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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY. JUNE 18, 1943
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
One Year One Dollar
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Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937,
at the postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Randolph Circulates Axis Propaganda
NEGRO “LEADER” STIRS
RACE HATE
agents '.vith the slogan:
“ ‘The Japanese are brothers'of
the Negroes and the Negro race will
be better off under Japanese rule
than under white rule.’
“This kind of propaganda has at
tracted little support among Negroes
—yefc.
“But already many sincere and in
telligent American Negroes are
thinkimg in the terms expressed in
a dialogue recently reported 1 between
a Negro teadher and student:
“Student: I hope Hitler wins this
war.
“Teacher: How can you make such
a statement?
“Student: Because I am convinced
that it ils the only thing that will
teach these white people some sense
—their knowing what it means to
By Lester M. Hunt in The Interna
tional Teamster
When the Japs moved on Burma
they got a lot of help from the inside.
They got it from Burmese who be
lieved they had been discriminated
against by the English.
The Burmese fell—like the suckers
they were--for the Jap propaganda
against the white race which con
veniently ignored 'the fact that Ja-
pani’s greatest allies in brutality are
the white-skinned Germans.
But the Burmese didn’t stop to
think about that. When they listen
ed to the Jap propagandists they
weren’t even as smart as Little Red
Riding Hood who exclaimed to the
disguised wolf—“What big teeth you
have, Grandma.”
The Burmese didn’t even notice the
big teeth of the Jap wolves. All they
noticed was the soft seductive hiss
that came through those teeth.
They convinced themselves that
they were being mistreated by the
white race which denied them ‘equal
ity.” They let the Japs convince
them that they would be treated bet
ter by their Asiatic brothers when
all the white throats had been cut.
They Got Jap “Equality”
So thousattids of them threw in
with the Japs and threw off their
yoke of fancied persecution and “dis
crimination.”
The Japs conquered Burma and
the brown-skinned Burmese, wel
comed them as brothers and rejoiced
in their reunion.
What has happened since?
The Burmese want the British
back. They want anybody who will
throw out the Japs. They have had
a sample of Jap equality.
They have seen their relatives
hung from trees for infractions of
Jap military rules. They have seen
the fiendish tortures of the Japs
carried on in public 'strike terror to
the hearts of the Burmese.
Some Burmese who resented the
fact that the British didn't sit down
to eat with them have found that the
Japs donH either. In fact, the Japs
won’t even let them eat.
They have commandeered the food
and when a hungry native is caught
stealing any, his hands are cut off
and he is (proudly exhibited in his
agony as a warning to his friends
and relatives.
All of this is by way of comment
on a recent pamphlet which came
through the mails addressed to la
bor publications.
Sows Seed of Insurrection
The pamphlet is published by the
“March on Washington Movement,”
a Negro propaganda organization.
The national director of that organi
zation is A. Philip Randolph, who,
as head of the Sleeping Car Porters,
poses as a union leader, but whose
remarks about other unions are more
unreasonable and vitriolic than any
which ever came from the National
Association of Manufacturers.
The pamphlet issued by Randolph
carres the shocking threat that
American Negroes may be hired by
the same propaganda the Japs used
on the Burmese.
It sows the seed of insurrection by
inflaming tire black race against the
white. It diverts their attention
from the foreign foes of America to
magnified grievances at home and
arouses distrust of the army now
fighting on a dozen fronts so that
all men' can be free from the threat
of slavery.
It deliberately plants the fear in
Negro soldiers that 'they will return
to race riots after the war.
And will the Negro soldiers see
it? Leave that to Randolph. He
plans to circulate one million copies
of his hymn if hate which concludes
with the following plea to passion:
“After this war we will he lucky
if the army’s racial policies inflict
nothing worse on us than race rkvts.
A new and sinister kind of political
doctrine has arsen since the last war
which feeds on racial antagonisms. . .
“Unless the present policies of the
armed forces are greatly liberalize!,
the veterans of our imerow army and
navy will make the best possible
post-war breeding ground of a new
native fasesm.
Not Traitors—“Yet”
“Nor is the danger confined by any
means to the white veterans. The
‘Pacific Movement of the Eastern
World' was launched by Japanese
be oppressed.
"Teacher: But don’t you realize
that conditions would be even worse
under Hitler?
“Student: They can’t possibly be
any worse than they are for Negroes
in the South right now. The army
jimerows us. The navy lets us serve
only as cessmen. The Red Cross se
gregates our blood. Employers and
labor unions shut us out. Lynchings
continue. We are disfranchised, jim-
crowed, spat 1 upon. What more could
Hitler do than that?
“When this dialogue was reported
to a Negro audience recently it was
greeted with cheers. On the basis
of jimerows in uniform to date, it is
not hard to understand those cheers."
Such statements are obviously in
tended to fan the fire of racial an
tagonism. If the pamphlet succeeds
it will be another great propaganda
victory for Goebbeis. Goebbels will
gleefully view it as proof of his
theory 'that the German race is su
perior to all others and that Negroes
are as stupid as the Germans have
proclaimed them to be.
Certainly the pamphlet just issued
cannot be considered by anyone, no
matter how friendly to the Negro
race, as any evidence of ordinary
common sense.
It is diffilult to understand the
mental processes of a man who de
cries against racial discrimination
and then does his utmost to Stir it
up.
