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NAACP — Part 6
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struggle for Negro rights. e the qrestion of what action
should be taken was put in a resolution which indicated
that even thcugh the NAACP has examined to sone extent
the effectiveness of the passive non-violent resistance
on a local level, the NAACP is not ready to take a
position on this as a habtonel project.
The convention action in tne decision
on non-violent passive resistance registered the fact
that, on this issue, the groupl hich make up the more
resist
upper hand 4 he - convention, 8 unlikely, however,
according to the artic 7 “thet the Association will be
able to maintain this posture o2 indecision for very bb ONE «
. The prospects of effirmative action on the resolution
will depend, among other factors, on the steady increase
in the Association of the influence of the more militant
forces merging in the Southern struggle and of the
trade-union spokesmen of the working class,
The article also treats "Labor and the NAACP"
; a8 8 title and the viewpoint of labor was most
~ Strikingly presented at the convention in an address by
-” A,PHILIPMRANDOLPH, Vice President of AFL-CIO and
President of the Sleé@pi iv porters. In the following
teris; he pointed to the most urgent unfinished business
on: labor's agenda: F a . .
Phi bprlandel pl > te
"Obviously, the development of a strong and
aggressive movement in the South, embracing
biack and white workers; is the key to the .
transition of control of Southern economy,
state and local politics and governments from
the weak and palsied hands of a rural, semi-_
feudalistic sharecropper and tenant farming
ied economy, the breeding ground of Ku Kluxisn,
TT White Citizens Counclis, ractam, lJyneh-law
hk bet ate ae BF fot We lle Bar ad ye aures
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