Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humor. Despite Castro's best efforts, however, the gripes continued wherever Cubans gathered. "There is no room in our ranks for complainers or weaklings, for sowers of panic, for grumblers," warned the Cuban Labor Confederation. Castro's revolutionary committee went even further. It called on all Cubans to "stem lack of seriousness, counter-revolutionary rumors and jokes"-a laughable attempt to curb even humor in Castro's ever more puritanical Cuba...
...whole, Americans are now more apt to settle their arguments through legal redress, or at least nonviolent cunning, rather than with fists, knives and guns. Organized crime has shifted from blatant violence to financial infighting; today's juvenile gangs are more talkers than fighters; very few labor-dispute slayings have occurred since the 1950s...
ORGANIZED labor, which dislikes Kennedy almost as much as the South does, has provided Humphrey's most enthusiastic backing in the last two weeks. Labor support will be most significant in Pennsylvania, where it controls most of the party organization. Philadelphia has an independent party, but Mayor James Tate remembers Humphrey's crucial assistance in his re-election campaign last fall. The city chairman, 29-year-old Rep. William J. Green, will be able to gather only a few Pennsylvania delegates for Kennedy. In Michigan, UAW President Walter Reuther also has close ties to Humphrey, but most of Michigan...
When he called in 50 businessmen for an economic conference soon after the war, Eshkol got a brutal diagnosis of the country's ills. They complained that exports were hopelessly hobbled by high taxes, government meddling and Israel's undisciplined labor force. More serious, they said, was the fact that Israel could never hope to attract more than sentimental investment in its private sector while its socialist system encouraged control of 24% of the nation's overall production by Histadrut, the nationwide labor confederation, and government ownership of such key industries as aircraft and mining...
...whole tax package is generally intended to dampen demand at home, thus help ease the country's chronic balance of payments deficit. The soak-the-rich character of the investment-income levy has the added political purpose of pleasing left-wing members of Harold Wilson's ruling Labor Party...