Word: labor
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Blast from HUD. Though the bonds would have to be guaranteed by the Government, Percy also provides for an investment from the owner. He calls it a "sweat equity" in which prospective homeowners can throw in their own labor to reduce their monthly mortgage payments. Under the Percy Plan, if a homeowner should rise above a middle-income level of $6,000 a year, he would subsequently contribute a commensurately greater portion of his monthly mortgage payment to the federation's revolving fund...
...Left is determined not to cooperate with groups that have even slightly bowed to the status quo. When Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin suggested that the New Left shift from protest to coalition politics and work with labor and liberals, he was berated as a cop-out who was threatening its moral purity. Michael Harrington, who put poverty on the map in his book The Other America, is now similarly denounced; he calls the New Leftists "mystical militants...
...necessarily what they want. Typical is a statement by Clark Kissinger, 26, a former S.D.S. national secretary who ran for alderman in Chicago (and won 864 votes out of 18,-970): "You can imagine the system as a table. Lyndon Johnson sits at the head of the table, labor has a place at the table, industry has a place, the building industry, the .grape growers, the State Street merchants-they all have places. Right now, the poor don't sit at the table; they get some crumbs thrown down to them. Well, we don't want a place...
With the Race Relations Board expected to announce similar findings this week, the Labor government is under increasing pressure to press for better antidiscrimination legislation. The chances that it can do so successfully are not good. In the past ten years, Parliament has thrown out at least ten bills to control discrimination-and the mood has not changed. Two months ago, when the government called union lead ers together to sound them out on fair employment laws, most of them boycotted the conference entirely...
...deprive his children in the name of the Lord, and worse, saw her mother's love for her father turn to silent hatred. In her autobiographical novel The Time Is Noon, written over 25 years ago but unpublished until now, it is business as usual in the hard-labor camp by the hearth. The setting is not the Anhwei of The Good Earth but a village in Pennsylvania. The young heroine drags from crisis to crisis: her mother's long slow death from cancer, brother's bastard child, sister's orphaned infants, her own hopelessly retarded...