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NEW HOUSING PLANS MAY HELP NEGROES
10" _ By CHARLES S. DUKE for ANP

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aoe..--Community.News and Views

Member Atlas Power Newspaper Syndicate

The need for more housing for the people of the United
States is taxing the utmost resources of officials of the national
government. The shortage is both time-honored and notorious
and has served as a veritable football for the bankers and the

real estate interests whose first objective seemed to have been

to make money.::th little regard for plans to satisfy the ever

mornting demand. To end the stalemate the energetic Wilson

WW~. Wvatt, former mayor of Louisville, has been appointed

national housing administrator, successding John B. Bland
ford., The new appointee has taken hold of his responsibili
ties with vigor, has suggested sweeping, progressive and in
tellicent plans and has generally found favor with both labor

and industry. Certain legislation is now before congress de
- signed to implement some of the proposals which the new ad
ministrator has made.

The congressional mills grind slowly and uncertainy. It
itaa guess, therefore, as to what will happen to Mr, Wyatt's pro
Supremacy
' ~Then Schopenhauer through
~To ophical cog~tations ard at the conclusion that |
hs is the worst of all pos~ble worlds,~? he was not ail-tother beside himself with in~ectual madness, This is in~~~ a-curious world. In very
h the bee gets her honey
- the spider gets her pois
Some nren fatten on the
onne*s of other men and some j
in rise.to fame and for'une
pen the misfortunes of other
~-n, One man commits a crime
~d rises to heights of fame
fortune; another man coms ~he same crime and arrives
the electric chair.
Tare are so many women
e nd~men at large guilty of worse
ermes than those committed
by women and-men behind the
nrison bars. As one has face~ously spoken, ~Break every.
-smmandment except the 11th
which says ~Thou shalt not get
caught,.~ For every man who is
caught a thousand get unharmsd and unhindered. This is a sol~mn Saying, The llth commandment then is, so far as
men are. concerned, the greatest
commandment, so long as we
forgive our fellowmen for every
~hing but getting caught. Ask
{ tler, Ask Mussolini,
Hitler today to. all intents; nd purpoSes is dead and so is; Mussolini. Hitler tried to do
~or Germany what Churchill is
~oing for England but Hitler
tot caught, Mussolini tried to
do for Italy what Churchill

posals. In the meanwhile the commissioner of the federal public housing authority, Philip M. Klutznick, approved an order
Jan. 18, which should have an important bearing upon home

ownership. The order is entitled, ~Cales to Mutual Owner- |

- ship Corporations of Federally-Owned Permanent War Hous-_

ing~ Projects Developed Under the Lanhain Act.~ This should
be of special interest to colored citizens whose laudable ad-;
_yventures in home ownership some times end in the creation of
a ~~shanty town~ without either, street paving, sewers or street
lights. Federally-owned permanen war housing projects contain all of the amenities that are needed for a modern commuViuzesg ~p' project is designed and built by architectural and: "a rexperts. The sales price, being set by the government, would be fair and equitable.
In order to purchase one of these projects it will be ~necessary to form a mutual ownership coropration.. Such an orvanization is defined ~as a private non-profit corporation
formed or created for the purpose of purchasing, operating and
managing a specific war-housing project; possessing powers. ~Stock holders! |
or members of the mutual ownership chrporation shall be res!
stricted to occupants of the project. There shall be a board
of directors of the corporation, composed of five persons,

four of whom shall be élected by the nutual ownership corneration and one of whom shall be appointed by FPHA. Ot
the four members elected by mutual ownership ocrporation,
three shall be resident and one a non-resident representing the
The application should be signed by
occupants or prospective occupants to, a number corresponding to ~not ess than 25 per cent of the total number of dwelling
units in the project.

The plan is that each occupant eventéally becomes the
owner of his home by making reasonable monthly payments

like rent part of which is applied to rent and upkeep and the:
rest to purchasing the property. After a period of control by:

* the government, the elected board of directors takes over supervision of the project and hires its own manager.

Many of these properties are now for sale to all Ameri
can citizens including real estate speculators. Now is the op
- portunity for home buyers in groups to realize in a measure

their ambition. Prospective buyers should write the Federal

Public Housing authroity, Washington,, D.C. relative to any

Lanham act in which they may be interested as group buyers.

