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Commerce School Seminar
Studies Industry Problems

An opportunity for University
dents to enjoy discussions with
anti-poverty and civil rights workers
and some of the nation's
leading thinkers of the trade union
movement will be offered on
the Grounds this weekend. Three
days of speeches and films make
up the program of the seminar,
"The Trade Union Movement
and the New South."

The League for Industrial
Democracy and the University's
McIntire School of Commerce
are co-sponsoring the seminar
which will concern itself with the
Charlottesville area's socio-economic
problems and what can be
done about them.

The seminar will open tonight
and will be held entirely in room
202 of Rouss Hall.

The seminar's speakers will explore
some of the major concerns
of the trade unions in the South
today: poverty, automation, integration
of the work force, and
labor's role in society and its relationship
to other social movements.

A welcoming speech by Brewster.
Snow, Secretary-Treasurer of
the Virginia AFL-CIO, beginning
at 7:30 tonight will open the
week-end seminar. This will be
followed by a film entitled "The
Inheritance."

The League for Industrial
Democracy, an educational society
founded in 1905 by Jack
London, Upton Sinclair, and
Clarence Darrow, is dedicated to
"increasing democracy in our
economic, political, and educational
life." Rooted in the labor
movement, the L. I. D. seeks
closer ties among the trade union
and intellectual and student communities.