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By _ _ _ _ FORM 25•5 ����November 16, 1967 TO: DAN SWEAT FROM: MEL COTTON'(b_ Here are some additional names that I have come across on businessmen in Atlanta that you may want to add to the list I previously sent to you. ��ATLANTA AMERICAN Floor Plan of Meeting Rooms SWIMMING POOL AREA FULTON M EN WOM EN FASTMAN STORAGE ~ ENTRANCE ON FIRST FLOOR SECTION "B" KITCHEN CONVENTION , HALL CORRIDOR T BRUNSWICK This bird 's-eye view reveals the many flexible areas that may be quickly assembled for every business need - work sess ion s, auditori um, din ing and enterta inment, conven tions. ELEV. SECTION "A" COLUMBUS AUGUSTA DECATUR STORAGE The Atlanta American has the perfect facility to handle from 5 to 600 people, efficiently and economically. 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I MEZZANINE CLASS ROOM BANQUEli INMAN .,o , ,0 GEORGIA Resort Atmosphere in the Center of Downtown Atlanta A colorful pool and sun-deck offer a private-club exclusiveness to your conventions and meetings at the MOTOR HOTEL Spring Street and Carnegi e Way AREA CODE 404 • PHONE 688-8600 ��ATLANTA, GEORGIA PHONE 522-4463 Faye Yarbrough c-2) s) ~ -!) _-;L FORM 25 - 13 ~ p~~ J~"' ~ �8:30 am Registration - Atlanta-American Motor Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 9:30 am Opening General Session: Grand Ballroom Presiding : David Sullivan, President Building Service Employees International Union AFL-CIO EXPANDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Atlanta-American Motor Hotel, Atl anta, Georgia Greetings: Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr. Mayor, City of Atlanta Eastern Regional Action Conference December 13, 1967 Remarks : William Flynn, Director STEP Program, National Association of Manufacturers Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick Executive Director Opportunities Industrialization Center Institute Augustus H. Sterne, President Chamber of Commerce Atlanta, Georgia 10:30 am Workshops: Expanding Private Employme nt Opportunities Five concurrent wo_rkshops will be held, all dealing with the same topics . Morning Session: Film - " Employment Programs, City of Atlanta" Organizing local employment campaigns Recruiting, training and placement of the hard-core unemployed Reassessing under-employment 12:15 pm Luncheon Session: Georgia Ballroom Presiding : John Wheeler, President Mechanics and Farmers Bank Durham, North Carolina President, Southern Regional Co uncil Address: 2:00 pm Gerald L. Phillippe, Chairman of the Board General Electric Company Concurrent Workshops Afternoon Session: Job development and upward mobility . Entrepreneurship-Promotion of economic growth in the ghetto . 3:30 pm Adjournment 1 �C ITY HALL November 30 , 19 6 7 ATLAl"TA . GA . 30303 Tel. 522 -4463 Ar ca Code t,04 !VAN ALLEN, JR., Mt.YOR R. EARL LANDER S, Admin istrative Assi st ant MRS. ANN M. MOSES , Ex ecutive Sec reta ry DAN E. SWEAT, JR. , Directo r of Governm ental Liaison MEMORANDUM T o : Members o f Urban Co a lit ion S teer in g C ommittee ~ '- r' l From : D an S we·at, "'-' ..../ . Enclos ed is a l ette r of inv itation and pro g r a 1n conc erning the D e cemb e r 13 m eetin g of the T ask Force on Private E mployment of the National Urban C oalition. I h op e th a t all of you c an make yo ur plans to attend this impo rt ant conference . W e might need to ask m mbers of the Steering C ommittee to a ctive l y participate i n the work sho ps as part of panel d i scussions . If this should be the cas e , I will notify you at the earliest possible moment . I am also attaching a le tter from Mr . M . C. G ettinger, Exe cuti ve Dir e ctor of the Atl anta J ewish Welfa r e Fede ration, Inc., which is a newly formed central agen cy involving the Atlanta J ewish C ommunity C ouncil , th e Jewish Welfare Fund and the Jewish S ocial S e rvice Federation. As Mr . Ge ttinger 1 s lett r states, the Federation represents virtually all the adult J ewish organizations in Atlanta and would b e the most appr o p riat e representative of all the J ewish organizations on the Urban Co alition Steering Committ e . Several organizations and many individua ls hav e called my attention to the fact that the J ewish corru.nunity is not rep:i;esented on the Steering Committee and I feel that th e Steering Committe e should give some thought to inviting Mr. Abe Golds tein , Pr esident of th Atlanta J ewis h Welfare Federation, Inc ., to serve as a member of the Steering Com1nittee. DS.;_y �ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1300 COMMERCE BUILDING / P . O . BO X 1 7 40 I A TLANTA, GEORGIA 303 0 1 November 28, 1967 Dear Mr. Employer: t=i The National Urban Coalition Task Force on Private Employment will hold a: Regional Planning Conference in Atlanta on Wednesday, December 13, to explore the possibilities of expanding employment opportunities for the hard-core unemployed. t=i The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the City of Atlanta are cooperating with the Urban Coalition in this effort. Atlanta's key business executives are being invited to participate because of the special significance of this conference for Atlanta business. ~ Mr. Gerald L. Phillippe, Chairman of the Board of General Electric Company and also Chairman of the Task Force, will keynote the conference. He will discuss programs instituted by private business to provide meaningful and productive jobs for the hard-core unemployed. t=i Another part of the program will be a slide presentation on Atlanta's unemployment problem and its relationship to private business. The presentation was prepared by several Atlanta organizations as a means of stimulating discussion of approaches to our dual problem of people who need jobs and unfilled jobs which need people. t=i The conference will be at the American Motor Hotel, 160 Spring Street, N. W. Regist r ation will begin at 8:30 a.m., "followed by a general session, workshops and a luncheon, with adjournment at 3:30 p.m. There is no registration fee; price of the luncheon is $4. 75 . per person. ~ P l eas e make your plans now to attend, and retur n the enclosed card to assure your reservat ion. Sincer ely, ~--r~~P r esident ~.~~ Mayor �8:30 am Registration - 9:30 am Opening General Session: Grand Ballroom Atlanta-American Motor Hotel Atlanta, Georgia Presiding: aavid Sullivan, President Building Service Employees International Union AFL-CIO EXPANDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Atl anta-American Motor Hotel , Atlanta, Georgia Greetings: Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr. Mayor, City of Atlanta Eastern Regional Action Conference December 13, 1967 Remarks: William Flynn, Director STEP Program, National Association of Manufacturers Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick Executive Director Opportunities Industrialization Center Institute Augustus H. Sterne, President Chamber of Commerce Atlanta, Georgia 10:30 am Workshops: Expanding Private Employment Opportunities Five concurrent wo_rkshops will be held, all dealing with the same topics. Morning Session: Film - " Employment Programs, City of Atlanta" Organizing local employment campaigns Recruiting, training and placement of the hard-core unemployed Reassessing under-employmen t 12:15 pm Luncheon Session: Georgia Ballroom Presiding: John Wheeler, President Mechanics and Farmers Bank Durham, North Carolina President, Southern Regional Council Address: 2:00 pm Gerald L. Phillippe, Chairman of the Board General Electric Company Concurrent Workshops Afternoon Session : Job development and upward mobility_ Entrepreneurship- Promotion of economic growth in the ghetto . 3:30 pm Adjournment �he urban C al ·on · .1. I Federal Bar Building Wes t j 1819 H Stree t, N. w. Washingio n. D. C. j 20006 · Steering Committe e Co-ch airmen: Andrew Heiskell / A. Philip Randolph Novembe r 24 , 1967 NATI ONAL COORDINATORS WEEK LY RE PORT LOCAL COAL ITIONS The third in a series o f regional co ference s t o assi st local communities in fo rming their ovm Urb an Co alit io ns will be hel d in San Fr a ncisco o n -o vember 30 i n the San Fran cisco Hilt oh. The prog r am format will be similar t o those used f or the previous two successful con ferences in Ch icago and Minneapolis, with emphasi s on "how- t o- d o - it " worksho ps. The three general s es sions will f e ature remark s by S an Fran c isco Mayor Shel l oy and Mayor-El e ct Alioto , The Most Reverend Joseph McGucken, Kenneth Wrigh t, Vice President and Chie f Econom ist o f t e Life Insu ran ce Ass o ci ation of America , Californi a State Assemb l yman John T. Kno x, Bishop Donald Harvey Tippett and Franc es Barnes, Vic e Pres ident of the Crown Zelle r bach Co rporati on an d Preside nt o f the Management Coun ci l for Bay Are a Empl o yment Oppo rtunity . A similar regional confe rence for eastern cities, orig inall y set f or December 11 in New York City , has been postponed because ·of scheduling problems to the second week of Jant,.ary . You will shortly be advised of the exact date . PUBLI C SERVICE EMPLOYMENT AND URBAN LEGISLATI ON More than 40 Washingt on represent atives of organizations which suppo rt the program o f the Urban Co alition attended a lun c heon meet i ng in the Statler Hilto n Hotel on November 20. Featured speaker Mayor John Lindsay of New York City stressed the necessity of a united legislative effort to move bills supported by the Coalition through Congress . Andrew Biemiller, Legislative Director of AFL-CIO, c ited a c ase history to illustrate the p osi tive value of business and labor representatives going together to c all on Congressmen. Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch of the Union of Ameri c an Hebrew Congregati ons described N ational Coordinators: John Feild / Ron M. Lin ton Telephone 293-1530 �I • 2 the growing awareness of chur ch groups of the need to be active iri public affairs. PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT On November 21 the Task Force on Private Empl oyment met i n Detroit with the Empl o yment a nd Education Comi-r1 i t t ee of the New Det roit Comm ittee. Th e meet ing was chair e d by William M. Day , president o f Michigan Bell Teleph o ne Company . In h is rema r ks to the group, Task Force-Co - Chairman Ger ~ ld Phillip pe , Ch a irm a n o f t he Bo a rd o f th e Ge nera l Ele c tric Company, s a id "As a r epres e nt a tive o f th e Ta sk Force on Pri v a te Emp loyment I have b een encouraging bus i nessmen to enter into a r egul a r program of exchanging ideas on this subje c t and pitching in on us eful programs to get at some of these urgent needs . All sectors o f the society need to help ea ch oth er and we nee d t o join t o gether in useful p rogr ams to cr eate new opportunitie s f or self- realization in our City slums." "In some cities it would sound st range, but there is a growi ng feeling among businessmen of my a c quaintan ce and amo ng some of our own Gener al El e ctric plant managers that a substantial me asure o f ou r busines s succ ess i n the future is g oi ng to depe nd o n our ability to help a good number o f these h ard -core u nempl o y ables become productive workers and citizens." HOUSI NG, RE CONSTRUCTION AND I NVESTMENT Th e Task Force met in New York o n No vember 21. Twelve additi onal memb ers have been recruited tq work with this group . A major working pape r is being developed to guide this Task Force in devel oping a long-r ange program. �Nov mber 30. 196 7 Mr . Je r ry Cauble Program Director .. Publicity N tional Associ tion of Manufacturers 1421 Peachtr e Str et, N. E . Suite 201 Atl n • Georgi 30309 D r Jerry: Thank you very much for sugge ting that Mr. William Flynn b included in the D c mber 13 Eastern Region 1 Action Conf rence of th National Urb n Coalition to be h ld at th Atl nt Americ n Motor Hotel on the subject ot. xpanding employment opportwtlti s . l p ss d your r comm.end tion to the Nation Urb n Coalition and th y re abl t.o ecure Mr. Flynn's p rticip tion in the Atl nta pro ram. He will b the fi:r t ape ki r during th o ning general 1eesio.n following M yor All n' gre ting . r eeived an lnvit tion to tbi I am. aur th t Fi nk h confer nc nd 1 hope that you ill b bl to come l o. The invitation nt out to Charnbel" of Conun re mailing li t which should includ th 1 rs _ mploy r memb rs of your organization in the Atlanta area. If you h ve any sugg etions of other people we should invite,, pl a e let m know. Sh1c :r ly your • Dan Sw

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t Mr. Frank t �The Urban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West / 1819 H Street, N. w. Wa shington, D. C. / 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: A ndrew Heiskell / A. Philip Randolph November 24, 1967 Mr. Dan Sweat Office of the Mayor City Hall Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Dear Dan, Enclosed a meeting is. We the printers by go aut sometime copy of the program of the Atlanta should have the printed copies from Monday and our second mailing should next week. I am also sending you a copy of the letter which was mailed out to 1200 business leaders from communities in the e astern part of the United States. ly yours, National Coordinators : John Feild/ Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 -1530 �> J / PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT EXPANSION COO-FERENCE Atlant a- American Motor Hotel Atlanta, Georgia December 13, 1967 .. 8:30 Registration - Atlanta-Ame r ican Motor Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia 9:30 Opening General Session: Gran d Ballroom Presiding: David Su llivan, Pre sident Building Se r v ice Empl oyee s Intern a t i o na l Unio n AF L-CIO Gr ee tings : Honorabl e Iv a n All en , Jr. Mayor, City o f Atlant a Remarks: Willi am Flynn, Dir ecto r Step Pr ogr a m, Na ti onal As sociation of Manufacture r s Dr. Lawrenc e D. Reddick, Exe cutive Di re ctor Oppor tun i ti es I n du s triali zation Center Institute Augu stus H. St ern e , President Chamber of Commer c e Atl a n ta , Ge o rgia

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Expanding Pr ivate Employment Oppo r t u nities Work shops Five concurrent workshops will be held , all dea l i ng with the same topics. Morning Session : Film: Employment Programs , City of Atlant Organizing local employment committees an d possible structures Recruiting , training and placement of hard-core unemployed 12:15 Luncheon Session: Presiding: Address: Georgia Ballroom John Wheeler, President Mechani cs and Farmers Bank Durham, North Carolina President, Southern Regional Council Gerald L. Phillippe, Chairman of the Board General Electric Company �PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT EXPANSION CONFERENCE 2:00 Page 2 Expanding Private Employment Opportunities Workshops Afternoon Session: Job Development and upward mobility Entrepreneurship - Promotion of economic growth in the ghetto, 3:30 Adjournment �r The Urban Coalition / Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randoiph November 15, 1967 Dear Friend: On August 24, 1967, 1,200 leaders of American life met in Washington at an Emergency Convocation called by The Urban Coalition. The Coalition, representing business and the professions, organized labor, religion, civil rights groups and local government, was established in response to the · urgent ne ed for action in behalf of the nation's citi es . The enclosed Statement of Principles, Goals, and Commitments adopted by The Urban Coalition identifies specific problem areas and appeals to both the public and pr ivate sector for action to meet these needs. The Coalition has cre a ted Task Forces--one o f which is th e Task Force on Private Employment-to focus on the individual probl em areas. Expanding employment opportunities for the hard-core unemployed has been given top priority by the Coalition. The Task Force on Private Employment is holding a series of Re gional Planning Confere nces to discuss this difficult a nd compl e x problem. The first conference is scheduled to be held at the AtlantaAmerican Motor Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia on December 13, 1967. Mayor Iva n Allen, Jr. and the Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta will be the hosts. We hope y ou r schedul e will permit you t o join u s in this most import ant proj e ct. Other conferen ces are planned for Pho e nix , Arizona on January 17, 1968 and Kansas City, Missouri on Janu ary 24, 1968. We are enclosing a list o f state s covere d b y e ach of the conf e re nce s. It would b e most helpful if you woul d supply us with th e name s a nd a dd res s es of appropri a t e a ffili a t e s in these s t a t es s o we ma y ext e nd an invit a tion to them. In the meantime, we hope y ou will communicate your interest and support o f this endeavor to these offici als. National Coordinators : John Feild/ Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 -1530 �November 15, 1967 Page Two We would appreciate your notifying this office no later than December 4, 1967 if you will be able to join us in Atlanta; also, if you desire accommodations for the evening of December 12, 1967. We expect to forward further details on the program in the near future. Cordially, o;2-~;11,,~ Ron M. Linton National Coordinator Enclosures

