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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
The Globe Trotter
Whv No Teeth For The FEPC?

puzzling to many why no similar
punitive power has been placed II
the hands of the FEPC? Certainly
it is war agency whose import
ance has not diminished, but in
creased since its creation July 25
1941. 1t is vital not only from the
standpoint of bringing about the
full use of all available manpower
1t also serves needed propaganda
purpose by impressing our more or
less skeptical darker allies that
America is trying desperately to
make this nation in actually the
democracy it processes to be.
True, the President on May
81, this year, re-created the
FEPC after it had passed into
oblivion under the strangIing
grip Southern industriaIists
placed upon it after the Birm-
ingham hearings, but SO far as
power, the new is no improve
ment over the old.
The luke warm, go-easy approach
toward enforcing of its decisions EN-
couched in the FEPC directive
stands in strange contrast to the
positive. determined, mailed-tist
wording of the new War Labor
Board order.
NO THREAT Here
Here Is in the Presidents own
wording the only power, II that
word can be correctly used here. that
the F'EPC has. 1.-The Committee
shall receive and investigate COM
plants of discrimination forbidden
by this order. 1t may conduct hear
ings, make findings of. fact, and
take appropriate steps to obtain
of such discrimination
There is nothing here that
stands as threat to recalci-
trant and prejudiced employers
to amend their traditional COLI
or-biased employment policies.
There is no threat that their
war contracts will be cancelled
If they fail to comply. No club
Is held over those unions with
white only clauses in their
constitutions and rituals to wipe
cut their undemocratic prac-
tees. Nothing is said about de-
nying them the right to sign
CLOSED shop contracts and
that ''checkcff dues would be
withheld.
Little wonder then that the Cap
tai Transit Company goes merrily
about its business of snubbing the
FEPC's directive to employ Negroes
Without discrimination It is no
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
Takes Job And
Cash, Goes To Jail

WASHINGTON - CAMP = The
dtstfwasher wanted a drink - SO he
took a job for one day in the ia
NOUS z and z restaurant down on
lower Seventh Street - which spot
happens to be a rendezvous for Sat-
urday night seekers of mirth. AS
soon as the establishment had
closed, however, the dishwasher,
Jesse Benson, by name, seized a
towel and threw it over the head of
the 72-year-old nightwatchman,
who doubled as a KIP since he was
peeling potatoes at the time, and
socked him with a meat clever.
Jesse removed 200 dollars from the
till and disappeared. Police later
found him stiff drunk in front of a
house on Fifth street, just three
blocks away. Serious charges face
him.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
World War / Soldier Gets
Purple HeartAfter 10 Years

CAMP LEE, Va. - (SNS) -
In a Veterans hospital in 1888,
Cpl. Thomas Robinson, now of
Company D, 18th Quartermaster
Training Regiment, was informed
by doctor that Purple Heart
award was being held for him by
the War Department in Wash
ington.
Robinson roved the country
with the Pullman Car Company
after his discharge, which pre-
vented the Government catching
up with him to pin on his decora-
ton won in France with the 92nd
Division.
Indicted into the service at
his native Chicago, he was sent
to France from Camp Upton, L.
l., N. Y. Among the battles in
which he saw action were Motz
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28

Negroes were participating, they
had discharged their obligation.
The new order takes little diff
ferent slant. The amended order
goes further and makes it the duty
of all employers, including the sew
eral Federal departments and agen-
cies, and ali labor organizations. in
furtherance of this policy and of
this order, to eliminate diScrirnipa-
ton in regard to hire, tenure, terms
or conditions of employment, or
union membership because of race.
creed, color or national origin"
HALT DISCRIMINATION
Clearly then it becomes the re-
sponsibility of unions to wipe out
determinations within their orgun-
izatons Falling this, the COMMITTEES
is obligated to achieve this same
end on its own initiative.
The Boilermakers refuse to admit
Negroes to anything other than an
auxiliary They do not vote for Of
ficials of the body that collects their
dues. They cannot influence union
policy nor select delegates to con-
vention, In short, they are paying
dues just for the privilege of hold
ing down a wartime job. When
peace returns, and shipbuilding be-
gins to taper off, the thinking Is
that the auxiliaries will be very
easily disposed of, whereas q stiff
ing process within the union of Ne
groes might be good deal more
difficult.
If the Committee can get some
where in the boilermaker case, 1t
will have established a precedent
and can then move on TO those
other unions, and brotherhoods.
which now carry discriminatory
clauses in their constitutions.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
Two Charged With
Holding Man As Peon

