How to Reduce Racial Tension - A Concrete Program of Action
RANDOLPH, A. PHILIP
How to Reduce Racial Tension — A Concrete Program of Action By A. PHILIP RANDOLPH •RACE RIOTS, like wars, are disastrous. It is estimated that five million daisb*9 worth of damage alone was done...
...They indulge in heaping calumny and abuse against Bullitt They stigmatize him as a Naz...
...Where unions pes...
...far novel depicts the life of Philadelphia's aaaorraey...
...Likewise the most influential publication in the Northwest, the conservative Republican Portland Oregonian, as well as the Oregon Journal...
...After Uwa^bpwW and hearing the Board could order 8UeMfj2ui discontinued and enforce its order SyJWneJaw process and also by denying its proliii lip *5 trade-union which indulged in anfsh* aan» practices^ ^'-J^ This is essential because of the cofltisosd st crimination that is practiced by trade-unions in excluding workers fa**.^^ tership on account of race, color, iwod^Vi national -origin...
...Its strongest advocates in the House include Republicans Walter Judd (Minnesota), Francis Bolton;* (Ohio), Noah Mason (Illinois), and Clare Luce (Connecticut...
...living among Chinese people, using djMaosa - lasnnrnss and Chinese soil as oar base against Japaa...
...Washington, on the contrary, is indifferent, embarrassed and annoyed with the whole business...
...President Roosevelt regards him as one of his closest collaborators in the development of the New Deal...
...Together with Walter Won, Lnyle Lane and other Negro leaders at organised a March on Washington te pro test Jim Crowiam...
...Bullitt as the first Ambassador from America, because he knew that Mr...
...Likewise anti-Semites accuse the Jews of being responsible for their economic plight...
...Following Roosevelt's recommendation, it nominated as its candidate Mr...
...if tens*he hmhasvil the Jewish race as Asiatics at that time, too...
...By the same token, Jews and Gentiles don't fight each other beopuse they hate each other, but hate each other because they fight each other...
...here is another great atetaflis' that the right thing to dels slss ttWteptditm...
...Can this reasonably be regarded as anti-Semitic propaganda...
...Congressman Warren Magtausson of the SeattleBremerton District introduced one of the early bills for repeal...
...I want to say right here aad new that practically all the Chinese are Communists . . . and these people are enemies coming in here as Tropin horses...
...The Nazi Frankfurter* Zeitung on Jul...
...Had they been sincere in this assertion H would have applied the same reasoning to tetttt's candidacy...
...Bear in mind that this emskewas record has been accomplished despite the sal that the FEPC has no legislative sanction, 9 power for the enforcement of its findings...
...I too have carefully perused the novel from stall the Communists tore out the passages opposed to be inimical to Jews, Negroes and spumed labor...
...The Veterans of Foreign Wars at their California State con ven ti on, where the issue has always been hottest, reversed their time-worn policy, and strongly endorsed repeal of Chinese Exclusion...
...They held that it was quite possible to achieve both aims, i.e...
...After three years of service in Moscow, Mr...
...This letter advised the queer fellow to draw the windowshades when he was taking his bath and to abstain from appearing in nature's garb before the window where he could he seen by the tenants of the neighboring house...
...One character very harshly assails the Jews who buy real estate in the city's aristocratic area where he lives...
...H is their hereditary prejudices which the author depicts fat Ida satirical novel...
...One hundred wutSS thousand man-hours were lost in the first three days of Mobiles riot and ¦*39 lion lost in the Detroit riot...
...Furthermore, they believed that if Hague were stripped of his power, it would prove easier for the Democratic Party to win the election...
...Richard Walsh, editor of the magazine A tin, declared: •It to » atatter of downright military necessity that before great amnksn of American total art go into China to fight beside Chinese sntts&t...
...should set up inter-racial committees to plan scientific programs to stimulate cooperation among the employees in their industries, and to stop some personnel managers from fostering and promoting troubles between racial, religious and nationality groups to prevent labor unity and increase the exploitation of the wage earners...
...Ui&er it should he established an administrative board which could supervise the application of the act in the interest of removing the eauatrpf racial friction...
...can be given...
...to clear out corrupt leaders from the Democratic machine and to win the election too...
...the Nazi paper continues, "none had the ear of the President to the same extent as Bullitt, and -. . . no one had such an active part in the diplomatic preparation of the war...
...Ambassador to Soviet Russia and later to France...
