The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-15
CLAIM DEWEY
DO HING
STAND UNFAIR

NEW YORK - Prominent Negro
civic and trade union leaders thi.
week assaulted Thomas E. Dewey
Republican nominee for president
as "do-nothing." candidate with
no interest in the welfare and fu-
ture OF the Negro.
In statements issued following the
Republican convention. they criti-
cized Dewey. his running mate
John w. Bricker and the COP
platform doubletalk
Here are some OF their statements:
Willard Townsend, president
United Transport Service Employees,
Clio, and member General Execu-
tive Board. CLIO:
BY nominating Governors Dewey
and Bricker, the Republican party
has again demonstrated their re-
fuSal 10 recognize change. The
prominence OF former President
Hoover. and the conspicuous abb
scnce OF Wendell Willkie, demon
Etrates concluSively that Negroes
can only hope for a repeat perform
snce OF evasions, Innuendos, and
the reacuonary poll-tax bloc OF the
South.
Gov. Dewey has demonstrated
his dslntereSt in Negroes by his
scuttling Of the snti-d lscrlmination
bills in the New York legislature.
by his ducking OF The issue on the
anti-poll tax fight IN Congress. and
by his willingness 10 play politics
with the appropriation for the
FEPC."
ASsails Dewey
Ashley Totten, secre,ary-trcas-
Urer. Brotherhood OF Sleeping Car
Porters. ALL, and president OF the
Virgin Island Civic Association:
AS far as ] can see. DeWey's
record does not indicate any interest
in or understanding OF the prob
lens confronting Negroes in this
country. I'm not a, all impressed
by his record Tire platform on
which he is running has no mean
ing unless Il s-translated INTO sc-
ton The Republican party has not,
demonstrated that !, has any real
desire 10 attain the objectiyes which
Il sets down on paper
Rev. Marshall shepherd, pastor,
M, Olvet Tabernacle Baptist
church, Philadelphia. and char
nan. Foreign Mission Board. Ma
tons, Bspt.s; Convention:
The COP platform builders
used me same old worn out plsnks
they've ALWAYS used It's the old
double talk. The Repub IcanS pre-
- -. ~
they demand that their Senators
vote for c,oiUre, The only means
bv which the lax can be abolished
No. indeed They're for a conSti,u-
tional amendment which they know
would not &c, by in a generation
The standard bearer they have
chosen represents reaction a. its
worst trying 10 ride into power
behind younger face
No man. VINO. like Dewey wor-
sh ps at the shrine OF States Rights.
means any good 10 the common
man. Brokers statements on relief
and housing clearly indicate that
his interests do not lie with the
working men and women OF this
country. The nomination OF Dewey
and Brlcker serves 10 clarity the
issues Now all may know that The
Republican party stands for re-
acton, corfuS on and insecurity"
NAACP Speaks
IN an Official release. the National
Association for the Advancement; Of
Colored People aralyzes the Re-
publican platform. The NAACP con-
dcmnS as inadequate the section on
Rnt-lvnChiug legislation and QucS-
tons The efficacy ~ the proposal for
q congress ioral invest cation Of the
treatment Of Negroes in the armed
forces
But tho most Objectionable Of
al the NAACP asserts - tho
yropoSal FOR = constitutional amend
mont 20 abolish the poll TAX II takes
tWo-thiydS Vo:e of both Houses
a. Congress 70 place 4 Constitutional
amendment before tho state lcgisla-
lures Il requires approval by three
foIrths OF the AZ states Intelligent
opponents of The poll tax. especially
Negroes. viii not 90 dc!udcd by the
Republican proposal
Ferdinand smith. secretary az the
National Maritime Union and mem
hor Of the General Executive Board.
CIO
1t took the COP chicftains only
IL lines and los words TO rattle off
their platform pledges tn he Negro
people on the subjects OF racial and
religious intolerance anti-poll tax
and nti-iynChlnG But Cand date
Dewey and other Republican
syokcsmcn viii use thousands Of
columns in the antI-FDR press and