Brownsville Weekly News

Race Question

Pailu?. to Use

Race Manpower,
~Being Overlooked

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wWEW YORK ~(SNS) ~ Boss of
wartime industry, Donald M. Nelson,
was asked by the NAACP last week
why, in his many radio broadcasts
atdsstatements for the press, he has
net mentioned the wide-spread: failure of.industrial plants to use Nefro manpower.

The NAACP. said: "We believe
~natza~ word from you and on this
nasteter would have a tremendous

{fect in directing the heads of employment to an American and an
uulkguestionably loyal labor ~_ supply
fhich up to now has scarcely been
~aBped.~ aie

The NAACP also asked Nelson, in
e*fect, if the War ~Production Board,ould permit Eugene Talmadge,
sovernor of Georgia, to dictate how
workers will be paid at the new
plant of the Bell Aircraft Corporaion to be built 17 miles from Atanta

Talmadge asserted in a
speech. before. the Capital Club in
\tlanta that if Negroes were employed at the plant, they would not
~paid at the same rate as white
werkers.for the same work.

~The Association believes,~ Nelson
yas told, ~that the War Production
soard ought to take a hand in such

policy is in truth to be institutE ~he

~~We submit that a will to win the
~ar is inseparable from production
ind that 13,000,000 American Ne*roes will not be convinced that
the war is worth fighting if they are
yp be discriminated against so gross~y and so unfairly by their own
ssountyy in the production of war
hachi nes. "

Slayer Given
Life Sentence.. ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~

| Eddie Lee Burnett alias Shirt
Fail alias Joe Burnett was sen~anced to serve the remainder of
nis life in prison Monday following convieton for murder in Ful
ton. Superior Court.

Burnett was/tried for the-Feb:
ruary 28 slaying of Alma Minton,
The state contended that Burnatt killed the woman with a knife
ata ~Butler street address.

Charlie Noble was sentenced
(a.3-to-5-year term for~assault
with intent to murder. Noble
pleaded guilty to cutting Lillie
Mae Noble on August 17 -

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denomination and the convention~

Proof that "this is no ~white man~s war~ as
so many speakers and columnists are contending,
is this picture of a hard-fighting, courageous Indian soldier, who with 362 millions of his brothers, who certainly are not white> now stand in the

path ~of Jopahade laphitation In addition there
are 457 millions of Chiné@se battling on the side
of the United Nations. Without these people, who
certainly are not white, the cause of the United
Nations~ would certainly be hopeless, (Acme)

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Axis Leaders Offer No
Hope For Race ~ Wright

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Says Negroes Want Right To
Share in Nation~s Upward March

NEW YORK CITY~(SNS)~The stand of the-American Negro in today~s warswept world is told by Richard
Wright, author of Native Son and America~s greatest Negro.

writer, in a foreword to the April CORONET magazine's con-.
dénsation of his latest book, TWELVE, MILLION - BLACK | America.

VOICES.

Depicting Browder s Case.

An original woodcut onthe Browder case by Lynd Watd, America~s
foremost. woodcut artist, is reproduced here. Mr. ward hag titled his
work, ~Night in ~Atlanta.~ Bact Browder. on March 25 had served one
year in the Atlanta Penitentiary. Over three miflion Americans have
already petitioned President Roosevelt for his release.

Boyd Baptists

To Meet In Chi~

ce GALVESTON, Texas~ (SN S)~By executive order, Dr.
G. L. Prince, President of the National Baptist Convention
of America, has moved the 1942 session of that body from
Boston, Mass., to Chicago The official order and the executive action was taken here this past week upon his return
from Boston where he and the Rev. Henry A. Boyd, by order
of the..executive board, went to investigate not only Boston~s offer but to look into conditions in wiphineciaes Chicago,
Little Rock and San Antonio.

~After convessing all these matot the Rev. Dr. Prince _ ~said

~{ think the best interest of the

tha ond wan te Roepe fing aae

According to Wright, while there
are many things wrong with American democracy as far as the Negro js concerned, his wrongs WILL
NOT and: CANNOT be righted by
Hitler, Mussolini or Hirohito. He
says that while the Japanese
agents who have been active
among Negroes in many. of the
Black Belts of our large cities are
being. driven: out, the only way

agents is by seeing that the ~Black
Belts are eliminated. ~We aré
fighting to defeat these enemies,~
he says, ~but we must also fight ts
preserve the kind of America
where the struggle for the extension of democracy can be taken ur
with renewed vigor when our enemies are crushed. Let us be done
with evasions ~and go forward te
win the war, doing those things
trat will make our nation strong.
unafraid and whole-hearted in its
dedication to victory.~ -

The story of TWELVE MILLION
BLACK ~/OICES itself, has been
supplemented by photographs taken. by FSA photographers. captioned with original verse, which illus.
trate points of the text and show
typica] scehes from country-side to
city of the Negro~s life, in both
North and ~South. ~

The condensation covers ga multitude of the book~s phases. It in:

cludes the story of the Negro and,

their relation to the Lords of the

his Iand~the tillers of the soil, and | &
It takes in the Northern)
workman and_his Boss~ of the)
Buildings. Housing problems are!

