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
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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
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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?
