Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hanoi's Americanologists seem to be equally misinformed about events in the U.S. Instructions issued to Communist cadres three months ago in Viet Nam, and since captured, advised that "many U.S. divisions are held up in the U.S.A. because of the Negro movement. There is a shortage of copper in the U.S.A., limiting the production of ammunition. No more taxes can belevied on the American people...
Historically afflicted by strikes, the U.S. copper industry is now going through one that is undoubtedly the most costly ever. For more than five months, 60,000 copper workers have been idled by a strike of 26 unions, led by the United Steelworkers. All of the industry's Big Four-Kenhecott, Anaconda, American Smelting & Refining and Phelps Dodge-are affected. The unions demand hourly wage increases totaling 990 by their calculation and industry-wide bargaining; the companies have offered about 500 and have insisted on maintaining the same plant-by-plant bargaining system that copper men have always used...
About the only thing certain in the copper states of Arizona, Nevada, Montana and Utah is that this is going to be a bleak winter. The strike has already cost more than $20 million in workers' wages. Many families are subsisting on strike benefits of from $10 to $30 a week or on welfare payments from the states or from the Mormon Church. Menus in the workers' homes have turned to bread and potatoes, stretched out with deer shot during the October hunting season. Businessmen who depend on miners are hurting too. G. R. Harmon, a grocer...
Many union families have begun to suspect that their leaders are more interested in changing the bargaining system than in achieving wage increases. "A lot of us wives," said one worried woman in the copper town of Tears...
...greensward, bordered on the ridiculous. The masterpiece printed by his Kelmscott Press was a massive edition of Chaucer, illustrated by himself and the painter Burne-Jones. It cost ? 20- probably the equivalent of a half-year's wages of one of the men who toiled in the Devonshire copper mine from which Morris derived his fortune...