LABOR COUNCIL WANTS JFK TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 1960
Boston, Massachusetts (JFK+50) Fifty-eight years ago today, October 9, 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy spoke to the delegates of the second convention of the Massachusetts Labor Council of the AFL-CIO. The address was given at the Statler-Hilton Hotel here in Boston.*
Senator Kennedy said that he planed to introduce a bill to raise the minimum wage and to increase unemployment compensation.
Union president, William J. Belanger, introduced a resolution asking Senator Kennedy to be a candidate for President of the United States in 1960.
In response, JFK said:
"In Ecclesiastes it says: 'There is a time to fish & a time to cut bait'....
I believe this is the time to fish and January 1960 (will be) the time to cut bait."
*Today, the Massachusetts AFL-CIO's mission is to build the labor movement fusing its collective power & advancing a broad social & economic justice agenda.
SOURCE
Massachusetts AFL-CIO, www.massachusettsaflcio.org/
Boston, Massachusetts (JFK+50) Fifty-eight years ago today, October 9, 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy spoke to the delegates of the second convention of the Massachusetts Labor Council of the AFL-CIO. The address was given at the Statler-Hilton Hotel here in Boston.*
Senator Kennedy said that he planed to introduce a bill to raise the minimum wage and to increase unemployment compensation.
Union president, William J. Belanger, introduced a resolution asking Senator Kennedy to be a candidate for President of the United States in 1960.
In response, JFK said:
"In Ecclesiastes it says: 'There is a time to fish & a time to cut bait'....
I believe this is the time to fish and January 1960 (will be) the time to cut bait."
*Today, the Massachusetts AFL-CIO's mission is to build the labor movement fusing its collective power & advancing a broad social & economic justice agenda.
SOURCE
Massachusetts AFL-CIO, www.massachusettsaflcio.org/
