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Page AOTION August: 1946 ACTION Waterfront Activities SPADES UNITY OR CHAOS?
Published Every Friday By THE CANAL ZONE WORKERS UNION CIO, In The Interest of The Working Class By ace high Francisco Arauz President James Sween.
Treasurer Guillermo Lael.
Secretary BY PULPO Sidney Smith. Editor We have been reliably in There is, therefore, no room Edgar Beste Distribution are formed that there are those for antagonism, if we Vice Presidents: new feature has been start brothers of the Union who are going to wage our all out efAston Parchment Alejandro Victor ed in our newspaper; the Ho undermining the efforts that forts towards achieving these Priated In La Academia Printers. Papama, RP.
nor, Roll system among the are being made by those ré aims.
Registered in Panama according to laws.
stewards. Last week, stewards sponsible, to establish the. Many of our aims can only Recognized by the Chamber of Commerce in Panama. from the Marine Division were it is not to be overlooked an atmosphere of mutual reUnion on a creditable footing. be achieved by negotiating in this honor. It is up to you ste that the Union must be firm, spect and broad understanding VOL. PANAMA, R, NO. wards in the other divisions: zealous and even aggressiva An unprecedented amount of to report your progress and at times in defense of the in good will must be transplanted EDITORIAL so make the grade.
terests of the workers, but in to these conference tables.
doing all this, never must there This, in itself, is a massive be justifiable cause to be brand task, your antagonistic, attitude Some insidious propaganda ed irresponsible persons, devoid can only serve to increase the THIS It has been said that there are no atheists in foxholes. our CIO organizer now on the is making the trounds about of good manners and that we already extraordinary task fail to pay respect where and awaiting ahead.
tell you that there are no distinctions of race, religion or color Isthmus. For your informa when this is due.
With the self same zeal with in the foxholes. For these are the non essentials; not the tion, the representative sent It has been reported that which you have been supportfundamentals.
ing your. Union, we implore here, holds the important posi there are some zealots who are When men have faced death together, when they have tion of Director of Education acting antagonistically towards that you return to work toshared a common struggle and a common cause, the color of with the United Public Work their bosses, because they are morrow and redouble your ef1 man skin, the particular church he goes to, the country ers of America, CrO to which feeling that the boss can no forts to become a more relifrom which his parents came, no longer matters. It is the we are affiliated. Please sift that this is their chance to do worker. By so doing you will longer push them around and able, efficient and respectful man himself who counts; and nothing else.
the tarsh which is Christian and Jew, white and Negro, native born and thrown your way.
being the pushing around. No greater be contributing to the ultimforeign born. they are all Americans, animated by the same mistake could have been made. ate success of your Union.
ideals, loving the same land yes, willing to die for it. Excepts from leading editorial rights as a worker, but the The Union must defend your When these men come home, they expect to find a land where the same things hold true. They are not going to stand cord the official organ of the rights of the boss must be re The Talk That Hugh Adams by idly and see a buddy discriminated against or sneered at be. A, CIO for July 1946. who demands fair treatment He Gave cause of his skin, his creed or his nativity. They are going If every member of our must treat others fairly too.
11 year old Hugh Adams alto take seriously the immortal words of the Declaration of UNIOŃ takes upon himself Duty and Right are inherent. Goldsmith) stole the show. Ou most (if there wasn a Len Independence. All men are created equal!
United States Colonel Evans Carlson, famed leader only one new member within with your duty you are auto tional Stadium: It was just of the Marine Raider Battalion.
have achieved a major step rights likewise.
matically renouncing your marvelous fo listen to the litOR THIS tle. tot of whom we should all.
toward making the It is entirely fitting and proper to consign to hell anyone federal, state and local a for the organization of the the man of tomorrow. Is this vernment Those who were responsible be very proud. He represents.
who breathes, the word democracy or palavers about the demodel employer.
mocratic way of lifel.
Union were constrained by the not a very good reason why we say FIE on all the melodrama that exálts the so called is the instrument to achieve unite in this industrial union morrow of Life more promisWe have the UNION, that only just motive, that: To should strive to make the torights of minorities. say FIE on all this hypocritical and our goal.
naudlin jargon about social equality.
all workers eligible for mem ing for little Hugh Adams?
We have the leadership to bership regardless of sex, race. Carl Mote, in America Preferred.
lead us to victory.
