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...fitting that your Labor Day issue highlighted the current struggle between the United Farm Workers (AFL-CIO) and the corporate growers and Teamsters in California [Sept. 3]. The deplorable working conditions prevalent among the migrant farm workers call for a united stand for what is right and just, so that men are free to work without being exploited...
...states, lenders are lobbying to raise the usury ceilings. They face strong opposition from critics who point out that mortgage lending has been running at a faster pace than a year ago (though it has begun to come down in the past month or so). In New Jersey, AFL-CIO officials want a rollback of permissible interest to 6%, contending this would enable people of modest incomes to afford housing. Oliver Jones, executive vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, calls such attitudes "medieval...
...court order, police kept pickets 100 ft. apart, and when the pickets disobeyed, 3,000 of them, including 76 Roman Catholic priests and nuns, were swept off to jail. Now the union has run out of money, including a $1.6 million strike fund provided by the AFL-CIO...
...thirties meant hard times for The Crimson, as it meant hard times for most businesses. The Depression cut deeper into the paper's capital, although the Harvard community learned little from The Crimson's columns about breadlines or CIO organizing drives...
Attempting to maintain the appear ance of business as usual, Agnew gamely followed a schedule last week that was all too usual for Vice Presidents: the dedication of a new dam in Littleton, Colo, (where he was welcomed by some hostile demonstrators) and a speech at the AFL-CIO Boilermakers convention in Denver. "Just as each citizen has a right to criticize those in public office," he told the union members, "so does every public official have a right to defend his actions, his honor, his integrity and his good name." Agnew was speaking of Nixon's efforts...