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Thursday, July 20, 1950
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Public's Apathy Kills
Veteran Honored
Truce Mich
Sees Peace
in Middle East
FEPC, Study Reveals
CHICAGO Fair employment practices laws have been de-
feated in many states because their sponsors have failed
to win the active support of the very groups—organized
labor for one—that would be directly benefited by passage
of such legistlation.
At the same time, state and local chambers of commerce,
boards of trade and real estate and retailers' associations
have grouped together "overwhelmingly" in their opposition
to FEPC.
—
These are the principal con-
clusions of a documented study
of FEPC campaigns in 27 states.
The study was conducted by
Bernard Goldstein of the Univer-
sity of Chicago Committee on
Educational Training and Re-
serch in Race Relations and spon-
sored jointly by the American
Council on Race Relations and
the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith.
It was carried . on under the
direction of Prof. , Louis Wirth,
president of ACRR,- and Dr. Leo
Srole, ADL research director.
Effective support of FEPC has
been almost entirely limited to
a few "organizations dedicated to
the preservation and enlargement
of the rights of ethnic and other
minority groups," the report says.
On the other hand, "in state after
state, from one year to the next,
the organized business and in-
dustrial interests have opposed
state FEPC.
BUSINESS OBJECTS
In every state where the issue
was important enough to bring
it out into the open, it has been
possible to identify one of these
organizations as the leader of the
opposition. In almost every case,
the chamber of commerce, board
of trade, real estate board, re-
tailers' associations and assorted
business and employers' associa-
tions were listed either as out-
spoken opponents or as having
appeared to testify against FEPC,
or both."
Noting that 10 states have pass-
ed fair employment practices
legislation, the study bears down
heavily on those groups in whose
interest FEPC would seem to
operate. "The role of organized
labor has been particularly dis-
appointing in view of the pro-
fessed stand which it hag taken,"
it declares. Veterans organiza-
tions "have shown little aware-
ness" of FEPC. Proponents have
similarly failed sufficiently to
interest most of the religious de-
nominations, rural and suburban
populations or appreciable num-
bers of national organizations.
LEGISLATIVE INACTION
In 40 cases where final dis-
position of FEPC bills is known,
26 cases show that FEPC died as
the result of total legislative in-
action. Of the same 40 bills, only
six were defeated on the floor of
the legislature. Of the others,
some were defeated in committee,
some died in committee, and
some died in other ways before
reaching the floor.
The quiet demise of bills which
effect the welfare of all citizens,
their defeat without debate, with-
Out public discussion, emphasizes
the need for widespread cam-
paigns, the report reveals.
The survey shows that passage
or defeat of state FEPC bills can
be linked with the national pro-
grams of neither the Democratic
nor the Republican party. While
FEPC is often a partisan issue
in the separate states, in the 27
states studied, support or opposi-
tion to this legislation was about
evenly divided between the two
parties.
In 56 instances where bills
were introduced, Republicans
controlled both houses of the
legislature in 37 cases. In 30 of
these cases the bills were de-
feated; in seven they were pass-
ed. On the other hand, Demo-
cratic legislatures passed one bill
out of the seven where they were
in control.
RURAL OPPOSITION
One conclusion as to general
political feeling can be drawn,
however, from the circumstances
that Republicans predominated
in rural areas in states where the
bills were defeated.
Suburban populations a r e
seemingly aligned with rural pop-
ulations in opposition to FEPC
and, in general, the states having
a greater number of cities and
higher percentage of urban
dwellers are more favorably dis-
posed to FEPC.
"It may be that if the pro-
ponents of FEPC are properly
organized, they will be in a posi-
tion to overcome the opposition
which, from a territorial stand-
point, is more diffuse. We con-
clude that the political situation
and the nature of the campaign
are the vital factors."
The report deals with the prob-
lem of left-wing support in FEPC
campaign. Opponents will make
use of every opportunity it de-
clares, to describe FEPC as
'Communist - inspired' and the
proponents as 'Communist tools'.
A positive solution is to organize
the elements in the community
so that the 'left-wing' groups be-
come an unimportant minority.
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LAKE SUCCESS — (WNS) —
There has been no deterioration
on the Palestine situation and
there is no present danger of re-
sumption of warfare between the
Arab states and Israel, Major
General William E. Riley, chief
of the UN truce commission in
Palestine, declared at a press
conference.
The truce supervisor said "both
sides are looking for a way to
peace" and that the chief prob-
lem was to find a formula as a
basis for peace talks. King Ab-
dullah of Jordan, he stated, is
bent on making peace with Is-
rael but since he must reckon
with the wishes of the rest of the
Arab countries he will wait until
he is convinced of the futility of
waiting further.
At the same time General Riley
declared that both Israel and
Egypt were looking forward to
a peaceful settlement. As proof
of the diminishing tension, he
pointed to the fact that his truce
staff now numbered 27 as against
a peak of 525 in January of 1949,
and that almost all of the truce
observers work is concerned with
such problems as infiltration,
stealing of sheep and theft of wa-
ter pipes.
Post 190 of Jewish War Veterans presented Joseph Jones with
a citation commending him for his work in the affairs of Jewish
War Veterans and the furtherance of Jewish welfare among the
non-Jewish groups. Commander Norman Berkley (right) pre-
sented Jones with the citation. Max Elkin received a post com-
mander's medal.
Racist Deputy
to Be Retried
HAMBURG— (WNS) —Wolf-
gang Hedler, German rightist
deputy who was acquited last
February on charges of inciting
racial hatred, must stand trial
anew, the Schleswig-Holstein Su-
perior Court ordered in an opin-
ion reversing the finding of the
lower court.
Following hiv acquital there
was a storm of protests in Ger-
many and other countries, since
his open avowals of anti-Semit-
ism and justification of Hitler's
policy of exterminating Jews
were not even denied in court.
Hedler once said that while he
may have disagreed with the
methods used by the Nazis in
exterminating Jews, he was total-
ly in agreement with the policy
of extermination. Opinion may
be divided whether it was right
to kill Jews with poison "but
there may have been other means
of getting rid of the Jews," he
declared.
Reich Judge Fired
for Anti-Semitism
MUNICH — (WNS) — Munici-
pal Judge Hans Kettnacker of
Stuttgart was fired from his post
because of an anti-Semitic re-
mark he made in the course of a
trial of a German who had been
a gauleiter during the Nazi re-
gime.
Announcement of the firing was
made to the Wuerttemberg-Ba-
den legislature by the provincial
minister of justice following a
protest by Benno Ostertag, chair-
man of the Stuttgart Jewish com-
munity.
While evidence was being in-
troduced connecting the defend-
ant with Nazi activities, the judge
remarked that it made "no dif-
ference" to him "whether some-
body was a gauleiter or unsuc-
cessfully tried three times to gas
a rabbi."
Belsen Horror Camp
Officially Closed Down
BELSEN — (WNS)—The Be•-
gen-Belsen concentration camp,
site of the Nazi slaughter of tens
of thousands of Jews, has closed
down, it was reported here.
When the war ended the camp
was taken over by the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilita-
tion Administration as a haven
for Jewish displaced persons.
Later it was taken over by the
International Refugee Organiza-
tion and became a processing cen-
ter for Jews registering to leave
Germany. Over 100,000 regis-
trants were processed in the
camp, one fifth of them settling
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