“To help the colored people make further progress toward economic security, the Commerce Department held a two-day conference in Washington last week on The Negro in Business, at which speakers of both races discussed various aspects of the problem. In view of the recent bitter criticism by colored organizations of racial discrimination in the hiring of workers by firms with defense contracts, one of the chief topics naturally proved to be the task of coordinating the Negro into the rearmament program.”
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