Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the "Centr?! Labor Council threw its full support behind the teachers, poured 40,000 people into a demonstration at City Hall." You had merely to be present at this demonstration (as I was) to know that the vast majority of those present were parents and teachers, with a very small number of union representatives. You fail to indicate that 4,000 supervisors are out because of extremely serious reasons. More than 30 principals have been forced out of their schools by militant groups. They have been threatened with physical violence, and threats have also been directed at their families...
...Wallace campaign, giving the race the aura of a tight, old-fashioned two-man contest. Yet the oddities that have marked the campaign's course continued to show up regularly. Humphrey, long tormented by his low marks among college students but helped by the leadership of organized labor, got a far better reception from kids at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, than among the steelworkers in western Pennsylvania. Though still the underdog, he occasionally allowed his schedule to lapse back into its old inefficiency, so that he sometimes saw more billboards and countryside than voters. Nixon...
...need for such temporary work in industry is diminishing: an increasingly sophisticated technology has cut down the need for unskilled labor with the result that at projects like the Togliatti plant, Komsomol participation is little more than symbolic. But millions are still needed in the back-breaking work of the annual harvests. Beyond such extracurricular efforts, Komsomoltsy have a voice in their own student affairs and maintain their own job placement service...
Though the South Vietnamese army and police have some 7,700 female volunteers in staff and clerical jobs, a proposal to draft women outright was turned down: such a measure would cripple the country's economy. Of the city of Saigon's labor force of 330,000, fully 250,000 are women. They work as construction hands, substitute for men in manpower-short professions, own or run most of the capital's jewelry, clothing and tailoring shops, its restaurants and bars and some of its largest businesses. Nguyen Duy Thu Luong, for example, owns pharmaceutical laboratories, directs...
...possible of course that without its comfortable berth in skilled trades and the Democratic Party and harrassed by an anti-labor law, the labor movement might regain the urgency it lost in the '30's. Labor might then become a suitably militant ally for blacks, students, and the poor. But more likely, with growth stifled, and membership yielding to automation, an already tired trade union movement will simply wither...