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MAGAZINE EXPOSES NEW YORK’S RACIAL UNREST >15
SYMPTOM OF POWDER KEG
Reprinted From The Charleston, S. C.
News and Courier
In its usual frank and full manner, U.
S. News & World Report has published an
article entitled:
“Is New York Sitting 1 on a ‘Powder Keg’?
Racial Unrest Forces Its Way To The
Surface.”
The answer to the magazine’s question,
though a reader of the New York daily
press might not suspect it, is yes. The
article under the caption answers the
question.
The answer has been yes for several
years. In unguarded moments, New
York newspaper men admit that the
story of Harlem is “dvnamite.” It is too
hot for them to handle. The explosion
is coming closer.
U. S. News & World Report is accus¬
tomed to handling hot stories. This one,
we assure our readers, is authentic.
While much of the material will he al¬
ready familiar to readers of The News
and Courier, which has endeavored to
keep up With race relations north r>f
the Mason-Uixon Line as well as south
of it, the article is a useful—and shock¬
ing—summary of facts.
One angle that may be unfamiliar to
many Southerners is the emergency of
L rro “Muslims.” We have seen refor-
en ’s lately to such a sect, mostly in the
Negro press. Its leader calls himself
“Eliiah Muhammad.” He has headquart¬
ers in Chicago and a lieutenant in Harlem
known as Malcolm Little, and also as
Malcolm X. U. S. News & World Report
says Mohammed has drawn crowds of
two to three thousand Negroes eager to
hear the “spiritual leader of America’s
Muslims.” He promises they soon will
>1 SOUTHERN PARADOX
From The Carolina Times
The car had a New York license plate.
It was parked in front, of a building in
which are housed Negro corporations
with over 70 million dollars in assets. In
the car were three small white children
whose ages appeared to range from five
to three years. Apparently their par¬
ents or parent had left them in the car
while they shopped. The three small
children were having the time of their
lives shouting to every Negro who pass¬
ed. hey mVger, hev nigger, after which
thev would fall back in the car and roll
with laughter.
We watched this scene for fully 20
minutes and our hearts went out, not to
Ilow Does The Steel Strike
Affect The Negro?
By Dick Jarrcft
For Associated Negro Press
CHICAGO—With the eyes of
the country focused on the
steel strike and its impact on
the nation's economy, welfare
workers and community lead¬
ers are asking: “How does all
this affeot the Negro steel
worker? Is the strike putting
him on the relief rolls ,or has
he a ‘cash reserve' to fall back
on until Union and Industry
come to an agreement?'’
None of the steel workers
interviewed by a reporter has
wanted to strike. They say it
leaves them in a hole and they
are months catching up with
their bills. Negroes are among
the 590,000 workers in 24 states
now on strike that is costing
the steel industry and members
of the Ur d Steelworkers un¬
ion a combined loss of 29 mil¬
lion dollars a day.
Felt the Pinch Of
Payicss Paydays
The strikers, who have al-
ready felt the pinch of
paydays, are losing about
million dollars a day in wages,
How long they can hold out de-
pe.: on financial aid from
the. local unions and how
much they have set aside for
« “rahiy day.” Some businesses
have already started to extend
credit to responsible workers
made idle by the strike
As to the wages paid the
workers prior to the strike, the
National Advertising Representatives
Associated Publishers
55 West 42nd Street
New York 3 «, New York
188 W. Washington 8t.
Chicago 2, III.
Mr. Robert Whaley
Whaley-Simpson Company
6608 Selma Ave.
Los Angeles 28, California
Mr. Gordon Simpson
Whaley-Simpson Company
700 Montgomery St.
San f ranclsco 11, California
A
gain control of New York—a pledge that
may not be as fantastic as it sounds—
and that “white rule” in the United
States will be overthrown by 1970.
The magazine reports charges by Ne¬
gro spokesmen of police brutality in
New York—charges that appear to have
relatively little validity. For their part,
police complain of lack of cooperation
among the Negro people in their at¬
tempts to keep order.
Negroes are breaking out of the segre¬
gated purlious of Harlem and exploding
into almost every section of New York
City. They are clamoring for greater
representation in city government. U.
