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The Urban Coalition | ACTION REPORT
Federal Bar Building West / 1819 H Street, N.W. / Washington, D. C. / 20006
National Coordinators: John Feild [ Ron M,. Linton
October 31, 1967
During its second month of operations, The Urban Coalition
moved ahead on four major fronts--the formation of local
coalitions, developing pilot programs to increase job oppor-
tunities for the hard-core unemployed, enlisting key segments
of the communications industry in promoting public understand-
ing of the urban crisis and urging Congress to "move without
delay on urban problems."
LOCAL COALITIONS
In response to requests from communities across the country,
the Task Force on Local Coalitions sponsored a one-day planning
conference on “Mobilizing Urban Coalitions" on October 17 in
Chicago. Two hundred and fifty leaders in local government,
business, labor, religion and civil rights--from 52 cities--
attended.
Major addresses at the conference were given by Mayors Richard
J. Daley of Chicago and Arthur Naftalin of Minneapolis and Dr.
Kenneth Wright, Vice President and Chief Economist of the Life
Insurance Association of America. John Cardinal Cody, Archbishop
of Chicago, and Bishop James Montgomery, Co-Adjutor Bishop of
the Episcopal Diocese of Chiago added their support. Also
participating in the program were Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh,
Co-Chairman of the Task Force on Local Coalitions and President
of the U. S. Conference of Mayors and Mayor Milton Graham of
Phoenix. I. W. Abel, President of the AFL-CIO United Steel-
workers of America was represented by John J. Sheehan, Legislative
Director of the Steelworkers. The. conference was opened by
John H. Johnson, President of Johnson Publications and Co-Chair-
man of the Task Force on Communications and Public Support and
the closing session was chaired by Arnold Aronson, Executive
Secretary of the Leadership Confernce on Civil Rights and Co-
Chairman of the Task Force on Local Coalitions.
At a second meeting, two days later in Minneapolis, the Mayors
of eleven additional cities met with the leadership of the newly
formed Minneapolis Coalition to review ideas for urban coalition
activity. Two additional planning sessions are now scheduled--
one for the western cities to be held in San Francisco (Nov. 30)
and one for eastern cities to be held in early December.
National Steering Committee
1, W. ABEL, President, United Steelworkers, Pittsburgh
THE HONORABLE IVAN ALLEN, JR., Mayor of Atianta
ARNOLD ARONSON, Executive Secretary, Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C.
ROY ASH, President, Litton Industries, Beverly Hills
THE HONORABLE JOSEPH M. BARR, Mayor of Pittsburgh,
President, U. S. Conference of Mayors
THE HONORABLE JEROME P. CAVANAUGH, Mayor of Detroit
FREDERICK J. CLOSE, Chairman of the Board, Aluminum
Company of America, Pittsburgh
THE HONORABLE JOHN F, COLLINS, Mayor of Boston
THE HONORABLE RICHARD J. DALEY, Mayor of Chicago
THE MOST REV. JOHN F. DEARDEN, Archbishop of Detroit
GILBERT W. FITZHUGH, President, Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company, New York
DR. ARTHUR FLEMMING, President, University of Oregon, President,
Natianal Council of Churches, New York
HENRY FORD Hl, Chairman, Ford Motor Company, Detroit
THE HONORABLE MILTON GRAHAM, Mayor of Phoenix
ANDREW HEISKELL, Chairman of the Board, Time, Inc.,
Chairman, Urban America Inc., New York
JOSEPH D. KEENAN, Secretary, international Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, Washington, D.C.
THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., President, Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta
THE HONORABLE JOHN V. LINDSAY, Mayor of New York
GEORGE MEANY, President, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.
