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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industries, such as machine tools, that it judges inadequate or inefficient. Socialist principle demands a tax on capital gains, which have been largely immune so far, and possibly even a levy on capital. In Harold Wilson's words, Britain has a "laissez-faire, soft-center, speculative, hire-purchase, advertiser-controlled, stop-go economy." To change this, Labor would have to transform completely the nation's business life. Hence the Economist sees Labor's economic aims as "at once consoling and frightening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: What a Labor Government Would Be Like | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...race discrimination in employment suddenly vanished, deficiencies of education and skills among Negroes would still constitute an enormous barrier to equality with whites in jobs and incomes. Many employers in northern cities who would be willing to hire Negroes for positions of skill and responsibility never do so because no qualified Negroes present themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Long March | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...Fault. Boycotts occasionally backfire because the companies involved are not really at fault. Hit by selective buying in Los Angeles, Anheuser-Busch showed that it was ready to hire Negro truck drivers but that the Teamsters Union was not. Against such union discrimination, some Negro boycott leaders are considering a new wrinkle, which they learned from labor itself: a general strike of all Negro workers that would call attention to the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: The Boycott Road to Rights | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...example, one of the chief tasks of the group I have been working with is to organize a selective buying campaign--where Negroes will not shop at stores that refuse to hire them. It has been almost impossible to find a local Negro who will devote to the project as much time as it requires. When we talk to adult groups in churches we realize that they are unable to see the kind of world in which their children could live. Just to explain to local Negroes what we are trying to do, we have had to organize...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: A Report on Integration In a Maryland Town: IV | 6/3/1963 | See Source »

Accounting and insurance firms were also said to be attempting to hire large numbers of graduates, and government agencies, according to the report, are recruiting "far more actively than before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Jobs Available To '63 College Grads | 5/21/1963 | See Source »

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