Deriziunea Lui NLRB Este o Victorie PreliminarăImportantă a Greviştilor Contra Companiei Kohler

Emil Mazey, secretarul-ca-sier al uniunii automobiliste(UAW), consideră deriziunealui „National Labor RelationsBoard“ în favoarea uniunii şicontra companiei ultra reacţio-nară Kohler, o victorie preli-minară importantă.

înainte, aceeaşi agenţie a gu-vernului federal decisese îm-potriva dreptului sindicatului833 (UAW) din Wisconsin dea fi certificat de NLRB.

„Sint satisfăcut—a spus Ma-zey—că NLRB a susţinut înunanimitate poziţia uniunii, re-instituind cazul guvernului in-tentat împotriva companieiKohler. Prin această deriziunea lui NLRB, uniunea UAW seconformează prevederilor legiiTaft-Hartley, inclusiv aceeacare prevede ca funcţionariisă umple atestatele cum că nusint comunişti44

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Dacă agenţia nu ar fi con-siderat cazul pe baza faptelor,ar fi fost o violare flagrantă ajustiţiei, a spus Mazey.

„Deriziunea agenţiei NLRB—continuă Mazey—e îmbucu-rătoare, mai ales pentru mem-brii sindicatuluinr. 833 (UAW)

care, de aproape trei ani dezile, sînt în grevă contra unuiadin cei mai aroganţi şi crunţistăpîni ai Americii. Uniunea

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Internaţională împărtăşeşte în-crederea membrilor greviştică decizia finală va arăta căaceastă grevă, de cea mai lungădurată din ţară, a fost cauzatăşi prelungită din pricina pur-tărilor companiei Kohlercare violează legile ţării noas-tre 44

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Codul „Etic" al Lui AFL-CIOsau „Unde Dai ţi Unde Crapă"

(Continuare din paf l-a)la conducere. lată cum pot duş-manii folosi Codul „etic"adoptat de Consiliul lui AFL-CIO.

Cu toate că noi am spus-oîn nenumărate rinduri că sîn-tem în favoarea curăţirii miş-cării sindicale de oamenii co-rupţi şi afacerişti, cu toate căam arătat că uniunea „Team-ster‘‘-ilor are mult de făcut înaceastă privinţă, am subliniatcă această curăţenie trebuie săfie făcută de însăşi mişcareasindicală.

Dave Beck, preşedintele na-ţional al uniunii „Internatio-nal Brotherhood of Team*sters", ar avea mult de făcutîn această privinţă. Totuşi, po-ziţia lui la şedinţa din Miami,cind s-a discutat codul „etic"este la loc şi corespunde maimult cu interesele mişcării sin-

dicale decît textul adoptat deConsiliul AFL-CIO.

Beck a spus că „poziţia (luiAFL-CIO) este 100% greşită.Ea va urmări muncitorimeamult timp" ca o stafie. El aspus că uniunea va continuasă respecte drepturile membri-lor de a se folosi de CodulDrepturilor Omului ca şi cei-lalţi cetăţeni americani.

Uniunea „IBT“, a spus Beck,nu va sacrifica drepturile salesub presiunea „Isteriei emoţieişi a unei prese favorabile".

„Eu sint de părere că A-mendamentul 5 este indivizi-bil. Nu poţi restringe dreptulconstituţional. Dacă nu e bun,atunci Amendamentul 5 să fieeliminat din Constituţie" a a-dăugat Beck.

(In numărul viitor, vom a-răta în mod concret consecin-ţele aplicării Codului „etic'4.)

Unele Informaţii* Pentru a reîmprospăta me-moria cititorilor e bine să a-mintim că NLRB a depus 12violări specifice contra com-paniei Kohler. Ascultarea, carea fost complectată primăvaratrecută, a durat 15 luni şi aluat 4 milioane de cuvinte demărturie.

George Downing, examina-torul cazului, nu s-a pronun-ţat încă asupra acuzelor. Ex-aminarea cazului a fost între-ruptă noiembrie trecut, cînddl. Downing a susţinut un apelal companiei Kohler, ce pre-vedea anularea cazului pe ba-za unei tehnicalităţi, cum căcei trei controlori ai lui UAWnu au depus atestatele că nusînt comunişti. Dl. Downings-a bazat pe o decizie a Curţiia 7-a de Apel de Circumscrip-ţie din Chicago care a afectato altă uniune.

