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_005196876	Higgins, George, 1916-2002.	Labor Day statement, 1971	1971		.txt	text/plain	3860	111	50	Labor and the Black Community The trouble with this kind of oversimplified and highly doctrinaire approach to the problem of racial discrimination in the ranks of organized labor — aside from the fact that it happens to be contrary to the evidence—is that it runs the risk of turning the Black community in general and Black workers in particular against the entire American labor move- ment, and this at the very time when unions are more important to Black workers than ever before. Some unions admittedly practice discrimination against Chicanos, but, on the basis of all the available evi- dence, the study referred to above concludes that the pattern of minority employment is better among employers who have arrangements with labor unions that affect to some extent whom they may hire than it is among those who do not have such arrangements.	cache/_005196876.txt	txt/_005196876.txt