The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-19
LAB O R
By GEORGE w. CROCKETT
Executive Director
JAW Fair Practices
Committee
Continued from Page g.

It's dealings with the darker people
Of TINS hemisphere.
We need not wait, however, to
learn what Britain intends 10 do
about Burma, India and South AZ
rlca. Her atrocities for more than
two hundred years is reliable
indication that force and force
alone can make her do justice in
these places and thus contribute
substantially 10 the peace of the
world. What is said OF Britain APP
plies only TO slightly lesser de-
gree TO France. Belgium and Hol-
land. Russia knows this and so
does China And this, we think,
explains Molotov and Stains re-
fuSal TO accept at face value every
thing Britain and America SAYS.
Action even at a peace table-such
as the Anglo-American inSistance
on the seating of fascist Argentina
is still a more potent method
OF conveying ones real intentions
than mere high-sounding speeches
and declarations.
THUS the essence OF fascism is
still abroad in the world and al
though on VE-Day you and long
TO celebrate peace, still, deep in
our hearts and in our minds we
know that there is no peace.
think this is what my barber meant
today when he jokingly remarked
TO the little four-year-old paradine
sailor. What are you doing. Sonny
getting ready for twenty years from
now"
My second reason for being pes
semlstic on VE-Day was and is
nearer at home, for that day
marked the beginning OF cut backs
IN earnest, lay-offs, a step-up in
employer observation-disclosures. a chat
ing by labor at the bit Of It's no.
strike pledge and inevitably an in
crease IN work stoppages. In 9TH
er words, ! foresee the end of hos
Titles IN Europe as marking the
beginning Of increased hostilities
on the industrial front here al
home.
Some Of our plants will be closed
completely and women, Negroes
and migrants from other place,
who have really lived for the first
time in their life because of steady
wartime employment at decent
wages, are going 10 be discharged
IN ever increasing numbers. They
are not going TO take this treatmen,
lightly; nor should they be ex.
pected 10 do so. They have worked
faithfully to keep production goin.
and they are entitled to a dfferen
sort OF victory celebration than :
dismissal notice two-weeks or {
month after VE-Day.
A FEW EMPLOYERS, more per.
sonnet officers and supervisors anc
a growing crop of natiNe fascist,
are going 10 attempt TO capitalize
| on this condition and break ths
back Of labor organizations bv pit.
ting one OF these groups gains
another. The question is what i,
Washington going 10 do about this?
| WI! Congress continue 10 shadow
box with FEPC legislation and thus
! play into the hands of these undem-
! ocratic forces? Or Will il give
It's protection 10 these discharged
workers as well as returning vet
Grams by guaranteeing their reem-
ployment according 10 seniority ir-
respective OF race. creed or color?
There Is too the more fundamen-
tai issue: Will the Federal govern
ment allow unrestricted private
enterprise".-to eventually close
down completely these cutbacked
plants: or VIII our government take
over such plants as Willow Run
and insure their operation in the
production of useful peacetime
commodities which we all need
and al reasonable prices?
We have done a lot OF talking
about sixty million jobs, but today
neither those jobs nor concrete