The Congress of Industrial Organizations yesterday announced its support of the Ives amendment to the Taft-Hartley labor law which would ban discrimination in employment either by unions or by employers.
In a letter to Senator Irving M. Ives of New York, sponsor of the amendment, James B. Carey, CIO secretary-translator, said that while the labor organization agrees with the idea of the Ives amendment, it feels that the measure should be changed to ban discrimination in unorganized as well as organized plants.
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