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Show AFL-CIO President-To President-To Speak at Cooperative Meeting JOHN R. SCHONE WMMMiniMrfflnnmMnnM mrrwrairini m ii i ii MARK NICHOLS John R. Schone, president of the Utah State AFL-CIO, and Mark Nichols, state director of vocational education, will be two of the speakers who will round out a variety of views to be aired at the 24th annual meeting meet-ing of the Utah Cooperative Association. As-sociation. The meeting, which will be held November 19 in the Hotel Newhouse, will also feature J. G. Patton. president of National Farmers Union, and Jerry Voor-his, Voor-his, executive director of the Cooperative Co-operative League of America. W. Wallace Holman, president of the Utah Cooperative Association, Asso-ciation, noted that this year's meet will have representative speakers from labor, political, education, farm and co-ops. "This great variety of views should be of great interest to all co-op members," Mr. Holman said. Mr. Schone has been president of Utah State AFL-CIO since 1959 and before that had devoted all his life to activities of organized or-ganized labor. Among his other activities at present, Mr. Schone is vice president of the Salt Lake Area United Fund, member of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Employment Security, Se-curity, member of the Utah Committee Com-mittee on Industrial and Employment Employ-ment Planning and member of the Institute of Industrial Relations Rela-tions at the University of Utah. Mr. Nichols is also a man who has devoted his entire life to one field of endeavor. He began his career in education as in education ed-ucation as a teacher in Weston, Idaho, in 1924. Since that time Mr. Nichols has made many contributions con-tributions of time and effort to the field of vocational education. Among his many activities, Mr. Nichols served as Director of Youth Education for the American Ameri-can Institute of Cooperation in Washington, D.C., traveling over 50,000 miles in the U. S. and visiting 30 universities and 37 departments of education. |