Word: apprenticeships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ostensibly, the brotherhood was demanding an apprenticeship program to train firemen for engineer positions. It was clear, however, that Brotherhood President H. E. (Ed) Gilbert was angling to recoup the power lost by his union in 1963 when Congress, to break a negotiations impasse over featherbedding, enacted the first peacetime compulsory-arbitration law. The arbitration board subsequently approved the elimination from yard and freight crews of nine out of every ten firemen jobs. At least 18,000 jobs have since vanished. Reacting promptly to the walkout, Federal District Judge Alexander Holtzoff held that the union had failed to properly mediate...
...Apprenticeship. The fountainhead of talent on which both of these groups depends is the provincial theater. In Britain there are 57 fulltime, professional repertory companies-twice as many as in the U.S., which is four times as populous and 40 times bigger. The regional theater is provincial in name only. The Bristol Old Vic, for example, now has had three of its productions running in repertory in London this season, next year will perform three Shakespeare works on Broadway...
Skilled workers such as electricians and plumbers naturally command the best wages. Where they can, they jealously restrict admission to unions-and apprenticeship-to their own progeny. A recent Labor Department survey of apprenticeship programs in twelve major cities found only 16 Negroes training to be electricians, five learning plumbing, and two Negro apprentice sheet-metal workers. As a result, a typical city such as Chicago, with a Negro population greater than the entire population of Baltimore, has no Negro sheet-metal workers, only 40 Negro pipe fitters, 200 electricians...
...Hicks has been hinting her political apprenticeship is over and she intends to run for mayor in 1967. She commented cryptically on election night that she will now have a chance to "go hunting. And I'm not saying where or with what." She admits that, around nomination time, "there was a great hue and cry throughout the city that I run for mayor...
...booming Monroe industry has brought forth a book about the star-crossed star. This one, for a change, is quite well written, but Biographer Edwin Hoyt (The Vanderbilts and Their Fortunes) tells the same sick story everybody tells: bastard birth, maternal insanity, preschool rape, foster-family neglect, casting-couch apprenticeship, fanny-flipping fame, dismal marriages, barbiturate addiction, overdosed death. And he reaches the same solemn conclusion: Marilyn was the "innocent" victim of a corrupt society. Now really...