Arkansas State press., 1946-06-21
RORINSONS HOLDS STATE
MEETING OF NEGRO
DEMOCRATS

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law, Dr. Robinson said.
j. r, Booker, local attorney
and strong Republican came for
ward and explained in brief the
legal angles of acts l07-l08, and
instructed the potential voter the
proper steps to take for legal
action, in the event he is denied
the ballot on the grounds of color.
W. H. Bass, Jr., executive secre-
tary of the Citizen Civic League
explained the proper procedure
in marking your ballot, and the
danger of allowing anyone to
influence your vote.
Mr.. Bass later set the meeting
into a pandemonium when he
caught the question before the
vote for adoption of the resolu-
tons prepared by J. H. Nc Con-
leo, secretary of the Resolution
Committee. Mr.. Bass questioned
the committee about its stand
on the poll tax. Mr.. McConico
said he was "for it and he was
against it," Another man whose
name appeared on the committee
muscled enough force to utter
I'VE are not trying to change any
laws, so we are not asking repeal
of the poll tax. Mr.. Bass in
CURED: IF acts l07-l08 were not
law, and why not put it to the
body to decide about the poll tax
repeal?' That was ruled out by
he president, and the resolutions
we're UNANIMOUSLY adopted as
drawn by Mr.. McConico.
The Resolutions were made
.noWn to the assembly by j. H.
1cConico in a fashion of elo-
.uence, that no one can deny that
re isn't a master.
Among the resolutions adopt
d, we quote:
THE valiant boys, who fought
for the Four Freedoms in the
futhermost outposts of civil
zation-made the supreme sac
rifiee in order that justice and
righteousness should rule the
earth and they will have died
in vain if Nazism and Facism
were destroyed in Germany,
Japan and Italy but is allowed
to bud, blossom and fruit in
America under the aliases of Ku
Klux Khan and White Suprem-
acy. The nation owes these
boys a debt of gratitude-both
white and black and as a
recognition of the contribution
of these boys, we shall fight for
full indignation of Negroes into
the armed forces-not as Ne
groes but as citizens of a
Democracy. 49,.
This nation is now in the
midst of an industrial revolu-
ton and the men and women
who toll in the factories, in
the mines, in transportation
and the multiple fields of SER
vice are battling to lift from
their bowed and broken backs
the burden of a vast industrial
economy. The Negro worker
must affiliate himself with or
ganized labor, regardless of
handicaps, or be forever de-
stroyed. The Negro worker is
the bed rock upon which our
superstructure must be built
and if he attempts to remain a
scab, then all is lost. The Negro
on the farm must be awakened
to the fact that he must rise
from the ranks of sharecropper
and tenant to that of land
owner or very soon he will be
replaced by mechanical farm
ing. 49,.
That it is our opinion that
Acts l07 and l08 are uncon-
stitutional and we advise all
qualified Negro Democrats to
present themselves at the polls
in the forthcoming primaries
and if they are prohibited from
voting that we shall pledge our
selves to submit the facts to the
Department of Justice and let
the chips fall where they will
or may. ....
THAT we advise Negroes to
study the records and attitudes
of candidates in the forth COM
ing primaries, and as far as