Randolph, Ex-Head of Nat'l Negro Congress, Urges Co-Racialists to Organize Themselves for Democracy'
Randolph, Philip
Randolph, Ex-Head of Nat'l Negro Congress, Urges Co-Racialists to Organize Themselves for Democracy' By A. PHILIP RANDOLPH TODAY'S crisis creates an intensification of the impoverishment, misery...
...This is'ho' statement of condemnation of this position, but merely an illustration of the fact that Russia, like all other power nations, follows her .national interest, despite her ideological professions...
...New Deal cannot save the Negro...
...army and navy are not worried on that wore...
...planes, when fitted with armor and similar devices...
...The French also receive thne copies of the reporter's story, bo: under the Paris new system lit correspondent has no right tfa> peal against deletions and fcw informed of what material i omitted...
...But Washington—which has a lot of respect for Hispanic-American sensitivities (these days) backed up and refused to shake a first in Mexico's face...
...it is won...
...Freedom and justice must be struggled for by the oppressed of all-lands and races, and the struggle must be continuous, for freedom is never a final act, but a continuing, evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationships...
...The Gulf district committee took the fight into court and was upheld...
...his cartoons have never lost that basic radical pungency...
...The VJS...
...But it was too late...
...Oast- all tiie opposition, was the order to party operatives...
...Salvation for a race, nation, or class must come from within...
...Failing that, the British got tough with Mexico City—went so fas as to break off diplomatic relations...
...military circles to declare the battleship virtually obsolete, in new <^ marked vulnerability to bombers demonstrated daring the Norwegian campaign, most authorities would net g* W> so far...
...maybe 'Japan saw a chance in Mexico...
...Under this notorious system, the few big Negroes eat cake, while the masses lack bread...
...Moreover, England and France, like Japan and Russia, are empires that subjugate and do not liberate weaker peoples...
...This "document" was put...
...One copy of the dispatch is returned to the correspondenTtor telephoning to London or Park, a second is filed by the censon, and a third is retained by an Allied officer...
...LJAVE the Pulitzer Prize judges undergone a change of heart...
...And at the doors of trade unions, in too many instances, Negroes are stopped, not because they are workers, but because they are black...
...Privation, sacrifice and suffering are the price of freedom...
...So the situation comes down to this: The oil expropW' tion is successful—too late to stop the...
...tion shortly following the fight Reporters assigned to the Brit-ish Expeditionary Force in Franet must turn in three copies of their stories to the censor...
...German war correspondent!, all of whom are enrolled inspecwj "propaganda companies" or fin Army, Navy, or Air Corps, take JkmmW...
...If deletioni...
...Around him are- ruins and "minorities" in imrt| [subjection...
...England and France have stolen the land and labor of black men in Africa, brown and yellow men in India and China, and with arrogance and pomp, abused and insulted these helpless peoples until they are well-nigh stung to revolt...
...An analysis of the delegates reveals that white Communist "representatives" of spurious dobs and societies helped howl and vote in the CP line...
...IF Cardenas should take this step it would be with the tacit approval of the United States Government...
...The Communist Party cannot save the Negro...
...It were far better that the Negro people make progress slowly on their own strength and resources than that they move xorwara *t an accelerated pace but led by either the- reactionary right or reactionary left...
...In a few cases, however, the employers granted slight pay rises...
...fWhen Sinclair Lewis, in $26, shrugged his shoulders from under the Pulitzer accolade, his "Arrowsmith" was inis-mated with...
...ophy of the German state that every man's a fighter...
...4hsrt Vihe country is growing...
...It is expected that- the outbreak will come from the Almazan side when Camacho attempts to step into the presidency as the successor of President Lazaro Cardenas...
...LI *1"HE membership was keyed up tensely to the * wave of bitter slander and libel unleashed by the Communists...
...Steinbeck's Joad family is a symbol «f the migratory workers of the West, as he found them in their camps, while making a survey for the San Francisco News in J&36...
...They said "adopted...
...Moreover, Russia, too, must look to her own stability and future...
...According to advices arriving almost daily from Mexico City, the blow-up is due in July, immediately after the presidential election...
...The Vazi element is active on both sides and so are the Italian societies working for the Mussolini Government...
...And the fight for freedom must be made by th% Negro people and other darker races in the land of their birth or adoption within the framework of the traditions, background and life of that country...
...The odd part of the play is that somehow this jetsam of .society, these drifters, prostitutes, and bums,' seem to' hold some sort of promise of better days...
