Word: labor
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...Texas, both Johnson and his longtime ally, retiring Governor John Connally, were set back when their gubernatorial candidate, Eugene Locke, 50, former Deputy Ambassador to South Viet Nam, ran a poor fifth in the ten-man Democratic race. With the support of both labor and the Latin and Negro minorities, Don Yarborough, 42, a liberal Houston lawyer* who was twice defeated in the gubernatorial primary by Connally, topped the Democratic ballot. But without a majority, he was forced into a runoff on June 1 with Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, 56. An archconservative, Smith will probably gain the right-wing votes...
...find poverty in Greenport, L.I., is something else again. As Poet William Cullen Bryant wrote in the 1870s of the tidy, tree-shaded town with its white clapboard houses: "Nowhere is decay or unwholesome poverty apparent." It is not apparent today, but there all the same are migrant labor camps, like the Cutchogue settlement for potato workers, whose four grey-painted World War I barracks house itinerant teams of Florida, Arkansas, Virginia or New Jersey farm hands. Isaiah, 35, the crew chief, is a diminutive Negro from Florida who tools around the camp in a late-model Cadillac, earning...
...Negroes in the U.S.?work the fields and wreck the saloons in an epic cycle of productivity and degradation. Many men stagger into the fields to chop weeds for $1.40 an hour until they have enough for another binge. Others grind out an endless season of stoop labor to keep their families barely abreast of the poverty line...
Astonishingly, no lives were lost, but before the week's carnage ended, 1,158 combatants were hurt (596 of them police) and 1,081 arrested. In support of the rioters, Communist, Socialist, Christian Socialist and teachers' labor unions ordered an illegal 24-hour general strike, a move that could leave France without railroads, buses, subways, electricity, schools and other public services...
Throughout its long democratic history, Britain has seldom had a more unpopular government than that of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's - or one so entrenched despite its low standing. After months during which its vote and its esteem from Britons have steadily declined, the Labor Party last week suffered its most extensive and embarrassing defeat...