Capital Comment
STOUT, JONATHAN
Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Racism Interferes With War Production WASHINGTON, D. C—This is the story of • particularly shameful double-cross of 3,000 Negro war workers in the town of...
...This major revision of stabilisation policy, as tolacast in informed circles, will attempt to save face by clinging technically to the present Little Steel formula...
...Again the Chinese Communists wouldn't agree...
...The Senate appears stubbornly attached to the democratic way of life—even the Republicans...
...The implication is that when the Council is performing its "political function of action for maintenance of peace and security" the groat powers shall bo above the law...
...But the wide publicity given to the crimes served no good purpose...
...Vandenberg and Taft were glad because a New Dealer didn't get it...
...Forty-five percent of the workers at the Red River plant, and 20 percent at the Lone Star plant, are colored...
...Then he made the honeea available to white tenants...
...If so, you just don't understand Washington...
...You'd think all of that would mean good...
...Every once in a while Mr...
...who thinks decent housing is "too good for Megroes...
...Conceding that he won something, the compromise arrangement does not touch the finally vitsl matter of the use of power...
...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Racism Interferes With War Production WASHINGTON, D. C—This is the story of • particularly shameful double-cross of 3,000 Negro war workers in the town of Texarkans, Texas...
...STALIN'S PLAN FOR ASIA Boris f. Nicolaevsky Disunited Canada.......................................aanmas Alexei Tolstoy ..................................mAjkuxANwovA Total Revolution in Germany.............alrmtairandt Dewey Against Racial Discrimination worm j. mintzw Jews and Vengeance........................milton ¦. konvitz •oo* Reviews by iimji . ALICE hal parsons...
...There's too much housing for whites » Texarkana...
...The new explanation of voting rules adopted at Yalta does little to dispel this impression...
...Blandford didn't tip his hand until the Production Urgency Drive was ever...
...Conceivably with regard to any of these matters, the six so-called small powers could outvote the five large ones...
...philip tapt, ca^pANOANIft...
...The criminal powers went ahead...
...Bisndford's trouble now is he can't find enough •kite tenants for the houses...
...This amounts to a frank acknowledgment that when it comes to taking action the purposes of justice may not be served...
...Together, the two plants employ 3,000 Negroes...
...New Communist Instrument...
...The man responsible for it is Federal Housing Administrator John B, Stanford, Jr...
...Ambassador Hurley undertook to be the go-between...
...Senator Wagner was glad because the issue didn't turn his committee into a battleground and consume a lot of time, especially when he's so busy these days on really important matters...
...Actions may be democratically taken which will hold It up before all the world as an aggressor...
...It has buili 124 housing Unit* for Negroes...
...Justice requires an equal treatment of the strong and the weak, the great and the small The more carefully the proposed plan for the United Nations' Security Council is studied, the more it gives the impression that it was designed to hold the world tightly in the framework of the present balance of power...
...Among the Communist objections was one to Chiang's demand that the Chinese Communists join the Chinese Army for a war against the Japs under a unified command...
...It was an understandable impatience...
...Will the Communist-controlled world labor congress thsn finance the CIO for a war to tlfe death against the AFL...
...Then the Army inspired a "Production Urgency Drive...
...In cases in which the Council is performing "quasi-judicial functions of promoting pacific settlement of disputes, no nation, large or email, ehould he abort the ihw...
...Roosevelt commits an act of genius...
...The statement contains a telltale phrase...
...That's to* high a plica for the rest of the nation to pay for Southern idiosyncrasies...
...He even went through all the red tape connected with determining the eligible Negio families who could move in...
...So they are organising a campaign to declare the publication of the seven volumes illegal in order to strip them of the immunity...
...John Blandford has done more then dishonor his word...
...Those liberals were in no mood to under*<Mthat the Diet Committee flies were like any other PWHmate Instrument—it depends on who uses it and ** whst purpose...
...and the same words were used by Senator Pepper, who led the fight to give the job to Henry Wallace...
...The War Labor Board was too happy to speak...
...The American Government for a long time was inclined to he impatient with the Internal' situation in China which t has immobilized about a million Chinese soldiers, facing each other across the borders of Shensi Province instead of fighting the Japs...
...And, of course, the White House is glad because the departure of Vinson gives Mr...
...Such occasions have been so rare in the past three years that it becomes a positive pleasure to report this one...
...For it seems to have made everybody just too happy for words...
...And such a flamboyant designation applies to the appointment of Vinson...
