Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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British Prime Minister Harold Wil son has never been noted for excessive chivalry toward opponents-or subordinates. But rarely has Wilson stirred as much angry reaction among both Labor colleagues and Tory opponents as he did with his bitter attack upon the character and conduct of Colonel Leslie ("Sammy") Lohan, the civil servant in charge of governmental press relations on all questions touching national security...
...Italian government unfairly aids manufacturers by allowing quick write-offs on their automated machinery and by handing back more in export rebates than it takes out in turnover taxes. France, when the Italians suddenly grabbed 221% of its refrigerator market in 1962, complained that Italy was exploiting sweatshop labor. It thus won Common Market permission to impose a "compensatory" tax on such imports while French industry modernized to meet the competition. After the tax was repealed, the French tried raising import duties and imposing inordinately rigid border inspections in vain efforts to stem the appliance flow. Now. France is considering...
...they could speak. The term stood for Industrial Workers of the World, founded in Chicago in 1905 by a hot-eyed collection of Socialists, anarchists and native radicals, ranging from Big Bill Haywood to Eugene Debs -who had led the Pullman strike, the first nationwide confrontation of capital and labor in U.S. history...
What repression could not fully accomplish, inner dissension did. Some Wobblies-including Helen Gurley Flynn and John Reed-drifted toward Communism. Others slowly eased their way back into society. Ralph Chaplin, as great a labor poet as Joe Hill, turned both conservative and Catholic. English-born Charles Ashleigh became a gold prospector in Mexico...
...mass union had been taken over by the C.I.O. Even so, the C.I.O. long depended on many techniques originated by the Wobblies, ranging from the sitdown strike to integrated locals to a lively interest in civil rights. In the era of the twelve-hour day and child labor in mines and mills, the I.W.W. was one of labor's more effective weapons. The Wobblies engendered real fear and antagonism in many quarters, and perhaps intensified antilabor prejudice. But over the long run, the Wobblies undoubtedly helped to open the nation's eyes to the imperfections...