Drive Started to Get Names For Anti-Lynching Petition

With more than 100 persons already signed up, the Harvard Interrace Council is starting an intensified drive tomorrow to add as many more names as possible to its petitions for Federal Antilynching legislation.

The petitions, which have been posted in all the Houses, will be sent to President Roosevelt when they have been filled out. The Council hopes that some action will be taken in Washington on the petitions, which are coupled with a drive held by other national organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

"We, the undersigned," the petition reads, "in view of the menace to the victory of the United Nations occasioned by mob violence against Negro Americans and by the deliberate use of such incidents by Axis propagandists to divide the nation at home and discredit it abroad, respectfully request that you use the weight of your office to support Federal Anti-lynching legislation."