It looks like he wanted to create
racial prejudice in order to prove he
was right when he charged it existed.
Maybe it .does exist to various de
grees in various sections of the
country. •
But the kind of propaganda the
self-appointed Negro saviors are now
circulating can do nothing but in
tensify it where it exists and arouse
it where t does ot exist.
Consider this, for instance. The
pamphlet supports the action of a
Negro draftee who refused to serve
in any black military unit, probably
considering himself superor to his
race.
Whatever his motives,' this man de
fied the government of the United
States in war and refused the call
to service.
That’s good stuff, according to
Randolph.
He says the defiant Negro is as
serting his rights in refusing to sub
mit to 'prejudicial treatment.
But is any white man permilt d to
say where he will serve and where he
will not serve? Is he permitted to
defy the government if he does not
receive special consideration ?
He is not-
Yet Randolph claims this privilege
for Negroes. He demands special
privileges which are denied to white
men. That isn’t racial equality or
any other kind of equality.
That’s what Randolph asks the
labor press of America to support.
Labor iis not' sympathetic to such ap
peals. Almost two million members
of labor are in the armed services.
They went where they were assign
ed' and did what they were told to do.
They did not ask or receive any pre
ferential consideration. They did not
refuse to serve with their own people.
The pamphlet cynically quotes an
other Negro who refused to fight bet
cause, he said, “this is> a white man’s
war and it’s no damn good.”
It is our opinion that the purpose
cf quoting this Negro is to give oth
ers the same idea and it suggests they
can defy the government without pen
alty because “you can’t send 13 mil
lion people to jail.”
When Randolph says this is a
“white man’s war” be must be color
blind. Our allies are the yellow-skin
ned Chinese, tne brown-skinned Fili
pinos and the black-skinned people of
every locality that has come in con
tact with .he Japs.
Our military success in the South
Pacific islands has been greatly aid
ed by the cooperation of the black
residents of those islands.
Every black tribe that has met the
Japs and the Americans is the loyal
ally of the Americans.
Let Randolph bear that in mind
when he tries to arouse the Negroes
of America against their government
in its struggle for survival against
the yellow barbarians of Asia and the
white bairbarians of Europe.
And let Randolph remember the
warning given him by President To
bin at the American Federation of
Labor convention in Toronto last fall.
At that time President Tobin spoke
bluntly to answer a speech by Ran
dolph which jvas so full of falsehoods
threats and racial incitement that it
could not be permitted to pass un
challenged.
President Tobin told him his act
ions were undermining the future
progress of the Negro race. He sai l
his remarks were an abuse of the
rights of free speech.
“Sooner or later this kind of stuff
will have to be stopped,” Tobin warn
ed.
It would stop very quickly if the
Negro people could see what is going
on in Burma under the Japs. And
bow the Japs treated every black
tribe they conquered.
And they should not forget that it
was Hitler who said the Negroes were
half apes. It is Hitler’s policy :o ex
terminate inferior people and accord
ing to his theory, Negroes are not ev
en people.
If Hitler wins they will be treated
like beasts he says they are.
Why doesn’t Randolph tell them
that?
Maybe, like Goebbels, he thinks
they are not so smart.
Our own opinion is that they are a
lot smarter than Radolph.
That’s why so many of them belong
to the Teamsters’ Union and listen
to President Tobin and not to men
like Randolph
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I .1
Here’s the clincher for me
This is my kid.
He’s a pretty good kid.
I always used to figure he’d get along all right
in the world, the same way I did.
But a war starts you thinking.
Nobody knows for sure just what kind of a
world my kid will have to grow up in. But
whatever kind of a world it is, a little money
behind him will help.
That’s why I’m salting money away for him
now.
I’m not taking any chances with his future.
I’m guaranteeing it in the best way I know how.
Every pay day, nearly a quarter of what I make
goes into War Bonds. Not just when I can spare
it. But every single pay day—week in, week out.
It’s taken right out of my pay, on the Payroll
Savings Plan. That way, I hardly miss it. But
it mounts up fast.
And every one of those War Bonds will pay
back four dollars for three.
Pay it back when my kid may need it most.
Sure, I’d be buying bonds anyway. I know
the Government needs money to win the war.
And, it’s the least sacrifice a guy can make for
the country that’s been good to him.
But the clincher with me is my kid
★ ★ ★
Chances are, you’re already in the Payroll
Savings Plan—buying War Bonds—doing your
bit. But don’t stop there. Raise your sights!
Do your best!
How millions of Americans have done their bit—
and how they can do better:
Of the 34 million Americans on plant pay rolls,
nearly 30 million of them have joined the Payroll
Savings Plan. (If you aren’t in yet—sign up
tomorrow!)
Those Americans who have joined the Plan
are investing, on the average, 10% of their
earnings in War Bonds. (If you haven’t reached
10% yet—keep trying!)
BUT■■■■■■
America’s income this year will be the highest
in history—about 125 BILLION dollars! In
spite of all taxes and price rises, the average
worker will have more money than last year—
more than ever before!
That is why Uncle Sam has a right to ask us,
individually, to invest more money in War Bonds,
through the Payroll Savings Plan. He asks us
to invest not 10% or 15% or 20%, but all we can!
BOOST YOUR BORO BUYING
YOUVE DONE YOUR BITl-NOW DO YOUR REST!
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