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Will We Ever Learn?

employers Negro labor this have
asserted than IF Negroes do make good this plant
VIII be their fault" One Of them said public meeting
years that Negroes employed plant fail
stay viii be either their fault the fault of other
helping various agencies obtain employment opportunities for
seriously leading
employers Furthermore that Negroes would in eOpardz
the relations and the workers plant beyond
the farthest stretch of our imagination
passed found ourselves intimately
with the problems the largest plant this the
words these two contractors began take on fuller meaning and
caused and consider their real significance
now of the vicious lies
spread not by whites but by Negroes about one plant where Negroes
opportunities opportunities which they had
yed before in other local plant plants and do not yet enjoy in
any factory of record in any other city large small
To be expected the anpy certain class of whites the
opening opportunities Negroes petty
cm from Negroes plant where almost 1000 of this
poyed in % different job categores is pathetic.
plant pours per pockets
of the Negro community 1t known the model plant of the entire
country Negroes
arr which be denied controverted
There of whites who don't want to Negroes
and white workers turning munitions victory side side
and their dscre there Negroes who would give
right eye policy plant
speak, The thinking
understandable basis for the attitude
Negroes which both illogical and indefensbe Almost every type
rumor deliberate spread
by Negroes about the workers and of the plant about
opportunity upgrang Some of these plants do
employ Negro machine Others Negroes could
eat in the cafeteria special toilet built with
for the four Negroes employed there There
plants where only Negroes employed and there plants
which employ even after months of agitation and protest by
organized groups and this newspaper
which absolutely Negroes completely
ignored by the underground Negro critics They the vicious
who always sharp lookout find something
the this which has given Negroes real
contribute their talents boand be rewarded the basis
ability With the large number of plants the
Cities still refusing employ Negroes would think that Negro
critics would train their those logical targets and the
discredt think
of Negroes throw employer
who proved his interest the Negro worker especially the
abilities
euses usually break the constructive efforts for and by
Negroes.
the plant which referring have made good They loyal
cooperative conscientious appreciate the opportunity afforded them
by the plant They cesy neither they ser
They good Most of them the
by they they employer
worker Minnesota will be able truthuy that the
Negro s not good worker
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that he has But though
military he tied hand and foot by democratic
only fast as the people back him up.
Our fighting need inspiration In the Revolution
nerved to Withstand superior force by indignation
without representation quarter of century later
other onesded battle and because belief
weakness The of the Civil
The soldiers who lost in the
when they realized what they fighting for
The United States has done wonders materially this Yet
like the in the parable who had
the law but had given his heart with his
call which makes forgu of SELF and wholly devoted
wise at this crisis when the world lies scrambled
only heap for to treat junk instead the mang
of a
Too applaud the
democracy and want the Chinese exclusion
call freedom for workers strike plane factory
ursdconal dspute would defend
the segregation of Negro citizens in their home
The majority want to get the and
conditions They have that desire though they realize that the
all this destruction in which engaged
equities permitted We dream them
real with our bloodletting
The letter and the spirit Of permit
Alabama to Negroes down than they call Hitler
the race" people upon his
aggrandizement the other fellows
democracy-or peace.-K. c. Call
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Small Voice

