The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-02-02

mean that the Jews have all the money or make all the
money This is another faacy. There are poor Jews
just there poor Negroes and poor Catholics All
Jews not merchants. There thousands of Jews
working daily in the needle trades the fur industry and
in other industries, just like Negroes, for wages
In the market Of competition, consumers should not be
preudced against any businessman of race
ligon. color ancestry. This has been done among
nations
When the United States sets up protective tariff
against outside goods is form of exploitation of the
American people. Moreover, the law of compensation
breaks down such an unsound economic policy for
country cannot buy goods from other countries it
sell goods to other countries Therefore, in the long
the law of balance prevails
Moreover, Negroes wholly in error in denouncing
opposing Jews in business in their communities, be-
not only does give grounds to the objection of
Negroes developing businesses outside of their
ties but it may basis if suggest reason
for enterprises operated by Jews to dispense with Negro
workers and to refuse to employ Negro workers Since
Jewish merchants employ Nego workers than Negro
merchants employ Negro workers. policy of antsem-
tsm would react disasrousy against the Negro There
are far more Negro workers than Negro businessmen
Moreover Negro workers lose jobs in enterprises oper
ated by Jews will handicap the number of Negro bust
that exist in Negro communities, inasmuch the
purchasing power of Negroes upon which Negro bust
nesses depend would be curtaed Not only is the posi-
ton Of the Negro in opposing Jewish merchants unsound
economically but it is morally unsound. 1t is unsound
from the point of view of Negro progress.
Negro business must make its way the hardest way
It must be built from the bottom up. must win its
spurs the market of competition Like businesses
by white Professionals Catholics and Jews, Negro BUSH
will fail when they attempt to build upon unsound
business principles and practices And they ought to fail
It isn't in the interest of the community white black
Jew GENTLE Catholic Protestant for such business
to succeed for when succeeds it that the people
are exploited because Of ignorance and deception.
Negroes certain to make Roadway in business
pecaly in small business 1t is too much to hope that
Negroes will make any apprecabe progress in big BUSH
today Negroes started too late in business to go
far in the regions of big business It requires too much
capital. Negroes don't have it. It requires managerial
ability. Negroes don't have it. Not only Negroes
unable to build big business Enterprises but groups of
white people with small capital cannot muscle in on big
business Negroes will build railroads. They will
build big utilities such companies telephone and
street rails 1t would not be to the interest of the city
state and the people, to permit them to they could
would create facilities in the field of public ui
ties an area than sound economics require or the pub
lie could Negroes will not build any big banks be-
twelve banks in the United States
dominate the banking business Nor will Jews build any
big banks. They cannot push their way in this field.
Jews have few banks Negroes will build steel
panies, will Jews build any steel companies These
fields Of business already preempted and groups
of capital cannot get in
While this analysis may appearto be gloomy and dis
couragng is necessary and true Negroes should not
labor under illusions about their business future They
should face reality especially young Negroes This does
not that there future for Negroes in business
There is But it is small business, the normal American
business
In the field of cooperatives and producers
there opportunity for Negro development and progress
But this field requires much patience Negroes will build
great cooperatves overnight The Rochdale System
did not develop in England overnight It took decades
but this should discourage effort the part of Ne
groes in this of economic action America is becom
ing conscious of the need for cooperatives daily
This is field in which young Negroes may play
role, effective role. But here again Negroes should
have illusions about any rapid phenomenal success
Success coming the hard in every field of economic
action
Now of course, of the why Negroes dis
like Jews is because America dslkes Jews Negroes are
Americans and they absorb and express all of the
and most ugly tempers and prejudices of America Not
only do Negroes hate Jews but they hate themselves
This shown by the fact that Negroes flight from
themselves. What better proof have than the
fact that of the biggest businesses Negroes
based upon classifying the Negroes physical personality
Of course believe that the Negro-Jewish relations
will improve. They must improve But it will require
much education and cooperation Unfortunately Jews abb
all of the American prejudices also and vent them
on the Negro This evidence of the fact that in certain
cities department stores owned by Jews won't serve
Negroes Some hotels owned by Jews won't accommo-