Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15

dent in history of commercial
around a colored employee of I
ployee, William Hayes, is proje
and laudatory copy as the type of
American manhood whose we'll be-
ing must be preserved now and in
the future.
For nineteen years, according to
a signed statement carried at the
top of the advertising page, Will
liam Hayes has worked in the Re
we're plant. Of him and his fellow
workers the Revere Corporation
says: Many of the workers at the
Revere plants are Negroes. Will
liam Hayes is representative of
their high standard of endeavor,
their whole-hearted interest in win
ming the war"
This tribute, in the form of a
paid advertisement, to the Negro
workers of one of Americas great
corporations by it's management is
fine and inspiring act. 1t will
serve to direct attention to the
service which thousands of Negroes
are rendering without fanfare to
their country. 1t will enlighten vast
numbers of people whose ignorance
of the Negro and his aspirations
contributes no little to racial mis-
understanding.
On farms and in plants, in res
taurants, hotels, on sleeping and
dining cars, in railroad yards and
freight houses there are millions
of American men and women of
the same hue as William Hayes.
They have the same ambition, the
same love of country, the same
steadfastness on the job.
America as whole doesn't know
much about them. Their names are
never on police blotters and so they
seldom appear in print. They are
not boisterous. Nor are they con-
spicuous either in dress or de-
meanor. They suffer the hurts of
discrimination in silence and they
smother Illustration in new and
greater hope. One thing they never
lose and that is their faith in Amer
lea and it's ultimate justice. Nothing
can destroy that faith, for they are
truly of America, a part of it's
warp and wool, their roots deep in
the rich soil of its past, their
dreams a part of Americas vision
of the future.
If at times they seem impatient
because life for them is not as full
as it might be because Of the mar
row viewpoint of little minds, it is
because they are eager to give as
we'll as to receive, to give all of
which they are capable to their
families, their homes and their
country. All Americans are i'm
patient of delay, of circumvention,
of wasted time and motion. And in
this respect they are not unlike
their fellow citizens,
The cost of racial prejudice and
d s r m n tion is irretriev-
able waste. Waste of money and
waste of men and women and waste
of precious spiritual values that
can i'll afford to be wasted.
1t is our conviction that the real
America wants men and women
like William Hayes, wants their
productive power in its industrial
plants and on its railroads, and on
its farms, wants their loyalty and
quiet courage in its army and navy
and air corps, wants their ambition
too to help build a greater, richer
nation, wants their faith that this
Democracy shall not fail the prom
Use of it's founders.
William Hayes, who has worked
steadily for nineteen years and out
Of his earnings purchased a farm
which he works during his spare
time, has given an expression to an
outlook on life that would be well |
for all Americans to consider. 81