Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to have isolated himself and to have misjudged the temper of the unions. Ignoring police warnings of risk, the mayor persisted in filling a speaking engagement in Brooklyn only to be routed by a hostile audience stacked with striking teachers and angry parents. The city's Central Labor Council threw its full support behind the teachers, poured 40,000 people into a demonstration at City Hall. The mayor tried to take out his frustrations in tennis, explaining to a newsman: "I had to get rid of my H.I. -that means 'hostility instincts.' " At week...
...have I any regrets? To some extent, I do. I regret very deeply the fact that with me on this bench is a young man whose personality is still unformed. I am speaking of [Vadim] Delone [a 21-year-old student and poet sentenced to 34 months at hard labor], whose character may be crippled by being sent to a prison camp. I regret, too, that the gifted, honest scholar [Konstantin] Babitsky [a 32-year-old Moscow philologist, who was banished for three years] will be torn away from his work...
Aktie got its start early last summer, and has since attracted the support of Dutch religious, labor and political groups of the center and non-Communist left. Diekerhof himself is a mem ber of the Dutch Labor Party executive, and active in the New Left. He and other Aktie leaders have organized street theaters, panels and teach-ins in hired halls all over The Netherlands during the past few weeks. Last week in Driebergen, near Utrecht, one listener wondered why Aktie was not making similar efforts with the Soviet Union. Diekerhof answered: "We do not know how to influence...
...academic progress was often slow. Thus his goal in seeking power for his union, he says, is not only to help the schools do "a hell of a lot more" for all students, but to "shape the educational environment" by building alliances between teachers and the rest of the labor movement. "A lot of things we're trying to do for kids can't be done in the classroom. Kids who come to school without any breakfast aren't going to learn one damn thing. We do more for them through the civil rights movement...
...Share of the Profits. Inflation plays a widely overlooked role in the swing to apartments. The rising cost of land, labor and materials (lumber prices have soared 30% this year) has driven up the total price of for-sale homes in many areas much faster than rents have climbed. Labor Department figures show that the cost of renting in the Los Angeles area, for example, has risen 12% since 1960, while the cost of home ownership has gone...