The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-22
Oy TONY VANCE

Now according TO Secretary Di
rector Edgecomb Of the Housin'
commission guinea-pig projec'
will be set up to find out through
trial and effort IL bi-racial housing
can be practical. The tentative
site selected is in the region OF
TIE last hot bed Of riots, infested
with fascists where the Seven Mile
Fenelon Improvement association
has its co-workers men Of the an
tagonistic character OF Buffa and
Chandler who only last week spoke
out in the Council chamber against
bi-racial housing. An attempted
project there will only give Mayor
Jeffries and alleged anti-Negro
Edgecomb an opportunity to say.
II told you So" Commissioner
White who dropped the political
seed for Mayor Jeffries now in
tended to be used to save his poll.
teal crown fell on fertile ground,
the Negro newspapers arose with
indignation over lis edict, after
that ends democracy and hastily
Edgecomb extended an olive branch
dripping with poisonous tentacles.
This proposed site can only serve
to disillusion righteous men whose
lives have been dedicated TO the
Attn freedom, "the right to be
free"
LABOR TODAY is slowly being
prepared by management for its
crucifixion with an idea OF abso-
lutte and complete control Legis-
lation in various states and in the
congressional hall in Washington
are signs Of 4 possible beginning
Of the end. II is to be admitted
that labor las its faults but so do
all men regardless of their great
ness and all organizations regard
less Of their constitution. But man.
agement controlling the agencies
Of propaganda. especially the wide.
ly read daily newspapers has used
this organ time and again to hasten
tn, date Of cruciflxion. Urfortun-
ately labor has no rebuttal capable
Of offsetting this planned propa-
ganda.
But Sheldon Tapes OF the UAW-
Clio. in discussing tbs problem.
brings forth an idea that should be
given serious discussion in the halls
Of labor unions throughout the
country. He says, THE labor un-
ions in Detroit and throughout the
country spend millions Of dollars
each year to publicize their organi-
cations and campaign for the un-
ionization Of the laboring man.
They also spend equally as much
for local union newspapers and
bulletins published in the interest
Of union activity. II group of
TIE larger unions pooled portion
OF their funds in tn" interest OF
building a national DALI publica-
ton then the voice that We need
could be had. We have been slow
In reaching the men and formulat-
ins true opinions as to the right
OF labor because we have mini
mum OF contact with the men out
Of the plant"
Tapes statement is worthy OF
serious consideration. The Negro
journals throughout the country
have in the main been solely re-
sponsible for moulding public opin-
ion among its ,eople. Labor could
do much to help its eau. with o
daily voice to speak with.
THE METHODS NOW Icing en-
p!, led by the Michigan State Lii
quor commission have the same
aroma Of Himmler's Sest'-, or
Mussolini's stooges. The use OF a
seventeen-year-old girl who looks
fully thirty years Of age to obtain
charges Of violation Of the rules
set out by this organization has
become very distasteful to TIE :iti-
=ens at large. The young woman.
accompanied by a man who italy
disappears before the agent or in
vestigator for the liquor commits.
sion appears on the sceLe, avoids
the charge being placed arainst this
stooge Of contributing to delin-
quency. Any violation charges up
he'll by the commission in Lansing
by the continued use OF these meth
DDS can only result n complete
disre gard by the people OF the state
for the ability Of these men to
successfully perform public trust.
We need no public officials in TIE
state who resort to such tactics to
enforce the law. True enough to-
day with mothers and fathers busy
helping build war implements
strict check must at all times be
given the various establishments
selling spirited beverages but there
is definitely no need for planted
stooges for the sake OF the record
o. violations and convictions TO at
tempt to convince the public that
something is being done. II would
be better II tie little legislature
we're called In session money
appropriated 10 hire additional in.
vestigstors to keep the younger
people out OF these places A closer
cooperation between the commits
sic and the tavern oSners who
are doing a landslide business for
the first time since tn. repeal OF
prohibition would be more sensi-
bl approach 10 the solution OF the
problem. No laws were ever sue,
eessfuIly- enforced through perse.