Box# 32

Folder# 626
Word's Fair: Reduced
Rates for Children
1963
10/63R8
UNISPtiERE
01861
NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1964-1965 CORPORATION
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AT FLUSHING MEADOW PARK
FLUSHING 52, N.Y. TELEPHONE- AREA CODE 212-WF 4-1964 CABLE ADDRESS "WORLDSFAIR"
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UNOERBTANDINO
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NEWS:
REFER INQUIRIES TO:
Peter McDonnell
Jerome Edelberg
Joyce Mart in
FOB, IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
WF 4-6531
WF 4-6541
lolF 4-6543
ROBERT MOSES
PRESIDENT
October 10, 1963
ImW YORK \110RLD'S FAIR, October 10 --- Edward C ~ Maguire,
Labor Relations Counsel to the New York World's Fair 1964-1965
Corporation, stated that the Fair Corporation never has been nor
will it ever be the agent or representative of an,- Union. At
no time has a:ny representative of the Fair Corporation "admitted"
that it violated an agreement concerning trucks that will be
admitted to the Fair site. It is not a party to any such asreement.
Every exhibitor and contractor on the site is obligated not
to employ or allow to be employed on the work which he has under-
taken on the site or in connection with the site, men, methods or
means which may cause or tend to cause work stoppages, strikes,
picketing or other cause for delay or interference with the execu-
tion or progress of the work or with the operations or the Fair.
The Fair Corporation expects them to carry out their obligation.
We will continue as we have in the past to cooperate with
both management and labor involved in the interest of peace and
progress on the work.
FROM: Wm. J. Donoghue Corporation
10 Columbus Circle, N.Y.C.
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voul4 purchase blocks ot tickets, at the bulk rate ot 67i- cents eaeb, aad re-
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