Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Steelworkers, Weber's union, in 1974 to remedy racial imbalance in the skilled labor force. Less than 2% of these craftsmen were black, although blacks made up 39% of the local work force. During 100 minutes of oral arguments last week, Weber's lawyer, Michael Fontham, said that such an explicit racial quota violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans job discrimination on the basis of race. "You mean you can't avoid discrimination by discriminating?" said Justice Byron White. "Yes, your honor," Fontham replied emphatically...
...union's lawyer, Michael Gottesman, contended that Congress wanted to outlaw only "invidious" discrimination. Said Chief Justice Warren Burger: "What you are saying is that you can discriminate for good motives, but not for bad motives." Gottesman responded that Congress had not intended to prohibit voluntary affirmative action, like the training program set up by the Steelworkers and Kaiser. If Weber wins, warned the company's lawyer, Thompson Powers, it "will literally end affirmative action...
...Michael Harrington, national chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), said yesterday the student movement as a part of DSOC must work for the democratization of the corporate system and extreme changes in government policy to solve immediate social crises...
...Michael Cominsky...
...Michael Spence, professor of Economics and chairman of the ASCR, admitted at the Faculty meeting before spring break that initiating shareholder resolutions can be an effective way to pressure corporations to withdraw from South Africa. But the ACSR shrinks from even this tame action. Instead, Harvard will adopt a reactive stance with regard to shareholder resolutions, voting on those introduced by others, but refusing to initiate its own. Tuesday, the ACSR voted to support a resolution calling on the Timkin Corporation to withdraw from South Africa because it had not provided the University with enough information to judge the company...