Acting on President Roosevelt’s request, administration leaders today drafted plans giving more power to the President’s Fair Employment Practice Committee to enforce orders against racial and religious discrimination in employment.
Strengthening of the powers of the Committee was asked by President Roosevelt this week following a conference at the White House with Attorney General Biddle and Chairman of the War Manpower Commission McNutt. Thus far, the Committee’s principal weapons against racial and religious discrimination in employment has been publicity. The plans drafted today would provide the committee with other measures believed to be sufficient to cope with discrimination in national defense industries.
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