The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-13

First-hand observation and supple
mental reports from others let some
light into the race movement for job
operation.
Exodus From Florida
In agricultural Florida, which is an
important chunk of productive geogra-
ply, great numbers of Negroes moved
out Others simply remained at home
and thumbed their noses at farm EN-
ployerS whose word used to be law.
More went into the Army.
That old bOgey, claw of supply and
demand gave the Negro in some sec
tiOns of Florida a new economic power
and he isn't any too slow in using it.
While the glib agricultural interests
were busy trying to get Bahaman
labor (Which now is coming into the
state under international agreement)
good many Negro men We're just do
ing nothing at all, not unhappy in
knowing that bosses who once under
paid them now had the shoe on the
other foot and that said shoe was
pinching enough to produce acute eco
nomic pain.
Trek From Texas
When the war ends, or when the
= emergency ends, it is stipulated that
the Bahamans must go home.
Cuba once had a deal like that with
DominicanS and the immigrants al
though all imported under bond, never
did all go home
But when the Bahamans go home,
unless Florida's sun ceases to shine,
the same products will spoil at harvest
time and the Negroes that have left
Florida may not return.
White labor takes little interest in
the problem.
Over in Texas this situation finds
more than an equal. There, in some
sections, as one ILNS observer put it,
''you can just see 'em focking out and
that's what going ON for a good while
now"
But the seeds of evil are in the
attitude of many of those who now
seek labor where there is no labor.
They say, in effect, wait till those
babies come crawling back to us after
the war;
Most of the Negroes leaving Texas
are bound for California. SO, they
carry into California, for postwar
clinical observation, Il problem that
may replace the Jap problem that once
rOared to Il peak of climax when
Teddy Roosevelt sent the Great White
Fleet to the gates of Japan as Il polite
invitation to have a look-See at the
battle wagons of the white man. Japan
looked then and wasn't ready to fight.
Maliings OF New Issues
California labor never took the Japs
to its bosom.
Here are the makings of vast new
chronological problems, to plague Il
postwar America. And to complicate
its labor relations and its union prob
lens.
The Latin viewpoint toward the
peace is another matter that is climb
ing up for attention. Most observers
who write for living talk of Britain
China and Russia as co-makers, with
the United States, of the peace to come
Nineteen nations of this hemisphere
are united with the United States in
hostility to NaZi autocracy. Not yet
has Il voice been raised to say that
these nations will have something i'm
pOrtant to say when peace comes
marching home.
But anybody who imagines that
these nineteen nations, some of which
have important economic problems
that do not exactly mesh in with
United States interests, are going tC
become tongue-tied when it comes tc
saying what the peace shall be, may
have in store a very rude awakening
If the Good Neighbor policy con
tinues, one doesn't tell his very gOOC
neighbor to shut his mouth, nor does
the Good Neighbor incline to shut his
mouth in the presence of his friend
Latin-America will say its say ant
it has become important enough eco
nomically to insist upon the right tC
be heard and needed.
The America that used to scott AT
any show of strength or will-pOwer il
Latin-America has learned something
it has learned that economic depen
dency is not all one way-WE neet
Latin-America as it needs the United
States.
America cannot very well say, il
the face of Latin-American support
that IT must be quiet while Russia il
given full attention.
These are but a couple of the prob
lens to arise in this home area whei
the black-hearted enemy has beer
licked into outright ubmissiOn-prob
lens which with wise handling car
produce blessings, but which witt
laundering can bring one hell to sup
plant another LabOr's interest is tre
mendous, because production relations
are involved, along with human rela