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C.i.o. Denounces Racial Discrimination in War Industries

January 10, 1943
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The Committee on Racial Discrimination of the Congress of Industrial Organizations today denounced restrictions against minority groups in war plants and called for additional facilities for the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice.

The Committee, whose chairman is Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey of the C.I.O., said: “The existence of discrimination against Negroes and other minorities is not only a continuing blot on American democracy, but even more seriously a drag on the total mobilization of all our people needed to win the war against Axis slavery.”

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