The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12
NAACP HEAD BLAMES co.
MANAGEMENT; CALLS
WALKOUT BOON TO AXIS

DETROIT, Michigan. Toxic
and Berlin rejoice tonight at the
effective and unexpected aid given
them today by the Management of
the Packard Motor Company" Wal
ter White, NAACP executive sec
rotary told delegates from SO stat
Ell at the opening meeting of the
NAACP Emergency War Confer
ence here on June 8.
White blamed three Of the Pack
ard officials, G. E. Weiss, person
mel manager, George Schwartz,
general foreman, and Robert Watts
of the personnel division for the
striking of $4,000 white workers
and the stoppage Of the production
of Rolls Royce airplanes.
The management Of the Packard
Car had urged whites to refuse to
work on machines alongside Negro
es qualified by seniority, training
and experience.
American boys will die on some
fair off battle field for lack of On
gines which were not made in De
troit today" White said. He was
applauded when he added ''every
man responsible for this strike and
every other one like it is an ally
and an agent of Hitler and Hiroh-
ito and an enemy of America"
White vas the keynote speaker
at the opening of the conference on
THE Status of the Negro in the
War for Freedom" at the Second
Baptist Church, AL Monroe street.
Conference delegates were wei
coined to Detroit by Albert E.
Cobo, city treasurer; L. G. Blount,
leading Detroit buihness man; Ra-
mon Scruggs of the NAACP De-
troit branch, Shelton Tapes, who
spoke for labor, Rabbi Morris Adj
Ter, and Rev. r. L. Brady, pastor
Of the Second Baptist Church.
In greeting the delegates on be-
half of the citizens of Detroit, Rab-
hi Adler asserted: If all we win is
a military victory. we will have to
our credit the most futile and
tragic endeavor in Which man in
hin folly has ever engaged. we
are here to push the war on the
social, economc and political fielI.
will not stop Until every man
comes into his own. unless this
leads to total freed IN it shall
be a total failure"
Rev. Bradley in whose church the
three day conference convened,
and who spoke for the ministers OF
Detroit cha -ged the delegates to
remember NO Negro is free in De
troit while one Negro is in peon-
age in Mississippi. We are fight
ing two wars" he said, zone for
Europe where Hitler and Mussol-
mi must be put out Of business and
one in America where the Negro
must be free"
The delegates heard messages of
greeting from President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Secretary of In
terror Harold L. Ickes, Wendell
Willkie and numerous other i'm
portant public figures.
I'm every phase of war activity
on our myriad home fronts as
well as our far flung battle fronts
the Negro people have given Uni
stintingly to our war effort the
President wrote. 'tColored Ameri-
cans are now working in our war
plants, turning out teh ships, the
planes and the guns with which We
r carrying the war to the enemy
Negro youths from homes through
out the country are serving in the
Army, Navy, the Marine Corps and
the Coast Guard. They are fight
ing on every front and in every
arm and branch of the service.
Zone of the most significant con
tributoins which Negroes have
made to the war is on the home
front in modifying Civilian Defense
units, purchasing War Bonds, and
supporting rationing programs.