J. IRWIN MILLER, Chairman, Cummins Engine Company,
Columbus (Indiana)
THE HONORABLE ARTHUR NAFTALIN, Mayor of Minneapolis
GERALD L. PHILLIPPE, Chairman of the Board, General Eleciric
Company, New York
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, New York
WALTER REUTHER, President, United Auto Workers, President,
Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, Detroit
DAVID ROCKEFELLER, President, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
JAMES ROUSE, President, The Rouse Company, President,
Urban America Inc., Baltimore
RABBI JACOB P. RUDIN, President, Synagogue Council of America,
New York -
THEODORE SCHLESINGER, President, Allied Stores Corporation,
New York
ASA T. SPAULDING, President, North Carolina Mutual
Insurance Company, Durham
DAVID SULLIVAN, President, Service Employees International
Union, Washington, D.C. .
THE HONORABLE JAMES H. J. TATE, Mayor of Philadelphia,
President, National League of Cities
JOHN WHEELER, President, Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham,
President, Southern Regional Council
ROY WILKINS, Executive Director, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, New York
WHITNEY YOUNG, JR., Executive Director, National Urban League,
New York
JOHN FEILD, U. S. Conference of Mayors, National Coordinator
RON M. LINTON, Urban America /nc., National Coordinator
teeth ee +o a CU
3.5
As of October 31, local coalitions were moving toward affiliation
in Detroit, New York, Gary, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Atlanta.
Other communities across the nation are also apparently beginning
to move. In California, for example, the League of California
Cities, at its recent annual convention, called upon all California
cities to establish urban coalitions. Fresno and San Diego
sponsored the resolution and announced they were taking action in
their communities. Similar word has been received from such
diverse areas as Newark, Chatanooga, Denver, Phoenix, both Kansas
Cities, Washington, D. C. and Seattle.
PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Task Force on Private Employment has been contacting indivi-
dual businessmen, business organizations, labor unions and civic
groups for ideas on the role private industry and unions can play
in meeting the problems of unemployment and underemployment in
our cities. Ideas are being exchanged, case histories are being
developed and guidelines for suggested local action are currently
being prepared. Officials of the National Industrial Conference
Board are cooperating with The Urban Coalition in developing plans
for a national clearing-house on hard-core unemployment and
training projects.
Two meetings have been scheduled--in Baltimore and Detroit--to
examine in detail different local approaches to this problem.
The Baltimore meeting (Nov. 14) will concentrate on how Negro
business opportunities can be expanded through sub-contracting
with industry. The Detroit meeting (Nov. 21) will emphasize
training and upgrading. Task Force Co-Chairmen Gerald L.
Phillippe and David Sullivan will speak at both meetings.
In addition, regional meetings on private employment are
scheduled for Atlanta (Dec. 13), Phoenix (Jan. 17) and Kansas
City, Mo. (Jan. 24).
COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC SUPPORT
The new Task Force on Communications and Public Support is
headed by Joseph H. Allen, President of McGraw Hill Publications,
John H. Johnson, President of Johnson Publications and Harold
Fleming, President of Potomac Institute. Through their efforts,
key communications organizations such as the Advertising Council,
the American Business Press Association and the Public Relations
Society of America are being contacted for ideas and support.
=
McGraw-Hill Publications has scheduled a special supplement
on urban problems which will appear in January in all forty
of thier publications. This is only the second time in their
history that McGraw-Hill has undertaken such a project. A
special supplement to City magazine on the August Convocation
has been sent to all those who attended and is receiving wide
national distribution.
Press support for the Coalition continues strong. Since the
August Emergency Convocation, editorials supporting the Coali-
tion's goals and principles have appeared in some 70 newspapers
and magazines. In addition, news stories have appeared in a
‘wide variety of dailies, weeklies, and magazines, including
business journals, labor union papers, religious publications
and the Negro press. (See sample clips)
LEGISLATION
On October 23, Coalition Co-Chairmen Andrew Heiskell and
A. Philip Randolph wired members of the House-Senate Confer-
ence Committee on Independent Offices Appropriations urging
that they support the Senate's recommendation of $637 million
for funding the model cities program (the House had approved
$237) and $40 million for funding rent supplements (the House
had killed the program). In final action, model cities
received $312 million and rent supplements received $10 million.
