Evening star., 1948-07-18

some counties 6 to !. A department
store In Jefferson County that has
100 clerks must have 43 Negroes
among them; q restaurant or beauty
shop employing 10 must have four
to i've; a plant employing 1000 must
have 40. # this ratio does not
prevail, then enough white en-
ployes must be fired to make it
possible. Any law Office, any ply
sician's offce, comes under the law
just rs much as and no more than
any other place of business.
Sixth: There Is to be upgrading
in jobs, and promotions on an equal
basis, and the ratio must apply to
all levels. There must be as many
Negro foremen, as many depart
ment heads, as many bosses, Is the
ratio calls for. They are to be over
whites ana Negroes alike, mixed to-
gether without regard to the wishes
Of any one.
Seventh: There is to be no segre-
CATION in hospitals, either as to
physicians, patients or nurses.
White men and women who must
necessarily use the hospitals, public
and private, are to be attended by
Negro physicians and nurses, as
well as by white.
Eighth: All segregation in labor
unions and professional associations
such as the Bar Association and
the Medical Association is to be
done away with.
Ninth: The poll tax is to be elimi-
mated, all Negroes to be registered
to vote without regard to intelli-
gence or capacity, and all segrega-
ton is to be done away with in the
armed services.
Sees Danger as Deadly.
Is all this a real threat, or is it
just politics? Are these so-called
Democrats actually determined to
destroy our way Of life? I assure
you that the danger is deadly in
the seriousness.
The civil rights section Of the
Department Of Justice is to be re-
organized to enforce it. Constant
police inspection and supervision,
through q Federal Gestapo, is rec
commended, without waiting for
complaints. The law is to be
changed to make conviction easy.
Enforcement is to be taken away
from the local officials. Civil court
orders, punished as contempt of
court, are to supplement the GRIM
inal proceedings enforceable by the
FBI. Criminal penalties are to be
by fine up to 5000, and imprison-
ment up to 10 years. Every local
police officer and deputy sheriff is
to be subject to Federal criminal
and civil laws, and under constant
scrutiny.
Tax exemption privileges are to be
taken away from the private and
ultimately denominational schools
which resist, and from the churches,
Fines and Jail terms are to be
the part of local officials or private
citizens who resist.
Assails Program as Vicious.
This vicious program means to
eliminate all differences, all separa
ton between black and white. 1t
so declares itself, in words. It
means to create a great melting pot
Of the South, with white and
Negroes intermingled socially, politi-
cally, economically. 1t means tc
reduce us to the status of a mon-
grel, inferior race, mixed in blood
our Anglo Saxon heritage q
mockery; to crush with imprison.
ment our leadership, and thereby
kill our hopes, our aspirations, oul
future and the future Of our chill
dren.
It seems to me to be useless to re-
peat the arguments as to the un-
constitutionality of the proposed
enactment by Congress of an anti
lynching act. Such an act was
declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court Of the United States
in the '70s, when it bore the nomen-
clature Of the Force Bill. Such an
act has been fought by some of the
best and most distinguished Ameri-
cans of other sections of the country
-men of the character of President
Mckinley, and Senators Norris and
Borah. The proposed anti-lynching
act, as recommended by the commit