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Pig ‘They times. Tho latter included the younger people present and some old timers. * JT WAS a very fair. The liquidators Joaked back nostalgically to their own younger days, when the League played an important role in some of the great historic strug: gles of women-in garment, clothing, textile and other fields. Tecalled the women in labor who received their first encouragement and training Ja WIUL circles. « But they con- cluded that everybody has got ra day and an orgau- pathetic af- eres ‘There was sow night be discrimination + CONEEEN EXPLESS | pay ad that as a Southern colonel, there| against Ne- mig \vomen, Major Hobby promptly inswered the question by saying nat Negroes ‘would be recruited in proportion vorritation. Out af 430 officer can lates in the first group of train , 40 were Negroes. * LATER on, there was clamor for hppointment of Mrs. thune, a New ment never came. hen Negroes egation overseas, and ization, too, must die. Some of these spokesmen for the WTUL have hugged the organization tightly in recent years as though it was their personal property intrusion of younger Labor marched by them. The actual pronouncement of the death .sentence upon the WTUL came from the leader- ship of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Rose people. Mary McLeod Deal friend—but And complained of seg- ‘of WACS, and of failure during the first two years to send| Americans Negro WACS Miocder that weat out to break up the first interracial company of | grapl WACS, Col, Hobby kept discreet of an} A They jealously guarded it from ~ Publishers Association. of the Texas Medical Center. Co-| Departinent, editor and publisher : od Post. Director \ it tation, A member of the Houston to their number in the/ Committee for Education in Ale: holism, the Americar ciation, the Houston | Mrs, Hobby, that “the ineff of her only by its inhumanity. eph L. Raub, Jr. if true, may childhood. According to her bio-| me most er Editors and ot Lie systivitdl ‘A director! ide to the “Lexas Stale Banking, Jater boasting Uiat slits of the Houston , has these laws almost of a Texas radio} single-hand edly | OF MARRIAGEABLE age, she lost no“time in idle dreaming, Heart Asso-| but ran for the Texas State Legis- Junior League lature in 1930 when she was 24, another dozen hile being courted by former Texas Governor William Pettus | Hobby, 26 years her senior. They ublic figure has said of were marricd the next year, and iciency | in 1931, she became one of the edi- administration iy equalled) tors of her husband's influential ” newspapers, the Houston Post. From there on, it was a straight chairman of} road to the-arms of the Republican for Democratic ‘Action,| Administration and. a job at the have its roots in her! Capitol. She wrote a book on part tary law; progressed higher in he Houston Post, fie becoming executive vi i (Continued on Page 10) eee interest” and who held leaders “are bom, you train them.” nd so on, for aciations. ONE This observation, made by Jo at the age of 10, ‘when’ the ranks of t ‘tle girls are skipping rope nal y Oveta Culp liked to sit in the Hil iN eats srrassecuascnseeonoose vive- Schneiderman, linorary presi: dent of the WTUL, an ILGWU employee, brought the report recommending iquidation be- wause “they don’t need us any more” and “let's step out grace- fully.” She was supported by Paulene Newman, honorary vice-chair- man, and_by Sadie Reich, au- other ILGWU full-timer who blamed the women in unions for “lack of initiative and lack of that can't THE MINORITY people, or those with modern minds, held that there is @ greater need for women’s Of ganization in the trade union field than ever bdeause the prob- Jems thut called the WTUL into existence are basically still here. Tw men who took part in the — discussion apposed the recommendation to issolve, staltman of the Sleeping Car Porters was critical of the elders for not keeping UP with the times. * He said of younger “The young of today are the leaders of tomorrow. If trey aren't forward. then we are ta blame.” The second, a member of the ILGWU’s education depactment,- was so emphatic against dis- solution that an ministration heckler shouted, “What are you doing, inciting the member- ship?” When the votes were counted 37 voted to bury the League, 14 opposed and many abstained. What the latter group was really insisting upon was not the oon- , tinuance of the League @s it /\ has been, but for an organizae (Continued on Page 14) coming