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...that they are having trouble hiring enough workers to keep production humming. This has led some economists to believe that because of the rapid increase in the numbers of women and teen-agers seeking jobs, a shortage of certain kinds of skilled labor can exist even with relatively high jobless rates. Shortages of raw materials are also impeding production. Joseph Barron, director of general purchasing for Ashland Oil Inc., puts it this way: "In the chemical field, there is not enough styrene because benzene is short; benzene is short because crude oil is short...
...operates a network of welfare agencies in India and has spread to more than 30 foreign lands, including a vocal U.S. branch based in Wichita, Kans. The sect now has at least 2.5 million converts in India alone, many of them recruited among frustrated youths who are educated but jobless...
...Plan. The idea of establishing a lower minimum wage for teen-agers has picked up support even among some liberal economists, who believe that forcing employers to pay youths as much as adults only discourages them from hiring the 14% of youngsters aged 16 to 19 who are jobless. Labor leaders argue that establishing a teen-age differential would prompt some employers to fire adult workers and hire youths to replace them. Brennan did propose that a teen-ager's pay be upped to the full adult minimum wage after 13 weeks on the job, but he offered...
Also during the '60s, the number of blacks in low-paying jobs-in private households, in the service trades and on farms-declined from 4,000,000 to 3.5 million. The number who held generally better-paying jobs jumped from 4,000,000 to 5.1 million. The jobless rate for married black men over 20 declined more sharply than it did for the U.S. population as a whole. As in the case of whites, the authors say, at least 95 out of 100 black married men are at work...
...U.R.W. President Peter Bommarito is demanding pay and fringe hikes averaging more than 8% annually over the next three years. Among other things, the 87,000 rubber workers want the right to retire on full pensions after 25 years of service, regardless of age, and payments to workers left jobless when plants relocate...