Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your "Need for Conciliation" Essay [June 7] was well done, including the observation that "the steady pile-up of unsolved small problems" creates smoldering anger and an eventual sudden explosion. In addition to the explosion type of labor-management negotiations, we are also extensively engaged in what we call "preventive mediation." This effort seeks to help labor and management deal with current problems so that there is no pile-up to detonate. Problem solving can become a successful habit. Government mediators are aiding unions and employers in over 1,200 such preventive-mediation programs throughout the nation...
From all appearances, he is in for a long wait. The campaign can point to some limited successes with the Administration. The Agriculture Department agreed to speed up food relief programs in 256 of the country's poorest counties. The Labor Department hurried a plan to create 100,000 new jobs. The Office of Economic Opportunity found $25 million more for the Head Start school program and emergency food and health care...
...Quite. The reason for this uncharacteristic flurry was a vote on a Labor government order tightening Britain's economic boycott of Rhodesia. Though Labor has a comfortable 72-vote majority in the House of Commons, Conservative hereditary peers dominate the Lords, which still has the power to delay for one year legislation passed by the House of Commons...
Since white Rhodesians have fervent allies in many right-wing Tories, and their sympathizers are dotted across the political spectrum, Conservative Leader Edward Heath thought the issue ripe for a showdown. His logic: if the Lords voted the government down overwhelmingly, Labor might well demand abolition of the upper house, which he believed it would not dare do without calling a general election. Since the government has lost all but one of the last nine by elections for the House of Commons-an Evening Standard poll last week showed the Tories running 16% ahead of Labor-a general election...
Unswerving Fealty. The Senator's campaign style remained as urbane and dispassionate as ever, even though the primaries were over and he now faces the arduous labor of trying to convert the convention delegates, mostly professional politicians, who are sympathetic or committed to Humphrey's camp. Ironically, McCarthy, as a scholar and a gentleman, could anticipate more sympathy from outright conservatives, even Republicans, who approve of his dignified image...