Friday, September 27, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Twelve
NCE ON TRIAL
TOLE
of Manhattan and its adjacent
By Henry C. Turner, Chairman, in any state of the Union.
During the first eight months boroughs. For years certain na-
N. Y. State Commission Against
of the law's operation, the Com- tional groups and colors have been
Discrimination—
mission received 240 formal corn. forced into individual financial,
How New York's fair-employment plaints charging some form of dis. social, and political cliques, with
law is working after eight
crimination in employment. Of the result that many of their
months in operation
these, 178 have been closed, in- members have been unable to rise
NO NEGROES" employed here." cluding 55 which did not come above the economic class into
Such a align might well have within the Commissioner's juris- which they were born. The new
been placed on the door of the diction, 11 which were withdrawn, law opens new horizons to all, re-
personnel office of one of the coun- and 112 which were settled by the gardless of their ancestors or be.
try's greatest insurance compa- Commission. Settlement of 75 of liefs, and there is every indication
nies. Ever since ti had been the 112 was brought about by con. that it will aid in destroying the
founded it had maintained a con- ference and conciliation between barriers between one section of a
sistent practice against the hiring the complainant, the company or city and another.
It must be understood that the
of colored people, refusing even to employer charged, and representa-
Commission is feeling tis way
interview them for job vacancies. tives of the Commission.
But by mid-July of last year
The charges varied greatly. Fif- along a route that has never been
that firm had 40 Negroes working ty-nine complained because of al- explored before. There is no legal
in various departments in its New leged prejudice against their re- or social precedent on which de-
York offices and had ordered per- ligion: 52 Jewish, 2 Catholic, 1 cisions can be based. Eventually
sonnel workers to give every col- Quaker, and 4 not stated. Another there may be lawsuits demanding
ored applicant equal consideration 113 charged color bias: 105 Ne- reversals of its rulings, and these
will help, because they will be-
with whites.
groes and 8 Whites. Still another
That about-face change In pol- 48 charged prejudice against their come a strong but invisible part of
icy was one of the immediate re- race or national origin: 8 Ger- the law. The law is flexible, and
sults of a revolutionary new state mans, 5 Spaniards, 2 Russians, 25 we of the Commission must apply
law creating a New York State Italians, 1 Bulgarian, 1 British, it with common sense and fair-
Commission Against Discrimina- 1 Swedish, 1 Greek, 1 American, ness to bring about elimination of
unlawful employment practices as
tion with power to compel busi- and 3 unclassified.
defined under the Act. A typical
ness, industry, employment agen-
In addition, the Commission in.
cies, and labor unions to eliminate stigated 79 investigations of its case will illustrate how we operate:
A young man called at the Com-
employment practices prejudicial own, replied to 616 inquiries con-
to an individual's race, creed, cerning the law, and reviewed the
color, or national origin. The stat- application forms and employment I Rosh Hashonah Greetings
ute bans such practices in hiring practices of 508 employers.
and firing, promotion, application
New York's action in outlawing
forms, and working conditions.
prejudice in employment was a
The incident, In which the insur- bold and ticklish move. Nowhere
ance company simply had com- in the nation rarely in any other
Ben Kolin, Prop.
plied with the law, was only one part of the world, is there a
8611 TWELFTH ST.
of several which followed the en- greater mixture of races, creeds,
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actment of the new statute. No and colors than in the melting pot
longer could an employer reject an
applicant or fire an employee be-
cause he was a Catholic, a Jew, a
Wishing All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons a
Protestant, or because he was
Greek or Polish or Egyptian or
Happy and Prosperous New Year
his parents had been born in Eu-
ropean or African countries, or be-
cause he was black or yellow or
white. His application was to be
judged solely on his experience,
his ability, and his knowledge of
the job to be done.
In view of the formidable oppo.
sition to the Ives-Quinn Bill, as
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it was known before it became
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law, the number of business and
DETROIT
industrial concerns which have
conformed to its provisions seems
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almost incredible.
Corporations, big and small, had
contended that their business
would be ruined. Factory officials
declared that passage of the meas-
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ure would force them to move
their plants to other states. Some
TO ALL
civic leaders said the bill would
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prohibit new enterprise from set-
tling in the state. Businessmen
cited it as another curb on their
activities, a new case of govern-
AND
ment meddling, an impossible at-
tempt to settle a purely moral
issue by legislative intervention.
Because the law has been in op.
eration less than a year, it may
be too early to assess its results,
but, so far, none of these predic i f. ■ •• ■ •
tions have materialized. Both in-
Rosh Hashonah Greetings and Best Wishes to All
dustry and labor have been in
large degree co-operative, assist-
ing the Commission in enforcing
a statute that is without precedent
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