A conference aimed at developing greater understanding of discrimination against Jews in employment and better handling of the problem opened here today under the sponsorship of the National Community Relations Advisory Council. Officials of nine state fair employment agencies are participating in the parley as are representatives of Jewish groups and of seven major municipal commissions.
This is the first time that public agencies charged with administering anti-discrimination laws and policies meet in national conference with Jewish experts to discuss problems of anti-Jewish bias in employment. The conference, grew out of one of the high priority recommendations in the NCRAC Joint Program Plan for 1954, the most recent in an annual series of such plans jointly projected by the national and local agencies comprising the NCRAC.
In preparation for the conference the NCRAC Committee on Employment Discrimination had conducted a survey of the experience of the public agencies with cases of alleged discrimination against Jews. The data gathered in the survey were tabulated for presentation to the conference. They constitute the first summary ever compiled of such information. It is hoped that they will throw light on the relative extent to which Jews are targets of discrimination.
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