The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-08-21

T.. Bowling, last week. has been
ridicnIed n nn.AmerIcan b, the
Communist Party Of Michigan. The
oiiiclaI statement Of the oreanlza-
tlon reads as follows:
Prosecutor Bowling is at Il
AGAIN.
His report 10 the Governor
puts into official documcnted"
form his malicious attack against
ne Negro people. a determination
% shield the Police Department
and Commissioner Witherspoon
and m abjcct tefusal TO expose
snbyersiNe organizations such as
The Khan and National Workers
league Dowlinc continues TO dis
claim the need Of an impartial
Federal grand jury which would
bring 20 light tho perpetrators Of
the June ao-2i bloodshed and
which would surely Investigate
The Investigators
pawlinrs report" disciaims any
comprehensive study OF the
BACKGROUND of tho racial prob
lems 81 Detroit as nm excuse for
IGNORING he Soiourner Truth out
rare or ne Packard anti-Negro
sribe or similar instances. where
documentary evidence in Dowl-
res hands and actual Federal
Indictments establish tho guilf Of
oollums and subversiye Gle
menis. Mr. Bowling is no. re-
strained however. from INDUCING
I'm comprehensive backeroundr
estimate n Negro lenders and es-
rceiaily he Negro press Through
out The "report savage ami.
mostly aeanst tho Negro people
IS shacsinslv obvious 40 wonder
Virgil Chandler Indicted for or
eanllinr me so'ourncr Truth out
break. burst into prini. warmly
rrholdine Nr bowling
The Dc~llns report is biased
aflamma'ofv and anti democratic
Report Fans Prejudice
Mr. Downing ,apparenily believes
hat Americans sh3uld uphold and
rejoice az what he calls alleged
discrimination ~ Negroes. Jim
Crow pgacuces in Tho armed
services and dcnial ~ opportunity
IN employment housing and .ciil-
iure He seems 'o believe that
ne Red Cross should not with
draw rs insulting aud unsclen-
'ifie' segregation OF blood dona-
iions Indeed ihorc Is hardly any
TWO 81 discrimination and In
equality which iho report" does
not suppor and defend The
Grand kloaele Of The IN Kmx
Khan could NOT improve on MI.
nowlng's report
Certainly Adoiph Hitler viii
agree with Mr. Dowlnr MAT any
lr,tcsi aeains, discrimination and
oppression IS inflamma'ory" But
We know the people Of Detroit
agrce neither with Hitler nor
! Bowling Dowling's incorporate
accusation that Negroes are "in-
ilammafry' for saving "a nation
cannot exist half slave half free"
Is actually directed against Abra-
ham Lincoln who uttered this
great principle We are sure that
Tho workers and people OF Detroit
realize that the United Nations
are fighting and dying all over
the world TO eradicate such re-
dictionary and filthy nonsense as
Bowling IS mounting
Compare this scandalous atii-
iude with MAYOR LaGuardias firm
md constructive handling Of the
recent Harlem trouble. in active
collaboration with labor and the
Negro people themgcrvrs'
Dowline's report goes out Of lis
way 10 evoncrate the subverslve
Ku klux Khan which has created
such a havoc In Detroit u seeks
&C. place no burden for tho riots
! 81 The Negro people. who were its
victims The report is deaf. dumb
and blind 10 the continuous in
Justice 10 The Negro people which
goes on in Detroit IN the form
~ bad housing. job discrimination
and countless other Jim Grow
abuses
The Communist Party Of Mich.
igan is confident that every de-.
cent American viii turn In dis
gust from this report" as an I'M
founded attack upon the Negro
people and. in effect. an invita-
tion 10 further violence against
them Prosecutor Bowling should
BIO impeached'
The Communist Party 81 Mich
lgan urges the establishment OF
representative Citizens commit
tee 10 map out a program OF ac-
ton for the alienation Of the mis-
cradle housing. recreational and
economic conditions in Detroits
Negro communities Dowlines re-
pert lays absolutely no basis for
the solution Of any Of these prob
lens
Investigation Essential
We think IL hieh time for all
the people TO unite In demanding
full investigation Of al those
sinister forces which nowllng's
report ignores and therefore pro-