Land,

sketched, Politicians~ activities are |
drawn in. And Negro music~ that)
taught the world 1o play is found)
close to a section on Négro prayers.

~What do we want?~ Wright con-"
cludes ~We want the right tc
share in the upward march of
American lite. We ask you to grati
us nothing, Lords of ~the Land
We are. winning our heritage
though our toll in suffering is
great. We are crossing the line
you dared us to cross, Bosses of the
Buildings, though we Pay in
coin of death! We are with the
new tide. We stand at the crossroads. We. watch each new procession. Voices are sveaking. Men
are moving. We shall be~ with
them!~

ing, September. 13, 1942.
All Baptist individuals,

which are also petcetl for con
tes Ay>

Negro Occupati on
Of Detroit Homes

NEW YORK~(SNS)~Stating that the departure of
Mayor Edward Jeffries from Detroit~is no~ éxcuse for delaying further the occupancy of the Sojourner Truth Houses

| for Negroes, the NAACP in a telegram sent March 19, urged

John Blandford, director of the National Housing Agency,
to take the necessary steps to see that Negroes occupy the

project immediately.
The NAACP stated that although

| the federal grand jury~ investiga
tion is proceeding, the question of
occupany of the homes and gq final

detefupipatian of whether or not
mob rule opposed to the federal
gvernment will~ be permitted -to
continue are the paramount issues, ~

Negro Trainee
Program To Be
Started In Ala.

Decision F allows
Oxley~s Visit
And Conferences

By EFFIE MOTEN GOODE
MOBILE, Ala~(A N Pj)~Lt.

Lawrence A. Oxley, senior specialist with the Social Security board:

at| Washington, has been in Alabama for~ the past iwo weeks en\deavoring to stimulate equitable
participation of qualified Negroes
in defense training and employment, From various reports, Lt.
Oxley has met with a Meuree of
success.

After a three-day visit in Mobile
where he interviewed: several key
people. dnd held conferences with
employment bureau officials, Oxley was successful in securing approval -of Mobile defense authorities for a $10,000 defense training
program to fit Negro trainees for
the job openings anticipated in
defense ship building ~here: Ap
| proximately one-half million dolcontracts~., haye ~

lars in defense

It's War~ Now,
No More Defense~

WASHINGTON, D. C. ~ (SNS)
The Army no longer has defense
plants; ~4at-has only WAR~plants.

~fhe words, ~defense~ and ~national defense~: in connection: with
the activities- of the Services of
Supply will no longer be used, and
~the word, WAR, will be used instead, the War Department announced today.

By order of Lieutehant General |

Brehon B: Somervell, commanding
that branch ofthe Army, in ~ all
such terms as ~defense plant,~
~defense contract,~ ~defense program~ and ~defense work,~ the
word ~defense~ gives way to the
more realistic term.

This practice is in keeping with
the recent.assumption of a more
aggressive attitude on the part. of
the Army..

billing~ peeertin fax 1 's. lass: Weeds and ~private
throughout the country, Dr, Robert C. Weaver, Chief of the jegro Employment and Training Branch, WPB, announced this week,

Here a Washington Navy Yard worker forges part of one of* the
large guns which wil] soon see action on an American warship. ~

Approximately 5,000 Negro skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers are ~employed in the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Com.
pany where the above worker operates one of the many complicated

machines in that yard,

Race AnInvention,
=|Contends Schuyler

been awarded. in ~the ~Mobile area
for the construction -of iight destroyers and cargo ships...

Prior. to coming to Mobile, Lt.
Oxley held conferences. at
regional office of the Social Security board at Birmingham and
the office of Defense Training of

ama at Montgomery.

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HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va.~(S INS)~~Race is an invention,~.George ~.. Schuyler, widely-read newspaperman,
author and lecturer, emphasized ina lecture at Hampton:
Institute Monday night, in which he pointed out that there
is ~no such thing as white and Negro blood, though propaganda can make a great national issue out of its existence. #

~Discussing ~Propaganda, ahd the | racial propaganda is a device ~used

Negro,~ the spesker explained that | to sa ensl group
racial] propaganda is ~extremely be inferior. cae re nies; ig

and has been used in India
~The idea of infortattty of races
~ the:

thousands ~of years.* ~~
~When you subjugate, zope~ ea

ala ~an excuse si =

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The Globe Trotter

| groups can effectivel
- the.invention of race aS @ Propa
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By Cliff Mackay

~ONE WONDERS IF J.. Edgar
Hoover, head of our esteemed. GMen, who ~thus far has refused to
see the value of employing Negro
agents, saw the unusual defense of
them written the other day by
none ather than a. commissioner of
public~ safety of a state, which until
his appointment, had ~not a single
Negro peace officer.

