Thousands of additional complaints of job discrimination, many of them from Jewish refugees, have reached the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice in the three weeks since his statement that “persons should not hereafter be refused employment, or persons at present employed discharged, solely on the basis of the fact that they are aliens or that they were formerly nationals of any particular foreign country,” it was revealed here today.
Many refugees did not know that employers had no right to discriminate against them, a committee official pointed out, or whom to complain to if they did. The President’s statement served to clarify this situation. The new complaints have come from all over the country, the official said, but appeared to center about the great metropolitan industrial areas.
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