...m*t-CHi>*%e Prejudice yielding HISTORIC support of the Exclusion Acts has melted away as' the facts have been made known during the past year...
...carried a long hysterical article, cjtinjf documents seized in the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs to prove that Bullitt "considered as his first dnty the task .of making the' American people ripe for war against the Axis...
...If China were placed on the same quota basis with other nations—an annual quota of 2 per cent of the number of citizens of Chinese origin living here in 1890—the stigma of absolute exclusion would be removed, and 107 selected Chinese would be admitted annually...
...Fortunately the campaign against the Exclusion Act has not become embroiled in partisan politics...
...HEN the Communists started their smear W' campaign against Bullitt's "reactionary astl," the United Labor Committee decided to Sptttigate tne matter thoroughly...
...A Nazi Smear Too ""THE Nazis hate William C. Bullitt as hotly * as do the Communists—but for opposite reasons...
...Catholic bishops and Protestant leaders appeared before the Committee te advocate repeal...
...FDR forestalled the march by tossha his famous Executive Order 81*2, ami kj creeting the Fair Employment Prsctiea Committee...
...The United Labor Committee which represents 120,000 members of AFL and CIO unions, at its convention, decided to endorse Bullitt's candidacy and to work for his election...
...a But these are jost the evidence of material losses...
...There are good, heed > -practical"' reasons tar ftpaaling flfcsf TatTneiSu laws...
...Oae of the meat revealmg witnesses against repeal was a Mrs...
...Jim-Crow THE President is s powerful Isaac,' A. Philip Randolph reported ens after a conference with FDR on racial a»' crimination, and before yop knee j you're sometimes convinced that yean gotten something yon haven't really gelten - . Bat through militant pressure, A. Phaq Randolph did "get something* from tin President...
...It is taep who give vent to had feelings against Smwm, labor unions and' Negroes...
...It turned to te "Anti-Defamation League" which is enpgtd in investigating fabrications and asperate* aimed at the Jews...
...Bullitt was free from any bias against Communist Russia and that he would deal with the Soviets in complete good faith...
...we shoakf recognize and establish the equsHty of China in'oar ally by repealing the PxLlimita lews.* . Finally...
...One of those leaks was plugged when we surrendered our offensive extra-territoriality privileges...
...The CIO took an active part in the preparation of the hearings before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization las't May, and its press and Legislative Committee have led out strongly for repeal...
...The Communist "Daily, Worker" published a series of articles to explain this about-face...
...Philadelphia will have to elect a mayor this year...
...But he warned us that there were serious leaks in that reservoir which had to be plugged if we were to be sure of friendship in China...
...It is common knowledge that the struggle for jobs is the most fertile soil for inter-group irritation and clash...
...Mr...
...hunting saidc 'East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet' and I am saying it too...
...Therefore, the friends of President Roosevelt must see to it that' the candidate of the Democratic Party be victorious...
...This League closely ntaanized the Communists' charges against Mlitt and arrived at the conclusion that they npe devoid of any substance...
...iistents (Michipaa): "Were we not all foreigners at one time?*' Mrs...
...Admiral H. E. Yamell, for years Commander of the Asiatic Fleet, appeared before the House Committee and pleaded with them to repeal tne anti-Chinese exclusion laws...
...A part of the Executive Order under eh* the President's Committee on Fair Employes**1 Pi-acrice was established reads as follows: 1 do herebv reaffirm the sehe...
...New Jersey has to elect a governor...
...At present, it has...
...The first Chinese exclusion acts were enacted during the "coolie labor" hysteria of the early 1880's...
...Every day that it is left open, we famish a factual base for Japanese anti-American propaganda—almost the only effective point re\ matning to them, but one which is a personal offense to every living Chinese citizen...
...It deals with their hidebound prejudices inherited from generations of another characters of the novel are degenerate, aarpppf, or simpty nit-wits...
...For instance...
...Immediately after American recognition of the Soviet regime, the President selected Mr...
...I WANT to make the following fnff-'W ¦ that may be helpful: 1. The Fair Employment Practices Conmittee should be strengthened jtfte an: power of subpoena, granted aa smsai isijit...
...The Massachusetts Legion drafted a similar resolution early in September...
...Lesinski: "I happen to know a lot of bine star mothers...
