Indiana negotiates voluntary fair employment plan
At a statewide Indiana meeting the NAACP and business groups discuss voluntary measures to curb race discrimination in hiring. Indiana labor officials note weak enforcement under existing laws, while leaders urge a committee to study employment practices and push open opportunity regardless of race or creed.
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N.C.A.A.C.P
America
Willard B. Ransom
Indiana
N.A.A.C.P
Indianapolis
Mr. Ransom
South
Ransom
Alan Nolan
Thomas R. Hutson
Nolan
Hutson
Board of Directors
The
State Chamber of Commerce
Indiana Division of Labor
H. F. Schricker
Chamber of Commerce
Schricker
Division of Labor
Frank Mullen
F.E.P.C
Ray
Na.a.c.p
Irwin Katz
Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council
John Bartee
Auto Workers Union
Toms
New York
Cleveland
Ohio
Repp Named Group Supervisor for Southern Illinois and Missouri
Thomas A. Repp has been appointed Group Supervisor by Great West Life for Southern Illinois and Eastern Missouri. He joined in 1944 as Group Representative in Chicago, became Agency Assistant at the Home Office in 1947, then Supervisor of Group Sales in 1948, and will base his work in St. Louis.
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Thomas A. Repp
Great West Life Assurance Company
Illinois
Missouri
Mr. Repp
Chicago
Home Office
St. Louis
Polio Funds Badly Needed as Campaign Doubles Goal
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis president Basil O'Connor says the group faces its worst finances and will double its March of Dimes goal. The campaign must raise more than 50 million dollars in January due to a record number of infantile paralysis cases this year, with 41,461 cases reported to date.
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New York
National Foundation For
Legislature Defeats F E P C Bill By One Vote
A spring session narrowly defeats an F E P C bill by a single vote. Lawmakers from key committees debated the measure amid partisan tension as opponents argued fiscal impact and regulatory scope. The close result leaves the proposal uncertain for future action.
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Islature
F.E.P.C
Illinois Chamber studies voluntary fair employment plan
The Illinois State Chamber of Commerce personnel and labor relations committee studies a voluntary fair employment practices plan to avoid a compulsory FEPC law. R A Stipes of Champaign announced the effort at a Bloomington meeting of local association presidents and executives, noting prior discussions of the Cleveland plan in Chicago.
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Llinois Chamber
Illinois State Chamber of Commerce Personnel and Labor Relations Committee
Illinois
R. A. Stipes
Champaign
State C. of C
Bloomington
Association of Commerce
Stud
Cleveland
Chicago
Eight Die as Sabena Plane Crashes Near Paris Airfield
An American passenger Foster White, 31, of Hartford, Connecticut, is among eight people killed when a twin engined Sabena Airlines plane crashed into a cottage near Le Bourget airport, narrowly missing a crowded theater. Four passengers and four Belgians were among the deceased.
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Paris
France
Sabena Airlines
le Bourget
Foster White
Hartford
Conn
Bodies of 3 Airmen Found in Mountains
Three West Coast airmen killed in an AT-11 training plane crash were to be recovered from the rugged Sierra Nevada today. The missing craft disappeared Saturday afternoon during a Hamilton Field training flight about 130 miles northeast of San Francisco in heavy overcast conditions.
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Hamilton Field
Calif
Air Force
Sierra Nevada
San Francisco
Sioux City Explosion Claims 20th Victim
Mrs. Alice Hammond a 25 year old Sioux City bookkeeper died at a hospital today from injuries suffered in the Swift and Co packing plant blast last Wednesday. She was the 20th death from the explosion with 38 additional people hospitalized.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Alice Hammond
Swift & Co
Hammond
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Mgr
Reeder Accounting Service
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Rechter’s
Rechter
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Jacquard
Annon
Scranton
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