The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-06-10
ALLIED INVASION ARMIES
NEED HOME FRONT" SUPPORT
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ity Nevertheless the actions of the few who makn(
"bg money" and who spending It foolishly wine
and song certainly must anger those troops botF
here and abroad who poised to do die for liberty
Why should our soldiers assume all the sacrifice
What they think of those among who view this
as "get-rich-good time" proposition? How much
fighting 70 rights the home front doing
How pathetic of made issues out OF
Jim barriers to idle pleasure establishments while
comparatively ignoring the important major issues
of poa southern primaries and greater benefits to those
coored veterans who be fortunate enough to return
We must not forsake coored of this This
point will be ably stressed the big Rally for Freedom
Ebenezer Baptist Church this Sunday afternoon You
cordially invited attend. You'll have the prayerful
thanks of the boys in the foxholes who can't be
FIGHTING AXIS
The colored engineers and quartermaster units with
boys from South Carolina, Georgia and Texas who may
have put down airstrps and maintained supplies under
heavy fire during this invasion certainly entitled to
numerous church meetings here at home behalf of
guaranteeing them rights to vote in the Democracy which
they this day defending Any citizen from New Eng
land New York who feels that herghts of our southern
coored Americans must be ignored at this time should
to the nearest library and read the Constitution These
the times when the policies for which our sons are sac
ing should be fought for and protected the "Home
Front" Are we doing our part?
FAIR EMPLOYMENT?
There manyyet unpromised "citizen rights which
our coored soldiers expect make secure for them be-
fore this is over The first is fair employment You
have noticed that already the FEPC is in danger of
being eliminated. What are we going to do about that?
Then there the right to vote in the south which needs
great political reform How are we going to aid colored
veterans to gain this rght Among the younger colored
veterans too find an impatient at the reluctance
of the Major Leagues to issue an outright statement that
coored men will definitely be accepted after the war
What are we going to do about this? The anticipated and
already evident huge influx of aliens and refugees from
abroad also going to further influence the status of
coored citizens for better worse unless present
JUDGES erased And what are we going to do about
the invasion Of southern preudices into the Bay State
These are our Home Front battles while our sons fight
the Axis.
TIMELY SERVICE
he Rally for Freedom in Boston next SUNDAY is even
more significant since the invasion has caused more SOL
f boys to die for freedom The soemnty of the occasion
VIII be heightened by prayer To old Ebenezer Bantst
ehurch next Sunday the appropriate privilege
OF conducting religious and freedom rally service at
time when will do the good and will be LONG re-
membered 1t doesn't matter what race color creed or
pontca faith 20 umay have. Unless we meet and prav
and formulate plans the ideals which our bows
are fighting for doing our part in this war If
you reca the poem, I'm Flanders Fields that sentiment
explains 1t beautifully VIII keep faith with those
who die? We must
UP TO US
ooine are not keeping faith. The small segment of
workers IN the recent shpyard fraud keen
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"eieh keeping faith either. Soldier-wves both ybi+o
anu coored who aren't saving and planning wisely for ra
turning veterans aren't keeping faith Permanent +n
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soS aren't keeping faith In fact none of us are keenn
a unless we do the very best we can for the bov a
ilo but the majority of are at least irving to
eooo we have come to realize that this war Is muc
sous 'nan some of us thought at first It still ISM To
- pi'en IN and do our partn various ways Our sol.
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