Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-26

broadcast, Davis
s ~ sad, among other
sS things: 1T was
A S|SSSss sS. .s * rather significant
@SsS that in the COM
ssSsS ssssS oat zone men are
s sS| more tolerant OF
~ each other" After
describing cases
= of heorism re-
ported to him by white command
ers in the European Theater OF
Operations, said the Brigadler
General: 81 am sure that when the
story of the contribution now being
made by our coiored soldiers is told
the masses of white Americans will
be more tolerant and sympathetic
with the aspirations of our colored
people,
Well spoken, General. How
ever the Negro press and GER
tain truly patriots Organiza-
tions long have been wailing
out the pleas that the white
press open up its heart and
columns and print the news of
the Negroes contribution to the
war effort without crude CEN
sorship or wastebasketing. To
withhold such information at
a time like this is travesty
to democracy and democratic
thinking. Only through the en-
lightenment of the people on
issues affecting the lives, con-
tributi0n and well-being of all
the people in our melting pot
society can true democracy
develop.
Praises are being heaped on the
FEPC, VINO, Department of JUS
tice and other federal authorities
as were necessary to bring to an
end the intolerable and un-Ameri-
! can tie-up of transit operations in
Philadelphia.
Transportation is at normal in
the City of Brotherly Love and
Negro operators are at work. 1t is
being proved in the hearings and
federal investigation that some
sinister forces were at work foster
ing the strike and the fighting
other than racial prejudice, the
poor, poor excuse Though such
f1rmness our ideal of American
living will be reached.
@
Our reaetionary Senate has
passed and sent to the House
the George Bill leaving to the
states the matter of standards
and distribution of unemploy-
ment funds in the national re-
conversion program. Solidarity
existing betwee Southern
Democrats and Republicans in
the higher legislative body con-
tinueS.
The George Bills provisions
were said to have been designed
solely to keep Negro and white
unemployed workers, especially
in the South, at marginal sub
sistence thereby maintaining
the characteristic cheap labor
market.
The Senate defeated Murray
Kilgore Bill proposed federally
uniform rates of pay to the I'M
employed; federal unemplOy-
ment compensation up to SIS
per week for the two and half
million government workers who
will lose their jobs; retaining
for discharged war workers
might acquire new trades and
skilIs for peacetime industries
and free transportation for
| working men and veterans who
might be shifted from one sec
ton of the country to another
where employment may be had.
The George bill proposes mere
iy to pay the transportation of
unemployed workers SO that
they may return to their homes
if stranded. The George Bill
proceeds to put Negroes back
in their lowly economic status.
O.
1t is up to the House to pass {
measure to the Murray-Kilgor.
Bill-one calling for federal super.
vision the funds going to discharg.
ed workers who might suffer IL
the reconversion period. Labor or.
carnations already are in the fore.
front urging that members of the
House to be on hand to vote agains
the George Bill and for the Cellel
Bill CHR 5126) In enc lower cham
her, The CIO states that the
George bill is one of the most un-
orincipled fakes ever attempted or
the American people"
| O.
We have invaded again. This
time it is southern France. and
press and radio reports indicate
our forces are pushing HitIer's
hordes back to their Father
land. AS on every front around
the world, our troops are in the