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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
PUBLIC NUISANCES LISTED BY
COLITMNIST MILTON BLEDSOE

young ladies and women who will
permit men to escort them to a
public affair, dance with and gen
orally associate with males who
don't have manners enough to
take off the headpleCe.
Men may be scarce, ladies,
but not so much that you have
to have one at the price Of your
own SeIf-reSpect.
Foul Takers DiSgraceful
Ranking high also are the foul
takers who do not regard the
presence Of women even as pass
ers-by. If there IS any one time
that a new law is needed, it is one
to take care of those who practice
vulgarity and profanity in speech
in public places and on the streets
There are also the street car
and bus nuISanceS, people who
try to carry van load of parcels
on public convcyanCeS then get
ready to fight anyone who hap
pens to bump into them and their
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29

during the there 2OO Negroes nPioye a
City had nominal charge OF TINS group
which most honorably distinguished itself production lne at
buying addition to the 2OO Negro Work
got several thousand white workers. executives
and the u S Army assigned to the plant
former fellow workers and we TAX over
agree that it one war plant "here
a pleasure to work
ST. Monday morning into George Carter VINO
served as one the the administration building Mr.
easily popular employee in the building whch
plant operation nack of making and keep
ing certainly asset to be cultivated
L. f. AUSTIN fiery CAROLINA TINES boss says: I'VE
builders and fewer bandwagon riders
enjoyed stag Saturday night rendered Rev john
Bowman Catholic priest who has been conducting mission at o
church 4Oh and Clinton Minneapolis We recalled that
the Twin Cities St Paul boosted one OF the TWO
Catholic the North American continent he was
Rev Stephen Theobad Today each
throughout America consecag young negroes 10
the priesthood
year this paper has endeavored to give its
appraisal of candidates for public office At each
presidential and county and state campaigns
custom make recommendations for the beneh OF
readers One failed to do this and numerous reaerS com
planned had learned to depend the for its po
cal recommendations
Because of the apparent faith many the
when they do not
paper evauate the candidates
most important their attitude
towards legitimate aspirations Americas Negro OneTenh
quite proud that estimate of the candidates
been based how much candl
party spends with advertising department AS matter
of years candidates who have spent
money with the for political ads have not
This true this has been in
the past
This policy giving opinion the voters has paid
excellent dividends community respect and confidence For exam
Pile Sunday evening walking down East Lake St. in Mime
apois ladies' One Mrs William Cratic ST. the
Plummer Both old and respected residents
She said she had to depend on the paper
selecting candidates for whom vote It's
people which usfes the continuance of
policy printing which readers will find
this weeks front page-Ceci Newman
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
States Rights and Dixiecrats
Editorial in the Louisville Defender

Thurmond, Dixiccra President be
in his statement that his might throw the election of the
President the House of Representatives but he
likely off thinking that such event would place States
Fighter Southerncr might
take his pencil and political lore and figure again,
rights which the founders of the government
fought for different from that for which defenders Of the
Fighters contendng The early Fighters held
which properly should be
would be little
The notification contention settled that the
final word the constuona of of Congress states
But the idea that those close the people should be
left the states and the local communities finds general acceptance
Education suffrage treatment the opportunity for employ
men accommodation travel housing conditions the
things which state and local feel they should be allowed
handle with little outside interference possible.
In the formation Of the national this concession
made with the understanding that the states and their would
exercise this authority with justice and consideration for all the
citizens within their confines The fact that of the states the
Southern particularly,
demand for federal control and intervention.
nsiSence of the Dxiecras states rights
demand for authority and license discriminate against of
solely
pears
tcm deprive ballot without being lifted
protest limit their educational opportunities without rebuke and
their welbeng with mpunity 1t indeed
curious thinking that leads Thurmond
of civil rights laws prevent such treatment of Negroes
other Southern would be invasion of the Cons
tuition looks the Dxecrats the people who invading
and breaking the Constitution.
How as South Carolina Governor rights
tough statement for soundmnded
people has the right idea what
communism is We admittedly already led
the South but that revolt directed against part of
the Democratic party the people who believe that this
should by II the Dxcrats should their
revolt against ITSELF thing they not to do
that would matter of fact Mr. Thurmond
torts rights when he speaks Of
intimate personal relationship between the white people
and the Negro.
Turmond telling people that the pigmes of politics
trying 10 government by minority Democracy
by majority but the majority obligated TO be always
dad nv the Constitution word Dxecrat rule by the
people who Dixie the South If the Diecras are allowed
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
Send Humphrey to Woshinaton