know I cannot eat my pride,
Or spend my self-respect when moneys gone
But I can sleep with them till dawn,
And wake remorseless, unashamed cear-eyed.
H.
Life might be easier If could grovel,
If I could clown and call it tact,
But could satisfy my soul with such an act,
I'd much prefer, I think, pick and shovel.
Although know the virtue Of humility,
Somehow, sOmeday, the meek win win the Earth
can't each day abort ambition to stn-birth,
And keep my heart a thing Of high virility.
With all chips down when the wheel is spinning,
I stake my life against the greater odds,
To lose with grace, but not when demi-gods
Impede the turn whene'er my die is winning.
I'm tempted oft to share LIES shining peH,
To barter all my pride and self respect
But always when my hands ready to collect,
My conscience tells me would hate myself
james T. Logan.
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| posed" white persons of the type
that employ Negroes as household
menials.
We disagree with all these as
sumptions, and it is our belief that
the overwhelming majority Of Ne
groes today also disagree with
such q servile and hat-in-hand pro-
gram.
Negro workers, who have proven
their ability and worth in industry,
are far from disposed to give up
these jobs and retreat to the hope
less, narrow, and stultifying
drudgery of the kitchen. Not back
to the kitchen, but forward, to-
gether with the white workers, to
society that can offer good jobs
at good wages, to all who are will
ing and able to work. That is the
way tens of thousands Of Negroes
are thinking today.
Bibb's second assumption, that
servile attitude viii assure jobs
for Negroes, is so fantastic that he
himself exposes its falsity. In the
very first paragraph, Bib admits
that those Negroes who worked as
menials up to the 1929-1939 de-
preston lost their jobs to white
people, "even the most lowly of
these Positions" DESPITE THE
FACT THAT ROES
WORKED "CHEERFULLY AND
PHILOSOPHICALLY."
Lastly, most Negroes have for
tunately advanced beyond the
stage where they depended, or de-
pend, upon "well-disposed white
persons of the type that employ
Negroes as household menials"
for chance to obtain and retain
decent job and a chance to live
like human being. The best ally
of the Negro is the white worker,
not the white employer. In scores
of industries today, Negro and
white workers are working side by
side, harmoniously, educating one
another to the stupidity and reac-
tionary character of racial pref
udice. The ranks of organized la
Dor have given the Negro a better
break than any other section of
our society. Only the ranks of or
ganized labor, embracing both
white and colored workers, have
the power to liberate the Negro
and emancipate him from the re-
strictive horizon of mental house
hold drudgery.
Rev. R. W. Kelley,
Jonas G. Schwartz.
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Editorial lettings

been said that the whites who against Negroes
and who the best job depreciation those who just let the
Negroes get to wranglng among themselves.
Isn't strange that always many Negroes working
and night destroy other Negro of Negroes?
Pychatsts explanation this strange behavior
which affects American Negro we'll admit we're umped!
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Overseas Soldier Writes Editorial

Significant the attitude the American soldier Negro
serving paragraph from letter from Sgt Arthur
Williams of 99th Pursuit Squadron stationed Sicily to his
father Wilbur A. Williams of editorial in
simple language that all understand Sgt Williams wrote in part
realize just what fighting for After
travelling seeing the result
dictatorship really democracy Our unrest
may participate another after
The States to be forced to recognize in spite
fought sacrificed going
accept low place reserved for before the The riots the
that the supposed upeors not ready give it
may fight fighting for
democracy foolish that people home
fighting themselves because color when here
color protecting the who
found that bullets and death
know no prejudice"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-10

Wise polihcos know the Negro
democratic vote is largely "Roose-
welt vote" Nobody has dared or
cared to explain to Negro voters
that the Democratic party is the
party of the little man, and as
little men they belong in it, the
lynch" South Notwithstanding. So
Republicans are busy creating Ne
gro "Willkie VOTE" and they are
doing all right, with help of Time
and Life magazine.
That part Of the Black Cabinet
in Washington that thinks at all, is
viewing-with-alarm and laying
plans. They mean to wreck Re-
publican strategy of creating a lot
of little Abraham Lincoln's" out
of liberal Republican congressman
like Senator LANCER IN. d., who
crusade blindly for racial tolerance.
Most serious barrier in their fight
to keep Negroes Democratic is their
own determination as race leaders
to sell the Negro vote as dearly as
possible. Other Negro leaders las
Walter White) are startling the
Midwest by asserting the Negro
means to vote in 1914 for who will
give him break, and unlike the
South, which declares likewise, the
Negro means it.
Meanwhile, Democrats almost let
the Recorder of Deeds office (Wil-
liam Thompkins) be sabotaged.
They gave Crystal Fauset a fat
OCD job, then curtailed her power
before she could complete her pro-
gram of OCD regional appoint
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Only Right Is Permanent

country sends its fighting only half ready long
te but does not knd their spirit by giving them noble
fight for More than leader challenged to
take from
conference with declaration made timely by
having reasonable interest in the detectives set forth the
Atlantic freedoms lip
supported them by votes anything
elset that
As American soldier fights victory with
tells him what his sacrifices will for the
coming generations beginning President Roosevelt made in
that with the British prime minister it is opinion
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KELLEY AND SCHWARTZ
DISAGREE WITH
JOSEPH ID. BIBB
September 6, 1913

