* Jacob Clayman; Longtime Union Activist
Jacob Clayman, 86, a past president of the National Council of Senior Citizens and a longtime labor activist. Over the years he worked for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers in New York and the AFL-CIO’s industrial union department. He became president of the National Council of Senior Citizens in 1979 and retired in 1989. A founder of the Consumer Federation of America, he was its first president in 1968 and remained a member of its board. Clayman also was a member of the board of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and chairman of the National Civil Liberties Clearing House. On Friday in Silver Spring, Md.
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