Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his capacity as chairman of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, today commended nine major corporations doing business with the Government for correcting discriminatory employment practices.
The firms, most of them in heavy industry located in the South, were called by the Vice President “bellwethers in the national program for equal employment opportunity without regard to race, creed, color or national origin.”
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