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Top Industry Leaders to Discuss Elimination of Job Bias

October 20, 1955
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Executives of leading industrial firms will discuss problems in the elimination of discrimination in employment at a national conference on equal job opportunity to be held here October 25 under the sponsorship of President Eisenhower’s Committee on Government Contracts. Vice President Richard Nixon will preside at the conference More than 65 of the nation’s leading industrial leaders will attend.

Fred Lazrus, Jr., president of the Federated Department Stores and a member of the President’s committee, will serve as moderator for a panel discussion. The purpose of the conference is to study methods by which American business and industrial organizations have been able to reduce racial and religious discrimination in employment opportunities.

Speakers will include Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and Reuben B. Robertson, Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense.

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