Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 5]

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~THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

SATURDAY, ~APRIL 20, 71936,

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The Wage-Hour law was adopted at the heyday of the New
Wreui
lavish self-praise, not only by
~New Dealers, but by big employers frenerally. The hegal
~floor under wages~ was to
be elevated gently until it had
reached the dizzy altitude of
40 cents an hour. True, severai

million ~workers, 4. large proportion of them Negro field
hands. and domestics, were excluded from the law, it being
argued that this would inconvenience an important _ group

* of politically potent employers.
Doubtless, the legislators were
also deeply concerned lest the
millions of cotton-choppers and
other field hands suffer ver~igo
as the result of a giddy elevation in their fortunes, Notwithstanding this exelusion, the
~floor under waces~ was hailed by industrialists, sundry reformers and do-gooders generally as a tremendous step to
_ward ~giving the workers ~security.~
What has happened to the

-~ffoor under wages~? To the
workers to whom the law an- |
plies the 40 cent minimum
wage has become meaningless;
Fortv cents an hour is $16 a
wreek of about $950 a year, Industrial employers can~t buy
labor that cheaply these days,
And the. reason they can~t buy
labor that cheavly is ~that the
cost of living has risen to a
noint where 40 cents an hour
no revresents a minimim living wage,

Actnally it is a capitalist exonomics. fot capitalist law.
~which fixas the minimum wage.
How much. can an ordinary lahorer saneeze by on at current
_ prices? That is the real minimim waece, The law merely
codifies the minimum wage
that canitalist exonomics has
Romentarily established,. Tf there is a group of work
such -as Negro field hands
shoo standards: are tradition.~
11% Iawer.:and who are inured
to extreme poverty, their minimim wage is lower~and the
lasieletors simply. exclude them
from the act,

Recause the 40 cent ~floor
wnder wages~ has. become
meaningless in the face of. current living costs, the capitalist
state faces the alternatives. of
adinsting the ~floor~~ upward
or abandoning a reform. that
has proved its political usSefulness in distracting the workers,

The Administration. has" chos
lon cer

are

Rached by Calvin's } s? == Service

-to the>accompaniment of,

~en to revise_the law, The d
bate which began a couple c
weeks ago in the U.S. Sena'~e,
therefore, is to determine
legal minimum wage that w
not conflict with the real min
fmum established temporaril:
by capitalist conditions. Som
~of the senators: would jack the
~floor~? up to 65 cents immed
iately and then raise it graddnally to 75,.cents by 1950, (By
1950, because of the increase
in living costs resulting ~from
the debasement of currency, 75
cents, will probably be as far
below the real minimum wag~
as 40 cents is today!) Others,
including~ the bloc of Southern
Democrats and Nor~hern Re.
nublicans, would play it s7fe
ky calling for a 55 cents ~floor~
-ow and an increase to 60 cents
in eighteen months, Very likely
a compromise will be reache?
but, whatever it. is, it will no*|alter the real minimum.

I do not deny that a considsrable group of workers, in~luding the large proportion of
Negro workers who crowd the
~owest wage level, might receive a modest wage
under the enforcement of the
new legal minimum wage, On
the other hand, many who
would be thus affected are em
| Dloyees-oef two-bit firms which

|have managed to survive the
| competitive struggle only by'
~*hiseling on wages, As.was the

~vas put under wages. many of |
~hese are doomed, Others will
e comveilled to accelerate the
2doption of labor-displacing mavhinerv. In either casé, unem
will toncentrate,

The moral of this is that the
ninimim wage reform is a nut
vhich, once cracked, is a_prety~empty hull, The condition
yf the working class, lashed
~o the capitalis: juggernaut, is
~ot rendered less insecure by
such shifts, Now think a moment! Isn't,it a commentary.
~hat, in this day and age
when we have demonstrated
in war time our - -capacity to

ry family in America with at
Teast $5,000 a year, our legislators are talking in terms of
~5 cents, an hour? The age of
hundance opens before us,
2ut the wage system prevents
~s from reaching it, The abol~tion of that system is the key
~hat will unlock the door to
~enty, peace and human ules
erhood,

