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ep a a es , eD . + Le R. 100-1176 In the same issue of the "Arkansas World" is a news item to the effect that it was rumored that a negro might be appointed as an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor but that there was no real ground upon which to support the report that RANDOLPH might get this post. It was sserted that RANDOLPH was a member of the Socialist Party; that he had been an arch critic of the New Deal, and that through a spokesman had recently threatened trouble for the present administration. In the issue of June 22, 1945, of the "State Press* is a news item to the effect that the Naval Ordnance Plant at Camden, Arkansas, has completed excellent living facilities for the colored employees at that plant; that the same was supervised entirely by negroes and that negroes had excellent jobs in the plant, The news item stated it was doubtful that the FEPC had had anything ta do with bringing about this axcellent result, but that it was the result of cooperative efforts by responsible colored and white laborers in Arkansas, In the same issue of the "State Press", is a reprint ef an editorial from the Pittsburgh Courier, commending the stand of President HARRY S. TRUMAN relative to the FEPC. In this editorial wea the following sentence "Time and again President Roosevelt was asked to speak out in favor of this or that measure and to use his influence with Congress to have certain remedial legislature such as an Anti-Lynching Bill passed, but to no avail", The editorial asserted that whether or not a permanent FEPC was secured it was evident that President TRUMAN would not be remiss in advocating its adoption. T.. 4 - 4----- nse WALTER Tarren © ne et eer in Une 158u6 of June 23, 2740, TALLEN Wilityy woVleual ys of the NAACP, ssserted that any Congressman who had failed to sign a os petition to discharge the committee in the house having the FEPC Bill before it, should be defeated, In the same paper was a statement to the effect that the Workers Defense League had produced a pamphlet called "Jobs Without Creed or Color" and that the same was available for any person, In the issue of July 6, 1945, of the “State Press nus a news item to the effect that Krs. FLEANOR*ROOSLVELT had accepted membership on the National Board of Directors of the NAACP and that WALT TR “THITE, Secretary of that organization, had stated that it was an honor bo have such a great American on its Board of Directors and that = 4 - = - = 7 3 a, otha nel , a ee a - . Rpt ere if oe =, eae wrt raanad & te ee ox _ = i a he, ~~" om : . * - “te ~ a, a es © ~ age ms5 i en ‘ > nates, ‘ s ——* , “os Bo oO ee . _ we t IS Mad . _ roe S - ma al ".e ~, Oa! ae . aie ae ae mv m —_ = ws - . ar a“ 7" . ~~ . . “. - Oe =o .- “ss a ew Fs