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~SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1941

Handle Vital Communications Detail

Ore of the most vital jobs in modern warfare

keeping open cOmmunications,

r,~and Sergeant Frank Taylor

icf operator, manipulating;he telephone~ switch
ae Paul White ef Washington, D. C., operaL. ard at the Regimental Command post

Here you see
of Washington,
~(ANP).

during

recent local salieanveie of the 372nd
Commanders of the infantry, because of the experiences of other Northern Negro soldiers during
war games in Louisiata, refused to
crack Fort Dix outfit South for S. C. war games.

Infantry.

bring the

ial threat td the enforcement

ij Z
jet tart toh ANP)<~A poEmploy
~Pecisions of the Fair

chts Practice committee in pursuangesofits task of ending racial
Gaiimination in defense industig is..seen in the attitude of
iS -/ governmental ~agencies

fare protesting the barring
~B&fénse contracts by the Office
Production Management from
c Weenies which refuse to abide by
@inmendations of the National
{tise Mediation board.
la: eoncern, if not apathy, of
t@ase. who have been in the forefyont of the. fight to secure the
ifstonee of an executive order by
the ~President which would end in2 age discrimination, has cert@irly been aroused although none
ore willing to permit their names
t@ ibe -used for fear that a defeatist attitude might be encoured thereby,

- tpsipemigee LACKING

The --diffieulty,-if- it exists, stems
2 ~ the~ fact. that~. inthe: order

~~ CReating:the FEP*no spetific meth:

of. enforcement; of ~its instruc:

' tipnis ~to ~guilty firms.was =: given:, that: wotila~ achieve. the.- dramatic. ebcumstantes that {preceded ~tHe

der plus ithe: aweight;.of - the: chiét
oo ~himself. These. of course,
e surface prod of the type that
ight well be evaded by less
upulous _ employers as has alady been done, Defying the President, however, is no new practice
business even in such -times as
~tee present emergency.
Bitt_a~ practical government finds
wayfsf compelling compliance with

~ i~ instructions and orders, mainly

tHrough thé: exertion of pressure in
arters not necessarily directly
r@ated to the immediate thing to
y acon é
~ucle@s;the case now under conSigeration. -that carries real implicgtions for the enforcement of the
ifrections of the FEP.~A labor dist involving the Lincoln Textile
~and
e CTO textile workers~ union
fqund its way to the defense mediafion: bdard. The firm is on a list
of acceptable bidders prepared by
division of the army
rreerm for the manufacture
Pa ye quantity of cotton duck
en OPM was informed of the
fusAl of -the company to ad
oH

e to recommendations -of the
td,--Sidney Hillman, labor. diion

ad of. OPM instructed

employer admittedly
c@rhle of turning out the ma
+: so urgently requited by. the

Hereses

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Many Adamant
Business Men
Refy President

war department has ruffled other
departments and agencies ~- whose
scope of activity permits them to
issue contracts. The feeling is that
the entire~ program of: procurement of vital materials can be very
easily hamstrung through what
some choose to consider ~coercive~
measures on the part of government.

In private discussion with persons idterested in full compliance
with the President~s anti-discrimination order, Lawrence W. Cramer, executive secretary of FEP, is
understood to be relying in part
upon similar measures as _ that
here involved in order -to get more
jobs for Negroes. If: this be > true~
and it is:not illogi~al~the outcome
of. the Lincoln - Mills-CIO ~ dispute
would: bear= close watching. +
> It Sis* conceivable + that ~: public:
opinion~; will: not: * tolerate <a /hin-.
~rance; to, the. défense. program,,as

7; reat Seen To Enforcement
Ot Fair Labor Unit Rulings ~

here represented, simply to benefit even so largely a segment of the
population-as labor when much
more is considered at stake. By the
same token, a less popular. cause
such as~ the rights of a. racial
minority would suffer proportionately more from the use of these
tectics.
WILL REACH FDR

The case is now in the hands of
John Lord C~Brien, general counsel
for OPM. Adherence to this line
of thought might influence Mr.
C~Brien in his decision. Even so, it
is thought likely that the issue
ri}! ultimately -reach the President
ov a definition of policy.

