Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legislative lobbying and the 1970 party elections are the two objectives of the reformers activities. Resenbrink's group will be building at the grass-roots for the next two years in high hopes of taking over the state party. Most observers consider a coup unlikely in a state where labor is still loyal and Senator or vice president Muskie is both important and progressive...
Following Humphrey's defeat in November, the new liberal coalition of urban blacks and white suburbanites centered around Detroit and Lansing will in all probability take control of the party from old, worn labor-liberal leadership. In the early August party primaries, however, the bi-racial coalition which now calls itself the New Caucus took more than forty per cent of the state. Their muscle was reflected in the September 1 state convention when party leaders in a harmony effort neglected to bring up a resolution calling for a Humphrey endorsement. With Humphrey's anticipated defeat, New Caucus forces will...
...back up to full strength after their recent losses. In some areas, replacements are of higher quality than ever before; they have evidently come from training units long held back in the safety of the North. The Communist supply lines and communications network have been improved enormously by feverish labor on the roads and trails through Laos, Cambodia and the underpopulated border provinces of South Viet Nam. Viet Cong terrorists recently murdered 476 civilians in two weeks, more than in any other fortnight this year...
...Labor accounts for one of the industry's fastest-growing expenses, as evidenced by the salary increases of roughly 20% that airline pilots have recently been winning. Air-traffic delays, brought on in large measure by the proliferation of scheduled flights, have cost the airlines some $90 million so far this year. But new aircraft purchases are far and away the most expensive item. Under contract, U.S. airlines will take delivery of 451 new jet planes this year, at a cost of $2.6 billion. In all, they have commitments or options to buy $7.6 billion worth of jets...
Britain's ruling Labor Party encourages corporate mergers on the theory that the country needs bigger and more efficient companies to compete in world markets. Taking the government at its word, Britain's General Electric Co. Ltd. (no kin to American G.E.), and English Electric Co., which stand one-two in the country's electrical field, obligingly prepared last week to join forces in a corporate merger that would be the biggest in British history...