When the shooting part of the war stopped most Amer.
jeans celebrated. Long years of death, destruction and anxiety that is alert and alive to the the purpose of making a more We have the membership belief or political belief, for creed, nationality, or religious Solver Roll Women Unite to Support Anti Inflation seemed to have ended and all America was happy.
The above quotation is from necessity of biulding The war was won, but not all Americans could say what life available to the Panama America of July UNION.
kad actually been won. For some it was enough that the killing them by shortening their hours, 31. This is more than just an What are we waiting for?
had stopped. For others, although the end of the shooting improving their wages and headline in Let go.
newspaper, it was of the greatest importance it merely ushered in the beginworking conditions and advanc signifies that the spirit of the Ring of a new set of problems, a new set of questions. Some timely advice to Union social and cultural interests. Have you?
ing their economical, political, moment is to join the Union.
American had won on the battlefield. could America win Members: the peace too?
Stop stooging on your fellow Well, what are some of the problems ahead of us? workers to the boss; The problems are manifold: employment, wages, profits, Always bear in mind that a labor management relations, problems of health, housing, workers union calls for sponand many, many, more. And these are only national problems. taneous unity; NEWS We have just as many fundamental international problems: The Rover collaboration with our allies, occupation of former enemy terIncrease the Hail fellow, Its high time you Alien Gold but is there any department ritory problems of world trade, world security, and so on. well meant attitude, and erase The key to the success or failure of our efforts in solving the back stabbing, as the lat Employees of this department that has displayed such lawthese problems lies, more than anywhere else, in the funda ter hurts to the core, and may wake up and live, the Gold less discrimination as here?
and Silver signs are removed, What Intimidates you? Why mental problem of achieving national unity. It is as simple well lead to disunity.
is al thath.
are you sitting on the fenceA united America can devote its full energies to tackling looking on: Are you satisfied live with the difficult tasks that lie ahead. disunited America disthat wage sipates its energies in internal strife and tension. It is ob norities as any other country. In fact, nearly everybody in are in a minority; In America we have perhaps as many mi wage board, doing the same dous that we can afford, much less want the latter.
work as your Gold Co Worker America belongs to some kind of minority. If you are a NeBut, to have national unity requires the healthy frame with as much or more effigro, you are a member of a minority. So are you if you are ciency and receiving a lower of mind that can make such unity possible. One of the a Catholic. or a Jew. White Protestants are supposed to greatest threats to achieving national unity comes from a source within ourselves namely, the attitudes we have formbe the majority group in America. but Protestants include standard of wages than he does? If you are not then jump many groups, each of which is in a minority relationship to ed toward our fellow citizens, Attitudes toward people may be sound or unsound. unall the others. There are approximately 100 million Protest off the fence, find a Steward ants but only 2 million are Presbyterians, million are and help the Canal Zone Worbiased or prejudiced. And it is the problem of prejudice Methodists, 114 million are Baptists and kers Union with their program which is our concern in today discussion.
There are various kinds of minorities. The Negroes in to fight discrimination and We want to know what prejudice is; how it comes about; America for instance, are a RACIAL minority; Catholics, any equal pay for equal work. Did what it does to the man who is prejudieed; what it does to Hugh Adams the victim; and to the nation; and finally what can we Do of the Protesant sects, and Jews are RELIGIOUS minorities; you listen to in certain localities various groups of foreign born and their Sunday night? He is not a about member, just a youth 11 years According to the dictionary, prejudice is a judgement children constitute minorities based on NATIONALITY.
Everyone of us belong to a minority of some kind. The and is working for you slackbased on opinion formed without due examination; a mental problem is to understand how certain of these minorities have ers. Are you not ashamed? Get decision based on other grounds than reason and justice; a premature or biased opinion.
come to be victims of prejudice, discrimination and at times, off the fence and help your even outright persecution.
brothers to rarry on this fight It is an attitude in a closed mind. Often we have preWhen we understand this, we will know what to do about thats ahead of us.
judices without being aware of them.
it.
Can we expect you?
Prejudice does not exist in a vacuum. It is directed against a target usually minority group particularly in a time of social stress and strain.
The nazis understood the factors which produce prejudice.
Material for Publication must Each year, for twelve years, they spent about 200 million dolbe in this office not later than lars to foment internal strife and tension among different groups within each nation. There is evidence that his care.
the Saturday Preceding the fally planned hate campaign found some suckers in our publication.
own United States.
Technically a minority is less than half. In a MohamTHE EDITOR.
medan country, Christians are in a minority; in Africa, whites our abundant a LOOKING THRU THE to on.
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