Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symptomatic of the Democratic Party's disarray. With the Wallace faction and the antiwar wing sapping his strength from right to left, the Vice President has tried to create a centrist constituency of his own. Thus far, his principal positive support has come from leaders of organized labor. Their muscle, of course, is not inconsiderable. Last week a poll of 2,638 United Auto Workers representatives showed 87.8% favoring Humphrey. The executive board of the Teamsters Union urged its 1.9 million members to vote for the Vice President...
...course is divided into four sections: Race, Imperialism, Labor, and Theory. Each section will begin with two speakers followed by a series of section meetings. The speakers will raise important issues, and the sections will discover that it disagrees with certain ideas, is uncertain about others, and is in confusion about yet others. At the end of each section, the group will refer to the reading lists and select a unit of readings to clarify the dispute and motivate further discussion. The class will do the readings and then return to the seminar to re-evaluate the old discussion...
...labor strikes will be outlawed. The junta repeatedly uses the rhetoric of saving the Greek Christian Civilization from the old days when workers were constantly on strike and students were always throwing stones. The constitution restricts unions from organizing against the interests of the existing social order. It's quite true that Greece was strike-ridden before the revolution and that walk-outs seriously worried many Greeks, but most observers didn't think in terms of the strikes being dangerous enough to overthrow the government...
...here he faltered, seeking a word he could not remember. After a long pause, he turned and inquired, "There are two political parties in England, the Labor Party and what's the other...
Fred Halstead, Presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party, is speaking at 8 p.m. tonight at 295 Huntington Avenue, Hall 307, in the Militant Labor Forum. He has just returned from a world political tour...