Word: labor
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...achieving its legislative goals in the 90th Congress is concerned, big labor has ample reason for feeling glum. Meany was guilty of understatement when he said that the chances were "pretty dim" to repeal Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley Act (the right-to-work provision), which triggered a long and bitter filibuster even in the liberal 89th. Equally bleak is labor's chance of getting restrictions on construction-site picketing eased. By contrast, the 90th Congress may prove far more receptive than the 89th to further limitations on strikes-such as airline stoppages-that have national repercussions...
...slambang, month-long campaign between Liberal Prime Minister Harold Holt and his opposition challenger, Labor Party Leader Arthur Calwell, has focused the country's attention on the key question of Australia's participation in Viet Nam. Holt, 58, has committed Australian draftees to the war and Australian prestige to the containment of Asian Communism. Calwell, 70, demands an end to the draft, a pullback from Viet Nam and the votes of "600,000 Australian mothers whose boys could die or be wounded in the long, cruel, dirty...
...became a faithful supporter of Sir Robert Menzies during World War II. Like most Australians, Holt enlisted at the outbreak of the war-the only Cabinet Minister, he claims, ever to be promoted to private -but was called back after Menzies became Prime Minister in 1939. First as Labor Minister and later as Treasurer, he became Menzies' most trusted lieutenant-and then his heir apparent...
...factories freed from the rigid grip of central planning, Zhivkov reported output improved and labor productivity nearly tripled. Partly as a result, Zhivkov was able to promise Bulgarians "TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cars, furniture"-coupled with a shorter work week (down from 46 hours to 44) and a much needed 7% wage increase across the board...
Modern transportation, cheaper power and an auto-borne labor force have largely freed industry from its old need for locations close to mines, markets or seaports. However it strikes consumers Massachusetts' new sales tax is helping the state to win back industry because it holds the promise of lower property taxes. Illinois has taken to needling New York City (see cut). Said one recent ad: "We figure New York will probably have a typhoon next week," and it goes on to say, "Typhoons hardly ever happen north of Pago Pago, but the way your luck has been running...