Today in labor history Oct 14 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize

[Omaha Steve]

October 14

International Working People’s Association founded in Pittsburgh, Penn. - 1883

October 14, 1964 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize. Only 35 years old, he was the youngest person ever to receive the award. In addition to leading the civil rights movement, King was an outspoken advocate for worker rights, particularly for the underrepresented in society. His policy of civil disobedience proved effective not only for African-Americans seeking a seat at a white-only lunch counter in the 1960s, but for miners struggling for justice in the Pittson Coal strike of the late 1980s. Nonviolence, King said, “is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.”

http://www.mlkmemorial.org/

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

http://www.mlkonline.net/

In 1962 Dr. King was in talks with Bobby Kennedy about integrating the US Government. He suggested the name Howard Jenkins Jr., a young lawyer in the Labor dept. for the NLRB board. In 1982, member Jenkins was the deciding vote (2-1) on my NLRB case. In one of his last written opinions, he was brilliant. I owe Dr. King so much too.

My case file at the NLRB: http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Board%20Decisions/261/261-38.pdf