Uniunea UAW a arătat a-genţiei NLRB că controloriidin Chicago au sarcini cu to-tul deosebite de acei din UAW.Petiţia lui UAW a subliniatcă în fiecare an, uniunea UAWa primit un certificat de laNLRB care afirma că UAW s-aconformat cu toate prevederilelegii Taft-Hartley. UAW a sus-ţinut că controlorii nu sîntoficianţi aşa cum îi defineştelegea Taft-Hartley, deci nu potfi ceruţi să iscălească atestateleîn chestie.

Cu toate acestea, ulterior, ceitrei controlori au iscălit ates-tatele—de bună voie—numai casă nu păgubească cazul in fa-ţa lui NLRB.

PE SCURTBONN, Germania vestică.—

Industriaşi şi comercianţi ger-mani din Germania apuseanăau dat de ştire CancelaruluiKonrad Adenauer că ţara va ficonfruntată cu o criză serioasăeconomică, dacă guvernul nuva lua măsuri imediate de aintra în tratative cu UniuneaSovietică şi Republica Popu-lară Chineză, cu scopul de avinde produsele germane aces-tor două mari ţări din lagă-rul socialist.

Noi Legi Promulgate de Guvernul EgipteanCAIRO, Egipt. Guvernul

egiptean a luat un număr dehotăriri care nu vor fi pe placulcapitaliştilor străini. Abdel Mo-neim El-Kasumi, ministrul Fi-nanţelor, a anunţat promulga-rea unor legi menite să elibe-reze economia Egiptului de subdominaţia capitalului străin.

In acest spirit, s-a creat oorganizaţie generală economicăcare va dispune de un anumitcapital sub formă de acţiuniguvernamentale ale societăţi-lor pe acţiuni egiptene şi va di-

rija activitatea comercială dinţară în interesul întăririi eco-nomiei naţionale. Noua legestabileşte că activitatea banca-ră şi de asigurări în Egipt poa-te fi desfăşurată pe viitor numaide societăţile pe acţiuni egip-tene, cu capital egiptean pe ba-ză de acţiuni aparţinînd exclu-siv egiptenilor. Membrii con-siliilor de administraţie a băn-cilor şi societăţilor de asigu-rări şi persoanele care conducactivitatea acestor instituţiitrebuie să fie egipteni.

A fost promulgată de aseme-nea legea potrivit căreia, cu ac-tivitatea de import a mărfuri-lor în Egipt se pot ocupa nu-mai societăţile pe acţiuni egip-tene, ale căror acţiuni aparţinexclusiv egiptenilor sau comer-cianţilor care sînt cetăţeni e-gipteni din naştere.

„Hotărirea guvernului egip-tean, a declarat Kaisuni, arede asemenea drept scop să pu-nă capăt activităţilor subver-sive ale băncilor străine împo-triva economiei egiptene".

In Faţa UnuiRevista fugarilor „Conica Ro-

mânească“ (noiembriedec. 1956) cuprinde, printrealtele, un presupus mesaj adre-sat poporului romîn din parteafostului rege Mihai.

In treacăt ţinem a menţionacă revista fugarilor este tipări-tă la tipografia ziarului „Ame-rica", 5703 Detroit Avenue,Cleveland 2, Ohio.

Interesant cu presupusul me-saj „regal" este că redactoriirevistei, poate ca o reflecţiea realităţii lucrurilor, acceptîndfaptul că ideea de „rege" ex-istă numai în mintea lor ima-ginară, nu s-au mai ostenit sămai pună iscălitura fostuluimonarh. D-nii redactori, deşii-ău dat presupusului mesajîntiietate, l-au publicat în an-onimitate. Aşa dar, cu dreptcuvînt, mesajul regal nu estemesaj regal, pentru că nu maiexistă aşa lighioană.

Mesaj AnonimScribul fugar Novac, care ocu-

pă un loc de frunte în zia-rul „America", cheamă pe ro-mînii americani să se pregă-tească cînd Romînia va fi Şiea aruncată într-o baie desînge de criminali contrarevo-luţionari, de rămăşiţele fascisteşi gardiste care se mai găsescpe ici-colo, cum au făcut hor-thiştii ungari.