S. News & World Report says they are
"embarked on a ‘revolt’ to gain those ob¬
jectives. The result at this time is to
bring New York’s racial troubles into
the foreground, and fears are being ex¬
pressed that these troubles are going to
mount in the months ahead.”
We resist the temptation to gloat over
these troubles, and to taunt our Northern
friends with jeers of “we told you so.”
We sympathize with the decent self-
respecting persons of both races who are
being terrorized bv hoodlums, egged on
bv agitators and fleeced by a gang of so¬
cial and political mountebanks.
The plight of New York—and the
same thing is happening in other great
cities of the North and West—may
bring at least some relaxation of pres¬
sures on the South. Our region will
continue to be a haven for respectable
white and colored people who want to
live in harmony and separation.
the Negro men and women who passed.
Nearly 300 years of insults, abuses and
disappointments have steeled the Negro
against the crudest insults and treat¬
ment. He can take it. Our hearts
went out to these three small children
who in the tender years of their lives
have already been taught to hate and to
insult those of another race.
Our hearts also went out to their par¬
ents who knowingly or unknowingly have
failed to have enough vision to prebare
their off-spring for the new world in
which they must live 20 years from now:
a world in which men will be measured
for what they are instead of by the color
of their skin.
Federal Bureau of Labor Statis¬
tics reports that the average
steel wage before the strike
was $310 an hour and $12710 a
week. This compares with the
pay of $2.23 an hour and $90.32,
for the average factory worker.
Gary, “Steel Center of
America"
In the greater Chicagoland
area, plants closed include
those at South Chicago, Ham¬
mond and Gary, Ind, the latter
being known as the “Steel Cen¬
ter of America.” Many Negro
workers in Chicago commute
, daily over the Toll Road to the
j huge mills in Gary,
Although the general thinking
among business analysts sur¬
rounding the steel strike and
how it will affect the economy
indicates a favorable future for
the general population, it can
not forecast its effects on par-
'icular regions and groups.
The Negro is an ethnic group
I which will experience differ-
j ent effects because of the
steel strike than others in the
prpneral population. Such is to
i be expected, as the Negro oc-
j cupies more constitutes crowded areas, greater is
exploited,
portion of the relief rolls and
is under severe employment re-
j sitrictions.
The strike, according to ex¬
perts, is expected to last in¬
definitely with business giving
labor a battle to remember.
However, a compromise may be
reached in which labor will se¬
cure a Flight wage increase of
about three percent. Following
the compromise, other indus¬
tries are expected to raise wa¬
ges for their employees. All in
all, everyone is predicting high¬
er wages and an eventual boom.
But just as/ thunder follows
lightning, higher prices are ex¬
pected to follow higher wages,
with a slight variation. Tire
price increase .demanded by
steel will be out of proportion
to the wage increase. A general
rise in prices for most commo¬
dities is inevitable.
Negroes Last to Get Raises
While a smal lminority will
benefit from the raise in wa¬
ges, the majority of working
Negroes are fixed income em¬
ployees in industries that will
not immediately receive any
wage increase. Some such are
government employees, teach¬
ers, etc. Another great portion
of Negroes on public assistance
will not realize an increase.
WHY I AM BLACK
By William 11. Huff, For ANT
The Lord saw fit to make me
black
And I am glad He did
Mb’ race, at last, is coming back
With powers long since hid.
My Africa's no longer dark
She’s moving in the modern
light
She’s turned the switch, and
felt the spark
By which to march with all her
might.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
STILL ON THE LOOSE AND CAUSING E YIBARRASSMENT TO OUR WORLD
LEADERSHIP
Is U. S. Black The Black?
By Special Correspondent for
Associated Negro Press
IBADAN. Nigeria — Dr. V.
McKinley Wiles, a urology spe-
±!TV 1937 devoted f „ N 7, his York vacations ' h ? s £in f to I
what he describes as a “medi¬
cal service tour” of African
countries—all free of charge. ;
A diplomat of the American
Board of urology, fellow of the
International College of Sur¬
geons and a devout Seventh-
day Adventist, Dr. Wiles be¬
lieves it is his duty to give some
part of the year to those who |
may need his medical apec’alty j
the most.
