Word: labor
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Overlooked Hazards. The Senate has utterly rejected 19 nominees. In 1866, Congress was so angry with Andrew Johnson that it simply abolished the tenth court seat then in existence rather than approve a Johnson appointee. In 1930 Herbert Hoover overlooked labor opposition to Judge John J. Parker-known as "Yellow Dog" Parker in union circles for a decision upholding so-called yellow-dog labor contracts that barred workers from joining noncompa-ny unions. No nominee has been rejected since Parker, but the hazard is always present...
Administration economists were quick to blame the poor G.N.P. showing on the high, but not dangerous, inventories. Unlike 1961, when they had to be liquidated with a loss, the current stock piles are being gradually sold off. Mean while, unemployment is a small 3.6% of the labor force, and industrial production rose in March to end a two-month decline. Certain that the mood represented by rising sales would continue on into summer, Washington economists reaffirmed the forecast they made in January. After a slow first half, they said confidently, 1967 will end with a strong second-half finish...
...land of the mod and the miniskirt is also the home of the mini-growth economy. Last summer, faced with mounting international debts, a critical gap between rising imports and diminishing exports, and growing skepticism about the value of the pound sterling, Britain's Labor government put the nation on a deflationary diet. Wages, profits and dividends were frozen; taxes were pegged high to dampen spending, and even a slight rise in unemployment was tolerated by a Labor Party that had always stood for full employment. Saddled with such restraints, Britons quickly became uncommonly economy-conscious. And they listened...
...weeks, who spent 18 years as self-effacing lieutenant of Sir Alexander Bustamante, the leader of Jamaica's push to independence in 1962 and its first Prime Minister, finally came into his own last January when "Busta," aging (83) and infirm, handed over the reins of his Jamaica Labor Party, which Sangster guided to victory in February's elections; of a brain hemorrhage; in Montreal. His successor is Union Leader Hugh Lawson Shearer, 43, appointed by the Governor General after a party caucus...
John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy and an experienced labor-management negotiator, has been in Washington for over a week trying to solve the nationwide railroad dispute...