Local No. 104, Sheet Metal Workers International Ass'n v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a Federal Administrative Agency created by the provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. pp. 253 ff, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e ff. 1 The objective of Title VII was to eliminate discrimination in employment based upon race, color, national origin, etc. House Bill, HR 7152, which developed into the statute involved in the instant litigation appears in House Report No. 914, House Judiciary Committee Report on HR 7152, 88th Cong., 1st Sess. That bill provided for a Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, with power not only to hear and conciliate cases involving discrimination in employment based upon the grounds named above, but also to initiate enforcement proceedings, compara *239 ble to those provided for in the National Labor Relations Act 2 which relate to discrimination on account of labor union activities, which proceedings could lead to quasi-judicial determination by the EEOC forbidding future discriminations and granting reparations for past dis-criminations.

HR 7152 was passed by the House of Representatives. In the Senate, however, it was drastically amended by removing from the EEOC…