Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lesser labor disputes flared across the nation. Contracts covering 75,000 rubber workers at Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and Uniroyal run out April 20. Although Washington observers were optimistic that a strike would be avoided, an industry leader has already hinted that rubber prices are likely to go up as a result of expected increased labor costs of as much as 6%. More than 12,000 members of the Communications Workers of America have voted strike authorization to their negotiators with Western Electric Co., Inc., where their contract expired March 25. Talks have been held under day-to-day extensions...
...Labor Legislation. Even before the trucking crisis, Congress was apprehensive. Colorado's Republican Senator Peter H. Dominick criticized President Johnson for scheduling a trip to South America this week, when "our fundamental supply lines are about to be threatened by a strike." And two Republican Senators, New York's Jacob Javits and California's Thomas H. Kuchel, proposed a bill that would allow the Government to seek through the courts authority to keep struck industries operating in order "to protect the public health and safety...
Unforgivable Sin. Yet the fact that Tvardovsky has been able to print what he has shows that official restraints have loosened considerably. It was only a year ago that Authors Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were sentenced to labor camps for critical works-though their unforgivable sin was that they published them in the West. The debate between liberals and dogmatists will intensify as the time approaches for next month's Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers-the first conclave of its kind in eight years. As for Tvardovsky, he still hopes to succeed in an ambitious new project: publication...
...labor pains of the search," says Columbia Administrator Clifford Nelson, "are just holy hell...
...postwar economic recovery that West Germans refer to as the Wirtschaftswunder, a slight, self-assured man named Heinz Nordhoff is certainly one of the nation's master builders. Because he had run wartime Germany's biggest military truck plant, U.S. occupation authorities restricted him to manual labor. The more pragmatic British tapped him to revive a Wolfsburg auto factory which had been so badly bombed that, Nordhoff was later to recall, it "didn't even smell good enough for the Russians." That plant had once built Volkswagens, and Nordhoff's success in getting it back into...