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KANSAS CITY (MO.) TIMES September 14, 1967 GARY (IND.) POST TRIBUNE October 12, 1967 FORM COALITION 4,000 Jobs Hunted By Urban Coalition TO AID JOBLESS Urban Leaders to Act for Minority Group Members NOTE LABOR'S ABSENCE Group Asks Convocation · of Both Kansas Citys An Urban Coalition was formed yesterday of top community leaders to concentrate on programs to provide jobs for unemployed members of minority groups. The coalition agreed to call a community . wide convocation from the two Kansas Citys to consider the primary goal of finding jobs for the unemployed . Se<:ondary goals to be undertaken later will be to improve housing and education for disadvantaged citizens, most of whom are Negroes. For Group Here A group of 18 leaders met yesterday at the invitation of Mayor Dus W. Davis to form a local group patterned after the national Urban Coalition which held a convocation the last week in August in Washington . It was organized outside federal government sponsorship as a r esult of citizens concern over urban riots and inequality of opportµnit y. At the meeting yesterday at the Hotel President were representatives of local government, top business executives, civil ri~h ts grpups and the clergy. Absent Were labor leaders although five labor leaders were invited to the meeting. D. P eter New!,'luist, assistant to the ma yor, said he had been told the labor leaders were unable to attend because thev were involved in labor negotiations or were out of town. Bishop Joseph V. Sullivan, auxiliar y bishop of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic diocese, saicl the group would need the support of labor. Methods of providing jobs for hard-core unemployed will be discussed Oct. 27 at a luncheoninformation meeting of Gary's Urban Coalition. A panel of educators, employment counselors, employers, government officials and civil rights leaders will convene in the Hotel Gary then to search out job problems in Gary. The Urban Coalition is a federally sponsored group of locally interested citizens organized / : to coordinate and implement existing and new programs in employment, education, training, housing, reconstruction and equal opportunity. Mayor A. Martin Katz called for the latest meeting of the group to interest private industry in providing as many as 4,000 jobs for Gary's unemployed: Attending this conference will be the major employers in the Gary area and representatives from various educational and training groups, and from the employment agencies. Katz said the obvious real need is to match the requirements of business and industry with available resources and up· grade the full potential of our total manpower resources. The plans for the conference on employment were ·outlined by George A. Jecl):!noff, general suprintendent of U.S. Steel's Gary Steel Works, who was named to organize and chair the conference proceedings. Jedenoff noted that this conference can serve as a real benefit to Gary by bringing together the various groups interested in making the maximum use of the Gary human resources. ·The 'employment phase of t1'1e four-point basic principles submitted by the Urban Coalition Steering Committee calls for fair employment; basic training fo r employees under exist- ing program,s ; education plans to assure upward job mobility; re-examination of methods to eliminate · any practices that may unnecessarily bar qualified candidates ; f u 11 cooperation with responsible agencies de,voted to the improvement of inter-group relations within the community; and further participation in the Gary community of Plans for Progress under the Committee of Equal Opportunity appointed by President Johnson. The steering committee submilted this program for the Urban Coalition and is chaired by George R. Coker, executive director of the Urban League of Gary. Its members include : Joseph Radigan, Republican candidate for mayor ; Richard G. Hatcher, Democratic candidate for mayor ; L. I. Combs, builder and president of the Gary Chamber of Commerce ; Jedenoff; Matthew Glogowski, superintendent, Budd Company ; James Breed, manager, NIPSCO ; Leo Lewis, manager, Gary - Hobart Water Company ; Al Jackson, manager, Illinois Bell Telephone Company; Rev. William Paris ; Robert Gordon ; Marion 0 . Mitchell , manager, Sears, Roebuck & Company: Mamon Powers, Powers & Sons Construetion Co. Inc. and Walter Ridder , publisher of The Gary PostTribune. Others on the Steering Committee include Curtis Strong ; Orval Kincaid, United Steelworkers of America ; Donald Belec, school board ; Mrs. Bernice Terry ; Harold Hagberg, Northwest Indiana Bldg. & Construction Trades Council; Robert Gasser, Gary National Bank; Ray Daly, Bank of Indiana ; Reverend 'S. Walton Cole, president, Council of Churches; Rev. Julius James , president, Gary Human Relations Commis. sion ; and Glen Vantrease, cit y controller. �