Poll: Survey begun on national service law
Main question is whether such a step now is necessary
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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U.S. told boycott of Argentina only way to avoid war
Remirez government converting inhabitants from nationalism to anti-Americanism, at an alarming pace, report states
By Roger W. Stuart, World-Telegram staff writer
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Alcoa union asks retroactive rule on pay increases
Aid of WLB sought in establishing Jan. 20 as effective date of adjustments arising from negotiations
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Racial groups plan active part in 1944 vote drives
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
Washington –
Color and racial discrimination will be kept a live issue through this session of Congress and the 1944 political campaign, according to plans being made here by a conference of more than 100 leaders of Negro and other minority groups.
Their main effort will be centered in the next few weeks on urging Congress to enact legislation, just introduced, to make a statutory and permanent agency out of the Fair Employment Practices Committee, which was established by presidential order June 25, 1941.
March is planned
This committee, now under investigation by a House committee on a charge of exceeding its authority, would be made into a commission of seven $10,000-a-year members, and would be empowered to issue orders and cause the punishment of persons who resist them, including employers in interstate commerce and officers of labor unions maintaining bars to membership on color or racial grounds.
A “mass march on Washington” to impress Congress with the demand for this bill is in a stage of advanced planning, said B. F. McLaurin, national organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, who declared it would be “a peaceful demonstration intended to prevent possible violence and rioting in the middle of war, or after the war.”
Such a march was planned in early 1941, and is said to have been averted when President Roosevelt agreed to appoint the Fair Employment Committee. A. Philip Randolph, the Harvard graduate who heads the sleeping car porters and is guiding the present Washington conference, went on the radio on two nationwide hookups to call off the march.
Committee called blunder
In the first session of the conference, Mr. Randolph charged President Roosevelt with “a great blunder” in appointing a committee to seek a solution to the present controversy of FEPC with 16 Southeastern railroads and some of their unions of white employees. The committee has met with outright refusal from these railroads to obey its directives ordering employment of Negroes, and the unions have ignored the committee.
The committee is headed by Judge Walter P. Stacy of North Carolina. Its appointment, the Negro leader said, was:
…a delaying tactic which kept us from being farther on our way. Some Southern railroads already have begun to give jobs to colored men who were heretofore barred, and there has been definite progress. The President must be made to see that he made a great blunder in that the Stacy Committee serves to give aid and comfort to the recalcitrant railroads.
To write political planks
The conference also plans a meeting of Negro politicians prior to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this summer, to draft proposals for incorporation into the party platforms.
The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, headed by David Dubinsky, is announced as contributor of $5,000 to an expense fund now at $25,000.
Among well-known names listed in the membership of the National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission are those of Senators Capper (R-KS), Gillette (R-IA) and Wagner (D-NY); several members of the House; William Green, Philip Murray, R. J. Thomas, Walter Reuther and other labor leaders; Msgr. John A. Ryan, Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas and Wendell Willkie.
Russia expected to spurn American mediation offer
London sources believe rejection will be based on Soviet objection to Polish officials
By J. Edward Murray, United Press staff writer
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Road to China now a reality
Historic breakthrough celebrated by Yanks
By Albert Ravenholt, United Press staff writer
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In Washington –
New U.S. policy to curb ‘opinions’ of high officials
Ruling designed to increase flow of news to public bans conflicting statements on probable date war will end
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Soldier vote fight near
Washington (UP) –
The House and Senate moved toward an inter-chamber battle today over soldier-vote legislation as administration opponents professed to see fourth-term propaganda in administration support of federal balloting machinery for servicemen.
The Senate Elections Committee late yesterday approved by a 12–2 vote the Green-Lucas compromise designed to meet protests of Southern Democrats and Republicans against earlier proposed soldier-vote legislation.
Meanwhile, a widely divergent measure approved by the House Elections Committee, leaving soldier voting in the hands of the states, was before the House Rules Committee.
Rep. Calvin D. Johnson (R-IL), in a speech prepared for delivery in the House, charged that administration interest in the soldier vote and President Roosevelt’s “insincere suggestion” that national service legislation be enacted were motivated by the hope that service personnel will “support the administration for a fourth term.”
Flying Windmill
Transport companies look to use of helicopters for post-war travel surge
By Thomas Cope, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Army’s college plan is probed
Congress questions merits of specialized training
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Third new fighter revealed by Army
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Rickey: Majors will ‘play on’
Dodger prexy sees Minors suffering from inroads of national service act
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Only 1-As, 1-A-Os sent for physical counted in quotas
But under new procedure boards may call up men in other classifications for pre-induction exams
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