Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-05-24
MASTERS OF DECEIT

Those who have been reading our paper regularly
will recall pointing to the attack segregation in the
public schools below the college level the south as the
greatest in the history of the struggles of the
American Negro; and pointing to the story spread
by Tom Armstrong, the Parish Street Newsstand ope-
rator and photographer, about being paid $4,000
to throw the 1948 Gubernatorial election to Cover
White, communist plant in order to destroy our
influence and put the leadership of the Mississippi
gro in the hands of the semiterate Armstrong and
others who would Willingly unwittingly follow the
communist line.
FIJI Director j. Edgar Hoover has written a book
titled Masters of Deceit" and believe some COM
ment the book by the editor of the widely read and
influential Negro Labor News of Houston, Texas, will
be OF further, and more than usual interest to
readers.
The Negro Labor News Editor says:
j. Edgar Hoovers book entitled Masters of Deceit"
IN which he discusses communist activities among Ne
groes In the United States, verfes The Labor News
especially in the South for the past Is years.
In the early twenties offered proposition; "If
would attend the Lenin University in Russia would
choice of working for the party only in the United
States but throughout the world with an eye bullying
salary!
AS young man adhered strictly to policy of giving
careful analysis to what the future would hold for any
one accepting such proposition offered
considerable time was approached by communist repre-
sentaves who stated they were recruiting Negroes
America to be trained in Russia" During these
given clear picture of how communists operated
in America and throughout the world was shown world
maps illustrating how the communists progressing
the various countries recall that Spain darkest
spot on the map and America the brightest
time.
was also shown map illustrating the sections Of
the country that Negroes would dominate under the com
munists rule The map listed 112 counties included in the
so-caled BLACK belt which extended from Maryland
Florida including a section of East Texas.
According to these Russian agents. the only way the
Negro could obtain equal rights and privileges would be
the constitution of the United States be rewritten sim
liar to that of Soviet Russia.
AS SEE IT. the proof of Russias intention
vealed when Negro communities were flooded with copies
of Russas constitution carrying comparison Of the u S.
Constitution We told the constitution would only be
changed by bloody revolution when labor takes over
few years later when John L. Lewis organized the
Committee Industrial Organizations, later called CO.
we wrote an editorial that John L. Lewis heading
movement complete revolution in America socially,
regousy maybe bloody And for nearly twenty
this writer warned Negro workers to beware OF the COM
scheme capture the Negro through the labor
union movement.
The FBI reference the NAAcP verifies our expose
AS delegate from the Houston branch of the NAACP
III 1850 10 Detrot Michigan, and member of the
lions committee of the National body we blocked reso
uon coming from the committee urging the NAACP to
endorse the CO as the sole bargaining agency Negro
workers.
. IN opposition to this movement, pointed that
tne NAACP could best the labor by care
fuy observing the policies of all unions let the work.
ers FORM or select their unions The duty the NAACP
should be to that Negro get Justice both from
aor unions and management We pointed out that race
ions. 49, 80
We also pointed out that the American Federation Of
Labor AFl had been too antiNegro past and that
the CO was too young controversial for the Negro to
put his salvation in its hands, that such movements as CIO
had started seven times before in America but failed
When this resolution was carried to the floor Of
the convention the late William Picket Field secretary Of
the NAACP asked How much of this thing (CIO)?"
As SEE II, time and space will not permit me to
explain how fought an expose of communist inf+ra-
non into the NAAcP on national, state local level
perusa OF the columns Of this paper will reveal that
we constantly warned that leaders of the NAACP did
not Keep eternal vigilance the organization would be used
for the National Association the Advancement of Com
munist Propaganda
AS SEE IL, ). Edgar Hoover right when he said
wise Negroes rejected communism they would under
stand the ultimate aim of communism in this country"
Our readers may recall how quoted Phillip Randolph
president OF the National Negro Congress when warn
ed that the Negro could not afford to be back at
the same time.
Another favorite quotation of mine that "the Ne
gro people would hate communists than God hates
sin when they once understood its ultimate goal of en-
Shaving free people,"
Many OF our white citizens made grave mistake when