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Facts About Racial Bias
In Employment Aired At
Omaha Hearing on Jobs
The pros and cons about the need of a fair employment
practice legislation in the state were aired December 17th
at the second and final hearing of the subcommittee of the
Legislative Council. The meeting, held in the district court
room brought out that both sides admit that there are dis
criminatory practices and that they should be eliminated.
But there was no agreement on methods. Keystone of the
opposition was represented by S.
Allen Seline, Lincoln, Nebraska.
He said that it was the opinion
of the industrialists that a law
was nr* the way to solve em
ployment problems.
Among those from Lincoln ap
pearing for the proposal was Dale
Weeks, Wesleyan economics pro
fessor and President of the Urban
League board. He cited local busi
ness men who favor such legis
lation because then they could
hire the best qualified applicants.
Charles Goolsby, appearing as
Tegional director of Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity, urged such a
law as “needed for the protection
of the opportunity to work at any
vocation one wishes to choose,
prepare for, and persue.'*
Clyde Malone, Lincoln Urban
league executive secretary, re
viewed the discriminatory pat
terns of local employment, point
' ing out that some personal man
agers interviewed here are in
favoz1 of such legislation.
A number of Omahans pre
sented case histories and static
tical evidences of discrimination
and urged FEP legislation.
Marion M. Taylor, industrial
secretary of the Omaha Urban
League, who made a compre
hensive survey of employment
practices throughout Douglas
county. He stated such legislation
would not work to anyone’s dis
advantage, “if it (did), Negroes
would not be so selfish as to
want the law.” He further pointed
out that the percent of Nebraska
Negroes employed in skilled and
semi-skilled jobs is much lower
than in neighboring states or for
the nation as a whole (6% of
those employed).
Others testifying in favor in
cluded Leo Bohanon, former Sen
ator Foster, Rev. S. H. Lewis,
Atty. Ralph Adams, Elizabeth
Pittman, James Harris (C. I. O.
council), Mrs. Morris Pepper of
the National Council of Jewish
women, and other representatives
of labor, civic and industrial
groups.
The meetings were quite or
derly and impartial. However the
testimony of Warren Batterson,
secretary of the Nebraska Com
munist party, came under verbal
attack from Ted Sorensen, Lincoln
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Sen. Jc
Adams,
Carson i
mate, resea
Legislative council.
NAACP Fund
For Hassell
House Starts
“This week the drive for funds
to repair the house of Mrs. Ida
Hassell will get into full swing,”
said Mrs. Basilia Bell, president
of the Lincoln branch of the
NAACP. “Now is the time for us
to spread the spirit of Christ.
This week all organizations
be aprpoached for contribupdn& i
to the fund. Several hundred g&l^'
lars will be needed to repair thd*
damage,” she concluded. /) . V -
All contributions ahould/be Sent
to Mrs. Robert Moody s INAaCP
treasurer, 2123 T street^incBW
Anna H. Williams,
Recital A
Mrs. Anna Hayden w|tJiSn£’
ric soprano, was the*
sincere approval for
persons who gathered ^dTtra^r ber^
Friday, December 16tK^^f£rr0egsii
ous,” “wonderful” w&kt ■ th**-' e^v
pressions heard as tb/e
singer presented jiu^ic iHicC
standard group coraart selected
from her wide rep^Mire.
The accompanyiumWtill of Alice
McCord Wilson^^Hmie pianistic
ability of Char^^Hltdley, U. of
N. music stude^^^Krb also ob
jects of favoral^^^BHpnt. The
program, sponso^HHHML^Zioin
Baptist church, ^
r
Come Unto Him . Handel
O Sleep Why Dost Thou Leave
Me . Handel
My Heart Ever Faithful . Bach
II
Che fiero costume . Legrenzi
Ecstasy . Duparc
Erstarrung . Shubert
III
Air of Solomi . Massenet
IV
Magnalia .. .. Dett
Impromptu . Reinholt
Polonaise . .Mac Dowell Op 46 No. 12
Miss Charlene Dudley
The Trees Have Grown So .Burleigh
A Blood-Red Ring .Coleridge Taylor
My Man's Gone Now .Gershwin
Give Me Jesus . Hall Johnson
Witness .Hall Johnson
Magazine Cites Scholarship Service Founder, 9 More
Women Leaders, For 1949 Achievement Awards . . .
NEW YORK, N. Y. (ANP).
Mrs. Felice N. Schwartz, 24,
founder and co-executive vice
chairman of the National Schol
arship Service and Fund for Ne
gro Students, was named a
Young Woman of the Year and
awarded a 1949 Merit award for
The awards were presented for
thA sevent^consecutive year to
l^ougg v^*ej*Jrfctii£ir twcnti^
2
everr greater Reigms; ac*
cording to Mademoiselle’s editor
a ceremony at the Park Lane ho
tel. i j
The service and fund founded
by Mrs. Schwartz expects to help
increase Negro enrollment in non
segregated colleges by almost 10
per cent this year.
In addition, the agency is now
placing outstanding stu
dents in *“ Northern pre
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flPTOnse6regaWa'WllcnBBf»Wlp
leges and universities.
