Max Mont; Longtime Union Activist

Max Mont, 74, a lifelong union activist who at his death was executive director of the Jewish Labor Committee. Mont helped organize the Emergency Committee to Aid Farm Workers in the early 1950s and subsequently worked with Cesar Chavez in the formation of the United Farm Workers of America. He also was active in passage of the California Fair Housing Act, was a founding member of the Community Relations Conference of Southern California and set up the Religion and Labor Council of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. In Los Angeles on Sunday of kidney failure.