[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 30, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E667]
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                       TRIBUTE TO JOHN F. HENNING

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 30, 1996

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Ambassador 
John F. ``Jack'' Henning, a distinguished leader who is being honored 
by the 110 affiliated local unions of the Central Labor Council of San 
Mateo County, AFL-CIO, and their 65,000 members and families.
  John F. Henning has dedicated his life to fight for racial and 
economic equality for all working women and men in California, the 
Nation, and internationally. He began his successful career in the 
labor movement in1938 while working with the Association of Catholic 
Unionists in San Francisco. He continued his fight for working people 
of the Nation while serving in the highest offices of government as the 
State Labor Federation's research director, director of the State's 
industrial relations department, Under Secretary of Labor in both the 
Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and U.S. Ambassador to New 
Zealand.
  John F. Henning has been one of the most eloquent spokespersons in 
our time for the rights of working people. John F. Henning's leadership 
has produced some of the great milestones in labor's history, from the 
passage of landmark proworker legislation in California, to gaining 
labor rights for farm workers, to fighting for affirmative action as a 
regent of the University of California, to leading the successful fight 
to have the university divest in apartheid South Africa.
  Mr. Speaker, John F. Henning is an exceptional man who has graced the 
stage of our Nation's labor movement. I ask my colleagues to join me in 
honoring and saluting him for his leadership, his commitment and his 
dedication to the workers of our Nation.

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