Friday. December 21. 1945
PORTLAND INQUIRER
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United States Swindle Case Flops;
18 Dining Car Workers Dismissed
Readers Digest Branded As
Anti-Negro. Anti-Labor by Teachers
MINNEAPOLIS — (ANP) —
Additional evidence was present-
ed to the National Council of
Teachers of English here during
its recent convention to prove
thart the Readers Digest is both
anti-Negro and anti-Labor.
The fight to bar the magazine
from public high school libraries
was spearheaded by Mrs. Helen
Rand Miller, an Evanston, 111.,
teacher, and a member of the
teachers’ committee on magazines
and newspapers. The teachers
organization began a probe of the
Readers Digest following press
criticism about the magazine,
which boasts 11,000,000 circula
tion in America and foreign
countries, in 1943.
Each Teacher to Decide
“The committee presents no
conclusions as to whether ■ We
Readers Digest is suitable class
room material,” a teachers’ re
port said. “Each teacher will
have to decide for himself wheth-
er or not, in view of the informa
tion contained in this report, the
Readers Digest should be used
in the classroom.”
An insight of Readers Digest
policy may be gathered from the
comments made last year during
the teachers’ convention at Co
lumbus, O., by Dr. Edgar Dale,
of Ohio State university, follow
ing an interview with represen
tatives of the magazine.
Anti-New Deal
“ It seems to me that the Read
ers Digest question is a simple
one,” he remarked. “The editors
who talked with me after the
meeting admitted, and I wrote
this down at, the time, ‘The ma
jority of political articles which
have appeared in the Readers
Digest since 1922 have been
against specific actions of the ad
ministration.’
"When I said, ‘Then the ma
jority of your political articles
are against the New Deal’ they
replied, ‘Against specific actions
of the New Deal.’ I wrote down
their statement in their presence,
pointing out to them the neces-
/s it y for ¡Jdequafe documentation.”
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The CIO 1 has 1 leveled
more
than
one charge against Readers Di
gest that it is anti-labor.
Anti-Labor
“Theoretically speaking, the
Digest claims to be impartial
when it comes to labor questions,
but it has repeatedly used the
cloak of ‘impartiality’ to hide a
one-sided, anti-union bias,” said
the Catholic Work editorial last
Save 4 White Tots
Caught in Fire
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ANNISTON, A la.— .(ANP) —
Four white children were saved
from burning to death in their
home here Monday night by T/5
Joe D. Benson, 29, of Water Val
ley, Miss., and Pvt. Booker T.
Tibblett, 21, stationed at Ft. Mc
Clellan.
The two soldiers happened to
see the fire as they were going
back to camp.
Benson knocked on the door,
arousing Doris Haywood who
' broke out a glass in the front
door and then went into a bed
room and returned with a sleep
ing baby which she handed
through the opening to Benson.
Then Benson battered the door
and went in search of the other
sleepers.
Parents of the children, Mrs.
Hazel Haywood and T/Sgt. and
Mrs. J. D. Johnson, were away
from home at the time o f the
fire which destroyed their four-
room home.
The two rescue heroes were
handed a $100 purse by city em
ployes and friends and com
mended to their commanding
officer at ort McClellan.
WHEN DOW NTOWN
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While denying that they are
anti-Negro, charges have been
made that editors of the maga
ine are rluctant to publicize the
cause of equality, justice and fair
pldy for Negroes. Among the ar
ticles the teacher; say the maga
zine has printed to promote and
foster discrimination of Negroes
are “A Negro Warns the Negro
Press,” January, 1943; “Sketches
in Black and White,” ancedotes,
April, 1943, and “How the South
Feels Aout the Race Problem,'
June, 1944.
Relations Council
Has Substitute
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Neigh
borhood controls based on occu
pancy standards are proposed by
the American Council on Race
relations to replace restrictive
convenants based on race or re
ligion.
Amalyzing the effect on re
strictive covenants and the cur
rent housing shortage on com
munity relations, the council con
cludes that new housing must be
developed on a non-segregated
basis to check the pread of seg will have attempted to postpone
regation to other aspects of com it. But it cannot be postponed
munity living, such as schools without he risk of rising racial
isions and possible conflicts.”
and recreation facilities.
The American Council prepar
The council’s analysis was pre
pared by Robert C. Weaver, di ed “Hemmed In” after confer
rector of community services ences with other national organ
and former special assistant to izations and housing agencies in
the United Housing authority, dicated the need for a clear,
and is published a an illustrated simple statement of the causes,
pamphlet titled “Hemmed In— costs and cures of race restric
the ABC’s of Race Restrictive tive covenants. The pamphlet
can be obtained from the coun
Covenants” .
