St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-06-23

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and the Senator from Minnesota
may proceed in order.
Mr.. HUMPHREY. Mr.. Presi-
dent, with reference to the most
recent situation which has been
before the Senate 1 make the fol-
lowing comments, and I shall
make every effort to be in order.
1 should like to quote from the
Congressional Record of yesterday,
on Page 1905, the remarks of the
Senator from Florida (Mr. Hol-
landD. Speaking of the fair en-
ployment practices measure he
said:
That does not mean necessarily
that the particular program would
have to be bad, simply because the
Communists suggested it, but it
means that it comes from their
philosophy, that they claim pater-
nifty, as they have repeatedly, in
the Daily Worker, that that pater-
nifty is recognized by such writers
as Mr. Arthur Krock, that pater-
nifty was recognized by the Cali
fOrnia Committee on Un-American
Activities of the California Legis-
lature, and that, following that de-
Claration, Communists generally
have been active in the promotion
of FEPC, just as was shown in
the case of the California activity.
He proceeded to say:
that over 80 of the active men,
bers of So on the committee there
which was sponsoring FEPC as a
constitutional measure were them
selves Communists and in the
COmmunistic effort.
That does not at all mean that
everyone who has sponsored
FEPC or who is now sponsoring
FEPC has the remotest idea of
supporting anything which is
communistic. 1t does not mean at
all that the Senator from Florida
is charging that everyone who is
supporting FEPC is communistic;
quite the contrary.
Let me make this very clear.
This whole program that is re-
lated in that part of the Commu-
mist platform which has already
been placed in the Record, radical
ism of the worst sort has the ear
marks of destructive effort, which
will make itself felt in every part
of the Nation and upon every part
of our United States Government,
both at the Federal level and at
the State and local levels, and we
might as well know, when we are
seriously considering bringing up
such legislation as this, this is the
source from which it comes. Not
only does it come from that
source
Referring to the Communist
Party
but it has active lip service and
active foot service from that
source ever since it sprung full
formed from Communist brains
back in 1928.
Mr. President, the junior Sen
atOr from Minnesota, in reply to
that, as of yesterday, quoted as
follows from page 5 of the report
on Senate bill 1928, which was
presented to the Senate by the
Senator from Utah (Mr. Thomas) ,
the Senator from Montana (Mr.
Murray, the Senator from West
Virginia (Mr. Neely), the Senator
from Illinois (Mr. Douglass, the
Senator from New York (Mr. Leh-
mani. the Senator from Ohio (Mr.
Taft, the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Aiken, the Senator from
Oregon (Mr. Morse), the Senator
from New Jersey (Mr. SMITH,
and the Senator from Minnesota
(Mr. Humphrey, with some dis
senting views. From page of that
report l read as follows:
Great leaders of the Roman
Catholic Church added their voices
in behalf of a Federal Fair En-
ployment Practice Act. AS long
ago as 1914, the late Msgr. John
A Ryan told a subcommittee of
this committee that he favored
this legislation because
And now l quote from the mon
signor-
the Christian precept of brotherly
love is not satisfied by mere we'll
wishing, nor benevolent emotion,
nor sentimental yearning. II re-
quires action.
Therefore, on the basis of that
statement, Mr.. President it has
seemed to me that Monsignor
Ryan said that its source was to
be found in the Christian precepts
and concepts and philosophy, and
not in the source that has been al
luded to by the Senator from Flor
ida. Then l stated that in 1947 the
Most Reverend Francis J. Haas,
bishop of Grand Rapids, said in a
letter to the chairman of the COM
mittee, namely, the Senate Com
mittee on Labor and Public Wei
fare, as follows, as appears on
page 5 of the report:
l earnestly hope that this bill
will become law.
l offer no lengthy comment on
the underlying principle of the bill;
that is, that all American citizens
are equal and that all are entitled
to have their right to equal OPP
portunity protected by law. To me,
both as an American citizen and
as a catholic bishop, this principle
needs no supporting argument,
Equality is among our most treas
ured American possessions, as il
is central doctrine of Christian
faith, which proclaims that all
men are equal before God. made
equal before Him through His
Divine Son. Jesus Christ.
Yet, another distinguished
Catholic bishop. the Most Rever-
end Bernard J. Shell, of Chicago,
said:
A fair employment practices