worth reporting that the Negroes OF America and those
whites he growing who think the u ought to improve
Of its Negro citizens have their glued the Min
senatorial Most of them would like to Minnesota
send Hubert H. Humphrey to the U. S. Senate.
Humphrey caught the Imagination large segment of the
country like FDR This is the number
Of writers who write what they please without the restraint of ed
the N Y predicts that Humphrey
will be a presidential possibility in 1882
newspaper all for having Mnnesoan in the presidents
providing like Humphrey with firm opn-
ions about the equality Of the human family
The like Humphrey Washington
him the Twin Cities but time marches
ess We hope Minnesota voters will have the good
Tuesday send Mr. Humphrey Washington.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
Editorial Hit Nail
On Head: Explains
Things Not Known

Editor: Through a friend l just
had the good fortune to read your
editorial Not Particular Who
Helps" in the Oct. %, edition
For me it hit the nail on the
head" Your frank exposition as
to why Negroes have seemed to
gravitate toward the radicals was
revealing to me. Before l had
wondered-but no logical eXpla-
nation had ever been furnished
me.
l also appreciate your giving
Judge William c. Larson a boost,
He is a good man and deserves
promotion. Enclosed is my check
for one years subscription to
your paper. l think I've been
missing a look at what my colored
neighbors are doing in this COM
munity, the nation and the world
Hans Fjertsen,
Minneapolis, MINI.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
MILTON BLEDSOE IN THE
X. c. CALL

Heading or we might put it,
hogging first spot in nulsances are:
loud takers in public places
When aided by intoxicating bev-
eragcs the rating is AAA. These
bores will tell everything they
know (Which requires about two
minuteS) and then take up the
rest of the hours street car or bus
trip talking about everything they
don't know.
Also high on the list are those
men, young and old who will at
tend public functions where ladies
are present and will not remove
their hats. They evidently must
think it's rather cute because for
the most part they show disre-
speCt for their own women when
men of other racial groups will
either remove their hats or have
come bareheaded.
Along with this group are the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
soth CONGRESS ON CIVIL RIGHTS

The Eghtieth Congress adjourned on June ~ with virtually
blank slate civil rights legislation Its accomplishments began
ended with of amendment the War Brides Act
making applicable to raCay ineligible aliens, bill making
eligible citizenship regardless of bill to
Attorney discretion suspend deportation of aliens
ineligible citizenship the Japanese evacuation claims bill and
the Selectve Service Act The usual
adjournment adequate to bury all of
rights bills which assured of
in both Houses if allowed to to vote.
The threat of Southern fbuster and the adjournment rush
offered this Both of these fully
foreseen difficulties of course, preventable.
flbuser problem taken the Eighieth
Congress January Five resolutions offered
during the calling for limitations of debate by
majority rather than by twothrds the present
Subcommittee held during January and Feb
ruary full Committee Rules and Administration however
change the wohrds rule and voted instead to
abuses busterng against motions to
journal Its issued April l947 and moth
ing heard about the matter thereafter.
adjournment could have avoided by the simple
giving the civil rights bills all of
which introduced early the session and dealt with problems
long familiar to the observation-disclosures PLAlNDEALER
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
People Admire Henry Wallace

