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Action in One Week

The remarkable capacity Mnnsotans
illustrated than the raising funds weeks
ton to Washington support the permanent FEPC legislation
Philip Randolph appealed huredy gathered of
Twin Cans Saturday night February IT, send delegation
Washington
until Ills Sunday morning. February lS making plans On the
following Sunday night delegation white citizens
Catholics and Proteants left Washington
In the of week of $500 ased three
meetings and three committee meetings Randoph
that delegation be Washington February
filled.
Ground work for the bearing of the delegation
ingn by kilograms and phone communications Participating
typcy Minnesota nteectua
cergymen jurst red society leaders, journalists industria
and the folk all mansng interest the need
legislation which would halt the barring
from jobs because of creed color national origin ancestry
Our pride in Minnesota sweed proportions when that dele
of determined Pioneer
Limited Sunday night for the people had done what aggars
said could be accomplished Minnesota rghu place
the national permanent FEPC stage.
Good work, Minnesota!
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Why the Retreat of the s2nd Division

When the Germans launched their terrific
bulge Belgium and drove the Americans virtually all
whteback miles, newspaper
magazine about the inability Of white Americans fight Neither
did that the who suffered disastrous
resulted in the highest casualties suffered u campaign
be hereafter limited to mental labor work the army.
Instead the regrouped re-equpped
launched that recovered the ground
But when the aNego ago opened up
attack that pushed the Germans back distance
before the Nas able
soldiers back to their original positions the Demnded calamity
walters to work with a vengeance
From the white supremacy places army
the Il told So Newsweek Magazine last week joined the
howl
in Italy Disappointment and failure" army
to give Negroes combat role the army says
The magazine also the
because aegd the deeds of the 92nd have played
Oaek played down Milton Backe New York Times correspondent
charges that handling the 92nds public puzzle
because some Negro at home have unquenaby tended
to oyeremphaze the divisions accomplishments Editor and Publisher
headlines the story War Reporter Charges Negro Press Dis
torton."
The doublebared blast Negro Negro
snaky disgusting exhibit which good g
the Berlin and Tokyo propaganda machines.
The Defender editors do military experts
does take chieffstaf determine why
sion, the only Negro division along the Italian
stretches $50 miles, able punch through
German lines
The 92nd unit, $4,000 men, thousands
fighting Italy 1t does not operate by itself it part of
coorinated Allied army facing rugged
mountains 1t conduct by
general push begun by Allies the s2nd will be in the battle
doing its full share
pretend that relatively by the s2nd which
was repused by the Nazs was an ou assault is to so the truth
To the impression Newsweek did, that
divisions the 5th Army because of its failure make good patrol
action outright SANDER.
When the 9nd pushed back with high casualties
the apply military unit had nothing
had nothing with lack fighting qualities
to do with such important military factors lack of adequate
munitions the right Places right
battles.
The charges against the Negro
those against the 92nd Certainly the Defenders headlines
92nd Division Hard Hit in Battle with Pays
High Price Serchio River Push" Crackers claim only
divisions accomplishments played up.
Actually Breaker mad about something entirely and
from the question of the 2ns
Negro because dispatch
written by the Pittsburgh
in his that Negro officer
officer.
AS published the Courier the
Breaker claims this unethical surely
practice metropolitan in the country rewriting
stories from other the datene
occurred
Breaker also claimed the story misleading"
main, despite Crackers burst venom that
that Negro officers cannot outrank whites military
1t would that both Newsweek Scribe
have the idea that the
about time of the Demnded
respondents uniform battling the
soldiers.-Ghicago Defender.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02

