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...Oklahoma-based Kerr-McGee Coal Corp. is clearing a 3,000-acre site on both sides of Highway 34, barely a mile east of Galatia, for a new deep-shaft mine. The company plans to invest $185 million in the venture, which will employ up to 700 miners-all nonunion. Many towns would greet such an investment with enthusiasm. Galatia...
Ford will generally not employ the 4-4-2 alignment, prevalent much of last year. With the increased offensive firepower there is no need to hang back at midfield, sending just two forwards up front. With that alignment last year, the Crimson lacked a smooth transition from defense to the attack...
Another important provision: an employer who has only 80% as many women or minority employees as the Government might think "reasonable," would be excused from setting a timetable to hire the remaining 20%. To take a plausible example, a building firm of a certain size figures it should employ ten black construction laborers in Philadelphia to please the Government, given the availability of black labor in that area and the size of its total work force. If the firm actually has only eight black laborers, it need not tell the Government how soon it proposes to hire two more...
...from Americans and flattened wages at the lower end of the economic ladder. Says Harold Washington, a black Congressman from Chicago: "The mere presence of a large number of illegal aliens is depressing wages generally, and forcing unskilled blacks to take dirtier, lower-paying jobs." In most industries that employ large numbers of menial workers, labor law violations can be found. Some of the worst offenders...
...bewildering array of enterprises. These include textile-dyeing plants, large-scale pig- and poultry-raising operations, hotels, shipbuilding yards and even a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant. The LMK Group, a Hong Kong textile and garment maker, has invested $14 million in a large dyeing factory in Shenzhen that will employ 250 workers. Managing Director Eddie Lo predicts that LMK will have an output of 6 million yards a month by mid-October, and he already foresees expanding the operation to include spinning, weaving and garment making...