More than 85 percent of private employment agencies in the Los Angeles area are flouting the Fair Employment Practices Law by accepting discriminatory job orders, the Pacific Southwest region of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith reported today.
Milton A. Senn, regional ADL director, said the survey results, showing that 87 percent of the agencies did so, had been sent to the Attorney General and to the Fair Employment Practices Commission. He revealed that the ADL had telephoned 86 job agencies supplying office help, asking whether they would accept a job order for a “Protestant and white” stenographer. Of the 77 Los Angeles agencies queried, 66 accepted the job request, and 11 rejected it.
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