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Ballenger Predicts Mass Layoff For Negro Workers
TEST OF NEGRO
LEADERSHIP TO
FOLLOW PEACE
Th oussnd* of Negro worker*
row employt j V hrlp -rake wrap
ens *' ».n ! f »,ll he the firs:
tc be ircvi .’.hen pca;e duckiifti.
and c-ly . s‘r “r. v ,*e a-d pos-
Ribly a n * —Neg-o and liberal
Vhite leadership u :11 be nMe *r»
eojie with F.tui-’ions out of
eC’' r '.' uc ms era .
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cst smiLn «i;.d t.nat »U leave De
troit *itn m-ny thousand* of un
employed. Whether the Negro will
liola tnc gHiM.® n-ade through T Li C
ano other that have forced
recognition of hi* sk.iis and ability
v ill be up to Negro leadership and
li .. .
Unemployment compensation, he
averred. isi-1 not carry workers
«ner through all the months b«-
t'A'ecn reconvert. *n for peace pro
duction. As a result, he predicted,
fieavy burdens will be put on wel
fare workers, but he added that
••Detroit will never have the wel
fare load aga.n that it had during
the last depression.’’ Ballenger did
rot venture a solution to problems
Le said Negroes will face at the ena
cf the war.
Promise* "Fair Deal"
About the police department,
Ballenger said little, declaring that
he had not been commissioner long
enough to give a clear picture of
the administration of the depart
ment. However, he reiterated a
former statement that more Ne
groes ahould be put on the force,
and promised full cooperation with
•groups working lor belter relation*
be.ween the police force ur.d the
community.
••1 repeat my promise, that Ne
g Toes as well as everyone eLse will
get a fair deal—and that’s all you
want” he said. “You don’t want any
concession*, for if you are given
concessions you become an inferior
group. My advice to you is to know
what you want; know that you
ahould have it* and then fight until
you get it."
In the matter of
Ballenger said he would be glad
to hear all discriminatory cases, so
long as they were individual cases
la id could be Traced and not gen
eralities. “If you have complaints
to make, make them through some
crganization so that such a body
•s the N A A.C.P. or Urban League
can hold me responsible,” he con
ciuded>^.
The Workers Council Is sponsor
fn? a Lincoln’s birthday ball at the
Masonic Temple and plans for ar
rangements were discussed prior to
Ballenger’* talk. The Melodic Vo
caleers. a group of younfj singers
under the direction of Miss Anne
Cober, furnished music for the
meeting Horace Sheffield is the
chairman of the council.
HONOR OUTSTANDING OHIOAN
COLUMBUS. 0.-<ANP) The
Ohio Negro Chamber of Commerce
annual distinguished service award
will be made at a banquet on Feb.
22 when the selection committee,
headed by M C. Clark of Cleve
land. names the person who has
made the most outstanding contri
bution to civic and industrial bet
terment of Ohio during the past
year.
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Predicting ■ wholesale layoff of Negro workers at the end of the
war. Police Commissioner John F. Ballenger. in speech at Y.W.C.A.
Sunday said that Negro and labor leadership would be “put to a
lest." Top photo shows Ballenger as he spoke to meeting of the
UAW-CIO Workers council. Horace A. Sheffield, chairman, and
Leo Cottrell, secretary of the group, are shown in background.
Bottom photo shows part of crowd which fired questions at the
Police Commissioner at the end of his speech.—Michigan Chronicle
photos by Earl Fowler.
Spot News — :
(Continued from Page 1)
took his wife and scrammed be
tween sundown and sunrise.
WANTS STRIPES
A national movement Is under
way to get those sergeant stripes
bark for Pvt Alton Levy who got
Into trouble by his Insistence on
equality for Negroes in the armed
services. The Jew Ish lal or organ
iser Is believed to be too democratic
to suit some brass hats.
