Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center of town. Police headed them off and arrested six leaders of the march. Then an even more curious thing happened. Last week the workers staged a sitdown strike to protest the arrests-and won. Before the strike was five hours old, the police, at the behest of the Labor Ministry, dropped charges against all six labor leaders and released them...
Sting Removed. The strike in Madrid was not an isolated case. After long years of suppression by the Franco regime, the Spanish labor movement is beginning to come alive. Late in 1965, Franco signed a law granting Spaniards the right to strike for the first time since the Civil War. True enough, the right was carefully limited. No strike that had the slightest political overtones would be allowed, and no strike of any kind could be called until labor leaders had gone through weeks of mediation and complicated bureaucratic process to obtain government permission...
Modicum of Affluence. Even before they were granted the right to strike, the workers' lot had been gradually improving. Under pressure from the boss of its own sindicatos, a labor-minded Falangist named José Solís Ruiz, the regime has raised the minimum wage twice in the past ten years, from 60? a day to $1.40. And that is only a starting point. Most Spanish workers also take home incentive pay, family allowance and a variety of other fringe benefits that boost their average income to between $4 and $7 a day. Their paychecks stretch a long...
...natural assets for taking full advantage of the expansion fever that has gripped U.S. business. Strategically situated within a 500-mile reach of 67% of the nation's population, 72% of its purchasing power, and 78% of its manufacturing, Ohio is blessed with excellent transportation facilities, generally amicable labor relations, and some of the lowest utility rates of any state. Just as important, Republican Governor James A. Rhodes's administration has painstakingly projected the image of a state where "profit is not a dirty word...
...other criminal business--criminal activity by legitimate firms--like conspiracy in restraint of trade, tax evasion, illegal labor practices or the marketing of dangerous drugs, regulatory agencies can deal with the harmful practices. One does not have to declare war on the industry itself. Only on the illegal practices. Regulation, even negotiation, are recognized techniques for coping with those practices. But when the business itself is criminal it is harder to have an acknowledged policy of regulation and negotiation. It involves a kind of "diplomatic recognition...