Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most responsible is a burly, black labor leader named Ted Watkins, 44, a born cajoler, red-tape cutter and pragmatic humanitarian whose Watts Labor Community Action Committee has shown an uncanny ability to attract outside help while galvanizing Watts from within. Watkins and fellow...
...eloquent summary of its "principles, goals and commitments," the newly formed Urban Coalition of 1,200 business, labor, religious, civil rights and local government leaders last week in Washington set forth a bold and comprehensive program to alleviate the desperate plight of U.S. cities. Excerpts...
...create a closer relationship between private employers and public training and emergency employment programs to widen career opportunities. To this end, we will proceed immediately to promote "Earn and Learn Centers," in depressed urban areas . . . the joint venture of business, labor and local government...
...good faith, Ky invited President Johnson to send some observers to South Viet Nam to witness the election process at firsthand. More than willing, Johnson announced at midweek that 20 Americans had been invited to go. The group includes six Senators and Governors, plus an assortment of mayors, labor and civil rights leaders, businessmen and clergymen. The harshest critic of Johnson's policies in Viet Nam-Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-politely declined the invitation...
Died. Francisco Aguirre, 54, labor leader in pre-Castro Cuba, a onetime hotel workers organizer who as Labor Minister in the late '40s swept the nation's unions clean of Communists, in 1951 helped the A.F.L.-C.I.O. found the pro-Western ORIT (Organization Regional Inter Americana de Trabaja-dores), two years later spearheaded a novel agreement by which his union bankrolled the building of the Havana Hilton Hotel, was jailed by Castro in 1959; of unknown causes (Castro's radio merely said "suddenly"); in La Cabana prison, Havana...