INDUST?T'T LABOR RELATIONS

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It is of realconcern to Ne
groes that both the CIO and
the AFL have announced th
beginning of organizationa!
drives throughout the Sout.
land. There is no question b t
that workers in large industrial
concerns in steel rubber che~ica's, oil, cotton garments, fu--
niture and lumber need organization in order to make effective the right to collective bargaining which northern unions
have: used to the advantage cf
workers. As each major organization moves in, the Negroes~ iob positions and secur
ity wil! be affected. The only

advice is to join up or you w:!l
be out of luck.
Van Pittner expects opposition as any seasoned trade
union man must, but certainly
he is not looking for a Chicago
massacre or police opposition
orderly organization of
workers. In fact, he should
His experience in the

~Serth and in the trade union

movement is not a history of

clubs and sticks.

If the South wants to 'e
equally as prosperous as t'e
North, if the South wants -s
much money in the pockets of
its workers, if workers are ~+
have the same job secuvit
the same right to work an e~
press themselves to their.e~
ployers, then the fair-minded
and sane men of the South w'll
see with the entry of unio~s
a step in the right directio:.
The: job. that is being u-d-r
taken is a tremendous one.!~
some individaul cases, rni-r~zation ~micht make frr hardchip, but experience has sb n
that our economy mav be best
vreserved, a balance more
nearly maintained between. I--
hor, and management throu~4
~nicnization of workers. |

Since management hae been
the benefit of organization
such as the Chamber of Com
is doing for -England, but Mussolini got caught. Their great2st-crime was not in what they
lid, for statesmen now alive
are pastmasters at the art of
enslaving and slaughtering peoples upon certain provocations;

but Hitler and Mussolini got
eaught.: They broke the 11th
~ommandment.

here are today in the Unit~d States and England millions
xf men and women who b:sli; ve the same things that Hit
ples of the earth, With Hitler
and Mussolini dead, their fas4 ni and ~heir nazism still live
in tne preachments of Churchill.
How ironical the fate of Mussolini and Hitler with Churchill
cheir chief prosecutor. implementing their ideologies. Churchill, the fascists and Nazi re~ving degrees, and Musolini
aangng by nis heels in the
guare of Milan, Hitler the madmaa crouching in death in the
ancellory of the Reich with
churchill is pursuer wintering
n Flor:da, propagating is ideo
iogies. This is a funny world.

thing he ever did. Mussolini
was without doubt ome of the
most picturesque figures of this
generation but he dies in disgrace when he breaks ihe 11th
commandment, - Mussolini rais2d the Italian peoples to their
highest heights in modern times
but. he broke the 11th commancment. Hitler rescued Germaiy from the chains which 2
versailles peace of vengeance
forged about her.
and becomes the Judas Iscario:
of history, the Nero~ of modern
times. Don~t break the
commandment,

lith

THE FIRST LESSON

He got caugh* |,

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ARE NEGROES EXPECTING
~e090 MUCH FROM CIO
DRIVE IN SOUTH?
The high hopes and enthusiasm
~vith which.Negro leaders and
the Negro public greeted the
~roposed CIO political and un~on organizing campaigns in the
outh, subsided markedly last
-k -Van A. Bit'ner, vice pres~
~en of Philip Murray's United
y2elworkers of America, and
rector of the CIO drive to oranize the lumber and textile
~ndustries of the south, an1ounced the CIO for this south~rn dvive, would not accept
-he heip, financial or otherwise,
Southern Conference
Human welfare nor f:om
ommunists nor any other
troup. This Statement by Biiner cut the ground from unler a money-rarsing, help-organzing the south meeting sponsord by Congressman Adam C,,
cwell of New York,

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Mr. Bittner is obviously and
Jublicly running away from the
ype of aid which he willingly
accepted from 1936 to 1939 to
yull the CIO through the rough
spots during te drives to organze gs cel and meat packing.
While he is thus in flight, AFL
President William Green, and
John~ L. Lewis, William Hutcheson and company are laying
plans to block the CIO in the
~south on both the political and
| labor fron~s, George L. Geoge,
AFL southern regional director,
will direct a well.financed and
well staffed drive to add a million southern workers within a
year to the 1,800,000 already

