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fHE CAROLINA' TIMES
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CttBtiaMi iroai Fag* Onr
via ia • laUitac; vioUNry,
«ill hM« to ou- ct«dk tte
uid tragic «ade«\or
di auii ia his folly hM
t %■>■ we art here U
kh the war oa the sucU!,
M aad poUtieal field. We
I tot stop saAil t*ery mui
■M iato his «vq ualeu thu
teads to total ireadoai 4
ill be a total tailare-’'
bv. Biadj IB whose ekarcb i
» three coi^er«oce is con-
kiag aad who spoke for thd
■lifters of Itotroit, chained
delegates to remunber “No
Igro is &ea in Detroit while
Negro U ia peonage in
ississif^L We are fighting
ro was*,’* he said, “one for
tirope wh#re Hitler and Mus-
ilini mast he pat out «f b«i»i-
les and one in America where
k« Ne;jro must be free.”
Tiie delegates ^lieanl mtsi-
fee of i^eting from President
Nnklin Delano RooseTclt, Se-
f^tary of^ Interior Har9ld L.
ii-ttideil WHlkie and
inneroas other impoi-tant pu
le fijruies.
I
*‘In every phase ot war acti-
liy - on our myraid hame fronts
I well as our far-f%ng battle
pBnts - the Negro people have
Iven unstintingly ta bar war
Ifort,” the Pre9id>ak. ‘■‘Color-
I Amerieaas are no^ working
I our war plants, turning out
^ shipsi^^e plsMt and the
with whieh we are carryinK
war U the enemy. Nei?ro
nths fibm homes throughout
e country are serving in the
^rmy, tht .Navy, thir Marine
rnpA, aad the Coist Guard,
^y are fighting on every
tent and in every arm and
raneh of the Service.
■“Om of the most signifieent
»Btribatk>ns which Negroes
tave' made to the war iji on the
I.lUltv n* WUUDt»Mi|^' ^jITI
Defense units, pardiafiint;
^ar Bonds, and sr^porting 'ra
ioaing programs while at th‘
IHM time eoateibuting largely
to infcreaied l!b(4 prodnflitn.
Thronch tkese aifftifflcs nah»r-
alded actirttiM* ov Nagro elti-
aens have helped the Uaited
Natioas by desaipstraiiaf (hat
Anteriea is a uited Datiaa. It
is my hope that your present
conference will twMwr JOTCJW-.
ate all of these gains,."
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SAn’ORDAY, JUNE 12tH» X943
'f.
“Iron Wrench”- .
Continafd from Pag* One
“My jndgment may not aie«ti
with your approval right nua;>
but sometime one of yoa or some
tie you love may come before rae,
and yea will be thankful that I
am ahrlys ready to give a mnu
or woman a chnee if they have
never been in trouble before.”
vioTprp TBSTmoitrT .
The first witness for the ^tate
was Mrs. Bart, who testified
that she went to the 'meat coun
ter at the A and P Store on
Street, on May 14, aad that she
walked between Ih-. Young «n.l
a woman to l(Mk at the display
of meat. ,Dr. iToung told her to
get out of his way and ihe nn-
swered that she was going to
''look at the meat counter as
long as she wanted to,” she said,
Dr. Young then said That he
woulld “knock me down'’ nnd
she answered that it would be
“the last person you^ll knock
down,” the prosecuting witnees
testified. ,
She left the store and'h^d
walked several blocks, she tofti-^’
fied, when Dr. Young drove'ap
beside her and got out of his
car, anying “Yqu thought yoy
A ere going to get 'away with
talking to me-like that.” flp.
Young' stsrted^ to stnke
with a monkey wreaieh; so, she
ran across the street aiidgot be
hind a Negro woman, Mrs.^M«r>
tha Leak, who was on itheijsidc*
walk. Dr.':¥pang strueh her four
blows witn tHe i^nch and .lae
threw a roQk at him 4>tft. she
didn’t hit lum* .the^}WQman• saiil.
The vjcjUm;3^. tlfiat a reenit
>ef this. bZUwiMil5'ii*d ux sfilah'
es taken in her head th«( site
stayed in the hospital for f.ve
da3T«. #|ie l[|a qft yetim|««p(.d
to her job lit sefti^y >^e
llefro U80 %eeaf»e of ♦jft*e>>
«he said.
Mrs. .Mwlha ^^afc |wti!M
that aha saw Or. flMag elsrt to
ktrikt Mrs. Burt and thst he
.1&#
moakey wnneh. Both women
tried to gft the ipoi^hay
from Dr. Yoni^, she tfstified.