If the decision is one that overruleg Hillman, ~it is felt doubtful
thet the same method of enforcement compliance with: the orders
of important governmental agencies
seeking to expedite the defense
pregram will be employed to any
great degree in the future.

~In. this event,: the - PEP -might
find: itself:stripped.of at, least:one
known ' effective } way < of; doing ~ its

job::. of ~+. ending --* diserintination
~against minority: groupsi in~ défertse

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Cross For Foodstuffs

WASHINGTON, ~(ANP) ~Safely landed at the Eritrean port of
Massawa are 25,000 tons of Ameri
can Red Cross. foodstuffs and
blankets for the relief of ~ hardpressed civilians thrpeughout the

colonies of East Africa, it was announced here Wednesday.

The news was received by cable
from Ralph Bain, Red Cross representative in the Middle East, who
has just returned to Cairo from a
5,000 mile trip abroad a RAF fight
er plane.

He visited Addis Ababa in Abyssinia, Asmara in Eritrea, and Nai
BOWELS SLUGGISH?

@ Feeling: you lost your best friend ~
ie wer aig = ab ~all ~because of
sluggish bowels?

robi in the heart of British Kenya,
He reports that during a private in| terview with Emperor Haile Selassie
in the Abyssinian capital, the em| porer expressed ~sincere gratitude
|for American generosity and good
| will.~.;

|

| Since the start of the war, civili| an refugees and wounded soldiers
land sailors of the Middle East
| have received. from the American
| Red. Cross a total of $2,328,674 worth
| c2 supplies, including drugs, clothling, comfort articles for British
wounded, and such foodstuffs -as
rice, flour, evaporated milk and navy beans.

The supplies are distributed in
Egypt, Eritrea, Abbyssinia. and Syria through 23 relief agencies including ~the British Red Cross, the
Greek Red Cross, the French Red
Cross, the Egyptian Red Crescent
and the Lady Lampson Refugee
committee.

OVEBSHOOTS ITS

DALLAS, ~(ANP) ~The seventh annual membership campaign
of the Moorland Branch ~ YMCA

| closed with a bang last Friday night

with its membership of 1,000.

members outdistanced ~By 280 and
its financial goal of $3,000 cash oyershot by $500.:

Prop
OfN
LH art

~| cational

~ | falling: off- os igs crc Myon in; both;
a

be

Opportunity~s~
~Doors Would Be
[Closed To Many

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\Suggest Work
~Be Turned Over
To: Other Agencies
WASHINGTON BUREAU

ASSOCIATED NEGRO. PRESS

WASHINGTON~If the federal
government follow the advice being offered) by the. educational
policies commission of the. Nation
s

CC Terme
ul To:Hu

oe cae
a = ze ee ~
Was Hit Here

Mleation of their defense training
programs, there will be* hundreds
of Negroes thrown out of work. and
the doors of opportunity. closed to
thousand of Negrg youth of both
sexes throughout the coutry.

In a statement last week, the
commission said that the agencies
had performed a. notable ~public
service in meeting the urgent demands of an emergency situation.
*It does not follow that because
an agency does a good job on &
temporary emergency assignment,
it should therefore become a
rermament part of the governmental structure and of thé edu
system,~ the statement
said.

