of his louder, till the walls come insertion. Copy deadline the 20th compassion for humanity. of the month before publication. tumbling down. Payment must accompany copy. There was a note of deep sor- Address: Classified, Freedom, 53 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1952 row and concern underlying his W. 125th St., New York 27, N.Y. From 8:00 P.M. until 2??? comments on what is happen- CNA Award Dance
at the ing in our land. The Art Chapter of the Com- TRUCKING CELEBRITY CLUB, 35 East 125th St. As he spoke, one could sense mittee for the Negro in the Arts will award one hundred JIMMIE & SPIKE'S MOVING and Keep the. Date Open! «Plan Now to Attend! something of what this must pick-up service, large & small jobs, mean to Einstein, the giant of dollars ($100) to the Negro ar- city and country, short notice or tist whose painting is selected plan. ahead. 24 hour telephones: science and culture, who was UN 4-7707 or UN 5-7915, SY Sy) 3 Bp 2 BBO BI 2 JB OO BSI 8) CIPS CI IS SI CIPS IIo EEG driven from his homeland by by the winning tieketholder the Nazi barbarians and who at the group’s Fifth Anniver-
- The United Citizens Committee Ri NATIONAL felt the immeasurable tragedy sary Ball, which will be held MAKE HISTORY! BE THE OUT- For Solidarity with South African Resistance that his people suffered at their November 14, at the Rockland standing citizen in your: com-
EL Palace in Harlem. munity! Send a self-addressed, Presents a hands. stamped envelope and 25¢ coin to Surely there is heart-felt The winner wiil choose the National Negro Civil Assn., 1850 Lib- Fa earnestness in these words from paintings from works submit- erty Rd., Youngstown, Ohio. SALUTE TO SO. AFRICA his article in the scientists’ ted by Negro artists which will with bulletin: be on exhibit at the House of Garment Labor Peace Comm. “Interference with the free- Service, 35 West 116th St. The Invites You to a Paul Robeson dom of the oral and written exhibit will begin Nov. 7th and RALLY FOR PEACE communication of scientific re- last until Nov. 21st. : on. Noted Speakers — African Cultural Program sults, the. widespread attitude The Committee for the Negro WEDNESDAY, NOVY. 19th of political distrust which is in the Arts maintains an art 6:30 P.M. sharp Sunday, November 30—3 p.m. supported by an immense police workshop at 225 East 125th St., . Hear... organization, the timidity. and where sketch classes are held Mrs, Eslanda Goode Robeson ROCKLAND PALACE the anxiety of individuals to twice weekly. The Art Chapter Council on African Affairs
is avoid everything which might Mr. Albert Pizzatti 155th St. and Eighth Ave., N. Y. C. is currently working on a cause suspicion and which mural for a community play- Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers ADMISSION: $1.20 (tax incl.) — Outstanding Artists — could threaten their economic ground and a portfolio. YUGOSLAV-AMERICAN HOME Tickets on sale at Freedom Associates, 53 West 125th Street. ie positions—all these are only Tickets for the dance, priced 405 West 4ist Street Make checks payable to Freedom Associates, symptoms, even though they at $1.50, are available by call- ADMISSION: 50¢ Sih hhh ehhh lh ele ee ae eee OMAN » reveal more clearly the thredt- ing UN 4-4002.