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When Employers Rule by Whim: Workers who get fired have few rights,.... ■A JMATT DARCY managed to live for 31 WffH years ignorant of the doctrine of at-IV1 will employment, the notion that an employer exerts near-omnipotent control over an employee’s continued employment. Then in January Mr. Darcy, a car salesman in Garden City, Mich., told the CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes” that he bases his purchases on quality not provenance: “If America makes a good product, I buy it,” he said. “If they don't, I buy what’s good for my money.” For his candor, Mr. Darcy’s employer fired him.</br></br>Experts in employment law say Mr. Darcy may have cause to be outraged at the dismissal — but little ability to translate his outrage into legal action against his employ- er, Gordon Chevrolet in Garden City, Mich. “Honesty will get you into trouble every time,” said Joseph Golden, an employment lawyer in Southfield, Mich., a Detroit suburb.</br></br>“The law varies completely from state to state,” said Wayne N. Outten, an employee rights lawyer in New York. “In New York, employers can terminate an employee for any kind of reason or for no reason.” ' New York is known as one of the toughest of the “employment-at-will” states. Employees are protected only by statutes that outlaw certain activities, like discrimination, and, for employees with enough clout, foresight or luck, by contracts and explicit personnel policies.</br></br>Mr. Darcy would have done better to get fired in California, which is as far removed from New York in employee rights as it is in geography. Cliff Palefsky, an employment lawyer in San Francisco, fired off several possible strategies for an employee in Mr. Darcy’s predicament. “You have one, two, maybe three theories,” he said: Argue that Mr. Darcy’s comment falls under a California statute that protects political activity or that the termination was for a reason that violates “public policy,” what most people would find morally reprehensible.</br></br>A third possible strategy arises from California’s status as a so-called “just cause” stale, meaning employers generally must give a good, performance-related — or “just cause” — reason for terminating an employee. “In California, companies can agree expressly or create a reasonable expectation in the employee’s mind that they won’t be terminated without good cause,” Mr. Palefsky said.

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U.S. Judge Dismisses One Federal Bias Suit Brought Against Seal's: Alabama Complaint Dismis:. A Federal district judge has dismissed a discrimination suit that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed in New York last year against Sears, Roebuck & Company.</br></br>The dismissal decision was issued by Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, who ruled in Federal District Court in Manhattan that the commission’s original discrimination charge had not been properly signed. The judge said that the charge had been signed by a commissioner whose appointment had expired.</br></br>Judge Duffy observed that “the commission can institute this action again, providing it does so properly." The case involved allegations that Sears had discriminated against black and Hispanic applicants for jobs at retail stores in Brooklyn and White Plains.</br></br>The New York complaint was one of five cases that the commission filed against Sears. The other charges were made in Chicago, Atlanta, Memphis, Tenn., and Montgomery, Ala.</br></br>Judge Duffy, who signed his decision last Friday, stressed that Federal District Judge Robert E. Varner dismissed the Alabama complaint on similar grounds last month. A motion by Sears to dismiss a similar complaint in Atlanta has been rejected.

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N ASSAU TO OFFER JOB GUARANTEES: COUNTY ITSELF WOULD PROVIDE WORK Fi. MINEOLA, L. I., Sept. 28 — Nassau County hopes to have in operation by the first of the year a pilot program that would channel new welfare applicants through an office that would guarantee employment.</br></br>Under the program, any welfare applicant able to work would get special counseling to assist him in gaining employment and would be guaranteed a "decent" job, either in private business or, as a last resort, in the county govemna.</br></br>“I* an applicant is or can be rained to be employable, the program could interrupt the welfare cycle even before it gets started,” said Elwood Taub, the program’s originator and director of the recently instituted Nassau County Manpower Development Office.</br></br>Those who cannot work will be referred to the Welfare Department for the traditional type of aid, but those who can work will be trained, if necessary, and placed in jobs. Nassau’s welfare rolls currently carry 37,300 people out of a total population of 1,400,000.</br></br>Nassau has been working on the establishment of such a program since July'l, when the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity granted the county $39,000 for planning, staff and cost studies. At the same time, Mr. Taub was appointed as director of the county’s new manpower development office.

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Current and Former Xerox Employees File Bias Charges. The participants in a bias case against Xerox include, from left. Cliff Brooks, Frank Warren, Alicia Dean-Hall and Tammy Johnson.</br></br>Eighteen former and current sales representatives for the Xerox Corporation are filing charges with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, contending that they were discriminated against on the basis of race, according to the lawyers representing them Eleven of those complaints were filed yesterday.</br></br>Describing Xerox’s sales organization as a “boys’ club" and a “buddy-buddy system,” the sales representatives, who are black and Hispanic, say white managers routinely excluded them from opportunities that would allow them to earn higher commissions and to advance They contend that Xerox assigned them to the least desirable sales territories and would not give them the most lucrative accounts</br></br>Xerox, which enjoys a reputation for emphasizing diversity and being one of the best companies for minorities, has a strict policy prohibiting discrimination, according to a company spokeswoman While the company said it was unaware that the complaint had been filed, it said that it was looking into claims made in earlier correspondence with the employees’ lawyers The company believes there is no substance to the allegations, according to the spokeswoman.</br></br>ropolitan area, also plan to bring private lawsuits against the company, possibly seeking class-action status The commission, which could grant the employees the right to bring a federal lawsuit, could also bring its own lawsuit on the employees’ behalf The commission would not confirm or deny that the complaint had been filed Many of the black employees making the charges said that they were given poor assignments, in compari- son with their white counterparts, even when those people had less experience or had demonstrated less ability to sell Xerox products When territories were reorganized, as they were at least once a year, the minority sales representatives say they were given areas shunned by their white colleagues When Shawn D. Byrd joined Xerox m 1997, for example, he was given a territory that involved selling to government offices and colleges, which

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MARKET WEEK: PUTTING OFF PLANS FOR VACATION. Traders hoping for an easy week during the summer doldrums may not get the respite they seek. A continual stream o! economic releases is in store, capped by the monthly employment report on Friday.</br></br>After last week’s market losses, Wall Street Is likely to be paying very close attention. Any hint that economic conditions are turning sour could send prices lower.</br></br>“We have a ton of numbers that could be real market movers," said Robert B. Macintosh, chief economist at the Boston fund manager Eaton Vance.</br></br>The first batch arrives Tuesday and includes personal income and spending for June. The component that could be especially critical Is the core personal consumption expenditures deflator.</br></br>The P.C.E. deflator is deemed by many aficionados of economic statistics to be a more accurate tool than the more widely followed Consumer Price Index. It is thought that the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernankc, pays particularly close attention to It.

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Suit Alleges Bias in U.S. Job Testing. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 —■ A group of black Federal employes filed suit here today charging that the principal test that qualifies college graduates for Federal employment and promotion was culturally and racially discriminatory.</br></br>The suit, challenging the Federal Service Entrance Examination, was filed in United States District Court in behalf of eight employes of the Chicago Regional Office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.</br></br>Named a« defendants in the class action suit were the three Civil Service commissioners and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, George Romney.</br></br>The auit contended that the examination “has served systematically to exclude qualified blacks and members of other minority groups from obtaining managerial and professional level positions in the Federal service, and has by other means denied plaintiffs and their class equal employment opportunities.”</br></br>The plaintiffs said the examination violated the equal opportunity guarantees of the Fifth Amendment to the Con stitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, several executive orders and the regulations of the Civil Service Commission and H.U.D.

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Carpenter Bequeaths His Life's Savings For a Scholarship at Manhattan College. For nearly nine year*, Manhattan College was more than just a place of employment to John Byrne. It was his name— he lived on the campus—and the Christian Brothers who taught there and the young men who studied there, were his friends.</br></br>But John Byrne, who worked as the college carpenter for $45 a week, plus room and board, was a quiet man. Although his blue eyes would light up when anyone would stop to talk, he was not one to talk about himself or how he felt. And so, no one really knew how much Manhattan College meant to him until after he died Feb. 21.</br></br>Then it was discovered that the 69-year-old master carpenter had left an estimated total of $13,000 to $15,000, the bulk of his life savings, to the college.</br></br>John Byrne wanted the money to be used for a special purpose—and it will be. It will go to set up a scholarship in memory of his close friend, Brother Colmas Stanislaus, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds at the college. Brother Stanislaus, under whom Mr. Byrne worked, died Deo. 5 at the age of 74. The following month Mr. Byrne fell ill, and six weeks later he died.</br></br>He became an American citizen in 1918, but when he cam* to this country could not be ascertained. He never married and was not believed to have any relatives here. He lived for many years in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx.

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Rehabilitation 1969: Year Seemed the Most Successful Yet But Picture Was Not Quite So Bright. On the surface, last year appeared to be the most succccsjful in the nation’s history for rehabilitation, but actually the picture was not as bright as it seemed. In 1969 the program of vocational rehabilitation operated by the states and the Federal Government achieved a record by rehabilitating 241,390 disabled Americans into gainful employment.</br></br>The record was established despite the curtailment of both Federal and state funds for services to handicapped persons during the first half of the calendar year. It represents an increase of 16 per cent over the year’s previous total ot 207,918.</br></br>For the eighth consecutive year, Pennsylvania led the -na tion in the number of disabled persons rehabilitated, with 16, 544. California ranked second with 14,450, followed by Illi nois with 13,410. In the rate of persons rehabilitated in terms of state population, the District of Columbia ranked first with 339 per 100,000. West Virginia was second with 323, followed by South Carolina with 290.</br></br>The program, which will observe its 50th anniversary in June, has thus far rehabilitated more than 2.3 million physical ly and mentally handicapped persons into employment.</br></br>The funds shortage also seriously hampered the expansion of medical rehabilitation cen ters, vocational rehabilitation centers and sheltered workshops from which the state vocational rehabilitation agencies purchase services on behalf of their clients.

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House Votes to Prohibit Employing Illegal Aliens. WASHINGTON, June 12 — Supporters of a comprehensive immigration bill made substantial progress today in the House of Representatives, which voted to prohibit the hiring of illegal aliens by employers of four or more persons. By a vote of 321 to 97, the House approved the ban on employment of illegal aliens, a central provision of the bill.</br></br>Under the bill, an employer would be required to ask all job applicants for documents to verify that they were citizens or aliens authorized to work in the United States. An employer, could, for example, satisfy his responsibility by examining an applicant’s Social Security card and driver’s license.</br></br>The House today also voted, 242 to 155, to establish a telephone verification system for employers checking the Social Security numbers of applicants. The amendment was offered by Representative Sam B. Hall Jr., Democrat of Texas, who said employers could call a “toll-free government agency telephone number’’ to determine whether a Social Security number was “invalid, defunct or inaccurate. ”</br></br>The employer would then have a “complete defense” against any charges against hiring illegal aliens, he said. Mr. Hall said this procedure was like the one used thousands of times every day by merchants to check credit card transactions.</br></br>The premise of the bill is that illegal aliens come to the United States mainly to get jobs and that denying them jobs would curtail such immigration. The bill would also offer legal status to illegal aliens who have lived in this country continuously since Jan. 1, 1982. In addition, the bill would make it easier for farmers to bring workers into the countrylegally for seasonal

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U.S. Measure of Unemployment Raises Doubts Over Its Accuracy: .... Many economists and workplace experts are dissatisfied with the way the Federal Government measures trends in employment.</br></br>The unemployment rate, determined in a monthly survey of 59,000 households by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, once was the pivotal measurement of job needs and social distress. Now, some experts say, this measure understates the true number of unemployed and the hardships faced by some people counted as employed. The bureau’s other major monthly survey, a recently expanded survey of</br></br>Earlier this year, Dr. Janet L. Norwood, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, told a House subcommittee conducting hearings on the nation’s unemployment measurements, “We know that the unemployment rate by itself does not always reflect adequately the problems experienced by some groups of our population.”</br></br>The unemployment rate is important because it is used as a key indicator of national economic health and because funds under a number of Federal programs designed to assist workers and communities in economic distress are</br></br>The two surveys made by the statistical bureau are designed to complement each other, so that one will illuminate areas of the economy that the other misses.

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STATE BIAS BODY GETS MORE CASES: 'SUBSTANTIAL UPSURGE' NOTED BY .... The State Commission Against Discrimination reported yesterday a “substantial upsurge” in the number of complaints of discrimination in employment, housing and places of public accommodation.</br></br>Charles Abrams, commission chairman, said the increase was not owing to a rise in intolerance but to other factors.. He said they included: <IA greater awareness by members of minority groups of the existence of the commission and of their rights under state anti-bias laws.</br></br>^Expansion of the commission’s powers in the last four years, giving it jurisdiction over discriminatory practices in places of public accommodation and certain types of housing.</br></br>•1 Greater efforts by the commission to protect members of minority groups in employment, housing and public accommodations, especially in upstate areas.</br></br>Mr. Abrams said the commis-t sion's complaint load had risen from a low of sixty-two in the first quarter of 1951 to a high of 347 in the first three months of this year. The agency was established in 1945 as the first of its kind in the nation.

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New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 25,1962;. WASHINGTON, July 24—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People asked Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg today to withhold Federal funds from state employment services that discriminate against Negroes.</br></br>In a one-hour meeting with the Secretary, officials' of the association also asked that the Bureau of Apprenticeship refuse to approve construction apprenticeship programs in which racial exclusion is practiced. They also asked Mr. ‘ Goldberg to take steps to stop discrimination in hiring of Negroes on construction work done here for the Government by private contractors.</br></br>Officials of the association who talked with Mr. Goldberg were Roy Wilkins, executive secretary; Clarance Mitchell, director of its Washington branch; Herbert Hill, national labor secretary; Robert L. Carter, general counsel, and Henry Moon, public relations director.</br></br>Earlier in the day they met with other Labor Department officials, including Mrs. Esther Peterson, an Assistant Secretary of Labor; Seymour L. Wolfbein, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Manpower; Edward E. Goshen, director of the Apprenticeship Bureau; Robert C. Goodwin, director of the Bureau of Employment Security, and Louis Levine, de</br></br>The association officials complained that several state employment services in the South, supported by Federal funds, followed a rigid pattern of segregation in their operations. Others in the North and West accept and fill job orders containing racial specifications, they said.