“Hemmed In” maintains that cil offices, 32 West Randolph St.,
restrictive convenants have fail Chicago 1, at 10 cents per copy
ed in the very purpose for which (discount on quantities).
they were designed, protection
of property values. The cove
nants force minorities to expand
in a series of unplanned break
throughs at the points of weak
est resistance, carrying w i t h
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Negro
them the overcrowding that per
Business, the new magazine for
petuates slum conditions.
New housing cilone is ndl Negro business men;, moved irjto
enough, says Dr. Weaver. There permanent headquarters here last
must be provision for the plan week at 3104 South Michigan
ned, orderly entrance o f minor boulevard.
Free literature will be sent to
ity families into new neighbor
hoods.
He advocates property businesses on the magaizne’s
agreements in these new neigh mailing list from the new address,
borhoods limiting housing units said the editor, Theries Lindsey.
to single families, barring room He added that a series of articles
ers and establishing standards of is being run on “How the new
tax law will affect your busi
maintenance.
ness.”
"Hemmed In” outlines the his
Negro Business is being sold by
tory of races restrictive cove
nants, which were introduced subscription only and will not be
after World War I when racial available on news stands, he dis
closed.
zoning was declared unconstitu
tional. The pamphlet then pro
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ceeds to describe the effect of
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the ensuing residential segrega
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tion on the community’s econ
MO JOB Ti H > SMALL
omy and the psychology of the
N ON E TOO L A R G E
people who live in it.
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"Hemmed
In” advances a
three-point program; abolition
of race restrictive covenants, de
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velopment of cocupancy stand
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ards, and the building of new
non-segregated housing. T h e
A sk s
no
q u e s tio n s ;tella
a ctu a l
fa c t s , givin g: nam es and da tes.
pamphlet concludes with a warn
R e v e a ls y o u r in n e rm o s t s e cre ts.
S o lv e s b u sin e ss and p e rs o n a l
ing that "If we simply create
p ro b le m s . S a tis fa c tio n a ssu re d .
more and larger segregated areas
— H o u rs 10 to 8 —
in the postwar peiod, we will
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FT. WORTH, TEX.— (ANP)—
Funeral services for Mrs. Ada
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false," said Henry L. Balaban,
the union's lawyer. “The charge
of conspiracy also has been prov
en false. I was of the opinion
from the beginning that such
charges could not stand.”
Meanwhile, conviction of 24
New York Central dining car
workers seem imminent in New
York on the same charges, Brooks
disclosed. About 100 white and
Negro dining car workers were
rounded up in the east at the
same time as they were arrested
here.
Conviction of the men in the
east is said to be due primarily
to conceded convictions by union
leaders, who frantically tried to
gain release of the men by ma
neuvering behind-the-scenes.
Colored Drivers
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PHILADELPHIA — (ANP) —
Clewell Sykes ad H. F. Holmes,
president and vice president of
Yellow Cab company o f this city,
in a recent conference with heads
of three agencies, stated that the
hiring policy of Yellow Cab with
regard to colored drivers is a
permanent measure; that an ap
plicant's qualifications will de
termine his employment; and
that seniority governs length of
service without regard to race,
color or religion.
It was revealed that there had
been only a few unfavorable re
percussions concerning the use
of Negro drivers and that the
acceptance of these men by the
other drivers to date had been
favorable.
Company officials warned how
ever, that part of the responsi
bility for making a success of
this movement must rest on the
shoulders of the men themselves,
because drivers have to take a
great deal.
The men who met with the of
ficials were Dr. John K. RWe,
president of the North Phila
delphia Civic league; Arthur H.
Fauset, president of the United
Peoples Action committee, and
Charles H. Shorter, executive
secretary of the NAACP.
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CHICAGO — (ANP) — Charges
of conspiracy against 18 dining
car employes of the Eric railroad
in the famous GI meal swindling
case were dismissed by Federal
Judge Walter J. LaBuy h e r e
Thursday.
The charges were brought by
the U. S. government upon evi
dence supplied by agents of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
last summer, who posed as junior
stewards and passengers while
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leged meal swindling racket that
reportedly deprived traveling GIs
of chickens, steaks and chops
paid for by the government.
All but one of the 18 men
pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Robert Edward Hairston, a Chi
cagoan, pleaded guilty and be
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testimony was insufficient to con
vict the 17. The government
withdrew his guilty pea and freed
him along with the rest.
Judge LaBuy expressed no
doubt that some were guilty of
fraud, but remarked that the
case could not be continued “be
cause of insufficient evidence of
conspiracy.”
The release of the men is being
hailed here as a crowning victory
to the cause of labor unions by
Local No. 351 and the Joint Coun
cil of Dining Car workers. A
declaration that both railroad
unions would defend the accused
men to the last was made some
time ago by Richard W. Smith,
secretary-treasurer of the Joint
Council, and Harrison T. Brooks,
representative of Local No. 351.
The union’s defense was not
made in a spirit to condone steal
ing, but with a determination to
make the government prove its
case, they said.
“The statement that dicing
car waiters were out to exploit
GIs had definitely been proven
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