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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The Department has accepted a crucial and responsible role in cultivating understanding among labor organizations…”

On the recordMay 1, 1962
The Department has accepted a crucial and responsible role in cultivating understanding among labor organizations throughout the world and in fostering free labor institutions in other nations
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Proclamation 3472—United State Department of Labor Fiftieth Anniversary Year

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