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ITOB ·RIGHTS PLAN tJ rnups and the unions in a posl1ve way. . A National L abor Service spo~ esm3:n,. info rm ed of the r e, , , , , , act10n, said . ill1 "We're sorry th ey're so hy, persensitive. Our purpose was Pro osals to End Race Bars completely fr iendly and deP signed to br idge the ga p beTe rmed' Presum pti ous tween la bor and the Negro and t,; ~ ~ 1 •1 ,\Y civil rig hts g roups. We feel it /Vil~ i'j, ... \ is extremely important bot h .for By JOHN D. POMF R i T the civil rights movement and Special to The New York Tlmta ' fo r the sake of legislation in WASHINGTON, July other · Ids to have broadly IRKS AFL-C·IO \(l y ." . 0 gr~ups active in th T e oposals were m a iled to 1ghts field today sent to e presidents of the A.F .L.of the na tion's int erna tional C.I.O .'s 130 affili a ted unions. union presidents a set of sweep- They went also to the federaing proposals for uni on a ction to end r acia l discrimination. The proposals evoked a host ile r eac tion from a spokesman for the American Federation of La bor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. While saying that he felt the proposa ls were well-meaning, he cha racterized them. as pre sumptuous. He indicated that! he was ncerned that union lea ders w 1d regard th em a ctic, and that this a pr ess1,1r unfavora re ion later would be ted n res!stanc the federation t o wh itself opose to its affiliates civil rights field J' Proposals " An at the A.F.L. in t his area wi l1 C.I.O. be in these proposa ls~ not b of them," th spokes . "W have go to look prob! ~ from a, oint o view and trade u de un n way to move in solve t h T he 1 oposals were circulated by the P otomac Ins titute, a private, nonprofit agency working for improved Intergroup relations, and th e National L abor Service of the

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They emerged !}'om a n "off. the-recor d" meeting h eld at t he institute here J une 10. About 25 persons active in civil rights work in unions, intergroup relations experts and repres41ntaUves of Negro organizationls llttended. nee Is Olted ht of t he t wo sponps was t hl,t. the '1liance b the N egro had ly strain n unions ecrctary ciation of C o t r an fi411d The s ot s demonstrations union discrim ina rly in the bu ding ades ould increase in frequen cy They fel t it vi tal t o t ry to hea the breach between the Negro t!_on ?~elf, to union civil rights spec1ailsts, key Negro leaders, a number ci'f government officials active in th e civil ri_ghts field and the l eaders of mtergroup or ganizations. Calle!1 Suggestions Titled "P roposals fo r Civil Rights Action by Organized La bor ," the .. 16 suggestions all were made by participants at the June 16 meeting . Not every par ticipant end orsed each proposal a nd, in fac t , some of the s.uggestions were vigorously opposed by a number of those who a ttended. Nor were the . p_ropcisals in any sense the off1c1al program of the sponsoring' or~anj,zatio_ns, a spokesman explained~ T)l$ were sent o_ut in the hope th,{ they would be useful to· unio~ in -planning their activities · th · ·1 • ht f ' Id e civi r~g s ie ·. ,: The main suggestion was th~ the federa tion should establi~ immediately a special task fox~ of ranking officers and sta,£f r epresenta tives to set up •.<~ broad crash program"' to de with all aspects of civil right$ Task forces on the state a.iyl local level_s were also recom; mended and international unions were asked to ma~~ h_ig_h-l~vel as?ignments in t~ c1v1I ri ghts field. ·· - �