Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viva All of You!" After three years of bitterness between pickers and growers, the danger in Delano now is that the strikers will resort to violence. Yet Chavez, the militant labor leader, is a devout Roman Catholic who believes perfervidly in pacific means to his ends. Last month, "to recall farm workers to the nonviolent roots of their movement," Chavez began a 25-day fast, living only on water and Eucharistic wafers in a scruffy Delano gasoline station owned by the N.F.W.A...
...which the government decided to declare a bank holiday, he unaccountably failed to summon Brown, even though the issue's foreign policy implications were obvious. In fact, Brown, who was listening to a debate in Commons at the time, first learned of the meeting when a fellow Labor M.P. asked him what was going on. Enraged by being left out, Brown stalked off to find Wilson...
STUDENT deferments themselves are of dubious validity. Secretary of Labor Wirtz has testified that they are unnecessary for maintaining an adequate supply of skilled manpower. They should be abolished entirely--but only as part of comprehensive draft reform, such as the Marshall Commission recommendations or Senator Edward M. Kennedy's reform bill now pending in the Senate...
...grossed about $300,000 during the eight weeks they operated a distributing company to circulate the Daily Express. It was also confirmed that other Teamsters had made arrangements to publish the Dispatch before the strike had begun, a situation that Michigan Senator Robert Griffin described as "nothing less than labor racketeering...
...fact is that there are hardly any amateurs left, at least by Olympic standards-which rule out even athletic scholarships (a ban that is obviously ignored) and prohibit any financial remuneration whatsoever from athletic ability. The trouble with that philosophy is that it ignores the labor and expense necessary to produce a Jean-Claude Killy, who has been training full time since...