Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HENRY BAKER, a black laborer in an Arkansas Power and Light plant, is now in the middle of a lawsuit against AP&L, charging that the utility discriminates against blacks in its hiring and promotion policy. Baker has worked in AP&L's Cecil Lynch plant for 25 years without a promotion. He is trying to get back pay for all the years he worked in AP&L's lowest job category while white people with less experience got moved up to higher-paying jobs...
Forced to defend themselves, AP&L officials have under cross-examination come out with some astonishing statistics. In the Cecil Lynch Plant, no blacks were hired between 1959 and 1970. In 1970, when Baker first filed his suit, blacks at the Lynch plant worked only as laborers or janitors, the plant's lowest job categories; and the average salary of AP&L employees was $8000 for whites and $4000 for blacks...
Henry Baker, a laborer at AP&L's Cecil Lynch steam plant at North Little Rock, Ark., also contends that company requirements and union contracts effectively bar blacks from promotion...
...blacks were hired in the Cecil Lynch plant between 1959 and 1970, while 44 whites were hired during the same period...
Perhaps Nixon would give out more if the East Room had not become an arena for posturing and verbal bloodletting: skepticism overwhelms reason, anger buries thoughtfulness. It is so big and its staging now so elaborate that it resembles something from Cecil B. DeMille and not a seminar for learning about the problems of the real world...