The South's newest anti-Negro canard, supplanting gossip of Eleanor Clubs and the subsequent Disappointment Clubs,* is the rumored organization by Detroit
Negroes of Push 'Em Clubs. Their reputed function: each member must take off one afternoon a week, spend it on the downtown streets jostling and pushing white folk.
One reason for the Southern credence given such yarns is that most intelligent, hard-working Negroes have swarmed off to war work, leaving the irresponsibles and incompetents of their race to do the domestic and menial jobs. The resulting resentment among whites, and the breaking up of individual employer-employe loyalties, will not make...
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