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I Remedy Agains Businesses Without PubliC ommodatio Bill-Marshall . Fo~# Marsha's[ .ATJp~als Passage Of R ights Bil~\~ · By JOHN· HERBERS (United Press International) \ ·., . WASHINGTON .... (UPI) - Burke Marshall, the government'~ top civil rights trou'ble-shooter, said Monday that Pre sid e nt "Ken~ nedy's proposed public accommodations law could have a v~rfed racial strife. in Birm ingham, Ala ., this ye r. He toid the S enate Commerce Committee that Negroes Btllged protest demonstrations against discrimination In busin ess establish men ts because there was no legal remedy, no action the government could take to filld it. Marshall, assistant attorney genPl'al in c11urge of ithP Justice De~ par tmen t's Civil Righ ts Division, a ppealed for passa,ge of th e pr oposed la w to ba.n racial discrlmina. tion in ·su ~h places as hotels and restaurants. During h is testimony, .1- • h e 8/lso: - Questioried the accuracy of a published report that managers of the Social Security and Veterans Administra,tlon of-fices in San An~ tonio, Te;,c., had been ordered .by Washington ito give)ob preferenc~,i; to Negroes. The r eport was cited bY Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., chief committee foe of th e proposed · public' oocommodations :·law. · Marshall s11,id he did not beileve any government. official . had -,lssuitd such a. directive but would : lqolt Into it. · .. · ·' - T estitied th ait a•aclal .dlscrlin- inatlon in pub!L~ estia:blishmel}ts cannot be wiped out by -persuas\Ci(l· alone. He said . this approa!!h' has resul•t ed in some success but th1lt it h as i UmitaUons. Sen.- :fll.18'fir.; coftt, R-Pa,, ,,aske~· Marsl!l&ll lf:11~ cOtlTd l\!We · US!ld tp.e proposed .., blic accommoda,tlo~s law in Birml.ng.h am, site of protest demon bns in May. , ·, ·· Marshall replied th at "th e d~monstrations would not h81Ve ha,d -to take place." The problem in Blrmin<>ham &Rd 11aawll1Fe, he ,sa:ld, was Vhat ~ )eglll re. medy. The , he saij , was voluntaTy tlon. · . When Birmingh am -business Pf'l,• pr ietors "agreed to take voluntq,ey action, that ended the demonstra• tions," h e com:luded. . ·_;'.:: ' : Scott said' ·that up to a w~~ fore the President sent h1s ·cMl rights vequesta' to J ess,. 't)1e Justice;.Department wo. tellin,g -set'lia,tons that "persua n ~ tl}_ei job" and that I t orltt 'waf> O u ~. Tl~e , ed ·~ : · epu , n sen~tor sugges't·.: h a,ccommoda:itons,· la\¥· s ed. in •first ye'a of e Kenne ministration , ~shal · led that it also was!lle~q-, e "In 1960, In 1969, r eal,ly · s oce I 1861" - a year tha,t saw "sit.ins" I in uoul'sville, Ky. · 1 1 