William Pollard [Executive Director], correspondence, 1978 [page 58]
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department, Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996, Pollard, William Edward, 1915-2013, King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006, Hill, Norman, 1933-, Johnson, Napoleon B. (Napoleon Bonaparte), II, and Millsaps College
- Date:
- 1978
- URL at Partner site:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/AFLCIO/id/21394
- DLG URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/record/gsu_aflcio_21474
- Subject:
- Labor leaders, African American labor union members, Civil rights, Labor unions--Organizing, United States--Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department, Emergency Land Fund (U.S.), North Georgia Building and Construction Trades Council, Millsaps College, A. Philip Randolph Institute, J.P. Stevens & Co., Pollard, William Edward, 1915-2013, Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996, King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006, Hill, Norman, 1933-, Johnson, Napoleon B. (Napoleon Bonaparte), II, and Meany, George, 1894-1980
- Spatial coverage:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Description:
- Page 58 of folder||Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director William Pollard. Topics include the Civil Rights Department's work on equal opportunity hiring for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project and reports on strike and boycott efforts against J.P. Stevens textile corporation.||The records, 1964-1979, of the Southern Office of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department consist primarily of correspondence and related reports, surveys, statements, and newspaper clippings. Much of the correspondence is between Director E.T. (Al) Kehrer and various AFL-CIO departments, notably his superiors Don Slaiman (1965-1974) and William Pollard (1974-1979). There is also substantial correspondence between Kehrer and the AFL-CIO state and city labor councils in the South; apprenticeship and training programs; a wide range of groups and persons concerned with community action and social reform issues, principally in the field of civil rights; and political figures.
- Attribution:
- Courtesy of Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southern Office records.
- Identifier:
- L1983-26_01_01_1592_05_058
- Holding Institution:
- Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University
- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southern Office records
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Transcription:
- Mr. McIver, I have spoke to Phillip Pope about the occurrences and conditions in Allendale, S.C. and its effects and ramifications on the Stevens Campaign and workers in the plant. The issues that appear to influence workers at the Allendale plant deal more with social conditions [that] than with work conditions. Many workers, whites in particular, are too busy hating each other to take time to hate working conditions. While passing out leaflets I have been called a “[n—] lover” and our union is referred to as the “[n—] union.” These comments have come from only a few individuals yet on most house visits to whites I have heard racious rhetoric and remarks. One employee went so far as to call me a “[n—] lovin’ communist”. I have, in one incident in particular, been given the silent treatment at local establishments frequented by whites. A resturant [sic] called Granny’s let [x] me sit for almost an hour at a table without cleaning dishes from the previous customers or taking my order while serving others who came in afterwards. When I finally asked the waitress if she would take the dirty dishes from my table and take my order she walked away as if she had not heard me. I heard a few chuckles from the local clientel [sic] (Rednecks) so before I blew my cool I walked out. I went back to the resturant [sic] a few days later and a similar incident occurred. They served me but I waited almost 1:45 (and 1 pack