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TAYLOR v. ARMCO STEEL CORPORATION

No. 28180.

429 F.2d 498 (1970)

John TAYLOR et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Alfred James et al., Intervenors-Appellants, v. ARMCO STEEL CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 7, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Norman Sorrell, Mandell & Wright, Gabrielle K. McDonald, Houston, Tex., for appellants; William B. Gould, Detroit, Mich., McDonald & McDonald, Houston, Tex., Jonathan K. Harkavy, Albert J. Rosenthal, Jack Greenberg, William L. Robinson, New York City, of counsel.

George W. Rice, Chris Dixie, Houston, Tex., for appellees; Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Russell Specter, Acting Gen. Counsel, David W. Zugschwerdt, Atty., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D. C., amicus curiae.

Before WISDOM, AINSWORTH, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge*:

Labor seniority systems revised under pressure from black employees and blessed by collective bargaining agreements have improved the economic position of Negro workers long subject to job discrimination. Often however these systems carry forward past discrimination inherent in the original establishment of a "skilled" (white) line of progression and an "unskilled" (black) line of progression. Eleven years ago this...

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