Urge FBI Probe
In Kansas Unrest
WICHITA, Kans. Th* local
branch of the N.A.A.C.P this week
urged a Federal Bureau of Investi
gation probe into alleged subversive
activities in this city which was
highlighted fn the recent arrest of
75 Negroes in one night upon orders
issued by the assistant chief of
police to arrest every Negro who
looked “suspicious.”
This action followed the appear
ance of a six-page article in one of
the local papers attacking Mrs
Roosevelt, Negro Army officers and
Negroes in general. Civic leaders
of both races are of the opinion that
such propaganda is inspired by a
pro-Nazi element in the city not
entirely * dispersed by the recent
arrest of several newspaper men
here on charges of pro-Nazi activ
ities.
The Boeing super-bomber is man
ufactured here and N.A.A.C.P. offi
cials fear that racial tensions will
slow down production of these vital
war implements.
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refreshing charm anJ sparkling smile has won
THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE - - A RELIABLE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY
Crystal Fauset
Out Of OCD-Gets
Democratic Post
WASHINGTON. Missing from
the limelight of publicity Mnce Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt withdrew from
active participation in the admin
istration of the Office of "Civilian
Defense, Mrs. Crystal Byrd Fauset.
former race relations jiiroctor of
that office, is again in the public
view.
Authentic reports are that Mrs.
Fauset is now a field representative
for the National Democratic com
mittee—the only Negro and the only
woman holding an official position
with that committee.
Mrs. Fauset’s withdrawal from
the OCD wa* unattended by the
fanfare that accompanied the resig
nations of Judge William Hastie
and Dr. Robert Weaver from their
government positions. The OCD
has been inactive in the field of
race relations for many months.
Her new position, however, prom
ises to put her in a position of
strategic importance.
Infants —
(Continued from Page 1)
from a mattress upon which they
fell asleep that night was tossed
through a window. As if in defi
ance to the destructive flames, a
metal smoker-stand stood in a cor
ner of the livingroom, its chrome
top unmarred. On a column of the
front porch, a red, white and blue
air raid warden’s post headquarters
sign had not even been scorched.
MISS DORRIS LAVIDA BELL
WHITES FAVOR
NEGRO PUPILS
ST LOUIS —According to two
recent editorials, one by H. J. Blan
ton, a f irmer curator of the Uni
versity of Missouri, for the Kansas
City Star, and the other which ap
peared in the S*. Louis Dispatch,
many influential Missouri white cit
izens. favor the mixing of races at
[\,r University of Missouri.
Th s was rev ealed after it was
announced that the law and journ
alism departments in Lincoln uni
versity at Jefferson City will be
forced to close down on February 1
because of a lack of funds. Since
the supreme court of the United
State-C ruled several years ago that
Missouri must give its Negro citi
zenry equal educational opportuni
ties, the state legislature is now at
a standstill, wondering if it will be
compelled to follow- the course of
its sister states Illinoit and Kan
sas, and accept Negroes in the stu
dent body at its state university.
“Sooner or later, it has been ap
parent for several years,” writes
Blanton, “the University of Mis
souri must take down the bars and
mal e the best of what is considered
a bad situation. When that time
comes, we predict, there will be
little or no opposition from the
student body or from the general
public, and no more attention will
be paid to a Negro on the campus
than is now paid to a Negro in a
bus or railroad coach, particularly
of thq Negro students strive to ad
just themselves to standards inci
dent to university circles ”
The issue took on a added zest
when Edith Louise Massey, a Negro
girl, recently filed application to
the University of Missouri School of
Journalism. Miss Massey, now a
senior in Lincoln University School
of Journalism, is listed among the
14 students enrolled in that depart
ment.
“We think the board of curators
would be well advised to grant the
pending application for the present
applicant’s entrance into the school
of join t alism,” stated the St. Louis
Post D 1 patch. “If the board of cu
rators grants the pending applica
tion. it will not be the first time a
Negro student has been seen on the
campus of the university. Exchange
students of color have been ac
cepted from other countries and
have fitted themselves into the stu
dent body without any difficulty.
