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N.Y. Mayor, mine workers president, and Kirkland's assistant ... salute CBTU convention. (David Dinkins, Richard Trumka, Kenneth Young)(Coalition of Black Trade Unionists)
N.Y. Mayor, Mine Workers President, and Kirkland's Assistant . . .
The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists is alive and well in the U.S.A. They held their 19th Convention in New Orleans last month and it went a long way to affirm its steady march along "Freedom Trail."
Four days of meeting and being roundly hailed by rising national union and civic leaders testified to the expanding role of African-American workers. It was repeatedly stressed that the labor movement has taken its position in the forefront of the struggle for civil rights and justice, due in a large measure to the activities of the CBTU.
"Freedom is a heady drink, and some of our union brothers and sisters had to learn to drink it slowly, in small doses," said a steelworker delegate from Alabama. "There are deep pockets of racism still to overcome."
AFL-CIO President Kirkland's executive assistant Kenneth Young brought his organization's greetings to the convention, and he praised the CBTU's activities ...
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