...Hearings were not held, as has become usual...
...And labor leaders from AFL to CIO were too joyous for words...
...but actually it is planned to allow a series of "fringe" wage increases, ostensibly for the soje purpose of correcting "inequalities" in present wage standards, but actually for the purpose of taking labor heat off the Administration at the chief wage pressure points...
...The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People haa filed suit to require John Blandford tekeep his promises...
...In addition, there will be six others designated to speak for smaller nations...
...This means that all nations outside the Big Three—or, at most, the Big Five—will be rigidly clamped in positions of inferiority...
...Jt Committee Fifes When the Diaa Committee realised it was due for *t scrap heap, the question of its voluminous flies up...
...ThERE is more behind the appointment of Fred Vinson as Federal Loan Administrator than a White House effort to find a compromise between the embattled forces lined up behind Henry Wallace and Jesse Jones...
...and promptly found that the Communist demands had doubled...
...Perhaps President Roosevelt went to the Crimean Conference with a firm resolve to wring important concessions from Marshal Stalin with regard to this feature of United Nations agreement...
...Secretary 8tettinius gives examples of Ave sorts of decisious on which there must be a unanimous vote of the great powers...
...Jesse Jones called it "an excellent appointment...
...Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace expressed his approval...
...There he obtained the conditions under which the Chinese Communists said they would be willing to establish unity in China again...
...What are the "quasi-judicial" functions which are to lie performed democratically with tho parties to the suit sitting on the sidelines...
...TrlE Soviet Union had the largest delegation at the London world labor conference—on the basis of a claimed membership <of 27,000,000 members in its government-controlled labor unions...
...Blandlard built them, all right...
...It is reliably understood that his report Ho Roosevelt on his efforts to establish unity between the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communists for the purpose of a united war effort against the Japs will result in increased American support for Chiang Kai-shek...
...So far only four white families . hi>e moved into them...
...Things in this blessed capital are rarely what they seem (See: Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Justice as a Guiding Objective w N explaining his concern with regerd to freedom of I action at the San Francisco Conference, Senator Vsndenberg used these significant words: "My chief anxiety about the tentative Dumbarton Oaks formuls is that, except in its brief world court rhspter, it does not once mention justice ss a guiding objective or rule of conduct...
...But then we come to another category of decisions...
...And even if the esse involves judgment of its own actions, danger arising from a situation which it lias brought about, any one of the great powers cannot be ruled off the jury...
...In short, will such a world organization become the medium through which Stalin will be able to do openly what he now does covertly ? ? * * » The Right to Know TwENTY of the American republics, meeting in Mexico City, this week declared themselves unanimously in favor of full freedom of the press and radio, unhindered access to sources of news, and abolition of peacetime censorship...
...The public opinion of all mankind can be aearehaHed against it...
...Hurley presented Chiang's agreement...
...To this objection Chiang replied by offering the proposal that both armies fight under the command ef an American general...
...Hurley took Chiang's agreement to Yenan...
...A previous offering of W0 homing unite for white fatniliet remained empty f*f**v*n monthe...
...Roosevelt the opportunity to make it seem as though it was all Vinson's fault, and to institute a major revision of the Administration's stabilization policy in an effort to heal the widening breech between It and organised labor...
...The Council will decide democratically whether a certain situation is dangerous and may decide upon some peaceful method, such as srbitrstion or court procedure, for relieving it, - But acting thus it cannot require a nation to reduce the military force which is considered a threat to * neighbor or mobilize army or navy to meet an agression...
...But save that steamer ticket to Bali...
...The minute action la discussed democracy ceases and invidious distinctions appear...
...Senators Vandenberg and Taft (the heart and brains of Republican reaction) said they were very pleased by Vinson's appointment...
...The seven books were printed by the Government as a public document enjoying Congressional immunity against libel raits...
...Patsaaa paid a visit to the houses...
...In this they were aided by many mite innocent liberals who had in the past been lumped *Wh the Communists by the stupid and viciooa prac*•» of Dies and his chief lieutenant, Robert R. P...
...Then Rep...
...And organized labor is glad because it gets the dictatorial Vinson out of its hair, and out of industrial relations which Vinson never has understood and in which he has never belonged...
...The houses were pltshed...
...Senator Bailey, who led the fight against Wallace, called Vinson's the appointment of a "very fine and able man...
...He raised abjectieaa to tareing aver such good housing to Negroes...
