Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working conditions are no better. The major sources of jobs are restaurants, curio stores and the sewing shops, comprising 151 small, family-oriented contract clothing factories employing about 20 seamstresses apiece. Paid on a piecework basis, the women often labor from 8:30 a.m. until after midnight, seven days a week, fingers darting frenetically to make ends meet. Asked why she would work at least twelve hours a day for a net income of $26 a week, one mother of five said succinctly: "You have to in Chinatown...
Wait Ten Years. Only recently has Chinese pride permitted a lowering of the all but impenetrable veil that shrouded their condition from the outside world. California's Labor Commission and the San Francisco Central Labor Council have heard depressing testimony from Chinatown residents about working conditions in the district. Last week, led by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union,* labor opened a campaign of pickets, sanctions and the threat of boycott against eight Chinatown sewing shops and a contracting firm. Although the goal is not immediate unionization, the 25,000-member culinary workers union is waiting in the wings...
Union organizers from Israel's giant Histadrut labor federation are already signing up recruits in the Arab quarter...
...that total is generally expected to reach 750,000 by winter. Industrial production has stagnated for nearly a year. Foreign-exchange earnings, the crucial source of support for the British pound, have risen, but at a disappointing rate. Under increasing critical attack both within and without his own Labor Party, Wilson last week called up a surprise reinforcement: himself...
...titular head of the crucial economics ministry, Wilson replaced supercautious Michael Stewart, 60, with Labor's fastest-rising star: lanky Peter Shore, 43. Though Wilson made it clear that he will run the show, Liverpoolreared, Cambridge-educated Shore will wield considerable power in shaping Britain's economic destiny. A left-of-center intellectual, Shore is a former research chief for the Labor Party who first began helping Wilson in 1955. An economist (as is Wilson), Shore becomes the youngest member of the Cabinet. In the past, he was eager to nationalize more British industry...