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Topics of The Times pg. 22 --- . here in town. One was Arturo Toscanini in the NBC studio; he was to celebrate his eightieth birthday two days later. The second director was David Mannes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; he is several weeks advanced into his eighty-second year. It suggests, to a mind which works in I swift general impressions rather than by strict scientific method, that one way to achieve a long and active career is to go in for a light form of exercise like swinging a small, thin rod weighing a very few ounces for a couple of hours; and there are conductors who dispense with the baton and get the desired effect with their arms, wrists and fingers.</br></br>Serge Koussevitzky at 73 is well on the way to tie the age record of his two New York fellow-craftsmen. Chicago had in succession Theodore Thomas and Frederick A. Stokes, who attained the same scriptural age of 70. But for the whole musical profession the showing is not so good, with Mozart dying at 35, Beethoven at 52 and Bach at a moderate 65. The level is raised by Wagner at 70 and Richard Strauss, who is still active at 83.</br></br>Option would a child prefer to be born, if given the choice, in order to enjoy the happiest life which this world couldoffer. The answer, if recollection does not err, was that one should be born a male child in a patrician Roman family in the golden age of the Antonines, or into one of the ruling English families of the eighteenth century, either Whig or Tory.</br></br>Today one might ask — though no doubt there are more serious matters pressing for the world's attention what profession should a man embrace in order to attain the longest span of life and useful activity. The rather unexpected answer would be that a man can perhaps make his best bid for longevity either as an American business man or a French painter and sculptor.</br></br>We take it that this Business would be a rather unexand pected answer because the Finance fast pace of American life in general is supposed to be at its top in the tempo of American business, where9 death takes its corresponding toll. But this is not borne out by a swift glance at the record, which shows men of business like Peter Cooper at 92, George Foster Peabody at 86, John Wanamaker at 84, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Nathan Straus at 83, Stephen Girard at 81, Johns Hopkins and the elder J. P. Morgan at 78. They are all, of course, dwarfed by the towering record of the first John D. Rockefeller. Indeed, if one were to ask in specific terms where is a man’s best chance for the very top figure in length of life, the answer might be either the American oil business, where a Rockefeller lived to be 98, or the Venetian oil business, of another type, where a man named Titian lived to be 99. Not that Michelangelo did so badly, either, in his eighty-nine years of life.

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JOBLESS RATE LAID TO WELFARE RULES: BLACK TEEN-AGE UNEMPLOYMENT .... WASHINGTON, May 15 — The employment problems of teen-agers are attributed in part to Federal rules that discourage welfare recipients from working, according to a Government study.</br></br>Such “work disincentives” in the structure of welfare programs are more likely to affect black teen-agers, the researchers reported, because a larger percentage of blacks than whites receive public assistance.</br></br>The study by the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, is one of the most comprehensive analyses of the situation.</br></br>Last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 1,979,000 people between 16 years of age and 19 were unemployed. They accounted for nearly one-fifth of the 10.3 million Americans who were out of work.</br></br>Rate for Blacks Twice as High The unemployment rate for this 16-to-19 group was 23 percent, compared with the 9.4 percent rate for the entire population. For black teen-agers, the rate was 48.1 percent, more than double the 20.8 jobless rate for white teen-agers.

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BUSINESS SERVICES FOR WAR VETERANS. The Young Men’s Board of Trade of New York, 291 Broadway, acting as Coordinator of the efforts of busl^Sss and industry, lists the following free services to aid veterans in career-planning and employment.</br></br>ADVERTISING—Job Interviews conducted by Veteran* Guidance in Advertising and Selim*, ine.. 103 East Tlrty-fifth Street, will be held dally. 9:30 A. M. to 11 A. M. AGRICULTURE—Individual counseling on tramms. employment and settlement, held dally from 10 A. M. tft noon and 2 to 4 P. M., Jewish Agriculture Society. 386 Fourth Avenue. ART—Commercial art courses covering such 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. AVIATION—Educational, vocational and placement counseling by personnel, production and transport executives in all phases of aviation and allied Industries. Room 201. North Shore Bus Terminal Building. Flushing, second and fourth Mondays of each month at 7:30 P. M. Conducted by the Flushing Young Men’s Board of Trade. Hotel Sanford, Flushing. Queens.</br></br>CAREER PLANNING AND GENERAL GUIDANCE—Discussion of the application of sales prnlciplea and job-finding technique including resumes, application letters and presentations is provided tonight and every Monday night at 7 o’clock 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.</br></br>COMMERCIAL ART—Individual guidance and counseling in all phases of commercial art conducted every Tuesday at 7:30 P. M. by the Advertising Club of New York at 103 East Thirty-fifth Street. Bring folio for individual counesling.</br></br>EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES — Vocational and educational counseling and guidance in all fields of endeavor, including formal schooling. arts and crafts, hobbies, sports, business and professional schools, forums, lectures, etc. Conducted by the New York Adult Educational Council, inc.. at 254 Fourth Avenue, dally from 10 A. M. to 5 . M.

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RACE BIAS CALLED BAD FOR BUSINESS: END OF JOB PREJUDICE WOULD ADD A .... Employment of Negroes in jobs Utilizing their highest skills would add 56,000,000,000 to the busring power of the people of the United States, John E. O’Gara, vice president and general manager, Macy’s of New York, declared yesterday. He spoke before second-day sessions of the American Management Association’s three-day personnel j conference in the Waldorf-Astoria HoteL</br></br>After assailing employment discrimination against qualified Negroes on the ground of fairness and pointing out that continuation makes employers "criminally responsible for providing a soft spot for subversive penetration,” Mr. O’Gara told how discrimination is bad business practice by declaring: "Economic discrimination means that the Negro can’t stand on his own feet and, when he can't do that, then he automatically must lean on the community. When he leans on the community, he becomes a tax and relief burden; he becomes the easiest prey to disease —which of course spreads within the whole community—and he is shut off from markets because obviously he can’t buy.”</br></br>‘‘Why chase after the expensive foreign markets with such a nocost big one right on our doorstep ? From the point of view of the economic health of the community, there is in job discrimination a significant damage too little recognized. This damage comes directly home to roost in the markets of commerce and industry.” Ben F. McClancy, secretary and general manager of the Associated Industries of Cleveland, reported that employers in the Cleveland area spend approximately 18.5 cents era hour on employe welfare programs like pensions, group insurance and Federal Social Security payments. He based the report on a recently completed survey of personnel practices of 383 Cleveland companies employing 168,000 persons—70 per cent of the city’s wage-earners.</br></br>Mr. McClancy said a good deal of the 18.5 cents cost is being “poured down the drain” as far as the Cleveland companies collectively are concerned. He emphasized that he could not speak for individual concerns. The survey indicated, Mr. McClancy declared, that "employe relations seem to be the result of a comedy of errors rather than the result of any definite plan.”</br></br>He pointed out that 95 per cent of participating companies have no compulsory retirement age; 80 per cent no minimum hiring age; 45 per cent are using arbitration to settle collective bargaining disputes; 50 per cent pay for time used in equipment cleaning; 50 per cent pay for time for personal clean-up and forty-nine of the 363 companies bear the entire costs of employe group insurance. The results show, Mr. McClancy said, that no common pattern of personnel practices exists in Cleveland companies.

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NATION'S JOBLESS RISE TO 4,013,000: FIGURE IS LARGEST FOR ANY .... WASHINGTON, Dec. 12Employment conditions continued to worsen in November, the Labor Department reported today.</br></br>Unemployment rose to 4,013,000. The total was the largest for any November since the Government started making monthly estimates in 1940. But the increase from October was no more than usual.</br></br>The seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment last month was 6.3 per cent, virtually unchanged from October's 6.4 per cent.</br></br>Employment declined by 308,000 in November, but nonetheless set a record of 67,182,000 for the month. Jobs in manufacturing declined by twice the normal November amount, and were more widespread than in previous months.</br></br>Employment has been setting monthly records all year. In July it was the highest in history, 68,700,000. Unemployment, however, has never fully recovered from the 1958 recession, and has been rising irregularly since spring.

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Topics of The Times: Playtime in the City. Playtima Sa&ed in hifl employment of getting a fare through the City the traffic and across town when his immediate problem became safe conduct through one of those streets which, though not officially assigned to that role, have been selected by the boys of the neighborhood as a convenient playground. At the moment a ball game was on, and the fare suggested that it was a perilous passage for all concerned. But the taximan said that city kids had a hard time finding places to play ball and it was all right with him if they’d found one here. All he had to do was to take it easy and see to it that he didn’t get too much in the way of the ball or hit any of the players.</br></br>Talking words to say about what kids in the city were up against—words that you’d hardly expect from a man with his temper frayed by long hours of contention with those traffic conditions which, according to our hlayor, must not be too severely criticized, since without ’em this would be a dead city.</br></br>It is true we have Still many acres of parks the Custom and playgrounds — and Holds are always getting more of them — especially provided for the young people who need outlet for the abundant energies of the growing animal. But city fapys —and city girls as well—have always liked to play in the streets. And it is good to know that even taxi drivers recognize that—within limits—playing in the streets is among the youngsters’ inalienable rights—or at least one of those rights which, even at peril of life and limb, they are not prepared to surrender to the rule makers who have their best interests at heart.</br></br>Another incident—mereStaging ty observed from an upper a Chariot window—is evidence that Race juvenile ingenuity in adapting streets to playtime purposes has not failed. The scene was a sidewalk on a busy avenue— which did not happen just then to be quite so busy, because it was Sunday. And what was going on was a chariot race staged by two little girls—who may (it has been suggested) have got the idea from the Greek Games that are put on annually up at Barnard College. The chariots were doll-baby carriages, which the little girls had wearied of using in the approved fashion, as push-mobiles.</br></br>Each little girl had Complete therefore hitched herself With to her own doll carriage Ribbons —using pink ribbons in one case and blue ribbons in the other. As soon as the harnessing business was completed—it took some time—the race was on, with what pedestrians there were clearing the track. It wasn’t a long race—the course stayed within the block. And the equipment was not quite adequate to a finished performance. But the little girls were very earnest about it and were having a good time.

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RULING ON SEX BIAS CURBS EMPLOYERS: PANEL BARS DECISIONS ON MERE SUSP. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (AP) — Employers may not dismiss women or refuse to hire them because of suspicions that their exposure to chemicals or radiation on the job may some day cause reproductive or fetal damage, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said today.</br></br>“A policy that expressly excludes women on the basis of pregnancy or capacity to become pregnant on its face discriminates against women on the basis of sex in violation of” a 1982 amendment to the Civil Rights Act, the commission said.</br></br>To justify such exclusions, the commission said, employers must support them with “reputable, objective, scientific evidence” that a hazard adversely affects the potential offspring only through the female parent and not the male.</br></br>“This approach prevents unnecessary limitations on women’s employment opportunities, while preserving the employers’ — and society’s — legitimate interest in protecting the health of offspring,” the commission said in an 11-page policy directive to its enforcement officials.</br></br>While evidence so far of reproductive risk is largely inconclusive, the commission said, the “same impulse that has led some employers to exaggerate the risks of employing handicapped workers can also lead to exaggeration of risks to offspring.”

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U.s. JOB POLICIES FOR G.I.'S SCORED: REPORT FINDS NO SET PLAN FOR RETURNS. M1NEOLA, L. I., Oct. 19—A] special ar.d as yet unpublished! report for the United States; Department of Labor says thatj this country does not have “aI comprehensive policy or set ofj policies designed to deal with! the employment problems of returning veterans, particularly during periods when these problems are the most pressing —near the end of major military actions.”</br></br>A ‘‘draft final report” by Kirschner Associates, Inc., ofj Albuquerque, N. M., and Wash-; ington, which was prepared! under contract to the Office of; Policy, Evaluation and Re-; search of the Manpower Divi-j sion, Department of Labor,! said that there was a network', of programs and services to; help the veteran with employ-! ment-related problems.</br></br>But, it said, “this network is. a conglomeration of various approaches that had been developed over the last few decades at different times in response to different problems."</br></br>A 16-page summary of the report—"Evaluation of Special Manpower Sendees to Veterans”—was made available to The New York Times by Representative Lester L. Wolff, Nassau Democrat, who is a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. j</br></br>Mr. Wolff, who is running; for re-election in the new Sixth Congressional District on the; North Shore of Nassau County,j said in a statement that he was “disturbed that the Department of Labor is apparently withholding a report which it has and is forestalling action to correct inadequacies of the department’s programs for veteran employment services.”

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NO-COMPETE CONTRACTS: TIES THAT BIND?. One common way for companies to try to stem the flow of competitive information is to require employees to sign agreements restraining them from accepting employment with a competitor for a given period of time after leaving.</br></br>But an employee may decide, as did Joseph Vit-toria when he left Hertz to become president of Avis, that such an agreement shouldn't bind him.</br></br>' ‘After more than 20 years in the car rental business, it's the business I know, it's how I make my living,’’ said Mr. Vittoria. "I'm like a plumber. Once you know how to be a plumber, you can’t stop and suddenly be a carpenter. If I can't be ir» the car rental business any more, what am I supposed to do?"</br></br>At Johnson & Johnson, new employees with access to sensitive information routinely sign agreements that they will not work for similar departments at competing companies for two years after leaving Johnson & Johnson. Johnson a Johnson will even continue to pay their base salaries for up to two years if the agreement makes It impossible for them to find suitable employment.</br></br>But that provision is rarely invoked, according to George Frazza, Johnson & Johnson’s general counsel. More commonly, Johnson & Johnson law- "It's usually worked out pretty amicably,'' said Mr. Frazza. "I can only remember four or five times that we've actually had to invoke the provision that we would keep paying their base salary. ’’

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And You Thought Pension Funds Were Scary: Under funded Plans. UNDERFUNDED pension plans rank high on investors’ fright lists, but now comes another specter: post-employment health plans. At some major companies, they are in even more dire shape than Densions.</br></br>Only an estimated 5 percent of American companies offer such health plans, according to the Labor Department. But many that do, like Ford Motor, and Merck, are large companies whose stocks are widely held by investors.</br></br>From the 1950’s through the 1970's, a number of industrial companies agreed to pay for their employees' health care after they retired. Now that bill is starting to come due.</br></br>And, oh, what a bill it is. Current company estimates for health care costs put their obligations at $284 billion, according to Glass, Lewis & Company, an institutional research firm in San Francisco. It studied 213 large companies offering post-retirement health care coverage.</br></br>low 13.2 percent, the study said. By comparison, pension obligations at these companies are 65.6 percent funded.

