Brownsville Weekly News

NEW YORK~(INP)~Wendell L. Willkie shown,-launch the Beague~s campaign to make theuehieds of
receiving the first Nationa] Urban League match | jobs available to skilled and trained~Negro workers
nee biter Miles Anne Brown, Negro stage star,.to;| in defense industries.

Catholic Priests Take Lead
In Opposing Negro Housing

Wants CCC Part
Of Regular Army

~WASHINGTON, D. C.~(ANP)~If Gen. James A. Ulio,
new.adjutant general of the army, has his way, the CCC will
sobn become a part of the armed forces of the United States
About 98,000 of the approximately 108,000

goyernment.

enrollees now are employed as labor battalions at ~army
posts, it:was stated. Director James J. McEntee of the CCC
was questioned: last.week regarding the proposed apes to
the army.

Take Case To
FEP Committee
Discrimination
Charged to Big
White Union

NEW YORE City, ~(SNS) At a
session of the Fair Employment
Practice Committee in Washington,
D. G., March 30th, following a decision of the FEPC that railroads
are.a part of defense industries,
Attorney Harold A. Stevens, representing the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters~ Provisional Committée for the Organization of Colored Locomotive Firemen, presented the case of the Negro firemen
to the FEPC.

The Brotherhood Provisional
Committee seeks to have the FEPC
~ make a complete.and thorough investigation of discrimination against
colored firemen, involving
their. displacement when Diesel engines are put on the roads in place
of the coal burner, and the utter

and flagrant disregard of their seniority rights by permitting white
firemen ~of a few months service age

~to roll colored firemen 25 and 30!~

years,in service.

Attorney ~Stevens, in his presentation: of the case. of the colored
firemen to the. FEPC, pointed to
~the existence of a contract between
the Brotherhood of ~ Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen and_ the
Southeastern. Carriers~ Gonference
Committee, which is resuiting in
freezing out the Negro firemen.

~~ glover design. Sent
DENMOLOKO. Box 92, South

post al
Yonkers, New York.

Stati

BOWELS SLUGGISH?

you lost yout Dest Sisal =;

all because of. will) be some 25 per cent of

= ss

In the minds of some people,~
said Mr. McEntee, ~the.CCC is a
relief agency for which 4 Tieed nnd |
~longer exits. The corps in its early
years did a great relief job. Bet
me say, however, the corps, never
was a relief agency from _ the
standpvoint that the men enrolled
in the corps are put on made

work in order to give them something to do.~

Discussing the situation as far as
the Negro is concerned, Edgar G.
Brown, whose official post is one
with the CCC, declares that in all
of the discussion concerning cutting the CCC, it has never been
the aim to cut the number of Negro camps and when the whole
thing finally settles itself, there
~the
total number of camps given over
to Negroes.

WANTED TO BUY. Books, pamphlets,
magazines, ete., relating to the Negro
and Slavery, in all its - phases. Also
everything written by Negroes. Charlet

~to Buffalo~ in thé April -OPPOR

F. Heartman, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Detroit, Buffalo
Cases Cited In
Opportunity

NEW YORK, N. Y~(S N S)~
Negroes throughout the country.
are becoming highly disturbed by
the role ~which Catholic priests are
playing in the efforts to prevent
the establishment of Negro Defense
Housing Projects jn American
cities, a

In: Detroit, it is alleged that
Polish Catholic priests=have led
the movement which resulted in
the recent riots and that prevented
Negroes from moving into the Sojourner Truth Houses.

William L. Evans, Urban League
Secretary of Buffalo, New York, in
~a Tevesling ~article ~Federal Housing Brings Residential Saeesation

TUNITY, writing on one of the
proposed sites selected by Federal
Defense. Housing, says:

~With the announcement of
the Okell Street site, the real fight
started. Councilmen, Business
Men~s Associations, Catholic priests
and their flocks denounced the
proposed site as (1) Adversely affecting private property (2) Defense hcusing not needed; (3) Additionai housing for Negroes should
be provided in. their own area; (4)
This is.an invasion of: property
owners~ rights; (5) This is undemocratic~hecause we were not con:
sulted -on this location, etc., etc...

