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Bias-on-the-Job
Aleo Manufacturing Company
ROCKINGHAM,
NORTH CAROLINA
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Subsidiary of
M. LOWENSTEIN & SONS, INC.
New York,
N. Y.
GASTONIA TEXTILE
SHEET METAL WORKS, INC.
222 East Long Ave. Phone 330 Gastonia, N. C.
Spinning, Twister, Spooler and Quiller Cylinders
Card Screens — Picker Screens — Condenser Screens
Comber Tins — Waste Chutes — Lap Aprons
Aspirators
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A Sheet Metol Works Serving Textile Plants
SAMUEL STAMPING
and
ENAMELING CO.
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE
"SAMCO" PRODUCTS
Manufacturers of
GAS AND ELECTRIC APPLIANCES and
ENAMELED STEEL STAMPINGS
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Professors of engineering them
selves are biased. Particular bias
for Jews in supervisory positions,
jobs involving contact with people,
and sales engineering.
Food Jobs: (including chef,
baker, butcher, bartender, etc.)
Very little discrimination.
Medicine, dentistry: Discrimi
nation here is clear-cut, reveals a
number of independent fact-finding
studies.
Also from the B’nai B'rith Voca
tional Service office researchers we
learn that Jews in professional
schools were relatively fewer in
1946 than in 1935, 10 years earlier.
The drop was from 8.8% to 7%.
Here are some data in several of
the professions:
1946 1935
Law
25.8%, going down to 11.1%
Medicine
15.9%,
Dentistry
28.2%,
Vet. Medicine
11.1%,
Architecture
8.5%,
Pharmacy
24.5',,
Social Work
13.6%,
Fine Arts
15.5%,
Home Economics
3.1%,
12.7%
18.9%
1.8%
4.4%
15.1%
11.1%
8.4%
2.7%
Jewish enrollments have climbed
in fields such as osteopathy, library
science, music, nursery education,
theology, and military science.
About 30% of al Jewish students
in the professional schools and
branches are in business adminis
tration. This compares with 20%
for students of all faiths.
About 17.5% of Jewish students
are in education courses, but not
all to become teachers. Many
teachers colleges are also schools
of liberal arts, so that quite a few
Jewish students go to them for only
a general college education.
Another finding is that 50 schools
enroll 77% of all Jewish college
students in the United States and
Canada. Discrimination exists
among types of schools. For ex
ample, among schools for men only,
the proportion of Jewish students
dropped from 10,2% in 1935 to 4.6%,
in 1946. In women’s schools the
drop was from 11.8 %to 8.4.%. Ex
clusive men’s and women’s schools
seem to discriminate against Jews.
A few are not too subtle about it
either in rejecting Jewish students.
Occasionally we’ve seen rejections
which say, “We’re sorry but the
quota is filled!”
The problem of getting into col
lege. Jewish students do get into
colleges, but it’s often because of
their own determination in apply
ing. Jewish applicants send in 2.2
applications each on the average,
while Catholics send in 1.44 and
Protestants 1.32. About 87% of all
applicants get in, which matches
the Jewish figure of 877c, against
81%, Catholics and 88% Protes
tants. And, often, Jewish boys and
girls can’t get into the college of
their first choice because of the
religious taboo. Of course, there
are other factors too, such as
grades, personality, etc.
There is discrimination also in
getting into the professions after
training is over. An examination
was made of applications for state
licensing into accounting, dentistry,
law, medicine and optometry.
About 98% of the blanks ask for
information whcih may be used for
discriminatory practices, and have
nothing to do with predicting suc
cess in an occupation.
For example, questions on license
applications included: Has your
surname been changed? Parents’
name? Nationality? Parents’ birth
place or nationality? Religion? Has
your father’s surname been
changed? Photograph (please
send).
What are some reasons given as
excuses for discrimination? In en
gineering, for example, it’s claimed
Jews are too clannish — that once
they get into a company they bring
in more Jews and push out the
Gentiles. Other reasons include
lack of ethical standards, personal
uncouthness, and lack of manners.
Chiefly, it is claimed Jews are too
uncooperative — they do not work
well on a team. Then, Jews are
thought to be too aggressive.
Bad personality reasons again are
given in law. Loudness, pushiness,
and aggressive, belligerent charac
teristics are among these. Also
“they yell about discrimination
when their failure to get or hold a
job is their own fault.”
Accounting professors report the
usual stereotypes about Jewish
aggressiveness, noisiness, and clan-
ishness. Also, Jews can’t be
trusted with confidential data. Lack
of ethics among Jews is a serious
negative qualities? For lawyers,
Jewish critics propose helpfully:
1. Be high in your school work.
2. Cultivate a good, pleasant per
sonality.
3. Be more interested in your
work than in its salary.
4. Have many friends among
Jews and Gentiles.
5. Have a good record of campus
activities.
So, here, school grades, per
sonality, and attitude rank high if
Jews are to be guided by the wis
dom of their constructively-minded
critics.
Let’s take up one more field —
engineering — to observe the con
structive criticisms suggested to
Jews:
“Jews that don’t look like Jews”
have a head start on others, but
there’s little that anyone can do
here, or even wants to.
An obvious Jewish name is also
The Southern Israelite
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