Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...methods for averting a strike under the Railway Labor Act have been exhausted, so the special Presidential commission has been called in to suggest compromise to both sides...
...unions contend that the possibility of such legislation, and even the present Railway Labor Act, gives management the upper hand. "If the government instead lets the railroad management know, firmly and unmistakably, that the railroad workers' right to strike is not going to be abolished, then management would have made a fair offer and this dispute would be settled: now," a union spokesman said last week...
...past, Dunlop has served on several special labor boards and panels. From 1960 to 1963 he served on the Presidential Railroad Commission, and recently was a member of the Presidential Commission to solve the Work Rule dispute...
...activity, while encouraging in some respects, has failed to educate and organize a powerful base even in its own constituency; much less has it established links with the working-class and low-income people who also object to the war. Many of us have been working through community and labor organizing and related activities to build a base among these people. We feel now, however that while opportunities to do this kind of organizing still exist (and may, at the moment even be increasing), both the probable course of the war and the low level of personal commitment...
...book was responsible for all the mechanical labor-saving devices of the industrial revolution. Protestantism, the Enlightenment and suburbia all owe their creation to the book and the eye. But in spite of its once-impressive power, the book has been overwhelmed, in recent decades, by the electronic media: the telegraph, the radio, the computer, and especially television...