WASHlNGTON-(SNSl Attor-
ney General Francis Biddle today
had announced that a Federal
Grand Jury at Mobile, Ala. has
returned an indictment charging
O'Neal Bedford and Ralph Nc
Gaugh, of Fort Deposit, Ala, with
violations of the civil rights, Slay-
cry and poenage statues in tie
holding Of Luther Carter, Negro
farm hand, in involuntary servi-
tude.
The Indictment states that
Carter left Bcdjfrod's farm to
work for a sawmill operator at
Bay Minette, Ala. On April i3.
1913, it is alleged the defendants
went to the sawmill where they
beat Carter and forced him into
their automobile with the inten-
ton of returning him to Bodiford's
farm to work out an alleged debt
They were arrested by STATE
Police en- route.
The three counts of the indict-
mentS charge, respectively, Cd a
conspiracy to deprive Garter of his
civil rights in violation of Section
ST, Title Is, It. S Code. 90 KID
mapping a person to be held as
slavev in violation of Section 443.
Title 10, u. S. Code: and go the
holding CT a person in peonage in
violation of Section 444, title Ii.
u. S. Code. Maximum penalties
precribed are q fine of $4,000 and
Imprisonment for ten years. or
both, under the first count, and
fine Of $4,000 and Imprisonment
for five wears, or both, under zach
of the two remaining counts
The Indictment followed investi=
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
Pyle Back From
Front, Tells Of
Negroes Wounded

WASHINGTON - amp - Re
porting on his adventures in Sicily,
Ernest Pyle, noted syndicated col
umnist whose articles have won
commentator throughout the
country, says that during his So
iourn in that island, thousands OF
wounded men were treated at med
ical bases located there, among
whom were many Negroes. He also
named Indians, Italians and Puerto
Ricans and Mexicans fighting for
the United States as being among
those receiving treatment at the
station.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28

The directives to New York
State voters were contained in q
leaflet issued by the New York
State Committee to Abolish the
Poll Tax urging all citizens to
"Take Pen in Hand Today, COM
nit your Senators to vote for
passage of I'll. r. The march
to victory against the poll tax will
begin when the Senators know the
desires of the citizens who elect
them +. Poll tax repeal is a
priority for victory, because it
will release ten million votes for
democracy and victory in the war
TAKE THE STEP TO VIC
TORY TODAY" the leaflet urg-
es.
New York State voters were
asked to spear-head the National
Campaign to pass III. r. 7 in the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28

and Meuse-Argonne.
1t was at the front III 1918
that Robinson realized that he
had been gassed. He was moved
back from hospital to hospital,
finally reaching a base where he
spent months. After re-
covering he left the hospital with
out permission in an endeavor to
reach his outfit. Awaking in a
hotel near Paris he inquired what
the shouting was for which he
heard out side. "The war is over"
someone said.
Robinson returned to the states
in 1919. He left Chicago immedi-
ately after his return to America
leaving no address, fact which
required the War Department 10
years to trace him.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28

ley Dobbs, of Atlanta, Georgia,
Past Imperial Potentate, Grand
master state of Georgia $3.50;
Charles c. Quander, of New York
City, N. Y, Imperial Recorder,
Past Grandmaster New York State,
Capt. 18th Reg. New York Guard
$50; Attorney Joseph GivenS, of
Pennsylvania. IMPERIAL High Priest
and Profit, DEPUTY Grand Master
State of Pennsylvania, Asst. State
Attorney Gen. Pennsylvania 800.
Seated are: Mrs. Laura Henson,
of Baltimore, MARYLAND, Imperial
Treasurer: Mrs. Beula L. Mckay,
Imperial COMMANDERS, of Okla
bona City, Okla; Mrs. Sadie e.
Barnes, Imperial RecordesS, of
Newark, New Jersey. PresS Photo
SerVice).
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
st. Paul NAACP
Head Hits Bowling
Report On Riots

