Copy of a letter to Dan Bickford, Executive Secretary, King County Labor Council from Phyllis Hutchinson, Recording Secretary, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 with a copy of a petition to the Board of Directors of the Boeing Company signed by Daniel T. Linville. The letter says our membership, at their June membership meetings, voted unanimously to support the enclosed petition to the Board of Directors of the Boeing Company asking for them to cancel their contracts with South African Airways to order and build 747's. The letter says additionally, we are asking both the Washington State Labor Council and the King County Labor Council to accept our position on this matter and to go on record...
Copy of a letter to Dan Bickford, Executive Secretary, King County Labor Council from Phyllis Hutchinson, Recording Secretary, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 with a copy of a petition to the Board of Directors of the Boeing Company signed by Daniel T. Linville. The letter says our membership, at their June membership meetings, voted unanimously to support the enclosed petition to the Board of Directors of the Boeing Company asking for them to cancel their contracts with South African Airways to order and build 747's. The letter says additionally, we are asking both the Washington State Labor Council and the King County Labor Council to accept our position on this matter and to go on record supporting the same. By a cc: the letter indicates a copy was sent to Bill Clifford. The letter and petition discuss apartheid, institutional racism, Puget Sound, South African Airways (SAA), and Frank Shrontz. [Note: Bill Clifford was a member of the Seattle Labor Committee Against Apartheid.]
