Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Humphrey liberals, the war is the most passionate rallying cry, but not the only one. Having received the nomination on the strength of the urban machines and the big wheels of organized labor, Humphrey suffers from guilt by association. Martin Stone, a McCarthy leader in California, says of Humphrey's future: "He's finished. Nothing is going to change that. The old buffaloes are on their last legs." California's former Governor Pat Brown, an orthodox liberal of the Humphrey stripe, laments: "It's a bad day for guys like me who have worked...
Some Democrats look beyond November in search of new strength. In Atlanta, former Congressman Charles Weltner, seeking election after two years of voluntary retirement, talks of a coalition of "people concerned with the development of human potential"-educated professionals, "enlightened" businessmen, Negroes, the progressive elements of organized labor, moderate Southerners, new voters. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh looks for a similar grouping and adds another target: liberal Republicans who could be weaned from the G.O.P...
...rising flood. Last month border patrolmen of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service seized more than 14,000-1,000 more than the monthly average. Thousands more filter past roadblocks and airplane spotters or wade the shallow Rio Grande in search of jobs as "stoop" laborers on farms. Most wetback workers make it across the border on their own. Illegal labor contractors smuggle others across...
...British labor unions existed long before the Labor Party. They helped create the party, continue to provide it with the bulk of its funds and its hard core of votes - and to some extent feel that they are, in fact, the party. The symbiosis works well enough when Labor is out of power and both party and unions need one another. It works less well once the party leaders don their bowler hats, pick up their dispatch cases and move into Whitehall. Then the unions naturally enough expect their reward. But the responsibilities of ruling Britain seldom enable a socialist...
...months of "ultimately rewarding" belt tightening, as Jenkins proposed. By a margin of 5 to 1, they gave resounding approval to the defiant Cousins' resolution. It was the first time that a party conference had split with the government on a key issue since Wilson assumed the Labor leadership in 1963. The vote was thus a stinging rebuke to Wilson personally, but it will have no immediate effect on the Labor government's economic policies, because wage and price restraints are now the law. The vote will make more difficult the renewal of the measures when they expire...