ST. PAUL - (ANP) - Voicing
his disagreement with conclusions
of the Bowling report on the recent
race riots in Detroit. the Reverend
Clarence t. r. Nelson, pastor of
the auphor Memorial Methodist
chul and president of the local
branch NAACP here, said last week
that racial tension is still high In
the motor city.
Rev. Nelson, who recently return
ed here from a trip to Detroit, stat
ed that Bowling and his commit
tee started their investigation of
the Detroit riot with one thing in
mind, that there must not be a
grand jury investigation. Beginning
with that false proposition as their
major premise, it was natural
thing that they would place most
of the blame for the riot on Ne
groeS."
'Mr. Bowling begs the question"
continued Rev. Nelson, ''and lodges
the real issues when he places the
blame for the riot on the NAACP
and the Negro press. The NAACP
has simply insisted on the Negro be-
ing given his full citizenship rights,
and that all discriminatory and UNI
democratic practices against him
be stopped.
"The Negro press has reported
many. of the incidents of unfair
treatment of the Negro. The pref
udiced prosecutor has confused
causes with effects. He calls what
is in reality an effort cause. Pros
ecutor DoWling's denial of having
blamed the NAAC Pand Negro press
for the riot is made now for politi-
cal reasons"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28

Senate by writing New York Sen
ators Wagner and Meade; and
Senators Van Mugs anu McFar-
land, Chair of Judiciary
Committee, and Chairman, Sub
Committee on II. r. z, respective
fy. to-
/ Vote for passage of HI. r.
z.
q. Vote for cloture.
3. Vote against all amend
ments.
4. Resist all efforts to delay
passage of the Bill
Meanwhile, the National Commit
tee to Abolish the Poll Tax issued
from Washington, d. c., a nation
wide call to all organizations and
individuals to finish off the poll
tax"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28

1T APPEARS THAT every war
agency created by President Roose-
welt can get real power to act. eX-
cept the one agency that bears his
name - the Presidents Committee
on Fair Employment Practices.
The Office of Defense Transporta-
ton speaks with authority and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
MIC Renews Fight
To Abolish Poll Tax
Urges Support OF
OppositionMoves

NEW MISUNDERSTANDING to intensity the cam
pagn to secure immediate passage of H. r. when Con-
gress in September the National Negro Con
has called upon all local councils and afates to
full support to the National Ant-Pol Tax Week October
II to 30 and simultaneously urged all New York State vot
put Senators Wagner and Meade the record for
quick passage of the measure.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28

cation by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation of a complaint field
by Carriers employer at the saw
mill, The case was presented to
the Grand Jury by Albert J. Tuily,
u. s. Attorney for the Southern
District of Alabama.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28

those subject
to its orders
have nothing
to do but obey.
The Office of
Price Admin
iStration C a n
nforce its or
ders by taking
v j o / a t o r S
of price cell
ings and ra-
tioning rules
to court, ex-
DOSinU them In
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28


a possible long federal prison term.
The War Production Board
through its rigid control of raw
materials, has ample means of en-
forcing its priority DEGREES. AIDE
quate punishment is provided III the
executive order issued by the Pres
ident i'll its creation to make willful
violators stay in line"
McNUTT HAS POWER
War Manpower Commissioner
McNutt knows that his orders will
get respectful attention, because in
his hands has been placed the pow
er to change the draft status of any
worker who chooses to ignore his
directiveS.
Latest of the many wartime
bureaus to get, as one govern
ment official put il, s'teeth in
both the upper and lower jaws
is the War Labor Board. The
Presidential order last week
gives the WLB power to punish
both recaIcitrant unions and
employers. The unions who de-
fy the board stand to lose
"checkoff dues" while a club is
held over the heads of stubborn
employers by the threat of war
contract cancellation.
One can be sure that neither John
L. Lewis nor the Atlantic Basin
Iron Works. Inc, of Brooklyn, both
Of whom have on occasion thurnbed
their noses at the board, will dare
take the risk of making this gesture
again.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
See FEPC Test Of Power
In Coast Shipyard Dispute

WASHINGTON-(ANP) ~ With the dspatchng o.
George NJ Johnson assistant chairman Fair Employment
Practice Committee TO the West Coast to participate in
conferences developing out of the firing of about $50 Ne
shpworkers, it would appear that the Committee
shaping up real which to test its powers under
the order regards labor unions.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28

