Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-12-17
Inside
America
written By the Staff Of The
CIO NeWs)

AlOA 4N@7~NA~A@S
graduated the cop, and posted
$40 collateral.
That anecdote was recalled
last week to illustrate the way
racial relations in the national
capital laws have slipped
backwards during past de-
cades. A fact-studded, bitterly
critical report prepared by the
National Committee on Segre-
CATION in the Nations Capital
played the spotlight on "the
shame of a city"-and on bad
example of us. government.
Report, fin a n C d by the
Rosenwald Fund, was spon-
sored by a committee of lead
ing citizens( Mrs. Roosevelt,
Walter White, CIO President
Murray and Secretary-Treas-
urer Carey, churchmen, pro-
fessional people, teachers.).
Bist of the report was con-
tanned In a quote from a letter
written by visitor from Den
mark: Il believe you should
know that Washington today,
despite its great outw ar d
beauty, is not a good sales
man for your kind of democ-
racy."
Study of discrimination in
our capital city shows Negroes
clustered in over crowded
black belts" suffering from
poor shelter, poor sanitation,
poor m e d j C a care. Negro
babies have less chance of liv-
ing than white babies, Negro
mothers have six times great
er chance of dying in child
birth than w hit e mothers).
Negro schools are overcrowd-
ed, far inferior to schools for
white kids. Job discrimination
- in Washington private in
dustry, city government, and
federal government - keeps
Negroes Ii m t e d to menial
jobs, where they work harder
for less pay.
What's answer to this dis
grace in our national capital,
where N egroes have little
chance to eat in public restau-
rants, to get rooms in hotels;
where many foreign diplomats
and visitors (only one third of
worlds population is white
skinned) are constantly en-
barrassed or insulted, to dis
tress of State Department top
officials?
Anti-segregation committee
study offers no easy solution,
but suggest needs for moral
courage and clear thinking.
we must mean what we
say, and give people of all
races an equal chance of life,
liberty and the pursuit af hap
piness When people are
d divid d by a master-race
theory, liberty and justice are
impossible.
Nowhere is this plainier
than in the Capital, where one
quarter of the population is
segregated according to color.
Here we have been building
ghettoes of the mind, body
and spirit"
Report on discrimination in
Washington emphasizes that
basic in { o e rance patterns
come not from the poor but
from the rich--from what the
report describes as 'men of
acknowledged culture and re-
finement, the leaders of the
committee.
Voteless Washington has no
elected city government. It's
three Commissioners are APP
pointed by the President--but
report spells out what many
voteless WaShingtonians have
long suspected, that control of
capital city Is in hands of the
Board of Trade.
The Board is described as
a "glorified chamber of COM
merce by any standard of
measurement it is the most
powerful single organization
in Washington. It's board of
directors, n u IN b ering 40
powerful men, determine its
policies and actions"
happy n w S note. West
brook Pegler is being sued for
S2,000,000 libel in a Chicago
court. A government econom-
ist - Maurice Parmalee -
accused Pegler of inferring he
was a Communist and that he
is depraved.
Falling stock of Communists
and Communist sympathizers
IN US. labor movement was
clearly indicated at ecent
Transport w orkers Union
convention in Chicago. Presi-
dent Michael Quill led easily
successful fight against Trans
parts left wing, and placed
TWU Staunchly behind CIO
national policy.
Unions next move will be
to win more pay boosts on
New York transport system