...For many years American liberals have opposed the Oriental Exclusion Acts as unsound, ' unjustified, gratuitous insults to the proud and friendly nations of the Orient, and to China, India and the Philippines in particular...
...A part of h< r testimony follows: Mrs...
...It further states: I. "That all government agenens ee>» remed with training programs sbseld tsm measures designed to prevent diet i Isnsiass 2 •Thai all gnte-nmenl contracting sfsvcies *hoold include in defense seam**** • provision obligating the contractor sot «J discriminate against any worker bsatast st race, color, or conntry of national wfipeJ. "Thai there should be eeUsJsllsiJ Committee on Fair Emptoyssont Wgg...
...there was a rule of terror and violence «t at s unforgivable sin...
...This final Is i aarfremdsV i tRlge experts in mftrrepel***, aaPhauiju it .until, political science and labor htsaafy te nmhe stadias aad prepare leaflets quoting scientist* ea race to disseminate among the workers in and oat of trade-unions and among-emploj ers...
...This depart-' ment could also give lectures and condmrt classes on the relation of minorities te indns trial production, uuliaai It J, an* the struggle of the workers for better wages, improved- conditions of work, and the burtdytg and maintenance of trade-onions...
...They also have trouble when it comes to being upgraded on the job...
...But the patriotic Chinese are determined to clean out their country of the baneful influence of Washington and its agents who destroy their country...
...Several months ago, the Communist Party of the State of New Jersey announced that it was supporting the machine of "boss" Hague, one of the most corrupt and reactionary political machines in all the United States...
...They don't realize that the whole job question goes deeper than that and that it is tied up with many social, economic and political factors that result in periodic conditions of job scarcity and that withholding jobs from Xegroet would not create job prosperity for white worker...
...Five hundred families of war worker* were rendenfl homeless in Beaumont, with the destruction of vital war materials, the slowinanSS of war production...
...It is estimated that five million daisb*9 worth of damage alone was done in Harlem in the recent riot on A nr~irfnji hundreds of persona were injured and a few lives lost...
...Of eourse, this subterfuge did not convince honest citizens...
...fds*»ron on Insult YEAR ago now Wendell Willkie returned '"from his round-the-world flight in which he convinced himself that we all live in "one world...
...Waters: "I mean the Chmese Exclusion Act was at the very fsundmr of the Republic spoken for by Benjamin Franklin ia a speech at Independence Hall in which he warned Congress against invasion by the Asiatic race...
...All the wooing and other amorous advances are being made by the agents of Chungking...
...Agnes Waters who represented what she called the Crusading Motners of Pennsylvania aad the National Blue Star Mothers...
...Negroes are limited in securing jobs in certain sections "because of the lack of housing f|r Negroes even though there may be adequate housing if they were permitted to live whew other workers live...
...Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Laws — A Test for U. S. Democracy By MONROE SWEETLAND National Director, CIO War Relief VASUO YAMADA, one of Tokyo's well-known commentators, waxed more furious than usual on June 11...
...This would, however, prove impossible if "boss" Hague lost his grip on the Democratic state machine...
...A MOTLEY crew at professional super-pa^triots, alien-baiters, anti-Semites, and domestic fascists appear* ti l>er*i»ii the House Committee to defend the' Exclusion Laws...
...provided with aa adequate staff and degrees should extend to it legislative sanction...
...But it is net asPTa** It must be supplemented by additional nstisef legislative srui administrative action...
...But the Communists remained adamant and joined hands with Hague's corrupt machin^ for the campaign...
...Bat in the book yon learn that the enraged lent who is fulmnoting against the Jews had just received an unpleasant letter from the Jewish landlord next door...
...The Democratic Party organization of Philadelphia decided to bend all its efforts to defeat the Republicans in this year's election...
...And so the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion statutes has become a test of American sincerity...
...Said the admiral: "There are other means (than military* oi strengthening the determination of the Chinese people to fight on until real and adequate assistance...
...Taken apart from the context, this sentence asaads antiSemitic...
...It is not a particular race which is responsible for the condition of any other race, but our social and economic system...
...the Democratic advocates include Samuel Dkkstein (New York), Chairman, of the Committee, Ed Gossett (Texas), John, Lesinski (Michigan), John McCormack (Massachusetts), James Curley (Massachusetts) and Martin Kennedy (New York...
...4. ""THE enactment by,Congress of a Pair Ra* cial Practice A#t...
...6. Employers' associations, too...
...Do they support the Democratic candidate...