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STATE WIDENS AID FOR JOB SEEKERS: ADDS IS TO STAFF TO ASSIST THOSE .... Albany, Aug. 30 (^—Governor Harriman’s Democratic Administration moved today to develop new job opportunities for men and women over 45. It announced that it would add eighteen trained interviewers to state employment offices in New York and five other cities.</br></br>Isador Lubin, the State Industrial Commissioner, said thirteen specialists would be assgined to New York City and one each in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, White Plains and Newburgh. They will start tomorrow.</br></br>A Republican Senator said, however, the number was insufficient and' contended that the Administration had delayed six months after the Legislature had given its approval.</br></br>Dr. Lubin stressed that the “great majority” of older men and women did not require or wish help in finding employment. But he said a minority had “special problems of one kind or another or have become so discouraged by fruitless and often badly directed job-hunting that they need counseling and special placement help.”</br></br>He said the Labor Department had set aside §50,000 of a Fed>. eral grant financing employment service operations to support the project. The Legislature, at its last session, appropriated $50,000 in stand-by state funds to be used if Federal funds were not available.

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New Import: Irish Catholic Teachers. Nearly lost amid the tons of electronic and automotive imports that flood into the United States each day is a commodity especially valuable to Catholic schools in the nation’s urban areas: the hundreds of Irish teachers who are finding employment in American Catholic schools with a shortage of American instructors.</br></br>“Five years ago the teacher shortage was particularly severe in inner-city schools,” said Brother Joseph M. Shields, associate superintendent for teacher personnel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. “But it has since spread to suburban schools as well. We had a national recruiting campaign across the United States, but did not find enough teachers.” Brother Shields decided to go international with his recruiting campaign two years ago. “Our colleagues in the New York City school system had begun recruiting in Spain,” he said. “So I decided to reach out to any country where English was the language of instruction — Ireland, Canada, England, the Philippines and some African countries.”</br></br>Ireland proved the most fertile soil. About 110 teachers from from all over the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, three-quarters of them women, are now working in New York's Catholic schools. Two-thirds are elementary school teachers, all are university products and most are experienced teachers.</br></br>The number of American education graduates plunged by 50 percent between 1974 and 1984, from 185,225 a year to 92,382, according to government surveys. Catholic schools felt the shortage acutely: There has been a decline in the number of nuns and priests in religious orders whose members once predominantly taught school, and the pay scale for Catholic lay teachers is lower than in the public schools. The starting salary for lay teachers in New York is $15,600 at elementary level with a B.A., and $17,000 for a high school teacher, compared with $20,400 a year for the city’s public-school teachers. The archdiocese, which covers</br></br>5.000 square miles from New York City through Westchester to Sullivan and Dutchess counties, has 345 elementary and secondary schools and needs nearly While there are no nationwide figures, teacher recruiters estimate that more than 200 other Irish teachers have been placed

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STOWAWAY TELLS OF NAZI SLAVE LIFE: 18-YEAR-OLD LEFT U.S. IN 1939,.... Eight years ago. William K. H. Wenzel, then 10 years old, went to Denmark from Rocnester, N. Y. with his father, James, a salesman for the Eastman Kodak Company. He returned yesterday to the the United States as a stowaway with a story of time spent in a German concentration camp, employment with various United States Army units and assignment to a displaced persons camp.</br></br>William told Assistant Unitedj States Attorney Mario Pittoni that he and his father were living in Copenhagen when the Germans in 1940 overran Denmark taking the two prisoners. When the father refused to renounce his United States citizenship, they Were interned in Buchenwald.</br></br>After seven months together in the concentration camp, the son was sent to Leipzig, Germany, where he was put to work with other children loading stones on trucks. He was freed in 1945 by the United States Sixty-ninth Infantry Division.</br></br>William tried to enlist in the United States Army but, because of his age, he was refused. However, he told Mr. Pittoni, he assisted American Army units in Germany and France. At one point in his wanderings, he was investigated by the Counter Intelligence Corps, gave him a clean slate, he said.</br></br>In December, 1946, with the help of the American Consul in Frankfort on the Main, he took steps to return to this country and his mother, Mrs. Mary Wenzel, whose last known address was 1310-28 G Street, Rochester. He was sent to a DP camp outside of Frankfort to wait.

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JOB BLANK CHANGE AT COLUMBIA SEEN: JEWISH CONGRESS REPOR TS THE .... Columbia University will voluntarily remove questions relating to race, religion and nationality from the application blanks used by its employment office, the American Jewish Congress announced yesterday. A spokesman for the university, however, would neither confirm nor deny the report.</br></br>The congress, which filed a complaint against the university with the State Commission against Discrimination last summer, said Columbia’s decision had been made after ' the commission had, denied its contention that its employment office was exempt from provisions of the Ives-Quinn Anti-Discrimination Law.</br></br>The commission officials sIbo declined to discuss the case yesterday, noting that they were restrained by law from making public any details, about a case till it is finally settled.</br></br>According to the congress announcement, the reported decision of the commission that it has jurisdiction in the Columbia issue establishes the precedent that all employment offices operated by charitable and educational institutions must obey the Anti-Discrimination Law.</br></br>Meanwhile, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, congress’ president, sent a letter yesterday to Wallace H. White Jr., United States Senate Majority Leader, complaining that applicants to Mr. White’s office for jobs on Senate committees were being asked their religion.

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The Nouveau Poor? By Menachem Lubinsky . In Washington, heated debate has already reached a peak about the future shape of the landmark Federal legislation known as CETA, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. First enacted in 1973 to replace all the fragmented manpower-training programs that existed until then, it was at that time the latest national job-training program—something that had first appeared on the scene during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. One of the largest provisions of the act is Title I, which authorizes a broad range of job-training and placement programs.</br></br>Those eligible during the last four years for the most part (notable exceptions are public service and youth employment) have been the ‘'unemployed, underemployed and economically disadvantaged.”</br></br>Such a broad definition obviously has meant that the middle class has been able to benefit as well. The legislation was, indeed, timely: During the 1974-75 recession, a large number of beneficiaries were from middle-class backgrounds. Since 1975, chronically unemployed youth and others who were ill-prepared in school or were otherwise deficient in job skills have made use of CETA.</br></br>The Carter Administration has proposed to restrict the eligibility under its new Title II. which would replace Title I, to those who are both unemployed and economically disadvantaged—that is, they have an income below the Bureau of Labor .Statistics’ lower living standard, $4,900 for a family of four.</br></br>In serving 15,000 people over the last three years, our agency has seen people from middle-class backgrounds unable to get their first job. They ere indeed chronically unemployed, because they have no employable skills, but they happen to have been horn into a family that is earning slight!v more than existing Federal standards and thus would become ineligible under relegislated CETA.

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Treasury Nomination Hits Snag Over Issue of Past Unpaid Taxes. WASHINGTON — Timothy F. Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for Treasury secretary, failed to pay more than $34,000 in federal taxes over several years early this decade, and also faces questions about the employment papers of a former household employee, suddenly complicating what had seemed to be an easy confirmation process in the Senate.</br></br>Mr. Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, huddled privately with members of the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday afternoon to explain that he had now paid the back taxes and interest. Senate Democratic leaders quickly released statements of support lest the controversy threaten the nomination.</br></br>Two senior Senate Republicans likewise gave endorsements, echoing the argument of Obama transition officials that Mr. Geithner's failures were innocent mistakes or technicalities.</br></br>The Finance Committee chairman, Senator Max Baucus of Montana, a Democrat, tentatively scheduled a hearing on Mr. Geithner’s nomination for Friday, though it would be delayed until next week if any members of the panel objected. Any delay would raise the prospect that Mr. Geithner might not be confirmed in time to take office on Tuesday,</br></br>At the least, the flap is a major embarrassment for the man chosen to head the Treasury Department, which oversees the Internal Revenue Service, especially as Mr. Geithner worked at the Treasury under three presidents. And it is the latest of several stumbles by the previously Continued on Page A20 smooth-running Obama transition office — the most serious being the withdrawal of Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico as the choice for commerce secretary because of questions over state contracts and political contributions.

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Bias Ruling Curbs Employers. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (AP) — Employers may not dismiss women or refuse to hire them because of suspicion that their exposure to chemicals or radiation on the job may some day cause reproductive or fetal damage, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday.</br></br>"A policy that expressly excludes women on the basis of pregnancy or capacity to become pregnant on its face discriminates against women on the basis of sex in violation of” a 1982 amendment to the civil rights law, the commission said. £</br></br>To justify such exclusions, the commission said employers must support them with “reputable, objective, scientific evidence” that a hazard adversely affects the potential offspring only through the female parent and not the male.</br></br>Growing Number of Cases “This approach prevents unnecessary limitations on women’s employment opportunities, while preserving the employers’ — and society’s — legitimate interest in protecting the health of offspring," the commission said in an 11-page policy directive to its enforcement officials.</br></br>estimates that as many as 15 million to 20 million jobs in the country expose workers to chemicals that might cause reproductive injuries.

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EISENHOWER ASKS THAT J. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (^PiPresident Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon appealed to the nation’s business and labor leaders today for more help in the Administration’s program to end employment discrimination among whites and Negroes.</br></br>Under the auspices of the President’s Committee on Government Contracts, nearly 500,000 pamphlets discussing the problem are being distributed throughout the country.</br></br>“First, the growing industrial I might of this country requires the largest possible reserve of skilled manpower.</br></br>“Second, in the world struggle for the minds of men, America's position of leadership makes it mandatory that we not be subject to the charge of racial prejudice which, is being hurled at us every day by the Communists.”</br></br>A message from President Eisenhower is contained in the pamphlet. In addition Mr. Nixon has written a letter to business and industrial leaders in all major companies holding contracts with the Federal Government. All these contracts contain antidiscrimination clauses.

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Consumer Saturday: Ad for Jobs At Home Criticized. JAT first glance it can seem like a golden opportunity for self-em-ployment or part-time work at home: “Be your own boss. Work from home. No experience necessary. Over $500 per week possible. No sales required.” Such an advertisement ran frequently in some weekly newspapers on Long Island, according to the State Consumer Protection Board.</br></br>But people who called the phone number at the end of the notice found that it was not an advertisement for work but for a mail-order employers directory selling for $16.95 that callers were urged to buy.</br></br>Both the United States Postal Service and the State Consumer Protection Board are now warning consumers that advertisements like these are often misleading at best and can result in costly mistakes for those who end up paying for useless work kits.</br></br>Karen S. Burstein, executive director of the board, last week advised jobseekers to be wary of advertisements that seem to promise substantial earnings in a short time or with little effort or require the applicant to make long-distance telephone calls for information or to spend money for equipment or Information in advance.</br></br>Miss Burstein said the Postal Service had received about 40 complaints a week in New York City and was investigating the problem.

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Court Holds Congressmen Liable to Suits for Sex Bias: Brennan Finds .... WASHINGTON, June 5—The Supreme Court ruled today, 5 to 4, that even though Congress specifically exempted its members when it outlawed discrimination in employment, the Constitution gives a Congressional employee the direct right to sue a Congressman for damages on the grounds of race or sex discrimination.</br></br>The decision reinstates a sex discrimination suit brought against former Representative Otto E. Passman by his former deputy administrative assistant, Shirley Davis.</br></br>Mr. Passman, a Louisiana Democrat who lost his seat in a primary election in 1976, dismissed Mrs. Davis in 1974, telling her that although she was "able, energetic and a very hard worker” he had “concluded that it was essential that the understudy to my administrative assistantbeaman.”</br></br>The decision (Davis v. Passman, No. 78-5072) reverses a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, which dismissed the case on the ground that the Constitution alone, in the absence of a law specifically authorizing such a suit, provided Mrs. Davis no basis on which to sue.</br></br>Brennan Finds No Alternative Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr., writing for the majority, rejected this analysis. Since Mrs. Davis has no other recourse to vindicate her rights, he said, the Constitution is enough.

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Head of Federal Agency Says Age Bias Cases Were Ignored. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (AP) — A Federal employment rights commission ignored 900 grievances concerning age discrimination for more than two years, preventing most people who filed the complaints from taking legal action, the agency’s chief said Thursday.</br></br>The mishandled complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission amounted to one of every 40 discrimination charges lodged in the two-year period.</br></br>Complaints were allowed to languish for so long that a two-year deadline for further legal action passed, Clarence Thomas, the commission chairman, said in an interview published today in the Los Angeles Times.</br></br>In an internal memorandum sent last month, Mr. Thomas chastised 23 district directors for allowing the complaints to lapse. He called the delays</br></br>The commission generally reviews complaints filed with it to determine if the facts would support a lawsuit. Most who lodge complaints wait for the agency’s review before filing a lawsuit.

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In The Nation: Senator Benton's Argument for the F.E.P.C. Grist for Both Mills A Choice of Me. WASHINGTON, May 10 —Senator Benton of Connecticut, speaking yesterday in favor of the Administration’s bill to provide federal penalties fbr industrial employers and labor unions in all the forty-eight states who are found guilty by a Fair Employment Practice Commission of racial or religious discrimination, said several times that “the big issue is * * * justice for our own citizens in our own land.” But for the many who doubt that a compulsory federal statute is the right or the constitutional way to effect that justice, Mr. Benton stressed two other arguments of the type politicians call “practical”: 1. He said "our failure to live up to our democratic preachments on civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, religion, color or national origin, contributes most to the poisonous, tremendous and terrible effectiveness of Soviet propaganda against this nation in the world.” Hence, he said, passage of this bill would not only be a masterstroke in foreign policy but one acutely necessary.</br></br>2. Mr. Benton’s second practical argument was that "more than ninetyeight per cent of all enterprises in the United States employ fewer than fifty persons,” and "there are not as many employers in the South as I would wish * * ♦ who employ more than fifty persons.” Hence, the law would operate in a small area of the industrial economy : “without the development of the modem corporation it may be questioned whether this legislation would be needed.”</br></br>Benton exposed two features of the Administration bill which opponents have found especially vulnerable. They do not see disproof of their belief that the measure is unconstitutional, and bad domestic public policy as well, in the statement that these should be waived in the interest of our foreign policy, as Mr. Benton and others evaluate it. And Senator Connally remarked that a bill of such high idealistic professions that exempts "ninety-eight per cent of all enterprises in the United States” is either a sham or is intended as the outrider for another bill which will affect all employers. Senator Benton’s percentages, and the history of all sumptuary legislation with a modest beginning (such as the local option laws that became nationwide prohibition), certainly support Mr. Connally’s observation.</br></br>The Soviet radio tells the Russian people [and others] that our Constitution was written by representatives of exploiting classes and does not truly guarantee civil rights; that our Congress * * * one of their favorite targets * * * permits the minority to prevail "because of the poll tax and the filibuster.”</br></br>I hope the Senator from Connecticut does not advocate that we should repeal the Constitution because the Communists have been putting out a good deal of false propaganda about it.

