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Ad ‘¢ THENCE we go from the sub- Ime to the ridiculous. For ex- mpie, the Hon. 23, Be =~ ¥, Raymond ones, whom O'Dwyer fires and appoints, or appoints and fires— whichever way you like it. This viclous circle is punctuated by Jones’ resignations. Last time he resigned to keep from “embarrassing” the Mayor. He was appointed as Deputy Commissioner of Housing and Buildings, presumably to do 8 dod in making housing conditions better for the people of New York, including Harlem. What has em- barrassment to the Mayor got to do with it? I am sure all the slum victims of landlords in Har- lem are going to be glad to vote for Jones' choice for President. ‘ Then there ia a long list of so-called leaders who wouldn't know a struggle of the people if they aaw one. “By His Deeds Shall Ye Know Him,” so aays the ad in referring to Truan, who evidently has be- come Jesus. Then it lists eight things Truman has supposedly @one on the Issue of Negro rights. demagogy on Negro rights any Prealdent in the last 50 years ' But has he foughtefor a sing! ‘ measure, even. when the Dem ocrats had control of Congress @ Truman has uttered oi] ‘ from 1944 to 1946? (On the con- trary, Truman is moving in the direction of fascism.) @ According to the ad, Truman ig the champion of civil lberties, Well, is not Truman the first President ever to attempt to out- law the Communist Party? And then to jafl and frame militant Negro leaders or deport them, to terrorize the Negro people into ; voting against Wallace? e BUT THE PAY-OFF js that the "ad says nothing about war. Ap- ‘parently all these Negro leader. don't care whether they! be dea or not. But, dead a lot of us ar going to be, if they keep lappin around Truman while he Gregs us to the abyss of World War Id, Our country is not the only one with guns. -¥ guess most of these Negro (Continued on Page 14) ' But each of the eight is some- (7 Drums id : ~ ¢ontinued ‘from Page ¥) we r pot acne, | Ssaders—who support the im- ae perialist, war-mongering Marshall i They rive Truman's record all right—but it’s a phonograph " pecord. I'd like to ask them some questions about Truman's doing. @ There have been many more than 56 lynchings since V-J Day, but pet a single federal prosecu- tion, not even of the lynching of two Negro veterans and their wives in Monroe, Ga. What has Truman, done on that? e Tye Eu Klux Klan recently met openly in Georgia and pledged to enforce white supremacy by bloodshed. What has Truman done on that? @ Negroes are lynched and ter- rorlzed when they attempt to vote. What has Truman had his poiltax Attorney General do on that? @® The ad saye Truman asked for an . But didn't Truman kill FEPC in 1046 by fiat) ing * to enforce its order ainst Job discrimination on th: ; pital transit lines? (As a resu! Yes Houston resigned from - Plan—feel like their White House boss feels, that is, the Negroes ‘haven't got anything to do with ‘whether this country goes to war or not. They're just supposed to . be in a Jimcrow army dying for the glory of Wall Street. I don't think the Negro people . are going to fall over themselves ; for Truman—much less, send him ' their shrinking pay envelopes 50 ; he can get reelected to give them more of same, The same thing for Dewey. But it ls obvious that between now and Nov. 2, Truman and Dewey are going to promise tho Negro people the moon itself. Certain Negro leaders, for reasons