APRI Honors McLaughlin & Williams

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Louis McLaughlin of Teamsters 639 and Metro Council President Jos Williams will be honored at the A. Philip Randolph Institute’s 14th Annual Birthday Celebration on April 15 “for their visionary leadership and dedicated service to the labor movement.” Fred D. Mason, President of the Maryland State and District of Columbia, AFL-CIO will be the featured guest speaker. Tickets are available now from APRI Chair Wanda Shelton-Martin: aluew@aol.com  Randolph organized the Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 and went on to be one of the first African-Americans to sit on the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO and was instrumental in organizing the 1963 March on Washington.  The A. Philip Randolph Institute was founded in 1965 as an organization of black trade unionists to fight for racial equality and economic justice.