WOULD STIFLE AGENCIES
Asserting that both the NYA
and the CCC were ~moving: in @
direction of performance~ the, commission foresaw the possibility of
a ~permanent federal system of
education controlled from Washington, paralleling public school
systems, and competing with them
for funds, staff and students.~

~The commission recommended
that the more important function
of the NYA and CCC be given over
to other agencies. It proposed that
vocational training and _ other
forms of educaticn be transferred
to state | and. local educational
agencies; employment of public
works to general public. works
agencies and NYA student work
rogram to ~the appropriate educational agencies.~

Little does the commission reaize that in this latter instance,
the same general pattern. in educational policies followed in the
South would deprive Negroes of
any opportunity to obtain vocational ~training, and even if they
did, the typ? of training they
would receive, the quantity of
training, would be below par and
not equal to that given the whites
of the same communities.
ANOTHER PROBLEM

The commission fails to realize,
it is pointed out, that employment
problems would be multiplied if
they were handled by ~any agency
not responsible to the federal government. This has obtained
throughout the country previous
to the insistence of the federal government; that Negroes be given
fectdal jerecsdrtunity in work and
education. i

Such @ break down of the NYA
and CC~ would work hardship on
countless. innocent Negro youths
~who have profited by; the: ~more
abundant. way of living~ and it;
wauld. be. difficult tc explain to
them;the -whys and wheréfores - of~
@iminatiing the NYA ~and * the!
vcCc. a) j. ~
3% I%,.may be true that) there is a}

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~the: NYA: and CCC an inspec-+
tion will show that there has been!
a decided increase in the numbex

though there has been savings and

government from the CCC, ~tha
number of Negro camps today is
larger than ever. before. This is
nota healthy sign nor is it proof
that the Negro jis being absorbed
in the defense industries, in areas
where there are defense industries,
as fast as certhin agencies ~would
nate the ~government officials be
eve, |:
URGES CONTINUANCE
~While one agency ~is demanding
the closing down of the NYA and
cc, yen BD. Young, chairman 01:
the in Youth commission,
urges the contiudtion of the proEr Fa eating. Young spea at tha

king

sion of the commis. at Uv.
8. Chamber of Commerce, discussed the general rt on the care
and edtication ' the ~ nation~s
youth after six~ years of research.

ere is no t whatever.~
saij Mr. Young, t the ftinda
For most young people,. true. freedom will never ~ oxi ~until we
establish cofidiftions~' which will

al Education and discontinues the| fi
{NYA and the CCC at the com
~e ~ a

This map shows thé approximate
position, 350 miles southwest Iceland, where the U. S. Destroyer
Kearny was hit by a torpedo. The
damaged warship was on regular
patrol duty. |

Treatment Of

Blind Inventor
To Test Gun He
Has Perfected

Weapon Will
Shoot 6,000
Times a Minute

NEW- ORLEANS, ~(ANP)~ Willis Jackson, 72-year-old blind inventor, has completed the gun he
was building for the United States,
after two years of work
Jackson~s fore finger was torn by
a shot from his gun when he forgot to take it out of gear.:

The gun has three barrels and
is geared to fire as many as 6,000
bullets a minute.

The aged inventor demonstrated
how the gun operates on a pivot,
swings in any direction and can be
inclined upward at a 90 degree
angle for anti-aircraft use.

Shells are fired by a small crank
which revolves the three circular
cartridge cases. Above the three
barrels there is an anti-aircraft
unit with a funnel-type gunsight
which Jackson says will be accurate
at a two-mile range. |

Jackson is a former watch repairman whose sight failed him
28 years ago.

Ureguay was one of the first Latin American cotntries to encourage development of manufacturing
industries, the Department of Commerce.:: i

~Brown Bamber In A Bomber

That headline was a natural,

wasn~t. it, with Heavy Champion

Joe Louis sitting in the cockpit of a bombing. plane While on 4 visit
to Chanute field, Rantoul, Ml? Louis, on a tour of army camps, would
like to get into aviation when he enters the army. ~=~ i

AFL Sidesteps~

Jim Crow Issue

SEATTLE, WASH.-~(SNS)~In voting down A. Philip
Randolph's proposal for the appointment of a committee to
investigate and act upon the questicn of discrimination
against Negro workers by its member unions, the American
Federation of Labor in convention here last week exposed

the hyporisy of its anti-Nazi

declarations and actions and

indicated that though it has decided to fight Hitlerism abroad
if necessary, it does not intend to combat its manifestations

in this country.

