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Field Investigation on California Shipbuilding Corporation...

I. Brief Summary of Complaint The President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice, during the summer of  1943, received over four hundred complaints from persons employed in the shipbuilding industry of Los Angeles and vicinity. These complaints came, for the most part, from the Shipyard Committee for Equal Participation. It was charged that Negroes employed in shipbuilding trades coming...

Memorandum on Suspension of War Training for Negroes in...

     In keeping with complaints received from the Southern Negro Youth Congress of Birmingham, Alabama, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Urban League, a conference was held with Dr. W. W. Charters, Chief of training for the War Manpower Commission.[1] The complaints charged that war training for Negroes had been stopped. The Southern Negro Youth Congress’s complaint stated specifically...

Memorandum on COFEP Request from Mr. Eugene Davidson

COFEP REQUEST FROM MR. EUGENE DAVIDSON Mr. [Reginald A.] Johnson discussed with me certain cases (6) which we will supply to Mr. Davidson in response to requests from him.[1] Two of these proposed cases are illustrations of employers who have changed their hiring practices or at least hire nearly in conformity with the requirements of the President’s Executive Order No. 8802. These are the Western Electric Company of Kearny, N. J., and the...

Memorandum on COFEP Complaint against The International...

This complaint was made through Mr. Milton P. Webster of COFEP. The persons complaining are: Messrs. Donald James, Robert Gitten, Raymond Bright and Wallace Wiggins. All of them signed a joint statement that they had seen an advertisement published for the company in the Daily Mirror asking for wiremen and assemblers.[1] My conference was with Mr. J. A. Nelson, Personnel Manager. He represents both...