...Repeal, the President declared, wilt not only rob the Japanese propagandists ef their most effective argument, but wilt serve as reassurance to ail the people of Asia that we Americana are net hypocrites in our denunciation of Nasi race theories and practices...
...President Roosevelt has stated Urn FEPC has performed a good job Dr 111 . colm S. McLean, former chairman, has ssH that the committee did more m the tn» eighty days of its existence to briaf as Bill of Rights closer to realization the* my- i thing in the past eighty years...
...Bullitt was the President's candidate and, therefore, must be elected...
...West Coast Congressmen, who would perhaps be first to reflect regional sentiment, have been leaders in advocating repeal, just as their predecessors from the same districts led the fight for Exclusion legislation in years past...
...This proposal is fast becoming tat Miring ground of nil forces interested to wip...
...They were brought here largely against their will and paid miserably low wages...
...The assertion that Mr...
...Rogers, Jr., John H. Tolan, and James Rolph, Jr., of California, as well as Delegate Joseph Farrington of Hawaii, have already supported the repeal forces...
...Persons of Chinese origin already in the United States, who entered the country legally, would then be entitled to become naturalized, thereby admitting to citizenship a few thousand immigrants of Chinese ancestry, many of them the fathers and mothers of boys in the American Army and Navy...
...There is strong evidence that West Coast sentiment has softened toward the Chinese, and that repeal of the Act will be supported by most Americans in the areas where the Chinese have been concentrated...
...Here and there we have had numberless conflicts of this nature because Negroes were introduced into a given plant or up-graded on jobs in a plant...
...an anti-Semite, a Negro-baiter and a foe of labor...
...1 Of all those who "influenced Roosevelt in favor of a policy of intervention and war...
...These rare riots lower the morale of the Negro soldiers in the camps and en the ¦ battlefields and the seven seas...
...The Nazi organ further charges that in 1940, "in accordance »i;h*he orders of President Roosevelt, be strove to spur France to carry- on its hopeless resistance against Germany...
...For instance, because three or more Negroes were up-graded in the Packard Automobile Plant in Detroit, about twenty-six thousand white workers struck...
...We will choose this fal whether we dramat.ze by this simple legislative act, the sincerity of our war aims, or whether ws'atiste so that none can miss the point that We hnWliteu defrauding our Chinese allies by our pMsteltai of good will and fraternity, of democracy' and the four freedoms...
...No one can deny that minorities have special difficulties in securing employment...
...But the one great vent in this reservoir of good will is the insulting, obsolete, and inexcusable Chinese Exclusion Act...
...The San Francisco Chronicle, leader of the campaign for four decades to bar all Oriental immigration, has reversed its position and warmly endorsed repeal of the Acts it originally promoted...
...5. There should be created inter-racial and minorities committees t in the trade-unions, to explore the problem *.nd to conduct workers' education classes for the discussion of the relations of race, religion, nationality and labor...
...f* justify their slanderous charges that jLsjtt is an enemy of the Negroes, Jews and Bar unions, the Communists use excerpts from insvei he published about twenty years ago...
...The most imrxirtant fundamental loss was spiritual and moral This consists of the loss of mutuel§»_a will, confidence, and good faith among members of both races in these respective cities...
...Therefore, one must forget all the sins and crimes which the Hague machine has committed, connive at everything he is doing and even help him in overcoming decent adversaries within the Democratic Party itself...
...As a rule they fight over the question of jobs and job promotion...
...In Detroit thirty-eight anSB were killed and there was considerable property damage...
...Why did they not call Roosevelt's attention to Bullitt's alleged "anti-Semitism" and "Jim Crowism" at that time...
...No one will ever he able to tell the profound adverse effects ef these race riots among the peoples of color throughout the world and the difficulties fhey may cause te international unity among the white and colored peoples of the world in the fata re...
...They are confident that the votes of liberals and labor will bring about his victory the next election day...
...To«Mr...
...Even among the "patriotic'' organizations there has been a rapid about-face as some of the more responsible leaders faced the implicationos of blind adherence to their anti-immigrant tradition...
...Since jobs for minorities are tied up with discriminations against them, it is important that something be done about the basic question of race relations, ff we are to do anything about solving the probgem of jobs in the postwar world...
...A step in this direction was made in the annulment of the extra-territoriality treaties aad special privileges...