In their wire, Heiskell and Randolph reminded members of the
Committee that 1,200 national leaders gathered at the Coali-
tion's August Convocation in Washington had unanimously
declared:
“Congress must move without delay on urban programs.
The country can wait no longer for measures that have
been denied the people of the cities and the nation
as a whole."
(Statement of Principles, Goals, and Commit-
ments)
EQUAL HOUSING
Mr. James W. Cook, President of the Illinois Bell Telephone
Company, has accepted the co-chairmanship of the Task Force
on Equal Housing Opportunities. Representatives of the Task
Force Co-Chairmen are exploring the current privatezand
An
government investment situation, and the effect of government
housing and financing programs on plans for metropolitan open
housing. The group is also surveying the experiences of existing
fair housing groups and determining how this Task Force can
relate its work to the local coalition movement. Particular
emphasis is being paid the problem of new lower-income housing
in suburban areas on an open occupancy basis.
A national action session for some 300 suburban fair housing
councils is planned for early next year in Chicago. The Lead-
ership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, under the
Chairmanship of C. Virgil Martin, President of Carson, Pirie
Scott and Company will serve as the local host.
EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES
Expansion of this Task Force is under way, work areas are
being defined, and technical resources are being surveyed.
Representatives of the Task Force Co-Chairmen met following
the October 9 Steering Committee to discuss Task Force goals:
particular attention was paid to ways in which the Task Force
can relate to efforts of local coalitions to deal with educa-
tional problems.
A full Task Force meeting will take place November 7 in
New York.
HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION AND INVESTMENT
Representatives of the Task Force Co-Chairmen have met twice
and are drafting a position paper on the goals of the Task
Force, the technical resources it can make use of, and the poli-
cies it will consider recommending.
Task Force Co-Chairmen and representatives meet November 22 in
New York.
Federal Bar Building West / 1819 H Street, N.W. / Washington, D. C. / 20006
National Coordinators: John Feild [ Ron M,. Linton
October 31, 1967
During its second month of operations, The Urban Coalition
moved ahead on four major fronts--the formation of local
coalitions, developing pilot programs to increase job oppor-
tunities for the hard-core unemployed, enlisting key segments
of the communications industry in promoting public understand-
ing of the urban crisis and urging Congress to "move without
delay on urban problems."
LOCAL COALITIONS
In response to requests from communities across the country,
the Task Force on Local Coalitions sponsored a one-day planning
conference on “Mobilizing Urban Coalitions" on October 17 in
Chicago. Two hundred and fifty leaders in local government,
business, labor, religion and civil rights--from 52 cities--
attended.
Major addresses at the conference were given by Mayors Richard
J. Daley of Chicago and Arthur Naftalin of Minneapolis and Dr.
Kenneth Wright, Vice President and Chief Economist of the Life
Insurance Association of America. John Cardinal Cody, Archbishop
of Chicago, and Bishop James Montgomery, Co-Adjutor Bishop of
the Episcopal Diocese of Chiago added their support. Also
participating in the program were Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh,
Co-Chairman of the Task Force on Local Coalitions and President
of the U. S. Conference of Mayors and Mayor Milton Graham of
Phoenix. I. W. Abel, President of the AFL-CIO United Steel-
workers of America was represented by John J. Sheehan, Legislative
Director of the Steelworkers. The. conference was opened by
John H. Johnson, President of Johnson Publications and Co-Chair-
man of the Task Force on Communications and Public Support and
the closing session was chaired by Arnold Aronson, Executive
Secretary of the Leadership Confernce on Civil Rights and Co-
Chairman of the Task Force on Local Coalitions.