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The Archives Also Collects Lawsuits. WASHINGTON — The National Archives, staid repository of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and perhaps three billion other historical items, finds Itself at the center of several very current controversies. First there are the Nixon tapes, the disputes . over which seem destined to provide lifetime employment for a quarrel of lawyers. The latest development is a suit to compel the Archives to keep them secret. Then there are the Martin Luther King Jr. tapes. Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, tried to gain access to them in his unsuccessful attempt to raise doubts about the late civil rights leader and thereby block a national holiday memorializing him.</br></br>Finally, there is an argument over the structure of the National Archives itself as its approaches its 50th anniversary next year. Many historians maintain that it should revert to independent status and not continue as a division of the General Services Administration, which operates most Federal buildings. Charges that past G.S.A. administrators — among them Arthur Sampson, an appointee of President Nixon’s — interfered -with the Archives' independence have been behind the debate.</br></br>Shortly before resigning, Mr. Nixon reached an agreement with Mr. Sampson that his tapes would be left in the custody of the National Archives but that Mr. Nixon could determine which tapes might be destroyed, according to Congressional testimony. The agreement was reached without the knowledge of James B. Rhoads, who was then the chief of the archives. Congress intervened and abrogated the agreement, an action that was upheld by the Supreme Court, and the Nixon tapes have remained in the custody of the Archives.</br></br>Some of the tapes, in fact, have become national curios. Each day people go to the Archives and are given headphones with which they may hear Mr. Nixon saying to aides, "It is not easy, but it can be done," when asked whether money could be raised for the burglars who broke into the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate, the burglary that had set into motion the events that led to Mr. Nixon's resignation.</br></br>Congress mandated that the tapes and large numbers of related documents be kept in the Washington area. They are not in the Archives’ huge Romanesque building just off the Mall but rather across the Potomac River in Alexandria, Va., and it is there that 29 former Nixon Administration officials would like them to stay. The Nixon 29, as they are called by Archives employees, include Mr. Nixon’s press secretary, Ronald L. Ziegler; a speechwriter, Patrick Buchanan, and his budget director, Roy L. Ash. They maintain that their rights to privacy would be violated by release of the material, which Congress wanted done as soon as it was catalogued, and assert executive privilege as well. Federal District Judge Thomas Francis Hogan has promised to rule on the case by next Jan. 3.

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SHIPYARD FUTURE HERE HELD BLEAK: OFFICIALS TELL HOUSE HEARING RELIEI. A black picture of idle repair facilities and drastically curtailed employment rolls was given -to a House Maritime subcommittee yesterday by Staten Island shipyard operators.</br></br>All five yards in the borough reported that available work had dwindled far below the breakeven point, and officials declared that relief must come from somewhere if the building and repair facilities were to continue in operation.</br></br>The plight of the industry was outlined at a hearing by Representative John H. Ray, Republican of Staten Island, designed to learn the needs and potential of the shipyards with a view to their contribution in any future national emergency.</br></br>Sitting on the subcommittee with Mr. Ray were Representatives James J. Delaney, Democrat of Queens, and Francis M. Dorn, Republican of Brooklyn. The five yards represented were the Brewer Dry Dock Company, Bethlehem Steel Company, Coastal Drydock and Repair Corporation, Caddell Dry Dock and Repair Company and the O’Brien Brothers Shipyard Corporation. Also at the hearings were union representatives of the shipyard workers.</br></br>Speaking for Bethlehem, Richard Katzenstein said that the company’s Staten Island shipyard, which employed 10,500 persons at the peak of the wartime period, now had only 700 production men at work. Except for two dump scows recently ordered, the yard’s “new work” orders will be completed in two moniTis.

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2 LOCALS SHELVE MERGER IN I.L.A.: "DESPERATE' JOB SITIta™^. ^ear of worsening an already "desperate" employment situation on West Side piers caused the indefinite postponement yesterday of a merger of two longshoremen locals.</br></br>Last week, James Castellano, president of Local 1811 of the International Longshoremen’s Association, proposed a merger of his 500-member local with Local 824. About half the members of Local 1811 are out of work from the closing of most of the piers in their area, from 23d Street to 40th Street. Mr. Castellano called the situation "desperate.”</br></br>Almost all 2,000 members of Local 824 are employed on the piers north of 40th Street to 97th Street. John Bowers, head of that local, said he could not absorb 500 additional members without risking unemployment among his men.</br></br>Rumblings of discontent and :he fear of job losses by memsers of four other locals along :he West Side piers helped to leter the proposed merger. Mr. Castellano said, that representatives of locals along the North River from the Battery through 23d Street had voiced their objections to the merger as a threat, to their jobs.</br></br>The threat la inherent in a seniority system in which members with longer service records as longshoremen could apply for jobs beyond their so-called home local if they were not called for work in their local’s area..

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More Sick Workers, Less OSHA. What accounts for the big increase in job-related injuries and illnesses recently reported by the Labor Department? The Reagan Administration’s hostility to health and safety regulation, says the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Increased business activity and employment, says an analyst for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. The answer almost surely is both, but while the latter is inescapable, the former is inexcusable.</br></br>When more people are working, obviously more are risking job-related health problems. Public regulation can help, but the Administration wants neither to regulate nor help.</br></br>The regulator , is supposed to be the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Created in 1971 to reduce job illnesses and injuries, OSHA has never been a regulatory paragon. Under this Administration, however, it has become less a thorn in the side of business, as the President charges, than a cipher. Unless it can be energized and given clear direction, it won’t much matter why the worker health figures are getting worse.</br></br>The 12 percent increase in health problems in 1984 was the first in four years and the biggest since Government started collecting these data. Overall, workplace injuries and illnesses rose to 5.4 million in 1984 from 4.9 million in 1983, and the workdays thus lost rose to 3.7 per 100 workers, from 3.4.</br></br>Increased business activity undoubtedly was a factor. But the policies of the Administration also played a role'. From the beginning, its hostility toward OSHA has been undisguised. It has tried in a variety of ways to cripple the agency, in the interest of “getting Government off the back of business.’’

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4 to 6 Giant Companies Being Picked As Federal Target on .... Commission is selecting foi Jfces and to pay back wages special, concentrated attentior #foere warranted.</br></br>four to six giant national cor porations and 20 to 40 some what smaller companies that are'!'alleged to be among the nation’s most discriminatory |t| employers.</br></br>,l}p to half of the agency’s budget of about $40-million foi the. fiscal year that startec July i is expected to be devotee to investigations of the employment practices of these companies and to attempt to concili tristic that many of the targeted companies would be willing to 8tt!e with their employes, freeing to change their prac</br></br>“The whole climate is differt now, with oui* new enforcent powers and because of ,e A.T.&T. settlement,” he jid. “A.T.&T. had a wide psyt ological impact. It is being aken seriously. Most business Ifople and their lawyers ask $e now ‘What can we do to ivoid that kind of thing?’ ” a Mr. Brown said that the yjency had decided to target If the cases cannot be settled, the agency hopes to start litigation against the companies by the end of the fiscal year.</br></br>Some but not all of the companies have been selected, according to William H. Brown 3d, the commission’s chairman, in an interview in his office here.

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HAVANA FREEZES JOBS AT U.S. BASE: PREVENTS EMPLOYING OF NEW WORKERS AND RI. j UNITED STATES NAVAL BASE, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 8—The Castro Government has frozen the roster of Cuban workers at this base. It is preventing the employment of new workers as well, as the replacement of any of the 3,500 Cubans now on the Navy payroll '</br></br>Thus far the unannounced two-month-old policy has proved an “inconvenience” 5 to Navy operations but not yet a serious</br></br>Rear Admiral Edward J. O’Donnell, the base commander, and the members of his staff have been studying the feasibility of importing Navy specialists or United States civilians in case the labor situation becomes more stringent.</br></br>About fifty Cuban workers in surrounding Oriente Province have been forbidden to answer invitations to interviews in the last sixty days for jobs as electricians, telephone repairmen,</br></br>The invitations are still going out, many to Cubans with good past employment records here, but none are allowed onthe base. s-

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OUTPUT TO RELIEVE INFLATION IS URGED: LUBLIN IN U.N. ASKS NATIONS .... lAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., June 9 *—More than $6,000,000,000 was given or lent by the United States! to needy countries in 1946, Dr. Isador Lubin, United States representative on the United Nations Economic and Employment Commission, told his colleagues today.</br></br>Suggesting that the United Nations attack world shortages and inflationary pressures as the most immediate obstacles to economic stability, Dr. Lubin called for an "inventory” cataloguing the available facilities of each country as well as their needs.</br></br>The problem of shortages is not a local one. Dr. Lubin said. He listed five categories in which world-wide deficiencies exist—food, fuel, transport, productive equipment and certain raw materials.</br></br>The inventory should also show what individual countries are doing to relieve their shortages by increasing domestic production, Dr. Lubin emphasized.</br></br>Earlier in the meeting Emile de Selliers of Belgium had asked that countries having surpluses to sell —which today means chiefly the United States—assist countries depending on imports by buying more from them.

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BUSINESS SERVICES FOR WAR VETERANS. The Young Men’s Board of Trade of New York, 291 Broadway, actingas coordinator of the efforts of , business and industry, lists the fol1 lowing free services to aid veterans in career planning and employment:</br></br>ADVERTISING-—^Job Interviews conducted by Veterans Guidance In Advertising and Selling, Inc.. 103 East Thirty-fifth Street, will be held daily from 9:30 A. M. to 11:30 A. M. AGRICULTURE — individual counseling on training, employment, management and settlement, held daily from 10 A. M. to noon. 1 and 2 P. M. to 4 P. M.. Jewish Agricultural Society. 386 Fourth Avenue.</br></br>ART—Commercial art courses Covering sucn fields as advertising art. layout, industrial design illustration, photographic art. etc., will be established soon under the supervision of leading commercial and industrial art directors and executives. Those interested should submit inquiries In writing to the Veterans Guidance Committee of the Young Men’s Board of Trade of New York, 291 Broadway. 'New York City.</br></br>AVIATION — Representatives of the Industry available for counseling on opportunities at 7:30 P. M.. on the second and fourth Monday of each month, at Room 201, North Shore Bus Terminal Building. Flushing, Queens, sponsored by the Flushing Young Men's Board of . Trade. Hotel Sanford, Flushing.</br></br>CAREER PLANNING AND GENERAL GUID•ANCE—Discussion of the application of sales principles and Job-finding technique, including resumes, application letters and presentations, Is provided tonight and every Monday night. 7 P. M.. In the auditorium of the Veterans Service Center, 500 Park Avenue at Fifty-ninth Street, under the direction of the Veterans Guidance Committee of the Young Men’s Board of Trade.

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PRESIDENT PRAISES NEGRO TROOP GAIN; RENEWS F.E.P.C. BID: HIS .... WASHINGTON, May 22—Insistent on a Fair Employment Practices bill despite the Adjninistration’s defeat in the Senate last week, President Truman today issued a report on the progress in wiping out racial discrimination in the armed services and marked it recommended reading for Senators.</br></br>Acclaiming the achievements of his Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, Mr. Truman said the committee had shown what could be done in the "admittedly difficult field.”</br></br>Reporting to the Chief Executive on the results of twenty-two months negotiation with the Army, Navy and Air Force, the committee said that in the “reasonably near future” equal opportunity for all armed forces personnel would be assured.</br></br>The five-man committee is headed by Judge Charles Fahy, former Solicitor General, now of the United States Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia.</br></br>The fair employment proposal, the most controversial part of the President’s civil rights program in seeking to prevent discrimination in industry because of race or religion, was stopped In its tracks in the Senate Friday when a motion to limit debate was defeated, 52—32.

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Kirov: Traditional Yet Reworkable: DANCE. Almost three weeks ago, I suggested In these pages that Lady Bracknell had gained employment as ballet mistress to the Kirov Ballet. In “The Importance of Being Earnest" she says: "The two weak points in our age are its want of principle and its want of profile. The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin Is worn."</br></br>Kirov ballerinas often tilt their chins upward to start a dance, then again when changing gears during it and preparing for the next section, and finally when ending it. (Voilal) The effect tends to make them look defiant, defensive, immodest. Some of Lady Bracknell's disciples at the Kirov actually lift their chins until the jaw line is parallel to the floor. If the ballerina is moving forward at the time, especially in profile, that chin gives her the look of an advancing icebreaker.</br></br>In the Kirov’s three-week season that ended Sunday at New York City Center, one account of the first male-female adagio in the Shades scene of “La Bayadere" showed how Alina Somova, in one walking transition from stage left to stage right, kept hoisting her chin (in profile to the audience) as she followed the lover who had come to find her in this ballet Elysium. In consequence she was literally looking down her nose at him. House mannerisms like this make the Kirov’s kind of classicism seem the least sensible in the world.</br></br>For ail the company’s many virtues, it wits depressing how often Lite sum of each ballet felt negative rather than positive.</br></br>dancc-dance ballets, so few of which felt like real dancing — raised many questions, small and large.

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City's November Job Total Hits Bottom. New York City set another record low for employment in November, with 144,100 fewer jobs counted here than in November 1974, the State Department of Labor reported yesterday.</br></br>Allhough a small seasonal rise of 9,700 jobs from October pushed the employment total up to 3,307,800, that figure was lower than in any November since employment recordkeeping began in 1950.</br></br>In a wry comment. on the figures, a senior economist for the department said, ‘‘We are making some rather bleak economic history for the city in 1975.”</br></br>The job total—a vital indicator of the city’s economic health—slipped below 3 million in September to 2,290,300, and in October it recovered only to. 2,298,100. In those months, too, the lowest employment levels-since 1950 were recorded.</br></br>ber, 144,300 in October and 144,100 in November—is steeper than it was during the worst previous recorded period of job declines. That was in 1971, when the monthly losses from 1970 averaged 134,400.

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Domestic Work Demeaning?. Having recently arrived at an employment level where I both need and can afford household help, for the first time I understand my white acquaintances who spend so much time talking about "my cleaning woman.”</br></br>I am black, and most of "my cleaning women" have also been black. (The white ones were basically the same as the black, some better, some worse.)</br></br>I disagree with Joseph R. Washington Jr. [Op-Ed Nov. 27] that domestic work is necessarily demeaning. It is as valuable a sendee as many performed in a blue or white collar, and as deserving of respect and monetary compensation when well performed.</br></br>My mother did part-time work as a domestic to help finance my college . education without suffering any traumatic deterioration in her attitude toward whites. Often, the problem is that domestic workers are as incompetent at that job as in another requiring more formal training.</br></br>Feeling demeaned by the job, they are often hostile and grudging in performance. Most of all, since there are no clear standards for the job, neither employer nor employe knows what is expected of the other.

