CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1963

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Civil Rights Act of 1963
SPEECH
of
HON. H. R. GROSS
OF IOWA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, February 10,1964
The House in Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union had under
consideration the bill (H.R. 7152) to enforce
the constitutional right to vote, to confer
jurisdiction upon the district courts of the
United States to provide injunctive relief
against discrimination in public accommoda-
tions, to authorize the Attorney General to
institute suits to protect constitutional
rights in education, to establish a Com-
munity Relations Service, to extend for 4
years the Commission on Civil Rights, to
prevent discrimination in federally assisted
programs, to establish a Commission on
Equal Employment Opportunity, and for
other purposes.
Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, I move to
strike the requisite number of words.
(Mr. GROSS asked and was given
permission to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. GROSS. I should like to ask some
member of the committee to answer the
question why we would need an Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
and an Equal Employment Opportunity
Committee, costing the taxpayers several
millions of dollars. Please tell me why
we would need both.
Mr. Chairman, apparently
wishes to answer.
Mr. GOODELL. Mr. Chairman, will
the gentleman yield?
Mr. GROSS. I yield, if the gentleman
can give me an answer as to why he
wants to be so profligate with the tax-
payers' money.
Mr. GOODELL. The Equal Employ-,
ment Opportunity Committee to which
the gentleman refers is limited to Fed-
eral contracts.
Mr. GROSS. Is limited to what?
Mr. GOODELL. To Federal contrac-
tors, when Federal contracts are in-
volved, and to Federal employees. I
would hope we could eventually elimi-
nate the necessity for that Committee.
It was set up under Executive Order No.
10925 of March 6, 1961. Its jurisdiction
is limited.
Mr. GROSS. Let me say to the gen-
tleman that I happen to be a member of
the Subcommittee on Manpower Utiliza-
tion of the Committee on Post Office and
Civil Service. I say to the gentleman
that the Equal Employment Opportu-
nity Committee activities go far beyond
Government contracts. We have inves-
tigated the operation of this Committee.
The gentleman is not factual when he
makes that statement.
Mr. GOODELL. That is the basis for
the Committee.
The Commission in this bill, at any
rate, is to operate far beyond that pur-
view. The scope of the Commission is
to cover all employers affecting interstate
commerce who have more than 100 em-
ployees the first year and thereafter
down to those with 25 or more employees.
Mr. GROSS. So far as the Equal Em-
ployment Opportunity Committee is con-
cerned, there are no holds barred. They
go all over the landscape into every facet
of employment in this Government.
Mr. ',IcCULLOCH. Mr. Chairman, will
the gentleman from Iowa yield?
Mr. GROSS. Yes. The gentleman
from Iowa is not looking for a Federal
judgeship. Iyield to the gentleman from
Ohio.
Mr. LINDSAY. Mr. Chairman, I de-
mand the regular order.
Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman-
Mr. McCULLOCH. Mr. Chairman-
The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman
from Iowa yielded to the gentleman from
Ohio.
Mr. McCULLOCH. Mr. Chairman, I
wish to say to the gentleman from Iowa
that one of the main reasons for pro-
viding for the Commission in the legisla-
tion was to give the Commission legisla-
tive stature. The Committee of which
the gentleman has spoken is a Presiden-
tial Committee under an Executive order.
It was the well nigh unanimous, if not
unanimous, decision of the subcommittee
that that was the compelling reason for
the legislation.
Mr. SIKES. Mr. Chairman, will the
gentleman yield to me?
Mr. McCULLOCH. I have not finished
on the point.
Mr. GROSS. I will yield to the gen-
tleman from Florida.
Mr. SIKES. It appears you have
struck the opposition where the hair is
short. As is so often the case, the gen-
tleman from Iowa is right. With two
tables full of experts here in the Cham-
ber scrambling,to find an answer to a
very simple question,. nobody has been
able to come up with one which possesses
either logic or fact.
It appears pretty obvious there will
be under this bill a double layer of offi-
cialdom meddling in everybody's busi-
ness throughout the country. There will
be two Commissions-at double cost--
competing for priority.
Mr. GROSS. The gentleman is ex-
actly right.
Civil Rights Act of 1963
SPEECH
of
HON. CLAUDE PEPPER
OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, February 10, 1964
The House in Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union had under
consideration the bill (H.R. 7152) to en-
force the constitutional right to vote to con-
fer jurisdiction upon the district courts of
the United States to provide injunctive relief
against discrimination in public accommoda-
tions, to authorize the Attorney General to
institute suits to protect constitutional
rights in education, to establish a Commu-
nity Relations Service, to extend for 4 years
the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent
discrimination in federally assisted programs,
to establish a Commission on Equal Em-
ployment Opportunity, and for other pur-
poses.
Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Chairman, we have
the right to hope, indeed, some of us feel
disposed to pray, that the passage of this
legislation will add noble new arches
and commanding spires to the magnifi-
cent edifice of a free America designed
by Thomas Jefferson and the Founding
Fathers and slowly, tediously, often pain-
fully, but ever-persistently, perfected
through nearly two centuries, by the
sacrifices, the struggles, and the dreams
of the American people.
