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| 127. SELECTED CCMMDNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS The most recent proposed program of the National Lawyers Guild was that advocated in its March-April, 1945, issue of the Lawyers Guild Review advocating a permanent Court of International Justice. Prior to this issue in a January-February, 1945, issue there is contained a report of the Committee on Postwar Planning of the National Lawyers Guild entitled "The Human Aspects of the Transition From War to Peace". In this report it advocated the enact- ment into law of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill. NATIONAL NEGRO CONGRESS 307 Lenox Avenue New York City The National Negro Congress was formed at the suggestion of National leading Negro Communist Party members in 1934, as a result of the failure of the Communist Party to build the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and its predecessor organization, the American Negro Labor Congress. The National Negro Congress continued until 1942 to be a mass member- ship organization. To a certain extent this same thing is true at the present time* However, the number of chapters and subordinate bodies of the organiz- ation have been decreased exceedingly until there are only presently active chapters of this organization in Chicago, Detroit, Washington and New York City. The primary function of these organizations at the present time is to work among the Negro community in the cities in which they are organized* National- ly, the organization functions only to sponsor an occasional mass meeting and to distribute news releases and a publication printed monthly known as "The Congress' View'% The current officers of the National Negro Congress are as follows: Dr. MnT Yergan President Edward E. Strong Executive Secretary Ferdinand C. Smith Treasurer Thelma M. Dale Secretary Dorothy K. Funn Labor & Legislative Director Mayme Brown Director of Organizations The Editorial Board of "The Congress* View" consists of the following: W* Alphaeus Hunton Frederick V. Field Mayme Brown, Managing Editor Elizabeth Caplett, Staff Artist As regards the activities of this organization before the National Political Elections in the United States, 1944, the organization formed a political action campaign to support former President Roosevelt. At the present time the organization is carrying on campaigns, particularly through the distribution of literature, for the establishment of a permanent fair employment practice committee and the passage of the bill abolishing poll tax. TSe organization is also advocating strenuously a campaign to preserve the gains made by Negroes in industry during the war* |