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For Employment Agencies, Long, Cold Summer: For Job Agencies, Long Cold Summer. Chairs for job applicants are empty at many employment agencies here. Between 25 and 50 such agencies have gone out of business this year.</br></br>The recession, with Its attendant cutback in the number of secretarial and middle management jobs available, has directly affected these agencies where it hurts. For whether their fees are paid by the employer—as they are now in the overwhelming preponderance of cases concerning professional and white-collar people here — or by the employe, the slowdown in the number of positions open has markedly reduced the income of these middle men in the job market.</br></br>"In the last six months our business has dropped about 20 per cent," says Larry Marshall, president of Marshall Consultants, Inc., which specializes in the marketing and communications fields. "On the other hand, the num "Wall Street has been In a very unenviable position in the past months," notes Anthony Kane, president of Anthony Kane, Inc.,, which handles thousands of jobs in the brokerage and banking areas. “We had a terrible second quarter and our volume was around 20 per cent off.”</br></br>The manifestations of this downturn from the lush times of early 1969 have spread throughout the business. For example, an estimated 25 to 50 agencies—out of the 750 or so in the city that place applicants in commercial and industrial jobs—are believed to have gone out of business so far in 1970.</br></br>Reports about layoffs of marginal placement counselors and excess clerical help by agenies are widespread.

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ISBRANDTSEN ASKS SEAMEN'S RESERVE: OPERATOR CALLS FOR ENLISTMENTS If. A program to overcome obstacles to full and expanding employment of American-flag shipping has. been submitted to the United States Maritime Commission by Hans J. Isbrandtsen, president of the Isbrandtsen Company, Inc., merchandising and ship owning concern, it was made known over the week-end.</br></br>In a_ letter to Vice Admiral W. W. Smith, chairman of the commission, Mr. Isbrandtsen urged that it submit his proposals to the new Congress.</br></br>Mr. Isbrandtsen recommended enlistment ofv qualified merchant marine personnel, both licensed and unlicensed, in the Coast Guard or Naval Reserve, the Government to bear part of the cost in return for having men available when required.</br></br>The shipowner contended that such a step would help to put the operating expenses of American companies on a competitive level, insure the availability of highclass personnel, give the seagoing men a satisfactory standard of living with security and permit a more orderly transition from peacetime to emergency status and vice versa.</br></br>Mr. Isbrandtsen again opposed operating-differential subsidies, but added that any cost differential should not be restricted, but applied to every American ship sailing in foreign trade. He also urged the end of restrictions on use of American tonnage. Mr. Isbrandtsen said the competitive law of demand and supply should rule.

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Temporary-Job Pioneer Giving Up Olsten Title. William Olsten, a pioneer in the temporary-employment business, is stepping down as chief executive of the Olsten Corporation at age 70, but plans to remain active as chairman.</br></br>Mr. Olsten will be succeeded by Frank N. Liguori, 43„ who is currently president and chief operating officer. His titles will now be vice chairman and chief executive.</br></br>Mr. Olsten’s son, Stuart, 37, has been named president and chief operating officer. The Olsten family owns 38 percent of the company’s stock, which is traded on the American Stock Exchange.</br></br>William Olsten started the business 40 years ago in New York City. Today, with revenue cf $761 million and 535 offices, the company, based in Westbury, L.I., is the third largest in the temporary-employment industry.</br></br>As World War II started, Mr. Olsten, who grew up in Yonkers, began working in the General Motors assembly plant in Tarrytown, N.Y., which had converted from making Chevrolets to assembling Avenger torpedo bombers. Mr. Olsten was in charge of the left wing, and his workers were mostly women, whom he trained.

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U.S. BARS FINANCING WESTCHESTER STUDY:. WHITE PLAINS, March 17—The Federal Labor Department today rejected a request by the Westchester District Attorney, Carl A. Vergari, for financial assistance through CETA, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, to investigate the county’s CETA program.</br></br>~ Don Kulick, associate regional administrator, said Washington guidelines prevented the use of Federal funds “for the chief legal office.* to carry out his general responsibilities.”</br></br>Mr. Kulick said, "If he thinks there is evidence of crime, it ocnooves him to investigate it with t.‘»s funds.” The Federal Labor Department Vjll begin its own review of the county CETA program on Monday.</br></br>Mr. Vergari—who said last week he had found evidence of "ptrvasive” corruption in the Westchester CETA operation, including misappropriation of funds and the hiring of ineligible persons—responded angrily to the rejection of his request. He had asked for $45,000 now and an undetermined additional grant later for extra investigators.</br></br>“I don’t think it’s right for the Federal Government to dump a $24 million pork barrel in our county that appears to be infected with abuse and corruption and then say we won’t give you help to investigate it,” he said.

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STATE 'RISK' LAW BARS 13 OF 141,686: SECURITY HEARING IS URGED TO.... Only thirteen persons have been disqualified out of 141,686 checked for state employment during three years’ operations* of the State Security Risk Law.'</br></br>The result was made known yesterday at a public hearing of the St;ate Committee on Puhlic Employe Security Procedures. Witnesses appearing called either for scrapping or drastically amending the law, first enacted during the Korean war in 1951, and now extended until next June 30.</br></br>Whitelaw Reid, chairman of the committee, said during the session at 14 Vesey Street that he hoped an interim report could be filed by Jan. 15, as requested by Governor Harriman.</br></br>The temporary statute provides for the summary removal of employes in state or local “security” agencies or positions in case of reasonable belief that they might endanger security. Mr. Reid noted that the state’s regular Civil Service Law prohibited the employment of anyone advocating forcible overthrow of government,, or belonging to an organization so advocating, but provided for court review in such cases.</br></br>Assailing the Security Risk Law as “unnecessary and undesirable,” Will Maslow, counsel to the American Jewish Congress, said the State Civil Service Commission actually began processing cases in November, 1953.

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PLAN BOARD DEAL OF MAYOR BACKED: CITIZENS UNION SUPPORTS HIS PROPOSE. Mayor O’Dwyer has been urged bv the Citizens Union to call a special meeting of the Board of Estimate in a second attempt to get that body to approve the: employment of Lawrence M. Orton as “expert consultant to the C y Planning Commission under a fiveyeS contract at an annual salary of $17,000. . J</br></br>The Mayor tried last Thursday to get the Board of Estimate to approve the proposed contract and vote the 585,000 appropriation required to finance it, but an objection bv Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons kept the item from being added to the calendar. Approval of the contract and appropriation would have paved the way for the Mayor to extend until Dec. 31 1956, the tenure of Jerry</br></br>Mr Finkelstein’s present tenure will expire Dec. 31, four months after the Mayor’s retirement from office to take a month’s vacation to await the result of President Truman's move to make him Ambassador to Mexico. It was the Mayor’s plan, once Mr. Orton had resigned from the commission to become its export consultant, to | appoint Mr. Finkelstein to the remainder of the Orton term and redesignate him as chairman of the planning agency.</br></br>In a letter to the Mayor, made public yesterday, Milton M. Bergerman, president of the Citizens Union, found this arrangement acceptable to the civic group, authough its irregularity was conceded.</br></br>“Reports have it," Mr,. Bergerman wrote, "that you intended also to appoint Chairman Finkelstein to Mr. Orton’s longer term on the commission so that his continuance in office would not be m ieopardy 'at the end of his present term next December. If this is correct, it would have the obvious beneficial effect of keeping the present efficiently working team of Finkelstein and Orton in the city planning picture together for the next five or six years.

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Two Jewish Leaders Score Minority Job Quotas: H.E.W. Is Urged to .... LOS ANGELES, June 29— The executive heads of two national Jewish organizations condemned today use of the preferential quota to equalize employment and educational opportunities for racial and ethnic minorities, calling it a distortion of antidiscriminaton policies.</br></br>Benjamin R. Epstein, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, and Mrs. Naomi Levine, acting executive director of the American Jewish Congress, called on the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to recast its antibias guidelines and repudiate “preferential treatment" in federally founded programs.</br></br>Addressing the annual plenary of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, the two leaders strongily supported “affirmative action" programs to upgrade minority opportunities. But they charged that the H.E.W., by allowing universities to establish preferential quotas in admissions and faculty hiring practices, was illegally sanctioning “discrimination in reverse."</br></br>The council is the coordinating body for nine major national Jewish oragnizations and local bodies in 92 cities that engage in intergroup relations activities. Three hundred specialists in the field are attending the sessions at the Century Plaza Hotel.</br></br>The subject of preferential treatment has become a controversial issue in the American Jewish community. Differences of opinion were reflected in today’s debate as the council debated a policy declaration that opposed all preferential quotas.

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Congress Study Links Social Security Rescue To Private Investment: .... WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 — The key to strengthening the financially troubled Social Security System is the stimulation of investment in private business, the Joint Economic Committee of Congress said today. It reasoned that increased investment would buoy the economy, increase employment and thus add to retirement funds.</br></br>“Retirement benefits are being threatened by inflation, unemployment and lagging productivity," the committee’s chairman. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, warned in releasing the staff report.</br></br>“If we revitalize our economy, we will have taken a long step toward restoring faith in our retirement programs," the Texas Democrat added.</br></br>The report said that the “top priority should be the development of an investment-based economic growth strategy” to encourage saving, capital formation and productivity.</br></br>The report said that despite Congres-sionally mandated increases in the payroll tax, the reserve levels of the old age and survivors’ trust fund, which covers nine out of 10 American workers, could be depleted by the end of 1981, assuming that high inflation and low economic growth rates persisted.

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Rep. Colmer Believed Successful in Blocking Antibias Job Bill for This Year. By MARJORIE HUNTER be overturned only by a special to The New York Times jority o fthe committee. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 — Mr. Colmer said today that Representative William M. Colhe would not schedule hearings appears to have succeeded m wjjj be made within the comblocking passage this year of mittee to force such action, a bill to give the Federal GovHouse leaders could bypass ernment power to enforce nonthe Rules Committee and seek discrimination in employment. action under suspension</br></br>Termini? the measure “a of the rulesHowever. this proterming tne measure a cedure wou,d require a two.</br></br>vicious bill, Mr. Colmer, chairthirds majority vote, and it is man of the House Rules Comhighiy doubtfui that there mittee, said today that he had wou)d be sufficient votes for no intention of allowing it to <.,,rh oetinn go to the House floor. sucn actl0n unlikely that backers of the October by a vote of 41 to 26. Speaker said that he supported bill could obtain sufficient sigIf the job bias bill does not the legislation.</br></br>Under the bill now stalled in the Rules Committee, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would be given the authority to issue cease-anddesist orders against discrimination in employment by either industry or labor unions. The order could then be reviewed by a Federal court of appeals.</br></br>scheduling hearings on die bill. With only weeks left before Legislation similar to the urged Mr. Colmer to allow the His decision on scheduling can Congress adjourns, it appears House bill passed the Senate in bill to go to the floor. The

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ECONOMIST DOUBTS SOCIALISTIC TREND: SLICHTER OF HARVARD BELIEVES .... Long-run trends are tending to produce an American economic structure characterized by high and more stable levels of employment and production, Prof. Sumner</br></br>Professor Slichter’s address, given at a meeting at the Commodore Hotel, was one of a group at closing sessions of the annual meetings of fourteen social science professional societies here. More than 5,000 scholars attended the sessions, the largest attendance in the histories of the societies.</br></br>Analyzing long-term economic trends, Professor Slichter differed sharply with colleagues who deplored what they considered tendencies or drifts toward socialism or a planned economy. Holding that neither present trends nor current conditions favored those alternatives, he maintained that an improved variety of capitalism was indicated.</br></br>Plowed-back earnings of corporations account for about half of the net savings of the community and those of unincorporated enterprises for a substantial part of personal savings, Professor Slichter said. The proportion of retained earnings would drop quickly in response to a decrease in investment opportunities, he believed, thus helping to prevent a drop in the rate of spending.</br></br>"The tendency of unions to raise the supply price of labor faster than managers increase output per man hour will be offset by a rise in prices," he believed, noting that special steps may have to be taken to bring this about.

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Oil Shortage-The Economy's New Puzzle: Oil Shortage. WASHINGTON—Last Tuesday, exactly a month after the eruption of war in the Middle East and a day before President Nixon’s energy message, the Administration started an urgent study to try to find out whether the output and employment of the American economy in 1974 would be held back not for the familiar reason of deficient demand but because of a shortage of petroleum.</br></br>It will be an economic exercise unlike anything since World War II because such a problem has simply not existed before.</br></br>“This sort of problem,” said Gary L. Seevers of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in an interview last week, "is something economists would not have dreamed of five or 10 years ago ”</br></br>Mr. Seevers and others emphasized that they have no idea at this point what the results of the study will be, and they concede that its. results cannot be definitive. Among other things, the sources of information on the oil supply are anything but perfect However, early guesses are that the limitation on total output, as measured by the gross national product, is unlikely to be as much as 2 per cent and will probably be considerably less than that.</br></br>The new exercise within the Government, at this stage, is essentially limited to revising the forecast for the economy for 1974 inflight of the new situation. The forecast, which is periodically updated, has not been published. But the Administration has belonged to the ‘‘soft landing” school—that is, moderate growth of the economy next year without recession.

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Texaco to Let U.S. Monitor Bias-Law Compliance. Avoiding a discrimination lawsuit by the Government, Texaco Inc. has agreed to a settlement under which a Federal agency will directly monitor the company’s compliance with employment laws, lawyers involved in the case said yesterday.</br></br>The settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission gives the agency the power to scrutinize every detail of Texaco’s hiring and promotion practices for the next five years to insure there is no discrimination against minority employees.</br></br>Under the agreement, which Government lawyers described as unusually broad, Texaco must provide annual reports to the employment commission on every job opening and promotion, as well as the race of every candidate considered for the positions. That will allow the Government to track the company’s practices in minority recruitment and advancement.</br></br>The settlement also provides for mediation if minority employees want their grievances heard by an independent party. Texaco has also agreed to allow the commission to inspect its records at any time, and interview all of its employees, to determine if any future violations of the law occurred.</br></br>James Lee, a regional lawyer for the employment commission, said that the measures demanded by the agency “reflects our serious concerns with the employment practices at Texaco.”

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Jobs Even More Out of Aliens’ Reach: A crackdown spurs churches and cities to try to help.. The Rev. Michael E. Kennedy meeting with illegal aliens at Our Lady Queen of Angels church in Los Angeles, one of two in the city that have become sanctuaries and informal hiring sites for illegal workers.</br></br>LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 — Immigrants having trouble getting work because employment of illegal aliens is prohibited are now finding it even harder because of a Federal crackdown on their makeshift hiring halls: street corners.</br></br>But several cities and churches in Southern California are exploring ways to help the workers find jobs.</br></br>Street-comer groups of men looking for landscaping, construction or other work paying $2 to $10 an hour and often lasting only a day have rapidly grown this summer as immigration authorities began to enforce a ban on employing illegal aliens that is part of the 1986 overhaul of immigration laws.</br></br>But immigration agents have arrested more than 600 illegal day workers in recent weeks in Orange and Los Angeles counties and have warned 72 employers that they could be fined and their vehicles confiscated for hiring and transporting illegal aliens. Immigration officials say the crackdown on street hiring has cut the crowds in half.

