Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white citizen-himself a member of the public board of education-donated five acres of land outside town. Twenty others put up $2,000 each to buy materials. Townspeople donated their labor. Construction began last May, and just 31 months later Sandy Run Academy's attractive, one-story brick building was finished. The school is what educators call "a nice plant": its seven classrooms are clean, well lighted and centrally air-conditioned. It also has a number of shortcomings. In a community that sends only 30% of its students to college, Sandy Run offers a rudimentary college-preparatory program...
FEWER JOBS. The unemployment rate, which long held at 3% or 3.5% of the nation's labor force, was 3.9% in October, when 2,800,000 workers were out of jobs. As business activity slows, the rate is likely to rise to 4.5% or 5% in the next few months, and to as much as 10% among Negroes, because the labor force keeps increasing while the number of jobs shrinks...
STRIKES. The current walkout by 147,000 General Electric workers is only a foretaste of the acrimonious labor struggles that loom in the immediate future. Next year will be clotted with labor negotiations. Contracts covering some 4,000,000 workers in such basic industries as railroads, trucking, autos, construction, rubber and meat packing will expire in 1970. Unionists will press strongly for wage gains to keep ahead of inflation. Caught in a profit squeeze, management is likely to resist with equal vigor...
Until recently, the Administration has been monolithically united on the need for tight money. Presidential Counselor Arthur F. Burns, who is scheduled to become Federal Reserve chairman in January, said last month that "we will not budge." Simultaneously, however, Labor Secretary George Shultz began arguing for an immediate but moderate expansion of money and credit. Though he lost the argument, he soon may gain an important ally. Paul McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, believes that the severely restrictive policy has been correct so far, but now he is beginning to wonder whether the time...
...hour that the march was to begin drew near, the picnic-like atmosphere began to fade and people congregated around banners or famous anti-war personalities. Many of the more militant groups-including contingents from the Communist Party, Progressive Labor, a group of NLF sympathizers, and Students for a Democratic Society-moved toward the head of the Refleeting Pool so that they could be close to the front of the parade. Ironically, they ended up in what had been the segment of the march designated for "religious groups." The tactics were clear. The militants had heard that authorities planned...