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John Feild National Coordinator �CI Y OF A.TLANTA CITY HALL November 20, 1967 ATLA1TA, GA. 30303 Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404 IVAN ALLEN, JR., MAYOR R. EARL LANDERS, Administrative Assistant MRS. ANN M. MOSES, Executive Secretary DAN E. SWEAT, JR., Director of Governmental Liaison MEMORANDUM To: Messrs. Cecil Alexander, Brad Currey, Jr., Curtis Driskell, James Furniss, Don Gareis, Collier Gladin, Richard Hicks, Boisfeuillet Jones, James Parham, and John Wilson From: Subject: Dan Sweat Urban Coalition Task Force on Private Employment meeting in Atlanta, December 13 The Task Force on Private Employment of the National Urban Coalition will hold a one-day seminar on problems of unemployment and expanding employment opportunities for low-income groups in the private sector at the American Motor H otel, December 13. Workshop sessions will be keyed to reaction on our Human Resources Development group slide presentation on employment and unemployment. The Mayor and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce are cooperating with the National Urban C o alition to produce this Atlanta meeting. We will need the help of all of the Human Resources Development group members, partic uii.anly in the narration of the film in workshop sessions and in the case of two or three people to act as workshop leaders. I hop e that you will all mark your calendars on this day from 9:00 a. m . until 3: 30 p. m. and hold it for participation in this meeting. Curtis Driske ll and I are as sis ting the National Urban Coalition and will be in touch with you very shortly as to specific participation we would like to get from particular individuals. DS :fy �TO: DAN FROM: M~ Attached is a brief summary of the major points that the Task Force hopes to accomplish at the meeting in Atlanta. I am also enclosing a few e x amples of the type of people that will be invited. others. Time did not permit me to send y ou Hopefully, this will serve to indicate that national leadership will be invited. MC/ jc Enclosur e �The format of the conference will be designed to encourage max imum discussion on how to e xpand employment opportunities for the hard-core unemploy ed . Representation from national business leadership will be attending. A general session with prominent speakers will be held and workshops on the subject will be formed. It is planned that three specific topics would be discussed: (1) Specific e x amples on how the private sector has participated in programs which e xpand employment opportunities for the hard-core unemploy ed on a local level. (2) Formation of local employment committees to perform specific tasks: a. Assess local employment problems and manpower programs. b. Develop programs that are specific and action oriented. c. Continue to evaluate the employment problems and programs, and issue recommendations to o v ercome local employment problems. (3) Th e r e lationship between local employme nt committees and the Task Force on Pri v ate Employment and how the Task Fo r ce can a ssist the local committees. �Atlanta Chamber of Commerc e P, O, BOX 1740 - ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30301 - PHONE !121°084!1 November 7, 1967 Mr. A. H. Sterne, Jr. Trust Company of Georgia P.O. Box 4418 Atlanta, Georgia 30302 Dear Mr. Sterne: Enclosed for your information is a copy of a memorandum to Opie L. Shelton, relative to last Friday' s meeting of the Human Resources Development Group. Mr. Shelton suggested a copy be forwarded to you. ~ This organization is made up of representatives of five agencies : Our Atlanta Chamber, the City of Atlanta, Economic Opportunity Atlanta, the Community Chest, and the Community Council of the Atlanta Area. John C. Wilson and I rep~esent the Chamber. The slide presentation referred to was developed over a period of time in which the Group has discussed in some detail ways of meeting the problems of unemployment and underemployment. We think the presentation could be useful in planning the program for the meeting of the Urban Coalition group here on December 13. Please let me know when I can be of help. Cordially, ~ Curtis H. Driskell Metropolitan Affairs Director CHD/rnb v ~l. -tH_;: Mr. Dan Sweat ~ F'Yl..:0 "'"-loi-:tt... 143.215.248.55 .Mi o~, J.:L-~~ ~ -~ ~?M. ~ . ) ~ J . ~ - # . t ~. ~ �. ' MEMORANDUM 'l I At a meeting of the Human Resources Development Group on Friday (Nov. 3), ideas were discussed and some decisions made as to how the group should proceed in development and use of the slide presentation dealing with unemployment and underemployment. These were the main points of agreement: 1. The presentation is being screened for Mayor Allen and a few others in a meeting at City Hall on Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 8) at 3 p. m. The presentation will be evaluated as to its usefulness for showing to the Urban Coalition meeting here on December 13. 2. Provided there is agreement, the presentation would be shown following lunch at the Coalition meeting, and it would be critiqued by the group afterwards. Ideas, conclusions and ways to improve and refine the presentation would be sought. )l I I I I

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~ 3. Meanwhile, as a member of the Group, I will see that ·the presentation is brought to other local groups and individuals, as indicated (advisory groups and committees of Economic Opportunity, etc.) and will seek the same thing: Ways of refining it and filling in some of the gaps. Dan Sweat and I will later bring recommendations back to the group, as to possible changes and/or expansion of the presentation itself, and as to its future use in our community. Members of the Human Resources Development Group recognize the presentation for what it is: A beginning effort in need of some answers and conclusions. It would be presented to the Coalition in that manner, in hopes of accomplishing two purposes: To serve as an illustration of one effort against this problem, as well as a laboratory exercise for the Coalition group; and to seek fresh insight and ideas from the critique. i Respectfully submitted, ·l J Curtis H. Driskell

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November 7, 1967 I!!· I:fil I �November 6, 1967 Mr. Mel Cotton The Urban C oalition 1819 H Street , N . W . Suite 220 Washington ,_ D . C . 20006 Dear Mel : I am submitting a few of my thoughts on what the Private Employment T sk Force meeting might look like in Atlanta on December 13 . I would hope that w would be able to complete worksbop sessions in the rning a.nd end in a general session with late lunch without reconv ning for workshop sessions in the aftel'tloon. With ev ry workshop conference I have attended-, including the recent Coalition me ting in Chicago, we have alw ys lost oux udience in the fternoon and I believe this would b the case in Atlanta wh re you re involving key bu inessmen. I would suggest st ;r,tin bout 9; 30 with gen r ae ion with welcome remni,ks by the M yor nd a keynote stage setting addr as by Phillippe, H nry F ord 011 someone ot thl order . Woi-kshop sessions would convene bout 10:30 or 11:00 nd run until 12: 30. These might be broken into two workshop periods for each rticipant. Luncheon would b gin bout 12:45 with the progr m to commence bout 1:30 or 1:45. l would Uk to see th Atlant colot slide pre ntation on rn power p:ro ,:am.s, pl'oblem • tc. pr ,sented by th key Chamb r of Com.me c official with m ybe time £or a few qu stlon or comments from th fiooi- £ollo lng this. Thi would t e about 45 minutes total. We might w nt to pass out sorn c::ritiqu he ts to b filled out and _tu1tned glvln a ch nee for expJ- • lons Ol' comment on the film pr s ntation. �Mr.· Cotton Page Two November· 6, 1967 The conference could close with a hard-hitting speech by Phillippe or Ford. Possibly the keynote speech in the morning should be designed to tell · bout some of the things that al"e happening in private industry in connection with Coalition efforts throughout the counh.·y. l would also like to see diocussion of the Step Pi-ogram of the National Assad tion of ManufactureJ:'e wo.rked into the pt'og:ram. This possibly could be done in the workshops . Ple se let us know what steps you want us to take next. Sincer ly yours, D n Sweat I'.6:fy �~ 7 . / .. ·_ r~ _!:-- __ . • __.J J ~-- November 6, 1967 • J. CITY HALL ATLANTA, GA. 30303 Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404 IVAN ALLEN, JR., MAYOR MEMORANDUM R. EARL LANDERS, Administrative Assistant MRS. ANN M. MOSES, Executive Secretary DAN E. SWEAT, JR., Director of Governmental Liaison To: Urban Coalition Steering Committe e From: Dan Sweat The Private Employment Task Force of the National Urban Coalition has scheduled a regional conference on expanding private employment in Atlanta on December 13. The conference will last for the better part of the day and will involve nationally known business officials and others who will discuss ways their companies have helped to reduce unemployment or provide additional job opportunities and advancement for the low-income people. As part of our local contribution to the program, it has been suggested that the slide program on employment developed by the Human Resources group be presented to the Coalition meeting. This Human Resources group is made up of representatives of the C ity of Atlanta, Community Council, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc. The slide program has been developed over the last eighteen months period and is designed to present to the private businessman of Atlanta the picture on unemployment and programs designed to combat the problem. A preview of the slide program has been scheduled for 3:00 p. m., Wednesday, November 8, in Committee Room 1 of City Hall. The Mayor and other members of the Local Coalition Steering Committee are being invi_ted to attend to critique the presentation along with Bob Wood of the Meri-t Employers Association and one or two other concerned individuals. I hope that your schedule will permit your attending this preview. should last about an hour. DS :fy It �CITY OF ATLANTA November 6, 1967 CITY HALL ATLANTA, GA. 30303 Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404 IVAN ALLEN, JR., MAYOR MEMORANDUM To: R, EARL LANDERS, Administrative Assistant MRS, ANN M, MOSES, Executive Secretary DAN E. SWEAT, JR,, Director of Governmental Liaison Urban Coalition Steering Committee From: Dan Sweat The Private Employment Task Force of the National Urban Coalition has scheduled a regional conference on expanding private employment in Atlanta on December 13. The conference will last for the better part of the day and will involve nationally known business officials and others who will discuss ways their companies have helped to reduce unemployment or provide additional job opportunities and advancement for the low-income people. As part of our local contribution to the program, it has be en suggested that the s lide program on employment developed by the Human R esources group b e pr esented to the Coalition meeting. This Human Resources group is made up of representatives of the City of Atlanta, Community Council, Atlanta Chamber of C omme rce, and Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc. The slide program has been developed over the last e ighteen months period and is de signed to pr esent to the private businessman of Atlanta the picture on unemployment and programs designed to combat the problem. A preview of the slide program has b een scheduled for 3:00 p. m., Wednesday, November 8, in Committee Room 1 of City Hall. The Mayor and othe r members of the Local Coalition Steering Committee ar e b eing invited to attend to critique the presentation along with B ob Wood of the Mer i-t Employe rs A s sociation and one or t wo other concerned individuals. I hope tha t your schedule will p ermit your attendin g this preview. s hould l as t a bout an hour . DS :fy It �M1· . Spal ding Page Two December 6 , 1967 situation in Atlanta. It addresses itself to the problem of people who need jobs and a l so to the employer ' s problem of jobs whi ch need people . Attached is a copy of the narrative script which accompanies the slides . I hope you will have time to review this narrative and find the opportunity to comment on next Wednesday ' s meeting before that time . Editorial support would seem j ustified in a meeting of this importance . I hope you can also attend the conference . Sincerely yours, Dan Sweat DStfy �I THE URB.7:\N COALITION EASTERN REGIONAL ACTION CONFERFJ\,JCE: EXPANDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES December 13, 1967 Atlanta, Georgia TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT Co-Chairme n Gerald L. Phillippe Chair~an of the Boa rd GeneLal Electric Company New York David Sullivan Preside nt Building Service Employees Internationa l Union AFL-CIO Washin g ton John Wheeler President Mechanics & Farmers Bank Durha m, North Ca rolin a WORKSHOP A (Augu s t a Room) Cha irman: John L. De nma n, Ma n a g e r, De pt. of Urban Aff a irs , F ~rd Mo t o r Co. Rs s 0 urc e Pers ons ; Willi a m Downs , Associa t e Se rvi ce s, Inc .; Da ytrm Ha rwick , Empl oyee a n d Commun i t y Re J.a tions , Ge n era l F:7 e ct r ic Co.; Dr. Lawrence D. Re ddick, Exec utive Director, Opportuniti e s Industriali za ti o n Ce nt 0 ~ In s titut e WORKS HO P B (Br un swi ck Room ) Chairman : Harold Shepard : W. E. Upj ohn In s t.i. t ute f or Employ:-,,,2i1:.:. Research Resourc e Persons: Pa ul R. Thoms on, Ma nage r, Em.[)loyee & Communit y Re lation s , General El ec tri c Co.; Sam u e l Danie ls, Associ a t e Director, Council fo r Eq u a l Bus i n ess Oppor tun i ty; Don Gar~ is, Vi c2 Pres id e n t , Se ars Ro e buck Fo un da tion WORKSHOP C (Columb u s Room) Chairman: Dr. He n ry Bre nne r, Pe r s onn e l Manag e r , Xerox Corpo rati o n Re s 0 u rce Pe r s ons : Cec il Al e xa nde r, F i nch , Al e xa nd e r , Bar n es , Roth s child & Pasch a l, Ar c h ite c t s ; Berk e l e y G. Bu rre ll, Presid e nt, Na t ion a l Bu sin e ss Le ag u e ; Ke n rrowa rd , I nd u s tri a l Re lations, Eastman Kodak Co . WORKSHOP D (S ec t i o n A Co n v e n tio n Hal l) Chairman: Rod n ey Au s ti n , Pe r s o n n e l Ma nager, Re y n olds Tobacco Co . Resourc e Person s : Dr . Loui s Ki s hk una s , Ass i sta nt Supe rinte n de n t , OVT Educa tio n , Pitt sburgh; Ado l ph Holme s, As s ista nt Di rector , -Economi c Deve lopme n t and Employmen t Na tional Urba n Leag u e , In c . ; J ame s J. Forth, Ma r.c.-i g e ~ Employee and Community Re lati o n s , Ge n e r a l El e c tri c Co. �\, " - 2 WORKSHOP E (Section B Conven tion Ha ll) Chairman: William Flynn, Director, STEP Progr?m Na tional Associatiort of Manufacturers Resource Persons: Earl Redwin e , Con s ult a nt, ES R; Richard Lyle, Assistant Director, Ur b a n Leag u e , So uth Reg ional Office; John Wilson, Pr es id e nt, Horne-Wil s on Co.; E. L. Klein, Mana s·~:r RCA I . �,[ , CITY OF .ATLANTA CITY HALL December 7, 1967 ATLANTA, GA. 30303 Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404 IVAN ALLEN, JR., MAYOR MEMORANDUM To: Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. From: R. EARL LANDERS, Administrative Assistant MRS. ANN M. MOSES, Executive Secretary DAN E. SWEAT, JR., Director of Governmental liaison Cecil Alexander Duane Beck Bradley Currey, Jr. Curtis Driskell James Furniss Don Gareis Collier Gladin Richard Hicks Boisfeuillet Jones T. M. (Jim) Parham John Wilson Dan Sweat Attached is a copy of the Workshop line -ups for the Eastern Regional Action C o nference of the Urban C o alition on Wednesday. Y o u will note that we have scheduled Don Gareis, Cecil Ale x ander and John Wilson to be local resource persons on the Workshop pane ls. We have also scheduled several members of our group to narrate the employment slide presentation. These are Clint Rodgers of EOA for Workshop A; Don Gareis - Workshop B; Duane Beck - Workshop C; Johnny R obinson of the Mayor's Office for Workshop D; and Curtis Driskell - Workshop E. Curtis Driskell has revised the narrative script along the lines we have discussed. A copy of the revised script is attached so that the narrators might review it over the weekend and before the me e ting . Copies of the �Page Two December 7, 1967 visual slide presentation will be available Friday and those who might want to obtain a copy of the presentation to run through can call Curtis at the Chamber office at 521-0845. Attached is another copy of the program so that you will know the time table. Slide projectors will be furnished by the Chamber, EOA, Don Gareis, the Community Council, and the City. The City has two so that we will have an extra one in case we have technical difficulty with one. We will be in touch with the people who have offered their projectors on Tuesday so that we might collect them and have them ready for Wednesday morning's meeting. If those persons furnishing projectors also have screens, it will be appreciated if we could borrow those at the same time. Pleas e call me or my secretary, Miss Faye Yarbrough, if any ques tions or problems arise. DS:fy �THE URBAN COALITION EASTERN REGIONAL ACTION CONFERENCE: EXPANDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES December 13 , 1967 Atlanta , Ge org i a TASK FORCE ON PR I VATE EMPLOYMENT Co - Cha irme n Gera ld L. Phillippe Chairman of the Boa rd General El e ctr i c Company New York David Su l liva n Presid e n t Building Se r vice Emp l oye e s I nt er n ati o na l Unio n AF L- CI O Washing ton John Whe e l e r Preside nt Me c h a nics & Farmers Ba nk Durha m, North Car o l ina WORKSHOP A (Augus t a Room) chairman: John L. De nma n, Manage r , De pt . of Urban Affai rs, Ford Motor Co . Resource Persons: Will iam Down s , Assoc i a t e Se r v i c e s, I n c.; Dayton Harwi ck , Emp l o yee a nd Community Re la tions , Ge n eral El e ctric Co.; Dr . Lawre nc e D. Re d d ick, Exe cutive Di re ctor, Opportuni t ies I nd u s t ria l i z ation Ce nt e r I n s titut e WORKSHOP B (Brun s wi c k Room) Cha irman : Harold Shepa r d : W. E . Upjohn In s t i tu t e for Employme nt Res earch Res o u rce Pe r s o ns : Paul R. Thomson , Manager , Employee & Community Re lations, Ge neral El ec t ric Co . ; Samuel Da ni e l s, As s ociate Directo r, Counc i l for Eq ua l Bus i ness Oppor tun i ty; Don Gar~is, Vi ce President , Sears Roe buck Foun d ation WORKSHOP C (Columbus Room) Chairman : Dr. He n ry Bre nne r, Personnel Manager , Xe r ox Corporation Resourc e Persons: Ce c i l Al exa nder , Finch , Al exande r, Bar n es , Roth s child & - Paschal , Ar c hitects ; Berkeley G. Burre l l , Pr eside nt, Na t iona l Bu s i ness League ; Ken Howa rd , I ndust rial Re lation s , Ea s tman Kodak Co . WORKS HOP D (Sect i on A Conve nti on Hall) Chai r man : Rodney Aus t in , Personnel Manager , Reynolds Tobacco Co . Re s our ce Persons : Dr . Louis Kishkunas , Assistant Superintendent, OVT Educa t ion , Pit tsburgh; Adolph Holmes, Assistant Director , Eco nomi c Development and Employment National Urban League , Inc . ; James J . Forth, Ma1~ge~ Employee and Commu n ity Relations, General Electric Co. �Mr . M oore Page Two Decembe r 6 ; 1967 situation in Atlanta . It addresses itself to the pr oble m of people who need jobs and also to the employer ' s prob lem of jobs which need pe ople . Attached is a copy of the narrative script which accompanies the slides . I hope you will have time to review this narrative and find the opportunity to comment on next Wednesd y ' s meeting before that time . Editorial support would seem justified iin a meeting of thi importance . 1 hope you can also attend the conference . Sincerely yours , Dan Swe at DS :fy �THE ATLANTA DAILY WORLD Friday, Decemb e r 15, 1967 . ;--r:; • I .._ ~- ~• • I,:_ ' ., . . . The Urbe.!! C~~ Et!cn h e1d B.!!. ~11 ln n c hc:.o n d.9..y· ::E~stern R egion~.! Action Con - key nate feren ce - ExpandL11g Employmen t. Opportc!nities·· at t.he Atlanta Americen _ rotor Hotel Wednesday, Dec: ! 3. The p!anning conference Jointly Bponsored by the Vrban Coalition·s T f.!.Sk · Force on · Private Employment, T h e At!ante1. Cham ber , of Commerce .and M,i'yor Allerr's Offic<c, ~.t, tracted more th3 n 275 lo-::;,,! s nrl riati,-,na.1 p;i.rt.ir ipa.rit.s. ~ hic:h he:~d th5 ?..nd Co!!:~1.1.~ity P..e!~t!c~ s, Gc~~dd!·ess by Gerald L. ~ra! El5:ctric So.; D!'. I:~wre!lce D:. S'S5S!C!! Phi!!ppe, oh air m9.n of the Board G-=1,eral Electric c on1p>?.!!Y. This is the third conferen ce a t tended by l\/T..r. Phil!iooe i n the oa.st two weeks '9.S the UrbE!n Coalition co!1tinues.t o fo cus attentiorr arr the ·natiorr's u_r1employment problems. He noted that the traditiorra.l attit ude of the business ,;,;or!d wit.h regard:; to job qualifications can no longer orevail if th .American Mayor I rnn Allen . ,Jr. greeted th e bu:;iness and indus try Ls to concielegat~s to Atlan ta. d ur ing t he ein ue to pr 0 sp<;r ?nd ,;xpanr!. opening gen eral ;;e·33ion !n the grand ba llroom . David Sulli,·an, He further sta ted tha t the Urpresident Building S0rvicc Em - ban Coalitiou h as scheduled other .ployee:c; , Interna.tiona l Union AFL·· r egiona l action pla nning conference CIO. presided over t,he opening; to take the m e:;s;i,ge direct to t he session which also h earer remar k.Ii business m en everywhere. Co-cha irman o[ the conference from, Aui; ustus H. Sterne. presi-· ·ctent Atlanta C.!1amber of Com- were Mr. PhiUippe, Mr. Sullivan merce, Dr. Law rence D . Redd ick and Mr. John Wheeler, presiden t : exP.cnti ve director; Opport11 nil;ies Mechanics and F'armers Bank, Dur[ndus trializ:i. tion Cen ter Instit11te ham , N. C. There were five work(Philacfelphia ), and William Flynn, shops. Wor kshop A. included: Director STEP Program of the Na tional Association of ManufacturChairman : John L. Denman. Manager, Dept. of Urban Affairs, ers. Vernon J ordon. project director Pnrd Co. Resource P ersons: Wilof. voter registra tion: southern Re- liam Downs, Associate Services, gioua! Council, presided ove!'. the Inc.; Dayton . Harwick, · ·Employee -,--- .. ' _,' R~dd!ck, E:::ecutive D!!'ector, Opportu!lities Industrialization Ccn- . t~! !r1stitute . . Work.shop B !..'lcluded: C hw irrn ~ n - fi',::arolri Sh c:.p -::1rrl • VI . E. Upjo!L'l I!lstitute for Emp!oymerrt Res each Resource Fersorrs: Pe.ul R. Tho!!lsoD. ::r-.1!ane.ger, Employee & Con1mu_11ity R ela tions. Gerrer>?._ 11 Ele{; tric Co.; GP~muel D~nleLs, _.\sso- cia te D!!'ector, Counc!! for Eaua.l Bt.LSi.nES3 Opportu..11iLy ; Don G a rr is, · Vice Fresident. S ears · Roebuck Foundation. Workshop C. included : Cha!rm:!.n : D r . Eeruy Brermer, Per3onnel Manager . Xerox Corpo~ation Resource Persons: Cecil Aiexander, Pinch, Alexand0;r, Barnes, Rothschild a n Pascha l, Archi- . tee ts: Berkeley G . Burrell. President. National Business League; 'Ken Howard, Industrial iRela tians, Eastman Kodak Co. Workshop D included: Chairman: Rodney t1Ustl.n, P erstmn el Manager, Reynolds Tobacco 1:;o. Resonrce . Persons : Dr. Louis K\&'1kunas. Assistant Superin.tender.t, I OVT Education. Pittsburgh : Adolph · HoLrnets. Assistant Director, Economic Development and Employment Nationa l Urban Le>?.gue.

