Antidiscrimination in Employment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil Rights of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session, on S. 692, a Bill to Prohibit Discrimination in Employment Because of Race, Color, Religion, National Origin, Or Ancestry |
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Page 6 - ... to make and enter upon the pleadings, testimony, and proceedings set forth in such transcript a decree enforcing, modifying, and enforcing as so modified, or setting aside in whole or in part the order of the commission.
Page 7 - Columbia by filing in such court a written petition praying that the order of the Board be modified or set aside.
Page 8 - ... any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.
Page 9 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any . person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 8 - Witnesses summoned before the Commission, its member, agent, or agency, shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States, and witnesses whose depositions are taken and the persons taking the same shall severally be entitled to the same fees -as are paid for like services in the courts of the United States.
Page 71 - ... a bona fide occupational qualification. 4. For any employer, labor organization or employment agency to discharge, expel or otherwise discriminate...
Page 320 - It shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare...
Page 71 - It is the policy of the Government of the United States to provide equal opportunity in Federal employment for all qualified persons, to prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin...
Page 8 - ... shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence...
Page 135 - It requires no argument to show that the right to work for a living in the common occupations of the community is of the very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity that it was the purpose of the Amendment to secure.