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~ATICTDIAT TABOR REL ATIONS

By George

-ecelaaieet id Paatoetoctontedtocte toslestoslesloeieslostoeleelon,

- America~s far-flung and ex. |
pandife airlines~ industry has
closed its eyes to Negro men

and women as it operates its
erest silver fleets throughout
the world. Only yeSterday
tumtyve nilots. seasoned in the

air. made anovlication for jobs
ae oilots with the Eastern AirWines. 1M Rockefeller Plaza, to
he told that there are no opentinge. Tn fart. this company has
never emninved a Negro as a
eit and it is open in its poition that~ no provisions have
mde for Negroes who
swe had previous flight exnarienee and C~A.A, ratings.
a ee. held has more
PRE ies wigs ~ mn

~

~han

cna:

E. DeMar

Soetontoctonten

than 5,000 hours in: the air
and who has trained over 150
flyers for the army, said that
of the forty-five Negro flight
instructors in the United S~stes, only two have been abhito land jobs, For the most part
and in order to preserve their
licenses, they must set up bus
Woaloeterioaloetoetoesootnetostoctnctectec tes ec estente ~

eee we

Pe ee a

Negro Labor, The Race Problem~

AND QUR EDITORIAL POLICY

ilitant: ~ Codevee:
on Powell~s illustrated advocacy of ~The
Great Migration~ (north) in
his weekly Pepple~s Voiee, excerpted from~ his just-published
book ~Marching Blacks,~ is as
olatantly inept),a proposal for
he solution of the race prob~em as is generally heraded by
~he majority of our Northernly
edited, Southernly distributed
yapers and periodicals,

UOUUROUOONTR EERE TEEN

Harlem's mi
man <A. Clayt

Says he in a labyrinth of inconsistencies: and poor logic:
~The Negro worker is _ the
yackbone ~of the South, He is
not only the source of the
South~s income, ete,,.~ Then,. paragraph later he~ avers:

~Negroes aren~t wanted in the
South, Bilbo has constantly
helched his vomit about a back
to Africa movement,.. Today
~he wind is in our.favor.
a North Star gleams.~ In other
words Congressman. Powell
would have all Negroes transport immediately above the
Mason-Dixon. line.

Trudging through the - 2. inch
eaption ~The | Great Migration~
a Richard Brent illustration de
ond cartoon
ered, big-hat,
clad white

| boot-and-working
against the
ern arrow) ~
jorly blase, a
sro: ~Please
~need vou all
ig the ~asinine bold-faced
inindee: ~Tf.
back. South he would go
hack at his) own orice.~ He
hacks these contentions up with
~Dawoll-_gethere statistics and
Dauwiafl Aeductions
| The writer}; can forgive Consressman-Editor-Author
tor Powell.h
his logie, In

~

re
urant

inercaes ~

~Moenvent will result and capital

vroduce enough to _provide ev-!

oroawd 10.000.
camewhat raw, rough and ready
Nogrnes on top of the present
2090000 in |the North would
immeriately
Dhiladelohia.

lan eternal r

tinet as the Am~rican Indian.

'Tya North would soon join the
in forcing Senator Bil;
move
| Sauth
i ho~s ~Back
ment into a

to Africa~
possible reality.

ise, if, as the
man avers, t
truly ~the | backbone
South~s economy..
of the South~s income,~
Mr. Powell,| he IS the
and could h
run away fr
tial affiliation.

It is understood that your
statements are superlatives
Jf mostly ficti on). to carry your
~logical point, It is further understandable | and admitted that
~he South does need the Negro
as the Negr
in its econo

of

needs the South
ic scheme, But the
South can get along without
+he Negro far easier than the
Neero can get along without the
South,

Here is a
evample to
~Hot Copvw~~
of Sam~B.. a
rapidly multiplying
illustrate, Under
on the front page
Solomon~s ~Miami
Whin~ last week, he observed:
~The ~other day I passed a
cafe downtown and saw &sign,
~White Dishwasher
~nrious to know why emphas~ec was tnt on ~~white~ I asked
~he nronristor why specify
white dishwasher, {

in the air. A pasceneer in a plane is only concerned with |the proven ability
nf the pilot, ok organizations

white policy

mentioned a those that will

iness for themselves,

Edward Gibbs, for five years
flight instructor for the Armv'
and a civilian instructor before
the war,*is operating a grocery
store,

The State Commission Against:
Discrimination, the NAACP and
the,Urban League have taken
initial steps to change this ade

| P > tte
beg -: ~fGr< Ses

he formed on behalf of fair
emvlovment practices want onlv that the Negro pilot be giv
em the ovvortunity to carry on
~mw peare _ the skills he so
ohlv demonstrated in the war.