In any case, unless the separate
schools are reopened, the board of
rurators has no recourse but to
grant a right that has been af
firmed by the highest court in the
land.”
As a solution to the dilemma a
few years back, the legislature,
favoring segregation of the races,
established first the law school and
later the school of Journalism at
Lincoln.
Housing—
(Continued from Pifi 1)
this need and in order to facilitate
the housing of Negro war workers,
we urge speedy action on the part
of the commission.
“Detroit will continue to remain
a critical area and fewer contracts
for government work will be allo
cated here unless progressive and
constructive measures are immedi
ately instituted by your body to al
leviate the housing shortage. We
desire infosmation of your pro
posed plans for immediate housing
of needy Negro war workers.”
S. C. HAS WORST RACE BAITERS
ROCK HILL. S. C—(ANP)-No
politicians in the history of Ameri
ca have done more to promote ra
cial discrimination and racial hu
miliation than have these presently
in power in South Carolina, Dean
Guerney E. Nelson of Benedict col
lege told an audience at the Emmett
Scott high school here last week.
her many friends in the Washington smart sat.
She is a resident of Detroit. Mich.—Roger
Smith photo.
TO APPEAR IN BALTIMORE
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definitely on his way to the top in the field of esneert singing. Mr.
Ross, with his accompanist. Mr. Edward Engel, teacher of piano
at the Detroit Conservatory of Music, and who studied accompani
ment in Germany under the eminent pianist. Edward Weiss, wiU
appear in recital at the Berea Temple church, Baltimore, Md.
FBlProbesDeathThreats
In Mo. Racial Outbreak
POPULAR BLUFF. Mo —Govern
tnent action in the racial strife that
for more than a week has beset
this Ozark community was seen this
week when the Federal Bureau of
Investigation started an intensive
search for the writers of letters,
threatening the lives of two com
munity officials.
The letters, containing death
threats against Sheriff M. L. Hogg
and Prosecuting Attorney Charles
T. Bloodworth Sr., were turned
over to postal authorities at St.
Louis, who promised FBI aid in
tracking down the writers.
The threatening notes were
Publishers Back
Drive To Control
Venereal Disease
John H. Sengstacke, president of
the Negro Newspaper Publishers’
association and also president and
general manager of the Chicago De
fender, sent notice this week to the
nation's publishers that February 2
has been designated National So
cial Hygiene Day.
President Sengstacke said that the
publishers' association is cooperat
ing with the American Social Hy
giene association in stimulating
educational programs aimed at con
trol of venereal disease.
The publishers were asked to con
tact their local health authorities
in planning programs for the na
tional observance and it is antici
pated that more than 5.000 commu
nities will start the big health pro
gram on February 2. and continue it
throughout the month.
Sengstacke said that the theme of
the campaign will be: “Unite the
Whole Community Against Venereal
Disease—Venereal Disease Delays
Victory.” The programs will include
meetings, forums, conferences, mo
tion pictures and radio programs.
All-day regional social hygiene
conferences will be held in Bos
ton. Philadelphia, Atlanta, Indiana
polis, Omaha, Seattle. Chicago.
Portland, San Francisco, Denver
and other major cities.
Sengstacke also called the atten
tion of publishers to a statement
made recently by Dr. William F.
Snow, at the National Conference
of Wartime Problems of General
Disease Control. Dr. Snow stated:
“Venereal diseases attack people
without distinction as to race, m-eed.
color or national origin, and must
in turn, be fought in the open, by
all the people.”