The sound argument given in
actual statistics ign cases solved
and arrests made; working, if greatly underpaid, Ne| gro investigators
~in the
~of Commissioner; John Goodwin ~of

Georgia, should
overcome the hesitancy over hiring
Negro agents and
- police shown not

~ only by Mr. Hoo
MACKAY
ver; but by officials of so many
communities, both North and South.

MANY IN SOUTH

And just to keep the record
straight in the. matter of police-.
men, Southern cities led, not -followed the rest of the nation, in

~| the appointment of Negroes as

peace officers: Despite the fact
that larger cities in Tennessee,
Florida; Texas: and Kentucky have

long known the merits of Negro
police in reducing high homicide and
crime rates, of cities in

Alabama, Se Mississippi and
South Carolina would rather be

than

dition that prevents their employBut the hardest barrier of all

to ~understand is the dictator
stitutionally, which says that the
convention sball meet every yeat

Sunday in Sep

A Popular Laxative

Has to be

report |

on Wednesday cc Sea the second
A Note To iA, Hoover

like refusal of Mr. Hoover to
mame any Negroes, among the
hundreds of persons, including
many with foreign-sounding
names, being added to the investigator personnel of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. ait
What our head G-Men is missing
is given in full detail by Mr. Goodwin, who faced with a problem,
wisely. saw the service that Negroes
could give his department, and refusing to be entangled in the red
tape of tradition, unhesitatingly
appointed them.

RECORD PHENOMENAL

The record of the job these three
men did on cases where twenty-two
white agents had failed, is phenomenal. ~But let Mr. _ Goodwin tell the
story: x

~Well, what did the investigators

accomplish~here is - what they
accomplished: *
~Thefts of livestock, 612 cases
reported. Cases cleared 460.

Number of arrests 204. The reason why the number of arrests
is less than the number of cases
is that sometimes one arrest
will apprehend a thief guilty
~of four or five different thefts.

The sentences totaled 127 years
in the ~chaingang. Thefts of
~pouliry, nine cases reported~
eight cleared, 12 arrests.

~Total of this was eight years and
$840 fines.~

~We needed the help of Negro
investigators,~ the commissioner
says in conclusion. ~And the three
we employed more than justified
their employment: And we are going
to ~keep these investigators at
work, stopping woe poultry and
atitomobile thie thieves in Georgia.

NEEDS NEGRO AGENTS

What better experience would Mr.

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eae iis; ganda device in two ways, by promoting propaganda to influence the
dominant group to accept and give
the subjugated group broader op~portunities and by ereating propaee to ppt greater confidence
o those wishin the grou against
which the racial deve te use:

Negro investigators, he would

have known way back in 1930

about the workings of these

agents.

It is known that special investigators have been specifically detailed to watch the effect of the war
on Negro groups. All of them are
white, and~ as a consequence are
about fifty per cent as effective
in obtaining information as would;
be Negro-agents:

HARD TO RECONCILE

It is hard for many of us to
reconcile the position of the FBI
chief in: the matter of employing,
agents to either the President~s;
stated policy of Fair Employment |
Practices or to the larger war issue |

Do Kidneys Make

ting up nights~~ may.

neys need what ramet
that~s yourtrouble,don~t
this annoying, sleep- disturbing
Try time-proyen, easy-to-take
Haarlem Qil C:

ae. See if they: don't help you ~sleep

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thing Mr. Hoover, has shown he | Only 5c. Must help 70%, oF ache~ 4

so ardently believes in.

This policy of Mr. Hoover~s is so
analagous to the one employed by
Mr. Hitler in denying membership
to Jews in his notorious Gestapo
and Storm Troop organization, it is
almost frightening. There is no
denying; the pattern is the same.

Entrusted with the highly im- |
portant task of weeding ~out =
the spies, the fifth columnists,
the saboteurs; both native-born
and alien, Mr. Hoover, himself
continues to play one of the
favorite tricks of the enemy.

By denying employment to one
group of loyal Americans solely on
the grounds of color, he lends himself a party to the unity-wrecking
campaign of our enemies, who well
know that by setting group against
group, race against race, they are
sowing the fatal seeds of dissension:
at a time when unity is the
greatest need.

ean RE- EXAMINE

It is also hard to reconcile

strong enough, intelligent enough
and patriotic enough to FIGHT and ES
| DIE for this country as members | Li gine
of America~s armed forces, but, ac- |

not quite good enough to WORK |
for this democracy as members of.

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