The Ohio Daily Express

Asks Dewey to End
Segregation in
New York Guard

ALBANY, Feb. 17. (ANP)-
The stinging victory secured by
New Jersey's liberal and forthright
Gov. Driscoll in defying
army jim crow tactics in his New
Jersey State National guard, has
hit like wild fire and Hulen E.
Jack, Harlem assemblyman has
started the ball rolling in New
York state. The Manhattan poli-
tician has requested Gov. Dewey
to "perform his duty in this fight
to put an end to the disdainful
practice of separate units in the
New York National guard based
on color.

Mr. Jack said also that failure
on the part of Dewey to act to end
segregation in the New York Na-
tional guard would place him
"in
the category of those who pay lip
service to the principles of democ-
racy but refuse to implement their
ideals with action."

Seconding the motion of Jack
was
Assemblyman Andrews of
Harlem. who was also on the floor
of the legislature when the move
was
made.
Andrews indicated,
quite
emphatically, that he had
been
sponsoring a bill annually
since 1943 to abolish segregation
in the state guard and National
guard units in New York, and he
pressed
a motion
that his long
pending bill be passed now, and
fast.

When Majority Leader Lee B.
Mailler tried to pass the buck by
crying for more committees, Wil-
liam Andrews charged Mailler with
stalling and shouted, "The ques-
tion before the legislature is sim-
ple, do we or don't we want an
integrated state militia or not?
If we do not pass a meas-
ure at this session of the legisla-
ture, I say we are no longer the
Empire state,
but the twilight
state,
somewhere between the
shameful state of Georgia and the
decent, progressive states which do
not stand for segregation and jim
crow in state institutions."

Dewey's assistant, James C. Ho-
gan, indicated that the governor
would have no comment to make
on the matter at this time.