COMPLAINTS: April 6, 1945 OF COLORED HOMEN AGAINST: PRATT & WOETHEY ATRSRAPT CORPORATION ‘ESPUSAD Tp ITRS 1. Urs. Judith Jeans March 26, 1945 2, Miss Alva Kitchen. March 26, 1945 vermary, 194 February, 1945 429 Everett, Kansas Clty, Kensas, Pa, 230h High School graduate, In plant training Hereules Powder- mchine eperator = July (4 to Decenber Wi quit - illness. Referred by USES as an operator trains, At the company o: ovfics on Walmt | Strest, she was interviewed end told there wore no opsnings in the training school for © wouen, but thet thero was work in the cafe- 130 Washington Blvi., Kansas City, Kans, Fa, 6648 High Sehool graduate, Safeway watehouso for’'13 months on wrappiag machine, fron Fob. th to ar. *h5. Referred by USES to Fratt & Whitney as an operator trainse, ab the City Esployment: Office. Interviexer said there were no openings 4n the trainiag school for women. When sha dnjuired about work ag a produc tion helper, interviewer told her there had been five openings in this position early that morning but those places had been * nadd ond janitor work, Trice she hes boen. turned down. ‘Yhon cho applied in response to radio ant nowspaper appeal for help in Janaarys 1944, for work in the training shook, sho was told that the school was filled bat that they would notify her hen another clase: started. zi Again applied,at the plant this tise, but informed her, who was applying olso, that eho had just been hired as a trained and given a’slip to the training school,