Representative John E. Rankin, Massissippi Democrat yesterday attacked Governor Dewey for signing the Ives-Quinn bill barring racial discrimination in employment. The bill, he said, is “the greatest betrayal of the white Americans of New York that state has ever known.”
Addressing the House of Representatives, Rankin demanded that “white Gentiles should be protected from the persecutions they are now compelled to endure.” He also called for defeat of the bill for a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, on which a Senate sub-committee has been holding hearings.
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