Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposed the demogrant because "it gives money to people who don't need it." She objected to "giving so much to blue collar workers for new cars and television sets, when so much is needed in the public sector...
...Kendall Square has other neighbors--old, grimy industrial plants once stood on the two sites and many still surround it with their smokestacks, dirty brick walls, dustencrusted windows, and blue collar jobs...
Community groups like Hard Times and Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC) envision Kendall Square as a blue-collar industrial park that would alleviate the neighborhood's economic problems without changing its essential character. They are unimpressed with the CRA's plans...
...urban renewal agency has no specific proposal at present for the remaining 11 acres of the NASA site, but has promised the City Council to develop the land "to create maximum employment opportunities, particularly for Cambridge residents and blue collar workers and to provide new real estate tax revenue...
...consultants did conclude that certain blue-collar industries--printing and publishing, instruments, and electrical machinery--could be attracted to the site, but that only a small proportion of the jobs would be available for Cambridge residents. "If the city opts for a manufacturing use to provide jobs for Cambridge residents, then it must commit itself to aggressive manpower development or jobs will go to residents elsewhere of other cities," the Planning Department report concludes...