Word: fepc
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...learned what sort of a foreign policy the farmers would go for, and what sort of farm policy labor would not swallow. He learned what U.S. Steel -and the C.I.O.-would do about the Taft-Hartley law; how Negroes, housewives and soybean farmers feel about a dozen issues from FEPC to foreign trade. He learned what a great and many-voiced people-organized in its unions, corporations, Elks' clubs and political parties-wants, hopes and fears...
...area of discriminatory employment practices." This takes care of the North. But, the Republicans go on, "Federal action should not duplicate state efforts to end such practices, should not set up another huger bureaucracy." And this satisfies the South. Actually, the Republicans have taken no stand on federal FEPC at all, nor on anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, and anti-filibuster legislation...
...poll tax, and against lynching. Governor Stevenson has not shied away from this plank. Not only in Harlem, but in Texas, Virginia, and other states, Stevenson has reiterated this stand on federal civil rights legislation. And Stevenson's civil rights record in Illinois, where he pushed through an FEPC law, testifies to his sincerity...
...draw fire away from their own ambiguous an inadequate stand, Republicans have been pointing to John Sparkman, predicting he will try to block FEPC, if elected. Admittedly, Sparkman's civil rights record has not been good; it has been a reflection of his constituents. But Sparkman, who has an otherwise excellent voting record, wrote the Democrats' civil rights plank. Like Hugo Black, who was also a senator from Alabama, Sparkman promises to be a champion of civil rights, once away form his electorate. There is no reason, however, to expect Senator Nixon to change. Although he represents California, a liberal...
...need for civil rights legislation is, perhaps, greater now than ever before--not only to strengthen the nation's democracy but to bolster its reputation in Asia and Europe. And since there is little chance of southern states enacting their own FEPC, the federal government must press the issue strongly. The Democrats promise to; the Republicans...