214 Job Bias Complaints Filed Under Title VII of Rights Act

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PRESS RELEASE 

"Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers 
Director-Counsel 

Jack Greenberg 
FOR RELEASE 
Wednesday 
September 15, 1965 

214 JOB BIAS COMPLAINTS FILED 
UNDER TITLE VII OF 'RIGHTS ACT 

NAACP and NAACP Legal Defense Fund Move Jointly 

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and 

Educational Fund, Inc., today filed a record 214 complaints 

charging employment discrimination with the Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

Herbert Hill, labor secretary of the NAACP, filed the com- 

plaints on behalf of the two civil rights organizations, bringing 

the total number of joint complaints filed to date up to 374, 

Today's complaints, Mr. Hill said, are against major multi- 

plant national corporations, banks, textile manufacturers, state 

employment services, public utilities, retail stores, hotels, 

motels, paper and pulp manufacturers and trade unions. 

Mr. Hill indicated that 44 complaints were filed against 

United States Steel Corp. and the United Steel Workers of America, 

AFL-CIO on behalf of NAACP members in Birmingham, Ala. 

Other major firms cited include North Carolina Telephone and 

Telegraph; Mon Santo Chemical; Illinois Central Railroad; United 

States Rubber; American Caste Iron & Pipe; A. & P. Food Stores; 

Pittsburgh Plate Glass; Lockheed Air Craft; International Paper; 

Burlington Industries; F.W. Woolworth and J.P. Stevens, one of 

the nation's largest textile concerns. 

Focusing on the trade unions, Mr. Hill said that these 

cemplaints “attack separate racial senority lines of promotion 

that exist in the collective bargaining agreements between manage- 

ment and labor unions in basic sectors of the southern economy." 

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re, Jr., Director of Public Inf Night Number 212 RI ide 9-848’ 



214 Job Bias Complaints Filed -2- September 15, 1965 

Under Title VII of hights Act 

Among trade unions cited are the International Association 

of Machinists; International Chemical Workers Union; Oil Chemical 

and Atomic workers; International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite 

and Paper Mill Workers; International Brotherhood of Electrical 

Workers; 

Also the United Paper Makers and Paper Workers; International 

Union of Operating Engineers and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and 

Butcher Workmen of North America. 

Among the state employment services cited were those of 

Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. 

The complaints were gathered through NAACP chapters and 

special summer field workers retained by the Legal Defense Fund. 

A full listing of organizations cited today, follows. (Some 

of these organizations were cited by more than one complainant,.): 



SEPTEWBER 15, 1965 

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COMPLAINTS FILED WITH EQUAL EMPLOYMENT 
OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION BY NAACP & NAACP 

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND, 

Local 20, International Union of 
Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, 
Cincinnati, Ohio 

N.C. State Agricultural Stabiliza- 
tion and Conservation Service, 
Jacksonville, North Carolina 

J. P. Stevens Co., Wallace, N.C, 

Warsaw National Spinning Co., 
Warsaw, North Carolina 

Branch Bank & Trust Co,, Wallace, 
North Carolina 

Cooperative Savings & Loan Bank, 
Wallace, North Carolina 

A & P Food Stores, Wallace, N.C, 

Wallace Sewing Co., Wilmington, 
North Carolina 

Buckeye Cellulose Co. (Div. 
Procter & Gamble), liemphis, Tenn. 

Stevensons Brick & Block Co., 
New Bern, North Carolina 

Branch Bank & Trust Co., New 
Bern, North Carolina 

Stanley Power Tools, New Bern, 
North Carolina 

M.P,I, Industries Inc., 
Jackson, Mississippi 

Hoover motor Express (Ryder 
Truck Lines), wemphis, Tenn. 

Wallace Sewing Co., Wallace, 
North Carolina 

First National Bank, Wallace, 
North Carolina 

Carolina Telephone & Telegraph, 
New Bern, North Carolina 

Draper Corporation, 
Spartanburg, South Carolina 

Musgrave Pencil Co., Shelbyville, 

Tennessee ~ 

INC, 

Commonwealth Pencil Co., (sub. 
Faber-Castell Pencil Co.), 
Shelbyville, Tennessee 

Jacksonville National Bank, 
Jacksonvilie, Florida 

Florida National Bank, 
Jacksonville, Florida 

Federal Paper Board Co., 
Richmond, Virginia 

McCarty Holman's Jitney Jungle, 
Jackson, Mississippi 

malbis Baking Corp., Mobile, 

Alabama 

H, & S. Transfer Co., Augusta, 
Georgia 

Piggly Wiggly Food Store, 
Wallace, North Carolina 

Big Star Grocery Store #54 
(cont. imalone & Hyde, Inc.), 
Local 452, Amalgamated iieat 
Cutters and Butcher Workers of 
America, iiemphis, Tennessee 

Ryder Truck Lines, Memphis, Tenn. 