Novac insistă ca romînii a-mericani să nu lase ca aceastăsperanţă nebună să piară, deo-arece dacă va pieri va însemnaşi „pieirea noastră".

In primul rînd, romînii ame-ricani, în majoritatea lor cople-şitoare nici nu au astfel desperanţe, după cum nu au nicifraţii noştri de dincolo. Totu-şi sîntem siguri de un singurlucru: pieirea rămăşiţelor gar-diste, cît şi a scribilor de tea-pa lui Novac este un fapt cert.

Sîmbăta, 16 februarie 1957

IN HONOR OF NEGRO HISTORY WEEKMrs. F. £ W. Harper Poet of TheNegro People

Frances Ellen Watkins Har-per, whose poem we repro-duce, was the most popularNegro poet in mid-19th cen-tury of America. Her Poemson Miscellaneous Subjects,first published in 1854, wentthrough several editions.

William Lloyd Garrison, thegreat Abolitionist, spokewarmly of this young womanwith the clear, melodious voicethat fired anti-slavery audienc-es from New Bedford to De-troit. Few women in the Abo-litionist movement travelled sowidely or spoke to so manyaudiences.

With verses such as we re-produced, did Mrs. Harper helprouse the country. However,her prose was equally effective.One example is the article shewrote for the Anglo-Africanin 1859 taking issue with thebelief of some professional andmiddle-class Negroes that sal-vation lay in adopting theviews and customs of the rich.Mrs. Harper argued: “We needwhat money cannot buy andwhat affluence is too beggarlyto purchase . . . Let us notthen defer all our noble op-portunities till we get rich.”Not, she made clear, that shewas aiming to enlist a crusadeagainst the desire for riches.But she was opposed to chain-ing down the soul to the sin-gle idea of “ getting moneyas stepping into power or evengaining our rights in common

BY FRANCES E. W. HARPER

MAKE me a grave where’er you will,In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;

Make it among earth’s humblest graves,But not in a land where men are slaves.I could not rest if around my graveI heard the steps of a trembling slave;His shadow above my silent tombWould make it a place of fearful gloom.

I could not rest if I heard the treadOf a coffle gang to the shambles led,And the mother’s shriek of wild despairRise like a curse on the trembling air.

I could not sleep if I saw the lashDrinking her blood at each fearful gash,And I saw her babes torn from her breastLike trembling doves from their parent nest.I’d shudder and start if I heard the bayOf bloodhounds seizing their common prey,And I heard the captive plead in vainAs they found afresh his galling chain.If I saw young girls from their mother’s armsBartered and sold for their youthful charms,My eye would flash with a mournful flame,My death-paled cheek grow red with shame.I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated mightCan rob no man of his dearest right;My rest shall be calm in any graveWhere none can call his brother a slave.I ask no monument, proud and high,To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;All that my yearning spirit craves,Is bury me not in a land of slaves.

BURY ME IN A FREE LAND

with others.” “The importantlesson we should learn and beable to teach,” she concluded,“is how to make every gift,whether gold or talent, fortune

or genius, subserve the causeof crushed humanity and car-ry out the greatest idea of thepresent age, the glorious ideaof human brotherhood.”

Abe LincolnOn Liberty

The world has never had agood definition of the wordliberty, and the American peo-ple, just now, are much inwant of one. We all declarefor liberty; but in using thesame word we do not all meanthe same thing. With some, theword liberty may mean foreach man to do as he pleaseswith himself, and the productof his labor; while with othersthe same word may me'an forsome men to do as they pleasewith other men, and the pro-duct .of other men’s labor.Here are two, not only diffe-rent, but incompatible things,called by the same name, lib-erty. And it follows that eachof the things is, by the respec-tive parties, called by two dif-ferent and incompatiblenames—liberty and tyranny.