Toward that end. this j» v 'bf I i
made arrangements befcAe he j
left the United states, to lend
his skills in urology to the staff j j
of the local modern University
College horpatal. <
When he arrived in Ibadan
a few days ago, he reported to
the medical head of the de¬
partment cf surgery to begin
his “gratis” services. lie was
told quickly that (1) the post
was no longer vacant; and (2)
his services were no longer
Writer Asks: “Why Wasn’t NAACP
Founder DuBois on 50th Anniversary
4 ’
By Victor Alverton
NEW YORK (ANP>~The only
Negro leader who attended the
meeting which resulted in the
organization of the National
Association- for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People did not
appear on the program of the 1
jubilee celebration of the
founding of the organization
here recently. Whether he was
invited is not clear, but ex¬
pressions of criticism have been
heard from different sections of
the country over the fact that
Dr. W. E. B DuBois was appar¬
ently not listed on the jubilee I
program. j
The NAACP was organized as I
a result of a call issued by 53 j
distinguished Americans on Fob.:
12. 1909, the centennial of the
birth of Abraham Lincoln, the
abolitionist. Dr. DuBois was
the only Negro leader attend-1
ing this momentous meeting, j
The originator of the idea of
Ebony Publisher Says,
“Communism Not Answer
Race Problem 4 ’
CHICAGO ,H1 (ANP)—Any
Negro who feels that
ism is the solution to the race
problem in the disappointed United States if he |
will be sadly
takes a trip to Soviet Russia.
This Ls the opinion p of John
H. Johnson, publisher of Jet! T
and and Ebonv Ebony Magazines Magazines, wfto) who I
with his wife. Eunice, was a;
member of the press group
which accompanied Vice Presi-
dent Nixon on his recent trip
to Russia and Poland. There
nceded.
Barometer of Things To Come?
Although an investigation is
underway, most top level quer¬
ies of such delicate nature in
Nigeria are squelched and that
is the end.
The medical, surgical, and
administrative heads of the
hospi tal are predominantly
British. Prior to Dr. Wiles’ ar-
rival, African doctors made
known their intentions to
strike if conditions for quali¬
fied Nigerian nurses were not
improved immediately. These
burses are continuously kept on
probationary periods while
hn " des of nurses from England
,lft,cn !css Tiahfied HU per-
mancnt P Gats -
Too Little Known
The refusal of Dr. Wiles in
(he only truly modern hospital
in Nigeria is an affront to all
American citizens of color. It i.
difficult to make the comfort¬
able American understand that
the rest of the world knows
practically nothing about him
except for an isolated case
here and there, like Dr. Ralph
uch an organization was
Ham liam English Knelish Wsllimr Walling «,hn whose S P
widow was honored during the
50th anniversary celebration.
It was Dr. DuBois who through
The Crisis magazine which
founded , , , Oha M wide publicity . ,. ..
was given to the program and
NAACP. The
CrW, magazine.
monthly under Dr. DuBois
editorship, became the first Ne-
cm magazine in America to
seif supporting. 1 housands of
readers bought the magazine,
and Dr. DuBois became the
mouthpiece for thousands of.
Nogroes whho were yearning
for complete freedom and
mocracy.
How is it that Dr.
didn't appear on the anniversa- ;
ry celebration program? Was j
he snubbed? If so, why? How
is it that Congressman A. Clay-
ton Powell, Jr., was invited at
are relatively few Negroes in
the Soviet Union, and Mr.
son agrees with the Russian
claim that it does not have a
race problem. However, he
quick to point out that most
of the privileges which we take
for granted * such as freedom of
:?peech h a d . np press „. arlH a d the r ' ht
to own property P £ are not en oy-
pd fey th ussian people .
The American Negro w’ho
wants better housing, more pro-
ductive employment, and more
NIXON LOOKS TREMENDOUS
Some months ago, Ebony ran
a story of a Texas Negro octo-
generian who was getting ready
to marry a girl in her late teens.
Smart neighbors, of course,
were ready with their criti¬
cisms and raised the question
that when young girls of that
age married men of his age, they
only married them for their
money.
Replied the octogenerian “If
money is what they want by
golly, they can get it.”
That is the attitude of this
writer with regard to casting
his vote in the oncoming pres¬
idential election: if Nixon wants
this vote, he can get it, and
there will be sufficient mil¬
lions likewise impressed who
will guarantee his sojourn in
the White House.
