Word: segregationism
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Since membership in highly skilled, highly paid (hourly wages: $4.10) Local 26 is virtually on a father-to-son basis, the old ways are easily preserved. Having such a union on his own doorstep is a source of never ending embarrassment to George Meany, who has labored long and well...
Everybody knows that doughty but ineffectual little bands, such as Novelist Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's Liberal Party, have long opposed the South African government's all-out segregation policy. Now, for the first time since apartheid was officially proclaimed South Africa's "way of...
Though both oppose segregation. Meany and Randolph have been scrapping over the issue for months. Moderate Meany has steadily but quietly pressured unions to drop their color bars; in his 20 years of leadership the number of all white A.F.L. unions has dropped from 26 to only one - the 97...
As visiting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his way through the Union of South Africa, allowed to meet none of the blacks (who make up 67% of the population), he could sense the mood of the country from the headlines. The three-year-old "treason trial" of 30 political prisoners...
68. After years of study of the Methodist Church's racial policy, a church commission said that segregation should be: a) Continued indefinitely.