ought pointed that while thousands of American
Negroes will Henry Wallace Glen Taylor
Mr Wallace.
Henry Wallace always friendly disposed towards the
people despite anything which has been printed about him
BY the ADA any other organization
Many thousands of Negroes would willingly for Wallace
they felt he had chance win Many thousands Of them will
candidates
the Progressive has extended to its
policy making and Is bound to
make force the Negro population it the
receive. Wallace strong
will lead the Progessves after the election the
an opportunity to be Of service to the nation.
Certainly hardly alive who does
appreciate Wallace of them that
decision stand firm the civil rights from
influence example which Wallace has offered the country
No public political figure except Wallace has had the
southland openly challenge its Jim public
caste system which makes mOckery out Of the entire
nation before the countries Of the world.
This believes that il the rank and file Of American
Negroes thought
overwhelming number of would
Wallace
Tuesday the will have from
the politicians for awhile So will our readers.
poll racial ntimi
daon others the u s. would be able to boast with jufiab
pride that Tuesdays election will be the freest earth
Many would like settle down and plan the
and their chdrens future but the threat Of three afe
World War hangs omnousy plan which family
would like to make.
would like its readers for the candidate
1t endorses hopes Many
others will Our chief hope however that whoever reader
favor is that they be to Tuesday for somebody
Cunningham, the school board member, refers th
paper Democratic Farmer Labor Republican
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29

riage licenses and company of the
opposite sex should be enough
proof of matrimony and amor
Gus intention without fullscale ex-
hibition outside AS modern as
we have become it is general opin-
ion that affection should remain
for sometime yet a rather private
matter. Anything else should be
tagged Hollywood" and truly
great lovers can get a fine price
in the movies. 1t is extravagant
and waSteful to cast such charm
upon those who aren't even will
ing to pay for witnessing.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29

extra hundred pounds of baggage
on crowded street cars and other
public carriers.
We have the movie converse
tionalists who just love TO expound
about their private worries or the
latest gossip in competition with
motion picture projection equip
ment.
Love A Private Matter
We cannot end this column
without putting high on the list
the public "romancers" whose de-
light it is to incorporate hugs and
kisses and other endearing &C
tons for public consumption. Mar
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29

Americans, Mexican Americans
and American Indians.
Considered the most dramatic
civil rights event of the year by
the ACLU report was the report
of the Presidents Committee on
Civil rights and the subsequent
issuing of F'EPC orders in govern
ment agencies and the armed
services by President Truman.
Gains for NegroS included U. S.
Supreme court decisions against
racial restrictive covenants and
recurring equal educational faCll-
tiles for all races in the south,
and the Judge Warning decision IN
South Carolina giving Negroes
the right to vote in the state Dem
ocratiC primaries.
. Japanese were restored their
citizenship in more than $500 IN
stances. Other court decisions
voided two California laws which
kept Nisei from owning agrlcul-
tural lands and from obtaining
commercial fishing licenses. Con-
gress passed law setting up
claims commission to assess dam
ages to Japanese because of their
forced evacuation of the west
coast.
. MexicanS in Texas were
freed of segregation in Texas by
court decisions, and Indians in
Arizona and New Mexico gained
the right to vote after court rul-
lngs.
. An important factor in all
these advances was the ACLU,
the report says, in cooperation
with various groups that spear
headed court actions.
Among the items the ACLU
surveys still considers unresolved
are:
The anti-Communlst oath pro-
vision of the Taft Hartley act,
censorship, self determination,
trial of Communist leaders, loyal
" tests and bans on foreign Ian
guage teaching-au still awaiting
a court decision.
Other phases of the report
summarize The Loyalty Pro-
gram" "Un-American Activi-
ties" "LabOr'S Rights" Free
dom of Speech" and other
ACLU detectives. The report
also called attention to the fail
ure of congress to pass civil
rights legislation as recon-
mended by the President
Published under the title, Our
Uncertain Liberties" the report
contains So pages. 1t reviews AC-
|LU activities and detectives dur
ing the past year.
The ACLU was organized in
1920 as a non-partisan organiZa-
ton defending the bill of rights
for all, without distinction or
compromise. Its officers are:
Edward A. Ross, University OF
Wisconsin, national chairman
Pearl S. Buck. Dean Lloyd K
Garrison, Frank P. Graham, the
Rev. Edward l. Parsons, vice
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
determination"