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FACTORY OUTPUT CLIMBED IN JULY: U.S. INDEX. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — Industrial production and employment—two basic indicators of economic activity—showed! gains in July. I</br></br>The Federal Reserve Board’s index of industrial production rose nearly a point to 126.5 per cent of its 1957-59 average, despite declines in automobile and steel production. It was the seventh straight month of rise for the production index, and a 2.1 point gain since May. Nonag ricultural employment improved, compared with what is normally expected in July. It fell, but not as much as usual.</br></br>Unemployment, which/has remained almost unchanged for a year at more than 5% per cent of the work force, should begin to drop if the better-than-seasonal trend of employment,continues for another few months, Labor Department officials said.</br></br>So far this year, the gains in; employment have just about matched the increase in the work force, but officials said they expected the increase in the number of workers to start slowing soon. It has been a little higher than expected in the first part of-this year.</br></br>Officials said they felt this was a good sign for the economy as a whole, because manufacturing employment always shows wide swings, depending on basic business conditions, and an uptrend in manufacturing jobs usually indicates a basic economic upturn.

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Job Prospects for June Graduates: Review of Opportunities News Notes—. Employment prospects for June college and high school graduates are worse than they have been at any time since the end of the war, Ewan Clague, Commissioner of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, reported last week.</br></br>Addressing a meeting of the American College Personnel Association in Atlantic City, N. J., Mr, Clague asserted that many of this year’s 500,000 graduates—a record number—would be “unable to find jobs immediately in the occupations for which they have been trained.” Moreover, he said, the situation will be just as serious in 1951 and 1952.</br></br>Most of the graduates, Mr. Clague said, will seek jobs in professional, semi-professional and wiministrative capacities. The best opportunities at present are in nursing, social work, clinical psychology and health services. Opportunities for doctors and dentists are good, but there is keen competition for admittance to professional schools. There is also a demand for veterinarians, medical X-ray technicians, medical laboratory technicians, dental hygienists, physical therapists, occupational therapists and dietitians.</br></br>Teaching—There Is an acute shortage of personnel in the elementary schools and a growing oversupply at the high school level.</br></br>Journalism—The field is generally overcrowded, with jobs easier to obtain on country newspapers and trade publications.

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Fallacies in Our Thinking About Security: They are leading, says .... They are leading, says Hooh, to the worst danger of all—that we may lose more by the methods we adopt to achieve security than by the disasters we would prevent.</br></br>Prom a woodcut by Lynd Ward. "The very quest for absolute security, by diverting energies end thought from other tasks, may remit in netting us less security than we would otherwise enjoy."</br></br>RECENT events have focused attention on the extraordinary degree of American preoccupation with the question of security in Government employment. Never in the past, not even in wartime, has the issue excited so much public attention and provoked so much controversy. The Administration is examining its security program; the opposition is constantly attacking it.</br></br>What are the specific evils we wish to secure ourselves against ? They are, briefly; disloyalty, from which acts of espionage and sabotage may flow; irresponsibility, which may result In disclosure of information vital to the safety of the nation; and vulnerability to enemy pressures, blandishments and blackmail. A "security program" is a generic phrase for the procedures we adopt to reduce these and allied risks. Such procedures are obviously different from the measures normally employed to establish technical competence or qualifications for the performance of particular jobs.</br></br>But absolute security is unattainable. No one is infallible, human beings may change, and the fires of fanaticism often dissolve traditional loyalties. There are no foolproof safeguards. Sometimes the very quest for absolute security, by diverting energies and thought from the solution of other tasks, may result in netting us less security than we would otherwise ehjoy.

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RETIRED PILOT, 60, DEMANDS 'RIGHTS': CHARGES AIRLINE APPLICATION OF F.A.1. Can a commerical airline apply Federal regulations that limit the continued employment of pilots at age 60 without running afoul of state law banning discrimination because of age?</br></br>This question came up yesterday before the State Division of Human rights in a complaint brought by Michael Gitt of [Kings Point, L.I., against Eastern Airlines.</br></br>1 Mr. Gitt. said his retirement by the carrier at 60 from his $38,000-a-year job as an airline pilot was in violation of the State Human Relations Law.</br></br>Under Federal Aviation Administration regulations, pilots reaching the 60-year limit may no longer be used for “line" flights — regularly scheduled passenger and cargo runs. They may, however, be retained in desk jobs or as ferry pilots.</br></br>Under the state law an employer may not discriminate against an employe because of age, defined in the law as from 40 to 65 years.

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TEAMSTERS WARN ON JOB RATE HERE: COUNCIL SAYS CITY IS FACING FISCAL .... The New York unit of the country’slargest labor union said yesterday that the slow growth of employment here, coupled with "ballooning welfare rolls and a seemingly insatiable appetite for city-rendered services,” was plunging the city into fiscal catastrophe.</br></br>Joint Council 16 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, in an analysis of official statistics on job trends, found' the situation was worsening "under Mayor Lindsay, as it did under Mayor Wagner”.</br></br>"It should be evident to the most enthusiastic Lindsay sycophant that the overworked mimeograph machines in City Hall are not capable of creating jobs, or a political, economic and social climate that will attract new industries and hold the ones we already have.</br></br>.‘‘But it would be inaccurate to conclude that New York City’s discouraging experience is unique among central cities or began with Mayor Lindsay.” portation, government, and other regular wage and salary payroll categories, and excluding the self-employed, domestics, and a few others.</br></br>Total nonagricultural employment in the New York area— the city and 12 suburban counties in New York and New Jersey—was 6.4 million in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistic* said iast tveek. Of this total, 3.7 million jobs— well over one-half—were in the city.

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Dow Off 15.21, to 3,234.12, Ahead of Job Data. Computer-driven sell programs: contributed to a drop in stock prices yesterday, as many investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of the Govern-. ment’s report today on March employment figures.</br></br>Many on Wall Street are anxiously awaiting the employment report, j which is the first official indication of, how the economy did last month.</br></br>The Dow Jones industrial average, fell 15.21 points to close at 3,234.12. , After moving in a narrow range for, most the the session, the Dow tumbled more than 35 points in the afternoon, but recovered 15 points before the close of trading.</br></br>Volume on the New York Stock Exchange totaled 185.4 million. shares, compared with 186.4 million on Wednesday. Losing issues outpaced gainers 1,109 to 605.</br></br>Analysts said that futures-related , programmed trading guided the market in recent sessions and that its impact was magnified yesterday as many traders took a wait-and-see attitude about the economy.

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CIVILIAN AIDES' RATIO TREBLED BY MILITARY. WASHINGTON, April 4—The Joint Economy Committee headed by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, reported today that the national military establishment employed thrice the number of civilians as against uniformed men in February as the three component departments did at their wartime employment peq,k in 1945.</br></br>The analysis was contained in the committee’s monthly report on civilian employment in the executive branch “in view of recent military recommendations,’’ Senator Byrd said.</br></br>“Prior to current revitalization of the nation’s armed might,” Mr. Byrd stated, “the combined armed 'forces of the United States in February were employing eight civilians to every fourteen men in uniform, as compared with two civilians for every twelve men in uni-1 form in June of 1945.” *</br></br>In February the Army and the Air Force employed nearly five civilians for every nine men in uniform as compared with nearly two civilians to every eight men in uniform in June of 1945.</br></br>The Navy Department was employing more than three civilians for each five men in uniform last February, as compared with one civilian to every five uniformed men in June of 1945.

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U.S. Judge Warns He May Order Ex-Agent to Suppress C.I.A. File: Certain That Officials Knew. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 21 — A Federal district judge said today that if the Government intervened in a private lawsuit here, he would probably be willing to issue a broad secrecy order enjoining the plaintiff from divulging sensitive information that he obtained in 15 years of employment with the Central Intelligence Agency.</br></br>judge uren K. Lewis said at a nearing: “I don’t think that ex-C.l.A. agents have the right to betray secrets of my Government. If that be treason, you make the most of it.”</br></br>The plaintiff, C. Philip Liechty, has filed a defamation suit against a former colleague who still works at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va. In written statements filed in the pretrial phase of the case, Mr. Liechty charged that the C.I.A. knew in the early 1970’s about South Korean efforts to bribe members of Congress but willfully concealed its knowledge from the Justice Department. Mr. Liechty was an intelligence operations officer in Korea from 1969 to 1974.</br></br>Judge Lewis ruled last year against another former C.I.A. officer, Frank W. Snepp 3d, who had written an unauthorized book about American involvement in the Vietnam War. The judge prohibited Mr. Snepp from trying to publish anything about the agency, even unclassified information, until it was cleared by the agency.</br></br>However, Mr. Snepp’s book had already been published, and Judge Lewis ordered him to forfeit his profits to the United States Treasury. An appeal in that case is pending before the Supreme Court.

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Networking Has Run Dry, Long-Term Unemployed Say. NEARLY three years into the worst employment slump since World War II, many unemployed professionals are finding that the job networks they have been tapping are no longer producing.</br></br>This turn of events — which some call network burnout or network fatigue — appears to be a natural consequence of too many job seekers asking for too many favors. And many people in a position to hire are getting tired of it.</br></br>“It’s a lot like spam," said Diane DiResta, president of DiResta Communications, which assists in career development. "People keep hitting up the same contacts over and over again. But people have a lot more to do these days and are less benevolent than they were in the past. There’s no time for all the requests.”</br></br>Networking has been a highly effective way for many professionals to land a job, and that makes desperate job seekers that much more determined to hit up any and all contacts. According to a recent survey conducted by Bernard Haldane, the national career management firm, 61 percent of responders found their last job through networking while only 3 percent landed a job through the Internet and 16 percent by newspaper listings. Another outplacement company, Lee Hecht Harrison, put the networking number around 80 percent.</br></br>When Wayne Boatwright lost his job with Accenture, the global management consulting firm, he expected that his expansive web of friends and acquaintances would continue to help him in his search for new employment until he succeeded.

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Advertising!: Chairman Of A.T.W. Sentenced. JIOHN L. ERNST, the chairman of ! the Advertising to Women * agency who pleaded guilty in a Federal court in August on two charges arising from income tax returns, was sentenced yesterday to 26 weekends in custody, and the maximum fine of $10,000 on each count. Additionally he will be required to create and teach a program intended to prepare ex-offenders for employment in the advertising business.</br></br>The report of the guilty plea last ■ summer stunned the advertising ; community and since, it, and speculation as to the stiffness of the sentence, ‘have been a topic of conversation wherever advertising people gather.</br></br>The sentencing was by Judge Vincent L. Broderick of the Southern District of New York. And yesterday for the first time it was disclosed as part of the Government’s sentencing memorandum that the second count to which Mr. Ernst pleaded guilty involved $70,000 of unreported Income. The Government maintained it was a kickback for business directed to Sterling Regal Inc., a graphics arts company that prepares printing and engraving.</br></br>Over all Mr. Ernst was charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government by listing personal expenses as business expenses, and allowing favored employees to do the same.</br></br>Mr. Ernst was sentenced to three years in jail on each count; all of the second count was suspended, however, as was all of the three years for the first count except for the 26 weekends. He will start serving these in December, from 6 P.M. Friday to 6 P.M. Sunday. Where he will serve this time is still to be decided upon. The defendant was also given five years probation on each count and the educational program, which must be approved by Judge Broderick, is part of the probation.

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HOUST()N IS FAC '[NG Jolt BIAS HEARING: U.S. AGENCY SAYS MINORITIES DO NOT I. y WASHINGTON, May 26 — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has charged that minorities do not benefit from Houston’s growing economy and it has scheduled public hearings in the nation’s space headquarters next week.j</br></br>Some "of the major corporations in the country and biggest suppliers to the space industry are scheduled to testify as the session' next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,</br></br>William H. Brown 3d, described Houston’s equal employment record as “one of the worst, if not the worst’’ in the country^</br></br>A commission staff report said that Houston’s record was bad despite the fact that contrary ••to the trend in other cities 'uriemployment has been declining" in the Texas city. A staff member said Houston’s jobless rate had gone from a low of 2.4 per cent in April 1969 to 2,1 per cent last month.</br></br>“F.or years, the Houston economy has-been booming,” the staff repdrt stated. “Yet the industrial expansion and labor shortages that characterize its economic, environment have provided little opportunity for economic advancement to the city’s" substantial minority labor force." “While most blacks and Mexican-Americans are working, the jobs they find are in personal services,, small business enterprises and in declining industries. Where they have penetrated growth industries, they are overwhelmingly concentrated in the lowest paying occupations.

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Japan's Enviable Jobless Rate: The Enviable Jobless Rate of Japan. The Bandal Factory, one of M companies In Jspan’s City of Toys, specializes In the production of games equipped with minicomputers. The city employs over 3,OM workers to produce at least a million toys each year.</br></br>TOKYO, Dec. 20 — Tadashi Nakamura has a job that government officials throughout the world must envy. A distinguished-looking 46-year-old bureaucrat, Mr. Nakamura has the formal title of Director of the Employment Policy Division of Japan’s Labor Ministry. That means he is responsible for coming up with policies to combat unemployment in a nation that, by the standards of most industrial countries, has no unemployement.</br></br>Japan’s current unemployment rate is 2.1 percent. That performance would be impressive anytime. Consider, for example, that the United States economy is said to be at the so^alled full-employment level when its unemployment rate is 4 percent.</br></br>But Japan’s unemployment rate is even more striking in the present economic environment. Most of the world's major economies are in recession, and the ranks of the jobless are increasing sharply. Unemployment in the United States climbed to 8.4 percent in November, the highest since the 1974-75 recession.</br></br>Joblessness among the 10 members of the European Economic Community is up to 8.8 percent, a level that has European leaders fearful of political and social consequences. Even West Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, has a jobless rate of 6.4 percent, the highest in 28 years.

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Let Hearts lie Light, As in liaroque Days of Yore. Wassail! From left, Christdpheren Nomura, John Aler and Sari Gruber performing Bach’s “Coffee” Cantata in a concert at Alice Tully.</br></br>i Christmas sends our thoughts ' toward Baroque music, and Baroque music toward Christmas. High-end composers not only were attracted to a great Christian calendar event but also found employment BERNARD there as well. Bach, Han-Unil Aliin t*c*an<*SchUtzwere nULLflltll among them, but that Is mas was originally superimposed: a midwinter celebration of survlvnl and well-being predating Jesus by millennia. The Baroque’s explosions of decoration satisfy the season's need of luxury; at the same time symmetry Is policed, offering a comforting sense of order. Christmas tries to make us feel good; so too this music.</br></br>The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center embraces the pagan and the devout as it begins a ncar-xtrnvaganza of mid-December Baroque concerts. The society’s two yearly rcad-th roughs of Bach's "Brandenburg” Concertos arc a week away. Friday and Saturday bring Bach violin sonatas and cello suites to the Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, Just around the corner from the musicians’ usual home at Alice Tully Hall. And at Tul-lyonFrldaya good-natured and wildly varied program played the Baroque if not for outright laughs, at least for smiles.</br></br>Bach’s "Coffee” Cantata was acted out with cafe tables, cups and coffeepot. A. G. Murphy’s sly rhyming verse served to update Marin Marais’s otherwise harrowing "Gall Bladder Operation”; here Kenneth Cooper, harpsichordist, and Colin Carr, cellist, played and recited their parts, stylishly in both cases.</br></br>Carol Wincenc’s flute chirped agreeably In Vivaldi's virtuoso "Goldfinch” Concerto. There were also a trio sonata of Telemann, a B flat Harpsichord Concerto from Handel, a Bach aria and more Vivaldi: a triple violin concerto at the end.

