Further approaches on fair employment problems will be made to the Fair Employment Practices Branch of the Ontario Government and the Superintendent of Secondary Schools in Toronto over the inclusion of questions on national origins and religion in application forms for placement in Toronto secondary schools. The action will be taken by the Central Region Joint Public Relations Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress and B’nai B’rith.
Meanwhile, Prof. J. Finkelman, chairman of the National Joint Public Relations Committee, has issued a statement lauding the Manitoba and Ontario provincial parliaments for passing fair employment practices legislation in the past few months. The statement pointed out that passage of the legislation marks a great forward step in Canadian public opinion which in 1944 gave the first anti-discrimination legislation a mixed reception. It said that the only overt opposition to the measure before the Manitoba legislature was in the form of briefs, some of which were filed by propaganda groups of the Gerald L. K. Smith type.
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