Despite the fact that the Senate labor and Public Welfare Committee yesterday approved by a 7-5 vote the Ives F.E.P.C. Bill which provides for the creation of a permanent Rational Commission Against Discrimination in Employment, it was considered unlikely here today that the bill will be placed on the Senate calendar and voted upon at this session.
The action of the Senate Committee, which was taken despite the opposition of Sen. Robert A. Taft, the Committee chairman and candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, was lauded by the National Council for a Permanent FEPC. President Truman, in his civil rights message to Congress last Monday, asked for passage of the FEPC bill and other anti-discrimination legislation.
The Ives Bill would bar job discrimination by both employers and labor unions. It would create a seven-member national commission to carry out this purpose. The commission would be directed first to use conciliation, persuasion and otter voluntary methods to settle any complaints of discrimination. If voluntary methods failed, the commission would follow an enforcement procedure similar to that used by the National Labor Relations Board.
The commission would conduct hearings and be empowered to issue orders directing any employer or union found guilty of job discrimination to cease Such ### actions. Actual enforcement of its orders would be left to the Federal courts, with all parties having right of appeal.
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