Dr. W. F. Cfarl(:^ ^ojp^o, .fs#^, “I’U show yon.” He
this intamiptioii, the
d•f#l^snt eontisued his
mony by saying that Fe left the
ftore aad smarted home in hit
9|r. Qb tin way, be saw Mrs.
ftot walking down the atretfc^
so, hf stopped the car to a«k
&'j|n.9S6l£UUB:s.X0r £Q>1-
dQCt, he said. He teiftfied tl>at
the wonian put her hand in her
pocket and advanced on him
fied the^ hi treated Mw. Virt
ahd that hr ordered her to go tp
{he ¥^tal. Pf |||o tptifiejl
that he ]|ss adtised the woaian
Bot to TCflurn to work af yft.
Charaelar vitnesMi lor Mrs,
Burt were Mrs. W. B. Dnntsan;
the Bev. C* C. Scott, Negro; sod
Professor tieorge Snowden, 5o>
gro. The State then rested.
defemdaht’s WTiMoinr
Dr. Young, the first witness
for the defense, testfied that he
is a native of ArktanSas ani
that he had^nev^ been io
trouble before. 8e . was esoploT-
ed in Halifax Coanty before com
ing to Ralsigh, he said.
On
-Dr. Young testified) he was
standing at the nteat coaster tt
the^A and P Store on West
Hargett Street and >qiiMO}ie
pushed against him twie^ si*
most making hint load :hiS|,bsl-
ance. Finally^ Mrs- fiurt piphed
her head and .|]|oaders i|i
of him and he asked her
she meant by sacb aetion, 'he
«sid. The woman «n«were4
’‘'this a itw eountry and I’ll do
what i pies|«” snd^ he toW her
not to be so rade, the doctor
said. Th^woman cursed him and
they had if'fear mojre’-wbrds' •.«*
fore ahe’ left the store. Dr.
Yonng taid. ' ^ \V
^ BTEDTiKTm
At the poTijrrin
when Ihr. ¥4Hng;:r0pe#:te^ wh®t
the *.vo%i|n^iaid him
many ofi^ thet in tfie
couricoom hissed,,>abd; boo^d.
Judge Bi^^y ri^u^ /wjii^h'; the
garcLaiid ia^ “S>Ht u|)^r f'JI
have,the eonr^oom cjesre^ TjjvJi
|e a tewBJe' of /jqstiee'aod 1^
picture ahow or.a place of4wuae-
ran to the ear and got a /v^neh
and slie threw a roelc at him, he
^ hit her ‘^aHgbtly’' with
the wr^neh snd ahe ran aerosi
the atreet to joion another Ne-
1^0 womaht who began making
aeeusationa toward him, the doc*
tot said.
He croaaed the street to ex
plain the facts of the case to
Mrs. Lejik, and Mrs. Burt hurl-
tS a Snck at him, he said. He
said he defended himself again
st tfte women" by hitting Mrs.
Burt wTlh the wrench. When a
carload of white men came by,
he asked them to stop snd “help
me stop the fight.”
NatjoffidWaC"
dined
KOUt
Continued from Page One
throughout the yards as in the
past.
The plan was submitted to
VVaabin^on Friday n^iht follow
ing a conference Ikr^overnoieot
shipy«rd and unR^ officials
who met at the Pinto Isjapd
plant in fixi effort to solve dif-
%i|lt^ ,«hicb had earlier Jn
the veek, crippled the produt'-*
tion of tankers for the Mari
time commissioR.
According to the Atla'ntt
WMC office only the approval
of -the Maritime commission and
the War Manpower commission
is needed to put the plan into
Immediate, e€lj^t.
Altjiough WlIC has 4ilre»dy
announced the main points of
the ^uew' plan, complete detaiifl
are pot ^pected to be mad a
public until Addseo’s workers
a,^ maw meetUig at
rihtC to 'be the firs: to
hear tBe setup explained, fnib'
The is slated tot t'l#
inmediate fSwe.
Dr. B. F. Aahe, dimtor of
of . the regional office at Atlan
ta, in comment. Mid:
“The preaest basis of agre«*
ment that Separate ahipways
should be maintained for color
ed jsaiHaiuu .jiMM..fla»bijjag JIuuu.
to participate at* all grades of
al(ills employed on the hulls of
ships, seems to aehre at one and
the same time both the difficul
ty of upgrading l^egro workei*8
adequately and that of providing
them with adajtuata protection
while at work in deeigaStel
shipwaya apart from the whites.
“There have been no further
outbreaks of violence. The ar-
rangemeata in foreM have given
eonfidenee to many workers,
both white and Negro, to remain
On the job and to resume work
without fear.
