Discrimination in employment has been increasing “rapidly and continuously” since the end of the war, Senator Irving Ives of New York declared in a report submitted to the Senate to accompany the Ives-Chavez Fair employment Practices Bill which was favorably reported to the Senate by the Labor and public Welfare Committee.
The report cites a statement submitted by Henry Epstein of the National comity Relations Advisory Council to the effect that complaints of employment discrimination filed with Jewish agencies in six cities during corresponding periods in ?5 and 1946 increased 93 percent in the latter period.
A study on “Postwar Employment Discrimination Against Jews,” presented by the NCRAC to the Senate Committee, is quoted in the report to show the preponderance discriminatory employment acts in Wisconsin, with its voluntary state law, as compeered with New York, whose FBPC statute carries enforcement powers.
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