The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-06-27
DETROIT NEEDS A PURGE

A British official after visiting the war plant:
in the Detroit area is said to have remarked that il
Hitler could see what is going on here he would cut
his own throat There is apparently evidence, how
ever, that Hitler not only knows what is going on
in Detroit but that he is actively engaged in trying
to destroy the miracle of production which has earned
for our city the title, arsenal of the democracies.
The reasonable strike at the Hudson Naval
Ordnance last week was act of assistance to the
German Reich, and whether it was inspired by Nazl
agents or not the result was satisfactory to the
Axis powers. What is more important still, is this
strike was exceptional incident but one OF series
which warrant the most serious concern of the entire
nation. In the last six months we have witnessed
within the corporate limits of our city succession
of inter-racia conflicts among war workers which
we do not believe can be dismissed as evidence Of
mere "cussedness on the part of white workers who
must work beside Negroes.
No matter how elusive the facts may appear
to be- we believe that the city of Detroit is being sub
jected to fifth column campaign which has its roots
in Nazi treachery. The Ku Kux Khan which we
exposed as a contender for power in the auto work.
ers union is working hand in glove with American
fasciss who were so vociferous before Pearl Harbor
and who no doubt, have their connections with
agents of the enemy Indeed, one might ask the ques
ton what has become of the thousands of Klansmen
and Black Legionnares? They are working in the
war plants of Detroit and their leaders are still
fixing their heads with hatreds upon which fascsm
feeds.
Detroit must be purged now of ROTATING,
Jew-bating, un-American rabbe rousers whot- are
keeping racial issues alive and sowing disunity at
time when the existence of this nation is imperiled
1t is not enough to fire few workers at the Hudson
Ordnance We must ferret out the rats big and little
who are feeding these workers with poison and
charge them with treason and let the punishment
fit the crime.
Despite all the announcements of the federal
government, despite all the campaigns of brother
hood despite all of the appeals to patriotism, the
hate-mongers are Selling every opportunity to pit
black and white workers against one another and to
thwart the maximum production of vital war goods.
The same insidous campaign which undermined the
morale of the military structure of France and other
conquered countries is being waged in Detroit
DR.. Goebbels has stated repeatedly that Ameri-
prejudces must be exploited to the end that the
morale of the people would be so shaken that actual
conquest might be made miracuously easy. The
federal government has evacuated Japanese citizens
from the West Coast and taken every conceivable
precaution against enemy aliens, yet the American
fascsts are still free to fan the flames of racial hate
from the floor of Congress we'll as in the factories
and meeting halls Of our great industrial center.
Klansmen Black Legionnaires and all the front
organizations which operate in Detroit must be in
vestigated and exposed for what they are, stooges
of the Axis. These American fifth coumnists are
more dangerous than the enemy aliens, and the
history of the downfall of the countries of Europe
has proven the peril of native fascsts These hate
mongers must be purged now.