ML17037B770
| ML17037B770 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 04/09/1965 |
| From: | Rachlin C Congress of Racial Equality |
| To: | Seaborg G US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) |
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| Download: ML17037B770 (3) | |
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'IlcL:f, ttafE&XlKI 33 PARK ROW NEW YORK 33, NEW YORK Cortlandt 7.6270 James Farmer national director Richard Halcy associate Gordon Carey assistant Cari Rachlln, Esq.
general counsel ADVISORY COMMITTEE Ralph Abcrnathy James Baldwin Roger N. Baldwin Katrina M. garnes Algernon D. Black James B. Carey Allan Knight Chalmers Grcnville Clark John Coglcy Earl B. Dickerson Eugcnc E. Frazlcr Harold Gibbons Retard B. Gittelsohn Sidney Hollander George M. Houscr E. Stanley Jones Bishop F. D. Jordan Martin Luther King Douglas Levin David Livingston Will Maslow A. J. Musto Dorothy Ngrman A. Philip Randolph Ira DcA. Raid Walter P. Reuthcr Hobson R. Reynolds Jackio Robinson Arnold M. Rose Fred M. Shuttlesworth Llllian Smith C. K. Steels Gardncr Taytor Howard Thurman Bishop W. J. Walls Goodwin Watson Joseph Willcn Jerry Wurf Charles S. Ztmmcrman OFFICERS Floyd B. McKissick chairman Rudolph Lombard 1st vice chairman Wtlfrcd Usscry
. 2nd vice chairman Ralph Roscnfcld secretary Alan Gartner treasurer James Peck CORElatcr editor STAFF Norman Hill program director James McCain director of organization Marvin Rich community relations director Apxil 9a 1965 Hon, Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman Atomic Energy Commission of the United States Hashingtona D. C.
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Seaborg:
The Syracuse Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality has been attempting to obtain the attention of the Niagara-Mohawk Power Corporation to the corxection of the latter's employment practices for many months.
It is no secret that these practices do not meet a reasonable standard of fairness.
In Syracuse, for example, approaimately
> of 1% of the employees of Niagara-Mohawk are Negro despite the fact that more than 20% of the popula-tion of the city is Negro.
$fe have been advised that the Atomic Energy Com-mission has tent'atively granted a license to Niagara-Mohawk to build a nuclear power plant in Seri'ba, New York, at Nine Mile Point.
Phile Niagara-Mohadcmay be technically and financially qualified to design and build such a plant, we strongly urge that it does not meet the minimum standards of the United States Constitution nor a reasonable standax'd of fairness.
It is a publicly granted monopoly with publicly, protected profits.
By awarding such a contract to Niagara-Mohawk, you are further increasing its profits and further
. dimini'shing the rights of American citizens to equal oppor-tunity and fair employment.
Surely, mere technical skill must not be the test of who receives a major contract from t'e United States government, Of course, we need not xemind you of the obligations-of the federal government under Title,VI,of the 1964 Civil
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239 He urgently the expiration of the to the time and place are necessaryo request the opportunity to be heard by you before 45-day provisional period.
$fe await your word as of the hearing ge vill produce such witnesses as Resp ec tfully Carl Rachlin General Counsel CR/g cc:
Honi Hubert H. Humphrey Hon. Nelson Rockefeller Hon, James A. Lundy, Chairman New York State Public Service Commission Faith Seidenberg, Esq.
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