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NEWS OF TELEVISION: JOBS IN VIDEO WILL BE SCARCE OTHER ITEMS. THE employment outlook for newcomers attemptingto gain a foothold in the television industry is not overly bright, according to a study of the industry made by the Occupational Outlook Service of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department and released last week.</br></br>Although hundreds of technicians and other workers will be employed by the new television j stations expected to go on the air this year, competition for the jobs generally will be keen, the study shows, with technicians in perhaps the best position of all the major occupational groups.</br></br>The report points out that a majority of the present telecasters and applicants for TV permits also operate radio stations and that much of the TV work will be handled by the persons doing similar work on the AM outlets. However, technical personnel will be the chief beneficiaries of the expected expansion in number of television stations.</br></br>In discussing the situation in the New York City-Northeastern New Jersey Metropolitan Area the report has this to say: “In the long run TV operations and employment will probably continue to grow slowly. But the outlook for sound broadcasting is more clouded. Competition from television is likely to force some curtailment of operations in this branch of the industry in New ! York City;</br></br>“In any event, openings in staff positions above the clerical level will be few and very difficult to obtain in both television and AMFM broadcasting." FIGHT: When Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles square off against each other in Chicago for the heavyweight boxing title on Wednesday, sixteen to seventeen stations of the National Broadcasting Company television network will carry the proceedings. The Chicago outlet, however, will not be included in the line-up at the request of the promoters who are taking that means of insuring a maximum attendance from the local area.

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NEW OFFER FAILS TO WIN TEACHERS: PLANS FOR STRIKE GO ON AS ADDING OF I. The Superintendent of Schools announced yesterday that a budget allocation of $243,460 had been approved for the employment in February of 760 lunchroom assistants. The United Federation of Teachers, which has threatened a strike for Nov. 7, said the move, one of several by the Superintendent, was still not enough.</br></br>The employment of lunchroom aides to let elementary school teachers have free lunch periods is one of the issues. A federation spokesman said an agreement worked out between the organization and a committee of school superintendents had not been met.</br></br>Strike plans continued, with “honor picket” lines at more than seventy-five schools before j the schools opened in the morning. The purpose is to acquaint teachers with picket lines and to honor them.</br></br>“At the present time,” according to Superintendent John : J. Theobald, “there are 600 nonteachers serving on lunch duty in the board’s 191 special service [so-called difficult] schools. The new group will be assigned to the 380 non-special service schools or to additional elementary schools.</br></br>“Lunchroom assistants are certified for employment by the board’s bureau of lunches and are paid at a rate of $1.60 per hour serving between two and five hours per day. As part of their work they distribute milk to classes, register children for lunch service, collect milk and lunch moneys, keep lunch records and assist in the supervision of the lunchroom and adjacent school recreation areas during the lunch period.”

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STATE TO REQUIRE MINORITY HIRING: CONTRACTORS FOR BUILDING IN HARLEP. The State of New York will require contractors for its $20mlllion office building in Harlem to take positive steps to provide employment and training of minority-group members In the work force.</br></br>The requirement, detailed In an addendum to specifications for the building, was made public yesterday. It was haiied by James Haughton, director of the Harlem Unemployment Center, a private group, who called it a "significant breakthrough” for black and Puerto Rican workers In on-the-job training in the building trades.</br></br>Benjamin Frank, deputy commissioner of general services for the state, also characterized the specification as a pioneering step that would put into practice promises that Governor Rockefeller had made regarding community participation In the Harlem project.</br></br>The state is scheduled to recalye bids on ths new office building on Jim. 15 In Albany, according to John Silvers, program coordinator for the project. The 23-story structure will be situated between 125th and 126th Streets, at Seventh Avem«, in the heart of Harlem’s business district.</br></br>Under terms of the specification addendum, the state will require each successful bidder to prepare a plan of affirmative action to insure equal employ? ment opportunity. The plan, it specifies, must provide "for the participation and training of as many members of minority groups living in disadvantaged areas as possible in the project work force throughout the course of construction.”

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C.I.A. Lie Detector Said to Outwit Itself: C.I.A. LIE DETECTOR HELD INEFFECTIVE. The use of the polygraph, or lie detector, in pre employment clearance tests by the Central Intelligence Agency and other Government intelligence agencies was called ineffective today.</br></br>Dr. Stefan D. Possony of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution said the lie detector tended to weed out the active, all-American, conscientious and virile types most urgently needed as spies.</br></br>Conversely, he said, overreliance on the lie detector helps open the way for employment of homosexuals, laggards and</br></br>C.I.A. and some other intelligency forces use the lie detector routinely as a part of pre-employment testing, as well as in many other situations. One point of emphasis 4s usually sex.</br></br>In a study prepared for Congressional investigators, Dr. Possony said the trouble was that the lie detector measured mainly emotional reactions, such as fear.

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Fixing Unemployment Fixing Unemployment . White House after a four-year increase in civilian employment of less than 5 percent. Warren G. Harding in 1920, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Bill Clinton in 1992 were all able to oust the incumbent party from the executive office when increases in civilian employment were 3.1, -15.7, 3,3,3.1 and about</br></br>Since the Great Depression of the 1930’s no President has been re-elected when the civilian unemployment rate for October of the election year was in excess of 7.3 percent.</br></br>Gerald R. Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George Bush in 1992 were all ousted when the unemployment rate was in the vicinity of</br></br>The dilemma a President faces is that the United States electorate also dislikes high inflation. Since Woodrow . Wilson kept us out of World War I in • 1916 no political party has been able to get re-elected when the annual inflation rate for the consumer price index was in excess of 4.5 percent. Harding in 1920, Richard M. Nixon in 1968, Mr. Carter in 1976 and Ronald Reagan in 1980 were all successful at ousting the incumbent party when consumer price index inflation rates were 4.7 percent to 15.8 percent.</br></br>How much can Mr. Clinton reduce the unemployment rate without unleashing an inflationary spiral that might be self-defeating?

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Philharmonic and Musicians Agree on Year-R ound Contract. Musicians of the New York Philharmonic will be guaranteed year-round employment with four weeks of paid vacation under terms of a new agreement announced yesterday.</br></br>The agreement will begin at the start of the new season in September. It will be the first time that an entire symphony orchestra in the United States will operate on a 52-week basis.</br></br>| The new contract places in [jeopardy the Lewisohn Stadium [Orchestra. The concerts have been held during the summer on the City College campus for more than 40 years. The Stadium Orchestra is made up largely of Philharmonic members.</br></br>Sophie Untermeyer, associate director of the Stadium Concerts, said yesterday that this year’s program would go on as usual, but that "some change” is envisioned for 1965.</br></br>Among the "big three” of major orchestras—the Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra — the Boston Symphony contract guarantees a 50-week season for 1964-65, with four weeks paid vacation. The Philadelphia last year announced a 52-week contract to begin in the 1965-66 season.

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Praise for the Court's Unpredictability. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Once again, the Burger Court has confounded its critics. The most recent batch of cases, the last to be decided during the tenure of the retiring Chief Justice, defies ideological classification. On issues ranging from capital punishment to sodomy, press reporting of judicial proceedings to tasteless speech at high school assemblies, racial preferences in employment to the separation of Government powers in the task of budget control, the Court has produced a mosaic of decisions that no one could have predicted. Perhaps that is as it should be, a fitting valedictory for an era in which the Supreme Court managed to please neither the left nor the right, neither the politicians nor the academy.</br></br>Conservative politicians’ reaction to the Burger Court is especially interesting. The political right is frustrated that a Court appointed almost entirely by Republican Presidents (it has been 19 years since a Democrat named a Justice) should take a measured, complex view of such constitutional issues as religion in the public schools, abortion, affirmative action and capital punishment.</br></br>titled to appoint judges throughout the Federal judiciary whose decisions on these and other issues are predictably in consonance with conservative political ideology.</br></br>The unpredictability of the Burger Court is, in my view, one of its greatest strengths. The constitutional tradition of the United States, a tradition virtually all political factions have a stake in preserving, was built by judges whose decisions disappointed the Presidents who appointed them. Had such Justices as John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Evans Hughes been more predictable in the way they decided cases, our constitutional law would be very different than it is, and much the poorer.</br></br>Of course, not all forms of unpredictability contribute to the development of a vital constitutional tradition. The political community has a right to expect from its judges some fixed points of reference in the way the Constitution is interpreted.

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16 G. O. P. LEADERS TIE F.E.P.C. TO PARTY: ASSERT REPUBLICAN VICTORY .... WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Sixteen prominent Republicans, most of them officeholders, declared today that a Republican victory in November would speed enactment of a Fair Employment Practices law with adequate enforcement powers.</br></br>F. E. P. C. law, but the group,) which includes some of the gen-' eral’s strongest backers, defended their claim on the basis of their interpretation of the party’s 1952 civil rights plank.</br></br>The plank promises the party will prove its good faith to minority groups “by enacting Federal legislation to further just and! equitable treatment In the area of. discriminatory employment practices."</br></br>Members of the group stated I further that they "believe. F. EJ: P. C. and other Federal legislation against discrimination and segregation to be entirely constitution-) al" and “see no interference “in states where adequate laws are in effect and where Federal and state laws and administration can Be coordinated."</br></br>E. Driscoll of New Jersey and I Senators Irving M. Ives of New York, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and ' Leverett Saitonstall of Massachu

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New Team With Old Mandate: N.Y.C. Schools Education. item ^“passed”routine [y. The week before, the board 1 ad announced, to no one’s great £ urprise, that it would appoint Irving Anker, now the Deputy and Actin;; Cha cellor, to the school syste n’s post at an annual salary of !53 Then the board, again as it s; would, approved Items 36, 3 38, which created and filled new key headquarters posit The board’s actions makr been short on drama or cer but they were not lacking ii si ficance. For Mr. Anker and his leagues—the three official y ignated last week and othe ^ to be named—will make upT"l “new team” in charge of tion’s largest and most ___</br></br>The job the team faces igrfSHmWill be evaluated a^dr? dable, to say the least. Th§r8Sf§8|s developed, system has I.I million #i#£redo Mathew Jr„ wraiT’.7““ taught by more than 50,00&ea&clihe Office of Confl^MyP[lva*® sessions when he ers in 900 schools reguIate8ch§ro82District Affairs, whf§l# wwl board Was wrong On an community school boards lurid thetral headquarters assliethe central board. Budgetary FtasetiBeJiool districts.</br></br>ift&dversees the activitie§y$fefHeat least immediately. lp t nnninnnc centrally admifiCBttifttI& many of the Scribner proobservers hav^fflgldschooIs* grams and, he says, give top educa whether the system is reallyTMifnajor posts still to htoftftlegriority to improving instrucageabie. ---m addition to that of tRgf TOf under-achievers and lifting</br></br>came here from Vermont cpfiDgXftrtas (including scho«01e»foVlth the new headquarters office as the city’s first CHaaitditaapped and problem strutpflujte, he will concentrate on (the post replaced that o&rfiMerpersonnel. The latt^afeyfgioperational procedures more city and to make school dffcgj&nabusiness and administration, ization work. He went on fcflanjefibol buildings—will continue leave this spring after hq0haj^ a headed by their present falling-out with the board, executive directors, Joseph A. KraMr. Anker, who form^ afaj Hugh McLaren Jr. sumes the top post next Sunday, .</br></br>well as a newly-fashiohed^eh?^Fe<er» a 62-year-old veteran that is supposed to make th£%d$e<Y-ears service in the system, for goals more attainable *iffro&gfikground would appear to better management and edifiJSfldhafrfrn as an Establishmentplanning; a reorganized he is no defender of the ters structure. Mr. Anker Sfeat»iU}uo. When a reporter recentacquainted with headquartdjs, dsfced him whether he was a ing come up through the rJtrdttiitional educator or an innovaUnder the new structurtaQr.tMre Anker said he was neither will be four new “educationaSJftaOfhe favored utilizing the best fices at headquarters to go ©fitthfchfcld and new approaches to three existing “managerial1’edlfitaSSn.

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Press I: Newspaper Jobs Vanishing As Advertising Disappears. IN the last 18 months, employment in the nation’s newspaper industry has fallen on a scale probably not seen since the worst days of the Depression.</br></br>And a recent survey of newspaper executives by Alex. Brown & Sons, a Baltimore investment firm, suggests that more jobs may be lost because the Christmas advertising season looks "pretty grim” and that even a mild recovery is not expected to come any sooner than well into 1992.</br></br>While there have been periodic stretches of hard times for newspapers when advertising fell off, they have not led to widespread layoffs, employee buyouts and job freezes. For instance, the total number of newspaper jobs continued to grow from 1980 to 1985, despite the recession in the early 1980’s.</br></br>“This one is a whole new story,” said David J. Eisen, research and information director of the Newspaper Guild, who said his union had lost nearly 10 percent of its jobs since the middle of last year. The Guild represents mostly news, advertising and business-office workers at 140 newspapers and about 60 other news organizations.</br></br>After World War II, employment in the newspaper industry grew steadily and virtually without interruption. Indeed, newspaper jobs hit an all-time high of 479,000 in June 1990.

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House Group Invites All-Star Cast To Appear at Hearings on an FEPC: .... Subcommittee Hopes Witnesses Prominent in Many Fields Will Spur Interest in Long Series Opened by Congress Members</br></br>WASHINGTON. May 10—In a move to whip up public interest in the Administration’s fair employment practices progTam, public hearings in the House began today and will be continued at least three weeks.</br></br>The first two days have been reserved for Members of Congress. The Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, the Secretary of Labor, Maurice J. Tobin, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the AFL’s William Green, the CIO’s James Carey, Henry A. Wallace and Eric Johnston have been invited to appear.</br></br>Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. of New York, who heads the Education and Labor subcommittee that is holding the hearings, acknowledged that in most cases no request for a hearing had been made, but that the invitation was extended. The subcommittee also said that “either Nelson or Winthrop Rockefeller" would appear.</br></br>In general, however, the witnesses will be broadly representative of labor, industry, the church, civic groups and other organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People and the Civil Liberties Union.

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JOH OPPORTUNITIES IN STATE SURVEYED: FIELD DIRECTOR OF PLACEMENT UN. Improved employment opportunities as compared to a year ago were reported yesterday by Stephen Mayo, field director of the placement division of the New York State Department of Labor.</br></br>Mr. Mayo spoke at an occupational outlook conference arranged by officials of the City College Midtown Business Center to start a series of public “career clinics.” They will be held at the center, 430 West Fiftieth Street, today, tomorrow and Thursday from 2 to 8 P. M. The clinics will provide free interviews with business persons for men and women who de “Here my list ends. This does not mean that there are not some openings in practically every occupation. But it does mean that from our knowledge at the employment service in all these and other occupations, the number of applicants exceeds the volume of vacant jobs.”</br></br>Dr. Robert A. Love, director of the Evening and Extension Division of the City College School of Business, presided.</br></br>“The reason is that the l£bor force in 1949 rose by about 60,000 as the result of increased population and completion of schooling. The number of jobs is failing to keep up with the increasing numbers in the labor force. We are still a growing nation and unless employment expands year by year, our unemployment will rise.”</br></br>Mr. Mayo listed several professional and technical fields that he said had more openings than applicants to fill them, based on the experience of the state employment service.