~Buffalo~s Democratic | Mayor
condemped the Okell Street site
and called a special meeting of the
Republican controlled City Council for August 27, 1941. The Council chamber was filled to overflowing long before the proceedings began. On the night before,
sound trucks and soap box-orators

| gro, and Kennet

| ternational

|freed to he get to

ee clo > Rally

- HARRISO

program, will be
~Louisiana pea

~By - HAROLD PREECE

We BURG, - Ta,~ (ANP)~Right of 10, 000,000
Negro and poor: ante ~southerners to organize for the war

| at stake next-Friday, April 10, as two

union ~organizers~Clinton Clark, 39, Ne-.

Adams, white~are brought on tramped
up charges of ~ce llecting money ~under false gens al

Warning of the isin danger in
this Louisiana parish. across the
riyer from Natchez, | Miss., the. InLabor _Defense this
week called for a fee of indi
~|vidual and organizational ~protests,

~two men be
t. Ttty. Jesse
McGee, Harrisonkurg, La.

Negro and white CIO ~unionists
in New Crleans this) week ratlied to
the defense of the /two sharecropper organizers at the same time
that the Erooklyn branch ot the
NAACP and other organizations
throughcut the country were sending protests to Prosecutor McGee.

The New Orleans) division of the
Transport Workers vmion, CIO,
announced through) ClO: representative A. Roy Pearce that it had
secured an attorney for the two
men and was trying to raise bail of

2,500 in order to|/ remove them
froin the danger) of - iynching.
Closely cooperating! with the TWU
in the case is the New Orleans divisich of the National Maritime
union, CIO. which |took the initia
demanding that th

~tive in setting up an Adams-+ Clark

Defense committee.
National President- James C
Patton of the fatmers union had
denied that the two men acted
under any false | presense when
they collected. union dues from
Concordia parish shareeroppers
and turned them in immediately
to the local treasury at Ferriday,
La..Foliowing thei arrests,. they
were held without charges from
January 5 until recently.
Clark that he

declares and

Adams were arrésted for organiz- |

ing sharecroppers into cooperatives
to produce more |food for national
war effort. In a letter to President
Roosevelt dated March 15, he said:

~I was locked tp~for organizing
the poor farmer so that they could
cooperate with our foodproduction
by defense stamps, defense bonds,
and do everything possible~ to help
win this. war.~

~FREED MEN'S OBE.

WASHING" ~(ANP)~ ~The fi
investigation at Freedmen~s <hospital, ordered by Administrator
Paul V. McNutt, will reveal many
things, if the report and findings
are true, said a veteran employe of
the hospital defending the Jones
administration. ~One -thing,~ ne
said, asking that his) name be
withheld, ~Dr. Jones is*running a
huge institution with a shortage of
help. There aren~t enough nurses,
internes, maids, orderlies nor
even common laborers. The hospital therefore must be in a
measure not up-to the standards
set for the model hospital,

Fla. Victims

~Seeking Aid

Case Lasted In
Court Four Years

NEW YORK, N: Y.~(SNS)~
Sack Williamson and Walter
Woodard, two of the ~four victims
in the famous Chambers case,
which lasted nine years through
the Florida Courts and
U. S. supreme court, have appéal
ed to the NAACP for aid, now that |

they are free.

The two men are living near
New. York, and declare they want
to rebuild their iives, but lack
ready cash. They are ~seeking employment.

Two of the fom men held in the
Chambers case are now insane before the men. were freed, and the
cther went insane six days after
freedom was granted. This was
the case in which Mr. Justice
Black wrote the famous ovinion of
the U. S. supreme court, issued on
Lincoln~s birthday, 1940.

The national office of the N. A.
A. C. P. is to confer with the men,
and has pledged every assistance
until they get on their feet ~

ee eA Gdetarng, oka

the;

Dr.

~

F. D. Patterson, left, president of Tuskegee
Institute, and Claude, A. Barnett, right, director of
the Associated Negro Press, who were recently named
special ~assistants to the Secretary of Agriculture, are
shewn holding their first conference with Secretary
Claude R. Wickard in Washington last week. _ Their
appointments mark the first time that Race members have been chosen to serve the Depariment in

such
gee alig Chicago,
farmers. One of

Negro farmers in

visers te the Secrétary on matters aff

ities. Dr. Patterson pie A pth, nn
will coutinae: in their respective positions at Tuske
are acting as consultants ~and ~ad~Negro
their specia] fuactions wil] be to

help insure the integration and full participation of

the food-for-freedom program,
USDA PHOTO BY FORSYTHE.

