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THREE CHALLENGES TO LABOR JACKSON
The trade unions alone have the power we are talking about; that is, the power to stop production as a form of pressure on the power structure. 

operation PUSH

From our standpoint the ability of Operation PUSH to organize disciplined black consumer-power in thirty-eight states which embraced the twenty-five major markets in the country is the power base which has enabled us to evolve some viable examples of the new relationship we have been speaking of. Under the skillful direction of our director of national negotiations, Rev. Ed. Riddick, Operation PUSH has recently signed agreements with two major corporations resulting in more than 105 million dollars of benefits flowing into the black community. These national agreements signed with Schlitz Brewery and the General Foods Corporation at their respective national headquarters are of landmark importance. We call these covenants "national time agreements," for they result in benefits to every economic stratum of the black community. 
The first and most important point of these agreements is that they create hundreds of new jobs and upgraded opportunities for black workers, and therefore increase their purchasing power. That is always the primary concern of Operation PUSH as a civil rights and civil economics organization. In addition, black banks and other financial institutions in our communities will receive more than 45 million dollars in new capital investments from these agreements, and several millions more will flow to black contractor, black media and advertising agencies. IN the case of the General Foods agreement, black educational institutions, who are engaged in the critical work of developing black minds, will receive contributions of $100,000.
These are good beginnings, and in the months ahead we will be developing an effective system of monitoring the implementation of these covenants with General Foods and Schlitz Brewery. These agreements are also significant because they embody a principle which Operation PUSH has consistently stood by and continues to defend. That principle is that the black and other ethnic communities, who have experienced racist oppression in America, are entitled to a proportionate share of the jobs and income which their percentage of the population or importance to the consumer market of a given industry justifies. Sometimes this fair-share formula has been called a "quota system."
Let me state again, Operation PUSH defends this method of cor- 

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