Editor: We wish to take issue
with the slavish philosophy ex-
pressed by Joseph D. Bib who in
an article in the September 8 Min
neapolis Spokesman and st. Paul
Recorder assumes the right to lee
ture to colored domestic workers
and menials.
Insofar as Mr.. Bibb advocates
that Negro workers should be
courteous and considerable and
should not be "boorish, insolent,
surly, grumbling and grouchy," no
one could possibly take issue with
him. Not only Negroes, but whites,
and particularly white employers
of Negro menials, should be
courteous and considerate at all
times. Unfortunately, there are
people in all walks of life, and of
all colors, who are discourteous
and insolent. This fact can be at
tributed to several causes: to poor
upbringing, to lack of education,
to physical and mental strain, to
i'll health, to the wartime hysteria,
etc. Each case must be studied in
dividually. AS a general rule, it
is the dominant class of the
dominant race in every society that
sets the standards of conduct and
manners. If a mental worker is
found to be insolent, it will usually
be found that he has acquired that
insolence through the treatment he
has received from his employers,
his teachers, his parents, his en-
vironment, etc. Servility on the
part of the slave never protected
him from the insolence and con-
tempt of the slaveowner.
1t is with Mr.. Bibb's other ideas
that we sharply differ. First, he
assumes that after the war, Ne
groes will be quite content to give
up the jobs that have opened up
to them and which they have
capably filled during the war. Bib
believes that these colored work
ers, many of them now skilled
craftsmen, must go back to the
dreary life of household drudgery.
Secondly, Bib assumes that if
colored menials are always cour-
teous and cheerful, that then the
white people will take pity on them
and permit them to work as
menials after the war.
Thirdly, Bib advocates that Ne
groes should place their hopes for
a better world in the "well-dis-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-10


Repeal of the poll tax has been
opposed on the grounds that it is
unconstitutional and that it is an
invasion of states rights.
Since the best legal minds are
divided on the constitutional ques-
ton, it would seem the sound and
democratic procedure to pass the
bill for which there is so much
sentiment and let the Supreme
Court finally determine the issue.
AS for the claim that to repeal
the poll tax by federal action would
invade states rights, the congress-
man who is elected from a poll tax
state legislates concerning the in
terests of the citizens not only
of his own district and his own
state, but of the entire United
States. Further, as the members
of Congress are federal officers,
their salaries being paid by the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-10
ThonlEs From
Civiliun Defense
September 8. 1913.

September 8, 1943.
Editor:-On behalf of the Child
Care Agencies endeavoring to Sc
cure boarding homes for the care
of children, we wish to express to
you our sincere gratitude for the
recent excellent publicity in the
Spokesman.
The information resulted in a
considerable number of inquiries
from Negro families who were in
terested in caring for Negro chill
dren. We feel that it is a tribute
to the respect held for the
Spokesman by its readers.
Sincerely,
Jay L. Roney, Chairman
Publicity Committee,
The Emergency Child Care
Committee,
Minneapolis Civilian
Defense Council.
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Surprised at Editorial
on Nisei

Civilian Public Service,
Camp Number 81,
Terry, Montana.
August 2S, 194S.
Editor: I have received the
Spokesman and appreciate receiv-
ing the news from home.
About 95 per cent Of the con-
scientious directors here are men,
bers of the Memsonite faith, most
ly with rural backgrounds. Thus
few have ever seen Negro papers
and a number have been very in
terested in reading mine.
But l was a good deal surprised
to read your editorial in the Aug.
20 issue, indicating little sympathy
with Americans who have Japanese
faces called "Nisei."
Granted, Negroes may be dis
eliminated against for worse, and
more unjustly, but why must you
pull this group back to the level of
the Negro? Don't cause any more
International disputes betwee n
members of minority groups.
Furthermore, you spread a
vicious untruth by implication when
you insinuate that the Japanese
Americans have a divided national
allegiance. Are the Nisei not citi-
zens? Were they not born here,
even as you and 1? Or are they
to blame for their parents former
allegiance, as we might call the
Negro of today a slave, solely be-
cause his ancestors were?
However, I still look forward to
receiving the Spokesman each week.
In fellowship,
Dick Zumwinkle.
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ments for loyal Negro Democrat
leaders. They let Al Smith (WPA)
who used to furnish free limitless
quantities Of what-the-N Deal
MISUNDERSTANDING, and NOV
ing pictures, to Democratic politi-
clans, get out of the government
and into newspaper work. They
are busy winning the war, as they
should be, but they are playing into
the hands of Republicans who want
to win the election as well as the
war.
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government of the United States,
not by the state governments, the
federal government should elimi-
nate any undemocratic voting re-
strictions imposed by the states.
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No Representation Bdsed
On Tuxutionl

