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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-10-09

site to participation in the
election of federal officials.
WOULD BE PRAISED
There is little doubt that the an
ti-poll tax bill would be overwhelm-
ingly passed, if 1t were permitted
to come up for vote. So the stra-
tegy of those who hold their seats
in the senate by grace of his
majesty, the poll tax, is to prevent
this important measure from being
voted upon.
Resurrected once again will
be the moldy issue Of states
rights. BiIb0 of Mississippi,
whose long tenure in the senate
has not produced a single
progressive measure, will again
get his picture in the newspap-
ers atop stack of books,
threatening his peculiar strike
against democracy-a filibust-
er.
The poll tax has become SO wide
in it's ramifications, it no longer
can be viewed as local issue or
states rights privilege. 1t has
become a national issue and dur
ing this war to rescue democracy
from the barbarians bent on de-
stroying it, has emerged as a direct
betrayal of the thousands of gall
LIANT young men who are bleeding
and dying the world over for uni
versal liberty.
GROSS DISCRIMINATION
Curiously enough those officials
in the poll tax states, who have
been loudest in their protest against
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Negro Youth Must Be Giuen
Chance, Says Col. Johnson
Selective Service Official Is
Back from Tour Of Southeast

dards Of health as direct con.
sequence.
Negro youth must be given a
chance. Because they have not been
given equal opportunities for learn
'ng, the Army is paying the renal
ty. However. the Selective Service
has managed, despite these handi-
caps, to recruit eligible youths to
the extent that today Negroes COM
prise above 10 per cent Of the men
indicted into the armed forces
through the Selective Service
System
Colonel johnson, a graduate OF
Howard University, Is a member OF
the Board of Parole of the DlStrlct
of Columbia and of the bar OF the
n;s-~ict of Columbia and OF North
Carolina. His rise IN ~a1lk pegan
in 1917 when he was promoted TO
first lieutenant or Infantry; by
October 1918 ne had risen to the
rank of captain, becoming major
in September 1929. Promoted 60
Lieutenant Colonel in 1912, ne re-
ceived his latest elevation on Sep
tember q, 1943.
Captain Benson D. Mitchell IS
assistant to C&7el johnson. he
is a graduate of Howard University
and was assigned TO the SelectlVe
System in June 1942.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-10-09
Urban League Blas SIS Tribune
ForSmear> Censorship Charge
Chicago Anti-Roosevelt Newspaper
Accused of Misquoting Granger

national president Of the Urban
league, and Ernest Johnson, chier
washington correspondent for the
Association Negro Press who was on
leave to serve as public relations di-
rector for the conference, as "the
two press agents, both Democrats .
who censored all speeches" The
article charged that Baldwin has
barred reporters from two-thirds Of
the conference meetings" and that
such few speeches as Baldwin has
allowed to be made public first have
been rewritten by Johnson and the
press has been handed his version. :"
The official Urban League state
ment repudiating these charges
said:
Publication by the Chicago Trib-
une of deliberate distortions and
Interpretations in reporting oui
conference led to their national dts
semination over the wires Of q news
syndicate. We therefore FEEL that
we must specify the most important
of these neutrality-suspicious. and
deny them categorically
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-10-09

CHICAGO - (ANP) - Irked by
the manner in which the Chicago
Tribune carried articles on the 33rd
annual National Urban League con-
ference in Chicago last week, the
league issued an official statement
Friday categorically denying that
Lester Granger, executive secretary,
in purported interview blamed
the Communists for the Detroit riot
Or that "two press agents, both
Democrats, have been censoring all
speeches before release to the press
for publication"
The Tribune, rabidly isolationist
and violently anti Communist and
anti-Roosevelt, in news article app
bearing Thursday asserted Mr.
Granger told a Tribune reporter in
IN interview that an Urban League
Investigation Of the Detroit riot had
disclosed Communist agitation
among both Negroes and whites had
caused the racial trouble.
BALDWIN NAMED
In the Friday article, the Tribune
named William H. Baldwin, white,
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Movinq Toward A Showdown

