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Tk © W®n®© PUBLISHED WEEKLY_ “Dedicated to the promotion o1 the cultural, social and spiritual tije of a great people___ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address *225 S Street Phone 2-40«t Lf No Answer Cali a-7508 Ruble W Shakespeare . Advertising and Business Managei Dorothy Green . Office Secretary Mrs. Joe Green . ... Circulation Managei Member ef the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second class Matter June b 1847 at teh Post Office at Lincoln Nebraska under the Act of March 3 1879 __ __ 1 year subscription.$2.50 Single copy.. .10c Jut-oi-State I Yenr Subscription $2.50—Single Copy lOe EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns necessarily a reflection ol the policy are those ot the writer and not if The Voice—Pub C.I.O. Group Wants More Pro-Civil Rights Action WASHINGTON.—(ANP) —The annual report of the CIO Com mittee to Abolish Discrimination discussed in detail the “unpre cedented coalition of reactionary Repuplicans and Dixiecrats” who succeeded in blocking all progress of civil rights legislation in the first session of Congress. The report which was released last week from the national CIO| headquarters stated that a number, of bills dealing with fair employ ment, with the poll tax, with lynching, with tne outlawing of segregation practices, and with general civil rights were intro-1 duced in the house of representa tives last January by congressmen ( of both parties. ( In June a group of senators in- ( troduced a complete omnibus set ^ of bills covering every point deal- f ing with civil rights. Not one of these bills progressed through the ^ committee to which it was re- c ferred. The anti-discrimination com- „ mittee of the CIO has joined with many other organizations in urg- , ing President Truman to set up a ^ Fair Employment Practices Com- 1 mission by executive order to work in conjunction with the de fense program. The committee expressed ap proval of gains been made in the eliminating of discrimination in the armed forces of the United States. It expressed great disapproval, however, of the mob violence which broke out in the town ol Cicero, 111., because a Negro vet Your City Light Department ! eran and his wife attempted tcK move into a vacant apartment1 | which had previously been oc-j cupied by whites. The local CIO leaders in Chi- j cago and Cook county knew the( trouble was brewing about two: weeks before the violence began, j according to the report. And in co-operation with the National;, 'CIO committee the local group took every possible step to avert j the disturbance. i Another outrage which shocked the country, the report continued, < was the situation at Dublin, Ga., t when a union meeting was in- ^ vaded and dispensed at the point f of guns by the sheriff of Laurens ^ :ounty, and twc members of the ^ ^IO staff were jailed fro 24 hours v vithout any charges being pre 'erred against them. Because of the anti-labor policy b jracticed in some sections of the country the committee expressed its intent to affirm the rights of all Amerian citizens to meet in orderly assembly, and also to stamp out the vicious peonage that has been exposed under oath by the sheriff of Laurens county. The committee acknowledged the favorable decisions, dealing with the denial of human rights, , which have been made by the CLYDE’S DAIRY STORE j | Hamburger and Cold Lunches , Also Groceries ICE CREAM 25c 27c p*n» 2230 R St. j-- - — Rubber Stamps Made to Order . . . 24-Hour Service Date Stamps Time Stamps Endorsement Stamps Signature Stamps —Notarial Seals— Latsch Brothers Stationer*—Printer* 1124 O St. 2-6838 Where Your Furniture Dollar Buys More 1532 O Street Shurtleff's Furniture Co. Flowers By Tyrrell's D. L. TyrreUTs Plotters 6-2357 1133 No. Cotner | by IAMBS C. OLSON, Superintendent • TETB IISTOIIC Al SOCIETY Delegates to Congress (3) Fenner Ferguson, the third man to represent Nebraska territory as la delegate to Congress, was really the first who was identified in a | permanent way with the territory .His judicial career is much more important than the one term he served as delegate. Born in New York in 1814, Fer guson came to Nebraska as the first chief justice of the territorial supreme court. Prior to his ap pointment by President Franklin Pierce, he had lived in Albion, Michigan, where he had moved 'from New York in 1846. There he had served as district attorney 'and as a member of the state leg jislature. ; The Fergusons arrived at Belle ivue, October 11, 1854. One of Ferguson’s first acts as chief jus tice was to administer the oath i of office to Governor Francis | Burt, who had arrived a few days before and who lay ill in Rev William Hamilton’s mission house. Two days later, Governor Burt died, and the new chief justice’s first public address consisted of remarks at the Governor’s fu neral. Judge Ferguson also was pres ent at the ceremonies marking the birth of printing in Nebraska, ' United States Supreme court. It further recognized that in other :ases the offenders were some :imes protected by cunningly de mised state laws. It, therefore, sledged its continued effort to re peal such state laws which cannot >e reached by federal action. —-(I SMITH Pharmacy 2146 Vine Prescriptions — Drags Fountain — Sundries Phone 2-1958 Jess Williams Spring Service 2215 O Street Lincoln 8, Nebraska Phone 2-3633 and it was he who pulled the first I proof sheet of the Bellevue Palla dium. As chief justice, he organized the first district and supreme courts of Nebraska and assisted the first territorial legislature in drafting the first code of laws en acted for the government of the territory. The Fergusons, by virtue of the Judge's position and their many fine qualities, soon assumed a post of leadership in territorial so ciety. The Judge, in common with virtually all ambitious men in the territory, was active in politics. In 1857 he ran for the post of delegate to Congress, the highest position within the gift of the ter ritorial electorate and one that always was much sought after. He defeated the incumbent, Bird B Chapman, and almost in the tra dition of delegate elections, found his seat contested by Mr. Chap man. The House of Representa tives seated Ferguson, however, and he served one term as dele gate from Nebraska. ! While representing Nebraska in j Congress, Ferguson introduced bills providing for a surveyor gen eral for the territory, and for a territorial penitentiary. He also introduced a bill to provide a < bridge across the Platte River. ■ At the end of his term as dele gate, Judge Ferguson returned to Bellevue to practice law. His career as a lawyer was short-lived however. Shortly after returning to Nebraska he contracted an ill ness from which he never recov ered and which resulted in his death, October 11, 1859. He was burned in the Bellevue cemetery, j ROPER & SONS MORTUARY 1319 N 1 DONLEY-STAHL CO. 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