JOE LOUIS CO-OWNER

OF SWING BAND

JOE LOUIS, the heavy weight
chimp, is not only preparing
the knockout formula for his
coming bout with Billy Conn in
June, but is inflicting 2 terrifie punch in.o
the music business _ through
Eddie Matory s
crack band,
The. champ is
co-ewner of the
i. sae &

Maitory, for
a long time aW.~ H. BONDS
familiar figure in the realm of
sharps and flats, encountered
numerous obstacles while getting his band started including
an estimated loss of $7,000 in
equipment -when Rhumboogie
~afe burned on New Year~s Day.
Despite these handicaps the
band has_ been refitted an is|
off to a good start to capture
onors in the top band section
pit "46,

The swingy aggregation has
boosted its stock immensely
while playing one-nighters thru
out Chicagoland in the past
month and shared a smash hit |
at Perish Ball Room where it
tossed box office figures to a
~new high.

Bob Anderson, a Navy vet is
doing the vocal chores and Mallory announced his interest in
a new feminine chirper to alternate with Anderson.

Slated for a re-opening at
Rhumiboogie late in March, the
crew will play several dates in

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claimed in the south,

er and Mussolini believed; they!

are committed to the same supvace ideologies which have

he same damaging implications
~s faScism and Nazism. Hitler
vas never more bent on white,

upremacy than Churchill and |

ues and Rankin and _~ their

levyotees, The world
~hat the greatest difference: beween the living fascists and'
he cead ones reSides in the fact
that the dead ones were caught.
Hitler and Mussolini were no
more menaces to the peace of
he world than the colorphobes
of England and America. If
there is ultimately any basic
difference between the preachments of -Churchill and those
of. Hitler this writer fails to
comphehend it..Today Churchill-knows that the only threat to
he white supremacy ideology
~, the communistic ideology of
Russia, Communists do noi draw
~ace. lines. The Anglo-Saxon
world and its democracy do
iraw them,

The greatest threat. therefore
~0 the color-phobe nations is
this same communism. The only | |
way to bolster the white sup~amacy ideals and preserve them
~ntact is to des'roy the threats
1ereto in communism. Churc~ll is too diplomatic ~to emdloy ~the Hit'rian tacties and
~rminology but he believes in
~1 te supremacy no less than
ler and Mussolini Churecill is a~suave and crafty Engsh diplomat and _ statesman;
~jut the English domination of

*ganizational drive for work
merce ant The National Ma-~Asseccittion. then
ton. ehanla cen ~oh, -
advantages to be gained for:

Faetnrers~

---vk are

~larker peoples is a_ tradition
-hat even Churchill would not
~any. But, Churchill is working
ard o cement the ~English.
aking peoples~. for he knows
it these proples are agreed
on the pefpetuation of white
~ipiremacy throughout the
vorid. + Be

England is now depending al10st wholly on this nation to
~0 ect the English way of life
nd that is the way of exploi
themselves through organizatins. Of cougse, none should
f-ar ~~b'ack and white~ in the
s-me unions, because all men
are the same under their skine, |.m
and all persons who work for
wages no matter the job classification, are in the same eco~omic bracket.

I should like to see this or
evs successful for it will pla-e
the Sonth on an equal basis
with the North in industria~

1
knows

| this system and bui'ding a new~

What's gotten into Con| gress? Have th~y gone crazy?~ My neighbor shook his
head sadly. It was the third
time I had heard the same complaint that day and | was short
on patience.

~What are YOU bellyaching for?~~ I asked.,1 spoke
sharply. ~Didn't I warn you?
If you plant cockle-se~d you've
~ot no business to complain of
the crop!~~

He didn~t have time to reply. But the expression: on his
face as he left the elevator
r~flected dismay over the vehemence of my response. La
ter, that evening. I knocked on
his door and apologized for
the tone I Lad used,~ ~~But!
meant every word of it,~ |
added. ~You and p~ople lik:
vou elected this Congress. It~s
high time you quit mourning
over the alleged betrayal of
Congress, and put the _ brain
cells to work examining yourself.~

-Then we hada long talk. He
is a workingman and he shares
my views on many things in
cluding racism and _ reactionary politics generally. He even
agrees with me that the capital.
ist system provides the sail in
which the rank weed of rac>
prejudice flourishes, that the

meaningless and useless hardships; from insecurity to poverty; from strikes to sell outs and
back to wage-cuts and ~ventu
al unemployment; from war
to depression to war, the who'e
system is in fact, an insanstupid, criminal. merry - go -
round.