Maola Milk & Ice Cream Co., 
New Bern, North Carolina 

Holiday Inn (Charcoal Hearth), 
New Bern, North Carolina 

Colonial Bread Co., Nashville, 
Tennessee 

U.S. Rubber Co,, Local 463, 
International Chemical Workers 
Union, New Orleans, Lovisiana 

American Cast Iron Pipe Co., 
Birmingham, Alabama 

Mead Container Division, Mead 
Corporation, Memphis, Tenn, 

United States Steel Corp., 
Fairfield Works, Local 1489, 
United Steel Workers of America, 
Birmingham, Alabama 



SEPTEMBER 15 (continued) 

American Cast Iron Pipe Co., 
Bessemer, Alabama 

wionsanto Chemical Co, (El Dorado, 
Ark.), Oil, Chemical and Atomic 
Workers International Union 

Ideco Co., Beaumont, Texas 

Mississippi State Employment 
Service, Greenwood, hiississippi 

Dan River Wills, Danville, Va. 

Virginia State Employment 
Service, Danville, Virginia 

Pan American Airways, Patrick 
Air Force Base, Florida 

Yale & Towne, Forrest City, Ark. 

Arkansas Power and Light Co., 
Forrest City, Arkansas 

Toye Bros. Yellow Cab. Co., 
New Orleans, Louisiana 

U.S, Rubber Co., Local 463, 
International Chemical Workers 
Union, Baton Rouge, La. 

Rexall Drug Store, Wallace, 
North Carolina 

Patterson Rexall Drug Store #2, 
Jackson, Mississippi 

Eagle's 5 & 10¢ Store, 
Fayetteville, North Carolina 

Branch Banking & Trust Co., 
Fayetteville, North Carolina 

First Citizens Bank, Fayetteville, 
North Carolina 

Belk-Hensdale Dept. Store, 
Fayetteville, North Carolina 

Belt's Dept. Store, Jacksonville, 
North Carolina 

Leder Bros, Dept, Store, 
Jacksonville, North Carolina 

Sear's Roebuck Co., Fayetteville, 
North Carolina 

J. C. Penney, Co., Inc. 
Fayetteville, North Carolina 

Burlington Industries, 
Fayetteville, North Carolina 

F, W, Woolworth Co,, Fayetteville, 
North Carolina 

Rose 5 & 10¢ Store, Jas’:sornville, 
North Carolina 

Friedman-iiark's Clothing Co. 
(#5), Richmond, Virginia 

Georgia State Employment Service, 
Atlanta, Georgia 

Lockheed Aircraft Corp., 
marietta, Georgia 

Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., 
Pascagoula, Mississippi 

H. A, Seinsheimer Co., 
Covington, Kentucky 

Local Painters District Council, 
Brotherhood of Painters, etc., 
Cincinnati, Ohio 

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., 
Local 1317, International Assn. 
Machinists, Lake Charles, La. 

S. H. Kress Stores, Fayetteville, 
North Carolina 

Richmond memorial Hospital, 
Richmond, Virginia 

N.C, Erployment Security 
Commission, Fayetteville, N.C, 

McCrory's 5 & 10 Stores, 
Fayetteville, North Carolina 

Coastal Chemical Corp., 
Pascagoula, Mississippi 

A & P Tea Company, Maysville, Nv 

Kings Point tifg. Co,, Fayettevi 
North Carolina 

Carolina Telephone & Telegraph 
Co., Fayetteville, North Carolin 

The Fasco Industries, Inc., 
Fayetteville, North Carolina 

American Bakeries Co,, Fayette- 
ville, North Carolina 



SEPTEMBER 15 (continued) 

Howard Johnson's Restaurant, 
Jacksonville, North Carolina 

Piggly Wiggly Stores, Jackson- 
ville, North Carolina 

Quality Courts, Inc., 
Jacksonville, North Carolina 

Hornes Motor Lodge, Jacksonville, 
North Carolina 

Rose 5 & 10¢ Store, Jacksonville, 
North Carolina 

Phillip Morris Tobacco Co., 
Richmond, Virginia 

S. C, State Hospital, Columbia, 
South Carolina 

Army & Air Force Exchange Service, 
Brookley Airforce Base, Mobile, 
Alabama 

Alabama State Employment Service, 
Greenville, Alabama 

Nightingale Uniform Co., 
Georgiana, Alabama 

SouthemKraft Div, International 
Paper Co., Moss Point, Miss. 

Merita Bakery, Atlanta, Georgia 

Ryder Motor Freight Lines, Inc., 
Houston, Texas 

American Cast Iron Pipe Co., 
Birmingham, Alabama 

Illinois Central Railroad, 
International Brotherhood of 
Railway and Steamship Clerks 

Local 212, International Brother- 
hood of Electrical Workers, 
Cincinnati, Ohio 

Local 18, Bricklayers, Masons, 
Plasterers International Union, 
Cincinnati, Ohio 

Illinois Central Railroad, 
International Brotherhood of 
Firemen and Oilers 

American warine Corp., New 
Orleans, Louisiana 

Con Edison, New York City 

Columbia University, New York 
City 

Liggett & livers Tobacco Co., 
New York City 

Local 20, Cement & Concrete 
Workers Union, New York City 

Local 6A, Concrete Workers, 
New York City 

Local 33, Bricklayers, Mason 
Tenders Union, New York City 

Local 168A, Cement & Concrete 
Workers Union, New York City 

Union Carbide Corp., Ashboro, N.C. 

Alabama State Employment Office, 
luacbile, Alabama 

U. S. Steel Corp,, Local 1482, 
U.S.W.A., Birmingham, Alabama