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Communist Party : resolutions from Oregon State Convention 1948, Communist Party
Sunday, July 11, 1948
A2001-074
AF/157655
Press release : Main Resolution Oregon State convention 1948 Communist Party, USA ; Resolution on Black Workers ; statement on the Vanport Flood and the victims. The main Resolution discusses : The Traft - Hartley law ; loyalty oaths ; Mundt - Nixon bill ; Black workers ; Jim Crow areas in Oregon ; public housing ; Vanport flood ; housing shortage ; building of the Progressive citizen of America ; the Wallace movement ; a call for the creation of the Columbia Valley Authority ; state pension for all seniors ; flood relief ; state fair employment practices act ; low cost permanent housing units. Resolution on Black worker resolved : the passage of a Civil Rights Bill ; passage of national, state and city FEPC ; outlaw the poll tax ; abolition all discrimination in armed force ; residence clearance in Albina district ; low cost homes ; compensation for Vanport flood victims ; root out white superiority ideas ; struggle to fight Jim - Crow ; coalition of Black and white organizations committed to fight for Black rights ; independent role of the Communist Party among Black people. Organization : Communist Party of Oregon People : Key Words : Communist ; Communist Party ; labor ; racism ; civil rights ; public housing ; Vanport ; Vanport Flood ; 1948 flood ; Jim Crow laws ; progressive ; segregation
