Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's elections, seven of the party's 30 winning candidates were black, and Tucker is purposefully broadening party membership so that the proportion of black members will match the island's Negro majority (63%). Without any other strong issue, the opposition Progressive Labor Party resorted to racism, campaigning on a platform of independence from white Britain, limits on white immigration, and fiery attacks on the white United Bermudians. Last month, pre-election tensions and some bitter P.L.P. speeches had set off an ugly race riot in downtown Hamilton. It caused $1,000,000 in damage...
Bitter Dialogue. Solzhenitsyn's novel, set in the dark atmosphere of a terminal-cancer ward, explores the contrasting lives of the patients-a soldier who was imprisoned for many years in a labor camp, a field geologist who was stricken in young manhood, an aging bureaucrat who improved his lot in life by informing on friends and neighbors. The physical malignancies of the doomed are used by the author to symbolize life in post-Stalin Russia...
...that Duncan had merely touched one of the whites, the whites were unanimous in their contention that he had slapped one of the men on the elbow. Duncan asked for a jury trial, which the Louisiana constitution requires in cases that may involve capital punishment or imprisonment at hard labor. Since he faced a maximum of two years without hard labor and a $300 fine, Duncan did not get a jury. The judge found him guilty, sentenced him to 60 days and fined...
...feigned insanity to expose the inhuman conditions in a mental hospital. And in 1919, Herbert Bayard Swope passed himself off as a diplomat, outfitted with cutaway coat and chauffeured limousine, to provide a firsthand account of peace-treaty negotiations at Versailles. Last week, as the result of a National Labor Relations Board decision, the concept of what journalists call "enterprising reporting" was subjected to Government review...
...minimum income with an opportunity for a job and an obligation to work. This plan operates under the theory that income guarantee is necessary, but that those receiving it must undertake full-time productive employment. A concurrent elimination of minimum wage laws would permit industry to hire more labor than it can now. The government could offer public works employment as an alternative to unattractive industrial jobs, undertaking projects like slum clearance and cleaning littered highways--projects that require great manpower and little capital investment...