Moving for the necessary 218 signatures to the discharge petition to bring the FEPC bill before the House of Representatives for debate, Rep. Mary Northon of New Jersey, yesterday appealed to those members of the House “who believe in justice, fair play and the American way of life” to add their names to the 121 who have already signed. Rep. Norton said. “If we are honest, there remains one way to prove it and that is to and discrimination in our own country.”
Rep. Clarence Cannon, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, told the House that he had been informed by a member of the Rules Committee, which is refusing to vote out the FEPC bill despite President Truman’s request for a favorable vote, that the committee would refuse to vote out the entire War Agencies Appropriation bill if funds for continuation of the wartime FEPC were included. A group of 11 House members including Reps. Marcantonio and Baldwin of New York, Helen Gahagan Douglas of California and Hugh De Lacy of Washington and others, appeared before the Rules Committee in an unsuccessful attempt to get a special rule permitting the House to vote to restore FEPC funds.
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