Word: hartley
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...stage of organization than its "University-wide" counterpart, the Harvard Employees' Organizing Committee (HEOC), and to deprive already-organized workers of their right to collective bargaining seems patently unfair. And yet "extent of organization" ceased to be a criterion for unionization in 1947, with the passage of the Taft-Hartley Amendment. Previously, the Massachusetts state labor board would award union status to different stores in a department store chain and to different floors in factories, simply on the basis of the extent to which they were already organized. Now, however, the NLRB is bound by only two ambiguous and often...
Nature Poet. This meant that his sense of sharing a project with others, crucial to any experimenter, had to be found at home. The only audience was other artists-the group around the "291" Gallery, including John Marin and Marsden Hartley, presided over by Photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who was, in Sherwood Anderson's words, "father to so many puzzled, wistful children of the arts in the big, noisy, growing and groping America." Like other "291" artists, Dove was a nature poet: he never contemplated going to the extreme of "pure" abstraction. "I can claim no background," he once reflected...
...federal government's role in the action has also thickened with the plot. Despite Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan's threat at the strike's onset that President Ford would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to order the miners back to work if they rejected a tentative settlement, despite the continual release of memos from Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton decrying the growing number of lay-offs resulting from the "miners' strike"--indicating, apparently, that no one has lost his job due to the coal operators' recalcitrance--the initial response from Washington officials...
...contract--the first such grass-roots referendum ever in an autocratic union that has had the likes of John L. Lewis and W.A. (Tony) Boyle as its advocates--might prod Ford to choose his option of an 80-day, back-to-work, cooling-off period under Taft-Hartley instead of beginning the complex negotiation and ratification cycle again. Whether the miners--a group of workers who, by virtue of the very interdependent nature of their dangerous job, have always exhibited solidarity to a man--would obey an injunction is another question. They never have before...
...Bonehead English." At the University of Miami, the English department has set up an elaborate tutoring center where video tapes are used to help entering students learn grammar, punctuation and organization. At the University of Houston, 60% of the freshmen fail the first three essays they write. Says Jesse Hartley, Houston's director of freshman English: "Students can't carry through an idea in writing; they have no idea what a paragraph is; they are unable to string details together in a logical sequence. They're just sort of vapid...