Evening star., 1943-05-18
Hearing on Alleged
Job Discrimination
Here Postponed
Trunsit Line Case Set
For June Z; Boord Says
1t Faces Reorganization

The hearing which had beer
scheduled for today by the Fair
Employment Practices Committee te
inquire into alleged discrimination
by the Capital Transit Co. .against
hiring of Negroes to operate buse.
and street cars, has been postponed
to Wednesday, June 2.
This was announced late yester.
day by the committee which said ir
an unusually Worded statement that
new chairman had been appointed
and there would be a reorganization
Hearings scheduled in Detroit in the
case of eight industries charged
with discrimination also were post.
poned from May "a and Is to June
% and %.
The committee said that it. was
officially advised that a new chair.
man had been appointed. and thai
the committees reorganization will
be effected Immediately upon his
assumption of chairmanship.".
"The committee has therefore
been requested" continued the off,
cial statement. to postpone its pub
lie hearings, scheduled for Tuesday
May 18. in Washington, D. c., or
the Capital Transit case.
Pursuant to this request the com.
mittee at It's meeting today post.
poned the Capital Transit Co. cast
from Tuesday, May 1s, to Wednes.
day, June O."
The name of the new chairman
was not disclosed.
The Right Rev. Msgr. Francis J
Haas. dean of the school of socia
science of Catholic University, wa!
being mentioned prominently fol
the post.
There were indications in we'll.
informed circles that the "reorgan.
ization' might be far reaching, ane
that President Roosevelt himself
might issue new executive orde,
redefining the powers and function!
of the committee. One report wa:
| to the effect that the committed
might be removed from the Wa
ManpoWer Commission under which
it now operates.
Established in 1941.
The committee first was estab
lished by President Roosevelt il
June, 1941. by executive order a.
a part of the old Once OF Produc.
ton Management. 1t was trans
ferred to the War Production Boare
and later to the VINO.
Conflicting reports were circulated
today that, on the one hand, thu
committee might be given increased
powers while on the other, its power.
might be clipped.
The new chairman will succeed
Dr. Malcolm MacLean the white
| president of Hampton Institute, al
Hampton, Va. He has gone init
the Navy Two other members O.
the committee have resigned. They
are David Sarnoff, president O.
Radio Corporation OF America, whit
left the committee last December
and Mark Ethridge, publisher O.
the Louisville Courier journal, act.
ing chairman whose resignation wa
submitted some time ago to tax.
effect on the appointment of a new
chairman.
Railroad Case Postponed.
Members of sthe committee whit
ment through Chairman Paul v
McNutt of the VINO were: Ear
Dickerson, colored attorney of Chi
cago, who had planned to presid
at the hearing this morning; Miltor
Webster, colored vice president o
the sleeping car porters union
John Brophy, representing Philil
Murray. president of the CIO, ant
Boris Shishkin, alternate for vii
liam Green. president of the AFT
Lawrence w. Cramer is executive
secretary of the committee.
The committee had scheduled ,
hearing early this year into tn
subject of alleged discriminate,
against Negroes by the railroad in
dustry, but this had been post
poned indefinitely" by Mr.. McNutt