Civil Rights Commission urges united action to end racism
The U S Commission on Civil Rights endorses the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders report and calls for national state and local leaders to act now. It urges avoidance of quibbles over details and warns against superficial remedies while stressing integration as the path to equal justice and civic order. The statement is signed by John A Hannah Eugene Patterson Franklin M Freeman Rev Theodore Hesburgh Robert S Rankin and Wm L Taylor.
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U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders
John A. Hannah
Michigan State University
Eugene Patterson
Atlanta Constitution
Franklin M. Freeman
St. Louis
Theodore M. Hesburgh
C.S.C
University of Notre Dame
Robert S. Rankin
Duke University
Wm. L. Taylor
AFL-CIO Building Trades Hear Johnson Meany Plan For Progress
A Washington conference of the AFL CIO Building and Construction Trades Department featured speeches by President Johnson and AFLCIO President George Meany. Johnson praised labor for lifting 12 million from poverty and highlighted gains in education, health care, minimum wage, and wages. Meany extolled higher wages, better fringe benefits, and stronger welfare and pension plans, urging labor leadership on national policy.
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Aflcio
Washington
Aflcio Building and Construction Trades Department
Johnson
George Meany
LBJ
Sons of Labor
America
Meany
Afl-Cio
Congressional oversight hearings probe Labor Board power
Senator Griffin and former Representative Hartley lead a panel questioning the NLRB's independence and policy making. Chairman Sam Ervin frames action to reshape labor law and considers a labor court alternative with hearings through April 26.
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Sawe Ee Mae
OMY Vws
National Labor Relations Board
Sam Ervin
D.N.C
Organized Labor
Labor Court
Labor Management
Erwin
Robert P. Griffin
R.-Mich
Landrum-Griffin
Fred A. Hartley, Jr
R.N. J
Hartley
NLRB
Major AFL-CIO push with Senate House and Lyndon Johnson
The passage credits a major AFL-CIO effort with support from the Senate and House and highlights Lyndon B. Johnson as a key White House ally in advancing the cause.
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Afl-Cio
Senate
House
Lyndon B. Johnson
White House
Building Trades Approve This Legislative Program
AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades 1968 program lists 12 goals including Taft Hartley amendments on-site picketing and funds, Davis Bacon Act coverage for leases, safety acts, housing legislation, a surtax proposal, health funds protection, Longshoremen compensation improvements, Truth in Lending, Maritime administration, Civil Rights bill, education bills, and Davis Bacon amendments for federal installations and personal property manufacture.
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Afl-Cio Building and Construction Trades Department
Post Office Department
Maritime Administration
Davis-Bacon
The Chronicle Labor Council Newspaper Notice
The Chronicle is the weekly newspaper of the Cincinnati AFL CIO Labor Council with address 524 Brotherhood Building Cincinnati Ohio and leadership including Oscar G Lee Ed Zeuch Wm P Sheehan Andre Carson. It endorses as official newspaper of the Northern Kentucky AFL CIO Labor Council dated September 8 1962.
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Cincinnati
Afl-Cio Labor Council
Oscar G. Lee
Ed Zeuch
Wm. P. Sheehan
Andre Carson
Northern Kentucky
Aflcio Labor Council
Haois Vine
P. Sheehan
Cane A Beorss Schmit
al van Hagen
Herschel White
Russell White
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U. S. Supreme Court
Board
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Jek
Building Trades
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Ohio
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Brotherhood Building
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Ohio Labor Press Assn
International Labor Press
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