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Vd. 4, No. X * ~ Lincoln 3, Nebraska Official and Legal New! Legislative Committee To Hold Hearing On Need Of A Fair Employment Law The legislative council subcommittee studying unfair employment practices in Nebraska will hold a public hearing Saturday, November 19, at the state house, Roger V. Shu mate, the council’s research director announced last week. Dr. Shumate'has been making a study of employment patterns as directed in a resolution passed by the 1949 legislture. He has interviewed employers, employees, employ ment and social agencies to ob tain factual data on bias in em ployment because of racial, re ligious or nationality reasons. Tl lis information has been sum ' marized for the subcommittee Which will conduct the hearing to (1) get additional factual in formation and to (2) determine if they feel legislation is neces sary. A bill to establish a fair em ployment section in the Depart ment of Labor was defeated in the 1949 legislature, apparently because many senators didn’t seem to think the boss against minorities in employment is a problem in the state. Senator Arthur Carmody is chairman of the sub-committtee which also includes Senators John Adams, Omaha; John Lar kin, jr., Omaha; Hugh Carson, Ord and Tom Adams. Both Sen. John Adams and Sen. Tom Adams were elected from dis tricts with many Negro voters. The hearings will be public. Most Teachers In The South . Favor Admission Of Negroes w To Grad, Professional School WASHINGTON. (ANP). Seven out ot 10 college teachers in the South favor immediate admission of Negro students to graduate and professional schools without segregation. Results of a poll of 3375 administrative officials and faculty members wrere announced this week by Aubrey Williams, president of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., at a meeting of the organization’s board of directors here. -— — Only 25 percent expressed appx'oval of the regional segregated education plan which went into effect in September. The ballot provided voters with four choices, Williams said. They were: A, open existing graduate and professional schools with- j out segregation; B, open existing graduate schools without segrega tion; C, build new graduate schools for Negroes, and D, establish regional graduate schools on a segregated basis as outlined by the Southern Governors’ conference. Ballots were mailed to all of the 15,000 staff and faculty mem bers of 181 accredited colleges and universities in 14 Southern and boi'der states and the District of Columbia. Omitted from the pro ject were 11 major state universities covered earlier in a separate ballot. This poll, Williams said, produced almost identical results, varying only by one percent. Plan B, opening existing schools with segregation, received only three percent of the votes, and Plan C, gained the remaining two percent. _ In only two of the states polled was the vote less than 50 percent for the immediate end of segregation—Mississippi, 39 percent and Alabama, 49 percent. State RESULTS BY STATES: Total Plan A % Plan B % Plan C % Plan D % Votes % Ala. 123 49 10 4 6 2 110 45 249 100 Ark. 36 72 2 4 1 2 11 22 50 100 Fla. 278 69 7 2 6 1 108 28 399 100 Ga. 109 58 4 2 2 1 74 39 189 100 Ky. 236 84 4 2 6 2 34 12 280 100 Miss. . 28 39 7 10 6 9 30 42 71 100 N. C. 315 73 10 2 6 2 101 23 432 100 S. C. 116 53 6 2 5 2 94 43 221 100 Tenn. 151 69 6 1 2 2 61 28 220 100 Texas 432 66 24 4 33 5 157 25 646 100 Va. 200 79 3 1 3 1 48 19 254 100 W. Va. 123 97 0 0 4 3 127 100 Md. 120 92 1 1 3 2 6 5 130 100 Del. .. 6 100 0 0 0 6 100 W.,D.C. 47 82 1 2 0 9 16 57 100 State and College Un known 38 86 0 0 6 14 44 100 Tc.*tal 2358 70 85 3 79 2 853 25 3375 100 National Fraternity Group To Be Asked To Prohibit Bias Clauses By SAMUEL P. PERRY, JR. | AMHERST, Mass. (ANP). The National Interfraternity confer ence will be asked to eliminate r constitutional clauses that dis criminate against students on the basis of race, creed, or color. The Northeastern Regional con ference recommended the action in a resolution adopted at its ses sion at the University of Massa chusetts last week. The national conference will be held in Wash- j [ L _. ington, D. C., beginning Nov. 24. University officials announced adoption of the resolutibn last week. The Regional conference was attended by delegates from the state university, Amherst college, Worcester Polytechnic institute, the University of Maine, Union college, University of Vermont, St. Lawrence college, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Syracuse university, Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, and Middlebury college. S0* M jp^ ivoiaoisiH *V1S # . C. A. D. _.^ations Affect 325,000 Persons NAACP Seeks 200 Members Elections Will Be November 17th “The activities of the NAACP are not only legal,” said Mrs. Ba silia Bell, membership chairman of the Lincoln NAACP branch at the association’s dinner meeting: October 31. The association, she I continued, has an interest in edu cation achievement also and of fers an annual scholarship. It has engaged in such humanitarian pro jects as aiding the victims of in justice. As examples she cited the Rosa Ingram family and the Mal lory home which the NAACP re built from contributions, and which was only recently reported to have been reburned by lawless Georgia gangsters. Branch President Rev. Robert L. j Moody, in a short address, thanked the membership for their fine co operation this year and expressed hope that the branch membership would exceed the quota of 200 members. The annual election of officers, which was postponed, will be held at the meeting of November 17. All members were urged to renew their memberships and to attend the election. About 125 persons attended the dinner meeting which was held at the Urban League. A musical pro gram was provided by Barbara Moody’s piano skill. Elois Finley’s thrush-like voice, and the pre cision singing of the Hub of Har mony Quartet. Mrs. M. S. Bizer, Resident Here j Since 1924, Dies I Mrs. Mamie Sharp Bizer, 66, I was taken by death