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fo ~~ ty = NY 100-7629 "5s noted in the concluding edcress by Roy Wilkins, sherp criticism et this convention wos Gireeted, not only at Eisenhower and tne GeO.Pey but likewise et the Democrets. The very significant nderess bv Glerence Mitchell, for example, began with the stctomcent thet 'tRepublicens and Demecrsts heve united in e bi-vartisen progrem of smothering civil rights lcgislrction in the Highty-Fourth Congrcuss.! He challengcd the cffort of Democrats 'to hide behind the South when expleining their failures on civil rights,! pointing out that New York's hepresentative Celler, Wiest Virginiats Scenetor Kilmore end Weshingtents Sunetor Msarnuson ell heed cammittecs which ere sitting on civil richts bills--rnd thet 'tnorthern end western Representatives onde Scenrtors outnumber southern mombers on the Sansete rnd House Iebor Committses whcre FEPC is bottled upelt.e... "This was the setting in which the Convention :deopted its very fine resolution on Politicrl Action, Criticizing the President and Con -ress for 'betreying! the fight for civil rights--'neoither of the mr jor politics] partics hes kept © single pletform pledre on Civil rights ivgisletion'!--the resolution endersus the lobbying easprratus proposed b: Clarence Mitehvll pnd calls 'tupon the Nattonel Office end bosré of Directors to use the most drametic one cffuctive muthoes with the sceond session of the ith Congress to bring civil rights l.gislation before the Con-:ress for vessnm. end oufore the conventions of the major politics1 partics for consideration in the 1956 pintforms,.!t "Tn short, the Convention, very forcefully, Geclored the N.A.S.C.P.'s political independence from the Biscnhower administrntion--2 biz sdvrnec over previcus yurrs$3 end it erlled for concerted pressure now on both major politicnl psrtics for progressive