The Omaha guide., 1956-08-31

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ment. This is one of the biggest
pieces of POLITICAL baloney ever
foisted on an unsuspecting public.
Suppose we take a microscope look
at this buns.
OF the II million Negroes 18-
years of age or over, some 80 per
cent are laborers, domestics, or
farmers. You can see therefore
why so many of us accept such
propaganda as factual. The labor
ers are worked on by union lead
ers; in many cases the sharecrop-
pers are being taken advantage of
by their employers. Most of the
sharecroppers are in the South and
practically all of the plantation
owners for whom they work are
Democrats. Labor cannot make a
job; it does the job. Capitol can.
not do the job; it makes the job.
So one cannot live without the
other.
While | do not subscribe to at
tacking wealth, whether it be Re
publican or Democrat; I do feel
that the record should be set
straight. Certainly not all of the
rich people are in the Republican
Party. If the United States Senate
and the Governors of our States
are barometer, we followers of
the elephant are pretty low on the
totem pole.
As Republicans this Administra-
tion does not want to take away
from any person or organization
any of the things which they have
done to help gain our Civil Rights.
All this Administration expects is
full credit for what il has done.
Each Civil Rights advance
should be put in its proper cate
CORY so that no one can take credit
for what he did not do. In the
restaurant case in the District of
Columbia, (Which went to the SUI
preme Court Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell, magnificent crusader,
brought about the victory with the
help Of many of us who contri-
buted to the campaign. Neither
Democrats nor Republicans can
take credit for it.
The school decision, of course,
was the result of tireless work by
the NAACP after a long and bitter
court fight. | am very certain
that there are few. if any of us
who did not contribute to thi.
fight. So neither Democrats MOI
Republicans can claim credit fol
that.
Bur no one can object to tn.
Eisenhower Administration gettinl
full credit for opening up thu
theaters, hotels and other places
of amusement in Washington
d. c.; or the integration of tn,
fire department there. certainI.
we want credit for the successful
desegregation of the schools o
the District of Columbia and thu
starting Of it Immediately aftel
the Court decision.
We also want some Of the credi
for Air Force, Army, Marines anc
Navy, reporting segregation en-
tirely eliminated in the past thre,
: years. Negro officers and enlisted
men have gone up over so per cen
in the last three years.
We do want credit for ending
segregation at West Point.
We do want full credit for end
ing segregation in Veterans Hos
pitfalls.
We do want credit for endinj
school segregation on all but tw,
installations ON Federal property
These are two schools on militar,
posts where the counties had sign
ed long term contracts with tn,
Defense Department. We ar
negotiating on them now.
We do want credit for the i'm
proved operation Of the COMMITTEES
on Government Employment Polio,
resulting in the upgrading o
thousands of employees. Thre.
hundred Negroes were made sup
ervisors in the Post Office alon,
in 1855.
We do want credit for settinI
up new Government Contrac
Committee in 1858, putting Vic,
President Nixon In charge am
tightening non-discrimination reg
ulations resulting in the followin,
agins. White collar jobs in tn.
following industries for the frs
time.
(a Packing Houses.
(b) Public Utilities.
| (c) Federal Reserve System.
(d) Eliminated two types of con
tracts in the Oil Industry-white
and colored. White workers re
ceived higher pay than colored il
South.
(e) Placed 25 to 30 skilled work
ers In the chemical industry.
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