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DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973
By NLT-
HC . NARS Date 7-11-75
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
January 27, 1947
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Racial-Labor Problem in the Canal Zone
In view of the interest which you have shown in
this problem, I should like to inform you that by
agreement among the State, War and Labor Departments
Brigadier General Frank J. McSherry, retired, has been
appointed as special adviser on labor relations to the
Governor of the Canal Zone,
This step has been taken in order to determine
what measures may be adopted to reduce to a minimum
such racial-labor friction as now exists in the Canal
Zone. General McSherry's mission will have three
purposes:
(1) he will make recommendations to the Governor
on current policies relating to the opportunities and
treatment accorded labor groups in the Canal Zone and
will recommend a long-range program;
(2) since General McSherry possibly will be a
United States representative to the ILO meetings at
Geneva next summer, he will seek background informa-
tion on labor conditions in the Zone;
(3) to the extent that his other duties permit,
he will endeavor on behalf of the Governor to submit
a proposal for coordination of the labor policies of
all Government agencies operating in the area.
As a result of discussions at the ILO meeting at
Montreal and with the Foreign Minister and other Pana-
manian officials, the Government of Panama is fully
aware of our desire to remove all reasons for charges
of discrimination in the Canal Zone. It has welcomed
enthusiastically the assignment of General McSherry.
TRENTA
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