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Chicago and Illinois without a paper of its own. with
out an organ through which to express its views and
mobilize its forces.
And yet, we are confronted with the stubborn
facts in the ledger books.
We are paring expenses wherever humanly pos
sible. We are also planning other money-raising pro
jects between now and the end of the year.
But that still leaves us with the task of raising
a minimum of $7,500 immediately—before Labor Day.
We are asking you to help with that problem.
THE CHICAGO STAR, JULY 81. 1948
GILBERT GREEN, native Chi
cagoan and Illinois Stale Parly
chairman, is one of the 12 mem
bers of CP National Board indic
ted last week by N. Y. blue rib
bon jury under Smith Act. Green,
who attended grammar and high
schools here, has been a mail
carrier and employee at Inter
national Harvester.
Emergency
meet to aid
12 CP heads
Organizational action to aid the
12 members of the National
Board of the Communist Party,
indicted under the old Smith
Act, and seized by the FBI last
week, was to be No. 1 on the
agenda at an emergency meeting
called by the Civil Rights Con
gress for 8 p. m. Thurs. night
(July 29) in the Altgeld Room,
127 N. Dearborn.
Atty. David Rothstein was
scheduled to speak on the "Con
stitutional Rights of Minority
Political Parties” Thomas L. Sla
ter, secretary-treasurer, Carpen
ters’ Union No. 1 tAFLK planned
to talk about the “Palmer Raids
and Current Arrests,” and Mrs.
Rheua Pearce, chairman, Con
gress of American Women,
would outline a program for act
ion.
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Truman's vote-catching orders
on-jim crow seen as sham
By CARL HIRSCH
Twenty-four hours after the
close of the Progressive Party
convention, ( which hit straight
and hard at jim crow, President
Truman came out with his pallid
executiye orders on discrimina
tion.
The President acted in panic
after Progressive convention key
noter Charles Howard pointed
the finger at- him with these
words:
"Mr. Truman. I ask you as
commander-in-chief of the armed
forces to sit down and pick up
your pen and write the executive
order that will abolish jim crow
from the U. S. Army."
* * *
HOWEVER, there was univer
sal agreement among progressi
ves this week, that Truman’s
order was a toothless political
gesture.
The Truman statement on the
armed forces does not even men
tion segregation, let alone make
any move toward destroying it.
Instead, it echoes the hypocri
tical position of Truman’s Sou
thern adherents for “equal oppor
tunity.” It is under the guise of
such “equal opportunity” that
many Southern states have set up
segregated colleges in cases where
the Supreme Court has ruled
that Negroes can not be barred
from state schools.
* * *
THE Truman executive order
on jim crow in government em
ployment was considered even
weaker in that no provision is
made for penalties or enforce
ment.
Instead, the order sets up a
system of "FEPC officers" in
each federal department who
may ad wherever they deem
"necessary." and then only with
the permission of the department
head.
The “catch” in the order on
Mayor arranges money grab for N.Y. Life
By ISABEL CARR
Mayor Martin H. Kennelly ec
statically announced a brand
new housing project scheme for
Chicago last week —a scheme
which smells of a three-way
money grab for the New York
Life Insurance Co., and high
rents for low income families.
Many Star readers called up
here on Monday to bitterly de
claim an editorial headed “Here
is Housing,” saluting the plan,
in the Monday, July 26, Chicago
Daily News. In part, the edito
rial- read:
“This company <N. Y. Life In
surance) proposes to build 1400
family units on 60 acres of the
South Side. The site would be
bounded by 31st and 33rd streets,
the Illinois Central right of way,
and South Parkway.
* * *
"THIS OFFER is tangible proof
that the state-city redevelop
ment plan is a sound one which
the armed forces was contained
in the following paragraph:
"This policy shall be put into
effect as rapidly as possible, hav
ing due regard to the lime re
quired to effectuate any neces
sary changes without impairing
efficiency or morale."
* * *
IMPLIED here is the “stall
for-time” instruction to army
commanders, since the Novem
ber elections are not far off.
In contrast was the flat state
ment made last week-end by
See no let-up in Hearst,
Legion, Senn red-smear
The two-months long “investi
gation” of Miss Emilie Noack, 58,
Senn High School Civics teacher
—pressed by the American Le
gion and Hearst’s Herald-Am
erican—was still dragging on this
week.
One educator, who asked that
his name be withheld, told The
Star:
“They’re making the most of
this thing—and why not? While
they’re smearing Miss Noack,
they’re accomplishing much,
much more. With every story in
the newspapers, they are warn
ing other teachers: ‘You’re next
—unless you think the way we
want you to.’
* * *
"THEY'RE after academic free
dom—and this so-called investi
gation won’t stop until the people
of Chicago flood their aldermen,
the Board of Education and May
or Kennelly’s office with pro
tests.”
