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Govt. Body Checks Complaints on Bias by American Jewish Committee

January 7, 1964
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A spokesman for intergroup relations under Army Materials Command said today that a check was being made with many of the government contractors Involved in the American Jewish Committee’s discrimination charges against utilities.

While the AJC has not yet filed a formal complaint to the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, the Army Materials Command has the authority to survey any contractors. It is under this authority vested in the Army Materials Command via the President’s Equal Employment Opportunity Order, that the charges are being looked into.

It is understood that among those being reviewed within the next few months will be the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its affiliates. Charges by the AJC will be taken into consideration. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which already discussed the matter with the Army Materials Command, has signed a plan for progress agreement under President Johnson. Through this agreement signers undertake to work out discrimination problems directly within their respective organizations.

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