“While there is no doubt
that produetion was seftous^y
interfered with, it was neve’-
eompletely halted and is now
gradually returning to normal.”
Dr. Ashe described the plan:
sa o.oe wiutib.£aiployii in the
neighborhood of 36,600 peopU
and said that the situation is
more than a simple dispate a-
bout wages or hours between
the workers and the company.
“The situation “is more com-
Ijrtex than that,” he added,
“Federal anti - discrimination
laws, union requirements, local
customs and conditions of work,
decision made by the personnel
management of the yard itaclf,
and the national policies of «ov>
eral governmeat agencies as the
Maritime commiMion and the
War manpower opmmission, all
have to be eonsidered and realis
tically adjusted to meet the
aetoal conditions of i>rodacing
ships at Mohile.”
sais OF r-U-b
An editorial in the Mubil>3
Register, leading white daily, to
the ^ployes of Alabama Dry
Dock and Shipbuilding company
sai.'d
“ISouf job and your doty in
this mat is to build ships and
fcH-eei, Boae of wE^ ho doobi
will be ahot down in bittl*
thousands of miles from home as'
or the job of ayr of you, to
stir up uarest or to create or en
gage in diaorder.”
The editorial called 'aftention
^ £act -that -te4ca,.in.lea»
than a year, employes Have en
gaged in rioting to an extent
which made it neceasary for au
thorities to intercede as a pre
caution against mob violenee.
“The minority workers wha
paitioipated in or eontxilwted*
to tbeae riots," the editoi^l de
clared, “were unfaithful to the
dutiea and responeibilities of
their jobs."
The fact that the minority
workers were responsible for
all the trouble was emphasidcd,
“But,” said the Register, “the
■Mjowty also has a responsibi
lity. It 18 ihe dtily of the ma
jority not only to avoid being
aroused by racial hotheads or
othera among the minority who
would ferment trouble, but i,o
discourage these agitators and
i09i8t that thejr, tee, «ae oont~
mon aeose.”
It described a very unpleasant
labor sitnation in Mobile after
this fashion?
“In the latest outburst ©f
violence several days ago, not
only were state guardsmen cji}!-
ed for the second time in Iks’!
than 12 months, but the It. S
army had to be asked for aold-
iers to help preserve order a-
mong i^ilian war woricers.’’’ It
declared, “This dtagraeeft'1
episode ahoald and could havh
been avoided, even in peap*^
much l#as in wartime."
•
The editorial went on to say
the new plan “is assiAued to
be in accord with southern prac
tices in labor relations bet\Feen
the races.” It added, “This
plan, let, us emphasize, was
worked out in joint eonsulation
between spokesmen for th')
government, management and
union which represents thu
etaployes inr? coHeotive fcargitin-^
lQg' THia« .ubans, it 1b looked
the Alabama plant.”
The question waa aaked: “If,
iqsofar aa ia possiblej in war-
tine,' Southern practb#a with
respect to labor relations be
tween the races are followed
can there be any excuse on the
part i)f..aiijr ^worker ««t te abtd^
by this pliln in peaceful manner}
The editorial further declnr-
ed that as7 worker in a vital
war industo advocates or prac-
tfees meb spirit should be
snmm'arily .diacharged and dc-
ciared ia^^ble - to reemploy
njent in puch industry, that
“any war ifiprker who stirs up
hatred and violenfte between the
rates and creates a condition
harmful to the public peace ar.il
the public safety of this com
munity does not belong in Mo
bile. He does not belong in any
patriotic American community
.which atrivea to live in harmony
and is doing its utmost to back
up on the home front the sold-
aad sailtirs who are falUng*
wounded and dead on foreign
battlefields for the protection of
this nation.”
Mwten Vktwy
LlBBeheei WMrta IM* w|r
U Mm «hal
iMdMr ^
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fang Irwta It Is
Ikai iVMT Anert*
ttw Baaead
la m to
te Bt erery vvae*
ow ie la HMle
uiiMA vttk Ilia sao>
kaMd ty ew b«ya In
Ikey ghre their Urea
1 fm m^T-
repair ships to carry vital sup- nponiflby^ijl! those Interest as
this nation’s armed reasQnable pla
€i y2mh YOOR
Income Tax
Installment
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Do irou i^ted a littlt uta xnoii«y
to anable yOu to pay your swct
income tax inataUment? S«e ua
•bout a perao^al loan, which
would give you immadiata caah
and timp to rapay on a coniw-
nlant teata. Any Taaponatbte"
P|raon may apply for a parlOnal
loan.
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