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HENRY G. REYNOLDS
BESSIE ANN REYNOLDS

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WILLIAM ENNIS, Jr..........

RICHARD BURKS
MRS. CORA L. TURNER
MR. JOHN H. TURNER

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Flint, Michigan
Editor and Publisher
Associate Editoz....... Director of Photography
Manager of Circulation. Adv. Manager

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Joe Cowie~ Wonderful Achievement

The, sports world at large has in Joe Loujs something to be
proud of. Sponsors and their immediate fans in every line*of endeavor glory in the fine traits ang respectful demeanor of those

they are selling to the public.

Not within the whole history of the fistic world has any
pion before defended his title successfully for the sixteenth time.
We have had the sad experience of glaring newspaper stories of
scandal ang the running afoul of the clutches of the law |from
this angle. At one time a champion did net defend his title for scme
two years or miore and was nearly forced from his subterfuges

by which he retained his title.

* Thege feats cost the pugilistic worlq much prestige and many
ugly euestions which did the sport no good were raised. The practg such disrepute as to almost run: it out of

tice fell at one time
the country.

Back a few years ago, a poor boy from the Black Hills of Alabama went to Detroit. Rising from the humble position of gelling
newspapers for the support of himself and family to a good job
at Ford's factory. Here he workeg diligently and through the practice of clean habits and care of his body and soul, he impressed
those with means that he had another talent lying inert and yearning for expression, When Joe Louis practiced in: those small street
a that he would some day be ~hampion

corner bots he had no ide
of the world. -

With timely and expressive modesty he~has risen to the highest place in the realm of sportsdom. He has borne his honor with
keeping erace and~ia all his fights there has come to him hig
for his cleanliness and high class sportsmanship.

Joe Louis will doubtless retire a champion. He has not used
~his mouth for brains: and has not dissipated his fine fortune in
Yiotous living and lacivious lawsuits, He js and has been the man1 the poise and dignity of the states:;

ly gentieman, possesseg wit]
man,

His contribution to his country and race will inure to! history and it-is not believed that anything will come in after life t
cause his people to hang their headin shame. |

He stepped into the breech when the ptigilistic, world was
sorely in need of an honest and upright man to wear with becoming honor the mantle that on lesser shoulders

bearer into the sea.

cham
h praise

would topple its

Toe Louis: has rendered a contribution and a service and the |

Sports world has from him something upon which it can build with
promt for many generations tg come,:

Strikers Report

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victory, Rev. Powell added that
failure to reach agreement will
also be the signa] for a gigantic
mass meeting Saturday afternoon
in Dorrence Brooks Square, a wide!
~street area inthe heart of Har_ item, followed by a huge parade of
Pickets and supporters.

The. co-chairman took occasion
to assail, in turn, misleading headlines, unauthoritative. information,
~modernized~ Uncle Toms, ~black ~
siool pigeons, bundles for Britain
when what we need are ~bundles

for Hariem~, high rents and high |
food costs. He promised a roll call

Elks and other secret

of all the ~big shots~

including

STROHS

certainly has the

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It makes a simple meal
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Try a bottle of this
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Listen to Gus Haenschen~s All-Sering

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dectors. dentists, lawyers, min
isters,~~yes, even number bank-,
ers~~at the next meeting to ask

them where.they stand. ~There

shal]. be no relenting of picketing;
and rcotting until that docu
ment is signed and men are work
ing.~ Rev. Powell closed.

Both Roger Straughn and Atty.
Hepe R. Stevens, the other two
co-chairmen of the committee, exsorted the audience to continue and
where possible redouble their support by covering~ others to the
~walk and talk~~ drive for, jobs.
Stevens ~summoned~ the National
Urban league, the YMCA, YWCA,
the fraternities and sororities, the
orders as
well as all the political parties to
come out and take a position, ~The
support of these organizations will
show,~ he said, ~that the Negro
reople of Harlem are united in the
struggle.~

Rev. Dr. William Lloyd Imes of
St. James Presbyterian church deelared that ~as long as we, have
12,000,000 suffering. daily indignitics end ostracism from jobs that
are the privilege of all God~s children, this land is not free and not
safe, This is holy week and, it is
an admirable time to put religion
into practice.~

