Evening star., 1961-04-08
BY LEE M. COHN
Star staff Writer

Will Investigate
Assistant Secretary Of Labor
Jerry Holleman said yesterday
the charges will be investigated
by President Kennedy'S Com
mittee on Equal Employment
Opportunity. Mr.. Holleman is
the committees executive vice
chairman and Vice President
johnson is chairman.
Herbert Hill, labor specialist
OF the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored
People, submitted the Lockheed
charges and similar allegations
about other Southern employ
ers to Mr.. Holleman yesterday
He said Mr.. Holleman told
him the presidential committee
will insist that Lockheed elm
mate discriminatory practices
II investigation subsantiates
the allegations. II Lockheed OF
other Government contractors
refuse to eliminate diScrimina-
ton, Mr.. Hill said, the COM
mittee intends to recommend
cancellation Of contracts.
Got Billion Dollar Contract
Lockheed was awarded q
billion-dollar Defense Depart
ment contract last month fol-
production Of jet cargo plane:
and troop carriers. Govern
ment contracts contain clause,
prohibiting employment dis.
elimination by contractors
Contract cancellation is amons
the sanctions provided in the
Presidents March 6 executive
order esta blishing the
committee.
Mr.. Hill charged that Lock
heed and the Internationa,
Association Of Machinists, the
union at the Marietta plant
cooperate in diecriminatine
against Negro employees. He
also said the lam assign,
Negroes to a segregated local.
Union Officials Deny Charge
Jesse C. McGlon, lam vice
president in the Atlanta.
Marietta area. issued a state.
ment asserting that Negroe,
have a segregated local at theil
own request. If they have
changed their minds, he said
the union will help them merge
with the white locals.
A spokesman for the IAN
here fatty denied the charge
OF union collaboration with
Lockheed on discrimination
declaring: There are no back.
door agreements with Lock.
heed"
I Mr.. Hill told reporters he
was deeply impressed with hi;
CMr. Holleman's) sensitivity
and awareness Of the questions
that raised"
The Negro employees, who are
members Of the NAACP, COM
plain in affidavits that Lock-
heed bars Negroes from desira
BILE Jobs. discriminates or
seniority and promotions, op-
crates segregated cafeterias
and rest rooms, segregates time
clocks and codes time cards by
race, and segregates recreation
facilities on adjacent Air Force
property.
Mr.. Hill said the Marietta
plant employs 400 Negroes in a
work force Of 10000. He called
1t "one Of the most rigidly
segregated plants anywhere in
the South"
Cites File Of Charges
Hobart Taylor, jr., the pres
idential committees special
counsel, said the COMMITTEES
has thick files" of discrimina.
ton complaints filed against
Lockheed during the Eisen-
hover administration. He said
it appeared that the cases
never were brought to con.
clusion.
Mr.. Hill said he plans tc
confer with Mr.. Hollemar
again within 80 days about
Lockheed and other cases. He
emphasized that the MACE
is not pressing for cancellation
OF contracts, as such, but fol
vigorous enforcement of the
Presidents anti-discriminatior
order. The NAACP urges can.
collation. Of contracts only
when employers are "intransi-
gent" he said.
He reported that he and Mr.
Holleman discussed possible
sanctions against unions that
are guilty Of discrimination.
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