freight rate discrimination are
conspiciously silent when discus
sion arises over how the poll tax
allows eight states TO virtually con-
troll and maneuver legislation
affecting the other forty.
Discrimination reaches its
rankest form when one c0nsid-
ers that more votes were cast
i'm Rhode Island (713,0O0) for
two representatives than were
cast in the populOus area from
the Atlantic Ocean to the Mis-
sissippi River embracing thc
states of South Carolina, GeOr-
gia. Alabama ana Mississippi
plus five districts in. Virginia,
with population of II,500,OOO
and with 81 representatives in
Congress.
This travesty on democracy is
reflected in the list of reactionary
die-hards, who are returned to
Congress term after term in some
instances decade after decade, all
of whom except in very rare in
stances were born, bred and cul-
tured in the undemocratic atmo-
sphere of poll taxes. On the list OF
congressman elected by only one
per cent OF the people they profess
to represens are sucn well known,
labor, Negro and New Deal baiters
as Cox of Georgia, Wilmington OF
Mississippi, F'ulmer of South Caro-
lima, Dies of Texas, Hobbs of Ala
bama and Smith of Virginia.
SOON GAIN CONTROL
These men sent to Congress by
a negligible electorate by Nurture
the seniority rule, soon become
chairmen of all the important
legislative committees and thus
gain control of legislation affect
ing all of the people. For that rea-
son, if for no other, democracy to
survive must rid itself Of poll
taxes.
Not answerable to the people,
they form a static threat to
any measures designed to inn
prove the lot of all Americans.
They are constantly on the
alert to oppose all social legis-
lation. They stand with closed
ranks against public housing,
they are bulwark against the
extension of social security,
they voted together as a man
against all efforts of the federal
government to rehabilitate the
impoverished as in the cases OF
the NYA, CCC. and WA,
agencies designed to benefit
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The group made the trip as re-
representatives. of the Senate Military
and Naval Affairs Committees and
the special Committee on Inves-
tigating War Activities which is
headed by Senator Truman of
Missouri.
TOUGHEST IN THE WORLD
The other two members of the
Committee-Senator Albert b.
Chandler, Democrat, Kentucky, and
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.,
Republican, Mass, were not in
Washington at the time of the
interview.
American armed forces consti-
tute the toughest fighting machine
the world has ever known" said
Senator Russell, who acted as
chairman. They are the best train
ed and equipped of all soldiers in
this war and are ready and anxious
to get on with the war so they
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-10-09
Charges Denied
BY Sen. Diggs

DETROIT, Ia N P)- Senator
Charles G. Diggs, lone Negro repre-
sentative from Michigan, denied
the charges of soliciting a bride in
return for votes on the ANTI Branch
Chain Bank bill two years ago, by
Recorders Judge Thomas M. Cot
ter late Tuesday. The charges were
recommended by Assistant Attorney
General Ben Fl. Cole of the Detroit
office of the Attorney-general.
Diggs, who is represented by At
torneys Edward A. Simmons, Har-
old Bledsoe and Cecil Rowlette, was
charged along with Senator S.
Blondy, white also of Detroit, who
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is now. serving a 60-day jail term
for contempt of court in connection
with testimony given the legislative
bribery grand jury two weeks ago.
The warrants we're issued follow
ing additional testimony by Adrain
A. McGonagle, controller of the De-
troit bank, who further confirmed
his testimony of last Friday when
he said Diggs called him to his
office where he was asked for a
campaign contribution" in return
for three votes for the Anti Branch
Chain Bank bill.
In an interview with Senator
Digs last week, he fatty denied
the bribery accusation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-10-09
Church Council Demands
Colman Case Rehearir1g

WASHINGTON - (SNS) - The
Washington Bureau of the Fratern-
al Council of Negro Churches
through It's director, Rev. w. II.
Jernagin issued a resolution calling
for the retrial Of Captain William
T. Colman, former commanding of
ficer of Selfridge Field, Michigan.
The former colonel was reduced
to captain following an investiga-
ton Of the shooting of Pvt. Willie
McRae, Negro chauffeur. The trial
at Selfridge Field took place Sep
TENDER IA before high ranking army
officers. Colman's name was or
dered placed at the bottom of the
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Draws $500 Fine

MERIDIAN. Mississippi-(ANP)
Donald Castle, Of I,auderdale
County, sawnill operator, was
fined $500 IN federal court mere
last week upon his conviction on
peonage charges.
Judge Sidney Mise imposed SEN
tence after, the mill operator had
pleaded guilty. The court suspended
a two year Jail term and placed
Castle on two years probation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-10-09

