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ihe organization desired her council as a member of the Board and that sha should have a great effect in the fight for total equality of the negro, It is stated, however, that Mrs, ROOSEVELT stated that all citizens should have certain rights, these being equal opportunity for employment according to ability and at equal pay; equal cpportunity for education; justice before the lan; and | participation in Government through the ballote . oe. In the same | Assue of the "State Press", is a news item quoting Govarnor ELLIS G*ARNALL of Georgia, as stating that economic equality for the negroes was a right which should not be denied, and that unless the negroes had a good home, a good education and economic security, the rest of the people of Georgia would not have the same. In the issue of June 24, 1945, is a news item to the effect that the U.S.0. CLUB for Negroes in Little Rock had been reopened, This is due to the larger number of negro soldiers being brought to Camp Robinson, Arkansas, and being discharged, In the same issue on page two, is a news item to the effect that Secretary of Commerce HENRY WALLACE had been asked to appoint negroes to important jobs in the Department of Commerce, these being in the Small Business Division, in the regional and district (offices; and on the advisory committee, too ° In the issue of July 15, 1945, of the "Arkanses World" is an item to the effect that the United Federal Workers Union, a CIO cerganization, would make loans to FEPC workers to tide them over checkless pay days if the appropriation bill for the FEPC were not passed to meet payrolls, In the same newspaper, WALTER WHITE, Secretary of the NLLCF, is quoted as saying that the raceprodlem was not a sectional problem in the United States, and was not merely a national problem in the United States, but that it was a world problem and that this conclusion had been reached by WHITE during his travels throughout the world to Survey c onditions, 3 “« _ * Be ae a ae went tags AN, yee ca Tia he : tet a se Aon Se mt ar 4 aan ve ae ee ae i PEs aa x. = Site a eae Be up te at aut, wa aye, 4 FT a we ter — «a "- oot ae, ete " a te .