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�1 December 111 1967 The Honorable Ivan All , Jr. Mayor of Atlanta City Hall tlanta., Georgia Dear Ivan, Thie ll collf: our cancell tion of the December 13, Hungry CD.ub progr to avoid conflicting th the Urban Coalition Conference ored by- Dan Swe ti · office on this data. To knOlfl dge, only time in the 22- year hi toey of the Hungry Club this ha been done. I have re. chedu:L d your Hungry Club appearan for January 24, 1968. You should know that tbi parti ular Hungry Club essio». will a part of our obsAT"'U·an,~A of tio W • oca �~ ,., . ---- -·---- - - ···· ------··· -- --------3 - '1.si11es§ to Sotve r ties~ 1·1s:, (~;, 200 11siness1111e11 Hea1~ k!.- ; 1 '· 0 ,, e By ALEX COFFIN More tha n 200 top businessmen . most of them from the Soulh casl, gath ered i11 Atl,mta \\'edr.esday and generally agreed that it's simply good business to expand job oppor unities and help soi·,e urban problems. . The rc·gional conference- busi·11 e:ss . rnU er th an "soci al wcJfore' ' or ienled- wns held at the American Motor Hotel by the Nation al lJrh:in Coali tion in coopc rali on with the At l anta C 1amb~r of Commerce and city government. A slide presentation, speeches a:-od vorks 10µ di scussion cen;('red on the words of the keynote speaker , Gerald L. Phil;ippr. cha irman of the board of General -E! ectric Co., who sa id: ' 'Wh :, t th i.s situation boi ls down to is that at a tim e when '.n :si ne~s sees a wide need for a

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urbnn labor market will provide us with less than ever in te1111s of quality and quantity." "The cities are going to be his principal market plac e, and, more importantly, the prime source of his labor supply." Rod ney Austin , personnel man;:iger for Reynolds 'l'ob acco Co., sa id. "'l'he point of the Urban Coalition is that you can ch ange thin gs." But, Austin, warned . business should "clea n up, el im ina te dtipl icat.ion, then fill lhe gaps." in the fielcl of employment. Austi n, who headed one of l~e works liop discussions. told of Winston-Salem , N.C. Mayor M. C. Benton's w:ging the bu siness -comm unity to be informed real istically concerned. commi tted ::i nd massive ly involved. Phi l! ippe said it this way : The Urban Coalition " is tryi;1g to see if it can generate more act ion at all levels of the business· community - some- thing tantamount to a national head of steam - to try and turn this ghetto situation around. "If we businessmen are not goi ng to take major role in tackli ng, and eventually solving, -the problems in our cities, then who will? The freq uently hea rd problem of gelling the jobs and t he people together got a full airi ng. Also, the problem of the underemployed. Phillippe said th at effective program must be geared lo the ghetto, even the neighborhood in the ghett.o. And, he said, re;il work opportunities mus.t be provided. "What we should offer is a ha nd-up, not a hand-out," he said. New hiring techniques and practices must be used-taking into consideration the prior experiences and present a t.Litudes of t.he urb an dweller of today, Phillippe said. Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, executive directo r of Opportunities Industria lization Center Institute in Philadelphia, sa id earlier in the day that employers must be concerned w it h .those unemployed who have given up looki ng, those who work full lime for part-time pay ·and those who work parttime but want to work full time. , Skills that are marketable · must be provided, Reddick said. In some cases, James J. Forti1 of General Electric, said, 1 fL11ns can lessen skill requirements bec ause of recent technological advances. "Also, the Some 2.50 business leaders are Gerald L. Phillippe, chairman skill of the worker can be inexpected at a regional National of the board of General E lectric creased," he added. Urban Coalition job conference Co., at the luncheon. The morning workshops feaon various ph asos nt the Americ::,n Motor Hotel of Workshops lurcr! a fil m prepared by I.he Atemployment opportunity will lanta Chamber of Commerce, Wednesday. be held at morning and afterAtlnnta city government, the The major address will be by noon sessions. Community Council of the Atlanta Area and Economic Opportunity Allanta. The film poi nted lo the paradox of the existence here of "jobs needing p e op I e" and "people needing jobs." . And while while-collar jobs will increase greatly in the years to come, the ·great in- ' crease in the central city popula tion will be among lhe unqualified. "Unemployment can s top growth in its tr a c ks" and 1 "strengthen the market by de- I creasing the tax drain" were · other poi nts made by th e film. ! Severa l expressed concern that not enoug h businessmen involved th emse lves in the operation of the schools-who supply the "most important raw material. accord ing to Eugene Rowen, adm ini strative director of Pla ns for Progress. "They (businessmen) r emain aloof and allow what they wouldn't from other suppliers." Association of JVfanufacturers, r "Alte_nding conferences is not William Flynn, director of t.he warned those in attendance a substitute fo r action followmg STEP program of the Natioilal earlier in the day: . · the conference." Urban Tall{s to ra v ( 1 .- · 25 r/ , / -- / ·/ The National Urban Coalition was formed last fa ll to serve as a sl1pcr lobby fot w·1, a11 tire:.is and to inform 1.hc pub! ic ;ihou,1 w·ban problems. Mayor Ivan Allen fo rmed a local coalition a few weeks ago. I I �December 6 , 1967 Af{y / Mr . L ~ Green WAll Television 1611 West Peachtree Street; N . E. Atlanta , Georgia 30309 Dea,_. Luke : Next Wednesday , Decembe r 13, the National Urban Coalition will sponsor an Eastern Regional Action C onference of great importance to Atlanta. This conference will d al w ith Expanding Employment Opportunities in private industry for unemployed and underemployed individuals. The Atlanta Chambel' o! C ommerce and Mayor Allen are cooper ting with the Task F o rce on Private Employment of the Urban Coalition in this confeJ;"ence. T op business executives from throughout the Ea t 't'n U. S . will p rticipate . S ome of the firms who will take pat't in the workshop discu sions are RCA , Ea tman Kodak , IL J. Reynolds ,, G. E . , and F o rd. There a,r others, along with the National A s sociation of M nu.£ cturers, Urb n L gue and local buein s x cutiv s n d employment p ople . Of k y importance t o the Atl nt people will b the 11 p remi r 11 of U de film present tion rec ntly d veloped on Atlant . 1s mployment plct,ure. This £Um wn pi-oduced by th , City of Atl nta, the Ch mbei of Comm ree, EOA. the Community C ouncil nd C ommunity Chest with fina.nd 1 support of th S ears-R oebuck Found ation. A coupl · of te t .-uns on sev :ral bu in s n.d gov rnment lead re h s pioov n th&t the film produc s re 1 nitty gritty" discus ion of the employm nt �MEMORANDUM To: Members, Human Resources Development Group From: Curtis H. Driskell Subject: Revisions and editing of employment slide narrative As an aid in your comparison of the revised script with the old, the following notes and comments make reference to most of the suggested revisions, with the exception of of some of very minor nature. No attempt has been made to not e every instance of judicious "tightening" or of simple rearrangement of script matter. REFERENCES Page 4 - New thought is injected, acknowledging existence of Merit Employers Association and its purposes. Page 5 - New thought: cooperative effort, exemplified by Employer Workshop on Manpower Resources . _ - Reasonable conclusion is drawn (2nd graf) that "it is apparent ••• something is being done .•. 11 P age 6 - New phraseology (5th graf) : "This may s eem a par adox . • " but it isn't new or peculiar to Atlanta. P age 7 - Reasonable conclusion (3rd graf) that it's "elementar y" em ployment can have a bad effect. - Questions t o ask our s elves (3r d and 4th grafs) are posed in different fashion , but questions are the same. Page 8 - Expansion of a thought : "In shor t , what about tomorrow? " Page 9 - Reasonable conclusion (2nd graf): 11 • • • we cannot afford t o minimize it (unemployment)." Extension of that conclusion t o relate t o an objective of the script: One reason we can't minimize it is because we know there are others : not '·. being counted. �Memorandum Page 2 - Entire 2nd graf has been rewritten as statement, instead of asking three times "what are the causes?" Eliminated from earlier script: "All right. Let's take a look at some of the causes." (The facts which followed that statement were not actually causes. For instance: Population has grown, more people live in cities, easier to get along without a job in rural environment. ) Page 10 - Rephrased reference to causes (2nd graf), with reasonable conclusion that "some of them stem, in part, from the very affluence we have described." Page 12 - Inserted accurate figures on job projections. (Script originally had "corporate city" employment confused with "central business district. ") Page 14 - Tightened drastically suggestion to see what they imply. 11 II put some of the facts together and Page 15 - Rephrasing to get to the point: "Who are the people involved? Page 17 - Reversed order of two case histories. (Woman is more typical, based on facts and conclusions of our narrative, and should come first.) Also tightened descriptions of these two people. Page 18 - Rewrote the relationship of their situations to future prospects. (In the script, they aren't actually unemployed.) Injected reasonable conclusion: that their prospects are poor for getting greatly improved jobs. - Related available jobs more closely to case histories: " ... not the sort of job to be filled by fifth-grade drop-out or untrained domestic." Page 20 - Reasonable conclusion (2nd graf): relating on-the-job training opportunity to "need for workers" and "employer's willingness to help meet the problem." Further reasonable conclusion: that without such efforts, "the gap would be widening even faster." - Tightened considerably introduction of job barriers. Page 22 - Extension of conclusion: "These requirements are realistic standards ••• not arbitrary barriers ... " - Reasonable conclusion: Use of new phrases amounts to "tangible evidence" that employers are removing arbitrary barriers. �Memorandum Page 3 Page 23 - Extension of earlier reasonable conclusion: "you can see that progress is being made .•• 11 Page 24 - Extension of conclusions and broadening of the premise that there is some hope (1st and 2nd grafs): Gains not spectacular ..• can't promise solutions just around corner •.• but it's credit to businessmen... evidence that job is at least begun .•. only through ·business leadership can we find solutions. ;· Page 25 - Additional characteristic of narrative: about our alternatives. 11 December 7, ·1967 < 11 • • • We have tried to be realistic �ANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1300 COMMERCE BUILDING / P.O. BOX 1 740 I ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30 301 MEMORANDUM To: Cecil Alexander Duane Beck Brad Curry, Jr. James Furniss Don Gareis Collier Gladin Richard Hicks Boisfeuillet Jones James Parham Dan Sweat John C. Wilson At the most recent meeting of the Human Resources Development Group , Dan Sweat and I were charged with the responsibility of taking our 11 employment 11 slide presentation in tow, seeking the best possible use of it in weeks to come , and coordinating details of using the presentation in the Regional Action Conference on Expanding Employment Opportunities, scheduled here December 13. Each of you has been kept informed of developments on the conference, thanks to communications from Dan. You are aware that several , if not all , of us will be taking roles of narrators and moderators during workshop sessions of the conference. As we agreed, this opportunity should serve a dual purpose : to provide a meaningful program for the conference , and to allow us additional critique of our product and ideas for its future use. This communication deals mainly with another implied r esponsibility which we accepted with the others : That of getting the production physically ready for use in the workshops. By this time , you probably have received from Dan a letter and a copy of the script, as revised. Considerable thought and effort have gone into the r evision, and I hope the end result justifies t he means. However , I would not pre sume to railroad anything through, without first submitting it to the Group . The revisions, for the most part, are of the tightening kind : "Judicious editing," as I prefer to call it. Narrative time is shorter by some three to five minutes , even though several pertinent new thoughts have been added . Several new slides have been added to reduce prolonged exposure of some original slides . Some inaccuracies (which we had recognized) and at least one erroneous implication (which we hadn't previously spotted) have been corrected or rephrased. �Memorandum Page 2 No wanton liberties have been taken with the basic document, but I urge every member of the Group to review the changes. For your convenience in such a review , I am enclosing a summary of the significant points of departure from the original script, with a reason or explanation in support of each change of more than very minor nature. This may be much ado about nothing. I personally believe you will approve of th~ final result. But I earnestly request that you call me at your earliest convenience to discuss any point on which there remains a shred of doubt or a particle of disagreement. Respectfully submitted , Curtis H. Driskell Metropolitan Affairs Director CHD/rnb December 7, 1967 �ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1300 COMMERCE BUILDING / P . O. BO X 174 0 / ATL AN TA.GEORGIA 303 01 November 28, 1967 Dear Mr. Employer: The National Urban Coalition Task Force on Private-Employment will hold a: · Regional Planning Conference in Atlanta on Wednesday, December 13, to explore the possibilities of expanding employment opportunities for the hard-core unemployed. ~ ~ The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the City of Atlanta are cooperating with the Urban Coalition: in this effort. Atlanta's key business executives are being invited to participate because of the special significance of this conference for Atlanta business. ~ Mr. Gerald L. Phillippe, Chairman of the Board of General Electric Company and also Chairman of the Task Force, will keynote the conference. He will discuss programs instituted by private business to provide meaningful and productive jobs for the hard-core unemployed. ~ Another part of the program will be a slide presentation on Atlanta's unemployment problem and its relationship to private business. The presentation was prepared by several Atlanta organizations as a means of stimulating discussion of approaches to our dual problem of people who need jobs and unfilled jobs which need people. ~ The conference will be at the American Motor Hotel, 160 Spring street, N. W. Registration will begin at 8:30 a. m., "followed by a general session, workshops and a luncheon, with adjournment at 3:30 p.m. There is no registration fee; price of the luncheon is $4. 75 . per person. ~ Please make your plans now to attend, and retur n the enclosed card to assure your reservation. Sincerely, ~--143.215.248.55President ~.~~- Mayor �---. .--. . ... - - -·-----·· .. ... ~ . ·, ~ '\ . . . ,I, . ,. , ,' : _: , .... . , ,1, ....