ONCE AGAIN CONGRESS is
moving toward showdown on
whether the democracy the United
Nations are fighting this global
war for is to be allowed free reign
in. America or whether it will con-
tinue to be handcutfed by the
pernicious application of the poll
tax system in eight states.
The senate judiciary committee,
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WASHINGTON, .. Cts N s.
Back at his desk in the head
quarters of the Selective Service
System after 81 days absence, Colo
mel Campbell &. Johnson, executive
assistant to Selective Service Direc-
tor Major General Lewis B. fer
siley, had, () completed a 3400-
mile tour of Army induction sta
lions from North Carolina to
Louisiana, ca been promoted
from lieutenant colonel to colonel.
On his tour Of induction stations,
Colcnel Johnson sought answers
to these questions: Why the high
rate of Negro reflections for failure
to pass the Afny's minimum IN
telligence standards?-Why the low
percentage of those meeting the
Army's physical requirement stan
dards2
When interviewed, he had this
to say: st concluded my tour with
the conviction that the root OF the
trouble lies in the inadequate edtl-
,ational facilities in lower stan
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can return home" he continued.
Asked about the opening OF the
Burma Road and American troops
| in India and China, Senator Rus
sell told Of present difficulties OF
getting supplies reloaded on trains,
transferred several times from diff
ferent railroads because of the diff
ference IN the guage and the trip
finally completed by airplanes to
the fighting forces. Most of this
| work of handling these supplies
is being done by American Negroes.
PRAISES RACE TROOPS
'"These Negroes said Senator
Russell, can unload ship in four
days, where it formerly took The
native Indians and British troops
two weeks.
Inquiry was also made about the
French troops now fighting with
the United Nations. These troops
were trained and equipped by the
United Nations and are mostly
colonials from North Africa. They
are the most feared of all the SOL
diers now in Europe, said Senator
Russell.
Senator Meade was also en-
thusiastic in his remarks about
Negro soldiers. He praised the CO.
ordination of the American armed
forces in the Southwest Pacific and
pointed as an example Of this CO.
ordination the fact that the Aneri-
can soldiers, sailors and Marines in
this area are all dressed alike. "You
can't tell what branch OF the service
they belong to from their appear
ance," he said.
SEABEES LAUDED
He paid special tribute to the
work of Negro SeabeeS Of the Navy,
who have built roads, airports and
handled much of the supplies going
into the Southwest Pacific area.
Negro Seabees and soldiers in this
area were highly thought of by
their officers from General Mac
Arthur down, he said.
En-oute home the Senators stop
ped in Hawaii where they were
greeted by a Negro Anti-Aircraft
regiment from New York, under
command of Colonel Chauncey M.
Hooper. "This regiment is doing
great job," said Senator Meade.
Senator Russell, speaking for the
group, said thtat he thought most
of the people at home had under
estimated the strength of the Japa-
nese in the South Pacific.
Senator Brewster added, "The
nearest thing I can think of is what
American pioneers were up against
fighting Indians in our early days"
Asked for opinions on how long
the war would last, Senator Russell
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maze up eA-
clusively Of
lawyers, h a S
voted to be-
gin pu b / i C
hearings Oc-
tober Is on the
h o Sc ap-
proved mea-
sure W hi c h
would abolish
the payment
Of poll taxes
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-10-09
Negro Soldiers
.Ouerseas Dra1U
Senator's Praise

WASHINGTON, D. C. = (SNS) - Negro soldiers
abroad praised by three of the five United States Sen
ator who have just returned from round the-word IN
vesgaon of the Aecan fronts and centers of Allied war
direction at conference held in the Senate Office
Building September 80 The Senators who he'd the con-
ference Richard RUSSELL Democrat of Georgia. Ralph
E. Brewster, Republican, of Maine; and James NJ Mead,
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Recent recipient of an official
commentator for his work in con-
nectiOn with the preparation and
restatement of Army regulations,
whose assignment to the Judge Adj
y0cate Generals Department on
September 8 has been announced by
the War Department. Lieutenant
McLendOn a graduate of Fisk and
Northwestern universities, practiced
law in Chicago for several years.
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replied that he thought Germany
might cru1nble any day but said
the German Army was still tough
fighting force which should not be
underestimated.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-10-09
The Globe TrOtter BY cliff Mackay

more of their constituents than
those of any other part OF the
nation. Actually all of these
agencies were wiped out as the
result of bills introduced by
the poll takers.
The poll tax states further dis
criminate against the other forty
which permit universal suffrage IN
that they send to congress dis
proportionate number of represen-
tatives in direct violation Of the
United States Constitution. The
number of each rtate's representa-
tives should correspond to It's
population, according TO the 18th
amendment. But the same clause
further says that whenever state
restrictions operate to decrease the
number OF people who may vote,
then the number of representatives
to Congress from that particular
state must be reduced proportion
ately.
WOULD REDUCE
CONGRESSMAN
A proper application of this
constitutional provision would
mean that the poll tax states would
have only 90 congressman instead
of the 10 they now send to Wash
ington. But the democratic solu-
ton does not call for reduction
in the number of congressman from
these eight poll tax states. II does
demand that the ten millions who
now stand disenfranchised in these
states be again given their con-
stitutionally guaranteed right TO
determine through the ballot their
own destiny.
Already the Mcfarland sub
committee of the senate judi
ciary committee has reported
fayorabIy on this move to bring
democracy to all 4S of the
United States. The threat of
a senatorial Shutdown strike IN
the form of filibuster should
not deter the majority OF
democracy loving senators from
voting cloture, thus limiting de-
bate and bringing the measure
to vote.
The abolition of the poll tax VIII
not mean complete democracy for
all of the ten million who now
stand disenfranchised by it and
the white primary. But it certainly
would be step in the right direc-
ton. It would be sign to the
millions of brave youths now risk
ing their lives for democracy that
we mean to keep faith with them
that those who died for the cause
Of freedom shall not have died in
vain.
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st of captains and of the &c charg-
es placed against him,
, 1943-11-25
Petition for
Election Filed at
ChondIer-Evons

