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...Dirksen's amendments are technical, serve to tighten sloppy wording in the House-passed bill. But some are substantive, aimed at limiting the speed and frequency with which the Attorney General could move into local cases of discrimination. For example, in states that have agencies for handling bias complaints under public accommodations laws, the Federal Government would have to give the state agency at least 30 days to act before initiating federal action. In both public accommodations and fair employment, the Government would have to show that a pattern of discrimination existed before it could move...
...policies and attitudes of the Church. Never does he discuss the close identification the Church sees between itself and the propertied classes. In fact, he refuses to examine in any detail the cleavages within the Catholic hierarchy that inhibit reform--the tremendous bureaucracy, the parochial mentality, the strong conservative bias...
What Friedman meant--and made quite clear--was that a federal law requiring the fair employment of Negroes would be unenforceable in the face of popular bias, and that because of the resulting corruption of the market mechanism in this sphere, the Negro would continue to suffer serious underemployment. Under the conditions of a free market, he went on, the prejudiced employer would be free to refuse employment to Negroes, but by so doing he would force the price of Negro labor down and give incentive for less biased employers to hire more Negroes. In this context, Professor Friedman...
Gartner also called for the elimination of the "white middle class culture bias" from the aptitude examinations usually given to all prospective employees...
Gartner claimed that the low level of Negro employment in banks was not the result of intentional bias but of a lack of awareness by executives that Negroes are reluctant to apply for a job without being asked, because of the long history of employment discrimination...