Passed Resolves; Resolves 1943, c.39, SC1/series 228, Petition of Joseph S. Shubow

<p>Petition subject: Racial discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500530">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500530</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Louis Lobel, Boston; committee on labor and industries </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joseph S. Shubow</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1943-01-18,1943-01-19 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 18, 1943 and referred to the committee on labor and industries and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 19, 1943 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, Rabbi, President, New England Division, American Jewish Congress </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: public utility corporations and employment agencies be prohibited from inquiring into the religious affiliations of applicants for employment or to have records of the race, creed, color or descent of such applicants, includes address, [additional documents include "Report of the Massachusetts Commission on the Employment Problems of Negroes"] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1943, c.39, passed June 8, 1943 </p> <p>Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.</p>