Text of address by Walter White, Secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to CIO Convention, Portland, Oregon, November 25, 1948
Publisher: Congress of Industrial Organizations
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Subjects: Labor unions; Working class
Notes: Typescript.

"For release P.M. Papers, Thursday, November 25, 1948 (7:00 A.M. EST, November 25, 1948)" -- Page [1].

"Tenth Constitutional Convention, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Masonic Temple, Portland, Oregon, November 22-26, 1948."-- Page [1].

"I am pleased ... that we meet today at a time of greater hope than was the case on November 1st. The voters of America, particularly labor and the Negro, have repudiated emphatically the extreme left and the extreme right of American political and economic thought. That repudiation has resulted not only in the return to the White House of the quiet man [Harry Truman] from Missouri who has taken, on such issues as civil rights, the most courageous and forthright position of any President in American history."