Early in July complaints began
to pour into the Committee head
quarters here from the vest coast
regarding the firing of the Negroes
pursuant to the terms of 4 closed
shop agreement which the Boiler
makers Union (AFL) has with ship
builders out there. The Negroes in
sisted that they we're being discrim-
mated against by being organized
into an auxiliary union on a JIM
Grow basis and that they were be-
ing denied participation il union
affairs.
They ceased to pay dues TO the
auxiliary and thereby became until
nancial. According to the union
agreement with employers, these
members were no longer qualified
to work in the shops and on the
ways, and so were laid off. Some
5000 men in all are estimated to
be affected.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
BY cliff Maekay

surprise that more than year has
passed since the Birmingham hear
ings and Vultee Aircraft at Nash
vile has continued its deliberate
refusal to carry out its promise &c
employ Negroes on production lines
This too. despite the fact that Vul-
tee is desperately in need OF more
workers and is tagging far behind
on its war contracts.
FEPC is POWERLESS
| Had powers similar to those dele
gated to other war agencies been
given FEPC, two cases OF wide ram
! ifications would not now be hanging
fire, a piercing thorn in the side of
a democracy at war to save democ-
racy.
The obstinate B0ilermakers'
Union, which arr0gantly places
protection of its hateful racial
exclusion policy ahead of win
ming the war, could be blasted
from its CLOSED shop" contract
with Kaiser, If the FEPC pos
sessed the power to enforce its
orders.
Instead, 800 skilled workers stand
idle i'll the Kaiser shipyards solely
because they are the wrong color to
belong TO the BoilermakerS Union
and thus far the FEPC has found
itself helpless to do anything about
it.
RAILROADS ARE SAFE"
The Forthcoming railroad hear
ings will add up to little positive
action for the same reason. The
hearings will be held, the obvious
color discrimination barred and
that's all. Nothing can be done by
the F'EPC to break the secret con-
ference agreement between the rail-
roads and the big rail brotherhoods,
designed to undemocratically elm
mate all black faces from railroad
jobs.
That's why the need for the
President to act Is SO great. Ger
tainly the need for the F'EPC to be
given punitive power pre-dates that
of the War Labor Board. Decisions
of no other government agency
have been ignored with so much
IMMUNITY as have those of the FEpC.
If "teeth in both the upper and
lower jaws can be given the ODT.
the WLB, the CPA and other agen-
cies, they should also be given the
FEPC. Surely the President by now
realizes this. Why the hesitancv
in giving the Committee this badly
needed power is most puzzling to
justice-loving Americans,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
SENT EXAMINER

Immediately FEPC sent out DAN
iel Donovan, field examiner, and
asked Judge James H. Wolfe, chief
justice, Utah Supreme court, and q
labor conciliator of some experience
to join him in San Francisco for
the purpose of making quick ap-
praisal of the situation, particularly
with an eye to having the fired
men restored to their jobs pending
final solution,
Following the July rs meeting of
the Committee. Msgr. Francis j.
Haas, chairman, requested union
and industry representatives to sit
down with FEPC spokesman to
work out plan to put the men
back to work until the entire mat
ter is settled. 1t is understood that
the union has finally ben brought
around to agree to sit down, and
that it is for these conferences that
Johnson has made the trip.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
PRESENT ISSUE

Once the men have been returned
to their jobs, the issue will revolve
about that portion of the amended
executive order which places a re-
sponsibility on trade unions to eli
inmate determinations within their
ranks. The Committees authority is
considerably strengthened in the
new order.
Originally. 1t was the duty of
employers and of labor organiza-
tons, in furtherance of said policy
(of n-discriminatoin) and of this
order to provide for the full and
equitable participation of all work.
ers," irrespective of the uusal
grounds for discrimination
Invariably the emphasis under
the old order was placed upon re-
calcitrant business rather than
stubborn and unyielding labor. Be-
sides, SO long as labor saw that
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-28
IMPORTANCE INCREASED

AL Of which poses the query 50
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-07-24
FIJEI. on. OF 20
GRAVITY FIXED At
Sl.04 PER BARREL.

