NAACP BOYCOTTS HOTELS OVER ALLEGED JOB BIAS.(MAIN)

Byline: PAUL SHEPARD Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- The NAACP called for a boycott of Holiday Inn, Best Western and other leading hotel chains Wednesday, assailing the lodging industry's record in the hiring and promoting of blacks.

Sixteen national companies were sent a four-page questionnaire seeking general information such as number of properties, number of rooms and number of black employees in executive, managerial and professional positions. It also asked whether the companies used minority advertising outlets and black firms as vendors and whether the companies supported charities that serve the black community.

Of the 16 companies, none …