AMERICAN TRADE UNION COUNCIL
of the NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR LABOR ISRAEL

33 East 67 Street • New York 21, N. Y. • REgent 4-6010

Office of the
Executive Director

HONORARY CHAIRMEN

CLAUDE JODOIN
GEORGE MEANY
WALTER P. REUTHER

HONORARY VICE-CHAIRMEN

Joseph A. Beirne
Mort Brandenburg
Elmer Brown
George Burdon
John P. Burke
James B. Carey
Jacob Clayman
Daniel E. Conway
Howard Coughlin
Joseph Curran
Abe Feinglass
Karl F. Feller
Henry Fleisher
Patrick E. Gorman
Max Greenberg
John J. Grogan
C. J. Haggerty
Paul Hall
Phil Hannah
George M. Harrison
A. F. Hartung
Al J. Hayes
Ralph Helfstein
John F. Henning
Sal B. Hoffmann
Louis Hollander
Morris Iushewitz
Joel R. Jacobson
Joseph D. Keenan
Herman D. Kenin
W. P. Kennedy
O. A. Knight
Jack Kroll
Thomas J. Lloyd
Michael Mann
Donald MacDonald
James L. McDevitt
David J. McDonald
Ed. S. Miller
Lee W. Minton
John J. Murphy
Vincent J. Murphy
William Pollock
Michael J. Quill
A. Phillip Randolph
Alex Rose
Peter T. Schoemann
Reuben G. Soderstrom
James A. Suffridge
Richard F. Walsh
Ralph Wright
Arnold S. Zander
Norman Zukowsky

OFFICERS

Moe Fallkman
Chairman

Harry Greenberg
First Vice-Chairman

David Siegal
Co-Chairman

David Gingold
Chairman, Nat'l Exec. Comm.

I. H. Goldberg
Chairman, Admin. Comm.

Philip Lubliner
Treasurer

William Michelson
Chairman, Workers' Travel Comm.

Nathaniel M. Minkoff
Associate Treasurer

Frank Brown
Financial Secretary

Murray M. Kolker
Associate Financial Sec'y

Max Goodman
Recording Secretary

Gregory J. Bardacke
Executive Director

Maurice Spector
Associate Director

Emil Rosenberg
Assistant Director

May 29, 1964

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o New York Post
75 West Street
New York, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Our parent organization, the National Committee for Labor Israel, which is comprised of American supporters of Histadrut, the Israel Federation of labor and cooperatives, has scheduled for January 15-17, 1965, at Columbia University's Arden House, a conference on problems of acculturation and integration. The stress will be on the nature and the handling of these problems in Israel, which has absorbed people of diverse cultures; in Africa, which has to contend with tribal differences, and in the United States.

This is the second annual conference of this kind. The first, on December 6-8, 1963, dealt with economic issues and its proceedings will be published by A.S. Barnes this fall. The agenda of that conference is enclosed, from which you will see the high caliber of the participants. The audience is a selective one, limited to fifty persons, to make possible a weekend of close and probing discussion.

I am enclosing the agenda for the second annual conference and hope that you will accept to be with us the entire weekend and to contribute to the second session your views on the influence of the Negro idiom on the American language. We shall also have another expert discuss the influence of the Jewish idiom. We are refraining from a precise definition of this session, so as to give the panelists free reign.

We are inviting experts from Israel and from the African states for all the sessions. Professor Nathan Glazer, with whose recent M.I.T. study you are no doubt familiar, has already accepted our invitation to deliver a paper at the opneing session.

Histadrut, as you may know, embraces some 80% of Israel's salaried population and is responsible for that country's celebrated co-operative settlements. Its experts have, since 1957, been engaged as advisors in most of the African states, and have maintained the Afro-Asian Institute in Tel Aviv for the training of labor leaders and civil servants of the newly emerging nations.

We shall feel privileged if you will kindly accept the invitation, and shall be most grateful for an early reply.

Judd L. Teller, Director
Education Department and Seminars

JLT/fc

June 9, 1964

Dear Mr. Teller:

I would be most interested in your
conference in January on the problems of
acculturation and integration.

I hope that I can attend but, at the
moment, I can accept your kind invitation
only contingent on if I am in the U. S. A.
at the time or not. I am invited to the
Berlin Arts Festival in the fall. Also
it seems my show, JERICO JIM CROW, will be
going to Europe in October. At any rate,
I shall be going over, and I am not now
certain just how long I will stay, so I
am putting no definite dates on my calendar for the coming season.

Last summer I visited Israel for the
first time and found it fascinating.

With my thanks to you for your
cordial invitation, I am