Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-06-27

r'S Degree from Louisiana Univor'
atty, told EllsndSr bluntly, thai
he thought the people Of Louini.
ana were injuring themselves By
not letting all the people regardless
Of race or religion. have the fullest
participation In the life Of the com-
munity.
senator Ellsndor, Democrat, Of
Louisiana, has been In training for
another hlibuStsr 49, this time
against the lves-C havsE bill 10 pro-
hibit race or religious discrimina-
ton in employment, II and when
that measure IL reported and
brought up for debate In the
Senate.
Using a. n gymnasium and train
ing camp tho Senate Labor and
Public Welfare subcommittee which
Ia holding hearings on that bin,
he has been working out three
timSa = wsok---wednesdAyu, Thurs
days and FrldayS--for the past two
weeks getting hIA gums In shape
for \ gum beating session IN which
he may establish q new record.
His uparrinR partners are wit
nNSSsu who appear before the COM
mittSe In favor Of the bill. He
lashea out At them, trying out on
them oil the tims.woFn cllehSs that
southern demagoguss have used
ever aimee the Civil War 10 keep
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments 10 thu Fed
sral Constitution from really BE-
coming operative In the South.
IVSa Jaba Lightly
Occasionally Senator Irving n.
Ives. Republican. Of New York.
works out with him. JAbblnE back
at him effectively with singing Fo-
partse.
senator BllsnAsV'u bathurst came
early dHFiRE the hearings lase
Thursday morning. DiaeardlnR he
chiVAlEy no hes shown 10 ether
women witnesses, be nGhtsd Int
Mrs. mildred n. MAhoAsy. chair.
man Of tho MHnaasA Rsstta Fair Nm.
plOymsni Practice Conmlnaioa.
A. the time Senator EllsndsF en-
tered the hearing room, Mrs. Ma
honey was telling Senator Ives
about the effectiveness Of the Mas.
Sachusetts FEPC IN eliminating
race or religious discrimination
through the processes Of confer
snee, Cancellation and persuasion.
"You folks are trying 10 rive us
adVlcS on . situation you have
never seen, or lived with or know
anything about sxespt what you
have read about Il or what some
propaganda has told yOu," Bana-
tor EllsndeF blurted out aftar one
or two preliminary questions.
u challenge you OF anybody else
70 20 down south In the plants We
have and In the SuRsr mills and
and the discrimination you hear
about" he said.
Senator Ellsnder tried 10 ret
from Mrs. Mahonsy an expression
81 her views on Whsthsr the Fair
Employment Practice Commission
President Roosevelt created by SH-
seutive order was right IN direct
Ing the abolition Of race Segrega-
ton In toilets In q Maryland plant
and In production In . st. Louis
ordnance plant.
hut Mrs. Mahoney did not feel
competent 20 discuss how any COM
mission other than the MAasRchu-
sets FEPC conducted its work.
Shs stated, however. that she be-
iisvsd people should be treated ~
human beings and that she did
not believe In segregation. More
over, 10 Senator BLENDERS amaze
ment she told him she had colored
friends, she invited them 20 her
home and sat down with them at
the dinner table.
when yOa try 10 impose yOar
views on ~ us like Russia try
Ing 20 lmposs her views % us,"
senator Eilendcr declared. "I'm
going 10 aEht H."
That brought Senator Ives into
the night. lie pointed out that the
Ives .ChavsE bill differed In la ma
chinsry from that Of the wartime
PEPC In that IL provisions made
mandatory conference, Cancellation
and mediation In the settlement Of
complaints Of discrimination.
But Senator Ellsnder stuck 10 his
guns, declaring that the bill, the
anti poll tar bill and the anti
lynehing bill were all directed
against the South.
EIlsndsr Backs Up From
Humphrey
The next witness punched little
too hard for Senator EllsndsF, and
the LouiHianan SOOn backed OF
from him. lie was Mayor Hubert
~. Humphrey Of Minneapolis, who
established shortly after his slee-
ton the Mayors COuneil on Human
Relations.
when Senator Ellendsr sought 10
divert him Into q discussion Of so
eiAl relations, Mayor Humphrey
quickly told him that he was not
a biologist or an Anthropologist ana
that he had come before the com
mittss simply 10 diSeuas the Ives.
Chavez bill.
Tells q Minneapolis Law
Mayor Humphrey told the com
mittse that Minneapolis was III
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