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and broke through the outer door and demanded to see me. And came in and asked my that I wanted to do about it. And I said that we have a very hard and fast rule around here, that nobody breaks in and demands an appointment in the

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mayor's office. That stuff. They have been all right four and five years ago, but it doesn't work around here. It's never going to work. These young people had an appointment to see me tomorrow morning at 9:30 and I told them they either know policemen at the

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meeting itself for any reasonable group really worked out around here for the effort we have made to get jobs for minorities. The the quickly as possible in this area, we have to recognize too that there are a lot of old time members of labor unions in

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this area who don't have jobs and we can't get jobs. As a matter of fact, you go down any of these hiring halls and you'll see people sitting around for a long period of time. We have to make an equitable balance while we want affirmative action

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programs. There is no program is going to displace every worker who has been a member of the unions over a long period of time. Now, the view though, has done very well in the matter of minority hirings and we're gonna continue to do the best we

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can because we acknowledge that much, much more remains to be done. I see the basic problem is that whatever unemployment exists anywhere is generally four times that much in the ghetto communities. And this is a problem we're dealing and we're trying to deal with the best

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we can. But there never will be a time when we will deal under pressure. That's just rule around here. If anybody doesn't like it, it's too bad. We're going to continue to operate in that fashion. Yeah. Okay. On on the word of the federal compliance that

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we would have a meeting with the mirror this morning to talk about the sentence during this type of a situation. I'm just amazed and his men out, I think if he would have come out and just faced us, there would have been, they would have stopped

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everything and instead of going into a little confrontation can help cure the Lord uses to see people. He didn't have time for these people. First of all, he told him he wasn't in. Then he later admitted he was in rebels kate and comes out with a

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letter signed by him. He still doesn't have time to see him, but he does have time to see the press. We asked to go into the press conference. There isn't quite enough room for us. All right now for a year now and he wouldn't come out

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today again. He's just not the mayor for these people. He refuses to act on their behalf. They've written him letters that called him, tried to work with rebels, Cotton tried to work with Human Rights Commission. No one's helped. And at this point in the game san

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Francisco is the only county in northern California that does not have an affirmative action plan, either signed or or negotiations completed. You think of this as a liberal community is anything but the unions refused to budge. The mirror is not helping things a bit. What do

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you think proper to scuffle? That type thing? I was reported to be by my staff that a group of young market concerns. What did they want to see you about? I understand I want to talk to me about jobs. You want to talk to me about

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working out some kind of an affirmative action agreement along the lines that we have worked out in many similar situations. You know, we recently worked one out at Hunter's Point, which involved a 50 uh minority groups, participation in projects at Hunter's Point. And we are prepared

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to work out similar agreements with the labor unions for other areas of san Francisco. But I want to emphasize again that nobody storms into the mayor's office. I don't care who are this, I don't care what the grievances about the thing now, in so far as

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so far as it. Yes, my reaction is very simple. They asked me what I wanted to do about it and I said that nobody storms his way into this office. We have a very tough rule about that and we had maintained that rule before. This is

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not the first time that people have gathered in the other office and boisterously demanded to see the mayor right now. And the reason we have that rule is because I'm not that difficult to see These young men that particular. Once I'm talking about has an appointment

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to see me tomorrow morning at 9:30 PM. How they first had an appointment to see me next Wednesday. And they represented earlier That they had to see me before Wednesday. And I said fine tomorrow morning at 9:30. But they made their representation through regular channels. Then

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when they tried to storm into the office, I told me under no circumstances would I see them until their regular appointment. The deputy was not hurt. It was he was just ruffled a little bit. Was mr rebel skating. Who was, you know, as a black man?

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Yeah. No, we don't we don't have any type security. The outside door that you folks came in is normally locked but there is a door as you're facing it to the left of it, which is not locked. And they came through that door. That door is

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never locked. Come in tomorrow and they'll A 50 50 arrangement on minority representation. We worked out two years various minority programs at the airport and they have worked out quite well. We're not apologizing to go and affirmative action on apprentices which gives san Francisco in this

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building trades 34% minority representation. And the state Labor Department has certified that that is the best record in California and what second best is a very, very poor section as you know, we've had basically complaining about. And what we have to recognize is that we are

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going through something called a recession that's very unfortunate. I think it's been an artificially induced depression almost. And it's a very unusual one because it's unemployment increases throughout the country, inflation continues. That is a steady rise in the cost of living in this country. And it's

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something peculiar really to the United States that doesn't exist in Western europe and it doesn't exist in the orient. And we are dealing with the effects of this artificially induced depression that were going through at the present time. We are dealing with and we are dealing

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as best we can with. And I think that's what this the minorities are opposed honey what? Well, we already have it of course, in one important area that's hunters point, that San Francisco plan turned out to be 5050 so far as the construction of Hunters Point

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was concerned. Now the labor unions are presently negotiating with some of these men and others on affirmative action programs for the rest of the city. Now we have a lot of building going on. For example, in the Western edition, nobody is complaining that we don't have

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enough black carpenters there or black plumbers or black laborers or black operating engineers because we do have a pretty good percentage out there and it's for anybody to observe. So at this point we've done, you had another question her into for the, I don't think that

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February 28 is a deadline. I received a letter after hearings here that they were going to make their report as of February 28. Now we are moving at a tough guy or anything like that, but we're not going to change a course of conduct to meet

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any kind of threat. Quite satisfied that we could run this town on an orderly basis and we're going to one sits down, You're very liberal in the matter of granting anybody who wants the right to talk to me. They can get in. There's never any problem

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making an appointment with me. I don't think you folks have ever had a problem seeing me when you wanted to see me on any subject matter. So I am going ahead with my regular schedule. I have a business luncheon scheduled with the director of the redevelopment

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agency. And after that, I'm making a talk to a group of businessmen whom I'm trying to help to get cooperate with me in a summer program, uh, and we're going to have a regular schedule. And I am seeing this group tomorrow morning at 9:30 PM. And

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that's the only time I'm going to see this group. CRC. You are the chairwoman of the group that was here today. What what prompted the what prompted the scuffle do you think? Um okay let's say that we came over here, we're uh come over here to

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uh to start negotiating and get very serious about this thing so that we can meet a deadline that's been put by the federal office. And the deadline of that is a february that 2028. And we just want to get things going as fast as possible. And

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when the mayor to take action was in the mirrors hallway and not in the mirrors office, The mayor, we had river skin to come out and tell us that he had a very tight up schedule and that he would not be able to see us until

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tomorrow point in the 9:30. Ah We said that if he was notified about this, then which he should at least come out and said look I can I cannot see you Today but come back tomorrow at 9:30 like he said. And we'll talk about