But here we come to a parting of minds. I want to concentrate the whol~ energy of
the working class on chaning

world based on collective
ownership, democra~ic manz~:ment and production: for ue
Hf. thinks that~s utopian,
practical. So he spends _hitim~ trving to elect ~ood
men~~ to Congress. Now he's
perenne because the ~good

* he helped to elect tu-n
ad a to he a bunch of bu~when the ~full mp'oyment~~
bill was watered donw to a
miserable pious declaration.
His suspicions wera strenethend when the House voted to
make the Géstapo-like unAmerican committee permanent. He was convinced when

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outlook and worker prosperity.

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Released by Calvin~ s Seis Service

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0} ERIC-HASS
Eclitor de WEEKLY PEOPLE

the

for merdily joined maj
Even without AFL opposition
and competition, the CIO would
have found its difficulties in
the south pretty hard to overcome at best. The south has
easily withstood several other
CIO drives.:

The first enthusiasm of Negroes was based on two expectations. The first was the hope
~hat the educational activities of

ority to commit mayhem on

OPA.

~You see. George,~

my oneighbo-.
MEN, and vou won. But your
vievory has turned into asl:e

[ voted for PRINCIPLE and
while the candidatcs who upheld. that principle didn't win
the el~ction the principle still
stands, and experisace has re
affirmed its n oral and scientific. merits.

I ~don't Saree wacther my
neighbor agrees wits me vet,
but I do know h*~s doing scme
heavy thinking. He knows now
that. the candidates for both
the major parties no matter
how convincingly they pose as
~progressives~ are politicians
and a politician, in Abraham
Lincoln's words, ~is at least
one long step removed from
an honest man.~ At election
the politician is out for votes.
As Karl Marx put it: ~You
should never look for principles in the hustling speeches
of politicians, but only for what
is expedient for the immedia'e
purpose.~ The majority are
lawyers, and nearly all of the,
by their backecround, assoc~a-.
tions and -traditions, are con
system subjects the workers to|

the Representative he voted.

ditioned to think like the
Chamber of Commerce ard
the American Legion. Th
best of them will do anythire
for the workers~except get
off their backs.

I voted and campaigned for
a candidate for President
1944 whose name is so obscure
that, even if you heard it, you
probably don~t remember it.
He was Edward Teichert, a
Pennsylvania steel worker who
ran on the ticket of the Socia'ist Labor Party. He list the
election because the majority
are not yet ready for his princivle. Like my neighbor, the:
were taken in by politician~
promises ~ th- same politiians who gleefully voted tc

wreck the OPA. But the sam- |

pvincivle that Teichert uphel
in 1944 come up again i1946. And again in 1948.
Sooner or later that principlwill triumph. It will triump!'
berauce the a'ternative is more
and worse misery, hatred.

prejudice and war, and because

it expressed the common sense
thing to do.

Domine

Egg White Watery
_ Sixty-six per cent of an egg~s
weight is water.

E told, ~
~you voted {f-1

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Sidney Hillman~s Political --Action committee would case ratensions over political matters, The second was the expectation that the unifying influenees of the million dollar CIO
union drive would case racial
conflicts over jobs, This had
happened in mill towns of Indiana, - Pennsylvania, Illinois,
and Ohio and in the mining
cowns of spices and W. Virginia.

Those racial conflicts have

been reduced to a. minimum in
the south~s lumber industry put
are still particularly bitter in
the textile industry where white
workers make a determined effort. to prevent Negroes from
operating machines. During the
var low wages, expanded demand for textiles, and an outward movement of. workers
caused a serious labor shortage
in the industry. But in Danville,
Va., 3,000 white workers at the
Riverside and Dan River cotton mills, went on strike to prevent 50 Negroes from working
as spinners even in completely
segregated rooms, This kind of

Ohio, including the famed Cot.
ton "Club: in Cincinnati after
which they will swoop down on
Rockford, MIlinois, for a stomp
on ~the route back to Chi.

