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Demos Generally Leading in Most Lewis County Races
No full textBrief report on the county results for the primary show Cherberg and AF having won
Newsletter
No full textIncludes article on how Gaines construction has been awarded a subcontract on an auditorium project
Letter
No full textThe executive director of CAMP (Central Area Motivation Program), a Seattle-based civil rights organization, writes Nixon to urge support for AF and the RPP
Correspondence
No full textAF rebuts 12/29/69 Riesel column. Notes that while contractors have the Taft-Hartley option of hiring nonunion men on a temporary basis, then keeping them if qualified, and that unions who block this can face DOJ lawsuits, the reality on the ground is that unions prevent this by threatening a strike. Notes that the unions expect a four-year apprenticeship, during which there is a high dropout rate, and that in Philadelphia they found 100 Black nonunion plumbers. Also gives the standards quota/goals semantic rebuttal
Press Release
No full textRN speech to congress about welfare proposes that the program be based on income rather than marital status and that recipients be required to take training or reasonable jobs
Paper
Get PDFAppears to be a proposal for church-based assistance for the coop. Outlines the specific role the coop will play, and its activities and tasks. Briefly describes East Pasco. Notes that Higher Horizons was a DOL project "under the Manpower Development Act of 1962.
Forward Together or On Pulling the Nation Together
Get PDFAF speech on the RN theme of "pulling the nation together" includes his definition of the RPP as "sharing the jobs that democratic capitalism is able to produce." Furthermore, "the record, namely, history shows that insofar as the construction industry is concerned anything short of a deliberate attempt on the part of the government to extend total employment opportunity to nonwhites will fall short of the goal and fail to achieve the objective.