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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Philadelphia City Solicitor Frank F. Truscott ruled last Tuesday that the City Council lacks authority to establish a Fair Employment Practices Committee via ordinance, citing it would be invalid; a related anti-discrimination bill was indefinitely postponed.
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PHILADELPHIA.- (NNPA) City Council cannot legally set up a Fair Employment Practices Committee, City Solicitor Frank F Truscott ruled last Tuesday.
His opinion was read at a City Hall meeting of Council's Committee on Law and Municipal and County Government. Referring to a pending FEPC ordinance, Truscott's opinion said:
"It is not within Council's power to adopt such an ordinance. If adopted, it would be held invalid."
The bill was submitted last November by the Bipartisan Committee for a Pennsylvania FEPC. It would outlaw discrimination in employment for race, color or creed by contractors dealing with the city and by private employers.
Relying on Truscott's opinion, Council committee postponed consideration of the bill indefinitely.
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Philadelphia
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Last Tuesday
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council committee postponed consideration of the bill indefinitely
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City Solicitor Frank F Truscott ruled that City Council cannot legally set up a Fair Employment Practices Committee. His opinion was read at a City Hall meeting of Council's Committee on Law and Municipal and County Government. The bill, submitted last November by the Bipartisan Committee for a Pennsylvania FEPC, would outlaw discrimination in employment for race, color or creed by contractors dealing with the city and by private employers.