If the facts concerning the poll,
tax were generally known there
would be an overwhelming demand
that we rid our democracy of this
undemocratic anachronism. Recent
ly a majority of the members of
the House of Representatives
signed a petition to bring the bill
repeating the poll tax out of COM
mittee for consideration by the
entire body on May "a.
The poll tax is a levy on the
citizens of Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Mississippi, South Caro-
lima, Texas and Virginia, that re-
quires a payment ranging from
81 to almost $50, depending on
whether the taxes have accumu-
lated, before they can exercise
their right to vote. The effect of
this requirement is clear from the
fact that in the presidential cleo
ton of 1910 only 81 per cent of
the population otherwise qualified,
voted in the poll tax states as COM
pared with 76 per cent in the other
states,
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We Doff Our Chapeau to Charley!

this of the woods have knowing the real
identity the writer who conducts the National Grapevine column
the Chicago Defender The column signed by Charley Cherokee which
evidently pseudon To the Charley Cherokee column
weekly Its trenhan readable STYLE and punhy newsworhy
timely view of things which happening stamp of the
columns in the Negro Press.
usually contains few words good advice Negroes and
problem than hundred odd other columns
We tip hats to Charley Cherokee!
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Looking Towards 1914
Rv Harlo

by Charley Cherokee In the Chicago Defender
Don't look but Republicans going all recapure
Negro VOTE Democratic heads concern
state party chefans plenty worried and Caorng
pull of his master political tricks bag South
annoyed charging the Negro vote considered
Southern economy.
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The ten million disenfranchised
citizens Of the poll tax states must
have the right to vote If democracy
is to prevail in this country.-A.
j. G.
Evening star., 1943-04-21
Siebert Slide jars Jake

Covering yesterdays struggle for
a Philadelphia paper was Stan
Baumgardner, who used to pitch for
the AS. Three Philly writer's were
covering the club, which is three
more than travel with the team
after Philadelphia takes its annual
plunge into the basement.
One of the seasons first feuds was
instigated when the Athletics Dick
Siebert slid high and hard into
Catcher Early in the second inning.
Jake demonstrated his exhibition
game hitting form in the sixth inn
ing, incidentally, with that sharp
single to right. He could be the
Mats surprise package this year.
Until the Mats came up with those
six runs in the sixth inning, they
had travelled 80 successive innings
on opening days without scoring. 1t
was Washington's first opening-day
victory since 1888, when the Ath-
letics also bowed, and on the
strength of it Prexy Clark Griffith
of the Mats probably will support a
McNutt- for President campaign.
And hasn't it been a long time
since you last saw Washington lead
ing the league?
Evening star., 1943-04-21

handed it to Harris. Philadelphia
clubhouse attendants had failed to
pack Harris uniform.
Missing. too, until shortly before
game time was the bunting that
decorates the Presidents box, where
McNutt sat. The bunting was stolen
but more was located. Missing also
was F. D. r. and the general knowl-
edge that he wouldn't be there may
have been responsible for the
smallest opening-day crowd in re-
cent years.
Up until late last night with an
ailing left ankle was Second Base
man Gerald Priddy of the Mats. He
bruised it sliding into Catcher Bob
Swift with the run that made it 3-3
in the sixth. Priddy devoted much
Of last night to bathing the bruise,
but expected to tangle with his
former mates today.
IF we have as much spirit on the
bench in September as we had yes
terday We'll be battling for the pen
nant." says Pitcher Rae Scar
borough, currently plagued by a
cold. Leading the Mats noise is
George Myatt, whose fog-horn
voice doomed at Silent Vernon the
other day. Il hear va, Mickey"
shouted Myatt. You're breathing
hard :"
Evening star., 1943-04-21
Ice Palace Not to Halt
Skating During Summer