The convention~s action followed ence to the Negro race by an A. F.

a bitterly conducted debate on the
subject which was marked by personalities and an insulting refer
Crisis Cause

of CC. Camps for Negro boys. Al-|
returns of funds to: the: _ federal}

Minorities Is

America Must
\

Says Mac Lean ~

Learn Lesson

week.

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va.~
(S N ~S)~President Malcolm 3S.
MacLean of Hampton Institute

dt

Nominations For Spingarn
Medal Open,

NEW. YORK~(SNS)~ Nominations; are now open for the 1942
Spingarn Medalist,
Association~ * for the ~Advancement
of Colored People announced this

~The medal ig awarded eve

é~ Association j
ference to the Negro American who
has made the highest achievement

Says NAACP~

during the preceding year. The

the National | Joe}-E. Spingarn, late president of
the ~NAACP, and its* purpose is to
coll the attentinn of the American
public to.persong of-merit and dis- |
tinction and to Serve as a reward
~for distinguished service and as aj
stirhulus to the ambition of colored youth. ~

y year
* con
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~s ~annua

Said today that if there is a major underlying cause for the
preset crisis, it is the misunderstanding and mistreatment of
our minority groups in the ~world.

Ih a statement released in connection with National ~Americans
All~ Week, which opens Tuesday,
the Hampton Institute educator

said that, ~America must
with breathless rapidity to enfold,
absorb and make use
profit by all her minorities,
foreign-ctorn, her Jews, her Negroes, her people
Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, European and other Asiatic descent.~

There are 26 holders of the Spin
garn medal now. They include
William E. B. DuBois, George. W.
Carver, Roland Hayes, Carter G~Woodson, Mordecai W. Johnson,
Henry A. Hunt, Max Yergan, Mrs.
Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter
White, Marian Anderson, Dr. Louis
T. Wright and Richard Wright.

learn

and
her

of,

of Mexican,

The Globe Trotter.

By Cliff Mackay

PUZZLING INDIFFERENCE

BOTH ALARMING and puzzling to this writer has been the utter indifference displayed by so
many members, but by no means a majority, of
cur race to the world-shaking events that are occurring abrodd.:

Of course, this indifference is not limited to
Negroes per se. Many Americans
of the opposite group are likewise. completely lulled into a
false\ sense of security by, those
~who say that ~~wejare safe behind
ler does not* pkin. to. attack {this
country~ end Hiker carstembn tite
tthat are} complttely - cut. of }harrmony with Hitlér~s * statéd ~~ aimis~
and his revolutionary actions.

It might be true that Hitler: plans no direct military attack on

MACKAY _ America, but the thing that puzzles this writer, is why so many of our people fail
't0 see that Hitler~s greatest attack will not be or
a military nature, but is mpre likely to come along
ideological lines.

~BODES US NO. GOOD:. The Hitlerian philosophy, as all who can read
know, bodes no goodwill toward minority groups,
perticularly those peoples of African extracticn.
Hitler~s feelings toward Negroes are no secret. He
has stated his belief that America~s greatest mistake was the freeing of the slaves. His soldiers
ruthlessly tere down the statute erected in Paris
by liberal Frenchmen to the black men who shed
their blood in the struggle for democracy during
World War I.

And he wrote in Mein Kampf his utter contempt of you and your kind, whom he referred
to as ~half apes.~ Sneeringly he charged the ~decadent democracies~ with wasting money _by permitting black pecple to secure an education.