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cl__¾k-1;7I M. C. Gettinger Exec utive Director MCG:rg£ �NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEl'I ATLANTA SECTION December 8, 1967 . Mr. Dan E. Sweat Jr., Director of Government Liaison, City Hall, Atlanta, Ga. 30303. Dear Mr. Sweat, Thank you for your memorandum of November 30, regarding the mee ting on December 13, of the Task Force on Private Employment of the National Urban Coalition, to be held at the American Motor Hotel . Mrs . Harold Abrams and Mrs . Siegfried Guthman would like t o attend, and we would appreciate it if you would kindly make the necessary arrangements, since we did not rece ive a reservation card . Sincerely yours, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN. -rn ~ -~ ~ Y V (Mrs. )- Joshu! D. Shu~ in, President, Atlanta Section. JDS/IB/bj P. S. I regret very much that I cannot attend, but Mrs. Abrams and Mrs. Guthman will attend as representatives of the National Council of Jewish Women. Pl ease make their reservation for luncheon as well as for the conference . It is possible we will have several other representatives during part of the day. �SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 51 IVY STREET, N. E. ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303 J. B . DAVIS , JR. DIVISION COMMERCIAL MANAGER AREA CODE 404 529•8014 December 6, 1967 Mr. Dan E. Sweat, Jr. Director of Governmental Liaison City of Atlanta City Hall Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Dear Mr. Sweat: I regret that a prior commitment wil l make it impossible for me to attend the Eastern Regional Conference of the National Urban Coalition on December 13. Due to the importance of the matters to be discussed at this meeting, Mr. L. R. Nicholas, General Personnel Manager for Georgia, and Mr. J. G. Johnston, Atlanta Division Personnel Manager, will attend this meeting. I appreciate your invitation to attend and again express my regret in not being able to do so. JBD:aq �U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF INFORMATION, PUBLICATIONS, AND REPORTS 311 - 1371 PEACHTREE STREET , N. E. ATLANTA , GEORGIA 30309 TELEPHONE: OFFICE OF REGIONAL DIRECTOR 404- 526-5495 December 4, 1967 Mr. Dan Sweat, Jr. Director of Governmental Liaison City of Atlanta City Hall Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Dear Dan: Thank you for your memorandum of December 1 relative to the December 13 meeting. I plan to attend and assume that I can pay for at the meeting. my William I. Allgood luncheon �De c ember 5 , 1967 Mr . Eugene Patterson, Editor The Atl anta C onst itution 10 F -orsyth Street, N . W . Atlanta, Georgia Dear Gene : Next Wednesday, December 13, the National Urban C oalition will sponsor an Eastern Regional Action Conference of great importance to Atlanta. This conference will deal with Expanding Employment Opportunities in private industry for unemployed and underemployed individuals. The Atlanta Chambei- of C ommerce and Mayor Allen are cooperating with the Task Force on Private Employment of the Urban Coalition in this conference . T op business executives from throughout the Eastern U. S . will p ~ rticipate . Some of the firms who will take part in the workshop discussion are RCA, Ea tma.n Ko dak,. R. J. Reynolds, G.E., and F o rd. There are others , long with the National A s soci tion of Manufaetur rs, Ul'han League and local business executives a.nd employment people. Of key impottance to the Atlanta people will be the " p remi r 11 of slide film present don r c:ently developed on Atl nta I s employment pictur . This film was produced by the City of Atlant ,, the Ch mber 0£ C o mmerce . EOA, the Community Council and Community Che t with financial support of the Se r -R oebuck Found tion. A coupl of test run on s vetal bu in s · nd government leaders hav prov n that the £Um produces 1' - 1 11 nitty gritty" dis cqseion of the employment �Mr . Patterson Page Two December 5, 1967 situation in Atlanta. It addresses itself to the problem of people who need jobs and also to the employer ' s problem of jobs which need people . Attached is a copy of the narrative script which accompanies the .slides. l hope you will have time to review this narrative and find the opportunity to comment on next Wednesday's meeting before that time . Editorial support would seem justified in a meeting of this import nee . I hope you can also attend the conference. Sincerely yours ., Dan Sweat DS:fy �Mr . Green Page Two December 6, 1967 situation in Atlanta. It add resses itself to the p roblem of people who need jobs and also to the employer ' s problem of jobs which need people . A ttached is a copy of the nal'l'ative script which accompanies the slide s . 1 hope you will have time to review this narrative and find the opportunity to comment on next Wedn ad _y ' s meeting before that time . E d itorial support would seem jus tUied in a meeting of this i.mportanc . l h ope y o u can also a ttend the conference . S incerely yours , Dan Sweat DS :fy �December 6-, 1967 Mr . J a ck Spalding , E ditor The A tlanta Journal 10 Fo:rsyth Street. N . W , Atlant a , Georgia Dea r Ja ck : Next Wednesday, De ce mber 13. the National Urban Coalition will sponsor an Eastern Regional Action Co.rf<f rence of great i mportance to Atlanta . This conference will deal with Expanding Employment Opportunities in private industry for unemployed and underemployed indivi duals . The Atlant Chamber of Commerce and Mayor Allen are cooper ting with th T sk Force on Private Employment of the Urban Coalltion in this confere:nc . Top business executlv s from throughout the Eastern U . 8 . will p rticipate . Som of th firms who will t ke p rt ill the workshop dis cu slons ar RCA, Ea tman Kodak , R. J . Reynolds , G . E ., nd Ford . Th re r oth rs , along with th N tion 1 Association of Manufactur r • Urban Leagu and local busine xecutlves and employment p opl Of k y importance to the Atl nta pi)lple will b the "premier " of sUd · film pr ent tion rec ntly developed on Atl nt 's employm nt pictur ; Thi film w s produc d by the City of Atl nt , the Chamb r of Commerc · , EOA. the Community Council nd C ommunity Ch st with financial support 0£ the Se rs.R oebuck F o und tion. A couple oft t run on s ver 1 busin and government le d rs h s proven th t th lllm produc e re 11 nitty gritty" discu ton of the employm nt �- - -- -- - - - -~~- December 6 , 1967 Mr . Dale Clark W AGA Televi sion 1551 Briarcliff Road , N . E . Atlanta, Georgia Dear Dale : Ne,ct Wednesday , Dec mber 13, the National Urban C o alition will sponsor an Eastern Regional Action Conference of great importance to Atlanta. This conference will de l with Expanding Employment Opportunities in private industry for un mployed and underemployed individu 1 . The Atlanta Chamber of C o mmerce and Mayor All n · re cooperating with the Task Force on Private Employment of the Urb n Co lition in this confe renc . Top business x cutlv s born throughout th E stern U. S . will participate . Some of the firms who will take part in the workshop di cu sions are RCA, Eastman Kod k , R . J. Reynolds , G. E ., and Ford. Th re ar oth r • long with the Nation 1 As soci tion o! Manufacture re, Urb · n Le gue and local bus in st. ex cutive and employment p opl . Of key import nc to the Atl nt people will b the "pr mi r' ot a Ude film presentation r c ntly dev loped on Atl ta'e mploym nt pictur . This fllm w e produ.c d by the City of Atlanta, the Chamber of C ommerce. EOA, th Community Council and Community Ch st with financl 1 upport of the S rs .. R buck Found tion. A co1.1pl of test runs on aevet' l buaine nd government le ders has proven that the film. produces real "nitty gritty" di cu don of the employment �De cember 6, 1967 Mr . Ray Moore WSB -TV 1601 Wes t Pea chtree Street, N. E . Atlanta, Georgia 30309 Dear Ray i Next W ednesday, December 13 , the National Urban C o alition w ill sponsor an Eastern Reg ional A ction C onference of great importance to Atlanta . This conference w ill d e al w ith Expanding Employm.e nt Opportunitie s in p riv te industry for unemployed and unde remployed individuals . The Atlanta Chamber of C vmmerce and Mayor Allen a re cooperating with the Task Fo rce on Private Employment of the Urban Coalition in this conference, T op busin as executives from throughout the Eastern U. S . Will participat . Some of the firms who w ill take part in th workshop discussions are .RCA, Eastman Kodak , R. J, Reynold , G . E ., and Fo r d . There ar · oth rs, along with the National Association of M a nui cturer s, Urban League and local business xecutives and employment p ople . 0£ key import ance to th Atlanta peopl will be the " pr mi i' " of a slide film pr s nt tion r c ntly d veloped on Atlanta ' s mploym nt picture. This film was produced by the City of Atlant , th Chamb r of C ommerce , EOAt the C ommunity C ouncil and C ommunity Chest with fin nci l support of th S ears-R o buck F oundation. A couple ·o ft 8t runs on v r l bu in ss and governm nt l d rs h s pl'oven that the film prod uces r l " nitty gritty" discussion of the mployment �C TYO .ATLANTA CITY HALL December 1, 1967 ATLANTA, GA. 30303 Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404 IVAN ALLEN, JR., MAYOR R. EARL LANDERS, Administrative Assistant MRS. ANN M. MOSES, Executive Secretary DAN E. SWEAT, JR., Director of Governmental Liaison MEMORANDUM To: 1'\: , . ' - I \. From: D9-p _Swe at Attached is a copy of a letter sent out by Mayor Allen and Billy Sterne inviting top executives of the major employers in the Atlanta area to the Decemb e r 13 Eastern Re gional Confer ence of the National Urban Coalition. The conference will deal with expanding employment opportunities and will feature several nationally known executives who are assisting the efforts of the National Coalition in e xpanding opportunities for employment of the unemployed and under employed in private enterprise. I think this program will be of significant interest to you and I hope that you will be able to attend and participate. DS:fy �ITY OF A.TLANT.A CITY HALL December 1, 1967 ATLANTA, GA. 30303 Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404 IVAN ALLEN, JR., MAYOR R. EARL LANDERS, Administrative Assistant MRS. ANN M. MOSES, Executive Secretary DAN E. SWEAT, JR., Director of Governmental Liaison MEMORANDUM To: From: Attached is a copy of a letter sent out by Mayor Allen and Billy Sterne inviting top executives of the major employers in the Atlanta area to the Decen1ber 13 Eastern Regional Conference of the National Urban Coalition. The conference will deal with expanding employment opportunities and will feature several nationally known executives who are assisting the efforts of the National Coalition in expanding opportunities for employment of the unemployed and underemployed in private enterprise. I think this program will be of significant interest to you and I hope that you will be able to attend and participate. DS:fy �CITY HALL November 30, 1967 ATLANTA, GA. 30303 Tel. 522-4463 Area Cod e 404 IVAN ALLEN, JR., MAYOR R. EARL LANDERS, Administrative Assistant MRS. ANN M. MOSES , Executive Secretary DAN E. SWEAT, JR., Director of Governmental Liai son MEMORANDUM To: Members of Atlanta L ocal Urban Coalition From: Enclosed is a letter of invitation and program concerning the D ecember 13 meeting of the Task Force on Private Employment of the National Urban Coalition . I hope that all of you can make your plans to attend this important conference. DS: fy Enclosures (2) �ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1 300 COMMERCE BU I LDING I P. 0. BOX 1740 I ATLANTA, GEORGI A 30301 November 28, 1967 Dear Mr. Employer: The National Urban Coalition Task Force on Private Employment will hold a: Regional Planning Conference in Atlanta on Wednesday, December 13, to explore the possibilities of expa.nding employment opportunities for the hard-core unemployed. ~ ~ The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the City of Atlanta are cooperating with the Urban Coalition: in this effort. Atlanta's key business executives are being invited to participate because of the special significance of this conference for Atlanta business. ~ Mr. Gerald L. Phillippe, Chairman of the Board of General Electric Company and also Chairman of the Task Force, will keynote the conference. He will discuss programs instituted by private business to provide meaningful and productive jobs for the hard-core unemployed. ~ Another part of the program will be a slide presentation on Atlanta's unemployment problem and its relationship to private business. The presentation was prepared by several Atlanta organizations as a means of stimulating discussion of approaches to our dual problem of people who need jobs and unfilled jobs which need people. ~ The conference will be at the American Motor Hotel, 160 Spring street, N. W. Registration will begin at 8:30 a. m., ·followed by a general session, workshops and a luncheon, with adjournment at 3:30 p. m. There is no registration fee; price of the luncheon is $4. 75 . per person. ~ Please make your plans now to attend, and return the enclosed card to assure your reservation. Sincerely, ~.-t;~· ~.~~President Mayor �The newly fo rmed centra l agen cy merging the Atlonfa Jewish Community Council, Jewis h Welfa re Fu nd a nd the Jewish So cial Service Federa tion 41 Exchange Pl ace, S. E. 0 A lanta, Ge o ig ia 3030 3 0 Ph one 525-48 25 ABE GO L DSTE IN PRESIDEN f M . C. Nov emb er 29 , 1967 GS TT IN G ER EXE CUTI V C: D IR E CTO R Mr . Dan Sweat City Ha ll 68 Mi t c h e l l S t . , S . W. At l anta, Ga . 30303 Dear Mr . Swe at : In a cco rdan c e wi th o u r telephone c onve rs at io n of last Friday I wi sh t o advise you that the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation is interested in parti c ipating in the wor k o f the At l anta Urban Coalit i on . The Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation represen t s virtually al l the adult Jewish organizations in greater Atlanta . As the letterhead indicates this c entral Jewish communal agency is the resu l t of the re c ent merger of the Atlanta Jewish Community Counc il, t h e Welfare Fund and the S ocial Servi c e Federati o n . I am enc los i ng a c hart de sc r i b i ng the s t ruc t u r e and program of the Federat i on . Please do not hesitate t o c all upon us i f we c an be of any a s sistanc e to the wo rk of the Ci ty o f Atlanta. Sincerely yours, (. _,, . . , . M. C. Getting er Executive Director Enclosure MCG:rgf �STl~UCTURE 017 ATLANTA JEWISH WELf.f\RE f.EDERI\TION, TNC . , MEM BE PS!-IIP I ND IVIDUA L MEM BERS OPGANIZATION l.\1EMBE RS CONSTITUEI .T MF:-'JF~ERS All adult contributors to Annual Campaign. Jewish organizctions with minimum membership of SO. Composed of local beneficiary agencies • ._______.__________-----1,------------------DELEGATE ASSEMBLY Composed of representatives of affiliated organizations and representat ives-at-large; acts la g ely as a forum body. BOARD OF DIRECTORS - 48 MEMBERS Administers and conduc t s t he affairs of t h e Central Communal Agency . OFFICERS j- I EXECUTIVE DIREC OR EXECU I VE CO.VMITTEE i--STANDING CCf>iMITTEES \- - I DEPARTMENTS A Vice-President and a Vice-Chairman respo ns · ble 1\ for each Department. CAMPAIGNING AND ALLOCATI ONS Plans and conducts Annual Campaign ; col e cts and disburses funds; clearing house for fund-raising efforts direc ted at Jewish commun it ~ IIo CatiMUNITY REL~TIONS AND INTERNAL J EWISH AFFAIRS Combats discrimination and promotes ideals of democracy; promotes / general welfare o f the Jewish Community; c onducts Commun ity Calenda~ III. SOCIAL SERVICE Conducts Jewish Famil y and Children s Bu_ eau a genc y, Ben Mas s ell Dental Cli ni c and any social welfare programs assigned to it. IV. COMMUNITY SERVICES AND PLANNI1 G Coordinates and promotes i:..i ter-agenc y cooperation; responsible for community-wide planning, fact - finding and social research in following areas: I GROUP S ERV I CES] AGED CARE7 ! (Jewish Commun ity Center (Youth Serving Or g s.) (Synag o gu e Youth Group s Insti tuti onal Care ( Jewish Home Servi~cs in Commu ity (J • • & C. B .) (J.C.Center ) (Haus ing and other services·) JE\,rSH ED. CAT r c ;\ I I I I Bur. of I 1 ( Cor.1m-i J ,Ed.) unity! I S c . oo l s d y Gr oups l(Sof-t~ 0.dlS.} 7/27/67- �he Ur an Coa/i ion 1 I Federal Bar Building West/ 1819 H Street, N. Ill. Washington, D. C. j 20006 · Steering Committee Co-chairmen : Andrew fie iskell / A. Philip Randolph November 24 , 1967 NATIONAL COORDINATORS WEEKLY REPORT LOCAL COALITIONS The third in a series o f regional conferen ces to assist l oca l communities in f o rming the ir own Urban Coalitions will be hel d in San Franc i s co on November 30 in the San Francisco Hilton . The program format will be simila~ to those used for t he previous two successful c onferenc es i n Ch icago and Minneapolis, with emphasis on "h ow-to- cc-~ t " work s h ops. The ·· hree general sess ions will feature remark s by S an Francisco Mayor Shell~y and May o r - Elect Al i oto, The Mo st Reverend J oseph Mc Guck e n, Kenneth Wright, Vic e Pre sident ad Ch ief Economist of t he Life Insurance Assoc iation of America, Cali fornia State Assemblyman John T . Kno x, Bishop Donald Harvey Tippett and Frances Barnes, Vice President of the Cr own Zellerbac h Corp oration and President oyment Opportunity . o f the Management Council f or Bay Area A similar regional confer'"... ,c for eastern cities, originally set for December 11 in New York City, has been p ostp o ned because o f s chedul ing problems to the second week of J anuary . You will shortly be advised of the exact d ate . PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT AND URBAN LEGISLATION More than 40 Wash ington representat ives of organ izations which support the program of the Urban Coalition attended a luncheon meeting in the Statler Hilton Hotel on Novembe r 20. Featured speaker Mayor John Lindsay of New Yo rk City stressed the necessity of a united legislativ e effort to mov e bills suppo rted by the Coalition through Congress. Andrew Biemi ller , Legislative Dire c tor o f AFL-C I O, cited a c ase history to illustrate the posit ive v alue of business a nd labor representatives going together to call on Congressmen. Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch of the Union o f Ameri c an Hebrew Congregations described National Coordinators : John Feild / Ron M. Linton Telephone 293-1530 �2 the growing awarene ss o f ch u r ch gro up s o f the need to be active i n publi c affa i rs . PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT On November 21 the Task Fo r c e on Pr i vate Empl oyment met in Detroit with the Emp loyment and Edu c at io n Comm i ttee of the ew Detroit Committee . The meeting was c ha i red by Wi lliam M. Day, president o f Mich i gan Bel l Telepho ne Company . In his remarks to the group, Task Fo r c e - Co-Chai r man Ger~ l d Phillippe , Cha irm an o f the Board o f the Gener a l El e ctric Company , said " As a repres en tative of the Task Force on Pri vate Emp loyment I have been en cou raging bus i nessmen t o ente r i nt o a regular program o f exchanging ideas o n this sub j e c t and pitch i ng in o n useful pro gram s to get at s ome of these u rgent needs . All s e c t o rs o f the s oc iet y need t o help ea ch o ther and we need t o jo in t ogether i n usefu l programs t o c reate new opp o rtunities fo r se l f -re a l i zati o n i n o ur City s l um s." "I n s ome ci ties it wo uld sound strange , but there is a g rowing feeling among b u sinessmen of my acquaintance and among so e of our own General Electri c plant managers that a s ubstan tial measure of our business success in the futu r e is going to depend on our ability to help a good number of these hard -cor e un emp loy ables be c ome pr o du c tive workers and citizen s." HOUSING, RE CONSTRUCTION AND INVESTMENT The Task Fo r c e met in New Yo rk on No vember 21 . Twelve additional members have been re c ruited to wo rk with th i s group . A major working paper is being devel oped t o guide this Task Force in devel oping a l o ng-range program. �... CITY H AL - November 30, 1967 TLA1'TA , GA. 30303 Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404 IVAN AL LEN, J R., MAYO R R. EAR L LANDE RS, Ad minist rative Assi sti nt MRS. ANN M. MOSES, Exe cutive Secretar y DAN E. SWEAT, JR. , Director of Governmenta l lia ison MEMOR ANDUM T o : Members of Urban Co alition Ste er ing Committee r, ( i Fron-i : D an S weat,. \,,_ ·--/ ~· Enclos ed is a letter of invi tat ion and program conc erning the D ecembe r 13 meeting o f the Task Force on Private Employme nt of the National Urb an Co alition . I hope that all of yo u can make your plans to att end t his importa~ t confe r en ce. We might need to ask members o f the S tee rin g C ommittee to actively parti~ipate i n the workshops as part of panel discussion s . If this sho ul d be the c ase, I w i ll notify you at the ea rliest possibl e moment . I am also attachin g a letter from Mr . M . C. G ettinge r, E xe cutive Dir e ctor of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation, Inc., w hich is a newly formed central a ge ncy involving the A t lanta J ewish Co m m unity Coun cil , the J e wi s h W e l fa r e Fun d an d th e J ewish S o ci a l Service Fed e ration . As Mr . Gettin g er' s l e tter states, th e F e d e ration r e pr e s e n t s virtually all th e adult Jewish or gan i zations in Atlan ta and would be the most a p p ro p riat e r e pres e ntative of all the Jewish organizations on the Urban C oalition Ste e rin g Commi ttee . S e v e ral or ganiz a tions a nd m a ny i n dividual s hav e call e d my a t tenti o n to t h e fa ct that t h e Je w ish com1nunity is not repres e nte d o n t he St ee ring Commi ttee and I feel that the Steering Comm ittee s hould g iv e so me thou gh t t o i nvitin g M r. Ab e Goldstein, Pr e side nt o f the A tlanta J e wish W e lfa r e F e d e ration, In c., to serve a s a men-ib e r o f t he Stee ring Com1nitte e. DS: fy �ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1 300 COMMERCE BUIL DIN G / P . 0. BOX 1 740 / ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30301 November 28, 1967 Dear Mr. Employer: The National Urban Coalition Task Force on Private Employment will hold a: Re~onal Planning Conference in Atlanta on Wednesday, December 13, to explore the possibilities of expanding employment opportunities for the hard-core unemployed. ~ ~ The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the City of Atlanta are cooperating with the Urban Coalition in this effort. Atlanta's key business executives are being invited to participate because of the special significance of this conference for Atlanta business. ~ Mr. Gerald L. Phillippe, Chairman of the Board of General Electric Company and also Chairman of the Task Force, will keynote the conference. He will discuss programs instituted by private business to provide meaningful and productive jobs for the hard-core unemployed. ~ Another part of the program will be a slide presentation on Atlanta's unemployment problem and its relationship to private business. The presentation was prepared by several Atlanta organizations as a means of stimulating discussion of approaches to our dual problem of people who need jobs and unfilled jobs which need people. ~ The conference will be at the American Motor Hot el , 160 Spring street, N. W. Registration will begin at 8:30 a. m., ·followed by a general session, workshops and a luncheon; with adjournment at 3:30 p. m. There is no registration fee; price of the luncheon is $4. 75 . per person. ~ Please make your plans now to attend, and return the enclosed card to assure your reservation. Sincerely, ~--r~· President ~.~~· Mayor �The n ewly fo rmed central agency m e rg ing th e Atlanta Jewish Ccmmunity Council, Je wish Welfa re Fund ond th e Jewish Social S e rvice Fede ration 41 Exc hange Place, S. E. 0 Atlanta, G eorgi a 30303 0 Ph on e 52 5-48 25 ABE GOLDSTEIN PRE51 DENT M . C. November 29, 1967 GSTTINGER EXECUTIVE D IRE CTO R Mr . Dan Sweat Ci ty Ha ll 68 Mi tchell St . , S . W. At l anta, Ga. 30303 Dear Mr . Sweat: In a ccor dan c e with our telephone con versat io n of last F ri day I wish t o advise y ou that the Atlan ta Jewish We lfare Federati on i s interested i n par ti cipating in the work of the Atlanta Urban Co alition. The Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation represen ts virtually al l the adult ·J~wish organizations in greate r Atlanta . As the letter head i nd icates this c entral Jewish communal agency is the resu l t of the rece nt m,:?rge r o f the Atlanta Jewish Community Cou ncil, the Welfare Fu nd and the Social Servi ce Federation . I am enclosing a c hart des cribing the structure and program o f the Federat ion. P le ase d o not hesitate to c al l upon u s if we c an be of any as sis tance to the wo rk of the Cit y of Atlanta. Sincer ely you rs, ( .; M. C. Gettinger Executive Direc t or Enclosure MCG:rgf �STl(UCTURE OF ATLANTA JEW ISH WEL •ARE FEDERATION , INC . , MEMBERS:-IIP INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS All adult contributors to Annual Campaiqna ORGANIZATION MEMBERS Jewish organiz a tions wi th minimum membership of 50. CONSTITUEi'lT MD·J BERS Composed 0£ local benef ic iary aqencie s . DELEGATE ASSEMBLr Cor.ip oscd o f representatives o f affiliated organizations and representatives-at-large; acts largely as a forum body. I I I I - BOARD OF DIRECTORS 48 MEMBERS Adm inister s and conduc t s the affairs o f tbe Central Communa l Agen cy. I OFFI CERS I I EXECUT.1.VE DIRECTOR I I EXE CUT IVE CQ'viMITTEE ~- - I S TAND ING CCMMI TTEES I- DEPA~TMENTS A Vice-President and a Vice -Chairman r esp o nsi le for each Department . I l I. CI\MPA IGNING ArID ALLOCATIONS i Plans and conducts Annual Campaign ; col e c ts a :1d di sburs es :funds; ! clearing house for fund-raisi n g efforts directed at Jewi s h comr.. u ni t -Yi, I I IIo C~ViMUN ITY REL~TIONS AND I NTERNA L JEW I SH AFFAIRS Combats dis cr imination and promote s ideals o f democrac y; pro:no·~e s general welfare o f the Jewish Community; conducts Commun.:.ty Ca_endari I I II III. SOC IAL SERVICE Conducts Jewish ~amily and Ch"ldr envs Bureau a g e n cy , Ben Jviassell Dental Clinic and any s ocial welfare progra.i71s assiqned to it. Ii I IV . CO.'YJMUN ITY S ERVICES AND PLANNING I Coordinates and promotes iu ter-agenc y cooperati on; responsible for commun ity-wide planning, fact-finding and s o c ial researc h in followin g areas: I GROUP SERVI CES I II ( II Jewish Corn.muni ty Center (Youth Serving Or g s. (Synag ogue You th Groups AGED CARE7 _ I - ---, Insti S0rvi8GS tuti o nal in Commun i y Care (Jo F o& CQ B . ) (Jewish (J.CoCen ter) Home (Housing an ' o ther ser v i c es I EDUCATIC:.\ Bur, of i J.E d.) I ( Comn - / unityl S c ools '(Study Groups of Orgs.) 7 / 27/ 67 , l I �~I I: I I The ~t.Jrrban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West / 1819 H Street. N. W. Washington, D. C. / 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen : Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randolph November 14, 1967 Mr. Dan Sweat City Hall Atlanta, Georgia Dear Dan: Copies of the letters of invitation to the Atlanta meeting are enclosed. One of the letters is being sent to persons already on our mailing list and the other letter with the Statement of Principles, Goals, and Commitments is being sent to persons not on our mailing list. I think we will need twelve p e ople to assist us on the day of the meeting. This includes registration desk, sell luncheon tickets, pass out literature, take up tickets, answer telephones, and any last minute problem. I am als o enc losing some names of local business leaders which I have come across. The Mayor may want to extend an invitation to some of them. Very truly yours, M Mn Associate Coordinator MC/jc Enclosures National Coordinators . John Feild/ Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 -1530 �,,/ The Urban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West/ 1819 H Street, N. w. Washington , D. C. f20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randolph November 13, 1967 Dear Friend: On August 24, 1967, 1,200 leaders of American life met in Washington at an Emergency Convocation called by the Urban Coalition. The Coalition, representing business and the professions, organized labor, religion, civil rights groups and local government, was established in response to the urgent need for action in behalf of th e nation's cities. The enclosed Statement of Principles , Go als , a-id Commitments was adopted by the Urban Coalition. You will not e th a t the statement identifies specific problem areas and appea ls to both the public and private sector for action to meet these needs. The Coalition has created Task Forces-one of which is the Task Force on Privat e Employment- -to focus on the individual problem areas. Expanding employment opportuniti es for the hard-core un emp loyed has been given top priority by the Coalition. The Task Force on Private Employment is ho ld ing a series of Regional Planning Conferenc es to discuss this difficult and complex problem . The conferences are schedul ed to be h eld in Atlanta, Georgia on December 13, 1967 ; Phoenix, Arizona on J anuary 17 , 1968 and Kansas City , Missouri on January 24, 1968. We hope your schedule will permit you to join us in this most important project. Please complete the attached card indicating t he conference you plan to attend. We are enclosing a list of states covered by each of the conferences. It would be most helpful if you would supply us with the names and addresses of appropriate officials in these states so we may e xtend an invit ation to them. In the meantime, we hope you will communicat e your interest and support of this endeavor to these officials. Nat,oral Coa'd/llat0rs Jc,hri Feild/ R:;n M /. l"t<,, Te/eph ne 293 1::.:10 �November 13, 1967 Pa9= 2 More specific information on the program wil l b e sent to you in the ver y near future. If you have any questions regarding these activities, please contact Mr. Mel Cotton, ~he Urban Coalit i on, 1819 H Street, N. W. , Washington, D. C. Telephone Number: 293-1530. Gera l d L. Phillippe Chai rman of the Board Ge neral Electric Company 570 Lex ington Avenue New Yo r k, New York Enclosures David Sullivan, Preside n t Build ing Se r vice Emp loyee s International Union 900 17th Stree t, N. W. Wa shington, D. C. John Wheel er , President Mech a nics and F a rmers Bank Box 1932 Durham, North Caroli na �./ ' The Urban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West/ 1819 H Street. N. w. Washington, D. C. / 200u6 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew H eiskell / A. Phi lip Randolph Novembe r 13, 1967 Dear Friend: On August 24, 1967, 1,200 leaders of American life met in Washington a t an Emergency Convocation called by The Urban Co a lition. The Coalit i o n , representing business and the professions, organized labor, religi o n, c ivi l rights groups and local government, was established in respons e t o t h e urgent need for action in behalf of the nation's cities. Th e St a tement of Principles, Goal s , and Commitments adopted by The Urban Coal i t i on identifies specific prob lem areas and appe als to both the publi c a~d private secto r for action to me et these n e eds. The Coalition has cre at ed Task Forces--one o f which is th e Task Fo r ce on Private Employment - to focus on the individ u a l probl em a r e as. Expanding emplo yme nt o pportun ities fo r t he hard-co re u nemp loye d has been given top prio r it y b y the Co a l i t ion . Th e Task Force o n Pr iv a t e Employment is holding a series of Re g i on al Plann i n g Conferences t o di scuss th is difficult and complex problem . The first conferenc e is schedul ed t o be held at the At l anta-American Motor Hotel in At lan t a , Geo rg ia on Decemb er _13 , 1967. Other conferences are planned for Pho enix, Arizo na o n Januar y 24 , 1968 and Kansas City, Missouri on January 24 , 1968 . We hope your schedule will permit you to jo i n us in this most important project. Please complete the attached card indicating the conference you plan to attend . We are enclosing a list of states covered by each of the conferences. It would be most helpful if you would supply us with the nam es and addr e sses of appropriate affiliates i n thes e states so we may extend an invitation to them. In the meantime, we hop e you will communicate your interest and support of this endeavor to these officials. -j Tt· 'p l(l'll "j .- '$ I I' J, ..,, Fe1/tj I R n M i •f ( �November 13, 1967 Pa~ 2 More specific information on the program will be sent to you in the very near future. If you have any questions r egarding these activities, please contact Mr. Mel Cotton, The Urban Coalition, 1819 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Telephone Number: 293-1530. Gerald L. Phillippe Chairman of the Board General Electric Company 570 Lexington Avenue New York, New York Enclosures David Sullivan, President Building Service Employees International Union 900 17th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 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"'l'!"""""""'-___________________________ When the communit.v welfare is in danger, and when opportunity SLIDE # 1 o;;a_ knocks, it's traditional in Atlanta that businessmen give the most important leadership. Our subject today is loaded with danger and opportunity. SLIDE # 2 This presentation was brought about by five organizations serving our community -- ,mder the leadership of businessmen. Businessmen giv_e intelligent direction toward worthwhile gcals, and they use special abilities to shape effective programs. Their dedication has inspired the support and participation of other vital community elements.