The shepherd drives thewolf from the sheep’s throat,for which the sheep thanks theshepherd as his liberator, whilethe wolf denounces him for thesame act, as the destroyer ofliberty, especially as the sheepwas a black one. Plainly, thesheep and the wolf are notagreed upon a definition of theword liberty; and precisely thesame difference prevails to-day among us human creatures,even in the North, and all pro-fessing to love liberty. Hencewe behold the-process bywhich thousands are dailypassing from under the yokeof bondage hailed by some asthe advance of liberty, and be-wailed by others as the de-struction of all liberty.

(From address at SanitaryFair in Baltimore, April 18,1864).

Poziţia LuiCarl Stellato

(Continuare din par. 1-a)uni care tolerează excroci şinu-şi vor curăţi singure casa,atunci lucrul trebuie să-l facăComitetul de bună-purtare allui AFL-CIO”, a spus Stel-lato.

Arătind că comisia senatoria-lă însărcinată cu ancheta estedominată de mccarthişti şi dedixicraţi, Stellato mai arată căprintre acei opt membrii aicomisiei sînt şi senatorii Mc-Clellan, McCarthy şi Mundtcare, după cum am arătat şinoi, au fost membrii şi în co-misia care a anchetat pe „oiilobbyists”, dar că aceştia auraportat (în cazul acela) că„nu e nimic ce ar merita o an-chetă”, cu toate dovezile de ne-tăgăduit că monopoliştii petro-lului violau legile privitoare la„lobbying”.

Fruntaşul de la sindicatul600 a mai spus că „muncitori-mea trebuie să cerceteze ches-tiunea corupţiei şi sa ia mă-suri efective pentru a curăţiori de cîteori şi oriunde se gă-seşte, fără a vătăma mişcareamuncitorească, cum ar face—-combinaţia McCarthy,Mundt, McClellan**.

Citiţi ziarul şi-l daţişi unui prieten să-l

citească, să-l aboneze

Negro People's StruggleFor Freedom Will Win OutA crusade haunts today’s

slaveocrats. The% Eastlands, the

mobsters and lynchers andbomb throwers of Montgom-ery, Birmingham, Tallahassee,and other southern cities aredead scared of the crusade,launched by the National As-sociation for the Advancementof Colored People, to ensurethat the Negro people shall befree by 1963.

The Negro “scrubbers andcleaners; the porters andseamstresses” from Montgom-ery who a little more than ayear ago began the gloriousmovement to put an end tojimcrow in the city buses,started something that eventhey could not foresee the far-reaching effects. What the Ne-groes did in Montgomery, oth-ers took up in their own cit-ies. No threats or bombs coulddeter them from bringing thelaw of the land into their ownterritory. Not even the WhiteCitizens Councils, “blessed” bysuch racists as Eastland coulddeter them from their objec-tive.

The crusade started bythe NAACP in 1953 gainedmomentum. The SupremeCourt acted, and ruled thatsegregation must end. The lo-cal and state and national gov-ernments either sabotaged thelaw of the land or did nothingto enforce the ruling of thehighest tribunal. But the Ne-gro people themselves decidedto bring law and order. Theywere determined to wipe outviolence and the shame ofjimcrow and their efforts havebeen far from vain.

While the President of 1863made his actions to fit hiswords, and saw to it that slav-ery was abolished, today’sPresident is satisfied with no-ble pronouncements withoutimplementing them.

“We are a people of manyraces, colors and creeds,” Mr.Eisenhower said, in acceptingthe honorary chairmanship ofBrotherhood Week (Feb. 17-24), but we are one nation,one country. The rich varietyof American life invigoratesthe entire Republic, our econ-nomy, our culture, our dedica-tion to freedom and justice.”

Noble words indeed . . .

But what has he done to trans-late them into action? Whenthe Negro people in the Southasked him to come South andtalk to the people, he couldnot accept. But he did findtime to go to Georgia to golf,one hour away from the sceneof hooliganism’s throes. Why,Mr. President?

Mr. Brownell, that dispen-ser of justice, too, couldn’t dovery much. State’s Rights, youknow. What rights? Forwhom? For the Eastlands, theleaders of jimcrow and lynch-ing?

