Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apart from some impressive detective work on the riots, there is little new or exciting in the report. The ideas are hardly original. But what is remarkable is the tone taken by the commission, whose membership includes a Southern police chief, two representatives, two senators, an industrialist, a labor leader, a Republican mayor, and, as chairman, a Midwest governor...
Hanoi undoubtedly sees the dispersal and hardship of war as a lesson for its urban elite as well. The DLD echoed Mao's concern with getting intellectuals to develop a feel for the peasantry when it packed students off to the hinterland for several months of manual labor of 1958. Now students scattered in jungle and mountain retreats are hacking out their own classrooms, sleeping in straw huts, and walking dirt paths to classes...
There is no denying, of course, that U.S. bombing has hurt Hanoi's economy badly. Its new industrial facilities are rubble, and all-important agricultural labor has been diverted to repair communication lines crippled by the U.S. bombing...
Frontlash has a long range potential as an instrument of democratic social changes," he added, through a broad-based "liberal-leftist" coalition of students, labor, and sympathetic members of the middle class...
Wiggins traced the increases in the room rent and board rates--the first since 1960--to "the rising costs of labor, material, and food." He said that the costs of labor have been rising at four to five per cent annually and that food price increases have been almost as great...