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To Investigate Complaints
Of Job Applicants
Washington, D. C. (NNP) —Al-
though discriminatory practices
exercised against colored job ap
plicants at the local United
States Employment Service office
are well known, the USES will
investigate complaints, Guy Man
ning, USES public relations offi
cer, said last Wednesday.
His announcement followed a
memorandum submitted to the La
bor Department by the NNPA
News Service, follows:
"1. Recently a guard engaged in
an altercation with a Negro job
applicant at the local USES office
becasue the Negro refusd to get
into a separate line for Negro
job applicants exclusively. Subse
quently the Negro job applicant
was fined $5 for disorderly con
duct by Judge Thomas D. Quinn
of the Municipal Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
“2. Representative Ellis E. Pat
terson, Democrat, of California, in
an extension of remarks in the
Congregational Record of April
17, 194 G, stated that he wished
to bring ‘to the attention of the
Congress and the Department the
fact that the United States Em
ployment office at 1100 South
Flower Street (Los Angeles) re
cently had a sign posted in one
of its information windows read
ing "For white applicants only.” ’ ”
"3. In March, the United Feder
al Workers of America (CIO)
complained to the Civil Service
Commission that the local USES
office was segregating job appli
cants according to race, maintain
ing separate files of white and
'Negro workers, and referring
workers to jobs on the basis of
race performance—’)Kn29ETAOl
preference of employeers.
"4. In an interview recently with
Mr. James L. Hicks, of this office,
Mr. Henry E. Treide, chief of pro-
grams and methods, Fourth USES
Region (Mr. Treide resigned effec
tive April 30), intimated that se
gregation was practiced in the
local USES office because of an
agreement in 1943 with members
of the House Appropriations Com
mittee, to which some Negroes
were parties, and that the local
USES office in this respect was
following a congressional act
which superseded Executive Order
9346.
"May this office be advised:
"1. Whether the USES general
ly is following a pattern of race
segregation and, if so, by what
authority ?
“2. By what authority is the
local USES practicing race segre
gation ?
"3. What steps has the local
USES office taken to comply with
the directive of the Civil Service
Commission that it cease race dis
crimination in the referral of
workers, to federal jobs?
"4. What steps, if any, has the
USES taken to correct the situa
tion about which Mr. Patterson'
complained.
"5. Whether there is any truth
in Mr. Treide’s intimations?”
The memorandum and questions
were intended for submission by
the public relations officer of the
Labor Department to Secretary of
Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach,
but instead it was shunted to Guy
Manning, public relations officer
of USES.
Efforts to question Robert C.
Goodwin, USES director, about the
practices of USES resulted only in
a request by subordinates to "lay
off” the story until the House
Appropriations Committee com
pletes its hearings on USES ap
propriations. Representative Mal
colm Tarver, Democrat, of Geor
gia is the chairman of the sub
committee which handles USES
appropriations, and it is believed
that in carrying out discrimina
tory policies USES is bowing to
his dictates.
In their anxiety to suppress any
unfavorable criticism of USES be
cause of its discriminatory prac
tices, USES subordinate officials
argue that such criticism will an
tagonize reactionary members of
the House Appropriations Commit
tee and cause them to reduce
funds for the agency.
One USES official said he felt
Judge Tarver would oppose any
appropriation for the agency if he
believed the agency was not going
to carry out the terms of an off
the-record "deal” alleged to have
been made by USES officials with
members of the House Appropria
tions Committee, provided that
none of the funds appropriate
would be used to integrate col
ored and white workers on jobs
in the District of Columbia.
The United States Civil Service
Commission recently investigated
the complaint of the United Fed
eral Workers of America, upon
completion of the investigation,
Civil Service Commissioner Arthur
S. Flemming, declared that the
charges had been substantiated.
He added that USES was not only
segregating colored job applicants
but it was also discriminating
against them, and ordered the
agency to cease such practices
immediately.
The United Federal Workers of
America, which first complained
to the Civil Service Commission
against the discriminatory prac
tices of the local USES office, last
Tuesday said it would not be
satisfied with anything less than
complete abolition of the segrega
tion practices because they result
ed in discrimination against col
ored job applicants.
Representative Patterson’s of
fce said Wednesday it had not
heard from the Labor Depart
ment concerning his complaint
about the “white-job-applicants
only” sign in the Los Angeles
USES office.
The investigation of the dis
criminatory practice- of the local
USES office will be made by Mrs.
Thomasina W. Johnson, recently
appointed chief of the minority
groups section in USES, who will
report her finds to Mr. Goodwin,
Mr. Manning said.
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JSES to the states not later than
December 31 has been approved by
the Senate Committee on Educa
tion and Labor.
While agreeing to the return of
USES, which the federal govern
ment “borrowed” from the states
for the war period, the commit
tee put restrictions on the trans
ferring of men from unemploy
ment compensation rolls to jobs
under state management.
It provided that no person
should be referred for employment
on a job which would not utilize
his “highest skill,” or until or un
less a “reasonable” effort was
made to place him in such a post,
as determined by the state agency.
There were indicatrons that or
ganized labor would oppose the
proposed determination by the
state agencies of whether “reason
able” efofft was made to place
unemployed workers in jobs utiliz
ing their “highest skill” before
referring them for lesser jobs
which would cut off the unem
ployment benefits.
In its action, the Senate Com
mittee sought to compromise be
tween the House and the Admin
istration. President Truman has
urged that the return of the USES
to the states not be made before
June 30, 1947. The House passed
a bill in January setting the dead
line at this June 30.
The Congressional fight for the
resumption of state control over
USES, though the federal govern
ment finances the program, sas
been going on for many months.
Party lines have been broken in
the contest, and the prompt return
of the system has been demanded
by some of the strongest Admin
istration supporters.
Senators Robert A. Taft, of
Ohio, and Forrest C. Donnell, of
Missouri, Republicans, opposed the
reporting of the bill. When the
measure would go to the floor was
left for future situations to deter
mine.
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