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OCR Page 1 of 65EXECUTIVE
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Memo to GER:
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If President Johnson uses the essence of the remarks prepared for him for the meeting
today (Tuesday), you should have a good peg.
It is intended that the President will tell the PCEEO that he has written to the 204
companies who have agreed to join Plans for Progress, asking them to extend their
efforts beyond their office doors and plant gates and into their communities.
The letter asks that the presidents of the companies write to the local managers of
each of their installations across the country. It will ask them to point out to the
local managers that this national equal employment opportunity program will work
only through the operation of the free enterprise system at their level; will urge
them to continue their efforts; will ask that they commend the Plans for Progress
to other employers in their area.
I have asked Betty Wilson to send you down a copy of the letter for your purposes.
There is no accurate way of telling the extent of the chain of letters this could set
off. I will tell you that when we had only 110 companies in the program, the Social
Security People told us that they had 19,000 reporting units, including 7,500 of 50
or more persons.
It is safe to say that thousands of plants and offices are involved. The companies
have more than 7,000,000 employees and have annual sales of more than $162
billion.
I am attaching a composite study of the work profiles of 86 of the Plans for Progress
companies who joined between the time the program was started in May, 1961, and
January, 1963.
The study combines the initial self-analysis report of these companies, filed at the
time they joined, and the latest progress report received from them --
December, 1963. The companies employed 3, 425, 980 when they joined and
3, 684, 833 in December, 1963.
RECEIVED MAY21 CENTRAL FILES
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