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'f 5 ' 1 .•. The City of Atlanta .•• ••• The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce ..• ••• The Community Council of the Atlanta Area . • . •.• The Greater Atlanta United Appe al. .. •.• and Economic Opportunit_y Atlanta, Incorporated. _,,,~ �Page 2. of _ _ SCRIPT VISUAL. As Atlanta grows, so grows the need for continued leadership by businessmen. With Atlanta's growth, the very problems these organizations exist to :meet will keep on growing. We want to concentrate on just one of these problem8: JOBS . . . SLIDE# g These organizations are all concerned with jobs. Employment • SLIDE # !J 'f .. ••• and unemployment ... are at the core of their p:rograms • Atlanta's attractiveness as a place to live and do busi.ne s s depends a great deal on the municipal services of the city•.. - schools, water supply, str eets , fire protection and p0lice protection. Local tax funds support the city and fin~.nce these services. Thus, the e}..i :ent and quality of munic~pal ser vices depend on whether ther e i s profitable business activity, and whether our citizens are productively employed •. ! I I ·II SUDE # 0 JQ The Chamber of Commer ce seeks a continually growing busine s s community. It l ooks for growth in industry a.-id jobs .. • which s timul ate trade: And it seeks growth in 'I l I I l community facilities which, . in turn, help bring in more i industry and more jobs. �Page 3 of _ _ SCRIPT VISUAL - The Community Council is a social planning agency. It helps SLIDE # coordinate growth by collecting and analyzing facts, by helping develop programs of community benefit, and by getting sponsorship for needed programs. SLIDE # I? The United Appeal supports agencies with purpo8es related to the social needs of our community ..• in health, rc(:reation, family counseling, and care for children and the agt:J - Filling these social needs is often the key to getting a job, or keeping it. The Urban League and Goodwill Industries are ~ .' o United Appeal agencies with functions directly related to jobs. Si.,IDE # j~ Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Incorporated, br j_r1gs t c:;ether all segments of the city in a concerted effort agai nst p0verty. E-0-A coordinates and channels services to the ·poor, and starts new services for needs which ar en 't being met. E-0-A tries to help people help themselves ••• to make them c ont r ibuting members of s ociety••. and t o break the vicious ···cycle of poverty that becomes m ore serious with each generation. �Page_!j_of _ _ SCRIPT VISUAL There are many other agencies which offer services in the field of employment and unemployment. The organizations ,~ we mentioned work closely with a number of them, sharing information, facilities and ideas. You probably are fa.--niliar with the programs of thes e other agencies, or :1erhaps have I participated in one of the programs. To name just a fP.W of I I· ., I • ,>. SLIDE# II: these agencies ..• ••• The State Employment Servic e of the Georgia Denartment of Labor ... our vocational schools ... Family and Children's Services ... the VocationE.l Rehabilitation Division of the State Department of Education ... the m anpower and apprPriti ce training programs of the U. S. Department of Lc1hor . There are other organizations , mor e recently es tablished, which concentrat e thei r efforts on a particular phase of ' Atlanta' s employment. For example . . • the Atlanta Employers Voluntary Merit Employment Association, which is a group of businessmen with a mutual desire t o halt discrimination practices in employment . �Page of - - - SCRIPT VISUAL ' SIJDE # S /EI Often ~ several of these organizations will pool their resources in a cooperative effort. A recent example was the Employer Workshop on Manpower Resources, held in late November through the efforts of three organizations -the Chamber of Commerce, the Merit Employfoent Association, and the Georgia Department of Labor. Its purpose wa:; to help

