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 The new been placed on the door of the diction, 11 which were withdrawn, law opens new horizons to all, re- personnel office of one of the coun- and 112 which were settled by the gardless of their ancestors or be.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, TY. 4.8823 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 IN it was known before it became ROYAL OAK law, the number of business and DETROIT industrial concerns which have conformed to its provisions seems HIGHLAND PARK almost incredible. Corporations, big and small, had contended that their business would be ruined. Factory officials declared that passage of the meas- ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS ure would force them to move their plants to other states. Some TO ALL civic leaders said the bill would From 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. 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