...Organized labor has for fifty years been at the forefront of advocates of Chinese exclusion, but now the great bulk of organized labor is'already supporting repeal...
...The Commies -charge that Bullitt is anti-Soviet and pro-Nazi...
...The most effective method is to considery bp act as weft as word, China as an equal in every respect with the other allied nations...
...They have made their peace with Hague Sere helping him in his fight against the Ept, liberal groups of his party...
...At that convention, it was emphasized that Mr...
...This "gang" is of the same inglorious ilk as the former Tammany organization in New York and the present "Hague machine" in New Jersey...
...up-to-date, lafief'w provide for freedom, peace and plenty, When the war is over what will haps** d minorities seeking employment, when uaapfl no demand for war production which can st'inm ss s national patriotic appeal to employers eel labor unions to accept workers without rei3 to race, creed, color or national origin...
...sf» the United State* that there shall bt m discrimination in the em ploy meat of wadera in defense industries or govtmmsstm-cause of race, creed, color, or national snga and I do hereby declare that it to is* sett of employers and of labor orgsaiisissaMfurtherance of said polio sad of nan em...
...Pearl Buck, out of a lifetime of experience in China, testified to the great effect repeal would have to improve Sino-American relations, representatives of the Seattle and San Francisco Chamber of Commerce testified hew important , they considered repeal to be for post-war commercial intercourse...
...to provide for the fall and eoniubto sarfitipatina of all workers in defense keaaanm without- discrimination because of"*, creed, color, or national origin .. * r*raeV % lin D. Roosevelt...
...Bullitt dared *Z| the truth about Soviet Russia, after he MjaS from Moscow hi 1936...
...In that way the rule of the Republicans would be crushed and at the next presidential election Philadelphia would be in the Democratic bag...
...He dated to the Soviet regime was dictatorial Piocratic, that the G.P.U...
...to investigate complaints of dlscrinenoam and to take appropriate steps te lenraa* valid grievances.** k The issuance of this Executive Ofdrr masterly piece of constructive statessasnshs) w* the part of the President...
...Bullitt, pnrrer...
...Adoption by the government of a national policy through legislation, penalizing the inflection of a person's civil rights on account of race, color, religion or national ostein, could serve to eliminate many areas of social -racial conflict...
...It has...
...Waters: "That's perfectly aU right, but we worn not Chi—an" Mr...
...And just as racial tensions and outbreaks hinder the war program they can disturb our national peace during the post-war period...
...One cannot get bread and butter without working, except through relief which no decent citizen likes...
...In that case also they would H| urged electors to think only of the need te s democratic victory next year...
...The only Pacific Coast Congressman on the Cometittee on Immigration and Naturalization is conservative Lowell Stockman (R) of the eastern ^Oregon wheat country, and he has been an outspoken advocate of repeal...
...And I cam say emphatically tat in this case too we are witnessing the dnrscteristie Communist fraud...
...American super-patriots, as usual, played into the hands of the alert Yamada...
...W shop contracts the napMsio* of e wanker from the union amounts te fnenang the worker the right tn work...
...Besides, it s» met with and suffered from violent spssaHhl from the South and considerable confusion as chaos from within on account of the resignsba of several of its members...
...John B. Trevor of the "American Coalition" claimed to represent 100 American patriotic societies...
...We know, from memoranda of Count Potocki [former Polish Ambassador to the United States], that Bullitt invariably expressed himself about Germany and the Fuehrer > ith the greatest vehemence aha stroig hatred.' and we know . . . that as early as the autumn of 1938...
...The Communists' line of argument ran as follows: In order to ensure President Roosevelt's getting the nomination for a fourth term, it is important that the Democratic Party should win the city and state elections this year...
...Therefore, the problem of minorities and jobs in the post-war world :can be most effectively met by enactment of a Fair Minorities or Racial Practice Act which wig deal with the question of discrimination on account of race, creed,.religion or national origin on a national scale...
...We are absolutely against this kill...
...An even greater will be the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Laws...
...Are they protesting in this case too that one must strain all efforts to achieve the victory of the Democratic Party for the sake of President Roosevelt and of his candidacy for a fourth term...
...f WHY did the Communists not launch their ' attack against Bullitt ten years ago when the President appointed him Ambassador to the Soviet Union...
...They might he called the black star mothers .if they are Negroes and Jews...
...The astute rulers of America do not hesitate to abuse those high ideals which were cherished by the founders of the United States and are still being venerated by the little people of America...
