The guardian., 1940-08-17
RESOLUTIONS
Passed by NE. Federation of WOmen's
Clubs at Annual Convention, July 80
Aug. l at Newport

friends have long since been called to
their eternal rest, be it
RESOLVED,-That we, the North
eastern Federation of Women's Clubs,
through our Suppression of Lynching
Department, seek to arouse the world
to existing servitude known as debt
slavery now being practised and car
ried on by William 7. Cunningham
("Captain Bill') '1ord" of Sandy
Cross plantation, and owner of three
other farms in Oglethorpe County,
Georgia. This servitude arises from
the system commonly called "Peonage"
by which Americanism, white and
black, are held as serfs to the land in
this reported democracy.
WHEREAS the Pon-Tax law, an
other fendish Southern system, is de
signed to continue disfranchisement,
segregation and everything despicable
against black American citizens, and
effectually accomplishes these ends;
And whereas these laws also uniustly
prevent large populations of white
American citizens from use of the bal
lot the basic right of citizenship, be
it therefore,
RESOLVED,-That we hereby ask
every woman in our membership,
everywhere, to send to her Congress
man, for copy of the Geyer Anti
Poll Tax Bill, entitled H.R. 1884, and
study it that she may be ready to act
unitedly when called upon.
WHEREAS the barbaric crime of
lynching, which has bEghted our nation
for more than seventy years, is in
creasing, under new and more danger
Gus methods, surrounded by secrecy
and the hiding of the bodies of its
victims, so that knowledge of lynchings
today does not reach the public; And
whereas reactiOnary Southern senator's
IN Washington have managed through
FiIibustering to kill the Anti-Lynch-
mg Bills which have been introduced
in past sessions of Congress; And
whereas like reactionary Southern SEN
ators, some Of them the same as form
erly, are attempting to keen the pres
ent pending anti-lynching bill from
becoming law, by tactics which are
crowding the Gavagan-Van Nuy's bill
from the docket, where it has waited
for Senate action since November
1889; be it therefore
RESOLVED-That at this 44th An
nual Convention of the Northeastern
Federation of Women's Clubs, we de-
mand that the Senate of the United
States take up for action AT ONCE
the Gavagan-Van Nuys Bill and pass
the bill without filibustering or further
delay. And that copy of these Re-
solutions be sent each Senator.
WHEREAS Martin Dies, chairman
Of the Committee to investigate I'm
American Activities, has shielded lynch
ing and the Klu Klux KIan from in
vestigatiOn and has besmirched race
organizations, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, youth organizations, labor organ
izations and divers other organizations
fighting for the welfare and democra-
tic rights of the American people and
whereas, this same Martin Dies holds
his seat in Congress by virture of the
votes of less than five (5) per cent of
the voting population of his district,
be it therefore
RESOLVED,-That the Northeast
ern Federation of Women's Clubs at
this 44th Annual Convention demand
the abOlishment of the subversiye and
Un-American Dies Committee, and that
we protest with might and main
against foundation bearing his name
or formed by him to teach American
patriotism
WHEREAS, Adolph Hitler of Ger
many in his book "1Iein Kamp" has
declared that the so-called colored race
Of America are "hard to train as poo
die dogs and that he would deprive
them of getting higher education," be
it therefore
RESOLVED,-That the Northeast
ern Federation of Women's Clubs de-
nounce said Hitler as an enemy to the
human race whose members he is hav-
ing slaughtered by multitudes.
WHEREAS, the State laws of
Southern states are not compatible
with the Constitution of the United
States nor the Declaration of Inde-
pendence as they uphold lvnchings
disfranchisement, discrimination, i'm
crowism, slavery, segregation, peon-
age. Poll-Tax and divers other unlaw-
full things, be it therefore
RESOLVED,-That the Northeast
ern Federation of Women's Clubs ap-
peal to that august body, the United
States Supreme Court, to invalidate
all Southern State laws.
WHEREAS God sent His son to
redeem the world, therefore His word
the Bible is a lamp for the guidance
Of all people be it therefore
RESOLVED-That the Northeast
ern Federation Of Women's Clubs con-
demn the use of separate Bibles to be
used in the Courts of North Carolina
to swear white and black, prisoners,
also do we condemn the school system
in Mississippi having different text