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on. =~, RE: COUNTEROR. -Nu..LTON WEEK t eee. x One thing that's detrimental about this is that wé’re too easy to get whitewashed. You see, you get a black whitewashed 1 you really got some trouble. We accomplished quite a few things at Duke University, but there are Many more to be done. The same union, I believe .ou mentioned the same union, black history and union history. ‘To many people the same union is one of the mat massive words that exists, it is a mores massive thing than black power. But I may have to realize how much they gained and how rich they are from these union employees. One thing that hie) TT #Hhink that wean un ad de F s . eZ vee 7 op SHAN, + ; i q e . 5 LS x = & a . ‘J AZ {unintelligi n light w I remember reading a book in the library at Duke University nine years ago about a white man in Kentucky named Joe Hale. He went to his boss and asked his boss for a $2 raise. He had five children and his wife, and he kept insisting and his boss fired him. When his boss fired him his other fellow employees asked him what he had been fired for. And he said I asked my boss ee ¥ é‘ ~—~=- for a $2 raise. I didn't ask him for a dollar for myself. I only 4 t asked for a dollar for my children and my wife. And his wife was expecting a baby, and he said he was asking for a dollar for that, for the baby they were expecting. ; They said Joe, what can you do? What do you have in mind? 3 He said let's organize and make a union. And he began to organize a a labor union. The people organized with him and other people got fired. They put Joe Hale in jail. They put Joe Hale in jail, they carried him to court and sentenced him to die in the electric chair. ‘The state, the municipal government in that city said that Joe was trying to overthrow that government. And when this occurred people began to write. I want to say at this point that Joe Hale gave his life that the possibility that the union organization by all people could be organized. And I wuld like to recall, last year on the 4th of April, remember, that the same union we created, the State (unintelligible) union, not only a cammittee or a state or a national union, but a federation. A man you may forget, {next few words unintelligible), was Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING, in Memphis, Tennessee, gave his life to protect workers and employees represented in this same union. (Not entirely intelligible.) - ae te i 45 neg a i; + PITRE + tnd A ES a LIN 8 OS ORR IE LN aE I ORRIN eR RRR: aR Qe oe eae ne a H et ae as