...The leaders of the Democratic Party consulted President Roosevelt and representatives of labor unions...
...That is why the President as well as the liberals and the organised labor movement of Philadelphia have nominated him for the mayoralty...
...As has so often bean tree throng* history...
...He told us in his report to the nation that everywhere in the Orient, and most of ' ill in China, he found a great reservoir of good will toward the United States...
...Congressmen Wiij...
...H n the familiar trick they always use in order m otfsme the character of their adversaries, ft this end, they detach a passage from the netest of an article, book or address and dish gpat to uninformed people as evidence of the itamnable views of the author...
...At that time, the novel was more freshly in the minds of Americans than it is now...
...Communist Appeasement: Support Hague, Slander Bullitt By HARRY ROGOFF IN this article, I want to call attention to the * Communists' attitude toward this year's political campaign.- I shall use two telling instances, one in the State of New Jersey, and the other in Philadelphia, to show the depth of the Communists' political depravity...
...Waters: "WeR...
...They inundate the city with the meanest fabri¦ . M discredit Bullitt Should he be de|"Jl and the Republicans win, the sordid r^mirt campaign would be mainly reTajpiwho are acquainted with the character 12 Communist movement will have no dtffiigTie understanding this attack...
...kffANY millions of man hours have .been lost "* by these social-racial explosions...
...He ridicules them...
...Bullitt shares his characters' disparaging attitude toward Jews and labor unions runs counter to the basic principtet of truth and decency...
...they want to kill politically although Sa President Roosevelt's intimate friend, a ppjtd New Dealer, a truly progressive man Et twenty-year record of liberalism...
...ftjt Communists' explanation of their new h/ttw* toward the Hague machine is nothing |gt fraud...
...In Philadelphia the Communists have engaged in a fierce fight against Bullitt They follow the familiar Communist tactics...
...Our great transcontinental railroads imported some 40,000 Chinese laborers who did most of the hard work of laying track end building right-of-way across the western deserts and mountains...
...The United Saras* Department of Labor fhoold establish a bureau cm problems of minorities...
...In the last few months the problem has been spotlighted by increasing racial tension and riots...
...Instead of being placed under selective immigration quotas like European, African and other peoples, the Chinese were completely rtebarrerl...
...on October 11...
...In Mobile, Alabama, because three or more Negroes were made welders, a race riot broke out...
...Even the California Department of the American Legion, after a spirited debate at their annual conclave in early August, declared in a resolution that it "hereby urges enactment by the Congress of a bill repealing the Chinese Exclusion Law, and it urges upoa the next national convention of the American Legion that it adopt a like 'resolution...
...William C. Bullitt, one of the President's closest friends, a devoted New Dealer, formerly U.S...
...i * CHORTLY after this, there was a second development—this* time in Philadelphia...
...If the Nazi paper had praised Bullitt, weald the Commies say same thing...
...Are they for Bullitt...
...In both instances the minority group is singled-out as the goat for difficulties the majority group encounters...
...Mrs...
...nujg Communists are ready to walk hand in i^Snd with the corrupt Hague machine, flpfte its shameful record of corruption, its yaptl persecution of labor unions and liberals, Mggning the state's towns into sites of scab Shi...
...And why did they not then urge the Soviet government te refuse agreement te the appointment of such a shabby character...
...Bullitt's ideas...
...On September 1 the ySan Francisco County Board of Supervisors, speaking for the people who were the wellspring of exclusion sentiment fifty' years ago, adopted a vigorous resolution asking repeal of the Exclusion Acts, and for the admittance of Chinese on quota...
...Congressman Ward Johnson of California is the enly Coast Congressman to date who has taken a stand opposing repeal...
...Never could any reader think that the characters ef the novel express Mr...
...There are certain causes of these riots- They vre largely economic although not wholly so...
...To repeal the Chinese Exclusion law seems destined to end in a poor comedy," Yamada declaimed...
...I I*** fore suggest a second remedial proposal2. A MEND the National Labor lmanWsaa^ to give the National Labor s'flswm' Board jurisdiction over lscriminatorymntanw on the part of trade-unions...
...What has been the Communists* attitude toward this campaign...
...Bullitt has a clean twenty-year record as a true liberal...
...The idea of putting those ideals into practice would be to those American aristocrats an unpardonable desecration of their nobility...
