A conference on technology and human development to take place in Israel next April with the participation, among others, of six American Negro leaders, is expected to lead to better understanding between Jews and Negroes in New York, according to Theodore W. Kheel, the labor mediator. Mr. Kheel is president of the American Foundation on Automation and Employment, a sponsor of the conference.
He announced today that participants in the conference will include Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Bayard Rustin, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute; Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, president of the Metropolitan Research Center; Dr. James R. Dumpson, dean of the Fordham University of Social Service; Douglas Pugh, program adviser on social development for the Ford Foundation; and Franklin Williams, director of the Center for Minority Affairs at Columbia University.
Mr. Young noted that the conference had been planned many months before the escalation of racial tension between Jews and Negroes in New York. He voiced hops that the trip would give him “an opportunity to see what’s been done on helping underdeveloped people.” He added, “We can benefit from what’s been done in Israel–an amazing job–and have greater understanding of our own problem.”
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