Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-07-21

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The climax of the meeting a
together more than TOO delegates
and visitors from most of the
states in the union, was the presen-
tation of the goth Spingarn medal
by DIR. Earnest A. Hooten, famous
Harvard anthropologist, to DIR.
Charles R. Drew of Washington,
D. C. DIR. Drew has become interna-
tionally known by his development
of the blood plasma theory. Speak
ers on this mammoth program in
cluded Mr.. Marshall Field, publish
err of the liberal newspapers, The
Chicago Sun and PM. Mrs. Daisy
Lampkin, director of branches of
the NAACP, presided.
Delaney KeynOter
This second wartime conference
of this militant interracial organ
ization opened Wednesday evening,
July IL, in the spacious Metropoli-
tan Community Church, 41st and
South Parkway, with the keynote
address by Judge Hubert T. De-
laney of the Domestic Relations
Court, New York City. "The Stake
of Organized Labor and the Ne
gro in the November Election" was
the subject of an address by James
B. Carey, secretary-treasurer of
the CLIO, Washington, D. c., which
preceded the keynote address.
Job Discussion
Thursday morning Gloster B.
Current, executive secretary of the
Detroit branch NAACP, was the
leader of the discussion on the
subject "How Will the Negro Hold
His job? ?" George M. Johnson, Jr.,
Associate Director FEPC, Wash
ington, D. c., was the consultant
for this discussion period in which
many of the delegates engaged.
A Housing Program was dis
cussed in the Thursday afternoon
session with DIR. Frank Horne of
the Federal Housing Authority,
Washington, D. c., and Horace
Clayton, executive secretary of the
South Parkway Community Center,
Chicago, as speakers.
Speakers on the Thursday eve
ming program included Thurgood
Marshall, special counsel for the
NAACP, New York City; Odell
Stukes, Philadelphia, Pa, and Capt.
Grant Reynolds, who spoke on the
subject What the Negro Soldier
Expects" Capt. Reynolds, who
served for two years as a chaplain
in the U. S. Army, gave an account
of the mistreatment of the Negro
soldier in the Army that is fight
ing for "the four freedoms"
How Should the Negro Vote?
One of the liveliest discussions of
the entire conference was held on
Friday morning on the highly con-
troversial question "How Should
the Negro Vote?" The principal
speakers were Leslie S. Perry, adj
ministrative assistant, Washington,
D. c., Bureau of the 'NAACP, and
Rev. Maynard Jackson, president
of the Progressive Voters League,
Dallas, Texas. Judge William Fl.
HASTE, 1943 Spingarn medalist,
led the discussion on "The Negro
in the Armed Forces" on Friday
afternoon.
Jobs Again
"How Can the Negro Hold His
Job?" was discussed by two speak
ers on the Friday night program.
Walter Hardin, of the United Auto
mobile Workers CLIO, Detroit, rep
resented labor, and management
was represented by R. E. Gilmoor,
president of the Speery Gyroscope
Co., New York City. About twelve
hundred Negroes are employed by
this New York firm that had never
hired a Negro before 1941. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Gilmoor absenteeism
is less among Negroes in his plant
than among other workers.
Louisiana Story Told
The story of New Iberia, La, was
told on Friday night by ]. Leo
Hardy, president in exile, of the
New Iberia branch. Mr.. Hardy
gave a detailed account of how
seven Negro leaders, including him
self, were driven from this Louisi-
ana town after a branch of the
NAACP had been organized against
the wishes of the whites of the
town.
Jonas A. Schwartz, one of the
members of the Minneapolis branch,
asked "What is being done now by
the national office in the New
Iberia situation?" after Mr..
Hardy's address, and stated that
the Minneapolis branch of which
he is an executive board member
would raise 500 to help clear up
the New Iberia situation. Accord
ing to Walter White, the executive
secretary of the NAACP, the FBI
is now investigating the case and
the national office is doing all it
can to bring the guilty people to
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