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LIVINGSTON ON NEW SOUTH
Terms Moves as Anti-Negro
Unionist Points South
Milwaukee Journal
(Friday, May 11, 1956) The director of organization for the new AFL-CIO said
here Thursday that he thought southern industrialists were promoting the
organization of 'white citizens' councils in the South. John W.
Livingston, Washington, D.C., named to direct organizational drives of
the newly merged unions, said in an interview that he thought the same
individuals who promoted 'right to work' laws in the south now were
backing the white citizens' groups. The groups are anti-Negro and
generally hostile to the AFL-CIO for its stand in favor of civil rights,
he said.
Livingston spoke to 150 locals AFL and CIO business
agents and representatives at a luncheon at the Schwaben-Hof Restaurant,
2042 N. 12th St.
The New South is becoming more like the North,
Livingston said. It has become highly industrialized in the last five
years. There are some 650,000 textile workers alone, he noted.
Whether any Southern unions will withdraw from the
AFL-CIO over the race issue remains to be seen, he said, although he did
not know of any which had yet done so, or any unions organized on a
"white only" basis.
In this luncheon talk, Livingston said "very
encouraging progress" was being made in solving jurisdictional
problems in the merged union, a preliminary to any large scale
organizing drives. He urged the local union leaders to be politically
active.
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