Armenian Revolutionary
Credo
SPEECH
OF
HON. BARRATT O'HARA
OF ILLINOIS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Friday, February 7, 1964
Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker,
on many occasions in this Chamber and
elsewhere my voice has been raised in
the righteous cause of the captive na-
tions. too long have we been dragging
our feet in the matter of the creation of
a joint congressional committee to give
direction and drive to the efforts of the
world of freedom to rescue the captive
nations from their unhappy plight.
Armenia is numbered among the cap-
tive nations. I am indebted to Arthur
Kaprelian, a constituent of Armenian
blood residing at 11915 South Wallace
Street, Chicago, for a copy of the credo
recently adopted by the Armenian Revo-
lutionary Federation. It is an inspiring
document worthy of place in the world's
literature of freedom. That it may be
read by my colleagues, I . am extending
my remarks to include the complete text
of the credo, as follows:
THE ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARY FEDERATION.
CREDO
The supreme aim of the Armenian Revo-
lutionary Federation is the realization of a
free, united, and independent democratic
national homeland established on the terri-
tories of the historic fatherland of the Ar-
Inenian nation.
We believe that the realization of this aim
can only be possible in a free democratic
world context. A world in which the danger
of war is permanently eliminated, and where
the existing and potential international dis-
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putes can be resolved by peaceful means
through the agency of a powerful interna-
tional organization which shall be endowed
with the necessary means of imposing its
supreme will on great or small nation alike.
We believe that it Is the indisputable and
inviolable right of al' nations, great or small
alike, to possess-thee- own independent gov-
ernment and to live and prosper under the
canopy of Its protecti3n.
We believe that each nation, even the
smallest and the weakest, can best develop
its creative talents and Its unique national
individuality in Its cwn. free and independ-
ent state.
We believe that each man, regardless of
sex, race, or denomination. has a birthright
to live out a free and happy life.
We believe that when a nation's father-
land to under the yoke of a more powerful
alien nation, and the ruling nation is reluct-
ant to end its tyranny by peaceful legitimate
means, the nation which is ruled has the
inviolable right to fight against that rule,
and to resort to revolution and armed con-
flict, if necessary, for the liberation of Its
own fatherland.
We believe that each nation has an un-
deniable right to govern itself as it wishes
and to express Its collective will only through
the medium of the free, universal secret
ballot.
We believe that a nation, even within the
limits of its independent national state, can
best prosper and use the happy life when
all Its members, regardless of sex, race, or
creed, enjoy the freedoms of press, of reli-
gion, and public assembly, the freedom to
organize, to work, to travel, to move, and to
communicate with others-conditions of
which the Armenia of today Is deprived.
We believe that when a nation is inde-
pendent, and enjoys the benefits of a demo-
cratic government which is elected by the
free, universal and secret vote of the peo-
ple, any changes in :he constitutional order
are made only through constitutional chan-
nels; namely, by peaceful and legitimate
means. Consequent y, it is a crime which
is tantamount to treason to effectuate any
changes in the free constitutional order by
armed force or by revolution.
We believe that a nation not only has
the right, but it has the duty to dispense
social justice to ad1 the classes of society
without discrimination, and to create such
soclo-economic conditions in which the
humblest classes of the nation shall have
the opportunity to enjoy a life which is in
keeping with human dignity, fully adequate
to meet the necessities of life.
We believe that the Armenian nation, as
every nation, can beat preserve and develop
its unique physical and spiritual existence
in a free and independent national home-
land.
We believe that any nation, as well as the
Armenian nation, in this atomic age when
science has made gigantic strides In the
fields of travel and communication, cannot
develop and prosper -n an isolated life. Sci-
ence has wiped out the limitations of space
and has brought the nations closer together,
that all nations, great or small, aside from
their aspirations to be free and independent,
necessarily have need of cooperation, be-
cause, by virtue of their economies, their
means of intercommunication and their cul-
tural activities, more than at any other
time, they are interdependent, and can meet
their needs only ttsough mutual under-
standing and close cooperation.
We believe that, aim long as Armenia con-
tinues to remain under the Soviet rule, and
as long as Armenia's historic territories are
held by an alien powsr. It is the sacred duty
of all Armenians to pursue the cause of the
fatherland's liberation with all the possible
means at their disposal.
THE WORLD CONmeESS or THE ARMENIAN
REVOLIITIONAEY FnzaATION,
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
l{ON. JAMES T. BROYHILL
Or MONTH CAROLINA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVEII
Monday, February 10,1984
M% BROYHILL of North Carolina.
Mr. Speaker. the recent announcement
that a British firm will sell buses to Cuba
is ar ominous and discordant note in the
U.S. effort to persuade our allies to Join
In ai t economic quarantine of Fidel Cas-
tro's Cuba. This announcement and
subsequent events involving shifts in
French policy are warnings of serious
difficulties unless our Government can
fora ulate a consistent policy opposing
trad deals with the Communist bloc.
