The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-03-27
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PAUL M'NUTT.
Cites Case Against
ManpOwer Head

WASHINGTON - AMP A
chain Of circumstances and some
pretty substantial evidence 5 n
The record to ShaW-ihaii Far
Employment Practices Comm .t'ee
iiSelf IS coming 20 grips Min the
problem OF - own eX Stcncc. ana
= oeyErmfued % yuakr JTyC.f -iodSe
from The apron strings OF Pau V
McNuit and the Wal Man. over
comm SS.On
The known fact that the COM
miitee has already written PIest-
dent Roosevelt one letter N the
pas; two weeks, and the probability
that another may be dropped IA h5S
ma,looX should remove the ,nres.
OF a brickhouse falling on anyone
10 aVaken them 20 the realization
mat hereafter McNutt is intention.
ally going 10 be BY. passed until the
entire sqUabble is settled
The AMP has been able 20 line
up these facts 10 beal out this con-
tention:
FEPC was transferred sud
denly and quietly 10 the jursdic-
ton OF the War Msnpower com.
mission on July 80 and the nation
wide apprehension that arose pro-
voked the President 10 give a,Sur-
ance that the change was not IN
tended 10 hamper the work OF the
committee but rather TO strength
en-" il
2. Three months later what
strength the committee had, had
been well sapped The upshot OF
it was that on Oct % The committee
and Mr. McNutt signed " a I
amounted TO a mutual assistance
pact, which said in effect that
thus and so shall be done 10 give
meaning 10 Executive Order No
1902
Specifically. however. the terms
OF the memorandum were that with
in the manpoNer commission there
would be only one agency charged
~ lbl b6lltlIlk kllt ASST ANO dlSN Allll-
nations covered by the order; that
this agency would be the FEPC 10
which all complaints would be re-
ferred for adjustment; that policies
and procedures relatives 10 TIE en-
forcemeet OF the executive order
would be developed by the COM
mitiee: that dual field STATS would
be abolished; hat operational bull.
letns would be written and releas-
ed by the committee: and that all
files would be combined.
3 The letter 10 the President,
10 which there has been no denial
nor answer either-was actually
dated March l and Is understood
TO have practically told Mr.. Roose-
welt that McNutt has not been play
ing ball.
II Is a fact that none OF the terms
OF the October memorandum has
been fulfilled by the commissioner.
The minority group headed by Will
Alexander has never. been merged
with the committee, and its sttaff
is pretty much intact wherever
there was one; all complaints have
not been chsnneled through FEPC;
and. so far as could be determined.
Operational Bulletin No. defining
procedures for handling discrimina-
tom cases and carrying an appen-
dix OF amendments Qualifications
and interpretations, has never got
ten any further than first base in
the Social Security building, where |
the McNutt menage proper is hous-
ed.
In addition 10 all this mess. Nc
Matt called of the railroad hearings
even consulting the COM
mittee although he. knew the latter
had put in months Of preparation
OF the case.
These things. in effect, are be-
leved 10 be close 10 the actual con-
tents OF the letter 10 the White
House.
Now there is one thing still hang
ing fire which has never been set
tied. Last July /, the United States
service issued order
No. CAS-. a bulletin which practi-
eally put the oksy on job requisit-
ions containing discriminatory spec
ifca,ions il il had been found that
work with the employer
could not convert him 10 an UNI
prejudiced position so that he might
accept Negroes. The committee
wrote McNutt on July 81 and told
him tina, order CAS- was inconsis-
tent with the purposes and intent
OF Executive Order 1902. and asked
him 10 have the order rescinded.
The order OF the USES is stiff in
OBJECT. and because this Is the only
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