The Omaha guide., 1939-09-23

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RELIEF
/ believe al Negro 4 erieans
believe aaa int thet 5elief
houla b administs-s for the
n ri arr not for n9l't eians as
hs fear - lergely ne il the
pass. = IT, Ncg-o pes1le IRE to
have a solid, industrial founda-
ton they ca=rot accept a philo-
sophy which accepts relief as a
cure for unemployment.
Further, I cannot believe that a
meer subsistence level is what
Americans without regard to race
creed or color desire.
| insist that what Negro Amer
icans need and desire are steady
iob4 with decent American wages.
If these fail them, practically
everythings resents placid accept
ance of rslief as a necessary pal
liative for unemployment.
It certainly remains true, as OF
this date, that with all of the
7 Fillions spent during the last six
ard one half years, the American
economic machinery "has stalled
on dead CENTER" as the New Deal
dominated Monopoly Committee
has recently pointed out.
So much then for argument if
argument be needed
1t is not necessary for me to
characterize the failures of the
New Deal nistration in SO
for as they relate IN u colored
POPULATION. | certainly car use no
stronger words than those of q
leading newspaper, The Pittsburp
Courier which supported tNe New
Deal in the 1882 and 1886 elect
iorr. Apparently in deep disap-
n1intment and disgust, The Cour-
RE, said:
"1'he New Desl IFS done
little to end color discrimina-
ton but a great deal to pro-
long it. Beginning with the
NRA it bowed to the will of
the reactionary South both in
side and outside the South. 1t
had a wonderful opportunity
tn show America how the
Negro ought TO be treated
through cowardice and polit-
ical opportunism. Most Amer
leans would have approved a
Square Deal Policy, but in
stead the Southern tail wagged
the Democratic dog. "For the
Negro the New Deal has been
tn cold Deal in new clothes.
With powers almost as great
as those of Hitler, Stain and
m~inistration in NRA, FILA,
Mussolini. the Democratic Ad-
PWA, CCC, WPA and a dozen
others alphabetical set-ups.
"Washington D. C. is as jim.
row as even, if not more so
but no single word from Mr.. Roo
sevelt. He has EXPRESSED shocl
ouel. the beating of the Jews
abroad, but not owe lynching o
Negroes at home. Mr.. Roosevelt
could have at least deplored TIL
fact that Negroes are pariah
within the shadow of the Whit
House, bue he preferred to maxi
speeches condemning the Dictator
for doing the same thing to Jews
Catholics and others abroad.
"The president embarked en-
Enthusiastically upon an intra-part.
political campaign against Demo
Gratis refusing to endorse his New
Deal politics, but evidently ap
proves of Senators and Congress
men who endorse the Old Dea
of fragrant color discrimination il
relief and other New Deal set-ups
"The President has a wonder
full opportunity to teach Americi
an object lesson in fair play to
ward a loyal minority. 1t this wa
impractical in the North, Eas
and West, he could at least hav'
said somethin. He chose to re
main silent although supplied
with documentary evidence of col
or discrimination in almost ever!
New Deal set-up."
Says South Disappointed
G. w. Rice, editor of the Negrt
Labor News, and president ant
manager of The Texas Negro
Business and Laboring Mems AS
ISOLATION, has just returned to hi