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employers evaluate all the available manpower :::-.:--~ources and employability programs against their own job requh·aments. SLIDE It is obvious, then, that these organizations recoi;n.i"?:e their community responsibilities in employment. It is app3.rent, too, from the programs and activities under v-:2.y, that something is being done tc:r help get our unemployed people on the job. The need for continued business leadership is equally clear. None of these organizations, individually or collectively, claims to have all the answers to unemployment. And no one yet has solved the problems that cause unemployment. I ' 1• �• Pag~_b_or _ __ SCRIPT VJSUA~ We can't promise all the answers, either. But our purpose, during the next few minutes, is to luok at some of the facts •.. raise some questions .•. and provoke some thinking among · this group that, perhaps, will lead us toward some of the answers. SLIDE # ~ I1 Specifically, let's try to determine the extent of the problem in Atlanta. .,I Let's examine the problem as it directly affects businessmen, and arldresses itself to the program s of our i community org::rniz2tions. I i Begin by stating the problem in its simplest t enns : ' -I I ! SIJDE In our community, jobs are goinr; unfilled. At the same time, people are unemployed. This may seem a paradox•.. but we know it i s not a new situation, nor is it peculiar to Atlanta. There've always been people out of work. And, except during depressions, there've always been jobs open for willing, qualified workers. This is true in every economy which provides employment for a great �P a g e l of _ _ I: SCRIPT VISUAL . number of people ... even in a market as healthy as Atlanta's today. So we're looking beyond the normal and commonplace. We want to talk about what we can do after the pool of qualified workers runs out and some of the jobs are still unfilled. W/3 need to consider people who aren't working because of limited education or none at all ... physical handicars . . . not - enough skill or motivation ..• or combinations of' these thi;i.gs. SLIDE# I 'f It's elementary that unemployment can have a bad effect on the economic health of the community. But bring it c1-}ser to home by asking this question: What is my duty, as a citiz~n, to try to cut down the high cost of public maintenance of our people who aren't productively employed? ·, i' ' I I: I' Turn the question around: What is my opportunity, as a businessman, to strengthen our markets and economy by j, helping convert a big tax drain into purchasing power and J' t; SLIDE# 20 t axable income? Suppose we could somehow add 100 dollars a month to the incomes of all the Atlanta families which now �, - -- - --- Page -<g- of - - SCRIPT VISUAL - - ----------------"'tl""~--------------,,-,..----------~ai-==> earn less than 4, 000 dollars a year? This would increase the purchasing power among these pe_ople__Qy more than 95 million 1,,--""' dollars a year. SLIDE# zI But perhaps the most important dimension to be examined is this: Wnat effect will unemployment and underemployment right now have on Atlanta's growth potential? In shcrt, ~hat about tomorrow? SLIDE # i. i. Compared to other parts of the country, Atlanta ha~ :-e!:itively little unemployment. We ofteZJ. brag about our low rate ••• which is officially 2-point-5 per cent , SLIDE# 'Z. 3 Part of the reason for this low rate is Atlanta's key position in the Southeast .• • a region which has had a lion's share of the nation's postwar economic growth. We can also thank pr ograms such as Forward Atlanta, thr ough which Atlanta' s business leade r ship has ' been im aginative and aggres sive in getting the share we des erve · of the nation's growth. �Page of --- SCRIPT VISUAL \e«nZZTi SLIDE# t 'f se P:&?-w.;.:r:n::=:;;;;;;;r:;· - In a full economy, the qualified, willing job-seeker can find work. By almost any standard, 1967 and several years previous have been years of full economy in Atlanta. Retail sales, effective buying income, and other economi0 indicators have been moving steadily up. Certainly, we can't blame unemployment on any lack of health in the Atlanta economy . i !l ., SLIDE

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t,} We said our unemployment is comparatively small .•. by official measurement. Yet, for a number of reasons, we cannot afford to minimize it. For one, we know that there are rr.a11y others who are less than fully employed but who aren't counted with the 2. 5 per cent. They don't fit the statistical definitic:: of unemployed. SIJDE # '2" No one is certain how m:any people are in this category. And we can only wonder how many children are growing up to .Jarry on -f,....,•,\'i traditions of poverty, ignorance, poor health, idleness, and willing •' ' or unwilling dependence on public and private doles . I SLIDE# ,, j 21 Our population has grown. In 1967, the 2. 5 per cent represents thousands more people ·than iCdid ten years ago. �r I [ Page /0 Ii of _ _ .I I SCRIPT . VISUAL More people live in cities today. They are easier to count, put in categories, and observe. In a rural environment, .. there are more ways to subsist without formal emplo~rment. We are familiar with some o~ the c auses of unemployment, and some of them stem, in part, from the very affluence we ! I I . have described. Minimum qualifications for some jobs are rising faster than the aven.ge educational attainment. SLIDE # 2i · There are problems of health, housing and even transportat!on, and there are deserted mothe.rs ti ed to the care of deserted children. No one can say positively how much effect ar..y ~n e of these things is having on unemployment. If we could'be sure, effective solutions might be easier to develop. But these things are certain: I i• �Page J I of -- SCRIPT VISUAL SLIDE#~ Thousands of people in Atlanta don't earn enough to support th~mselves and their families. They are PEOPLE NEEDING JOBS •.• the 2. 5 per cent, others who aren't being counted officially, and some others who have jobs but are underemployed or underpaid. ' Employers in Atlanta's dynamic economy cannot always find all the skilled people they need to help run their businesses. This is the other category... JOBS NEEDING PEOPLE. SLIDE# Ji And .• ~ Unemployment is waste ..• a waste of productive effort ... a waste in terms of unrealized consumption of goods and services. It's a drag on growth, and, under some condition.::; ..• SLIDE# ,, q

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!: 3'? ••• Unemployment can stop growth in its tracks. That is a blunt statement which deserves to be documented. �Page I'2. of -- SCRIPT VISUAL Some alarming facts with a great deal of bearing on our subject were developed by the city's Community Improvement Program ... the C-I-P. Part of the C-I-P study dealt with the number of jobs in certain categories, and projections of i i. whn.t the situation will be in 1983, if present trends continue. SLJ.DE # . SLli.JE # -::, -:::, ~ For example, in 1983, there will be 515,000 jobs in the (\..... City' of Atlanta. j~ Nearly four out of ten of these nev-i jobs in the city will be ~ That's 48 per cent more than in 19G5, in our Central Busi.ncss District. This means 64, 000 more people will be employed in our Central City .•• the downtown ~rea. SLIDE* 3S Most of these new jobs will be in five main categories: GOVERNMENT, FINANCE, INSURANCE, AND REAL ESTATE, with about 10,000 jobs in each group, and RETAILING, with about 5 , 000 jobs. �Page~of _ _ ' SCRIPT VISUAL None of these new jobs will be in manufacturing, wholesale trade or distribution. The Central City won't gain in this kind of employment. Jobs in GOVERNMENT, FINANCE, INSURAi~CE, REAL ESTATE, AND RETAILING; •• WHITE COLLAR JOBS. Now consider another sE:t of facts from the C-I-P 5tudy••• facts about population, "l SLIDE# J6 By 1983, the Negro population of the City of Atl~ta will increase by 62 per cent .•. the white populatio<" by 4 per cent. SLIDE#~ Forty-five per cent of the Negro population wi11 be in the age group of 20 to 54. MORE THAN HALF will be under 20 i " or over 54. J 1, '. SLlDE # 3~ From another phase of the C-I-P study comes this projection: I In 1983, about 32,000 Negro families living in the city will �Pagej_!f_of _ _ SCRIPT VISUAL have family income of LESS THAN THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. About 45,000 Atlanta Negro families will have incomes of less than $5,000 a year. Put some of these facts together to see what they imply: SLlDE # j~

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SECOND ••• our population ""'ill be made up of the pec,ple who, by current standards, are LEAST qualified for white collar jobs. SLIDE# '-fj THIB.D••• downtown retailing will be supported by a preponderance of families with poverty-level incomes . . • families with very little to spend in retail stores. SLIDE# lf? And FINALLY ••• Atlanta's growth potential will be impossible to realize unless established trends are changed. �Page - /~ of -~- SCRIPT VISUAL SLIDE f r ~ Th0se facts make it easier to understand the disturbing statement of a few minutes ago ... that UNEMPLOYMENT CAN STOP GROWTH IN ITS TRACKS. ,Therein lies our challenge ... the challenge to Lezin now _c hanging some of these conditions which, in turn, will help reverse or slow some of the undersirabie, trends. As we begin to realize the size of the problem, ot~er questions demand answers. \Vho are the PEOP::::...E involved? SLIDE# lf"Y Do we need -- or can we get -- an accurate p!"ofiie: of our unemployed population? There is some data available to help us find a s tarting point. SLIDE# lf5 One example of s uch data.. is a study bas ed on interviews with 47,000 people, between 16 and 75 years old , living ,l. . l. �.. Pagej__b_of _ __ SCRIPT VISUAL in poverty neighborhoods. These interviews were conducted about 18 months ago through 12 neighborhood centers of the E-0-A. Here's what the study found out about these 47,000 people: SIJDE # L/ b ••. 77 per cent earned less than $3,000 a year. SIJDE # 'f1 .•• 52 per cent of all households were headeL --:;y women. SLIDE # 4g SIJDE # Lf-~ ..• 57 per cent of the adults did not graduate from !ugh s chool. SLIDE# 50 • .• 5 per cent had a fourth grade education or lc :::; s. SIJDE # SI .• ·• 7 per cent had no form al education at all. SLIDE # S2 ••. 12 per cent needed m edical aid to r emove a wo!'l( handicap. SLIDE # SJ • •. 11 per cent claimed no job skill, or orJy farm wor k as ., .•• 82 per cent were Negroes. exper ience. SIJDE # S'f •.• 2 per cent were 65 or older • . ,... .:. .. Of all those s eeking work, 65 per c ent were Negro women. About two out of three said they would like to have more i .j: I! vocational training in hopes of improving their lot. �Page IJ of _ _ SCRIPT VISUAL A composite would be difficult to draw. But look at two case histories: A typical case ••. A woman, 33, divorced, mother of four children. She has a seventh grade education. Works 2.s a maid and makes 28 dollars a weak. Pays 12 dol14rG of that for a three-room apartment. Her children are left alone while she works because day care would cost two-thL.ds of her weekly salary. SLIDE# .Sb Another case, less typicr.l but just as real. •• A young man, 22. Completed the fifth grade iil a rural school. He is married to a young woman who completed the third grade. They are expecting a child soon. They live with his sister and her five children ••• eight persons in four roo:ms. He has worked as a delivery boy and busboy, averaging a uollar an hour. He has serious p r oblem s with a loan company . j: �Page / 0 of _ _ SCRIPT VISUAL These two have jobs, of sorts, for the time being. But thei:,: future is uncertain and prospects are poor that they ~ \.!Ja\ ever hold jobs at a level much higher. The;y lack the skill and educational attainment to fill some of the vacancies which we know exist. For instance, the ,i . State Employment Service reports a large unfilled demand l for several job skills •.. SLIDE

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••• Comptometer operators, stenographers, secretaries, typists, telephone operators, file clerks, cashiers, key I ·I p:!.nch operators, draftsmen ... not the sort of jobs to be I filled by a fifth-grade drop-out, or by an untrained domestic. SlJDZ # sg There are other types of jobs requiring l ess skill, which still have a demand greater than the supply of people to hold them: Food service and preparation, hotels and motels, . building maintenance, and repair and installation work. -· �Page / Cf of --- SCRIPT VISUAL Meanwhile, look what's happening ir. another job · SLIDE

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category: Common labor. From 1950 to 1960, the number of employed laborers in Atlanta went down by almost 13 per cent, or 2, 600 jobs. The pace of automati on continues to h ave its effect in c0natrudi0n and other industrie s using laborers. SLIDE# fo O , By contrast, in the sd.Ille IO-year-period, clerical workers increas ed by 22, 000, or 43. 5 per cent. SLIDE# ' ! Professional and technical workers went up by 18,000 jobs, or 70 per cent • . SLIDE# ,2. Machine operators -- up by 2 , 000 , or 30 per cent. So the r ecord is one of steady upgrading. It is a r ecor d of pr ogress , and industry c an be proud of it . While employers are t raining and pr om oting workers for m ore demanding, higher paying j obs, vacancies are being created for new employees. �Page

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of -- SCRIPT VISUAL ,!obs .9.2 exist, and they need to be filled. Some manufacturing jobs, for instance, haven() minimum requirements for education or experience, and the employer bears the expense of training. This not only emphasizes the need for workers, but it is also further evidence of the employer's willingness to help meet the problem ... especially when programs SLIDE# {oJ such as on-the-job trair1ir.g can help an employer match people with the jobs he needs to fill. Without such efforts, the gap would be even greater than it is today, and it would be widening even faster . SLIDE # ~Lf Let's examine our job m arket for other barriers which can s eparate !l. given individual from a given job. Som e of the se bar r ier s will always be ther e . They a re the requirements which r epresent the initial effort by the employer ' j to screen applicants . •• to make ·his i:ecruiting and interviewing ' - - ---- ----·-·--·--- �Page 2 {_ of _ _ SCRIPT VISUAL more efficient. The employer has needs for competence and reliability, skill and stability. For all his generosity, compassion, civic-mindedness or whatever, the employer cannot ignore these needs •.. if he is to stay in business. There are other barriers, leas prevalent today, which are merely extensions of attitudes. You're familiar with the kind of barriers we mean. You've seen them in help wanted ads, in job orders placed with employment services, and in the personnel policies of many business organ:!.::: ativns. SLIDE# ,s ..• Must be 21 or over •• , ••• Experienced only ..• . SLIDE # (.,,{,, .•. White only ••• • • • Colored ••• • • • Must be high school graduate ..• j ! �Page 22 of _ _ SCRIPT VISUAL ••. Men only.. . • • • Not over 50 .. . SLIDE