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MIDDLE ATLANTIC The Marhetpljice ' . According to an economic pjjpfile by the Baltimore-Wash-ington Regional Association, the Baltimore-Washington area has one of the highest concentrations of scientists and engineers in the country. Gov. Dick Thornburgh of Pennsylvania has also recently proposed a “Ben Franklin Partnership,” a program that supports the development of advanced technology development in Pennsylvania.</br></br>With the move toward advanced technology, liberal-arts and social-science students are being urged to develop skills in technical areas. Connie Heginbotham, director of placement for the American University, in Washington, said: “There are jobs available for every major. But companies also want students to have some data-management sophistication — not as a major, but some understanding. ”</br></br>Continued development is expected in the^ervice industries, including hotels, motels, restaurants, transportation, banking, finance, insurance and medical profes-i sions.</br></br>The least promising fields appear to be in manufacturing industries. The shutdown of steel mills in Pennsylvania has caused that state to set up programs to help unemployed steel workers find new careers. According to Michael Moyle, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, the steel workers are resistant: “Many seem to think that the alternative would be a minimum-wage job at a fast-food restaurant. ’ ’</br></br>In Virginia, the textile, furniture, chemicals, and autoparts industries have been the hardest hit, according to Bill Mezger of the Virginia Employment Commission. This has left Virginia’s small and medium cities with higher jobless rates than its larger population areas, experiencing a boom from defense money. There has been a 3,200-person increase in Federal employment in Virginia at a time when the Government has been cutting back.

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U.S. Issues Rules Today on Ban Of Bias in Construction Hiring. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—The President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity will issue new regulations tomorrow to carry out the Presidential order banning racial discrimination on Federally assisted construction projects.</br></br>The Presidential order extending the authority of the committee to Federally assisted projects was issued on June 22. Until then, the committee was responsible for overseeing enforcement of the Presidential ban on discrimination in Federal and Federal-contract employment.</br></br>The regulations provide that applicants for Federal grants, loans, insurance or guarantees must agree to require contractors and subcontractors to sign an equal employment opportunity pledge.</br></br>The pledge commits the contractors not to discriminate and, in addition, to "take affirmative action to insure that applicants are employed and that employes are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color or national origin." or promotion to cover all com ernment agency ^ involved, struction being carried on under These give information on the</br></br>It covers, for example, Fedagency to judge whether he is erally assisted highway and hoscomplying with the order, pital construction, as well as Any employe or job applihome construction done through cant may file written comVeterans Administration or plaints of discrimination withFederal Housing Administrain 90 days. The regulations intion mortgages. struct the supervising agencies

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ARTHRITICS TO GET TRAINING FOR JOBS: FUND AND L. I. HOSPITAL SET UP A.... The New York Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation and the Long Island Jewish Hospital at New Hyde Park, L. I., (announced yesterday a joint program to rehabilitate persons crippled by arthritis so that they could again find regular employment.</br></br>Starting next month, the hospital, with $100,000 from the foundation, will provide residents of Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties with opportunities to learn a new trade on the hospital premises. The patients will receive training in skills in use at the hospital, I ranging from typing and carpentry to electrical maintenance. #</br></br>Dr. Robert H. Manheimer, medical director of the foundation, said that a vocational and placement counselor would be stationed at the hospital for the three years of the program. He would study each patient and follow his training to the point where the patient once again could begin competitive employment outside the hospital.</br></br>"The project at the Long Island Jewish 'Hospital is deI signed to demonstrate that any community with a moderatesized general hospital can carry out a full vocational rehabilitation program which will end with the patient getting a. job and holding it,” Dr. Man-1 heimer said.</br></br>The program at the hospital will be supervised by Dr. Joseph G. Benton, physician-incharge of its Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.

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State Helping Laid-Off Staff In Campaigns. BOSTON, Nov. 18 (AP) — Workers laid off from the Presidential campaign of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis can turn to his administration’s employment program for help in finding new jobs. Unemployed workers of the campaign for Vice President Bush are welcome, too.</br></br>State officials said this might be the first time the job program had moved to help laid-off campaign workers.</br></br>A total of 250 people lost their jobs at the Democratic campaign, which had its headquarters in Boston.</br></br>“This is standard procedure,” said Michelle Andrews, director of communications for the State Employment and Training Office. “It’s something we try to do whenever there's a sizable layoff.”</br></br>State officials plan to meet Tuesday with campaign workers to provide job counseling, information on unemployment insurance benefits and help in finding another job.

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VOLUNTEERS FIND JOBS FOR ELDERLY: NASSAU COUNTY GROUP AIDS PERSONS 50 OR OL]. HEMPSTEAD, L. I., Dec. 3— Employment opportunities restricted to person 50 years old or older are being provided by a voluntary group here called Senior Consultants of Nassau County.</br></br>The group, which averages ten to fifteen placements a months for persons seeking full-time or part-time employment in business or industry, is seeking to expand its membership because it has more jobs than it can fill.</br></br>The membership, which fluctuates monthly because of employment opportunities, consists mainly of persons in their sixties. The oldest is 86, and several are in their seventies and eighties. A 76-year-old man from Williston Park recently</br></br>The group was organized in June, 1953, by fifteen executives, . college professors and laymen who offered their services as consultants to Long Island business concerns. When it was discovered that businesses preferred to work with established consulting concerns the group decided to help older persons find jobs.</br></br>Employment for members is ' obtained through personal contacts with prospective employers, through a staff of speakers and by publicity. There are no charges or fees to members or employers, and no salaries are paid. The only cost to members is $10 annual dues.

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JOB RIGHTS PANEL TARGET AT INQUIRY: HOUSE UNIT CITES BACKLOG OF CASES. WASHINGTON, May 12—The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, despite a larger budget and staff is processing fewer complaints than a year ago and the number of pending cases is approaching a record of 120,000, a Congressional committee reported today.</br></br>Representative Augustus F. Hawkins, Democrat of California, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities, said at a hearing today that employees who send grievances to the commission must wait two to seven years for processing of their complaints.</br></br>The decline in performance by,the agency, which oversees complaints of job discrimination in the private sector, has occurred despite 200 added positions and a budget increase of $8.5 million, Mr. Hawkins said.</br></br>He made the disclosures at a hearing where the subcommittee heard testimony from the? outgoing chairman of the commission, Lowell W. Perry, on the management troubles of the, 11-year-old agency.</br></br>Chairman Testifies Mr. Perry, who resigned as chairman effective May 15, afteronly one year, was called to testify on disclosures of alleged mismanagement in a series of internal audit reports he commissioned last May.

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A Demand to Be More Than Just Office Girls'. As many female office workers of this city see themselves, they are underpaid, subjected to employment exploitation and sexual harassment, often prohibited from joining unions or receiving overtime pay, rarely accorded respect, locked out of promotions and discriminated against because they’re black, Hispanic, too old or too young.</br></br>About 280 secretaries, typists, stenographers, receptionists, bookkeepers and administrative assistants filled the auditorium of the Y.W.C.A.’s Central Branch Wednesday evening for a speakout sponsored by Women Office Workers. ’</br></br>Their voices were loud and angry as they described their lot to a panel of six officials of Federal, state and city employment-rights agencies.</br></br>The hearing was an outgrowth of a survey conducted by the four-month-old organization in which it distributed 15,000 questionnaires on working conditions. Preliminary returns indicate widespread dissatisfaction among women workers.</br></br>The testimony by 14 witnesses—seven spoke anonymously for fear of retribution by employers — corroborated the survey findings. Each woman addressed herself to a different form of inequity.

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Job Agents Are Assailed on Basis of Survey of Ads. **!fiNEQLA, LJ., Aug:5—Almost SO per•tot <rf employment agency “help wanted” advertising was found, by a survey euthlueled by 24 college students^ "to be atther misleading in some way or for jobs tKafrdid not exist.* aUbbard'Keasel, it Long Island consumer advocate known for bis criticism of utiliQracompamcs, bad the survey done by students wbowereenrolled in a" consumemoqnomics 'class that he taught at Brooklyn College. At a news conference hererMr. Kessei said that the students had responded, either by telephone orin person,; to 134 -advertisements thta appeared ’in the classified sections of The New York Times, The Daily News, Newsday and The New York Post in mid-July. Of that number, he said, 103 were either “incorrectly stated or misleading” or were for .nonexistent jobs. . ...</br></br>“This is an industry-wide problem,” said Mr. Kessei, explaining that for that reason, he had not singled out any particular agency as a great offender. He said he had sent letters to the editors of the newspapers, involved, urging them to set up screening panels for their classified sections. r ................- </br></br>Mr. Kessei also said that he had written to the New York State Department of Labor to ask for better monitoring of 'employment agencies. In New York City, the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs has jurisdiction over employment agencies, but outside of the city, scrutiny of the agencies is the job of the labor department, which licenses the agencies."</br></br>Philip Fisher, president of the Association of Personnel Agencies of New York, said he “cannot accept” the survey’s findings. “Periodically, there are problems with ads written m such a way that they may be misleading, but this is a profitmaking industry and the agencies get paid on a contingency basis only if die jobs get filled.”</br></br>Barry McCarthy, a spokesman for The New York Times, said that he had heard of instances in which job applicants were told that salary figures appearing in the advertisements had been typographical errors, and that the true salaries were lower. “We know in these cases, that it’s not our error, but the number of deceptive ads cited by the [Kessei] survey is extreme,” he said. “We are dealing with licensed people, and we have to believe their ads are honest.”

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Consumer Groups Seek Ethics Inquiry on Rubin's New Job. A coalition of consumer and community groups has called for a gov-ernrrtent ethics investigation into for-merTreasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin’s decision to accept employment from Citigroup, the financial services conglomerate, contending the move presents tin “undeniable appearance of impropriety.”</br></br>The coalition, which submitted a letter to the Office of Government Ethics yesterday calling for the investigation, criticized what it referred to as “turnstile behavior” by the former secretary, who held a leadership post at the Wall Street firnTGoldman, Sachs before joining the Clinton administration in 1993.</br></br>In^iis role at Citigroup, announced late'last month, Mr. Rubin became one 6f three members of an expanded “Office of the chairman.” He resigned as Treasury secretary four months before joining Citigroup.</br></br>his Treasury job to the highest echelon at Citigroup in less than four months raises significant ethical and public policy questions,” the letter stated.</br></br>Mr. Rubin said yesterday that his decision to take a job at Citigroup was entirely unrelated to anything he worked on while in government. “During the time I was Treasury secretary, my sole concern was to produce the best possible public policy,” he said. “I could not have cared less how anyone in the industry reacted to my position or my views.”

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Senate Votes Federal Powers To Enforce Ban on Hiring Bias. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—The Senate marked the probable end of a decade of controversial civil rights legislation today by passing a bill giving the Federal Government the power to move against discrimination in employment.</br></br>By a 47-to-24 vote, the Sen ate approved a bill giving enforcement powers to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal agency created in 1964 to deal with job discrimination.</br></br>The legislation would bring millions of new workers, including state and local government employes, under the protection of the Federal ban on discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin.</br></br>The bill was described by one sponsor, Senator Jacob K. davits, Republican of New York, as a “landmark” measure. It now goes to the House, where a similar bill is awaiting clearance by the Rules Committee.</br></br>Twice before the House has voted to give enforcement powers to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission only to have the legislation blocked by Southern opposition in the Senate. Now that the Senate hurdle has been cleared, the legislation is expected to be approved at this Congressional session.

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Rise in Help for Poor Is Planned With Emphasis on Job Training. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29President Johnson plans a mod* erate increase in Federal assistance to the poor in the coming year, with training and employment rating a high priority.</br></br>Aid to the poor of all kinds, as broadly defined in the new budget, would total $27.7-billion in the fiscal year 1969, compared with $24.6-bil)ion in the current fiscal year.</br></br>These totals include the portion of Social Security payments that are received by individuals, which will rise largely because of increased benefit payments required by the new law Congress passed last year.</br></br>For the Office of Economic Opportunity, which administers most of the newer antipoverty programs, Mr. Johnson requested $2.18-biiIion in budget authority. However, he listed only $1.99-bil!ion for actual outlays ,in the 12-month period. That I would be a rise of about $130-| million over the agency’s' spending for the current year.</br></br>! The President estimated the! number of persons in the pov-; erty income bracket at "less I than 29 million” now, compared with 35 million in 1963. Poverty line income, as defined by the Government, varies with family size. It is $3,350 a year for a family of four.

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JOBS AT GRUMMAN TARGET OF INQUIRY: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT WILL STUDY CHARGI. BETHPAGE, L. I., April 4— A spokesman for the Defense Department said today that an investigation of charges of employment discrimination against the Grumman Aircraft Corporation would begin within 10 days.</br></br>Seymour Maisel, head of the| Defense Department’s contract compliance office for this area, said in an interview that “we have made no judgment whatever — we're going in there to see what the facts are.”</br></br>Members of. the Long Island chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality told officials of the Department of Labor in Washington last week that Grumman was hiring too few Negroes, was not promoting Negroes to management positions and was keeping them in jobs with the lowest pay scales and skills.</br></br>Grumman, with 36,000 workers, is the largest employer on Long Island and one of the largest defense contractors in the east. In January, the company was assigned, to build the F-14A Navy fighter, a contract that is said to be worth up to $ 10-billion and is expected to create 3,000 new jobs.</br></br>fice is responsible for determining whether contractors are carrying out an executive order against discrimination in defense contract work. Under the order, issued by President Johnson in 1965, a company found to practice discrimination in employment could lose its defense contracts and its eligibility for future contracts.

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LINES STILL REJECT PILOT HIRING HAT,!,: EMPLOYERS REITERATE STAND,. Atlantic and Gulf Coast steamship operators are determined to resist demands of the National Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, AFL, for a hiring hall system of employment, they reiterated yesterday in informal discussions.</br></br>Negotiations between the MMP and the Committee for the Companies and Agents—Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, which represents the vessel owners, have been blocked almost since their start on Sept. 12 by this one question. Since the opening of contract talks, virtually all other union demands have been negotiated, but neither side has shown any intention of retreating on the hiring hall issue.</br></br>A settlement reached last Monday between the union’s West Coast branch -and the Pacific Maritime Association included the hiring hall, with rotary employment up to chief officer, and a $7.50 monthly clothing allowance which has been offered in contract discussions here.</br></br>Employer spokesmen emphasized yesterday, however, that the settlement on the Pacific Coast only followed a pattern set there last summer when rotary hiring was given to the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, CIO. They said the agreement has no bearing on the problem here and in no way changes their views.</br></br>These men said that merchant marine officers, in their capacity as supervisory employes, are looked upon as company representatives as soon as a ship leaves the pier, and they added that they do not want a rotary hiring system for men responsible for a vessel.