The organization has an advis
ory board of 158 colleges. It op
erates in co-operation with 14,000
high schools, with all American
nonsegregated colleges, universi
ties, nursing schools, teachers’
colleges, technical institutions,
graduate schools, and with_fche
these campuses. Its co^xecutive j
Lyice-chairman is Richard L. |
woman; Julie
23, actress; J( _ of Indiana, 24, J
member of the na State Legislature;!
Ches Ojrnstrong, ojf] * >w York .City. 30, [
Replogle of Lewiston, Mont.,' 2t
attorney; and Mabel, the tlcktacktoe- |
playing lady robot invetned by lV-year
i oU Robert Haufe of Pasadena, Calii. 1
COP Plans To Help C. R.
In Bid For Comeback
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Senate GOP members are
being urged to wrest the civil rights ball from the Democrats
and use it to stage a comeback as the major political force
in the United States, it was learned here last week. The sug
gested strategy is that the GOP beat the Democrats to the
punch in pushing civil rights program to enactment in the
next session of Congress and then take political credit for it.
g Churches List |
| Xmas Programs |
A quick survey of the Christmas
programs in a few Lincoln
churches last Sunday showed the
following services scheduled.
Newman Methodist
Sunday, December 18 the Sun
day School entertained itself with
a turkey dinner, in the church
basement, after services. The food
under the chair
Christmas
exercises. Union Services are
planned at Christ Temple for
Monday morning, December 26 at
10 a. m., to complete the week end
holiday.
Church of God in Christ
The Sunday School of Denton
Chapel (20th and U) will be pre
sented Sunday evening, December
25 at 6:30. Mrs. McKinley
Tarpley and Mrs. Carl Chappell
will direct the program.
Northside Church of God
The Christmas program of the
Although this is supposedly a
new “base-broadening’’ strategy
being developed by republican
leaders, the idea is but an am
plification of the strategy used in
the recent New Jersey elections.
In New Jersey, Gov. Alfred E.
Driscoll won re-election over his
democratic rival Elmer H. Wene,
primarily because of his insistent
and successful fight for civil
rights for all citizens of that state.
In the defeat of the democratic
slate, Driscoll showed clearly that
he had captured a large block of
Negro votes—a remarkable -feat
as it was the first time since
1928 that a G.O.P. candidate for
a major office had accomplished
such a thing.
The governor launched a series
of state civil rights reforms, rang
ing from a ban on discrimination
in the national guard to abolition
of segregation in the military or
| in the public schools, because of
“religious principles, race, color,
ancestry or national origin.”
It had been the contention for
years among a large segment of
Congressional republicans that Ne
weaned away from the
^fold by the Roosevelt New
)uld continue to vote
c coalition.
e New Jersey election
is theory and gave a
alking point to G.O.P.-ites
ave long bucked the policy,
insist that the G.O.P. could
se again to power by making
! good its traditional civil rights
^pledges, and thus not only en
tourage support by Negroes but
other large minority groups as
well.
During the last congressional
session, senate G.O.P. leaders ar
gued that the democrats were
merely “running a bluff” on
FEPC, that they were out to show
Northsfde Church of God will be
presented at 7:30 p. m. on Sunday
at the church. Barbara Moody
will be in charge.
All pastors and congregations
extend greetings, wishes for a
holy celebration of Christmas, and
warmly invite you to their serv
ices.
m
—Courtesy of The Lincoln Journal.
W. M. Kelley
Jewell Kelley
Heads Masonics
Third Time
At the election meeting of Le
banon Lodge No. 3 A. F. & A. M.
(PHA) December 13, Jewell Kel
ley 2641 So. 9th street, was re
named Worshipful Master for his
third consecutive term. Mr. Kel
ley is widely known for his ac
tivity in fraternal, church, civic
and scout offices here. Other of
ficers are:
Senior warden, McKinley Tarpley.
Junior warden, Fred Nevels, sr.
Secretary, John Irving.
Treasurer, William Hightower.
Chaplain, Rev. John Humbert.
Tyler, James Wilson, sr.
Senior deacon, Harry Peterson.
Junior deacon, Carl L. Houston.
Senior steward, John Miller.
' Junior steward, Jessie Burns.
mainly that they couldn’t shut off
a filibuster and to lay the blame
for the program’s failure on the
G.O.P.
The republicans dared the
democrats to call up one of the
less controversial civil rights
measure and guaranteed they
could produce enough cloture
votes to pass it. •
Now the argument is that the
G.O.P. should take the leader
ship from the democrats by
marshaling every republican vote
possible for cloture, but their
ranks are almost as badly split
as the democrats on the FEPC
issue.
Sen. Irving M. Ives (r., N. Y.)
sponsor of an FEPC bill in the
80th congress which was substi
tuted last session by the McGrath
version, recently declared:
“The 1948 republican platform
very definitely urges legislation
to end discrimination in employ
ment. .Republicans should sup
port the McGrath bill and do all
that they can to see that cloture
is invoked in event of a fili
buster.”
Troop 60 Takes
Dunn and Phil Harris.