Job Bias Laid to Companies, Unions in NAACP Complaints

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Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
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President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers 12 NOON 
Director-Counsel Thursday 

Jack Greenberg July 29, 1965 

JOB BIAS LAID TO COMPANIES, 
UNIGNS IN NAACP COMPLAINTS 

Rights Groups Begin to Move Under Title VII 

WASHINGTON--Fourteen southern firms, four locals of AFL-CIO unions 
and an employment agency are charged with racial discrimination 
under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in complaints 
filed here today with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 

Herbert Hill, labor director of the NAACP, filed the complaints 
under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, on behalf of 29 Negroes 
and the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 

The two organizations are conducting a drive to speed 
enforcement of the fair employment section of the Civil Rights Act, 
which went into effect July 2nd. 

Major companies cited by Mr, Hill include the Dupont 
Corporation, Werthan Bag Company and Avco Company, Nashville, Tenn.; 
Southern Railway System, and Chevrolet, Atlanta division, General 
Motors Corporation, Atlanta, Ga.; Union Carbon & Carbide Corporation, 
Asheboro, N. C.; 

Also, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport 
News, Va.; Kaiser Aluminum Company, baton Rouge, La.; American 
Viscose Corporation (Division of Food Machine Corporation), Front 
Royal, Va.; A & P Food Stores, Wilmington, N. C.; Adler Coleman & 
Sons. 

Additional firms include Fuller Brush Company, New Orleans, La.; 
Kroger Baking Company, Memphis, Tenn.; and Kayby Hosiery Mill, 
Thomasville, N. C. 

Trade unions against which complaints were filed include 
Local 735, International Association of Machinists, Nashville, 
Tenn.; Local 205, Aluminum Workers International Union, Baton 
Rouge, La.; Local 371, Textile Workers Union, Front Royal, Va.; and 
Local 1846, International Brotherhood of Carpenters, New Orleans. 

The Mississippi Employment Agency, Jackson, refused to refer 
a Negro woman to a job vacancy for which she applied, the complaint 
alleged. 

In filing the complaints against the carpenters local, Mr, Hill 
submitted copies of the application forms for apprenticeship 
training programs sponsored by the local, The forms, he said, 
require racial designation contrary to the provisions of Title VII, 
This practice, Mr. Hill charged, prevails throughout Louisiana, He 
urged a statewide investigation, 

The other locals cited maintain separate racial seniority 
lines restricting Negro workers to low category and low-wage jobs, 
the NAACP labor spokesman charged. 

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(NOTE: Following his appearance before the Commission, Mr. Hill 
will be available for press interviews at 1:30 p.m,, Thursday, 
July 29, NAACP Washington Bureau, 100 Massachusetts Ave., N.j/., 

Washington, D, C.) 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 Se 2

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