Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-03-24
Administrator
Promises -Four
Polio,
Statement Made :
During Meeting
OF Urban League


to observe the four freedom rights
of Negro veterans was made here
last week by Brig. Gen. Frank T
Hines. administrator of veterans
affairs and administrator of re-
training and unemployment, dur
ing a meeting of the National Ur-
ban league.
Hines not only promised that gov
ernmental agencies under his d.
rection would observe policy OF
-four freedoms" for Negro war vet
Grams but listed the freedoms as
freedom from discrimination in the
administration of the law: freedom
from inequality in education. free
dom from inequality in expendi-
lures for health, disqualification
and rehabilitation; freedom from
obstacles d prejudices, which
prevent equal work opportunity
and equal pay
Hines observed that those free
doms have already been adopted By
many Negro leaders After the war
there will be load OF at east
100000 Negro veterans 10 be serv-
ed in unemployment, he said. pS 2.
ing out that 10000 of them came
from the south, and that about 20
per cent of this number came from
farms. 1t is unlikely, he asserted,
that all of them would wish to re-
turn to the farms or even 10 the
south. He urged that studies be
made as to h e best place a n d
method of utilizing the new skillS
they have acquired.
OPENS SCHOOL DOORS
The CT bill of rights, Hines said
would open educational doors that
are now closed to him, because IRE
Negro has not always had an op-
portunity to receive an education
commensurate with his ability to
absorb and utilize advanced Learn
ing.
81 do not pretend that these free
domS are always easy to attain
Gen. Hines remarked Indeed. the
present conflict proves that those
rights to which we are often most
entitled are the most difficult ca
attain. But in the administ 70 ton
of my responsibilities Il shat b. ms
continued Uficiaf and persona pol
icy to secure for all vsters MS. ire
spective of race, color ar creed, the
full measure of right 20 which Chey
are entitled by reason Of The laws
which Congress has writer and by
reason of the glorious pages OF our
history which tile veteran himself
has written"
Other speakers on the forum.
who discussed postwar employ
ment opportunities for Negro vet
Grams were Mrs. Lillian N. Poses.
regional attorney for VINO; j.
Raymond Walsh. Clio economist;
Nelson H. Cruikshank, AFT, tfirec-
tor of social insurance activities;
and Capt C. S. Mcdowell. general
manager of the Arma corporation
THREATENED WITH
SUFFERING
Negro workers are threatened
with disporportionate S h ar e OF
economic suffering through h 2
working of seniority clauses in post
war unemployment. Capt. Dowell
warned. He predicted that eco
nomic competition for skilled and
semi-skilled jobs between Negro
and white will give rise to, ii not
the old and cruder forms of dis
elimination, new and more subtle
methods" Industry is powerleSs in
the face of adverse community
pressures, he contended as mo en-
ployer can undertake the COM
munity responsibility for dealing
with tension over inadequate or I'M
sufficient housing. transportation
facilities, educational opportunities
or blind prejudice"
There are now more t b q n
100000 Negro AFL members CRU
ikshank revealed. He said that the
AFL has re-affirmed a policy of
non-discrimination at practically
every national convention since
1881 and that in none of the unions
directly under the control of the
AFL, the federal unions. was ra-
cial discrimination permitted.