Dr. Walter Clarke, executive di
rector of the American Hygiene as
aociation, sponsor of national hy
giene day. stated:
, . Many excellent state law’s
have been passed for the protec
tion of mothers and babies from
syphilis. Enlightened action by
hundreds of communities has large
ly done away with organized pros
titution. Thus kind of activity must
be intensified. We still have a
’reservoir' of three and a half mil
lion cases of syphilis. Each year
more than half a million persons
contract syphilis, and three times
as many contract gonorrhea. We
have the means and experience to
reduce this wastage of manpower.
The job Ls to put them to work.”
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PRINCE HERMAN
mailed last week, following the in
dictment of 71 white farmers and
the surrender of 54 others as a pro
test against the indictment on
charges of kidnapping and inciting
a riot. The letters read as follows:
“We Have Plenty of Guns”
“If you value your life and the
life of your family, I would advise
you to have all of the Negroes out
of there by Saturday and keep them
out,” said the cne received by
Sheriff Hogg. “And also Mr. Coop
er, for that is one place in old Mis
souri where we r re determined that
no Negroes shall live.”
The letter sent to Bloodworth told
of how they were equipped to fight.
“We have plenty of guns and am
munition to deal with all of you
and besides, we have all the dinl
mite (sic) we need to blow up ths
whole burg. So be wise."
Eject Negro Families
The trouble started with the ejec
tion of four Negro farm families
from the Ash Hill community by
300 whites. The colored workers
were employed on the W. W. Clark
farm.
So bitter was the feeling against
Clark family, that Gerald I. Clark,
superintendent of the Broseley Con
solidated School district, fled from
his high school Monday, in fear of
h.s life. More than 100 boy stu
dents had threatened to "string him
iTp,” because his father, W. W.
Clark, first brought Negroes into
Ash Hill township to work.
Sheriff Hogg incurred the enmity
of the white mobsters when he
flatly refused to heed the request
of the whites to keep the Negroes
out of the community. Hogg prom
ised full protection of the law to
the colored farm hands, and also to
Lois (Jake) Cooper, white farmer,
who said he had been warned
against hiring Negro labor.
Cooper, 28 years old, said he had
hired a 67-year-old sharecropper
named Sam Lain, and his wife to
work on the Cooper farm of 125
acres. At the height of the racial
trouble, however, fearful that the
aged Negro couple would be
harmed, Cooper had them removed
to a place of safety.
The angry whites remained un
appeased however and continued
to give vent to their anger against
the Coopers. Mrs Cooper, who, in
addition to helping her husband
with the farm, also teaches at a dis
trict school, was compelled to walk
two miles over muddy roads to
reach her school, because the driver
of the school bus refused to stop
for her.
Last week the Inter-racial labor
victory council of Greater St. Louis,
representing 65.000 workers of the
CIO, AFL and independent unions,
sent letters to Sheriff Hogg and
Prosecutor Bloodworth lauding
them for their courage in protecting
the rights of the Negro share-crop
pers and other workers.
Rev. Madam
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“In reference to the law to re
possess automobiles. Bill No. 166.
it was so complicated with Amend
ments, and in its form I considered
it against public interest, that I
voted against its passage.
“I have been indeed fortunate
since I have been in the Legisla
ture, in. that I have gotten most of
the important legislation I spon
sored, through both Houses, and I
feel one of the secrets of my suc
cess has been that I have helped
other members with legislation
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MME. W. C. WRICHT
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1944
Party, it does not reflect itself in
tbe Legislature, in that, as 1 said
before. I have always gotten the
support of the Republican members
as well as the Democrats.
“Prior to the convening of the
Grand Jury I had told some of my
close friends that I would not run
for a fifth term as State Senator.
I have now changed my mind be
cause I have never been accused
(and I am too old to start now) of
running away from a fight. I like
a good fight and especially when
I know I am right and my con
science is clear. When a person ui
public life is as active as I am
and does a* much as I do for his
constituents and his people, there
are bound to be complications aris
ing and. as usual, I will take mine
standing up.
“I wish to take this opportunity
to thank scores of friends who have
called to offer their help and ex
press their confidence in me. 1
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