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The Urban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West / 1819 H Street, N. w. Washington, D. c. / 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskell / A. Philip Randolph February 9, 1968 NATIONAL COORDINATOR'S WEEKLY REPORT LOCAL COALITIONS Associate National Coordinator Elbert Ransom, Jr. met this week with the newly-formed "Committee of Fifty" in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Committee is presently representative of all segments of the community except local government. After Ransom's e xplanation of the objectives and principles of The Urban Coalition, the Committee decided to issue an invitation to the Mayor to attend a special meeting to discuss the possibility of members of the city government joining the Committee to make it a true Urban Coalition. The Boston Ur b an Coalition r eports good progress. At a meeting last week, Robert Sla ter , p re sident , John Ha ncock Mutua l Life Insurance Company , was elected chair man . Three task forces were named- - Employ ment and Entr epr e neur ship, Housing and Education-and asked to prepare act i on p r o po s als at the earliest possible date. A c ommittee was also named to recommend a permanent organi z at ional s tructure . LEGISLATION At a meeting in Washi ngton this week, the Legis lat ive Ta s k For ce decided to urge the Coalitio n Executive Co mmittee to autho r i ze (1) moving ahead immediately to support the open h ousing l e gislation now in the Senate, and (2) mobilizing support for a s u pplemental appropriation to fund summer programs for the larger cities. PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT The third in the series of regional meetings on private employment will be held at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 21. Scheduled speakers include Kansas City Mayor Ilus w. Davis, William Flynn, director, STEP Program, National Association of Manufacturers, Rev. Thomas J. Ritter, executive director, Opportunities Industrialization Center, Philadelphia, J. A. Hosford, general manager, Western Electric Company, Lee's Summit, Missouri, Mayor Joseph ff. McDowell of Kansas City, Kansas, and Francis Keppel, chairman of the board, General Learning Corporation and former U.S. Commissioner of Education. National Coordinators : John Feild / Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 -1530 �( 2) Concurrent workshops will be held on Organizing Local Employment Campaigns, Recruiting, Training, and Placement of the Hard Core Unemployed, Job Development and Upward Mobility and Reassessing Underemployment. STEERING COMMITTEE James F. Oates, Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States has accepted an invitation to become a member of the Urban Coalition Steering Committee. The press of other commitments has made necessary the resignation of Steering Committee member Gilbert w. Fitzhugh, president, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. �