...CPEAKING of poetry, we look at the award, down the list from Edwin Arlington Robinson to last year's John Gould Fletcher1;'-the first winner whose life and "work has a social direction is the 1940 Mark Van Doren, long on the editorial staff of The Nation...
...The best editorial i is likewise on the march of the swastika...
...Natives of South Africa cannot meet their problems in terms of_the social, economic and political customs and practices of the United States of America...
...Not so the British...
...pacts bettered: the workers' conditions none...
...J[ the Nazi product in durability, range, maneuverability, and general power to stand up under heavy action, provements needed include greater firing power and more non-leak able gas tanks...
...aircraft...
...exacted...
...It is indicative that with few exceptions those charged were never granted any kind of a trial by the Communist machine...
...Without consulting the elected officials of that district or the membership, they illegally plundered the union's national strike fund for $25,000, thinly disguising this as a lean...
...Despite their protestations of democracy, millions of their dark colonials are slaves, held down by bayonet and sword...
...Gulf delegates were refused seats, others "elected" and appointed by Curran's proclamation...
...Almazan has the support of the Clericals, business leaders, and some of the bjg business interests in the United States, including William...
...Under the British system, re-porters are kept near the scene of battle so that they can vhit field headquarters and return rapidly to their sending station in order to file stories for publics...
...He was then replaced by a Communist who also prevented him from making a final coast-to-coast broadcast...
...Life— capitalist pressure of life—has put them down but not out...
...V Besides, Russia, like Japan, is a dictatorship, which takes only cognizance of the use to her of people, with no concern for their rights, except when they may serve as a point of propaganda and advantage of her foreign policy...
...The members were stilled...
...op- . posed to the socialistic...
...Even as late as 1937, the •%est~' novel" award went to—can you guess it?—"Gone With the Wind...
...Yearling"—and now the surprise of John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath...
...In the Federal Government, under all administrations—Republicans and Democratic, Negroes are given either rubber-stamped, window-dressing jobs for the consumption of the Negro masses or jobs at hard labor...
...This year's shows Hitler with the "outstretched hand" of friendship to'the^world...
...This is not only true in private industry, but in the Federal Governmeht as well...
...The Camacho followers compose the Mexican Revolu-:ionary Party, which has been infiltrated by Communist igents, largely from Spain and the United States...
...The only rational conclusion theh seems to be that the Negro and the other darker races must look to themselves, for freedom...
...In its first page announcement, that paper said: "Although presumably judged solely on the basis of its literary value, because of the sociological and political significance the book has attained since its publication a year ago April 14, the selection was expected to be attacked from some quarters as a tacit approval of its disclosures by the advisory committee that recommended it and the trustees who approved the recommendation...
...Their control was slipping...
...2) improvement battleships' defenses against air bombardment...
...Not only are Negroes discriminated against in industry, but the jobs they have are of the lowest order and they receive to the post of national secretary...
...This is in harmony with the policy of Republcans and Democrats of making one or two so-called "big" Negroes, in order to keep down and submissive 'a whole lot of "little" Negroes...
...F. Phillips, Atlantic secretary...
...York for this purpose as early as last Feb- ¦ ^gW ruary...
...LMOST the first order of the convention's *^ business was to oust and expel illegally the entire - Gulf district committee without trial...
...Another section of the Negro people and the darker races places its hopes in the Soviet Union...
...In . very truth, the, Negro must save himself...
...the spark in them is not out...
...of this man of the people, whom the world could use today...
...Italy has been taking the petroleum that the Brio* and American companies wouldn't distribute, end pre*-ably Germany is getting quite a bit of it...
...When Government action failed, the oil compenwt p* on the heat...
...Just as the White House of America cannot supply leadership to the people of India to achieve independence from the British Empire, so the Kremlin cannot correctly and effectively direct the tactics and strategy of the- Negro people or American labor in the fight for racial and social justice in these United States...
...The seamen's militant bid -for unionism has been retarded by the power-politics of Moscow-Joe Stalin's 5±h column on the American waterfront, and its rigid control...
...We can prove that by the Negroes in the' United States of America...
...As the Congress opened, everything Stalin ¦ was set.- " When president A. Philip Randolph attacked the Communist line, he was howled at and booed by rehearsed claques...
...A. Thomas, C. DeGress, C. Applewhite, F. Rinaldo, Wm...
...He seems to have given three reasons, mutually contradictory...
...The eon* eluding section will appear next week...
