HC Deb 28 November 1969 vol 792 c172W
Mr. Evelyn King

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity why her Department informed Mr. N. Burn, managing director of a plastering firm in Dorset, that he could not advertise for a coloured labourer to work with two other coloured employees; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Dell

Because under the Race Relations Act, 1968, it would have been unlawful to discriminate on the ground of colour.

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