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os aa aed + . ‘Negro People Won’t Fall For Dem, GOP Bait By Benjamin J. avis TYERE WE O on the merry-go-round again. In the Negro press of Aug. 20, the Tru- Pretty soon, jade his usual election photos of Negroes to whom he has given appointments, together with a few more, and they will be urging the readers of the Negro press to yolte for Dewey. And so it goes, ad infinitum. In fact, that could keep up for the mext 100 years with just as little resulta as have come during the last 100 years unless we break through this vicious circle and support - the | Progressive Party and~Wallace, 4 “ The Negro people are sccus- tomed to it and so will take it with a big grain of salt. However, it would stem that a goodly por- tion of the Negro leaders, s0- called, would get wise to them- selves and quit permitiing themselves to be used as bait for the votes of our people, whom the rotten two parties cynically ard as suckers. But some of ee bo-called leaders don't seem jearn, or to care, as long as palms are greased, or their anities twitted. _\ h infeteation tente ant ite awhihtt af 100 an mara ARAGRsd GRY AAA AEA A PE OY be RA OW BY OW A well-heeled advertisement, appealing to the Negro Dewey will’ % e THE VOTE-FOR-TRUMAN ad, hie alg Weern anningists in a 252 EPVIVe Ie Aae e people to vote for Truman in Novem- some could think had disappeared.[ which appeared here in the Am- -No one ever hears a peep out 0 sterdam News, is quite cheeky — indeed. It not only tells the Negro people to vole for Truman, It asks them to “work for Truman.” It even goes so far as to tell them to “send dollars for Tru- really have @ peculiar aense of . humor, Imagine asking the Negro . People, whom Truman’s policies are reducing to abject poverty, to finance Truman's campaign! The financial appeal—fust like the whole ad—ought to be al--fy : rected to Wall Street. That's ‘whose interest Truman is serving, a a oi ae and they've gct all the money— mine and everybody else's, Let Well Btvest Meer thai 2m vy mas eee BILE BT MALLE boy. The ponderous hams of the authors of the ad is”“National Citizens Committee for the Re- ection of President Harry al. man.” Chairman is Congress Wm. i,"Dawnon, the Negr presentative of Chicago, w: aa) ep PS him in Congress on nothing. Rankin could hatch a plot to - lynch him right in the midst of the House, but I doubt if Dawson would know about it—-much less say anything about Jt. There are quite a few other names. The social democratic red-baiter | Willa Townsend, whom PhifMurray has annointed as his private Negro leader—but with no success whatsoever. Then there Js Mrs, Mary McLeod ethune, a very sweét woman, ‘who 48 personally very amiable, » put who has never been abie to cut herself Joose from the apron strings of Eleanor“Roosevelt. It eat an bet whan HBleanor Was NOL BO NRG Welt right—that ls, when FDR ailve—but it's too bad when anor ig Wrong, as ahe ls now supporting Truman. Page Daily Worker Clipped at the Seat of Government. 1 ‘ . ‘FIVE «. —_ a —- ee oes “This is a clipping from of the h 45 09-3-75-, A Date t-o5 Y g_ ? x \ in il