Fredi Washington, star of stage

~| and screen, pleaded for the wom
en~s support so that the ~daughters
of mothers might be able to marry
men whgg could support them,~
She pointed to the action of many
~of the 2.000 delegates to the American People~s meeting at Randall~s
island last Sunday who, learning
of the boycott of buses by Negroes,
chose to walk across the rainy
andwind-swept Triborough Bridge
rather than break the strike. She
+ook a whack at the ~intellectual
and better Negroés~ to whom she
a ~new low im _- selfresnect~ for remaining aloof to the
fight. {

It was announced that the disorderly conduct case of Mrs. Helen

| Harris, 25-year-old housewife, had

heen postponed until April 17. Mrs.
Harris is said to have thrown a
Diece of wood at a time when a
bus was passing. Officer Ramsey,
*he Negro patrolman who arrested
her, is charged witn having struck
her acress the back with his billy,
has been promisea by Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine.

An accounting of funds collected
ful disciplinary action for which
the week before revealed that $185
had been received and the detailed

| expenditure of these receipts, met

with general approval. It was said
that costs run to $14 a day and
covers the expense of fuel for
vrivaté cars begin used on the avenues as an accommodatign. for
strikers, a food kitchen at Abyssinia church where ~ pickets and

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GROCERY and MEAT
MARKET:

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Ford Move

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A. F. of L.:unions maintain ~Wr
white~ unions which shut Negroes
cut of jobs. Thé UAW-CIO has
conducted itself admirably in trying to remove ~the color line in this
strike. It needs to do much more
to wipe out distrust based on sad
experiences of the past with union
labor which Negroes have had and
in teaching~ white labor that it will
never be iree as long as black labor
can be exploited. If the UAW-CIO
wins the right to represent the Ford
workers, as now seems inevitable,
it hag a golden opportunity
demonstrate. to Negro -workera
evelywhefe in the country that
some labor unions are straight on
the race question.

In view of statements made by
the UAW-CIO in this particular
strike and in view of the | stated
policy of the CIO nationally opposing racial discrimination, am
confident it will take chacles
of. this opportunity.~~ |

Immediately upon his arrival in

Detroit, Mr White conferred) wiuw |

CIO-UAW officials, newspaper
men and the executive committee
fo the Detroit NAACP branch,

It was arranged for him to
speak over loudspeakers placed on
a sound-trick which circled the
River Rouge plant. He appealed to
the men inside, saying:

~Some of you in the plant have
suspicions of the sincerity of organized labor. There are numerous
instn easctha
instances that justify such an afttitude, but UAW-CIO has pledged
through its chief officials, R. J.
Thomas, president; George fF.
~Addies, secretary-treasurer, and
Michael Widman, Jr., director of
the Ford Organizing committee,
that there will be no discrimination, and that all opportunities - to
work and to hold better paid jobs
will be protected.~

White pointed out that those remaining in the plant were not
helping themselves, the Negro
grcup, collective bargaining, or the
Situation generally.

Mr. White received unequivocal
assurances from union heads with
whom he had conferences that
they would live up to all pledges

| to protect Negro workers,

In Detroit daily papers and in
the Negro press of the city UAWCIO: inserted an advertisement
setting forth its official position or
the question of the Negro as covered in its constitution and entorced
hy its contracts. Points are:

~1. Under a CIO-UAW contract,
Negro Ford workers will receive
the same pay as other workers do
the same work and will share
equally in all other benefits provided by such a contract. This is
already the case in organized shops,

~2. Negro Ford workers will not
lose any privileges or positions that
they have enjoyed at the Ford Motor Company. On the. contrary,
they will enjoy greater privileges,
more job security and more pro
motions on the basis of the
seniority system.~

Enforcement of the policies is
provided in Article two of the

union constitution which carries an
anti-discrintinaton clause on account of ~religion, race, creed, color, political affiliation or nationiality.~

Meharry Will.

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addition, the philanthropic foundation will match, dollar for dollar,
the first $200,000 which Meharry is
able to raise over and above the
$1,500,000 figure.

The school is seeking ulfimate
stablization on a basis of $6,000,
others participating receive free
meals, and other small incidental
charges. Many thanks were given
to those contributing food, labor
and other important items to the
~ampaign. Withuot any difficulty,
$235 was collected at the meeting.