Certainly, there seems little doubt that
our A-heat sales to Russia and some of
her ;atellites have weakened the moral
arguments that have been persuasive
with our allies in the past. It we con-
tinu, u to pursue a double standard in as-
ternttional trade policy, our arguments
will not have much weight with our
frier ds.
L vish to call to the attention of the
Hou:.e of Representatives a thoughtful
edit(?rlal on this Important matter which
apps ared in the January 29 edition of i he
Con( ord (N.C.) Tribune:
B.I.-rain Has CASE in Bus SALE DEAL,
The British have snubbed the U.S. em-
nomic blockade of Cuba, and the general
react-on among the American people seems
to be that it was a lowdown trick for one
ally t o pull on another.
Britain has approved a multimillion-
dol-lar ale of buses to Cuba, and has set u:) a
tl-year credit plan to facilitate it. This was
'done despite an official expression of Amer-
ican opposition while the sale was be mg
nego fated.
Wi en the deal was complete, the 1I.S.
Depa -talent of State commented that ?;he
sale 'certainly does not help our effort to
isolate the Cuban regime."
Bu. there is another side to this coin.
In Britain, the sale is considered routine.
It is a transaction between two nations
whic:u have a history of trade, and it in-
volYe i what the British believe to be nun-
strat. gin materials. Britain is not observing
an e.onomic blockade of Cuba. afthotgh
Cuba is included in a general British tan
on telling war materials to Communist
coup rise.
Th 9 British manufacturer who won the
bus :ontract was bidding against firms in
Fran, e, West Germany, Japan, Spain, and
Caeca .oaiovakia.
Th?9 United States has long sought, and
with some success, to discourage trade w th
Cuba by non-Communist countries. A C.S.
law ,orblds aid to countries which violate
strategic aspects of this ban.
Co>unist bloc countries have filled in
with Cuban trade zooming above the Ill-
lion-tioliar level.
Bu : non-Communist countries are s?dll
doing more than $200 million worth of busi-
ness .,. year with Cuba. Japan is the biggest
deale-, with Morocco, Britain, Egypt, Cana4a,
Nethn rlands, West Germany, Chile, Spain,
Tunif Ia. and Greece coming in for a share
Ant. when you get right down to it, the
Unite l States sounds a bit hypocritical in
grous ng about the British bus deal when
the I t& is not long dry on our own pact to
sell wheat to,?Russia, the heartblood of the
Communist organism. And our Government
is willing to back up Russia's credit on
the deal.
Which pot is accusing which kettle?
Wee Care Nursery Symbol of
Community-'s Backbone
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. PAUL G. ROGERS
or FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, January 22, 1964
Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Mr. Speak-
er, it is Interesting to note that with
today's trend toward centralization of
governmental functions the citizens of
Belle Glade, Fla., have taken it upon
themselves to handle their own problems,
right in their own community. Belle
Glade has always relied on migrant labor
to aid in the harvesting and planting of
crops, and this created a heed for a
nursery center to care for the children of
the migrant workers. Belle Glade is now
in the process of completing a commu-
nity nursery which not only shows its
concern for the families of migrant
workers who so vitally aid the commu-
nity, but also the determination to solve
their own problems rather than pass
them on to a higher up.
I submit for the Rxcoan an article
which appeared In the Palm Beach Post,
by Mr. Jonathan Koontz, on February 2,
1964, telling of the nursery and Its
development :
Wzz CARE NunsERY SYMBOL Or COMMONTTY's
BACKBONE
(By Jonathan Koontz)
BELLE GLADE.-The building going up in
the 100 block of Southeast 10th Street here
is modern and airy in appearance, and will
be a definite asset to its part of the city.
But it Is much more than a desirable
architectural addition.
Wee Care Day Nursery will provide care for
100 children of working mothers whose
planting and harvesting Jobe in the lush,
green fields surrounding Belle Glade take
them away from their families for many
hours each day-soemthnes as much as 12
hours daily.
It will be the only day care nursery in
the city, where the need for day care for at
least 300 children is easily demonstrated.
But the building is a symbol of much
more than its humanitarian function.
In agreeing to provide administration for
the nursery, the Salvation Army has stepped
into a brand new role in its Palm Beach
County history.
The nursery is factual evidence that home-
grown human talent and energy can suc-
ceed without county, State or Federal aid in
an era when effective local action is disap-
pearing under the impact of stronger gov-
ernmental control.
In its planning and building, lasting ties
of cooperation and friendship are being
formed. Belle Glade is a city less divided
against itself than before the days of the
Wee Care Day Nursery.
No one knows who first recognized the
need for the nursery, but the dream which
finally materialized was born in the Belle
Glade Interracial Council, a group of the
leading white and Negro citizens of Belle
Glade.
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