Bureau of Chicago,

SOUTHERN. UNIVERSITY
Mentioned in News Magazine.
~The April issue of ~~Head
lines. and Lectures~, monthly

opposition has long limited the
number of Negroes in southern
textile mills.

The enthusiasm. of the Negro
public is rapily turning to uneasiness. AFL-CIO, rivalry might
actuelly do Negroes more harm
than good. The AFL has long
~stuobornly refused to ~interfere~~ -with anti-Negro discrimination and segregation in the
south. In~ fact:
~unions have tried to maintain
segregation and_ discrimination,
and have fought the CIO by appea!s to the racial prejudices of
~white workers,

The queStion troubling Negroes now is: Will the CIO, in
an effort to. strengthen its ability to- compete with the AFL,
and to overcome southern opposition, try to lighten its load
by discarding its racial equality
program for southern induStry?
Can we now expect Van A, Bittner to start emphasing ~we will
organize workers just as we
find them.~:

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~The band is operating under
the banner of East West Artists

individual -AFL
news magazine, carries an article on the author and statesman, W. E. B. Dubois, in
which is mentioned the fact
that ~Southern~ university ie
one of the best equipped -
schools in the South.

The statement was made
by Dr. DuBois while expressing his views on face progress
to the reporter of the magazine featuring the article titled

~DuBois Peers Into the Fu
ture.~

The write-up appears in th~
~Meet the People Who Make
the News~ section of ~~Headlines and Pictures,~ and is
almost two pages in length.;

MARTY SERVO just isn~t
physically fit to. defend~ his title
against Ray (Sugar) Robinson
May 24th as scheduled, according to Al Weil Marty~s ~ manager
who passed same on to Promo..
ter Mike Jacobs.

With the report of Dr, Her.
bert Goldman, the main bolster
of his argument, Weil claims
the breathing of Servo is imparied because of a visible ob.
struction in the right nostril.
Dr, Goodman is for~ an. operation or at least treatment before Servo defends his title,

Marty has $2,000 posted with
the &State Athletic Commission
that he will defend his title
May 24th. Now it is up to the
commission and they have sum.
moned Promoter Jacobs, Robinson, George Gainsford, "Robin.
son~s manager to appear before
them this week.

DISCUSS HISTORY and >
~MARRIAGE AT SOUTHERN
~Mr. Arthur C. Banks and
M:. G*orge Ragland. both social scierice instructors in hirtory and sociology respectiyely, at Southern universi
speak Thursda:
9, in the Ce
beginning at

SENTENCE
SERMONS

By Rev. Frank Clarence Lowry
For ANP

1. Any church.that feels it
can~t get along without tricks,
ought to cloSe its doors and resort to politics;

2, The church can~t possibly
be dynamic when the majority
of its members are spiritually
anaemic.

3. Christians should regard
the church as a personal responsibility and this. precludes
the possibility of it becoming a
liability.

today and find political signs in

the sign of His cross, He could
only feel that His efforts to save
~to them are almost lost.

5. The faith once delivered to
the saints thru the ReSsurection is fast being displaced with
a social substitution devoid of
a tried-and-true spiritual foundation,: ~ obviously appears tadiay,
_that everything in the churches
weigh heaviest on the material
side, while the ~ all-important,
the spiritual, is allowed to slip
and slide, ~

7, The churches seem now to
be following the line of least
resistance, and too Slight attention is being paid to whole.
hearted repentance,

8. It seems now to be a matter of getting folks to attend,

not one offend.

never intended to pile up mem~erships and defend hypocrites.
10. Those parents who love
~heir children will not defend
them in the wrong, and the

church is no exception if
means to grow strong.

11. Right must prevail, even
_at the point of administering

a Cat-O-nine tails, as Jesus de
monstrated in the temple, that
igainst wrong we too would
follow in line as an example..

Baked Apples

For baked apples, select sound
fruit. Wash, core and cover with
a mixture of sugar and water to satisfy individual~s taste. Bake until
only one-fourth done, then place in
No. 2 Re-enameled cans to within
one-half inch of top. Cover with the
sweetened juice to fill can. Seal immediately and process for 25 minutes in boiling hot water bath resect
quickly, dry and ae

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4. If Jesus would happen ny

His churches intermingled with.

hen going easy on religion and,

9. The church of Christ was.

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