yeah that's the new girl it's her first day some people say they'll be trouble some people saw trouble coming right from the start wonder i love to get up in the morning i've got such a nice bar to look forward to incidentally did you see the note i left on your path last night top policy meeting at nine fifteen yes just got back from washington late yesterday and he called  after thanks this must be the new government contract was there any explanation i tried to finesse some information from a secretary that was informative as a quiz program ok i better get going that time doesn't pay me to manage personnel so that personnel can run the plant the way it wants what does that mean that you are going to step behind every sector terry with a gun in her back it means we can put this new policy through without trouble now of course we'll have to move slowly at first no matter how badly we need them now you said it we need them gentlemen the negro represents a labor force that hasn't even begun to be tapped about a credit department been crying for help and by the time they were through there wasn't any opposition those were men curt they work with their hands how about when and when men are different i think we're asking for trouble just what is it we are afraid of bad publicity money or we may be raising problems to hide our own prejudices i don't think i'm a bigot well i didn't say that mark and i don't think i'm a man of prejudices at least not any that i'd let interfere with profits my department of sales i'm mostly on the outside i'm a man i sell a product who doesn't care what color the girl who types up the bill now because i'm on the outside on i get around i hear stories what kind of story strikes lot of trouble that's all let's call it morale a lot of white girls just don't want to work next to a negro girl whether you like it or not tell you something i'm not running for election and i'm not going to run scared no twenty year old stenographers going to tell me how to run my business i've just come back from washington i met there with the president's committee on government contracts believe me it was no tea party between me and the committee they were talking business since one of the president's committee running dennis industries we're not talking just about dennis industries when we talk about this we're talking national policy that's not know about it ever since we're or two under the president's directive no company can deal with a government can get a contract unless its policies are clearly nondiscriminatory but only employ negroes on a production line that's not enough as long as we set up a color line at the front door of the offices or any line for that matter we are discriminating aren't we also responsible to the stockholders we can't afford we can afford anything our competition can if we can't we don't belong in business from this meeting on our policy will be to hire every person we need strictly according to ability if you want to set an example but the first negro secretary in my office not on your life time and have twelve girls quit because we're giving away one of the most work for jobs in the organization now that would be discrimination that's a sign i feel sorry for the first girl you are she better be strong you're right there she's got to be hand picked she's got to be so likable that any white girl with a chip on her shoulder will think twice before she starts to the last typist in the pool every girl working here should be made to feel that she's involved in putting through this new policy right that that's about it that doesn't mean that i want him or his sister working in the office with girls i don't bother them and they don't bother me that way i mean when you're working now mary lane at least to school at night you know i think it was a little hard on my family than on me they had to listen to my complaining now it looks like it might have been worthwhile how would you like to go to work as mr graham we're not talking about anything that sacred paid never hired a negro girl everyone knows that it's not that they discriminated just that they don't hire it maybe things are changing mary don't misunderstand i'd love to work a dentist i do want to job as a secretary and i could handle it i know you could check your records you have every qualification you need and let me bring you up to date last week the personnel department a dentist got in touch with every employment agency in town it told them the beginning immediately negroes were to be hired on long term educational plan so the schools around here will know exactly what kind of help they need when they've approached every organization in town and ask for their assistance this could be a tremendous step forward what about me because i do go up for the job the personnel department can make people like me they can tell the other girls that wow that that you're as good as they are you know they can but they can give you every chance to show you well every right now they need us and we certainly need them if we don't take the chance when it comes along it may not come along again we have everything to gain you have everything to gain and nothing to do except  and about ten feet of try the funny thing larry once someone offers you a choice you can't ever go back to the way it was before if you don't try when you go out of here you'll find your pride is front to ten inches if you do try if you do try you may have something to be really  all right ok good good now how's the crusade for freedom and then it's in the streets come the girl coming over from the urban l what did you say and i'm only an office manager i can't make it here a lot of top down and nobody asked you to do that all you have to do is to follow company power and lose half the girls in the office while i'm doing it and you lost any as not yet but there's muttering i heard one of the girls say she'll quit as soon as won't work the girls won't stand for it ok will you tell me one how come on come on don't be naive you know the reasons as well as i do not want the washrooms for instance you know what i mean one of the same girls there when they go to the restaurant for the movie just supper so now they have no choice but they won't have a choice here from now on no look well we've notified the unions and asked for their cooperation no trouble there every department has made it official all the way down the line there's a memo on black and white so that everybody can see it and we agree that the best way is to make a definite stand from the top gun when you think we're living in the dark ages when i thought people are going to realize that this is the twentieth century in the united states of america and with freedom and me you want to quit while i probably won't have to my job will just disappear into thin air along with the rest of us that you know i don't understand you well i talk to every man in a responsible position here at them and most of them wonder what all the fuss is about  admit they don't like the idea of a negro secretary but they're willing to go along with the idea and i'll go ahead try them but you know you just keep on saying it won't work i want to know how you really feel mom i'll tell you you know the signs you put up in a plant equal economic opportunity where you can wallpaper the whole building with them but you can't change the facts of life employee a dentist i think you ought to know our rules we don't give favors we don't give preferential treatment i'm sorry i just make we stick to our word every employee is treated solely on his merit but better off or worse oh i see