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ried out throughout the Army an6
Navy.
Cd A radically revised Navy pros
gram which viii include the accept
ance of Negroes as commissioned
officers. the use of Negroes In gen.
eral and technical service on sea-
going vessels, the elimination OF re-
strictions preventing capable mess
men from transfer and promotion
out of that service and the accept
ance of Negro women in the WAVES
SPARS, and nurse corps without
segregation.
(e) The abolition of segregation in
recreationaI and other facilities at
army costs and naval SHORE install
lations as well as the abolition OF
segregation of blood plasma for the
armed services.
% The progressive removal OF
Negro troops from those areas where
they are treated with violence, a.
buse and dlsrespect in the civilian
community in view of the demon
strated inability of the federal au-
thorities, military and civil to cope
with such behaviour.
(g) Negroes now largely denied
the right to serve in combat forces
must be given the same opportunity
as others to serve in this field as
well as all other branches of the
service.
DIsTRUST OF SOME FORESEEN
The statement closed by saying
Negro voters are distrustful of
most candidates who come from
those states which deny Negroes OPP
portnnity to vote and confine them
to rigid patterns of segregation and
inferior status. No candidate from
any section of the country will be
acceptable to Negro voters unless he
has clearly demonstrated opposition
TO and departure from the prevail
ing anti-Negro traditions.
I'VE repudiate all venal politicians
Negro and white, who attempt for
personal profit to deliver the Negro
vote. We hereby serve notice that
the Negro has come of age political
iy.
This statement is designed 10th
to make clear the Negroes present
attitude of resentment against the
shortcomings of both major politi-
cal parties and to serve as guide
in measuring the future intentions
of parties and candidates.
We call upon enlightened labor,
church, farm and other groups to
oppose actively the current wave of
reaction. We will combine on min
inum program with such enlight-
ened groups. Together these groups
constitute a majority of the elector-
ate. Together we will beat back the
tide of reaction and build more
decent world now and in the post
war years which can insure dur
able peace.
The Negro voter has not yet
chosen sides for 1914.
His vote cannot be purchased by
distributing money To and through
party hacks. 1t cannot be won by
pointing to jobs given to a few in
dividual Negroes, although the lec-
ignition of the Negro as an integral
part of the body polite through the
selection of qualified Negroes for
appointive or elective offices is in
Guided among the Negroes demands
The Negro vote no longer can be
won by meaningless generalities in
party platforms which are prompt
Iy forgotten on eletion day"
The conference was held at the in
yitation of the NAACP. Signers Of
the declaration were: Elsie Austin,
Delata Sigma Theta Sorority. Mary
Mcleod Bethune, National Council
of Negro Women; DR.. r. A. Billings
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity; Oscar
Brown, Chicago Branch NAACP;
Dorothy Holiday Bryant, National
Association, of Colored Graduate
Nurses, Inc, Judge William H. Has
tie, NAACP; DR.. d. v. Jemison, Ma
tional Baptist Convention, USA, Inc
and Alabama Baptist State Conven-
ton, Inc; Carl r. Johnson, Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity; DR.. Rayford
Logan, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity;
2. Alexander LOBBY, Omega Psi
Fraternity; Thurgood Marshall, Ma
ACP; George w. Millner, Interna-
tional and Longshoremen's Associa-
ton; Leslie Perry, Washington Bu-
reau, NAACP; Adam G. Powell, Jr.,
Peoples Committee; A. Philip Ran
dolph, Sleeping Car Porters, and