But despite this indifference,the Negro people have learnedto fight together in order towin the battle together onmany fronts. They were notalone, and they are not alonenow. More and more people,the white people of the South,organized labor and men andwomen of all creeds and racesare helping, realizing that theNegro’s fight for freedom istheir fight. And advances arebeing made. The march tow-ard freedom is gaining momen-tum. So much so that Rev. Mar-tin Luther King, that staunchleader of the Montgomery busfight, could say to his congre-gation recently:

“If I had to die tomorrowmorning, I would die happybecause I’ve been to themountain top and I’ve seenthe promised land . . . andit’s going to be here in Mont-gomery.”

Rev. King’s words springfrom the heroic and self-sac-rifiemg struggles of his ownpeople and from the blood ofthousands upon thousandsspilled by the colored peoplesthroughout this world. Themarch goes on, more rapidlyevery day and every minutebecause this epoch —as noother before it epitomizesthe fusion of these two linked-up struggles for emancipation:the struggle of the Negro peo-ple in our land, and the strug-gle for national liberation ofthe colored people every-where.

Noted Negro Scholar

DR. W. E. B. DuBOIS

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CAPED FROM MARYLANO TO N.Y.CITVwhere he changed his name To Fred-erick DOU6LASS To AVOID CAPTURE ...

HE. BECAME AN ELOQUENT FIGHTER FORequal OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEGROESTO PARTICIPATE IN THE BUILDING OfAMERICA.•• DOUGLASS HELPEO RECRUIT•NE6RO Soldiers to win The pay FoRThe UNION WITHOUT SLAVERY....* HE DIED /A/ 1895, HONORED BY

Millions FOR His EIGHT TO MlTREE ALL MANKIND by gatFREEING THESlave/

HEROES OF DEMOCRACY

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Timely Comments FromThe Storehouse Of History

Among the most timely comments on the Americanpassion for freedom anywhere but at home is the follow-ing excerpt from a speech delivered 105 years ago byFrederick Douglass in Rochester, N. Y.

The recent frenzy over the so-called Hungarian“freedom fighters” while the real “freedom fighters,” theNegro people in the South, got no aid or support, empha-sizes the point Douglass made so long ago.

YOU BOAST of your love of liberty, your superiorcivilization, and your pure Christianity, while the

twin political powers of the nation (as embodied in thetwo political parties) is solemnly pledged to support andperpetuate the enslavement of three million of yourcountrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crown-headed tyrants of Russia and Austria and pride your-selves on your democratic institutions, while you andyourselves consent to be the mere tools and bodyguardsof the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina.

• You invite to your shores fugitives of oppressionfrom abroad, honor them with banquets, greet them withovations, cheer them, toast them, salute them, protectthem, and pour out your money to them like water; butthe fugitives from your own land you advertise, hunt,arrest, shoot, and kill. You glory in your refinement andeducation, yet you maintain a system as barbarous anddreadful as ever stained the character of a nation—a sys-tem begun in avarice, supported in pride, and perpetuatedin cruelty.

You shed tears over fallen Hungary, and make the sadstory of her wrongs the theme of your poets, statesmen,and orators, till your gallant sons are ready to fly to armsto vindicate her cause against the oppressor; but in regardto the ten thousand wrongs of the American slave, yonwould enforce the strictest silence, and would hail himas an enemy of the nation who dares to make thesewrongs the subject of public discorse!

Racists Seek to Drive NegroSharecroppers Off The Land

NEW YORK. In its seriesof articles on “The InsideStory of the White CitizensCouncils/’ the N. Y. Post (Jan.9) points out that these racistgroups are being used by thebig cotton plantations who arenow mechanizing their opera-tions to drive Negro share-croppers and farmers off theland. Many of the Councilleaders, it says, are plantationowners, like Sam Englehardtof southern Alabama, or plan-tation managers, like RobertPatterson of the MississippiDelta.

Mississippi planters hire“200,000 fewer laborers now

than 25 years ago” and, saysthe Post, want “to drive someof the Negroes north,” “keepthe remainder at slave-1 e v e 1pay” and “still not have a bigwelfare bill for the unemploy-ed.” It adds:

“Too, it is the philosophy ofthe Delta that any laboringman should work, pray andsleep, period. Only the plantersneed diversion from cotton. Thestate penitentiary at Parchmanis simply a cotton plantationusing convicts as labor. Thewarden is not a penologist butan experienced plantation man-ager. His annual report to thelegislature ... is a profit-and-loss statement.”

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