Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a year, eleven Eastern railroads have been negotiating with the tuggers' three unions over the size of the crews on 47 diesel tugboats that haul coal and food to Manhattan from New Jersey railheads. The unions, led by the militant Seafarers of A.F.L.-C.I.O. Maritime Chief Paul Hall, demanded a contract guaranteeing the number at the traditional five men. Management held out for the right to cut the crews, but offered to freeze the size for one year, thereafter promised to 1) give 120 days' notice before making any reductions, and 2) submit any disputes...
...stock to $34. Some Endicott-Johnson employees circulated a petition requesting that $10 million of their pension fund be invested in E-J stock if necessary to block Glen Alden's bid, got 65% of the workers to sign. One reason: many E-J workers migrated from nearby coal fields where Glen Alden mining operations declined in recent years, caused layoffs...
...KIND OF LOVING, by Stan Barstow (309 pp.; Doubleday: $3.95), is the work of a Yorkshire coal miner's son who seems to think that it is still possible to write a novel about ordinary people who do what they have to do. Nowadays, the idea seems almost revolutionary; but Novelist Barstow makes it stick...
There is little story to speak of. Like the author, the book's hero is the son of a Yorkshire coal miner. At 21, Vic Brown is so innocent and wholesome that England's angry young men wouldn't be caught taking a pint of bitter with him in a pub. Vic's trouble is, quite simply, sex and one particular girl. She is a "bint" who works in his office-legs right, figure right, fresh and sweet-smelling at 18. After a few bashful fumbles, Vic finds that he has "compromised" a nice but very...
...older industries that were once the employment mainstays of the economy the situation is different. Such industries as coal, autos, steel and oil have not only stopped growing in terms of creating new jobs but, thanks to automation, are actually employing fewer workers. The U.S. economy has shifted from an industrial to a service economy, where 55% of the working force is engaged in performing services instead of turning out products. The need for unskilled labor is disappearing so fast that chronic labor shortages actually exist in some areas where not enough trained men are available. The paradox