The Omaha guide., 1935-07-20
Resolutions Adopted at
Annual Conference
N. A. A. C. p.

Annual Conference
N. A. A. C. p.
"As tn economic crisis deepens the
plight of II million American Ne
groes worsens. Discrimination in
employment in works and other re.
lief, and in other ways, continue, par.
ticularly in those sections Of the
country where eight million, or two
thirds, of the Negro population OF
the United States live. Notable in
such discrimination is the edict from
Washington establishing monthly
wages of $40 and $21 respectively in
regions 3 and 4 under the Works Re-
lief Act; it is no accident that in the
expenditure of the four billion,
eight hundred and eighty million dol
lars appropriated by the Congress,
the taxes for the raising Of which
are extracted by the federal govern
ment from the pockets of black men
at the same rate as white, wages far
below the level Of decent subsistence
should be established for those states
in which the bulk Of the Negro pop
ulation of America resides.
Collapse of the cotton market and
Of the antiquated credit system of
the south, the unmitigated terrorism
used to perpetuate economic, political
and social enslavement of Negroes in
the south, combined with indiffer-
ence, vacillation and weakness at
Washington are creating even more
insufferable conditions net only for
Negroes in the south and elsewhere
but are working irreparable harm up
on white Americans as we'll.
eve, therefore, in the name of II
million American Negroes and of
many white Americans who are su-
perior to race prejudice, do pledge
ourselves to renewed and increased
struggle against these conditions. We
do this in no spirit of racial selfish
ness. We conceive our struggle to be
for better conditions for all Ameri-
cans in that it is a s~elf-evident truth
that there can be no lasting peace or
justice for any race as long as one
race can be exploited because Of ra-
cial, religious or other prejudice.
eff the American Negro is to sus-
tain himself in an effective existence
IN this country, and some day be
lifted from the threat of pauperism,
there must be developed everywhere,
not only interracial contacts in the
field of labor, but also in the busi-
ness world.
1--WE urge, therefore, that every
where in America more attention be
givn by Negroes to independent and
i~nterracial ventures in the business
world.
BUSINESS EDUCATION
"We urge the colleges devoted to
the education of Negro youth to in
troduce and develop adequate courses
in business in order to help make our
race o self supporting,
LYNCHING
I'VE vigorously and u~nequivocally
condemn the impudent and disgrace
full filibuster led by a small reaction
airy block in the United States Sem
ate against the Costigan- Wagner
Anti-Lynching Bill. The temporary
success in preventing orderly debate
and vote by the Congress is a sur
render by the federal government to
the lowest element in our national
life. To surrender was a confession
of the Importance of the federal gov
ernment to protect its own citizens.
Lynching, as the most dramatic form
Of racial bigotry, is a test of the sin
cerity and integrity of the Congress
and of the nation. We do not accept
any of alleged demonstrations
atty for failure of each individual
member of the Congress vigorously
to fight for the passage Of this bill.
The Judiciary COMMITTEE of the
Senate and other distinguished jur-
lists with social vision declared the
Costigan-Wagner bill to be consti-
tutional. We urge all those who are
opposed to lynching, both Negro and
white, to qualify without fail, for
voting, especially in the pivotal
tates, and to register with their bal
lots, in primaries and general cleo
tons, their uneguivocal disapproval