Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-05-20
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and LOwdoWR"
BY BAILEE THOMAS
J. ALPHoNZo HORTON
Guest COlunanist

Hon. c. d. b. King now sports a
new title-AmbasSador Designate.
He was recognized as ambassador
designate from Liberia last week
by Secretary Of State Dean G,
AchesOn and presented his letters
of credence as ambassador 70
President Truman last week. The
American legation In Monrovia,
Liberia, was elevated 20 Embassy
status last Friday when the Hon.
Edward r. Dudley presented his
letters OF credence as ambassador
TO President William v. s. Tub
man. A Russian plot 10 break
up the United States into a series
Of separate small nations OF Ne
groes. Germans and other racial
entities was reported 10 q senate
judiciary subcommittee last week
by Gen. Isydor Rudolph Modelski,
q former Polish general and mill
tary attache ut the Polish embAs-
~.
The strike Of Hawaiian steve
dores, all colored. brings 10 the
forefront resentment Of minority
groups against the million dollar
shipping industry to back down
from It's colonial policy aimed At
the profitable exploitation OF col
Ored labor In the Hawaiian Is
lands The strike started May I.
a. the result OF the refusal OF
shipping interests 10 raise the
wages Of island stevedores 70
within 10 cents an hour OF West
Coast stevedore unions. which are
dominated by whites.
U. s. Attorney General Tom
Clark 10 about 20 face Q suit for
adding the name Of the Hawaii
Civil Liberties committee 10 the
new list Of 30 groups Of subver-
sive organizations In AmericA. r..
Slave trading has reappsared In
South Africa Wandering natives
In the northern Transvaal sector
Of the country are seized and sold
~ laborers TO the highest bidders
by Highveld gangs. known a.
''blackblrders." The gangs report
edly use such tricksry a. offers Of
work at high wages; when these
fail they resort 70 brutality and
even murder. The slave traffic u
causing considerable terror de-
spite futile police efforts 70 quash
Il. Native school children in
johannesburg. South Africa were
recently denied four cents per day
per child for meals on grounds
that II Ia too costly, while the
government AIlots European chill
dren II cents per child per day,
The government contends that re-
fIIsing such lunches 20 natives
teaches them self dependence
and gives them q better sense Of
responsibility" while Europeans
need no such lesson.
NATIONAL SCENE Out Of
S.OlS persons applying for work
At the Urban League Of Greater
New York last year. 1859 were
placed. according 70 Executive
Director Edward 8. Levin.
Racial discrimination In pubic
meeting places, restaurants and
other facilities Of Washington. d.
C. u on the downgrade. says Hsr-
~ 8. wender. Chairman Of the
d. c. recreation board. In o Il, 900
word report made by him a. an
Individual However: with few en-
captions. no Negro u served IN
downtown restaurants: downtown
night clubs generally follow seq
regation policies Of restaurants:
no Negro street car OF bus opera
tors are employed within the city,
Sick senator's have seemingly
found . fooi-proof method Of kiII-
ting the move 90 repeal tAxes On
margarine they threaten d
fihbustsr and % even attach {
civil rights bin TO the measure. .
United Negro College Fund oefl-
Gals are casting pleading eyus n
large corporations nowadays b.
cause the Juiins Rnssawald fund
has BEEN bquidatsd Present Tan
structures yin prSvsnt The ap-
pearmncs Of AnOther RoSunwAld %
Roekefeller. % large ooSporatIona
offer the only outlet IN ths wGy
OG large oontTibUttoaa
minois b considsrtng . ban "a
IegAliss bookiea. Supporters a
the MEASURE shy % would TAXI
race bstting from the oOatrul oi
the underworld BY barring gang
ssers and sx-eoavtcts from obtain
ing heenssA TIE states only Ne
gro s-natnr. christOpher C. WIN.
btah ID, c1ieAso1 tntrodUoed IN
measure.
VIVA IN impruasavs var record
On it, leg book The an-Negro tac-
u1AI S17nd FlgntsT Wing uni
nwaifs inaefiyatioA e Loekbourns
It's lO0o Under cOL BSatAman
q. DaxlH g.. are beAng re<nstFib-