...R^member that the' play version of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" was chosen by the Critics' Circle in 1938, while the Pulitzer Prize went to the oh-so-uplifting "Our Town...
...And you'll probably rub shoulders too with agents from lations which are...
...Aftc- gaming-control, the Communist "fakers" immediately...
...The seamen's "revolution'' was against them...
...lying and double-dealing diplomacy, and the adroit policy of divide and rule...
...Ha* the understatement: "One-third of a nation ill-housed, iltcilothed, ill-fed" made them recognize the plight of some...
...In very truth, it is not the business of great power nations to go around hunting oppressed people to free, for it is a notorious fact that they do not liberate their own...
...The strike fund was out of reach...
...Because of discrimination in some sections of industry and some of the international unions, Negro workers face the dilemma of being denied jobs because they don't possess jobs...
...Washington readied plans on two complimentary fronts: 1) improvement of U.S...
...Christian missionaries...
...First London tried to get Washington to do something about the oil...
...In this hour of crisis, the Negroipeople look to programs for their liberation...
...both were ^dely banned:—and widely sold...
...For the chief character is one who sees nothing worth while in contemporary American life, 'who retires to sip champagne in a 'Frisco shore-front dive, where he lavishes cash and comfort upon an assorted variety of wastrels...
...army and navy chiefs acted this week to reshape their weapons in accordance with their recognition that the aerial arm is a much more important adjunct of a defense system than they had previously been willing to admit...
...Moreover, Japan is completely absorbed trying to maintain her own...
...For instance, only white men are supposed to be engineers, railroad or pullman conductors, or telegraphers...
...filthy...
...They took up their campaign aboard shifts with an organized onslaught of unprintable character assassinations...
...I • This attitude of the Soviet Union is explicit in the flat refusal to make the famous movie picture of America's injustice to the Negro with a'Negro group which journeyed to Russia, when the Vitn-of events indicated possible' Tecbghitiori by the'United States...
...Success for this effort might crown a victory for either tide as the forces are now arrayed...
...The Life of Sir William Osier*' and the experimental poetry of cigar-smoking Amy Lowell...
...l AS a result of the complicated international situation, the possibility of "something happening" in Mexico is almost unlimited...
...Negroes who are given high-sounding appointments that would seem to be something, in most instances don't even have the empty solace of having their names on the door of their dingy offices...
...Charity and philanthropy from the left>- or the Communists ~0r Socialists, is just as unsound, illogical and objectionable as charity and philanthropy from the right, the capitalists...
...They^X V y^nmY wear the rout- f]M* ine uniform and xjrwr^ participate ac-tively in all in- /jl^y\ c u S s i o ns of (Kr%^\ their units...
...A. Hennessey, assistant editor of the Pilot—the unions* organ—and a dozen others were assailed and suspended from the union...
...Cardenas jumped at the chance...
...The Socialist Party cannot save the J*e«ro...
...Agents of All Belligerents and U.S...
...XTO, the Economic Royalists of the Republican Party cannot save the Negro...
...The term "muck-raker" was used of Upton Sinclair and others of his time, including what the Times called "one of the so-called muck-raking editors of the old McClure's Magazine...
...Battleships, however, may be changed and the science of naval warfare revised as completely as it , following the Monitor-Merrimac fight...
...This cash did the job...
...R. Emerson, legislative representative...
...When Mexico took over the oil as a matter of national policy, the United States, British and Dutch owners went roaring to their respective governments demanding drastic action...
...JhilARKED revision in American military equipment and tactics will result from the Norwegian war...
...The latter listeni in on the reporter's phone call to check that the dispatch sen through corresponds exactly witt the one approved by the censon...
...Among a considerable section of Negro people, there is a belief that Negroes should look to Japan for leadership, based largely upon the fact that Japan is one of the darker races: •¦' • This position is futile and fallacious because Japan is an imperialist power and therefore she subjugates rather than "liberates-weaker people...
...Because Negroes are denied jobs, their relief load is high...
...broxen promises" are in his other and the fingers he holds forth are dripping with blood...
...Members who objected were, expelled wholesale...
...both books were called radical, obscene, and worse...
...Gleefully riding high, the comrades turned their attention, to those opposing them in the onion's Gulf district...
...it is...
...Similarly, the best foreign correspondence is that of Otto D. Tolischus, on the social, political and economic background of the German drive 1WJT WHAT of Great Britain and France...
...agent—acting through Curran...
...Be- VJ-—Tr y tween battles, Geefcfcak they write news dispatches for Goebbels' propa-ganda ministry...
