William Pollard [Executive Director], correspondence, 1978 [page 60]
- Date:
- 1978
- URL at Partner site:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/AFLCIO/id/21396
- 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||Meany, George, 1894-1980
- Spatial coverage:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Description:
- Page 60 of the 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_060
- 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:
- union because a majority of blacks have signed. I met Robert Ross and Charles Jackson one day and had them meet Harry to further discuss the plant situation and Harry again indicated racial problems do exist and of course Steven’s ignores or paramonts the issue. (Community black leader) George Jefferson, a friend of Committee Member Harry Anderson talked to me, Robert Ross and Charles Jackson for some time Thursday. He feels, like most others I’ve talked to that Industry in Allendale perpetuates racial tension and bigotry. JP Stevens is no exception. Kaysor- Roth, a dress factory in Allendale is the worst offender however. Blacks, especially women, are fired at will and foreman appear to be hired because they’re white and hate blacks. George Jefferson is attempting to find help for this situation but State Labor Agencies are helpless. My strongest committee member’s wife was fired last week and in talking to her, she introduced me to George Jefferson. Phil told me to stay away from Kaysor-Roth, so I am, I did instruct her how to contact various agencies and that two attornies [sic] Phil had given me, and Charlie knew the EEOC no. in Atlanta. The city has a problem in accepting the fact that blacks are no longer required to “ya-sir” and tote cotton bails [sic]. A reapportionment