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Last month FEPC bluntly ordered 16 Southern railroads to stop discriminating against Negroes, to give them an equal shot with whites at almost all jobs, including the best paid, most aristocratic job a Negro can aspire to in the South, that of railroad fireman. Last week the railroads replied with equal bluntness. Said they...
...such high, hot talk, the tall, tough new FEPChairman Malcolm Ross, 48, had a ready answer. FEPC, said Mike Ross, did not contemplate promoting Negroes to the job of engineers. FEPC merely wanred to restore the Negroes' chance to rise to the job of fireman, to give them an equal chance at other jobs down the line. He cited figures showing a recent shortage of 850 firemen on U.S. railroads, although trained Negro firemen were unemployed. Chairman Ross was itching for a showdown. Said he: "We may not be able to wipe out discrimination overnight, but where war manpower...
...Chairman of the Committee on Fair Employment Practice, I admit for the Committee that we have "as yet got few results." However, I am sure that TIME is aware that the Fourteenth Amendment has been on the books for 73 years and the FEPC less than eight months. It will take the labor of the Committee over a good many years I expect, as well as that of other agencies, to make our United States Constitution constitutional so far as race discrimination is concerned, but we shall keep plugging and it is helpful to have TIME keep the situation before...
...FEPC has held innumerable meetings, has sent field agents scooting about, has as yet got few results...