FORT KNOX, Ky. ~(SNS) ~
nouncement was made today by Ma

of Armored Force, of the creation

of an all-colored tank battalion

Soldiers Get

FORT CUSTER, Mich~(A: N P)
~Members of the court martial
board ~here last ~Wednésday found
Pvt. Henry A. ~Pryor, attached to
the 184th Field artillery, guilty of
manslaughter and sentenced him
to serve two years in the penitentiary. He was charged. with shooting Pvt.. Charles Adams last Nov.
25, while playing with a pistol.

Two Years

dn Accidental Slaying.

When the pistol discharged, a builey struck ~~ in the head, killing him.

Pryor was held on ~the charge of
murder at preliminary hearing held
at U. S. District court at Detroit:
Capt. Euclid Louis Taylor, defense
counsel, argued that the shooting
was accidental. ~

jor Genefal-Jacob L: Devers, Chief |

Engineer Corps
For Armored Forces
Also Formed

the 761st at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. and. all-colored~ engineer~ battalion, the 386%h, at Fort Knox,
Kentucky.

The 76ist tank Pattaion; a light
(13-ton) tank outfit, the second
all-celored light tank: an -
mored force was activated A
The other one, the 758th, was activated June 1, 1941, and is- also
stationed at Camp Claiborne.

"The 386th engineer battalion is
the first of its kind in the Armored Force.

In addition to the hundreds of
colored soldiers in the tactica)
units of the ultra-mechanized

branch of the Army, there are 651

The Globe Trotter

By Cliff Mackay

dents to urge attendance.
~Gatholic priests and, politicians
showed ~complete understanding
and. organization. The crowded
Council chamber demonstrated
when Monsignor Nash entered, by
giving a standing ovation.~ Father
Coughlin was received with a similar demonstration when he was

had been used on South side resi
given the floor to protest.~

Graduate As Officers At Medical School

" CARLISLE. BARRACKS, Zi (ENDL ~Complet-:? ing four weeks of
medical battalion of a sity sete

~ | twenty-two Negro officers of the Caer Dekh soses
| graduated from the Army~s Medical Field Service:
family | School here Satuyday, Aprij 4. They are alj, first

lieutenants, eighteen being medical
~officers. Pictéred

first row, 1 to F, Bits, iirty ~L. |*
| Riggs, Detroit; LincoIn 8, Childs,
Albert C. Burwell, Baltimore;

| Washington; Paul 8. Binford, York, Pa.
| Brawn, ~Hopewell, nd are Jpn ass

*

~+

ian

pe pd ~Big fae, Secend row,.

ant,

~fotr on, Mi

G, Thurston,

Bréwn, India.

~City, William R. Smith, radians pli Henry C. Jary7 Chaties 1 tamack, Washingion; Zaher J. Rem

apolis; Henry zk Davis, Galveston, Texas,

Lts, Elbert IL. Bookey, New York

Ga; Albert H. Dyson, Dallas, Third

om, Lie Rede adeipy, H. Bert, Austin, Texas; Jesse C.
Pins | Fa Benne.

i; Oriaa Ayers,~ Gainesville
on ore waite, Sen ~an. ese

| Fifth Columnist,

THE DEPARTMENT. OF Justice
belatedly. is moving to place where
they belong~in jail~those nativeborn Quislings, whose. threat to
America the writer attempted to

point out in this

pace last week.

the

George W. Christians, whom we
rated as one of
the most dangerous internal ene
MACKAY
mies operating in America.

The discussion in this space last
week dealt with just one kind of

the kind who
knowingly and willingly conspires
and works with the enemies of democracy. He is not the most dangerous, for none but the blind are
fooled by his fake show of patriotism designed to conceal his behindthe-scenes conhivance with democracy-hating forces.

MOST DANGEROUS KIND

The most dangerous of our Fifth

umnists are those who themselves do not realize they are giving aid and comfort to tHe enemy.
They are the most dangerous because they are the most numerous.
They fall into the category of those
who stubbornly would place: their
petty little racial and _ religious
prejudices above their country~s
best interests.

