to protect textile designs and to create an abundance of political jobs in Government departments. Some of this aforesaid group are connected with the Design Registration Bureau which has not proven itself and now is trying to have the Government back their business. I would advise an investigation on the type of inadequate personnel employed at the Textile Design Registration Bureau. DESIGNS BY KOPP AND SEGAL.

Congressman EMANUEL CELLER,

NEW YORK, N. Y., February 24, 1948.

House Office Building, Washington, D. C.:

We are appealing to you to oppose the design copyright bill which will create a monopoly, innumerable lawsuits, and will be definitely harmful to the creative spirit of the textile designers.

ROYAL STUDIOS,
MARCEL CHRISTEN,
CHARLES KELEMEN,

Hon. EARL LEWIS,

NEW YORK, N. Y., March 25, 1948.

Chairman, House Judiciary Subcommittee,

House Office Building, Washington, D. C.:

We, as one of leading textile converting organizations, wish to record our emphatic disapproval of H. R. 2860. In our opinion this law would be cumbersome, nonworkable, nonbeneficial and would create confusion in this industry. We request opportunity to present our views to your committee.

M. LOEWENSTEIN & SONS, INC.

EARL R. LEWIS,

NEW YORK, N. Y., March 25, 1948.

House Office Building, Washington, D. C.:

Chairman of House Judiciary Subcommittee,

As one of the leading textile converting firms we wish to express our complete disapproval of H. R. 2860. In our opinion this law would create confusion in this industry without compensating advantages. We request opportunity to present our views to your committee.

HEARINGS

BEFORE

S Cones SUBCOMMITTEE NO. 4 OF THE
House COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTIETH CONGRESS CARD DIVIDIO

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. R. 41, H. R. 57, H. R. 77, H. R. 223, H. R. 228, H. R. 800,
and H. R. 278

FOR THE BETTER ASSURANCE OF THE PROTECTION OF
PERSONS WITHIN THE SEVERAL STATES FROM MOB VIOLENCE
AND LYNCHING, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
H. R. 1709

TO ASSURE TO PERSONS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF
EVERY STATE DUE PROCESS OF LAW AND EQUAL PROTECTION
OF THE LAWS, AND TO PREVENT THE CRIME OF LYNCHING

H. R. 3488, H. R. 3618, H. R. 3850, H. R. 4155, and H. R. 4577

TO DECLARE CERTAIN RIGHTS OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED
STATES, AND FOR THE BETTER ASSURANCE OF THE PROTEC-
TION OF SUCH CITIZENS AND OTHER PERSONS WITHIN THE
SE VERAL STATES FROM MOB VIOLENCE AND LYNCHING, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

H. R. 4528

TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPLICATON AND ENFORCEMENT OF
THE PROVISIONS OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND ARTICLE 55 OF
THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND TO ASSURE THE
PROTECTION OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER
PERSONS FROM MOB VIOLENCE AND LYNCHING, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES

Testimony of-

Hon. Gordon Canfield, a Representative in Congress from the State

of New Jersey.

32

Hon. John W. Heselton, a Representative in Congress from the State

of Massachusetts..

33

Hon. Joseph R. Bryson, a Representative in Congress from the State

of South Carolina__

34

Hon. Emanuel Celler, a Representative in Congress from the State of

New York...

35

Hon. Helen Gahagan Douglas, a Representative in Congress from the

State of California...

37

Hon. Kenneth B. Keating, a Representative in Congress from the State

of New York...

Hon. T. Millet Hand, a Representative in Congress from the State of

New Jersey

Hon. Charles R. Clason, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Massachusetts

Mr. Walter White, executive secretary, National Association for the

Advancement of Colored People...

Mr. Mike Masaoka, Japanese American Citizens League antidiscrimi-
nation committee..

Mr. Bruce Waybur, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers

of America, ČIO..

Hon. Sam Hobbs, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Alabama...

Hon. Adam C. Powell, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the

State of New York..

Mr. Carl W. Berueffy, attorney, American Civil Liberties Union..

Mr. Joseph B. Robison, attorney, American Jewish Congress.--

Hon. John E. Rankin, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Mississippi...

Hon. W. J. Bryan Dorn, a Representative in Congress from the State

of South Carolina..

127

Hon. John Bell Williams, a Representative in Congress from the State

of Mississippi. -

130

Additional and supporting documents introduced:

Statement of Hon. John W. Heselton, supra.

33

Statement of Hon. Helen Gahagan Douglas, supra.

38

Socio-economic studies of lynchings, introduced by Mr. White, supra
Treatise entitled "A Generation of Lynching in the United States,
1921-46," introduced by Mr. White, supra

54

Statement of Mr. Masaoka, supra

Statement of American Civil Liberties Union..

Statements (2) of American Jewish Congress, introduced by Mr.

Robison, supra- - -

111, 115

APPENDIX

Message from the President of the United States on civil-rights program__

Excerpts from report of President's Committee on Civil Rights...

Article entitled "Opera in Greenville," by Rebecca West, reprinted in full
from the June 34, 1947, issue of New Yorker magazine_-

Statement of United Office and Professional Workers of America, CIO..

Statement of American Labor Party of New York State..
Statement of International Workers Order...

Statement of Civil Rights Congress.

Statement of Pittsburgh Civil Rights Congress_

Letter from International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers..
Article entitled "A Federal Prosecutor Looks at the Civil Rights Statutes,'
by Tom C. Clark, reprinted from the March 1947 issue of Columbia
Law Review, volume 47, No. 2, pages 175–185.

Schedule of antilynching bills introduced in Congress from the Fifty-sixth
through the Seventy-ninth Congress, prepared by Legislative Reference
Service, Library of Congress.

A comparison of the local penalty provisions in antilynching bills receiving legislative action (prepared by Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress)..

Enforcement of judgments against political subdivisions of a State under the antilynching bills (prepared by Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress)...

Briefs of the following court decisions:

Slaughter-house cases (1873) (16 Wall. 36).

United States v. Harris (106 U. S. 629).

United States v. Cruikshank (1876) (92 U. S. 542)

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173

174

175

177

178

178

185

188

198

199

201

201

Truax v. Corrigan (1921) (257 U. S. 312).

202

Crews v. U. S. (1947) (C. C. A. 5th Cir., 160 F. 2d 747).

203

Statement of Rev. C. W. Ingram, representative of the Ministors' Conference of Pittsburgh, Pa., and vicinity.

207

Statement on the constitutionality of the so-called antilynching bills (prepared by Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress). Letter from Attorney General____

207

215

Statement of Senator Wayne Morse..

216