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A Losing Fight for Security: Phone Union Is 'Shocked'. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — The Communications Workers of America, perhaps more than any other major union in the country, has made lifetime employment security a key goal at the bargaining table. But the huge cutback of jobs that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company announced today suggests such efforts may be fruitless.</br></br>“There’s no question that job security has replaced wages and benefits as the focus of collective bargaining in the 1980’s,” said Mark de Bernardo, a labor law specialist with the United States Chamber of Commerce. “But the jury is out whether they can implement that strategy.”</br></br>Harley Shaiken, associate professor of work and technology at the University of California at San Diego, said the A.T.&.T. layoffs were "particularly disturbing” because “those workers who lose their jobs through layoffs will likely have an extremely difficult time finding comparable work in this economy.”</br></br>But although the push toward greater employment security at the bargaining table appears largely stalled, labor’s prospects in Washington appear more promising.</br></br>“What they no longer have the leverage to win at the bargaining table, they’re hoping to win in Congress,” Mr. de Bernardo said.

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BUREAU OV ERHAULS ESTIMATES ON JOBS: FINDS PREVIOUS DATA PUT.... The Bureau of Labor Statistics! | announced yesterday a major revision in its estimates of employment, hours and earnings.</br></br>The announcement was made at a meeting of industrial users of BLS estimates at its regional office at 341 Ninth Avenue. Two hundred industry representatives attended the meeting, at which Robert R. Behlow, regional director, presided. The changes were explained by Charles D. Stewart, assistant commissioner of labor [statistics; Samuel Weiss, chief of the division of employment statistics, and Miss Elsie Soltar, chief of the employment analysis branch, all of the Washington office.</br></br>As a result of the revision, the bureau will furnish, beginning next Tuesday, substantially improved employment data, the speakers said.</br></br>The BLS estimates are made on the basis of payroll reports by firms selected as representative. Under the revision, three types of changes are made in the data: (1) The estimtaes are adjusted to recent totals of employment in industries other than agriculture, obtained from Society Security, Interstate Commerce Commission, and other records newly available.</br></br>(2> The payroll reports are newly classified according to the standard industry classification method proposde by the Bureau of the Budget in 1942.

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CITY PANEL SCORES STATE JOB AGENCY: SAYS SERVICE IS INEFFECTIVE AND FA). The. Commission on StateCity Relations that was set up by Mayor Lindsay assailed the State Employment Service yes terday as an ineffective and poorly run agency that has failed to perform its principal function — placing the unemployed in jobs.</br></br>But the commission’s 103' page report, its ninth and last pronouncement on state government, also said that “the Employment Service is not alone" in its failings. “Other public manpower agencies working in the city cannot be said to have bettered or even equaled the Employment Serv ice’s performance,” the report added.</br></br>Mayor Lindsay set up the nine-member commission, head ed by William J.vanden Heuvel a year and a half ago after Governor Rockefellerjpersuaded the State Legislature to create a panel to study the city's gov emment. Political observers said the statements of both commissions were not without political implications — more specifically, those relating to the continuing feud between the Governor and the Mayor.</br></br>Yesterday’s report, like many of the others issued by the city commission, found little to praise in the state agency it had dealt with.</br></br>Louis L. Levine, Industrial Commissioner for the State Department of Labor, said he could not comment on the report until he had had an opportunity to review it.

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Steel Panel Discusses Assistance: Agrees on Tax, Pollution Policy Trade-Policy Disagreement. WASHINGTON, June 18 — Government, industry and labor leaders aired opposing views today over measures to revive the declining steel industry, in which employment has fallen to the lowest level since 1933.</br></br>Despite sharp differences over trade and pricing issues, there was a consensus at an open meeting of the Steel Tripartite Advisory Committee on the need for a pro-investment tax program and some relaxation of environmental standards to give the industry more money for modernization.</br></br>Roger Altman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, said the industry would need $4.6 billion to $4.9 billion a year for investment over the next three years and would only be able to generate some $3.5 billion. He said the Administration was studying tax proposals that would permit the steel and other industries to generate internal cash by more rapid write-offs of investment eauiDment.</br></br>The tripartite board was established by the Carter Administration at the end of 1977 to bring labor, industry and the Government together to try to work out a common approach to problems of the steel industry.</br></br>The sharpest disagreement was over trade policy. “There are limits to what our markets can tolerate” in imports, warned Lloyd McBride, president of the United Steelworkers of America. More than 60,000 steelworkers have been furloughed in the current recession. Both the union and steel companies say that foreign steel, which accounted for 16.3 percent of the carbon steel market in the first four months, have aggravated the decline in output.

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25 Blacks At Texaco Sue For Arbiters: Cite 1997 Accord With the E.E.O.C. A group of black employees has asked a federal judge to order Texaco to arbitrate their charges of racial discrimination, saying that the oil company is defying the terms of an earlier settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission</br></br>At issue is whether Texaco’s agreement in 1997 to let the commission scrutinize its employment and promotion practices applies to hourly workers The company says that the pact — negotiated after it agreed in a private lawsuit to pay $1-10 million to black employees — applies only to the salaried workers covered by that case.</br></br>The Texaco settlement has recently received new attention because it served as the model for the Coca-Cola Company’s decision to pay $156 million to settle discrimination charges by its own black workers and invite independent observers to review its employment practices</br></br>Last Tuesday, 25 hourly employees of Texaco asked Judge Charles L Brieant in United States District Court in White Plains, where the company has its headquarters, to rule that the terms of the E E.O.C settlement apply to them.</br></br>Judge Brieant presided over the earlier litigation and has “jurisdiction to enforce compliance” with the settlement terms, said the employees’ lawyer, Robert S. Wetninger.

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Careers: Hard Times For Middle Managers. AMONG some management recruiters and employment experts, the belief is that 1979 will be a lively year in executive suites, with the usual musical chairs being played as top officials change jobs and with a few sour notes being sounded, mainl v on middle management levels.</br></br>Not very pessimistic aDout a recession, Carl Menk, president of Boyden Associates, a leading management recruiting firm, believes that some companies will be hiring top-level managers to learn the jobs and then be ready to take over when older men retire. In other words, because of the possibility of a recession, and the challenges inherent in dealing with one, the companies might want the executives on hand sooner.</br></br>But, he adds, as the companies try to cope with rising costs, middle managers might find their jobs getting more difficult. According to Robert Lamalie of Lamalie Associates, a recruiting firm, for those whose salaries are in a range of $25,000 to $35,000 a year or more, the game will be somewhat grim as companies seek to keep staffs lean. However, he does not foresee many mass layoffs.</br></br>In fact, the recent mass layoff at Equitable Life, which involved 800 people, including many middle managers, has kicked up quite a storm and provoked other companies to disavow any such plans.</br></br>“It is bad public relations,” Mr. Lamalie said of the Equitable move. He recalled a big layoff some years ago by the Celanese Corporation, which for years after found it difficult to recruit the personnel it wanted.

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Carolina to Study Consultant Fee in Hospital Strike. CHARLESTON, S.C., April 20 —High-ranking officials in the South Carolina government expressed concern today over the state’s employment of * a 34year-old lawyer as a $50-anhour consultant.</br></br>The lawyer, Knox Haynsworth, is said to have been paid between $12,000 and $17,000 in recent months, as a labor adviser to the Medical College of South Carolina.</br></br>Mr. Mills said he was expecting a report tomorrow from Dr. William McCord, president of the college, which is an automomous state institution.</br></br>Mr. Haynsworth has been advising the college on how to deal with its hospital workers, who went on strike March 20. Officials at the college said he had been hired "several months ago,” but they declined to say exactly when.</br></br>before a private lawyer is hired, except for a fee under $25. Attorney General Daniel R. McLeod said that he had authorized a retainer of $100 a month for Mr. Haynsworth, but that he did not recall authorizing the hourly rate.

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MANY ON WELFARE HELD EMPLOYABLE: FEDERAL STUDY FINDS RISING POTENT. A growing proportion of women on welfare have a "high employment potential,” with New York City’s proportion reaching nearly twothirds, according to a Federal study made public yesterday.</br></br>But these women are not taking jobs nOw because of the presence of young children at home and the lack of day care facilities, the study said.</br></br>The study by Dr. Perry Levinson of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that potential employables among women receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children had risen from 25.3 per cent in 1961 to 32.6 per cent In 1967 and 44.5 per cent in 1968.</br></br>This was based on a survey of 35 counties across the nation, with high employability considered to include completion of 12 years’ education or a record of previous employment in skilled bluecollar or white-collar jobs.</br></br>The study showed that 80.4 per cent of the potentially high employables in 1968 had expressed a desire to work if they could find a steady job.

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EQUITY TO PRESS MUNICIPAL DRAMA: COUNCIL ADOPTS PLAN TO ADD JOBS THROUGH THEAT. A plan seeking to increase employment for professional actors through the encouragement of municipally operated theatres and .university drama festivals has been adopted unanimously by the council of Actors Equity Association.</br></br>Details of the plan were reported to the union's governing body on Tuesday by the Committee to Extend the Professional Theatre, of which Larry Gates is chairman.</br></br>According to Alfred Harding, Equity spokesman, representations will be made to mayors, park commissioners and city) councils suggesting the operation' of ventures similar to the Playhouse-in-the-Park in Philadelphia. For the past two seasons, the Philadelphia project has proved “both an artistic and financial success,’’ according to Mr, Harding.</br></br>At the same time, the Equity plan calls for the expansion of university drama festivals on the order of that conducted by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Appeals for the largescale institution of these festivals will be made to a number of universities throughout the country.</br></br>Equity’s council has appropriated funds to help the plan gain momentum. The amount of money contributed by Equity was not revealed. It was disclosed, however, that the funds primarily were for the purpose of “laying the groundwork’’ for the plan.

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Brooklyn Sex Harassment Suit Is Settled for $5.4 Million. Tara McCormack, right, a plaintiff in a harassment suit, at a news conference yesterday with Kam S. Wong, a lawyer with the EJE.O.C.</br></br>A Brooklyn hospital has agreed to pay more than $5.4 million to settle complaints by dozens of female employees that a doctor sexually harassed them during pro-employment physical examinations.</br></br>The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission called the case, involving Lutheran Medical Center, its largest sexual harassment settlement in New York State. The commission pursued the complaints after eight workers at the hospital said the doctor, Conrado Ponio, had sexually harassed them.</br></br>The eight workers will divide nearly $2 million. The other $3.4 million will be divided among 43 other current and former workers who said Mr. Ponio had sexually harassed them as well.</br></br>E.E.O.C. officials mailed notices to approximately 1,200 women who had been examined by Mr. Ponio, a general practitioner, during his four-year tenure as the examining doctor for new employees. They said they believe that the 43 women who came forward include a majority of those who might have been harassed. Mr. Ponio lost his medical license two months ago.

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Negro Women's Pay Up 53% in Decade in City Area: Median Income Rises. Increases In the employment' and pay of Negro women since) the Nineteen Forties helped to reduce the difference between the average incomes of Negro and white families in the New York metropolitan area in the last decade.</br></br>New tabulations by the United States Census Bureau of the 1960 census show that the personal annual incomes Of Negro women rose from a median of $1,302 in 1949 to $1,997 in 1959. The gain over the decade was $695, or 53 per cent, about twice the rise in consumer prices.</br></br>The personal annual incomes of all White and nonwhite women rose during the period from $1,708 to $2,108, an increase of 23 per cent, about equivalent to the rise in consumer prices.</br></br>For comparative purposes the Census Bureau includes in the metropolitan area New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester Counties, and most of Essex, Morris, Union, Hudson, Bergen, Passaic, Middlesex and Somerset Counties in northeastern New Jersey.</br></br>All women’s incomes are below the level of men’s because of discrimination, restriction of occupations and other reasons. The income gains by Negro women were less than those achieved by all men, white and nonwhite. Nonwhites in the area are almost all Negroes.

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Override on Jobs Override on Jobs . Both Senate and House have now overridden President Ford’s veto of the $3.95 billion public works employment bill, with plenty of room to spare beyond the required two-thirds majority.</br></br>Cynics—and disappointed champions of the President’s veto—will explain the sharp rebuff to Mr. Ford as “politics,” a truism that never seems to fade. Certainly, with the national unemployment rate back up to 7.5 percent and the November election bearing down on them, many Congressmen and Senators were unwilling to risk being attacked as hard-hearted toward the jobless.</br></br>But all the “politics" was not on one side. Critics on the other side could charge that Mr. Ford, going down to the wire in his race with Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, needed to prove that he is just as staunchly anti-spending, anti-public jobs, anti-deficits and anti-inflation as his right-wing rival.</br></br>Whatever the politics of the veto and override, the enduring issue is whether this particular jobs bill—and the principle it stands for—makes sense or not. Mr. Ford says it is better to solve the unemployment problem by "a steadily growing private sector—not through temporary jobs that are run by the Government [and that] increase the national debt and create new inflationary pressures.” Although the bill enacted by Congress is $2 billion smaller than a similar bill that the President successfully vetoed last February, Mr. Ford and his supporters still call it “a scaled-down bad idea.”</br></br>But is it? The purpose of this bill is to focus some $4 billion upon areas still feeling the enduring pains of the steepest postwar recession—especially the construction industry', state and local governments pressed for funds to maintain essential services, and areas of high unemployment. Is it really more wasteful or inflationary to hire workers who would otherwise be the recipients of unemployment compensation or welfare checks? We consider it far wiser to pay people for doing something useful than for doing nothing.

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Please Pass the Guilt. um IN employment agency told me f A that some people pay their nan-nics $52,000 a year," the Wall Street mom whispered, blanching at the memory.</br></br>On a strictly intellectual level, she recognized that only Madonna and Seinfeld, assuming they hired nannies, were likely to pay that much. But deep down, she couldn’t help feeling guilty. Surely her twins were as precious as a celebrity's?</br></br>The panel of child care experts on the dais at Shelly’s New York, a Midtown restaurant, wasn’t helping her feel any better.</br></br>“You want to be the employer of choice for the nanny in your neighborhood,” Rosemary Jordano, founder and chief executive of ChildrenFirst, an emergency child care provider, said crisply. That meant that if you had to work till 10 p.m., you should offer your nanny a day off the next week and send the hapless tot to one of Ms. Jor-dano’s chain of backup centers.</br></br>About 150 women had paid $40 each to listen to such advice over Caesar salad and Pellegrino water. “Your Biggest Childcare Questions: SOLVED,” promised the invitation from Executive Moms, a nonprofit networking group in the New York area that has enlisted GOO members since Marisa Thalberg, an enterprising new mother, started it six months ago. At one time or another probably every mother has been led astray on the path to perfect motherhood. After being primed by Dr. Spock and T. Berry Brazelton, it’s easy to fall victim to the cult of expertise, to be battered into maternal helplessness by the emotional terrorism of professionals.

