The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-10-26

Despite the war-caused increase In employment Ae
thousands of<Neero workers in Seattle and Bremerton
no s4u unable TO find Jobs. Where jobs are available they
are in the broom pushing, dish-washing category al y"
paw rates. Negroes in industry are still last hired first fired
LONG subjected to lynch terror at the hands of Ku Klux bigots,
the Negro people today are also the victims Oh legal lyhcnnsS
such a. the MCGEE death frameup in Mississippi and the Tren-
ton Six outrage in New Jersey. The official government appar-
atus of cities, counties, whole states commit such crimes against
Negro citizens regularly and with impunity. The Federal gov
eminent by refusing to intervene becomes the partner of the
lynchers.
And politicians of the stripe of Rep. Hugh B. Mitchell and
Mrs. F. #. Powell, far from speaking in behalf of the rights
of the Negro people, by their silence ally themselves WIZ inc
worst anti-Negro bigots.
When will Powell or Mitchell speakout for an end to brutality
against Negroes and workers gns-oaly as a conscious deliberate
policy of the Seattle and Bremerton police departments?
WHEN WILL THEY ACT?
When will they name and denounce the wealthy real estate
interests responsible for high rent Stun 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 belttightening, and
bloodshed-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 is not effectively challenged. And today
Rep. Mitchell is leading the attack OF the Marine Cooks and
Stewards-the union that symbOnzes NegrO-white unity in
action.
CAN VOTE AGAINST WAR
That is why the Independent Party has nominated me as a
Negro and Industrial worker to run for Congress from the First
District.
My 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 anti-1abor 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 rearmament," 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
Nitchen-PowelI war slate that thousands of working people
reject their program of death for millions and suffering for
all the people.
YOU HAVE A CHOICE