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Tut Palestine under UN control’
Orchestra Hall rally demands
More than 2,000 people packed Orchestra Hall here Tuesday night in a rally to protest Bri-
tain’s Palestine policy.
Chaired by Rev. Paul Folino,
the meeting adopted a four-point
program for Palestine which
called for:
1. Immediate lifting of mar
tial law in Palestine; termin
ation of the police state; re
storation of civil liberties and
freeing of the thousands im
prisoned and imported.
2. Immediate admission of
100,000 Jews into Palestine.
3. Withdrawal of British
troops.
4. Placing of Palestine under
tlie trusteeship - of the Security
Council of the United Nations.
* * *
KEY speakers included Herb
March, District Director of the
United Packinghouse Workers of
America (CIO), Ken Pettus,
member of the National Planning
Committee of the American Vet
erans’ Committee and Albert H.
Kahn, co-author of the best-seller
“The Great Conspiracy Against
Russia.”
March tore the lid off the Ad
ministration’s abandonment of
the late President Roosevelt’s po
licy towards Palestine by stating:
“Truman doesn’t seem to
know much about Roosevelt’s
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WHEN you say “Chicago Star”
in the stock yards, you think of
<£|rl Nelson, Star Circulation Di
rector of UPWA, District No. 1.
Carl is no newcomer to the
packing industry. He has worked
there for six and a half years.
He was in the “Smoke House”
in Swifts, in ‘'Canning” at Ar
mours, and is now in the mecha
nical division at Wilsons. He
helped to pioneer the building of
the CIO in the industry, in the
days when the going was tough.
He was a member of .the bargain
ing committee of- the Armour lo
cal that negotiated the first CIO
contract.
When he went to work at Wil
sons, the union was being run
by a reactionary, machine politi
cian named “Doc” Williams.
Carl, teamed up with Sam Parks,
now president of Local No. 25,
in leading the rank-and-file fight
for union democracy.At the end
of a year, “Doc” was oyt looking
for a new job, and the rank-and
file were in the saddle.
# * *’
SO it’s no accident that pack
inghouse rank-and-filers 'listen
with respect to Carl Nelson.
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Turkish spy embarrasses
anti-Yugoslav campaign
PARIS (ALN) Strong indications that some U.S.
diplomats are anxious to let the Yugoslav “incident” die a
quiet death followed the dislosure here that Yugoslavia has
ample evidence that a passenger in one of the grounded U.S.
planes was an espionage agent.
The passenger, a Turkish captain named Ibsan Unesen,
is said to have been carrying detailed military information
about Yugoslavia.
These documents, the Yugoslavs feel, not only make a
good case against Unesen but also substantiate their charge
that American flights over their territory were not accidental,
as the U.S. government claims. Unesen was a liaison officer
attached to the staff of Gen. McNarney, American commander
in the European theater.
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footsteps. He seems, to be fol
lowing Hoovers’ footsteps atl
over the world.”
Kahn charged that the “only
reason Britain has proposed the
partitioning of Palestine is to se
cure an even firmer grip by di
viding the Jews and the Arabs.”
Gary Communists
plan election rally
GARY, Ind. The Communist
Party of Lake County will spon
sor a Mass Meeting celebrating
the 27th Anniversary of the Com-
i mm
Carl Nelson
As chief steward of Local No.
25, Carl has plenty of union
work, but he can always find
time to plug the Star. With 820
Star subscribers, the Wilson lo
cal probably tops the field. Carl
refuses to take credit for the job
himself, however.
munist Party on September 26.,
7:30 p.m. at Croatian Hall, 2300
Washington Street, Gary.
The meeting will also be an
Election Campaign Rally in sup
port of Communist and progres
sive candidates on the ballot in
Indiana.
Henry Winston, National Or
ganization Secretary of the Com
munist Party, a war veteran and
outstanding Negro leader, will be
the principal speaker. Another
featured speaker is Elmer John
son, Communist candidate for U.
S. Senator, and' Indiana Chair
man of the Communist Party.
“Here’s how you go about
getting subs in a union,” says
Carl. “The first step is to con
vince the Executive Board that
the Star is a first class instru
ment for building a good solid
union.
“With the help of the top
leadership, you go out to con
vince the stewards. The stew
ard is the guy the workers lis
ten to. They see him handle
their grievances, and lead on
the picket-line. They respect
his opinions. If the stewards
are convinced the Star is a
good thing, the members will
also be convinced. In the Wil
son local, the steward body
makes up the Star committee —
and its the best committee you
can get.”
* # *
THE SUBS in the Wilson local
make up over half of the total
packinghouse subs, now over
1300. Some of the other locals,
however, have been outstanding.
Local No. 26, for instance, has
150 Star subscribers, out of a
total membership \of 220. *‘The
stewards did the job in Local
N0.'26,” says Carl. .
What has been done in locals
25 and 26 can be done in the rest
of the industry. £arl Nelson is
optimistic about the possibilities
of fulfilling.. the goal of 1000
subs, established on August 10,
to be achieved by November 5.
335 subs have already come in on
the new quota. “By next July
sth,” he predicts, "we ought to
have 5000 Star readers in the in
dustry.”
As to the individual problem
of putting the bee on a guy for
a Star sub, Carl can also give
some sound advice. With 280
subs to his personal credit, he
ought to know.