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••• Must be free to travel. .• • • • Military duty completed .•• • • • Car necessary•.. And so on, As we suggested earlier, certain jobs will always have requirements that not everyone can meet, particularly jobs which demand a high degree of skill, aptitude , ,)r training. These requirements are realistic standards .•. not arbitrary barriers in the sens~ of others w~ wentioned. We can find tangible evidence of employers taking the lead in removing some of the arbitrary ones. Many jobs today are being literally thrown open by the use of other words and phrases which are becoming more and more familiar: �' I Page 4fo &, g For example .•• Men or women. SLIDE# &'i Equal Opportunity Employer. SLIDE SLIDE# ( 0 No experience necessc!ry. 1 I Disabled person welcome • SLIDE# ~ of - - SCRIPT VISUAL . 2·2..> ... Prefer retired man .•• Will train ... And many others. Keep in mind that tha employer also has barr iers ... legal barriers which discou:;.:age or prevent the hiring of some people for certain joi>s. Women have been given full equality in employment ... as long as they don't have to lift over 30 poum:s. P11ysical canditi 0ns make some persons a bad r:!.sk .. • because the e:mpl.:;yer can't afford to assume the Worlanen's Compensation liability which the law says he must. You can see that progress is being made in meeting Atlanta's SLIDE# 12. problem •••this paradox of shortage on one hand, and surplus on ~e other ••• the puzzle of people and jobs, which don't always match. �2 'i Page of - - - SCRIPT VISUAL The gains haven't been spectacular. We can't promise that the solutions are just around the corner. But it's to the credit of our business leadership that we can cite these signs of progress .•• evidence that the job is at least begun. SLIDE# 73 Only through the continued leadership of our busine~srr.en.:. their ideas, talents, and energies ... channeled through these community organizations and others ..• can we hope to find those solutions. (-PAUS E) We began a few minutes ago on the premise that many people are not working at a time when our economy needs workers. We've seen who these people are, and in gE:ni:>.ral terms, what separates them from self-sufficiency and usefulness. We've presented some facts we all must recognize if this problem is to be met intelligently and with purpose. --· �Page &S of _ _ SCRIPT VISUAL - ----------~""!F"""-------~------------~=~· Ann we have tried to be realistic about our alternatives: That,unless something iE; done, it is possible that there will be no b2sic change in this situation within our generation. SLIDE# 14- If we C:?JU1ot absorb today's parents into the productive side of the economy, what of their children? Can the high school drop-out of 1967 ex--pect a better future than the almost hop.eles.s situation he faces today? Can Atlanta afford to leave him hopeless? (END OF SLIDE NARRATION) IJGHT2 ON ••• MODERATOR TAKES OVER FOR CONCLUSION. �MODERATOR'S REMARKS (Following narration of slide presentation) OPEN WITH INFORMAL, INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

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Gentlemen, one of the main purposes of the presentation you've just seen and heard is to stimulate our thinking about ways to get ·at this problem .... to exchange ideas about new approaches which can be tried, or are b eing tried, in your plant, or Joe's warehouse, right here in Atlanta. We are most concerned with what's happening in Atlanta, of course. Just to give you an idea of the sort of ' <programs and innovations we're talking about, let's I !. look around the country a :mni.nute to see l,c--;-1 employers elsewhere have licked their labor needs. In Newark, there's a special school b!icked up by Prudential Insurance, Standard Oil, Westinghouse, Western Electric, New Jersey Bell, Bamberger's, and Public Service Electric and Gas. These firms go together and hire young people in groups of a hund:ted, then alternate them ev':)r.r other W?ek hB°iween the plants and the special school of sm all classes. In Hartford, Aetna Life and Casualty goes in with the Urban League on stenographic training. In Racine, trn J. I . Case Company has a program called ADULTS IN A HURRY. This works by catching students who are ready to drop out of school and furnishing j part-time jobs to keep them going until they graduate. In Boston, tlie Raytheon Company has developed the talents of 1,500 handicapped people. �Moderator -- Page 2 In Illinois, Illinois Bell provides a clearing hous<': for 326 Bell Corps volunteers who spend off-duty time as slum leaders and tutors. Those are just a few examples. Programs such as these have been developed in Atlanta. With more thought and determination, ~ can be done. How? Let's start right here, by acknowledging that the problem and the opportunity exist, and that we have the will and the concern to begin. First, let's talk about our individual experiences. 'what could be clone -- - - what is being done in my company? Are my standards realistic? Do I have difficulty in getting the help I need ? How far are we reaching to get people to train? Is turnover a problem? What are the causes of my turnover? Do our· policies contrihute to turnover, or · help reduce it? Next, let's talk about these agencies. Do we call on them, and make use of their services? Do we know what help we might get from each? Could we use a service no agency seems to be offering? Then, let's talk about what we can <lo together. How can we pool information to find out the types of workers moat needed? F ow can several of us work together, or use a public agency, to recruit and train employees in special or general skills? What would it cost, and could the funds be oh-'. . ained? Those are just a few areas to talk about. We're inter ested in your own experiences, but we're just a s interested in the questions you might have , as well. .,' (AT THIS POINT, CALL ON ONE OR MORE IN AUDIENCE TO RELATE I

