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Rep. Harrison Gives
Warning on FEPC Bill
A pastor could bo sent to jail for inquiring whether an applicant for an organist position in his church was an atheist, under the FEPC Bill offered in the House of Representatives.
This warning was given by Representative Burr P. Harrison during the bitter contest over the anti-discrimination measure.
Mr. Harrison proposed an amendment providing that it would not constitute religious discrimination under the proposed law “for a religious organization to refuse to employ an atheist.”
The Seventh i^trict Representative said that the fact s^ch an amendment was necessary pointed up the far-reaching effect the Administration’s FEPC measure could have.
In the long night session during which the House debated the Fair Employment Practices Commission idea, Mr. Harrison’s am^ndhient w<s adopted tentatively, but was eliminated later.
Finally, the House passed and sent to the Senate an FEPC Bill stripped of the wide enforcement authority asked by the Administration. >
Nevertheless, Mr. Harrison opposed this version.
“The Bill passed by the House is only slightly less obnoxious than the iniquitous proposition first placed before js” he said. “While it jfcrue t!<e l|ederal commission which would be set up by the bill the House voted would not be able to issue bureaucratic edicts enforceable in the •FecJeVal Courts by heavy fines and jail sentences, it represents an entering wedge for a vicious concept of federal interference in one of the few areas of freedom remaining to private employers.
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