Elliodor Libonati, American
Legion Cook County American
ism chairman, went out after
Miss Noack tooth-and-nail at an
other hearing last Friday in the
Board of Education hearing
room, 228 N. LaSalle.
Originally, Libonati—who is
will attract private investors. It
has attracted such an investor.”
Here is the nifty racket as it
has been proposed. Allegedly,
“The public” that’s you, acquires
the land sites for the project
through the Chicago Land Clear
ance Commission, paid for with
state and city funds.
The-New York Life Insurance
Co. then condescends to buy the
land from the Commission at 50
cents a square foot! Actual value
of the land is estimated at a
minimum of $3 per square foot.
* * *
ONCE MORE, enters the trust
ing “public.” Quoting the Daily
News: “Street areas and other
utilities would be installed by
the public.”
So, at a total cost of maybe
$15,000,000 New York Life buys
the land and builds apartment
buildings, which would house an
approximate 1400 families. “The
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We can all go into these climactic final months of
the 1948 election campaign confident that we are pre
pared to do the fullest job of bringing the issues to the
people—but first the Star must be freed from this
pressing financial crisis.
Keep fighting for progress. And keep the Star
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we need it now. $7,500 is required by Labor Day. But
SI,BOO of it is needed by next week. Please act quickly!
Henry A. Wallace that, if elected,
he would “issue an executive
order ending immediately all
forms of segregation and jim
crow in the armed forces.”
Similarly, this is the language
in the Progressive Party plat
form adopted last week-end:
"We call for a Presidential
proclamation ending segregation
and all forms of discrimination
in the armed services and Fed
eral employment."
That Mr. Truman has not done.
also attempting a purge at Roose
velt College—had the hearings
reopened on the claim that he
had new evidence proving that
the Senn teacher taught “Com
munistic Doctrine” to her pupils.
No new evidence had been forth
coming.
Emerson named chairman of
6th Ward Progressive Party
Election of permanent officers
in the Progressive Party 6th
Ward Organization indicates a
busy program for progressives in
the area bounded by 63rd, 73rd,
State and Stony Island.
The Ward membership at a
special meeting Juy 21, establi
shed a ten-man Executive Com
mittee headed by Forrest Emer
son who was elected chairman.
Emerson, now editor of FE
News and the Shopleader for the
CIO Farm Equipment Union, has
a fitting background for his new
post, having been in the thick
of organizing the American Labor
Party in New York over a decade
ago.
The new ward executive in-
public” gets it in the neck once
and for all, when we get down
to specifics of rents.
In a slum area. New York Life
expects to collect $75-SBO a month
(maybe more) for 3*/i room apart
ments. S9O-SIOO (maybe more)
for AVx room apartments, and
"slightly higher for three bed
room apartments." And so. New
York Life lives happily ever after
—collecting millions in rents.
* * *
THIS “delightful” fantasy
comes as an opportune cover-up
for Mayor Kennelly and the
City Council.
So far, the Mayor-Council team
has been running backwards, in
an alleged attempt to go forward
with Chicago’s $30,000,000 hous
ing and slum clearance program.
When the Chicago Housing
Authority came up with recom
mendations for four housing sites
—the Mayor was all set to g 0...
until race-baiters protested that
PARALYZED from the waist
down as a result of a mining ac
cident, Everett Boggs of Cumber
land. Ky., shows how he learned
to walk up and down stairs with
the aid of leg braces and
crutches. He was one of 400
miners treated in New York un
der the United Mine Workers re
habilitation program.
eludes a Negro vice chairman,
Marmaduke Carter, a Nisei secre
tary, Mrs. Miyo Uyeno, and Mrs.
Margaret Matchett as treasurer.
Carter and Mrs. Matchett are
both teachers, the latter at the
U. of C.
Dr. Walter Verity, who leads
the county in Wallace-Taylor
Peace Bond sales, was named
membership director, and Mela
chy Moynighan, canvassing direc
tor.
Isador Salkind, UE-CIO repre
sentative, was elected trade union
director, and Harold Stoller, rank
and file member of the Furrier’s
Union, entertainment director.
The publicity director is David
Reed, young newspaperman.
if the projects were built Negroes
would move into hither-to white
areas. The racists, so far, have
had their way.
* * *
MEANWHILE, still another typi
cally asinine housing fiasco is
taking place here.
On the West Side, 1600 fami
lies who at least have a roof
over their heads) are desperately
organizing to fight evictions ser
ved on them by—the Veterans’
Administration. The VA wants to
build a hospital on their home
sites.
At a rally attended by 350
residents of the proposed hospital
site, a fight-back program was
outlined, calling for:
1. Mass delegations to Mayor
Kennelly.
2. A petition campaign in the
community, and aimed at Pres
ident Truman, the Veterans' Ad
ministration and Mayor Kenne-
Hy.