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Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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Seven Latin American labor leaders, after training in Puerto Rico, visited President Kennedy and Grand Lodge in Cleveland on a US tour to study union organization, sponsored by Point Four Program and ORIT. They met with unionists in several cities to learn about labor practices and programs.
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LATIN AMERICAN LABOR LEADERS visited President Kennedy at Grand Lodge recently. Shown above are five of the seven who came to Cleveland, along with the interpreter from the Labor Department.
On the extreme right is W. M. Yudkin, of the Labor Department's Office of International Affairs, interpreter.
Next is Martin H. Miller, head of BRT Legislative Department; President Kennedy and, at his right, Luis Patapiat Castillo, of Chile, vice-president of the Railway Workers Association.
B. A. Whitney, editor TRAINMAN NEWS, is shown at the extreme left.
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CLEVELAND -- A group of seven Latin American labor leaders visited Grand Lodge recently on a tour of the U. S. to study union organization.
Joint sponsors of the trip are the Point Four Program and the Inter-American Regional Organization (ORIT) of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
The group has just finished a four-month training course at the Labor Relations Institute of the University of Puerto Rico.
Conferences have been arranged with trade unionists in New York, Cleveland, Fostoria, Ohio; Chicago, Salt Lake City, Denver and Pittsburgh.
Martin H. Miller, head of the Legislative Department at Grand Lodge, conducted the group on a tour of the offices.
The group visited with President Kennedy before going on their tour of Grand Lodge.
Members of the team are Norindo Angel Angel, secretary Copper Mine Workers Confederation of Chile; Hernando Paquero, president of the Union of Workers of the Atlantic Department, Colombia; Julio Jorge Hau Blas, assistant secretary of the Textile Workers Federation of Peru; Luis Patapiat Castillo, vice-president Chilean Railway Workers Union; Felix Moscoso Moscoso, director Braden Copper Workers Union of Chile; Fernando Quesada Quesada, recording secretary Costa Rican Confederation of Labor "Rerum Novarum"; and Antonio Torres, president Union of Texas Petroleum Co. of Colombia.
The aim of the trip in the U.S. is to have close contacts with American trade unions, observe trade union activities, visit plants, study labor-management relations and learn as much as possible about special union programs in such fields as workers education, health and recreation programs.
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Seven Latin American labor leaders visited Grand Lodge in Cleveland to study US union organization after training in Puerto Rico. They met President Kennedy, toured offices with Martin H. Miller, and planned visits to multiple US cities to observe trade unions, labor-management relations, and special programs.