...They were not regarded as necessary...
...In ihort, every reaeon for joy i$ a good, $ound, negative one...
...The arrangement is democratic thus far...
...It is essentially a move to enable the White House to crawl out from the untenable corner into which Vinson's uncompromising position as Director of Economic Stabilization forced the Administration by dictatorially overriding and negating wage increases to hundreds of thousands of textile, meat-packing and other workers—after the War Labor Board had granted the increases...
...Most of these have to commute from 30 to 70 miles a day—according to a Federal study as to why absenteeism continued to be the big Hock to increased production there...
...But it was politically naive to believe the situation could be remedied by putting pressure on Chiang Kai she* alone...
...In the eases of Manchuria and Abyssinia the entire world knew precisely what was happening and who was in the wrong...
...But the League of Nations had this power and often did reach precisely this result...
...Prom that moment on it is taken for granted that the great powers are above the law...
...The Communists organised a campaign to ^•ve them destroyed...
...You'll be able to identify the totalitarians by those who oppose it...
...If, Chiang added, he agrees to the doubled demands, Hurley will find them redoubled by the Communists...
...The ffcct remains that these Con•fwional flies are the most complete on the subject »•> assembled anywhere "» an effort to save the flies which, despite the many unforgivable offense* of the Die* Committee, itill remain extremely useful for assembling complete dossiers 011 real Communists, the last official act of the Dies Committee was to have the complete tiles of the Dies Committee assembled and printed in seven volumes...
...There i* seme suspicion that these faar were rushed in to preempt the development for whites and to keep the Negroes out...
...A MBASSADOR PATRICK HURLEY returned here from China this week...
...If the London conference organises itself as a world labor congress, the interesting question will be whether the Russians will pay per capita on 27,000,000 members...
...That was demonstration enough to convince Hurley as to who is responsible for the fart that a million Chinese soldiers are watching each other instead of fighting Japn...
...At the same time, Chiang warned Hurley, that when he returned to Yenan, he would find that the Communists have doubled their demands...
...For Instance: Jesse Jones was glad because Wallace or a Wallace man didn't succeed him...
...The explanation given by the State Department designated nine sorts of decisions which may bo reached by any sort of a majority vote • of the eleven delegates...
...There he discovered what an excellent prophet Chiang was, and how well Chiang understands the Communists...
...And that has the Communist, wild...
...Each delegate will have one vote...
...The War Labor Board was glad because it means they've won their battle against Vinson's effort to cut out the last of the Board's gutless powers...
...Will it finance the Communist unions in Mexico, in Central America, in South America...
...There is no occasion yet for American refugees from totalitarianism...
...Wanna know the real reasons...
...To date, the Government has built 2,680 housing units tor white workers at the two ordinance plants...
...It is conceivable that the Council of the United Nationa will, in similar fashion, apeak clearly and then fail to act...
...That's ail he coald do...
...Chiang agreed to all the Communist demands, which included giving them a place in the Chinese Government, elections, etc...
...On the Security Council will ait five delegates representing the great powers...
...He haa permitted racial prejudice to interfere with the war effort . . . with the production of guns and shells lor the fighting men at the front...
...Senator Wagner reported that the Senate Banking Committee approved the nomination "enthusiastically...
...Contrary to all the rules of judicial procedure, it will sit in judgment on its own case...
...If they do, there will result a Communist-controlled world labor congress more than amply financed to conduct organisation drives for their special purposes throughout the world...
...He broke a promise under the pressure of Texas Congressman Wright Pitnisu...
...What Roosevelt gained is the possibility that a ease involving one of the great powers may be thoroughly investigated by the Council...
...DeSPITE White House pressure, Administration hopes are dwindling for getting the May-Bailey slavelabor bill out of the Congressional trenches before Christmas...
...That it, the eleven delegate* may act democrat irally a* long as their action does not go beyond talk...
...ISA kapp...
...He went to Yenan, capital of Shensi, which the Chinese Communists have fortified in their civil war against the Chinese Government...
...There are two ordinance plants in Texarkana—the led River and the Lone Star...
...There just wasn't enough housing for Negroes in Texarkana...
...Wallace was glad because Jones got licked...
...This is a preliminary step to the American Government's project of bringing the same subject to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco...
...Hurley took those demands to Chiang...
...Housing Administrator Blandford got in on the picture by promising the Negroes, who stayed on Mm job, a housing development near the plants...
Vol. 28 • March 1945 • No. 10
