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MINNEAPOLlS TRIBUNE September 14, 1967 Substituting Action NEW YORK TIMES October 10, 1967 fo.r Oratory THE $14,000 contributed by Minneapolis area businesses to study the creation of an Urban Coalition shows a -growing awareness that the total community, public and private, must become more involved in the effort to solve our problems of race and pov. erty. Critics might say that the time for studies is past. In this case, however, there would be no point in forming a coalition if .the members had little idea of what they could do or how they should do it. These are the questions that this study must answer. And at nine weeks, it is a short one as studies go. Participants at the recent National Urban Coalition meeting in Washington, D.C., resolved boldly to push for a million more iobs, a million . more homes for the poor, better schools and social conditions. Whether these goals can be attained will depend greatly on the grassroots pressure and contributions of key leaders at the local level. This is where the Minneapolis coalition comes in. This is where the white community must show Negro critics at the national meeting that it is not attempting to sub_s titute oratory for action. Earl Ewald, president of Northern States Power Co. and temporary chairman of the contributing local businessmen, said that none of them sees merit in creating just another organization. "But maybe a new kind of organization like a genuine 'Urban Coalition' can help," he said. "We hope to find out." We hope the find ings are affirmative. URBAN COALITION MOVES ON SLUMS Panel Set Up to Help Local Leaders Form Groups By SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG The Urban Coalition, the recently formed prestigious national alliance of business, labor, municipal, religious and civil rights leaders, took a step here last night to help local communities fight a more organi,zed battle against slum problems. A three-member panel was set up by the nationwide coalition to help community leaders form local coalitions to press for solutions to crucial urban needs, particularly jobs, housing and education. The panel was announced at a meeting of the Urban Coalition's 33-member steering committee in the Time & Life Building, at 50th Street and the Avenue of the Americas. It was the first gathering of the highlevel committee, one of whose members is Mayor Lindsay, since the convocation of the organization on Aug. 24 in Washington. The members of the localcoalition panel are Mayor Joseph M. Barr of Pittsburgh, Arnold Aronson, executive secretary of the National Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati lawyer. __ The next step by the task force will be to hold a meeting of community leaders interested in fortning local units. Leaders in about 50 cities have expressed interest in the idea and are expected to be at the meeting, scheduled for a week from today in Chicago. Mayor Lindsay, one of the foun ders of the Urban Coalition, has already organized a local coalition for New York City and is expected to announce its chairman and other members very soon. Abou_t 50 persons, many of them aides to members of the steering committee attended last nigh~·~ committ~e meeting. In addition to Mr. Lindsay the participants included Mayo; Barr; Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh of Detroit; Andrew Heiskell, board chairman of Time Inc.; Joseph D. Keenan, secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and ~vid Sullivan, president of the Building Service Employes International Union. Also, Frederick J. Close, board chairman of the Aluminum Company of · America· Gerald Phillippe, board chair~ man _of General Electric; Harold Flemmg, president of the Po~omac Inst!t_ute in Washington, td A. Ph1hp Randolph, presi_~nt . of the Brotherhood of leepmg Car Porters. �