N.Y. Law on Racial and Religious Equality in Business Working Well, State Report Says

The New York State law calling for racial and religious equality in business is working well and, during the past three-and-a-Self years of its existence, not a single case involving its violation has teen taken to court, the State Commission Against Discrimination said today in a report on its activities in 1948.

The Commission pointed out that while the law urges arbitration and negotiation cases where racial or religious bias is found, the State body is empowered to take offender to court where fines or prison sentences can be imposed. A total of 273 verified complaints were filed with the Commission last year, the report said.

(The American Jewish Congress, in a joint letter to the New York Times today, signed by its executive director David Petegorsky, Walter White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Edward S. Lewis, executive director of the Urban League of Greater New York, said. that it endorsed a recent time editorial calling for the State Commission Against. Discrimination to issue more complete reports, “thus making possible an understanding and assessment of the work of that agency,” The letter, however, objected to the newspaper’s recommendation that the work of the Commission transferred to the Department of Education.)