Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-09-11
FBI Rounds Up
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since Federal Prosecutor John G,
Lef1T returned the indictments
against the three men, they have
not only escaped prosecution, but
have been In the forefront OF every
anti-Negro demonstration in the
city. Last year, Chandler ran for
the City Council, on an anti-Negro
platform, while still under the fed
eral indictment.
In demanding a Federal investi-
cation of the riots, and the Inn
mediate prosecution of the indicted
seditionists, the Civil Rights Fed
Grafton charged that closer In
estigation will reveal that these
three men helped plan the June 20
81 riot.
PROTECTED SUSPECTS
The Federation's petition also
charged that the Dies committee
which sought credit for linking the
seditionists to the spy ring, actually
protected the three men from pros
ecution. A similar charge was lev
elled at Prosecutor John G. Lehr.
The resolution adopted by the A.
M. E. Conference, with Bishop John
A. Gregg presiding, charged that
placing the blame for the riot on
the Negro people only makes pos
sible the recurrence of such Incl
dents" and asked for a complete
investigation so that Detroit citi-
zenS can "get on with the business
of winning the war and living In
peace"
Both the Detroit office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and
the Civil Rights Federation con-
demned Martin Dies and his Com
mittee on Un-Americap Activities
for attempting to take credit FOR
the expose of the link between the
spies and the indicted seditionists.
FBI HEAD RAPS DIES
In a terort to Dies, John S. Blu
gas, head of the FBI office here,
said ''the Dies Committee has not
been interested in the case and
hasn't given two cents worth of as
sistance"
The Civil Rights Federation
charged that Dies, who claims to
have confiscated 500 names of al
legged axis sympathisers in a raid
of Sages' office two years ago, could
have investigated possible tie-up
between this group and the June 90
81 riot, but that Dies, instead,
threatened to come to Detroit to
investigate japanese activities among
Negroes"
ut Is singularly strange that
Dies, who now reveals that he knew
of the link between Sage, the Ma
tional Workers League and DIR.
Thomas, as far back as January
1912, makes public his material &c
months later, when the work of the
FBI makes it dangerous for Dies
longer to conceal it the con-
clusion that Dies was shielding and
protecting enemy agents is ines
caple."
DR.. Thomas, according to the FBI
reports, not only was member of
the National Workers League, but
was one of its heaviest contributors.
1t was disclosed that DR.. Thomas is
sued checks to many of his pa
tients" who afterward turned the
money over to the league.
The money was used to dissemi-
nate anti-Negro and anti-Jewish
literature in Detroit and pay for
meeting halls where National
Workers League members planned
the Sojourner Truth riot and laid
the groundwork for the June 20-21
riot.
Prior to the Sojourner Truth riot,
the Civil Rights Federation and Ne
gro reporters In Detroit exposed the
minutes OF meetings or the NaClOn-
al Workers League and it was this
expose that led to the indictment
Of Sage, Chandler and Alderman.
Following the indictment, known
members of the league, working in
close cooperation with the Ku Klux
Khan elements, promoted series of
hate strikes in defense plants
here. The same group was respon-
sible for outbreaks between Negro
and white students at the Fernda]e
school and last spring led mob
stoning the homes of Negroes on
Central Avenue on Detroit's west
side.
Reports on these incidents link
members of the National Workers
League with each outbreak, and
because of heavy contributions tn
the league by members of the re-
Gently arrested spy ring, it is be-
lieved that axis agents were direct