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Omaha Steve

(99,653 posts) Mon Oct 27, 2014, 07:57 PM Oct 2014

October 27, 1951 (look what they did to the National Negro Labor Council)

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The National Negro Labor Council is formed in Cincinnati, Ohio. Delegates from around the country gathered to denounce racial discrimination in the workplace, segregation, and the slow pace at which the labor movement as a whole addressed these problems. The NNLC was branded a communist front by the U.S. Attorney General, investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and dissolved in 1956 under mounting legal defense costs.

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October 27, 1951 (look what they did to the National Negro Labor Council) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2014 OP

kick Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #1

K&r... spanone Oct 2014 #2

K&R I was only ten then but I remember my dad listening to the news about this. jwirr Oct 2014 #3

My dad was anti-union Omaha Steve Oct 2014 #4

My dad went as far as the eigth grade. I don't know he was a farmer so the union was not an option. jwirr Oct 2014 #5

Blue_Tires

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1. kick

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Mon Oct 27, 2014, 08:09 PM

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spanone

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2. K&r...

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Mon Oct 27, 2014, 08:11 PM

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jwirr

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3. K&R I was only ten then but I remember my dad listening to the news about this.

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Mon Oct 27, 2014, 08:13 PM

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Omaha Steve

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4. My dad was anti-union

Reply to jwirr (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 28, 2014, 08:29 AM

Oct 2014

Even though he benefited from a union contract, he would not join. He only had a third grade education because of the depression. He went to work to feed his younger siblings.

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jwirr

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5. My dad went as far as the eigth grade. I don't know he was a farmer so the union was not an option.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:17 AM

Oct 2014

However, we are of German descent and had soldiers in the family who fought against the Nazi's and was deathly against discrimination of any kind. He was not anti-union as he was self educated - listened to the news read books, magazines and newspapers. In those days the union was just beginning to earn all the things we take for granted today. That is what he learned from all that study and what made him pro-union.

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