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Feminist-Author Betty Friedan, 54, co-founder of NOW in 1966, and a dozen of its officials and ex-officials formed Womansurge at a secret eight-hour meeting two weeks ago in a New Orleans airport-motel room. The strategy: to counter what they see as the ruinously revolutionary drift of the present NOW leadership, including President Karen DeCrow, 37, a Syracuse lawyer who narrowly won re-election in October on the slogan OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM AND INTO THE REVOLUTION. Argues Brandeis Professor Mordeca Jane Pollock, 34, one of the moderate dissidents: "If you have any political sense...
Though some bus drivers work an eight-hour day, they are paid for eleven. The reason is that they are needed during the city's rush hours but not in between. During the midday break, they are paid time and a half for three hours that they may spend as they please: taking a snooze, going to the movies, tending bar. A more rational solution would be to hire part-time drivers for peak periods, but the Transit Authority claims that this would be even more expensive than paying employees for not working. The part-timers would have...
...years following the Civil War, the eight-hour day became the central issue for the trade unions. The Eight-Hour movement produced a passionate surge of feeling among workers that was reflected in dozens of songs characterized by the promise of the millennium once the goal had been achieved. One song, appearing in the monthly magazine of the American Federation of Labor, was entitled Hip! Hip! for Eight Hours. The chorus proclaimed...
...some 40,000 workers in Chicago went out on strike for an eight-hour day, and their ranks almost doubled in four days. On May 4, at a meeting in Haymarket Square to protest a shooting by the police near the McCormick reaper works, a bomb was hurled at the police. A sergeant was killed and about 60 other policemen injured. Eight anarchists were tried in what became the most celebrated case in American labor history. Four were hanged, one committed suicide, and seven years later the remaining three were pardoned by Governor John P. Altgeld, an action that ended...
Since 1971, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recommended, but barely enforced, a maximum of 90 decibels-the sound of a heavy truck-throughout an eight-hour workday. OSHA wants to keep to that level. The Environmental Protection Agency and the labor unions want the limit reduced to 85, the din of a busy street. Many industries are strongly opposed to such regulation and claim it would be ruinous. The noise level now registers about 105 decibels next to the looms in a textile mill, and 115 close to an automobile factory...