- ~ ®quay Has decent house ‘for first time’ Mrs, Raphael Hendrix (second from left) is welcomed by neighbors to ‘“all-white’’ Stuyvesant Town, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company housing project in New York. The Hendrix family is the summer guest of Jesse Kessler, a union organizer, who decided to challenge Jimcrow in the huge tax-exempt development. Recalling her rat-infested apartment in Harlem, Mrs. Hendrix says She is enjoying decent housing “for the: first time” in her life. Klan rides again in U.S. - as race violence sharpens -—NEW YORK Race violence and national oppression are increasing in the U.S. as Washington policies give more and more scope to unbridled reactionaries and econ2mic deterioration makes it easier for demagogues to 8 ; : ®t up one group against another. The U.S. has 15 million Negroes who labor under disabilities ‘anging from job, wage and housing ‘discrimination to outright terror, depending on the time and place. tesident Truman won the votes of most Negroes on-his election promisé to conserve and extend their Sins made under President Roosevelt. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored fople, a conservative reformist body that is the largest single Negro organization, declared officially That these pledges had been cyn- “ally broken when Republicans “Nd Democrats in Congress made : deal to kill the promised legis- ‘tion on civil rights, Truman's own civil rights com- mittee reported before the elec- i that “too many of our people of : : ive under the harrowing fear Violence or death at the hands 2 mob or brutal. treatment Y Police officers. Many fear en- of eement with the law because ae knowledge that the justice fred in some courts is not €lectj for all. persons.” Post: ~10n experience. has confirmed amply and has also shown seomen will do nothing iu, fat Klux Klan violence and in- in jction has increased not only € south but in the north &gr ‘ll. The New York Age, @ on. Weekly, reported August 20 Yor,e” Klan activities in New S suburbs on Long Island. ®toss was burned in the yard €gro woman who had. just a a house in Hempstead. attany, Tow with a threatening note of a ct Was shot into the door are White housewife in the same Sal’ Warning her not to»rent or Wee, Negroes. All this in one t as wi of “Ccunie “ Stuyvesant Town, a housing St for 8500 families built Anog © Metropolitan Life Insur- °. in New York City on free basis, progressive white Shave banded together to admission to hitherto bar- €sroes, One such tenant, 4 ee. a union organizer, is & Negro couple to occupy thers Partment ‘as Deaths While le», YAS much support for Kess- lette Action, he also received 2 Xpreg falling him “Jew kike” and any “ing the opinion that Hitler Sas enough Jews to death. a teng, Obtai n Waukegan, Illinois, in a nor- thern farming state, James Mont- gomery, a Negro, was freed Aug- ust 10 aftere25 years in jail when a judge was finally found who affirmed that he had been im- prisoned “unjustly and unlawful- ly for an. alleged crime that never occurred.” Montgomery's troubles did not end with his release, how- ever, Four days later his family received a Klan note threatening to torture and lynch them and telling Montgomerys “You had bet- ter be smart and kill yourself. The reaction of the Negroes to these. events leads them direction’ of increased militancy and alliance with the progressive movement. , : Although the Negro problem is the chief national question in the in the U.S., and the Negroes are the greatest potential force among the disinherited peoples in the country, the plight of U.S. Mexicans and Indians is also extremely serious. In the southwestern part of the country, both are treated as con- quered nations by the ddminant “Anglos,” as indeed they were—in the Indian wars and the Mexican war of 1846. Mexicans, ‘both settled and im- migrant, number over a_ million and comprise the most exploited pool of agricultural labor. The 300,000 Indians have been virtually pushed out of any national ec- onomic role and in many cases deprived of their own local econ- omy, with shocking results in terms of pauperism, illiteracy and actual starvation,” Finnish army attacks striking lumberjacks HELSINKI Finnish troops used rifle fire and tear gas against lumberjacks who have been on strike for higher wages since last July at Kemi, fol- lowing th © workers’ resistance to government orders that the army start floating strikebound timber stocks to seaports for shipment abroad. More than 100,000 other Finnish unionists have walked out in sym- pathy with the lumberjacks. ey include practically all dock, build- ing and food industry workers. These workers, as well as shoe, leather and rubber workers, had previously anounced their inten- tion to strike for wage