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—- UE Group Urges UN Act on U. S. West indian Ban a The CIO United Electrical Workers, District Four, has ap- pealed to the United Nations Hu- man Rights Commission against the American government's pol- . icy of racial discrimination against / West Indian and Central Amery def f can workers in the Panama Ca: ioe Zone, -: y) ” Tha, appeal, addressed to M 2 b g / Eleanad foosevel is the Brst a o ~ ° peal made by an American trade /0 union for UN intervention to enc é American policies of jimcrow. Under the government imposed and maintained system the Zone’s workers are classified as “silver” and “gold” workers. These are enaiele antaced navenne and avhita enemy TGS PeTsOns Si. wEias persons, respectively. The “Gold” workers get highe wages, live in better houses, hay fine recreational and other public 1 facilities, from which the “silver” ’ workers are barred, rr iB Gh Va “It is needless to say,” the UE . va fr os. f 8 eee a appeal declared, “that West tn- dians and Central Americans will never be impressed when we. apeak of our concern about human: signe unless we grant them to NOP RECORD es oe & re ~ The appalling official jimcrow| 7é WL 53 3949 policy in the Zone was exposed inj © * ers who have carried on a relen Ae, less fight on behalf of the worke: Cy This ig a clipping from gt ‘ of wh it represents the Canal Zone. ” rt =6Page of tho , + g Se - Ms Daily Worker, ¥ ; Date 4 LIE Date baat et Government, . * 5g JUL 121989 | we : _— . i . soe oe, . 4, wo ‘ono “h OF - . -