On his recent visit to Soviet
Russia, Nixon looked
dous! He did not enter
Iron Curtain with
ness, doing obeisance to the
pntedly powerful Russians with
their bantering Krushchev and
his comrades. Nixon stood up
to Krushchev and talked
way a U. S. statesman should
talk. He made it clear that our
j great country was not to be
j bull-dozed into submission to
godless communism, with its
“bayonet in the side.”
Nixon not only rendered a
great service to the Russians by
j j letting them know that he was
not a chamber iain and that
Moscow was not our Munich,
but his straightforward talk
stiffened the backbone of our
at-times weak and cringing
spokesmen, who prove to be the
unworthy representatives of our
great country.
The time is at hand when
Americans must be told once
and for good, that our gallant
countrymen—who fell at Valley
Forge and Gettysburg and the
Marne—the beach-heads of
Normany and Korea—did not
die in vain, and that we like
them prefer to die like heroes
than to live like cowards. Too
i | long already has this country
been represented by men who
j seemingly soft-pedalled our de-
termination to defend our great
j country even at the risk of
| a l nm i c war. Nixon made it
' n,ain should
- as have been
j j Russia ma de plain risk years ago. atom that if
can an war,
j so can the United States!
The time is ripe for such ex¬
pressions of national determi¬
nation that Nixon gave on his
recent visit to the Soviet Union.
He spoke like a President-to-be.
If nominated, he gets this vote
in the next election—the vote
(J. Bunche, the Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robin¬
son Mahaiia Jackson, Marian
Anderson, and others of that
standing.
The progress and highly de¬
veloped technical skills of col
: ored Americans should be made
j known to the world, and par-
! ticulariy Africa south of the
j Sahara, to avert more disre-
j “ipeetful and embarrasing — to
i sa y nothing of inconvenience—
situations of appointed or self-
appointed ambassadors of color
who are desirous of “helping
i be African,
Continues Journey, Service
However, Dr. Wiles is spend-
ing the “extra time” at the
Seventh-day hospital in Ile-Ife,
45 mile's away. He is still giving
his much needed service — but
•t the mission, instead of at
lbadan hosiptal as originally
planned.
Upon completion cf his stay,
he and his wife, Mary—an in-
structor of nurses in New York
City—-will fly to East Africa and
continue their good work un-
deterred.
the last moment to attend the J
1 | celebration? n P lphr tin„v At At least u,.. this i, is
a a
report which has been circulat-
ed on the program participants.
Dr. DuBois, who is 91 years |
old. is a distinguished ® historian
and , sociologist . , . In recent ,
years
he has exhibited keen interest
j He in he,e,„p„„„ has been ts champion in Red Russia.. ol thej
a
rights of what he called the
"Talented tenth.”
No Jeader , n America was ev _
er mcre militant in the cause
0 j Negro freedom or ever devot-
PC j as much time to this cru-
sade as Dr. DuBois except Fred-
crick Douglas and William Mon-
roe Trotter. He is one of the
most scholarly ........_ __ leaders _______ the Ne-
has had in America, and is
P prna PS me most oinnam writ-1 wru
er race lias produced in j
America.
Why was he snubbed at the
NAACP’s jubilee celebration?
individual opportunities will
find that they are not avail¬
able to him in Russia because
they are not available to the |
majority of the Russian
pic.” Mr. Johnson does
however, that even though the'
communist philosophy is not a
good one for Negroes or white: |
Americans, there is no reason
w hy the United States and Rus- j
s ; a should not be friendly and |
peaceful. He believes that !
Nixon trip contributed much to |
the rfpvplnnmpnt development ot n f fripndlv Inendly re- re
lations between the two coun-
“ ries and . nd th that „ t further further cultural cultural
and educational exchanges
should be continued,
.
—
Patronize The Tribuna I
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1959
W-++-W-M-M-++*
Between The Lines
By Gordon Hancock (For Associated Negro Press)
]Y'f 11 *111C ' 1 I\$ U ItILIIIUI Mnnmuutl Itlll/A iu’/t
Late W. C.
ST T ' Gnp of
three p top . P features f . of the 36th , fith
annuaJ c onvention of t he Na-
,. , . . ... L
' K
0 , s[ Loul5 Muslc associ .
ation, August 16-21, will be a
program in memory of the late
W. C. Handy, Musician-author
of the world-famous “St. Louis
Blues.’ The program has been
given the title of “Mississippi
Riverfront Program.”
