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...Conciliation. The Libbey-Owens-Ford case was started by Mrs. Nancy Raitz, 35, a former $2.50-an-hour assembler. Last year she and 32 other female employees complained to the EEOC. The company argued that it was merely obeying the state law. When the commission's conciliation attempts failed, it recommended that the Justice Department bring a full-scale court test...
...Power and Light, employs only 4.5 per cent black employees in an area where 50 per cent of the population is black. Investigations of two other Middle South subsidiaries-Arkansas Power and Light and Louisiana Power and Light-conducted by the Equal Opportunity Commission, revealed similar employment practices. One EEOC official said, in releasing the employment figures, "it is difficult for us to avoid the conclusion that the companies are guilty of severe discrimination against Negro employees...
...Harvard sell its stock but that it use its prestige to change the policies of the company. Bennett sits on the Board of Directors of Middle South and Harvard owns five per cent of the company's stock. Yet the response of Harvard financial experts was to label the EEOC employment figures "a one-sided smear attack...
...this persistent bias are complex. Part of it is due to the particular skills the industry requires; part to the fact that the industry's greatest expansion came at the time when hiring discrimination was an accepted practice. But whatever the reasons, the results are oppressively clear. As the EEOC's chairman, William Brown, told a meeting of 115 large utility companies in 1969, the utilities have had "the worst equal employment record of all industry groupings in America." The evidence, Brown said, "will graphically demonstrate that the most effective methods of discrimination and exclusion are being practiced in your...
...hates to become cynical about every corporate pronouncement, but there are strong pressures in that direction. Despite the company's pledges of good faith, the EEOC reports that Middle South has failed several times to come through with reports or plans requested by the commission...