The Omaha guide., 1946-01-05
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Thy Charles Jackson)

After being pressured into a very bad spot when
it became public that 1872 homeward bound Negro
troops were denied passage on the aircraft carrier
Croatan. Secretary of the Navy Forrestal announc-
ed the following order:
ssIn theiH attitude and day to day conduct OF al
faisr Naval officers and enlisted men shall adnere
rigidly and impartially to Naval regulations I y IN
which no distinction is made between individuals
wearing the Naval uniform or the uniform of any OF
the Armed Services of the United States because OF
race or color"
The slightly overdue discovery Of such ''regula-
tions'' will indeed b Jews to the hundreds OF thou
sands of Negro SAIL tho were relegated through
out the war to the diosmAnt most dangerous and most
seryile assignments un~er most rigid conditions OF
enforced segregation. 1t will be news to the many
qualified Negro and Jewish college graduates,
pharmacists, dentists and doctors who were forced
to serve as mental laborers and weer denied comm
issions reserved for white g~entiles. The existence
of such a liberal Navy policy should also be quite
informative to the so Negro sailors OF Port Chicago
who protested the alLNegro assignment to the am
munition depots where 300 OF their comrades were
blown to bits. The honorable Secretary Forrestal
can contact these boys in the various federal peni-
tentiaries wheer they are serving 8 to 10 year
stretches for "mutiny."
ssThe struggle of the Indonesians, the Indians and
the peoples Of the colonial countries for independ-
ence is directly related to the fight of the American
Negro for complete democracy in the United Stat
7es.' So said Gloster Current, executive secretary.
of the Detroit Natioanl Association for the Adj,
vancement Of Colored People. Bravo! Brother
Current. Truer words were never spoken. Now
when will you and the rest of the leadership of this
powerful organization begin really turning your
weight against the real enemy of Negro equality
and of colonial liberation-American monopoly
capitalism with its expanding imperialist trend?
One practical part of that program would be the
launching of a campaign now by the NAACP Tor
the formation of an independent Labor Party, to
show that the Negres are ready to break with the
old-line capitalist parties, the stOOges OF Big Busl-
ness and the benefactors Of both Jim Crowism and
continued colonial slavery.
The Washington branch Of the Stalinist-controll-
ed National Negro Congress recently picketed the
White House demanding the custer of Secretary OF
State Byrnes and the retention Of the Fair Employ
ment Practices Commission FEPC). During the
recent peoples war; when tens of millions Of the
worlds workers paid with their lives for the four
fold enrichment of Wall Street corporations and for
the continued enslavement of two-thirds of the
earth's poulation in the colonial countries, these To-
cal stooges of Stain were spending their time dis
suading Negroes from making any militant move a.
gainSt army Jim Grow as 'subJect to embarraSs
Roosevelt who in truth, appointed Truman who
appointed Byrnes.
Not content with giving up the struggle against
discrimination, the Stalinists also had to utilize
their talents in manufacturing a bedtime story of
how the little HitlerS' over here would all melt "a
way as soon as we got enough unity with the A
merican ruling class to go across the pond and make
''big Hitler bite the dust. OF course. people like
A. Philip Randolph who wanted to march on Wash
ington to demand fair employment practices, and an
end to government Jim Grow at that time were con-
demned as under the influence of those lowest Of
snakes. the Trotskyite fifth columnists." Such
is the degeneracy of the Stalinist betrayers who OPP
emily stand for such bare-faced hypocrisy Oh 50 fun
damental an issue as the struggle for minority rights
******
George Schuyler, columnist for the Pittsburgh
Courier, takes the cake for literary Straightforward.
He c~astigates with equal fury monopoly capitalism
and its opposite Socialism. Given a wealth Of
ammunition by the flip-flop tactics Of the Followers
of Stain who fraudently call themselves "commun-
lists" Schuyler has developed lately into one Of the
most vicious red-baiters in the country, back or
white.
He recently stated that none Of the political
groups was objecting to the slaughter of Indones-
ians. Evidently someone informed him of the pres
ent and past activity of the Socialist Workers Party
IN fighting against the imperialist subjugation of
the colored colonals for he made this slurred and
contradictory correction the following week: No
political groups were fighting for immediate free
dom of the colonial people-~-~except those wlo had
a motive of-"Political partisanship."
The Negro left-wingers, says Schuyler in the Dec.
% issue, g.. have no real program for their people
and never had" Although this super-cynic docs
not cOuptornOCn hic pro~ro ~, CO.. Al - ~Io Il