...deal with*-the Communists tightened their grip..by forcing an oil-tanker strike when opportunity was unripe...
...But already Italy and Japan have op*** ' on vast quantities...
...Have they gradually been growing aware of the problems of the land...
...This purge took place at the Moscow master's dictation and was directed by Tommy Ray—known OXJ.P.U...
...Witness her treatment of the Chinese who too are colored...
...tailed plans for transport not tab of soldiers but of newsmen « well...
...And, of course, it may be that her national interests may not always coincide with the interests and progress of the Negro people and other darker races...
...And largely" because >f this condition, the British have eased the oil pressure »n Mexico...
...Justice is never given...
...regular m i 1 i - B> t a r y training <MjRI courses...
...Wetn?| had covered two war* theaTfc 1936, and when he died t&SflK in a London blackout, two n»» wars had been the subjects of hk eagerly read dispatches...
...Managerial and policy-making positions are generally assigned to white persons...
...Right now, says General Arnold, air corps' chief, VJS...
...Stalin's 5th column -was furious...
...Mexico City, which is beginning to look something like Paris back in 1929, is a seething cauldron of interventional ntrigue...
...That country has made the Drago Doctrine the official corollary of the Monroe Doctrine and has indicated by many diplomatic gestures that unless Washington also accepted the Drago as such a corollary, Argentina and other Hispanic-American powers would play an independent, opportunist hand in a world situation that threatens the United States...
...I know of no unions in the CIO that deny the Negroes the right to join, and only some twenty or more international unions out of 103 affiliated with the AFL refuse Negroes memberhsip...
...With job-fear pervading the membership, the second national convention' was held at New Orleans, July, 1939, packed with the Communist machine...
...Up to low, the State Department has been under terrific press-ire from the Rockefeller and other ofl interests (and the 3ritish Government) to adopt a firm hand toward the Cardenas Government with regard to the expropriation...
...policies of the Cardenas Administration...
...For this reason, President Cardenas has refused, so far, to support General Camacho "openly and there is i possibility that he may attempt to sidetrack the coming struggle by a military coup to cancel the elections...
...They hadn't learned yet that friends full of oil are terribly important...
...Having now—in early 1939—a thoroughly scared and propagandized membership to...
...imperial existence and expansion: and couldn't, even if she ¦would, come to the rescue of the oppressed peoples of color...
...I Witness Mongolia, Finland, and the small Baltic states...
...but the publicity is w*orth that much more...
...Louis Post-Dispatch pictures the fiasco of Munich and the growth of the Empire of Europe...
...and then allowed tney>wsW use the oil and pay for it too—with things that Men* needed...
...are made in his copy, the reporter has the right of appeal to the chief censor and thence to the Director of Military Intelligence...
...BUT everybody was figuring without a war...
...Nor is this a doctrine of isolation, but one of self-reliance, self-help, but not without willingness for alliance with all movements whose program is in harmony .with the struggle of the Negro people for freedom...
...Yet thousands of Negro workers soon will be out of WPA jobs, with no openings in private industry...
...He most depend on his own right arm, togethee with the cooperation of his true white friends...
...Freedom is never granted...
...The British are now Bring to fix things up, restore diplomatic relations, e» offer Mexico higher prices than Italy will pay...
...Should the Negro -W and darker people look to them, for freedom and justice...
...Their lives were repeatedly threatened by party terrorists...
...To top it off, a big United States company has sudse* come to an agreement with the Mexican Governs*"*-This sets a precedent and all the companies will no* following suit...
...Then, with dramatic suddenness, C-urran appeared at a carefully packed meeting and with a set of phoney charges called for the .suspension of most, of those in opposition to, the party who held key positions in the -anion's Atlantic district...
...A few da" ago, Japan contracted for more than two million but* of it...
...W r-On the Air...
...to membership ratification and a party committe counted the ballots...
...A revolution is impending over the election and uals* Cardenas obligingly move first to trample upon the destitution by canceling the elections, the democratic p*" ers will lose more in Mexico than the oil to which nationals laid claim...
...Swarm Over Mexico as World Awaits July Revolt By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at Station WEVD, New York D EVOLUTION in Mexico is how regarded as almost *V certain by the State Department at- Washington and a group of well-financed Mexican exiles with headquarters apparently in Chicago...
...No strategy was too...
...It's a Hard War for Reporters 1 FOUND No Peace," he ^ * four years ago...
...Of course, this is not true of all unions...
