From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 2, 1974:

The Kansas Civil Rights Commission this week filed a petition in Douglas County District Court asking a judge to order James Dickey, personnel manager of the Kresge Distribution Center, to supply subpoenaed records for an investigation. The commission was looking into a sex discrimination complaint filed by a female former employee of the center, who alleged she was unfairly fired by the company for small infractions that did not customarily cause firing when committed by males. According to court documents, the employee had been fired for being late to work three times over the course of the summer. One time, she alleged, she had been delayed by car trouble but had called her supervisor to notify him. The other two times, she stated, she had clocked in approximately one minute late. The commission was also investigating charge that the company was not accepting applications of females to work in the warehouse, that it was “freezing” them in clerical positions and depriving them of the opportunity to earn higher wages, and that it had articulated a stated traditional company policy that female employees were paid less than males.