Word: cio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contract calling for annual pay increases of 18%, to $7.54 an hour. Last week in Detroit, carpenters were on strike for a 35% increase in pay and fringes, to $8.07 an hour, while striking bricklayers demanded a 42% raise, to $9.02. Despite a decade-old pledge by the AFL-CIO to end make-work practices in construction, union locals are still getting away with restrictions on such labor-saving devices as paint sprayers and power saws and nailers. In Los Angeles, builders who use air compressors pay an operating engineer $5.59 an hour to do nothing but turn the machine...
Humphrey's announcement seems to have accomplished the once-impossible--it united the wildly disparate interests of John Connally of Texas, George Meany of the AFL-CIO, and Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP. In other words, leaders of Democratic interest groups have reached something of a consensus...
Other .300 hitters include Captain Carter Lord, third baseman John Igna cio, whose .370 average is the second best on the squad, and catcher Bill Cobb...
...similar physical set-up conveys a completely different spirit in Steinberg's alphabetic synopsis of America. The skies are filled with TWA and KLM, set slightly above NBC, CBS and RCA. The IRT comes up from a fat tunnel in the earth surrounded by AFL-CIO and IBM. He plays with these abbreviations to clinch the institutional American panorama...
Support for Frontlash has come from the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education. Michael Harrington, Bayard Rustin and Gus Tyler are members of its National Advisory Board...