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senior engineer,
eiate engineer, and assistant engineer, senior architect, associate
architect. assistant architect, junior architect. Further -information
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| Capsules and start at once to flush: of waste matter

The Interested

has had occasion to talk sincerely

South~ with its social placements.
One of the most interesting talks
and relationship, of this kind has
come to this writer in the Gate
City, where the racial groups don~t
get together very much in relationshin exchanges.
A brilliant law graduate had
just hung up his shingle for prac.
tice. Full of ideals against the
injustices of man to man and am.
bitious to make for himself a name
on the sands of time, from the

grand and petit juries.

When Georfiia~s

with a ~loophole attack,~ which he

tice.~ He was ready to fight it.

~NEW SOUTHERNER~

AT VARIOUS TIMES in this writer~s rounds he

zpiparently fair_outlooking young white men. Espe.
cially those growing young men of the other race
whose education and background have afforded them
the opportunity to be broader in outlook and consiceration for others than the masses of their similarly hued fellowmen. Those who have not been
grounded and tainted in the ideals of the ~Old

He expressed his belief that
Georgia, no less than other states. could not escape
putting colored men on its juries, or their trials, in
every instance, could be. declared illegal. He looked
upon the~ separate and unequal conveniences afford.
ed colored taxpayers and remarked, ~They can~t
do it if you carry it to the proper courts.~

legislature passed a law ir
reality outlawing the primary system, he was ready

the white primairy system to bits. He said over and
over again, ~They know it~s unfair and undemocratic
and no true court of the land will uphold the prac.

Ha saw mariy other illegal laws, practices and
what-have_you and was ready to fight them WITH

Seeing and Saying - By William A. Fowlkes

ang frankly with

He is out of the

be fixed well in
things that they

We still talk
cre must not say

FOWLKES

first he ran into the many problems presented by
the ~Negro question~ in courts and in the routine of
his practice.

In the maze of the Georgia law, this ambitious
young white man Viewed the practice of all-white

he has spoken.

right.

said would blow
the end.:

But the forceS that be got in the wind-of his in.
tentions. They knew that he knew what he was
talking about and that he was well prepared and.
ready to fight them. They feared he would awaken
sleeping Negro leadership. So~they fixed a nice,
lucrative place for him in the ~conditions~ that be.~

good old Southern life is unrippled. |

His story is typical of thousands of
Southern white men, who learn that things are not
right and that our section is one of the nation~s fore.
most problems, but who come out.of school only to

CAREFUL TALK, NOW! ae

in front of the wrong people, because his job would
| be at stake. There is one thing he sees as the reason for our slowness in getting the democracy guaranteed under the Constitution~inability of leaders
to organize themselves effectively. Time and time
again he has said in effect that if the group could
crganize its potentialities, nothing short of accom.
*plishment of every objective would result. In a general way. it isn~t hard to see that he

Probably an interested and ~ready~ leadership
emone, citizens of color would encourage some of these
ambitious, well_meaning persons to come out of
~hiding~ and help us fight for every guaranteed
Otherwise, those who might be interested
wil! quickly fold up their tents and fly away at the
indifference, the seemingly eternal inability of lead.
ers to get themselves and a follewing together, to
intelligently present an issue and fight it through to

Tt is this writer~s observation that most men
will respect truth snd righteousness when they are
presented well and that justice CAN prevail if
enough effort is made to have it do so.

Methinks that we have yet~ to get together and
present our side of the proposition and make others
believe. first of all, that we merit only the best and
will accept nothing less.

THE AID of colored pedple. He was no Red~only J
an ambitious, well-meaning ~new =f

way for a while and the ocean of

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other young

the setup and ~to grow fat off the
actually abhor inwardly.

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frankly ang friendly together, but
the wrong thing at the wrong time

knows of what

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~WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

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Mass Insecurity

The restiveness of labor, that
is organized labor, as it is being
so graphically displayed in the
current multiplicity of strikes is
in large measure the _ result of
feeling of mass insecurity. This
mass fear of starvation is the
continuation of a dynamic movement which started in Europe
near the end of the nineteenth
century and took on the shape of
Communism and

twenty years ago in
Italy.