Rev. A. F. Martin Calls
Editorial Constructive

Editor: l read with engrossing
interest your editorial on the sub
ject Poor Judgment Mars Tea"
l know it takes courage for any
man in public life to speak out I'M
equivocally on actions of poor
judgment of those who are attempt
ing to promote occasions where so
many are concerned. For one to
level constructive criticism is a
virtue to be coveted and should in
the days that are ahead help each
one of us watch our step.
1t is said that opportunity has a
fore lock but is bald behind; there
fore, lost opportunity is one that
can never be regained. hope with
you in the future that we may
seize every opportunity that comes
our way to prove to those with
whom We come in contact on oc-
NelSlOllS line IIllS OHS WIFI WHICH
your editorial deals that we are able
to measure up to every response
bility.
Please accept this as a common
dation for your strong and vigorous
stand for the best interest of our
race in Minnesota.
A Mere Layman,
A. Frederick Martin,
2737 18th Ave. &c.,
Minneapolis, Minnesota,
When the world gets to be so in
telligent that no man shall be more
intelligent than any other man, and
no man shall be swayed by his pas
sions and interests, then there will
be no need of editorial expressions
of opinions, and editorial argu-
ments and appeals will lose their
power.-Edwin Lawrence Godkin
of the Nation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02

Some sort of prize ought to go
to the guy in the New York office of
a news photography concern who
dispatched this cable to one of its
cameramen on Saipan: "Your island
invasion stuff good, but shows only
backs and profiles of marines
landing. Can you arrange landing
ahead of marines, get front view
Of them rushing Japs ?"-Joplin
(Mo.) Globe.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02

housing agency.
1t arises out of
the recent switch
over from Negro
to white occu-
pancy of a 200
unit housing pro-
ject in New Bos-
ton, Tex, near
T e X a rkana. 1t
raises q question
of Blandford's fit
ness for the job
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Senator Boil on Race Equality

In article written for the Chicago Defender Negro newspaper
Senator Joseph H. Ball points the hopeful
presagng eventual solution of the problem
the United States Negro Negro contributions
to production already doing much opinion
down ancient prudces while public
fostered by such leaders We
the widespread apathy which has hampred understanding
Senator Ball believes that "a tremendous raising
educational standards particularly more than
any other thing to insure effective guarantee rights
economic equality He phases Direct education
OF Negroesand OF the poor wme element whom
dice the primary
applies his training will be education for his white
nehbo gradually dong vague prejudce that
have impeded solution in the past.
Thus Mnneotas senator favors Fair Employment
Practices commission for its
values The FEPC by concentrating its efforts
economic discrimination focus upon those
abuses that tend to peetuate nequaS
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
In MemOriam

In loving memory Of our devoted hus-
band and brother, Earnest o. Pearce, who
departed this life one year ago, March 8,
1914.
Dear Earnest, no one knows how much I
miss you,
To lose you in the flower of manhood.
Twas indeed a heavy cross
God knew when He took you from me
He would fill my heart with pain,
But why think of my sorrow
When Heaven is your gain.
Signed-Mrs. Lottie Pearce, Mr.. and
Mrs. Rubin Pearce, Mrs. Florence Blake.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02

brought by Patman and the schooI
superintendent, despite his clear
cut duty otherwise, Blandford is
guilty of aiding and abetting the
fraud perpetrated by the New Bos-
ton Independent School District
upon the treasury of the United
States!
2. The second indictment of
Blandford has to do with his dis
regard of the war production effort
he is duty-bound to promote.
That's a serious charge, too. But
here again are the facts.
On January 5, 1915, Col. Murchi-
son, commanding officer of the
Lone Star Ordnance Plant at New
Boston and War Department en-
ployment officer for East Texas,
told Joseph P. Tufts, MIA region
al manager in Texas, that he GER
tainly would not say that it would
be advantageous to his plant or the
Red River Ordnance plant nearby to
change the project to white occu-
pancy.
Col. Murchison pointed out that
the plants can get adequate white
labor, but has considerable difficulty
getting common labor-which is all
the Negroes are hired to do.
Negroes have to travel from 6 to
70 miles to work every day because
of no housing facilities for them
in and around New Boston.
The turnover of Negro labor has
been double that of the whites. One
of the important jobs left to
Negroes is loading and unloading
freight bottleneck of the pro-
duction lines.
Both Col. Murchison and Col.
Bodine, the commanding officer at
the Red River plant, expressed the
view that the denial of these houses
to Negroes at this time would be
a serious blow to the production
urgency drive" which has been aim
ed primarily at getting Negroes to
stay on the job.
BUT, Blandford has decided, with
the urgency of pressure from Rep.
Wright Patman on his neck, that
the more important war job is to
fill up the 2O0-unit project IMME-
DIATELY-to hell with the produc-
ton of war materials! 1t may take
six months to fill up the project
with Negro families. He believes
it can be filled with whites in 60
days-he has the word of D. c.
Dunlap for that. Dunlap is the
same fellow who tried to keep
Negroes from getting a 124-unit
project in Texarkana a year ago.
3. The third indictment has to
do with Blandford's poor admins
trative judgment in NHA-which is
a story for a full column in itself
and We'll save it for next week.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
UncOvering
Washington
BY Harry S. McAlpin

