Box 14, Folder 12, Document 66

RESOLUTION

Atlanta Local 3204 Communications Workers of America in the
general membership meeting September 6, 1966 unanimously states
the following:

WHEREAS: The Atlanta, Georgia Firemen are underpaid and
work pixty (60) hours per week and;

WHEREAS: For an untold number of months these Firemen and
the AFL-CIO Local to which they belonged negotiated fruitlessly
with Mayor Ivan Allen.and the Board of Firemasters and;

WHEREAS: These Atlanta Firemen formed an independent
Union to correct these unreasonable working conditions and;

WHEREAS: The dispute was submitted by both parties to Dr.
Edwin Harrison, President of Georgia Institute of Technology and;

WHEREAS: The recommendations of Dr. Harrison were turned
down by Mayor Allen and the Board of Firemasters; those
recommendations being, an Lgnediete ancredee in wages or a
reduction in hours and;

WHEREAS: Local 3204 CWA considers the City's action and
that by the Board of Firemasters as unreasonable and in utter
disregard of the well-being of Atlanta Fireman and their families;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that; Local 3204 Communications
Workers of America advises all people that it supports the Atlanta
Fire Fighters Union Independent in its demand for reasonable pay
and in its strike against the City of Atlanta.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that; this resolution be mailed to all
city officials; Georgia Congressmen; Senators; George Meany,
AFL-CIO President; J. A. Beirne, President of CWA; and Captain
J. I. Martin, President of Atlanta Fire Fighters Union Inde-

pendent.

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LAWSON A. SEWELL, President
Local 3204, C. W. A.

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