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F riday. M arch 15. 1946 PO R TLA N D INQUIRER P age Four PORTLAND INQUIRER P u b liih ed Each F riday By Portland Inquirer Publishing Co. 1453 N. Williams Ave.. T«l. EAst 4460 Send mail to P. O. Box 3877, Zone 8 Chesley E. Corbett, Editor J. W. Brooks B. D. Robinson, Mgr. .................... ......Advertising Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press, Calvin’s Newspaper Service, Ted Yates Publications, Inc., Independent Press Service. Thi» newspaper reserves the right to print for publication all press dispatches, features and photoe forwarded by these agencies or otherwise ¿edited to them. N A T IO N A L A D V E R T ISIN G R E P R E S E N T A T IV E ( n t r s t a t e U n i t e d N e w s p a p e r s , I n c . , 545 F i f t h A v e n u e , N e w Y o r k C i t y a n d C h i c a g o , J1J. T e l e p h o n e : M u r r a y H i l l 2-545 2 Rates by M ail: 6 m onth—$2.50 O ne Y ear—$5.00 in advance FASCISM IN AMERICA The lynch terror being directed against the Negro citi zens of Columbia, Tennessee, should cause deep shame to every decent American. More than this, it should galvanize us all into action to uproot this fascist-like jimero power which threatens otherwise to destroy the democratic lib erties of us all. A young Negro eteran dared to defend his m other against insult and attack by a w hite shopkeeper. As a re sult, both m other and son were arrested; a lynch mob stormed the jail; state and local police and other hoodlums sui rounded and then nivaded the Negro section of town, shooting at anybody and anything, wrecking business estab lishments, and m aking mass arrests indiscrim inately; two unarm ed Negro citizens were deliberately shot to death in jail, and another wounded; scores of others are being held imprisoned w ithout charge; the whole Negro com m unity is in dire peril—and State and Federal authorities refuse to do anything about it! This could easily have happened in Hitler Germany. Its basic purpose, like that of the whole jim ero system, is to assure the super-exploitation of Negro workers by te r rorizing them into “keeping in th eir place” and not asking for decent wages, respectable schools, “white m en’s jobs”, and other benefits which are the rights of all citizens. The fundam ental source of this fascist terror lies not in the warped and prejudiced minds of the deluded w hite hoodlums who are used to perpetrate lynch violence. R ather it lies w ith those few Bourbon dictators who own and con trol the South for their selfish greed. The polltax disfranchisem ent of Southern citizens, the rotten plantation system, the Senator McKellars and other Congressional bigots who strangle an FEPC to death, mass poverty of the people worse th at that found in many colonial lands, the tie-up between this feudalistic oppression and the great financial interests of the North—all this is a part of the Nazi pattern which not only jeopardizes the life and property of Negro citizens, but serves as a basis for the building of a Fascist America. Let all America take heed of the w arning sounded by these events in Columbia, Tennessee. Demand of President H arry Trum an and U. S. Attorney General Tom Clark that the D epartm ent of Justice inter vene immediately, investigate the whole incident, and prosecute the terrorists under federal statutes. Demand that Governor Jim McCord, Nashville, Ten nessee, initiate immediate state action against the wanton slayers of the two Negroes in jail and the wounding of dozens of others, release all prisoners held w ithout charge, and guarantee a fair trial for all Others. Organize mass protest m eetings throughout hte length and breadth of our land, mobilizing the aroused conscience of our entire nation against the dastardly events of Colum bia, Tennessee. We have simply got to stop the lynch terror against the Negro people in Tennessee, throughout the South, and even in Freeport, L.I. There is no other way to guarantee the democratic liberties of all Americans from being snuffed out in the onrush of our native dacism. Red Cross Oversea Clubs Important For Young GIs "DONT W ASTE FOOD Berlin, G erm any—T he 18- and I 19-year-old G Is over from th e S tates feel m uch m ore a t hom e in Red ross clubs th a n th e y do in th e cafes and “dives" here, according to Alice Ja n e C arter, directo r of th e N egro-staffed Vic to ry Red Cross C lub here. “T hey m ay of curiousity, thpy say th e y our clubs as a C a rter added. try th e cafes out b u t on th e w hole p refer coming to reg u lar d iet.” Miss “The m ajority of o u r boys are used to visiting th e co rn er d ru g store or tak in g th e ir g irl to a movie. T hey are too young to know m uch about bars and sa- 1 loons. So o u r aim is to m ake our | club so a ttra c tiv e and so in te r esting th a t th e boys get to be