Won't you, Mr, and Mrs,
Reader. write to the airlines in

vour community? Tell them we
hove men ho can auotifv,

and lat's In the pilots get
jobs like, everyone,elsene ad
JAMABAAA MALSBMLM At

-.J/is practically

victs Negro men, women, baggage, ~bustle and puppy, briskly treking Northward, A sec
on a bewhisk
an on his knees
shedding crocodike tears at the

big metropolitan
background opposite the Northploring a superms folded; sportdraved and dapper young Necome. back, we
Under this cut

the: Negro ever

Pass emotion, but not
the first place to!
000 of:.the South~s has

make the Detroit, |
Gary and New|
| Vork riots look like child play. |
N-rasional. riots would become
pvolution,. with the
-ase when the 40 cents ~floor~ ae shortly becoming as, ex
In the second and main premHarlem Congresshe Negro worker is
the. the source

then
South
ave - little reasorm to
bm such a substan
~ling to think, to plan, to work

Wanted

ere

Editoyjal, from ~The Negro
peal Magazine, April, 1946,
Alonzo B. Willis,: Editor, 1241.
43 Dryades St, New Orleans, La,
ML
~He told me frankly that moting Yankee shipping interNegroes had bggome so unre-| est sold him to the Southerners
liable that he had to replace at a huge profit and took him
them with white employees. pawey at a huge loss.) South-, ~This is an example of what erners are the Same people as
we can expect in the future,~ | the _Northerners, coming over,
the Miami Whip. continues,|/here from the same oppressed
~Kyen the most menial jobs that,European countries, Transport
were always considered as re- Negroes en masse to the Nort
gular Negro jobs will be tak- | and you'll see pretty quick their
en away from us, It is. pitiful rommon stripe.
that pied people have become! ~We are a problem, en masse,
~ irifing snd ~untrustworthy Nor does the complete answer
in employment that such dis-)
placements must follow, This
strikes us as a cue for Negroes)
to give better service on their}
jobs or else there will be no}
iobs on whieh they will be}
wanted,~..
And the same is happening
fast in every service the Negro has heretofore rendered exclusively, A Negro hotel porter,
unthinkable in|
eomperatively liberal New Or- |}
leans. (Recently our ~photoeranNher made a pirture of white
women sweeping and shoveling) the most respected document|
eur garbage at our corner intO|in the world, ~our Constitution~
ety trucks in this big - -COBMO- | has alreddy guaranteed. these
| rolitan city.) d+hKings: equal richts, due proCould you, ~Congressman Pow-jescs of Jaw. the right to vote.
ell, as a reptesentative of the ete. for nearly a century, but
whole race in. the greatest Dem- Louisiana has been poll tax
ocratic body ~in the world be
serious in trying to coddle the
Negro into thinking that blissful ease and ~security awaits

anti-poll tax, anti- -lynch | and
such other political bills that |"
~consume billions of dollars '
~worth of time, thought and ink
~in a furious year-after-year pa~rade of plain bla-bla on the part
of vote baiting supposéd to be
/liberals.- Passing all of these
phoney: bills at once is no. paracea for al] the ills chat the.
Negro is heir to, Legislation
twill not solve the race problem,
(Follow discussions elsewhere
jn this and ~issues to. come, )

groes <don~t or- can~t vote here,
enmasse, The problem jg deeper, and passing a bill is just

- i him beyorid the Mason-Dixon another way of.. passing the
Mason-Dixin.line (The road) ting, where he can POSE, as, buck,
sign pointing South showing) inustrator Brent depicts him,
a shanty house and privy as To ~quote from _ the - Negro

dapper and superiorly indiffer.
ent to the industry, the pioneer. |
ing, the blood, the sweat, the
sleepless nights, the brain, the
skill, the initiative and toil tha at
makes the wheels of Southern |
'ndustry and Agriculture turn?
~that makes America the rich- be resolved... The real causes

est and most - productive. coun-|* ~~ on deeper, fa ue ion
try in the world? a single

Don~t you know ~ ~that the ~onstration such as set off the

South is presently by far rich- recent Tennessee er:
er in opportunity for the Nesro? And. that sage.Booker, T.
Washineton advised right when
he said ~Let down your buckots where vou are~~?

