Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest quarter-horse race of all is the annual Ail-American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. Come Labor Day, some 10,000 bona fide and drugstore cowboys-along with doctors, lawyers and oil-rich Indian chiefs-will turn out to see the tenth running of the 400-yard event billed as the "World's Richest Horse Race." Prize money for this year's Futurity is $615,000, nearly four times the size of the purse offered at the Kentucky Derby...
Equally scandalized were France's three major labor unions, who are coordinating a protest and a possible retaliatory strike. The fired newsmen also got a cable of support from abroad, stating that "this repression constitutes a direct menace to freedom of information." The signers of the message: "The journalists of Radio Prague...
Detroit's move into the low-price field has come belatedly and grudgingly. Saddled with higher labor costs than their foreign competitors, U.S. automakers enjoy a far greater unit profit on bigger, jazzier cars than they could hope to on European-style ones. In order to make a go of it with low-priced cars, they must be certain that the volume is there. The upswing in import sales, which will account for a $2 billion chunk of business this year, has convinced them that...
Paradoxically, that cushion of unused plant and manpower, plus the country's still ample $4.75 billion reserves, is what now gives France its opportunity for an economic rebound without serious inflation. Despite the staggering wage gains of French labor (13% to 14% for all of 1968), the Gaullist government aims at holding price increases to 3% during the last half of this year. It is relying on what one Finance Ministry official calls "a battery of tools to regulate prices without actually enforcing price controls." Under the French contrat de programme, for example, thousands of industrial and retail firms...
...made its overriding aim to negotiate contracts for all Campbell plants at the same time. Meat Cutters Union Local President Clarence Clark claims that the old system enables the company to "play one union against another." By contrast, management views the current strike as a harbinger of a united labor force that would be able, as Campbell Vice President William E. Harwick puts it, "to turn us on and off" on a company-wide basis...