Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, dissidents of the pro-Wal-lace right and antiwar left threatened to fragment the nation's two-party alignment. The Alabamian, it was feared, would sunder the New Deal coalition of labor, Negroes and ethnic minorities by luring away hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers; disaffected Dem-ocrats-and most Negroes-would sit out the election in disgust or apathy. Richard Nixon predicted confidently that a "silent center" would rise up with an overwhelming mandate for the Republican Party...
...Student Employment Office is setting up a "talent bank" of skilled student labor to supplement its present random system of job placement, SEO director R. Jerrold Gibson '51 said yesterday...
Beginning next Tuesday, students interested in finding a term-time, casual, or summer job will sign up on referral sheets in the SEO and indicate the job fields which interest them. The agency will then contact various Cambridge employers and inform them of the skilled labor available...
...main purpose of the new system, Gibson said, is to raise the pay that employers will give students. Instead of the unskilled-labor wage that employers presently pay, he explained, students referred to them by the skilled labor pool could receive wages merited by their skills...
...protesters have prior reputations as priestly radicals, and Lucey himself has long been considered one of the most progressive members of the American hierarchy. He pioneered the desegregation of Catholic schools in Texas and risked financial reprisal from wealthy businessmen when he blessed the formation of labor unions by Mexican American farm workers. But Lucey has also been a stern administrator, and last year he transferred several priests who had been involved in the Priests' Association to remote parishes in his 32-county see. A friend of Lyndon Johnson's, he has also supported the U.S. stand...