Tt is true that the South roa
many needs: the Negro South

SOUTH~s last month~s editorial:
~Race riots originate not in the
simple ineidents _ that. touch
ithem off, but in ~the ~long- pre-'
vaiting, cankerous, social] and
economic disparities that must

~Congressman: Powell, you and ~
other Northern so-called Jead-|
ers and periodicals, lulled; into
a gense of. false..security.and
equality by wishful thinking,

clear fdcts about us as a minmany. manv more. That,|ority group and realize that
nraricely, jg where ovvortunity | long ~range, substantial progress
acrentanes of the ~chal: | for the Negro can only come by
lenge to meet these needs. | merit, and not by force. Reali-|

If a Negro youth is a 4 Ny ~zing. that most Negroes (recent-'

musician, I~d. say yes, hurry|
to. Harlem and let Joe Glaser,
Moe Gale, et al make something out if you and |
Some money off you. If he~s achance Joe Louis I~d say yes,
go North and work for gener-;ous Mike Jacobs, Even if he~s
a brilliant Richafd Wright I~d
say~ yes, go North and write,
about the Mississippi of your | towns a Negro -is Mr. so-and:
ronderagectaiee ne it to the so with ease if his bank ac:

a ee e Negro PreS-! count, initiative and character
ently in the South (with his!.oprant such respect.

average 3rd grade intelligence) that many of the 10.000,000 Ne
hasn~t got these special talents eroes down here OWN part of

jthen he'd do well to stick / sn, economy, are.in a truth
around. Mississippi, Louisiana, 4 ~substantial part of ~ w? and

Texas, Georgia, Alabama, South consequently ~are So fespected.Carolina, Florida, and even Ten-|+, Now Orleans alone: there are
nessee, where he can laze away more than 10 Negro-owned. bric~s
- a solacing southern sun if/hidings, some with a million
e doesn~t want to work. Where! dollars worth of assets, Here. also
he can ever merely exist (but] aro 509 Negro-owned. cabs, oper.
never progress) if he~s. unwill-| ating 109.900 Passenger paying

miles per day.

haging:

are those who lack initiative,
~ability and:the willingness to)
| work and save and own, which
disparity. has: made them the
cast-offs of the South, And that
the picture in the North - and
West is rapidly. changing to
adjust itself to this increasing
|migration. Do you know that
even in little Southern -hick

and sacrifice in order to achieve
his ambitions, for ~ himself~on
his own merit and -by his own

Yes, Congressman Powell, for
a great many of the 10 million

skill: where lie can still feed Southern Negroes who are
his ~bread basket~ on good working and progressing ~and |
conthern ~ hospitality, even accomplishing, slowly perhaps,~

though he continues his shift. but surely, you can have your
lessness and - irresponsibility, | Harlem with all of its dandy }The Southern white man will pimps and. petty pickpockets,
Dut up with the Negro, because; its vote-baiting politicians ~ and
after all these years he knows| Communist ~ propagandist, - You
kim, is patient with him, and, can even ride in the white man~s
likes him, (In queer wavs that|~ab, sleep in his hotels, force
run~the gamut from tenderness him to let you eat at hjs table
ta violence, ) But, he'll feeq 2nd dance with his daughter;:
Lim Some crumbs, ever and; yea, take the job his. industry
anon. call him ~boy~ and o~-| created far himself; let Harlem
rasionally lynch him. (As: any, _Thythm and ~Manhattan cock'Nesrg emovlover of Negroes is | tail ~lull~ you into a ~ dreamy
Limself sometimes tempted ~to, Sens? of happiness, security and
dq tneivtentally. more ~Negroes equality; let the Communists
eil}odg Negroes in New: Orleans make you believe the governcinra Christmas than were lvn- mert will take care of you ever
hed in the entire South in the 2nd anon (89 long as anyone
nast decade. Why not work on. else has bread) and you need-|,
that a little?) "Peat earn your fare by the sweat

