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That practice may now be ended. The NLRB has just won a highly significant victory against the United Rubber Workers of America's Local 12, which speaks for all workers at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in East Gadsden, Ala. In 1960, Goodyear laid off eight Negroes who had more seniority than white workers who kept their jobs. The union, which agreed to separate seniority lists for each race, refused to help its Negro members. Even the union's international president, George Burdon, could not dissuade Local 12. Though federal negotiators got the Negroes reinstated...
...Henry White Gadsden, 53, will take over as president and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., the big (1963 sales: $264 million) New Jersey pharmaceutical and chemical firm, when his boss, John T. Connor, leaves the post next month to become Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Commerce (see THE NATION). New York City-born, Yale-educated ('33) Gadsden was a vice president of Sharp & Dohme when it merged with Merck in 1953. As Merck's executive vice president since 1955, with a salary of $124,600 a year, the soft-spoken Gadsden has impressed colleagues with...
...ALABAMA. Two years ago, the Republicans had moribund organizations in ten of Alabama's 67 counties. Thanks to Gadsden Businessman James Mar tin's near victory in 1962 over Democratic Senator Lister Hill and to the efforts of Republican State Chairman John Grenier, the G.O.P. now has organizations in 63 counties, plans to put up candidates for all eight congressional seats in 1964. Martin stands a good chance of winning one of them...
...that limpid voice or by some secret of cadence, exercises control as can few others over his audiences, black or white. He has proved this ability on countless occasions, ranging from the Negroes' huge summer March on Washington to a little meeting one recent Friday night in Gadsden, Ala. There, the exchange went like this...
...other cities, too, in Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., Gadsden, Ala., racial strife receded as whites and Ne groes tried to resolve their conflicts at negotiating tables instead of in the streets. The ugliest racial disorders of the week, ironically, occurred in New York, the great melting pot, a city of minorities, a city that years ago enacted laws forbidding discrimination in housing and employment. Negro demonstrators protesting job discrimination in the construction industry marched and picketed, knelt in the mud at construction sites, sat in front of bulldozers, singing