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l The Urban Coalition ' I Federal Bar Building West/ 1819 H Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. / 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen : Andrew Heiskell I A. Philip Randolph December l, 1967 NATIONAL COORDINATORS WEEKLY REPORT Task Force on Local Coalitions More than 200 representatives from 34 cities in six states attended the Western Regional Mobilization Conference in San Francisco on November 30. The program followed closely the format of the previous conference held in Chicago, with heavy emphasis on how to organi z e local coalitions. General session speakers included Bayard Rustin, Executive Director of the A. Philip R~ndolph Institute, who also served as chairman; Mayor John F. Shelley and Mayor-Elect Joseph Alioto of San Francisco; Francis M. Barnes, Vi c e President of Crown Zellerbach Corporation; Bishop Donald Harvey Tippet t, President of the Council of Bishops o f the Methodist Church; Kenneth Wright, Vice President of the Life Insurance Association of America; Mayor Floyd H. Hyde of Fresno; California State Assemblyman John Knox; Robert Reveles, Washington Representative of the National Association for Mexican-American Services ; and Auxil iary Bishop-Elect Mark Hurley o f the Archdiocese o f San Francisco. San Francisco Mayor-Elect Alioto gave the conference a boost by announc ing that he intends .to appoint committees broadly representative of labor, business, and minority groups to advise him on urban problems. He said he also intends to broaden the coalition o f s upporters in his recent e lection to be representative of the entire community. While not specifically labeling this group as an "Urban Coalition," the Mayor-Elect made it plain that he expects it to work toward the same objectives . "In th e past we have been able to successfully organi ze coalitions for less noble purposes," Alioto said, " and then, but un f ortunat ely, we have let them disband when they had fulfilled a single purpose. We do not intend for this to happ~n in this case." An Eastern Regional Mobilization Conference will be held in New York City in early January. National Coordinators : John Feild / Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 - 1530 �(2) Working Committee Meeting Minutes of the November 27 meeting of the Working Committee have been mailed to you. You will note from the minutes that much of the discussion centered around plans for the December 18 and January Steering Committee meetings. Next week you will receive a calendar of scheduled Coalition meetings. �