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I EN Ta i cee ror - te ahh’ wae ae ae ‘Firstlady” [Makes Poll Tax Appeal With the poll tax ready for a! test vote in the House, Mrs. Eleanor! wer Roosevelt made a last-minute ap- peal for its abolition. Speaking at- the annual city-wide observance of: Harlem Week last Sunday in New | |York City, she said the repeal of the poll tax would be of benefit “not only for the colored people but for all people.” | The two test votes in the House on Monday indicated the treatment ve bill was to receive, The first te registered 268 for and 11q ainst; the second vote register: 35 to 105. In the same speech Mrs. Roo velt called for equal justice before the law for all races, equality of opportupity, equality of employ- ment and decent living conditions, and the privilege of all citizen sto participate in government. The first lady said: “There should not be German communitics, Scan- dinavian communities, and other communities of foreign born. There should be just American communi- ties.” Marl//Starr of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, urged the AFL to use its influence to eliminate jimcrowism in the few unions that still practice it. : Assemblyman William T. An- drews said he found Southern Ne- grocs, during his recent trip to South Carolina “despoulent. with- out hope and with little fight in PEOPLE'S VOICE May 29, 1943 a