Jr. GOP Backs Civil Rights Bill

The general membership of the Harvard Young Republican Club last night recommended that the Executive Committee endorse the Civil Rights Bill along with any amendments "which would not weaken the bill."

After numerous points of order, an amendment to exclude Title II and Title VII from the endorsement was defeated. Opponents of the amendment argued that "Title II and Title VII are the guts of the bill."

Eric A. von Salzen '65 defended the amendment, insisting that Title VII does not provide the best means for fighting discrimination. He added that it is possible to oppose the Civil Rights Bill without hating Negroes.

The thirty-three Young Republicans present then passed amendments objecting to the sections of the bill which define literacy as a sixth-grade education and which exclude atheists, aliens, and members of the Communist Party from those provisions of the bill providing against discrimination in jobs.

A motion which would have prohibited andorsement of all amendments to the bill was defeated early in the meeting.