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...report makes three general recommendations. First, it urges that the MCAD initiate complaints of discrimination itself instead of waiting for complaints to be brought...
...commission also urges that the MCAD offices, which are now within a block of the Boston Common, be located on an area more convenient and congenial to most potential complainants" and that the offices be kept open on evenings and weekends...
...commission appointed by Governor Peabody '42 to study the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination issued a report Monday urging that the MCAD take a more active and energetic part in enforcing anti-discrimination laws...
Secondly, the report suggests several changes in the MCAD's procedure for handling discrimination complaints. Pointing out that "unnecessary delay can defeat the legal remedy of an individual complainant who has in fact been discriminated against," it recommends that complaints be handled more quickly. Initial investigations of probable cause should be concluded within twenty-four hours...
...spokesman for the governor said yesterday, however, that the new committee was not created to investigate the groups' charges. It is expected, rather, "to study the general problems which face a group like the MCAD and to find ways to change the commission to make it better able to handle its job," he said...