The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-11-02

Dasnita the war-caused increase III e"Poy"@"
thousands of Negro workers in Seattle ana rene.'on
10 stu unable to find Jobs. Where jobs are available hey
are in the broom pushing, dish-washing category, q wv
nav rates Negroes in industry are still last h1reo ITS n0"
Long subjected to lynch terror at the hands of Ku Klux oigous'
the Negro people today are also the victims OF legal iynomns'
sncb q the MCGEE death frameup in Mississippi and the Iren-
ton six outrage in New Jersey. The official government appai-
otus Of rites. counties, whole states commit such crimes against
Negro citizens regularly and with inpunity- The Feoer@ gov
nnoe bv refusing to intervene becomes the partner OF N
lynchers.
And politicians OF the stripe of Rep Hugh B Mitchell and
Mrs. r. #. Powell, far from speaking in behalf Il N nsn's
80 = Negro people, by their silence ally themselves with the
worst ant-NegrO bigots.
w,en will Powell or Mitchell speakout for an end to brutality
against Negroes and workers gasaoally as a conscious deliberate
policy of the Seattle and Bremerton police departments
WHEN WILL THEY ACTe
When will thew name and denounce the wealthy real estate
interests responsible for high rent SUM housing in the ghetto
areas of the First District-and restrictive covenants everywhere
else?
High prices, rent gouging, heavy taxes, wage freeze, more and
more families hit by the draft, sacrifice and belttightendng, ana
h1ooasbed-that is the future offered by the giant employers who
dictate foreign policy and drive toward an atomic war that
would mean death to millions of workers everywhere.
And Mitchell and Mrs. F. F. Powell support, without a single
significant reservation, every phase of this program for war
that will Inevitably mean slave labor and starvation wages for
American workers if it ii S not effectively challenged. And today
Rep. Mitchell is leading the attack on the Marine Cooks and
Stewards-the union that symbolzes Negrowhite unity in
action.
CAN VOTE AGAINST WAR
That is why the Independent Party has nominated me a S a
Negro and Industrial worker to run for Congress from the First
District.
NV candidacy gives workers at Boeing, in the Navy Yard,
in the saw mills and machine shops, on the waterfront, a chance
to shout mo " to the antilabor war program to concentration
camps in America as provided in the McCarran Act, to lynch
law and mass oppression of Is million Negro Americans by the
absentee owners of the South.
Where does the pious hypocrit, Mrs. Powell, who now aban-
dons her moral rearmament' line in favor of straight-out
"atomic reamament," stand on these issues facing the work
ing people?
FIGHT THE McCARRAN BILL
Where does the watery exliberal Hugh Mitchell stand? Does
he think his token vote against the McCarran Bill absolves
him of the crime of having twice previously voted FOR that
measure to destroy the Bill of Rights?
Where does Mitchell get the right to advocate the Truman
program of rushing to atomic slaughter? Why will he not
even discuss in his campaign the peaceful alternatives all the
world cries out for?
Votes for the Independent Party win serve stern notice to the
MitcheILPowen war slate that thousands of working people
reject their program of death for millions and suffering for
all the people.
YOU HAVE A CHOICE
Vote for the Peace and Freedom Candidates