Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-18
Youths Present Congress Eight Point
Legislative Program On Liberties
Express Disquietude Over Appointment
Of New Secretary OF State

but stated that he was opposed
to an FEPC, a sixty five cent min
imum wage law, and wanted more
time to study the youth employ
ment program urged by the de-
legation.
Representative Battle, a new
conner to Congress, said he was
not yet prepared to commit him.
self on any of the issues raised.
Senator Pepper told the dele
CATION he was unprepared at this
time to vote for an FEPC and an
anti-lynching law, but that he
would support cloture on such
measures. He emphasized to the
group that he was against fiji
clustering and told the delegation
that although he himself had
once engaged in filibuster in
1887, he would never do so again.
The group paid Senator Taylor
a Courtesy" visit to thank him
for his stand in the fight to
deny Theodore G. Bilbo a seat
in the Senate. Senator Taylor
warmly received the group and
posed with them for a picture.
Last Thursday the group spent
more than a nhour with Mr.. Nash.
When the delegation presented
mimeographed statement for Pre-
sident Truman, Mr.. Nash remind
ed them that President is never
handed mimeographed material
and instructed the group to write
Mr.. Truman a letter and promls-
ed them that the letter would
be placed before the President.
The delegates applauded Presi-
dent Truman's appointment of a
civil rights commission but ex+
pressed "disquietudeS over his
naming of General George V.
Marshall as Secretary of State.
Emphasizing that their interest
was not confined to the South
alone, the delegation said:
because we are young we are
vitality concerned with all the at
fairs of our government which
may determine whether our fu-
ture will be one of war or peace,
poverty or security, friendship
among people, or group hate and
violence. For this reason we must
express 'disquietude' at the Presl-
dents appointment and the Sen
ate's quick confirmation of one
| of the nations leading military
figures as Secretary of State"
Senator Taylor said he too was
concerned" with the Marshall
appointment although he had vot-
ed for him.
Among the delegates parEici-
pating in the conferences with
the legislators was EStemore
Wolfe, a veteran of Jackcon,
Mississippi. VIII otestified against
Bilbo in fhei Senate campaign
committees harings hid in Jack
son.
OthrS includd:
Edward K. Weaver, president,
! Montgomery, Alabama; Louis E.
Burnham, executive secretary, of
Birmingham, Alabama; Esther
Cooper, vice president, Birming-
ham; Mrs. Grace Tillman, field
secretary for Louisiana, New Or
leans; Mrs. Louise Crump Picott,
Newport News, Virginia; Stephen
Edley, board members, Lynch
burg, Virginia; IWilbert Ham
mond, board member, Charleston,
West Virginia.
Miss Ethel Bigby, Benedict Col
lege, Columbia, South Carolina;
Alexander Horton, Morehouse
College, Atltnta; Mrs. Frances
Stolar, New Orleans; Mrs. Doris
Plenn, Marion, North Carolina;
Mrs. Gwendolyn Samuelson, New
Orleans; Miss Gloria Grant, Nash
vile, Tennessee; and Miss Gloria
Johnson, Covington, Kentucky.
The proposals which the dele
CATION presented here were dis
cussed and adopted as model bills
by the Southern Youth Legisla-
ture which convened in Columbia,
South Carolina, last October at
the call of the Southern Negro
Youth Congress.