Non~t vou know Congressman~ of your own~ brow ~ but bePrweall that tha Negro must gnl.| lieve me Coneressman Powell,
va hie own nrohlomg with his/2 goodlv vortion of the 10 milawn initiative? That he. cantt| 0 realist Negroes below the
exeana big nrohlem by running Mason-Dixon line will sever
awav. The South is not so poor *VV vou these special privil~nr snnidn~t he. if one third. eves, Thev'll still prefer to take
of ~ite nonnlatinn the Negro, | their chances where. acenrd.
HrIeM~s 9 Tinhslity in many wave, | ie +9o vou. ~he is the~ hack
~DISILLUSIONMENT II ~

~has known a tragedy more de| pressing than- the Negro~s~. dis.
illusionment at the conclusion|,of World War I,
~soldiers fought valiantly against
dreadful odds to save, as they
h thought,
cracy|., When the war was over
ee more violent ~pressure was}

lie in merely passing the FEPC, that they had would be taken

~tion came by the _way of for
free since ~Huey Long, but Ne-.

Shéuld look at the cold, erystal-:

Realize |

It is doubtful if this country

The Negro
the world for demo
exerted on Negroes throughout
~the United States. It seemed
at times that even the little

away, |
The cessation of immigration
~Saved what looked like a fatal
situation in that it left -labor
shortages which Negroes were
called. upon to fill at. the
north, Of course this allevia
tuitous circumstances rather
than by any _ genuine relinduishment of white America, of its
color barriers, Negroes were
forced to drink from the bitter]
cup of disillusionment. and bitter
indecd~ was the hellish. draught.

Baffled in his legitimate as-|
pirations to share the democracy |
for which thousands of hjs race,
men. died, distraught at. the. ine!
creased pressure applied by the~
white- supremacists to preserve]
inviolate ~the Status quo, the}:
Negro. gallantly~ girded himself
+o the awkward~ task of try-|
ing t6 ficht his. way out of the
morass ~ of moral calamity that
had _ overtaken him, Then came
World War If *

He ~entered World War I ~dis| ~TMusiéned ~ But ~ ~hopeful * that
some chow he as ~one of the stepcitizens ~of the nation. might!
~profit by ~the suffering which
he ~ehared in~ full~ measure, He

iron~ secrecy ~about most of east
jaa * mation.

}

ees a little Samer
counsels- -

| If as Churchill has alleged

elations an iron curtain of inimidation and laissez faire that

bragro veterans are being -rebuffed: on every side. The doors.
of job.opportunities are being
slammed in the faces of our.
brave sons..who have a_ just.
right to expect better things
of. their country, Many, of the

must be junked if these young
men, are to,earn their daily

pw rrTe

PPS SOROS
a mati

castaside their finer skills ti return to their former economic
niches in the community, They
are determined to sit if out, But~
there is grave doubt ~that by
sitting down they ~ can break
down the iron curtain hostile
forces: have raised, It woul

tussia has..thrown a curtain. me eae

in the
ef the - nation; but
ether it was to fall a little

ent Pit ryetiskes to. be seen.4
he period ~of disillusionment is
rd upon us,

to get sorhething hotter ~than

he left something good pass on _
to other hands, |:

However it may hurt our
~pride to admit it, in the Jast
analysis survival is a matter of
what we must do as well as of
what we want to do, Our, wants
are one thing but. grim. neces:
sity may not - take cognizance
thereof. Just how to break,
down the iron ~urtain of ~~0 -nomic discrimination ~ is. the
pressing question before. the
Negro in particular and the nae
tion in general,,

mn Europe, America has also,
rown about the cause of race

disheartening to serious mindinterracialists throughout
Tf interracialism
annot help in this cruel period
f.the. Negro~s disillusionment
I, then we may as well close
hop!
It has eome about that the

It all goes. back ie the. old
doctrine of the Double- Duty
Dollar so long enunciated im
this. colurn,. Today the. best,
jobs of. Negroes are provided

ate

skflls. the. veterans Acquired.