...knowledge and understanding that are essential for an oppressed.group to win its rights can only come through sharing and participating itself in the experiences and struggles for freedom within the country where said rights are denied...
...1940 without first, putting thenrto membership referendum...
...It was later learned, this was to "liquidate" those opposing the Communists within the National Maritime Union...
...The answer is written large and-in unmistakable terms in the long, tragic history of the fingers of England and France, dripping with blood of black, yellow, and brown colonials...
...Take a walk up and down the famous Avenida tfadero and—so I'm told—you'll probably rub shoulders vith officials and secret • agents from every one of the warring nations, including Canada...
...With, their long-range psychology the average union member was imbued with fear-Hemes made to realize that his job was safe only if he said nought in criticism of vie Communists' policies...
...As the lineup of opposing sides becomes . clearer, the jutline of revolution becomes more discernible...
...That's why all these foreign agents have been ossM* hither and yon in Mexico City...
...William Saroyan, always superabundant, has refused his Pulitzer award for his play "The Time of Your Life...
...This was followed by "The Late George Apley," then "The...
...I-One More Front _ . IT has been common knowledge that Com- dfllaV ' * munists in the National Negro Coneresa ::--^l^g '"' were organizing to assure that the CP line ,*~M would be followed, viz^: RooseveK attacked, ft -3\MTK ,liaisqn with Lewis formed, the Allies de- /J\ S-^y^ \ nounced as imperialist, etc '' jtfr t^CkT^A Negro Comintern agents were active, in New M^\2/'***s^m...
...While there is some sentiment in U.S...
...While this "liquidation" was progressing, the party net-work invariably used the "fed herring...
...fellow-citizens...
...Negroes of the West Indies cannot grapple with their questions.upon a basis of the historical background of India, and the jNegro people cannot shape and determine their technique and methodology for their liberation by the social patterns and traditions of the Soviet Union...
...Most of the time of the so-called Negro politicians who receive appointments under any administration is spent in adroitly doing nothing...
...Communist propaganda had stymied all efCective< membership action...
...Moscow advocates —instantly became rooters for long-term contracts and signed them early in...
...28 Beidi reporters have been killed it battle...
...They said, "Very well, if the Halls of Monk-ruma wont meet our terms Mexico can keep its oil—end where then are they going to get the money to par the hired help...
...Chief lesson of the Norway'campaign is the fact that long-range bombers which can keep out of "»"Fe J°fJ|ifi aircraft weapons are of tremendous value...
...The Reichswehr has drafted every war correspondent into tlx army, in accord with the puB...
...Like Sinclair's book, "The Graps of Wrath" evoked a storm of wrath in conservative centers and from anti-labor sources...
...Elections were again postponed pending ratification, and again the party agents were perpetuated in office...
...This happens to be Ray Stannard Baker, who woke the nation, in 1894, to the march of Coxey's Army, and who in 1940 wins the Pulitzer Prize for volumes VII and VIII of the searching study of Wood-raw Wilson...
...W?m Death of Miller pointed eyfg millions of newspaper readers th» question of just how this war fc 'being covered...
...The dazzling promises held out to the membership were never realized...
...TMOT since "The Jungle," Upton - Sinclair's picture of the conditions among workers in the Chicago stockyards, has so powerful an exposure of workers' lives been wrought in fiction...
...Duffy and a list of seventy members, including many port agents...
...His play, however, is a sort of champagne reversal of "Our Town," that took the same prize two years ago...
...The significance of this award may be judged by two quotations fsom the New York Times...
...Awards Based on Social Content for First Time By Professor JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY Author of "The Quest for ikteraiure" and "Rodin...
...both brought about a Congressional investigation...
...According to followers of General Juan Andreu Almezan, they will win the popular vote but be counted out by the state gov-arnors, of whom twenty-four (there are twenty-eight in ill) are said to be committed to General Avila Camacho...
...Only white girls are accepted as telephone operators...
...8. »es»f"* . are the best in the world...
...Maybe Germany wasn't;,§nfa Italy wasn't...
...7:-'''":' Active among the Communist Party line delegates was Max Yergan of City College...
...It may come down to a choice (for the United States) of "winking an eye" at a Cardenas coup (which -Would probably/be best for the selfish interests of this" country), or coming vis a tis with a border nation under a government gambling op a totalitarian victory in the present world crisis...
...Their enslavement of the seagoing union was completed in a hectic span...
...Censored portions of dispatches have often been restored follow-ing such appeals...
