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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Jan. 14, 1960
Student Says State Needs Job Anti-Discrimination Law
The former executive secretary of the Kansas Anti-Discrimination Commission says adequate laws should be passed to fight discrimination in Kansas.
Louis J. "Jack" Isselhardt, Topeka graduate student in psychology who spent 21/2 years working for the commission, says minority group members should be able to compete for jobs without discrimination from employers.
Isselhardt spoke yesterday at the Faculty Forum, sponsored by the KU-Y, in the Kansas Union.
He explained that without adequate anti-discrimination laws, the most skilled and educated members of the minority groups will travel from Kansas, "leaving only the second and third level of leadership (for minority groups) in the state.
"The prospect of improving one's situation or one's ability is extremely dim (for minority persons in Kansas)," Isselhardt says.
Advancement Is Unknown
"Advancement through the ranks is unhoard of (for minority persons in Kansas) except through unskilled and semi-skilled labor."
Isselhardt, referring to a report, said that 71 per cent of the interviewed Kansas whites earn from $1.50 to $2 an hour, but that only 41 per cent of Kansas Negroes earned the same amount, and that 57 per cent of the Negroes earned from less-than-$1 to $1.49.
He explained that Negroes are the mi-
terior persons interviewed for the repre-
sentation because they are members of the largest minority group. They sui-
ture the most persecution, and the
are the most vocal.
"Oliver persons may feel persecuted, but they do not voice their feelings as readily as the Negroes," he said.
Isselhardt said that the lack of advancement opportunity for the minority group adult creates a "lack of aspiration levels" that results in an "undesirable philosophy." This
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Issehardt said that the commission handles a great many complaints on employer prejudice, but that the number of complaints is decreasing.
"The youths have less ambition to train and work hard during the school year," he explained.
Adequate Laws Needed
"People are beginning to realize we really can't do much about complaints without adequate laws to back us up."
He said that the commission can investigate and bring a complaint to an employer, but that "if an employer says 'no, it is no. There's nothing we can do.'"
Isselhardt said that an adequate law is the only way to get forceful
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action. In New York, he said, where there are adequate laws, 6000 employers were given complaints one year, 25 went to a public hearing, and only four finally went to court.
"The law sounds like a great, big, bug-a-boo. It isn't. It is a great educational tool."
He explained that most complaints can be handled by peaceful means, and that few cases go to court.
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