Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning last February, the Vote on Vietnam petition was circulated in the low-income neighborhoods of North and East Cambridge. It concluded that "The war serves only the interests of business. The U.S. should get out of Vietnam." The wording reflected the Progressive Labor philosophy of several of Vote on Vietnam's leaders. PL is a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist group...
Today, all seem caught up in mutual recriminations-Negro and white, rich and poor, conservative and liberal, hawk and dove, labor and management, North and South, young...
...social caliber of its inmates. In Denmark, where the number of arrests of drunken drivers has been increasing sharply, police are introducing breath-testing balloons and trying for tougher laws. The Finns put imprisoned tipplers in special jails and make them work their way out. Much of the hard labor in building Helsinki's new international airport was performed by drying-out drivers...
...little black pipe and cultivated the Englishman's love of puttering about a garden. The son of a lawyer, he attended Oxford and was a staunch Tory until he visited a London slum. The squalor turned the young lawyer into a social worker and socialist. When the Labor Party split in 1935 over the issue of pacifism, Attlee, a World War I major and no pacifist, emerged as its leader. He remolded the party into a more pragmatic organization, and fashioned the program of social reform with which it came to power...
...real difference, however, is one of attitude. Yael came to Ayeleth to escape the drudgery of military paperwork and its 9 to 5 day, but now she wants to leave. She has found the endless routine of physical labor as oppressive as office work--and less instructive...