At a second meeting, two days later in Minneapolis, the Mayors
of eleven additional cities met with the leadership of the newly
formed Minneapolis Coalition to review ideas for urban coalition
activity. Two additional planning sessions are now scheduled--
one for the western cities to be held in San Francisco (Nov. 30)
and one for eastern cities to be held in early December.
National Steering Committee
1, W. ABEL, President, United Steelworkers, Pittsburgh
THE HONORABLE IVAN ALLEN, JR., Mayor of Atianta
ARNOLD ARONSON, Executive Secretary, Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C.
ROY ASH, President, Litton Industries, Beverly Hills
THE HONORABLE JOSEPH M. BARR, Mayor of Pittsburgh,
President, U. S. Conference of Mayors
THE HONORABLE JEROME P. CAVANAUGH, Mayor of Detroit
FREDERICK J. CLOSE, Chairman of the Board, Aluminum
Company of America, Pittsburgh
THE HONORABLE JOHN F, COLLINS, Mayor of Boston
THE HONORABLE RICHARD J. DALEY, Mayor of Chicago
THE MOST REV. JOHN F. DEARDEN, Archbishop of Detroit
GILBERT W. FITZHUGH, President, Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company, New York
DR. ARTHUR FLEMMING, President, University of Oregon, President,
Natianal Council of Churches, New York
HENRY FORD Hl, Chairman, Ford Motor Company, Detroit
THE HONORABLE MILTON GRAHAM, Mayor of Phoenix
ANDREW HEISKELL, Chairman of the Board, Time, Inc.,
Chairman, Urban America Inc., New York
JOSEPH D. KEENAN, Secretary, international Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, Washington, D.C.
THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., President, Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta
THE HONORABLE JOHN V. LINDSAY, Mayor of New York
GEORGE MEANY, President, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.
J. IRWIN MILLER, Chairman, Cummins Engine Company,
Columbus (Indiana)
THE HONORABLE ARTHUR NAFTALIN, Mayor of Minneapolis
GERALD L. PHILLIPPE, Chairman of the Board, General Eleciric
Company, New York
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, New York
WALTER REUTHER, President, United Auto Workers, President,
Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, Detroit
DAVID ROCKEFELLER, President, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
JAMES ROUSE, President, The Rouse Company, President,
Urban America Inc., Baltimore
RABBI JACOB P. RUDIN, President, Synagogue Council of America,
New York -
THEODORE SCHLESINGER, President, Allied Stores Corporation,
New York
ASA T. SPAULDING, President, North Carolina Mutual
Insurance Company, Durham
DAVID SULLIVAN, President, Service Employees International
Union, Washington, D.C. .
THE HONORABLE JAMES H. J. TATE, Mayor of Philadelphia,
President, National League of Cities
JOHN WHEELER, President, Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham,
President, Southern Regional Council
ROY WILKINS, Executive Director, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, New York
WHITNEY YOUNG, JR., Executive Director, National Urban League,
New York
JOHN FEILD, U. S. Conference of Mayors, National Coordinator
RON M. LINTON, Urban America /nc., National Coordinator
teeth ee +o a CU
3.5
As of October 31, local coalitions were moving toward affiliation
in Detroit, New York, Gary, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Atlanta.
Other communities across the nation are also apparently beginning
to move. In California, for example, the League of California
Cities, at its recent annual convention, called upon all California
cities to establish urban coalitions. Fresno and San Diego
sponsored the resolution and announced they were taking action in
their communities. Similar word has been received from such
diverse areas as Newark, Chatanooga, Denver, Phoenix, both Kansas
Cities, Washington, D. C. and Seattle.
PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Task Force on Private Employment has been contacting indivi-
dual businessmen, business organizations, labor unions and civic
groups for ideas on the role private industry and unions can play
in meeting the problems of unemployment and underemployment in
our cities. Ideas are being exchanged, case histories are being
developed and guidelines for suggested local action are currently
being prepared. Officials of the National Industrial Conference
Board are cooperating with The Urban Coalition in developing plans
for a national clearing-house on hard-core unemployment and
training projects.
