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5 and loan associations. New legislation would probably be required for mortgage bankers and insurance companies. We also suggest for consideration, measures to break the classic cycle of neighborhood deterioration - invasion, disruption, and demolition. Underwriting property losses in transition neighborhoods to prevent scare solling and flight is one possible approach. 3. Jobs Problems of job discrimination and economic advancement would be further aneliorated if the economy were booming sufficiently. However, even the present boom is not enough to achieve the full objectives of the Act, and we do not believe we should assume it will in the near future. Moreover, we should take into account the pressures that will mount if the economy turns down. We do not believe that the FEPC title of the bill will provide shelter for the Federal Government for very long. The FEPC title may suffer from a fatal flaw of providing a legal solution for what is essentially a social and economic problem. From this viewpoint, it may be desirable to review the economic leverage that the Federal Government possesses. This leverage has been exercised particularly through defense contracts, but can other lever points be found? Can the present impact of the President's Equal Employment Opportunities Committee be deepened and broadened - can it do more in the retail and wholesale fields? The Task Force might also consider whether the potential problems with the FEPC approach can be overcome by coordinating it with the operation of the President's Committee whose main emphasis is on negotiation and persuasion, backed by threats of economic reprisal. This and other moves might be made to provide added and integrated resources for initiat- ing and negotiating hiring and employment practice agreements across industries and thus reduce the roliance on a complaint and redress procedure. The practices of labor unions should also be given a substantial review and measures developed for protection of union members or those who would be union members. TO what extent should the NLRB use its program and procedures to reduce discrimination practices by unions? 4. Voting As indicated above, there is doubt whether the pending bill provides the gains expected by Negroes in the area of voting. Strong moves to insure the speediest possible accession of Negroes to voting rolls, particularly in the South, are essential. This may require same form of direct Federal intervention either administratively or legislatively.

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October 1963 memo on blacks appointed to positions in the Ohio state government.

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