Legal Defense Fund Statement on Agreement Between E.E.O.C. and Newport News Shipbuilding Co.

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April 4, 1966

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

ie Defic and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
"Chon. Francis E. Rivers 

Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

Statement by Robert Belton, Assistant Counsel 
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, 
Washington, D. C. 
April 4, 1966 
9:30 A. M, 

Legal Defense Fund Statement on 
Agreement Between E O.C. and 

S Newport News Shipbuilding Co, 

Exemplary----is our designation of the conciliation agreement 

between the Newport News Shipbuilding Company and the Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission, announced today. 

Agreement to promote the Rev. J. C. Fauntleroy, president of 

the local NAACP chapter, and other complainants, shows the good 

intentions of the Newport News Shipbuilding Company. 

The firm's additional pledge to end discriminatory hiring 

and future promotion practices; and, its willingness to end 

segregated facilities in its plant, shows intention to comply 

with the spirit as well as the letter of the law. 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. takes 

particular pleasure in congratulating the Newport NAACP*, because 

this is one of the first complaints filed as a result of our (Legal 

Defense Fund's) task force of last summer, 

This group of field workers operated in 10 states and reg- 

istered hundreds of complaints during that two month period. 

We are pleased that this complaint did not join our 19 

Title VII employment cases now in litigation. 

si. *It is regrettable that the Commission has no power to enforce 

he, agreement, but we trust the good faith of the Company to ensure 

qual employment opportunity for Negroes. 

i =30- 
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*#EDITOR'S NOTE: The NAACP Leaal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 

is a separate organization and is not to be confused 
with the NAACP, However, Fund attorneys work 
closely with NAACP chapters (as in this instance) 
and all other civil rights groups 

78 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public I ‘Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 So

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