Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racial harmony to Memphis. Negro leaders are already preparing other battles. COME (for Committee On the Move for Equality), which mobilized Negroes behind the garbage men, plans fresh boycotts and picketing in a campaign to win more jobs, better housing, and improved educational opportunities for Memphis blacks. The new labor-civil rights coalition forged during the strike may soon flex its organizing muscle on behalf of Memphis' Negro hospital workers and Negro teachers. Memphis, in fact, has become so symbolically significant to the Negro cause, that Abernathy hopes to use it as a Deep South springboard for King...
...Luther King's death rather than the nonviolence of his methods that ultimately broke the city's resistance. Loeb, 47, a wealthy Southern patrician-turned-politician, relented on the critical issue of union recognition only after the assassination and under concerted pressure from the White House (through Labor Under Secretary James Reynolds), civil rights and labor leaders, and his own increasingly irritated local establishment. While many white Memphians initially supported Loeb's stand, they soon fretted over their city's fading image and the threat of more Negro boycotts and street violence. Just before the strike...
...three weeks since then, Humphrey has made little secret of his intentions as he sewed together an improbable coalition of big labor and industry, Northern liberals and Southern Governors. Last week, having secured the endorsements of Louisiana's moderate Governor John McKeithen-a possible running mate-and New York City's former Mayor Robert Wagner, the United Democrats for Humphrey, led by Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris and Minnesota's Walter Mondale, with Harry Truman as honorary chairman, opened up shop in Washington...
...strike, however, caught the papers off guard. Memphis, as they boasted perhaps too often, had never had a serious racial disturbance. Partly because of this, the papers were rattled when it finally occurred. At first they tried to portray it as simply a labor issue, though the fact that 95% of the sanitationmen are Negroes obviously gave it a racial complexion. They covered the strike with reasonable thoroughness but tended to play up acts of violence. They regularly attacked King, saying he had no business in Memphis. They ignored Negro militants leading the strike; for a while, the Commercial Appeal...
During the meeting Gardiner said that possible labor shortage--not mere economizing--was the real reason the hall might be closed next spring. The University expects a carpenter's strike next May, Gardiner said. If the strike seems imminent he said, construction would have to begin by April 1 to meet the September 1969 deadline for the opening of Mather House. However, Gardiner said that construction might be put off until June if there was no danger of a strike...