Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in a session with business students at the University of Pennsylvania, Reuther indicated that the dispute goes much deeper criticizing the basic philosophy and direction of the labor movement. By its failure to campaign for civil rights and to press the fight against poverty, said Reuther, organized labor has demonstrated that it is not "playing the role of a creative and constructive force" and is "failing in its broad social responsibility to the community...
...biggest, most crucial, yet least predictable segment of the budget is defense. And though the Administration is striving mightily to keep it to a minimum, the Pentagon last week was in labor with a behemoth...
...recalled later, "who examined my eyes and then remarked: 'I don't believe the trouble is in your eyes. Did you ever try opening a book?' " Roustabout to Roughneck. It was an unspoken law that all the Rockefeller boys should try their hands at manual labor while in school and on vacation...
Influence & Intellect. Born in Pittsburgh on June 18, 1889, he went to work at 14 as an office boy for a leader of the moribund local Democratic machine. As labor's influence began to grow, the party began to revive, and Dave Lawrence became a tough, effective precinct captain. In 1912, he attended the Democratic presidential convention, was smitten with the polish and intellect of the nominee that year, Woodrow Wilson. Sighed Lawrence: "That man has the real class...
...frequent Government manipulation of taxes, spending and subsidies, while liberals like himself, says Heller, have a new understanding of the role of private investment Practically no one any longer sees danger in rising federal debts and rising wages-as long as the economy grows faster than the debt, and labor productivity grows faster than labor costs. The gloomy science of economics has fallen on happy times because old economic ideologies are dead...