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.
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Citation
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 3, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-reynoldsj-19701001-2-79-120