Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OHIO: Labor's Costly Feud 1964 presidential primary. "If we each got 33%," muses Mathias, "and Mahoney...
Forred-haired John Joyce Gilligan, 47, a former Congressman and Cincinnati councilman, it has been a long, long time from May to November. Last spring, heavily supported by labor unions, Gilligan unseated Ohio's moss-backed Democratic Senator Frank Lausche in a primary. But when Gil ligan, a Viet Nam dove, pointedly refused to support Humphrey before the Chicago convention, the unions slammed shut their coffers. Not until October, when their feud with Gilligan was finally papered over, did they reopen them...
...Labor's grudging return to Gilligan's camp may well have come too late...
...nonetheless had to give Indra a Cabinet post, the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Economists still hoped to press on with planned reforms, and Dubcek promised that "we shall in no form return to the outlived bureaucratic-centralist methods of management." But the "workers' councils," designed to give labor a voice in management, were abruptly canceled last week, apparently as a concession to the Soviets...
Refuting a Critic. Much to Detroit's surprise, General Motors carried its defense of competition to the point of providing a peek at some of its costing policies, normally a matter of utmost secrecy. The company estimated that its labor costs average about $1,000 per car, or 32% of each sales dollar. It put tooling costs at $134 per car, for styling and other changes. The figures were aimed at refuting charges by Auto Critic Ralph Nader, who in July asserted that "the direct and indirect labor in a medium-priced car doesn't exceed...