They are quick to give lip service
democracy

to, While all the time
they are holding: to the undemocratic belief. that the benefits

Playing. Hitler's Game

forces, they head many big industries now filling war contracts,
they sit in~ imporfant departments
of our government, they write the
policies of some of the largest units
of organized labor:

AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE

~ A still larger number are just ordinary, run~ of the mill people, who
can become extremely angered over
the treatment accorded Jews and
other minorities thousands of miles
away, but who do not yet realize
that the pattern for this treatment
really bears a ~made-in-America~
label, i

While vociferously protesting intolerances practiced in other countries, they cannot see that their
refusal to work on the assembly
line with a black American, springs
from the same vile source as Hitler~s' obnoxious racial ~doctrines.

In truth it must be said that
most of these little people~s intolerances come basically from ignorance and through lack of understanding.

No one has bothered to explain
to them that our present war effort, aimed as it is to wipe out
intolerances all over the world, remains a hollow mockery, if we permit intolerance to flourish so freely here at home..

No better example of how stupid
prejudice is hamstringing our war
effort could be cited than the program designed by Georgia officials
for the training of some 40,000
workers for the mammoth Bell Air-craft Corporation bomber plant to
be erected near Marietta.

NO TRAINING FOR NEGROES

~Present plans call for the setting.
up of nine huge centers in Atlanta
for training of white, workers, while, | none are even contemplated for Ne
gro workers, whose huge 42 per
Sahat angeanes dt wee letat wiles de:
ply, will be. allowed to go to Waste. |
Hitler~s own agents couldn't have.

done a better job of a
Oe te mee all-out.
~achieve to win this war, than did
out this program. Bt

~While federal officials ~are crying
for ~manpower, |

"| Georgia officials contrary to even

their beloved Southern tradition demanding free use of black men as
both skilled and unskilled laborers,
would unpatriotically waste this
powerful reserve of ~native-born
loyal workers, merely because their
faces are black.

This is a type of Fifth Colunin
work, which America no longer can
afford to overlook. One can see Hitler now chuckling with glee over
the training program outlined for
workers in this plant.

FEWER BOMBERS TO COME

Certainly, he is smart enough to
see, even if Georgia officials are
not, that unless an adequate number of workers are trained to fill
the maximum requirements, the
plant will never achieve its full productive capacity. That will mean
fewer of the deddly bombers now
so desperately needed to ~hasten his
downfall.

And with Negroes forming virtually one half of the local labor
supply in the Southeast, anyone |
not blinded by prejudice can see
that leaving them completely out of
the training program, means that
the plant will never be allowed to
reach its maximum productive possibility.

/Whether they are doing so wtnconsciously or not, what better
proof than this do these Georgia
J officials want that they are playing
Hitler~s game.

ALL AIDING ENEMY

~In-doing this they are not alone.
Every employer who refuses to hire
an American because of color, every union that erects membership
barriers on grounds of color, every
government official who arrogantly.
j blocks the full paticipation of all

forming unheralded ~servicé for the

citizens in the war effort is per-/ f

Second Negro Tank Battalion |
Activated At Camp Claiborne

now in the Armored Force Replacement Training Center at Fort Knox.
At the ~mammoth. Armored Force
School, blitz. ~eollege~ for
training skilled technicians,. there
were 35-colored students during
March, and 111 will attend the
school ~in April.

It is at Fort Knox that the fnain
parade grourd, adjacént to ~the
Armored Force Hea

dquarters, - was.
recently~ nadméd* Brodks Field * in

memory of Pvt. Robert H. Brooks,
a colored soldier. mea wae the first
pact Casualty of:.

on in the Philippines oe

Necro ae

Jap fm ia
~Will Aid In
Harvesting Big

Cal. Fruit Crop

LOS ANGELES~ (ANP)~ According to C. A. Dickinson for six
years principal of Thomas Jefferson High school with 64 percent
colored student body, colored boys
have begun registering for farm
work this summer at a date that
har.ded him a pleasant surprise.

Upon receiving notice of tHe
great shortage of farm -workers
locming, because of thé evacuation
of Japanese from the great vegetable ard fruit growing sections of
California, he placed a small notice
in the school~s daily paper.

The next day 20 students Sinisa:
ed to Mr. Brown who has charge
cf the registration and acco
to reports. from that office,
has been the daily average since
applications were asked for.

Registration is in charge of the ~
California state board of education
and is not compulsory. However,
the applicants must be over 18 years
of age. | Pee

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