The United States Treasury Department has sent to the 14,000 banks across the country which are repositories of Federal funds copies of the proceedings of the recent workshop on equal opportunities in the banking field conducted by the American Bankers Association. The report, printed jointly by the bankers’ group and by the American Jewish Committee, contains a denunciation of discrimination against Jews in the banking field by Morris B. Abram, AJC president, and an outline of the Committee’s program to combat it.
The report also includes the speech to the workshop by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Robert A. Wallace, explaining the Executive order which requires companies doing business with the Government – including banks – to provide equal opportunities in their employment practices.
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