The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-08-11
DIR. SCOTT REPLIES no "
DEAN MILLER ON COP JOB
Continued from Pass one)
if argument be needed.

1t is not necessary for me to1
characterize the failures of the
New Deal administration inso-
far as they relate to our colored
population. 1 certainly can use
no stronger words than those
of a leading newspaper, libel
Pittsburgh Courier, which sHp-]
ported the New Deal in the 's2]
and 1886 elections. Apparently,
in deep disappointment and dis
gust, TIE Courier sad:
The New deal has done little
to end color Discrimination but
a great deal to prolonY II. Be
ginning with the MIRA it bowed
to the will of the reactionafY
South both inside and outside the,
South. It had a wonderful OPP
portunity to show America how
the Negro ought to bic treated,
but it lost this opportunity
Through cowardice and political
Iopportunism. Most Americans
lwould have approved a Square
Deal Policy, but instead the
Southern tail wagged the Demo-
cratic dog. For the Negro, the
New Deal has been the Old
\ Deal in new clothes. With powers
1almost as great as those of Hit
: Ter, Stain and .Mussolini, the De-
mocratic administration has
wnked at discrimination Is NRA,
FILA, PWA, CCC, WPa and a
! dozen other alphabetical set-ups.,
Worse, it has helped spread
Mm-crowism over t h country
jwhere it had never before exist
ed, and Negro New Deal Office
holders have approved of it by
Isilnce or hollow apology.
washington, d. c., is as Jim
Crow as ever, if not more so,
but no single word of criticism
h a come from Mr.. Roosevelt.
He has expressed shock over the
beating of Jews abroad, but not
: over lynching of Negroes at
j home. Mr.. Roosevelt could have
at least deplored the fact tina
Negroes are pariahs in the shad-
ow of the White House, but he
preferred to make speeches con-
demning the dictators for doing
the same thing to Jews, Caho-
lies and others abroad.
The presidest embarked en-
enthusiastically upon an intra-
party political campaign against.
Democrats refusing to endorse
his New Deal politics, but evil
IDENTIFY approves of Senators and
congressman who endorse the
20 / Deal of Negro prosecution.
He has yet to voice any critic
ism of fragrant discrimination
n relief and other New Deal set
ups. E.
THE President has won
| derful opportunity to teach
America an object lesson in fair
play toward loyal minority. If
this was impractical in the
North, East and West he could
at least have said something. He
chose to remain silent although
supplied with documentary evil.
dence of color discrimination
in almost every NJ" Deal Get
Iup."
Mr.. c. w. Rice, Editor of the
Negro Labor News, and Presi-
dent and Manager of the Texas
Negro Business and LaborsnV
Mems Association, has returned
to his home after making a |
study of Negro labor conditions
in practically all the Southern
states, and in many of the Nor
thern and Eastern states. All
summary Of his findings follow:
That Negroe, both in the
North and in the South are dis /
appointed with the New Deal |
Economic and labor conditional
are worse, fundamentally. than
at any time since Emancipation
In the South, the New Deal cropt
control policy has thrown mill !
IONS out of work. and evicted
them from their cabins in the
cotton fields, thereby causing
prlyation and starvation, for
which the government providesi
only mPagre relief Ehat barely
holds bodv opJ ,o,,1 80 1