The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-10-27
Crowds Jam
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bury Memorial High School
auditorium last Monday night
as his 1000 hearers reared their
approval.
"Bilbo heads the district COM
mittee at the national capital.
Bilbo is the real Mayor of
Washington and rules 1t. "Ran-
kin is Chairman of the Veter-
ans Committee and everything
affecting the lives Of the mil
lions of fighting men of Amer
lea goes through him. The lat
est horror is the decision to
build a hospital for colored
wounded veterans down in
Mississippi. Sons of Massachu-
sets, sons Of New York and ev-
cry other black man mangled
in EuroDe ard Japan will be
sent to Mississippi for the rest
of their lives unless Pres. Tru-
man, who has the power to APP
prove or reject any site for a
veterans hospital, turns down
the Mississippi site.
Rankin heads the American
GeStano. He rules the Dies Com
mittee. He runs it. He has more
power than any city or state
policeman, F B or Department
of Justice. Right now the Dies
Committee is preparing to in
vestigate numbers of liberal ra-
dio commentators such as Jo-
names Steeel and others, but
any anti-colored, anti-semitic
or any other prejudiced writer
or speaker is allowed to 60 un-
molested by any one.
I'VE are living in an Atomic
Age. The kind of world that
we used to know is gone past.
finished on August 6, 1945. It is
an age of atomic energy. People
are trying to grasp their Frank
enstein and bring it back under
control but it is too late. There
is an undercurrent Of fear in
America today, - fear in high
places - fear in low places. We
celebrated We Day, we cele-
brated VI Day, but we are not
able to celebrate VA Day. We
celebrated vi Dav by an Am
erican lvnching. The Ku Klux
Khan rifles again - 20.0no mem
bers strong in Georgia alone.
YOUTHS have become the dupes
and pawns and puppets to stir
up race hatreds in New York,
Gary and Chicago. They refuse
to go to school with colored.
The American fighting man
comes back from the fox holes
and meets American Fascists
cominp out OF the rat holes.
With the passing of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, a peoples world
passed, Roosevelt is dead and
his ideals are dead. Men who
believed in him have been
purged from office.
1--WE fought a peoples war.
We made it a people war with
a peoples army. We fought til
we won a peoples victory but
now we must keep on fighting
until we win Peoples Peace.
We are not going to win a peo-
pies peace until we get rid of
Bilbo and Rankin. We will not
have a peoples peace while
China is still waiting for peace
while people in America are
asking when are we going to
fight Soviet Russia?" while we
have a colored man hanging
from tree in Florida.
Eve must start putting pres
sure on people in high places.
We do not want any more lip
BILE deals. It is time for the COL
BILE deals. It is time for thee col
ored man to serve notice that
he is no longer attached to the
apron string Of Abraham Lin
coin, and Father Franklin Is no
more. We are an independent
electorate. No party should get
us on campaign promises but
they can get us through deeds.
We are going to maintain our
political independence locally
and nationally. In New York
Detroit and other large cities no
one can control the colored
vote"
The meeting was part Of the
celebration Of the 5Gth ami
versary Of st Mark Congrega-
tional church. Rev S L LAWS
count, pastor. A. T. Clark, Jr.,
presided Baskets Of flowers
presented by Mayor Kerrigan
decorated the platform. Other
speakers besides Rep. Powell
were Mayor Kerrigan, Joshua
Jones, Martin Richardson.
Vocal solos were rendered by