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' ! LOCAL EXPERIENCES-- IF AVAILABLE -- OR ENTERTAIN QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS OF THE GROUP . J)IRECT QUESTIONS TO AVAILABLE RESOURCE PEOPLE WHEN POSSIBLE OR USE AS BASIS FOR DISCUSSION AMONG GROUP.) �May 9, 1968 Mr. Curtis Ddskell C ommunity Affairs Direct or Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Commerce Building Atlanta. Georgia De r Curtis: Attached is copy of · lett r f:rom Mr . Morrison of the Virginia Military Institute . W hav det nnined he is talking about ou.r slide pr Can we as ist hbn? Sine er ly you.rs . Dan Sw DS:fy Enclo ur t ent tion . �VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE LEXINGTON , VIRGINIA 24451 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS 9 April 1968 Office of the Mayor Atlanta Georgia Sir: Will you please advise me as to the availability of a movie dealing with the subject of urban planning in Atlanta. I am anxious to review this for possible showing before students in undergraduate economics. I believe this film was shown at a meeting sponsored by the Urban Coalition held in Atlanta last fall. Very truly yours, 143.215.248.55 Head �cf/-ft:xandn d-J . d Vioai,w n !Box 543 -1!.t:xin9ton, <//i'l.:Jinia ?- +t Sr-0 !h·~ ~ lv-J{ '! (Iv,_~ 0-~ ~ ca-h ~ a_,v ~ L,,: ~ t1) ~ - l-4.,&-v-uc_ I " ~ ~ p ~ ~ , L t : ~ 1 M l~ , " ~ -£ &. ~ ~ AL=-J'~ ~ <'.Avue ~ G_,~ /1,vi~ tlc_ ~u_~~ ku__~<'.Lc,._ ~ ~ ~ M t~ c1i~- - J_~ ~~.. ~ ~ ~- ~ ~~ ~ 1~~ ~ 1--L. I ---e__, 1 (J <c_ ~ to~~ ~~ �April 22, 1968 Mr . Alexander H. Morrison Box 543 Lexington, Virginia 24450 Dear Mr. Morrison: Mr . Bill Bassett of the City of Atlanta Planning Departm.e nt may be able to make available to you the movie shown recently in Atlanta at th Urb n Coolition Conference. I a sending him copies of your 1 tter to the Mayor and this letter to you. However, if you wish to colllll!unicate with him dir ctly, hie ddress 1s City Planning D part ent, City Hall, 68 Mitchell Street, City of Atlanta, 30303 Georgi. Very truly, BELEN THOMPSON As istsnt Personnel Dir ctor RT:ji ce: Mr. Bill B se tt / �----- DECEMBER 13, 1967 WEDNESDAY EASTERN REG IONALEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE NAT IONAL URBAN COALITION ATLANTA-AMER ICAN MOTOR HOTEL (GRAND BALI.ROOM ) 9: 30 A. M. GREETINGS OPEN ING GENERAL SESSION PRESID ING WILL BE DAV IDSULLIVAN, PRESIDENT, BU ILDING SERVICE EMPLOYEES, INTERNATIONAL UN ION AFL-C 10. MAYOR ALLEN - GREETINGSo REMARKS BY WILLI AM FLYNN, DIRECTOR, STEP PROGRAM , NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS, DR. LAWRENCE D. -REDDICK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OPPORTUNITIES INDUSm IALIZATION CENTER INSTITUTE, AND AUGUSTUS H. STERNE, PRESIDENT, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. AT 10:30 A.M. , WORKSHOPS BEGIN. �___________________ , - - -- - --- - ~ - - · THIS GATHERING OF BUSINESS LEADERS FROM THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN UNITED STATES HAS PARTICULAR SIGN IF I CANCE TO ALL OF AMERICA. AND I AM SURE THAT BEFORE THIS DAY IS COMPLETED, WE WILL RECOGNIZE THE UNDENIED NECESSITY FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY TO PLACE ITS FULL PRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL INTO THE FIGHT TO SAVE OUR GREAT URBAN CITIES. IT IS ESPECIALLY PLEASING TO ME, MR. PHILLIPPE, THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT YOUR URBAN COALITION TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT TO ATLANTA TO HOLD THIS ACTION CONFERENCE ON EXPANDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN PRIVATE BUSINESS. �THE VERY HISTOR Y OF ATLANTA 'S GROWTH AND PROSPER ITY HAS EEN ONE OF RESPONSIBLE BUS INESS LEADERSHIP WORK ING WITH GOVERNMENT TO RESOLVE NOT ONLY PROBLEMS OF EMPLOYMENT, BUT ALSO OF EDUCAT ION, OF HOUS ING, OF RACE RELATI ONS, AND ALL OTHERS WH ICH ARE THE RESPONS IBILITY OF THE TOTAL COMMUN ITV. OUR LOCAL BUS INESS LEADERS LONG AGO RECOGN IZED THE REQUIREMENT FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE RESOLUTION OF COMMUNITY PROBLEMS JUST AS YOU AND YOUR BUS INESS COLLEAGUES HAVE DONE AT THE NAT I ONAL LEVEL IN THE URBAN COALITION. 2 �Decembe:r 28 , 1967 Mr . J ohn C. Wils on, President Horne W ilson Company 163 Peters Street, S . W . Atlanta., Georgia 30313 Dear J ohn: All 0£ the officials nd staff people involved in the Eastern Regional Conference of the Urban Coalition here on Dec mb r 13 agree that it w s the most successfully run conference the Urban Coalition has conducted to date. l am sure that the ma.jot' reason for this is th cooperation and ssistance we h d from the local p ople who pitched in t o help us get the job don • I would like to p rsona.lly th nk you for your great help. Sincer ly yours, Dan Sw -t DS:f.y �THE COALITION HAS ALREADY AWAKENED MANY BUSINESS LEADERS TO THE FACT THAT OUR AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IS A BY-PRODUCT OF OUR DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. IT IS NOT THE FOUNDATION OF THAT SOCIETY. THE GREATEST HANDICAP WH ICH HAS CONFRONTED OUR FREE ENTER PR I SE SYSTEM DUR ING THE YEARS OF ITS EXISTENCE HAS BEEN ITS FAILURE TO ASSIST IN TAKING ACTION TO ELIMINATE THE WEAKNESSES OF THE SYSTEM UNDER WH ICH IT OPERATES. THIS WAS PAINFULLY DEMONSTRATED IN THE LATE TWENTIES ANO IN THE THIRTIES. ' �HAO NOT FORCEFUL GOVERNMENTAL ACTION BEEN TAKEN IN THE 1930 1s TO PROVIDE CORRECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO OUR MOST SEVERE ECONOMIC CRISIS, THE STOCKS WHICH SUPPORT THE FREE ENTER PR I SE · SYSTEM TODAY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WORTH THE PAPER THEY ARE PRINTED ON. WE HAVE LEARNED SINCE THEN THAT BUSINESS MUST HAVE THE SUPPORT OF STRONG GOVERNMENT TO MAKE THE SYSTEM WORK. AND WITH THE CRISES IN OUR CITIES MOUNTING DAILY, WE NOW KNOW THAT GOVERNMENT NEEDS -- MUST HAVE -- THE FULL HELP OF BUSINESS IF OUR GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM IS TO SURVIVE. 4 �TO PUT IT BLUNTLY: WE HAVE ALL GOT TO GET TOGETHER. THE URBAN COALITION AND ITS TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT HAS AS ITS PURPOSE TO CREATE A RECOGNITION Of THE WEAKNESS IN OUR FOUNDATION AND TO PROVIDE A BASIS FOR STRENGTHENING ANY LINKS WHICH ARE IN DANGER OF FAILURE. THIS CONFERENCE SHOULD HELP US TO MORE CLEARLY EVALUATE OUR SHORTCOMINGS IN THE AREA OF EMPLOYMENT AND TO MAKE PLANS FOR OVERCOMING THEM. WE WELCOME YOU TO ATLANTA. I HOPE YOU CAN ALL REMAIII THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ,.,,,,,,,,,,,, 5 �The Urban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West/ 1819 H Street, N. w. Washington , D. C. / 20006 Steering Commi ttee Co-chairm en: Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randolph December 14, 1967 Mr. Dan Sweat Assistant to the Mayor City Hall Atlanta, Georgia Dear Dan: Many thanks for your assistance in the recent meeting in Atlanta. Thanks, also, for the materials used in the workshops. Please express my appreciation to members of your staff who worked so closely with us and helped in so many ways. Sincerely, ~ Mel Cotton Associate Nati onal Coordinator MC/jgc National Coordinators : John Feild/ Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 - 1530 �MAYOR IVAN ALLEN, JR. REMARKS OF GREE TINGS EASTERN REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE NATIONAL URBAN COALITION ATLANTA-AMERICAN MOTOR HOT¢ DECEMBER 13, 1967 9:30 A. M."-- THANK YOU, MR. SULLIVAN. MR. PHILLIPPE, MR. FLYNN, MR. STERNE, DR. REDDICK, DISTINGUISHED OUT OF TOWN GUESTS AND FELLOW ATLANTANS. ' IT PLEASES ME TO SEE SO MANY OF OUR NATIONAL AND LOCAL BUSINESS LEADERS GATHER HERE TODAY TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIES FOR AMERICAN FREE-ENTERPRISE TO USE ITS VAST POTENTIAL AS A MAJOR FACTOR IN SOLVING ONE OF OUR COUNTRY'S BIGGEST PROBLEMS. THIS IS THE PR OB LEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT. IT IS THE PROBLEM OF PEOPLE WHO NEED JOBS AND OF JOBS WHO NEED PEOPLE. OUR TASK IS TO FIND OUT HOW TO MEET BOTH NEEDS , TO DEVELOP A HEALTHY ECONOMY WHICH PROVIDES A VARIETY OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED WORK AND TO PROVIDE WORKERS WITH SKILLS NECESSARY TO FILL THE VACANCIES WHICH GO UNFILLED FOR LACK OF QUALIFIED LABOR . �PAGE TWO IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT GOVERNMENT AT THE LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS AND BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ARE COOPERATING TO FIND A SOLUTION TO THESE PROBLEMS. IT IS FITTING, I THINK, MR. PHILLIPPE, THAT YOUR TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT CHOSE ATLANTA AS ONE OF YOUR REGIONAL CONFERENCE SITES. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PARTNERSHIP OF BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT THAT HAS PROVIDED THE STIMULATION AND RESOURCES WHICH HA VE ADVANCED OUR COMMUNITY IN ALL AREAS. THIS WAS TRUE OF URBAN RENEWAL, WHICH WAS THE CATALYST THAT LAUNCHED THE GREAT DOWNTOWN BUSINESS EXPANSION STILL GOING ON TODAY. EIGHTY PERCENT OF ATLANTA 1S NEAR DOWNTOW N SLUMS HAVE BEE N ELIMINATED AND ACTIVE PROGRAMS ARE UNDERWAY IN SOME TEN AREAS TO WIPE OUT THE REMAINDER. THE FORWARD ATLANTA PROGRAM PRODUCED IN - - - - NEW JOBS - - -- - YEARS. AND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY HAS COURAGEOUSLY SUPPORTED THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM, JOB TRAINING A N D JOB �PAGE THREE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE DISADVANTAGED AND I AM SURE WE CAN EXPECT IT TO CONTINUE TO DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR ALL CITIZENS. WHILE WE PROUDLY BOAST OF WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED, WE READILY RECOGNIZE MUCH MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. THIS CONFERENCE SHOULD HELP US TO MORE CLEARLY EVALUATE OUR SHORTCOMINGS IN THE AREA OF UNEMPLOYMENT, AND,I HOPE , TO DEVISE METHODS FOR OVERCOMING THEM. WE WELCOME YOU TO ATLANTA AND TO THE CONFERENCE . HOPE YOU CAN ALL REMAIN THROUGHOUT THE DAY. I �DEFENSE SUPPLY AGENCY DEFENSE CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION SERVICES REGION . ATLANTA 3100 MAPLE DRIVE . N . E . ATLANTA . GEORGIA 30305 14 December 1967 IN REPLY REFER T O Mr. Dan E. Sweat, Jr. Director of Governmental Laison Office of the Mayor Atlanta, Georgia Dear Dan: Thank you for the opportunity of sharing in the Urban Coalition session at the Hotel American yesterday. Unfortunately, the time alloted and the size of the gathering afforded little opportunity to come to grips with possible solution techniques. The slide presentation by John Robinson was helpful in providing facts respecting immediate problem areas and forecasts of impending doom lest we begin immediately to take some corrective action. Before we can concern ourselves with job progression and career d e velopment, it would appear that basic and fundamental education must b e afforded many of the "hard-core unemployed". May I suggest that you write the "Board of Fundamental Education" , Indianapolis, Ind. for information regarding its techniques for remedial and basic courses to raise the educational levels of the disadvantaged and deprived? Dr. Cleo Blackburn is the Chairman of the Board and his work is w e ll known to NAM, HEW and others. It would appear that money spent in this area would be a good investment in tackling the real problem now. By upgrading the basic educational skill s w e provide people with at l east the entry job l evel skills, i. e. , Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Comprehension. My interest in the Coalition remains high and I stand ready to lend whatever assistance you may d eem appropriate. Very truly yours, c£ ~ Acting Chief Office of Contracts Compliance �December 28, 1967 Mr. Duane Beck Exe cutive Director C ommunity C owicil of the Atlanta Area;; Inc . 1000 Glenn Building 120 Marietta Str · t, N. W . Atlant , Georgia 30303 Dear Duane : All of the official and stafi people involv d in the Eastern R gion l Conf renc of the Urban Coalition het"e on Decemb r 13 gree th t it w s the most succ sfully run conf rence the Urb n C oalition ha conducted to date . I am eure that th major reason for thi is th cooper tion d s i tance we had from the loeal peopl who pitched in to help us g t the job don • I would like to person lly thank yot1 for you gre t help. Sincer ly yours, Dan S DS:fy t �December 28, 1967 Mr . Curtis Driskell Atlanta Chamber 0£ Commerce Commerce Building Atlanta, GeoJ"gi.a Dear Curtis : All of the officials and staff people involv din the Eastern Regional Con£ r nee of the Urban Coalition her on Decembel' 13 agree that it was the most succ ssfully run conference the Urban Coalition has conducted to date. lam sure that th m jor re son for thls is th cooperation and assist nee we had from th loc l p ople who pitched in to h lp u get the job don • l would like to p rson ly thank you for your great help. Since:rely yours, D n Sweat DS:fy �December 28 , 1967 Mr, Johnny Robinson Community Development CoordinatorCity of Atl anta City Hall Atl anta, Georgia Dear J ohnnyi All of the officials and staff people involved in the Eastern Regional Conference of the Urb n Coalition her on December 13 agree that it w s the most successfully run conference the Urban Coalition has conducted to date . I am sure that the major re son for this is th cooperation and assistance we had from the local people who pitched in to h ~ lp u s get the job don . I would lik to p rs onally thank you for your gr at h lp. Sincer ly your ,. Dan Sw DS:fy t �Decembe r 28, 1967 Mr . Charles Coe VISTA Volunteer c Io Office of the Mayor City Hall Atlanta, Georgia Dear Charlie : All of the officials and staff people involved in the Eastern Regional Conference of the Urban Coalition hei:e on De cember 13 gree th t it was the most succ ssfully run conference the Urban Coalition has conduct d to date . m sur th t th major re son for thi is th coop ration and a sistance we had £,:om th - local peopl who pitched in to help us I get the job done. th lp. I would like to p raon lly thank you for youJ" gr Slncer ly yours. Dan S w DS;fy t �December 28 , 1967 Mrs , Barbara Fouch C ommunity Relations Office Economic Opportwiity Atl anta, Inc . 101 Ma rietta Street, N . W . A tlanta , Georgia Dear Barbarai All of the officials and staff people involved in the Eastern Regional Conf rence of the Urban Coalition her - on December 13 agree that it was the mos t successfully run conference the Urban Coalition has conducted to date . l m sure that the major re son for this is the cooperation and ssist nee we had born the local p ople who pitched in to help u get the job done . I would like to per onally thank you for your gt t help. Sincer ly your ,. Dan Sweat DS:fy �December 28, 1967 Mrs . Fred DeLand Community Council of the Atlanta Are , Inc. 1000 Glenn Building 120 Marietta Street. N. W . Atlanta, Georgia. 30303 Dear Jackie1 All of the offici ls and staff people involved in the Eastern Regional Confer nee 0£ the Urban Coalition h re on December 13 agree th tit w s the most uccessfully i'un conference the Urb n Coalition h conducted to date . l m sure that the m jor reason !or this is the coop ration and assistance we h d from the loc 1 people who pitched in to help us get the job don . l would like to personally th nk you !or yout great help. Since~ely yours, D nSw DS:fy t �December 28 1 1967 Mr . Clint R odgers , Director South Fulton Neighborhood Center 2 735 East Point Street East Point, Georgia Dear Clint: All of the officials and staff people involved in the Eastern Regional Confer nee of the Urban Coalition here on DecembeJ' 13 agree th t it was the most suceessfully run confer nee the Urb n Coalition has conduct · d to date. I am sur that th major reason for this is th coop r tlon and as istance we had from th local peopl who pitched in to help u s g t th · job done. I would like to personally thank you for your gre t help. Sincer ly youi's, D DS:fy n Swe t �December 28 , 1967 Mr . Cecil Alexande r Finch, Alexander, Barnes . R othschild and Pas chal 44 Broad Street Atlanta, Georgia Dear Cecil: All of the officials and staff people involved in the East rn Regional Con! rence of the Urban Co lition her,e on December 13 agree that it was th mo s t successfully J:"un conference the Urban Coalition h s conduct d to date. 1 m sure th t the major r aeon £or this is the cooper tion and ssiotance we had from the local p ople who pitched in to h lp us g t the job don . I would lik to persono.lly thank you foJ: your g:reat help. Sincer · 1y yours, Dan Sw DS,ty t �THE URBAN COALITION E~:-~E~X=P~A~N~D~I=N~G:::;_=E~M~P~L~O~YME=~-1~1T:::;_~O_P_P~O143.215.248.55 -~-·JN'-=-I~T-=IE--'-S EASTERN REGIONAL ACTION CONFERF~C= Decembe r 13, 1967 Atl a nta , Georgia TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT Co-chairmen Gerald L. Fhillippe Chairma n of the Board Gene~ al Electric Company New York David Sullivan Preside nt Building S e rvice Employee s Internationa l Union AFL·CIO Wa sh i ngton John Wheeler President Mechanics & Farmers Bank Durha m, North Ca r o lin~ Ch~irrna n: John L . De n ma n, Manage r , Dep t . of U1ban Affairs , F~rJ Mot0r c o . Resc,urce Pe r sons : Willi a m Dovms , Associa t e S erv ices , Inc .; Da.ytnn Harwick , Employee and Community ReJ.ations , Genera l F.l e ct.::- ic Co.; Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, E:wctitive Dire ctor, Oppo rtuni ti e s Indus tri alization CentP r Institute WORKSHOP B (Brun s wick Room ) Cha irma n : Haro ld Shepard: W. E . Upj o hn Ir. s ti. tu t e for Empl:::r':r--:-;,~ 11 i.: Research Resource Persons: Pa ul R . Tho ms on , Manag e r , ~m~l o yee & Community Re lations, Ge n era l El ec tric Co.; Sam u e l Dani e ls, Associate Director, Council for Equa l Busines s Oppor tun ity; Don Gar ~ is , Vi~~ Pres ide nt, . Sea r s Roe buck Fcunda tion r,;o RKSHO P C (Co lumbus Room ) Chai rman: Dr. He nry Bre nn e r, Personne l Manager , Xerox Corpora t icn Res 0 ~rce Pe rsons: Cec il Al exa nde r, Finch , Al exa nd e r , Bar n es , Roth schild Pascha l, Architec ts; Berk e l ey G. Burre ll, Pres~den t, Na t ional Bu s iness Le ague ; Ke n Howard , Ind u stria l Re l a tions, Eastman Kodak Co . & WORKSHOP D (S e ction A Conve nti o n Hall ) Chairma n: Rodn ey Au s t i n, Personne l Manager , Reynolds Tobacco Co . Resourc e Pe r sons : Dr. Louis Kishkunas , As s i stan t Supe rinte nd e nt, OVT Edu ca ti on, Pi tt sb urgh; Adolph Holmes, Assist a nt Director . ·Economic Developme nt and Employmen t Nationa l Urban Leagu e , In c. ; J ames J. Forth, Marage r Employee and Community Re l ations, Ge n era l El ect ric Co. �- 2 WORKSHOP E (Section B Convention Hall) Chairman: William Flynn, Dir e ctor, STEP Progr?rn National Associatiort of Manufacturers Resource Persons: Earl Redwine, Consultant, ESR; Richard Lyle, Assistant Director, Urba n League, South Re gional Office; John . Wilson, Presiden t, Horne-Wilson Co.; E. L. Klein, Manag·s r , RCA �I \ THE URBAN COALI T ION EASTERN REGIONAL ACTION CONFERENCE : EXPANDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES De c embe r 1 3 , 1 96 7 Atl a nta , Geor gia TASK FORCE ON PR I VATE EMPLOYMENT Co-Cha i rme n .. Ge rald L. P~illi ppe Chairma n of the Boa rd Ge n e r a l El e ctric Compa n y New Yor k Dav i d SulJ.i van Pr e sl. d e n l Bu i lding Se r v ic e Emp l oye es Intern a ti onal Union AFL-CIO W2s"!-., ing t on ' J c h n Whee l er Pr e siden t Mech an i cs & Fa rme rs Ban k Du rham , North Carolina WORKSHOP~ (Aug u sta Room ) Cha i rma n : J 011n l... De nm;:ir1, Ma n a g er , De pt . of Urban Aff a irs , Ford Motor en . Res ourc e Pe r :=;011s : Will iarr, Do'-lm s , Associa t e Serv i ces , Inc . ; Da y t on Hanvi c-k , Emp l oyee ar.d Co;nmur. i t y H.e l a t ions , Ge n e r a l El e ctric Co . ; Dr. Lawren c e D. Re d d i ~k , Exe cu t ive Direc t or , Opp~rtuni t ies I ndustr iali z ati o n Ce nte r I;-ist itute WOR..l<SHOP B __(_Br un s wi ck Room)_ Cha i r ma n : Harold Shepard : W. E . Upj o hn In s titute for Emp l oyme nt Re s ~~ r ch Resource Pe rs on s : Pau l R. Thomson , Manage r , Employee & Commu n i ty Re l ations, Gene r a l El ec t ric Co. ; Sam ue l Da ni e l s , Associate Di~ e~ t o r, Cou~ci l fo r Eq u a l Busjnoss Oppor t u n i ty; Don Ga r~ is , Vi c e Pres id 143.215.248.55 , Sears Roe buc~ Fo unda ti o n WORKS HO ? C' . (Co}.u..'Ubu s Roo rn ) Cha irma n: Dr. He r.. ry Brern e::::- , Pe r s onne l Mana g e r , Xe r ox Corporatio n Res ource Pers on s : Cec il A l e1:3. nde r , F inch , Al exa nd e r , Ba rnes , Ro thschil d & Pasch a l , Arch ite c t s ; Berk e l e y G. Bu rre l l, Pr es i de nt, Na ti onal Bu s in ess Le agu e ; Ke n Howard , I n d u s t r i a l Re l at ions, Ea s tma n Kodak Co. WORKSHOP D (S e c ti on A Co n v e ntion Ha ll) Chairman: Rodn ey Au stin , Pe rso nn e l Ma n age r , Reynolds Tobacco Co. Resourc e Pe r sons : Dr. Loui s Kis h k u nas , Assistant Supe rintendent, OVT Ed u ca t ion, Pittsburgh; Adolph Holmes, Ass istan t Di rect o r . ·Economic Deve lopme nt and Employme nt National Urban League , Inc. ; J ames J. Forth, Ma 1~g e- Employe e a n d Communit y Re_l a ti o ns, Ge n e r a l El ec tric Co. �December 28, 1967 Miss Rose Marie Stewart Community Relations Office Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc . 101 Marietta Street, N . W . Atlanta , Georgia 30303 Dear Miss Stewa:rt1 All of the officials and staff people involved in the Eastern Regional Conferenc: of the Urb n Coalition here on Decernb 1' 13 gree that it w s th most successfully run eonfe:rence the Urb n Coalition h s conducted to date . m sure th t th major reason fot this is the cooperation nd seist nee we had from the local people who pitched in to h lp us get th job don . t would like to person lly thank you fo'f your I great help. Sine . r ly your , Dan Sw DS.£y t �De c embel' 28 , 196 7 Miss Ruth Berg Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 1300 Commerce Building Atlanta , Georgia Deal' Ruth: All of the offic1 la and staff people involved in the E stern Regional Confet- · nc - of the Urban C oalition hei-e on December 13 agree that it was the most successfully run confe,.-ence the Urb n Coalition has conduct d to date . 1 am sure that the m · jor t aeon for this is th cooperation and sist nee we had from the loc 1 peopl who pitch d in to help us get tne job done . 1 would Uk - to person lly thank you fo., your great h Ip. Sine rely your , D n Sw at DS:fy �December 28 , 196 7 Miss Ginny A berg Commwiity Council of the Atlanta Area., Inc . 1000 Glenn Building 120 Marietta Street, N . W. Atlanta; Georgia 30303 Dear Ginny: All of the offici ls and staff peopl involved in th Ea tern Regional Conference of the Urban Coalition here on December 13 agree th · t it was the most successfully run conference the Urb n Coalition has conducted to d te. I am sur th t th major reason £or this is the cooperath>n nd assi tance w h d f:rom the local peopl who pitched in to help us get the job don • l would like to person Uy thank you for your great h lp. Sincer ly yours, Dan Sw DS:fy t �LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF GEORGIA ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30305 Telephone 237-2559 3121 Maple Drive, N.E. Suite 2 Affiliated with the league of Women Voters of the United States December 15, 1967 The Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr. Mayor, City of Atlanta 204 City Hal 1 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Dear Mayor Allen: Thank you for co-sponsoring the Eastern Regional Action Conference: Expanding Employment Opportunities. I appreciated the invitation to attend and found it very worthwhile. I hope you will follow this conference up by activity on the local level. Please let us know if we can be of help in this endeavor. Sincerely, Mrs. Merlyn E. Richardson President ELR:FS �., ' - ~ . THE URBAN COAL ITION EASTE~~ REGIONAL ACTION CONFEl<.ENCE: LXPAND ING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES December 13, 1967 Atlanta, Ge orgia TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT Co-Chairme n Gerald L. Phillippe Chairman of the Board General Electric Company New York David Sullivan President Building Service Employees International Union AFL-CIO Washington John Wheeler President Mechanics & Farmers Bank DuLham, North Carolina WORKSHOP A (Augusta Room) Chairman: John L. De nman, Manage r, Dept . cf Urban Affairs , Ford Motor Co. Resource Persons : William Dovms , Assoc i a t e Services , Inc.; Dayton Ha:!'.Wick , EmplC'yee and CO!nm11ni t y Rela b on s , Ge n e r a l El ~c tr ic Co.; Dr. Lawr ence D. Re:'l.dick , Exe cutive Director, Opportunitie s Industria l ization Cente r Institute WORKSHOP B (Bruns wi ck Room ) Chairman : Harold She pard: W. E. U~john In s titute for Employment Research Resource Persons: Pa ul R. Thomson, Man~ge r, Emp loyee & Community Relations , Gene ral El ec tric Co.; Samu e l Danie ls, Associate Director, Council f or Equ a l Busi n ess 09portu nity; Don Gar~is, Vi c e Pre s ide nt, S e a r s Roebuck Fo un da~i on WORKSHOP C (Columb us Room ) Chairman: Dr. He nry Bre nn e r, Personne l Mana g e r , Xe r ox Corporation Re source Pe rson s : Ce cil Al exa nder , Finch , Al exa nder , Barnes, Rothschild Pasch a l, Architer ts ; Be rke l e y G. G~rre ll, Preside nt, Nat ional Busi n ess Lt=~a s u e ; Ke n Howard , Indu str i a l Re l a tions, Eas tma n Kodak Co . & WORKSHOP D (S e ction A Conve nti on Hall ) Chairman: Rodn ey Au s tin, Pe rsonne l Ma na g er , Reyn o lds Tobacco Co. Reso urc e Pers on s : Dr. Loui s Ki s hku na s , Ass i stan t Supe rinte nde nt, OVT Education, Pittsburgh; Adol ph Ho l mes, Assistant Director, · Economic Deve l opme nt and Employmen t National Urban League , Inc.; J ames J. Forth, Ma~age ~ Employee a nd Community Re l ations , Gene r a l El ect ri c Co. �- 2 WORKSHOP E (Section B Convention Ha ll) Chairman: William Flynn, Director, STEP Program National Association of Manufacturers Resource Persons: Earl Redwine, Consultan t, ESR; Richard Lyle, Assis~nt Director, Urban League, South Re gional Office; John Wilson, President, Hor~e-Wilsor. Co.; E. L. Klein, Manager, RCA �December 28 , 1967 Mr . Donal d H . Gareis V ic e President - Southern Area The Sears.R oebuck Foundation 675 Ponce de Leon Avenue , N. E . Atlanta,. Georgia Dear Don: All of the officials and staff peopl e involv d in the Eastern Regional C onfer nc of the Urban C o Ution here on December 13 agree that it w s the most successfully run conference the Urban Coalition has donduct d to date . 1 m sure th t th major r son for this is the cooper tion and ssist nc we had from th loc l peopl who pitched in to h lp u get the job don • I would lik to person lly thank you for youl' g:r · t help. Sincerely yout , D nSw DS:fy t �- 2 WORKSHCt' E (Section B Convention Hall) Chairman: William Flynn, Director, STEP Program National Associatiort of Manufacturers Resource Persons: Earl Redwine, Consultant, ESR; Richard Lyle, Assistant Director, Urban League, South Regional Office; John Wilson, President, Horne-Wilson Co.; E. L. Klein, Manager, RCA �