Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizens trying to do something for the victims. Committees set up in factories, offices and clubs have got clerical jobs for lawyers who had been forced by Novotný to work in mines, have made taxi drivers out of students who, as punishment, had been condemned to do manual labor...
Still, from the Biblical Solomon to the ecumenical Pope John XXIII, conciliators have polished a craft that succeeds in a wide variety of negotiable situations. The U.S. once boasted the world's bloodiest labor movement; now it has such effective conciliation machinery that remarkably few slayings have occurred in labor disputes since the 1950s. For all its failings, the U.N. has helped to keep most of the world's angry opponents at arm's length, producing a host of skilled conciliators in the process-Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte, Canada's Lester Pearson, America...
...difficult to sell compromises to their constituents without some semblance of victory. During the recent Memphis sanitation workers' strike, the adversaries had become so entrenched behind their harsh words that it appeared face could not be saved on either side. Called in to mediate the dispute, U.S. Labor Under Secretary James J. Reynolds was stymied not only by the black v. white impasse but more importantly by Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb's adamant refusal to grant a payroll checkoff for union dues. How did Reynolds break the ice? By using the Federal Credit Union, which is employee-owned...
Mortified Labor. As soon as the Mirror's 5,000,000 readers got a glimpse of this diatribe, the pound plummeted to its lowest post-devaluation level, and King was widely criticized by politicians and press alike. Among the most mortified were some of the members of the Mirror group's board of directors who belong to the Labor Party and still support Wilson. Adding to their distress was the fact that King rarely took the trouble to consult them on important matters. Moreover, profits declined somewhat last year, taking some of the gloss off the years...
...will look as if I was caught with my hand in the till." Expecting his refusal, the board then dismissed him outright. He was not exactly penitent. "I think it is interesting," he remarked, "that the Daily Mirror under Mr. Cudlipp will now presumably switch over support to the Labor Party just in time to nail the flag to the mast of the ship as it goes down. I think it is a mistake. He presumably does not." Replied Cudlipp: "The most endearing aspect of Cecil's complex character was always his Irish sense of humor...