You will note that it consists of six Negroes and two white people, one of whom is named Carol Coan and the other Celia Hoffman, a white stenographer receiving the lowest salary on the list. You will note it consists of two Negroes and a Simon Stickgold. If you want to know who Simon Stickgold is, probably Sidney Hillman can give you the information. INFORMATION DIVISION Now we come to the Information Division. If you want information about this outfit you write to this Division. You will note that it consists of two Negroes, one registered as an information specialist and the other as a clerk-stenographer. BUDGET AND ADMINISTRATION Now we come to the Budget and Administration Division. This Division not only makes up the budget but administers the regulations. Here is the list: This outfit, which is composed of 11 Negroes, not only makes up the budget for financing this aggregation, but it seems to have the power of administration. * * * MAIL AND FILES DIVISION Now, here are the ones that have control of the mails and filing system: You will note that this division is composed entirely of Negroes--no whites at all. I wonder why they discriminated against the white race in setting up these two powerful branches of this most dangerous agency? REGIONAL OFFICE, NEW YORK Now let us turn to the regional offices and see who is going to harass the business people back in the States. Here is the list for the State of New York: * * * You will note that it is composed of four Negroes and three white people. Please read the names of the three white people and see if you can figure out their antecedents. REGIONAL OFFICE, PHILADELPHIA Now, let us turn to Philadelphia, the birthplace of the Constitution, the City of Brotherly Love. * * * You will note that it is composed of eight individuals-five Negroes and three whites, Mildred Greenblatt, Samuel R. Risk, and Karyl Klinger. REGIONAL OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. Now, here is the regional office in Washington, D. C., the Nation's Capital, where there has been so much persecution of white gentiles in the last few years. Here is the list: You will note it consists of four Negroes and Alice Kahn. REGIONAL OFFICE, CLEVELAND Now let us move out where the West begins and take a look. Here is the list in the Cleveland regional office: You will note that it is composed of three Negroes and two whites, Olcott R. Abbott and Edna Wasem. REGIONAL OFFICE, CINCINNATI Cincinnati seems to be largely under the jurisdiction of the Cleveland office since it only has two people: Now let us move on to Detroit, Mich. Here is the regional office for Detroit: You will note that it is composed of one Negro and one Japanese. REGIONAL OFFICE, CHICAGO Here is the list of the regional office in the Windy City: * Salary $4,600 1,620 * You will note it is composed of five Negroes, two whites, Joy Schultz and Penny Zeidman. * * * You will note that it consists of two Negroes and three whites. 2,000 1,800 You will note that this office force consists of three whites and one Negro. *** You will note that it consists of two Negroes and one white. REGIONAL OFFICE, DALLAS, TEX. The members of the regional office at Dallas are as follows: You will note there is one vacancy. Negro, namely, Roy V. Williams. Last year that position was held by a The other two members, Carlos Castenada, the regional director, and Willetta Gutleben, seem to be in charge of the office at the present time. * * * REGIONAL OFFICE, NEW ORLEANS The regional office at New Orleans consists of the following members: You will note that there are two whites and one Negro in this office. REGIONAL OFFICE, SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco office consists of the following individuals: Salary $3,800 3, 200 1,800 This is the only office we have found yet that consists entirely of white people. REGIONAL OFFICE, LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles regional office consists of the following: You will note that there are four whites and one Negro in this office, the Negro being the fair-practice examiner. * * Mr. HOFFMAN. I also wish to file a minority report which I made some years ago. It is a part of House Report No. 187 of the Seventyninth Congress, first session. Mr. POWELL. Without objection, it will be incorporated in the record. (The document referred to is as follows:) MINORITY VIEWS OF REPRESENTATIIVE CLARE E. HOFFMAN, OF MICHIGAN The bill is based upon certain findings of fact and a declaration of policy. If the findings be erroneous, or the declaration of policy unsound, the bill should be recommitted. FINDINGS The reason given for the adoption of this proposed legislation is that, due to discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, and ancestry, less than a full measure of employment (a) has caused industrial strife; (b) forced large groups of our population into permanently substandard living conditions, which, in turn, has (c) created a drain upon the resources of the Nation, (d) a permanent threat to industrial peace and to a standard of living necessary to the health, efficiency, and well-being of workers. To give Congress jurisdiction to enact legislation to end the discrimination, it is charged that such discrimination in industries engaged in commerce, or in the production of goods for commerce, causes the spread of such discrimination and a diminution of employment and wages to such an extent that it impairs and disrupts the market for goods and obstructs commerce. The bill then states the obvious fact that individuals should have the right to work without discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, or ancestry; but it pointedly ignores the equally obvious fact that individuals have the right to work without discrimination because of membership or nonmembership in a labor union. DECLARATION OF POLICY The declaration of policy is somewhat like the false front on the country store, in that, instead of being a two-story measure to end discrimination against the worker, it wholly ignores the discrimination which permits the levying of a tax upon the overwhelming majority of workers, bars thousands of others from the more lucrative jobs, and makes no effort at all to eliminate, even in wartime, the principal cause of industrial strife which has cost millions of man-days of work. The foregoing is true for the reason that, while the bill avers that it is the policy of Congress to protect the right to work without discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, or ancestry, it makes no attempt to end the discrimination practiced because of lack of union membership. It takes no more than a moment's consideration to show that the bill is not one to end discrimination against workers as a class, for, under it, a black, yellow, or brown individual, be he Jew, Catholic, Protestant, atheist, or infidel, if he be a member of a union, is protected, while, though he be white, a Jew, Catholic, or Protestant, but not a member of a union, he may seek employment in vain. Even his Government will in many cases issue an order requiring him to become or to remain a member of a union. REASON FOR PROPOSED LEGISLATION In truth and in fact, while the avowed purpose of the bill is to end discrimination, give equality of opportunity, in employment, another objective is to bring about, through Federal legislation, a social intermingling (and some advocate intermarriage) among the races. Others support the bill because it is believed that, by so doing, the political support of the Negro as a race can be obtained for certain candidates or partisan measures. Neither major party is without sin in this last respect. THE BILL'S SUPPORTERS Good citizens, sincere in their convictions, in a hurry to see all Negroes in possession of jobs, homes, and as well educated and financially established as is the average white, believe this legislation will do for the Negro what others think can be accomplished only by time and education. |