read, Unfortunately, thé fed.|by the; employment..of. the
eral. government ~which opened~ Double Duty Dollar, If these
oppertunities - to: these higher young, returning, -veterans.. are

skills is not in position to gem. | to be rescued from their tragic
pel private~ industry to -pur- ~plight, it must. be - largely
chase these skills. and sa the through the ~promulgation -of
Negra veterans are. left sus. the. gospel.of.. the., Double-Duty
pended between the things they Dollar until the race is econg~want tg.do.and the things they ~mically converted. Some of our
have todo to earn their daily ~scholars~ have gained. the doc~pread. ~The failure of the FEPC trine but they have -. not to

made -guch, economic doom. jn.| date brought forth. anything
cvitable, Ht.all amounts. to..a | better:: Disillugionment. IT. would _
~great Digillusionment. II, ~|not be a total loss if it meant

79, Some cases. which have Enlightenment | I-the dramaticome to. -oyr..attention, the re, zation of the doctrine; of. tye
~turned veterans are re refusing to Double-Puty Dollar... eis

tetas

e.g. the: source ee its. ~income.
| The Negro. SOUTH~in its
4th issue as a. magazine, edit-|
~ed, owned.~and: ~published: by
Negroes at 1241-43. Dryades St.,
in good ole New Orleans ~,and.-distributed nationally, ~tak
l'this. brave position, - ~unequivocally, (Pardon. plug,, but. pl
include,
where.)

And finally, we don~t want t
be white, We think the Neg
generally should uit trying to
force himself on the white man~s
society. Why give a damn. abou
la man~s company who doesn~t
give a damn for yours, The

3
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on another is a confession of
inferiority,
Poi Talk~ in this week~
Arkansas World (printed in
| full elsewhere in this issue) he
said: ~We approach - the: ~prob.
lem on our knees,.. we should
not beg the white man to make
us his equal,~ In effect, he continues, ~Equality is a God- -giv.
en something born in a man,
black or white. Let~s make ourselves equal by BEING equal~!... and one doesn~t have tq
yell. it so loud or assert it s~
vigorously when one is equal
[ Gardner. summarizes: ~Our phil
oséphy should be orte of pride
of rate..:,. with the knowl,

agents~ ~_ evély
edge and ability ~to compete! i!

equally with ariy~ and all~ ~Booker Washington, whon
Congressman Powell quotes ~oi
-bavered: * ~Merit, no matter ~un
der what skin found will in t
long run ~be recognized and
rewarded, ak Louisiana~s: own -
D, Tyler expresses: it. thus::
~TI am glad to meet a peri
who.-is glad that he is. black |
Who is conscious of his: ~o
and appreciates the~'fact;. > f
_I am _ glad to meet. a ~persoz
who is glad-that.he is ~white
Every person hag some color,
any color is all right, be
I am glad to meet all ~peop~
when: they strictly understand
That character ~makes the per.
son, color does not make th
man, Fea |
~Why must so many of u8- b~
ashamed to be black? - (Brow
bronze, tan, sepia, colored o}
whatever.) In 12 pages of a
big Chicago paper this
were 77 lighter-skin, -
hair, ads. ~Lighten dark skin~ ih

een. bleach. brighten~ was equa
led only by (holy tariff!)

~alone is the. ~sum-total of. all educational curriculaf and | pee
my, earthly ambitions, Oh Lord, tern of our high schools, coljust let,me seem and look like leges and universities. To~ ~teach
(white and the whole: race. prob- | schools~. must cease to be~ our
lem. will. disappear; I, and all only educational aim; We must,
~the world will be eternally hap- jin fact, be a part and. parcel

~py and prosperous,~ On the
~other hand, if. all Negroes tury
ed. white (Schuyler~s. ~Black
'No More~) overnight by some

magic we'd still have the race)

problem, as the Irish and the
|| Jews have, and have had.