...This constitution swiftly completed their entire domination over the -union's membership...
...Neither the AFL nor the CIO can save the Negro...
...In in-" dustfy Negroes are marginal workers, being the first fired and last hired...
...not yet at war but may be before long —including Italy and the Japanese...
...each has a wholesome joy in life, a best and will to live, that show the power (and threat) of the day Edwin Markham once looked forward to, when "the man with the hoe" shall rise and take his due place in the world...
...The strike fund was "transferred" by convention edict, through the mediem of an entirely "new" constitution, to the union's GENERAL FUND...
...Even Secretary Edison has admitted that the plane today has an at least temporary advantage over the Marked improvement in the quality of ships' topsides, including remodeling them to provide strong armor, wlB the rale henceforth...
...Then their tactics of organized confusion, terrorism, strike-breaking and open sabotage at the- membership's will were brought into play...
...The latter weight comes from a bloc of South American powers headed by Argentina...
...Anyhow, these went to President Cardenas, comratoeratet -with him on the hare* times...
...And Carl Sandburg, whose driving social poetry should have won an award long- ago, is this year a winner with his biog-" raphy: "Abraham Lincoln—The War Years," which (like Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois") emphsastees' the"' Social" syjepaitay...
...Japan in a war with the United States would no doubt seek'to exploit the unrest of the Negro people upon a basis'of color, not because of any real interest in the Negro but for her own advantage...
...The Mexicans said it was an internal affair and they were going to settle it in their own back yard, just as Britain or the United States would settle a matter of that kind with foreign interests...
...Well, BW-be not everybody...
...The New Leader herewith prints a digest of the second half of the speech delivered at the Congress by A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...
...Bart Howard of the St...
...But London couldn't get Mexico to back down...
...Outside of the literary awards, the social and political stress of the prize wipners is even more striking...
...The Nazis and the Faseisrti, both aiming at the creation )f a Mexican Falange, hope to profit no matter which side wins...
...Their Communist vice-presidenjt, Ferdinand Smith, was proven a former scab...
...The party's steam-roller convention hastily covered, the plunder...
...Hennessey, Phillips, Emerson and the rest were never accorded, the trial tight granted tbem under the constitution because the party clique'.knew the "charges" wouldn't hold water...
...She was powerless to save Ethiopia, although she has made an uncostly gesture of sympathy to.this unhappy country in a brilliant speech by (Foreign Commissar Litvinov at the League of Nations...
...But even more powerful has been the pressure to keep hands off...
...There probably is an exception here and there...
...However, both Allied nation have pledged themselves never to insert any additional copy into articles transmitted by the war correspondents...
...These hopes are just as vain and unsubstantial for the Soviet Union, too, is an imperial power and seeks, like Japan, the extension and expansion of her power over weaker peoples, regardless of color...
...From 'this involved and long-winded sentence, turn to the blunt remark on the Times' book page: "The Steinbeck award is a milestone in American letters, and further evidence...
...For the...
...For with charity and philanthropy go control, since the power over a man's subsistence is the power over his will...
...Thousands of Negro workers are jobless because there is what is known as "a white man's job...
...This year, for depth of social implications, for power of-vision and righteous wrath, the awards honor the Pulitzer Prize Committee...
...Never befomlgM military commands made sacs fc...
...adopted all the tactics they had used on the old-line officials...
...117HAT of the domestic problems of the Negro ^people...
...Now, control of a people's will by an outside force destroys their initiative, breaks down their feeling of independence, and thwarts and stultifies their intellectual, moral and spiritual development...
...Edmund Duffy, the only current prizeman to., have won be-bore (1931), did much of his early work for the_ old Leader and its successor, The ' New Leader...
...They owned all the ships, all the distribution channels...
...Randolph Hearsti who are...
...At Washington it is fully realized that powerful-and danger->usa European and Asiatic forces are working to establish Vfexicb as an "open wound" in the flank of the United States...
...Randolph, Ex-Head of Nat'l Negro Congress, Urges Co-Racialists to Organize Themselves for Democracy' By A. PHILIP RANDOLPH TODAY'S crisis creates an intensification of the impoverishment, misery and degradation of the Negro peoples in particular, and the darker races in general...
...tremendous fW* now at work...
...The U.S.Vat the moment is attempting to "unravel a lesperate solitical tangle with regard to Mexico...
...Craig's Wife" in tiie drama, with dear old Professor Channing's sixth volume of the "History of the United States...
...J. King, general secretary...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 19
