The People's Voice

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION ORDERED ENDED

WASHINGTON-(FP)-Eight large corporations in New York and New Jersey were found guilty of discriminating against persons because of their race and ordered to cease such discrimination by the President's committee on fair employment practices.

The findings were the second to be issued by the committee, it previously having ordered a group of firms in the Chicago area to stop discriminating against prospective employees because of race.

Named by the committee as violating the President's order were the Wright Aeronautical Co., Patterson, N. J.; Becton, Dickinson & Co., East Rutherford, N. J.; Fairchild Aviation Corp., Jamaica, N. Y.; Babcock & Wilcox, Bayonne, N. J.; Carl Norden, New York, N. Y.; Titeflex Metal Hose Co., Newark, N. J.; Continental Can Co., East Rutherford, N. J., and Isolantite, Belleville, N. J.

Fairchild and Titeflex were named for having refused employment to Jews. The others discriminated against negroes.

Prior to the hearings the Wright corporation told the committee that it had advised each of its 900 supervisory employees of their duty to avoid discrimination and announced the employment of a negro in its personnel department to assist in recruiting and upgrading workers.

Continental Can also issued instructions to its employment officers prior to the hearings directing an end to discrimination against negroes.

Findings were issued on the basis of hearings held in New York on February 16 and 17.