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City Contracts Open Way For Negroes
Chicago firms with city contracts increasingly hire Negro workers. The Chicago Commission on Human Relations reports nondiscrimination clauses in contracts and says about 16,247 workers, or 10 percent of total employment, are now Negro. Director Edward Marciniak notes gains across roughly 792 firms.
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