BY JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
My feet have felt the sands
OF many nations,
l have drunk the water
OF many springs,
am old,
Older than the pyramids,
l am older than the race
That Expresses me,
l will live on
l will out-live oppression,
l will out-live oppressors.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
SOLD DOWN THE RIVER
BY WILLIAM HENRY HUFF

BY WILLIAM HENRY HUFF
Keep eyes upon the ones you
aid
They often act like rattlesnakes;
Their so-called gratitude will fade
For sure, if they are heartless
fakes;
And heartless fakes so many are.
I've learned a lesson well, too
well,
BY trying it both near and far
The story is too sad to tell.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29

chairman, national committee;
John Haynes Holmes, chairman,
board of directors; Whitney North
Seymour and Walter Gellhorn,
vice chairmen, and Roger N. Bald
win, director.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29
TIN VOTING FOR
SENATOR BALL
because

SCS0SSC
feel q definite personal re-
sponsibility TO get out on
election day and vote for
Senator Ball - and 10 urge
all other women TO do the
some. He stonds for q strong
America. He Is usuinSt Com
mUnlsm and totulitGrlonism
in oil other forms. He hos
stood alwoys for Legislation
thut would give US security
for our homes, our children,
our husbands in their work.
He Is our strong bUlwurk
osoinSt onother war. He Is
experienced in national Of
fuirs. His opponent Is mex
PerIeneed. ThufS why I'm
voting for Joe Boil"
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REPORT SHOWS CIVIL RIGHTS
GAIN MADE IN PAST TWELVE
MONTHS IN OMITTED STATES

NEW YORK-(ANP)-Rac minoritleS made subStan-
a gains through court decisions during the past years the
American Civil Liberties union announced in its annual re-
port last week report told of progress in the past twelve
months ending August 81, l948
The report covered made by Negroes Japanese
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"True Americanism Will Conquerw

policies and practices of their
the the nation that will surely be
minority With such the Dxecrats would be
satisfied.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-29

Only major league baseball teams the United States
Negro their neups and of them has the
worlds championship the pennan last
emerged of the What record
for the Negroes the major leagues!
experience the Cleveland Indians and the Brooklyn
Dodgers the Negroes place league for all
time They given dehard kept Negroes
major leagues the theory that would
not work kansas City CALL.
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Montana labor news., 1948-02-12
+ X X
TaNCut

The cost of living" tax cut that Presi-
dent Truman has proposed to congress is a
measure which all trade unionists should
Fundamentally support.
Here is a proposal to lit a tax burden
from the shoulders of those least able to bear
it. 1t is merely designed to enable millions Of
wage earning Americans to buy a little more
Of the necessities of life that they cannot now
afford.
The Presidents proposal to increase cor
pworation taxes to make up for this loss of rev.
enue, is also sound. 1t will cause no hard
ship, as the President has pointed out, be-
cause business profits are already fantasia
cally large and business can easily afford to
assume a larger tax burden.
Trade u~nionists should let congress know
in no uncertain terms that here is a measure
they want adopted. Above all, they should
not be fooled by charges that Mr.. Truman is
merely playing politics.
If this is playing politics, it is the type of
politics we like. The President has done his
part. 1t is up to congress and the nations
working people to take it from here.
Montana labor news., 1948-02-12
Sales Without Bargains: Porlcnt
OF Higher Price. To Come