Summer ice skating sessions, the
first in local history, will be held at
the Chevy Chase Ice Palace, ac-
cording to an announcement from
Manager Bill Kass.
There will be no morning sessions,
however, with skating limited to
afternoons and evenings. AS in the
past, service men and women will be
admitted at a reduced rate.
Evening star., 1943-04-21
Umpire Geise| Retired ,
But Visions Role as
Griffs Battle As
Misses Major Inaugural
First Time in II Years;
Coils 1927 Yunks Best
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 21.-The
sharp cry of play ball resounded
today in the major league baseball
parks. but for the first time since
1925 Harry Geisel wasn't on hand
to sing it out.
In fact. it was the first opening
day in 27 years that Geisel was not
on duty as an umpire in a baseball
league.
The tall, gray-haired Geisel now
So years old and retired as an Amer
ican League umpire, lived it all over
again yesterday while Washington
and Philadelphia were putting on
the advance opening of the 1913
season.
Sees Himself in Action.
"At 1:30 or o'clock I could see
myself in the dressing room, sort of
counting house and hoping for a
big crowd" Geisel said. "A few min
utes before 3 o'clock I could see my
self heading out onto the playing
field. Managers would come up with
the opening line-ups. Bands would
be playing and flags flying. Well, 7
just wasn't very happy all after
noon"
In 18 years as an American League
umpire, Geisel watched a lot of ball
players come and go, but the great
est team he says, was the 1927 New
York Yankees.
That was a perfect team" he
said. "A ballplayer once said to me
We 60 along and get run in the
third, a run in the fourth, run in
the seventh, and we go into the
eighth leading. to O. And then the
Yankees get eight runs all at once.
That's the kind of team it was.
They exploded all at once"
Cronin's "Kick" Adds Pep.
Geisel has wealth of funny sto-
ries that go with his 18 years of
major league umpiring. Once, he re-
called, Joe Cronin's Boston Red Sox
were hopelessly beaten.
ut was late in the game, and Joe
apparently decided he'd put little
pep into the game. On one of my
decisions Cronin came charging in
from the third base coaching box.
apparently to protest. AS he raced
up to me he said, Harry, this is a
helluva dot better than working on
WPA.' The crowd went wild at the
way Cronin had told off the UNI
pire."
Evening star., 1943-04-21

mander at Scott Field, ILL.,, re-
Gently famed 18 batters in
camp softball game. 1t. Raymond
E. Gadsby. head boxing coach at
the Iowa Navy Pre-Flight School,
competed in the 1928 Olympic
boxing team and four years later
was trainer of an American Soc
Ger team that toured italy. An
other high-powered service base
ball team is reported from the
Harlingen (TexD Army Gunnery
School. The squad includes 1t.
c. B. (Babe) Caldwell, Corpl. Bill
Lacyk and Pvt. Bob Prichard,
who have had major league ex-
perience; 1t. John Clements, for
mer Southern Methodist U. ath-
lete, and a couple of ex-minor
leaguers. Chicago's strong Navy
Pier track team will miss the
Drake relays this week end be-
cause Of ban on overnight trips.
Evening star., 1943-04-21
Instructive Parts of A. l. Films to Be Shown at CAMPS
Games
Course; Conductor Rolls

has some dates OPEN. When
Judy johnson, who has just
received Maryland Jockeys
license, rides her first race, saws
the Baltimore Eve Suns Bill
Boniface, 1t will be the first time
known when a woman's weight
will be announced publicly.
Today's guest star--Will Con-
molly, San Francisco Chronicle:
Beau Jack, Georgia shoe shine
boy and worlds lightweight
champ in New York, has been
deferred in the draft because he
can neither read nor write. He
has only about $95 900 in the
bank in trust. For that we could
forget the alphabet"
Service Dept.-Gen. Claire
CFlying Tigers Chennault isn't
the only softball pitcher who can
wear stars on his shoulders. Brig.
Gen. Wolcott p. Hayes. COM