Bethlehem Steel Under Attack by Legal Defense Fund
Press Release
January 22, 1971
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BETHLEHEM STEEL UN!
L DEFENSE PUND
New York, N.Y \ACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)
Sclosed today that €n vigorous exception to the findings and recom-
dations of a
ich tool: two and one-half years to make
reconm ndations to the Secretary of or concerning charge
nation against the Sparrows Point, Maryland plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.
The LDF report that it has notified Lat Secretary J.D. Hodgson of its
criticisms of the report in form of an amicus curiae brief mailed to his
xen the remedy
that all ao that all gov
tracts presently outstanding with Bethlehem §
be in compliance with equal opportunity employ practices.
The brief complains that the decision panel,
former Labor Secretary Wirtz, wa
1 found overwt the pa
discrimination on the part of Bethlehem $t
Secretary inate that d ation.
The LDF doce ent attacks B
equal employme opportunity re;
it effects of its the cu
the brief were the par
mined hiring
because of
€, into inferior jobs
units, and
employment opportunities
nation or
y engaged
ehem
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Jack Greenberg - Director-Counsel lon. Francis E. Rivers - President