An urgent plea that the bills providing for the establishment of a permanent Fair Employment practices Commission “be pushed to the top of the list of win-the-war legislation” was made here yesterday by Rep. Frank Hook, Michigan Democrat, as he filed the seventh FEPC bill to reach the House since the 79th Congress convened on January 3.
We’ve got to face the fact,” Rep. Hook said, “that the greatest single obstacle that now impedes our war production is that of racial or religious prejudice. And we owe it to that American boy overseas and to his brother working overtime here to call upon labor and management to remove that altogether unreasonable, unjustifiable, and un-American obstacle wherever it still exists. The man who fires the bullet doesn’t care whether it was made by a Protestant, or a Catholic, or a Jew, a Negro or a white person, so long as he has that bullet when he needs it.”
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