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Progressives set main goals:
win FEPC, junk sales tax
The Progressive Party this week launched a two
pronged drive to win a state Fair Employment Practices
Commission and to substitute a graduated income tax in
Illinois for the present sales tax.
Delegates to a state-wide legislative conference voted
unanimously to make these cam
paigns the focal points of mem
bership activity in the coming
months.
Alongside the state campaigns,
emphasis was placed on action
for housing and rent control,
repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act
and rebirth of the Wagner Act
without amendments.
Locally, ward and township
groups were advised to concen
trate on aid to schools, telephone
rates, or similar issues.
The conference, attended by
more than 250 Progressive lead
ers from ward and precinct lev
els as well as trade unions, in
structed wards to take “princi
pled positions” on other issues.
On the key issues, however,
an extensive program was plan
ned to include rallies and peti
tion campaigns in collaboration
with other sympathetic groups.
The conference opened with a
keynote address by Curtis D.
MacDougall, the party’s 1948
candidate for U.S. Senator. The
Northwestern professor declared:
“It is up to the Progressive
Party to hold Truman and Ste
venson to their election prom
THIS WEEK IT'S STILL
CHINA
tomorrow A (Ellina
by
Anna Louise Strong.65c
. . . first appearance in Chi
cago of Chu-Tong, Editor
China Daily News . . . will
speak on Victory and Chi
na .. . January 28th, 8 p.
m., Hamilton Hotel grand
ballroom, 20 S. Dearborn.
Admission 90c.
—Modern Book Store Forum
modern
book store
180 W. WASHINGTON ST.
DE 2-6552
open 10 to 7; 6 p.m. Sats.
ises. In the long run, our party
cannot lose. We represent the
real aspirations of the American
people.”
Post-election reorganization of
the party was discussed by dele
gates before they adopted a six
page legislative program cover
ing foreign policy, labor, agri
culture, taxation, rent and hous
ing, civil rights, education, social
welfare, price control, public
ownership of certain industries,
and an Illinois constitutional
convection.
William H. Miller, state party
director, criticized previous lack
of emphasis on practical phases
of local work.
“Our people know all about
the issues of Bizonia, industrial
izing the Ruhr, and what is go
ing on on both sides of the iron
curtain,” he declared. “But we
don’t know how many of what
minority groups live in our
wards, or their vote in the last
election by precincts. Too many
of us don’t know our own ward
problems.”
He singled this out as the main
organizational problem for Pro
gressives,
Victor Ludwig, Fourth Ward
committeeman added to Miller’s
view, declaring:
“It is only to the extent that
we give service to our neighbors
on rent and their daily needs—
only to that extent will we find
ourselves able to talk with them
on national and world issues.”
Fred Ptashne recommended
that each ward set up a nation
alities council for special activ
ity among national groups for
the legislative program.
Bernard Lucas, international
representative of the CIO Long
shoreman’s Union, declared the
key labor issue in 1949 will be
fourth round wage increases. He
called upon the Progressives to
“identify themselves” with la
bor’s side of the issue before
the community.
Full report on Washington
Jim Crow slated for spring
WASHINGTON — The Na
tional Committee on Segrega
tion in the Nation’s Capital will
follow up its first report with
one that's even more devastat
ing.
This statement was made this
week by a member of the com
mittee, Dr. Frederick E. Ressig,
who is executive secretary of
the Washington Federation of
Churches. Dr. Ressig spoke at
a meeting of the District chap
ter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People. Dr. Howard Jenkins of
Howard University school of
law faculty also spoke.
Trial by Fire
Stirring drama on racial intolerance . .
STARRING Janice Kingtlow
and Fred Pinkard
FRIDAY
January 21st 8 p. m.
Ot
Eighth Street Theatre
741 S. Wabash
tickets
Civil Rights Congress
82 W. WASHINGTON AN 3-2551
'
Chicago
will never
forget...
The 25th Anniversary of the
Daily Worker
Sat. Jan. 22 - 8:30 P.M.
at DuSAZLE CENTER
4849 S. Wabash Ave.
• Dancing • Skits and Sketches
• Refreshments • Wandering Minstrels
• Ballad Singing • Celebrities
ADMISSION 05c
TED BAUM, right, gets congratulations from William H. Miller,
Progressive Party state director, at this week's party legislative
conference. Baum is committeeman for the 35th Ward, which
Miller cited as having the best delegation in proportion to mem
bership. Ward officers, left to right, are Emma Johnson, secre
tary; Miller; Nat Welcher, legislative chairman; Aileen Welcher,
25th Sen. Dist. treasurer; Ed Johnson, membership director, and
Baum. BELOW, Gus Gustavson, a Moline farm equipment worker,
makes a point during floor discussion.
Royall wants Use Koch set
free—but fears publicity
WASHINGTON (FP)-The
problem of how to free Ilse
Koch, convicted Nazi death
camp sadist without stirring up
too much unfavorable public
ity, is still bothering Army Sec.
Kenneth C. Royall, it appeared
at a press conference here this
week.
Royall, back from a 3-week
inspection tour of Europe, was
asked whether Gen. Lucius
Clay, American commander in
Germany, had yet decided if the
Koch woman can be retried on
new charges. The sentence re
duction from life to four years
granted her by army review of
ficers means she will be freed
this year. The unusual act has
brought a storm of protest to the
army’s door.
Royall was then asked wheth
er he would now make available
Moteff Florists
192 N. LaSalle
DE 2-1500
We Telegraph Flowers
to the press the Koch trial rec
ord which the army hid from
view after the sentence reduc
tion stirred up public interest in
the case. He gave no answer,
except to say he would “find
out what the department policy
is.”
NAACP to fight
polltaxers in '49
NEW YORK (FP)—'The fight
to force congressional rules
changes that would outlaw "an
ti-democratic filibusters” and
pry “polltax congressmen” from
their control of committees will
be the No. 1 campaign of the
Natl. Assn, for Advancement of
Colored People in 1949.
A resolution adopted at the
NAACP’s 40th annual meeting
here this week declared the
“abolition of archaic procedural
rules is a first obligation of the
new Congress” if the way is to
be paved for enactment of civil
rights legislation.
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