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...civil rights support: the North. "It is here that the last battle for equal rights may be fought in America," says the report. "The 'gentlemen's agreement' that bars the minority citizen from housing outside the ghetto; the employment practices that often hold him in a menial status, regardless of his capabilities; and the overburdened neighborhood schools, which deprive him of an adequate education despite his ambitions -these are the subtler forms of denial and the more difficult to eliminate...
...housing, Negroes in Houston are better off. And since the labor movement among Negroes in Boston is very poorly organized, most Negroes here find themselves with menial jobs with little upgrading...
...earliest campaigns against discrimination in employment was initiated by a group of 400 ministers in Philadelphia last year. Through the use of "selective buying," or boycotting, the ministers' group convinced a number of major firms to hire Negroes in other than the most menial of jobs...
...investigating discriminatory practices of one particular company, CORE found that the company, like most companies in the North, hired Negroes ... only in menial positions. Observation of the numbers of Negroes the company had in various jobs, and informal conversations held by white CORE members with supervisors, revealed that although it kept no records of numbers of Negroes hired (in concurrence with Fair Practices Laws), the company indeed had a tacit policy of not hiring or promoting Negroes to either clerical or public relations jobs of any kind...
Less than two years ago, most of Germany's imported labor worked at menial jobs in the building and construction industry. But recently the scarcity of domestic skilled labor has forced employers to train the unskilled foreign apprentices. Some German workers complain that the new arrivals work too hard, even though the labor shortage last year pushed wages up 9.6% while productivity rose only 2.9%. To keep the foreign employees happy, the state government and the Ford plant in Cologne plan to spend $12 million on new housing for 4,000 workers; other employers have hired Italian cooks...