Atlanta Daily World

New
War
Manpower
Pacts
Guard
Against
Racial
Discrimination

Employers
Unwilling
To Use
Negroes
Denied
USES Service

WASHINGTON—(ANP)—Reasonable safeguards against discrimination are being incorporated into the employment stabilization agreements which the authority of the War Manpower Commission last Friday, it is learned.

Written into every stabilization program in effect before October 15 and those now being instituted is this clause:

The decision to hire or refer a worker shall be based on qualifications essential for performance of our suitability for the job, and shall be made without discrimination as to race, color, creed, sex, national origin or except as required by law citizenship.

Employment stabilization programs, the result of labor management effort to solve the problems of labor supply and demand, are arrangements involving restrictions on separation or hiring of workers, whether through issuance of statements of availability, referral by the United States Employment service, or otherwise. Specifically, they seek

1. The elimination of wasteful labor turnover in essential activities.

2. The reduction of unnecessary labor migration.

3. The direction of the flow of scarce labor where most needed in the war program.

4. The maximum utilization of manpower resources.

For sometime now various areas and regions have been operating under stabilization programs arrived at by labor-management committees.

WMC had set up a model program in which a non-discrimination clause was included, but it was not compulsory for the several areas and regions using the pattern to include every item in the model. Washington, for example, is one area where the non-discrimination clause had been deleted although there are two Negroes on the area labor-management committee for the District.

According to the bulletin on the subject of the stabilization programs, all programs now in effect shall be promptly amended by the appropriate manpower director so as to include therein the provisions set forth in Section 674. This section includes the non-discrimination paragraph under "hiring."

It is pointed out that an employer who fails to adhere to terms of these programs on this score will be denied the USES facilities, which means that he will be unable to recruit his help through that agency if he is unwilling to use Negroes. A. Rosenberg, regional director New York, has already said that she is prepared to withhold service from an employer who violates the program.