afraid th e y ’ll miss som ething if th ey stay aw ay .” Miss C a rter is the d a u g h te r of Mrs. Belle J. C arter, of 62 S. Ohio A venue, C olum bus, Ohio, retire d social service w orker, and th e la te r C harles J. C arter, at torney, and p art ow ner of the P ittsb u rg h , Pa., C ourier. She received h er B. A. degree in so cial service w ork a d m in istratio n from Ohio S ta te U niversity. S u b sequently she w orked fo r the YWCA, in P hilad elp h ia, Pa., and in Chicago 111., and before joining the Red Cross in Ja n u a ry 1944 w as handling social service cases By L illian Sm ith at th e St. F rancis H ospital, Col Max Delson, chairm an of the um bus Ohio. Square Miss C a rter cam e overseas in recent g reat M adison M ay 1944. F irst assigned to a G arden rally for FEPC read this club in Belfast. Ireland, she la t m oving statem en t for th e F air er w ent to clubs in England, and, E m ploym ent P ractice Com m is in N ovem ber, w as assigned to sion by th e noted au th o r of "S trange F ru it” w ho phoned the th e V ictory C lub here. She sees a m arked difference statem en t from her home in C lay in the a ttitu d e of boys coming ton, Georgia. The FEPC has become not on overseas today from th a t of o ld er soldiers d u rin g com bat days. ly a sym bol of hum an dignity “T hese ar,.- ju st kids,” she says, b ut a national rem inder of things “an d it’s alm ost m ore im p o rta n t about dem ocracy th a t we are aysf fo rg e ttin g .. \ th an durin g the w ar y e ir s for t rem inds us th a t every m an Red Cross to give them a place to roost, p len ty of recreation and has the rig h t toi a job th a t he th e feeling of home, in a coun can do. It rem inds us also th a t try w here the language is d iffe r no other m an has th e rig h t to en t and w here th e civilian popu keep him from his job because of race, creed or clor. lation is o u r form er enem y.” It rem inds us th a t in A m erica The V ictory Club, housed in one of the best Red Cross b u ild th ere are no priorities. We stand ings in Berlin, has an u nusually in line not only for b u tte r and active program . F rid ay -n ig h t nylons b u t for th e rig h t to w ork boxing m atches, held in th e club, also. It sends a lot of elbow ing peo n ig h tly band concerts, ja m ses sions, a GI chorus, w eekly bull ple back in line w here they be- r. *LICK THE PLATTER CLEAN* FEPC, a Symbol Of Human Dignity sessions on subjects of gen eral in terest. a d arkroom w here th e m en can leave th e ir film s to be d e veloped or w here they m ay d e velop and p rin t th e ir ow n are am ong the activities. W hen the w eath er is farm er, th ere w ill be badm inton, broad and high ju m p ing, handball, and horseshoe fields in front of th e club. T hree Negro Red Cross girls a re i n the club daytim es and in th e evenings. A chaplain has his office in the club. A GI executive com m ittee plans and supervises th e clu b ’s program and an advisory com m ittee of the com m anding officers of units us- inng the club m eet m onthly to discuss club needs. long to tak e th e ir tu rn as do others. It announces to these greedy and stubborn b arg ain ers w ho w ould trad e dem ocracy for ra c ial pow er *bat our w ay of life is not for sale — eith e r in C on gress or elsew here. A nd it is a good rem inder. We can ’t do w ithout it. F or the louder m en scream against it, the m ore ap p aren t it is th a t we need it. It is the folks w ho b reak d e m ocracy’s rules w ho don’t w an t dem ocracy’s policing. These m en are th e very people from w hom FEPC safeguards the w hole n a tion. WDL Gives Lie To Navy Claim form of th e N avy and draw ing N avy pay w ere to actively and publicly assist eith e r labor or m anagem ent in th e advancem ent of th eir respective aim s d u rin g a dispute.” In addition to recalling the N avy’s role in th e tugboat strike. Rev. A ron S. G ilm artin, N ational C hairm an of the WDL, again call ed for rescinding of the T hird N aval D istrict order. P ointing out th a t p icketing is a legal right, he w rote: “T hroughout th e coun try servicem en and exservice m en from both A rm y and N avy have joined picket lines unm o lested ” The T hird D istrict issued its order a fter snore patrolm en r e m oved C harles Rosie, N egro d is charged sailor, from th e picket line in fro n t of the stru ck W est inghouse p lan t in N ew ark, N. J. illllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll New Y ork C ity - (WDL) - Vice A dm iral Louis D enfeld, chief of n avy personnel, w as rem inded by the W orkers D efense L eague D iam on d s--W atch es--Jew elry th a t th e N avy did not m aintain a policy of n e u tra lity w hen it Tim e is O ur B usiness o perated tugboats in the recen t L icensed W atchm akers New Y ork tugboat strike. 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