The Detroit Tribune

Seeks Labor, Industry Cooperation

WASHINGTON, D. C. (SPECIAL) - Help to end discrimination in employment from the nation's business and labor union leaders was asked Tuesday by President Eisenhower and Vice-President Nixon.

The appeal was made to boost the administration's program for a fair employment practices in the awarding of governmental contracts by the President's Committee on Government Contracts.

Discussion of the problem is in a pamphlet of which 500,000 are being distributed throughout the country, emphasizing the need to use all available manpower and need to check Communist propaganda of U.S. discriminatory hiring practices.

President Eisenhower appeals for fair hiring practices in a message in the pamphlet, while Nixon has also written a letter to business and industrial leaders, holding contracts with the federal government, citing the anti-discrimination clauses in their contracts.

The two points are emphasized.

"First, the growing industrial might of this country requires the largest possible reserve of skilled manpower.

"Second, in the world struggle for the minds of men, America's position of leadership makes it mandatory that we not be subject to the charge of racial prejudice which is being hurled at us every day by the Communists"