One thing more, why won't
our young women work?
(Note, Mrs, Almenia Davis,.
who had a similar point on
the men for her Willkie award

|ly. especially) who go North | very act of throwing yourself article last month.) Where has

industry and initjatiye and am
In Dan Gardner~g | bition and~ plain womanly de
_cency gone? Disinterested in
~school, unable to- marry, they
seem to have resolved on prostitution. before they'll hit a
lick, $2.00 _per day. and a commission,~ one long-haired, 5th
grade Miss sniffled at our offer
of employment last week: ~Why
you can turn a trick and get
~more than that.~ Very often,
if accosted, they?ll tell tyou
with a snap: ~I DOESN~T work,~.. Period! Only now are the
homely and ~illiterate ones beg-|
inning.to go back te the -kit~chens and laundries, Their more,
glamorous~ ~sistefs are still riding high, if - a little; - panicky,
All during the busy war years,
-by~ the thousands, - gone éould
~see both young and old setting
heavily and ~ -cheerily on thei
tickety, dirty, frpnt porches
at-.10 o'clock in the mornipg).

ec

3 days,..here~~s how you ean ly essavinge to do something
out on a new f, chang ~about _ both. Our - educational
from dark t o li#hter loveliness | <vetem must be directed away

hu
man hair.....Blue ~ steel com
hrass combs,.. ironing, p

ing, waving ae
ment. gulpha treatment!

what have you... What fool,
fsh, shalinw imitators!
Aadtly prayer: get white

Brigite oe

(A. ability: since the ~slave i ~S of. the South's: economy |
ay to is. = <gtaibul bled

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great resources of the South and
*he nation~the backbone ari. ~Mav have to send veur Nort
sithstanre of anv economy ~/*~"" brother a one-way
seas aeleeg 2 ghee~ Cerna eyed the~ H

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there are deep and sinster rea| sons for~ mary. of these short.

race with a wonderful heritage

sold a little short somewhere!
down the line, many times by
our. own leaders.
present needs. ~ather than economic, aré health, and educa-i CUT supposed-to-be~ grédbest
| tional ones, The South realizes
this. ~and~in fairness, is present
from the formal. the classic and
the fictitious. toward the vroductive,
actual.. electric treat. trv. buying and selling. manuand facturing and marketing

~ifanning their faces. (A little
| patience maybe entitled te our
veterans who come in your door
~from the employment offiee exifeeege why they can~t take
your job.... only ~please sign
thi~ card~ and let~ the emp!| Mient~ office ~know~? they ap.
plied, ~and all: is - well.) -
In conclusion, we know that.

comlitigs, ~ Originally a great~

and many Virtues, we have been

Our greatest

the creative. and the
Aorieulture and indus
the

of ~a nation~s production * gpl
indispensible. *

These things, Congressman _
Powell, are the Negro SOUTH~s
aim for the Negro in the South,
There are the basic things, vicariously unfulfilled by us in
the unilateral picture of 'American economy, that retard our

~| progress and make us a prob
lem, These things we will con._
tend for with great vigor, But
be damn if we'll ever coddle
the Negro into thinking that
he~s measuring up completely,
but for the restrictions imposed on him by the other man.
Our present argument is that
we need a different approach
in supplying these deficiencies,
We need first to un-prejudice
our own minds, see the beam
in our own eyes, ere we try
to pluck the mote from the
other man~s,

- On the other hand, we like ~
the spunk of an over-all clad,
Hazelhurst, Miss., Negro, ane
in his: woodyard two weeks ago,
after a girl Solicitor had ap{proached him; when he. said
without preaching or stopping
his work, as the writer drove
up lamenting that he had missed a certains ~Mr, Charley~s*
mame on the line for a big ad;
said he: ~Well, we'll see him
if we can. if you can~t
go on anyway! Here~s $6.00 for ~
a~ subscription for me and my
daughter in Detroit.~

Yes, by grace of God, ~go on |
fanyway!~~ Go on! but ON your ~
own, Quit begging! and being
So dependent on hand-out help
when you have~ your hd skill
genius - and " initiative: on!
WITH: your own; ~bat~ Sitios
leadership that at least: ~Makes
sense, Go on! FOR your own;
with an eye to the advancement
of the whole,- and ~all thitigs
very soon will be realy equal:

So, ~the die is cast!~ with
this attack ~ upon thephoney
theories of U. S. Congressman~
Adam Clayton Powell, one of. ~

leaders and the thousands of -
spheres of influence, Negro and
white similar ta his. ao,
The Negro SOT fs waiting
~ANTD) WE<~F ~ ~MUCH
MORE TO SAY: Anticivating
vont disatreemntiwhich ~we
will print if it be Sihrere and
not personal~we advise~ stay
South, young man. and > work!
because at. anvtime as you've

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