Word: cio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Meany once asked A. Philip Randolph, "who the hell appointed you spokesman for the whole Negro race?" The President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters could have answered, "process of elimination," because he is the only Negro among the AFL-CIO executive leaders...
Randolph's moreover, is the only voice in the executive council both consistent and insistent in calling for an end to segregation in the nation's unions. Yet, last week a special AFL-CIO subcommittee blamed Randolph for "the gap that has developed between organized labor and the Negro community...
...position of the AFL-CIO President on issues of Civil Rights, automation and the political role of labor has been one of retreat. Realizing that a passive labor movement is a respectable one, he has done all he can for the respectability of American unions. He is running for re-election next month, and nothing could strengthen organized labor more than his defeat...
...capacity crowd had to brave a picket line to see L'Ecole des Femmes at the Loeb yesterday. The three pickets belonged to the local stagehands union (IATSE-AFL-CIO), and they were protesting the fact that no union hands were hired on the stage crew of the Moliere play...
...week. Soprano Leontyne Price brought to Anna a vitality that she rarely had before, gave as fine a reading of the role as present-day operagoers are likely to hear and see. As in her previous appearances in this triumphant debut season-Leonora in Il Trovatore, Aïda, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly-Soprano Price was setting new standards by which to judge some of opera's classic roles...