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After a conference with secretary of Labor Mitchell and President George Meany of the AFLCIO, the Vice President said he saw hope of a "breakthrough”.... contractors on Federal Government jobs would be told they mus^ hire qualified Negroes, union af greement or no, and, if they did not comply, the Federal Government could take them into gourt. Mr. Meany said he, too, w&s unhappy about the failure of/ra^ union locals to refer competent Negroes, and, if the contractors, trying to comply with the directive of the Presidential committee, couldn't find any, he would round up some.
Mr. McCloskey said this was all right with him.that it might even be a good idea if he were taken into court, because he was all for hiring qualified Negroes, but didn’t see what he could do about it if the unions with which he had agreements wouldn’t refer any.
If the Nixon-Mitchell-Meany plan is carried out, there will be in effect, without any new action of Congress, a special “right-to-work ’ arrangement for Negro construction workers on Federal projects. Management union agreements for hiring through union referrals would be superseded in the case of the Negro applicant.
Nothing has^appeared in the reported comments of the principals in this commotion with respect to how this arrangement would apply, if at all, to the qualified nonunion white craftsman who could not get the union to “refer” him to work on a Government project.
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