Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike for a 60?-an-hour minimum raise, recognition of their union and a dues checkoff by city hall. Nearly all of Memphis' 1,300 garbage men are black, only three of 13 councilmen are. Mayor Henry Loeb has spurned the strikers' demands. As the dispute escalated, labor solidarity has been replaced by a surge of Black Power, led by black ministers and manned by militant black youngsters...
...fearful of casting itself in the role of judicial murderer, had refrained from carrying out the sentences. Then, two weeks ago, Rhodesia's high court ruled that the noose could be used, since the Smith regime was a de facto government. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government thereupon asked the Queen to intercede, but her plea was rejected by the Rhodesian high court. "Her Majesty is quite powerless in this matter," said Rhodesian Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle, who had hitherto been known as a "Queen's man" for arguing that Rhodesia must maintain residual...
...hardest. The lower classes are slightly better off, mainly because Onganía, who started out as a union buster, has turned kindly toward the unions and consults with them regularly in an effort to win some kind of popular support. "Onganía is an orphan," says Labor Leader José Alonso, head of the powerful 150,000-member Textile Workers Union. "He wants support. He wants to be less of a de facto government...
...with-the-Joneses syndrome." For instance, Farmer A learns to read so that he can learn how to use the bag of fertilizer the government has provided. The fertilizer doubles the autumn crop. Farmer B sees that his neighbor is getting more fruits for the same amount of labor. Farmer B determines he will learn how to read. The lesson is simple, the UN's experts conclude: give a man some reason to learn, and he will not only learn but remember...
...revolution. The U.S. seeks to demoralize such people everywhere by defeating their counterparts in Vietnam, while the Chinese, fearful of the same result, do what they can to prevent such a defeat. It is an irony of history that Americans and Chinese, representing radically different ideologies, should labor under the same misconception...