Two meetings have been scheduled--in Baltimore and Detroit--to
examine in detail different local approaches to this problem.
The Baltimore meeting (Nov. 14) will concentrate on how Negro
business opportunities can be expanded through sub-contracting
with industry. The Detroit meeting (Nov. 21) will emphasize
training and upgrading. Task Force Co-Chairmen Gerald L.
Phillippe and David Sullivan will speak at both meetings.
In addition, regional meetings on private employment are
scheduled for Atlanta (Dec. 13), Phoenix (Jan. 17) and Kansas
City, Mo. (Jan. 24).
COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC SUPPORT
The new Task Force on Communications and Public Support is
headed by Joseph H. Allen, President of McGraw Hill Publications,
John H. Johnson, President of Johnson Publications and Harold
Fleming, President of Potomac Institute. Through their efforts,
key communications organizations such as the Advertising Council,
the American Business Press Association and the Public Relations
Society of America are being contacted for ideas and support.
=
McGraw-Hill Publications has scheduled a special supplement
on urban problems which will appear in January in all forty
of thier publications. This is only the second time in their
history that McGraw-Hill has undertaken such a project. A
special supplement to City magazine on the August Convocation
has been sent to all those who attended and is receiving wide
national distribution.
Press support for the Coalition continues strong. Since the
August Emergency Convocation, editorials supporting the Coali-
tion's goals and principles have appeared in some 70 newspapers
and magazines. In addition, news stories have appeared in a
‘wide variety of dailies, weeklies, and magazines, including
business journals, labor union papers, religious publications
and the Negro press. (See sample clips)
LEGISLATION
On October 23, Coalition Co-Chairmen Andrew Heiskell and
A. Philip Randolph wired members of the House-Senate Confer-
ence Committee on Independent Offices Appropriations urging
that they support the Senate's recommendation of $637 million
for funding the model cities program (the House had approved
$237) and $40 million for funding rent supplements (the House
had killed the program). In final action, model cities
received $312 million and rent supplements received $10 million.
In their wire, Heiskell and Randolph reminded members of the
Committee that 1,200 national leaders gathered at the Coali-
tion's August Convocation in Washington had unanimously
declared:
“Congress must move without delay on urban programs.
The country can wait no longer for measures that have
been denied the people of the cities and the nation
as a whole."
(Statement of Principles, Goals, and Commit-
ments)
EQUAL HOUSING
Mr. James W. Cook, President of the Illinois Bell Telephone
Company, has accepted the co-chairmanship of the Task Force
on Equal Housing Opportunities. Representatives of the Task
Force Co-Chairmen are exploring the current privatezand
An
government investment situation, and the effect of government
housing and financing programs on plans for metropolitan open
housing. The group is also surveying the experiences of existing
fair housing groups and determining how this Task Force can
relate its work to the local coalition movement. Particular
emphasis is being paid the problem of new lower-income housing
in suburban areas on an open occupancy basis.
A national action session for some 300 suburban fair housing
councils is planned for early next year in Chicago. The Lead-
ership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, under the
Chairmanship of C. Virgil Martin, President of Carson, Pirie
Scott and Company will serve as the local host.
EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES
Expansion of this Task Force is under way, work areas are
being defined, and technical resources are being surveyed.
Representatives of the Task Force Co-Chairmen met following
the October 9 Steering Committee to discuss Task Force goals:
particular attention was paid to ways in which the Task Force
can relate to efforts of local coalitions to deal with educa-
tional problems.
A full Task Force meeting will take place November 7 in
New York.
HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION AND INVESTMENT
Representatives of the Task Force Co-Chairmen have met twice
and are drafting a position paper on the goals of the Task
Force, the technical resources it can make use of, and the poli-
cies it will consider recommending.
Task Force Co-Chairmen and representatives meet November 22 in
New York.
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