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 

prese with 

Formation: 7 S = 

. 66-8397, CP Legal Defense and Education Huh. ihe? | 40 Collittbus siete | New York, N.Y. 10019 {: (212) 88! 

Jack Greenberg - Director-Counsel lon. Francis E. Rivers - President

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