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Daniel P. Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Affairs, catalyzed negotiations which resulted in an agreement last week between Eastman Kodak Co. and the Rochester, N.Y., Negro organization, FIGHT...
Since September, FIGHT has been demanding that Kodak hire and train 6000 unskilled, unemployed Negroes. On December 20, a Kodak assistant vice-president signed an agreement with FIGHT on just those terms. But the announcement of the agreement came as a complete surprise to Kodak executives, who immediately repudiated...
Relations between Kodak and FIGHT deteriorated, and after January 10, negotiations broke down completely. Ironically, Kodak has been a model company and set an example for the whole country in its programs to hire and train Negroes...
...Moynihan went to Buffalo to address some Harvard alumni. His friend of 25 years, Story Zartman, who was assistant counsel to Kodak, induced him to come to nearby Rochester...
Moynihan spent a day with about 16 Kodak executives, including Board Chairman Williams S. Vaughn, Company President Dr. Louis D. Eilers, and various vice-presidents. Moynihan says only that their discussions were "entirely friendly, very frank and useful...