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Science in the Style of Engels: THE DI ALECTICAL BIOLOGIST By Richard .... DURING the last two decades, Richard Levins, the John Rock Professor of Population Sciences at Harvard University’s School of Public Health, and Richard l.ewontin, a professor of zoology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, have made extremely important experimental and theoretical contributions to biology. A distinguishing feature of these contributions is the authors’ employ-ment of a dialectical method of explication and analy-, sis. As this book’s dedication ~ “To Frederick Engels, who got it wrong a lot of the time but who got it right where it counted” — indicates, this dialectical method has its roots in the theories of Marx and Engels. In “The Dialectical Biologist,” Mr. Levins and Mr. l.ewontin offer an explanation of this method, reasons for adopting</br></br>Paul Thompson, who teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto, Is completing a book on theories and explanations in biology.</br></br>it and examples of its application. Their main focus consequently is on philosophical aspects of biology — the nature of knowledge, the nature of the world and the inextricable connection between values and science.</br></br>According to the authors, science in the Western world has been dominated by a mechanistic, reductionist mode of explaining and thinking — Cartesian reductionists In essence, Cartesian reductionism presupposes a fundamental distinction between parts and wholes and between causes and effects. Wholes are made up of natural sets of homogeneous parts that exist before, and independently of, the wholes they come together to make. Even in complicated feedback systems, causes are separable from effects.</br></br>Within this framework, one of the goals of science is to discover the smallest internally homogeneous units of which the world is made. Thus in the physical sciences, one explains und thinks about the properties of objects In terms of their molecularstructure. This, however, is an insufficient level of reduction because molecules are not internally homogeneous. They are composed of atoms. Hence a further reduction is required. Even this, however, is not sufficient, because atoms are not Internally homogeneous either. They are composed of subatomic particles (electrons, neutrons and protons). Hence the explanation of the properties of objects requires yet a further reduction. At present it appears that even these subatomic particles are not inter- nally homogeneous. Hence, within a Cartesian reductionist framework, the quest for an adequate explanation drives the scientist down to lower and lower levels of mlcroanalyis.

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State Finds Impasse in Talks for Police Contract. The New York State Public Employment Relations Board, the agency that has been handling contract negotiations between the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and * the city, said yesterday that talks between the two sides had reached an impasse.</br></br>for about 23,000 city police officers, said it had petitioned the state agency to declare an impasse to take the talks to the next step.</br></br>The city “is saying they can negotiate and we are saying they haven’t been negotiating in good faith,” Mr. O’Leary said.</br></br>The board's decision means "negotiations are at a stalemate.” Salaries have been the subject of bitter debate between the union and the city.</br></br>The union argues that officers deserve higher pay for often dangerous work, and the city says it cannot afford large increases.

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TOP BL ACK WOMAN IS OUSTED BY NASA: AIDE IS TRANSFERRED DISMISSAL FOLL. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has dismissed its highest ranking black female official in a dispute over equal employment.</br></br>Ruth Bates Harris, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Equal Opportunity, was dismissed by James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator, effective yesterday.</br></br>The dismissal came after a series of meetings and complaints by blacks and women at the agency, culminating in a demand by the equal opportunity staff for a meeting with Dr. Fletcher. «</br></br>In a one-inch thick document, Mrs. Harris and her staff accused the agency of refusing to take the steps necessary to hire more women and persons in minority groups. The report noted that NASA’s minority empliyes had increased only from 4.1 per cent in 1966 to 5.1 per cent as of June, 1973. The report also noted that the June figure was down from last June, when minority employment at the agency was</br></br>Supporters of Mrs. Harris contended that she had been discharged because she pressed the agency too much to improve its record.

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A.V.C. SCORES BIAS AT ATOMIC PLANTS: FEDERAL BOARD AND COMPANIES .... ATLANTA, July 28—Th© Southern chapters of th© American Veterans Committee made public today a resolution criticizing the Atomic Energy Commission and th© private companies operating the commission’s installations for maintaining employment practices that “ara outdoing the South in racial discrimination.”</br></br>Lester H. Persells, Southern regional chairman of the veterans’ organization, said that the resolution had been adopted by the Atlanta chapter and concurred in by all chapters in the Southern States. He added that copies had been sent to President Truman and to the Atomic Energy Commission.</br></br>The A. V. C. is an organization of World War n veterans that includes such members of Congress as Senator Paul H. Douglas of Illinois and Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. of New York, both Democrats, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Representative Jacob K. Javits of New York, both Republicans.</br></br>A similar attack on'the employment practices at atomic energy projects was made recently by the National Urban League. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has threatened court action and the Urban</br></br>The A. V. C. resolution charged that the Atomic Energy Commission had “steadily refused to require private contracting companies (du Pont, General Electric, Union Carbide and Carbon) to employ workers on the basis of merit rather than color.” It also charged that the contracting companies had "adapted their employment practices to local prevailing racial customs.” "As veterans of World War II, joined together without distinction of race, color or creed, we strongly protest these undemocratic practices,” the resolution stated. “They are doubly reprehensible in Federal operations which are designed to build weapons for the defense of the very democratic principles which are being violated. As Southerners, we protest the false and unfavorable impression of our

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Many Holiday Jobs Are Open to Youths: Older Youths Sought Picture Brighter Elsewhere. ELIZAEETH—A spot check of state and other nonprofit employment agencies .shows that teen-agers stand a good chance of finding a job during the holiday season, unless they live in Camden, Gloucester or Burlington Counties.</br></br>“Full-time jobs during the holidays seem to be out of the question for students in •those three counties,” Mrs. Roberta J. Coleman, a laborWiarket analyst for that area, y aid last week.</br></br>. "Department stores are hiring, but they seem to be filling job vacancies with walkins or by word-of-mouth. Only two orders have been placed at the state’s Employment Service Office in Canted student workers.</br></br>“No job orders have been received from the post office either. And it generally hires students during this period.”</br></br>Based on the reports she has received from supervisors in the three Employment Service Offices in her area, Mrs. Coleman said that the Camden office had received job applications from only about 25 young people.

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FUTURE OF PRESS IS CALLED BRIGHT: NATION'S NEWSPAPERS EXPECT TO GROW IN ALL. Newspapers have expanded employment faster than the national averages, and grown in size, circulation and advertising since World War II. And the prospect for the next decade is the greatest circulation increase in history.</br></br>This was the cheerful report to the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel yesterday from Dr. Jon G. Udell, director of the University of Wisconsin’s bureau of business research and service.</br></br>Factors that have caused households to take only one newspaper “are at an end,” he said. To back this up, he assented that the exodus to suburbs was "about over," and that urban areas are growing more rapidly, television is slowing, education rising and working hours shortening.</br></br>Accordingly, newspaper circulation should advance even faster than the anticipated increase of 16.4 to 22 million households by 1980, he said. With a huge demand for consumer goods from these new families and their need, for consumer information, he foresaw “substantial increase in advertising.”</br></br>Newspapers are one of the nation's largest manufacturing industries, with 1.53 per cent of the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production, Dr. Udell said. This compares with 1.82 per cent for automobiles, 1.52 per cent for meat products, 1.48 per cent for drugs and medicine, an 0.91 per cent for lumber.

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Glamour Analysts at High Multiple in Bear Job Market: Expenditures .... Wall Street’s bear market during the last year has had a devastating effect on employment among securities analysts, causing layoffs estimated as high as 20 per cent or more. However, the best analysts have never had it so good.</br></br>Charles Pavnicky, director of the New York Society of Securities Analysts, says that he can “verify” about 10 per cent unemployment among the organization’s 5,100 members. But some analysts say that as many as 1,000 of their membership may be “on the beach” or working at different jobs.</br></br>Securities analysts conduct research on industries and companies, prepare reports about growth prospects of companies and their stocks, and sometimes give advice to large individual or institutional investors.</br></br>With the securities market in the doldrums, many, but not all, companies have cut back their research departments.</br></br>In the midst of this industry recession, a number of firms on the street are busily hiring analysts, increasing pay incentives and strengthening research departments—mostly to provide improved service for prized institutional customers.

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Doors Opened Wider Than Ever For Employing the Handicapped: Increased.... Increased Number of Industries Adopted Selective Placement Programs for Disabled—Rehabilitation Aided been as bright for the physically handicapped worker seeking employment in competitive industry as they are today. Although a disabled person could find a job more rapidly during the manpower shortage periods of World War II, his possibilities of permanent employment over a long period were not as good as they now are.</br></br>This favorable situation has resulted from a number of independent but related factors. Among them are the current general employment picture, the increased number of industries that have adopted selective placement programs for the handicapped within the last few years, and the parallel expansion .of rehabilitation programs that prepare the disabled person medically and vocationally for employment.</br></br>Prior to World War II. a number of industrial concerns, such as International Business Machines, General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Caterpillar Tractor traditionally employed physically handicapped workers successfully. However, it was not until the wartime manpower shortages that disabled -workers found ready employment.</br></br>Unfortunately, at the war’s end, when military production declined, many of these handicapped workers found that, having been the last to be hired, they were the first to be discharged. But there were a number of major concerns that found that this first large-scale undertaking in employment of disabled workers had been remarkably good. These concerns incorporated the employment of handicapped workers into their general employment policies.</br></br>During the war, it was also possible for the first time to conduct comprehensive studies comparing the performance of large numbers of handicapped workers with that of their fellow workers. .These studies showed that properly placed disabled workers equaled or exceeded their socalled “able-bodied” fellow workers in production, safety, absenteeism and labor-turnover.

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Labor Department Offers Proposal to Spur Affirmative Action Hiring. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15—The Labor Department said today that companies doing business with the Government might be able to satisfy "affirmative action" employment requirements by training women anti minority males for skilled jobs without being obliged to hire them.</br></br>This approach to increasing the supply of people who qualify for “affirmative action” hiring was one of several proposed changes in Federal contract regulations published by the department.</br></br>John C. Read, an Assistant Secretary, said that the changes were meant io streamline required paperwork anti put more emphasis on results—hiring or training.</br></br>“We believe strengthening of enforcement will come because contractors and Government can’t bide behind the process,” Mr. Read told a news conference.</br></br>Thp proposed changes drew an adverse reaction from women’s rights groups in Boston. Speaking for Nine to Five and four other organizations, Kllcn Cassedy said that the changes “would essentially dismantle the affirmative action apparatus which protects women and minority employees." named in complaints and contended that only an advisory committee on higher education had participated in every step of the department’s drafting of the proposed changes.

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Summer Youth Jobs Expected to Shrink. A RIPPLE effect of the gasoline shortage can be felt in summer employment opportunities for youths, with fewer jobs available at service stations because of a reduction in their operating hours. As for the state’s resorts, the job situation remains a bit cloudy, although operators of hotels and amusement centers believe that traffic will not be diminished appreciably this summer.</br></br>Once again, the Federal Government is the largest source of summer employment opportunities in New Jersey, with 29,371 positions expected to be financed by $24 million in Comprehensive Employment and Training Act funds.</br></br>Edward Gyarfas, a manpower specialist in the Trenton office of the Community Action Program, also a Federally financed project, said that the total number of jobs in the state would be “somewhat fewer” than last year, which is in keeping with the countrywide statistics. C.E.T.A. is expected to finance 1.4 million jobs throughout the United States this summer, a reduction of 169,000 from 1978.</br></br>Youngsters 14 to 21 years old will be eligible for the 10 weeks of summer employment, with the requirement being that they meet the poverty guidelines. According to Carol Leonard, operations administrator for the Community Action Program in Bergen County, the guidelines call for an income of no more than $7,810 for a family of four.</br></br>The youngsters will receive the Federal minimum wage of $2.90 an hour for 30 hours of work each week.

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RIGHTS BACKERS BATTLE DIRKSEN: SENATORS SAY HIS PROPOSALS WOULD WEAKEN BI1. WASHINGTON, April 8—A liberal revolt on both sides of the Senate aisle was brewing today against several amendments that the minority leader, Everett McKinley Dirksen, has proposed ffor the Fair Employment Practices section of the civil rights bill.</br></br>Three Senators—two Republicans and one Democrat—said that if the Senate accepted the amendments, they could not vote for the bill. Nor, they said, would they vote for closure of debate to shut off the expected Southern filibuster.</br></br>There was consternation among several Republican civil rights leaders in the House of Representatives. They said that a Senate bill containing such amendments would have to go to a joint committee conference.</br></br>The critics expressed doubts whether the House conferees would agree to the amendments and, if they did, whether a majority of the bipartisan civil rights coalition would vote for the conference report.</br></br>Senator Kenneth B. Keating, Republican of New York, said that three of the Dirksen amendments “would seriously weaken the effectiveness of the bill.’’

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Emi»*«j™«‘ Commbrio. Is -Umited'. WASHINGTON. Sept. 29—The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which tor 11 years lias worked against discriminatory employment practices, has made only "limited progress in eliminating employment discrimination" against women and members of minorities, the investigative arm of Congress said in a report issued today</br></br>The commission has been hampered by management problems and a debilitating turnover in leadership that have prevented improvements in its effectiveness, the</br></br>The turnover is continuing. It be-! came known today that Raymond L. Telles, the only member of the commis-! sion of Mexican-American descent, has told his colleagues that he will resign this week.</br></br>As a result, the commission's normal complement of five members will fall to three. Lowell W. Perry, who was chairman, resigned last spring after one year in the post and has not been replaced.</br></br>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which was established by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, has two missions: providing relief to victims of employment discrimination by resolving their complaints against employers and eliminating patterns of discrimination that result from the practices of employers.

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JOB RIGHTS BILL VOTED AS SENATE ENDS FILIBUSTER: MEASURE LETS FEDERAL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 — After five weeks of debate, the Senate broke a Southern filibuster today and passed legislation giving the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission power to move against job discrimination.</br></br>The measure would allow the commission to ask Federal courts to order employers or unions to stop discriminating.</br></br>The bill, which has been before the Senate since it convened Jan. 18, now goes to the House, which passed a similar measure last year. The House could adopt the Senate bill directly, but more than likely it will send the legislation to a conference of the two houses.</br></br>Shortly after noon today, the Senate voted, 73 to 21, to invoke closure, or cut short debate, on the civil rights bill. Then, after defeating several attempts to weaken the legislation, the Senate passed the bill j by a vote of 73 to 16 and then! in a procedural vote of 72 to 17.</br></br>For the first time, the meas-| ure would place the Federal Government, state and local governments and educational institutions within the commission’s purview.

