Letter to congressional colleague regarding proposed Continental Airlines purchase by employees

Title

Letter to congressional colleague regarding proposed Continental Airlines purchase by employees

Description

A letter from US Congressman Les AuCoin to a congressional colleague advocating for the proposed Continental Airlines purchase by employees in April 1981, describing it as solving "two of the most acute problems facing American business and industry today: declining productivity and capital formation." He wrote this letter as the Chairman of the House Task Force on Industrial Innovation.

This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).

Identifier

PUA_MS147_477

Creator

AuCoin, Les

Date

1981

Date Created

April 15, 1981

Spatial Coverage

United States

Subject

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Continental Airlines--History--20th century.

Industrial productivity--United States.

Source

Les AuCoin Papers, Pacific University Archives

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Type

Text