This is a serious triple indict-
ment of John B. Blandford, Jr.,
administrator of the National
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02

w HSLuST you ike IL or not,
there are millions of people
of both races who believe that
civil, economic, and social
rights can be made effective
by legislation. They hold to
the theory that the enactment of
laws, telling people to do this and
to do that in regard to how they
live with their fellow-man, is the
adequate answer to social ailments
that will not heal by other known
means. That is why the effort
today to force through in both
Federal and State Governments
Fair Employment Practice Legis-
latiOn is so fraught with interest
to the thinking person.
George Edmund Haynes, in a
Department of Race Relations re-
lease from the Federal Council of
Churches in New York City, speaks
of the ups and downs of the
struggle to outlaw racial and re-
ligious discrimination in industry
which, he believes, have brought
out the main reasons for this legis-
lation both national and state, re-
ferring to the F. E. P. C. bills that
have been introduced in both houses
of the new Congress and the recon-
mendations for a strong bill in the
New York State Assembly now in
session that have been made by the
New York State Commission
Against Discrimination. Said Mr..
Haynes: Enlightened self-interest
is one reason for such legislation.
What would it benefit any COM
munity or the nation to go on de-
veloping a great agricultural in
dustry and commercial wealth at a
cost of losing those values of
government and social rights of
the people, for the people, and by
the people? The rioting of our
industrial centers during and after
World War l and those during
World War II had their roots large
ly in the denial of jobs to Negroes
and other racial minority groups.
Racial conflicts" he warned, may
bedevil US after this war as they
did after the first war unless dis
elimination in employment and
other undemocratic practices are
removed. Men and women like us
all over the world are dreaming of
freedom. When the tumult of
shouting of war dies, when the die
tators and tyrants depart, we must
continue as a democracy to lead
some kind of world organization.
How can we keep the confidence of
hundreds of millions of colored
peoples in South America, in India,
China, Africa, and the Pacific
Islands, if we continue to deny to
our minority racial groups at home
the freedom we are fighting for
and talking about abroad?"
The establishment of a court by
law for Fair Employment Practice
Legislation is subject that cannot
be handled, as it were, with kid
gloves but one that must be
grabbed with the bare hands and,
with the exertion of all the strength
it will command. 1t must be battled
every inch of the way until a de-
cision has been reached and, if the
decision is negative, the battle must
start all over again until in the
process an equitable solution to the
problem has been achieved.
This theory has engaged large
part of the Negro and white leader
ship over long period of years.
Lives have been devoted to this
cause. Funds have been spent that
this dream might come true. On
this account several states have set
up Civil Rights Laws by which
persons can obtain legal redress for
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
CARD OF THANKS