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CUT IN JOB FUNDS SCORED BY WAGNER: SENATOR, IN MESSAGE TO PARLEY .... A denunciation of the Senate’s action in reducing: funds for employment services was made by Senator Robert F. Wagner in a “Ignoring' the magnitude of the problems, to the solution of which the employment service must make such a basic contribution, the House of Representatives took the almost inconceivable action of reducing the already small budget request for national USES functions by nearly 80 per cent,” the message said.</br></br>“The Senate, though it restored part. of the funds needed by the USES, more than made up for this token restoration by taking 20 per cent away from the necessarily larger appropriation for the states.” message read yesterday at the convention here of the International Association of Public Employment Services.</br></br>Senator Wagner’s message, sent from Washington, where the Department of Labor appropriation is before a House-Senate conference committee, declared the attack upon the public employment service “makes us fearful indeed for the economic future and the internal security of our land.”</br></br>Harold G. Hoffman, executive director of the New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Commission and former Governor, speak-' ing at the convention luncheon, said that if another war came it would be largely because of unemployment.</br></br>The four-day convention, at the Commodore Hotel, ended with the adoption of resolutions calling upon Congress to pass the appropriation bills without any reductions for Federal and state employment and unemployment compensation services, and calling for a national Fair Employment Practices law. James H. Bond of Dallas, Tex., was re-elected association president.

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$100 Million Sought to Widen Opportunities for Harlem Youth: HARLEM AID PLAN ASKS $100 MI. The Federal Government will be asked for up to $100 million to help improve educational, employment and social opportunities for the youth of Central Harlem.</br></br>The request will be made next month by Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, Inc. (HARYOU), a citizens’ group formed a year and a half ago to draw a plan for attacking the problems facing Harlem’s</br></br>The plan, including the request for funds, will be submitted to the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime.</br></br>The plan emphasizes improvements in Harlem’s schools. HARYOU charged in a report that ‘‘criminal educational neglect” had destroyed any hope of Harlem’s children for breaking out of the “ghetto.” a most prejudiced personnel officer to discriminate against Negro youth, because the schools have!' done the job for him. The massively gross inefficiency of the public schools has so' limited the occupational possibilities of Negro youth that, if not made mandatory, a life of menial status or unemployment is virtually inevitable.”</br></br>Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, professor of psychology at City College and director of the citizen’s group, has called inferior education the crux of Harlem’s problems.

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A Complaint Over Labor Dept Rules. THOUGH the Reagan Administration has repeatedly claimed that it is sensitive to the needs of women, minorities and the handicapped, the recent actions of its Labor Department concerning employment affirmative action tell a different story. The department seems to be in the process of systematically dismantling equal employment opportunities for women, minorities and the handicapped.</br></br>Before this Administration, a sophisticated structure of law and regulation, built on years of experience, governed business’s employment practices. Its purpose was to end discrimination on the basis of race, sex, ethnic origin, and in certain cases, on the basis of handicap.</br></br>The basic elements of the equal employment opportunity system are that all employers with more than 15 employees are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of sex, race or national origin in employment, and those harmed by discrimination can sue and collect back pay.</br></br>Special attention is focused on companies doing contracting for the Federal Government. They are given the added responsibility of demonstrating that their employment policies are not discriminatory. And a Labor Department watchdog office, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, was established to insure that those Federal contractors lived up to their obligation.</br></br>The overall coordinator of these various laws and regulations was the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which has been granted lead policy authority in this area.

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MISS KELLER GETS SPECIAL CITATION: HONORED BY THE PRESIDENT'S COMMI. ! Helen Keller, who has been both blind and deaf virtually all of her seventy-five years, received here yesterday the firstl ' special citation to be awarded' ! The occasion was a luncheon !marking' the fortieth anniversary of the American Foundation for Overseas Blind. Inc. Two hunl dred employes of the foundation, social workers and their friends attended the event, held in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.</br></br>Friendly and gay was the spirit of the affair, yet grave undertones were acknowledged in speeches by Miss Keller, Maj.</br></br>M. C. R., retired, chairman of the President’s committee, and Chester Bowles, former Ambassador to India: and also in mesthe accomplishments of Miss 'sages from Secretary' of State Keller probably were beyond our ijohn Foster Dulles and Mayor power to appreciate. “She has i Wagner. shown us to be, not a nation of</br></br>When General Maas, who remoney-grabbers, but decent, Icently lost his sight, moved forgenerous and kindly people,” he .ward to present a special citasaid in noting her influence in 'lion to Miss Keller, he joked counteracting Communist prop■wilh her: “You know, this is aganda in Asia.</br></br>[something, isn’t it. the two of |us together? There’s not another !document like this anywhere in [the world nor will there ever I be one.’’

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At the Nation's Table: A Vermont secret that's getting around A true .... n A Vermont secret that’s getting around ■ A true Southern meal at the true Southern dinnertime: midday ■ Taking Caribbean cuisine from the capital to the West Coast ■ The rice and the good times roll in Oakland’s Chinatown.</br></br>A PLAIN, squat, good-enough-for-government-work building that houses the Vermont Department of Employment and Training here is also home to a cafeteria that serves food good enough for a second helping.</br></br>Run by the New England Culinary Institute and open to the public, the cafeteria is a training ground for students who whip up such uncafeterialike offerings as jambalaya, homemade pasta with fresh herbs, Cajun chicken and cold pineapple and coconut soup. All are sold, at cafeteria prices, to 250 or 300 patrons a day.</br></br>The day starts at 6 A.M., when Richard Krayewsky — a chef and instructor who graduated this year from the cooking school — arrives, sometimes with an armload of herbs from his own garden. Students begin making breakfast, mixing up batches of oatmeal-walnut pancakes or cooking poached eggs in cream sauce, and bake the day’s pastries and breads. Each student spends three weeks at the cafeteria as part of a two-year course at the culinary institute.</br></br>The cafeteria, at 5 Green Mountain Drive, serves breakfast from 9 to 10:15 A.M. and lunch from 11:30 A.M.

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Briefing Weaver, Irvin MolotskyWarren, Jr . New York l imes (1923-C’urrentfile); Sep 9, 1986; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times pg. A 20</br></br>There are laws preventing job discrimination against people on the basis of race, sex, national origin or age, and many people who have survived cancer feel that they should have the same protection, contending that they frequently are denied employment unfairly because they have been ill.</br></br>A resolution expressing support for these people is to be brought before the House of Representatives today by Representative Mario Biaggi, Democrat of the Bronx. It is expected to pass and then go over to the Senate, where its supporters include Bob Dole of Kansas, the leader of the Republican majority, a proponent of the rights of handicapped people; Albert Gore Jr., Democrat of Tennessee, and John Heinz, Republican of Pennsylvania. Senate approval of the nonbinding resolution is also expected.</br></br>Backers of the bill concede that they do not have enough support to make discrimination against cancer patients illegal, so they have gone for the next best thing, a resolution declaring that it is the sense of Congress that such discrimination is wrong. “The purpose of this resolution,” Mr. Biaggi said, “is to help focus public attention that cancer survivors are in fact employable and should be given the opportunity to be employed or remain employed.”</br></br>Alvin Rosenfeld, who has worked ll for eight years at the Smithso-XArnian Institution, most recently as director of public affairs, began a new job yesterday. He has moved to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he becomes vice director for administration. The project is to rise on 14th Street not far from the Mall.

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Ex-City Official Says He's Homosexual: Ex-City Official Says He's Homosexual. Dr. Howard J. Brown, th$, Lindsay administration’s firs Health Services Administrator openly acknowledged his homo rectors of the Public Health Moreover, he said, “you get 'Association, a professional orto a point in your life where</br></br>The 49-year-old physician in a sense this can help free said it was a “tribute to the the generation that comes board" that following liis dec-after us from the dreadful laration he was appointed agony of secrecy, the conchairman of a committee tostant need to hide,” nriests clerevmen denti.ts combat discrimination against Beyond that, Dr. Brown said, „„;,J i«u7uq« S{homosexuals in the health comhe was prompted by the acmunity. tions of the Gay Activists 'the city’s health-services pro-crimination against homosex_ ... . ..iSram. 's now on the facultyUals in housing, employment</br></br>homosexuality was based in Continued on Page 42, Column 3 part on what he sees as a sharp decline in public hos Dr. Brown said he hoped others in high-prestige positions would follow his example, but he declined to name those physicians or city-government officials who were homosexuals.!</br></br>“They feel such a disclosure would ruin their professional career, destroy their reputation and wreck many friendships. And indeed in my own case, until recently I would have assumed that following my public appearance as ; a homosexual, that the only prop</br></br>One event that triggered Dr; jecause of his profession) Brown’s decision, he said, waBm and achievement in 1 reading the book “Black Mouijj 3]d, and those remain tl tain,” in which the author ite’ria for hiring in city gof Prof. Martin Duberman, d%] nment. scribes his feelings as a homopj. grown said that when sexual. .was being considered for During his tenure as a Lm^1ndsay post he made no me say official, Dr. Brown said, hjs)n of his homosexualit homosexuality was “a source of However Dr Brown sail daily anxiety to me and oth<$at “rumors” circulate homosexual Commissioners & 0Und City Hall for some tiro the cabinet.” __ While the rumors “terrifiei

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U.S. Job Site Bans Bias Over Gender Identity. WASHINGTON - The Obataa administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity.</br></br>The protection is expected to apply to the small transgender population — people who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — and it merely formalizes what had been increasingly unchallenged government practice over several years.</br></br>But civil liberties and gender rights groups welcomed it on Tuesday as the clearest statement yet by the Obama administration that such discrimination in the federal workplace would not be accepted.</br></br>Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said, "The largest employer in the country is doing what all the other large employers in the country are doing, so that’s really great news." “We at the Family Research Council oppose including gender identity as a category of protection,’’ said Peter S. Sprigg, se nior fellow for policy studies.</br></br>Mr. Sprigg said his group believed that what it calls “gender identity disorder” should be 'treated with therapy to help people be comfortable with their biological sex rather than affirming and celebrating and protecting those who want to deny their biological sex.”

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Boycott to Aid Garbage Strike Urged. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 19—An appeal will be made to both Negroes and whites to boycott downtown businesses in a move to force re-employment and pay increases for 211 striking garbage collectors, all but one of them Negroes.</br></br>Marvin Davies, state field director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the boycott would be supported by state, regional and national N.A.A.C.P. officials, and would include picketing and demonstrations.</br></br>“Thousands of people will not go into an area where there is picketing and demonstrations” he said. “Downtown is where the power structure is. When we hurt them economically, they'll do something about this.”</br></br>The men struck May 6, contending they had been promised a pay increase that did not materialize. They are asking 20 cents an hour above their present wage range of $1.87 to $2.27 an hour for a 40-hour week.</br></br>City Manager Lynn Andrews offered them a 5-cent raise to stay at work while the salary question was negotiated. All but 24 of the total work force of 235 refused and Mr. Andrews discharged them. The city subsequently began recruiting replacements.

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Congress, a Soon-to-Be Law Says, Must Now Do Unto Itself as It.... WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 — For decades Capitol Hill has often been derided as “The Last Plantation,” a reference to legislators’ habits of exempting themselves from many of the laws on civil rights, workers' safety and employment that are enacted for the rest of the nation.</br></br>But soon, under a measure passed quickly by the House last week and likely to be voted on by the Senate early this week, that practice may end. Still, it Is unclear if the changes encompassed in the Congressional Accountability Act — the first item in the House Republicans' “Contract With America" — will make much of a difference to the approximately 40,000 people on £apitol Hill.</br></br>The proposal, if enacted into law as is likely, would extend 10 statutes to the Senate and House, including the Civil Rights Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which sets minimum wages and limits working hours.</br></br>The measure should have at the least a symbolic effect, making Congress seem less distant from the strictures it places on ordinary Americans. Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican who is a principal sponsor of the</br></br>House measure, said it should make lawmakers more sensitive to the effect of the bills they approve if they have to live by them as well.

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Taking Action Against Discrimination. THE Equal Employment Opportunity Commission handles about 80,000 discrimination claims, called “charges,” each year, though many other acts of discrimination go unreported, experts say, partly because workers think they cannot afford a lawyer or may get fired.</br></br>But workers do not need a lawyer to pursue a discrimination claim, which is free, and some lawyers work on a contingency basis. Laws also protect employees from retaliation by their employer.</br></br>Nonetheless, workers who file a claim will confront many rules and choices in a process that can take many months, If not years, to resolve, and they might have a hard time proving discrimination.</br></br>The E.E.O.C. enforces federal discrimination laws that prohibit sexual harassment; protect equal pay based on sex; prohibit discrimination based on age (40 and older), color, disability, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion or sex; and protect workers from retaliation. Most state and local laws match federal laws and go further. In New York, it's illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation or marital status.</br></br>As soon as discrimination begins, a worker should record discriminatory words and behaviors, and any witnesses. Employment lawyers differ on whether workers should first take the problem to their human resources departments.

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POLICE ARREST 282 IN DRIVE BY MAYOR TO BAR VOTE FRAUD: 20 PLEAD .... Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy’s pre-election round-up of suspicious persons who might find employment terrorizing voters was revealed yesterday to have netted 232 prisoners on its first day. The drive, undertaken on direct orders] from Acting Mayor Impellitteri, is to continue up to Election Day.</br></br>At 2 o’clock this morning it was announced that an additional fifty persons had been picked up during the night, bringing the total to 282. Forty-one were seized on the West Side, Manhattan, and nine in Brooklyn. The police net also included eight men who were found to have jumped ship. They were turned over to Federal authorities.</br></br>Of the 232 in the first day’s round-up, all but seven either were sent to jail or were forced to put up bail when arraigned in a Special Term of Magistrate’s Court, at which Chief City Magistrate John M. Murtagh presided. The seven, none of whom had previous police records, were paroled.</br></br>More than 90 per cent of those rounded up by detectives were men with previous police records. They were charged with vagrancy in that they allegedly had no visible means of support. For the most part they were small fry, although several were found, on their appearance in the police line-up, to be wanted in other states or by the Federal Government.</br></br>Twenty of the 251 pleaded guilty to vagrancy before Chief Magistrate Murtagh. Eight were sentenced immediately to workhouse terms ranging from fifteen to thirty days. Twelve others were remanded to jail for sentencing next Wednesday.