...The Junior Order of Untied American Mechanics presented a series of saper-annuated "defenders of Anglo-Saxon tradition," who argued mostly that they didn't want he pure American strain defiled by Oriental immigration...
...and the Los Angeles Daily News, have editorially espoused repeal...
...they are not my bine star mothers...
...Why, '-Chinese can never become Americans...
...in csnunsfonl shipyards from 6.952 to 12.82*: ¦ ssff yards from 6.»»0 to 11 000 sad ia aircraft from nothing to 5.000 It has been almost a year since be mast tin statement...
...If Negroes seek jobs in a given industry, white workers feel that jobs for Negroes may lessen jobs for them...
...A11 this is necessary for Roosevelt's sake in order to ensure his control over the Democratic Party convention which next year will nominate its candidate...
...ad not a single government order has been essnahf since the committee was created...
...Randolph's article is basagss remarks recently made at the CosnMtes at Racial Prejudice sponsored by nWwsasi Dentocrstic Federation...
...Although the AFL Executive Council has clung to its traditional anti-Chinese position, large and influential sections of the AFL have endorsed repeal, including the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union and, in August of this year, the New York State Federation of Labor convention, AFL's largest regional unit...
...he was nettled by the prospect that the United States might repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act, and take away his trump propaganda card...
...officers of a number of these organisations have already been indicted for sedition and fascist activity...
...But to some extent the Japanese cancelled out the effect of this by pointing out that the United States and Britain gave away nothing we hadn't already lost, since Japaneseoccupation had long since wiped out our privileges anyway...
...Seen- an act would serve in the field of raeal relations as the National Labor Relations Act serves ia tint field of labor relations...
...While this problem is easing up a bit now, because .of the shortage of manpower, and the FEPC, it is certain to become serious and ugly when the war ends in the post-war days...
...a Republican administration led by politicians who have earned infamy throughout the country as "the gang...
...Fundamentally, Negro and white workers don't fight each other because they hate each other, but they hate each other because they fight each other...
...It reflects itself in hatred, and a spirit of revenge, among the populace...
...One of the basic remedies for race riots is to find a remedy for job discrimination against minority groups...
...His disappointment in Soviet Russia has not changed kis attitude toward the New Deal, the labor movement and U. S. foreign policy...
...ing out discrimination in America This suggestion forms the backbone ef tbt ptwgraai outlined by A. Philip Pssse*|h mil to ease racial tensions in this csaair...
...He ha* not faltered in his devotion to the Roosevelt administration and to the President's policies...
...Roosevelt and his clique the preaching of equality, humanity and democrcy is only political expedience, designed to encourage their allies at Chungking to shed the blood of their people...
...Senatorial sentiment will probably not be plumbed until the House has acted...
...The reader knows why the degenerate was infuriated, why he insults the Jews...
...He reported that "The Congress of the Sons of the American Revolution a few days ago submitted to the Senate's [House—ed.l Immigration and Naturalisation Committee a resolution strongly opposing the idea of repealing the Chinese Exclusion Law...
...They themselves have given the lie pthtir assertion that in this year's campaign L paints at issue were the victory of the Bjnttrratic Party and the next presidential Kapa...
...Bullitt returned from Russia disillusioned, as the result of acts by Communist leaders and officials...
...He cries out: "They have reined this region...
...Although the FEPC has done usasmisai able work within its limited rassoitis, K hss had no "teeth*" to enforce its sntsnom Now A. Philip Randolph proposes tint Congress create a Fair Racial rYschea Committee, patterned on the National Labor Relations Board, with powers Is ad againsd discrimination...
...came Franklin D. Roosevelt's eloquent appeal for the wiping out of this long-standing injustice...
...This caused a sensation in the press...
...he spoke ef false 'coming war' which 'might bring an end to the insane expansion of Germany'" The eemmeat of the />eilf Worker is that only those who give weight to the statements of the Nazis will give sny weight to this article in the Frankfurter Zeitung...
...Norm ea- / ployment increased, said he...
...Once the railroads were through with them they were left to fend for themselves in a strange land, without education or ability to speak English, without jobs, . without housing, without wives, without friends, V For forty years they were the butt of political demagoguery on the West Coast, an easy and defenseless mark for political oratory...
...27, 1943...
...Aad the Chinese race is s yellow rase the waste pea pie have to fight and if yea sre going to teed this country with the yellow race, I want to know it...
Vol. 26 • October 1943 • No. 42