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Order lo Tuck in Dreadlocks Leads to Civil Rights Lawsuit. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the Grand Central Partnership in Manhattan on Wednesday on behalf of four security guards who say a policy requiring them to tuck their dreadlocks under their uniform caps discriminates against their Rastafarian beliefs.</br></br>: The suit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, accuses the business improvement district partnership of violating federal civil rights laws by disciplining the men.</br></br>According to the suit, the four men — Deon Bailey, Brian Lee, Milton Marcano and Frantz Ser-aphin — were repeatedly reprimanded, and Mr. Bailey, Mr. Lee and Mr. Seraphin each received a two-day suspension in 2006.</br></br>A spokesman for the partnership said that it had been trying to work with the employees and their union to accommodate their religious beliefs, and that the lawsuit had come as a surprise.</br></br>Robert D, Rose, a supervisory lawyer with the New York office of the E.E.O.C., said the four men Worked as public security officers guarding the area around Grand Central Station.

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Networks' Starting Lineups Shaky. Guess who called NBC on Christmas Eve about future employment? Sam Wyche, the recently deposed coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. And guess who will be a guest commentator Sunday on CBS’s “The NFL Today?” Why, Sam Wyche.</br></br>Wyche is the most telegenic of the fired, soon-to-be-fired, resigned or retired National Football League coaches at a time when there may be a few openings on the CBS and NBC football announcing rosters.</br></br>REAL OPENING No. 1: Merlin Olsen. The Flowery One has left CBS after two years there and 13 at NBC. Olsen, the former star of “Father Murphy” is leaving CBS to pursue acting (he’s working on a dramatic series pilot for Paramount) and other business opportunities, even though CBS had an option for a third year. CBS denied that Olsen departed because of competition with any other analysts. Olsen was unavailable for comment.</br></br>PROBABLE OPENING No. 1: Bill Parcells. It’s becoming increasingly apparent that he won’t stick with his jobs on “The NFL Live” on NBC or with the Madison Square Garden Network. The lures: all that Hugh Cul-verhouse cash at Tampa Bay and the chance to revive the Packer tradition in Green Bay for the kind of money that would make steam come out of Vince Lombardi’s ears.</br></br>The $400,000 Parcells would make if he stays through three years at NBC — after making $250,000 in this, his first year — seems puny when compared with the riches being offered him. He has discussed his coaching options with NBC, but because of his escape clause, permission to leave is not required.

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NEW YORK. Day by Day. Samuel M. Ehrenhalt, regional commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, yesterday reported 100 percent employment for the construction industry in one Brooklyn household — his own.</br></br>Mr. Ehrenhalt made his finding while building a booth of sailcloth and bamboo on the 16th-floor balcony of his apartment in the Flatbush section. He expected to finish his succah in time for the beginning last evening of the Jewish holiday of Succoth, the Feast of Tabernacles.</br></br>“Although I haven’t done a statistical survey,” Mr. Ehrenhalt said, “it’s quite possible that this is the highest succah in town.” He conceded, however, that “there may be some sampling variability.”</br></br>A succah, where meals are eaten during the holiday, commemorates the huts in which the Jews lived when they wandered through the desert during the Exodus.</br></br>In the past, Mr. Ehrenhalt had built his succah on “very terra firma,” the lawn of his house on Avenue L. This year .was his first in the apartment building, on Ocean Avenue. His terrace is not covered, so the succah is open to the sky, as it must be.

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U.N. Says Global Employment Needs 5 Years to Rebound. UNITED NATIONS - It will take five more years before employment around the world rebounds to the point it was before the financial crisis, two years longer than previously predicted, the International Labor Organization said in its annual jobs report on Thursday.</br></br>To get back to the level of employment in 2007, the global economy needs to create nearly 23 million jobs, including more than 14 million in developed countries, the report said.</br></br>“The root causes of the crisis have not been properly tackled," said Raymond Torres, an economist and the lead author of the report.</br></br>Now that the effects of public stimulus packages around the globe are fading, fiscal policies are not sufficiently focused on job growth, which helps explain the likely delay in improving employment, the report said.</br></br>will probably be an increase in social unrest, especially in countries where unemployment remains high. About 25 countries have already experienced strife linked to the economic crisis, according to the report.

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Nurses Ask Pay Rise, End of Bias, Aid to Education to Ease Shortage. The critical shortage of nurses in this country will not he| solved, without drastic changes in nurses’ education, diserimina-1 tory employment practices and low salary scales, four leading J</br></br>Reporting to the President’s Commission on Health Needs of the Nation, the American Nurses Association, the National League for Nursing, the National Association for Practical Nurse Education and the National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses, issued a joint declaration on nursing needs.</br></br>Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, R. N., president of the American Nurses Association, acting as spokesman ;for the four groups, presented a program calling for recruitment of more nurses, better prepared nurses and better use of nurse power.</br></br>Convinced that the problem cannot be solved by merely increasing numbers of nurses, the organizations called on the commission to bring their needs to the attention of national and state legislative and governmental bodies, to allied health groups and to the general public.</br></br>They declared that although they had taken what action they could toward meeting the situation, they had “neither the funds nor the authority to effect all the improvements and changes which are necessary.”

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This Is a Recording: By Barbara Corcoran. Illustrated by Richard .... By Barbara Corcoran, Illustrated by Richard CuffarL 168 pp. New York: Atheneum. $5.25. (Ages 10 to 14) “There was a poor young boy who left his country home/And came to the city to seek employment,” recounts the grand old V/. C. Fields number, and everyone knows what traps and trials await youthful innocence in the sinful city. Nearly as prominent in folk tradition is the urban eastemer-gone-west.</br></br>Newest addition to the westward procession is 14-year-old Marianne Temple. Arriving by air in Missoula, Mont., Marianne faces the unknown with a tape recorder, a gunbelt (albeit a toy one) and a large load of resentment at being thus packed off to visit a grandmother she hasn’t seen since she was 2.</br></br>Georgess McHargue is the author of “The Beasts of Never” and “The Wonderful Wings of Harold Harrabescu.”</br></br>Like every dude since Balboa, Marianne is confounded by the West Grandmother Katherine Carter turns out to be a retired actress. Her house is not ‘like the one in Bonanza,” but a gabled Victorian residence full of antiques where she dines each evening with candlelight and wine. Katherine's hired hand is a college-bound native American named Oliver Everybodylooksat, a kindly and self-reliant individual neither wild-eyed nor picturesque.</br></br>Marianne’s months in Montana are packed with enough action to satisfy any TV fan. They center on a conflict between Oliver and a bigoted under-sheriff (more Bull Connor than Bat Masterson), and include a barn-burning, false arrest and a dramatic hunting accident.

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July Income Surged 1.6% And Spending Rose 1.2%: Drop in G.N.P. Forecast. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (AP) — Americans’ personal income surged 1.6 percent in July, the largest gain in a year, the Commerce Department reported today. It cited rising employment and a midyear increase in Social Security payments.</br></br>Analysts inside and outside the Government saw favorable implications for the overall economy in both the income gain and in a 1.2 percent increase in personal spending by Americans in July, which the department also reported.</br></br>But they were not ready to declare an end to the sluggish conditions that have plagued the economy for the last six months or so.</br></br>Sandra Shaber, a senior economist with Chase Econometrics in Bala Cyn-wyd, Pa., said her concern was predicting a slight decline in the inflation-adjusted gross national product in the July-September quarter, despite the gains in income and spending.</br></br>In recent cycles, she added, changes in consumer spending “have dragged the economy up and down.” But this year relatively strong spending seems to be serving instead as “the floor under the economy,” keeping it from falling very far or very fast, as it did last year.

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Job Rights Panel Faces Mismanagement Inquiries: Federal Commission to .... WASHINGTON, April 28— The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, hit two weeks ago by the sudden resignation of its chairman, is now beset by fresh charges of mismanagement and hints of criminal misdeeds, and faces scrutiny by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, two committees of Congress and tire General Accounting Office.</br></br>A series of damaging internal audits of the agency’s field operations, which had been kept private by Lowell W. Perry, the outgoing chairman, were disclosed in part this week in published reports and made available to Congressional committees.</br></br>The audit reports, commissioned by Mr. Perry when he assumed office a year ago, have not been made public, but sources who have seen them say they indicate many instances of employee misconduct, possible fraudulent use of Government funds and incompetence among managers in field offices.</br></br>Mr. Perry, who will leave the commission May 15 and return to his former employer, the Chrysler Corporation, has repeatedly refused requests by reporters to be interviewed in recent days.</br></br>In addition tn his own internal studies, which were done he an handpicked team of E. E. O. C. employees, the General Accounting Office, which is an investigative arm of

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High Court Voids New York's Ban On Public Works Jobs for Aliens. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 today that a New York law that gave citizens a preference over aliens in getting employment in state public works projects violated the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws. The Court acted without having heard arguments on the matter and without issuing an opinion. Instead, it merely i affirmed, without comment, the 2-to-l decision by a three-judge Federal Court in Brooklyn last March striking down the law.</br></br>Louis J. Lefkowitz, the New York State Attorney General, had asked the Supreme Court to review that decision, arguing that the law was justified in view of unemployment in the state.</br></br>Justices Byron R. White and William H. Rehnquist contended that the court should have heard arguments on the case before deciding it.</br></br>The Court’s decision in effect reverses the High Court’s decision in two New York cases in 1915 upholding an earlier version of the law.</br></br>However, today’s ruling is in line with a series of more recent Supreme Court rulings striking down various types of laws distinguishing between aliens and citizens—including a landmark 1973 decision in which the Court held that New York could not constitutionally prevent resident aliens from working in the competitive class of the state Civil Service.

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NEW EDITIONS ON THE BUSINESS BOOKSHELF. At the end of great masses of figures on population, “in-migration,” working forces, manufacturing employment, age groups and economic fluctuations in California, Margaret S. Gordon comes to some disturbing conclusions: More than any other state, California is dependent upon a high level of defense spending, especially for aircraft.</br></br>In “Employment Expansion and Population Growth: The California Experience, 1900-1950,”* she declares: “Analysis of developments during the last fifty years strongly suggests that both employment expansion and population growth will tend to be considerably slower in the second half of the present century if no new situations</br></br>“It has been emphasized that these spurts have been associated 'in large part with the development and growth of new or young industries. It must be recognized jalso that the spurts of the early Forties and early Fifties were stimulated by war or defense spending. “In the absence of new industrial developments which provide a strong impetus to growth and in the absence of an all-out war, a moderate long-run decline in the rate of both employment expansion and population growth seems likely.”</br></br>Although noneconomic reasons for moving to California-most notable of which seems to be the much-publicized weather — will continue to exist, the fact remains that there has been a long-range decline in the wage differentials between California and the rest of the country. This set in even before the end of World War I and has continued, helped along by the greater labor mobility brought about by the automobile.</br></br>There seem to be indications that the relative gains of California are already dwindling. In the decade to 1930 California gained population 4.1 times more rapidly than the nation as, a whole. In the decade to 1940 (which embraced the great depression) the rate was 3 times, in that to 1950 (which included a war) 3.7 times.

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Veterans and Feminists Clash on Hiring Decision: Lifetime Preference Upheld 30% of U.S. W<. The United States Supreme Court’s decision upholding a law that gives preference in public employment to veterans of the armed forces was, as expec ted, praised yesterday by veterans' organizations and denounced by women’s groups, who consider such laws a form of sex discrimination.</br></br>The national commander of the American Legion, which has more than 2.6 million members, characterized the ruling as a "restatement of allegiance to the veteran population by a grateful nation.” The commander, John M. Carey, said the decision represented the Court’s recognition that preferential treatment was never intended to deny employment opportunities to "any group, whatsoever.”</br></br>But the ruling was viewed as a setback by many women, including Ellie Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women. Mrs. Smeal called the decision "devastating” and said that women were being penalized for the Government's practice for many years of allowing only a small quota of women to serve in the military. From 1948 until 1967, Federal law prohibited women from making up more than 2 percent of the armed forces.</br></br>"We have now been given the double whammy,” said Mrs. Smeal in her Washington office. "Women have been told they’re not wanted in the armed forces and then that, for the rest of their lives, the women who are more qualified will be passed over in favor of men who are less qualified for governmental service.” lifetime Preference Upheld</br></br>By a 7-to-2 vote yesterday, the Supreme Court reinstated a Massachusetts statute giving an absolute lifetime preference over all other applicants to qualified veterans seeking state civil service jobs. Because the Massachusetts law is stronger than similar laws in other states, the decision is viewed as a protection against constitutional attacks on those laws.

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Study Rebuts Antiboycott-Law Quahns. ! Fears that New York will 'suffer a serious loss of revenues and employment from the new state antiboycott law “are groundless," the American Jewish Congress asserted yesterday, citing a study of exports and imports handled by 12 Eastern and Southern posts.</br></br>The study noted that trade with Arab countries accounted for only 2 percent of all general cargo handled here, adding that “it is difficult to claim that New York has lost international shipping business which it never had.”</br></br>Last March, James J. Dickman, president of the New, York Shipping Association, charged that the antiboycott law was diverting cargo destined for the Middle East from New York to other ports. The. law, introduced by Assembly-i man Joseph F. Lisa, a Queens Democrat, became effective Jan. 1.</br></br>■that the port was “probably-the pattern of United States dosing a minimum of two mil-! foreign trade." jlion tons of freight a year. j Mr. Baum said “concern However, the American Jewabout the loss of business and ish Congress said yesterday that only 326,878 long tons of 'general cargo passed through iNew York to and from all 19 'Arab countries last year. This jamounted to 2.2 percent of all joceanbome freight handled by the port in 1975, the study said.</br></br>Phil Baum, associate executive director of the Congress, said that the "minuscule share of commerce derived from Arab sources means that if New York is losing shipping it has noth

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Parks Dept. Fears Loss of CETA Workers: Names Behind the Numbers .... Susan Pacewicz, a CETA worker employed at the Central Park Zoo, petting Sapphire through bars of the lion cage</br></br>Ray Felix, who used to play basketball for the Knicks and who is now a Parks Department management analyst, is not sure what he will do if the city is forced to lay off masses of workers like him whose salaries are paid under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.</br></br>Susan Pacewicz says she is not worried. She stuck her arm between the bars of the Central Park lion cage to pet a lioness named Sapphire and said that she could get another job but that she would miss working at the zoo.</br></br>Ray Pagan is worried about both his job and his playground. “On Saturday and Sunday, from 9 o’clock straight through, the whole place jumps,” he said enthusiastically of the 13th Street playground that he runs. Asked what would happen to him if the CETA layoffs went through, he frowned and spread his arms helplessly.</br></br>The CETA “cutbacks” and “buybacks” and “phase-outs” have been discussed as part of New York City’s budget negotiations, as a confusing conglomeration of numbers and jargon.