Local 785, UAWA, has filed a
petition with the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB), for an
election to be held by the en-
ployees to determine the collec-
tive bargaining agency.
At the present time, an over
whelming majority of cards has
been signed, signifying the inten-
tons of the workers at Chandler
Evans that they desire the CLIO to
represent them. The organizing
committee which is composed of
Claude Lemons, president of
UAWA Local 785; Geo. w. VIII
kins of UAW Local 696, and Fl.
L. Smith, international repre-
sentative of the JAW wishes to
announce to the membership at
Chandler Evans to watch for no
tees of meetings and to please
attend
, 1943-11-25

has resigned to act as the man
ager of Greemont Village.
Bro. Thomas is a member of UE
Local 801, Frigidaire, and a dele
gate to the Montgomery County
Industrial Union Council.
The Dayton Mutual Homes, Inc,
was originally sponsored by the
Montgomery County Industrial
Union Council, and is the second
Of housing projects started by the
CLIO in this area. Kenneth Ring
of UE Local SO1 was elected to
the board of directors of the Day
ton Mutual Homes, Inc. ether
members Of the board of directors
of the Dayton Mutual Homes are,
Karl Yenger of UE Local 755,
Delco; John Daley, UE Local
1853; Charles McGuerin, secretary
treasurer of URWA Local 81, In
land and William Ward.
Bro. Thomas reports that there
are still houses available and that
the office of the Dayton Mutual
Homes is located at the project.
Just drive out Watervliet Ave-,
and follow Shakertown Pike and
o can't miss the project.
, 1943-11-25
Tool Maker
Awarded 500
Bond

Brother Max r. Define, tool
maker at the Leland Electric Com
pany, was awarded a 500 War
Bond for an idea to speed up
production on essential wal work.
Brother Define was born near
Berlin, Germany, and left that
country in 1902 He has been
working at the tool making trade
for fifty years, attaining his me-
chanical ability through working
in various places, and completing
a home study course with les.
In mechanical drafting, from which
he received his diploma He has
been working for this company
since 1885.
, 1943-11-25

where he once before held a seat
In Toledo, five of the seven
candidates endorsed by Labor's
Joint Committee for Political Ac-
ton won, including Tom Burke,
vice-president of United Auto
Workers Local IL.
The vote, which was the second
largest since the proportional rep
resentation method of casting bal
lots was started in 1885, was at
tributed to labor's aggressive cam
paign for registration of new
voters.
In Cleveland, labor united
around the win-the-w war program
of Mayor Frank J. Lausche, to
insure his re-election-first ever
scored by a Democratic mayor in
the last 30 years. He won II per
cent of the tal1ies.
The Democrats won a landslide
vote for city council, too, for the
first time since 1913. Eight new
Roosevelt Democrats, friendly to
labor, were elected, and several Of
that party's incumbents were re-
elected with united labor support
, 1943-11-25
Army Bound

Two good union members of
Delco UE Local 755 were indicted
into the armed services the past
week. Robert Blackburn, member
of the shop committee of the local,
and Paul Sinkhorn, are the two
union. members of Local. 755 to
whom we extend our best wishes
and good luck!
, 1943-11-25
Win AP Rights

PHILADELPHIA - The Phila-
delphia-C Camden Newspaper Guild
has been designated as sole bar
gaining agent for the Associated
Press in Philadelphia, the Regional
War Labor Board announced last
week.
, 1943-11-25
Heads Dayton
Mutual Homes

John Thomas, field representa-
tive of the UER&MWA-CIO has
recently been elected president
and chairman of the board of di-
rectors of the Dayton Mutual
Homes. He is replacing M. M.
Miniard of UE Local 8O1, who
, 1943-11-25
CIO-Bocked Men
Win in r. T., Toledo,
Cleveland Elections

WASHINGTON-Thre major stars shone through al otherwise
low political ceiling last week as labor candidates marked up i'm
pressive victories in New York, Toledo and Cleveland
Michael J. Quill, president of the CLIO Transport Workers Union,
led the parade in New York with his election to the City Council,
, 1943-11-25

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the credit to the YMCA for their early
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things of life? Give YOUR boy .
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, 1943-11-25

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rate Boys Department, under killful
leadership is ready 70 give your boy the
best there Is! There's room fer him 1t,
the YMCA. Now's the time to join,
during the Membership Enrolment.
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