Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-06-25
America Must Face the Issue


gacful Detroit riots but the
America with all its accomplishments has
yet of the problem relations
program nerracial cooperation designed
inequalities whites and Negroes
objective of responsible Negro leadership for the past
80 years Attempts to obtain support from government INDUSTRY ana
organized labor this have with scant To this
traced the conditions which both directly and
indirectly led to the Detroit trouble
The first governmental solving problem
Tied in with Recovery" the United
portions of it, initiated designed to
help condition America economic
could be made along racial lines because the socaed
IMPOVERISHED onesxth" up
blacks affected included the bulk Negroes
Deal had the good designed help
the "One-sixth" Negroes we'll whites.
that the had begun the
covery reactionary forces which allowed
The New deal 10 initiate social reforms willingly in 1888 began an
program southern Democrats especially began
spectacle of the Federal building homes
erecting recreaona training and aiding Negroes obtain
positions and to become better citizens
Harbor began manifest itself the
drafted soldiers and the
army camps especially the south Northern Negroes accustomed
to large extension OF the basic human rights were dorazed and
confronted by the vicious Jim Crow patterns of the
they fight for their Men
uniform lynched and beaten Negro soldiers Inundated
daily Riots broke sections The War Department.
efficiency organizing and training millions, fell down
when to protecting the lives OF its Negro troops while their
land Here again the lack of careful planning and
the facing Of facts along the problem front The War
made feeble gesture by hiring Judge William h. HASTE as civilian
aide and then refused listen his advice His widely pubczed
nation followed.
important national unity should be good
Neither the War Department
Navy funconng reliable relations bureau
designed minimize racial conflicts and nterraca cooera
Every government agency constructive
plan established relations bureau has been made target of
practically
aw-makng bodies These poax bnefaes that
the Negro satisfied with his statuwhy should either the military
or the civil authorities spend money programs
partmen with budget ashes from such apuate and
from sight Negro advisers and with them constructive
interracial planning.
relations continued unsatisfactory
Although NEGROES were asked to buv defense bonds serve in the armed
the
plants would hire them For the good of the defense
necessary President under Negro Execu
which ordered industry halt discriminatory
practices employment Here there magnificent gesture
planning patriotic ndus
faithfully followed the Presidents order Most of them have had
grave their factory
labor practically instance the Negroes when given the
tunity to do So made fine contributions to production
Harbor there still firms with contracts
right Minnesota who will refuse to hire Negroes They will tell
Negro that they will hire him because of his
Navy will admit its female auxiaes quota
only army accepted despite the need and
recruiting for thousands OF Negro and white
taught imposed system
long list of against the Negro and
democracy would than this entire
Unified which should be directed towards vanquhng
enemies dpated interraca mis-
understandings The foreign fascsts laugh American whites and
fight with another Civilian treatment of Negro
soldiers southern communities is still bad and clashes between civilian
police colored soldiers Snguay the recent out
Camp Georgia.
suited in the loss of lives of white soldiers.
squarely leaders of the country
agents. of the
which maxed by the bloody Detroit disorder
the practice of racial discrimination persecution lynhngs and
beatng national
Naz would have vulnerable points which strike
the had insisted that industry its
all Of closing them Negroes riots like the
would have less chance of occurring effort of Negroes
reliable citizens had encouraged rather
authority had moved along the road full
responsibility for the enforcement of the Constitution much the
anarchy abiding depore
today shouting headlines
Detroit has shown concusvey what happen when
intolerance fed by repression and bgoty allowed rampant
The United States of America face the unaeabe fact that
with winning the safeguard its domestic existence by
the socaed problem Failure consider its
result Of international
country leadership position among
nations of the world must begin plan future without
practices which tend disrupt national Chief among
origin
America plan for the eradication
body polite practices which made possible the Detroit riots We have
the America which has made contributions
humanity and will victory
democracy
Old Stuff-NeW
of the trbuaons old
What needed and what haven't had,
sensible approach to the illness.
prejudice and bgory is the of the trouble
acated by passive tolerance alone But neither
If