The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-01-14

Anderson, Louisville, KY, member of
the Kentucky State Legislature; and
Charles A. Chandler, Muskogee, Okla,
Benjamin Kaplan, New York; Edward
Lovett, Washington, D. c.; S. D. Nc
Gill, jacksonville, Florida.
Other national officers of the organ
lzation reelected at the meeting were
President, j. E. Spingam, Armenia,
New York; Chairman of the Board,
DR.. Louis T. Wright, New York !;
Treasurer, Miss Mary White Ovington.
New York; Vice-Presidents, Miss
Mamie II. Burroughs, Washington F.;
Hon. Arthur Capper, Topeka, Kansas ;
Bishop John A Gregg, Kansas City,
Kansas; Rev. John Haynes Holmes,
New York; Prof. Manley 0. Hudson,
The Hague; Rev. A. Clayton Powell,
New York; Arthur B. Spingarn, New
York; Osward Garrison Willard. New
York.
Announcement was made at the
meeting by Walter White, exec. sec
rotary Of the Association that Repre-
sentative Joseph Gavagan introduced
the AssOciation-sponsored anti-lynch-
ing bill in the House today. The bill
will be introduced in the Senate on
Thursday, January 5, he said, by Sen
ator Wagner, whose co-sponsors are
Senator Frederick Van Mugs, (D) of
Indiana; and Senator Arthur Capper,
(R), of Kansas.
The rest Of the Associations legis-
latlve program for 1899, includes
Amendments to the Social Security Act
to include domestic and agricultural
workers; extension of the Wages and
Hours bill to benefit casual and other
workers; a possible amendment to the
Wagner Act to prohibit unions that
discriminate against colored workers
from enjoying the right of collective
bargaining; the inclusion of clauses in
the Federal Education Bill insuring
equal per capita expenditure of funds
without regard to race, creed or color
and rider to the Interior Depart
ment's Appropriation Bill which would
insure equal per capita expenditure of
funds on all education projects of the
Department.
A continuation of the campaign to
equalize teachers salaries in southern
and border states during 1889 was
vouchsafed by Thurgood Marshall,
Assistant Special Counsel of the or
ganization.
Mr.. Marshall said the NAACP now
has before the U. S. Supreme Court
the Wagner, County, Oklahoma, case
which involves the denial of the right
to register to vote to colored citizens in
Oklahoma.
The Department of Justice is also
expected to act in the case involving
DIR. George F. Porter, of Dallas, Texas
who was elected from the courthouse
IN that city last September when he in
sisted on exercising his right of serv-
ing as juror after he had been called
According to the treasurer's report
the Association receiving q total Of
$40, l7l85. Of this amount $35, SO
was raised by branches of the organ
ization through membership fees, the
sale of Christmas seals and crusade
buttons and donations. Incomplete re-
turns showed expenditures amounting
to ST., 800.21.
The following requests were paid to
the Association during 1885, Daniel
H. Williams Estate, $3,36445, balance
on $4,000 left by DR.. Williams, of Chi
cago in 1881. This money was ear
marked for the legal defense fund
Mrs. Lola A. Balls, of San Jose, Cali
fornia, also left the Association 81, 500
during 1898. A legacy of $1OO was also
received from the Wilmot Burgess es-
tate of st. Louis.
Two $500 life memberships in the
NAACP, taken out during 1888 in
Guided: the Delta Sigma Theta Soror-
ity, and DR.. John L. Reeves, of Phila-
delphia,
CALL D. S. KLUGH