Behind this indifference to the world situation held by far too many of our people is the
felse belief that we as a race will be no worse off
under Hitler than we are now. It seems almost
impossible for anycne to hold to such belief in

BLISSFULLY IGNORANT
Unquestionably this distorted picture of the

completely and blissfully ignorant of all of its
({mplications. Te
Forgotten is the fact that alreadv in America
are hundreds upon hundreds of little would-be
Hitlers, who are merely bidinz their time, waiting
with fond hoves here that Hitler will emerge the
victor over there.. Should he win. these little Hitlers would begin
the first phase of Hitler~s attack on America~ide
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~ological warfare. They ~immediately attempt
to~ set in motion al] of the

of

light of all that is at present going on in Europe. |

fliitler revolution is held only by those who are|

Pan
definitely on our way.

forces of reaction that. under the law, politically and

in the past have been so dead set against the Negro minority achieving any of the civil and politi
cal rights which the United States constitution
guarantees,
The few rights which Negroes have won

through long and valiant struggles and by terrific
sacrifice would be quickly wiped out under this
avalanche of fascism.

The economic and pclitical chains which now |,

grip so many of our people, would be clamped. on|
even tighter. Discrimination, segregation and jin
crow would be given a stronger lease on life. As
the largest minority group:n this country, enslavement would be cur lot; make no mistake
_ahout~ that... eae
~sTROUBLES: WOULD 3NCREASE_
<..;58 There< would he jnot comparison of-our fate
~ander @:Hibtterized*Améfica téthat-the. Jewish peo-., Piegare? undergoing: in~ a: Hitlérized| Europe. Our
~ eréubles ~would~ undoubtedly be* ineréased fourfold. For did net Hitler turn to America for his
technique of racial persecution? It would be a
certainty that he would add his own cruel inventions te the ideas he obtained here, before bringing them back to practice upon our people.;
Ours, therefore, is a greater stake in this
world-wide battle against Hitler than that of any
other people. The ralJy cry to defeat Hitler shouid
and in most instancés is finding a quick response
in. the hearts of all black men for the simple reason that all Hitler represents is symbolic of the
very evils that Negroes all over the world have
been battling against for years. ae:
A defeat of Hitler means a defeat of the Hitlerian philosophy which for toc long has dominated
the thinking and actions of many white Americans
in their relations with Negroes. |
It is utterly impcssible for Americans to take
an all-out stand against Hitler without also taking
a_ similar clear-cut position against the forces in
this country, who hold similar beliefs as the Austrian ~ex-paperhanger.

TREND TO THE BETTER -

Those who are plotting the foreign policy of
this country realize this, That is why today you
see a gradual, but sure trend toward better treatment of Negroes. These forces, who oppose this

a

progress, are yielding slowly, hut they are yielding. |
itions in |

- You see Negroes holding skilled pos
factories where never before has a-1 man even
swept the flcor. Color barriers which for years
have kept Negroes out of federal positions are be
ing lowered. Negroes are being cal~ed in as con-*

sultants in varicus branches cg the defense setup. Even conservative army officials are giving
ground under this mass pressure.:

still have a long way to go, but we are
Only the final and ccmplete.defeat of Hitler will insure the continuance
of this progress. Any other ontcome of the world
conflict spells disaster and oblivion to all the

kepes we entertain for fair and equal treatment |

award was instituted in 1914 by}

of L. leader.
Randolph; head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and
key figure in the March-to-Washington movement delivered a blistering attack on racial policies
practised by leading unions of the
Federation, and presented impressive evidence that could not be refuted as proof of the veracity
his. charges. '
He gave the convention an. array
of. names, unions and specific~ instances where unions ~affiliated
with the Federation had been instrumental in barring Negro workers from jobs. be
He was preceded on the platform.

by~ Mark Ethridge, publisher of. the,
oy ~ Courier-Jousne iia ag

Louisville
chairmast -of. the qete + 4
President Roosevelt to remove dis~

crimination from defense industries. Ethridge likened discriminatory union policies to Hitlerism: '
~Unfortunately,~ he told the delegates, ~there are still many unions;
and locals of unions which bar their
fellowmen because of color. F would
not be frank at all with you if 1
did rot say that most of them are
yours.~ z+

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