Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find it difficult to understand why Jared Israel and the other Progressive Labor Party members in SDS support American withdrawal from Vietnam. It would seem to me that the logic of their position would lead them to call for American military victory at any price...
...questions considered first-graduate and occupational deferments-were from all indications decided substantially on the issues. The views of Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz prevailed on both. In testimoney before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty last month. Wirtz said that solely on the considerations of civilian manpower supply, neither group of deferments was essential to the nation. Although not a member of the NSC, his views were transmitted to the Council in an official memorandum co-signed by the Secretaries of Commerce and Health, education, and Welfare...
...schism between these two groups is wider than ever. The liberal intellectual coalition with labor is breathing only with difficulty. The Vietnam war has choked off what few channels of communication existed between the academic community and the Democratic Administration...
...hurting their budding political careers," he said. "Reluctant to voice any effective platform, they present a generalized liberal view centered entirely around elections, with no conception of extra-political social means of bringing about change. It never occurred to any of these ultra-pragmatic liberals to get involved with labor unions, for example...
Abrams too is convinced of the value in cooperating with labor. "Demonstrations, and working for McCarthy, are important, but they aren't enough. I'd like to see Young Dems work with unions and help them. Then when an issue like Vietnam comes up, you've got voters who will listen to you," he said...