Civil service federal union third party mediation; the unique issues of a federal worker union; how Reynolds’ became Undersecretary of Labor, 1967; Reynolds’ work in a commission to examine certain U.S. foreign and domestic policies; involvement with Mexican-American workers and braceros; exploitation of Mexican-Americans; Cesar Chavez; Memphis sanitation strike in 1968 and eventual wage increase resolution; Martin Luther King’s assassination; problems with communications workers, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Chicago Belt Railroad threatened to halt Democratic National Convention.