Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor Authority...
...case. Several petitions circulated, demanding "a full public airing" at the trial. Crowds gathered outside the courtroom, yelling, shoving and needling security guards. But Soviet justice pays scant heed to public opinion. After a five-day closed trial, the judge sentenced the three men and a woman to labor camps for terms ranging from one to seven years...
...more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt" of land around Havana and plant it with fruits and vegetables. Many workers have no choice about where or when they labor. Army troops, militiamen, bureaucrats and even cabinet ministers are expected to "volunteer" for field work. Those who do not often wind up on forced-labor details, and are sent off to the fields for weeks or months at a time...
...nation's labor unions long ago perfected the divide-and-conquer tactic of selective strikes in industry-wide negotiations. Only lately have companies tempered union pressure on struck rivals through "mutual-aid pacts." The airlines have used them since 1958, and they have popped up in such industries as railroads and rubber. Last week it became known that the Big Three of U.S. automaking, going into their 1967 negotiations, had considered a mutual-aid model of their...
Died. Roy Reuther, 58, labor organizer and second of the U.A.W.'s three Reuther brothers; of a heart attack; in Detroit. With Walter and Victor, Roy was a driving force in the early days of the U.A.W., personally plotted and led the first successful strike against General Motors in Flint, Mich., in 1937 -a landmark victory that gave the infant U.A.W. the impetus that eventually made it the second largest union...