Twenty-two organizations combatting racial and religious intolerance joined yesterday in expressing their “unqualified objection” to the transfer of the powers of President Roosevelt’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice to the War Manpower Commission.
The past effectiveness of the committee stemmed solely from its direct association with the Chief Executive, a telegram to President Roosevelt pointed out. The committee would lose its primary source of strength if it were made subordinate to the War Manpower Commission, the telegram said.
Stressing the similarity of Jewish and Negro problems in the fight against discrimination, Edward E. Grusd, editor of the National Jewish Monthly, spoke yesterday at a meeting held here to protest against the transfer of the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice to the War Manpower Commission. The meeting was held at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church under the auspices of the Negro March on Washington movement.
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