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quiry as to what the Veterans Ad-
ministration's future policy would
be on segregated veterans hos
pitfalls, Brigadier General Frank T.
Hines, Veterans Administration
head, replied that he would ask
Negro veterans themselves what
they wanted done about it, and
would follow their desire. This
promise was made by General
Hines as he appeared with a panel
of speakers at a Forum on Plan
ming Now for Jobs Ahead" spon-
sored by the National Urban
League at New York Times Hall,
on Tuesday evening, March Is.
Mrs. Lillian n. Poses, War Man
power Commission Regional Attor-
ney; ]. Raymond Walsh, CIO Econ
omist; Nelson H. Cruikshank, A.
F. of L national representative,
and C. S. Mcdowell of the Anna
Corporation were other members of
the panel of government, industry
and labor experts discussing future
job planning with emphasis on
Negro employment. Thanking these
were Urban League staff members
from some of the racial tension
areas throughout the country who
acted as eonsultants: William VAL
entine, Jr., Administrative As
sistant of the Detroit Urban
League; Howard Gould, Director of
Industrial Relations of the Chicago
Urban League; Richard Jefferson,
Industrial Secretary of the st.
Louis Urban League; A. J. Allen,
Jr., Executive Secretary of the Bal
timore Urban League; and W. Y.
Bell, Jr., Director of the Southern
Division of the National Urban
League. Leo Cherne, Executive
Secretary, Research Institute of
America, served as chairman of the
Forum, with Lester Granger,
Executive Secretary of the Ma
tional Urban League introducing
the panel.
Speaking formally earlier in the
evening, General Hines had insist
ed that 'tfor almost a quarter of a
century as the Administrator of
Veterans Affairs, it has been my
privilege as well as my official
responsibility to carry out the laws
Of the Nation as they provide
various rights, benefits and privil-
eyes for former members of the
military and naval forces of the
United States and for their de-
pendents and survivors. No dis
tinction has ever been made by that
Administration between veterans
because of race, color or creed"
Hines assured his audience that as
far as the Veterans Administration
is concerned, there will be estab-
lished and carried out freedom
from discrimination in the admin
istration of the law; freedom from
inequality in education; freedom
from inequality in expenditures for
health, disqualification and re-
Mobilization; freedom from obsta-
cles and prejudices which prevent
equal work opportunity and equal
pay"
BOilermakers' Auxiliary Abolished
Nelson H. Cruikshank in his
speech announced the recent vote of
the Executive Committee of the
International Brotherhood of Boiler
makers, Iron Ship Builders and
Helpers of America to abolish the
second class or auxiliary" status
of Negro locals. He also asserted
that the A. F. of L. had incorporat-
ed the principle of non-discrimina-
ton as far back as 1881, at its first
Convention in Pittsburgh, and dis
closed further the fact that the
total number of Negro members
in A. F. of L. unions sis greater
than any other, now numbering up
wards of a million"
CLIO Urges Legislative Approach
]. Raymond Walsh, CIO repre-
sentative, emphasized the import
ance of legislative action in better
ing job opportunities for Negroes,
mentioning specifically the Federal
FEPC. He pointed out the estab-