Fascism some
Russia and

The years of
experience with

engineer, a5S0-"

Fascism and Com.
munism naturally
forced adjust.
ments and pro_
duced new lead,

ers, leaders from
among the inse- |;
cure masses of
people. These
men, Stalin, Mus.
solini and then. CHIVERS
the ~~mad~ genius~
of the crowd. Adolf
Hitler, arose to their positions as

dictators because they were and
are practical] students of mass
psychology. The evidence of this

fact is their demonstrated astute
ness in Manipulating the masses.

i|end stubbornness are the result of

~| a covering lid down on the boiling

largely a matter of ~psychological!
massism~. The terms ~ masses oF
massism~ being more basic than
~yeople~. We refer to ~clots of
humanity~ and these ~clots~ are
highly maniputable when the manipulation is done by practical students of mass psychology, These
students must de of the people
whom they would ead because
their success is dependent upon
their sensitiveness to the tensions
and pressures amncng the masses.

No other in the history of the
modern United States has so adequately fitted in this picture of
mass economic leadership as has
John L. Lewis, the ex-miner, who
founded and built the CIO. The
present ~économic guerilla Wwarfave~ commonly referred to as
strikes is. largely waged by the
CTO unions. They are more than
strikes, they are forms of economic warfare. Their force, severity

a long period of an_ increasing
feeling of insecurity.
The ~defendants~ in these

guerilla skirmishes, commonly referred to as ~big business~ have.
too often shown a kind of blind.
ness that prevents their seeing the
~masses~ except as blurred masses,
of incoherence. They cannot discern the latent tensions alive in
the bosoms of these ~common
folk~. So as Henry Ford. is at
present doing, they have over the
years done~that is try to press

result is the same as when one
foclishly tries to force a lid to stay
on a boiling pot~explosion. +

This writer, during an address
delivered before a group of college
men in Detroit last summer, was
~rash~ enough to suggest to them
that they join the ranks of the
CIO, get jobs in the Ford Plant
and get ready for the imminent
~nay off~, The ~pay off~ was to
be leadership of the great mass of
Negroes working in Ford~s Plants. |
They laughed as this advice and
told the speaker point blank that
he did. not know what he~ was

talking about. They could not~ con- |

ceive of a real and effective battle

~Wake up, youse guys. I

and go to Sunday School.~

~Ah, shut up, Junior.
wink.~ ~

is Easter Sunday you know.~
because I was on a hike with

member, Junior, I~m the lady
with you Saturday, trying to

ter jive.~; og
~You sick, Pop?~

the right spirit.~

t had some kind of spirits.~
~Ain~t you going with us,

time preaching starts.~

~Only the idea son, and it

By ROBERT M. RATCLIFFE

~Hey, Mom, ain~t you gonna carry me to church? This

~You~re right, boy, I would

~I thought you were so tired.~

~Well, honey, mother has a new. dress and hat.
there~s no use keeping them tied up in a box.~

~Pop, what did you get for Easter?~ a

wanna put on my new togs

Let your ole man catch another |

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~And shouldn~t I know it? My feet ain~t hurting me ~

the Girl Reserves. If you re-.
who walked all over town.
satisfy your Easter whims.~

~ < a ae

you
understand why I was

Mom?~ -

* No, thank you, dearie. But mother will be along about

is rather vague!~

-Petty Motive ~
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terested in the upbuilding of the
community through the creation of.
etter living conditions, better facilities for community use: more
enlightment on public questions
such as the matter of how and
when fo get easement of certain
excess taxes on homes; and more. Sincere efforts on the part of the
Supervisors to ~cause a check up on
the price fixings
Landlords against
~leases on property

being waked between the Ferd
methdd of maniptlating labor and -
John. L. method

of manipulating the masses.;

The result of this type of blindness is typical. The horrible example for these young Negro col.
lege men is the brutalization of the
non-union Negro laborers at Ford~s
River Rouge plant. Negfoes are
fighting the strikers, the union
members and mong themselves.
They are reported tobe using
clubs, knives and razors. Where
will they be when the strike is

seitled? ~The tensions and pressures |

that caused the Ford explosion
were pzesent last summer. This
writer felt them on a trip through
the. Ford plant and observed them
in the City of Detroit. Not a Single
Ford worker interviewed was &
~contented~ worker, He was &

The insecurity discussed here is

emotions of their workers. The ~

~frightened~ worker.

