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Hlughes Tool Company, Hlouston, Texas, ca. 1927. Photograph courtesy HIouston Metropolitan
Research Center, Houston Public Library, Houston.
war material for the federal government. During the war, a few black
workers leveled charges with the FEPC against Hughes Tool alleging that
management had denied blacks promotions and access to white-only jobs.
Company officials did not deny the charges and said that blacks never had
been allowed to perform white-only jobs and suggested that opening
white jobs to blacks would cause trouble, even possible rioting by white
employees who supported segregation. The FEPC pressured Hughes Tool
to put an end to its discriminatory employment and job practices, but the
company successfully resisted integrating its work force.8
The company later turned down a 1953 proposal submitted by the
presidents of the IMW's two locals that called for a biracial grievance
committee to replace the existing procedure, which required each local
to handle grievances for its own membership. The new grievance com-
mittee would consist of seven representatives from each local and was
intended to strengthen the union's bargaining position in settling griev-
ances with management. The proposal specifically excluded any further
" Ernest Obadele-Starks, "The Road to Jericho: Black Workers, The Fair Employment Practice
Commission, and the Struggle for Racial Equality on the Upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1941-1947"
(Ph.D. diss., University of Houston, 1996), 173-179. See Emilio Zamora, "The Failed Promise of
Wartime Opportunity for Mexicans in the Texas Oil Industry," Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
95 (Jan., 1992), 323-350, for a study of the FEPC's failure to abolish discrimination against
Mexican American workers in the upper Texas Gulf Coast oil industry.April
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