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Henry a Wallace — Part 5
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The President has refused to send to the Congress drafts
implement his announced program. He says the Congress resents &
knows perfeotly well that the Executive branch of the government
genuinely interested in legislation does prepare drafts as a wor
Congress.
Shire has heen quite a furor in the South over the so-cal
of legislation to
uch drafts. But he
» When it is
king base for the
led Civil Rights
program, but Senator McGrath has been doing 4 pretty good job of setting things
- gtraight with the southern reactionaries. He has explained that
the alarm which
these southerners felt over the program to help abolish discrimination and segregation
is unfounded. The southern senators and governors were worried. They
thought the proposal to create a special civil rights division in the Justice
Department would mean that federal officers would be sent into t
protect the civil rights of the poorer white people and the Neer
Senator McGrath, in his conference with the southern governors,
the President meant no such things
| For example, the Democratic chairman seid: “Stories have
was the intention to send out posses of officers to pick out ins
people were denied the right to vote, Very definitely that is f
he south to actually,
o citizens. But
assured them that
gone out that it
tances where
arthest from the
President's mind.” Apparently we only want to supervise elections thousands of
miles from homee
The stories which appeared iv. southern papers ~ and very
few northern papers
- after that memorable couference between ure wieGrath and the southern governors
reported that the Democratic chairman guid the primary intention was to curb
“industrial hoodlumism" and not to interfere in the south. Any
trade uniodn member
will tell you what politicians mean when they use the term "industriel hoodlumism"
and talk about a police forco to combst ite
This is the old game of politics. You make good statements that are sufposed
to win the votes of people who really believe in democracy and want democracye
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