November 4. Born in Pensacola, Fla., May 5, 1883, she grew up in that city 1 and married Oscar Roundtree. To that union five children were born, two of which survive. In 1924, shortly after Mr. Round tree’s death, she came to Lin coln. On Sept 17, 1948, she was married to Irving Bizer of Lin coln. Mrs. Bizer became a member of the Church of God in Christ in 1926 when Rev. J. C. Wiggins was pastor, and there she was a faithful worker until her death I Survivors include her hus band, Irving Bizer; 2 brothers, Eric McNabb, Lincoln, and Ed McNabb, Danville, Va., and a sister, Mrs. Ida Jordan, Melrose, Fla.; 2 daughters, Mrs. Ozzie Lee Gill, Kansas City, and Mrs. Vir ginia Lee Stokes, Chicago; 3 great grandchildren; 2 nieces, Mrs. Leonard Forbes, Lincoln, and Mrs. Edwin Day, Los Angeles, and 2 nephews, E. J. and J. D. Sweat, Los Angeles. An instructor of “personality” at New York University has recom mended specially colored autos for women drivers so men would give them plenty of room on the high ways and let them come home with “dentless fenders.” Might be better than “fenderless dents’* at that. BY SAMUEL P. PERRY. JR. NEW YORK, N. Y. (ANP). The New York State com mission Against Discrimination reported this week that more than 325,000 persons, employees and union members, have been affected by investigations completed during the first nine months of 1949. This figure is exclusive of another large segment of the population also affected, the applicants and clients of employment agencies which were also in vestigated. The number of verified com plaints filed during the fii'st three quarters ol this year is ap proximately the same as the num ber filed during the entire year of 1948. During the first nine months of this year, 245 complaints liave been filed as against 275 complaints for the entire year of 1948. Seven ty-seven percent of the com plaints were based on racial dis crimination; 13 percent, on creed; 5 percent, on national origin; and 5 percent, on alleged illegal in quiries, for example, inquiries which directly or indirectly re veal the race, religion, or national origin of job applicants. Of the 254 complaints filed to date, 179 were against employers; 32, against employment agencies; 40, against labor unions; three, against others covered by the statute passed by the state legis lature in 1945. Those who claim they were discriminated against because of i race include Negroes, a white per son, and an American Indian. Complainants alleging discrimina tion because of creed included Jews, Catholics, Seventh Day Adventists, and a Jehovah wit ness. Those claiming to be ag grieved by reason of their na tional origin include Italians, Puerto Ricans, an Austrian, a Spaniard, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Russian, and two persons who al leged discrimniation because they were not Italian. WORK OF COMMISSION At this writing, 211 complaints have been closed during 1949 af fecting 161 different organiza tions. In the cases of 83 firms and organizations, discrimina tory patterns of employment were found and adjusted. In 51 of these ! cases sufficient evidence was : found upon investigation to sus tain specific allegations of dis i criminations. Compliance with the Law Against Discrimination ! was achieved through conference and conciliation. In the case of 64 I firms and organizations, no dis criminatory pattern of employ ment was revealed by the inves tigation. Complaints against 8 firms and organizations were closed for lack of jurisdiction and 6 were withdrawn. CONCILIATION WORKS. Follow-up reviews were made of 129 firms and organizations during this same period. For 90 i of these it was the first review; for 33, the second; and for six the third. In 62 instances, an ad ditional review was recommended. Interesting to note is the fact that 62 1949 investigations have been initiated by the commission; 52 of employers and 10 of em ployment agencies. Fifty-four of the commission-initiated investi gations were closed, 48 being ad justed by conference and concilia tion. No discriminatory pattern was evident to the commission’s investigator in the remaining six cases. Also, in the course of 11949, the application forms of 146 firms ancF organizations have been reviewed by the commission in order to ensure compliance with the law with particular regard to pre-employment question*. EDWARD STETTINIUS. —Courtesy Lincoln Journal. Edivard Stettinius’ Death A Blow To Colonial’s Hopes NEW YORK. (ANP). Edward R. Stettinius, former Secretary of State is dead. The business execu tive and diplomat who rose to un paralleled heights during his brief 49 years, succumbed to a heart attack at the home of his brother in-law Juan Trippe, President of Pan American Airways last week. With his passing one of the most notable efforts of colonial develop ment affecting colored people re ceived a severe blow. As chairman of the board of the Liberia com pany, Stettinius had projected a plan for the development of that country which had grown out of the mutual interest of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt and himself. It called for the de ; velopment of the natural resources ■ of the country through the use of American capital and “know how” j and took the Liberian people into partnership in the effort which also embraced educational and health measures of far reaching scope. In a striking coincidence, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, writing in a serial, “This I remember” in the current issue of McCall’s Maga zine, described her husband’s in terest in the development of Li beria. Thfc article reached news stands just as Mr. Stettinius was passing. Mr. Stettinius expressed his own philosophy when he said: “Three-quarters of the world’s two billion people live in want and poverty. While we strive for peace, the misery of these people is the one factor which does most to foster chaos. What can we do about it? How can we combine men, materials, tools and ideas in some pattern which will estab lish a better basis for the human security the world so desperately needs?