"Push-'Em Clubs"

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 the South's great postwar racial adjustment problem any easier.

*Disappointment Clubs are also fictitious. Their "members" are supposed to answer advertisements for servants, agree to take a job, then fail to appear, call up and say they will be there the following day. When they finally show up, they work for two days and then disappear.

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