Louisiana Unions and Businesses Charged with Job Discrimination in Civil Rights Act Complaints

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July 29, 1965

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— New York, N.Y. 10019 

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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

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LOUISIANA UNIONS AND BUSINESSES 
CHARGED WITH JOB DISCRIMINATION 
IN CIVIL RIGHTS ACT COMPLAINTS 

tRights Groups Begin to Move Under Title VII 

WASHINGTON, D, C.--Three Louisiana firms and two labor union locals 

were charged with racial discrimination in eight complaints filed 

here today with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 

The complaints, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 

1964, were filed through D'Army Bailey, a NAACP Legal Defense and 

Educational Fund field worker stationed in New Orleans. 

Named in individual complaints were the Fuller Brush Co., 

Coleman E. Adler & Sons, Inc., Commander's Palace Restaurant and 

Brennan's Restaurant, all of New Orleans, Local 205, Aluminum 

Workers International, Baton Rouge, and Carpenters' Union Local 

1846, New Orleans, 

Two Negro employees of Kaiser Aluminum in Baton Rouge, complained 

that the terms of a 1960 agreement between the Aluminum Workers 

Union and the company discriminate against Negroes. 

The workers contend that under the contract, Negro laborers 

who transfer to better jobs in the plant's various departments 

lose credit for any seniority theyacquired as laborers. 

Two complaints against the Carpenters’ Union allege that 

inclusion of a question about racial background on the Union's 

applications for apprenticeship training are a violation of Title VII. 

A complaint against the Fuller Brush Co, alleges that the firm 

gives preference to white applicants for management trainee 

positions. si 

The two New Orleans restaurants are charged with refusal to 

hire Negro waiters, although they employ Negroes in more menial 

tasks such as busboys and» dishwashere wna 

(more) 

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



Louisiana Unions and Businesses -2- July 29, 1965 
Charged With Job Discrimination 
In Civil Rights Act Complaints 

The Louisiana complaints are part of a group of 24 filed 

jointly by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored 

People and the Legal Defense Fund, two independent organizations. 

Herbert Hill, NAACP labor secretary, delivered the complaints 

to the commission. 

Bailey is one of 10 field workers in a Legal Defense Fund. 

summer project to implement the fair employment legislation, which 

took effect July 2. His headquarters for the project are at 1821 

Orleans Ave., New Orleans, * 

Title VII forbids discrimination by employers with more than 

100 workers, unions with more than 100 members and employment ; 

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