Ceilings on residential fuel oils of 20
degree gravity and over for refiners in
the state Of Wyoming were reduced by
from IL to Is cents per barrel to a uni
form level Of s1O4 per barrel by the
Office of Price Administration.
Previously the maximum prices had
been $l.16 per barrel for 20 to $40 de-
gree gravity, and $1.22 per barrel for
25 degree gravity and above, f. 0. b. re-
fineries in bulk lots
Covered by these ceilings are residual
fuel oils and blends thereof with dis
tillate fuel oils except Diesel fuel oils.
Railways are the chief buyers of
these fuel oilsiin the state Of Wyoming.
In order to produce the required
quantity Of residual fuel oil In Wyom-
ing, it is not necessary to blend to a
higher gravity than 20 degrees, and
for that reason the price above 20 de-
gree gravity in that state should not
exceed the price just below 20 degree
gravity, OPA said.
Other gravity fuel oils in Wyoming
remain unchanged at IS cents per bar
rel for 80 degrees and below; so cents
for 10 to 1873 degrees; 80 cents for 10
to 1879 degrees, and $1.O4 for 16 to 1919
degrees.
Wyoming is designated as Price Area
S. where these ceilings are listed in Re
vised Price Schedule No. ss petroleum
and Petroleum Products). The new
changes are embodied in Amendment
No. 116 to this Schedule, effective July
20, 1913.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-07-24
ARCHAEOLOGICAL 20. 2

NE sen sWA 1s-s5-sW
Drilling 2s40; 7-ineh cemented at
1905.
COOLIDGE q CooLIDGE-wAIT NO. 2
NE NwA sen 13-35-2w
spndded 6-24-4s. Drilling 1910; Sun
burst sand, 1275-1335, dry.
CRUMLEY-FEYBERGER NO. a.
Sc SEA- SEA 24-s5-sW
spudded 7-14-43. Drilling 410.
HoN-DAvIDsoN NO. g.
NV sEM NEA 2s-s5-sw
Spudded 7-13-43. Drilling 1855.
DAKorA-MoNTANA CURRAN NO. /
sw NwA SEA 6-36-2W.
Spudded 5-1S-43. Shut down, 445.
INSTRUMENTATION. o52OeSB
No. e.
GEL NEA NwA 1s-s5-1W
Location.
FULTON PETRoLEUM-THoMPsoN
NOT
Sc sEM NwA 2s-s5-3w
Location.
HAUGEN- HOVER CoNsoL. NO. l.
sw SEA NEA 32-s6-1w.
Spudded 6-23-43 Sunburst sand, 1913
1745, dry; Madison lime, 1865, show
tar; water, I9S2-19S7; total depth
1887 Completed 7-21-43.
JOHNSTON MCKEE NO. L
NE NWA SEX 7-35-1w
Spudded 7-s-43. Drilling 1850.
MCKNIGHT q sToCK-sTATE No. 49,
NE NWA NEA 16-35-2W
Drilling. Sunburst sand, 1370-13S5,
dry. Completed 7-6-4s; Madison lime
contact, 1886. Total depth 1000. Acid
lied 500 gal; go Dbl. we'll
INTERNATIONALLY NO. l.
sw NWA SEA 25-s7-3W
Waiting for pipe, 1450.
PILOT PRoDUOTIoN-FEE NO.
NE sWA sWA 35-s5-2W
Oil, Sunburst sand, 1255-128O; Madi-
son contact, 1451-1455; 200 #. of oil;
total depth 1885; plugged back to
1895; lime would not take acid; viii
complete as Sunburst sand producer.
PREvoL 8 sHAY-GOvT. UNIT 2
NO. a.
NE NEA NEA 15-35-sW
Spudded 7-14-43. Drilling 1017.
PREvoL q sHAY-wAIT NO. IA
sW NWM NEA 24-35-2W
Spudded 6-1s-43. Madison lime con-
tact 15O3-1513; fluid level 1876 it.;
aeidized, 500 GAL; producing 10 Dbl
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-07-24
WHO ARE CAPITALISTS

sswho ara these capitalists7 Why,
almost every one Of us. A capitalist
is any person who saves 3 dollar and
puts it to work; who has the right
and usss that right to invest IL in
any property, or In any legitimate
business, which he or she believes
will be profitable Robert p. Bar
bOur, President, National Board Of
Fire Underwriters.