Those January clearance sales aren't turn
ing up with many bargains this year. Even
the traditional white sales-bargains on
sheets, pillow cases and towels-have been
turned into white events without any mark
downs at all.
The meaning is pretty clear. Storekeep-
ers in this country are convinced that prices
are going to be still higher this spring.
To every workingman's family this raises
some pretty important questions: Why are
prices going up And, what can we do about
it?
We're reading a lot in the newspapers
and magazines about how wage earners are
responsible for this wage-price spiral because
they are asking for higher wages.
Is that true? Let's look at the facts. The
corporations are still counting their money,
and the actual returns aren't in yet on bust
ness profits for 1947.
There are, however, some pretty reliable
estimates which indicate that profits last year
were 800 per cent greater than they were in
1889, double what they were in the peak wal
years, about half again as much as they We're
in 1916. Never before in all history have
American businessmen made so much money.
The profit record shows that most bust
nesses could grant substantial wage increases
II AdAoliiS III AZ dill VIZ ~ pNio
tons would content themselves to the profit
levels they enjoyed during 1943-the most
profitable war year.
The choice of higher prices or lower prices
is made by the businessmen who manage our
corporations and not by wage earners who
are scratching gravel for more pay to help
buy food and clothing for their families. And,
the businessmen are going to choose to raise
prices still higher in order to make still great
err profits in 1913. The storekeepers know
that.
One function Of a labor organization in a
free society like ours is to help keep purchas-
ing power of the ma ority in step with prices.
When union men and women fail in that re-
sponsibility, when prices get 50 far ahead Of
wages that working people can't buy what
they produce, then depression sets in. With
depression comes mass unemployment. I'm
employment is far more costly than high
prices.
That is the basic fact we must not for
get for a moment during contract negotiations
this year.
Montana labor news., 1948-02-12

Thomas Jefferson used to say that in this
country there ought never to be any need for
revolutions since all the people have to do to
effect a change is to go to the polls.
We think this observation is particularly
apropos this year. Certainly if Jefferson
were around now, he would be upset with the
antics of the present congress, and it is our
guess that he would be pretty mad.
For it was a virtue of Jefferson that COM
~placency with things as they are was no part
of his makeup. He could get downright mad
when someone would trample on his rights,
or the rights Of his fellow citizens, and he
was ready to do something about it.
We think trade unionists are like Jeffer-
son. They are the most good-natured people
in the world, but once aroused they can get
awful mad.
And they are also not likely to forget a
saving of another great democrat, William
Jennings Bryan:
1.-THE humblest citizen Of all the land when
clad in the armor Of a righteous cause is
stronger than all the hosts of Error"
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1t takes 1924 to buy now what $500
bought in 1889, according to the U. S.
Treasury.
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Thirty cents out Of every income tax dol
lar you pay goes to support our military ma
chine.
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The union man who demands the shop
card or label when buying is wise: he pro-
tects his wv wages and working conditions.
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1t is still good sense to refuse to pay the
fantastic high prices asked on today's mark
ct: the best buy is a savings bond.
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Interest rates in st. Louis for negro realty
loans are 6 per cent, whereas white loans can
be obtaintd at az per cent.
Montana labor news., 1948-02-12

ont complying with anything like a Taft
Hartley Act And. Standard is one of organ
lied labor's most bitter enemies
Standard also cuts another thick slice out
of the huge profits of the .Arabian-American
oil deal. which it controls. On Sllt, ooo,oo
in excessive profits gouged out OF the govern
ment while it was at war, standard VIII MOI
pay a thin dime in income taxes. why!
That's the law.
Union people should consider these facts
if they are ever tempted to patronize this
firm.
Montana labor news., 1948-02-12
Standard Cuts Thick Slice

Your gas rates, if you use commercial gas
for cooking or heating, are going up soon.
That's because Standard Oil has decided to
take another thick slice of profits. Yes,
Standard can do as it pleases, without col
lective bargaining, without regulation, with
Montana labor news., 1948-02-12

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Small Business Group
Beqins Sessions Today

More than 200 delegates were ex-
pected to be here today for the
opening of the three-day annual
meeting of the Conference of Amer
lean Small Business Organizations
at the Wardman Park Hotel
Consideration of current eco
nomic problems by % study COM
mittees will occupy the main atten-
ton of the conference. At its con-
clusion resolutions will be formu-
lated for presentation to Congress.
Senator Wherry, Republican, OF
Nebraska and Representative Ploe-
ser. Republican, Of Missouri were
slated to give opening addresses
today. Other speakers will include
House Speaker Martin tomorrow
and Senators Brooks, Republican, Of
Illinois, and Cooper, Republican, OF
of Kentucky.