Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas, I had 13-think of it-13 scheduled meetings with various groups [political, ethnic and labor factions, some at odds with others]. Well, now we've got an organization going in Texas. We're going to win Texas. You know how a town looks after a cyclone has passed through? Well, that was what we looked like in California. New York? Not even Bobby Kennedy could put that together. Now New York is a standoff. We're going to win it. We've had to get all the aunts and uncles and cousins to agree...
...cash gleaned later in the spring, was largely devoured-"wasted," say some of his aides-in primary contests where Humphrey was not even officially entered. The aim was to reduce Robert Kennedy's momentum. Among the gambits used was the quiet funneling of money to McCarthy headquarters via labor unions. Humphrey's organization was so sloppy or overconfident during that period that when Angier Biddle Duke sent a letter volunteering to solicit funds, as he had successfully done for Lyndon Johnson, no one in the Humphrey headquarters even took the trouble to reply...
...possible to vote for a party of the left and have one's voted counted. In these states, one should vote to the left of the major three candidates--whether it be for Eugene McCarthy, Eldridge Cleaver, Dick Gregory, Fred Halstead (Socialist Worker), or Henning Blomen (Socialist Labor). In several other states, court fights are now going on to get electors pledged to left-wing candidates recognized by the regular state organizations...
...first chance to establish a settled, reasonably stable community. Like a number of California's two million Mexican-Americans, Munoz was born in Mexico, but came to this country when he was thirteen to join the stream of migrant fruit and cotton harvesters. Whether migrating, or working at seasonal labor in the Delano area, he had no job security, no defense against the high risk of injury in the fields. One of the union's first moves was to write a life insurance policy for every member, and each union contract signed so far contains carefully spelled-out guarantees...
Particularly galling to the farmworkers was Nixon's remark that the boycott was "illegal and unnecessary" because "we have a National Labor Relations Board to impartially supervise the election of collective bargaining agents and to safeguard the rights of organizers." In fact, as every farmworker is well aware, the National Labor Relations Act specifically excludes agricultural labor from protection, as does every significant piece of labor legislation passed since...