The Omaha guide., 1944-09-23
REGISTER NOW
Leaders Say We MUST
Have BIG Registration
So That Our Vote Can
Help Shape Our Future

NEW YORK-(CF.)-Negro cit
liens are urged to register and vote
in the November Z election by out
standing leaders in education, labor,
businesc, social welfare and the arts,
who this week issued a joint state
ment.
The appeal, signed by Mrs Mary
Mcleod Bethune, Judge William H.
HASTE, Willard Townsend, Langston
Hughes and others, does not urge
the election of any particular candi-
date, but stresses the Importance Of
full participation in this election
which will profoundly affect the
future, not only Of all American cit
liens, hut also of men and women of
all races and creeds throughout the
world"
In many Of the more important
industrial states" the appeal points
out, the votes of Negro citizens may
decide who is to lead our nation out
Of war into the peace. Thousands of
Negro migrants, denied the free ex-
erciSe Of the ballot in their former
homes, will have their first opport-
unity to participate in the election Of
their Present, members Of Congress,
state and local officials. In casting
their first ballot, they will be taking
an important forward step towards
full and equal citizenship"
Signing the appeal were supporters
Of both political parties. They in
clude P. B. Young, editor and pub
Usher of the Norfolk Journal and
Guide; Boyd L. Wilson, member Of
the General Executive Board Of the
United Steeiworkers of America,
Go; Elias F. E. Williams, New
York businessman; Robert G. Weav-
er, Director, Mayors Committee on
Race Relations, Chicago; Noah c.
A. Walter, New York State Indust-
rial Commissioner and Julian D.
Steele, President, Boston Branch of
the NAACP.
Also supporting the appeal are Ira
D.. A. Re d, Professor of Sociology
Atlanta Uaiersity; Mrs. Anne Arm
old Hedgeinan, Exetive Secretary,
National Council for a Permanent
FEPC; Alert Black, International
Representative, Marine and Ship
builders Union, CIO; Ferdinand C..
Smith, Secretary, National Maritime
Union, Go; Jades E. Mason, Or
gamer, United Steelworkers of A
merica; Shelton Tapes, Recording
Secretary, Ford local 600, JAW
Go Langston Hughes, poet and nov
elist, cclumnist with the Chicago De
fender; Wesley Thompson, President
Douglass Washington Institute, Chi
cago; Leon E. Bates, Organizer, u
AW-CIO; and Willard Townsend,
Present, United Transport Service
Employees of America.
Further supporters are Canada Lee
stage, screen and radio actor; Wal
ter Hardin, UAW-CIO; Judge Will
liam H. HASTE, Dean, Howard Uni
verSity Law School; Lester B. Gran
ger, Executive Director, National
Urban League; E. Franklin Frazier,
Professor Of Sociology, Howard Uni
versity; Roscoe D%unjee, publisher of
The Black Dispatch; Rev. Sylvester
L. Corrothers, President, Non-Part-
isan Negro Ministerial and Pastoral
Association Of USA.; Mrs. Mary
Mcleod Bethune, President, Nation
al Council of Negro Women; James
H. Culver, President, Local 90, Uni
ted Rubber Workers, Warren, Ohio;
George LIP Weaver, Secretary, CLIO
Committee to Abolish Racial Dis
elimination; and DR.. Charles S..
Jonson, Director. Department of Soc
ial Sciences, Fisk University and Di-
rector, Race Relations Division, of
Julius Rosenwald Fund.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES llMmn Observation-Disclosures
country issued proclamations setting
aside Victory Through Unity Week
as a special observance. Replies al
ready received from two widely sep
arated states suggest even more gen
eraf participation in 1914. Governor
Dardcn of Virginia has released a
statement indicating that a proclaim
alton would be issued. Governor
Baldwin Of Connecticut, in a recent
press release commencing the observ-
ance CT Victory Through Unity
Week said: This is a timely action,
since it will call the attention Of all
Americans to the need for working
unitedly in order to achieve speedy
and lasting peace Now that VIC
tory is drawing ever closer, we must
strive to see that this unity is in NJ
way disrupted, so that victory will
not b. delayed and SO that we all may
enjoy the benefits and opportunities
which the days Of peace will bring"