The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to give the Fair Employment Practices Committee a final appropriation of $27,600. It will be used to wind up the committee’s affairs before June 1, the date on which the agency is slated to close.
On May 1 the three remaining regional offices of the FEPC, those in Detroit, St. Louis, and Chicago, will close. During the war the committee, which began operation in June of 1941, maintained 12 regional offices and five sub-offices. The five sub-offices were closed immediately last July when the FEPC appropriation was out from the requested $500,000 to $250,000.
The bill for a permanent FEPC is closeted in the House Rules Committee. A discharge petition, needed to get the bill out of committee, has 180 signatures, but needs 48 more to become effective.
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