We, the committee of the Electa Chapter
No. 8, wish to extend our thanks to the
members and friends for their assistance in
the funeral arrangements at the death of
our dearest sister, Arlivia Mckenzie, special
thanks to Rev. H. W. Bolts, Sr., for his
message.
Matte bearing, Weller White, George
Banks, Sr., Maxine Uptegrove, Mary Moss,
Ethel Stephens, Matron, Edith Moulden,
Chairman
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02

he NOUS.
/. Blandford is guilty of aiding
and abetting a fraud against the
government of the United States!
That is a serious charge! But
here are the facts.
The New Boston Independent
School District applied to the Fed
eral Works Agency in early 1914 for
$66,5OO to construct and equip an
elementary school for NEGROS.
The Lanham Act, under which the
FWA operates, provides that the
funds must be equitably admin
istered where separate schools are
maintained.
The FWA previously had refused
to make a grant for construction
of an additional school building for
whites-they had sufficient-but il
did give them $4,000 for additional
facilities. So, the New Boston indie
pendent School District justified
this request for $66, 500 on the basis
of NEGRO NEED.
After pointing out the made
quacy of present buildings and
facilities for Negros, the school
officials told FWA: "The FPHA is
now constructing a 200-family
dwelling unit project east of and
almost adjacent to New Boston
from which it is anticipated that
there will come some 140 students
Upon the construction of this
project, the applicant plans to leave
the high school and the upper ele-
mentary grades at the Shady Grove
School, thereby utilizing all exist
ing space. This would leave the
new school. which is adjacent tc
the housing project, for enrollees
in the lower elementary grades, and
since the employment of Negro
mothers in the Lone Star Ordnance
Plant is quite possible, this plar
seems to be most advantageous
The approval of this project is
therefore, recommended in order
that adequate educational oppor,
tunities may be afforded NEGRO
children whose parents are en-
ployed in the direct war effort"
On the basis of this justification
the FWA turned loose S66,500 Of
your money and mine, and the
school was built-for NEGROES.
NOW, however, with Blandford's
decision to turn over the project
originally programmed, built anC
advertised for Negroes, to whites
the school which the whites wanted
but don't need, will go to white:
too. 1t was so planned that it is
part and parcel of the project. Tt
reach it, one must pass through the
project.
L. P. Sturgeon, white superin
tendent of schools in New Boston
was one of the ring-leaders in ca
boots with Congressman Wrigh
Patman ID. of Tex who brough
pressure on Blandford to make tn,
project change from Negroes t,
whites. Sturgeon wired Blandforc
on Dec. %, 1914, as follows:
New Boston is in dire need O
200 housing units in Red Rive
Courts for white defense workers
500 applications now on file TO
white housing. No demand TO
Negro housing. We would appre
ciate your investigation of housin,
needs before committing to Negr,
housing"
Sturgeon probably was right il
saying mo demand for Negro hous
ing" Negroes in New Boston dar
not demand" anything. But tn
Army and the War Manpower Com
mission had certified to the NEEI
for Negro housing. Otherwise
Blandford never could have pro
grammed this war housing TO
them.
By giving in to the pressur
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Card of Thanks

We wish to express our sincere thanks
and appreciation to our many friends
who were SO kind to US during our re-
cent bereavement and also for the beauti-
full Roral offerings.-Frank Branson. 1t,
Walter Branson, Jr.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
CITIZENS RIGHTS BY
LEGISLATION
By Dan Gardner

