The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has filed a friend of the court brief supporting the American Jewish Congress’ complaint against the anti-Semitic job practices of Aramco, Arabian American Oil Co., it was reported today.
The NAACP brief is under study by the State Commission for Human Rights, which will hear oral argument in the case tomorrow. Last January the Commission held a public hearing on the A.J. Congress charge that Aramco refuses to hire Jews either for employment in Saudi Arabia, where it pumps and refines oil, or in New York City, where it has several hundred employees.
In its brief, signed by Robert L. Carter and Maria L. Marcus as counsel, the NAACP argues that Aramco is “obliged by state law to hire employees on the basis of their ability and not their religion or race.” The Negro organization entered the case, it said, “because we believe that the impartial enforcement of state laws against discrimination is an essential factor in achieving equal treatment for all persons regardless of race and religion.”
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