“Just keep talking to people
about the Star. Discuss the ar
ticles in the paper. Compare it
with other Chicago papers, and
show what kind of a paper the
Star is. You’ll get the subs.
“It’s as easy as that,” he
Says.
speaking
By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS
Like most people I know, I have fallen into the habit of think
ing of Jews, Negroes and Catholics as *the three big minorities of
■ America. That’s all right, as far as it goes. The
weakness iS that this simplification fails to take
into account certain fundamental differences be
tween these groups.
Jews and Negroes have little choice of classifi
cation. Judaism is both a religion and a culture
imparted from infancy to offspring who may
show none or many of the physical traits associat
ed with the Semitic peoples, who incidentally are
of many religions and cultures. Most people with
Jewish training retain elements of that culture
davis throughout life, no matter which way they go.
A Negro also has little choice. A Negro is any person who has
been singled out for discriminatory treatment because a recent an
cestor is believed to have been a dark African., The basis is an easily
discernible assortment of physical traits. Those who lack obvious
African characteristics “pass” for white (when their ancestry is
not known) to the tune of several million in the United States today.
* * *'
BUT unlike Jews and Negroes, Catholics, except for dress of
the official family, lack identifiable characteristics. They do not
have the physical traits popularly associated with the other two
big minorities. Some are brought up as Catholics, others voluntarily
enter the fold. In other words, there’s not much one can do about
being a Jew or a Negro, whereas becoming a Catholic is to a large
extent a matter of choice.
There is still another major difference. Neither Jews nor Ne
groes have centralized thought control. There is no main Jew is
suing directives to be carried out by all other Jews. No big Negro
dictates a program to be executed through subordinates everywhere.
Strong divisions on policy and strategy exist in both groups. Indi
viduals and organizations run the gamut from fascism to com
munism.
But not so the Catholics, whose eyes look to Rome. The Vatican
seeks not only to direct the religious activities of the faithful, hut
now would regiment the politics of all Catholics and throw them
into a coalition with world reaction which is at base anti-Jew, anti-
Negro and anti-labor.
# * *
IT IS this political regimentation that cracks the theoretical
minority alliance of Jews, Negroes and Catholics. I will fight beside
any Catholic in defense of his right to worship as he sees fit. But
I will also fight against any Catholic who uses his religion as a po
litical prop for fascism at home and abroad and who is trying to
wipe out the democratic advances of the plain people throughout the
world. I will likewise do battle with any Jew or Negro on “the same
grounds.
The support given by the Catholic hierarchy to the fascist re
gime of Gen. Franco, to, the Polish reactionaries, to red-baiting on
a domestic and world scale and to creation of a holy crusade to
crush the Soviet Union is completely opposed to what I have bern
taught is the foundation of she Christian faith: brotherhood of man
and equality of all peoples.
Anti-Semitism is rampant in many Catholic circles; in many
areas restrictive residential covenants against Negroes have been
pushed by Catholic leaders. This open animosity toward other groups
makes such Catholics about the same'kind of minority as the Na
tional Association of Manufacturers.
* * *
IT IS these policies on a world and domestic front that have
caused the Catholics to lose their persecuted minority status and
win friends and support among the Hearsts and McCormicks. The
P.ope’s avowed politics do not differ tpo greatly from those of Byrnes
and Vandenburg.
Although the Catholic church is a regimented rather than a
democratic institution, there is still no reason for the Catholic laity
ignoring the grave dangers to all people in the basic Vatican policy.
Mussolini’s conquest of Ethiopia and the fascist victory in the
Spanish Civil war, with papal support, set the stage for World War
II in which millions of Catholics died fighting the monster set loose
upon this planet. The present papal policy strengthens the im
perialist planners of World War 111 in which additional millions of
all creeds and colors would die.
And there are some Catholics who recognize this danger. They
know that Jew-baiting, Negro-baiting and red-baiting are at base
props for fascism. They know that a victory for fascism can boom
erang against the Catholics, as it did in Germany. So they join the
struggle for democracy.
That is as it should be. I see no reason why any honest fighter,
no matter what his religion or color, cannot ally himself with others
going the same way.
Resa at pension meeting
Rep. Alexander Resa, Con
gressman from the 9th District,
will be the guest speaker at the
monthly meeting of the North
side Branch of the Old Age As
sistance Union of Illinois, at 1615
N. Burling St., Friday, September
13th, at 2 p. m.
Mrs. Mary Aiken, Executive
Secretary of the Union, will also
launch three campaigns .on the
Northside, at this meeting; (1)
For the payment of a $5.00 bonus
to every old age pensioner to
compensate for the extra expense
for food following the ending of
OP A on June 30th; (2) To cause
the Governor to have the budget
allowance so, revised, that .begin-
ning October Ist, when the max
imum old age pension becomes
£50:00 per month, every old age
pensioner shall receive an in
crease of $5.00 per month up to
the maximum of SSO; (3) A peti
tion campaign will also be
launched to have the members
of th& General Assembly submit
to a popular vote a constitutional
amendment providing for SSO
minimum monthly pension far
all old age pensioners over 65
years of age, and for all blind
persons, plus medical treatment
and expense; also semi-annuau!
surveys of the cost of living and
proportionate increases to be
made with any increase in the
cost of jiving,
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