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SUMMER A CRISIS TO NASSAU YOUTH: ' LOADS' LOOKING, BUT COUNTY OFFERS ... MINEOLA, L. I., June 29— Nassau County’s dearth of recreational and employment opportunities for teen-agers during the summer months is rapidly becoming a serious community problem.</br></br>With the exceptions of such organizations as the Boy Scouts, Police Boys Clubs, “Y s ’ and similar organizations, very little is being done f-or the teenager.</br></br>Richard B. Rogers, executive director of the Family Service Association of Nassau County, Inc., says: “The problem is immense out here. What we need now is some real sound evaluation and planning about the significance of the current situation. Unless we plan now, we will see the situation compounded by all kinds of complicated factors.”</br></br>Few Summer Jobs Max Kaplan, business consultant at the regional office of the State Department of Commerce in Mineola, said it was almost impossible for teenagers to find summer jobs m Nassau. , . . „</br></br>Summer recreation programs on the school district and vil1 lage levels are providing some outlet for teen-agers.

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THE NATION THE NATION . CLOSED SHOP. A shop in which union .membership is a requisite of permanent employment. — Webster’s New International Dictionary.</br></br>The closed shop has a long history in American labor. There are records of closed-shop contracts—involving craft unions such as the Potters, Iron Moulders and Hatters—as far back as the Revolution. Since about 1890 the closed shop has been one of the most important issues in labor-management relations.</br></br>The Wagner Act of 1935 gave labor a big boost in its closed-shop drive. The act said: “Nothing in this act * * * or in any other statute of the United States, shall preclude an employer from making an agreement with a labor organization * * * to require as a condition of employment membership therein.’’ After the passage of the Wagner Act closed-shop contracts multiplied. In 1946 about 22 per cent of all union members worked under strict closed-shop contracts, and another 28 per cent under variations of the closed shop.</br></br>The Labor-Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act of 1947 made closed-shop contracts illegal. But after the Democratic victory last November and the expected repeal of at least parts of the Taft-Hartley Act, it was considered certain that the anticlosed shop provision would be killed in any new labor law.</br></br>Fourteen states, however, have passed anti-closed shop laws of their own during the past few years. Union leaders have challenged the constitutionality of the state laws on the ground that they violate the section of the Constitution which says: “Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law * *

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BIGGER JOB FUNDS FOR STATES URGED: FEDERAL OFFICIAL RECOMMENDS MONEY .... State employment security officials, who for years have been trying to get from the Federal Government “more adequate” refunds of locally collected taxes for administrative expenses, received support yesterday from a Federal official.</br></br>Speaking at the thirteenth annual meeting of the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies in the Roosevelt Hotel, Robert C. Goodwin declared the states needed more funds to do the job expected of them.</br></br>The director of the Labor Department’s Bureau of Employment Security declared that the Government should take the lead in further broadening the employment and security program, which he said commanded as great popular interest as any public activity.</br></br>While disclaiming any wish to enter an “open fight with the Bureau of the Budget,” Mr. GoodWin went on to challenge two practices of that agency. He said that a budgetary theory held that an agency should be able to reduce its expenses as the years go by— a function costing 50 cents one year should be accomplished for 46 or 47 the next, as an example.</br></br>This theory carried to its ultimate end would have Government bureaus doing everything at no cost, Mr. Goodwin remarked. He said he and his associates had been trying to see that the idea was not put to exaggerated use on security funds.

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ARMS-CUT EFFECT ON JOBS FORECAST: MATHEMATICAL PLAN DEVISED BY 2.... Two American economists ‘ have developed a mathematical technique for predicting the degree of economic dislocation any substantial disarmament would produce in this country. The same method can also estimate the effect of major Government and private measures aimed at minimizing the dislocation in employment and production that substantial disarmament might bring about.</br></br>The existence of this technique and the first preliminary results of its application are reported in the current issue of the Scientific American by Prof. Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard</br></br>Their method permits the prediction of changes in employment and demand in each of the fifty-eight major production sectors of the American economy that would be affected by disarmament measures or by</br></br>To illustrate the results the technique can provide, the authors give detailed estimates for one possible case. The example predicted the impact on employment of a 20 per cent, or $8,000,000,000, cut in arms expenditure accompanied by the reallocation of the money thus saved to other economic activities in proportion to the present importance of those activities.</br></br>suffer declines in employment, but thirty-nine major areas would provide more jobs. For the private economy, the net effect would be an increase in the jjlimber of jobs. However, this would be more than offset by the decline in Government civilian employes and military personnel.

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State Dismisses Bias Complaint Again! Stony Brook Builders. STONY BROOK, L. I., June 29—The State Commission for Human Rights this week dismissed charges that equal employment opportunities are not offered on construction projects here at the state University Center.</br></br>The charges were brought by the Suffolk County Human Relations Commission. The commission accused the State Uni-j versity Construction Fund and the State Dormitory Authority of failing to enforce equal opportunity provisions included in all state .contracts.</br></br>The 800-acre campus is one of the largest construction projects on Long Island, with more than $200-million worth of building under way or planned.</br></br>Francis X. Giaccone, a member of the state commission, dismissed the complaint Friday, asserting that there was “some question” of whether the commission had jurisdiction, and that the two university agencies were not employers but merely let contracts to the construction companies. Mr. Giaccone said the enforcement of the state laws against discrimination rested in this case with the university agencies.</br></br>“That sounds like doubletalk to me,” said the Rev. Arthur C. Bryant, vice chairman of the Suffolk County Human Relations Commission. He said that the Suffolk Commission would press the two university agencies for action.

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HOUSE RULES GROUP AGAIN BARS F.E.P.C.: 6-6 VOTE BLOCKS BILL'S RELEASE .... WASHINGTON, Feb, 16—The House Rules Committee again refused today to release for floor action the civil rights bill to establish a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission.. Changing its 5-5 vote of Jan: 24 to-6—6'today, the committee shut off, perhaps for the rest of the current Congress, consideration of the measure under free and full debate.</br></br>This morning’s tie vote, however, will not bar the bill from some consideration, and there remains the possibility-of a decisive vote. The Committee on Education and Labor, which has the FEPC measure in charge, is due for mandatory recognition .next Wednesday, but, under rules that' prescribe that the anti-discrimination bill, which the committee intends to call up, .•must be ready for a final vote before the close of that legislative, day, . . .</br></br>Such rules mean that the FEPC bill would go to the floor with a time handicap ‘against it. at the start Next Wednesday is Washington’s birthday. Arrangements were made today to preserve the tradition of the annual reading of Washington’s Farewell Address as the first order of ‘business.</br></br>Southern Democrats, fighting the FEPC legislation, appeared to have agreed not to break into this reading with filibustering' tactics such as marked yesterday’s Calendar Wednesday proceedings. After the address is read, proponents of the bill will try to press it through in the face of any filibuster.</br></br>Yesterday’s tactics, which forced seven time-consuming roll-calls, prompted Representative Adolph J. Sabath, Rules group chairman, to call today’s meeting for another showdown. This showdown was held in closed session.

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Looking for Ways To Gain Members. Despite the impassioned words from Microsoft's pro-union’temps, they face a decided challenge. For one thing, Microsoft insists that their real employer is not Microsoft but their employment agencies; * “Organizing is an issue between an employee and the employer, and in this case the employers are the contingent staffing companies," said Dan Leach, a Microsoft spokesman.</br></br>Union organizers fear that if the 16 temps petition for a unionization election, there will be years of litigation to determine who is the employer and whether the appropriate bargaining unit is their 18-worker software group, the 6,000 temps at Microsoft or a 3,000-worker employment agency.</br></br>“It’s virtually impossible to organize workers in this co-employer setting," said Michael Blain, Washtech’s co-founder. “Existing labor law is totally inadequate to address issues of the new economy."'</br></br>Seeing the difficulties in getting most workers at a high-technology company to vote to unionize, labor leaders are looking to nontraditional ways to build a union. Kirk Adams, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s organizing director, said unions could attract high-technology workers by providing two important benefits; affordable training and mobility of benefits.’</br></br>In an industry where it is vital to know the latest software-writing languages to advance to higher-paying positions, many temp workers complain about paying for-profit schools $600 for a 10-hour course. (Temps often cannot take the free in-house courses that companies offer.) So Washtech provides such courses for $75 to people who join the new union by agreeing to pay one hour's wages each month; 175 have joined so far and more than 1,000 others have asked to be on the union’s electronic mailing list.

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Plasitcs Company to Pay $782,000 in Sex Discrimination Case. A Syracuse-area plastics manufacturer has agreed to pay current and former female workers $782,000 to settle sex discrimination charges, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said yesterday.</br></br>The commission had charged the company, Landis Plastics, with placing women in the lowest-paying, most strenuous, most dangerous jobs and failing to promote them, while new male workers were given easier, better-paying jobs “That’s illegal unless you can find some bona fide occupational qualifications to justify such differences,” saicl Louis Graziano, a lawyer with the'commission The sex discrimination charges, dating from 1996, were the latest in a series of disputes and settlements involving Landis, whose reputation suffered when four employees, during an 18-month period, had their fingers chopped off by machinery. The injuries occurred in 1995 and ’96 at the 200-worker plant m Solvay, outside Syracuse. The plant produces plastic containers for yogurt and other dairy products.</br></br>Notwithstanding their settlement agreement with the E.E.O.C., Landis officials denied any acts of discrimination yesterday, asserting that the company had settled to avoid lengthy and costly legal proceedings</br></br>E.E O C. to achieve this resolution because the company had already revamped the labor practices in Solvay that gave rise to these allegations, and we wanted to put the last vestiges of these matters behind us ”</br></br>Landis officials said yesterday that they had made sweeping changes to improve safety and other workplace practices.

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DISABLED EX-GI'S GET JOB PLEDGES: 500 BUSINESS MEN IN. “Give the Veteran a Job Week” moved into high gear yesterday as the Jobs for Disabled Veterans Committee, an organization of advertising men, obtained from 500 business executives pledges to aid employment of former GI’s.</br></br>The first pledge was signed in City Hall in the presence of Mayor O’Dwyer by Dr. Robert A. Love, director of the evening and extension division of the City College School of Business. The pledge forms were distributed by Jack Denove, chairman of the committee. At the ceremony the Mayor presented to Bea Wain, “disk jockey,” a recording of the drive song, “Let’s Get a Job for Purple Heart Joe.”</br></br>Dr. Love said three disabled exGI’s would be employed by his division as soon as the Veterans Administration could choose them from the 3,100 veterans awaiting training in the New York area. One will be a cost coordinator, another will be trained as an instructor of estimating in the lumber field and the third will be a secretary.</br></br>Yesterday morning 200 members of the Sales Executives Club of New York, which is cooperating with the committee, met in the General Electric auditorium at 570 Lexington Avenue. From there they went out to solicit pledges from employers and to stress the feasibility of hiring handicapped veterans. The sales executives will meet again this morning and every morning through Saturday, when the drive will end.</br></br>As a result of their activities, the Veterans Administration at 252 Seventh Avenue reported that the switchboard was flooded with calls from prospective employers. In addition, 300 unemployed veterans came into the offices for conferences and information on how they might fit into the retraining program.

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New Owner Will Keep Lynne Palmer on Track. The Lynne Palmer Agency, one of the gatekeepers to employment in New York’s publishing world, has a new owner, Susan Gordon.</br></br>Ms. Gordon recently bought the agency, for a price she declines to disclose, from Ms. Palmer, who founded the business 26 years ago. Ms. Palmer will remain as a consultant through this year, and she is showing some editorial ambitions of her own, with plans to write a book.</br></br>The agency, which will not change its name under Ms. Gordon’s ownership, has built a reputation as the leading recruiter in the publishing industry. In addition to helping fill many high-level positions, it has placed hundreds of English majors and other collegians in entry-level positions, where salaries can be relatively low.</br></br>“People come in with stars in their eyes,” Ms. Gordon said yesterday. “They want to know what it’s really like in New York City. We can really say to them that this is the reality. I hate to use the term, but you have to pay your dues. There is potential if you work hard, like in any other industry.” editorial, sales and marketing, art and production, and finance and administration. The agenty recruits for book and magazine publishers throughout the United States and Canada.</br></br>Ms. Gordon, 32, is embarking on her entrepreneurial career just shortly after becoming a mother. She and her husband, Douglas, had a boy last summer. “It’s a juggling act,” she said of career and motherhood, “an exercise in time management.”

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265 BARBERS FACE LICENSE HEARINGS: PROCEEDINGS BEGIN TODAY ON CHARGI. Charged with violating the law against employment of unlicensed barbers, 265 barber shop owners face disciplinary action by the city when a four-day series of hearings begins today before License Commissioner Benjamin Fielding.</br></br>Mr. Fielding said yesterday that the group was the largest ever to be summoned before the License Department for infractions of its regulations. The round-up followed a one-day drive in which each of the city’s 7,000 barber shops was visited by the police and License Department inspectors.</br></br>' Among the 265 barber shop own-, ers who will appear at the hearings at 137 Centre Street will be I eighty-four from Manhattan; twenty-two from the Bronx; 109 from Brooklyn;' forty from Queens and ten from Richmond. Two hundred and thirty-two owners are accused of employing one unlicensed barber; thirty-one of hiring two, and two shops of having three unlicensed barbers at work.</br></br>“Every barber shop owner who . allows an unlicensed barber on his premises is permitting persons of unknown character and competence to violate the law,” Mr. Bidding said. “These unlicensed barbers create a serious health menace to the public because they do not undergo the required annual medical examinations to combat the possibility of the spread of infectious diseases.</br></br>“These violators also interfere with and obstruct our veterans’ preference program in the granting of licenses by the Department of ; Licenses because they occupy jobs which rightfully belong to those properly qualified under the law, preferably veterans.