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$2.6 Million To Settle Suit Over Sexual Harassment. A family-owned alcohol importer based in New Rochelle, N.Y., has agreed to pay $2.6 million to 104 women who charge that they were sexually harassed by the 79-year-old owner and president of the company, according to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.</br></br>The company, Sidney Frank Importing, which has been in the alcohol importing industry for 20 years, and its marketing arm, All State Promotions, did not admit any wrongdoing. “The mounting costs of litigation and the desire to put these issues behind it were cited by the company as reasons for the settlement,” said a statement released by Marcia Horowitz, a spokeswoman for the company, which employs 1,100 people across the country.</br></br>The lawsuit accuses the owner, Sidney Frank, of offering female employees clothing, trips and job opportunities in return for sexual favors.</br></br>Several women represented in the ! settlement — only a handful from the New York region — are or were employed as promotional models for ' ’ T agermeister, a licorice-flavored ■■ Igreen liqueur. The models, known as Jagerettes, were sent across the nation to bars, where they would ask 1 patrons to sample the drink. “They j would play trivia games, give out ’ balloons and little hats,” said Louis Graziano, an E.E.O.C. lawyer, who ■ with Elizabeth Grossman, a senior lawyer, negotiated the settlement.</br></br>The lawsuit charged that the mod-,:els, who wore body suits and black tights for their work, were harassed not only by Mr. Frank but also by bar owners and customers.

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Judge Blocks Law in Ovster Bay Aimed at Day Laborers. ..., a leaerai judge issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday forbidding enforcement of a law in the Long Island community^ Oyster Bay that made it a crjme to solicit employment by shouting at cars and waving arms or signs,</br></br>The law, approved by the town in September, was billed by supporters as an effort to control immigrant day laborers, but it also caused a rift between those who backed the law and advocates for immigrants.</br></br>the Eastern District of New York issued the restraining order and set a May 28 hearing to determine whether Jo issue a preliminary injunction to bar enforcement of the law.</br></br>The order came two days after advocates for immigrants filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional on free speech and other grounds.</br></br>Advocates for day laborers have said the law criminalizes acts like trying to attract cars for high school fund-raising carwashes.

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TRANSPORT NEWS: PIER HIRING RISES: OCTOBER JOBS UP SLIGHTLYMITSUBISHI SERVIC. Waterfront employment rose slightly during October when pier hirings totaled 388,856, compared with 383,271 job calls during September, the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor reported yesterday.</br></br>Employment activity last month in Brooklyn totaled 184,117 calls 3,920 more than in September. Brooklyn's docks provide the greatest number of jobs in the harbor</br></br>Sags in job calls were reported on Manhattan’s docks, where 100,982 calls were filled, 5,256 less than in September. Industry observers said the decline was caused largely by the seasonal change of schedules of trans Atlantic luxury liners using Hudson River piers.</br></br>Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Limited, has reached an agreement with Cammell Laird & Co., under which the British yard will provide post-delivery servicing on vessels constructed by the Japanese concern. The five Mitsubishi yards will provide the same facilities for Cammell Laird-built ships.</br></br>The contract, a spokesman for the Japanese organization said yesterday, is part of a pattern of "two-way" servicing agreements Mitsubishi is establishing around the world. Mitsubishi has already concluded similar agreements with Werf-Maat-: schappij Wilton Fijcnoord of the

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HIRING SURVEYED IN FINANCIAL AREA: FEW WHITE-COLLAR. Negroes and Puerto Ricans make up a much smaller part of the white-collar force in the financial community here than their proportion of the general population of the city, according to a survey by the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.</br></br>But the study, which will be released tomorrow at a hearing1 on discrimination in the busi-, ness community, also shows, that bank and insurance companies rank high in the overall hiring of both minority jgroups. For the most part, the jfigures in the study are for '1966.</br></br>[ The commission points out (that Negroes represented about i!8 per cent of the city population in 1933. At that time Negroes had 8 3 per cent of all j fobs among the reporting com'panies and 2.9 per cent of the white-collar jobs .</br></br>In the nine largest New York City banks, the range for Negro white-collar workers vv; s from 2.2 per cent to 9 per cent of the total.</br></br>Five banks hired Negroes for more than 7 per cent of their white-collar jobs; four employed less than 5 per cent. Two banks reported a significant number of Negroes in a managerial "Findings like these do not prove discrimination by a given company or group of companies,” said Clifford L. Alexander Jr., chairman of the Federal commission. "But when you look at them, your first question has to be, ‘How could they exist if the employment policies and practices they reflect were free of discrimination?’ ”

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Image Agencies Thrive on Crises. The executive begins by defending his company against charges of pollution before a skeptical city council. Then he rushes to meet with angry representatives of minority groups who complain of employment discrimination. After that, he fields rumors that his plant is about to lay off hundreds of workers. Just as a horrid day is about to end, an explosion hits the plant and in the resulting chaos the executive must deal with TV cameramen and reporters clamoring to cover the story.</br></br>That’s a day in Crisisport, a mythical world devised by Burson-Marsteller,' where actors push executives into tough situations (managers from Standard Oil of Indiana’s Amoco are currently being run through the mill in Chicago). Crisis management, especially in the wake of criticism surrounding confusing public pronouncements in the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, is becoming a sought-after skill, and public-relations firms, whose main job used to be to encourage favorable news coverage of clients, are increasingly being called on to provide the training. Such crisis-coping is not the only growth area for public-relations firms these days. Companies are turning to them for help in lobbying, aiding corporate mergers and dealing with employee programs.</br></br>Helped by growth in these areas, which once were considered beyond the scope of public relations, the 50 largest public-relations firms reported an increase in fee income of 14 percent to $145 million in the fiscal year ended June 30,1978 and 15 percent in 1977, according to O’Dwyer’s Directory of Public Relations Firms.</br></br>The biggest companies appear to be reaping the most benefits from the new growth areas. Burson-Marsteller, the second leading firm whose parent Marsteller Inc. was recently acquired by Young & Rubicam Inc., reported a 19 percent gain in revenues in the fiscal half ended March 30, neck and neck with Hill & Knowlton, the long-time leader of the industry whose revenues rose 19 percent in the 10 months ended April 30. The third largest firm, Carl Byoir & Associates, reported a revenue gain of 29.7 percent in the first half of this year and Ruder & Finn, No. 4, was up 20 percent in the same period.</br></br>itures but so far this year most firms report record billings. “The majority of the kinds of problems we’re dealing with involve government relations or public affairs,” said Loet A. Velmans, president of Hill & Knowlton. “Those problems are there whether or not there is a recession."

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Justice Dept. Signals Its Job Rights Stand in State Police Case: No .... A MILLION, COUNT ’EM, A MILLION: Tina Zielin- The collection was the idea of a mathematics teacher, sld, a high school student in Pulaski, Wis., tosses some to show what a million oi anything looked like. After of the bottle caps collected by students over two years, being on display, caps will be sold to a metal processer.</br></br>WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) — The j Justice Department has given indica- I tions of its policy on employment dis- I crimination cases in an agreement with I the New Hampshire state police calling i for a special effort to recruit women.</br></br>The agreement Thursday said the re- | cruitment and hiring objectives would j not be treated as quotas and there are no j requirements for preferential hiring by ! sex.</br></br>The agreement was reached in a con- i sent decree filed in Federal District j Court in Concord, N.H. It settled a civil i suit filed at the same time by the Justice ! Department.</br></br>A Justice Department spokesman, 1 John V. Wilson, said the agreement was j j the first time the Administration’s policy on remedying employment dis- j I crimination had been fullv outlined.

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198,000 JOBS IN U.S. AVAILABLE IN JUNE: BUT LABOR DEPT. SAYS 118,000.... WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) — A total of 198,000 full-time jobs were available at state employment agencies throughout the country in June and by the end of the month 118,000 had been filled or canceled, the Labor Department reported today. More than 10 million Americans were out of work that month.</br></br>Jobs available at most places, according to the department, were those for automobile mechanics, restaurant cooks, insurance sales agents, secretaries, waiters and waitresses.</br></br>The data for June showed 198,000 openings at 163 state employment service agencies. The total included 91 more jobs than in May, only the second increase since last September.</br></br>0Rockford, 111., and Modesto, Calif., had the highest metropolitan area unemployment rates in June, 19.1 percent and 19 percent, and Stamford, Conn., the lowest, 3.4 percent.</br></br><JTwenty major cities and areas will receive $7.5 million to help local governments find additional jobs and training assistance for disadvantaged youths under the expiring Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.

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NEWS OF INTEREST IN SHIPPING FIELD: MARINE. Ralph E. Casey, president of the American Merchant Marine Institute, yesterday forecast greater employment opportunities for maritime school graduates.</br></br>Mr. Casey addressed ninetyseven' graduates at the 100th commencement exercises of The Maritime College of the State University of New York, Fort Schuyler, the Bronx. Vice Admiral Calvin T. Durgin, retired, president of the college, presided.</br></br>Mr. Casey pointed out that there was a current move to revive coastal shipping, using vessels of _ the “roll-on-roll-off" type. This type of vessel permits the loading and unloading of trailer trucks by rolling them I on and off at dockside. Plans for twenty-nine such craft are pending.</br></br>“I shall be very much surprised if, within a decade, we do not see a roll-on-roll-off merchant marine of 200 to 250 ships conducting a prosperous domestic trade,” he said. He declared that such an operation aud other developments would provide for a greater number of seagoing jobs.</br></br>Mr. Casey congratulated the college on the acquisition of its newest training ship, the Empire State. She was the former hospital ship Mercy. He also praised the cadets for their “very large part in shaping the American Merchant Marine.” ;

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DIRECTOR RESIGNS AT YOUTH AGENCY: QUITS MOBILIZATION FOR YOUTH POST FOR U.S. By HOMER BIGART. By HOMER BIGART George A. Brager, who directed the community: action program of Mobilization for Youth, announced yesterday that he was resigning as codirector of the Lower East Side welfare agency to assist in the development of Federal youth employment programs.</br></br>On Jan. 18 he will become deputy to Samuel V. Merrick. Assistant Manpower Commissioner for Youth, in the Department of Labor.</br></br>Mr. Brager, in a letter of resignation to Winslow Carlton, chairman of the board of Mobilization for Youth, referred to the investigations, resulting from charges last summer that the agency was infiltrated by Communists, and that its action programs stimulated the poor to violent demonstrations.</br></br>He said the agency was no longer threatened by "misrepresented charges" and that its "programmatic soundness has been affirmed." .</br></br>"The right of low-income persons to take action in their own behalf has not'been firmly established,” he said. "Nor have the rights of private agencystaff to protection from onerous suspicion, investigation and security clearance yet been won.

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STUDY CITES GAINS IN HIRING NEGROES: U.S. COMPANIES EMPLOYING MORE,.... American companies are hiring more Negroes but strides in Negro employment are still slow, the National Industrial Conference Board reported yesterday.</br></br>In a two-volume study of the hiring attitudes and practices of 47 companies throughout the United States, the board found that far fewer problems had been encountered in hiring Negroes than had been expected.</br></br>The study also showed that many Negroes continued to receive only low-paying, lowstatus jobs and that well-qualified Negroes were still hard to find.</br></br>by companies to revise their hiring practices came from the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It became effective on July 2, 1965, and makes it unlawful for an employer, an employment agency or a labor union to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion and national origin.</br></br>But the board’s study indicated that the law itself was not the only factor at work in the field. As Francis G. Fabian, president of Hunt Foods and Industries, Inc., told the board’s interviewing team: “If the law were repealed tomorrow, we’d keep our policy and plan for action because it’s not only right but also we've gone through a lot to get it. But I think governmental inspection of our plants and facilities is an asset. We all need prodding. I’ll certainly keep prodding as long as I’m chief executive officer. Someone at the top has to believe in this and push it or it just won’t go.’’

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HUMPHREY SCORES F. E. P. C. OPPONENTS: SAYS THEY DRESS SUCH BILLS IN .... WASHINGTON. April 7. (UP) — Senator Hubert H. Humphrey accused opponents of civil rights I legislation today of deliberately I dressing up fair employment practices legislation “in the horns of the devil.”</br></br>The Minnesota. Democrat, .who led the successful fight for a strong civil rights plank in the 1945 Democratic platform, made the statement as a Senate Labor subcommittee, which he heads, opened hearings on two bills to set up a Federal Fair Employment Practices Commission with authority to hold hearings, make findings and resort to the courts to enforce its decisions.</br></br>Mr. Humphrey said neither bill I carried any criminal penalties and that they provided for a “full judicial process/’ “If there has ever been a proposal that has been dressed up in the horns of the devil, it has been these proposals,” he said.</br></br>Robert C. Goodwin, executive director of the Labor Department’s Office of Defense Manpower, told the subcommittee the nation must make the best possible use of its manpower during the mobilization emergency and urged adoption of an F. E. P. C. bill.</br></br>Senator Irving M. Ives, Republican of New York, like Mr. Humphrey a sponsor of one of the two F. E. P. C. bills, attacked so-called “voluntary” fair employment proposals. The House passed such a bill in the last Congress.

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Out Of Work In America . A very small group of people at a church in Greenwich Village is attempting to seriously engage the most devastating issue of our time — the wholesale elimination of employment.</br></br>Peter Laarman, the senior minister at Judson Memorial Church,balls it “the triumph of profits over people.”</br></br>Judson Memorial is on the southern edge of Washington Square Park. Its congregants are mostly middle class, and thus increasingly vulnerable to the threat of joblessness- that has spread anxiety across the Country. What Mr. Laarman learned, soon after coming to the church in early 1994, was that the men, and women who were losing their jobs often were too upset, and too ashamed, to even talk about it.</br></br>Talented, successful and mostly middle-aged, they were ot prepared to cope with the hard .ips of unemployment that have always bedeviled the working classes and the poor.</br></br>“Losing my job,” said Susan Boyer, who agreed only reluctantly to speak on the record about her experience, ‘‘felt just like it feltdhe time I got mugged. The awful feeling in the gut was exactly the same. There I was in this nice high-tech job, and then 1 got downsized. I felt, ‘This can’t be happening to me.’ ”

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MOTHBALL FLEETS URGED IN AID PLAN: SHIP REPAIR EXECUTIVE ASKS USE OF.. Employment of some of the ships laid up in mothball fleets . as floating bases for the peace 1 corps idea has been suggested here by a ship repair executive.</br></br>Charles Montanti, president of Monti Marine Corporation, Brooklyn, outlined the proposal last week and said he might sound out authorities in Washington.</br></br>President-elect John F. Kennedy in his campaign sponsored the idea of a corps of young Americans who would serve in under-developed countries. They 'would participate in aid to the countries in education, agriculture, health and mechanical and engineering programs.</br></br>Mr. Montanti said the United States possessed a mothball armada which is lying idle and useless except for grain storage on a small percentage of the ships. Much of the fleet has been earmarked for scrapping in a program that is already well under way.</br></br>He said that ninety or 100 of these ships had been Navy transports and were equipped to accommodate youth corps or peace corps staffs. Moreover, they have refrigeration capacity, more power equipment than average commercial ships, and spaces ready for hospital and living quarters.

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