A nation-wide survey on anti-Jewish discrimination in employment is now being conducted by the National Community Relations Advisory council in cooperation with the Jewish War Veterans, the Jewish Occupational Council and local Jewish groups, it was announced here today.
The survey was undertaken at the request of the FEPC which has been instructed to investigate and report to the President with respect to discrimination in reconversion employment.
“Although discrimination against Jews is known to exist, there is a virtual absence of objective data about extent, areas, and patterns of such discrimination,” The statement issued by the NCRAC says. “Jews are not identified either in the census or on the registration forms of the United States Employment Service and the increasing subtlety with which discrimination against Jews is carried on has made it extremely difficult for the FEPC or other governmental agencies to take official cognizance of the Jewish aspects of the problem.”
On the basis of the survey it is hoped that for the first time a mass of factual data will be accumulated concerning the nature and extent of anti-Semitic discrimination in employment, and an indication of the way in which this discrimination affect different geographical areas and different occupational and industrial groupings of job seekers.
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