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Freelance Workers Gain on Copyrights: Court Strengthens Copyright.... In an important legal victory for freelance artists and writers, the Supreme Court ruled that such artists ordinarily retain the right to copyright what they create. The Court held that the right applies as long as the artists were not in a conventional employment relationship with the organization that commissioned their work.</br></br>WASHINGTON, June 5 — In an important legal victory for freelance artists and writers, the Supreme Court ruled today that such artists retain the right to copyright what they create as long as they were not in a conventional employment relationship with the Organization that commissioned* their work.</br></br>The unanimous opinion, written by Justice Thurgood Marshall, means that freelance artists in most instances will be able to keep the benefits of copyright, which include licensing and reproduction rights and protection against unauthorized copying. The decision also poses practical problems for businesses that rely heavily on freelance work.</br></br>The opinion resolved a longstanding dispute over the meaning of a critical section of the Copyright Act of 1976, the</br></br>But the statute’s definition of the “work made for hire” exception was obscure. The phrase was defined in the law as commissioned work in certain specific categories, such as a translation or a part of a motion picture, or more generally as “a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment.” The law provided no further definition of “employee” or “scope of employment.”

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BUSINESS SERVICES FOR W AR VETERANS. The Young Men’s Board of Trade of New York, 291 Broadway, acting as coordinator of the efforts of business and industry, lists the following 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 lrom 9:30 A. M. to 11:30 A. M. AGRICULTURE—Individual counseling on training, employment, management and settlement, held dally from 10 A. M. to noon, and 2 to 4 P. M.. Jewish Agricultural ^Society, 386 Fourth Avenue.</br></br>ART—Commercial art courses covering such 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 oI Trade of New York. 291 Broadway.</br></br>AVIATION—Representatives of the Industry available for counseling on opportunities at 7:50 P M.. on the second and fourth Monday of each month, at Room 201. North Shore Bus Terminal Building. Flushing, sponsored by the Flushing Young Men’s Board of Trade. Hotel Sanford.</br></br>f»rinciples and Job finding technique lncludng resumes, application letters and presentations is provided tonight and every Monday night at 7 o'clock, 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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STANDARDS FIXED FOR HEARING FOSS: FIVE EXPERTS GIVE STATE RULES TO .... Standards applicable to claims for permanent loss of hearing as the result of employment in noisy surroundings were announced yesterday by Miss Mary Donlon, chairman of the New York State Workmen’s Compensation Board.</br></br>The standards, first to be set. by a state compensation board, are based on recommendations of a committee of five specialists in occupational loss of hearing. The experts, who have been studying the problem since September, 1952, presented their report at an allday meeting at the Commodore Hotel yesterday before an audience of 400 representatives of insurance companies, employers and unions.</br></br>Impairment of hearing as the result of constant, recurrent or sporadic noise is not a new employment hazard, Miss Donlon noted—weavers suffered from it 200 years ago.</br></br>However, because of modern industrial developments, this type of hearing loss, as distinguished from that caused by a single accident, has become a more serious and widespread problem, she said.</br></br>“Several states share our concern,” she added, "and have a like need to find answers to vexing questions.”

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NEGRO POLICEMEN GAINING IN SOUTH: VOTER. ATLANTA, Jan. 28—Employment of Negro policemen in the South has shown relatively little increase since the early post-World War II years, according to the Southern Regional Council.</br></br>In a study released here to|day, the council reported that most gains since 1954 had come in five of the region’s largest cities—Jacksonville and Miami, Fla., Atlanta, New Orleans and Mobile, Ala.</br></br>1 The performance of Negro policemen drew widespread praise from officials. Nevertheless, their powers in dealing with white offenders are greatly restricted in most areas, and promotions for them are slow and infrequent.</br></br>Dr. Elliott M. Rudwick, associate professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University and a former faculty member at the University of Florida, wrote the report, “The Unequal Badge.” He based it on surveys of his own in 1959 and 1961 and earlier studies by the council, a biracial organization whose stated goal is equal opportunity for all Southerners.</br></br>There have been many obstacles and petty discriminations involved in the introduction of Negroes on Southern police forces, asserted the author.

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BUSINESS IS HELD SEEKING BIAS' END: BECOMING CONVINCED IT MUST .... DETROIT, Nov. 15—A Chicago industrialist told officials of the fifth National Conference of Intergroup Relations today that business men were becoming convinced they must promote fair employment practices in shops and offices.</br></br>Ivan L. Willis, executive vice president of the International Harvester Company, said that in the last twenty-five years many large corporations had become increasingly aware of their responsibility for the success of the competitive system and were striving to solve the human relations problems that impeded economic progress.</br></br>“Today they realize that the Negro, who makes up one-tenth of our population, represents a vast consumer market that will add to national, prosperity as rapidly as Negroes can improve their purchasing power,” he declared.</br></br>In his own company, Mr, Willis said, gains have been made in the direction of fair employment practices. Approximately 10.5 per cent of International Harvester employes are Negroes, he said. Of these 9,000 Negroes, 2,291 were upgraded to better jobs last year. Almost 3,000 were in unskilled jobs, 4,100 in semi-skilled positions, 285 in the skilled group and seventy-three in clerical or office work.</br></br>Four years ago the company built a plant in Memphis, Mr. Willis said, offering equal opportunity to all qualified workers, regardless o fcolor. All job applicants, white and black, came to a common waiting room, he added. This marked the first “minor departure” from the usual Southern practice of having white job seekers come into the room while Negroes waited at the gate, he said.

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The News of Radio: Disabled Veterans' Unemployment Problem Subject of Video Program on NBC. A television documentary, “Operation Success,” dealing with the problem of employment for disabled veterans, will be presented tomorrow at 8 P. M. over the NBC video hook-up in cooperation with the Veterans Administration. WNBT will be the local outlet.</br></br>The half-hour program, originating in the corrective gymnasium at the VA’s regional office, 252 Seventh Avenue, will show how men with war-incurred disabilities have trained themselves through the agency for jobs. Two injured men will demonstrate their respective training as a mechanic and a draftsman; others will he shown using rehabilitation facilities and engaging in on-the-job training.</br></br>NBC will keep a special switchboard open for thirty minutes after I the program to take calls from j employers desiring to hire men apI pearing in the presentation. Also, ; the television viewing rooms at the chain’s Radio City studios have been reserved for prospective employers.</br></br>Television rights to all ice hockey games played by the New York Rangers and the New York I Rovers in Madison Square Garden I during the 1948-49 season were I acquired yesterday by WPIX, the I video outlet of The Daily News.</br></br>The station, scheduled to begin operation in June, intends to carry thirty night contests of the Rangers from November through March. The Rovers, in the Eastern League, are being counted on for sixteen Sunday afternoon games, ilt will be the Rovers’ debut in television.

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Cooperative Efforts Aiding Disabled Worker Services: But Conference .... Of the nearly 2,000,000 persona; injured on the job each year in the United States, some 200,000 are so severely disabled that they need specialized rehabilitation services, and 12,000 are severely disabled permanently. At present, only half of this group receives the services needed to return to maximum pmOlovment. |</br></br>How to develop these needed services for disabled workers was discussed in Washington last week by 300 representatives of labor, management, insurance, medicine, workmen’s compensation boards and rehabilitation agencies at. a two-day conference called by the Federal Security Agency and the United States Department of Labor.</br></br>time the conference was recommending increased services, thfe House Appropriations Committee was cutting to $100,000 the request of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation for an additional $2,500,000 for increased services for next year.</br></br>The need for early referral of cases requiring rehabilitation was constantly stressed throughout the conference. It was ■ brought out, for example, that too frequently disabled workers were not referred for rehabilitation, when their work injuries resulted in permanent disabilities that obviously would necessitate a change of vocation. In other instances, the worker is not referred until his compensation payments are exhausted, and during this period of idleness becomes</br></br>Last year, less than half of the clients of the. Federal-state vocational rehabilitation agencies who were disabled ag a result of job accidents were directly referred for rehabilitation services by workmen’s compensation agencies.

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City Hall Whodunit: Who Authorized Ad For 'Secretaries'?. A private employment agency was retained and newspaper “want ads” used to recruit several secretaries for the city’s new Transportation Administration, but top city officials disclaimed knowledge yesterday of how it had all come about.</br></br>The adertisement offered “exceptional opportunities for gals with one year’s experience In MAYOR’S OFFICE” at salaries listed at ‘‘to $100.”</br></br>A spokesman for the city’s Department of Personnel, which operates on a $3.2-million annual budget, said no one there had any knowledge of the advertisement and so could not authorize it.</br></br>Deputy Transportation Administrator Richard Childs said he had not authorized the advertisement but understood it had been approved by Paul Cook, an analyst on loan to his agency from the City Administrator’s Office.</br></br>Deputy City Administrator Timothy W. Costello issued a statement that said: “I certainly did not authorize the advertisement, I never would, and no one on my staff did.”

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Youth Corps Plan Is Nearing a Floor Fight in the Senate. WASHINGTON, April 8 Friends and foes of the Administration’s youth employmenl program filed their briefs today for a Senate fight that maj start tomorrow.</br></br>Proponents contended that the work and training program would prepare youths for better futures, create useful projects and reduce juvenile delinquency.</br></br>Opponents held that the program would not attain its goals, that youths would be given training unwanted later and the costs would be excessive.</br></br>The views were expressed in reports sent to the floor with the bill. The majority report represented the committee’s 10 Democrats. Four of the five 'Republican members opposed the program while the fifth, Senator Jacob Javits of New York, said he was “very much disquieted” by the Youth Corps but favored the Home Work Force. He said that the Interior Department could handle projects planned for the Youth Corps. ,</br></br>15,000 youths serving under sixmonth enlistment. The general pay would be $60 a month, with $5 added for each reenlistment up to two years. Higher pay would reward I hose with advanced skills. The size of this work force would be determined during the last four A five-year Home Work Force would also be established. It would operate on local projectj with states and communities contributing from onehalf to one-fourth of the cost and the Federal Government the rest. For the first year the Home Force would enroll about

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PRESIDENT SETS UP GROUP TO BAR BIAS IN CONTRACT WORK: CREATES .... KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 3-President Truman created a new top level committee today to police compliance with clauses in Federal contracts against racial or religious discrimination in employment.</br></br>By Executive Order, and without further reference to Congress, Mr. Truman established a Committee on Government Contract Compliance, but gave it much less power than was exercised by the old Fair Employment Practices Committee that operated during World War II but was starved to death by lack 'of funds when Congress refused [further appropriations in 1946.</br></br>The President’s action today represented another step in carrying out his controversial civil rights program, which has been stymied in Congress by Southern filibusters.</br></br>Although the power of the. new committee is limited, its creation is certain to stir new political controversy in the South and may have an important effect upon the 1952 Presidential contest.</br></br>It almost certainly will spur the efforts of those dissident Democrats who would like to put up a third party candidate or form a working alliance with Republicans in an effort to insure Mr. Truman’s defeat if he decides to seek reelection next year.

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PANELS TO PRESS JOB RIGHTS CASES: N.A.A.C.P. FUND TO SET UP LOCAL UNITS IN 10 ST^. I The N.A.A.C.P. Legal De-j fense and Educational Fund hasl set up a project to press forj enforcement of the fair employ-! ment section of the Civil Rights] Act through local committees.!</br></br>The fund announced the sum-! mer-Iong project at a news con-| ference yesterday at its headquarters, 10 Columbus Circle.</br></br>D. Clark, who are assistant counsel to the fund, will head the project. Miss Ruth Abram, a student at Sarah Lawrence College, is coordinating the work of law students who will do field work in 10 Southern1 states.</br></br>cities but would also work in other sections of the South. They will attempt to stimulate local leadership and train workers in local organizations in community action to bring about enforcement of the law.</br></br>The law students are meeting with local Negro leaders, speaking before church, business and social groups, and presenting the project through local news media.

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Aliens Law Shouldn't Lead to Fear of Hiring. Your Aug. 7 article on recent increased enforcement of sanctions against employers of illegal aliens points out contradictions and challenges of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which aimed to welcome illegal immigrants with histories of residence and employment in the United States through "amnesty” and to discourage employment of new arrivals through fines for employers of illegal aliens.</br></br>You mention that a General Accounting Office report showed widespread employment discrimination against legal immigrants as a result of the sanctions |some editionsj.</br></br>Employer sanctions were opposed by Hispanic, immigrant and other civil rights groups including the Her-rnandad Mexicana Nacional during the debate preceding passage of the 1986 legislation. Those groups have described the law as the only piece of legislation in United States history that institutionalizes employment discrimination against a minority. Much of immigration-related discrimination would disappear with the repeal of sanctions.</br></br>As long as employer sanctions are with us, however, our best chance of assuring equal employment opportunity in this country is to support and heed the Justice Department’s campaign of public education regarding the antidiscrimination provisions of the 1986 legislation. The department’s Office of Special Counsel, through a national competition begun last year, awards grants to community agencies to inform workers and employers on their rights and responsibilities with regard to the hiring of work-authorized immigrants, refugees and those granted asylum.</br></br>discrimination provisions are being investigated and prosecuted. Employers who ask for work-authorization documents at the time of application, rather than waiting until the time of hiring, or who are "playing it safe” and hiring only native-born applicants, are among those subject to penalties for discrimination. Since discriminatory practices are the result of lack of understanding of the 1986 law and fear of sanctions on the part of employers, the public information campaign aims to provide the business community with accurate and up-to-date information, so that employers can offer foreign-born job applicants the same opportunities as natives.

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Survey Notes Gain In Hiring Negroes For Civil Service. An "encouraging” upward trend In the employment of Negroes in middle and upper managerial posts of the Federal Civil Service was announced yesterday by the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity.</br></br>John Macy, a member of thel committee and chairman of the Civil Service Commission, told a press conference here that the trend had been indicated in a recent nation-wide spot check of fourteen Federal departments and agencies.</br></br>He said it showed that the number of Negroes holding Civil Service positions in grades ranging from about $5,000 to| $15,000 a year had increased by about 7 per cent between June and December last year, while the over-all increase in was only 5 per cent.</br></br>A committee survey last March showed that the ratio of! Negroes in Federal employment compared favorably with the Negro population ratio, but that the job were concentrated in the lowest third of the salary grades.</br></br>Mr. Macy said the new report was "encouraging, but indicates more needs to be done.” He ascribed the increase to recruitment among Negro college graduates as well as to promotions from within the civil service.

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FOREIGN AID HELD U. S. JOB BUTTRESS: DR. SALANT, FEDERAL ECONOMIST,.... Revival of foreign investment, private and public, through President Truman’s Point Four Program should help to maintain high employment and production here while reducing the need for United States subsidies abroad, Dr. Walter</br></br>Dr. Salant, an economist on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers, spoke to the American Economic Association at the Hotel Commodore. He said that without the revival of foreign investment efforts by the United States to restore multilateral trade and conjvertible currency in the world economy were likely to fail.</br></br>At the session on foreign invest-1 ment many of the visiting econo-1 [mists were said to believe that its circulatory effects would be needed to help complete recovery abroad | and to avoid depression here in 1951.</br></br>"Foreign investment can enable Europe to earn dollars outside the United States and thereby to finance a continuing direct deficit with the United States," Dr. Salant said. “Cotton, tobacco and wheat would be among the chief beneficiaries. One-fifth to one-quarter of our production of these crops goes to Western Europe.</br></br>"Thus a substantial export of United States capital to the underdeveloped areas, by contributing to a constructive solution of the European dollar problem, could permit Europe to buy from us and could also make unnecessary a painfully rapid readjustment of some of our resources."

