On the Labor Front: Black and White, Unite—or Fight?
On the Labor Front: Black and White, Unite—or Fight?
A few weeks before the Presidential election, the auto and steel plants in the Chicago area were flooded with leaflets soliciting support for George Wallace. Here is a paragraph from one of them:
The Negro today is the best-treated human being in the U.S. He is the only person that can live without working. He can have illegitimate children, and can get by with it. He can have ten common-law wives, and nobody seems to care. He can get on the welfare program when good, honest, hard-working white people are unable to qualify. The government makes the rules for the welfare department, and just about every Negro can qualify. The government will set him up a brick building with steam heat, pay the housing project where he ...
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