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ANTIDISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT

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HEARINGS Copy- 1954

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS

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A BILL TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT
BECAUSE OF RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONAL
ORIGIN, OR ANCESTRY

FEBRUARY 23, 24, 25, MARCH 1, 2, AND 3, 1954

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Babbitt, Miss Thelma, director, job apportunities programs, American
Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, Pa..

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Bennett, Richard K., national secretary, Community Relations,
American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, Pa----
Biemiller, Andrew J., National legislative committee, American
Federation of Labor.

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Brown, Edgar G., director, National Negro Council_
Buckle, Wayne F., member, Church of the Brethren.
Cobb, James B., national president of the National Alliance of Postal
Employees; accompanied by William C. Jason, welfare director___
Culbertson, John Bolt, attorney at law, Greenville, S. C., vice presi-
dent, Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc..

Daroff, Samuel H., president, H. Daroff & Sons, Inc., Philadelphia,

Pa---

Douglas, Hon. Paul H., a United States Senator from the State of

Illinois_

Folsom, Frank M., president, Radio Corporation of America..

Freedlander, Mrs. Maurice, member of the national committee on

public affairs, National Council of Jewish Women, Baltimore, Md...

Gaines, Mrs. Irene McCoy, Chicago, Ill., president, National

Association of Colored Women, Inc.-

Granger, Lester B., executive director, National Urban League, Inc.,

New York, N. Y

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Holderman, Carl, president, New Jersey State CIO.
Humphrey, Hon. Hubert H., a United States Senator from the State of
Minnesota__.

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Kohn, Henry L., attorney at law, Chicago, Ill., chairman, Committee
on Employment Ills, Illinois State Commission of Human Relations

Kramer, Samuel A., Hyattsville, Md............

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Statement of-Continued

Mason, Mrs. Vivian C., president, National Council of Negro Women,
Washington, D. C.; accompanied by Marjorie Schleifer and Lula
Fields_

Morse, Hon. Wayne, a United States Senator from the State of Oregon_
Mudge, Mrs. Alfred E., chairman, public affairs national board,
Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of
America__.

Powell, Hon. Adam, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of

New York..

Purtell, Hon. William A., a United States Senator from the State of
Connecticut_

Randolph, A. Philip, International president, Brotherhood of Sleeping

Car Porters, AFL

Reuther, Walter, president, Congress of Industrial Organizations__

Rice, Andrew E., executive director of the American Veterans Com-

mittee.

Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., Jr., a Representative in Congress from

the State of New York.

Saltonstall, Hon. Leverett, a United States Senator from the State of

Massachusetts-

Silver, Abba Hillel, the Temple, Cleveland, Ohio.
Steinbrink, Hon. Meier, former Justice, Supreme Court of the State
of New York; Honorary Chairman, Anti-Defamation League,
B'Nai Brith; and member, American Jewish Committee.

Stevens, Miss Thelma, executive secretary, Department of Christian

Social Relations, the Women's Division of Christian Service, the

Methodist church..

Thomas, Julius A., director of industrial relations, National Urban

League, New York, N. Y..

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) -

White, Walter, executive secretary, National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People; accompanied by Clarence Mitchell,
director, Washington Bureau, National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People..

Williams, Hon. Harrison A., Jr., a Representative in Congress from
the State of New Jersey-
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Washington,
D. C.___

Additional information:

Annual Report, 1953, of Mayor's Commission on Group Relations of
Newark, N. J., submitted by David M. Litwin, chairman..
Anti-Discrimination Law of 1945, submitted by David M. Litwin,
chairman, Commission on Group Relations, Newark, N. J.--
Employment and economic status of Negroes in the United
States, staff report to the subcommittee on Labor-Management re-
lations of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, 82d Cong.,
2d sess., submitted by Hon. Hubert H. Humphrey.
Federal Equality of Opportunity in Employment Act, report of the
Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on S. 3368, 82d Cong., 2d
sess., submitted by Hon. Hubert H. Humphrey.

Letter from-

Brickner, Rabbi Balfour, to Roy James, staff director, March 11,

1954, transmitting joint statement on behalf of the Central

Conference of American Rabbis and the Rabbinical Council

of America___

Culbertson, John Bolt, attorney, Greenville, S. C., to Roy E.
James, staff director, Mar. 19, 1954, transmitting Greenville,
S. C., segregation laws.

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Thornburg, Charles C., chairman, East Chicago Fair Employ-
ment Commission, East Chicago, Ind., to Chairman, March
4, 1954, with enclosures-

Mrs. Hobby cites the cost of bias, article in New York Times, March

3, 1954, submitted by Edgar G. Brown, director, National Negro

Council

Negro Soldiers there's a letter for you inside, read it, pamphlet
submitted by Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.-

Newark Fair Practice Ordnance, submitted by David M. Litwin,

chairman, commission on group relations, Newark, N. J...

President repeats opposition to F. E. P. C., but backs Mitchell's

right to endorse it, article in New York Times, March 4, 1954,

submitted by Edgar G. Brown, director, National Negro Council--

Press release by Hon. Herbert H. Lehman, May 14, 1953 (amendment
to Taft-Hartley Act)..

Resolution of the American Unitarian Association, submitted by Dr.

Alfred McClung Lee, president, Unitarian Fellowship for Social

Justice..

Senate Report 1777, pt. 2, 80th Cong., 2d sess., Postmaster Appoint-
ments under Civil Service, excerpts from, submitted by James B.
Cobb, National President of the Alliance of Postal employees -
State and Muncipal Fair Employment Legislation, staff report to the
Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on
Labor and Public Welfare, 83d Cong., 1st sess., submitted by Hon.
Hubert H. Humphrey -

Statistical report-November 10, 1946, to February 12, 1954, Massa-
chusetts Commission against Discrimination, table, submitted by
Hon. Leverett Saltonstall_

Survey by National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People of negro employment policies of firms holding U. S. defense
contracts, submitted by Walter White, executive secretary, Na-
tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People..........

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