Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farmworkers distributed wordy mimeographed leaflets explaining the connection between grapes on the shelves in Lawrence and exploitation of farm labor in Delano, California. But the shoppers seemed unimpressed. Most of theim ignored the leaflets or grabbed at them perfunctorily to avoid an eye to eye confrontation with the picketers. Those who did stop were generally confused. They weren't going to buy grapes anyway, so why shouldn't they shop there? Wasn't this a secondary boycott, and wasn't that illegal? When the store closed at ten o'clock, the picketers tallied the two, three, or five shoppers they...
Finkelhor said that the Labor Department has described as "favorable" the course's chances for getting the grant. The University regulation which severely restricts using grants to pay Teaching Fellows may, however, be a stumbling block to the course's accepting the money...
...course's staff said they hope to receive the subsidy from "Coalition for Youth," a Labor Department subdivision which has funded radical experimental programs at colleges throughout the nation...
...second, tougher "anti-riot" amendment--attached to the Labor-Health, Education and Welfare Appropriations Bill--makes no provision for a university hearing. This measure will be sent to the White House as soon as the House and Senate resolve a disagreement on an unrelated section of the appropriations bill...
...really, and New York would be lucky if it were. For unlike New York's past labor troubles, this crisis doesn't revolve around the bread-and-butter issues with which the politics of compromise can deal. Behind a fog of legalisms and futile maneuverings looms a political scientist's nightmare: New York is experiencing the unbuffered collision of social forces and the situation has left its government sputtering impotently...