infringements upon their rights as
citizens in the ordinary intercourse
of life.
To agree or not to agree with
rights by legislation is the privilege
taken advantage of by many people.
The opponents of rights by legisla-
ton claim that education is the
cure-all for social, economic, and
political woes, and the only way by
which permanent achievements and
viewpoints may come into being.
They contend, and perhaps rightly,
that as long as man thinks a GER
tain way, his action in most in
stances will follow his line of
thought. That is why the per-
sistence of certain labor unions pre-
vail in keeping their membership
rolls ily-white; why stores, res
taurants, and other businesses
maintain a white-only hiring policy
for jobs in other categories outside
of dish-washing, swabbing floors,
and running errands.
Because of a failure to see the
light on the part of reactionary
people, a conflict between the races
has been in existence over the CEN
turtles. Because, once in a while,
people who think righteously on
subjects regarding how to get along
with their brother, no matter what
his color, race, or religion, finally
break through the high, almost i'm
pregnable barriers and do things
lasting, such as took place in the
Civil War in 1861 and following
certain racial outbreaks as in Hi
nois and in New York City, this
does not indicate that the fight is
ended once such goals are achieved.
Writing them into our Constitution
of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and
Fifteenth Amendments means that
the work did not end there; instead
it merely set up another battle
ground upon which a ceaseless war
has been waged and upon which
those sentinels of justice, liberty,
and freedom for all men must for
ever keep lonely and watchful vigil.
The encroachments of those who
do not see the light are many. The
perils that confront the crusaders
for racial equality and tolerance
are varied. Some feel that fair
play and decency may at length
play the ruling part in bringing
about the new day we all would like
to see in racial relationships.
Others feel that the "big stick" is
the only way. They feel that by
law we set minimum standards of
wages, hours, and other working
conditions and, accordingly, we
should by law set fair employment
standards in industry and agricul-
ture to outlaw customs based upon
racial and religious prejudices and
hatreds.
To venture prediction as to the
fate of the Federal F. E. P. C. bills
now being considered in Washing
ton and the State F. E. P. C. in
Albany, New York, would be a
foolish gesture since no man can
really tell what is going to happen
and, if one could, in both instances
he would hold to the pessimistic
rather than to the optimistic view.
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-02
Questions
By Allen E. WOOdall
lin Phylon QUARTERLY

Will we be rid of them when the is won,
These myths of nationality and race
This naughty dominance of the white face,
This Drag of the sefengendered sons-of-the-sun?
Or will it end the way it has begun
With a greedy scramble for better place,
world of pomp, of class, and grim disgrace,
Where the rich shall strut and the poor shall crnge and rum
The vultures of victory the wing
To take the world of heroes to their next
AS they did before, and still believe they
Is there better song the Russians sing?
Has China Weakened from her ancient rest?
Can make this earth place worthy of man?
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-05-24
Elisabeth Bergner at Cass Theatre

Bringing to a conclusion Of one
of the most successful seasons 1t
has enjoyed for years, the Cass
Theatre in Detroit now presents for
two weeks. beginning Monday. May
%. Elisabeth Bergner. famous inter-
NATIONAL stage and screen star in
1.-THE Two Mrs. CAROLS, Martin
Wales sensational play in which she
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-05-24

recently completed an engagement
of two seasons on Broadway.
This noted European star has
made but two appearances in the
United States - both confined to
New York City. The first was made
a decade ago in Escape Me Never
in which she played one year at the
Shubert Theatre in New York -
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-05-24

Andrew Mason, Mrs. Ella INITIAL,
Edward Schacht, Clarence e. Hol-
shoy and James Mccain.
At the special service the Daugh-
tiers Of Union Veterans will attend
the service in a group. There will
also be special music furnished by
the choirs.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-05-24

The annual Memorial Day serv-
ices VIII be held at the First Pres
byterian church this Sunday to
honor the church members who
have died during the past year.
Those who will be honored on
Sunday viii Mrs. Fred Alien, Mrs.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-05-24
THE wYANDoTTE NEWS HERALD
THURSDAY, MAY "a, GAS PAGE SEVEN len

ems vocal ensemble viii present in
annual Spring Festival concert =,
Cass Technical high school Sunday
The program will begin at BIS p n
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-05-24

the second her present starring We
hicle.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-05-24
CHORAL FESTIVAL SUNDAY

The Wayne University Choral
Union, composed Of the a capella
choir, University chorus, University
symphony orchestra and the wom-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-01-12
N. Y. FEDERATION
DRAFTS PROGRAM

Albany, N. Y.--The New York
State Federation of Labor has drafted
it's strongest legislative program In
many years to place before the 1945
legislature.
The program, drafted by delegates
representing 100000 AFL members
at the recent annual state Legislative
conference, calls for:
Creation of strong state Fair En-
ployment Practices Committee to pre-
vent discrimination because of race,
creed or color.
A state health insurance system
providing adequate medical care and
Decentralization for families with in
comes of less than $4,000 a year.
Cost of living increases for state,
county and city workers earning less
than $4,000 year.
A ceiling on commercial rents.
Executive improvements in the un-
employment insurance and workmen's
compensation laws.