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Dunn, William E., executive director, Associated General Contractors of
America, prepared statement, with attachments..

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James, Rev. F. C., director, Commission on Social Action, the

African Methodist Episcopal Church, Sumter, S.C., May 15,

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Mitchell, Clarence, legislative chairman, Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights, June 20, 1967.

Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., counsel, Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights, May 26, 1967-

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First annual report (pp. 56-64)—Analysis of Charges, July 2, 1965-
June 30, 1966–.

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Number of individual suits filed under title III.

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Memorandum on equal employment legislation (S. 1667) from the Leader-
ship Conference on Civil Rights--

Responses of Shulman, Stephen N., Chairman, EEOC:

To request that he provide the Senate Employment, Manpower and
Poverty Subcommittee with recommendations as to ways the
power of the Attorney General could be strengthened if the EEOC
did not receive cease and desist order powers..

To inquiry as to at what point in the process of Commission activity it
should receive the power to obtain interlocutory relief, a temporary
injunction, or restraining order, assuming the Commission is granted
this power in legislation

To the request for a listing of complaints received by the EEOC

against both industrial and craft unions..

States having no fair employment practices statutes and States with FEP

statutes without adequate enforcement procedure.

Summary of State Fair Employment Practice Acts, Labor Law Series

No. 6-A, June 1966__

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1967

U.S. SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT,

MANPOWER, AND POVERTY OF THE

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE,

Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9:35 a.m., in room 4232, New Senate Office Building, Senator Joseph S. Clark (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Present: Senators Clark, Pell, Kennedy of Massachusetts, Javits, and Prouty.

Committee staff members present: Stewart E. McClure, chief clerk; William C. Smith, counsel to the subcommittee; and Peter C. Benedict, minority labor counsel.

Senator CLARK. The subcommittee will be in session.

Will the spectators please take their seats so we can proceed. I have a brief opening statement which I should like to read. Today the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty begins hearings on S. 1308, dealing with equal opportunity in employ

ment.

This subcommittee is also presently engaged in an intensive study of the war on poverty, in which it is our purpose to assess the strengths and weaknesses of that effort so as to enhance its effectiveness. We have already held poverty hearings in two States Mississippi and New Mexico and the District of Columbia, and we had a week of general hearings on the poverty war in Washington earlier this year. On Monday we resume our antipoverty study in New York, and go from there to California. By the time we get through in the early days of June we will have visited 10 States and held hearings in 15 different places.

While it would be premature now to state any firm conclusions about the war on poverty, one recurring theme has been the close interrelationship between the effort to obtain equal employment opportunity and the effort to wipe out poverty. If we are to attain the goal of equal economic opportunity-which is the mission of the war on povertywe must see to it that such artificial barriers to job placement and job advancement as race, religion, and sex are abolished.

The bill on which we shall be taking testimony today is identical to the text of title III of S. 1026, the administration's omnibus civil rights bill, which was introduced by Senator Hart with the cosponsorship of 26 other Senators earlier this year. That bill was referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, where as you all know the chances of its emerging within the foreseeable future are reasonably slim.

It was therefore felt that the title of the bill dealing with equal employment opportunity should be referred to the Labor and Public Welfare Committee and by it to this subcommittee in order that we

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