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iuaes 01 me individuals involved.. Sandra Porter, executive director of the National Commission on Working Women, a Washington nonprofit organization, said the topic comes up repeatedly.</br></br>As she sees it, admittedly from the vantage point of the nonprofessional women the organization serves, “Women in support jobs are saddened by the relationship they have with their women bosses. They expect that women superiors will behave differently from men, that they will understand with greater sympathy their problems — why, for example, a single parent may not always be able to meet overtime requirements.</br></br>“On the other side,” she continued, “there are the same kinds of unfulfilled expectations. The woman manager expects that a female support staff will trust her more, work harder for her and understand how difficult it was for her to reach her position. ’ ’</br></br>In fact, it has frequently been observed that because women are subject to excessive pressures and expectations, they tend to vent their frustrations on the women below them in rank. According to Patricia O’Connor, “The bosses with whom I’ve had the best relationships are those who are the most secure. The more insecure and shakier they feel, the more they reflect that onto those who work for them. Many women still tend to feel insecure; as a result people assume women are lousy bosses.”</br></br>Several years ago, Gwen Shannon, now a staff cooordinator at Women Office Workers, was hired by an insurance company along with another woman of the same age and college background. “Because we were both new, we started to talk and to have lunch together,” Miss Shannon recalled. “Then she was promoted, so that she was the supervisor and I was the subordinate. The manager above both of us — a man — told her that she shouldn’t talk to bookkeepers in a social way, and from then on we spoke only about office matters.”

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Rights Commission Urges Fair Employment Unit to Act on Government Jobs: Unions and Employers. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 ■ The Equal Employment Oppc tunity Commission has bei urged tp move promptly to e force antidiscrimination laws state and local government er ployment, a new responsibili of the commission.</br></br>The recommendation w, made by the Civil Rights Cor mission, which said it'was ir perative that the commissii assert itself in its new authori because of revenue sharing.</br></br>The rights commission h; expressed concern that civil rights proposals regarding revenue sharing are weak and need strengthening. But Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, has rejected those expressions of concern and has said that the Administration is satisfied with current efforts.</br></br>Mr. Weinberger has indicated that the Administration feels that the laws barring discrimination in use of Federal funds will be sufficient under revenue sharing, Mr. Weinberger indicated. The rights commission has said that such laws are not adequate safeguards and has recommended a cut-off of all Federal funds to stales found guilty of using funds to discriminate against any minority..</br></br>the rights commission, in a ,429-page report issued four days ago, said that, the equal opportunity commission had not been assertive enough since assuming wide new power and authority under the equal Employment Act of 1972.

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Expanded Queens Bus System Proposed: Expanded Bus System in Queens Urged. IVTain Street in Flushing, an area in need of major improvements according to a study on Queens bus transportation</br></br>A vastly expanded but integrated bus system has been proposed for Queens, after a three-year study, to meet complex problems created by two decades of rapid growth in population and employment.</br></br>The plan, in effect a new circulatory system in public transit for the city's largest borough, would greatly improve north-south transportation, which has been neglected in favor of the traditional east-west lines that feed Manhattan.</br></br>In making public the twophase proposal, Queens Borough President Sidney Leviss said it was the first of its kind "connecting major Queens centers of housing, business and industry, hospitals, educational 'institutions, parks and recreation.” The 100-page report, the result of surveys and interviews throughout the bor</br></br>The report, prepared at a cost of $150,000 by the engineering concern of Coverdale & Colpitts, noted that for many years the dominant role of Manhattan in the city forced emphasis of east-west transportation on the borough.

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Workers' Total For New York Soaring in 80's: Women Lead Jobs Gain Among City Residents. Employment in New York City in the 1980’s has risen to its highest level since the years just after World War II, with women experiencing the largest gains, according to a Federal report issued yesterday.</br></br>From 1979 to 1987, employment of city residents rose by 249,000, to 3.048 million, the report, issued by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, said.</br></br>Women over 20 accounted for two-thirds of all the employment growth in the period, primarily in the clerical field but with increases also in the professional, managerial and technical fields, the report said.</br></br>Over the eight-year period, the number of employed adult female residents in the city has risen by 163,000, compared with a rise of 106,000 for men.</br></br>Thus, women accounted for 65.5 percent of all employment growth among city residents from 1979 to 1987.

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U.S. Says Job Total Dropped by 44,000 During a Year Here. Employment in the New Yorknortheastern New Jersey area for the year ended last February declined by 44,000 to a total of 6,579,000 workers, according to Herbert Bienstock, regional director here of the United States Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics,</br></br>Employment in manufacturing dropped 107,000 from February, 1970, to February, 1971, while the number of nonmanufacturing workers rose by 63,000.</br></br>Employment in the region rose by 10,000 between January and February, 1971, but that figure includes the return to work of about 15,000 New York Telephone Company employes who were on strike in January.</br></br>the month. That rise, however, was only about a third of the increase anticipated in that sector for that month.</br></br>63.000 to a total of 4,975,000 in February, with the top increase registered by governmental agencies, where employment was up by 38,000 jobs.

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UNION CHIEF BACKS SHIP HIRING HALLS: STEINBERG OF RADIO ASSOCIATION .... CLEVELAND, April 23—A plea for retention of the hiring hall method of employment in the maritime industry, coupled with a sharp attack on the Taft-Hartley Act, was made tonight by William R. Steinberg, president of the Amer-| ican Radio Association, C. I. O., in a broadcast here.</br></br>Mr. Steinberg joined other seafaring union spokesmen who have been stoutly defending this system of manning the nation’s merchant fleet since the Supreme Court recently ruled the practice lO be a violation of the Taft-Hartley Act as written.</br></br>He said that union hiring halls had brought industrial peace to the maritime industry and that the issue was one of "life or death" for the unions. Referring to recent threats by union leaders of a possible nation-wide walkout in the event that this method of employment were outlawed, he warned that "all seamen will fight to defend hiring halls with everything they’ve got.”</br></br>Mr. Steinberg urged support for a bill recently introduced into Congress by Senator Warren tr. Magnuson. Democrat of Washington, and Representative John Lesinski, Democrat of Michigan, aimed at legalizing this method of hiring through amendment of the present law.</br></br>"Only the Communists," he continued, ‘‘would want to see a shipping tie-up that would prevent the uninterrupted flow of Marshall Plan and military aid . cargoes to the Western democracies.’

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Stocks Up in London, Off in Tokyo. LONDON, Sept. 5 (AP) — Share prices closed higher in London today, helped by bullish sentiment from United States employment figures released on Friday.</br></br>Price markups in London extended a rally that began Friday after the release of data showing that the American economy did not expand in August quite as fast as had been expected. The data allayed concerns that United States interest rates might have to rise further to douse an overheating economy.</br></br>1.00 percent, at 1764.5. The index opened up 10.2 points and bounced as much as 20.4 points higher by mid-morning to its best level of the day.</br></br>from Wall Street, which was closed for the Labor Day holiday. But several analysts stressed the market’s firm footing after Friday’s figures and a 52-point jump on the Dow Jones industrial average.</br></br>On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Nikkei average of 225 selected issues, which gained 371.75 points during Saturday’s half-day session, lost 146.67 points, or 0.53 percent, closing at 27,341.58. Although the Nikkei index opened the day strongly, it reversed direction as trading slowed.

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Converters of Old L.I. Estates Facing Problems in Landscaping: Mount.... Builders who have acquired some of Long Island's most palatial private estates for developchallenging problem of employment as home colonies face the ing to best advantage land that is endowed with unusual natural beauty.</br></br>Most of the estates now being converted to developments of more modest homes were built by affluent families in the first three decades of the present century.</br></br>It was an era when many millions of dollars were lavished upon carefully tended gardens, meadows and wooded tracts. It was also a time when bigness was important—when the size of a mansion and the expansiveness of the grounds testified to the extent of the owner's wealth.</br></br>The decline of the estates, which began with lowered incomes, increased taxes and higher maintenance costs in the Nineteen Thirties, was completed during the years of World War II. Many of the original owners sold their estates or simply moved out and retained possession of empty houses and unused grounds. The estates, uninhabited ..and unattended for years, were the "white elephants" of the real estate market.</br></br>In recent year's, with choice building sites in the suburbs at a premium, Long Island builders began seeking to buy them as potential areas for construction of home colonies. The owners, finding a more ready market, were willing to sell at prices they could not have hoped to receive at the time they decamped.

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Washington and Business: Charting Employment Service's Course Washington and Business. One of the New York State Employment Service offices in the city. Federal funds support such agencies across the country. No fee is charged either employer or job seeker.</br></br>WASHINGTON, June 27 — Prodded by Congress, the United States Employment Service is making a searching re-examination of how it can best help employers fill vacant jobs and help the unemployed find jobs that thev can hold.</br></br>At issue, a’mong other things, is whether the service should continue to be responsible for administering available-for-work tests to the jobless and food stamp clients ar.d whether it should try to fill high-skill and professional jobs as well as entrylevel and low-skill positions.</br></br>With nearly S500 million a year in Federal funds’ the service pays for and the states operate some 2,400 local employment offices. No fee is charged to employers or job seekers.</br></br>What is emerging as a central question, perhaps the central question, can be posed as follows: If the Federal-state service helps an employer find a tax accountant with experience depreciating cargohandling equipment or a computer programmer who understands billing for container freight, will the employer help the service find jobs for high school dropouts, minority women and migrant crop pickers who have moved from farm to town? the service, says local job offices must help employers" solve their problems to build up the employers’ confidence in and willingness to list openings with the service.

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'Derogatory' Files Ended Service Of 383 U. S. Called 'Subversive': 'DEROGATORY' FILE O1. WASHINGTON, March 2— Three hundred eighty-three persons were included today in a broadly defined “subversive” category among 2,427 security risk separations from Government employment during the final seven months of 1953.</br></br>. Philip Young, chairman of the Civil Service" Commission, explained to a Senate committee, however, that he could not say any or all of the 383 were either Communists or subversive^.</br></br>He" said they had “derogatory material of a substantial nature” in their personnel files. But he could not say whether allegations of subversive association had been a controlling factor in their separation from Government.</br></br>He did not know how many had been dismissed, how many had resigned, or how many had received written notice that such “subversive” allegations were on file against them.</br></br>Democratic Senators said that at future hearings they would ask Mr. Young if there had been any investigation or considered evaluation whether the allegations of "subversive’* associations in the files of the 383 persons were true or false. This issue was not raised today.

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Treasury Securities Are Becalmed: Investors Await May Jobs Data. Prices of Treasury securities were essentially unchanged on nearly nonexistent volume yesterday, as credit market participants curbed buying and selling until after May employment data are released this morning.</br></br>“The past two days have been hid-eous,’’ one Government securities trader said. “For the most part, people are washed out and waiting for Friday.”</br></br>A rise in weekly initial unemployment claims, the first in three weeks, and sluggish chain-store sales reported for May did not have much impact on prices yesterday. Nor did money supply data that were weaker than expected.</br></br>“The recovery continues to look slow and anemic,” the trader said. “Until and unless that view changes, the market will pretty much sit where it is.”</br></br>Analysts noted that the number of individuals receiving unemployment benefits fell during the week ended May 23. The decline raises the possibility that the unemployment rate, which stood at 7.2 percent in April, could show a decline when the data are released.

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SENATE TEST WON BY RIGHTS FORCES: PANEL VOTES BROAD POWERS FOR JOB C. WASHINGTON , Oct. 21Labor and civil rights forces won a crucial test today as a Senate committee voted to give the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission broad authority to combat job discrimination.</br></br>The committee approved a bill to give the commissioncreated' in 1964 but left without enforcement powers—the authority to issue cease-and-desist orders against discrimination in employment by either industry or labor unions. The bill would also broaden the commission’s jurisdiction.</br></br>Approval of the bill, by a surprising unanimous vote of 17 to 0, was a major rebuff for the Nixon Administration, which has openly backed a far less sweeping measure.</br></br>Despite the Administration stand, all seven Republicans on the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee joined the panel’s 10 Democrats in sending the broader bill to the Senate floor.</br></br>With such strong backing by the committee, it appears virtually certain that the Senate will approve the bill by a wide margin within the next few weeks.

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FARMERS PUNISHED IN WETBACK' DRIVE: SOME PERMITS TO USE MEXICANS ... HOLLYWOOD, Calif, May 26— Federal officials have made a small but noteworthy start to check the employment on Southwestern farms of wetback Mexican nationals who have illegally filtered across the 1,600-mile international boundary from the Pacific Coast to the mouth of the Rio Grande.</br></br>The United States Employment Service’s regional office in San Francisco reported this week that in the initial phase of a ‘‘gettough’’ campaign, it had taken sanctions against a dozen ranch operators in the Imperial and Coachella Valleys of southern California.</br></br>These sanctions consisted of revoking the ranchers’ permits to hire Mexican nationals on contract for six-month periods under an agreement by the United States and Mexico to supplement the domestic farm-labor supply.</br></br>One provision of the agreement is that no employer of legal Mexican contract labor shall employ wetbacks, who, because of their illegal entry into the United States and fear of deportation, work for near-starvation wages.</br></br>However, since upwards of one million wetbacks, according to reliable estimates, filter into the Southwest annually, their employment has been widespread, even on ranches hiring Mexican contract workers legally. This “mixed crew” violation of the international agreement generally has been winked at.

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EXECUTIVE HIRING EXPECTED TO RISE: STUDY SHOWS TOP MEN WITH. Prospects are looking up for the employment of highly paid execqtives, a study among leading search firms showed yesterday, The hiring outlook for 1973 appears to be more optimistic than at any time in the last five years, although there were some reservations ex-1 pressed regarding the employment of college graduates look-| ing for their first post in commerce and industry.</br></br>Boyden Associates, one of the leading executive search firms in the country, predicted that the demand for executives with minimum salaries of $25,000 will increase about 11 per cent in 1973 from the 1972 figure.</br></br>Frederick M. Linton, president of Boyden, said that the demand would probably rise well over 11 per cent. This conclusion was reached in a nationwide survey of 475 major corporations by the company.</br></br>Apparently, according to the survey, the greatest demand will be in the 30 to 45-year-old age bracket. Executives most sought, it was said, are those who have had some general management responsibility, and who have changed jobs two or three times.</br></br>A prerequisite frequenty expressed was that executives in greatest demand are those who are “outgoing, forthright, willing to work hard and make personal sacrifices.” j

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