Added attractions of the 40-
year-old non-profit oragniza-
tion’s meeting will be a
mance of the opera “Cavalleria
Rusticana,” Rusticana,” and and a a concert concert by by
Robert McFerrin, former Metro-
Randolph Lauds CORE
Action Institute
“Qualities of courage, dedi-1
cation and all goodwill participants are re-1 in
quired of
Congress of Racial Equal-
Interracial Action
Institute, said A. Philip Ran¬
dolph, president of the Sro-
therhood ^ of Sleeping Car Por-
P today
p an d 0 iph went on to say that
„ Th€ Miami Action Institute
wjU ^ a chal j cnee and an op _
portuntty to learn action tech-
niques which can bring about
dpmocraiie democratic living patterns in
every city in our land.”
Participants in the workshop,
which will last from Sept 5-20,
will engage in action projects
tu bring about integration in'
restaurants, schools ,and em- j
| that his foreign visit and at-
tendant demeanor justify.
Eortunateiy Krushchev and
his co-interrogators did not ask
some questions that could have
been embarrasing.
For instance what is our
greatest boast aside from our
high standard of living? The
greatness of nations cannot be
measured by standards of liv¬
ing but by standards of intra¬
national righteousness. As a
matter of fact, high standards
of living, when unaccompanied
by equally high standards of
righteousness hastens national
decay. High standards of
living are conducive to flab¬
biness of muscle, flabbiness
of mind and flabbiness of
morals. It has been thus from
ancient days.
Civilization has to date been
q failure for this same reason.
Nations have striven to attain
linto h | p!l standards of living
wllilp high standards of morals
aild righteousness were lagging
What would have been Nix¬
on’s answer to the question of.
i “Why is the state of race rela-
tions worsening all the time in
this country?” “Why has the
, old South unleashed a cold
war against the Negro citizens
0 f these United States?”
“Why has Judge Lynch again
; been called to the bench?”
1 “Why is prejudice being
race
j assidiously ciless propaganda cultivated by campaign a mer-
that is fierce and waxing fierc¬
er day by day?” “Why, in too
great a segment of our popula¬
tion, race prejudice is being
worshipped as the god, before
the God of Abraham. Isaac and
Jacob?” “What about our inci¬
dence of murder and rape and
robbery?”
“Why is inflation threaten¬
ing to break down the economic
structure of the country?”
“Why the United States is ex¬
pending millions to buy inter¬
national friends who refuse to
stay bought?’ “What about
our back-breaking national
debt?” “Why the nation winks
at the wretched and ugly poli¬
cy of rushing Negroes to the
front in times of war and to
the rear in times of peace?’’
“Why our Congress is generally
ruled not by great statesmen,
instead of ‘segregation experts’
who specialize in ways and
means of eternalizing segrega-
tion?” “What are the ultimate
implication of massive resist¬
ance and massive resisters in
the Year of our Lord 1959?”
Nixon could have been em¬
barrassed! That he was not
is something of a credit to the
Russians.
li!* e S C Louisaru I >PPra baritone and na *
'
On the regular agenda will
be daily evening concerts,
morning and afternoon confer¬
ences in piano (jazz and class¬
ic), voice, organ, chorus, choir
^. 1U1C ’ nu ' ic ' muac composi-
pu jlic scll ° o1 music and
opera.
On the committee in charge
cf the convention are Kenneth
B. Billups, chairman: Leon E.
Doom, president, St. Louis
branch; Grazia C. Barners, Mid-
west region vice-pres'ident;
and Clarence H. Wilson, nation-
al al president-emeritus pre; u ’’ all aU of 01 St
Louis.
The workshop mem-
will aid th : Miami CORE
group in several of its action
projects.
Aided
Scholarship assistance will be
available for those unable to
the $100 fee for the 16 day
However, travel expen¬
must be undertaken by
participants themselves. Those
interested in applying to the
workshop shomd write
to the CORE off-
Ice: 38 Park Row, New York 38,
New York. CORE is a national
organization of affiliated local
working to abolish dis-
crimination by direct, nonvio-
means.