Cohen Receives AFL-CIO Murray-Green Award for Public Service
Wilbur J. Cohen accepts the Murray-Green Award at the AFL-CIO Community Services Conference in Washington. Beirne praises Cohen as a pioneer in social security and health benefits and notes his three decades of labor progress and ongoing goals including Medicare expansion and universal education support.
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Wilbur Cohen
Afl-Cio
Murray-Green
Labor
Samuel Gompers
Cohen
Wilbur J. Cohen
AFL-CIO Community Services initiative described
The Community Services program shows unions aim to be more than wage groups. It seeks to mobilize community resources to meet health welfare and recreation needs and to involve all citizens in social issues.
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Afl-Cio
Community Services
Labor Federation
Labor
Murray-Green Award Recognition for Health and Welfare Leaders
The Philip Murray William Green Award, created by the AFL-CIO Executive Council in 1956, honors individuals and organizations in the United States and abroad for achievements in health and welfare that inspire broader public service. It is named after Philip Murray and William Green, leaders of major labor organizations.
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Philip Murray
William Green
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
Wilbur J. Cohen Widely Praised as Social Welfare Architect
The article honors Wilbur J. Cohen for shaping Medicare and major health, education, and welfare laws over 34 years. It notes his 1934 start with Roosevelt era social security work, tenure as University of Michigan professor, and his 1960s appointment as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. He received the Philip Murray William Green Award from AFL-CIO.
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Wilbur J. Cohen
Congress
Cohen
Roosevelt
Committee On Economic Security
University of Michigan
Johnson
Secr
Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin
Eloise Bettel
Ingram
Texas
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Father of Social Security Honored by Meany
AFL-CIO President George Meany praised Wilbur J. Cohen as a public official who fought hard with energy knowledge and skill, whether in the spotlight or behind the scenes. The tribute framed Cohen as a key architect of social welfare and public policy.
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Afl-Cio
George Meany
Wilbur J. Cohen
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