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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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In Providence, RI, William Buckley testified that Black members of the segregated Boilermaker union auxiliary pay double insurance rates compared to white members. This occurred at the end of a four-week Superior Court hearing on a suit by Black Walsh-Kaiser shipyard workers seeking to enjoin the auxiliary after their election ballots were discarded last December.
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PROVIDENCE, R. I.— (SNS) — Negro members of the Jim Crow auxiliary of the Boilermaker union pay twice as much for insurance as the white members of the regular locals. It was testified here June 14 by William Buckley international vice president of the union
Buckley's testimony came at the close of a four-week hearing in Superior court before Judge Patrick P. Curran, on a suit to secure permanent injunction against auxiliary union. in this state. Negro workers at the Walsh-Kaiser shipyards here brought the suit after their ballots were thrown out in a union election last December.
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Providence, R. I.
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June 14
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Negro members of the Jim Crow auxiliary of the Boilermaker union pay twice as much for insurance as white members of regular locals, testified by William Buckley, international vice president, at the close of a four-week hearing in Superior court before Judge Patrick P. Curran on a suit for permanent injunction against the auxiliary union brought by Negro workers at Walsh-Kaiser shipyards after their ballots were thrown out in a union election last December.