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This information was part of the testimony delivered yesterday before the Education Committee of the General Court in behalf of a bill to promote fair educational practices in the Commonwealth...
...latter bill defines unfair educational practices and sets up a special office to investigate charges of bias in educational organizations and machinery for ordering guilty institutions to cease and desist from use of discrimination...
...battle between the reformers and the politicians continues on Beacon Hill. This Wednesday afternoon the lower house of the State Legislature will consider Senate Bill 5, which would outlaw proportional representation as a method of voting in this state. The bill is only one of many proposed in this session to do the same thing, but the others either remain in committee or have already been reported out unfavorably to the legislature. Senator Joseph A. Melley introduced this measure in support of a petition by the "Massachusetts Citizens Committee for the Repeal of Proportional Representation," headed by Miss Edna Spencer...
...gave reform-minded cities in the state a choice among five types of municipal government-the different charters were termed "plans." Plan E was one that provided for city council election by proportional representation; the voter marks his ballot by numbering candidates in his order of preference. Thus any bill aimed at that provision would cripple the plan and make it an unnecessary addition to the Charter Act, since plan D carries the same provisions, but without the proportional representation clause...
Senate 5 was defeated on the House floor once before, when the body voted on March 15 to accept a committee recommendation to withdraw the measure. Only expert parliamentary maneuvering by Senator Melley saved the bill in the upper chamber. However, by delaying renewal of the discussion until this week, the House has given Toomey time to strengthen his forces, and another vote may be close. Though the "Citizens Committee" has only one known member, Miss Spencer, and is not registered officially as a lobby at the State House, it may be able to change many votes during this well...