Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lenin in 1918 triggered the Red Terror, in which thousands of Russians fell be fore Bolshevik firing squads; the killing of Politburo Member Sergei Kirov-carried out in 1934 on secret orders from Stalin - set off the great purges, in which millions died and millions more were sent to labor camps...
...three boys--Frank Cresta, his brother Vincent, and Michael Alexandra--will present their grievances before the State Labor Mediation Board this week...
Working first for the Secretary of Labor, W. Willard Wirtz, on the problems of ghetto youth, Miss Kearns joined the White House staff in April '68 after Johnson had announced he would not run. "I was allowed great independence in the White House," Miss Kearns said...
...indeed moving much too fast for its own good, and three Washington reports last week reflected the resulting strains. They showed the fastest price escalation since 1951, the lowest export surplus since the Depression and the highest interest rate on a Government security since the Civil War. The Labor Department reported that in December, consumer prices rose to a point 4.7% above the same month in 1967. That was the sharpest year-to-year increase since prices rose by 5.8% in the first winter of the Korean War. For 1968 as a whole, the rise in the cost of living...
Many legislators and officials disagree. "We are all at fault-the employee, the employer and ourselves in government," says Esther Peterson, the Johnson Administration's Assistant Secretary of Labor for Standards. "I'm tired of this buck passing. It's time we did something together about all this." Congress may well enact new coal-mining legislation at this session, but passage of a more general industrial-safety law looks less likely. Last year the Johnson Administration pushed for legislation that would have empowered the Secretary of Labor to issue mandatory health and safety standards and to enforce...