By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK |

BETWEEN THE LINES

THE NEGRO SCORES

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Negro is gaining
ground in this country. During
these critical times the searchlight
of. common sense is being focused
upon the nation and upgn the
component pakts thereof.~ This
nation is being forced to take
stock of its citizens and their loyalties. Our way of life, our hopes
and aspirations are being weighed
in the balance and woe unto us if
we are found wanting,

The threatened tieup of industry by elements that are sympathetic towards Hitlerism is one of
the dark revelations-of these perilous times. In an-hour when everything is demanded if our country
is to survive, we have certain elements who are putting selfish
gains before the safety of our
common country. There is something treasonable about some of
the happenings in industry. At
first we were confronted with a
series of explosions; today it is
strikes and the threats thereof
that are paralyzing our defense efforts. There can be no objection
to labor trying to get certain. gains.
The right of collective bargé\:ing

right to organize is one that labor
has won through sweat and tears
and blood and one that intelligent
men want to see preserved. ne

But even this right ~snould not
take precedence of the
for the nation~s safety.

Measures
Wherein |.

f national safety to win its point.
There is a more excellent way.
When the matter is summed up it
must be. acknowledged that- the
major gains of labor have been
through times of peace and not in
times of crisis.

The growing enlightenment of
mankind will make it increasingly
difficult for one man or group of
men ~to exploit the importunittes
of mankind. More and more the
world will jook with disdain upon
injustices whether these be racial
or political or. economic. The real
danger to the future is not merely
in the slowness of the coming of
the Kingdom but in the retrogressions that come with war and its
concomitants. In the long run the
under-dog will reach the top. It
is true none cf us can make the
long run; but what we cannot do
as individuals we can do as races
and nations.

These foreign elements that this
nation has taken to its bosom and
set to its heavy laden tables of opportunity~while the Negro had to
wait. for the crumbs~is showing

er respect and reward; so in this
{ conflict the Negro is scoring heavfly. In this nation~s mind is often
revol the dreary thought that
in the crisis the Negro who has
been rejected is & greater help and
credit| to his nation than many
who have been preferred befor@

traitors and spurning loyalists will
become more and more odious as

matter of biting the hand that
feeds us is a matter of character;
the matter of defending the country that affords us home and haven
is a matter of character. In the
last analysis character will have
its reward. Character like truth
may be crushed to earth but it will
rise again.

The more I see of the treacherous tactics of cfértain elements ~n

the record and loyalty of Negroes.
This pride is hound to extend itself ways that will be blessings
to the Negroes. Whether the Ne~gro realizes it or not the race is
Sco! heavy. and substantial

| saing in the present crisis.

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~WINGS~ TO RECORD FOR
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him. ~The disgrace of coddling |

the generations come and go. The

this country, the prouder I am of
assesment value.
The people should: know who is
responsible for the refusal of the

~ed Mr, Reynolds for the unofficial

of the property | the
that has 4 low | Re

him for wanting to see these things
done, He is trying to make those |

| who don~t know. what it is aD.

about, think that Mr. Reynolds is.
somebody to be hated. |

He is doing pretty well at it so
far. Been at this business of crea
ing hate for Mr. Reynolds for
mere than two years now. You.
remember-when he brought out his:
Mint Americen, against him.when
the Brownsville organization want
~local authorities who handle the

Federal Housing Authorities~ mon| eys, to give Negroes their right to
borrow that money, the same as
the other groups are allowed~to do.
Many things of civic importance
ere to be improved upon. This is
what Mr. Reynolds is interested
in seeing done for the Colored peotle of Flint. Dr. Leach is fighting

NETS NAACP $339:
NEW YORK~A. final report on

ithe preview: -benefit performance
of the play. ~Native Son~ on March
13 for the NAACP, shows that the

pssociation made a net profit of
$339.29. i

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~But, Mom, what good~s my new shoes and hat and ~~
suit if I can~t go to Sunday School? And I want to show
off my Easter basket and bunny, too.~

~I tell you~ Junior, I~m dead
tic all day with you, I stood over-a hot stove ~til way after
midnight messing up some eggs for your little Easter basket. I tell you boy, I had my Easter Saturday:~ vs

~Listen, Pop, I gotta go to church.~;

~Well, son, if you must go, I guess you just must. But
I~m telling you in front, I'm in no mood for any of your Eas
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~I~ve been sick since the moment I learned your deat
Mother spent all but two dollars of my check, buyit
a lot of junk. Boy, are you expensive? If it ain~t Easter, ~
it~s Christmas. And if it-ain~t Christmas, it~s time for you
to start back to school. Geez, I can~t
so happy when you were born.~ ~

~It~s the spirit of the thing, Pop. You just don~t have

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